Streats, 2 January 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita <p) 240/03/2002
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  • 533 1  -  Man loses $1,236 after applying to convert shophouse By f Choong Choon Yee A MAN who wanted to start a business did not think to check with the Land Transport Authority (LTA) first, and now he’s $1,236 poorer for it. He never thought
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    • 46 1 WHEEL-HEEL Michelle Chong crashed in them. But parents snap up skate shoes for their kids J J This time, the parties left SOH WEN LIN more sober than full of festive cheer Video game fans rate newcomer J| Xbox against Playstation 2 and Nintendo Game Cube
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  • Morning Rush
    • 467 2  -  Heelys are the newest boots on the ground By I Zvbaidah Nazeer IF you’re beaten to the shortest supermarket queue by the guy who was just walking next to you, don’t blame your athletic conditioning, or lack of it. He may have had help with his
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    • 252 2 Reuters LOS ANGELES Mr Jack Ass says Jackass has given him a bad name. A Montana man who legally changed his name to Jack Ass in 1997 has sued media giant Viacom Inc, claiming its stuntheavy, gross-out TV show and
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    • 231 2  -  By 'Julie Sim THE first baby to be born this year will celebrate her birthday with her grandmother every year. The 2.92 kg baby girl, yet to be named, was bom a minute after the clock stmck midnight, on New Year’s Day. Her
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    • 514 3  -  Nanyang Primary's head is among youngest of new appointments B y t Wendy Tan IT’S the first day of school and Nanyang Primary is among the schools seeing in the new year with a new head. Ms Heng Boey Hong, who was the school’s vice-principal for
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    • New MPs, one year later
      • 304 4 IN Chinese opera circles, it is said that for every minute on stage, an actor has put in 10 years of hard work offstage. In parliamentary debates, new MPs have learnt, every successful push for policy change demands tenacity, mettle and a sheer ability to
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      • 454 4  -  Six new MPs tell SARAH NG who has helped them at the grassroots, what they learnt in Parliament and how they manage their time Reports by t Sarah Ng FOR seven nights in a row, grassroots volunteers from Hong Kah GRC played karang guni men
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      • 327 4 THE reality of life as an MP is that there are still only 24 hours in a day, so they must juggle grassroots work and parliamentary duties with their roles as professionals, spouses and parents. Dr Warren Lee (above), an MP for Sembawang GRC, stepped
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    • 90 6 BUZZ STOP AP US President George W Bush’s face sold more 2003 calendars than swimsuit models. Daily boxed calendars featuring Mr Bush was the top-seller in the US as of Christmas Day. Sports Illustrated Swimsuit wall calendars only managed to come in second. The
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    • Article, Illustration
      81 6 New’s Year’s Day yesterday was profitable for the first 888 readers of Lianhe Zaobao who turned up before noon at the Buzz kiosk at Specialists’ Shopping Centre with the four-page wraparound advertisement that covered the newspaper. The readers received canned products from the Mili and New Moon ranges.
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    • 143 6 GST hike kicks in LOOKING at the huge crowds of shoppers along Orchard Road and other shopping areas, you would not believe that yesterday was Day One of the goods and services tax (GST) hike. Consumers tempted by the massive sales and discounts being
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    • 127 6 National unity STRONG bonds between the communities here should not be taken for granted, the Prime Minister said yesterday, and Singaporeans must continue to build on this. Mr Goh Chok Tong praised Singapore’s Muslim community for strengthening national integration and said Muslims should be on
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    • 140 6 Secure fun REINFORCED security measures did not deter New Year revellers from turning up in large numbers for Singapore’s two biggest celebrations: at Sentosa’s Siloso Beach and the Singapore Expo in Changi. Each event drew 20,000. At Siloso Beach, body searches, bag checks and metal detector
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    • 82 6 PORTRAITS of outstanding Singaporeans will soon appear in ads in the Financial Times in Britain and Time magazine in the US. These will feature a brief outline of the person and a quote on why Singapore offers “a world of possibilities”. It is a new
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    • 96 6 -AFP SOUTH-EAST Asian terrorist chief Hambali raised at least RM2 million (*****,000) in cash through donations from unsuspecting Muslims to fund his operations, a news report said yesterday. The money was used by Hambali’s Jemaah Islamiah (JI) group to stage bombings, for arms training and for other JI
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    • 94 6 A DOCUMENT that will enable the territorial dispute over the Pedra Branca isle to be settled by the International Court of Justice in the Hague should be signed by next month, Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said. “We hope a decision on the
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    • 108 6 FOR the first time in 10 years, neighbours in strife-tom Everitt Road held a New Year’s Eve party on Tuesday night. Mr Gan Yew Wah, 41, an accountant and father of two who organised the party, said it was made possible, and enjoyable, because one
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 343 5 Our track record of over 90% pass rate for ail degree programmes in our testimony Let the TOP education brand in Singapore set you apart. As the only education service provider to win the Singapore Brand Award 2002, Informatics is the working professional’s first choice. University of Portsmouth The University
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 206 7 7 Lunch Express is served dine-in every weekday (excluding Public Holidays) mm ’/Mi i .vfi ;-i V Sri V V v S' With the new Pizza Hut Lunch Express, your favourite pizza or pasta will be at your table in 15 minutes flat. Or your next pizza is FREE! Certainly
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  • Financial
    • 684 8  -  Air Asia targets cost-conscious domestic travellers Analysis By CHUA KONG HO MALAYSIA’S no-frills, budget airline Air Asia has decided to delay its regional plans to concentrate on its domestic routes. This is music to the ears of premium airlines worried about price wars on lucrative
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    • 218 8 SINGAPORE Salaries in Singapore are are unlikely to go up much in the New Year, a survey shows. This is because the year ahead remains clouded by a shaky global economic rebound and the threat of a US-Iraq war, Ms Elaine Ng, managing principal of Hongkong-based
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    • 80 8 Bloomberg WASHINGTON Billionaire George Soros has appealed a French court decision that found him guilty of insider trading during a takeover battle for French bank Societe Generale SA 14 years ago. He appealed the conviction on Dec 27, he said in a filing with the Securities and
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    • 75 8 Reuters SINGAPORE Singapore’s Van Der Horst Ltd announced a reverse takeover that will inject a Myanmar oil business into the company, which sold all its operating assets in 2001, and end a three-year share suspension. Van Der Horst said it would pay $3O million through the
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    • 249 10 Bloomberg NEW YORK Top executives plan to increase spending on computer hardware and software by 4.6 per cent this year, with security programs a top priority, according to a CIO Magazine poll. About 53 per cent of the 335 executives surveyed last month said
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    • 498 10 Fund managers forecast sluggish demand for electronics this year Bloomberg TAIPEI Investors in Asian electronics stocks don’t envisage a strong enough pick-up in demand for cellphones and personal computers this year to restore earnings growth to levels of the 90s. Sales of cellphones and PCs
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    • 286 10 -AP NEW YORK Consumer confidence unexpectedly fell last month as the outlook for employment worsened, energy prices rose and the stock market slumped during a period of heightened uncertainty around the globe. The New York-based Conference Board reported on Tuesday that the Consumer Confidence
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    • 402 11 Bloomberg BEIJING Mr Shang Fulin, who heads a bank at which two-fifths of all loans are duds, was appointed by China to regulate stock markets where 60 million people have money invested in companies capitalised at US$5OO billion (SSB67 billion). The president of Agriculture
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    • 606 12 F> ALISON ROBIN MICHELLE RENEE LOHMAN WRIGHT PENN PFEIFFER ZELLWEGER Hi w v 'll I M Where does a mother end and a daughter begin? white-' ««««imm «sawn inn raw itm pmr km m m csimbh übmi-jhbhiimi mm unm min mm pandora IffiEStSl? -^safesW IN THEATRES JANUARY 16 RATtNC TO
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  • Comment
    • 637 13  -  Soh what? By SOH WEN LIN The Straits Times JUDGING by the anecdotes from this past string of Christmas parties, the bad job market spell seems to be a spreading and deepening curse. Take a recent reunion I had with some secondary school mates. The minute two of
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  • Vocal
    • 177 14 I REFER to “Extend free incoming calls, Star Hub” (Streats, Dec 31), a letter by Mr Michael Loh Yik Ming. Star Hub is in favour of changing the cellphone call-charging regime to calling party pays (CPP) as we believe consumers prefer to have total control
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    • 207 14 I REFER to “IDA: Free incoming calls allowed under MPP” (Streats, Dec 31), a letter by the Infocomm Development Authority’s (IDA) Dulcie Chan. My fHends and I would like to know how the considerations of consumers were taken into account during the IDA survey. Are the
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    • 236 14 I REFER to the report “Myriad cab charges don’t bring good service” (Streats, Dec 30). We would like to take this opportunity to share with your readers that Tibs Taxis is the only taxi company that does not impose any surcharge. We changed the fare structure in
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 172 14 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at StreatS@Sph.COIII.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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  • Medical
    • 378 16 Many can’t afford the medication for Aids now Wire agencies TAIPEI Four drugs to treat HIV infection will be mass produced in China from this month, the Chinese Health Minister Zhang Wenkang has reported, according to the official Xinhua news agency. China has joined an international
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    • 151 16 SINGAPORE Two Indian researchers have found that an extract of the flower Cassia auriculata, a plant common in Asia, more often known as Tanner’s Cassia and widely-used in ayurvedic medicine, had anti-diabetic activity when tested on rats. Dr L Pari and Dr M Latha, from the
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    • 203 16 Q What’s the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes? A Diabetes is a disease in which the body produces too little or ineffective insulin, a hormone that comes from the pancreas, a gland below the stomach. In a normal person, insulin helps the blood glucose enter
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    • 612 17 Losing some weight can he a big boost to one’s health, but one should also work on having general good habits for life IT is often said that society is too weightobsessed. Yet, one’s weight, especially taken in relation to height, remains relevant in assessing
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  • Thursday Tech
    • 785 18 Hffeo gamers now have Microsoft’s Xhox, in addition to Sony’s Playstation 2 and Nintendo Game-Cube. Avid gamer WONG VOAL VOAL tests all three MICROSOFT XBOX: $3BB AVAILABLE: NOW WHERE: SIM LIM TOWER, FUNAN THE IT MALL XBOX is a giant in every sense. At more than
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    • 181 19 SONY PLAYSTATION 2: $399 AVAILABLE: NOW WHERE: SIM LIM TOWER, FUNAN THE IT MALL IT may be the oldest videogaming platform of the three, but Play Station 2 is still the lion in the industry with some 40 million sets shipped worldwide as of September And it
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    • 186 19 NINTENDO GAMECUBE: $3BB AVAILABLE: NOW WHERE: SIM UM TOWER, FUNAN THE IT MALL \p§Uf' GAMECUBE, with its fr adorable cube design, tries hard to offer a different gaming experience by focusing on quality game titles and game play. Its console is the smallest of the three,
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    • 412 19  -  B y Ragha Basu THEY may have different gaming preferences, but four game-crazy youngsters who tried their hands at the Game Cube, Playstation 2 (PS2) and Xbox consoles share a similar opinion: it’s the range of games on offer that can make or break any console’s fate
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  • Global
    • 149 20 -AFP BEIJING -A woman in Beijing has been found to have deliberately crippled her daughter so that the child could help her make money from begging, state media said yesterday. The Beijing Times said it sent a reporter onto the streets of Beijing on Christmas
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    • 147 20 BUCHAREST Three former Romanian gymnasts who were banned for posing in the nude for in a Japanese magazine will be given the key to Bucharest. Mayor Traian Basescu said he wanted to show his support for Ms Lavinia Milosovici, Ms Claudia Presecan and Ms Corina
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    • 618 20 N Korean leader a deadly adversary of US and allies SEOUL Mr Kim Jong II (left), the reclusive North Korean leader now playing nuclear poker with US President George W Bush, may not hesitate to use his country’s atomic power against the US and
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    • 153 20 MANILA Philippines’ The ruling Lakas-NUCD party’s executive committee is looking for a candidate following President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s recent announcement that she would not stand in the country’s presidential race next year, a newspaper reported. Curiously, the current frontrunner in opinion polls, former Education Secretary
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  • EasyStreats
    • 69 22 AUSTRALIAN director Baz Luhrmann has recruited yet another star for his planned epic, Alexander The Great his good friend, Nicole Kidman. The 3 5-year-old is set to play the role of Alexander’s mother, Olympia, reported the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday. Leonardo DiCaprio will play the
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    • 111 22 THE fact that his character died is not stopping Russell Crowe from trying to bring gladiator Maximus back to life. The Australian actor is exploring the options for a sequel to the 2000 Ridley Scott-directed movie Gladiator, reported Ananova.com yesterday. Producer Walter Parkes said the
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    • 114 22 HONGKONG R&B singer Alex To made his first appearance after news that he was allegedly detained for illegal possession of drugs broke on Christmas Day. At a press conference in Hongkong on Tuesday, the 40-year-old singer admitted that the police enlisted his help for an investigation,
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    • 734 22 BETTER known as Eve and Derrick from @Moulmein High on Channel 5, actors Debra Teng and Mark Waite are setting up a new theatre company, Escape Productions. And this month, audiences will see them in adult roles very different from their people-friendly television characters. Modem Dance for Beginners,
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    • 529 23  -  By YVONNE KWOK GANGS OF NEW YORK Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz Directed by Martin Scorsese ©o©®@ ONE hates to write anything bad about a Martin Scorsese film. He’s given us so many good films, such as Taxi Driver and Goodfellas, that one automatically assumes
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    • 121 23 HONGKONG actress Maggie Cheung (left) is the epitome of feminity in the eyes of 5,000 women in Beijing and Shanghai. The Chinese women surveyed named the 37-year- old as their top choice in the list of most admirable women. In second place was Yang Lan, 33,
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    • 100 23 ACTOR Kevin Spacey is everywhere in London these days, said an recent Observer report. However, it also noted that not everyone recognises him. “On one occasion,” said the report, “the actress Sienna Miller was sitting next to Spacey at a bar. She had just
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    • 84 23 A HONGKONG movie has ranked as one of the biggest flops of all time it sold fewer than 10 tickets and made just US$42 (5572.84) in a one-week run, said reports yesterday. Psychedelic Cop, directed by Bosco Lam and starring Danny Lee
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    • 109 24 hi, r m Angelene Kok. I’m your Weather Girl for January. Insurance experts have said that despite rising concern about terrorism, the past year saw more people killed by natural disasters than any man- i made catastrophe. A Reuters report quoted reinsurance company Munich Re as
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 43 24 10pm, Central In the first of a six-part series profiling local artists, potter Iskandar Jalil talks about his work. He is such a perfectionist that he routinely destroys his works which do not measure up to his high standards.
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      • 49 24 10pm, Channel 5 When Islamic militants unleash terror in New York City, the President declares martial law. The Army soon goes out of control as Neo-fascist General William Devereaux (Bruce Willis) deploys tanks through Brooklyn to capture ArabAmerican males, herding them into an open-air stadium detention camp.
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    • Happenin’
      • 53 24 HATHA YOGA Every Monday, starting Jan 6, 7pm-8.30pm Asian Civilisations Museum (1 Empress Place) $l5O for 12 lessons Call 6332-3284, fax 6883-0732 or e-mail nhb_acm@nhb.gov.sg to register Yoga lets you tune in, chill out and shape up all at one go. Learn about its preventive and therapeutic benefits with
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      • 43 24 THE CHALLENGES AND PITFALLS OF ART COLLECTING Saturday, 2.30 pm Singapore Repertory Theatre Free Dr Edmund P Pillsbury, an authority on Italian Renaissance art and an avid collector of contemporary art, shares his experiences as a museum director and a private collector.
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      • 34 24 BLOOD DONATION DRIVE Sunday, 9-30am-3.30pm Sindhu House (795 Mountbatten Road) Start the New Year by giving the gift of life. Make a contribution at The Sindhi Merchants Association’s blood donation drive this Sunday.
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      • Article, Illustration
        84 24 10TH ANNIVERSARY NEW YEAR CONCERT Saturday, Bpm Concert Hall, Esplanade Tickets at $4l, $36, $3l, $26, $l6 and $ll from. Sistic The T’ang Quartet (below) celebrates their 10th year with a programme of dance music waltzes, dances and quartet pieces by Dvorak, Glazunov, Schulhoff, Josef Suk, Piazzolla, Sculthorpe and
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      • 57 24 LUNCH TIME CONCERT Tomorrow, lpm-1.45pm City Square, Raffles City level one Free RReDD is a dream team of five women from different walks of live. Having inspired young audiences at last year’s National Arts Council Urban Harmony School Tour, RReDD is now eager to take on Singapore’s music scene
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      • 64 24 SINGAPORE YOUTH CHOIR Saturday, 3pm-6pm Choral Studio, YMSArts Centre (54 Waterloo Street) For more information, call 6332-5815 or e-mail enquiries@syc.org.sg The Singapore Youth Choir is looking for singers between the ages of 17 and 27. Applicants will need to prepare a song for the audition. It can be any
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 498 24 Yourdailyhoroscope by Krlli Far at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 The secret of a successful team is finding the right blend of experts. It also helps to work with people who actually want to be involved. Blow out all the old business so that you can start something really exciting.
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  • Sports
    • Article, Illustration
      565 25  -  Burnt skin aside, Chinese windsurfer Hao finds romance and success Lim Han Ming SHE almost gave up windsurfing because she felt no man would want to marry a woman with a dark brown complexion. Long periods under the scorching sun have left Chinese windsurfer Hao Hong Mei
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    • 366 25  -  i Lim Han Ming IF you’re good enough, you are old enough. New national under-18 football coach Kim Poulsen (below) is all for blooding his players in the S-League if they are ready for the big stage. He said yesterday: “I have used
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    • Article, Illustration
      555 26 Leeds manager Venables hopes he can hold on to most players during transfer season Wire services LEEDS Leeds United manager Terry Venables hopes to hang on to all of his leading players during the transfer season, which began yesterday. British newspapers have linked Leeds and England striker
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    • 396 26 BUCHAREST Crowd control is a serious issue, but rarely has it created such a stir as in Nicolae Balcescu, a village about seven miles from the small Romanian town of Rimnicu Vilcea. Alexandru Cringus, Communist vice-mayor of Nicola Balcescu and owner of
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    • 105 27 SOCCER Reuters LONDON West Ham manager Glenn Roeder is hoping to trigger a reversal in the bottom club’s fortunes by bringing in three players from British clubs during the transfer period. Roeder wants two strikers to ease the pressure on his beleaguered squad. He said: “I am
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    • 109 27 ATHLETICS Reuters SAO PAULO Robert Cheruiyot won the 15km Sao Silvestre road race on Tuesday in 44:59min to extend Kenya’s dominance of the New Year’s Eve event run. Cheruiyot gave Kenya its eighth win in the last 11 years after Simon Chemoiywo won the race in 1992 and
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    • 84 27 BOWLING THE Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress is organising selection trials for its national youth squad. They will be held on Saturday (Cathay Bowl, Saffa Tampines), Sunday (Cathay Bowl, Saffa Yishun), Jan 11 (Cathay Bowl, The Chevrons) and Jan 12 (Cathay Bowl, Cineleisure Orchard). All participants must be below
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    • 498 27 Houllier has M confidence in squad, shuns transfer window Reuters LIVERPOOL Underpressure Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier (below) has ruled out any transfer activity this month to bolster his squad. Liverpool is currently stuck in its worst run of form for 50 years, having failed to win any
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    • 180 27 NBA CHAMPIONSHIP New Orleans 86 Indiana 89 NEW ORLEANS Reggie Miller scored 21 points, 17 of them in the second half, as the Indiana Pacers edged the New Orleans Hornets 89-86 on Tuesday. Brad Miller added 20 points and 10 rebounds for the Pacers,
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