Streats, 30 October 2002

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  • 12 1 Streats WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg IVHTA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • 799 1  -  Troubled Chartered is playing catch-up by doMg too little too late, says Taiwanese giant H Chua Kong Ho THE world’s biggest chipmaker is looking at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing’s woes with a benevolent smirk. While Chartered’s books are screaming in red, with hardly a day going by without more
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    • 54 1 ®s§ mmm sm&mm 1111 1111 He kept his dark secret from his mum, wife and daughter. Now former star bowler admits: I’m guilty Is Ummi Hafilda Ali is back with a v< iisi this time in a to expose the Puteri Umno chiefs dark secrets PAGE 15 ifa&j «Si mm
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  • STREATS local
    • 465 2  -  Japan’s high-tech toilet craze fails to go down well here r Zubaidah Nazeer TO the Japanese, the 100 is not just that place you go when you’ve got to go. To many of them, this privacy paradise is their obsession, their massage parlour, medical clinic
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    • The right perception
      • 161 2 WHILE the average Singaporean Malay/Muslim has firm religious roots, he is also tolerant. In 1999, the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) interviewed 1,053 Malay households to survey the community’s development and progress. It found that almost all the children (98 per cent) received some form
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      • 161 2 THE arrests of Jemaah Islamiah group members on terrorism charges did not cause any great mistrust of Malay Singaporeans, Chinese community leaders told Malay MPs yesterday. The assurance was given during a meeting between editors of the local Chinese media, the chiefs of the federation
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    • 309 3  -  By Khushwant Singh THE Deepavali open house at the Karichiappan household last year was a happy occasion with relatives and friends visiting all day long. This Sunday, however, there will be no festive air. The family patriarch, Mr Karichiappan Perumal, 78, a
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    • 328 3  -  By Sarah Ng RELAX, the Government is in no hurry to increase the foreign maid levy. This, in essence, was what Minister of State (Manpower and Education) Ng Eng Hen said yesterday when Streats asked him about the subject, a hot topic in letters
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    • 88 4 REPAIRS at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) are what is holding up its putting in more C-class beds. Demand for the beds has risen mainly because of the economic downturn. The SGH was to have upped the number of the beds from 134 to 234 this year,
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    • 65 4 ONLY $5 million of the $2O million set aside for the Economic Downturn Relief Scheme was used to help 18,000 people who signed up. “Perhaps the situation is getting better and there are not so many people who feel that they need relief,” said the Minister of
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    • 54 4 ALL donations of cash or artefacts, regardless of value, made to the National Heritage Board and other heritage organisations this year will qualify for double tax deduction, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced yesterday. Previously, only donors of artefacts worth at least $1 million were entitled
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    • 740 4  -  By' Gary Lim FOR almost four months, former national bowler Jansen Chan Wah Hin hid a dark secret from the three women closest to him his wife, daughter and mother. Chan, 47, and now a bowling coach, did not want them to
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    • 117 4 THE deadline for filing suits over the SQOO6 crash is tomorrow, and so far more than two dozen survivors and relatives have done so, to seek higher compensation from Singapore Airlines (SIA). Singapore aviation lawyer Rajaram Ramiah of Wee, Ramayah and Partners said
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  • STREATS financial
    • 511 6  -  Mr Kiasu won’t be stocking up before the GST hike kicks in, say retailers By tDeepa Vijiyasingam THE Singapore consumer is not so kiasu after all. With just two months to go before the goods and services tax (GST) is raised from 3 to 5 per cent,
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    • 239 6 SINGAPORE Business sentiment plunged last month on a year-on-year basis, with over 47 per cent of respondents in a Singapore Confederation of Industries (SCI) survey believing that conditions here are fast deteriorating. Only 35 per cent felt that the conditions were the same
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    • 70 6 Bloomberg KEPPEL Corp yesterday said it had won a $25 million contract to build a drilling barge for Indonesian oil exploration contractor PT Apexindo. This is its third barge contract this year from Apexindo. The barge, which will be delivered in May next year, will be used
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    • 83 6 AFP JAPAN’S Fujitsu yesterday said it will cut another 9,000 jobs this financial year after its first half net loss narrowed only slightly as one-off costs offset streamlining efforts. It also said it would remain in the red for the full year to March. Restructuring charges will
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    • 81 6 -AFP WORLDCOM director Stiles Kellett has resigned after the company’s board threatened to remove him for his arrangements with former World Com CEO Bernard Ebbers, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. Mr Kellett caved in after weeks of pressure over deals he helped arrange for Mr Ebbers, including
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    • 64 6 -Reuters HONGKONG police have raided the offices of Chinese orchid exporter Euro-Asia Agricultural (Holdings), whose chairman, Yang Bin, is under house arrest in China. Several dozen boxes of documents were seized from Euro-Asia’s office on Monday. A police spokesman declined to confirm the raid. The company has been
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    • 467 7  -  Sound advice, sound decisions brought to you by Manulife Financial By. Janice Wong Osteoporosis is often called the “silent disease” because bone loss occurs without symptoms. The best defence is to start budding up bone strength at a young age through a calcium-rich diet and exercise
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    • 193 8 THE stakes in the battle to gain control of Nat Steel were upped again yesterday, prompting speculation that a new offer may be made. In the latest development, tycoon Oei Hong Leong said in a statement that he had bought 5.37 million shares in
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    • 401 8 STI: 1,449.93 28.06 Reuters SHARES closed weaker yesterday as disappointing quarterly results from DBS Group stoked a sell down of blue chips such as Singapore Airlines and techs. The Straits Times Index finished 1.9 per cent, or 28.06 points, lower at 1,449.93. “We are seeing
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    • 347 8 Investments held up, though worldwide demand seen rising -AFP SINGAPORE Terrorism fears and the economic slowdown are holding up major oil and gas investments, but the longer term prospects are bright due to rising demand, industry players said yesterday. Worldwide demand for oil is expected to
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    • 24 8 •AS AT OCTOBER 29 US$: 551.772 552.764 EURO: 551.744 Ss: 69.74 YEN Ss: RM2.144 Ss: HK54.401 Ss: 24.48 BAHT Ss: 5,203 RUPIAH
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    • 43 8 Jurong Town Primary School invites former staff and pupils to a preview of its musical Uni omiifo im OliiClli to commemorate its merger with Merlimau and Yung An. Date: 31st October 2002, Thursday Time: 7pm -8.30 pm Venue: Jurong Town Primary School Field
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  • STREATS vocal
    • 74 10 I AGREE with CH Yak, who wrote the letter “SMRT profits: Why no relief for commuters?” (Streats, Oct 28). We need an explanation from SMRT about this. Is it an oversight on SMRT’s part, as well as by the Public Transport Council, that a tax rate
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    • 172 10 I BELIEVE that job protectionism is what has caused the performance of our service industry to fall behind other major industries here. It’s time for us to seriously consider further opening up positions in our local labour market that have traditionally been reserved for Singaporeans.
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    • 128 10 AFTER learning of a proposed increase in the foreign maid levy, I would like to recount an experience with hiring local domestic help. In March, I called South-west Community Development Council’s (CDC) home help programme to enquire about a babysitter to come to my house.
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    • 246 10 I WAS dismayed to read “Holland Village perfect for bomb attack” (Streats, Oct 29), a letter in which Merrill Grogel highlights the area’s vulnerability to terrorists. It’s an exaggeration to say that all Singaporeans are in “total denial” of the possibility of an attack here. The arrests
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    • 239 10 I WOULD like clarification about the purpose of the Skills Redevelopment Programme (SRP). As a business finance postgraduate who had been jobless for four months, I took a low-paid job and decided to retrain in the field of human resources. I applied to both the Singapore Institute
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    • 72 10 Have Say E-mail us at streats@sph.comsg or write to The Editor, Streats, 1000 Toa Pay oh 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
    • 138 13 How can I get rid of the reddish pimple scars on my face? A These are usually caused by severe inflammation of acne lesions, ranging from nodules to the cystic type. The scars will subside over a few weeks or months, but they leave depressions of skin colour.
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    • 81 13 What’s dental caries? IT is tooth decay, but its noteworthy characteristic is that it is more common in young people and can occur in children just a few years old. Its main cause is the frequent intake of sugar or sugary drinks. For example, letting your toddler fall
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    • 144 13 LONDON Women who frequently use painkillers such as paracetamol during pregnancy could be more likely to have a wheezing baby, research shows. Wheezing is a factor in the risk of a child developing asthma later. The research, carried out at King’s College London, showed that
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    • 292 13 Reuters NEW YORK Cutting back on food may do more than help people shed kilos, research suggests. It may keep them young at heart, because a low-calorie diet may slow age-related changes in the heart’s genes that can lead to chronic disease. In a
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  • STREATS global
    • 530 15  -  Anwar whistle-blower takes up another anti-gay fight By. Zubaidah Nazeer SHE blew the whistle on former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim in 1999, accusing him of being a homosexual. He’s now in jail. Now, she’s accusing Puteri Umno chief and lawyer Azalina Othman Said,
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    • 179 15 -ar* JAKARTA Moderate Muslim leaders in Indonesia seem to be making a U-turn on terrorism. Yesterday, the head of Indonesia’s second largest Islamic group warned the government against arresting more Muslim leaders as police waited to question elderly cleric and terror suspect Abu Bakar Bashir.
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    • 287 15 WASHINGTON Indonesian Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, has been identified by US and European intelligence sources as one of six emerging leaders who are key to running Al Qaeda’s global military and financial networks. One of the few non-Arabs who seems
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    • 218 15 JAKARTA President Megawati Sukarnoputri’s stewardship of Indonesia’s war on terrorism is increasingly coming under the spotlight. An editorial in yesterday’s Jakarta Post accused Ms Megawati of taking the war lightly. The article said: “Instead, President Megawati has delegated that job, and the entire affairs of countering
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    • 501 16 AP TUCSON, Arizona Robert Stewart Flores Jr, said to have shot three lecturers here and then killed himself, was a Gulf War veteran and contract nurse who struggled as a nursing student at the University of Arizona. A classmate said he tangled
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    • 237 16 -AP WASHINGTON As Jordanian authorities began investigating the killing of a US diplomat in Amman, the US closed its embassy there and considered whether terrorists might have carried out the attack. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said US officials were not describing the
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    • 207 18 Reuters WASHINGTON Moscow may be under attack for using a deadly gas to end last week’s hostage crisis. But US President George W Bush has given full marks to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his handling of the stand-off. He has blamed
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    • 88 18 -AFP ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico US President George W Bush called on the UN on Monday to act now to disarm Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and warned it: Confront Baghdad or stand aside. “This is a person who has made the United Nations look foolish,” Mr Bush
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    • 94 18 Sorry, you won’t get to see her on Singapore TV, hut her reality show is one of the hottest in the US currently. Ms Devinn Lane is the star of Playboy TV’s reality series 7 Lives Xposed. She was posing at a Malibu mansion in California to promote
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    • 337 18 NEW YORK This chilling electronic missive was among hundreds evidently sent to Iraq’s president by people around the world and picked up by Wired.com. Another message from an Internet user in Washington state, who conceded that he would”probably end up on some FBI
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  • easy STREATS
    • 185 20 -AP HUNDREDS of fans lined the streets in Hongkong yesterday afternoon to catch a final glimpse of the late Roman Tam, the godfather oi Hongkong s music industry, who had liver cancer and died on Oct 18. Crowds yelled as a green hearse draped with flowers and
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    • 589 20 His is thefamiliar voice on radio that many Singaporeans grew up with and it's been 30 years since Brian Richmondjirst hit the airwaves. Media Corp is marking that milestone with a tribute party on Nov 7. GREGORYLEOWcatches up with the man himself YOU can call Brian
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    • 87 20 ONE of the many people who grew up listening to Brian Richmond on the radio is Perfect 10 DJ Rod Monteiro. In fact, he used to practise saying out loud some of the things Brian would say on radio, and he looks
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    • 591 22  -  Tellytubby Bx t YVONNE KWOK If you watched Channel s’s The Weakest Link on Sunday, you’ll realise why women over 30 in Singapore are not keen on marriage. The game show, both the Chinese and English versions, is riddled with male chauvinists MEN are pigs. At least,
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    • 117 24 GOT friends in Australia who have been laughing at our water woes? Water restrictions are to be imposed in Melbourne, from Friday, because of drought. And Sydney could be next. People will have to cut back on outdoor use of water. Singapore’s a fine city? Breaches
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    • Just a minute
      • 127 24 Cultures around the world may have different traditions but theyboil down to seven common principles. Find out what these are at a video screening of The Energetics of Healing and how you can live your life in line with these principles. Tonight, 7pm-8pm, library@orchard (#O5-22/26 Ngee Ann
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    • Happenin’
      • 33 24 LUNCHTIME INTERLUDES Today, lpm library @esplanade Free Take a mid-week break at lunchtime with the teachers and staff of Cristofori Music School’s North East Cluster as they perform piano and violin duets.
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      • 67 24 FOOTY MOLLS Tomorrow till Nov 8, Bpm YMSArts Centre (54, Waterloo Street) Tickets at $37, $35, $2B from Sistic The world premiere of a hilarious new play takes place here tomorrow. After its Singapore run, the cast will travel to Brisbane to kick off its Australian tour next month.
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      • Article, Illustration
        96 24 CHUAZZ 2002 Nov 3, spm till lam Free Chijmes Lawn Chijmes’ seventh annual jazz festival brings together big names such as Jeremy Monteiro, Jacintha Abisheganaden, Thomson Big Band, Eldee Young (above), Keiko Matsui and Kuala Lumpur band Biophonics. They showcase a wide range of jazz styles, including dixie, blues,
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      • 82 24 MIDDLE EASTERN DANCE FESTIVAL Friday 7pm till late Pavilion Room, Phoenix Hotel Tickets at $2O, ca *****5-1979 or e-mail zeenathall@hotmail.com There will be a belly dance performance by guest artists Russian-born Caroline Evanoff who has lived in Cairo for the last seven years and Maria Masselos from Brisbane and
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        67 24 LOTUS KRAKATOA A NEW EARTH EXPERIENCE Till Nov 10,11.30am-Bpm Mondays to Saturdays, 12 noon to 5.30 pm on Sundays Utterly Art (208 South Bridge Road, level two) Ceramist Bary Cha Cha offers his lotus creations with their smoky leaves, buds and blooms as a antidote to the urbanscape we
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 65 25 lOpm, Channel i When streetwise charmer Eddy (Nick Moran) botches a gambling scheme with pom king Hatchet Harry (PH Moriarty), he’s given one week to come up with i 500,000 pounds or he loses his fingers. That’s when his mates come up with a
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      • 48 25 8.30 pm, Channel U This is billed as the Romance of the Book and Sword special so expect Bryan Wong and Kym Ng to comb through Singapore for martial arts experts. How many Jet Li wannabes can they find and more importantly, how good looking are they?
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      • 111 25 Reuters ACTRESS Winona Ryder claimed she was preparing for an acting role when she was first detained last December on suspicion of shoplifting at Saks Fifth Avenue. Saks security manager Kenneth Evans testified on the first day of Ryder’s trial on charges of burglary,
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    • Article, Illustration
      144 25 OASIS Heathen Chemistry ONE wonders if the enfant terribles have grown up in the space of two years since their their last album. Perhaps. In the fourth track, Stop Crying Your Heart Out, a considerably older sounding Noel Gallagher writes about getting on with life. But it offers
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    • 156 21 Concert at Esplanade •1 An Evening with George Brooks' SUMMIT Featuring George Brooks, saxophone Zakir Hussain, tabla Fareed Hague, guitar Steve Smith, drums Kai Eckhardt, bass 15 Nov, 7.30 pm Concert Hall Esplanade Theatres on the Bay $lOO, $BO, $6O, sso*, s4o* Don't miss the one-night only performance of Summit
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 473 25 Yourdailyhoroscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 You can determine the quality of your allies by what they want in return for their services and how they ask for it. To Aquarius, instability often equals creativity. Savour this moment instead of rushing through it. TAURUS APR 20 MAY 20 You have an
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  • STREATS sports
    • 411 26  -  Striker to be fined heavily for missing training By Tan Kim Han BAD boy Ahmad Latiff Khamarudin (below) lived up to his reputation yesterday by not showing up for the Tiger Cup morning training and fitness test at the National Stadium. Latiff, who attended the
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    • 139 26 XINHUA Selection defender Zhao Jian had the better of Home United midfielder Harun Juma’at in this aerial duel above. But the Chinese team was not able to stop Home from winning 1-0 in the Home Team Charity Cup at Bishan Stadium last night. Home, which fielded
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    • 90 26 2002 Oct Fined for missing national team training and fitness test April Fined $l,OOO by SAFFC for headbutting an opponent and getting sent off 2001 Sacked from Team Singapore squad to play Manchester United for indiscipline and absence from training. Left out of SEA Games squad 2000
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    • 459 28  -  [Singapore to host table tennis Pro lour event next year By. Adam Hashidy THE Pro Tour, comprising the who’s who of world table tennis, will come to town next year. The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has decided to make the Singapore Open as one of
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    • 635 29 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Liverpool v Valencia LIVERPOOL Liverpool’s in-form midfielder Danny Murphy (right) is determined to prove a point when Gerard Houllier’s side entertains Valencia here tomorrow morning. Murphy, who scored a stunning strike in the Reds’ 2-1
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    • 66 29 (tomorrow, 3.30 am) Group A PSV Eindhoven (Ned) v Auxerre (Fra) Borussia Dortmund (Ger) v Arsenal (Eng) Group B Liverpool (Eng) v Valencia (Spa) Spartak Moscow (Rus) v FC Basel (Swi) postponed till Nov 6 Group C AEK Athens (Gre) v Genk (Bel) Real Madrid (Spa) v AS
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    • 106 29 DORTMUND vs ARSENAL 1X2 Dortmund 2.40 Draw 3.60 Arsenal 2.30 1/2 GOAL Dortmund {-11/2 goals) 3.85 Arsenal 1/2 goals) 1.19 TOTAL GOALS 0 goal 10.00 1 goal 4.60 2 goals 3.60 3 goals 3.60 4 goals 5.40 5 goals 8.00 6 goals 14.00 7 goals 31.00 8 goals
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    • 251 29 Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Borussia Dortmund v Arsenal LONDON Arsenal’s stars have been given extra motivation for their Champions League clash with Borussia Dortmund tomorrow morning after being branded cheats by the German club’s coach. Former Germany sweeper Matthias Sammer described the Arsenal players
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    • 526 31 Defending champion could start season on losing streak AP LOS ANGELES Mindful of Shaquille O’Neal’s (right) absence, Los Angeles Lakers’ coach Phil Jackson said a while back that his team might begin its quest for a fourth straight NBA championship with a seven-game losing streak. Lakers meet San
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    • 347 31 Reuters LONDON Formula One bosses have made it harder for Michael Schumacher (right) to win an unprecedented sixth title next year, even if the Ferrari driver has escaped being slowed down by lead weights. Important changes to the qualifying format and the points
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    • SPORTS SCAN
      • BASKETBALL
        • 104 31 -afp MIAMI Miami Heat centre Alonzo Mourning, who is not expected to play this season due to a deteriorating kidney condition, was placed on the National Basketball Association injured list on Monday. On Sept 12, Heat revealed that Mourning would be out indefinitely because his body chemistry had
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        • 88 31 -AFP SAN ANTONIO Chinese centre Mengke Bateer was placed on the National Basketball Association injured list on Monday with tendinitis of the left kneecap. Acquired from the Detroit Pistons earlier this month for a second-round pick in 2003, Mangke is expected to miss five games for San Antonio
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      • 81 31 SOCCER -AFP LONDON An own goal by Phil Babb handed Bolton a barely deserved point on Monday as it fought out a scrappy 1-1 draw with fellow Premiership struggler Sunderland. Both remain firmly rooted to the bottom two places. But Sunderland may suffer in the longer term as
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