Streats, 29 November 2002

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  • 10 1 Streats FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2002 E-mail: streats@spti.com.sg mita (p> 240/03/2002
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  • 646 1  -  Miss Singapore selection was a private affair 1 Zubaidah Nazeer WHEN this year’s Miss World contest made the news recently for all the wrong reasons, something odd happened right here in Singapore. Nobody seemed to know Singapore’s representative, or how she was picked to go
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  • Morning Rush
    • 572 2  -  Govt-sponsored panel seeks operators’ views on nightclub rules By Chua Kong Ho am— NIGHTSPOT operators are delighted that at long last, their pet bane, the Domesday Book of rules controlling how they run their businesses and how patrons should behave is being examined.
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    • 174 2  -  By Dawn Wong A JOBLESS man who complained to the police that his motorcycle had been stolen was promptly arrested he had used that motorcycle as his getaway vehicle for seven robberies within a month. Leo Kok Mun, 43, would get
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    • 441 3  -  Girl, 17, falls to her death from Singapore General Hospital building By Khushwant Singh I She had left home She suffered from lupus She was a teenage mum Child’s father wouldn’t many her A TEENAGE girl who plunged to her death from the eighth storey
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    • 403 4 THE teacher from China, Ms Lan Ya Ming, 30, found dead in a car boot in Orchard Towers’ carpark on Jan 7, had lied to her husband about coming to Singapore. She had told him she was going to Shanghai for a
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    • 544 4  -  Members up in arms after learning they will lose dining deposit By_ Conrad Raj SOME members of the financially-troubled Pinetree Town Country Club, now under receivership, are furious that they stand to lose not only their joining fee but also their $1,000 deposit for food and beverage.
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    • 240 4 Bloomberg HONGKONG Ms Pun, 27, said she can’t stop herself from buying after having spent HK$ 1,000 (*****) on Giorgio Armani cosmetics. “Brand-name things are so tempting,” she said. She earns HK52,300 a month, wears a Rolex watch and only pays part of her monthly
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    • 84 6 BUZZSTOP CHRISTMAS has been cancelled this year. At least that’s what Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has decreed for Bethlehem in protest against Israel’s military closure of the West Bank city. The re-occupation is an “international crime”, but “the world is staying silent, it is hard
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    • Article, Illustration
      57 6 Parents of pupils who took the Primary School Leaving Examination looking nervous as their children collect their results. This year’s top students are Audrye Wong Yunqi from Raffles Girls’ Primary, Zou Long from Chongfu Primary and Yeong Li Qian from Catholic High School. A total of 53,149 Primary
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    • 132 6 Gifted Education Programme THREE of Singapore's top schools will not offer the Gifted Education Programme in two years. Instead, Raffles Institution, Raffles Girls' Secondary School and Chinese High School will run six-year programmes which allow students to skip the ‘O’ levels and take the
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    • 146 6 91 Double attacks on Israelis AP ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has asked the Mossad spy agency to investigate the twin attacks on Israeli tourists in the Kenyan coastal resort of Mombasa yesterday. In back-to-back attacks, suicide bombers rammed a car into an Israeliowned
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    • 129 6 Terrorism fears AUSTRALIA, Canada and the European Union yesterday closed their embassies in the Philippines indefinitely, following threats of an imminent terrorist attack. No details of the threats were given other than they came from Islamic radicals. Philippine police yesterday said that five foreign-looking men
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    • 101 6 THE cases of 18 Jemaah Islamiah members nabbed in the second swoop by the Internal Security Department in August were reviewed by an independent advisory board earlier this month. The Internal Security Act Advisory Board sat from Nov 6 to 8 in the Supreme Court chambers of
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    • 105 6 ANY individual or company who operates a taxi business without a licence will be subject to penalties, including imprisonment, if a Bill read in Parliament this week is passed. The Bill, which aims to regulate the taxi industry in a similar way to the rail industry,
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    • 104 6 YOU can now use your ez-link card to pay for goodies at The Food Shop in Hotel Phoenix, the first public outlet to offer this service. The hotel plans to extend it to other food and beverage outlets. It already has guest-room card keys that
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    • 93 6 DID you get an SMS yesterday about a bomb found at Holland Village? It turns out the message was a hoax. But the police issued a stem warning that anyone found responsible for transmitting such false messages can be fined $50,000 or jailed for seven years.
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    • 644 8  -  People stressed out and psychologically imbalanced, says unionist Reports by Julie Sim A MAN chops off his hand in frustration. Angry housewives batter hapless husbands. Suicide cases surge. At the heart of these incidents: Rising unemployment in Hongkong. And it has one man worried. Top
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    • 130 8 SOCIAL unrest is unlikely to erupt in Singapore even with the dismal unemployment situation, said union leader Halimah Yacob. “Our Government is more proactive in addressing the unemployment problem and there is immense support from the trade union and employers as well,” said Ms Halimah,
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    • 93 8 HONGKONGER Cindy Yuan, in her 30s, has been jobless for more than a year. She was once a clerk. Her husband, 44, is a security guard earning HK$6,OOO ($1,360) a month barely enough to support them and their two daughters. He used to earn HK$ 10,000
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    • 822 10  -  By. Deepa Vijiyasingam LAWYER Michael Loh noticed right away when Streats changed on Monday, Nov 18. Not only had the look and content changed, but it was also delivered to his doorstep. “It’s a welcome change,” said the regular letter-writer to paper’s Vocal page.
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    • 106 10 THE Straits Times is hard to beat for its comprehensive coverage of news in Singapore, the region and the rest of the world. Where Streats previously repeated much of the news found in The Straits Times, the emphasis now is on delivering original content, by
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    • 307 11 iri H CHRISTMAS IN THE CITY 15 NOVEMBER 31 DECEMBER 2002 We’ve simply outdone ourselves in bringing you the treats you like, many of which you won’t find elsewhere. This includes events, offers, privileges, prizes and gifts! Clara’s Dream An Excerpt From The Nutcracker A delightful treat for all ages,
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  • Financial
    • 383 14  -  $5.3 million Shanghai resort targets China’s fast-growing middle class By Choong Choon Yee BANYAN Tree Hotels Resorts will set up a luxury spa in Shanghai to target China’s growing middle class. Its director of marketing communications, Ms Reene Ho, said: “China has a very fast-growing middle
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    • 157 14 AFP WASHINGTON Shoppers splashed out at the malls, jobless queues shrank and US industry revved up, a battery of bullish economic data showed on Wednesday, sending stocks up. The data showed: Shoppers boosted spending 0.4 per cent in October, while their income rose 0.1 per
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    • 270 14  -  Janice Wong PROPERTY magnate Mr Kwek Leng Joo calls himself a PAP a part-time amateur photographer. And despite holding 114 directorships, he finds time for his hobby. “It’s just time management,” he said. But the fact that he is an amateur did not deter renowned water-colourist Mr
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    • 86 14 AFP SINGAPORE The three mobile service operators here said yesterday that they had struck a deal to allow users to directly exchange multimedia messages across different networks. Previously, mobile users with handsets equipped with multimedia messaging service (MMS) features could only retrieve cross network multimedia-based messages through
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    • 111 14 Bloomberg SINGAPORE C2C Pte, an undersea cable company majority owned by Sing Tel, will expand into Malaysia through an alliance with Time dot Com Bhd. C2C and Time dot Com will provide phone companies with networks that link Malaysian cities with other countries in Asia, C2C said in
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    • 71 14 Reuters SINGAPORE Datacraft Asia, Asia’s largest network systems integrator, said yesterday it had bagged a three-year U 556.75 million (Ssl 1.89 million) network outsourcing contract from South Korean telecoms provider Hanaro Telecom. Datacraft, which builds data and computer networks for companies, will provide technical support service for Hanaro’s
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    • 288 17 Developer to build $257m medical complex SINGAPORE Far East Organization yesterday said that it will build a $257 million retail and medical complex in central Singapore, marking its first foray into the healthcare market. The Novena Medical Centre will house 130 medical offices, half of
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    • 414 17 STI: 1,404.04 9.10 Reuters SHARES closed higher yesterday as signs of the US economic recovery staying on track and Wall Street’s surge boosted techs. Investors also hailed Chartered Semiconductor’s deal with IBM. “We have, in terms of risk aversion, turned the comer. So investors
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    • 24 17 *AS AT NOVEMBER 28 US$: 551.765 552.738 EURO: 551.752 Ss: 69.19 YEN Ss: RM2.153 Ss: HK54.418 Ss: 24.59 BAHT Ss: 5,089 RUPIAH
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    • 441 21 Poor sales, anti-rich activists push slb condo-ship into stormy weather OSLO Norwegian shipowner Knut Kloster Jr may soon see his dream become a Titanic, as the world’s first floating condominium project seems headed for the rocks. Now, besides being unable to sell all its
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    • 339 23 Village girls move to big city to fuel factories/ Wire services SHENZHEN The power behind China’s factories are tens of thousands of young women who have left poverty in the rural provinces for Work in the thriving technology cities. Called “dagong mei”, or little-sister
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    • 564 25 O’Neal blazes reform trail, but the investment banker says he’s not just a cost-cutter Bloomberg NEW YORK Mr E Stanley O’Neal, president of Merrill Lynch, moved away from the windows to get out of the government sharpshooters’ sights. He and other Merrill executives had relocated
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  • Comment
    • 846 28  -  Getting 3G Singaporeans in touch with Mother Nature depends on how highly parents and schools value this tie By PHILIP LEE I LIVED in a largely white neighbourhood while I was in Vancouver, Canada, in the early 90s. One summer, another Asian family moved into this
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    • 156 29 TPID' Y? 1 m jtj Jlj vJ J WORTH OV MOO AT SPECIALISTS* CENTRE 15 Nov 31 Dec 2002 Shop at Specialists’ Shopping Centre this holiday season and brin home exciting gifts ranging from shopping vouchers, food and spa vouchers, cosmetics, fashion accessories and much more! Simply make a minimum
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  • Vocal
    • 356 30 YOUR article on pay cuts taken by senior management, “Bosses took pay cuts, too”, (Streats, Nov 27) does not seem to give a complete appraisal of the thorny matter. During earlier and rosier times, we were told to be prepared for the income
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    • 195 30 HOW sad that bad driving habits caused someone’s death (“Woman dies after fall in bus”, Streats, Nov 28). I have read plenty of complaints about bus drivers’ bad habits, among them the indiscriminate use of accelerator and brakes. They accelerate very hard and then slam
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    • 96 30 MR Yak Chin Hua and Mr See Leong Kit were right to question the justification for civil servants’ bonuses in their respective letters, “Double standards in wage prudence” (Streats, Nov 25) and “Stop mollycoddling civil servants” (Streats, Nov 26). But it should be remembered that: private-sector
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    • 74 30 HAVE ¥©4% SAT E-mail us at StreatS@S§»ll.COm.Sg or write to The Editor, Streats, News Centre. 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
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    • 394 33  -  By Janice Wong NEED help with selecting a trendy flat-screen TV for your home? Ask Mr Lim Hong Joo, 46, general manager of LG home appliances. From his start as a salesman for Hitachi home appliances in 1978 to his position now, Mr Lim has
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  • Medical
    • 143 45 Reuters NEW YORK Get out of the “lowest fitness group” that’s the message from Dr Timothy Church of The Cooper Institute in Dallas. He studied 722 men and found that the physically fit tend to have a lower level of C-reactive protein (CRP) in their
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    • 245 45 LONDON Many cancer patients struggle with having an incurable disease; being anaemic is often the least of their worries. But anaemia and its effects, such as severe fatigue, can affect one’s quality of life, which may be even more important to a cancer patient than
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    • 131 45 Q Besides taiqi and qigong, what sports are suitable for my grandfather and others in their 70s? A At this age, one has to face the degeneration of all joints, and the narrowing of blood vessels. Vigorous exercise may trigger a heart attack. People aged 35 and above
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    • 441 49 Top Palestinian leader urges Arafat group to rein in militants Wire services JERUSALEM Mr Mahmoud Abbas, a possible successor to the politically weakened and 73-year-old Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, has admitted that the Palestinians made a mistake. He said that the Palestinians committed an error in taking
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    • 186 49 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Saudi housing developer Ghassan Nasry ruled out a vacation in a Western country because of reports that Arabs travelling in the West had been harassed. He took his wife and five children to Malaysia instead. Malaysia is fast becoming a
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    • 28 49 The largest diamond ever found in Australia, at 104.5 carats, dwarfs the previous record holder by 63 carats and is valued at $2.29 million AFP I
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    • 154 49 -AP KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka Ethic tensions here rose again on Wednesday as the leader of Sri Lanka’s Tamil rebels said that he would push for secession if his community is not granted self-rule. It was unclear what effect the declaration by Liberation Tigers of Tamil
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    • 77 49 RICHMOND, Virginia Talk about luck. A couple who won US$9.6 million in Virginia’s state lottery 11 years ago have won US$1,000 (S$ 1,770) a week for life on a scratch card, reported Ananova yesterday. “I had thought she had a hundreddollar winner,” said Mr Clyde Shinault
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    • 478 52 Tom Ridge has Bush’s friendship and respect WASHINGTON Mr Tom Ridge, the former homeland security adviser of US President George W Bush, has one of the most critical and risky jobs in US history. Heading the second largest US federal agency the Department of Homeland Security after
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    • 145 52 LONDON Three ruling party Spanish MPs have been fined for watching pornographic images during a debate on domestic violence. The members of the centre-right Popular Party were filmed laughing during a session as they looked at a pornographic website on a laptop computer
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    • 272 52 AFP WASHINGTON -The “tolerant Muslim majority” must speak out against all violence carried out in the name of Islam, novelist Salman Rushdie has urged. He noted the death sentence issued against prominent Iranian academic Hashem Aghajari for his criticism of clerics running Iran
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    • 169 52 MARANG An 18-year-old youth from Kampung Pengadang Baru was caught without his trousers while trying to flee the room of his 17-year-old girlfriend in Kampung Rusila, Marang, near Kuala Terengganu. He was caught after the girl’s father became suspicious when he heard strange noises coming
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    • 221 54 Other methods to fight: ulamas JAKARTA Muslims here are forbidden to carry out suicide bombings, whatever the reason, the Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI) said on Wednesday. Any such acts would need to be sanctioned by local ulama. There are other ways to fight for the interests
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    • 488 56  -  Adam About Town B '.J ADAM HASHIDY SINGAPOREANS are kiasu. We all know that, but what has baffled academics, politicians and neighbourhood coffeeshop uncles all these years, is, how did it come about and why? I think I’ve got it, and I shall term it
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    • 132 56 MICHAEL Jackson says he prefers classical to pop music. In fact, he went so far as to tell a German magazine: “I don’t like pop music.” The singer had been asked why he bought two classical rather than pop CDs in Berlin last week, reported
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    • 75 56 X-FILES actress Gillian Anderson is the latest American star to appear on a West End stage. She plays a married woman reunited with her former lover for one night in the play What The Night Is For, co-starring award-winning stage actor Roger Allam, reported Ananova.com The
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    • 116 56 IMAX, the giantscreen format film company that previously did mainly science and nature films, is now moving in on the action the action flicks and other commercial films, that is. The Canada-based company has unveiled a system that digitally remasters original 35mm films so they can be
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    • 501 58  -  By Gregory Leow MR Antonio Vargas is reputably one of the top five flamenco dancers in the world and in his 51 years of dancing flamenco, he has done everything from big productions to solo performances. He has also danced with the best flamenco
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    • 206 58 BRITISH actor Orlando Bloom, who plays Legolas in The Lord of the Rings films, says that he’s “Action Elf” in the second movie, The Two Towers. “There’s a sequence where I slide down these stairs on a shield. They wired me up and I’m
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    • 418 60  -  By 'JillLim THIS is one ballet performance where you can wave at the dancers or even take to the stage yourself and learn from the professionals. The Singapore Dance Theatre is presenting excerpts of classic works such as The Red Shoes. But it’s a
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    • Travel
      • 519 62 Think Switzerland and you’re likely to imagine majestic mountains and picturesque lakes But the country offers much more, as DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM discovers on a recent trip there SITUATED in the heart of Europe, Switzerland is a lovely fusion of French, German and Italian cultures that have amalgamated nicely
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    • 100 64 A BOLT of lightning struck a group of church members at an open-air worship service in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Sunday, killing 10 of them. The Herald newspaper said that the Johane Masowe Chishanu sect traditionally holds it services out in the open. Zimbabwe is prone to
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 64 64 11.30 pm, Channel U The group prepares for a recital for Songgang. Although reluctant to meet Songgang again, Guaju attends the gathering. Unfortunately, the gathering turns sour as Guaju and Jushou again quarrel over Chengmei. Songgang discovers that Jushou and Chengmei are just friends and not lovers as Guaju
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      • 53 64 10pm, Channel 5 Last week, Pemiy Ramsey was voted out with four votes against her. When she turned her back on her former ally Jake Billinglsey, the majority of former Chuay Gahn members banded together to help extinguish her torch. How will the remaining members of Chuay Gahn
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    • 523 64 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20 -FEB 18 You make it look so easy when you execute a fantastic feat. Show a little more excitement to look even better. Break a personal record just because you can. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 Forgive an unknowing insult. Make someone’s
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    • 520 67  -  Soccer smart By ADAM HASHIDY OVER the past few weeks, Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier looked as if he had lost his keys. Despite all the brave talk to the media about his team being on the up, the Frenchman’s body language told a different story. He
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    • 495 67 j TOMORROW Arsenal v Aston Villa j Head-to-head: Arsenal won 62, Villa won 63. Draws 38. j Previous meetings: Mar 2002 Villa 1 Arsenal 2; Dec I 2001 Arsenal 3 Villa 2 j Last six matches: Arsenal WLLWWL; Villa DLDDWW j Team news: Arsenal Kanu, Parlour, Lauren, Keown
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    • 576 69  -  SSC’s technical directors to provide mentorship, training By LimHanMim FORMER Chinese national coach Zheng Qingjin, a Singaporean, was yesterday named as badminton’s technical director under a new scheme introduced by the Singapore Sports Council. Athletics, bowling and swimming are next in line to benefit from SSC’s Technical
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    • 330 69 THE Singapore Lions slumped to a 1-2 defeat against the Abu Dhabi Government Departments Sports Association on Wednesday in the first match of their Tiger Cup training tour to the United Arab Emirates. The UAE side took a 2-0 lead in the
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      578 71 Arsenal rides on Henry’s scintillating hat-trick Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (2ND PHASE AS Roma 1 Arsenal 3 ROME A day after Manchester United striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy’s world-class performance, it was the turn of the another striker from the Premier League to strut his stuff. Arsenal’s Thierry
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    • 218 71 Reuters ROME AS Roma manager Fabio Capello (right) lamented his side’s failure to capitalise on its chances as it slid to a 1-3 defeat to Arsenal on Wednesday. He said: “What’s happening in Serie A is also happening to us in the Champions League.
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    • 125 71 Group A Bayer Leverkusen (Ger) 1 y {Berbatov 39) Barcelona (Spa) 2 (Saviola 48, Overmars 88) Newcastle United (Eng) 1 (Solano 72) f Inter Milan (Ita) 4 (Morfeo 2, Almeyda 35, Crespo 45, Recoba 80) Group B AS Roma (Ita) 1 (Cassano 4) Arsenal (Eng) 3 (Henry 6,
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    • GOLF
      • 123 73 -AFP KAUAI, Hawaii Tiger Woods gave one of his most overpowering golf performances to capture his fifth consecutive PGA Grand Slam of Golf, firing 11 birdies without a bogey to win by an astonishing 14 strokes. Woods fired an 11-under par 61 here on Wednesday to finish
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      • 101 73 AFP HONGKONG Taiwanese teenage sensation Lo Shih Kai is hoping to make a little more history at the Omega Hong Kong Open which began yesterday. The 13-year-old became the youngest winner of the Hongkong Amateur Championship last month when he fired a four-under par 66 in the final
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    • 626 73 Robson praises players after ‘unforgivable’ night f CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (2ND PHASE) Newcastle 1 Inter Milan 4 NEWCASTLE Newcastle manager Bobby Robson refused to condemn his players after its 1-4 defeat at home to Inter Milan. He said: “It was a horrible, cruel, unforgettable, unforgivable night for us. “We
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    • 435 75 Despite defeat, Raptors happy as Carter returns Wire services NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Toronto 81 New York 87 TORONTO Vince Carter (right) returned to the Toronto Raptors line-up on Wednesday night against the New York Knicks after missing 10 games with a left quadriceps tendon strain. It wasn’t
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