Streats, 3 October 2002

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  • 12 1 Streats THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • MORNING RUSH
    • 138 1 Bernama A BARISAN Nasional MP, Mr Mohamad Aziz, has suggestedthat Malaysia sell waste water to Singapore if the latter did not agree on new water rates. Speaking in the Malaysian Parliament on Tuesday, he said that if Singapore still insisted on the old
      – Bernama  -  138 words
    • 87 1 AFTER eight long years, Singapore swimmer Joscelin Yeo finally got her hands onanother Asiad medal yesterday. In the process, she gave her country its first medal of the 14th Asian Games with her third placing in the women’s 100 m butterfly. Yeo, who won a
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  • 580 1 You got nailed: Two-faced experts exposed by evidence from company computers Reuters LIES, damn lies. That’s what some bigname US investment analysts have been te lling investors in a bid to talk-up poor bets and suck up to big-money clients. How do you tell the truth
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  • STREATS local
    • 572 2  - Quitters stayers: Where else except in S’pore can you... Complain, complain, complain By Deepa Vijiyasingam IF you want to complain and bring about a change in policy, there is no better place to do so than Singapore. It is better here than in the US, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien
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    • 207 2  -  Deepa Vijiyasingam A SMALL project for Singapore to keep in touch with its citizens abroad and foreigners who used to work here has just got bigger. The Singapore Overseas Network, a pilot project begun in San Francisco, Boston and Hongkong to allow the Economic Review Committee to tap
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    • 196 2 In Parliament yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong cited a commentary in Chinese daily Lianhe Zaohao which pointed out the clear difference in the views of the Chinese-educated and English-educated MPs, which he said mirrored Singapore s diverse society. Here are excerpts: MANY MPs are
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    • 436 3  -  By. Yong Hui Mien YET another price war has erupted this one being waged at great cost to the combatants. After the beer and coffee skirmish in Changi Village and the roast duck row in Yishun, a battle for
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    • 310 4  -  Dengue outbreak worries Chiltem Park residents By Gary Lim SOME residents in Chiltem Park condominium in Serangoon are having sleepless nights. And all because of a tiny mosquito named Aedes, which causes dengue fever. If not treated in time, the disease can be fatal. Mr Ng, who
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    • 178 4 OLDER Singaporeans used to call it Aw Kang. One of the oldest areas on the island, it covered the districts of Paya Lebar, Upper Serangoon and Punggol. It was famous for many old colonial buildings, now long gone, open-air seafood dining and attractions such as
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    • 144 4 A MASSIVE steel beam fell on a man at the Keppel Distripark on Tuesday, killing him. The man, Mr Mohamad Kasim Haji Alias, 38, the driver of a trailer on which the beams were being loaded, had got out to help with the loading. The
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    • 241 4  -  %i Wendy Tan WHEN he was a boy, the late President Ong Teng Cheong had piano lessons and, in his teens, tickled the ivories in a band that played regularly at concerts and on radio in the early *****. He loved music and even promoted
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    • 114 4 READER’S Digest has extended the deadline for nominations for its Inspiring Asians Awards 2002 to the end of the month. The international monthly magazine is looking for 12 men and women three from Hongkong, Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore whose work inspires others. Last year, the contest was
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  • STREATS financial
    • 426 6 STI: 1,355.43 0.04 Reuters SHARES reversed course to close flat yesterday as worrie: about a US attack on Iraq countered early gains by bank, technology and property stocks inspired by a big jump on Wall Street. The Straits Times Index finished 0.04 of a
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    • 343 6 Foreigners invest USsB.6b in Republic -AFP SINGAPORE Singapore took in 65 per cent of the US$l3 billion (5523.26 billion) of foreign direct investment (FDI) in South-east Asia last year, Minister for Trade and Industry George Yeo said yesterday. The Asean secretariat recently announced that
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    • 317 6  -  By Chua Kong Ho SINGAPOREANS can expect total unit trust holdings to decline $5OO million to $1 billion in value if a USIraq war breaks out, a local wealth management firm said yesterday. In a research brief to clients, dollarDEX estimated
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    • 24 6 ‘AS AT OCTOBER 2 US$: 551.787 552.797 EURO: 551.757 Ss: 68.77 YEN Ss: RM2.126 Ss: HK54.364 Ss: 24.34 BAHT Ss: 5,044 RUPIAH
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    • MONEY SCAN
      • 96 6 Reuters MORGAN Stanley yesterday downgraded Singapore’s growth forecasts for this year and the next because of an uncertain global recovery, slack domestic demand and a weak electronics rebound. It sees little strength ahead for the Singapore dollar and expects the neutral policy stance of the Monetary Authority
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      • 90 6 -AFP THE US hopes to complete negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) with Singapore by the end of this year, US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said in Washington on Tuesday. “We are going to make our best efforts to try to get (it)... done by the
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      • 52 6 Bloomberg SHIN Satellite, owned by Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s family, is in talks to use SingTel’s ST-1 satellite to sell high-speed Internet services. Shin is also seeking spare capacity from other rivals to sell services using iPSTAR technology, which cuts the cost of providing high-speed Internet
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  • STREATS vocaI
    • 337 8 I THINK Ms Doreen Teo, who wrote the letter “Working, married and loving it” (Streats, Oct 2), might have misunderstood some of the points made in “Marriages of inconvenience” (Streats, Oct 1). The message given by Ms Tisa Ng, the Association of Women for Action
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    • 370 8 AFTER reading reports about the exchange in Parliament between MP Charles Chong and Minister of State Chan Choo Sen, I would like to comment on Mr Chan’s reply to Mr Chong’s question about a possible amendment to the Women’s Charter. The reply was
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    • 209 8 THE report “Marriages of inconvenience’ (Streats, Oct 1) was very insightful. But I don’t think we can put all the blame on the male population. Men are nurtured by the same females who often have instiled in them more male-chauvinistic tendencies than males themselves. Some
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    • 172 8 COFFEESHOP operators are going over the top with their rules (“Row over cheap drinks’ and “Row over cheap duck rice”, Streats, Oct 2). On several occasions, I have been refused soup after my rice meals because the stallholder would be breaking the rules by
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    • 145 8 WHAT a fuss over the price cuts by the coffeeshop operator in Changi and the duck rice seller in Yishun (“Row over cheap drinks and “Row over cheap duck rice”, Streats, Oct 2). I see nothing wrong with their decisions if they do it to
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    • 72 8 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 he deemed that
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  • STREATS medical
    • 176 10 Reuters BANGKOK A Thai court on Tuesday removed the exclusive rights of Bristol-Myers Squibb to sell an Aids drug in Thailand. The court said that the company would be allowed to produce the drug, didanosine or ddl, only in certain doses. Thai
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    • 142 10 Keeping tummies healthy IF you’ve been suffering from bloating, gas, diarrhoea or constipation for no obvious reason, it might not be due to something specific you ate. Rather, it could be a general condition called irritable bowel syndrome and stress is one of the possible
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    • 112 10 What are the side effects of taking acne medication such as antibiotics for a period of more than 30 years? A Antibiotics control acne by killing propionibacteria in the skin and reducing inflammation. But antibiotics alone are not enough. Taking them for 30 years is excessive and unwarranted.
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  • STREATS regional
    • 495 13 AP WASHINGTON Jemaah Islamiah (JI) leader Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, led a failed plot to bomb at least one US embassy in South-east Asia to mark the 9/11 anniversary, US counter-terrorism officials believe. But it wasn’t clear
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    • 244 13 KUALA LUMPUR A Johor girl who was late for school hailed an unlicensed taxi at noon on Friday. The driver stopped and her nightmare began. He took the girl, 13, on a 400 km ride, drugged and raped her several times in
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    • 276 13 Reuters JAKARTA Time magazine, threatened with a lawsuit over an article linking Abu Bakar Bashir to terrorism, has defended its reporting. The Indonesian cleric lodged a complaint with police on Tuesday, alleging that Time had defamed him. His lawyers said that they
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    • 413 15 ap HONGKONG The port shutdown on the US West Coast is pinching Asian shippers whose goods are stranded at the ports. Container shipping is a bread-and-butter business for countries such as Hongkong and Singapore, which have big container ports. Analysts said
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    • 235 15 Sunshine policy, bribery diplomacy? LONDON South Korean President Kim Dae Jung bribed North Korea to improve relations, according to Britain’s Financial Times. Opposition politicians alleged that US$4OO million (Ss7ls million) in public funds were channelled secretly to Pyongyang through the Hyundai group, the
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    • REGIONAL DEBRIEF
      • 90 15 -AFP THE US yesterday expressed regret for any “inappropriate treatment” after it was revealed that Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi had to remove his shoes for a security check in Los Angeles. “The US embassy sincerely regrets any inconveniences or inappropriate treatment that senior
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      • 86 15 Bernama THE Indonesian navy detained six Malaysian-flagged ships yesterday for allegedly transporting arms. The Antara news agency reported that the ships and their 18 crew members were held at the Karimun Naval Base in Riau for investigations. “There is a possibility that these ships are carrying
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  • STREATSS global
    • IRAQ UPDATE
      • 89 16 Reuters BRUSSELS WTO chief Supachai Panitchpakdi said yesterday that a war with Iraq would have little impact on global commerce. He said: “It would have implications on the fluctuations in exchange rates, it may increase the cost of insurance, the cost of transportation... (but) I don’t think
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      • 130 16 Reuters ‘The cost of one bullet, if the Iraqi people take it on themselves, is substantially less than that (exile).’ White House spokesman Ari Fleisher on cost of removing Mr Saddam Hussein JAKARTA -Iraq wants Indonesia play a role in setting up a “companion team” to
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      • 522 16 White House talks of bluntest options AP WASHINGTON Commenting on the cost of a war in Iraq, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said on Tuesday that “one bullet” would be both preferable and cheaper to oust Mr Saddam Hussein. He said this when asked
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      • 160 18 -AFP BAGHDAD The US’ defiance of world opinion will only make it more hated, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has warned. “The US faces a choice, either continue down the same road or face up to the question posed by several American politicians why are we so
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      • 247 18 Trial by DNA, suggests UK bioethics group LONDON -A case of sins of the fathers upon their children? That’s the mitigation that criminals may use in court if the suggestion of one of Britain’s most respected biological ethics group, Nuffield Council on Bioethics is accepted, the
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      • 100 18 NEW YORK What’s the word many people usually associate with blonde? Dumb. Right. And that’s what you may well call yourself if you, like millions around the world, believed the story that natural blondes will be extinct in 200 years. Last week, several British newspapers
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      • 112 18 -AFP LONDON Millionaire novelist Jeffrey Archer has agreed to settle his libel case debt with a tabloid newspaper, the British press said yesterday. Archer, 62, agreed a payment believed to be in excess of £1.5 million (Ss4.l million) in an out-of-court settlement with the The
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      • 131 18 Reuters NEW YORK The US wants to delay the entry of arms inspectors into Iraq until Baghdad supplies a list of all its weapons of mass destruction, according to a draft UN resolution. If adopted, the measure could delay the start of the inspections several weeks beyond the
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      • Article, Illustration
        34 18 A high-rise emergency escape chute designed by Advanced Evacuation System, a company based in Tel Aviv and Hongkong. The chute was being demonstrated in a hotel in Washington DC on Tuesday API
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  • easy STREATS
    • 447 20  -  By YVONNE KWOK CARS are evil and drivers even more so. The wise people in Hollywood have always known that getting behind the wheel is enough to endanger your immortal soul. So it is with Changing Lanes, the latest movie to start off a bad day
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    • 61 20 NICHOLAS Tse was found guilty yesterday on charges of perverting the course of justice in connection with a car accident in March. The Hongkong pop star was charged with perverting the course of justice when he got his chauffeur, Shing Kwok-ting, to persuade a police constable to let
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    • 59 20 PATRICK Stewart is giving fans the heads-up on the latest Star Trek film, Nemesis it’s “very emotional” and has “some very intense relationships”. He said: “I warn you, you should probably pick up one of those little pocket tissues to take with you. There is some sad
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    • 49 20 ROSIE O’Donnell was slapped with a US$lOO million (Ssl79) lawsuit on Tuesday for leaving her namesake magazine last month. The former talkshow host, who declared herself a lesbian earlier this year, plans to countersue, reported Elonline.com yesterday. She had left the magazine, citing lack of editorial control.
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    • 131 20 THE only widows this film will be making are those whose husbands die of boredom while watching what they thought would be an action thriller. Set in 1961 at the height of the Cold War, Harrison Ford plays Captain Alexei Vostrikov, a Russian naval officer sent to
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    • Article, Illustration
      146 20 WHO’S had enough of Jennifer Lopez? Obviously the American public, who paid less than US$4O million (SS7O million) to see her movie. She plays a diner waitress, Slim, who meets the man of her dreams, rich and handsome Mitch (Bill Campbell). They marry and have a child, but then
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    • 596 22 More skin than clothes was on display at recent fashion shows around the globe, with Milan possibly the barest and most sex-soaked of the season. But is it really couture or just plain crazy? CARAVAN MIRIAH asks around DISTASTEFUL, a laughing stock these were some of the
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    • 123 24 DOWN UNDER, they are cool about the excitement over the ozone hole. Nasa images show that the hole is shrinking and breaking into L two. Happens every year, says Australia’s CSIRO’s Atmospheric Research division. Just early this time. I Every November/ I December, a shift in
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    • Just a minute
      • 129 24 Find out whether you are at risk of a heart attack. The Singapore Heart Association, in conjunction with National Heart Week, will give a presentation on The Living Heart. Tomorrow, 7.30pm-8.30pm, Bedok Community Library (21 Bedok North Street 1, tel 6332-3255). It’s free. An exhibition on the
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    • Happenin’
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        53 24 LAURA FYGI CHANGE ASIA TOUR 2002 Singapore Indoor Stadium Nov 13, Bpm Tickets at $125, Ss9s, $75 and $55 from Sistic Once again, Laura Fygi will be in Singapore to mesmerise you with her smoky vocals. Cdtch her in this concert featuring songs from her latest album, Change. Tickets
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        51 24 PAUL OAKENFOLD ENHANCED DJ PERFORMANCE Zouk Tomorrow, from 9pm Tickets at $43 Be there when it all starts this is Oakenfold’s first gig to kickstart his world tour. Joining him on the decks is one of Italy’s house pioneers, Daniele Davoli. So, brace yourself for a night of pulsating
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      • 69 24 JING SIGNATURE CHINESE CUISINE AND TONG HERITAGE BAR 50 Eu Tong Sen Street Oct 7, 6.30pm-8.30pm $25 per person Tel: 6532-6006 Make your reservations early for this wine tasting. You will be sampling Gnangara Unwooded Chardonnay 2001, Gnangara Shiraz 2000, Margaret River Barrique 61 Cabernet Merlot 2000, Margaret
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      • 67 24 FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2002 Alliance Francaise de Singapour Oct 30-Nov 11 2pm, 3pm, spm, 7pm, 9pm Tickets at $8.50 from Sistic Book your tickets early if you want to catch some good French films such as Empty Days, Hell Of A Day, Girls Can’t Swim, C’est La Vie, Ball
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      • Article, Illustration
        71 24 BOEING BOEING Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel Now till Oct 20 3pm and Bpm Tickets at $2l, $26, $36, $46 from Sistic Bernard, a swinging bachelor, thinks he can cope with three air stewardess girlfriends. He juggles their time-tables with help from his maid Imelda who never forgets to change
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 445 24 Yourdail AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Your mind may think that it has all of the answers, but your body knows best. Do what feels reasonable. Stop if it hurts. Rest when you’re tired. You’re due for a mood overhaul by the end of the day. by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com
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  • STREATS sports
    • 516 26  -  Bronze in 100 m butterfly gives S’pore first medal of Games LIM HAN MING reports from South Korea BUSAN Eight years. That’s how long it took Singapore swimmer Joscelin Yeo to win another Asiad medal. Yesterday, the golden girl of Singapore swimming gave her country its first medal
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    • 325 26  -  SINGAPORE By ADAM HASHEDY FINALLY, a medal after three days of huffing and puffing in the sporting cauldron of Busan. Thank you Joscelin Yeo for pointing the way to a bronze medal in the 100 metres butterfly final. For her effort, Yeo will pocket
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    • 14fh Aston Gomes BUSAN 2002
      • 141 28 -AFP VETERAN marksman Wang Yiju (right) was the star as China dominated the shooting competition yesterday with seven wins out of eight. Wang, the 1992 Olympic champion, won two gold medals. First, he helped the men win the 50m pistol event. He then won the 50m individual
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      • 85 28 2:14.58: Victor Davis (Can), June 19,1984 Toronto 2:13.34: Victor Davis (Can), Aug 2, 1984 Los Angeles 2:12.90: Mike Barrowmann (US), Aug 3, 1989 Los Angeles 2:12.90: Nick Gillingham (Gbr), Aug 18, 1989 Bonn 2:12.89: Mike Barrowmann (US), Aug 20, 1989 Tokyo 2:11.53: Mike Barrowmann (US), July 20, 1990
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      • 390 28  -  Kitajima breaks 10-year-old 200 m breaststroke world mark By, Lim Han Ming BUSAN Wow! He’s only 20, yet he’s already the proud owner of a world record. Yesterday, Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima (above) joined the pool’s elite when he smashed the men’s 200 m world
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      • 161 29 -AFP LE MAOSHENG of China went back to the future yesterday to retain his Asian Games men’s weightlifting title in world record fashion. Le tookfull advantage of a spectacular failure by compatriot and gold medal favourite Shi Zhiyong to successfully defend the 62 kg crown
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      • 438 29  -  Hongkong rower wins bronze despite twisted ankle r Lim Han Ming BUSAN THE story of the Asian Games, as with other international competitions, is not all about glory. It is also about guts. Yung Ka Yan, a teenage rower from Hongkong, did not win a gold
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      • 208 29 Reuters BANGKOK Top Asian tennis stars Paradom Srichapan and Tamarine Tanasugam jet into Busan this week to give Thailand its best chance yet of a singles gold. In the last Asian Games in Bangkok, Paradom crashed out in the first round to Takahiro
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      • 196 29 BILLIARDS SNOOKER 8 ball pool: Singles Tan Tiong Boon, (9am, Dong Ju Gymnasium) BODYBUILDING Flyweight Ibrahim Sihat (9am) Lightweight Mohd Nazarudin (10.30 am); Light Middle Weight Amir Zainal (12.30 pm) Light Heavyweight Mohd Ismail Mohd (2pm) (Busan Citizen’s Hall) BOWLING (Finals) Singles (M) Remy Ong, Carl
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      • 89 29 G S B Tot China 3616 10 62 Japan 13 17 15 45 South Korea 1012 18 40 North Korea 3 4 4 11 Kazakhstan 2 0 4 6 Thailand 14 3 8 India 1113 Chinese Taipei 0 3 3 6 Hong Kong 0 2 2 4 Myanmar
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    • 607 30 Man Utd in fifth straight win -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Man United 4 Olympiakos 0 MANCHESTER Arsenal’s scintillating start to tire season has sent shockwaves reverberating around Europe. But Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is not about to admit that the form of its arch-rival is causing anyone
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    • 252 30 Group E Juventus (Ita) 2 (Del Piero 65, 80) Newcastle (Eng) 0 k Feyenoord (Ned) 0 Dynamo Kiev (Ukr)O Group F b Manchester United (Eng) 4 (Giggs 19, 66, Veron 26, Soljskaer 76) Olympiakos Gre) 0 Maccabi Haifa (Isr) 0 Bayer Leverkusen (Ger) 2 (Babic 31, 64) Group
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    • 329 30 Reuters CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Juventus 2 Newcastle United 0 TURIN Newcastle United manager Bobby Robson vowed his team would keep up the fight despite suffering its third straight Champions League defeat. It is pointless and now needs extraordinary results to make it to
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    • 318 31  -  To work closely with coach Fandi Ahmad in the S-League To improve the youth set-up To improve its showing at the Asian Champions League SAFFC appoints technical director to take club to next level By Tan Kim Han THE Singapore Armed Forces FC has no intention of loosening
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    • 308 31 Reuters ROME AC Milan striker Filippo Inzaghi has set his sights on German Gerd Mueller’s record of 67 goals in European competition. Inzaghi scored both goals in his side’s 2-1 Champions League win over Bayern Munich on Tuesday. He told La Gazzetta dello Sport yesterday:
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    • 84 31 SPORTS SCAN SOCCER JURONG FC will be organising a futsal tournament on Oct 19-20 at IMM Building’s Sports and Recreation Club. There are two categories of competition, Youth under-18 and Open. Application forms are available at Jurong Football Club, Jurong East Sports Complex, #O4-02. For more information, please
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