Streats, 31 July 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MSTA (P) 111/03/2003
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  • 572 1  -  SIA cabin service drops from 3rd to 9th place in Skytrax poll By Janice Wong THE renowned cabin service of Singapore Airlines has taken a substantial slide from third place to ninth in the annual Skytrax ranking, based on the aviation research company’s latest
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    • 54 1 m i 55 Si |E« vJ H iS •V? V' M *v >- gg id O k Meet this Baron’s Ambassador at Saturday’s PAGE 40 FOLLOW LOGIC ft PAGE 18 Shareholders matter, but look after the staff first, says TERRY DENHAM FOLLOW THE JAPANESE Nippon courtesy, politeness instilled from young,
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  • Morning Rush
    • 454 2  -  By Calvin Low HE could have lived it up, zipping between his corporate office, club and a bachelor pad in a racy roadster, paid for with the six-figure annual package he was earning as an analyst with a US-based
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    • 223 2  -  By Khushwant Singh VISITORS to Kusu Island or St John’s Island will have to take the ferry from Sentosa from tomorrow. Ferry services to these two islands will begin operating from the Sentosa Ferry Terminal, instead of from the HarbourFront Centre. Ferry rates will
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    • 464 3  -  Top Indon entrepreneur says journalism experience gave him his edge By Choong Choon Yee MR DAHLAN Iskan believes his experience as a journalist was what gave him the grounding to become a successful businessman. So he has come to the conclusion that good journalists can
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    • 455 4 NTU economists call for review of labour policy to ease unemployment Bloomberg SINGAPOREANS are finding it harder to find work at home because employers prefer cheaper foreign labourers, a Nanyang Technological University study showed. Three out of four new jobs in the past
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    • 118 6 BUZZSTOP FORMER National Wages Council chairman Lim Chong Yah wants Singapore’s flexible wages system policy to be reviewed. This is because the policy does not seem to have averted retrenchments, reports The Business Times today. Referring to the layoffs, he asked: “Does it
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    • 138 6 New alternative news sites INTERNET addicts, there are some recent new additions to cyberspace for you to check out. Website The Void Deck caught a lot of attention recently with its humorous response to the Malaysian newspaper advertisements about the water dispute, The Straits Times reports
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    • 141 6 HP’s R&D centre in S’pore Bloomberg COMPUTER giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) will invest $55 million in Singapore over three years to expand research and development (R&D) of its Pro Curve networking product. The 10,000 sq ft R&D centre will be located within HP’s existing offices
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    • 55 6 Sony audio engineer Koji Nageno displaying a plaster replica of Sony founder Masaru Ibuka’s ear in Tokyo yesterday. Mr Nageno’s team has another 100 moulds of human ears, 100 moulds of human ears and 300 samples of ear holes. All this is used to help develop headphones
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    • 152 6 TWO Singapore Press Holdings newspapers have won honours at the second Publish Asia Awards. Flagship The Straits Times won the Best in Design (Gold) and" Best in Infographics (Gold) prizes, it was announced at a media conference yesterday. It also won a bronze award for
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    • 85 6 THE Philippine army mutineers appear to have achieved something through their rebellion as the military intelligence chief, whose resignation they had demanded, quit yesterday. President Gloria Arroyo accepted the resignation of Brigadier-General Victor Corpus but will keep him in the armed forces, The Straits Times reports today.
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    • 100 6 Reuters SAUDI Arabia’s foreign minister said on Tuesday it was an outrage that a congressional report on the Sept 11 attacks raised suspicions of a link between the Saudi government and the hijackers. Prince Saud Al-Faisal spoke to the press after meeting President George W Bush
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    • 95 6 -AP WORRIED that the national anthem has lost its patriotic punch, Malaysia is revamping the somber, decades-old tune with new lyrics and a more spirited beat, an official said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Most Malaysians can recite the anthem by heart, but officials say young people
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    • 109 6 WHEN it comes to foreplay, Britons are a flop, according to a survey done by UK boutique chain, Beau Blue. It revealed that 80 per cent of British men didn’t even know what foreplay was! Many mistook it for a sport, a computer game or an item
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  • Financial
    • 621 8  -  Reit raised controversy here, but institutions snap up units, says DBS By Chua Kong Ho WHEN DBS Bank’s managing director for debt capital markets Stephen Finch starts his Hong Kong roadshow for Fortune Reit today, he should find it easier to explain its merits to investors.
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    • 264 8 Reuters SINGAPORE Unemployment here is expected to have hit 5 per cent in June, a recent Reuters poll showed, as fallout from the Sars outbreak causes Singapore’s worst economic slump on record. Thousands have already lost their jobs in layoffs that have
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    • CORPORATE RESULTS
      • 94 8 Reuters ST Assembly Test Services reported a smaller-than-expected loss yesterday and forecast that third-quarter sales would rise on strong demand in the broadband and networking markets. But the world’s fifth-largest chip tester did not comment on analyst’s expectations that it would return to the black as
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      • 76 8 Bloomberg SMRT Corp, Singapore’s largest urban rail operator, said first-quarter profit fell 73 per cent as fewer people rode the trains and taxis during the Sars outbreak. Profit for the three months ended June fell to $7.3 million from $27 million a year earlier. Sales
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      • 94 8 Reuters SIA Engineering said yesterday that its first-quarter net profit fell by more than half to $22.9 million from $47 million a year earlier due to the fallout from Sars. The aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul arm of Singapore Airlines said revenue fell to $169.5
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      • 85 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE SembCorp Logistics’s second-quarter profit rose 32 per cent as sales gained 5 per cent to $116.2 million. The company, a unit of SembCorp Industries, said net income in the three months ended June 30 rose to $26 million from $19.6 million a year
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    • 390 11 Managing director Lim Cheok Peng eyes regional expansion Reuters SINGAPORE Parkway Holdings, South-east Asia’s largest private hospital company, said it had practically recovered from a second-quarter downturn caused by Sars and was planning to expand in China and India. Parkway saw admissions to its three Singapore
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    • 515 12 Bloomberg TOKYO Mr Nobuyuki Koga, chief executive officer of Nomura Holdings, wears a pedometer on his belt to measure the distance he walks. And, since taking over in April, he has been clocking up air miles too, meeting US and UK investors to help boost the firm’s
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    • 230 14 Bloomberg SINGAPORE ST Telemedia, which is trying to buy phone-network operator Global Crossing, said that it plans to appoint an “American-dominated” board to help overcome Pentagon opposition to the purchase. ST Telemedia, which is owned by the Singapore Government, plans to name retired US
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    • 24 14 *AS AT JULY 30 US$: 551.756 552.846 EURO: 552.007 Ss: 68.31 YEN Ss: RM2.164 Ss: HK54.442 Ss: 23.92 BAHT Ss: 4,858 RUPIAH
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    • 285 14 STI: 1,578.19 2.69 Reuters SHARES closed mixed yesterday, with investors selling blue chips such as Keppel Corp. The Straits Times Index finished 0.17 per cent, or 2.69 points, down at 1,578.19. But gainers beat losers 197 to 108. ST Assembly closed 6.9 per cent
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    • 612 16 Expected Q 2 loss will affect CEO Morchio’s ability to profit from stock options Bloomberg MILAN Mr Giuseppe Morchio pocketed more than US$lOO million in stock options in 2000, when he headed Pirelli SpA’s cable business and the company sold a unit to Corning Inc.
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  • Comment
    • 560 18  -  By TERRY DENHAM PAY cuts and retrenchments are global issues that come painfully close to home as companies grapple with the need to improve bottomline growth. While few employees or labour leaders would question that it is corporate decision-makers’ role to maintain and
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    • 692 20  -  By JANICE WONG I USED to earn extra pocket money during my school holidays working as a lingerie salesgirl at Takashimaya Shopping Centre. My work mates and I always made fun of a certain ritual: Every morning at 10 sharp, the public announcement system would play
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  • Vocal
    • 219 22 I REFER to the letters published in Streats on July 30 supporting Mr Conrad Raj’s commentary about the way some Singapore Airlines (SIA) crew members were retrenched when they were close to receiving their 10year gratuity payment. Viewed purely from an observer’s perspective, it is
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    • 223 22 ONE of the most critical parts of our public transport system is feeder services within estates and shuttle services to MRT stations. But, ironically, this area receives the least attention. There are many populated areas within a radius of one or two kilometres of MRT stations
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    • 250 22 THE “iron rice bowl” is no more. Blaming it on employers and the Government will get us nowhere. Expecting the Government or private sector to be transparent about decisionmaking is totally absurd. We are in an era where time is money and
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    • 249 23 TWO resolutions were passed with an overwhelming majority at Fraser Neave’s (F&N) extraordinary general meeting on Tuesday, “despite objections from minority shareholders” who were labelled “negative-minded”. That contemptuous description aside, the usual rationale behind solvent companies proposing “capital-reduction exercises” via “cash distribution to shareholders”
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    • 142 23 IT’S no use for the Land Transport Authority (LTA) to say that it wants to “provide a quality, integrated and efficient land transport system that meets the needs and expectations of Singaporeans” when it cannot even maintain quality roads. Every day, our roads are
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    • 299 23 I OWN a condo unit but live in an HDB flat and, after reading the commentary, “Why I’ll give class a pass” (Streats, July 23), I’d like to share some of my experiences of many HDB dwellers who upgrade for the sake of “class”,
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    • 129 23 I GUESS the answer to the letter by Paul Ong Kim Hoe, “Can our MP get our bus back?” (Streats, July 30), is almost certainly “No”, as past experience has shown that once a decision is made by the transport operator, it will not
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    • 88 23 IN our report, “Water Puts Fuel on Tap” (Streats, July 30), we said the Public Utilities Board (PUB) provided compressed natural gas (CNG). PUB yesterday pointed out that, since April 1, it has been reconstituted to be responsible only for water supply, water reclamation, and drainage and sewerage systems.
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    • 228 22 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at sireats@spti.coni'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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  • Global
    • 275 24 Wire services BANDUNG, Indonesia Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi may be released from detention before October, Indonesia’s foreign minister said yesterday. “We have an assurance from Myanmar that the Suu Kyi case will be finished before the Asean summit,”
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    • 441 24 Pentagon drops terror attack futures plan WASHINGTON Admiral (Ret) John M Poindexter was appointed to create unorthodox means of pursuing national security. He did his job a little too well. His plan to set up a futures market based on Middle Eastern terror attacks was
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    • Article, Illustration
      66 24 Residents of Hong Kong yesterday browsing through comic books such as Ghost Jokes, whose cover is shown in the poster ridiculing Hong Kong leader Tung Chee Hwa and former secretary for security Regina Ip at an exhibition at the Hong Kong Convention Centre. More than 3,600 books were
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    • 231 24 LONDON Techies are so attached to their e-mail that a third of them say a week without e-mail is more traumatic than getting divorced or moving house. The information comes in a survey of more than 800 information technology managers in Europe and the Middle East
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    • Article, Illustration
      33 27 Indonesian police officers watching a college student portraying an enslaved African during a demonstration against the government outside the venue of the Asian-African Sub-Regional Organisations Conference in Bandung on Tuesday AP
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    • 298 27 Mega cracks the whip on disobedient cadres JAKARTA Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, who is also the chairman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), has lashed out at disobedient party members. She said that many party cadres did not understand the full scope
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    • 119 27 PORT DICKSON Used condoms led to the arrest of 13 foreign women on Tuesday morning, The Star reported yesterday. The used condoms were strewn on a stairway at a five-star resort here. The women were hiding in an apartment at the resort when they were
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    • 358 28 Woman, 22, to undergo DNA test to prove her claim AP INDIANAPOLIS Experts are carrying out DNA tests on a woman who has contacted the family of a six-year-old who vanished 17 years ago, saying she may be their daughter. Shannon Marie Sherrill disappeared on Oct
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  • Medical
    • 280 30 Bloomberg NEW YORK The theory that musical training stimulates growth in the brain’s language centre has got a leg-up from a new study which says that music lessons improve children’s verbal skills. “The more music training during childhood, the better the verbal memory,” wrote
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    • 129 30 QWhat is the health impact of salt that contains iodine? A Salt containing iodine, called iodised salt, is a means of providing iodine to people prone to iodine deficiency. lodine is an essential mineral for maintaining healthy thyroid function. lodine deficiency is not a public health concern in
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  • Thursday Tech
    • Article, Illustration
      724 34  -  By RADHABASU Computer Times With a plethora of locally-produced software that is accessible even to the less affluent, e-leaming has finally gained mass market appeal among Singapore’s schoolchildren SHE can tell you what an oxymoron is, speaks in clipped tones that sound faintly British and can navigate the
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    • 618 36  -  By GEOFFREY PEREIRA The Straits Times Digital cameras with a powerful zoom lens can cost a bomb. But, there are bino-cams, which combine two devices into one and do a decent enough job for a fraction of the price SEVERAL years ago, I hunted for months for an
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  • EasyStreats weekender
    • 843 40  -  He brought |j pole-dancing I and women’s 1 Muay Thai to the heartlands. Now, Asia Pacific Breweries’brand managerforAßC Extra Stout and Baron’s Strong Brew, Mr Kelvin Tan, is spicing up army life by using bikini-clad models to entice our NS i lads to a party A on
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    • eating out
      • 761 42  -  By Gregory Leow IT moved to Holland Village early last year, but the only thing that has changed about Fosters is the location. Its English Rose Cafe features the same food and decor since it started in 1957. Its menu is similar to the sprinkling of old-style
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      • 575 43  -  By JillLim ONE simple mark of a good meal is when you’re scraping your plate clean despite being foil. And that pretty much summed up my recent experience at Original Sin, Mediterranean vegetarian restaurant and oldtimer at Chip Bee Gardens. For example, the pommodoro ($l2) I started with
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    • going out
      • 149 44 IT’S all seriousness with Toy Factory Theatre it Ensemble’s current play, Bent. American playwright Martin Sherman’s work, first j performed in London in 1979, is about the Nazi j persecution of I homosexuals in pre-war Fascist Germany, but it is also about a love affair within the
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      • 107 44 HEAD to the Esplanade’s waterfront for some free music this weekend. Tomorrow, catch SingaporeanMalaysian musicians Paul Ponnudorai Friends, featuring Ponnudorai on guitar, Robert Nalin on drum and Ignatinus Bong on bass, playing a mix of blues, jazz, funk and rock roll. On Saturday, be enthralled by jazz from
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      • 456 47  -  By GREGORY LEOW BAD BOYS 2 Starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence Directed by Michael Bay ©o®®® THERE is something that wells up inside of you when you watch a glaringly obvious movie: You start to take pity on it. Similar feelings started growing inside me
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    • staying in
      • 281 48  -  DVDs by JillLim FUNNY FACE 000^0 REVIEW ROMANCE, glamour and fashion, Americans in Paris, and songs by George and Ira Gershwin if this isn’t a 1950s old-style movie, I don’t know what is. At first glance you might think it is a May-December type of story: Audrey
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      • 235 48  -  VCDs by Elsie Ch’ng AT THE DOLPHIN BAY ***** REVIEW AFTER the huge success of Taiwanese drama MVP Valentine, sweet-as-honey Angela Chang Shao-han looks set to be the next big thing with her role in At The Dolphin Bay, an eight-disc Taiwanese serial. She plays orphan Yi
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      • 606 50  -  11 f f BE +JT it y f By ChuaKongHo BOOK REVIEW WHEN I was browsing at a bookstore, this handy-sized book by Siobhan Adcock caught my eye. With less than three years left till I hit the big “3-0”, I couldn’t resist flipping the pages,
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        42 51 ARTS IN THE CITY Tomorrow, lpm Raffles City Shopping Centre, City Square, Level 1 Free Experience Swiss culture with the famous Alphom Ensemble Engiadina St Moritz Show Band and Swiss Kiwi Yodel Group, which will perform all-time favourite traditional Swiss tunes.
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      • 72 51 REGINE VELASQUEZ Sunday, 3pm Fort Canning Park Tickets at $3O ($37 at the gate) from Ticket Charge Find out why Regine was voted the favourite Philippines artist at this year’s MTV Asia Awards. Since her debut in 1987, she has had a string of hit singles and platinum albums,
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    • 315 52 AP NEW YORK Tim Howard (above) is about to notice the difference. He spent four-and-a-half seasons in Major League Soccer, playing mostly in front of small crowds on a circuit still building its reputation in the United States. The goalkeeper makes his debut for
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      518 53  -  Flourishing business doesn’t stop Tan from working hard on the soccer field S-League savw By TAN KIM HAN TAN Kim Leng (right) is a busy man. His cellphone rings almost every five minutes. That is only to be expected, as the Tampines Rovers midfielder is also a successful
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    • 110 53 JURONG V YOUNG LIONS 1X2 Jurong 1.33 Draw 4.10 Young Lions 7.50 1/2 GOAL Jurong (-11/2 goals) 1.85 Young Lions (+11/2 goals) 1.80 TOTAL GOALS 0 goal 9.90 1 goal 4.70 2 goals 3.90 3 goals 4.00 4 goals 4.80 5 goals 7.70 6 goals 13.00 7 goals
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    • 248 53 TONIGHT: Tampines v Geylang United (Tampines Std) Team news: Tampines no injuries; Geylang Shahri Rahim out Team progress (last 6 league matches): Tampines WLWLWW; Geylang LWWWLW This season: Geylang 1 Tampines 0 Verdict: Tampines 1 Geylang 1 Jurong FC v Young Lions (Jurong East Std) Team news: Jurong
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    • 470 54 Langer’s credentials as a professional make his job as Ryder Cup captain easier Reuters LONDON In virtually every respect, Bernhard Langer’s (below) appointment as European Ryder Cup captain for next year could hardly be better timed. The 45-year-old German, a veteran of 10 Ryder Cups, is a
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    • 247 54 AP GRAND BLANC, Michigan In less than two weeks, Ben Curtis (below) has gone from an unknown rookie on the PGA Tour to someone famous enough for invitations to meet the US president and appear on national television talk shows. That’s what an improbable victory
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      610 55  -  New junior soccer league to pit local boys against foreigners By Lim Han Ming ALOYSIUS RAGOONATHAN is a fleet-footed right flanker who usually leaves defenders in his wake. But the nippy Greenridge Secondary School winger will have to step up a gear if he hopes to get past
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    • 89 55 BADMINTON AFP BIRMINGHAM, England Singapore’s Ronald Susilo yesterday produced a great comeback against unseeded Peter Rasmussen, one of the most dangerous floaters at the World Championships. Susilo’s 8-15, 15-13, 15-5 win ended the Dane’s hopes of winning back the world title he sensationally won six years
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    • 87 55 SOCCER SENGKANG Marine coach Trevor Morgan quit the club yesterday. The decision to leave was “mutual”. The Englishman is believed to have been frustrated by the lack of resources at the struggling club. Despite that, he led the club to the Singapore Cup semi-finals last year. Former
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    • 60 55 IN THE LIVING ROOM GENERAL: Sports News: Sportscenter Asia (ESPN Ch 23, Bpm). GOLF: USPGA Tour Buick Open, Ist rd (Star Sports Ch 24, tomorrow, 4am). SOCCER: Champions World: Barcelona v AC Milan (Channel 5, Bam). DELAYED TELECAST GOLF: European Tour Weekly (Super Sports Ch 22, 10.30 pm). European Tour
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