Streats, 17 March 2004

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  • 9 1 Streats Wednesday, march it, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita(p> 111/03/2003
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  • 496 1 Dr Ding and team create chemical that can regenerate muscle tissue Wire services US researchers have found a way to turn adult cells in mice into more youthful ones in a breakthrough that could work miracles for medical science. Led by Dr Ding Sheng, the
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    • 30 1 SHARE your paper Can’t make head or tail of finances? check out StreatsSmart Money pages 23-40 SCRAP IT SLF should drop AMK town centre project, says CONRAD RAJ PAGE 42
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  • Morning Rush
    • 227 2 NABLUS, West Bank A 10-year-old Palestinian boy, who was arrested on Monday in the West Bank for carrying explosives, was being used by Palestinian militants as a suicide bomber, Israeli security sources said. Witnesses at the Huwara checkpoint near here said that the
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    • 354 2  -  Heavy rain also helps check spread of blaze Ry Ho Lian-Yi A THUNDERSTORM which is believed to have sparked off a fire in one of Singapore’s most wellknown landscape firms might also have been the factor that saved it from total destruction. While The Nature
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    • 461 3  -  One collector paid $6,000 for $10 note, says MAS By_ Chug Kong Ho TWICE a year, currency notes bearing so-called golden numbers” go under t e ave l to the highest bidder. Avid note collectors will go to great lengths to research and obtain
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    • 342 4 SHE has been in and out of Singapore’s prisons so many times, she has lost count. The time, Sister Mary Gerard Fernandez, 66, spends behind bars is not as an inmate but as a person who offers solace to prisoners, especially those headed to
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    • 238 6 -AFP MANILA The threat of A1 Qaedastyle simultaneous attacks against multiple targets designed to inflict maximum loss of human life is the biggest problem facing police around the world, the head of Interpol said yesterday. Secretary-general Ronald Noble (right) said at the opening of
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    • 377 6 US, UK and Iraq officials ask new PM to reconsider plan LONDON Iraq, the US and Britain have appealed to Spain’s prime minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to change his mind about withdrawing Spanish troops from Iraq. Both US President George W Bush
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    • 143 6 BAGHDAD An opinion poll carried out in Iraq found that Iraqis are happier now than than they were before the US-led invasion, optimistic about the future and opposed to violence. Seventy per cent of more than 2,500 adults surveyed said that things were
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    • 121 8 BUZZSTOP -AFP SINGAPORE is the most desirable place for expatriates to live in Asia followed by Hong Kong, a survey said yesterday. The Singapore Government “has gone out of its way to create a comfortable living environment for expatriates”, said
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    • 170 8 Industry loses s2om a year to cheats ONG Keng Hock, 42, managing partner of Precise Auto Service, who was convicted last week of cheating NTUC Income of 1,600 and attempting to cheat the co-operative of $2,100, was yesterday sentenced to eight weeks’jail. This is
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    • 164 8 Mad cow safeguards ‘inadequate 1. Bloomberg JAPAN will retain its ban on US beef imports because Monday’s offer to test more cattle for mad cow disease doesn’t go far enough to ensure the meat is safe, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda. Japan says
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    • 75 8 British artist Marc Quinn posing beside a scaled down model of his Alison Lapper Pregnant The work was chosen on Monday to fill the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square, which has been vacant for 160 years. Modelled after a UK artist who was born with no arms and
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    • 139 8 COUPLES here want children, and four out of five believe the ideal number is three, but they are deterred by lack of money, time and energy, a national survey indicates. Meanwhile, a separate study of singles showed that 40 per cent of women want
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    • 93 8 EMPLOYERS in S’pore plan to hire than fire in next quarter, according to a poll of 599 employers by US-based Manpower Incorporated. Some 12 per cent surveyed plan to increase staff levels against only 4 per cent who intend to cut back, giving a net employment outlook
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    • 93 8 -AFP A DENGUE fever outbreak that has killed more than 450 people this year is beginning to wane in parts of Indonesia including the capital but is worsening in other regions, the health ministry said yesterday. Ministry spokesman Mariani Reksoprojo said recent data showed a daily decline
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    • 92 8 Bloomberg CHINA has contained all 49 bird flu outbreaks among its poultry and ended the final two quarantines prompted by the disease, agriculture ministry spokesman Jia Youling said yesterday. Officials will continue to take preventative measures against avian influenza because the virus may be spread
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    • 96 8 AP A FACTORY worker in Missouri who claimed that his lungs were ruined as a result of mixing flavouring oils used in microwave popcorn was awarded US$2O million (5534.2 million) by a jury. Mr Eric Peoples, 32, was the first of 30 former workers at the GilsterMary
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  • Financial
    • 438 10  -  China firm’s new IPO prospectus has additional information on its history By Choong Ckoon Yee AFTER a widely-publicised delay that was apparently sparked by a poison pen letter, FibreChem Technologies’ mainboard initial public offering (IPO) is back on track. The China-based textile fibre maker yesterday
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    • 341 10 AFP SINGAPORE Fed up with unsolicited e-mail messages offering everything from enhanced penises to instant college degrees, Asia-Pacific countries are joining the US-led war against spam. The flood of annoying e-mail messages has become a serious problem for Internet users but experts said that little
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    • 90 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Capita Land Ltd, Southeast Asia’s biggest developer by sales, said that it formed a joint venture with Mr Ahmad Tajuddin Bin Ah, former chairman and chief executive of Tenaga Nasional Bhd, Malaysia’s largest power company. The joint venture, which will manage properties in Malaysia
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    • 87 10 Reuters SINGAPORE HSBC Holdings pic, the world’s second-largest bank, is interested in buying Thailand’s Bank of Asia in a move that would accelerate consolidation in Thailand’s banking sector, a banking source said yesterday. Dutch banking group ABN AMRO is selling its 80.77 per cent stake in
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    • 76 10 AFP BANGALORE Hewlett-Packard yesterday opened a “bazaar” in India’s technology hub Bangalore to develop new ideas in the rapidly growing cellphone industry. The Mobile e-Services Bazaar will serve as a forum where coders and IT entrepreneurs within HP and from other companies can discuss new concepts
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    • 83 10 -AFP TOKYO US technology giant Hewlett-Packard Co plans to start selling several models of Linux-based desktop personal computers in 12 major Asian countries this June, a Japanese news report said yesterday. Shipments could reach one million units in the first year in regional markets including
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    • 706 13  -  ETFs, or exchange traded funds, are investment vehicles designed to track specific indices or fined baskets ofsecurities TODAY’SFOCUS 1 Why(ETFs) are a good option for those who want a diversified portfolio? 2 What is streetTRACKS? 3 By Choong Choon Yee ANY investment guru will tell you that diversification
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    • 337 14 Looming deadline for anti-terror law Reuters SINGAPORE Asia’s two busiest ports, Singapore and Hong Kong, expect to meet a July 1 deadline to comply with a worldwide anti-terror law despite a sluggish response from ship owners and terminal operators. Singapore lies across the piracy-prone
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    • 163 14 Reuters BANGKOK Asian property stocks showed signs of slowing last month after several months of strong gains, with investors cooling on Hong Kong developers but starting to latch onto hopes of a Japanese economic upturn. Asian property securities tracked by Global Property Research rose 3.9 per
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    • 396 16 Cheaper and cleaner fuel cause shift to CNG vehicles, boosting sales Bloomberg HONG KONG Mr Zhou Jun, who drives a bus on the No 1 route through Beijing’s Tiananmen Square each day, sees the benefit of his company’s switch to natural gas-powered buses in
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    • 322 16 STI: 1,826.32 11. 91 Reuters SHARES, which broke a sixday fall on Monday, fell again yesterday on worries over the sustainability of the economic recovery. The Straits Times Index edged down 0.65 per cent, or 11.91 points, to 1,826.32. Losers beat gainers 171 to 135, with turnover edging up to
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    • 24 16 ■AS AT MARCH 16 US$: S$1.705 S$3.085 EURO: S$2.102 S$: 64.27 YEN S$: RM2.228 S$: HK$4.569 S$: 23.15 BAHT S$: 5,038 RUPIAH
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    • 564 17 Bumper grape harvest will lead to oversupply, squeezing prices further -AFP AUCKLAND New Zealand w memakers will next week start picking 30 per cent more grapes than they have ey er produced before, but the surfeit is already giving them a hangover. They face
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    • 473 19 Japan’s military review will hurt local arms makers, but high-tech firms will benefit from IT-sawy army Reuters Tokyo Keen to boost its military capabilities and global security profile, Japan is undertaking the most drastic review of its forces in five decades a move that analysts
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    • 446 41 AP New CEO sees future of semiconductors in multimedia technology Dallas After two consecutive money-losing yeaf s, Texas Instruments (TI) rebounded in 2003, largely to its dominance in making chips at drive more than half the world’s cellphones. But even though TI’s stock price
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  • Streats Smart Money Your personal finance biannual special
    • 393 23  -  By Janice Wong A survey on Streats readers show some interesting facts about Singaporeans’ financial savvy PEOPLE buy what they know from those whom they trust, going by a survey of Streats readers’ investment habits. Topping the familiarity list is fixed deposits (38 per cent), followed
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    • 664 24  -  b>l Choong Ckoon Yee IF you are looking to invest your money in stocks, Asia might be the way to go. That is the advice of experts whom Streats spoke to. They said that the high-growth region, powered by economic juggernaut China, offers good investment
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    • 562 28  -  By Chua Kong Ho MAKING babies has never been a hotter topic, with Singapore’s declining birth rate taking centrestage in the recent Parliament Budget debate. Of the 25 Members of Parliament who spoke on the first day of the Budget debate this year, only two
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    • Article, Illustration
      647 30  -  Banks can sometimes be cheaper than remittance agents when it comes to transferring money ChuaKongHo MONEY transfer is big business globally. The World Bank estimates that as much as US$95 billion (Ssl6l billion) is remitted annually and that this figure will continue to grow. But many believe that
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    • 435 32  -  By_ Janice Wong FINANCING for fledgling small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is not as anaemic as is perceived. Mr lan Macdonald, president of Hong Leong Finance, which markets itself as an SME specialist, believes it is a matter of knowing where and how. True, compared to multinationals
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    • 239 32 LOCAL ENTERPRISE FINANCE SCHEME Introduced in 1976, Lets is a fixed interest rate financing programme administered by Spring Singapore and offered through 16 participating financial institutions. To be eligible, a company must be at least 30 per cent locally owned, have fixed assets not exceeding $l5
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    • 594 34 While Singapore is riding a new IPO wave, there are some underlying concerns, says WONG WEI KONG LET’S not mince words here: The biggest illusion in the market today is the IPO. Things on the surface look hunky-dory, or at least positive. As it has
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    • 595 36 There are many home loan packages in the market, so how do you find one that offers the best SO you have finally found your perfect home. Next up is getting a loan to buy that home. With so many home loan packages on the market,
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    • 533 38  -  Buying insurance is vital to managing healthcare costs, especially with new diseases cropping up, say experts By Choong Choon Yee PREMATURE death, permanent disability, critical illness, medical expenses and accidents. These are life’s contingencies that anyone might have to deal with one day. Very often, the monetary
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    • 1166 27 m T NTUC Income News Excellent business results for 2003 Chill Out in Real Snow at Snow City! EXCLUSIVELY for NTUC Income Policyholders. NTUC INCOME achieved excellent business results for 2003. We earned a surplus of $428 million for our life insurance business, and $70 million for our general and
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  • Comment
    • 594 42  -  By CONRAD RAJ HOW many shopping malls does Singapore need? Apparently at least one more. This is the calculation of the Singapore Labour Foundation (SLF), which recently announced the revival of its long stalled Ang Mo Kio Town Centre development. Granted it has scaled down
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  • Vocal
    • 224 44 IT’S true that the trend towards ang moh-Singaporean girl partnerships has become alarmingly obvious in recent years. An increase in foreigners has given local women ample opportunity to compare Caucasian and local men and then highlight the faults and problems associated with local men. There is
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    • 165 44 MR Michael Saunders posits that ang mohs mix only with ang mohs because of a perceived negative attitude of Singaporeans towards them. My view is that in modem Singapore there is very little interaction between the ang moh community and Singaporeans because most expatriates
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    • 346 44 THE letter, “Local women marrying Caucasians an alarming trend” (Streats, March 15), by Mr Seah Leong Khai, prompted a letter of response, “There’s good in ang moh culture” (Streats, March 16), by Mr Michael Saunders. Personally, I do not find local women marrying
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    • 177 46 I REFER to Mr Yak Chin Hua’s letter, “Housing is convenient but not good gauge” (Streats, March 11). Mr Yak asked why the Government cannot access details of individuals’ and households’ incomes through the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras). Iras does not have
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    • 142 46 THE Government may allow a casino in Singapore in a plan which may include linking the mainland to the southern islands. More than 15 years ago, I suggested that we work with Indonesia to link Singapore to Batam and Bintan. It was reported in
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    • 84 46 DIDN’T the Monetary Authority of Singapore last year reject an application from Nagacorp, a Cambodian casino operator, to list on the SGX, citing money-laundering risks? Can there really be social good for Singapore if we establish a casino here? Any financial gain could be at the
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    • 100 46 I REFER to the report, “Discontent now at Tanglin Club” (Streats, March 16), which also refers to the dispute at SICC. A difference in rights of members of the two clubs was not mentioned. A SICC member can always sell the membership and join a
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    • 41 46 IN the commentary, “Complement me, don’t complete me” (Streats, March 16), Tom Hanks was named as the star of the movie, When Harry Met Sally. This is incorrect. The lead actor was Billy Crystal. We are sorry for the error.
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  • Global
    • 459 48 Aussie chief links Spain blasts to Iraq war SYDNEY Australian police chief Mick Keelty was yesterday feeling the heat over his comments that the country’s backing of the Iraq war has made it a terrorist target. Just after finishing a live TV interview oil Sunday,
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    • 177 48 AFP BANGKOK -The Thai government was yesterday investigating the disappearance of a top Muslim lawyer representing Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror suspects. Mr Somchai Neelapaijit, chairman of Thailand’s Muslim Lawyers Association, went missing on March 11 after leaving his home for a meeting. Police said that
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    • 94 48 LONDON A bank’s blunder reportedly converted a home owner to an ex-home owner in her absence. An error in the address of a Glasgow flat made by the Royal Bank of Scotland led to the repossession of the wrong property in the same block in January,
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    • Article, Illustration
      51 50 A resident of Dubbo, New South Wales, walking through a swarm of locusts yesterday. The Australian Plague Locust Commission has sprayed more than 200,000 ha of land in an effort to control the pests’ breeding, but some farmers have already lost up to 80 per cent of their
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    • 97 50 Reuters PEKAN, Malaysia Malaysian opposition parties are complaining that the creation of new seats, and boundary changes made last year, favour parties in the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. “The reality is that every incumbent government makes the system in their favour. This is also
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    • 120 50 -afp KUALA LUMPUR With the Anwar Ibrahim issue fading into the background, his wife-tumed-politician Wan Azizah Wan Ismail is waging a lonely battle to keep his cause alive. Dr Wan Azizah’s National Justice Party (Keadilan), formed shortly after former deputy premier Anwar was sacked in 1998,
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    • 106 50 IPOH Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is leading the Barisan Nasional charge in Ipoh Timor told a 4,000-strong crowd there that Chinese support for the government was getting stronger. Accompanied by MCA president Ong Ka Ting, Datuk Seri Abdullah said that besides BN’s ability
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    • 194 50 JAKARTA Indonesian political parties with an Islamic agenda are seeking to edge towards pluralism in the run up to the general election by taking in more non-Muslim legislative candidates. The Jakarta Post reported yesterday that parties such as the National Awakening Party (PKB), the National
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    • 118 52 LONDON The number of first-class degrees awarded by a group of UK universities has increased by half over the past five years, prompting some to accuse universities of being too lenient. The Russell Group, which includes Oxford, Cambridge, Nottingham and Bristol, records an increase in
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    • 340 52 AP TAIPEI Before housewife Huang Yuhua, 60, moved to Taiwan, she was a Communist Party member in China who taught children that Taiwan’s Nationalist Party was just a bunch of looters and thieves. She later emigrated when she married a Taiwanese man. No>v a
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    • 133 54 ADVERSARIES j would have a field j day questioning the j title of a documentar): that has premiered j at a film festival in j Austin, Texas. Bush’s Brain was; screened on Saturday night at the South by Southwest (SXSW)i Film Conference and Festival. The movie, based
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    • 79 54 ACTRESS Gillian Anderson played a i Dana for nine years, for The X-Files. Now, she’s going to play another Daif for a play in London, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, by Chicago playwright Rebecca Gilman, about a painter who has a mental breakdown. 1 In an
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    • 117 55 back to the big screen for actress Sarah Jessica Parker, who spent six years With HBO TV series Sex and The City. She will star opposite her real-life husband, Matthew Broderick, in the new romantic comedy, Strangers With Candy, reported Ananova.com yesterday. Parker, who has appeared in
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    • 285 55  -  B y Zubaidah Nazeer FLAMBOYANCE, style and “Dirrty” are why two guys are participating in the Christina Aguilera look-alike contest tomorrow night at Zouk. One of them is Munaji Salamat, 23, a part-time dancer who has been learning dance since he was six and
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    • 66 57 SINGER Whitney Houston has entered a drug rehabilitation facility. Her publicist Nancy Seltzer said in a statement that Whitney “thanks everyone for their support and prayers” but she declined to offer any other details. The Grammy Award winner, 40, said on TV in Dec 2002 that
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    • 115 57 POP impresario Pete Waterman will leave Pop Idol, the British original to TV hit American Idol. Waterman, who launched the careers of stars such as Kylie Minogue and Rick Astley, said that three years of “solid” television work and a desire for a break had prompted
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    • 132 57 COME Friday, you may see bands of students roving around Singapore, apparently lost and referring to maps. But don’t stop to give them directions. They are simply going through the Geo Trail round of the Singapore Press Holdings Geography Challenge 2004. These 80 students, in
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    • 176 58 DON’T miss the Young Parents Fiesta, from tomorrow to Sunday, at Suntec Singapore Ballrooms 2 and 3. There will be stalls and exhibitors, health talks, song and dance items, storytelling sessions and fun activities such as a baby crawling contest, young model search and a parent-child lookalike
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      • 67 59 ENCOUNTERS WITH MODERNISM Tomorrow till June 6,10am-7pm Singapore Art Museum $3 admission An exhibition of 80 works by 70 artists, showcasing works by two generations of avant-garde artists such as Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Willem De Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Jeff Koons among others, many of which will be seen
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    • 249 60 ZHANG Lianwei (right) is hoping a successful title defence of the Caltex Masters this week will be the launch pad for his American dream. The self-taught Chinese ace, who defeated then world No 2 Ernie Els by one stroke last year, is set
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    • 714 61  -  Tee-off with Godfrey By GODFREY ROBERT When you talk about golf in South Africa, one name springs to mind: Gary Player. He is a sporting legend, who shared the pristine greens and hallowed fairways with two of the greatest names in golf: Arnold Palmer and
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    • 183 61 -AFP COPENHAGEN A 39-year-old Dane who spent 169 days on the ocean has become the first Scandinavian to sail nonstop around the world. Sailor Jan Moeller arrived here on Monday evening in his 40-foot, open class single-hull sailboat entitled the 3M Innovation. He said: “I am
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    • 473 62 Man U legend Biyan Robson feels younger players have to prove themselves quickly LONDON Manchester United legend and former England captain Bryan Robson (right) has said that Alex Ferguson took a big gamble this season and lost badly. Robson felt that the United manager’s decision to
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    • 270 62 MANCHESTER Manchester United are set for more crisis as club insiders feel that captain Roy Keane is set to call it a day. Also, Real Madrid are putting together a £25 million (SS77 million) bid for their star striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy, The
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    • 349 62 r. afp MELBOURNE Sexual assault allegations were laid against two more Australian footballers yesterday, just three weeks after six players in one of the country’s top rugby league clubs were accused of gang rape. Chief executive of the St Kilda Australian Rules
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    • 98 63 FOOTBALL BASKETBALL AFP PARIS France’s Nicolas Anelka made a late bid to regain his place in the Euro 2004 squad on Monday when he apologised to national coach Jacques Santini and his team-mates. The apology comes 16 months after the 2 5-year-old refused to join the squad after
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    • 76 63 AFP LOS ANGELES -Kobe Bryant shook off a shoulder injury to score 38 points, 24 of them in the fourth quarter, as the Los Angeles Lakers staged a dramatic rally to beat the Orlando Magic 113-110 in overtime on Monday. Shaquille O’Neal had 27 points and 22 rebounds
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    • 50 63 athletics -AFP BUCHAREST Romania’s reigning 5,000m Olympic champion Gabriela Szabo will not defend her title in Athens this year, she announced on Monday. The 28-year-old triple world outdoors champion claimed that she lost interest in the s port and that she will be taking a six-month break. afp
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    • 64 63 TAMPINES Rovers chalked up the biggest win of the S-League so far this season by beating Tanjong Pagar 9-0 at Tampines Stadium last night. Noh Alam Shah (55th, 65th, 76th, 84th min), Mirko Grabovac (12th, 51st, 68th min), Steven Tan (40th min) and Ismail Fitrey (88th min) found the
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    • 47 63 ■N THE LIVING ROOM FOOTBALL: Asian Olympic qualifier: Iran v Korea Republic (Star Sports Ch24, 8.25pm). EPL: Liverpool v Portsmouth (ESPN Ch23, tomorrow, 3.55am). TENNIS: Masters Series: Pacific Life Open, 4th rd (Star Sports Ch24, tomorrow, 4am). delayed telecast Spanish Primera Liga highlights (Channel i, tomorrow, 12.30am).
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