Streats, 31 October 2002

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  • STREATS local
    • 111 2  -  -Adam Hashidy BALI bomb blast survivor Andy Crook was among 1,200 people who attended the memorial service for Singapore Cricket Club victims at the Padang yesterday. The 26-year-old New Zealander suffered bums to his face, body and legs and two broken ribs in the terrorist attack
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    • 394 2  -  Too early to end relief scheme: MPs By r Sarah Ng DELIVERY driver Peter Yeo is worried. Like many low-income Singaporeans, he is afraid of losing his job as the economy is still far from robust. Mr Yeo said he will breathe easier if that
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    • 469 3  -  Foreign mum’s torment as husband is jailed for raping her daughter By KhiLshwant Singh SHE was a 23-year-old unwed mum with a young daughter and holding down an office job in a neighbouring country. One day he turned up, a goodlooking Singaporean 11 years older
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    • 584 4  -  Many graduates give up social life because of work, survey shows By r Yong Hui Mien LION dance used to be his passion. Not long ago, Mr Raymond Koh Yeow Dong could even remember the drum tempo for every dance sequence. Then, all too soon,
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    • 184 4 FROM next year, Primary 6 students can pick their secondary schools after getting their PSLE results. Currently, they have to make their choices three months before the results are released. Parents have been complaining that they cannot make realistic choices without knowing
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    • 79 4 TAKE one month to cool it off and try to settle the matter amicably, a judge told Joo Chiat neighbours Mr Chan Cheng Koon, 67, and Madam Cheong SiewYing, 38. Madam Cheong is from one of seven families involved in a long-standing feud with the Chans,
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    • 73 4 RETIREE Karichiappan Perumal, 78, who was found dead in his bedroom with his hands and neck tied tightly with a sari, was strangled. An autopsy reviewed that his right jaw was fractured, which hastened his death by about a minute, pathologist Dr Wee Keng Poh said yesterday.
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    • 66 4 TO improve the conduct and practices of 700 maid employment agencies here, it is now less of a hassle for them to be accredited under Casetrust, a scheme run by the Ministry of Manpower and the Consumers Association of Singapore. The ministry has eased its rules so that
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    • 65 4 A CHINESE university has set up a campus in Singapore. The Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) opened its first overseas base here yesterday, a graduate school. SJTU is known for its engineering and management courses, and in Singapore it will offer post-graduate and executive programmes in business,
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  • STREATS financial
    • 510 6 IBM CEO soon-to-be chairman has little patience with poor performers Bloomberg ARMONK, New York The man who will take over as IBM chairman next year doesn’t suffer underperformers. Mr Sam Palmisano, since being promoted to CEO from chief operating officer in March, has cut jobs and costs
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    • 282 6 Bloomberg TORONTO Chief executive officers will be told to stop dictating boardroom policies, if Blackstone Group chairman Peter G Peterson, former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker and other finance industry leaders have their way. “That’ll emerge as a major issue,” said Mr Peterson, cochairman
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    • 71 6 Wire services KEPPEL Telecommunications Transportation shareholders yesterday cleared the sale of its stake in Mobile One Asia (Ml), paving the way for a planned initial public offering (IPO). The IPO is expected to be the biggest here over the last three years. Also yesterday, Keppel Corp said
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    • 78 6 Bloomberg SINGTEL yesterday said that it will record a one-time gain of $228 million after its associate Belgacom SA sold a stake in another phone company. Belgacom, Belgium’s No 1 phone company, sold its 11 per cent in Dutch cellphone firm Ben Nederland BV to Deutsche Telekom AG
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    • 82 6 Reuters TOYOTA Motor’s net profit for the six months to September surged more than 90 per cent to 553.7 billion yen (SsB billion), helped by cost-cutting and exchange rate gains. Sales rose 15 per cent to 7.89 trillion yen, thanks to the popularity of the remodelled Camry
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    • 68 6 -AFP TAIWAN Semiconductor Manufacturing Co plans to invest US$l billion (551.76 billion) in China in the next four years, a spokesman said in Taipei yesterday. TSMC has applied for permission from Taiwanese authorities to build an eightinch microchip wafer plant in Shanghai. The subsidiary will have a
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    • 428 8 Reuters SINGAPORE Chip tester ST Assembly Test Services (Stats) posted a smaller than expected third-quarter loss yesterday, but warned of a slower fourth quarter as chip demand dips in line with a weak economic outlook. Asia’s sixth-largest microchip testing and packaging firm by revenue
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    • 430 8 STI: 1,458.96 9.03 Reuters SINGAPORE -The Straits Times Index (STI) yesterday closed higher in dull trade with its main components like UOB and SIA rising on the expiry of monthly index futures contracts. The STI finished 0.62 per cent, or 9.03 points, up at
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    • 24 8 *AS AT OCTOBER 30 US$: 551.771 552.757 EURO: 551.742 Ss: 69.28 YEN Ss: RM2.146 Ss: HK54.404 Ss: 24.50 BAHT Ss: 5,206 RUPIAH
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    • 304 8 Reuters SINGAPORE Hotel magnate Ong Beng Seng, who is bidding for takeover target Nat Steel Ltd with a $773 million offer, is not seeking 100 per cent of the steel-maker, a top aide said yesterday. “We are happy with 50 plus
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    • 416 10 Wire services NEW YORK Children in the US may cry this Christmas. And parents can blame it on the stagnation at West Coast ports. The annual scramble for the holiday season’s hottest toys could be especially ugly this
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  • STREATS vocal
    • 177 12 SO the Government is in “no hurry” to increase the foreign maid levy (“Maid levy uproar: ‘Take it easy’, Streats, Oct 30). It seems that an increase in the levy is a foregone conclusion and that the Government is undecided only on
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    • 263 12 IN response to the overwhelming public thumbs-down for the proposal to raise the foreign maid levy, Minister of State (Manpower and Education) Ng Eng Hen said that the entire issue was “blown out of proportion” (“Maid levy uproar: ‘Take it easy’,” Streats, Oct
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    • 113 12 IN the letter “Protecting jobs dulls service standards” (Streats, Oct 30), it was suggested that we bring in more foreigners to fill jobs not taken by Singaporeans. Unemployment is high, yet there are jobs available. We should consider how such an absurd situation can
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    • 97 12 THE Brokerage/Wall Street category was ranked third from bottom in a survey of public faith in American business, the Golin/Harris 2002 Trust Survey. According to Thomson Financial IBES, for the Singapore stock market, the “sell” portfolios outperformed the “strong buy” portfolios about 35 per cent of
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    • 176 12 THE Esplanade is the latest part of our quest to become a true world-class country. Apart from indulging in and pursuing the arts, we are also urged to make time for public service, take care of our children and pursue personal development and continuous learning.
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    • 71 12 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 you
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  • STREATS medical
    • 541 15  -  Not all oik are created equal and some are healthier chokes than others Health begins with sti^ ea n By Jill Lim GENERAL health advice often is to cut down on fat and oil intake, while the traditional food pyramid, a guide advising greater amounts of
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    • 52 15 Olive oil, aside from being high in monounsaturates, also has a relatively high level of the antioxidant vitamin E Pumpkin seed oil has omega-3 and 6 Sunflower oil, with a relatively high smoke point, is suitable for sauteeing and is a source of polyunsaturated fat and some
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    • 433 16 Reuters CHICAGO A preliminary study suggests that cranberry juice may inhibit a type of bacteria that commonly causes ear and respiratory infections in children. It seems at least in the laboratory that cranbeny juice can inhibit certain strains of Haemophilus
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    • 140 16 HEALTH FACT ALSO called tinea pedis, it is a fungal infection of the foot and is more likely in closed, warm, moist environments or if you don’t dry your feet well. Symptoms include an itchy, scaly, red rash that may develop into cracked and blistered skin.
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    • 184 17 I How do we prevent the U recurrence of hives in children and what are the rer nedies? A Hives are an allergic rash characterised by slightly raised A JL and mildly red skin, which is V intensely itchy. It can last from a few hours to a
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    • 205 17 Reuters NEW YORK "Yet another reason to quit: Scientists say that a by-product of nicotine causes a type of chemical reaction in the body that is thought to play a role in diabetes, cancer and other diseases. Dr Kim D Janda and Dr Tobin
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    • 200 17 BOSTON Aspirin can help prevent the inflammation that is common with heart bypass surgery. A new study yielding this result is the first to find such a benefit for any medication, reported Bloomberg last week. Doctors had previously avoided using aspirin, which thins the blood, for fear
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  • STREATS global
    • 489 19 Wire services JAKARTA Is Indonesian Vice-President Hamzah Haz distancing himself from suspected Jemaah Islamiah chief Abu Bakar Bashir? Mr Hamzah hasn’t come to the rescue of Bashir since fingers pointed at him for the Oct 12 Bali blast
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    • 63 19 -AFP SYDNEY Heavily-armed federal agents and police raided two homes occupied by Indonesian Muslims yesterday as part of a nationwide crackdown on the group held responsible for the terrorist bombing in Bali. One was in the Perth suburb of Thomlie and the other in the Sydney
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    • 67 19 Reuters BANGKOK A bomb blast rocked a hotel in southern Thailand, the latest in a spate of arson and bomb attacks in the mainly Muslim region, but no one was hurt. The bomb, hidden in a stolen motorcycle, exploded just before midnight on Tuesday in the
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    • 26 19 Malaysian religious authorities, hacked hy police, raided a transvestite beauty pageant in Muar on Monday and arrested 80 Muslim contestants and guests ji. m
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    • 129 19 AP JAKARTA Investigators looking into the Bali bombing yesterday released sketches of three suspects they believe carried out the attacks. “These three people are part of a bigger group,” Indonesian police commander Made Mangu Pastika said. “We have successfully reached stage one of the
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    • 51 20 ‘They treated us well. We had enoughjbod to eat We could pray and wash with waterfive times a day. We had the Quran and read it all the time! Mohammed Sadiq, who said he was 90, and who had been arrested in the eastern province
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    • 619 20 AP KABUL Three Afghans released after months of captivity at a US military base in Cuba said on Tuesday that they were chained up during frequent interrogations, but were treated well overall by their American captors. The two elderly men who appeared to be in
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    • 201 20 AFP BEIJING Former Taipei city councilor Chu Mei-feng, disgraced after she was filmed having sex with a married man, is planning to marry a mainland Chinese man and settle in Shanghai, a report said yesterday. Ms Chu’s new love is from the Shanghai literary circle and
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    • 196 20 AP LONDON Police were awaiting the result of forensic tests to determine if a 14-year-old girl raped on Monday was the 10th victim of a man who has become known as the “trophy rapist”. His nickname derives from his habit of taking an item of
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    • 474 21 A 1 Jazeera news channel LONDON It is rare when a TV news channel becomes the news. But that is true of the Qatar-based Arabic news channel Al Jazeera. Made famous by its telecast of exclusive taped broadcasts by Osama bin Laden, it was in the
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    • 314 21 STREATS PRESENTS KEIKO MATSUI LIVE CONCERT h kv wan Exclusive to STREATS readers Keiko Matsui Book your Keiko Matsu» Concert tickets today and they may take you all the way to the Melbourne Internationa: Jazz Festival in January 2003, in our speciai contest orgamseckbv STREATS’ Prize worth $3,000 consists of:
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  • easy STREATS
    • 495 22 -AP NEW YORK Christina Aguilera considers Stripped a chance for her to bare herself and finally let people get to know who she really is. She’s certainly giving fans a lot to look forward to. The music video for the album’s first single, Dirrty, features the former
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    • 115 22 ONE person who’s not happy about Christina Aguilera’s sexy look is (surprise, surprise) her grandmother, Delcie Fidler, who had an interview with Britain’s Heat magazine after she saw the video last year for Lady Marmalade, in which the singer wears tarty French lingerie. ‘T nearly
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    • 293 23 Wire agencies FORGET Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. This beat-up old car is actually one of the 14 cars that will be Harry Potter’s Flying Ford Anglia in the second Harry Potter film, Chamber of Secrets, which opens in Singapore on Nov 14. Special effects supervisor John Richardson’s
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    • 97 23 ACTRESS Sarah Jessica Parker, 37, gave birth to a baby boy on Monday, and her husband, Matthew Broderick, 40, is said to be “ecstatic”. Named David Perkins Broderick, he is the couple’s first child. Sarah, who plays Carrie Bradshaw in HBO’s Sex and the
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    • 524 25  -  Directed by Andy Tennant By YVONNE KWOK Sweet Home Alabama Starring Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas Rating: OOO®® Reese Witherspoon’s latest movie, Sweet Home Alabama, might have recycled some of the lamest Mills and Boons plots out there, but it succeeds in pulling in audiences because of
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    • 119 26 IT’S Halloween, and in America costume party-goers will dress up as their favourite ogres. The Washington Post reported that one Manhattan costume store clerk said that people had been asking for Martha Stewart costumes. (The knowall household guru is in legal trouble.) Osama and Saddam are
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    • Just a minute
      • 45 26 Borrow six items from the library@orchard and you could win a mystery prize. This special promotion goes on till Nov 21 at library@orchard only, in conjunction with its third anniversary. Just present your loan receipts at the customer service counter to qualify.
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      • 59 26 You can exchange all your New Singapore Shares for cash. Just fill up and return the form you should have received in the mail. You can also make an electronic application at any NSS website (www.nss.gov.sg, www.newsingaporeshares.gov.sg, www.ecitizen.gov.sg/nss) or call the NSS PAL-Phone (1800-7885-677 or 1800-7885-NSS). Call the
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    • Happenin’
      • 44 26 GREEN FIESTA EXHIBITION Saturday and Sunday llam-9pm HDB Hub atrium Toa Pay oh Central Go green with Central Singapore at this fair. Highlights include the showcase of Eco-Home and Eco-Office models. There will also be free workshops teaching you grasshopper weaving and papermaking.
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      • 45 26 VERITAS’ ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE ROADSHOW Today, 8.30am-4pm, Pacific Ballroom, The Pan Pacific Free. Register online at www.veritas.com/sg Find out from Veritas Software executives Jeremy Burton, Tim Coulter, Eric Hoh and Alvin Ow how storage software can let your organisation do more with less resources.
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      • Article, Illustration
        54 26 KEIKO MATSUI Nov 4, Bpm Kallang Theatre Tickets at $66, $56 and $46 from Sistic She is the only woman to have dominated Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz charts for the last 25 years. Her dreamy compositions have a jazz influence but feels closer to world music that’s part Kitaro, part
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      • 69 26 THE BASIS OF HUMANITY: COMMON GROUND BETWEEN RELIGIONS Saturday, 2.30pm-4pm Joint Social Service Centre (381, Toa Pay oh Lorong 1) $2, call Veronica at 6259-4116 to register Lama Thubten Namdrol Doije grew up in a Taoist family and studied in a Catholic school. He will be speaking about the
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      • 42 26 MOMENT Saturday till Nov 30 Intermezzo Restaurant One Raffles Link Building Artist Shih Yun graduated with a business degree in marketing but ventured into art instead. Moment is an exploration into the multi-dimensional relationship and interaction between time and living energy.
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        63 26 STANDARD CHARTERED SINGAPORE MARATHON Today,. 9am-6.30pm Caltex House, Raffles Place Find out what you can expect at the road race which will take place on Dec 8. Play games with The Flying Dutchman from 12noon-2pm for prizes. Avid runners can sign up for the individual events, while corporations can
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 50 27 10pm, Channel i Three college graduates descend on Paris for some serious fun. But when Andy (Tom Everett Scott) falls for the mysterious woman of his dreams, Serafine (Julie Delpy), fun turns into danger as she becomes the stuff of his nightmares every full moon
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      • 38 27 9pm, Channel U With their shared interests, Jialuo and the Hong Hua Sect members become buddies. Yuanzhi admires Qingtong despite being taught a lesson by her. Xinyan is injured while saving a girl.
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      • 38 27 10pm, Channel 5 Colonel Matrix’s young daughter is kidnapped to insure that he will carry out an assassination as instructed. Matrix escapes off a plane and has until it lands to rescue his daughter. Stars Arnold Schwarze-negger.
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      • 91 27 THE director of Bend It Like Beckham is to make a Bollywood version of Pride and Prejudice. Gurinder Chadha’s version of the Jane Austen novel will be a musical and will have a modem day setting, reported www.variety.com Mr Darcy will be played by an
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    • Article, Illustration
      117 27 FRIGHT NIGHT THE ghoulies and goblins are coming out for Halloween tonight. Bar None (basement of the Marriott Hotel) will be transformed into Bat Chamber, Castle None. The best looking bloodsucker takes away a “bloody great prize”. But there’s nothing very scary about the free flow of shots
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 457 27 Yourdailyhoroseope by Kelli Fox at. Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 If you hurt someone, you’d better apologise. Rough play can escalate into a real battle all too quickly. You’re probably more flexible among people who already like and understand you. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 A change of habit throws everyone
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  • STREATS SPORTS
    • 316 28 -Reuters CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Newcastle 2 Dynamov Kiev 1 NEWCASTLE Bobby Robson will head for Rotterdam next month with his dream of Champions League qualification still very much alive. The 69-year-old, who shook off die pain of damaged ribs to guide his side to a 2-1
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    • 606 28 Reuters CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Maccabi Haifa (Isr) 3 Manchester United 0 NICOSIA Alex Feiguson said he had no regrets about leaving most of his star players at home despite losing to Maccabi Haifa in the Champions League on Tuesday. “No regrets, no regrets at all,” the manager
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    • 484 29 LOS ANGELES Lakers coach Phil Jackson had wondered aloud about the opening defence of his three NBA championships here. Without Shaquille O’Neal, still nursing a toe injury, he said Lakers “could get off to a 0-7 start this season”. And as star centre O’Neal, in a
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    • 535 30 Ronaldo’s weight problem major talking point in Spain Wire services MADRID Having won the World Cup and overcome a series of careerthreatening injuries, Brazilian superstar Ronaldo is facing a new battle conquering his love of hamburgers and fizzy drinks. “The Brazilian is 7 kg overweight,” screamed
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    • 257 30 Group E: Newcastle (Eng) 2 (Speed 58, Shearer 69-pen) Dynamo Kiev (Ukr) 1 (Shatskikh 47) Juventus (Ita) 2 (Di Vaio 3, 68) Feyenoord (Ned)o Group F: Bayer Leverkusen (Ger) 2 (Juan 14, Schneider 90-pen) Olympiakos (Gre) 0 Maccabi Haifa (Isr) 3 (Katan 40, Zutauttas 56, Ayegbeni 77-pen) Manchester
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    • 402 30 -AFP MUNICH German giant Bayern Munich was left licking its wounds yesterday following its early elimination from the Champions League. The 1-2 loss to Deportivo La Coruna in Spain meant that the Bavarians failed to qualify for the second phase of the tournament
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    • 569 31  -  By Tan Kim Han THREE years ago, Adrian Justin Dhanaraj (above) was dropped from the national under-16 football team and told that he was too small and too light. But he did not take it lying down.
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    • SPORTS SCAN
      • SOCCER
        • 99 31 -AFP CARDIFF Wales manager Mark Hughes has declared himself ready to stand up to his former Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson and other top coaches over the availability of stars like Ryan Giggs for a crucial Euro 2004 qualifier. A major club versus country row is brewing
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        • 108 31 -AFP BIRMINGHAM Struggling English Premier League club Aston Villa has turned to psychologists to help halt an alarming run of defeats and the move appears to have done the trick. Villa midfielder Gareth Barry revealed that clear-the-air meetings were held between the players and manager Graham Taylor,
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      • 108 31 POOL GET set for The New Paper Fastads After 5 Pool League final tomorrow. East Zone Recreation Club will meet Singapore Recreation Club at the Suntec City Mall Tropics Atrium at spm. The Challenge Trophy, $lO,OOO cash prize, $4,000 pool table and $BOO pool cue voucher are
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 45 31 IN THE LIVING ROOM SOCCER: Uefa Cup 2nd rd, Ist leg: Dynamo Zagreb v Fulham (Super Sports Plus Ch2l, 11.55 pm), Leeds United v Hapoel Tel Aviv (Super Sports Ch 22, tomorrow, 3.55 am). DELAYED TELECAST GOLF: EPGA Italian Open Telecom Italia (Super Sports Ch22,lopm).
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    • 313 32 J University of Portsmouth The University of Portsmouth has a long tradition of providing quality business education at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and is rated one of the top new universities in the ‘Good University Guide 2000’. THAMES
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