Streats, 22 April 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita <p) 111*93/2003
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  • 728 1  -  More S’poreans expected to cross Causeway to pick up produce By ChuaKongHo VEGETABLE prices look set to collapse in Johor Barn even as Singaporeans are snatching them off the shelves here for fear of a shortage. Farmers across the Causeway affected by Singapore’s closure
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    • 142 1 Tan Li Si puts studies asideto gun for SEA Games badminton siot PAGE 29 SA Y. is that a Lexus, or is that a Lexus? PAGE 6 SOCCER CASUALTY War has thrown Iraq off its winning football course, says GODFREY ROBERT PAGE 18 HEALTH ALERT If you were at Pasir
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  • SARS UPDATE
    • 28 2 TREATED AND DISCHARGED 104 IN HOSPITAL 64 (IN CRITICAL CONDITION 18) INDEX CASES 7 SUSPECTED CASES 82 DEAD 14+2* TOTAL NO OF CASES ..184 PENDING POST-MORTEM
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    • 492 2  -  IPO to be marketed globally through video conferencing By Choong Choon Yee SINGAPORE Post is going “virtual” to market its initial public offering (IPO) to overseas institutional investors because of the Sars (Severe acute respiratory syndrome) scare. Sing Post is launching today what is set to
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    • 369 3  -  Student volunteers give their allowance to Courage Fund By Zubaidah Nazeer IN THESE testing times, some student volunteers are more than passing muster. They screen examination candidates for fever as the latter enter the halls at the National University of Singapore. Third-year medical student Marcus
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    • 456 4 China’s 94 million migrant workers pose nationwide Sars risk AFP BEIJING China’s drastic measures aimed at curbing Sars may have come too late to prevent the epidemic from threatening virtually all the country’s 1.3 billion people, analysts said yesterday. A decision to cancel the weeklong May Day
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    • 216 4  -  By Julie Sim AS expected, vegetables ran short yesterday as restaurateurs, foodstall owners and housewives rushed to stock up on supplies. At Sheng Siong supermarkets, shelves were emptied of vegetables by noon as news of the 10-day closure of the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Market
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    • 43 2 CU. x HOTLINE 1800 844 5566 FAX 6319 8191 E-MAIL streats@sph.com.sg ullCalS ADDRESS News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Block, Level 1 5(*****4) circulation Customer Service 6388 3838 marketing kwokkk@sph.com.sg, Juanita: 6319 2072, Adeline: 6319 1627 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS CatS@Sph.COITI.Sg RECRUITMENT ADVERTISEMENTS reCruit@Sph.COm.Sg
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    • 315 4 Help Needy Sars Patients and Their Families The Courage Fund $2,178,465.96 TO DONATE BY CHEQUE A crossed cheque made out to “The Courage Fund” should be sent to The Courage Fund, c/o National Healthcare Group, 6, Commonwealth Lane, Level 6, GMTI Building, Singapore *****7 BY PHONE From now till April
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  • Morning Rush
    • Article, Illustration
      632 6  -  Imitation is flattery, but local car agent is not impressed B y Chita Kong Ho YOU have probably heard of fake Rolex watches, fake Louis Vuitton luggage, even fake S-Yard golf clubs. But fake Lexus sports utility vehicles? All you need is a tube of glue, some Lexus
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    • 421 6  -  By Janice Wong SINGAPORE will soon have a retail academy but it will not have full-time students. Nor will it confer degrees on them. The Retail Academy of Singapore (Tras) will focus on short-term executive programmes for seasoned retailers in supervisory positions, said its chairman,
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    • 425 8  -  NUS undergrad impresses company at marketing awards By- Zubaidah Nazeer UNLIKE many students worrying about getting a job after graduation, Mr Justin Leong had no such misgivings. Nearing graduation last year, the 25-year-old sent out just a few letters to prospective employers. He had a good
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    • 268 8  -  By Janice Wong ONE day was all it took for Esther Ng to complete her entry for the Coca-Cola Design Award. Now, she is increasingly excited about being among 10 finalists in the contest. In February, students from tertiary institutions were invited to
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    • 149 10 BUZZSTOP TWE N TY-TH REE new travel agencies have just opened for business, of which 12 began operating last month. They are not letting Sars or even the fact that 11 agencies have closed so far this year dampen their expectations.
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    • 136 10 Slaying of Papua separatist Wire services FOUR members of Indonesia’s elite special forces were jailed yesterday for involvement in the killing of Papua’s top independence leader in 2001. “The defendants were proved guilty of jointly engaging in mistreatment that led to the death of They
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    • 141 10 Personal finances ITE-style IF education can be a business, then personal finances can be a game. That apparently is the philosophy of the Institute of Technical Education in using the board game Praxis to demonstrate wise savings and investment methodology, The Straits Times reports today. In
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    • 48 10 A giant spider bearing eggs in its belly stands at the foot of the 54-storey Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in Tokyo as the 280 billion yen (554.07 billion) sprawling development with luxury housing and designer shops is shown to reporters ahead of its opening yesterday AP
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    • 151 10 MALAY/MUSLIM groups have been urged to pay more attention to youths most likely to get into trouble those aged 19 and below. Mendaki, the Muslim community’s main self-help group in Singapore, said that if they did not get the support and opportunities they needed, they
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    • 91 10 -afp A HARDLINE Indonesian Muslim cleric whose followers have vandalised Jakarta nightspots will be handed over to prosecutors in preparation for a trial, police said. Habib Mohammad Rizieq Shihab, who was on what his lawyers called a “humanitarian mission” to Iraq, was met by police when
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    • 109 10 Reuters AN increasing number of well-educated Chinese living in the US can’t wait to return home as China, with its turbocharged growth, offers better job prospects. One of them, Mr Michael Lee, who left China in 1986 to get a US education, said even the Sars
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    • 89 10 Reuters A SOUTH Korean Foreign Ministry official said yesterday that talks on North Korea’s suspected nuclear weapons plans were likely to go ahead as scheduled in Pyongyang this week. North Korea appeared to try to end confusion on its nuclear programme by quietly amending an English language
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    • 100 10 -AP AN activist believed to be the first Japanese transsexual to run for public office has registered as a candidate in a local government election in Tokyo. Ms Aya Kamikawa, 35, will run for a seat in Setagaya, one of Tokyo’s 23 wards, in voting slated for April
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    • 307 8 for Professionals and Executives Work Skills Training Programme (WSTPJ designed to help Singaporeans and PRs: Understand changes in the new economy Manage trauma of job loss and company downsizing Plan for new career and job options £9/^’ Conduct an effective job search and enhance your job prospects PROGRAMME For employed
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  • Financial
    • 555 12  -  CAD conducts disposal inquiry over Profit Net funds By Choong Ckoon Yee IN what is believed to be a first, the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) recently advertised in the newspapers to seek out the victims of a financial crime. It said it was conducting a disposal
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    • 360 12 Reuters NEW YORK When Mr Fred Hassan took the helm of Swedish-American drugmaker Pharmacia Upjohn in 1997, Wall Street had written it off as a failed merger between a Swedish and a US drug company. Within several years, however,
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    • 147 12 Wire services SINGAPORE DBS Group Holdings yesterday said that net profit in the first quarter to March rose a modest 0.4 per cent from a year earlier, but added that it was optimistic it would be able to weather the fallout from the Sars outbreak and
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    • 96 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust has said it will borrow to fund acquisitions before seeking more money from shareholders. It said it is able to raise as much as $lOO million after the Government three weeks ago increased the borrowing limit for property trusts
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    • 75 12 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian operator of a delayed city train project is selling shares this month to raise RMIO3 million ringgit (Ss4B million) to help repay loans while it seeks to begin operations in August. KL Infrastructure Group, operator of the RMI.2 billion train project, will
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    • 24 12 •AS AT APRIL 21 US$: S$1.770 EURO: SS1.929 S$: RM2.147 S$: 24.11 BAHT S$2.786 S$: 67.84 YEN S$: HK$4.406 S$: 4,894 RUPIAH
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    • 769 13 4 Brepreneurs^ Zac Chms strategy of keeping prices low has worked and his interior design firm is targeting slBm revenue this year. How did he do it? With a lot of helpfrom hisfriends as JANICE WONGfinds out AS the economy gets worse, business at Simply Creative
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  • AFTER SADDAM
    • 734 14 LAST week’s looting of the Iraq National Museum, which saw numerous items vanish from a vast collection spanning eight millennia of Mesopotamian history, provoked a worldwide outcry. The US military had failed to protect Iraq’s priceless cultural heritage, said critics. But now the question being asked
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    • 329 15 Jay Gamer arrives in Baghdad -AFP BAGHDAD Retired US general Jay Gamer the man Washington has tasked with overseeing Iraq’s reconstruction arrived in Baghdad yesterday. “What better day in your life can you have than to be able to help somebody else, to
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    • 68 16 -AFP BAGHDAD The most prolific portrait painters of Mr Saddam Hussein have vanished with his downfall. Most of the art studios dedicated to the deification of Mr Saddam have either closed down or been pillaged by mobs. Artists such as Mr Salam Abed, Mr Mohammad A 1
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    • 87 16 -AFP BAGHDAD Deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law and one of the toppled leader’s bodyguards surrendered to an Iraqi opposition group after returning from hiding in Syria, the group said. Separately, the US military said on Sunday that troops had captured a top science official from Mr
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    • 121 16 AFP BAGHDAD Thousands of Iraqi Shi’ites staged an angry demonstration in central Baghdad yesterday, complaining that a prominent cleric had been arrested by US forces. They chanted slogans on behalf of Sheikh Mohammad A 1 Fartusi, although there was no independent report of his detention. An army
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    • 554 16 Debauch existence of Saddam’s pyschotic son revealed MR Uday Saddam Hussein, deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s feared elder son, had several hobbies: women, cars, the Internet, jewellery and weapons. And testimony to all these lay inside the smouldering ruins of his riverside Baghdad palace.
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    • 944 18  -  Comment By GODFREY ROBERT The Straits Times AT the height of the war, earlier this month, in southern Iraq, 11 British Royal Marines laid down their weapons on the dusty streets of Umm Khayyal and played a game of soccer with the local team. They were thrashed 3-7
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    • 208 17 4 Oil University of Wollongong Ranked the nation's top university for the past three years by Australia's Good Universities Guide for students' "educational experience" and "graduate outcomes". Joint winner of the year 1999/2000 2000/2001. The only University to be awarded the prestige for 2 consecutive years. Ranked Top 10 Australian
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    • 272 18 Anniversary uu promotions! LEARNING PLACE a <» tjparvy of tfc« ftottoftai Liitfjwy «kwfti e oan Family Package $21.80 NITLP module 1,2 3 (14 hours) One parent a child for NITLP course Special Package NITLP module 1,2 3 Chinese Input $87.30 $14.55 National IT Litera<y Programme $14.55 Module I (7 hours)
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  • Vocal
    • 418 19 WE refer to Mr Leong Sze Hian’s letter “Tell us how donations to NKF are spent” (Streats, April 16). As stated on our website, $l4 million was spent on fund-raising and publicity in 2001. This amounts to 20.34 per cent of funds raised, well
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    • 175 19 MY husband and I caught part of Sunday’s NKF charity show and were moved to do our part. Throughout the show, numbers to make donations by telephone were displayed on the TV screen in this sequence: 1900-*****33/6868. Having watched previous NKF shows, we noticed that this year
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    • 213 19 SBS Transit needs to explain why an old lady aged 82 was taken for an unwelcome joy ride on Saturday. The old lady was my mother, who boarded service 33 at Dover Road at about 7.30 pm to return to her home in
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    • 130 19 IT was disturbing to read in the report “Med students to help screen exam takers” (Streats, April 17) the reaction of an NUS student, Ms Chow Yoke Kuan, to the university’s calls to medical undergraduates to help screen exam candidates before they entered the exam
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    • 149 19 WE were shocked by your report which included Ms Chow Yoke Kuan’s comments on her webpage. Her website is now blocked, she said, because Streats had been unfair to her and had misinterpreted her comments. Ms Chow’s commentary “Free labour for NUS?”, written on April
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    • 85 19 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at $treats@sph.COl¥I.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
    • 287 20 Metal affects childrens IQ, shows New York study LONDON Researchers say that even “safe” levels of lead in the environment can damage a child’s IQ. A BBC Online report recently highlighted a study by scientists from New York’s Cornell University, who tracked 170 children for
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    • 259 20 What are the types of food that have high biological value? A One of the ways used to assess the quality of different proteins is called the Biological Value (BV). Proteins are made up of smaller units called amino acids. There are about 20 different amino acids, eight
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    • 250 20 m mm WANT A TOP JOB? STUDY AT A TOP UNIVERSITY. Thames Business School offers a wide range of courses from the finest universities and academic institutions around the world. It is also the first private institution in Singapore to offer tutorials supported by the benefits of online e-learning. It
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    • 323 21 Crowded buses, lifts, hawker stalls, bathrooms. Which one would you say is more dangerous? You may be excused for thinking it’s the bus. Or the lift for that matter. But actually it’s your bathroom. That’s where the danger lies. Germs are everywhere. On our floors, our walls and in our
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  • EasyStreats
    • 110 22 POP singer Anastacia has revealed that she discovered she was suffering from breast cancer only when she went to hospital for a breast reduction operation, reported ITVcom yesterday. She had suffered back pain and slipped discs and was looking to reduce her breast size when
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    • 103 22 SINGER James Taylor will be getting a bridge named after him. A bridge in North Carolina, over Morgan Creek, which is close to the singer’s childhood home, will be named James Taylor Bridge in a ceremony on April 26. The 55-year-old singer, who received the
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    • 94 22 THE Rowan Atkinson spy spoof, Johnny English, grossed $l.OB million at the Singapore box office after it opened on Thursday, reported Shaw organisation yesterday. This puts tlje movie’s total earnings (including sneaks, whidh made $300,995) above other box office hits such as The Scorpion
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    • Article, Illustration
      650 22  -  Tellytubby By YVONNE KWOK IN a perfect world, people will work exactly 40 hours a week; have bosses who are blind, deaf and dumb (and I’m not talking about mutes); and everyone can pull 1,000 notes out of their behinds two times a day. Alas, we don’t live
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    • 425 24 It was an afternoon of Spanish fun and feasting at the two-hour Streats Culinary Masterclass workshop on Saturday. GREGORYLEOWspeaks to one impressed couple WHEN Albert and Lee Wee heard about the Streats Culinary workshop being held at Viamar Spanish Restaurant on Saturday afternoon, they felt they just
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    • 117 24 A NEW CD in aid of child victims of the Iraq war, featuring 18 artistes, has been released, reported the BBC yesterday. Proceeds from the album, called Hope, will go to War Child, an international development and relief charity set up following the war
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    • 102 24 A CHILDREN’S novel penned by the late historian and author of Band of Brothers, Stephen Ambrose, will be published by Simon Schuster, although no publication date was given. This Vast Land imagines the Lewis and Clark expedition through the words of a young
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    • 113 24 NOSTALGIA time again: 1980 s TV series Knight Rider is going to become a movie, reported E!Online website. The series, which is currently showing on Star World (SCV 18) at 4pm on Saturdays, featured David Hasselhoff as crimefighter Michael Knight, with a talking sports
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    • 103 26 AUSTRALIA’S car industry is planning to reduce car petrol consumption by a tenth by 2010 to help cut pollution. This is to be done through new engine and i fuel system technologies J in the country, home to 9 four carmakers Holden, Ford, Toyota and Mitsubishi.
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    • Tunein TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 56 26 Midnight, Channel 5 After being stabbed by Jamal’s brother, Harry is rushed to the hospital where he remains unconscious while the primary staff of Winslow High wait anxiously in the waiting room. Scott is left in charge of the school as the teachers rush to help out the
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      • 52 26 9pm, Channel i Carrie and Doug give $5OO to the library but their donation is accredited as $5O. When Carrie wants the mistake acknowledged, another mistake is made and an extra zero is added, so the administration thinks they gave $5,000 and the library is named
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    • Happenin’
      • 46 26 MUSIC PLATFORM Tomorrow, 1.05 pm Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Recital Hall (111, Middle Road, tel: 6331-0386) Free For a lunch-time break, catch Nafa BA Music students in performance, with Natasha Liu Junyan on cello, Chye Yong Seng on flute and Sutini Goh on piano.
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      • Article, Illustration
        63 26 JOINTLY SEVERABLY Till Saturday, Bpm Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel Tickets from $3l to $46 at Sistic (call 6348-5555) This is the final instalment of the trilogy which began with Mergers Accusations and Wills Secession. The first two plays were staged in the 1990 s and made an impact with
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    • 71 26 If you wish to have your event highlighted in Happenin’, e-mail Streats at streats@sph.com.sg or fax 6319-8191-Please check with organisers for latest status of events. Qualifying for the iff Champions League 4 con t en d ers 2 Who pulled ahead after last night’s matches? the new pape Hotline: 1800-
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 452 26 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 PISCES FEB 19 -MAR 20 For now, the rule should be business first. With time, your focus has shifted away from those famous party animal ways. Fun hasn’t been outlawed, but it does have its place. For a price, you’ll
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    • 226 27 Singapore Press Holdings ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ H a 1 m KBS ■?0 A PRODI SG A «twi m mm BS 8?» I I ki, m VMM i mm IMKsßillJlSfla I s a a SK f 7 7 K S >7 t at SYDA (2003) is all about encouraging and celebrating the spirit
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  • Sports
    • 348 28 Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Q-FINAL (2ND LEG) Valencia v Inter Milan MADRID Faltering Valencia could do with the shot in the arm that a victory over Inter Milan tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) would give it. Valencia’s 0-1 loss to Valladolid in the Spanish
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    • Article, Illustration
      659 28 For Barcelona, European success could offset chaos at home -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Q-FINAL (2nd leg) Barcelona v Juventus BARCELONA Coach Radomir Antic (below) is in no mood to grant any favours to The Old Lady. The Barcelona coach has to make up for his side’s dismal domestic form
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    • 613 29  -  Tan puts aside books for a year to concentrate on SEA Games By Lim Han Ming WHEN it comes to sports or studies, badminton player Tan Li Si (right) does not have to agonise over her choice. She has opted for sports. The first year student at
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    • 359 29 NBA PLAY-OFFS Philadelphia 98 New Orleans 90 PHILADELPHIA Allen Iverson scored a team play-off-record 55 points as the Philadelphia 76ers defeated the New Orleans Hornets, 98-90, in Game One of their Eastern Conference first-round series. “He was on fire,” Hornets’ coach Paul Silas said
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    • 572 31  -  A world-class tournament with big names could spark Singapore womens golf to life Tee-off with Godfrey By GODFREY ROBERT The Straits Times THANKS to Mike Weir and Len Mattiace, golf fans have something new to talk about after the recent US Masters at Augusta. Stay in
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    • SOCCER
      • 114 31 Reuters LONDON Manchester United’s David Beckham says he would love the challenge of making it big in the US but does not rule out a move to European champion Real Madrid. Beckham, who has been linked with Real in recent weeks, fuelled further speculation with comments made
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      • 142 31 Reuters LIVERPOOL Police are investigating claims that Everton’s teenage striker Wayne Rooney spat at Liverpool fans during Saturday’s Merseyside derby. Liverpool won the Premier League clash at Everton’s Goodison Park ground 2-1. “Many Liverpool fans claimed the Everton striker spat towards them on the ground in the
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 37 31 IN THE LIVING ROOM SOCCER: Football Focus (ESPN Ch 23, 8.30 pm). Champions League q-finals, 2nd leg: Valencia v Inter Milan (ESPN Ch 23, tomorrow, 2.30 am), Barcelona v Juventus (Star Sports Ch 24, tomorrow, 2.30 am).
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