Streats, 6 March 2003
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Title Section9 2003-03-06 1 Streats JHURSE MARC 6,2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 240/03/20029 words
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Article, Illustration496 2003-03-06 1 Khushwant Singh - 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 bonderFrancis Lee Sr": 1" - 496 words
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Advertisement61 2003-03-06 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 of61 words
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Article, Illustration543 2003-03-06 2 Gregory Leow - 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 butFrancis Lee - 543 words
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Article, Illustration353 2003-03-06 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 income353 words
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Article, Illustration481 2003-03-06 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 leadingA - 481 words
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130 2003-03-06 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.– Reuters - 130 words
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Article, Illustration63 2003-03-06 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 attemptAFP - 63 words
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Article134 2003-03-06 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 to134 words
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Article154 2003-03-06 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 1Bloomberg - 154 words
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Article154 2003-03-06 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 there154 words
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Article93 2003-03-06 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 did93 words
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Article121 2003-03-06 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 Times121 words
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Article92 2003-03-06 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 had92 words
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Article81 2003-03-06 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)81 words
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Financial
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Article, Illustration402 2003-03-06 8 ChuaKongHo - 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. StrongAshleigh Sim - 402 words
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374 2003-03-06 8 Chua Kong Ho - 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 the374 words
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136 2003-03-06 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.136 words
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Article113 2003-03-06 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■ Bloomberg - 113 words
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Article101 2003-03-06 8 Reuters SINGAPORE Shipyard operator ASL Marine Holdings said yesterday that it was offering 50 million shares at 21 cents each to raise $8.95 million in net proceeds to finance its expansion. The IPO, managed and underwritten by UOB Asia Limited, will offer 10 million shares toReuters - 101 words
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Article, Illustration426 2003-03-06 10 AFP BEIJING Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji yesterday delivered his last state of the nation address at the start of the National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People that will usher in a new generation of leaders. Mr Zhu will end hisAFP; AP - 426 words
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Article364 2003-03-06 12 STI: 1,265.5 3.46 Reuters WEAK economic data sent shares lower yesterday, with the main index hitting a level not seen in nearly 18 months. The Straits Times Index ended down 3.46 points, or 0.27 per cent, at 1,265.5, after a tight six-point trading range. The index– Reuters - 364 words
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Article24 2003-03-06 12 *AS AT MARCH 5 US$: Ss±„732 552.755 EURO: 551.903 Ss: 67.66 YEN Ss: RM2.193 Ss: HK54.502 Ss: 24.53 BAHT Ss: 5,118 RUPIAH24 words
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Article164 2003-03-06 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 (5520.44164 words
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Article, Illustration419 2003-03-06 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-AFP; AFP - 419 words
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Advertisement167 2003-03-06 12 BEST WISE BEST and WISE Public Examinations The Institute ofTechnical Education (ITE) is holding Public Examinations for the Basic Education for Skills Training (BEST) and Worker Improvement through Secondary Education (WISE) Programmes. Sit for the exam, and you can use your results to apply for a higher level of education167 words
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Comment
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Article, Illustration749 2003-03-06 15 CONSTANCE SINGAM - 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 to749 words
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Article, Illustration140 2003-03-06 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 the140 words
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Vocal
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Article323 2003-03-06 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, but323 words
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Article, Illustration155 2003-03-06 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 a155 words
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127 2003-03-06 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 to127 words
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Article156 2003-03-06 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 my156 words
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Article125 2003-03-06 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 for125 words
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Article69 2003-03-06 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,69 words
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Article, Illustration175 2003-03-06 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 preventedFrancis Lee - 175 words
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Article228 2003-03-06 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 from228 words
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103 2003-03-06 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 be103 words
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111 2003-03-06 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 I111 words
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Social
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Article, Illustration599 2003-03-06 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 to599 words
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Advertisement27 2003-03-06 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 in27 words
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Medical
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Article, Illustration263 2003-03-06 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 riskReuters - 263 words
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Article230 2003-03-06 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 nutrients230 words
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Advertisement678 2003-03-06 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 in678 words
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Global
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Article333 2003-03-06 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 cellphones333 words
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Article132 2003-03-06 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-AFP - 132 words
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Article200 2003-03-06 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-AP - 200 words
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Article, Illustration52 2003-03-06 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 JohnReuters _____ - 52 words
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265 2003-03-06 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 over265 words
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Thursday Tech
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Article, Illustration192 2003-03-06 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 started192 words
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Article, Illustration555 2003-03-06 24 ALFRED SIEW - 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 becoming555 words
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Article, Illustration1050 2003-03-06 25 GEOFFREY PEREIRA - 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 theThe Straits Times - 1,050 words
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EasyStreats
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Article, Illustration665 2003-03-06 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 Singapore665 words
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Article, Illustration176 2003-03-06 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 worked176 words
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Article, Illustration389 2003-03-06 27 GARY LIM - 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 out389 words
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Article, Illustration495 2003-03-06 27 Gary Lim - 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 out495 words
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Article, Illustration107 2003-03-06 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 for5 Pic Francis Lee - 107 words
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Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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Article, Illustration46 2003-03-06 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.46 words
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Article67 2003-03-06 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 belly67 words
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Happenin
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Article, Illustration70 2003-03-06 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 to70 words
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Article86 2003-03-06 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 diverse86 words
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Miscellaneous435 2003-03-06 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 deserve435 words
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Sports
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Article, Illustration647 2003-03-06 29 TAN KIM HAN - 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 beFrancis Lee - 647 words
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Article, Illustration299 2003-03-06 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 (third299 words
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Article, Illustration521 2003-03-06 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 hadReuters - 521 words
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279 2003-03-06 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-AFP - 279 words
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Article, Illustration284 2003-03-06 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-AFP - 284 words
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275 2003-03-06 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 pollAFP - 275 words
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Article, Illustration567 2003-03-06 31 Adam Hashidy - 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 whoAshleigh Sim - 567 words
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Article124 2003-03-06 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-AFP - 124 words
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Article75 2003-03-06 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,AP - 75 words
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