Streats, 3 June 2004

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    11 3 Streats THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2004 E-mafl: streats@sph.com.sg mita (pi 196/03/2004 i
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    Lock icon Giving up an age-old tradition
    519 3  -  Many Buddhists have stopped the practice of symbolically releasing animals By Ho Lian-Yi MANY Buddhists in Singapore are beginning to accept that they should dispense with their age-old practice of symbolically releasing animals into the wild on Vesak Day. The well-known Bright Hill Buddhist temple,
    Ashleigh Sim  -  519 words
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      58 3 THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2004 •E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita (p) ±96/03/2004 SHARE YOUR PAPER AsiatraveLcom’s gloom turns to boom with boost from budget airlines pjjg| T Beach babe Point about CCA Keep the fun and don’t stress out your kids, Sarah Ng urges parents PAGE 24 Choreographer/surfer Jennifer Hawkins from Down Under
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  • Morning Rush
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      Lock icon A carpet fit for a king
      221 4  -  By Khushwant Singh FINDING a birthday gift for a man who has everything is not easy. More so, if the man is Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of the oil-rich state of Brunei. With an estimated wealth of £7.7 billion (5523.17 billion), the Sultan is
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      Lock icon India cuts FDI in airports
      421 4 Left-leaning govt cuts foreign stake limit in Delhi, Mumbai airports to 49% NEW DELHI India’s newlyformed United Progressive Alliance government has taken a “Left” turn on the privatisation route for the country’s two biggest airports Delhi and Mumbai. The Congress Party-led government, under the influence
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      Lock icon ‘Why stay open till 1am?’
      400 5  -  Chinatown night stall operators slam new extension rules By Lee Choo Kiong THE plan by the Chinatown Business Association (CBA) to have 215 roadside stalls in the narrow streets of Chinatown was meant to bring life back to the area and attract tourists. To keep
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      Lock icon Detecting TB cheaper, faster
      405 6  -  NTU engineers develop device that makes screening for disease 10 times cheaper Sarah Ng A TEAM of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) scientists has developed a way to detect tuberculosis in a few days instead of the usual three to six weeks, and at a fraction of
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      Lock icon Sex guide for stressed-out S'poreans
      234 6  -  By Khushwant Singh DR WEI Siang Yu, also known as Dr Love, worries that many Singaporean couples, both the young and the veterans, have allowed love-making to become routine and therefore boring. He has come out with Dr Love’s Sex Strategy Workbook to enhance their
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      Lock icon UK employers fire Cupid
      390 8 More British firms introduce ‘love contracts’ to deter office romances LONDON Is there someone in the office you’re just aching to ask out on a date but you’re too bashful? For a growing number of Britons, being shy is not the only deterrent, according to a
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      Lock icon Norway acts to stop workplace bullies
      188 8 Reuters OSLO Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik said on Tuesday that he hopes a new campaign to reduce bullying at work will reduce one of Europe’s highest rates of sick leave. Unions and employer groups will lead the drive against teasing and harassment
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      Lock icon Australia takes Universe for 2nd time
      169 8 Reuters QUITO, Ecuador Miss Australia Jennifer Hawkins, a 20-year-old choreographer and avid surfer, won the Miss Universe 2004 title in Ecuador on Tuesday over a field of 80 beauty queens who strutted across a dazzling set in swimsuits and shimmering gowns. Ms Hawkins, a
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      Lock icon Vesak Day gathering in southern Thailand to boost Buddhists’ morale
      128 10 BUZZSTOP Reuters BUDDHISTS in Thailand’s Muslimdominated south gathered in Narathiwat yesterday for a morale-boosting rally after the beheading of a Buddhist man this week stoked fears of sectarian conflict in the restive region. Tension between Muslims and Buddhists, who are
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      Lock icon FAYE REIGNS
      44 10  -  Text and picture by Edwin Koo Hong Kong diva Faye Wong crooning to a near capacity crowd at the Singapore Indoor Stadium last night. Her one-night-only performance was part of the Faye Wong World Tour 2004. Text and picture by Edwin Koo
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      Lock icon Concern over panel’s credibility
      137 10 Competition Bill feedback BUSINESS groups have voiced their concern over who sits on the board of the Competition Commission, a new statutory board responsible for enforcing a law to prevent companies from engaging in anti-competitive behaviour. Their key worry is that the board could face a
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      Lock icon HK, Macau form trade bloc
      140 10 Group will vie with Shanghai, Asia Bloomberg HONG Kong, Macau and nine Chinese provinces, which have a combined population rivalling the European Union, formed an economic bloc, the Pan-Pearl River Delta Region, this week to compete with Shanghai and Asian countries for investment and trade.
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      Lock icon ‘Dirty bomb’ disaster possible
      145 10 i Rise in radioactive smuggling -AFP SOME experts believe that it is only a question of time before terrorists use a “dirty bomb”, a device that would spew radioactive debris over a city, making parts of it uninhabitable for years, New Scientist says. International Atomic Energy
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      Lock icon Rumsfeld in S’pore
      99 10 -AP DEFENCE ministers and military chiefs from at least 20 Asian countries and major Western powers will gather in Singapore tomorrow to listen to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld outline Washington’s security strategy for the region and its plans in Iraq. The Pentagon’s top man is also
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      Lock icon ‘Asia-Pac to grow 4.7%’
      111 10 Bloomberg ASIA Pacific economies will expand 4.7 per cent this year from 3.6 per cent in 2003 as growth m China, Japan and the US help boost demand for the region’s exports, the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council said on its website. China is expected to grow
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      Lock icon Sars alert over: China
      95 10 Reuters CHINA has declared the Sars emergency over in Beijing, saying that the latest outbreak, in which one person died, had been brought under control. The Health Ministry stopped daily surveillance reports on the epidemic on Tuesday and Beijing issued a notice closing down its Sars
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      Lock icon Accenture’s $17b deal
      91 10 Reuters A GROUP led by Accenture won a US government security contract worth up to US$lO billion (Ssl7 billion) on Tuesday to track foreign visitors using digital photographs, fingerprints and other “biometric” information. Launched nationwide at airports and seaports in January, the US Visitor and Immigrant Status
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  • Financial
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      Lock icon Flying high... cheaply
      539 12  -  For Asiatravel.com, budget airlines could support its neat phase of growth, says COO Tan Hood Ann LSesdaq Focus Wmjk w «■Fa* By_ Choong Choon Yee ASIATRAVEL.COM Holdings has survived quite a few calamities so far. They include the dot.com bust, the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, the Bali
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      Lock icon Telekom, ST in talks
      113 12 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Telekom Malaysia and Singapore Technologies yesterday said that they are in talks to jointly buy a 49 per cent stake in Indian cellphone company Idea Cellular in a deal estimated to be worth more than US$5OO million (*****.6 million). A senior official at
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      Lock icon Ascott to buy Citadines
      87 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Ascott Group Ltd, Asia’s biggest serviced-apartment operator, said that it will buy the 50 per cent of Citadines it does not own for 74.3 million euros ($154.6 million) to boost its expansion in Europe. The Singapore-based company, which has the option to buy the
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      69 12 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Khazanah Nasional Bhd, Malaysia’s biggest investment arm, said that it began reviewing business plans and its workforce following a management shakeup last month. Mr Azman Mokhtar, 43, a former investment banker who took over on Tuesday as managing director for a three-year stint, ordered an
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      Lock icon Noorazman is back
      89 12 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Citigroup Inc, the world’s biggest financial services company, yesterday said that it re-hired Mr Noorazman Abdul Aziz to head its corporate banking operations in Malaysia. A former group head at Citigroup and chief operating officer at Malaysia’s stock exchange, Mr Noorazman will report to
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      Lock icon ‘S’pore casino may hit Genting’
      411 14 KL company’s unit keen on stake in S’pore project Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Genting Bhd, owner of Asia’s biggest publicly traded casino (pictured), said yesterday that a plan by the Singapore Government to set up a casino may hurt the Malaysian company’s earnings. Genting’s casino unit
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      24 14 *AS AT JUNE 1 US$: 551.701 553.123 EURO: 552.080 Ss: 64.30 YEN Ss: RM2.234 Ss: HK54.584 Ss: 23.88 BAHT Ss: 5,502 RUPIAH
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      Lock icon TUNNEL VISION
      126 16 AP TOKYO Take a moving train packed with commuters and what do you have? A captive audience and an opportunity for some catchy advertising, a company now targeting the huge Japan market believes. Submedia Asia’s technology utilises the train’s motion to create a moving image from backlit displays
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      Lock icon Opec members keen to raise oil quota
      416 16 Wire services BEIRUT Saudi Arabia’s influential oil minister struggled to rein in a runaway market with assurances about the reliability of supplies as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) members gathered in Beirut to consider increasing output. Oil prices jumped to new
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      Lock icon French wineries bank on Chinese to drink up
      222 18 AFP BORDEAUX The chinking of glasses during a visit to prestigious Bordeaux vineyards last week by Chinese Agriculture Minister Du Qinglin (pictured) was a small but possibly significant event to lighten the otherwise sombre mood among French wine producers. The industry here
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      363 18 Tougher rules mean small makers will have to consolidate AP SHANGHAI China has tightened rules for opening new car factories, trying to block small-scale producers and force its carmakers to consolidate into bigger companies that can challenge foreign competitors. The new rules, issued by the
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      478 20 Leading European low-cost carrier records $7.3m loss for first three months 0f2004, its first in 15 years LONDON Ryanair, Europe’s biggest no-frills airline, on Tuesday posted its first loss in 15 years and angered several rival carriers by saying they would not survive a “bloodbath”
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      Lock icon New tapes reveal Enron manipulated energy prices
      320 22 AP WASHINGTON Collapsed energy trader Enron manipulated electricity prices to its own advantage during California’s 2001 energy crisis, new tapes aired on Tuesday suggest. The tapes have national significance as former Enron chairman Ken Lay is a friend of US President George W
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  • Comment
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      Lock icon Keep CCAs fun, not stressful
      724 24  -  By SARAH NG THERE is a three-letter abbreviation that stands out prominently among the many we have in our education system: CCA, or co-curricular activity. Once regarded by students and parents as after-class pursuits which impart non-academic skills, CCAs now play a greater role in
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      Lock icon Travel time is part of tour package
      221 26 I REFER to the letter “Misleading travel ad” (Streats, May 31). Because the peak June travel period has begun, I would like to take this opportunity to shed some light on what has been a longstanding industry practice. The duration or length of
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      Lock icon I’m overcharged often, too
      147 26 I REFER to Mr Tham Kum Poh’s letter, “I am often overcharged” (Streats, May 20). I am often overcharged on Tibs service 851. I hardly ever checked my fare deductions in the past, but two incidents of overcharging made me realise that I should check every
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      Lock icon Foreign nurses get better perks in the West
      172 26 THE report “Foreign nurses leave too soon” (Streats, May 24) said that foreign nurses come to Singapore and then leave for greener pastures on the strength of their experience here. I don’t believe their Singapore stint gives them an edge in applying
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      Lock icon The postman already has a heavy load
      153 26 I REFER to Mr Basil Lee’s letter, “Postal idea” (Streats, May 27). The postman delivers an average of more than 2,700 mail items a day. This includes both ordinary and registered mail. He covers a delivery area of about 20 to 30 housing
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      Lock icon Let’s reduce our dependence on petrol
      189 29 WITH crude oil prices soaring and uncertainty about future cost, we need to better insulate ourselves from the risk. Couldn’t we rely more on liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the long term? There are many plus points for converting more machine and vehicle fuel
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      Lock icon Use anti-slip mats
      120 29 WE refer to the letter, “Floor was slippery” (Streats, May 28). We thank the writer for her feedback and for the opportunity to clarify the matter. The Singapore Sports Council takes the safety of our patrons seriously and shares the writer’s concerns. To prevent slipping, the Jalan
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      Lock icon Allow change of beneficiaries
      122 29 I REFER to the report “Ruling offers hope to divorcees caught in insurance beneficiary bind” (Streats, May 26). It is timely for the insurance industry to work out with the relevant authorities a new legal ruling to allow insurance policy holders to change the names of
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      381 29 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at streatS@SphXOm.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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      Lock icon Job hunt eclipses Tiananmen
      490 31 Todays Beijing students don’t mark 1989 events AFP BEIJING Fifteen years after the crushing of the Tiananmen democracy movement, students at the universities where the protests began are far more concerned about finding jobs than marking an event of which they have little understanding. Said a
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      360 32 Mega defends her record as Indonesian president, denies she is taking advantage of her father’s name -AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, facing a tough re-election fight next month, has defended her record and denied that she is capitalising on her father’s name. “I
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      354 34 Communist Korea seen going into reform drive to boost ailing economy Reuters SEOUL Profit is good and communist North Korea’s workers need to be taught more about its importance, the impoverished nation’s leader, Mr Kim Jong 11, told factory hands. The official KCNA news agency
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      387 36 SAN JOSE Californian legislators are considering a Bill that will set up a statewide programme to analyse body fluids for trace amounts of pollutants which may be harmful to humans, and make the chemical manufacturers and distributors pay for it, reported San Jose
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      134 36 Reuters STOCKHOLM A Swedish aid organisation will roll out a new line of defence to the country’s emergency services this week the condom ambulance. From tomorrow, amorous couples can call the Stockholm telephone number *****9 and a white van will deliver a packet of 10 prophylactics.
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      399 39 Difficulties in getting customers and employees into the US have forced companies to outsource Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Tighter border controls and visa delays have cost US firms tens of billions of dollars in lost contracts and added expenses, particularly in fast-growing new
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      388 41 Electricity, violence greater concern for citizens Baghdad As US officials hailed a Ppointments to an interim Iraqi government as a “great list” on Tuesday, a small sampling of Baghdad residents found little interest in the pedigrees and Parties of the new leaders and Cabinet. What
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      50 41 A file picture, released yesterday, shows part of the Antarctica’s ice-free area. Efforts to protect the 15,000 sq km dry area about 22 times the size of Singapore have been given a boost after lobbying by New Zealand and the US, said environmental group Antarctica New Zealand AFP
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      135 41 LONDON The French are campaigning for the right to sleep longer hours, blaming a work hard, play hard culture for bringing the end to a nap after a good meal, the Asian Age reported on Tuesday. “It is very subversive behaviour when speed, efficiency
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      290 43 But no word on date of Suu Kyi’s release AP PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia Myanmar’s prime minister on Tuesday assured his Malaysian counterpart that his military government was moving towards democracy but he did not say when opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be released, officials
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      123 43 -AFP KATHMANDU Two years of political turmoil in Nepal came full circle yesterday as the king reappointed the prime minister he had fired in 2002, when he declared elected leaders as incompetent at running the troubled kingdom. After two years of royal-appointed
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      254 44 AP SEATTLE -A new study has found that “yo-yo dieting” repeatedly losing, then regaining weight may harm a woman’s immune system. The study by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center also found that maintaining the same weight over time appears to have a positive effect
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      174 44 Q Since palm oil is high in saturatedfats, is palm sugar unhealthy, too? A Palm cooking oil contains about 50 per cent saturated fat. A diet high in fat and saturated fat tends to raise blood cholesterol level, thus increasing the risk of heart disease. Palm sugar, or
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      587 48 World-renowned mentalist and mind expert Marc Salem, who will he in town to perform his successful one-man show, tells YEO GHIMLAYhow he plays with people’s minds IF you have ever wanted to know r what someone is thinking, you would have realised it is near impossible. But
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        352 52  -  El I A 1 By_ Robin Ganguly I’VE always wanted to visit Venice. Pictures of gondolas and the Bridge of Sighs have always fascinated me. Now there’s another reason: Food. On an invited tasting this week at the Meritius Mandarin hotel’s M Revolving Restaurant, I was
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        39 54 10.30 pm, Central Brent decides to hire a new secretary despite the spectre of redundancies in the Slough branch. He finds himself choosing between a man who turned up for the interview and a pretty young blonde.
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        67 54 IN THEE Till June 13,11.30am-Bpm Monday to Saturday, 12pm-5.30pm on Sunday Utterly Art (208, South Bridge Road, #O2-01, tel 6226-2605) Free Wong Shih Yaw returns to the allegorical roots of oil painting in this third solo exhibition. Clothes don’t just make the man, they are also a metaphor for
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        63 54 HUJAN Saturday (7.30 pm) and Sunday (lpm and 4pm) Oboxx Studio (People’s Association, 9, Stadium Link) Tickets at $l2 (call Farah at 9181-7794 or e-mail variasi@variasi. cjb. net) In the setting of a rainy day (“hujan” is Malay for “rain”), seven teenagers journey to self-discovery. Presented in Malay by
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      401 54 Yourdailyhoroseope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Step into the spotlight yes, again and force yourself to enjoy it. Your talents and abilities will continue to attract appreciative attention. Is there a problem? JUN2I Several cosmic ambassadors are hard at work right now, arranging your travel plans.
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      421 55 Oi"W THE ORD it£ TRILOGY ffiFEXHIBITION 13 March to 4 June 2004 fww.sdence.edu.sg/locr Relive the fantasy of Middle-earth! The Singapore Science Centre is proud to be the only venue in Asia to host The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy The Exhibition. Besides movie sets, costumes, artefacts, armoury, video
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      399 56  -  Chinese club send five players home for poor performance Gary Lim NOT for the first time, Sinchi TV FC are undergoing a big shake-up in a bid to reverse their fortunes. The all-Chinese S-League club are lying second from bottom after 12 matches. Five Chinese players Chen
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      205 56 AFP PARIS Australian 12th seed Lleyton Hewitt was given a claycourt lesson at the French Open yesterday by unseeded Argentine Gaston Gaudio, who advanced to his first Grand Slam semifinal 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. The 25-year-old from Buenos Aires totally outclassed the former Wimbledon and US Open champion
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      150 56 Reuters PARIS Like land-locked Switzerland winning the America’s Cup, this was not meant to happen. Yet against all the odds, on a dank and drizzly Tuesday, Tim Henman became the first British man in more than 40 years to reach the French Open semi-finals. Perhaps the 29-year-old
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      432 58 Hamilton leads Detroit to first NBA final in 14 years AFP NBA PLAYOFFS EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS Detroit 69 Indiana 65 (Detroit win best-of-seven series 4-2) AUBURN HILLS, Michigan Look out, Shaquille O’Neal. Beware, Kobe Bryant. There is a masked man who is going to try and
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      340 58 Reuters LONDON World long jump record holder Mike Powell plans to make a comeback at the age of 40 and compete for the United States at the Athens Olympics in August. “There are three spots available on the Olympic team and I plan to
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      88 58 BOWLING SIX age-group bowlers emerged victorious at the National Age-Group Championships at Pocket Bowl in Katong yesterday. Both under-14 girls’ singles champion Gina Lim (1,105) and under--17 champion Cherie Tan (1,169) pipped their opponents by four pinfalls over six games, while only two pinfalls separated the under-22
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      95 58 FOOTBALL Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO Bolivia, Chile and Peru posted victories in their 2006 World Cup qualifying matches on Tuesday. Paraguay’s 20-day preparation for its high-altitude clash against Bolivia was wasted as it went down 2-1 in La Paz, while Chile ended Venezuela’s romantic run with a
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      79 58 OLYMPICS AFP BEIJING China registered 18 positive doping cases in 10 sports in 2003 and has found four cases so far this year. The Chinese Olympic Committee Anti-doping Commission said that of the 18, positive tests were posted in athletics (5), weightlifting (3), canoeing (2), football (1),
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      456 60 Robson, Venables, Taylor tell Eriksson how to beat France LONDON Whether England can beat France in their opening game of Euro 2004 will be largely down to the manager, Sven-Goran Eriksson. If he calls the shots correctly, England will have more than an even chance of moving
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      248 60 Reuters AMSTERDAM Rafael van der Vaart is likely to start in Holland’s Euro 2004 opener against Germany on June 15. Dutch coach Dick Advocaat said after Tuesday’s 3-0 friendly win over the Faroe Islands in Lausanne that young Van der Vaart was his preferred choice
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      356 60 AFP ROME Former AC Milan and Italy coach Arrigo Sacchi believes only France and Portugal stand in the way of an Azzurri triumph at this month’s Euro 2004. “Above all, there is France it has excellent players and a squad that have
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      476 61 England far from convincing in draw with Japan Wire services Manchester Sven-Goran Eriksson has got some serious thinking to do between now and June 13, when England’s Euro 2004 campaign begins against France. On the evidence of its lacklustre display in a 1-1 draw with Japan
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      457 61 AFP London Jose Mourinho, unveiled as Chelsea’s new manager on a threeyear contract yesterday, knows the consequences if he does not win a major trophy with the Blues next season. Said the 41-year-old, who guided Porto to Champions League glory this season: “I think football
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