Streats, 7 July 2004

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  • 10 1 Streats WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.coin.sg mita (P) 196/03/2004
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  • 841 1  -  Comment By Paul Jansen ANCIENT Greece has bestowed upon the world an enduring legacy in the arts and sciences. Last Sunday, when the country’s soccer team carried off the trophy at the European Championship in Portugal, it showed that it still had much to contribute.
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  • Morning Rush
    • 399 2  -  Ex-addict is poster boy for social entrepreneurship By. Janice Wong ACROSS Mr Don Wong’s back, under his pressed white shirt, is a fiery dragon tattoo, the only clue to his past as a hardcore drug addict and secret society member. Mr Wong, 44, has long
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    • 498 3 S pore trader among those setting up shop there Reuters SINGAPORE-BASED oil trading firm Hin Leong is among the three traders to have most recently set up operations in China to market crude and trade oil products. The other two are Brazilian oil and
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    • 165 3 LA Times BEIJING Ms Sherry Xia wants to start a revolution in China. The vegetarian restaurant owner frets over this culture’s obsessive appetite for animals, including wild and even endangered creatures. The former lawyer winces at the scorpions stingers still on silkworms and sparrow chicks-on-a-stick served up
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    • 363 4 Video seen as message to Iraqi govt, coalition troops, foreigners WASHINGTON The group of militants in Iraq led by Abu Musab A 1 Zarqawi have released a videotape of their operations that appears intended to demonstrate to the Iraqi administration just how formidable an
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    • 525 6  -  Tycoon Oei Hong Leong takes stand in Nat Steel libel case By Khushwant Singh TYCOON Oei Hong Leong was yesterday shown copy after copy of newspaper reports that described him as a corporate raider, wheeler-dealer and asset stripper. But he testified that he had always
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    • 219 6 -AFP JAKARTA Former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the frontrunner in Indonesia’s presidential election, is likely to meet incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri in a second-round runoff in September, official and independent vote counts indicated yesterday. A new independent projection of the final result says that Mr Bambang
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    • 129 8 BUZZSTOP MORE high-end luxury cars were sold in the first six months of this year than in the whole of previous years, reports The Straits Times today. These cars, each costing over $1 million, include Ferraris, Bentleys, Lamborghinis and Rolls-Royces. At least two
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    • Article, Illustration
      55 8 An Australian tourist yesterday jumping from the Navarra Square fountain after the ‘Chupinazo’ marking the start of the San Fermin fair in Pamplona, Spain. The fair celebrates nine days of bullfighting, drinking, concerts and midnight parties. This year, some 1.5 million visitors are expected to attend the fiesta
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    • 131 8 Honour for Raffles’ Jennie Chua MS JENNIE Chua, president and chief executive of hospitality companies Raffles Holdings and Raffles International, has deepened ties with her alumni by joining Cornell University’s board of trustees. She is the first Singaporean to be appointed trustee at this Ivy League
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    • 144 8 Farms in Ayutthaya, Anhui affected AP THE Thai government’s hopes to declare the country free of bird flu was delivered a fresh blow yesterday with a new suspected case of the virus that ravaged its poultry flocks earlier this year. The authorities were anxiously
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    • 143 8 Fleeing murder suspect hit by car AP A VIETNAMESE migrant worker was killed in a hit-and-run accident yesterday, just minutes after he allegedly fatally stabbed his Singaporean employer, Malaysian police said. Bui Van Truih, 25, was knocked down on a busy road in his haste
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    • 89 8 NTUC Fair Price will continue to absorb 2 per cent of the goods and services tax (GST) on 400 essential items, the supermarket chain said yesterday. The local supermarket chain said that it will extend the absorption to the end of the year. It was supposed
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    • 109 8 THE National University of Singapore wants its 150,000 or so alumni to play a greater role in shaping the development of the school, The Straits Times reports today. Speaking at the start of this year’s graduation ceremonies at the University Cultural Centre yesterday, NUS president Shih
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    • 93 8 AFP THE Bangladeshi government is considering stopping the salaries of teachers in 50 schools where not a single pupil passed the national leaving exam, the official news agency BSS said yesterday. Teachers at the schools from six districts would be made to “face the consequences” for
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    • 99 8 Reuters A SAUDI man posing as a municipal worker used a bulldozer in an inept attempt to rob a bank’s automatic teller machine but fled when the police arrived, an Arabic daily reported yesterday. The English-language Arab News said residents of the Red Sea city Jeddah called the
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  • Financial
    • 529 10 But rollover balances increasing rapidly as card usage rises CONSUMER credit growth in Singapore has slowed down significantly in the last two years in line with economic weakness and the Sars outbreak. However, credit card rollover balances have increased rapidly because aggressive marketing campaigns, interest-free instalment
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    • 208 10  -  By ChuaKongHo UOB Asset Management (Uobam) launched an Islamic unit trust in Malaysia yesterday, joining the growing number of local banks that are venturing into the regional Islamic fund management market. Uobam’s Afdaal Funds Series is domiciled in Labuan, Malaysia, and is a joint
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    • 95 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Singapore Petroleum Co (SPC), the only publicly traded oil refiner on the island-state, agreed to buy BP’s Singapore fuel retailing and liquefied petroleum gas assets for US$7O million (Ssl2o million) yesterday. SPC will take over BP Singapore’s 30 retail pump stations and 70 per
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    • 71 10 SINGAPORE Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd has bought its second logistics facility this year. The company yesterday said that it has acquired KLW Holdings’s corporate headquarters at Senoko Loop for $15.6 million. Under a sale and leaseback arrangement, KLW will lease the four-storey building for 10 years with
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    • 61 10 SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines has brought back its Boarding Pass programme, offering more exclusive promotions to all its passengers. Under the scheme, passengers need only present a valid SIA boarding pass at participating outlets within seven days of their flight. Perks include shopping privileges in Malaysia and
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    • 58 10 SINGAPORE Asia Pacific Brewery has started brewing its flagship Tiger Beer at its Nonthaburi plant in Thailand, the seventh country where Asia Pacific Breweries’ flagship beer is brewed, said the Singaporebased brewer yesterday. With Tiger Beer, Thai APB’s brewery will be operating at its maximum capacity, which
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    • 324 12 At signing of US FTA, Govt promised to sell entire stake Bloomberg SINGAPORE-Temasek Holdings, the biggest investor in Singapore Telecommunications, can divest shares in the company as its agreement not to sell for six months expired yesterday. Investment agency Temasek raised about $2.3
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    • 328 12 Reuters SINGAPORE A revamp at Malaysia’s state investment agency Khazanah Nasional may herald an aggressive push into South-east Asia by its stable of government-linked firms, according to one senior investment banker. Mr Philip Lee, South-east Asia chief executive officer at JP Morgan, believes changes at Khazanah,
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    • 369 14 Bookings in Asia up 247% in April, 144% in May: Abacus AFP SINGAPORE China’s rising affluence drove a sharp surge in Asian travel bookings in April and May, as the industry sustained its recovery from the Sars epidemic, a major ticketing service said yesterday. Abacus
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    • 142 14 AFP BEIJING China will launch new foreign exchange rules for foreign companies on non-trade related transactions in August, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe) said yesterday. “The new regulations will create favourable conditions for the normal operations of multinationals,” Mr Li Dongrong,
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    • 27 14 STI: 1,874.57 11.82 *AS AT JUL 6 US$: 551.715 553.144 EURO: 552.111 Ss: 63.78 YEN Ss: RM2.216 Ss: HK54.548 Ss: 23.80 BAHT Ss: 5,261 RUPIAH
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    • 185 14 AP CANBERRA A record-setting run of economic expansion should be welcome news for Australians, but experts warn that sluggish exports and rising consumer debt are stalking prospects for future growth. If the economy continues the current trend, as expected, the fiscal year that began July
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    • 433 16 Department stores feel heat as foreign rivals move into market Bloomberg TOKYO Takashimaya, Isetan and other Japanese retailers are hiring more short-term contract workers in place of costlier full-time staff as the companies struggle to raise profits in the absence of
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  • Comment
    • 791 18  -  By HO LIAN-YI SOMETIMES there is no escaping fate. Let me explain. My grandfather was a Taoist priest who performed funeral rites. It was not an easy job, though the money was fairly good since people must die. Generations of the Ho men did this, making a
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  • Vocal
    • 207 22 I WAS given shopping gift vouchers worth $250 in late 2002. As the expiry date on the vouchers was Sept 29, 2004,1 didn’t try to use them till November last year. At the Toa Payoh superstore named on the vouchers, I was told that the company
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    • 375 22 AS an animal lover, I share the sentiments expressed by Ms Lee Choo Kiong in her commentary, “Some people just not fit to own pets” (Streats, July 6). I truly agree that people who want to keep pets must give tender, loving care to
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    • 174 22 THE commentary, “Some people just not fit to own pets” (Streats, July 6), got me thinking about the issue of keeping pet dogs in HDB flats. Why do we still allow dogs to be kept in HDB flats? I pity these dogs for our
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    • 135 24 I AGREE with the points made by Mr Lim Boon Hee in his letter, “Can’t we keep the prostitutes out” (Streats, July 6), about women from China working in the sex trade here. This is a serious problem, concerning our society’s image being tarnished. And there is
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    • 166 24 I HAVE been writing to the health and environment ministries on the issue of pollution caused by smokers at non-smoking areas. I have a sensitive nose and smoke troubles me. So far, the ministry’s replies have been about various campaigns, such as posters and signs,
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    • 93 24 LAST Saturday, I had a frightening experience. My husband and I often go for walks around Turf City Shopping Centre at Bukit Timah. We have noticed that there are stray dogs around the area, which is quite close to the Green Fairways Driving Range.
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    • 52 24 IN Monday’s report “Surge in cases handled by Night Court”, we said that night courts sit on Thursdays from 7.30 pm till 9pm. This is incorrect. The night courts operate from Monday to Friday from 6pm until all the cases for the day are heard. We are sorry for
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    • 227 24 HAVI 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 deemed that
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  • Global
    • 311 26 Leroy Chiao has done four space-walks DANVILLE, California In 1969, eight-year-old Leroy Chiao watched in awe as the Apollo spacecraft landed on the moon on a second-hand black-and-white television that his Chinese immigrant parents had bought with a bank loan. “I decided at that
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    • 235 26 -AP WASHINGTON Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has selected former rival John Edwards to be his running mate, picking the smoothtalking Southern populist over more seasoned politicians in hopes of injecting vigour and small-town appeal to the Democratic ticket. Mr Kerry offered Edwards the
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    • 188 26 Reuters BAGHDAD A Lebaneseborn US marine has been freed by his captors, who were thought to have decapitated him in Iraq, the hostage’s brother said yesterday. Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun’s brother Sami, speaking in Tripoli in northern Lebanon, said that his family had received word that
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    • 311 27 TheyTl be treated like hardcore gangsters KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government announced on Monday that it is going to treat snatch thieves the same way it treats hardcore gangsters, the New Straits Times announced yesterday. This means that the government will invoke the Emergency
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  • Medical
    • 461 28  -  Sarah Ng YOUR deep tan may help to raise the babe or hunk quotient, but in the long run your skin will take a beating from too much sun. Although a bit of sun exposure helps produce vitamin D in the skin, overdoing it will lead
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  • EasyStreats
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      791 30 Teachers at new piano school impress GREGORYLEOW so mwc/i that he calls them a Dream Team IF there’s ever a need to seek out a Dream Team of piano schools, one can find it right here in Singapore. The School of Piano Performance, which has been operational
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    • 601 31  -  With the new cable TV classification system and new shows, such as Sex and the City, coming your way, it’s time to get acquainted with a certain F button Broadside By YVONNE KWOK THROUGH years of observation by way of news reports and letters to different
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    • 141 31 HEAD down to Chijmes on Sundays to enjoy a whirlwind of world fusion music from our very own local bands. From the chilled reggae vibes of Bushmen, the rhythm-hungry drummers of Wicked Aura Batucada and Soul Ethnicity’s ethno-techno movement, the Chijmes World Beats series aims to
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    • 191 32 MEDIACORP actress May Phua, best known for her role as Xiao-mei (little sister) in the sitcom Don’t Worry Be Happy, is tying the knot today. The 28-year-old actress/presenter will hold her wedding ceremony and dinner at The Sentosa Resort Spa tonight, Lianhe Zaobao reported yesterday.
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    • what's NEW
      • 84 32 THEY say good things come in small packages. Mexico’s top-selling beer now comes in a limited edition collectible size the Coronita. Available for two months till the end of August, the Coronita buckets of eight bottles will be going or between $6O and $65 at selected pubs
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      • 61 32 SINGAPORE Airlines, in collaboration with Jaeger-LeCoultre, has launched a limited-edition watch that commemorates SlA’s inaugural non-stop flight to New York last week. The special-edition Master Compressor Geographic watch will be produced in only 10 platinum (pictured) and 50 stainless steel pieces. It will be available exclusively to
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    • 429 34 ■AFP ROCK ’n’ roll turned 50 on Monday, at exactly 11am in the United States, when Elvis Presley’s recording of That’s All Right Mama wailed simultaneously over at least 1,200 radio stations worldwide, organisers said. Stations from the UK to Ukraine, Sweden to Switzerland,
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    • 104 35 A 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook buildings in downtown Taipei yesterday, but no damage or casualties were immediately reported. The quake hit under the ocean, 31 miles north-east of Su’ao, the Central Weather Bureau said. Su’ao is a fishing harbour on Taiwan’s northeastern coast. In Singapore, showers with
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 51 35 Bpm, Channel i The second season of this info-tainment programme is about the physical changes and emotional turmoil related to local historical sites. In this episode, host Julian Davison explains the history of the Singapore River and its surroundings 800 years before the arrival of Stamford
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      • Article, Illustration
        43 35 9pm, Channel U This family drama stars Hong Kong actress Esther Kwan and Channel U’s very own artistes including Guo Liang, Michelle Chia, Shaun Chen, Apple Hong, Quan Yifeng and Adrian Pang. Themes of love, kinship and friendship are explored.
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    • Happenin’
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        44 35 IN THE STUDIO WITH THE OBSERVATORY Friday and Saturday, 8.30 pm Esplanade Theatre Studio Tickets at slsfrom Sistic Catch homegrown band, The Observatory, who will play favourites from their critically acclaimed album Time of Rebirth as well as a number of new songs.
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      • 42 35 COFFEE TEA Till Jan 2 next year, lpm~7pm (Mon); 9am-7pm (Tue -Sun) Singapore Philatelic Museum Fee: $3 (adults), $2 (children) Get a better understanding of coffee and tea as a living culture through this display of postage stamps and philatelic materials.
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    • 374 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. SIM. Nurturing Sharp Minds That Can Compete Anywhere. leadership in management BACHELOR OF BUSINESS (ECONOMICS AND FINANCE) Diploma of Financial Services Commencing August 2004
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 421 35 Yourdailyhoroscope AQUARIUS JAN2O-FEB 18 PISCES FEB 19 -MAR 20 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com ARIES MAR 21-APR 19 It’s fun to spend a lot of money, but it’s not so fun to face the bills especially when you realise what you spent it on. Does anyone really need a hula
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  • Sports
    • 394 37  -  Bottom club Tanjong Pagar sign Guinean midfielder for three months S-League savvv^^ By TAN KIM HAN SINGAPORE Armed Forces FC outcast Ballamodou Conde (left) has been snapped up by S-League bottom club Tanjong Pagar. The bustling Guinean midfielder agreed on a three-month contract with the Jaguars
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    • 96 37 P W D L F A Pts Home United 16 11 2 3 46 22 35 Woodlands 16 10 2 4 34 28 32 Tampines Rovers 16 9 3 4 40 23 30 Young Lions 16 8 5 3 42 30 29 SAFFC 16 9 2 5 30 27
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    • 95 37 TAMPINES V ALBIREX (TONIGHT) IX2 Tampines 2.00 Draw 3.45 Albirex 2.95 1/2 GOAL Tampines (-11/2 goals) 3.50 Albirex (+ll/2 goals) 1.23 TOTAL GOALS 0 goal 12.00 1 goal 6.90 2 goals 4.80 3 goals 4.10 4 goals 4.40 5 goals 6.00 6 goals 9.40 7 goals 17.00 8
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    • 357 37 TONIGHT Tampines Rovers v Albirex Niigata (S) (Tampines Stadium) This season: Albirex 1 Tampines 0 Last three league games (most recent first): Tampines beat Balestier 3-1 (H) lost to Home 1-2 (A) beat Sinchi 2-1 (H) Albirex drew with Young Lions 1-1 (H) drew with Sinchi 1-1 (A)
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    • 511 38 Wire services LONDON The mystery of Maria Sharapova’s (right) secret inspiration has been revealed. He is no hunk, according to The Sun, but a 44-year-old investment guru who is “fat, balding, middle-aged and happily married”. Soon after she
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    • 230 38 Reuters CHICLAYO, Peru Beleaguered Argentina coach Marcelo Bielsa sees the Copa America as the ideal chance to blend together two generations of players. He has been trying to rebuild the team after their shock first-round exit from the 2002 World Cup. Argentina plays Ecuador
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    • 377 38 Wire services LONDON England’s Euro 2004 star Wayne Rooney has revealed that he almost quit football when he was a schoolboy so that he could hang out with his friends. The 18-year-old told The Sun that while at school he got tired of training every
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    • 213 39 AFP NAMUR, Belgium Sprinter Thor Hushovd made history here on Monday when he became the first Norwegian to pull on the Tour de France yellow jersey after finishing the 197 km second stage between Charleroi and here behind Robbie McEwen of Australia. Hushovd took
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    • 652 39  -  Tee-off with Godfrey By GODFREY ROBERT THREE years ago, when 1 had the honour of playing three holes with Vijay Singh at Tanah Merah’s Garden course, a representative of the sponsor, Master Card, asked the Fijian to provide me with some tips. Singh was helpful and
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    • FOOTBALL
      • 120 39 AFP LONDON Former France captain Marcel Desailly has left Chelsea, the club announced yesterday. The centre-back spent six years at the west London club, making 222 appearances, including 94 as captain. He won the Uefa Super Cup, FA Cup and Charity Shield with the club, and was part
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      • 140 39 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police scored a last-minute victory over multimillion dollar international football betting syndicates during the final of the Euro 2004, a report said yesterday. Raiding parties bust two unrelated syndicates which were taking bets of up to RMS million (552.25 million) a day and
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      • 82 39 SINGAPORE Armed Forces FC and Southwest CDC are organising Southwest District Budding Stars a weekly football clinic for kids 8 to 11. The clinic, which starts on Aug 1, will be held every Sunday for the next 12 months. SAFFC are also conducting a trial to select
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