Streats, 11 October 2002

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    12 1 Streats FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • MORNING RUSH
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      Lock icon 3.7% Q3 GROWTH DISAPPOINTS
      96 1 Reuters SINGAPORE’S economy slowed sharply in the third quarter compared with the previous three months. The Government’s advance estimate of GDP for the third quarter showed a rise of 3.7 per cent from a year earlier, but a 10.3 per cent decline quarter on quarter. It
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      Lock icon STOCKS FALL ACROSS ASIA
      94 1 ASIAN stock markets took a beating yesterday following a 2.9 per cent decline on Wall Street overnight. Japanese shares slumped to a 19-year low and South Korean shares plunged nearly 6 per cent. Tokyo’ Nikkei-225 Index fell 99.72 points to 8,439.62 on continued fears of the
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    Lock icon Decision of a lifetime
    540 1  -  Minister advises reporter: Don’t wait too long to get married By Yong Hui Mien I THOUGHT I had Mr Chan Soo Sen cornered at a community event yesterday, where I was to “grill” him about Streats readers’ charge that the Government was interfering in their personal
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      38 1 Adam turns his sights to those who give men a bad name Fii »xm g§§gp mm it»* m w a ..A», 'h 9HH W i MW Wi&'M what’s so hot in the heartlands tonight PAGE 3 Lianhe Wanbao
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  • STREATS local
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      Lock icon He’s joking, right?
      424 2  -  Singapore politicians have no funny bone, says writer By Zubaidah Nazeer HEARD the one about the know-all Singapore minister who doesn’t know how to laugh? Well, it’s not quite true. Two facing pages of a new book, The Difference between Malaysians and Singaporeans, by former journalist Ravi
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      Lock icon PLATFORM PAL
      105 2 ONE KIND ACT LivS I was on the MRT and started getting giddy spells as the train neared my destination. I alighted at my stop and staggered to a nearby bench with some difficulty. As soon as I sat down, a lady beside me on the bench asked
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      Lock icon Croc found lurking in Anson Road drain
      190 2 ANYONE looking in the drain at Trafalgar Street near Anson Road yesterday morning would have got a fright. There was a large crocodile in it, a 1.7 m, 23kg estuarine beast. People called the police, and the animal, a common creature here, is
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      Lock icon Hot, hot, hot in heartland
      262 3 ‘Pole-dancers’ raise temperatures TWO svelte dancers in skintight outfits gyrated their hips to the drop-jawed appreciation of a 200-strong crowd. This was the scene at a Bishan kopitiam on Wednesday night, not some bohemian nightspot in town. The heartland huddle at Block 280, Bishan Street
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      Lock icon Profiteers will be shamed
      123 3 MEND your ways, profiteers, or be shamed in the press. The warning came yesterday from Mr Chan Soo Sen, chairman of the Committee to Combat Profiteering. But first, his committee will rely on moral persuasion to resolve cases of shopkeepers who jack up their prices unnecessarily.
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      Lock icon Ex-TV actor took part in scam
      137 4  -  Gary Lim A FORMER part-time actor in two TV drama series was an accomplice to crimes commited by a Pakistani businessman who was jailed yesterday. Pakistani Charles McArthur Reynold, 37, and Mohin Mohinder Sachdev, 54, went shopping for cellphones last April and then applied
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      Lock icon Court orders her to pay ex-lover $102k for Lakeview home Flat goes to the mistress
      393 4 THE “sordid tale” has drawn to a conclusion: The mistress gets to keep the flat and evict her ex-lover and his family. But for a fee $101,795, to be precise. That’s the sum a court
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      Lock icon Bird goes to the husband
      162 4 AFTER their divorce, the husband launched a bitterly fought custody battle. But he only got back one of the kids. Actually, American Michael David Selby didn’t have any children with his then wife, Ms Bettina Chew, 42, a Singaporean. The court battle was for, among
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      Lock icon NSman found unconscious, dies
      51 4 A FULL-TIME national serviceman, Ivan Ho Yong Hua, died yesterday evening at the Singapore General Hospital. The 22-year-old recruit was found unconscious at about 4pm on the training ground of the Basic Military Training School. He was given immediate medical attention and evacuated by helicopter to
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      177 2 EXPRESS POLICY LOAM Within 1 Hour At the lowest interest rate of 5.5% p.a. Tel: 6788 1122 Visit: streats.income.com.sg Email: ps@income.com.sg NTUC Income policyholders can call us for a policy loan. Loan agreement and cheque will be ready for collection in 1 hour. Call us 24 hours a day, any
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      453 3 BEST FOOT FORWARD WITH SCHOLL Hands up those of you who have to be on your feet most of the time. At the end of the day, do your lower back, feet and legs ache? The pain could be caused by inadequate foot support. This happens when your foot rolls
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      73 4 FIVE CLIMATES. SIX CLIMBERS. 5895 METRES OF MOUNTAIN. IT ALL ADDS UP TO A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME ADVENTURE. X IA c J mmJ mm j j Sj.l3, Us ><■ hb PM! .i. HPH* m m m a 5: m I volvi llam, Ipm, 3pm, spm, Bpm) Omnitheatre SINGAPORE SCIENCE CENTRE 15 Science
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  • STREATS financial
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      Lock icon Shares down on grim growth data
      424 6 STI: 1,357.35 19.23 Reuters SHARES closed lower yesterday after the Government estimated that Singapore’s GDP grew far less than expected in the third quarter. But the market ended above its lows as some technology stocks staged a rebound in the afternoon, led by a
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      Lock icon Q3 surprise for analysts
      592 6  -  GDP growth estimated at 3.7% half what experts predicted ByC Chua Kong Ho ECONOMISTS spilled a lot of coffee yesterday morning when government estimates showing a 10.3 per cent quarter-on-quarter contraction in Singapore’s economy in the third quarter flashed across their computer screens. Just a day
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      Lock icon FOREX RATES
      24 6 *AS AT OCTOBER 10 US$: 551.793 552.810 EURO: 551.775 Ss: 68.88 YEN Ss: RM2.U.9 Ss: HK54.350 Ss: 24.44 BAHT Ss: 5,022 RUPIAH
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    • MONEY SCAN
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        Lock icon ‘RADICAL’ WINS NOBEL
        119 6 Reuters HAVE you ever spent $4 on petrol to drive to a warehouse sale to save $3 on paper towels? Or bought an expensive service contract for an appliance that would be cheap to replace and probably won’t break anyway? Designing experiments that can explain why people
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        Lock icon HEDGE FUNDS BUST?
        51 6 Bloomberg ABOUT 1,000 hedge funds will shut in the next year as investors withdraw money from losing funds that are struggling to generate fees as stock markets tumble, according to industry researchers at Tremont Advisers in London. Tremont tracks more than 2,500 funds of the 6,000 worldwide.
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  • STREATS vocal
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      Lock icon Don’t confuse offensive with creative
      290 8 I WOULD like to offer my views on some of the issues raised in “Better safe and silly” (Streats, Oct 10). The report raises concerns about the rationale of bans. Why ban one thing and not another? It is indisputable that as Singapore matures, we
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      Lock icon I see no SEX ban, only an admin decision
      160 8 THE report “Better safe and silly” (Streats, Oct 10) provoked thought about bans in a maturing society, but I believe that the Land Transport Authority’s (LTA) decision on the “non-use” of vowels on vehicle registration plates hardly fits the description of
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      Lock icon Snowed under with senior’s card applications
      164 8 IN reply to the letter “Transit Link, where is my senior’s card?” (Streats, Oct 9), we would like to thank writer Ting Siew Lan for taking the time to share her feedback with us, and we apologise sincerely for the delay. Indeed, during the
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      150 8 Have %ur 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 medical
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      Lock icon Baby-making – subconsciously
      129 11 Baby-making subconsciously LONDON Men trying to become fathers subconsciously boost their levels of testosterone to make conception more likely, say researchers. Ms Katharina Hirschenhauser, an expert in sex hormones, and colleagues at the Institute of Applied Psychology in Lisbon, Portugal, recruited 27 male volunteers. The men measured testosterone in their
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      Lock icon HEALTH FORUM
      138 11 I I I’ve been trying to maintain my weight by running every day hut instead I’ve gained weight A Whether you gain or lose weight over time depends on whether you are taking in more or less energy in food and drink than you are using up. If
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      Lock icon Lemon juice contraceptive
      126 11 Reuters CANBERRA Lemon juice as a contraceptive? That’s what Australian scientists believe they have re-discovered. They have also found that it can kill the Aids virus, in a test-tube anyway. Reproductive physiologist Professor Roger Short, from the University of Melbourne’s obstetrics department, said in an Australian Broadcasting
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      453 11 diK&Aidmeaicai Baby-making subconsciously LONDON Men trying to become fathers subconsciously boost their levels of testosterone to make conception more likely, say researchers. Ms Katharina Hirschenhauser, an expert in sex hormones, and colleagues at the Institute of Applied Psychology in Lisbon, Portugal, recruited 27 male volunteers. The men measured testosterone in
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  • STREATS regional
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      Lock icon BRUTE FORCE
      34 12 Plainclothes policemen pinning down a student protester in Jakarta on Wednesday. About 300 students held a demonstration demanding that the government take former Indonesian president Suharto and his associates to court Si
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      Lock icon Haze returns after brief reprieve
      248 12 -afp JAKARTA Haze from forest and ground burning drifted back over Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province yesterday, ending the reprieve brought by several days of rain, the meteorology office said. “The haze was bad again this morning, with visibility below 100 m at around 6am and
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      Lock icon No praying at work
      407 12 Aussie Muslim faces the sack for ‘unauthorised breaks’ Reuters SYDNEY An Australian Muslim faces the sack for taking 10 minutes off work to pray. Lebanese Australian Kamal El Masri last month received two warnings from his bosses at a computer assembly firm here for taking “unauthorised
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      Lock icon Overseas Filipinos to vote in polls
      179 12 AFP MANILA After 15 years of debate, the Philippines is set to adopt a law which lets seven million Filipinos living and working abroad to vote in their country’s legislative and presidential elections. It is expected to have a significant impact in the next
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      Lock icon Terror suspect 'wasn't tortured'
      65 12 -afp KUALA LUMPUR Allegations that American terror suspect Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal was tortured under Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interrogation in Malaysia were dismissed as impossible by the US Embassy yesterday. An embassy spokesman said that no US official had any contact with Ahmed until he
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      Lock icon Shock tactics for shark’s fin
      75 12 Reuters HONGKONG -The Singapore-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is using shock tactics to try to wean diners off shark’s fin soup. The society will put up posters of men cooking in gas masks and chemical protection gear, just weeks after a study said that the
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      Lock icon 8 die in bus terminal blast
      81 12 Reuters KIDAPAWAN, Philippines A bomb ripped through a bus terminal in the southern Philippines yesterday, killing at least eight people and wounding 19 in the latest of a series of bomb attacks in the region. The explosion occurred at around 2.45 pm in North
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      Lock icon Protesting prostitutes won’t serve Indon govt officials
      128 14 afp JAKARTA Prostitutes in Surabaya have vowed not to make themselves available to government officials to protest against a ruling which bans their activities during Ramadan, the Republika newspaper reported yesterday. In the Surabaya Prostitutes’ Pledge, the women agreed “not to accept and
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      Lock icon This is the symbol of Japan’s ills
      295 14 AP KUALA LUMPUR Platinum blondes and partying in central Tokyo are symbols of why Japan has failed to shake off years of economic doldrums, according to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Japan has now been stuck in a slowdown for more than 10
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  • STREATS global
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      Lock icon Iraq building supergun: report
      211 17 IRAQ UPDATE^ Reuters LONDON Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been acquiring the technology to build a long-range supergun capable of firing nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, the Independent reported on Wednesday. The claim came after two Germans who allegedly bought cannon drilling equipment and shipped it
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      Lock icon Foetus-in-jar shock for abortion woman
      235 17 GLASGOW A woman who had just had an abortion was shocked to find the foetus in a jar labelled with her name. Ms Nicola McManus was left by nurses in a room to answer a telephone call from her husband when she saw the jar.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Man shot at Virginia petrol station Sniper may have killed 9th victim
      378 17 Reuters WASHINGTON A man was shot and killed at a service station in Virginia, 48km south-west of here, on Wednesday night in an attack that bore striking similarities to a string of shootings attributed to a mystery sniper
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      Lock icon SAVING FACE
      58 17 Bulgarian children putting on gas masks in a safety drill on Wednesday in the town of Kozloduy, near the country’s nuclear power plant 200 km north of the capital Sofia. The fate of the Soviet-made power plant is a difficult point in Sofia’s talks with the European Union,
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      Lock icon US considers blacklisting Saudi Arabia
      110 17 WASHINGTON The US is debating whether to include Saudi Arabia on a blacklist of “countries of particular concern” that restrict religious freedom. A decision may be affected by US plans for military action against Iraq, US officials told United Press International. Saudi Arabia was included
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      Lock icon US raises visa fee
      91 17 Reuters WASHINGTON US is raising visa fee for visitors to US$lOO (Ssl7B) from US$65 to cover the cost of extra checks imposed since the Sept 11 attacks. The increase, which comes into effect on Nov 1, will enable the US State Department to recover the full
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      Lock icon Bickering beauties
      272 19 Reuters BRUSSELS Miss Belgium burst into tears on Wednesday after a public clash with two rival beauty queens. The issue was a plan to boycott the Miss World pageant in Nigeria to protest against human rights abuses. Beauty queens from half a dozen countries have threatened to boycott
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  • STREATS beauty
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      518 21 Hair Affair brought to you by Dove Hair Care While you’re enjoying your swim or that game of golf, your hair may not he having as good a time. The elements, unfortunately, can wreak havoc on your crowning glory YOU love being outside, enjoying a good
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon They give guys a bad name
      525 22  -  Adam About Town B'J ADAM HASHIDY DIRTY old men. Unless you have just flown in from Mars, you must have heard of wrinkled men who can’t keep their eyes or hands to themselves whenever a sweet young thing walks by. So much so that
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      Lock icon Serving up few laughs
      362 22  -  By YVONNE KWOK Serving Sara Directed by Reginald Hudlin. Starring Matthew Perry and Elizabeth Hurley Rating: 2 out of 4 THERE’S something about the romantic-comedy genre that sends a collective shudder through the male population. Read no further if you’re one of those guys. Did I
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      Lock icon Fruitful flavours
      344 24  -  Stylish eating on a shoestring By JUDI LOW Looking to impress in the kitchen on a budget? Judi Low’s recipes for stylish, nutritious, yummy meals that areeasy to make and cost $lO or less for four servings will see you through these tough times NINETY per cent of
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      117 26 DOGS can go on guard, of L course; geese even. But bees? A beekeeper in New York state |%jsed the stinging insects to protect his marijuana works. I The police, acting on tip-offs, found a locked barn surrounded by ST honeybee hives. They entered carefhlly and
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    • Just a minute
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        47 26 Get your fitness assessed when you take part in the 2km Sports For Life Walk. After that, stay on for a talk by fitness expert Dr Raija Laukkanen on health management and heart rate monitoring. Sunday, Toa Payoh Stadium, 8am-11am (registration starts at 7am).
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        83 26 Buses and trains will extend their operating hours tomorrow night for the Esplanade grand opening. The last north-bound, east-bound and west-bound trains will leave City Hall station at lam. There will be special bus services operating at Bedok, Tampines, Pasir Ris, Ang Mo Kio, Clementi, Jurong East and Boon
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    • Happenin'
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        57 26 PAWS FOR FUN Downtown East, Event Square Sunday, 12pm-spm $5, free for children under 12 Let your dog have its day with fun competitions for the happiest dog (tail-wagging contest), creative dog (dress up your dog with the materials provided), doggie races and musical chairs. There will also be
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        Lock icon CHARITY
        53 26 FAMILY DAY CARNIVAL Sunday, Bam-6pm Jurong Bird Park $9.60 (10% of ticket proceeds go to the ST School Pocket Money Fund) Mingle with clowns, stilt walkers, jugglers, magicians and fire-eaters. Snap photos with the 1001 flamingos at the Flamingo Lake adopted by Manulife Financial. You can also adopt your
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        Lock icon THE ESPLANADE
        238 26 THEATRES on The Bay opens tomorrow and a host of world-class events will be in town this month. For those who want to enjoy the fun but (a) don’t plan ahead and therefore never get round to actually buying tickets; (b) are arts-hungry but broke, good news there
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        Lock icon DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN
        57 28 10pm, Channel i Rosanna Arquette is housewife Roberta, who finds escapism in the exploits of the bohemian Susan (Madonna, left). When she goes to a meeting between Susan and her lover, she bumps her head, loses her memory, and becomes Susan, thanks to a case of mistaken
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        Lock icon ANCIENT INVENTIONS: WAR AND CONFLICT
        31 28 lOpm, Central A light-hearted journey around the world to uncover the ancient discoveries that anticipated the modem age. Hosted by Terry Jones of Monty Python fame.
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        Lock icon SURVIVOR V: THAILAND
        39 28 10pm, Channel 5 Last week, after a dramatic tribal council, Jed Hildebrand, the 25-year-old dental student from Dallas, seen as being lazy, was voted out 5-3, the first person slung out of the Sook Jai tribe.
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        Lock icon Sean Connery sues over CIA role
        132 28 Bloomberg SEAN CONNERY claims Peter Guber’s Mandalay Pictures misled him about the independent production company’s financial condition when he agreed to play the lead role of a CIA agent in the unmade film End Game. The actor said that after he began preparing for
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      Lock icon Chill out
      121 28 DERRICK CARTER Centro HOUSE producer and DJ Derrick Carter takes time off fromhis residencies at Chicago, New York and London to get you on your feet at Centro tonight. Expect material from his new 15-track CD, Squaredancing In A Roundhouse, which features extended dance tracks that are soothing,
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      501 30  -  World Cup semi-finalist’s golden dream crushed LEVI HAN MING reports from South Korea SEMI-FINALS: S KOREA 0 IRAN 0 (S Korea loses 3-5 on pen kicks) BUSAN South Korea’s dream of a gold in Asian Games football turned to dust yesterday. Coach Park Hang Seo, who took
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      312 30  -  SINGAPORE I ML s By ADAM HASHIDY SHE caught Asian Games fever even though she was hundreds of kilometres away from Busan. Jacqueline Lim, the Singapore Badminton Association’s executive director, was ecstatic when told that Singapore’s sole woman representative Li Li had beaten Japanese
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        136 32 AFP MAKHLID Al-Otaibi won (below) his second gold medal in the 5000 m. Saudi Arabian officials have promised he can have anything he wants to achieve Olympic glory. Said Saudi athletics boss Prince Nawafbin Mohammad: “We have a future Olympic champion here. He’s the star of
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        473 32  -  Athletes at the Games spoilt for choice when it comes to entertainment By < Lim Han Ming BUSAN -The Athletes’ Village here is like a mini-city. Host South Korea has thought of everything to ensure that the 10,000 athletes at the Asian Games live like royalty.
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        253 32 -AFP BUSAN In a cruel twist of fate, Susanthika Jayasinghe’s double Asian Games dream became a double disappointment yesterday. The sprint queen was forced out of the 200 m through injury. The Sri Lankan was a shock last-minute withdrawal, opening the door for India’s Saraswati
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        36 32 BADMINTON Wen’s singles Ronald Susilo Ladies singles Li Li (Round 16 today, quarter-finals tomorrow, semis on Sunday) WUSHU Daoshu (M) Leo Wen Yeow Taijiquan (M) Goh Qiu Bin All in Singapore times
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        180 32 G s B Tot China 127 66 55 248 South Korea 67 64 71 202 Japan 39 64 57 160 Kazakstan 16 16 20 52 Thailand 9 11 7 27 India 9 8 8 25 Taiwan 7 13 18 38 North Korea 7 11 11 29 Uzbekistan 7
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        122 34 AFP SHINGO Suetsugu, restored Japanese honour in sprints yestetday, keeping his promise with an emphatic victory in the men’s 200mfinal. The win came after Suetsugu’s compatriot NobuharuAsahara was spectacularly beaten into second place in the 100 m. Suetsugu exploded from the blocks and was never seriously threatened
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        339 34 -AFP BUSAN A top badminton official has called for the introduction of neutral line judges and the use of television replays to avoid a repeat of the scenes which marred Wednesday’s Asian Games men’s team final. Punch Gunalan,
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      381 37  -  Jurong player-coach hopes to go out on triumphant note B y Tan Kim Han NTUC INCOME SINGAPORE CUP FINAL Jurong FC v Tampines Rovers (National Stadium, Sunday, Bpm) V SUNDRAMOORTHY, who has kept his fans dazzled for two decades, may play his last competitive game on Sunday. The
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      218 37  -  By Tan Kim Han ONCE they were shining examples of supremely fit athletes. And their football mesmerised fans here and across the Causeway. To be sure, their names are still mentioned in awe even though they last paraded their skills on the highest stage
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      404 39 Beckham, Ashley Cole join England team in training Wire services EURO 2004 QUALIFIERS Slovakia v England LONDON England captain David Beckham and defender Ashley Cole were back in training yesterday ahead of tomorrow’s European Championship qualifying game in Slovakia. The two World Cup stars were unable to
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      341 39 -AFP EURO 2004 QUALIFIERS France v Slovenia PARIS Veteran central defender Marcel Desailly chalks up 100 appearances for France against Slovenia tomorrow to cap a career in which he has had his critics, particularly at the last World Cup. Desailly must also accept
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      124 39 -AFP LONDON- Howard Wilkinson was appointed manager of English Premiership struggler Sunderland with Steve Cotterill his assistant, the club said yesterday. Wilkinson, who was up till this appointment the Football Association’s technical director, was previously manager of Leeds and Sheffield Wednesday. Cotterill resigned as manager of
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      88 39 Group 1: France v Slovenia Malta v Israel Group 2: Denmark v Luxembourg Romania v Norway Group 3: Belarus v Austria; Moldova v Czech Republic Group 4: Poland v Latvia Sweden v Hungary Group 5: Iceland v Scotland Lithuania v Faroe Islands Group 6: Spain v Northern
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      55 39 IN THE LIVING ROOM ASIAN GAMES: Highlights (RTMI, 11.30 am and 3pm. Chs and TVMobile, 4pm and 11pm). SOCCER: International friendly: Bosnia v Germany (Supersports Ch 22, Oct 12, 2.25 am). DELAYED TELECAST GOLF: EPGA Trophee Lancome, Day 2 (Super Sports Ch 22, 10pm). VOLLEYBALL: FIVB Men’s World Championship, s-final
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