Streats, 6 March 2003

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  • 9 1 Streats JHURSE MARC 6,2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • 496 1  -  Avid tea, teapot and watch collector has metal fusion patents pending Byj Khushwant Singh SINGAPORE Polytechnic lecturer Loh Peng Chum has a million dollars’ worth of teapots and a million dollars’ worth of tea. But he prefers that you think of him as a metal bonder
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    • 61 1 Thursday tech QUIET ENTRANCE Telecoms history has been made in Singapore but there’s no fanfare, says GEOFFREY PEREIRA Tan Ying Jian's one-man show has created a jazz label that •s making waves in the West. GREGORY LEOW reports Self-assured women like Weakest Link host Asha Gill are not enough of
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  • Morning Rush
    • 543 2  -  More doors opening for record label owner Gregory Leow WHEN Singaporean Tan Ying Jian visits the big music trade shows in the United States and Europe, he finds ready ears. But things were not always so for the owner of Groove Note Records, a small but
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    • 353 3 NGOs next in line to benefit from proceeds of long court battle SOME charities and women’s organisations here will be beneficiaries of an award that lawyer Lee Suet Fern recently won after a three-year court battle with her former law partner over unpaid income
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    • 481 4 Jewish family talked Iraqi leader’s mother out of aborting him PRESIDENT Saddam Hussein’s mother was taken in by an Iraqi Jewish family in 1937 who talked her out of aborting him. The traditional Jewish community in Iraq has been saying this and now Israel’s leading
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    • 130 6 BUZZ STOP Reuters MR CHRISTOPHER EASLEY’S Las Vegas hotel has gone to the dogs. And cats. Here, precious pets can rest on Oriental rugs, watch television and socialise with their own set while their masters frolic on the Las Vegas Strip.
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    • 63 6 Hundreds of pieces of the ill-fated Columbia space shuttle are laid out on the floor of a hangar at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. More than 16,000 fragments of the shuttle have been collected for the Columbia Reconstruction Team to catalogue and examine in an attempt
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    • 134 6 Easier drinking hours ALL-NIGHT pubs and bartop dancing are set to become legal if recommendations that an official advisory panel is understood to have made are accepted. The Straits Times today cites sources as saying that the public advisory panel on licensing made these recommendations to
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    • 154 6 HK Budget Bloomberg WHILE Singapore is trying to bring down taxes, Hongkong is raising them. Corporate and personal income tax for the first time in 19 years will go up by 1.5 percentage points to 17.5 per cent for corporate tax, and by 1
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    • 154 6 Retrenchments PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong said he sees a positive side to the recent spate of retrenchments in the PSA Corporation and the Housing Board. It showed that Singapore worked as a “living, growing organisation”, he said while in Hanoi yesterday. “If there
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    • 93 6 MR LIM GEOK H WEE relinquished his position as chief executive officer of NTUC Choice Homes Co-operative Ltd with effect from Feb 18. A press statement from the company yesterday said that Mr Lim is currently under investigation by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB). It did
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    • 121 6 BESIDES screening more women for breast cancer at subsidised rates this year, there is also a bid to shorten the patients’ wait for the results, This year, the number is expected to rise to 49,000 from 35,000 last year, says a report in today The Straits Times
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    • 92 6 MEDIAWORKS actress Irin Gan, 31, was yesterday fined $BOO for careless driving. Gan admitted that she had been careless when she crashed her car shortly after 4am on Oct 11 on the slip road leading from Keppel Road to the Ayer Rajah Expressway. But she had
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    • 81 6 A RAIL expert with 15 years’ experience and Government officials have cautioned against going overboard with barricades along roadside train tracks. While passenger safety is critical, a balance must be struck because it is impossible to plan for and prevent every freak accident, Government Parliamentary Committee (Transport)
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  • Financial
    • 402 8  -  Lehman Bros expects 6% yields from Asian dollar bonds By ChuaKongHo ASIAN dollar bonds are expected to return 6 per cent in 2003, amid fears of war and soaring oil prices, said Lehman Brothers, a US investment bank, at its Asian credit conference yesterday. Strong
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    • 374 8  -  By Chua Kong Ho CENTRAL Provident Fund members may soon have a wider range of funds to choose from if Fidelity Investments, a large US fund manager, obtains its fund management licence and is included in the CPF Investment Scheme. Streats understands that the
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    • 136 8 SINGAPORE DBS yesterday announced the appointment of Mrs Elsie Foh and Mr Eddie Khoo to senior positions within the Singapore consumer banking group. While Ms Foh is the new chief operating officer (COO) of consumer banking, Singapore, Mr Khoo takes over consumer banking distribution.
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    • 113 8 Bloomberg LONDON Millennium Copthorne Hotels pic, owned by Singapore billionaire Kwek Leng Beng, has said that revenue per room in the first seven weeks of 2003 fell 2 per cent after reducing rates in the US and Europe to lure customers. Net income rose 23 per cent
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    • 101 8 Reuters SINGAPORE Shipyard operator ASL Marine Holdings said yesterday that it was offering 50 million shares at 21 cents each to raise $8.95 million in net proceeds to finance its expansion. The IPO, managed and underwritten by UOB Asia Limited, will offer 10 million shares to
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    • 426 10 AFP BEIJING Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji yesterday delivered his last state of the nation address at the start of the National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People that will usher in a new generation of leaders. Mr Zhu will end his
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    • 364 12 STI: 1,265.5 3.46 Reuters WEAK economic data sent shares lower yesterday, with the main index hitting a level not seen in nearly 18 months. The Straits Times Index ended down 3.46 points, or 0.27 per cent, at 1,265.5, after a tight six-point trading range. The index
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    • 24 12 *AS AT MARCH 5 US$: Ss±„732 552.755 EURO: 551.903 Ss: 67.66 YEN Ss: RM2.193 Ss: HK54.502 Ss: 24.53 BAHT Ss: 5,118 RUPIAH
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    • 164 12 LONDON The world’s economies are suffering and stock markets have taken a pounding over the last two years. But some HSBC employees are making big bucks. The Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday that one of its star employees pocketed more than £7.4 million (5520.44
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    • 419 14 French sellers bear with unholy cocktails -AFP BLANQUEFORT, France Wine merchants Andrew, Charlie and Brendan came all the way from their island nation of Malta to Blanquefort, near Bordeaux in southern France, to hone their tasting and sales skills. Along with other wine retailers from around
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    • 357 10 Chief Incumbent Monk of the Buddhist Vihara Temple in Malaysia, Chief Monk of Malaysia and Singapore, Chief Religious Advisor of the Singapore Buddhist Mission and founding membetr of the Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Sikhism VEN DR K hx :< NAY m 1 Afi ■S sT s v
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    • 492 13 VIEPRiVIiW mMhNMMRHR Tom's a traffic reporter with blue collar roots. Sarah's a writer whose family is as wealthy as it is snobbish. Much to her clan's and ex-boy-friend's horror, Sarah and Tom fall in love and marry. Following their wedding, they set off on what they expect to be the
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  • Comment
    • 749 15  -  International Women’s Day By CONSTANCE SINGAM international Women’s Day (which falls on March Bth) is a day for remembering. We forget that life is still difficult for many women, such as the foreign domestic workers in our midst. For them, life is a struggle, firstly to
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    • 140 15 In Ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war. During the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for liberty, equality, fraternity marched on < Versailles to demand women’s suffrage. Mrs Shirin Fozdar (left) in Singapore organised women to fight polygamy and started the
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  • Vocal
    • 323 17 BRINGING back dialect programmes on free-to-air television (“More dialect shows on TV”, Streats, Feb 27) is a symbolic but belated recognition of the dialect heritage for many Chinese Singaporeans. Till this day, I remain disturbed about the fact that dialect programmes were treated as taboo, but
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    • 155 17 IT was disturbing to read Mr Lee Han Shih’s commentary, “Open HDB Corp jobs to public” (Streats, March 5). If the HDB staff choose to be redeployed to the new HDB Corp to be set up, then rightfully they should not enjoy a
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    • 127 17 WE refer to the report “One good turn deserves better” (Streats, March 3). The Singapore Red Cross Society (SRCS) would like to apologise to the caller for not returning her phone call regarding information on the use of her particulars after she donated to
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    • 156 17 WE were happy to read in Streats of March 4 issue that readership is soaring. My wife and I recently returned from the United States and are regular readers ourselves. In fact we compete to read it. We also regularly write our views to Vocal, and my
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    • 125 17 ON Sunday, I was passing by the Istana during the Changing of the Guards ceremony when I was dismayed to hear the military band playing The Ketchup Song for this military exercise. The Changing of the Guards is ceremonial for sure. It is more for
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    • 69 17 EVER since the timing of the traffic lights along Clementi Road was adjusted, traffic coming from the AYE towards Bukit Timah is delayed by more than nine minutes. Every signal is red. Vehicles have to stop for about four minutes at the three junctions of Commonwealth Avenue West,
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    • 175 18 THE recent accident involving an MRT train and a car has made me wonder whether we can claim that our transport system is world-class when we do not have the basics in place. The train driver definitely deserves recognition for his swift action which prevented
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    • 228 18 POOR crowd control and inadequate contingency planning contributed to the chaos which followed the accident involving an MRT train and a car between Khatib and Yio Chu Kang MRT stations on Monday evening. I was one of the commuters who had to alight from
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    • 103 18 PASSENGERS inconvenienced by the recent train accident were reported to have been unhappy, to have griped about the delays they endured and to have blamed SMRT for not doing more. This culture of pointing the finger of blame has crossed the line. They should be
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    • 111 18 I APPLIED to renew my licence on Feb 14 and was told that I should receive the new licence within two weeks. As of March 5,1 still hadn’t received it. And my current licence expired on Feb 28. Will I
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    • 84 17 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us atstreats@sph-eera.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 deemed
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  • Social
    • 599 20 Madam Lim, 46, is happy that she can help older room-mates. SARAH NG finds out how this kind-hearted woman does it MADAM Lim Kim Hua, 46, has not had a night of uninterrupted sleep in seven years. But instead of being grouchy, she’s happy to
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    • 27 20 Streats, a winner of the Singapore Kindness Movement's last year, and bring to you stories of ordinary people who make Singapore a better place to live in
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  • Medical
    • 263 21 Vitamin B-rich foods counter effect of alcohol on breast cancer Reuters NEW YORK A diet rich in orange juice, leafy greens, fortified breakfast cereals and other foods high in folate may help lower a woman’s risk of breast cancer, particularly if she faces an elevated risk
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    • 230 21 j ’“O; What does eating right mean? A The three pillars of eating right are variety, balance and moderation. Vary your food choices, as no single food can provide all the nutrients we need. Only by eating a wide variety of foods can we obtain the many nutrients
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    • 678 22 Is Branding a whole lot of Ouch. Depending on whether you're a calf or a marketeer, that really must hurt. "Whoa, hold your horses," you say, "At which point in history exactly did cattle ranching meet consumer mindset?" Believe it or not, in the pyramids of the pharaohs. Paintings in
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  • Global
    • 333 23 Telcos tie up with police in unique scheme to stop cellphone crime LONDON Under a scheme in the UK that could be ideal for Singapore’s cellphone users, more than 400,000 lost or stolen cellphones in Britain have been disabled in the past six months. The cellphones
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    • 132 23 -AFP JAKARTA An Indonesian Muslim cleric wants to adopt as his foster daughter a popular singer whose supposedly erotic dancing has stirred controversy here. Islamic authorities in several provinces have banned Ms Inul Daratista from performing what they call an “erotic” and “immoral” dance. But
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    • 200 23 -AP ATLANTA A two-and-a-half-year search by a man for his two children ended after a 10-second search on a computer screen. Mr Jeff Weeks had spent more than US$5O,OOO (5586,638) on private investigators and worked with the FBI a nd police agencies before the
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    • 52 23 Thousands of Australian students yesterday forced lunchtime traffic to a halt around six city blocks in Sydney’s Central Business District, as they dashed down a street in protest against a possible war in Iraq. Their ‘Books not Bombs’ protest was aimed at Australian Prime Minister John
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    • 265 23 NEW YORK In a move that suggests that a war with Iraq is inevitable, the UN has drawn up a secret plan to establish a post-Saddam government in Iraq, the Times of London reported yesterday. The 60-page plan produced in secrecy over
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  • Thursday Tech
    • 192 24 There are PDAs and there are PDAs. Here are three which will catch your eye one way or another. Dell Axim X 5 (from $419) The X 5 is a truly bang-for-buck PDA from the makers of bang-for-buck PCs. This Pocket PC-based device gets you started
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    • 555 24  -  ITS a camera, it’s a phone and it’s an MP3 player. These are what a personal digital assistant (PDA) is turning into these days. By ALFRED SIEW Computer Times ONCE a plain-Jane organiser meant to replace the paper filofax, the nifty little handheld is becoming
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    • Article, Illustration
      1050 25  -  A new fixed-line service has made telecoms history in Singapore but no one is blowing the trumpet because it has done little to advance market competition By GEOFFREY PEREIRA The Straits Times HISTORY was made here in December, when Starliub introduced its Digital Voice service. This was the
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  • EasyStreats
    • 665 26 Jadntha’sfourth album mil be a tribute to popular 50s vocalist Julie London. She tells GREGORYLEOWmore about it JACINTHA is her name and that’s also the title of singer Jacintha Abisheganaden’s upcoming album. But it certainly isn’t for selfpromotion she is already a well-known name in Singapore
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    • 176 26 l V< IN Ml V Is Her Name Will he the singers f irst form into wntemponm smooth in/, 1)01 picwions Groove Note albums have been more straight jazz. Said Groove Note s Ytng lan: ’‘The feedback we've been getting from the emuneeis and musicians we've worked
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    • Article, Illustration
      389 27  -  By GARY LIM MAID IN MANHATTAN Starring Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes Directed by Wayne Wang SOME things in life are so bewildering they leave you wondering whether you are an oddball gradually losing touch with reality. Watching my girlfriend cry while watching ET was one. My blacking out
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    • 495 27  -  By Gary Lim IT IS hard to imagine Moses Lim going beyond his familiar comedian role. From playing the wacky father in Under One Roof to the blabbering cohost of Comedy Night, there were times when even he wondered if he could ever break out
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    • 107 28 AN Australian supermarket chain is planning to start plastic bag-free lanes. At least one of its supermarkets in each state will take part. Supermarkets will also provide calico bags and in-store recycling bins. Australians use 6.9 billion plastic bags a year, one bag a day for
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • Article, Illustration
        46 28 10pm, Channel i Gus’s (Matt Dillon) massive alimony payments to his ex-wife Lee (Annabella Sciorra) are keeping him in a financial straitjacket. To relieve himself of this monetary burden, he decides to marry her off. But first, he has to find her Mr Right.
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      • 67 28 10pm, Central This week, ballerina Cheah Mei Sing enters the Aladdin’s cave of veils, chiffon skirts, coin laden belts and sequinned bras that is belly dance. But she finds that no costume, however glamorous, can disguise her fundamental shortcomings. Like most ballet dancers, she has no belly
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    • Happenin
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        70 28 PENMANSHIP Today till March 14; 11.30am-Bpm, Monday to Saturday, 12pm-5.30pm on Sunday Utterly Art (208, South Bridge Road, #O2-01) Free When Mr Pwee Keng Hock, a partner at Utterly Art gallery, chanced upon security guard Krishnan s/o Karuppiah, he was stunned by Mr Krishnan’s works-in-nroeress. The meeting led to
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      • 86 28 THE IB WERE AUSTRALIAN FILM FESTIVAL Today till March 12, times vary GV Grand (Level 3, Great World City) Tickets at $8.50 from the GV Grand booc-office For movie titles and screening times, call the Singapore Film Society hotline at 9017-0160 or log on to www.sfs.org.sg Featuring a diverse
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 435 28 lour FEB 19 by Kelli Fox al Astrolpgy.com MAR 20 AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Drama captures someone’s attention. Big news fires your imagination. If you’re trying to make others perform, you have them exactly where you want them. This could be the start of something good. Winners and losers deserve
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  • Sports
    • Article, Illustration
      647 29  -  Two Sinchi players demoted to Prime League after loss to Sengkang S-League savvv^^ By TAN KIM HAN ONE loss, two demotions. S-League club Sinchi FC relegated two players to the Prime League last week following its 1-2 opening-game loss to Sengkang Marine. The two believed to be
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    • 299 29 TONIGHT: SAFFC v Jurong FC (Choa Chu Kang Stadium) Team news: SAFFC Ahmad Latiff suspended, Ante Hrgovic injured, Mirko Grabovac may return; Jurong FC Imran Mohd, Noraidit Mahat injured Last season: Jurong 2 SAFFC 3 (first round), SAFFC 3 Jurong 1 (second round), SAFFC 4 Jurong 2 (third
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    • 521 30 Hasselbaink looking to banish memoiy of last FA Cup final Reuters LONDON Chelsea striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink will try to banish the memory of last season’s FA Cup final in Cardiff when his side takes on Arsenal in the last eight on Saturday. Hasselbaink, who had
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    • 279 30 -AFP MANCHESTER Cameroon international midfielder MarcVivien Foe said on Tuesday he would like to make his loan move to Manchester City from French champion Lyon permanent. The 27-year-old two-time African Nations Cup winner has been a useful source of goals for the mid-table outfit
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    • 284 30 -AFP MANCHESTER Manchester United captain Roy Keane (above) has set his sights on becoming the next Old Trafford manager. The 31-year-old has retired from international football after a serious hip problem that he says might force him to hang up his boots sooner
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    • 275 31 AFP Melbourne Formula One drivers have overlooked ive-tirne world champion Michael Schumacher to name talian Giancarlo Fisichella as the best in the sport. Schumacher may have won races in 178 starts, but he ls not the sport’s No 1, according to his peers in a poll
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    • 567 31  -  China-bom paddler Miao praises infrastructure here 5?/; Adam Hashidy ABLE tennis ace Miao Miao (right) has trained ln ree countries China, Poland and Australia T e t feels that Singapore is the best place to hone her skills. Surprised? Not when it comes from the Tianjinnative who
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    • 124 31 BASKETBALL -AFP WASHINGTON Michael Jordan suffered a severe back injury that kept him out of the entire second half here on Tuesday. Consequently, the Washington Wizards crashed. Vince Carter scored 24 points to lead Toronto past Washington 89-86 and a game that was rescheduled from Jordan’s 40th
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    • 75 31 SAILING AP AUCKLAND The America’s Cup, international sport’s oldest trophy, will arrive in Switzerland on Saturday, making its return to Europe after an absence of 152 years, officials said Wednesday. Cup winner Alinghi will land at Geneva airport in the early afternoon and will be met by federal,
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 26 31 IN THE LIVING ROOM DELAYED TELECAST GOLF: European Tour Weekly (Super Sports Ch 22, 10pm), EPGA Dubai Desert Classic, Day 1 {SuperSports Ch 22, 10.30 pm).
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