Streats, 28 May 2004

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    10 3 Streats FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita <p> 196/03/2004
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    Lock icon Too many clubs, too few clubbers
    668 3  -  Centro staves off assets auction, but clubs’ future uncertain as nightlife industry struggles By Chua Kong Ho CENTRO, the financially troubled nightspot at One Fullerton, has earned a reprieve after it worked out a repayment schedule for rental arrears with its landlord yesterday. Mr
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      70 3 smm mm Pkmm RUGBY Jonathan Leow’s dream was to be a banker, but he settled for a sports career PAGE 84 .v.;. i NEVER Chen Qi was twice shown the door, but he fought back to be world’s No 5 paddler PAGE 82 Hi h,% ,v liH fHk* siiii I
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      Lock icon Beat the heat with wet, wild fun
      417 4  -  S’pore’s largest water theme park set to open -k'f' V.,! to By Yeo GhimLay SINGAPORE’S biggest splash yet could not have been better timed, given the sizzling weather these days. Those seeking respite from the heat can soon head for Pasir Ris where
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      Lock icon MasterCard banks on Great Singapore Sale
      425 5  -  ‘Official card’ company to spend $2.4m for eight-week event By Janice Wong MASTERCARD’S local promotion budget for the Great Singapore Sale (GSS): $2.4 million. Its role as the sale’s official card: Priceless. This is the sentiment of Ms Teo Ai June, Master Card International’s
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      Lock icon School rations calories for overweight kids
      174 5  -  By Lee Choo Kiong POOR kids count their pennies during recess time while fat kids count their calories. And counting calories is what 160 overweight pupils at Blangah Rise Primary School will have to do when they rush to their school canteen. This neighbourhood
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      Lock icon Union incensed over Qantas offshore jobs plan
      256 5 SYDNEY -Australian union officials have threatened to take industrial action against national carrier Qantas if it goes ahead with a proposal to move one in four long-haul flight attendant jobs overseas in a cost-cutting exercise. According to internal company documents obtained by The
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      Lock icon Scaling great heights through teamwork
      371 6  -  SMU pupils, disabled athletes to climb Kinabalu By_ Sarah Ng FOR the past three months, Singapore Management University (SMU) business student Shaun Ng has learnt a lot about dogged determination from Sivasangar Ponnusamy, a badminton player from the Special Olympics Singapore (SpOS). The strangers came
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      Lock icon Shorter training for surgeons likely
      320 6  -  By Ho Lian-Yi THE time needed to train to be a specialist surgeon here may be shortened from six years to five years. Announcing this yesterday, Professor Soo Khee Chee, chairman of the Specialist Training Committee for General Surgery, said: “This is important because, for
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      Lock icon Aussie firms lose $7b to fraud
      428 8 Ernst Young study finds employee-screening lax SYDNEY Australian businesses lose a total of ASS.B billion (Ss7 billion) a year to fraud, much of it perpetrated by the most trusted and longest serving employees, a report said yesterday. “Businesses must realise that in any organisation
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      Lock icon S’pore to ease S$ trade rules, undertake bank reform
      125 12 BUZZSTOP Reuters SINGAPORE yesterday announced plans to further liberalise its financial markets by relaxing trading rules on the Singapore dollar and easing requirements on domestic banks to set aside capital to cover lending risks. Non-resident, non-financial issuers of Singapore dollar bonds
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      Lock icon SPORTS TALK
      78 12  -  Text and Picture by Ashleigh Sim ‘Four eyes' meetings are common for Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, but not for athlete James Wong (right). What brought the two together on Wednesday night at Shangri-La Hotel was the subject of sport, which is close to their hearts. After all,
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      Lock icon Zaobao goes to Indonesia
      131 12 Indon edition to start on June 1 LIANHE Zaobao, Singapore Press Holdings’ flagship Chinese daily, will be heading to the world’s largest archipelago next month. It will start with an initial daily circulation of 5,000 copies in Jakarta and other parts of Indonesia, where Zaobao has
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      Lock icon Construction firm in trouble again
      135 12 Firm negotiating with PUB WAN Soon Construction, which recently lost two Housing Board contracts, is now in negotiations with the Public Utilities Board (PUB) to save its involvement in a $45 million sewerage system project in Tanah Merah. PUB’s project consultants, Beca Carter Hollings Femer
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      Lock icon Taiwan nabs virus creator
      145 12 China hackers use worm on Taiwan -AP A TAIWANESE computer engineer was arrested for allegedly posting a virus on websites, where hackers from China found and used the worm to attack the island’s business and government systems, police said yesterday. Wang Ping-an, 30, designed the Trojan
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      77 12 THE Land Transport Authority will cut the ERP fee by 50 cents at selected gantries from Monday to June 25, to coincide with the school holiday period. The gantries are: Ayer Rajah Expressway, Central Expressway (gantry north of Braddell Road and three gantries south of Braddell Road),
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      110 12 MOUNT Vernon crematorium will close at the end of June. From July 1, cremations will be conducted at a new $23 million centre at Mandai. The 40-year-old complex at Upper Aljunied Road will be razed to make way for homes and a park but it has
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      Lock icon UK imam faces US charge
      93 12 -AFP RADICAL Islamic cleric Abu Hamza A 1 Masri, known for his fiery sermons to London Muslims, was arrested yesterday following a US request for his extradition, British police said. He was detained under an extradition warrant issued by the United States, a police spokesman
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      Lock icon Ghosts at navy base?
      95 12 -AFP GHOSTBUSTING paranormal researchers will visit a big Royal Navy base in Plymouth, England, this weekend to investigate reports that it is haunted. Psychics, mediums and investigators will spend two nights attempting to detect ghosts at Devonport Naval Base, using seances and sophisticated sensors. They will
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      Lock icon High hopes for Dell’s new storage system
      507 14  -  Capacity of up to 3TB is its ‘sweet spot’ By Choong Choon Yee DELL Inc has partnered EMG Corporation to launch a fresh attack on the networked storage market for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). And they say that their latest product, the
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      111 14 Bloomberg SINGAPORE The Government will sell a third parcel of land in an area it plans to develop into a new financial district, a week after City Developments Ltd, Singapore’s biggest property company, said the project would “cannibalise” the existing office area. The'Urban Redevelopment Authority said that
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      67 14 Reuters SINGAPORE Singapore’s business receipts index, which measures activity in the services sector, rose 6.9 per cent in the first quarter from a year earlier, rebounding from a Sars-induced slump last year, the Department of Statistics said yesterday. After excluding financial and insurance services, the latest index
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      80 14 -AFP SINGAPORE Pasir Panjang port will install 12 super cranes worth $l2O million that are capable of serving the latest generation of container ships, the terminal’s operator said. PSA Singapore said the super postPanamax cranes, with a lifting capacity of 60 tonnes and lifting height of
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      Lock icon ‘Budget carriers in for rough ride’
      372 18 Air Asia won’t impose fuel levy, has hedged oil needs -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian no-frills airline Air Asia warned yesterday of an industry shake-out as more carriers enter the market, but it said that it is ahead of the pack and will expand its
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      164 18 -AFP COLOMBO The Sri Lankan government yesterday imposed price controls on the sale of wheat flour following a dispute with a Singaporean company that holds a virtual monopoly on the product in the country. Trade Minister Jeyaraj Femandopulle said that he used consumer
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      Lock icon Burswood rejects Packer overtures
      264 21 Offer too low: Aussie casino operator AFP SYDNEY Australian casino and hotel operator Burswood yesterday rejected a As6B6 million (SsB3s million) takeover bid from the country’s richest man and most prominent gambler, billionaire Kerry Packer. Burswood said that it did not believe that the offer from
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      Lock icon Tabcorp snares rival TAB
      184 21 .-AFP SYDNEY Australian gaming group Tabcorp Holdings yesterday emerged victorious in a long-running takeover battle for smaller rival TAB, sweetening its bid to create a As7.B billion (559.5 billion) betting powerhouse. The takeover marks the latest move by the big players in Australia’s Asl3 billion a
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      385 22 ADB will take on risk of ensuring that vital lines of credit are open for Asia’s poorest countries -AFP SINGAPORE The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide political and commercial risk guarantees to international banks bold enough to open credit lines to the region’s poorest and riskiest
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      501 26 Young entrepreneurs not afraid to show off Reuters HANOI Mr Le Anh Hung is doing what his father and grandfather only dreamed of. Sitting in a plush BMW showroom, the 32-year-old owner of a fire protection business in communist Vietnam watched with satisfaction as
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      423 28 Bonds fall again on fears that help for poor will widen budget deficit Bloomberg NEW DELHI India’s ruling coalition yesterday pledged to sustain economic growth of as much as 8 per cent to lift more than a quarter of the population out of poverty
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      308 32 STI: 1,778.55 1.85 Reuters THE key share index finished higher yesterday amid choppy trade, led by transport stocks such as Singapore Airlines, as oil prices eased. But analysts said sentiment remained cautious on concerns over China’s economy, oil price movements and prospects of a
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      220 38 I REFER to the report “It ain’t over till my granny sings” (Streats, May 26). It is heartening to know that a group of senior citizens made a concerted effort to stage the play Grandma’s Birthday after they attended a drama workshop conducted by Sage’s Drama
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      106 38 I UNDERSTAND from my daughter that all schools have designated today “Eat With Family” day. All students are expected to leave school earlier to be in time for dinner with their parents. I will certainly support this. However, I think the campaign organiser should have
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      108 38 I SHARE the views Ms Janice Wong expressed in her commentary “Don’t lie about your age” (Streats, May 25). Age is empowerment earned through time. It is something to be respected. People who hide their age are also uneasy about their appearance. Neither should be equated with
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      227 42 I REFER to the report “Are money-back offers for real?” (Streats, May 26). I am pleased to learn that local electronics dealer Audio House offers a 100 per cent money-back guarantee. There are few stores in the electronics trade which offer the same deal. They
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      213 42 I BOUGHT a Smart international telephone card from a shop in Serangoon Road recently. When I made the first call to India, the card had 55 minutes talk time. My call lasted 12 minutes. I then checked the balance on the card and found that there were only
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      84 42 MY three-year-old child recently slipped, fell and injured her head while taking a shower in the changing room of the public swimming pool in Jalan Besar. She had found the floor very slippery and, despite walking very slowly, she still slipped. As a concerned parent, I urge
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      191 44 BEIJING China’s National Theatre is likely to be reinspected after one of the works by its French designer, Paul Andreu, collapsed on Sunday, according to a member of the theatre’s owner committee. The roof of the Andreudesigned terminal at Paris’ Charles de
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      84 44 HONG KONG A father in southern China used the Internet to get his wayward daughter back on the right track. Mr Zhong, using the name Big Cabbage, started sending his daughter, Xiao Li, 15, advice through ICQ chat rooms after he was unable to stop her
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      150 48 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has launched whipping demonstrations in schools (above) to strike fear into the hearts of children tempted by criminal careers, local media reported yesterday. “Flogging Officer Number 1” Iskandar Zulkamain Mohamad Radzi, 25, from Taiping Prison in Perak, staged the first session
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      282 48 ISA prisoners not mistreated, says Najib KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s Human Rights Commission will be permitted to investigate allegations that Internal Security Act (ISA) detainees were abused, but independent monitors will not be given access to the prisoners, the government has reportedly said. “(The
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      158 50 -AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said yesterday that junior army and air force officers were involved in two attempts to kill him last December. “There are some people at junior level, people in uniform air force and army” who have been
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      287 50 Minister unveils 10-point plan to boost industry NEW DELHI Mr Dayanidhi Maran, India’s new communication and information technology minister, is a man in a hurry. The 37-year-old technology-savvy minister (pictured here at his swearingin ceremony) took charge on Wednesday and wasted no time
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      332 52 Reuters NEW YORK A man has sued the estate of Dr Robert C Atkins and the company that promotes his diet, in the first suit to involve the controversial low-carbohydrate regimen. Mr Jody Gorran, 53, is seeking US$2B,OOO (5547,897) in damages, the New York
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      223 52 BOSTON A widely used test for prostate cancer may not be as safe as once thought, according to a study released on Wednesday, sparking debate on whether the screening process should be overhauled. The study of 2,950 men found that 15 per cent of
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      384 60 Decorating a rented apartment can prove rewarding SO what if you live in a rented apartment? You can still spend time and effort decorating it. Just like Eddy and John partners in interior design outfit EJ Square Design Associates did. Of course, it helped that they also
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      392 63 For sheer variety in thermal spas, the Hungarian capital Budapest has no equal BESIDES being a city bursting f with cultural life and boasting a rich architectural heritage, Budapest is also known as the “land of the healing waters”. This spa capital of the world has almost 100
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      117 63 In between soaks and sights, make time for a tasting at the Hungarian House of Wines in Buda’s Castle District, where wines from Hungary’s 22 wineproducing regions are available for tastings and purchase. Wine drinkers would be most familiar with the sweet white wine, Tokaji Asz, and strong
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      601 66 TV should be so much more than just entertainment, as one British producer, whose life’s work now is making medical documentaries, tells ZUBAIDAH NAZEER from Paris THE idea of making medical documentaries may sound insipid to some, but Jenny Barraclough says that this is the sort of
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      146 66 -AFP MADONNA’S concert tour, which kicked off in Los Angeles on Monday, has received mixed reviews, with some newspapers suggesting that the 45-year-old had erred by swapping her trademark sexuality for spirituality and political overtones. “Message to Madonna: Bring back the sex. Or at least something with
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      122 66 MUSIC played second fiddle to glamour at the fifth Classical Brit Awards in London on Wednesday, news website Ananova.com reported yesterday. Former Hear’Say star Myleene Klass appeared in a strapless white dress, violinist Vanessa-Mae (left) was dazzling in gold and teen soprano Hayley Westenra (below) shimmered in
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      504 68  -  Edwin Koo VETERAN photographer Albert Lim faces this constant challenge: How to make buildings come to life. His task as an architectural photographer is to make an inanimate object stand out with a character and life of its own. Known widely for his specialised work, Lim, 52,
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      145 68 HARD to believe, but it might be a case of too much sex in French cinema these days. Two recent releases are likely to leave even the country’s most liberal cinemagoers squirming in their seats, reported London’s The Telegraph this week. Ma Mere, starring Isabelle
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      151 68 Wire services ACTRESS Elizabeth Taylor has sued the South African and Canadian descendants of a Jewish woman who fled the Nazis in Germany, as part of a legal battle to hold on to an 1889 Van Gogh painting, View of the Asylum and Chapel
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        106 70 LASALLE-SIA begins its first Fashion Design Bachelor Of Arts (Honours) degree intake in July. “Lasalle-SIA is unique in Singapore in that our diploma programmes are recognised as equivalent to two years of the BA (Hons) so that only one more year of study is required
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        596 70 JACQUELINE TAN tells us about the Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts graduation fashion show of the 28th diploma class that she recently caught WHAT do K.Mi Huang, creator and designer of WOMB, and Leslie Chia, local fashion veteran and designer of The Clothes Publisher, have in common?
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        112 72 ATHLETES will find the Adidas ClimaCool Team Watch a boon. This watch boasts a range of pre-set target times for different team sports, such as 45 minutes for football and 15 minutes for basketball. It also has three countdown time modes. Other functions include the
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        64 72 ENJOY stylish Italian jewellery with Lee Hwa, which recently won the exclusive distribution rights to the latest pret-a-porter collection of the Italian brands Laurentia and Nanis. Laurentia’s collection includes the Tahiti Collection (pictured), featuring shaped and flattened Tahitian mother-of-pearls set with light-toned 18K yellow or white
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      346 76 THEY are two women renowned for their physical attractiveness. But, as is now almost routine with beautiful women, both dismiss the importance of looks. French actress Emmanuelle Beart (pictured) said in an interview with Britain’s The Telegraph: “Beauty is not something you can count on.
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      509 82  -  Chen Qi was booted out twice for indiscipline but bounced back Gerry Lim EIGHT months ago, he was just another unranked paddler trying to make his mark in the world arena. But when Chen Qi (below right), 20, takes to the court today at the Volkswagen Singapore Open,
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      211 82 -AFP PARIS Top seed Roger Federer’s dream of adding the French Open title to his Wimbledon and Australian Open crowns will face its stiffest examination when he comes up against triple Roland Garros winner Gustavo Kuerten in the third round. World
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      143 82 S-LEAGUE pacesetters Woodlands Wellington maintained their three-point advantage at the top of the standings with a hard-fought 2-1 win over Balestier Khalsa at Toa Payoh Stadium last night. Balestier, third from bottom, proved a tough nut to crack and managed to prevent their more
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      379 84  -  Graduate accepts challenge to revive Saints’ glory days By Lim Han Ming WHEN Jonathan Leow (left) graduated with a bachelor’s degree majoring in economics and politics from Sydney University last year, he had a simple plan. Return to Singapore, get a job as an investment banker
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      439 86 Porto win Champions League final but lose coach Reuters CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL Porto 3 Monaco 0 GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany One of the greatest nights in Porto’s history was tinged with sadness when they beat Monaco 3-0 on Wednesday to win the Champions League before learning that their coach
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      190 88 -AFP MUNICH, Germany Bayern Munich president Franz Beckenbauer has opened the way for unhappy playmaker Michael Ballack to leave for Spanish giants Barcelona, if the clubs manage to agree to a deal. Ballack, who moved to Bayern from Bayer Leverkusen following Leverkusen’s Champions League
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      441 88 Former Leeds idol Smith defends his controversial move to Man United Wire services LONDON Former Leeds United striker Alan Smith (left) defended his £7 million (Ss22 million) transfer to Manchester United, saying it was purely for footballing reasons. The 23-year-old signed a five-year contract to
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      283 88 Wire services LONDON Liverpool have reportedly offered Valencia coach Rafael Benitez (right) an £8 million (Ss2s million), four-year deal to replace Gerard Houllier. The English Premiership giants have also asked their former star and manager Kenny Dalglish to return to Anfield in an advisory role.
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      264 90 Reuters NBA PLAYOFFS EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS Detroit 85 Indiana 78 (Detroit lead series 2-1) NEW YORK Rasheed Wallace and Richard Hamilton (left) both scored 20 points as the Detroit Pistons defeated the Indiana Pacers 85-78 in Game Three of the Eastern Conference finals in Auburn
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      436 90 Schumacher confident of victory on home track -AFP NURBURGRING, Germany World champion Michael Schumacher (right) has sent an ominous warning to his Formula One rivals, insisting he will win on home soil in the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring this weekend Schumacher returns to his home track,
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      96 90 FOOTBALL Reuters ZAGREB Croatia coach Otto Baric will allow his players to have sex during Euro 2004 in Portugal. “Of course, sex is not forbidden,” Baric, who will be 71 next month, told Croatian daily Jutamji List yesterday. “After every match in Portugal, players will be given
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      103 90 GOLF Reuters LONDON Seve Ballesteros is so crippled by arthritis that he fears he will never play competitive golf again. Ballesteros, who has won 87 titles worldwide, including three British Opens and two US Masters, told the Daily Mail yesterday that taking a few practice shots can cause
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      83 90 OLYMPICS MORE than 2,000 participants will take part in tomorrow’s Olympic Day Run, organised by the Singapore National Olympic Council in conjunction with the South-West Community Development Council, the Singapore Olympic Academy and the Singapore Sports Council. The 3km run will start at Bam at the Jurong
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