Streats, 10 December 2003

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    10 3 Streats WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita (p) m/03/2003
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    Lock icon From Singapore Girl to Tiger Airways
    266 3  -  By Chug Kong Ho SINGAPORE Airlines has roped in the people behind Europe’s most successful budget airline as partners in its stab at the no-frills carrier business. It announced yesterday that it was setting up Tiger Airways, together with Irelandia Investments, the family investment
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    Lock icon Crocs in court
    573 3  -  Lacoste, Crocodile in Shanghai showdown over reptile logos By Choong Choon Yee TWO clothing makers that share a similar logo on their products are bound to get entangled in trademark tussles. And so this has come to pass on several occasions over the past 40 years between
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  • Morning Rush
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      Lock icon Battleground: Changi
      553 4  -  By_ Chua Kong Ho MR CHEW Choon Seng’s style of dressing yesterday said it all. For the unveiling of SlA’s new budget airline, Tiger Airways, the SIA chief executive appeared in an informal roundnecked T-shirt specially printed with the old Malayan Airways tiger motif. The onlooker could not
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      Lock icon ‘Cops ignored early signs of killing spree’
      334 5 7 tricked the victim, I played the “wooden horse” game... or tricked them with money. Then when I tricked them to get on the horse, I would use a strip of white cloth to strangle them. Then I cut up the bodies.’ Serial
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      Lock icon Preventing a Marriott-type attack here
      379 6  -  Hotel body updates guide to include anti-terror measures Zubaidah Nazeer REMEMBERING to lock your room when you retire or keeping your valuables in a safe is just not enough to feel secure during a hotel stay nowadays. To make sure guests are safe, the hotel
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      Lock icon Judge ticks off witness again
      193 6 THE second day of the hearing involving a spat between two neighbours in Adis Villa condominium began in a magistrate’s court the same way it had ended on Monday. Mrs Kwee Lian Kofod, 74, got another ticking off from the bench, The Straits Times reports
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      Lock icon Banker builds bond with Thai villagers
      236 8  -  By Zubaidah Nazeer BANK project manager Ng Wai Sen, 29, has developed a special empathy for construction workers. She was one herself recently and she now knows how tough the job is. Ms Ng donned a straw hat, wore gloves, old slacks and a
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      Lock icon Students grill Tharman
      193 8  -  By Sarah Ng THEIR questions were sharp and insightful. And they asked them with the confidence of seasoned journalists. So much so that Acting Minister for Education Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who was grilled for about an hour, said afterwards: “They were quite good and they were not afraid
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      Lock icon Sale of land still suspended, but 17 reserve sites may be made available
      132 10 BUZZSTOP THE Government will continue to suspend land sales till the first half of next year, the Ministry of National Development announced yesterday. This was because the property market needed time to recover despite brighter economic prospects.
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      Lock icon MOSCOW CARNAGE
      66 10 A Moscow police bomb squad member checking bodies at the site of a car bomb explosion in the city yesterday. A Mercedes sedan exploded outside the National Hotel, across the Red Square, killing at least five people. However, it was unclear whether the blast, set off by a
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      Lock icon Analysts upbeat on economy
      133 10 2004 growth seen exceeding forecasts PRIVATE-SECTOR analysts expect Singapore’s economy to grow more than the official forecast next year, but they said the risk of a Sars outbreak, a terrorist attack or weaker growth in key export markets could undermine the outlook. The Monetary Authority of
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      Lock icon New perm secs appointed
      131 10 Civil service reshuffle IN a slew of new appointments, several ministries will soon have a new generation of permanent secretaries on board. Mr Tan Yong Soon, 48, chief executive officer of the Urban Redevelopment Authority, will be the acting permanent secretary in the Environment Ministry. The
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      Lock icon Verdict could be out on Dec 30
      154 10 Shankar trial DEFENCE lawyer Subhas Anandan and deputy public prosecutor David Khoo, involved in the recently-concluded Shankar molest trial, handed in their written submissions yesterday to District Judge Victor Yeo. The tentative date for the verdict is Dec 30. Former TV presenter Vidya
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      Lock icon Jaya down with fever
      120 10 MINISTER for Law and Foreign Affairs S Jayakumar, who had a fever on arriving in London from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Nigeria on Monday, will remain in the city for further medical tests. A Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman, responding to media queries, said:
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      Lock icon Gallup opens campus here
      88 10 AFP THE US-based Gallup Organisation opened its first Asian university campus yesterday in Singapore to cater to the region’s growing demand for middle to higher level corporate executive training. The Singapore centre is Gallup’s first outside the United States, where it already has three campuses. Its
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      Lock icon Taikonaut’s off limits
      90 10 AFP CHINA’S first man in space has found his picture on playing cards, calendars and advertisements, but the country’s space officials now plan to put a stop to people cashing in on his fame, state media said yesterday. They have registered the portrait, name and signature of
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      Lock icon Hooker wins $1m
      100 10 A CALLGIRL called the shots on the German Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Ananova reported yesterday. Ms Claudia Drexelius, 40, won 500,000 euros (Ssl million), the highest amount this year on the show. But the 10 million people who watched the show included some of her
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  • Financial
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      Lock icon Relief for China workers
      539 12  -  After moneychanger debacle, ICBC offers safer way to send money home By Chua Kong Ho CHINESE nationals working in Singapore can now send money back home with peace of mind with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) setting up its first remittance centre at
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      Lock icon CapitaMall Trust makes $60m cash call
      316 12  -  By Janice Wong CAPITAMALL Trust (CMT), Singapore’s first listed property trust, is raising about $6O million from the sale of new units to buy a stake in a Capita Land retail property fund. It is issuing 45 million new units at $1.33 each, 22
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      Lock icon Keppel’s $110m deals
      103 12 AFP SINGAPORE Singapore conglomerate Keppel Corp said yesterday that it has secured various shipping contracts worth $llO million through its offshore and marine units. Keppel Shipyard will convert a tanker for oil transporter Teekay Shipping Corp and Keppel Singmarine will build two 70-tonne anchor handling tug/supply vessels
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      Lock icon YHI raises $16.1m
      55 12 SINGAPORE SGX mainboard-listed YHI International yesterday announced that it has raised $16.1 million via a share placement to fund its expansion into China. Its 15 million shares were snapped up at $1,095 each by major institutional investors, the tyre and wheel maker said in a statement. The
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      Lock icon TPV Q3: Profit up 27%
      79 12 Reuters HONG KONG The world’s No 2 computer monitor maker, TPV Technology, yesterday posted a 27 per cent rise in third-quarter profit, trailing a larger jump in revenue as stiff competition eroded margins. TPV, which is listed in Singapore and Hong Kong, reported a net
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      Lock icon Thais shoot for top 5
      95 12 AFP BANGKOK Thailand is aiming to become one of the world’s top-five investment destinations, its Board of Investment (BOI) said yesterday after a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusriptak. Mr Somkid did not specify a time frame for the ambitious goal to be achieved
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      Lock icon Calling private bankers
      443 14 Top executives being poached as US, European banks target growing number of rich Asians Reuters SINGAPORE Mr James Rushworth, a headhunter with Michael Page, greets with a touch of frustration the opportunities created by European and US banks making a beeline for Asia to tap the world’s
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      Lock icon Court favours Victor Li
      519 17 But New York rival Cerberus given chance to beat his ssoom offer for Air Canada Reuters TORONTO A Canadian court gave Hong Kong-based businessman Victor Li a leading position in the financial rescue of Air Canada on Monday, but it also gave New York buyout firm
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      Lock icon 'Allow foreign investment in India’s aviation’
      228 17 AFP NEW DELHI A high-powered aviation committee appointed by the Indian government on Monday recommended that foreign airlines be allowed to invest up to 49 per cent equity in the country’s aviation sector. The government has in the past disallowed equity holdings by a
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      Lock icon STI: 1,711.36 ▼7.97
      192 18 RISES Ranked by Stocks Closing L&M lc 1.5 50.0 El-Nets lc 3 20.0 GMG Global 5c 4 14.3 Kian Ann W*****7 5.5 10.0 Heshe Hldgs25c 6.5 8.3 ChinaMotionTel HK75c 13.5 8.0 Hor Kew 5c 7 7.7 Rotary EngglOc 49.5 7.6 Mayfran 15c 7.5 7.1 AddvalTech 2.5c 15.5
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      Lock icon FOREX RATES
      24 18 •AS AT DECEMBER 9 US$: 551.711 552.973 EURO: 552.094 Ss: 62.63 YEN Ss: RM2.220 Ss: HK54.537 Ss: 23.29 BAHT Ss: 4,963 RUPIAH
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      Lock icon At 75, ‘The Pen’ is still going strong
      421 18 AFP HONG KONG -A survivor of colonial Asia now surrounded by the buzz of Asian modernity, Hong Kong’s Peninsula Hotel celebrates its 75 th birthday tomorrow, striving to maintain a once mythic reputation as the “finest hotel east of the Suez”. The
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  • Comment
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      Lock icon Rules are turning our kids into wimps
      773 20  -  By SEAH CHIANG NEE ON a Sunday morning, a family is walking along a path leading to a hawker centre when a cat saunters by. The terrified daughter, aged about 12, darts behind her mother and hangs on to her dress, refusing to
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  • Vocal
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      Lock icon Restrict speed of rookie drivers
      185 22 I WAS saddened to learn of last weekend’s accident in which a 19-year-old inexperienced driver in his father’s MercedesBenz car hit four tourists on the pavement at the junction of Orchard and Paterson roads. Someone who has recently passed the driving test can handle a
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      Lock icon SingPost let me down, twice
      205 22 I POSTED a letter for local delivery by ordinary mail on Nov 11, but the letter was returned to me on Nov 17 with a note which read: “Apt number not clear”. I noticed that Singapore Post had put its postmark over the apartment number.
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      Lock icon Tray return system on trial at Zion
      240 22 I REFER to the letters, “Stallholders commandeer tables” (Streats, Dec 2) by Mr Michael Loh and “Clear your own tables” (Streats, Dec 3) by Mr John Lim. We agree with Mr Lim that one should leave a clean table for the next person.
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      Lock icon Car finance firms must manage risk of default
      385 22 I REFER to Mr Leon Khoo’s letter, “Change law on PARF, COE rebates” (Streats, Dec 4, 2003). Under the Road Traffic Act (RTA), the registered owner of the vehicle is responsible for its proper disposal upon de-registration of the vehicle. Before any
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      85 22 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at streats@sph.com.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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      1820 23 21 Eight things you should know about credit and charge cards THE ASSOCIATION OF BANKS IN SINGAPORC This is the fifth of a 12-part series aimed at educating consumers to be more financially responsible for themselves and their families. This series is produced by the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE)
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  • Global
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      Lock icon 'We are starting work'
      417 24 KL says rail deal not finalised, but Syed Mokhtar’s firm all set Wire services KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s RM14.5 billion (556.5 billion) doubletrack rail plan is on schedule to start next month, with MMC-Gamuda leading the work, project partner Syed Mokhtar Albukhary (pictured) said on Monday. Talk
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      Lock icon M’sian minister takes feud to PM
      220 24 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Entrepreneur Development Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz is ready to meet Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi regarding the verbal spat between the former and Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) enforcement director Nordin Ismail. “I’m waiting for the call from the prime minister,” he told
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      Lock icon Tung critic wins key poll
      444 26 Some in pro-Beijing party want it to distance itself from Hong Kong government Reuters HONG KONG Mr Ma Lik, a critic of the Hong Kong government, was last night elected leader of the territory’s biggest pro-China party. Many members of the Democratic Alliance for Betterment
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      Lock icon Controversy is her shadow
      356 27 Fiery right-wing Hindu nun at centre of Ayodhya mosque row wins Indian state election NEW DELHI That a woman will become chief minister of India’s Madhya Pradesh state will raise few eyebrows in a country where women are no strangers to politics. But there might be
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      456 25 FOIJQWME presents Junction SPARKTACULAR with spectacular treats! £1 ft' a Follow Me to the Junction SPARKTACULAR Junction SPARKTACULAR, the new highlight in this year’s Christmas Light-Up located at the Heeren junction, is a delightful display of four captivating green and red spiral light sculptures with light and sound shows and
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      47 26 The exclusive Tiger Club Crawl is on the move. You, togethe'r with 5 of your best friends, are invited to join in the festivities, but only if you make the cut. With outrageous drinking games, cool tunes and great gift packs, this will be one funky bash.
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  • Medical
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      Lock icon Depression, stress tied to Alzheimer’s
      238 28 A NEW study on Alzheimer’s disease has both good news and bad news. The bad news is that people who suffer negative emotions such as depression and anxiety are at double the risk of developing the disease. The good news is that many of the
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      Lock icon HEALTH FORUM
      132 28 QHow can fresh aloe vera bought from the market be kept fresh for later use? A Rinse the fresh aloe vera thoroughly in a basin of tap water to remove any dirt, bacteria or chemical residues, and then soak it in a basin of fresh tap water for
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  • EasyStreats
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      Lock icon Shy Shawn
      548 30 HK actor Shawn Yue, who was in town to promote his first album, was notably tight-lipped at a press conference on Monday. GARYLIM reports IF Shawn Yue had his way, he would never have entered showbusiness. The 22-year-old Hong Kong actor and singer was at the Fullerton Hotel
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      Lock icon Sex, not art, says director
      135 30 THE film may be called Girl With A Pearl Earring, after the masterpiece by 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. But the story, inspired by a piece of art, is not about painting, says its director, Peter Webber, in a Sydney Morning Herald report today.
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      Lock icon Paltrow’s ‘secret wedding’
      53 30 BRITISH guitarist Chris Martin, 31, and US actress Gwyneth Paltrow, 26, have reportedly married in a secret, 10minute ceremony in California, reported Ananova.com yesterday. There were no friends or relatives there, according to The Sun. The couple are expecting a child next year. They flew to Mexico
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      Lock icon Digital Affairs
      112 30 HONG KONG blockbuster Infernal Affairs 3, which opens here today, will represent the first cross-border digital distribution of a film in the Asia-Pacific. It will be sent to Lido from Hong Kong, using SingTel’s Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) service. About 80 gigabytes of video data will be transmitted
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      107 33 Givenchy goes male and Brit FRENCH label Givenchy is gambling on the Brits again this time for its very first men’s ready-to-wear line. It has appointed British-born designer Ozwald Boateng (above), 36, as the creative director of Givenchy Homme. He joins another Briton there Welshman Julien Macdonald, the creative director
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      114 33 MORE than a decade after he became famous as Joseph in London’s West End, Australian actor Jason Donovan returns to the stage as Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The show has played to full houses since it opened 18 months ago, reported Ananova.com yesterday.
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      377 33 CELEBRITY friends are all very well. But despite having many of them and a celebrity father to boot Stella McCartney (above) seems to be sinking deeper in trouble. On the surface, her fashion label, the Gucci Group-owned Stella McCartney Limited, looked good. Her collection for
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      262 34 NOVELIST JM Coetzee, winner of this year’s Nobel Literature Prize, might have become an academic or a poet, he revealed in a TV interview in Sweden. He said: “If I had been bom 20 or 30 years later, I would probably have ended up studying
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      42 34 Japanese violinist Ikuko Kawai yesterday playing the world’s first glass violin, the Hario Violin. Made by Japanese glassware-maker Hario in Tokyo, the violin is of very thin, heat-resistant glass, weighs 1.38 kg and costs 5.5 million yen (5587,954 million). AFP
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      212 34 RUBEN Gonzalez, the Cuban pianist who made a late-career comeback with the famous Buena Vista Social Club, died in Havana on Monday at 84. The musician had been in failing health in recent years, wracked by arthritis and suffering memory loss, reported the LA Times. The
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      104 35 The Sheriff of Clark County, Nevada, will no longer write absentee notes asking bosses to excuse employees from work because of snow conditions. The Springfield News Sun said this week I that whenever he declared a snow emergency, his office got an avalanche of calls from
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        46 35 10.45 pm, Channel U Qiuhua’s odd behaviour suggests to Wencong and Yonghui that Tianfu and his wife must have visited, and bad-mouthed him. When Wencong is alone with Qiuhua, he tells her that he will make her pay for abandoning him 20 years ago
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        63 35 10pm, Central In 1975, as the Vietnam War was ending, thousands of orphans and Amerasian children were taken to the US in “Operation Babylift”. This movie is the story of one of them, Heidi Bub (aka Mai Thi Hiep), who is reunited with her Vietnamese mother after
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        46 35 WALK-UP TREE Until Dec 24, 10am-10pm HarhourFront Centre Free The $lOO,OOO tree is over 7m wide and three storeys high, with three decks for visitors to walk through. There will also be aquarium displays, puppet shows and elves who pop up and ask you riddles.
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        66 35 THE IDIOTS GAZE AGAIN Friday to Dec 20, llam-Bpm Alliance Francaise de Singapour Free Show by 10 Singapore artists, once classmates at art school, and who last exhibited together five years ago in a show called Gaze. Their offering this time is their own “warped logic” made visual, “a
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      109 35 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. www.ecitizen.gov.sg For Government services simply log-on to www.ecitizen.gov.sg Some of the government services online include: renewing your vehicle road tax paying parking fines (HDB,
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      456 35 Yourdaflyhoroscope w Jp AQUARIUS PISCES JAN2O-FEB 18 FEB 19-MAR2O Embrace a comfortable routine instead of trying to break out of it. These pesky details will save you from trouble one day. Earn your keep so that you can really quit when it’s quitting time. A simple act brings endless pleasure.
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      478 42 Henry winning battle to be fit for crunch Champions League game Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Arsenal v Lokomotiv Moscow LONDON Arsenal need to beat Lokomotiv Moscow tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) to reach the round of 16 in the Champions League. The stakes are high on the final
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      245 42 AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Bayern Munich vAnderlecht MUNICH German champions Bayern Munich face the biggest game of their season against Anderlecht tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). They need to beat the Belgian leaders to avoid another disastrous exit from the Champions League. Bayern were one
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      96 42 GOLF Reuters NEW YORK Tiger Woods was named US PGA Player of the Year for 2003 on Monday, the fifth straight season the American golfer has claimed the honour. Despite failing to capture one of the sport’s major trophies for the first time since 1998, Woods, 27,
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      73 42 FOOTBALL AFP LONDON Bolton manager Sam Allardyce and captain Jay-jay Okocha have been named the Premiership’s manager and player of the month awards for last month. The duo picked up the awards after Bolton earned 10 points from a possible 12 last month, including away wins against
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      102 42 BASKETBALL Reuters ORLANDO, Florida The Orlando Magic overcame a 22-point first-quarter deficit to beat the Phoenix Suns 105-98 on Monday and bring an end to their 19-game losing streak. Tracy McGrady just missed a tripledouble with 16 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists as Orlando posted
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      567 44  -  Tee-off with Godfrey By GODFREY ROBERT SHE looked nervous and out of sorts at the Sembawang Country Club’s golf driving range last Wednesday. Often, Liew Jia Xin would freeze before executing her swing when people passed by. Only nine, and among the youngest in the group of
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      81 42 IN THE LIVING ROOM SEA GAMES: Athletics finals (Channel 5,6 pm). Daily highlights (Channel 5, 11pm). FOOTBALL: Spanish Primera Liga highlights (Channel i, tomorrow, 12.30 am). Champions League: Dynamo Kiev v Inter Milan (ESPN Ch 23, tomorrow, 3.30 am), Arsenal v Lokomotiv Moscow (Star Sports Ch 24, tomorrow, 3.30 am
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