Streats, 19 November 2002

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  • 10 1 Streats TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2002 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita (P) 240/03/2002
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  • 331 1  -  By Conrad Raj BUSINESSMAN Ong Beng Seng might one day welcome you aboard his aircraft with the same enthusiasm as he welcomes guests to his chain of hotels. For if anyone other than Singapore Airlines is qualified to start a low-cost, nofrills airline here, it has
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  • 536 1  -  Big boys spurn Senai's advances for now By ChnaKongHo THE poaching has begun. And the man who successfully lured two major shippers away from Singapore ports is once more on the prowl. The stakes this time involve business from major air express and forwarding companies. And the
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    • 7 1 RISE TO SENAI CHALLENGE NOW PAGE 14
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    • 89 1 He’s oq ■O He has 13 shoe shops here, franchises in South-east Asia and his Melbourne store opens next month. So forgive Charles Wong if he JK. hasn’t noticed that the economy 's iglf taken a beating. JANICE WONG tells the story of Charles Keith, the Ang fVIo Kio brothers
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  • Morning Rush
    • 656 2  - ‘Like tiok beh pio’ Winning a lucky draw This feedback veteran has been complaining for 17 years, while others have given up. Why? Because when the Government gives in, it’s... By Wendy Tan MR Kwek Theng Swee, 57, stares into that big, black hole into which feedback to the Government
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    • Article, Illustration
      341 3  -  Expat wives prove that charity need not begin at home By_ Wong Sher Maine EVERY year, hundreds of Women work quietly, without fanfare, to help raise a mountain of cash for the needy in Singapore. But they are neither charity workers nor Singaporeans. There are no official records
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    • 283 3 Reuters BEIJING Veteran Chinese trade boss Wu Yi is not the first woman to win a seat in the Communist Party’s powerful Politburo, but she is the only one to get there without a husband’s help. Her jump from “alternate” to “full” membership
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    • 636 4  -  Ex-Case chairman is fighting even harder for consumers By Zubaidah Nazeer YOU might think that Mr Stephen Loke has washed his hands of consumer affairs after he resigned as Case chairman two months ago. The truth is he might even be busier as a consumer activist. After
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    • 224 4  -  By Dawn Wong A THIEF pushed his luck a bit too far by breaking into the same place thrice in just over a month. Timothy Mak Ying Jun (picture), 19, broke into the Sentosa Beer Garden in Sentosa in July, stole goods worth about $3,800
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    • 316 4  -  By Gary Lim THE abandoned quarry near Alor Star I in Kedah where five sisters drowned on Saturday has claimed up to 15 victims since 1990, villagers said yesterday. And businessman Ruslin Long, 49, J the grieving father of the girls,
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    • 83 6 BUZZSTOP MOSCOW-BASED Singapore businessman Sudhir Gupta won’t give up just because some gunmen tried to kill him. Mr Gupta, who was the target of a botched attempt to kill him last Tuesday, has no plans to move out of Moscow, sources told The Straits
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    • 52 6 This South Korean riot policeman has a touching encounter with a protester during an anti-US demonstration yesterday in front of the US military base in Camp Casey, near Seoul. Anti-US sentiment has grown since a US military vehicle crushed two 14-year-old schoolgirls during a field drill five months
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    • 128 6 US-S’pore trade deal US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick had a meeting with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at the Istana yesterday, where they “exchanged views” on the progress of the US Singapore free-trade agreement (FTA). But there was no official indication that the landmark trade
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    • 146 6 Mid-air drama A MAN who tried to hijack an El Al flight on Sunday wanted to crash it into a building in a 9/11-style attack, Turkey’s Anatolia news agency reported yesterday. The suspect, a 23-year-old Israeli Arab named Tawfik Fukra, was being questioned by
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    • 140 6 UN weapons inspections in Iraq CHIEF UN weapons inspector Hans Blix and his team have arrived in Iraq, vowing not to take “no” for an answer from Iraq. Mr Blix told reporters after landing at Baghdad airport that credible weapons inspections were “in the
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    • 87 6 AP INDONESIAN Vice-President Hamzah Haz, who has publicly courted Abu Bakar Bashir in the past, yesterday criticised the investigation into the Bah bombings as heavy-handed. Mr Hamzah said in Jakarta that the police should change the way they target Islamic boarding schools in their hunt for the
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    • 93 6 SENIOR citizens now have an extra reason to shop at NTUC Fair Price. Starting today, every Tuesday is discount day for shoppers older than 59. They will get 2 per cent off their bill on top of all existing discount schemes, rebates and weekly specials when they
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    • 77 6 PASSENGERS on the London Underground should feel safer now that massive new security measures have been introduced after a plot to gas passengers was thwarted recently. Extra closed-circuit television cameras will be installed in all stations and hundreds of police officers in bullet-proof vests are patrolling the
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    • 93 6 AFP FRUSTRATED at being unemployed for four years, a 42-year-old man in Hongkong chopped off his left hand on Sunday. Mr Leung Kwok Bun’s mother, 81, packed the hand in ice until an ambulance arrived. He is in serious condition at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where
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  • Financial
    • 561 9  -  SCI to help manufacturers forge foreign links: Lew By Denesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Local manufacturers are facing some of the toughest economic conditions in recent decades. To stay in the game, they have been told to “innovate” and “venture overseas”. But that is easier said than done,
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    • 212 9 SINGAPORE It is possible, but not probable, that the country could slide back into recession, economists said yesterday. The Government yesterday cut its GDP growth forecast for this year from 3-4 per cent to 2-2.5 per cent, meaning that the economy may shrink in the fourth
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    • 127 9 SINGAPORE Top local companies think that the worst will soon be over and that next year will bring better times. Mr Tan Keng Boon, director of Speedy-Tech Electronics, which topped this year’s Enterprise 50 (E5O) rankings, said that he was “cautiously optimistic” for next year.
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    • 964 10  -  Young S’pore whiz kids sold $l2 million worth of their shoes last year By JANICE WONG The brothers behind Charles Keith overcame their lacklustre performance in school to become a homegrown success in footwear BROTHERS Charles and Keith Wong make shoes that make
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    • 415 11 Bloomberg HONGKONG Mr Walter Kwok has something up his sleeve. His Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP), Hongkong’s biggest developer, has offered investors as much as HK$3.4 billion (Ss77o million) for the 70 per cent of SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings it doesn’t already
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    • 114 11 Reuters SINGAPORE SembCorp Logistics j has formed a joint venture in Azerbaijan to offer logistics services for oil and gas companies in the Caspian Sea region. Unit SembLog Orient Caspian will hold a 49 per cent stake in the venture formed with the Azpetrol
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    • 101 11 Reuters LONDON Britain’s ICAP, the world’s largest interdealer broker, said yesterday that it is buying the Singapore, Hongkong and Thailand broking businesses of Nittan Capital for £25 million (Ss69 million). ICAP, which already has a significant presence in South-east Asia, said that the deal
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    • 481 12 Fellow billionaires want to see spending curbs in America’s Cup Bloomberg AUCKLAND Oracle chairman Lawrence Ellison (picture) is spending US$95 million (S$ 167.5 million) trying to win a 7kg silver pitcher that’s worth about U *****,000. Competing for the America’s Cup, sailing’s most prestigious prize, isn’t
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    • 433 12 STI: 1,397.20 17.65 Reuters SHARES closed weaker in light trade yesterday as a cut in the official growth forecast induced investors to lock in gains from a day earlier, hurting banks and blue chips such as Sing Tel. “Although the figures are negative,
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    • 24 12 *AS AT NOVEMBER 18 US$: 551.766 552.787 EURO: 551,781 Ss: 68.64 YEN Ss: RM2.152 Ss: HK54.418 Ss: 24.63 BAHT Ss: 5,095 RUPIAH
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    • 96 12 SINGAPORE Maybank is to launch a single premium savings plan tomorrow that offers returns of up to 4.66 per cent per annum, a statement said yesterday. In addition to the returns, The Golden Wrapper plan provides insurance coverage of 125 per cent of the premium paid. Customers
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    • 76 12 Reuters SINGAPORE Beauty and healthcare company TR Networks said yesterday that it will offer 22.2 million shares at 20 cents each for a listing on the Singapore Exchange’s second board. The offer, the first to be launched under the new listing rules which came into force on
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    • 76 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Lauda Italia, owned by Austria’s Lauda Air AG and an Italian tour operator, will lease two Airbus SAS planes from Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (Sale) to fly to southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The two new Airbus A32ls, which can seat
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  • Analysis
    • 699 13  -  By DERWIN PEREIRA Abu Bakar Bashir could command hundreds to fight for him. But a term in jail is now certain for this once mighty militant clerk as more fingers point to him as the leader of numerous terror plots in the region JAKARTA
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  • Vocal
    • 154 14 OVER the past 30 days or so, the signals from the Government about our economic prospects have been even more volatile than the stock market. Last month, we were still hopeful of 3 to 4 per cent growth in GDP. Even 4 to 6 per cent growth
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    • 136 14 I UNDERSTAND from the report “Mahathir’s muscle gets bigger, bolder” (Streats, Nov 18) that Malaysian businessman Syed Mokhtar A 1 Bukhary Mr Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) himself has taken over the operation of Senai Airport in Johor. Although the report did include some commentary
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    • 117 14 ALMOST every day, News Radio 93.8 FM asks listeners to give a “yes” or “no” vote via SMS in polls on national and consumer issues. There is a charge of 30 cents per SMS. Why is there a charge for giving feedback? How much does the
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    • 216 14 THE boy who was dragged along the platform at Bishan MRT station by a train was lucky that his injuries were not severe. After changing his original story that he was pushed the boy finally admitted that he lost his balance and fell
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  • Medical
    • 150 16 What is melatonin? MELATONIN is a hormone made by the pineal gland in the brain that essentially makes you feel sleepy. It is made only in darkness and not in bright light (based on the amount of light entering the eye). When it is dark, melatonin production rises,
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    • 298 16  -  By JillLim IT’S been around for four years, but Dr Edward Kim, associate professor of surgery/urology at the University of Tennessee, says that there’s room for improvement in education about Viagra. He told Streats: “One of the things people need to know is that if
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    • 170 16 Why do some individuals suffer from high levels of uric acid? Does it lead to gout? What foods should such individuals avoid? II For individuals who cannot r 'Y effectively metabolise purine, consuming a purine-rich diet will lead to an increase in uric acid in their blood and
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  • Global
    • 293 18  -  By Pradeep Rajan INDONESIA’S various intelligence services must stop bickering if they are ever to get their act together to win the war against terrorism. This rivalry, plus intense bureaucratic competition, is currently hampering the work of sniffing out more terrorists. “The
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    • Article, Illustration
      586 18 Bali suspect was involved in plot to bomb US Embassy in S’pore JAKARTA He is a computer expert with a thin moustache and a penchant for wearing hats, Imam Samudra, 35, who is believed to always carry a laptop, is now Indonesia’s most wanted man. Regarded as a
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    • 216 18 LONDON Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is mapping out an escape route for his family and key members of his regime should he be overthrown. The Guardian newspaper, quoting Western diplomatic sources, yesterday reported that General Ali Hasan A 1 Majid was sent as an
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    • 517 19 Divorce, finally, as woman beats Syariah system KUALA LUMPUR “Why did it have to take so long?” Ms Aida Melly Tan Mutalib wants to know. ‘lt’ is the divorce she has sought for seven from the Syariah Court. “My experiences at the Syariah Court were unbelievably terrible and
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    • 153 19 KUANTAN Mohamed Nazrulfasi, seven, and his sister Noratika, eight-months-old, really take after their father. But their resemblance to him is not in facial features or personality. All three have six fingers on each hand and a similar number of toes on each foot. But this doesn’t
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    • 111 19 ELKO, Minnesota Native American Albert LaFontaine has declared his strip club as a sovereign Indian nation and will ignore any government attempt to close it. As a member of the Turtle Mountain band of Ojibwe Indians in North Dakota, he has a document which gives
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    • 171 19 LONDON The British government is developing technology to track current paedophiles constantly. The move was revealed in a letter to a Labour MP by Ms Hilary Benn, the minister responsible for supervision of sex offenders in the community, The Observer reported
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  • Easy Streats
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      656 21  -  Jill Lim Love bites again with on upcoming series of three plays written by Ovidia Yu. She’s just so moved by everything around her I CAN’T imagine Ovidia Yu ever being bored with life. The impression I got from a 45-minute interview with the Playwright is that
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    • 127 21 OH no, another twist in the Liz HurleySteve Bing tale. This time, it’s the British actress facing legal action after refusing to accept child support payments from Bing, who fathered her baby, said Peoplenews.com The American millionaire wants to set up a trust fund
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    • 77 21 CHRISTINA Aguilera and her latest single Dirrty have sped to the top of the UK singles chart, fuelled no doubt by her raunchy image the video sees her in leather chaps and tiny underwear. Dirrty is one of the 16 tracks on her album Stripped, released
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    • 79 21 EXPECT high drama at the UK premiere of new James Bond film Die Another Day at London’s Royal Albert Hall next Monday. Pierce Brosnan, who plays the wellsuited spy, will be welcomed with 100 columns of flames which will shoot 10.7 m into
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    • Article, Illustration
      378 22 AP HONGKONG Canto-pop idol Nicholas Tse won’t be going to jail. A prosecutor had argued that the singer’s sentence of 240 hours of community service for perverting the course of justice was too lenient. But magistrate Allen Wyeth rejected the argument, saying that the 22-year-old had played
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    • 80 22 -AP GENE Hackman will be honoured with the Cecil B DeMille Award at next year’s Golden Globe Awards. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which hosts the ceremony, announced that the star of The Conversation and Crimson Tide will receive the honorary award at the Golden
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    • 90 22 AP JASON Alexander, best known as the underachieving George Costanza on cult series Seinfeld, has a new role as college professor. The actor, who dropped out of Boston University in his junior year to pursue acting, is teaching undergraduates at the University of Southern California
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    • 117 23 all this lousy weather recently ls just a part of a cycle, although a very big cycle. A study of sediments from a lake high in the Andes in Ecuador revealed that El Nino activity peaks about every 2,000 years. El Nino brings tumultuous rainfall to
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    • Happenin'
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        67 23 CONTES D’AUTOMME (AUTUMN TALE) Tonight, 9pm AGF Theatre, Alliance Francaise (1, Sarkies Road) Tickets at s7for non-members and ssfor members, from Sistic Magali is a widow who confides to her close friend, Isabelle, that she is lonely. But Magali thinks that her chances of finding Mr Right are negligible
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      • 33 23 CHRISTMAS FAIR Today, 2pm-Bpm Hollandse Club (Camden Park) The Netherlands Charity Association’s annual Christmas fair offers a selection of gifts and goodies for sale. Proceeds go towards supporting the underprivileged in Singapore.
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      • 44 23 CROSSING THE LANGUAGE BARRIER Tonight, 7pm-9pm Asian Civilisations Museum (39, Armenian Street) Free Dr James St Andre, assistant professor at the Chinese Studies department, NUS, talks about how translating Chinese literature to English requires the mastery and in-depth knowledge of the two languages.
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      • 87 23 AN EVENING OF MOZART AND LLOYD-WEBBER Thursday, Bpm Victoria Theatre Tickets at $76, $46, $26 from Sistic Mozart and Lloyd-Webber do go together in this evening’s concert which weaves together a fusion of the classical and the contemporary. The stellar cast includes Nancy Yuen, acclaimed soprano and top graduate
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 346 23 oy placing an au m a newspaper. or me two languages. lviusiims roaay is oj/pm. I our by Kelli Fox at Astrology.c mmmm JAN 20-FEB 18 As an Air Sign, excess earth ro an r-i.ii oig.ii, tAtcaa tai i and water energy exhausts you. Money or family problems drain away
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    • 10 23 Remember... The break-fast time for Muslims today is 6.52 pm.
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  • Sports
    • Article, Illustration
      600 24  -  Singapore’s top dance couple could make debut at AIG By Lim Han Ming MELVIN Tan and Sharon Tan (above) have been to most parts of Asia to participate in dancesport competitions. But unlike other national athletes, Singapore’s top amateur Latin American dance couple have yet to take
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    • 394 24  -  B y Adam Hashidy JUST a year ago, Jang Jung won the S-League title in his debut season as head coach of Geylang United FC. The Coach of the Year award followed and he was touted as the man with the Midas touch. But
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    • Article, Illustration
      506 25  -  National footballers sport ®espo-like hairstyles. By Tan Kim Han THERE seems to be a proliferation of Heman Crespos in the national football squad. Take a look at the Tiger Cup squad and you will see what I’m getting at. Nazri Nasir, Razif Mahamud, Noh Alam Shah, Indra Sahdan,
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    • Article, Illustration
      464 26 Draw against Man U could inspire West Ham to bounce back: Roeder ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE West Ham 1 Manchester United 1 LONDON Glenn Roeder I believes the point gained I against Manchester United 1 could kick-start West Ham’s m season and Alex Ferguson %1. agrees. Although the east
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    • 240 26 Birmingham City 0 Fulham 0 Blackburn Rovers 0 Everton 1 (Campbell 19) Leeds United 2 k (Smith 4, Kewell 84) Bolton Wanderers 4 (Pedersen 3, 90 Djorkaeff 80, Ricketts 89-pen) Liverpool 0 Sunderland 0 West Ham United 1 (Defoe 86) Manchester United 1 (Van Nistelrooy 38) P W
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    • 349 26 Wire services CLAIREFONTAINE, France The French soccer federation may ask Premier League club Manchester City to ban Nicolas Anelka for two matches after he turned down a call-up for tomorrow’s friendly against Yugoslavia. A French media official said in a statement yesterday: “The French
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    • 240 27 -AFP NBA CHAMPIONSHIP LA Lakers 89 Houston 93 LOS ANGELES Chinese centre Yao Ming put on a flawless performance, scoring the winning basket in the final minute en route to a season-high 20 points as the Houston Rockets edged the Los Angeles Lakers 93-89 on
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    • Article, Illustration
      434 27 Olympic gold-medallist Thorpe responds to rumours about his sexuality AFP SYDNEY Australian swimming superstar lan Thorpe has answered persistent questions about his sexuality, saying he isn’t gay. But he is flattered to have been so described. Thorpe, 20, told ABC radio in an interview late Sunday he
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