Streats, 9 October 2002

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  • 12 1 Streats WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sphxom.sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • 772 1  -  As HP staff brace themselves for job cuts, their chairman and CEO takes time to ease fears By Chug Kong Ho FOR five years running, Fortune magazine has called Ms Carly Fiorina the most powerful woman in business. She is head of a multi-billion dollar company employing 150,000
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  • MORNING RUSH
    • 102 1 Bernama SINGAPORE will not revise its gross domestic product growth forecast of between 3 and 4 per cent for this year just yet, despite the US port shutdown and threat of war looming in Iraq, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said in Kuala
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  • STREATS local
    • 571 2  -  Prices at their lowest but few are buying By Wendy Tan Yong Hui Mien THEY were once held up as one of the 5 Cs that make up the young Singaporean’s dream. But this C, the country club, has since lost some of its lustre
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    • 187 2 PINETREE Town Country Club members who turned up for a meeting with the club’s new owner yesterday left without getting any answers to their questions. Many of the 900 who were there wanted to know how much they would have to pay to retain their
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    • 97 2 A SERIES of explosions rocked two carparks at Hougang on Monday night, setting three motorcycles ablaze. The first incident happened at about 10pm in the multi-storey carpark at Block 220 A, Hougang Street 21. One motorcycle was destroyed. The other incident took place at the carpark
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    • 177 3 HEALTH Minister Lim Hng Kiang yesterday refused to be downbeat about 400,000 people about one-third of those eligible opting out of Elder Shield. Disagreeing with a Straits Times report published yesterday, he said he believes that the disability insurance scheme is off to
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    • 451 3 A SEX education campaign, enticingly dubbed Sex in the Air, was launched yesterday for young people here to ask intimate, no-holds-barred questions about sex by SMS. Observers said it may be a hit because it is a subject close
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    • 288 4 FOR the first time, a prominent research institute in Singapore has a Nobel laureate. An Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) research team co-headed by Nobel winner Sydney Brenner, 75, recently produced a genetic blueprint of the pufferfish which could help in human genome research.
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    • 84 4 AFTER a two-year ordeal, a court yesterday acquitted Ms Zainabah Abdul Kadir, 34, of slashing her maid with a kitchen knife. The nightmare had started after she threatened to send the maid back home for talking back to her two years ago. The maid told police
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    • 379 4 Wire services KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday appealed to foreign investors to remain in South-east Asia despite growing risks of terrorism, which he said would be defeated in the long-term. He said that South-east Asian countries had
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  • STREATS vocal
    • 200 5 I RECENTLY received a notice from the HDB saying that my block had been selected for the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP). As a Singapore permanent resident (PR), I can’t vote for the programme. But if it goes ahead, I must pay and
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    • 263 5 I HAVE been following closely the issue of the Government promoting the joys of marriage to singles. Using all media, relevant government bodies are educating Singaporean women about the benefits of having a family. The moves can be understood as the Government
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    • 181 5 HOW can Transit Link take more than three months to send out a senior citizen card? All because somebody punched in the old four-digit postal code no matter how hard I tried to tell them that I made out the application with a
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    • 188 5 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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  • STREATS financial
    • 448 6 STI: 1,396.51 17.9 Reuters SHARES closed higher for the third consecutive day yesterday as funds scooped up banks and blue chips such as SIA. But Chartered Semiconductor plumbed new depths on worries that its massive US$633 million (551.12 billion) rights issue had seen a poor response.
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    • 268 6 KUALA LUMPUR Exportdependent Singapore may lower its growth forecast of 3 to 4 per cent if the US port shutdown continues, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. The impact of the closure in the US, Singapore’s biggest export market, would be clear in
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    • 481 6  -  Comment By KENNETH JAMES FOR fast-growing Singapore software firm E-Book Systems, the closure of all 29 US West Coast ports will mean a substantial hit in sales and profits but it could have been worse. E-book Systems vice-president for sales and marketing, Mr Eugene Tan,
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    • 24 6 *AS AT OCTOBER 8 US$: S$1.791 S$2.802 EURO: S$1.756 S$: 69.40 YEN S$: RM2.121 S$: HK$4.354 S$: 24.45 BAHT S$: 5,031 RUPIAH
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    • MONEY SCAN
      • 93 6 Bloomberg CREDIT Suisse First Boston (CSFB) will eliminate as many as 1,750 jobs, or 7 per cent of its workforce, worldwide, including in the Asia-Pacific region. The move will trim expenses by US$5OO million (SsB94 million), on top of US$l.B billion that has already been wrung out
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      • 76 6 Reuters CHARTERED Semiconductor said yesterday it expects to issue about 1.11 billion new shares as a result of its eight-for-ten rights offering which closed on Monday. It said that lead underwriter Merrill Lynch will purchase about 393.2 million unsubscribed new shares, representing 35.4 per cent of the
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      • 47 6 Bloomberg STARHUB said yesterday it had asked the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) to remove its December 2004 deadline for the rollout of high-speed wireless services. Star Hub wants the IDA to allow operators to choose their own technology and rollout schedule for it. Bloomberg
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  • STREATS medical
    • 101 8 Reuters WASHINGTON Tiny particles from diesel-fuelled cars, trucks and construction equipment are a major contributor to cancer risk from air pollution. The US Public Interest Research Group reviewed scientific studies in recent years and found that the vast majority of the airborne pollution cancer risk
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    • 199 8 NEW HAVEN, Connecticut Cats, often held responsible for toxoplasmosis, a disease which can be fatal P to a foetus, have been cleared of most of the blame. Dr Jeffery Kravetz, an assistant professor of internal medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, reviewed cat-related
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    • Smoking puts you at risk
      • 297 8 Reuters NEW YORK Save your eyes quit smoking k and drinking. That’s the finding from researchers studying the link between smoking and alcohol L consumption and the long-term risk of age£k related maculopathy (ARM). ARM is an irreversible deterioration of the macula, a small but very
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      • 168 8 Reuters NEW YORK Women who smoke k may end up with a higher risk not just of lung cancer, but of breast k cancer, too. This goes for women exposed to second-hand t smoke as well. And the longer you smoke, the worse the k risk. German
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    • 878 8 STREATSmedical Smoking puts you at risk Cancer risk from diesel fumes WASHINGTON Tiny particles from diesel-fuelled cars, trucks and construction equipment are a major contributor to cancer risk from air pollution. The US Public Interest Research Group reviewed scientific studies in recent years and found that the vast majority of
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  • STREATS regional
    • 351 11 Wire services KUALA LUMPUR Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal thought his fellow students were joking when they called him a “terrorist”. He was at school on Saturday when CNN broke the news that the US was hunting for him. He rushed to
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    • 138 11 AP HONGKONG A Hongkong man convicted of raping three students, one of whom was only 12, and of videotaping his crimes, has been sentenced to life in prison, court spokesman Lina Ting confirmed yesterday. “You are a deeply evil man,” Deputy Judge Alan Wright
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    • 113 11 -AFP JAKARTA Pressure was mounting yesterday on Indonesian AttorneyGeneral Muhammad Abdurachman to resign following allegations of unreported wealth. Legislators, lawyers and rights activists have called for him to step down. The Jakarta Post, citing an unnamed source, reported that President Megawati Sukarnoputri had also urged
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    • 167 11 Wire services MANILA A Jordanian held here for immigration violations is being investigated for possible links to a bomb attack last week which killed a US soldier and two Filipinos, officials said yesterday. Four other foreigners are also being monitored for possible links to the Abu
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  • STREATS regional
    • 308 13 Bush blazes threaten Sydney suburbs SYDNEY Two major bush fires threatening the outskirts of Sydney may have been deliberately started. As there have been no lightning strikes recently, “we have got to put these fires down to human intervention of some sort, be it accidental or deliberate,”
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    • 141 13 Post-retirement plans After I retire, I won’t be a voice for anybody. I’ll just be my own voice. I’m not ambitious to be a preacher (of Islam) or wielding any influence. I’ve had my day’. Former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim ‘I discovered his inclination towards
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    • 141 14 IS <• by IS no to the 1 OCT m mm Wĕ s: w* fc.#* r «sa mm m ■< m t 9 se »s ssSw« **S53 mmM m ■HHEkk*' >r- ;> PARCO Oink! Oink! Thousands of happy piggybanks all over Singapore are so happy because the fantastic Bazaar Sale
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  • STREATS global
    • IRAQ UPDATE
      • PEACE NOT WAR WAR NOT PEACE
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          623 15 Itll be a violent blow to world economy Brits don’t want to put troops at risk It’s treason against Islam, say Sunnis AFP Reuters AFT» WASHINGTON IF America’s war with Iraq goes awry, the world economy would be in the doldrums. In the worst-case scenario, a US military
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        • 253 15 Saddam’s a Murderous tyrant Homicidal dictator Nuclear holy warrior Cold-blooded killer Terror chief ap WASHINGTON These are some of the names that l)S President George W Bush has called Iraqi President Saddam Hussein since June. Speaking to civic leaders at the Cincinnati Museum Center in a televised speech
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  • STREATS global
    • 333 16 Terrorists caused tanker blast: Captain Wire services LONDON The captain of the French oil supertanker crippled by a blast off Yemen on Sunday suspects that his ship was attacked by terrorists. Captain Peter Raes of Limburg saw a small fishing boat coming alongside before the blast and
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    • Article, Illustration
      34 16 Venezuelan police officers chaining themselves at their headquarters during a protest in Caracas on Monday. The government has deployed hundreds of military police and national guardsmen to replace the striking policemen *Fig|
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    • 126 16 Wire services WASHINGTON The sniper blamed for killing six people and seriously wounding three others around the US capital does not fit the profile of serial killers, said crime experts. He is probably in his 20s or 30s, may have grown up with guns or
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    • 132 16 Reuters BRUSSELS A Belgian man died of a gunshot wound after setting booby traps throughout his house using hunting rifles and explosives, police and local news reports said on Sunday. The 80-year-old former chemical engineer had set the traps to prevent his children from entering
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  • easy STREATS
    • 614 18  -  Tellytubby By Yvonne Kwok Who’s the best host and who’s the worst? Our critic puts her money where her mouth is SOME people are bom to host, some to act and others to stay out of the limelight as a humanitarian service. Not too long ago, an acquaintance
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    • 185 18 FOR the first time, a jazz artiste has won a Cultural Medallion, Singapore’s top honour in the arts. Jeremy Monteiro, 42, a jazz pianist and vocalist, received the prestigious award at a National Arts Council ceremony at the Istana last night. Previous winners
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    • 78 18 JERRY Hall has broken up with her boyfriend Tim Attias. Tim, a banker who is 36, wanted to marry the leggy Texan model whom he met on a spiritual enlightenment course last year, but Jerry didn’t. A friend of Jerry’s said: ‘Tim found it
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    • 87 18 AMAZINGLY, Winona Ryder’s trial for shoplifing, which was supposed to have started on Monday, has been delayed yet again to next Tuesday. This time a scheduling snafu is the cause, according to the E Online website. The trial date has been set and changed several
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    • 197 20 IT certainly is Jennifer Aniston’s year. Hot on the heels of her recent Emmy comes the Hollywood Actress of the Year award, given at the Hollywood Film Awards on Monday. The Friends actress, who has a hit in The Good Girl, beat Jodie Foster, Ellen Burstyn
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    • 119 22 AFTER damming the Yangtze, China wants to clean it up. The China Daily has said that the Ministry of Water Resources is drafting a plan to protect the river from pollution. The big task is sewage treatment in cities along the 6,300-km river, China’s longest. Yangtze
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    • Just a minute
      • 109 22 Trying to upgrade and can’t decide if you should take a short course or get a certificate, diploma, a Masters degree or even a doctorate? Log on to www.courses.com.sg where you’ll find information on institutions, courses, seminars, training and personal development programmes in Singapore. Cities are recognised
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    • Happenin’
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        108 22 THE TEOCHEW EXPERIENCE 12pm-6pm on Mondays, 9am-6pm Tuesdays to Sundays, till 9pm on Fridays Singapore History Museum $1.50, $3, free for children below six andfor everyone after 6pm on Fridays Remember the little things of yesteryear, such as this paper bag (picture) from Mui Lee Cake House? Have your
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      • 73 22 CARMINA BURANA Friday and Saturday, Bpm Victoria Theatre $3l, $26, $2l, sl6from Sistic This performance is the first combined effort by the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts’ Dance, Music and Arts Management departments, involving more than 20 students from China, Malaysia and Singapore. Inspired by a 13th century German
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      • 88 22 SINGAPORE CHINESE ORCHESTRA Friday and Saturday, Bpm SCO Concert Hall (Singapore Conference Hall) $l9, $l2 from Sistic This concert features composerperformer Li Min Xiong whose work has left such an indelible mark on the Chinese wind and percussion music world that he has been crowned Gu Wang (Emperor of
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      • Article, Illustration
        68 22 STANDARD CHARTERED SINGAPORE MARATHON Saturday, 4pm Pearl of Casablanca, thirdfloor, The Pan Pacific Hotel Free, but you must register at www.singaporemarathon.com Good news for all running enthusiasts! The organisers of the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon have arranged for a second running clinic to prepare runners for the big
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      • 56 22 HEY GRINGO! Thursday, 7-30pm-10.30pm Milieu, (Peranakan Place second floor, above Alley Bar) $5O from Ticketcharge Get ready for a rollicking trip as comedian Peter Searles takes you to Peru, Bolivia and Chile. Hey Gringo! is originally a trilogy Through Peru, Bolivia and Beyond and A Chile Christmas although each
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 48 23 7pm, Channel U Lisheng conspires with Muchuan and Aunt Hao to feed Jingchuan’s jealousy after they realise she is faking her amnesia. Biaobing and Aunt Shan tell Jingchuan of Lisheng’s infidelity, and Lisheng and Shengxiao make it worse with their “intimacy”. Hilarity and misunderstanding result.
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      • Article, Illustration
        58 23 Bpm, Channel i Kathleen’s day is full, as she struggles emotionally with courtassigned cases where she must defend a serial rapist and an alcoholic who left her children in a locked car. Meanwhile, Judge Brennan listens to a case with Will defending a woman accused of stabbing her husband’s
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      • 242 23 -AFP RUSSIAN submariners had high praise for a Hollywood version of a nuclear near-disaster in which several of their colleagues died, reversing an earlier judgment in which they branded the movie as an “insult”. More than 50 naval veterans and their families attended the Russian
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    • 17 22 If you wish to have your event highlighted in Happenin’, e-mail Streats at streats@sph.com.sg or fax 6319-8191
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    • 115 23 i it 7%. T T a Tf ith the best view of Marina Bay and Singapore’s picturesque harbour, The Gallery (Level 4) at The Oriental, Singapore presents you with an artistic Viennese dessert buffet that promises an unrivaled dining experience. From 16 September 2002, revel on exquisite Viennese morsels for
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 422 23 Yourria AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 A former selling point becomes a weakness. If you’re lucky, associates will cover for you while necessary adjustments are made. Informed experience is about to replace blind optimism. by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com PISCES FEB 19-MAR2O Discovery carries a measure of ownership. You’re happy to
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  • STREATS sports
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      606 24  -  Saudi Al-Safaar pushes Asahara to second spot in biggest upset LIM HAN MING reports from South Korea BUSAN He had high hopes of becoming the first Asian sprinter to run a sub-10 seconds century sprint. But the lowdown on Japanese Nobuharu Asahara yesterday was: He failed to realise
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    • 328 24  -  SINGAPORE BI J ADAM HASIIIDY REMY Ong, Singapore’s most eligible bachelor, has a date with destiny. If he wins his third gold medal today, he will go into the record books as Singapore’s most successful athlete at the Asian Games in recent times. Swimmer Neo
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    • 14th Asian Games BUSAN 2002
      • 582 26  -  With her dark looks, Yvonne could be mistaken for a foreign talent By Lim Han Ming BUSAN It is easy to mistake Japanese hurdler Yvonne Kanazawa (right) for a foreign talent. For the 27-year-old looks anything but Japanese, not least because of her dark brown
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      • 155 26 AP CHINA’S Tang Gonghong set a world record yesterday in the women’s over-75 kg weightlifting with a clean and jerk lift of 1675 kg The lift surpassed the old record of 165 kg held hy Ding Meiyuan of China at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. It marked
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      • 165 26 G s B Tot China 106 49 44 199 South Korea 52 55 61 168 Japan 35 54 42 131 Kazakstan 13 11 16 40 North Korea 7 10 11 28 Thailand 7 8 4 19 Uzbekistan 7 7 10 24 Taiwan 6 8 18 32 India 6
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      • 125 26  -  By Tan Kim Han SINGAPORE’S hopes of gold in the 420 class have vanished. But the men and women sailors in this category could end up with lesser medals when the last race is completed today. But Sarah Tan (Optimist Girls), Tan Weam Haw and Chung
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      • 128 29 -AFP A SMILING Hadi al-Somaily lived up to his pre-Asian Games hype yesterday, winning the mens 400 metres hurdles gold medal in record time. It was Saudi Arabia’s second track title in two days, the first being the 10,000 m men’s gold. His new Asian
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      • 388 29 AP BUSAN Buddhist monk Kokei Ito has relinquished all his material pleasures, but winning an Asian Games medal for Japan remains on his unorthodox sporting agenda. Hooked on kabaddi’s philosophy of simple and healthy living, Ito was a
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      • 217 29 Wire services BUSAN Once dominant China suffered another setback in table tennis yesterday. Its women’s doubles pair let a 3-1 lead slip away and lost the gold medal to South Koreans. Zhang Yining and Li Nan lost to Lee Eun Sil and Seok EunMi
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      • 105 29 BOWLING Men’s masters, Women's masters (9am 2nd block, 12 noon finals, Asiad Bowling Alley) SAILING 11th race and victory ceremony: Optimist Boys Teo Wee Chin; Optimist Girls Sarah Tan; OK Dinghy (Open) Stanley Chan; Mistral Lightweight Men Andrew Foo; Laser Men Koh Seng Leong; Laser Radial
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    • 321 31  -  By Tan Kim Han JEYKANTH Jeyapal (right) had a big shock when he received a call to prepare for the Tiger Cup football tournament from Dec 15-29. For the 26-year-old flanker had made only irregular appearances for his club Singapore
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    • 90 31 Goalkeepers: Shahril Jantan, Rezal Hassan (both SAFFC), Lionel Lewis (Geylang), Adi Saleh (Home) Defenders: Razif Mahamud (Sembawang), Aide Iskandar, S Subramani (both Home), A Sivakumar, Nasiruddin Sawardi (both Woodlands), Daniel Bennett (Wrexham), Mohd Noh Rahman (SAFFC) Midfielders: Nazri Nasir (Tampines), Rudy Khairon (Tanjong Pagar), Zulkarnaen Zainal, Goh
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    • 125 31 -AFP SUNDERLAND Former Leeds United boss David O’Leary emerged yesterday as a short-odds favourite to take over from Peter Reid at Sunderland. With Ireland boss Mick McCarthy ruling himself out of the running, O’Leary was widely tipped to become the new manager within
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    • 46 31 HOME United lost 1-2 to Hongkong club South China in the Asian Football Confederation Champions League in Hongkong yesterday. South China led 2-0 at half-time with goals from Cordeiro (12) and Chan Ho Man (32nd). Egmar Goncalves pulled one back in the 46th minute.
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