Streats, 7 August 2003

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  • 11 1 Streats THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com. sg mita <p> 111/03/2003
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  • 519 1  -  Indon business will go on, says S’pore entrepreneur whose staff were hurt jolcr By Kkushwant Singh AFTER recovering from the shock discovery that two of his Singapore workers were injured in the bomb blast at JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta on Tuesday, Mr Peter Knipp vowed
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    • 26 1 ‘I SAW A FIREBALL RUSHING AT ME’ page 4 ‘WE’RE NOT PULLING OUT OUR INVESTMENTS’ page e ‘I’M RETHINKING MY PLAN TO MOVE BACK’ page s
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  • Morning Rush
    • 340 2  -  School’s claims on website inconsistent: newspaper By Chug Kong Ho AN Australian college accused of peddling worthless degrees has plans to set up shop in Singapore. Perth-based West Coast Institute of Management and Technology (WCIMT) was accused by an Australian newspaper of not being
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    • 213 2 IT will be a magical night at the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall this Friday. For the first time, the villa will be lit up on the eve of National Day and its gates will remain open from 6pm to 10pm. Visitors to the memorial
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    • 423 3  -  Veteran musician beats 14 nominees to be named Berita Hariaris Achiever of the Year By Zubaidah Nazeer MUSIC has saturated the life of Mr Iskandar Mirza Ismail, 47, since he was eight years old. His passion for music has seen him working with Hong Kong
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    • 131 10 BUZZSTOP ALTHOUGH it costs more than double, most drivers here opt for comprehensive car insurance rather than the one required by law, third-party insurance. The difference is that the former covers damage or loss to the vehicle as well as
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    • 43 10 Drawings celebrating National Day decorate a wall on the third level of the Esplanade. The mural, Many Dreams, One Singapore, is the handiwork of students from Commonwealth Secondary School, mostly from Secondary 1. Edwin Koo Edwin Koo Edwin Koo
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    • 158 10 9 Insurance premiums INSURANCE cooperative NTUC Income is likely to restore half the bonus cut it implemented last year. Income chief executive Tan Kin Lian told The Straits Times that results for the whole of this year are “likely to support a full restoration” of
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    • 151 10 9 Days of bargains numbered INTEREST rates in Singapore seem to have bottomed out and are now rising again which also means that the days of very competitive home loan packages are over, reports The Straits Times today. The three-month interbank rate rebounded about 25
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    • 140 10 9 Heavy fate OVERWEIGHT drivers are more than twice as likely to die or be seriously injured in road accidents than those who are thin, new research says. The BBC reported yesterday that a study in Seattle, Washington, of 26,000 people involved in car accidents
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    • 93 10 STARHUB Cable Vision yesterday began tackling the illegal use of decoders to view its pay-TV channels for free. As of 6pm yesterday, anyone using such decoders which cost between $2OO and $6OO to “unscramble” the TV signals would have received only a distorted image on popular channels
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    • 101 10 Reuters JAPAN’S finance minister yesterday proposed packing off his country’s growing army of pensioners to Philippine nursing homes. Mr Masajuro Shiokawa, a sprightly 81, said that his plan was a two-in-one cure for the strains on Japan’s medical system from its greying population and for high
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    • 93 10 SEX in the heat is not for the weak of heart, an Austrian doctor has warned. As much of Europe simmers through an exceptionally hot summer, Dr Norbert Bachl of the Vienna Institute of medicine and sport, warned that passionate overexertion in the scorching heat could
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    • 105 10 AFP A SWEDISH bus driver wore a skirt after his request to work in shorts in the summer heat was turned down, local media reported yesterday. Mr Mats Lundgren, in the northern town of Umea, asked for permission to drive his vehicle in shorts as
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  • JAKARTA JOLD
    • 604 4 HALF-EATEN meals, tom limbs and pieces of burnt skin. The scene of Tuesday’s blast in Jakarta was straight out of a nightmare. “In front of my eyes people were mnning everywhere. I could see people with melting skin,” Lia, a waitress at the Chianthi
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    • 317 6  -  By Chua Kong Ho SINGAPORE’S big investors are staying put in Indonesia despite the second major bombing of civilian targets there in the space of 12 months. Tuesday’s terrorist bombing of the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta killed 10 people and injured 150. Singapore is
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    • 443 6  -  Evacuation planned in 45 minutes By Pradeep Rajan WHEN CNN flashed the first pictures of Jakarta’s bombedout JW Marriott hotel on Tuesday afternoon, Mr Grand Brown (pictured) immediately made arrangements in 45 minutes to evacuate some of the casualties to Singapore. The security
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    • Article, Illustration
      69 8 May be or may be not Yesterday, Indonesian police released a sketch of the last owner of the Toyota Kijang that was used in the attack on Jakarta’s Marriott hotel. But they did not say whether he was a suspect in the blast The man was described
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    • 585 8  -  ?2L Zubaidah Nazeer MS Diyanthi Scott’s sense of security is shaken. The 34-year-old Indonesian, married to an American, is now re-thinking plans about leaving their New York home and settling in Jakarta after Tuesday’s bomb blast there. After more than 20 years in New
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    • 84 8 SINGAPORE The Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (Muis) has strongly condemned the Jakarta blast, calling it a barbaric act. When asked about the Jakarta bombing incident at Muis’ National Day Observance Ceremony yesterday, vice-president Alami Musa said: “I am outraged by the barbarity of the bombing. I am
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    • 76 8 DENPASAR Accused Bali bombing mastermind Imam Samudra said that he was happy about the explosion, especially if the victims had been Jewish, The Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday. Called on to testify at the trial of a co-accused in the Bali bombings, Samudra, 33, said in Bahasa Indonesia
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    • 99 8 AP JAKARTA Police said yesterday that they seized documents last month showing that terrorists had planned to target the area around the Marriott Hotel. “There was a warning that there were some targets and we have been anticipating an attack,” Jakarta police spokesman Prasetyo said. He
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    • 85 8 Reuters JAKARTA One of the most influential Muslim clerics in Indonesia called yesterday for tough action against the bombers, but said hard evidence was needed before blaming the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror group. Mr Ahmad Syafii Maarif, chairman of the moderate 30-million-strong Muhammadiyah, said: “We have to
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  • Financial
    • 590 13  -  Head of engineering firm Tee International strongly believes in overseas expansion but at a pace his company can cope with f 1 Focus] This is the first of a new series on the people behind Sesdaq-listed companies By Choong Choon Yee TEE International group chief
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    • 300 13 Bloomberg COLOMBO Sri Lanka’s only stock exchange plans to tie up with Singapore Exchange Ltd to allow companies listed in Colombo to trade in Singapore. Mr Hiran Mendis, director-general of the Colombo Stock Exchange, left for Singapore yesterday to discuss the plan with officials
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    • 537 14 Investors pleased with performance of Aussie acquisition Bloomberg SINGAPORE Mr Frank Xuereb switched to Optus, owned by Singapore’s biggest phone company, from Telstra Corp after he dropped his cellphone overboard while fishing a month ago. “I got a bit fed up with Telstra,” said Mr Xuereb,
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    • 85 14 AFP SINGAPORE Singapore Post said yesterday that earnings during its first quarter to June slipped nearly 12 per cent as Sars dampened the economy, but forecast that its performance will pick up in the three months to September. It said that first quarter net
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    • 85 14 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Creative Technology Ltd, which just wrapped up a year in which sales were the lowest since 1994, said that it will start manufacturing and designing products for other electronics makers to help return to growth. Creative Technology laid out its new plans when it announced
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    • 96 14 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Cheung Kong (Holdings) raised HK$9O6 million (Ss2os million) by selling shares in its property trust at HK54.75 each after getting orders 3.7 times the shares on offer. The developer priced the trust at the top end of its marketing range and sold 190.8 million shares,
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    • 76 14 AFP WASHINGTON The US services sector unexpectedly revved up to the fastest pace in at least six years in July, an industry survey showed on Tuesday. The Institute for Supply Management said that its index of non-manufacturing activity, based on a survey, rose to a record
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    • 464 17 Chief executive Tachikawa unveils new handsets, cuts call rates as growth slows Bloomberg TOKYO NTT DoCoMo chief executive Keiji Tachikawa (pictured) released new handsets, cut call rates, unveiled a new global roaming service and expanded outside Japan by offering Web technology in Italy all in
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    • 407 18 It hopes to offer deposits to citizens abroad to cut bond obligitions Bloomberg MUMBAI Indians living overseas may be able to hold deposits in the State Bank of India. The bank, in a bid to retain more than a third of the US$5.5 billion (559.7 billion)
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    • 143 18 Bloomberg NEWARK, New Jersey A former Qwest Communications International executive, accused of fabricating US$33 million (SssB million) in revenue, is claiming that company attorneys violated his rights during an internal investigation before he was indicted. Mr Grant Graham, former chief financial officer of Qwest’s global business
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    • 432 20 Attention to the details is the key to successful products ■AFP TOKYO Japan’s worldrenowned manufacturing industry owes a lot to people who devote themselves to the point of obsession to one special area such as a scientist who counts the number of eyelashes to develop
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    • 401 22 STI: 1,510-18 1.49 Reuters THE key share index snapped a six-day losing streak to end higher yesterday as investors bought blue chips such as OCBC Bank. But Wall Street losses hit sentiment in a market already cautious after Tuesday’s blast in Jakarta. But dealers said
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    • 24 22 AS AT AUGUST 6 US$: 551.762 552.848 EURO: 552.010 Ss: 68.06 YEN Ss: RM2.156 Ss: HK54.425 Ss: 23.88 BAHT Ss: 4,871 RUPIAH
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  • Comment
    • 700 24  -  By PETER SIOW THREE of my friends died recently. Two of them Pang Ah Lek and Albert Johnson were former colleagues who had retired some years ago. They were in their 60s. Truth be told, it was a case of “out of sight, out of
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  • Vocal
    • 455 26 MS Jinin Cheong’s commentary, “We only dare to dream” (Streats, Aug 5, inset), was spot on. The Singapore dream of the 5Cs is so ingrained in us 20-somethings that choosing a well-paying job over personal goals has become our society’s norm. I consciously decided
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    • 243 26 WE refer to Mr Lim Boon Hee’s letter, “High costs, red tape will force businesses to leave” (Streats, July 24). We would like to assure Mr Lim that the Government takes red-tape issues seriously and has initiated multiple mechanisms, including the Pro-Enterprise Panel (PEP)
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    • 39 26 IN our report, “1 in 3 guards fails test” (Streats, Aug 6), we wrongly described ST Microelectronics as a US semiconductor manufacturer. The company has European roots and is based in Geneva. We are sorry for the error.
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    • 469 28 WE refer to Mr Peter Siow’s commentary, “Change for better or worse?” (Streats, July 25). The Central Provident Fund Board began providing cost-effective, non-stop convenient electronic services to its members 15 years ago when it introduced the CPF PAL-Phone service. Since then, every CPF member has
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    • 152 28 I REFER to the letter, “NDP preview a letdown” (Streats, Aug 6), by Yong Mei Leng. I was also one of those spectators in the green zone on July 26 who did not get the goodie bags as well. There was indeed quite a long wait
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    • 82 26 E-maii us at streats@spli.coiii.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. We reserve the right to edit your letters for brevity and clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be deemed that you
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    • 786 27 *2 ocn> Mayor Heng Chee How, Council Members and TRUST Central Members of the Central Singapore Community Development Council (CDC), would like to wish all residents a very happy 38th National Day! Let's celebrate our nation's 38th birthday together! Join us in our National Day Observance Ceremony on 23 August
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  • Global
    • 323 31 If elected as governor, she will tax breast implants AFP LOS ANGELES -A US pom star is campaigning to join an increasingly wacky race for the governorship of California, pledging to make lap dances tax deductible and to swap guns for smut if elected. On Tuesday,
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    • Article, Illustration
      50 31 If you want legs like these, get your hands on the latest Japanese invention, Air Stocking, a waterproof cosmetic for legs that works wonders as these models demonstrate. A combination of micro-fine silk particles and a cosmetics foundation, the Nissin Medico product retails at 1,600 yen (Ss23) Reuters
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    • 175 31 Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON The George W Bush administration’s approach to global hot spots in the next 18 months is likely to be in striking contrast to its muscular solutions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Barring another major 9/11-type attack, several
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    • 320 33 Former Pakistani PM gets 6 months for laundering sl9m AP ISLAMABAD Self-exiled former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and her jailed husband are likely to file an appeal against a six-month suspended prison sentence for laundering US$ll million (S$ 19.41 million) through Swiss bank
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    • 288 33 AP MOSCOW An International Space Station cosmonaut is going ahead with plans to get married while in orbit. Mr Yuri Malenchenko says he is ignoring officials’ advice to wait until his return to earth. He will not be present at the wedding, to
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    • 330 36 -AFP LOS ANGELES A US language fanatic has got linguistic purists hot under the collar by launching a drive to teach Japanese people who are planning to visit the US the intricacies of slang. Hollywood native David Burke is about to launch a book
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    • 247 36 Men, women sign up for boxing matches -AP TAIPEI It’s after midnight, and the stink of sweat mingles with the smell of cigarette smoke and spilled beer as two men slug it out in a cramped basement bar crowded with cheering and jeering
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    • 352 38 Church-goer regrets description of gay clergyman’s actions used in complaint AP MANCHESTER, Vermont The man who accused the Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop of inappropriately touching him regrets using the. word “harassment” in his e-mailed allegation, according to a church report. Mr David Lewis
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  • Medical
    • 338 40 Study shows it may cut second-hand smoke damage Reuters WASHINGTON Vitamin C may help prevent the damage caused by second-hand tobacco smoke, offering a way for people to protect themselves from smokers in their lives, US researchers said on Tuesday. A small study of 67 non-smokers exposed
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    • 168 40 QCan a recovering stroke patient take ginkgo supplements when he is also taking aspirin and statin for high cholesterol? A Ginkgo biloba contains a potent blood thinning compound called ginkgolide. Ginkgo is generally a safe herbal medicine. However, there are case reports of Ginkgo use associated with bleeding
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  • Thursday Tech
    • 695 42  -  By ALFRED SIEW Computer Times THE days of the humble beige box that sits quietly under the desk may be numbered. After years of being a big brother to relatively under-powered notebooks, desktop PCs now see their advantage in terms of computing muscle and
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    • 680 44  -  ylzV Supply passe? Not judging by tickets salesfor their concert this Sunday while the band members themselves say that they haven’t even reached their peak yet By_ Gary Lim ONE is 54 years old, the other 53. Together, Russell Hitchcock (right) and Graham Russell are known
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      • 110 44 FORT Canning sees the return of the popular Ballet Under The Stars by the Singapore Dance Theatre, this weekend and the next, from Friday to Sunday. Tomorrow and Sunday, the company will stage Impromptu and Graduation Ball, while Saturday’s programme is Paquita and Graduation Ball. You
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      • 98 44 IT’S Brazilian party time this Friday, 6pm to dawn, at Maholo Beach Bar in Big Splash, East Coast Parkway. Samba music, Brazilian beer and Brazilian dishes will be served at the party, which is based on the Festa do Canecao, a traditional Brazilian beer party. There will
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      • 573 46 The Singaporean who became famous with his sandcastles is back with a book to encourage others to follow their dreams GREGORYLEOW reports ALVIN Lee became famous in the late 1990 s for building spectacular castles out of sand and creating a sandcastle building kit
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      • 506 49  -  By YVONNE KWOK HOMERUN Starring Shawn Lee, Megan Zheng, Huang Wenyong, Xiang Yun and Joshua Ang Directed by Jack Neo ©oo®® IF there is one man in Singapore who knows exactly what strings to pull with the heartlanders, it’s Jack Neo. Call his latest movie, Homerun,
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      • 531 52  -  A la m i By. Amy Van IF you are in search of a finedining French restaurant but do not want to sear a hole in your pocket, here’s an idea. Head to the new Les Saisons restaurant at Central Mall. It took over the space that
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      • 277 54 SCHOOL TIES ©o©€>® DVDs by Jill Lim REVIEW IN this effective and at times moving film about a prep school boys, set in the *****, a young Brendan Fraser plays David Greene, a workingtown poor boy who manages to get to a highend prep boarding school for
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      • 271 54 PYTHONS 2 ©o®®® VCDs by Deepa Vijayasingam REVIEW THE best thing about this movie is that it’s short. I have a real problem with action movies that stretch too long (think Bad Boys 2). I mean, there is just so much mindless action a person
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      • 574 56  -  By Gregory Leow WHAT makes Alvin Lee’s book different from dozens of motivational books in the stores is that it is able to sympathise with the audience he is targeting. f There is nothing like being able to relate to someone who is in
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    • 83 57 Qe Singapore weatherman as confirmed that July Ns wet, with more than t Nf of Singapore recording* rain, the National Agency said. The west received the (340mm-370mm), per cent above Rainfall decreased the north-east and with the lowest '^mm- 125mm), per below average, around Woodlands and
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      • 46 57 9pm, Channel U Yaodong pleads with Yingtong and Ganyuan for forgiveness. But he then suddenly calls a press conference and accuses them of cheating him of his feelings and his restaurant, causing a furore. When Yingtong confronts him, he kidnaps her.
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      • 62 57 ®prn, Channel i Mien a famed egyptologist is found in a with his right arm savagely tom off, jjis daughter and her friend attempt to solve e mystery of Queen Tera, the ancient he has hidden in the house, who may aav e awaken
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        53 57 MUSICAL PORTRAITS Tomorrow, 7.30 pm Singapore Conference Hall Tickets at $lO (from Siglap South Community Centre or download a hooking form at www.siglapsouthcc.org.sg) Celebrate 10 years of music-making with Siglap South Community Centre’s Audio Image. Highlights of their repertoire are works by Philip Sparke, Norman Dello Joio, Masamicz Amano
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      • 70 57 DOME LITERARY READINGS Dome Cafe, University Cultural Centre (Kent Ridge Crescent) Tomorrow, lpm Free Established writers Wong Phui Nam, Rex Shelley, Goh Sin Tub, Stella Kon, Ovidia Yu (with actress Norleena Salim), Grace Chia, Oliver Seet as well as newer talents Megan Ng and Valarie Tan give readings of
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  • Page 57 Miscellaneous
    • 460 57 Vourdailyhoroscope jP AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com Aquarius is one of the lucky °nes. Love is a force that e *pands your world. Ignore People’s titles and refer to them b >' name. Your face is a map of a U the happiness you’ve seen. GEMINI
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  • Sports
    • 629 58 Ranieri will have to turn the Argentine into a Premiership player Wire services LONDON Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri will have to succeed where manager Alex Ferguson failed. With Manchester United accepting a £l5 million (Ss42 million) Chelsea bid for Juan Sebastian Veron, Ranieri will have to ensure
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    • 419 58 Wire services MANCHESTER In little over a month, Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has spent £58.6 million (S$ 166.8 million) on new players. But Abramovich admitted that he would not be surprised if his new charges fail to win anything this seas< He told
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      650 61 At Chelsea, midfielder Joe Cole can look forward to playing in the Champions League Wire services LONDON Joe Cole (right) has insisted that he had no choice but to leave West Ham, because he wanted to take his career to another level. The 21-year-old has agreed
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    • 238 61 Wire services k*ANCHESTER Manchester City jhanager Kevin Keegan is backing Chinese international defender Sun Jihai his first-choice right-back this season. Keegan searched for a specialised j)ĕht-back during the close season, but e need to strengthen the midfield meant spent the transfer kitty elsewhere. Said
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      465 63 Desire to succeed sets Ferguson and Wenger apart from other managers Wire services LONDON Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson (left) and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger (right) are set to renew their rivalry when the Community Shield kicks off on Sunday at Cardiff. The game itself may
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      451 65  -  Work commitments leave Geylang official with little time for the club By Tan Kim Han K. SEAK Poh Leong (below), Geylang United’s director of football, may step down next season. He is one of the longest-serving officials at the eastern-based club, having joined them in 1997. The
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      63 65 Tanjong Pagar United striker Fadzuhasny Juraimi (left) winning the ball from Jurong FC r s Zorkenan Yahya at the Jurong East Stadium last night. But it was Jurong who claimed full points with a 6-2 thrashing, thanks to four-goal hero Fabio Veloso. In the other match at the
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      494 67 Beem seeks to raise level ahead of USPGA title defence Wire services CASTLE ROCK, Colorado Rich Beem (below) will test his big-hitting, aggressive game before his defence of the US PGA Championship next Thursday, when he tees off at The International today. Beem hit an amazing run of
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    • 312 67 -AP EAGLE, Colorado Kobe Bryant was expected to arrive here yesterday for the first court hearing in his sexual assault case. The case has sparked a media frenzy in this otherwise sleepy mountain town. Bryant will jet into a nearby airport, spend about 10 minutes
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    • FOOTBALL
      • 78 67 Reuters NEWCASTLE Alan Shearer turned on the style with two expertly taken goals as the English Premier League club drew 2-2 with German champions Bayern Munich in a friendly at St James’ Park on Tuesday. Midfielder Lee Bowyer received a rapturous welcome on his home debut, but it
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      • 122 67 -AFP TOKYO David Beckham may have proven his worth by scoring his first goal for Real Madrid in an exhibition match here. But the 28-year-old England captain was ranked only fourth by Japanese women among the all-star line-up of the Spanish champions in a popularity poll ahead
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    • 89 67 ATHLETICS AP STOCKHOLM World record-holder Tim Montgomery finished second-to-last in a 100 m race won by fellow American Justin Gatlin at the DN Galan meet on Tuesday. Montgomery, competing after a sixweek break, was sixth in 10.37 seconds. He barely made the final, placing fourth in
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  • Page 67 Miscellaneous
    • 53 67 IN THE LIVING ROOM GENERAL Sports News: Sportscenter Asia (ESPN Ch 23, Bpm). GOLF: PGA The International Castle Rock, Ist rd (Star Sports Ch 24, tomorrow, 4am). TENNIS: Masters Series, Montreal 2nd round (7am). Last 16 (11pm; tomorrow, lam and 7.30 am) Star Sports Ch 24. Last 16 (ESPN Ch
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