Streats, 25 November 2004

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  • 12 1 Streats THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2004 website: www.streats.com.sg e-mail streats@sph.com.sg MICA (P) 196/03/2004
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  • 567 1  -  Ban maybe extended to include bars, coffee shops, other places By Philip Lee Additional reporting by Lee Choo Kiong SMOKERS had better take a deep breath. The places where they can light up may become even fewer. The current limited smoking ban may be extended
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  • Morning Rush
    • 314 4  -  Carparks, vacant lots may become lifestyle complexes By KhiLshwant Singh THE government plans to turn Orchard Road into one of the great shopping attractions of the world to meet increasing retail competition from other Asian cities. Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, the Senior Minister
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    • 299 4 Wire services KUWAIT CITY Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is living like a king in US military custody in Iraq, an adviser to the Iraqi interim prime minister told a Kuwaiti daily in an interview published on Tuesday. Mr George Sada, an
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    • 279 5 Year’s top PSLE pupil from neighbourhood school A RELATIVELY new neighbourhood school has broken into the ranks of the elite, The Straits Times reports today. Seng Kang Primary School has produced this year’s top Primary School Leaving Examinations pupil, Foo Xiang Peng, 12, whose aggregate score
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    • 485 5  -  By Khushwant Singh THREE businessmen have made police reports about a smooth-talking confidence trickster whom they said cheated them of $115,000 in false business deals. A fourth businessman said that he had smelt a rat and backed out in time. One of the
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    • 332 5 SYDNEY The Australian National University and the University of Melbourne have the best international standing among universities Down Under. They tied for the top place in the first ranking of the international standing of all 39 Australian universities, The Australian reported yesterday. The universities
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    • 492 6  -  Upmarket projects due for comeback: Leng Beng By Khushwant Singh SINGAPORE’S poshest hotel, a six-star attraction complete with butler service, will open for business in late-2007. St Regis Singapore will be built on a vacant 999-year leasehold 16,692 sq m site next
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    • 270 6 Wire services BANGKOK The most senior state official to be gunned down in Thailand’s restive south was accidentally shot by one of his own guards, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday, discounting initial claims of an assassination attempt. He said that forensic tests on the bullet,
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    • 215 6 -AP KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government has ordered civil servants to wear local-made batik clothes to work on Saturdays as part of efforts to popularise the traditional dyed textile, a newspaper reported yesterday. Male employees in the 800,000 strong civil service have been
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    • 140 6 Bernama KOTA BARU Kelantan Menteri Besar Nik Aziz Nik Mat, through his political secretary Anual Bakhri Harun, yesterday denied reports that he was resigning from the post, said Kelantan PAS Youth head Zulkafli Yaacob. Mr Zulkafli said that when he contacted Datuk Seri Nik Aziz
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    • 478 8  -  Thousands turned up to pay their last respects to Rajamanickam, who read the stars and touched the hearts of many r Streats im j nmo r [if rj I JdSJt By Zubaidah Nazeer FEW astrologers in Singapore are as well-known and respected as Mr NPK Rajamanickam.
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    • 303 8  -  B y Christopher Lim THE National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is to use its well-established fund management and public health service expertise to help people stricken with cancer, Singapore’s No 1 killer disease. The NKF launched its new Cancer Fund yesterday with the support
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    • 128 10 BUZZSTOP EDUCATION Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam told parliament yesterday that changes on how Chinese will be taught are not meant to cater to a small group with no interest in the language. Tabling a white paper on the proposed changes, he
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    • 85 10  -  Text and picture by Khushwant Singh Two visitors to Fort Siioso on Sentosa buying poppies from members of the Ex-Services Association of Singapore: (From right) Private Stanley Conceicao, 81; Private Abdul Hamid Abdullah, 87; Lieutenant Roy Muthiah, 72, the association's president; Warrant Officer Hassan Abu Shadan,
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    • 148 10 Filipinos’ quota to be cut by 90% AFP JAPAN plans a 90 per cent reduction in the number of visas issued to Filipinos as “entertainers” in a bid to stop sex trafficking, a problem whose scale has put Japan on a US watchlist, a report
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    • 137 10 Proposed Bill to cut welfare spending -AFP AUSTRALIA’S conservative government unveiled proposals yesterday to force people receiving disability pensions to look for work, in a bid to cut the country’s welfare bill. Workforce Participation Minister Peter Dutton said a recent pilot programme that used a
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    • 145 10 US movie studios win case -AFP A MALAYSIAN resident who ran a website that charged users to watch pirated films has been ordered by a California court to pay US$23.B million (Ss39 million) to movie studios, the industry’s trade group said yesterday. The studios had
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    • 95 10 -AFP AUSTRALIA is seeking legal advice to decide if it can cancel the passport of a child sex offender who wants to move from Britain to South Australia, the government said yesterday. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said that his department was investigating whether such a move
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    • 80 10 MINISTER for Health Khaw Boon Wan will attend the World Health Organisation and Asean+3 Health Ministers’ meeting on Avian Influenza in Bangkok from today till Saturday. The meeting will share and review avian influenza control measures and pandemic preparedness, as well as seek consensus for
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    • 98 10 HONG KONG is miffed at being ranked 21st in a global competition report by the World Economic Forum, which put Singapore in the No. 4 slot. Rebutting the report which said that Hong Kong is behind other countries in technology, the Commerce, Industry and Technology Bureau
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    • 93 10 BRITAIN’S Prince Andrew, Duke of York and second son of Queen Elizabeth 11, arrives in Singapore today. During his four-day visit, he will present the International Business Award for the UK Trade and Investment organisation this evening; launch the UK-Singapore Partners in Science Year with Minister
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  • Financial
    • Article, Illustration
      677 12  -  Scrapping of textile quotas will suit garment maker China Fashion down to the ground, company boss Chen Xi Jian believes r 1 OCU J By Chua Kong Ho FORTY-YEAR-OLD Chen Xi Jian, a self-made businessman, is rubbing his hands in anticipation of Jan 1, whei the last of
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    • 92 12 Reuters BEIJING-BASED China Aviation Oil (CAO) blocked a plan by its Singapore subsidiary to acquire a stake in Singapore Petroleum Co Ltd yesterday, reversing an approval it gave in August. The unexplained move, in a shareholder vote, came after the deal’s terms were changed on
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    • 100 12 Bloomberg ROBINSON Co, Singapore’s oldest and biggest retailer, yesterday named Marks Spencer Group pic’s Mr John Cheston as its chief executive officer from January. He replaces Mr Peter Husum, who retired last month. Mr Cheston, 37, was the managing director at Marks Spencer Asia Pacific, the unit
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    • 110 12 Bloomberg COMFORTDELGRO Corp, owner of London’s Computer Cab taxi company, said that it will add a further 1,100 cabs to its booking service by taking over Manganese Bronze Holdings Pic’s unprofitable Zingo service. ComfortDelgro will pay Manganese, the maker of London’s black cabs, £1 (Ss3) as a
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    • 55 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE’S Pan United Marine Ltd won a $45 million contract to build two vessels for the offshore unit of Hong Kong’s Swire Pacific Ltd. The two anchor-handling tug supply vessels will be delivered in the first half of 2006, Pan United said yesterday in a
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    • 397 14 Move signals growing investor confidence in carmaker Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR The Governmem of Singapore Investment Corp bought about 5 per cent of Proton Holdings Bhd, signalling rising investor confidence in Malaysia’s largest carmaker after it announced an alliance with Volkswagen AG. GIC, as the
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    • 420 16 Region’s confidence high as economies outpace those of Europe and US: AC Nielsen survey Bloomberg LONDON Asian consumers, led by Chinese and Indians, are more confident than their European and US counterparts as their economies outperform the rest of the world, a survey of 14,000
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    • 188 16 Bloomberg JAKARTA The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries will not adopt the euro to replace the US dollar as the currency for oil sales, Opec president Purnomo Yusgiantoro said in Jakarta. “Our members have different markets so I think the dollar is still
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    • 26 16 STI: 2,040.19 10.33 *AS AT-NOV 24 US$: 551.642 SS: RM2.314 553.074 Ss: HK54.735 EURO: 552.154 Ss: 24.16 BAHT Ss: 62.84 YEN Ss: 5,468 RUPIAH
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    • 580 18 US retailers cut inventories to limit holiday discounts, but offer other perks Bloomberg PRINCETON, New Jersey Target is signing up shoppers for wake-up calls from rapper Ice T and supermodel Heidi Klum (pictured). Shopping mall operator Taubman Centers will offer aerobics at 4 am
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    • 223 18 Bloomberg TOKYO/TAIPEI Intel Corp, the world’s biggest semiconductor maker, is helping Indian and Chinese customers build personal computers that use the Linux operating system, an alternative to Microsoft’s Windows software. Intel is providing customers with software drivers, documentation and resources to “more easily
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    • 195 17 it comes to sleeping in comfort m You’ll feel cool with an air-conditioner but it’s a Novita Humidifier that makes you feel even more comfortable. It releases a gentle cool mist to add moisture to the cold dry air, removing its damaging and uncomfortable effects such as dehydrated skin, dry
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    • 589 18 Salmon Thrust Presents "Improving basic financial education at the elementary and secondary school level is essential to providing a foundation for financial literacy that can prevent younger people from making poor financial decisions that can take years to overcome." Alan Greenspan, Chairman of Federal Reserve Board Main Trainers and Program
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  • Comment
    • 734 20  -  By JOYCE KOH The Business Times SAFETY on MRT trains has always been a priority and a matter of public interest. And especially so in recent times, with several deaths on the tracks. But are people’s lives really at risk? And are our stations
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  • Vocal
    • 150 22 I REFER to the Housing Board’s letter of reply, “Enough housing options for single PRs” (Streats, Nov 23). To say “when they (single PRs) marry and have a family, they become eligible to buy an HDB flat to set up home in Singapore” might convey
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    • 214 22 NOW that Bhutan has taken the lead by banning tobacco sales, Singapore should follow suit. Cigarettes are still too cheap, as students can easily pool their resources to buy a pack or two. If taxes were raised so that a pack would cost at
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    • 392 22 I REFER to Mr Trempest Humphries’ letter, “Little space for dogs in many private homes” (Streats, Nov 24). I have to agree with Mr Lim Li Ghin that HDB flats are not suitable for large dogs (“HDB flats simply not suitable for big
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    • 142 22 I AGREE with the points made by Mr Trempest Humphries in her letter “Little space for dogs in many private homes” (Streats, Nov 24). No animals, large or small, should be deprived of a home since they are allowed in this country. The
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    • 190 22 I READ with interest the report, “SM to discuss youth on KL trip” (Streats, Nov 22). It is imperative for both Singapore and Malaysia to look into various possible avenues for the strengthening of bilateral relations. This move is also in line with the tenets espoused
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    • 37 22 IN the report, “Bahrain health-care deal” (Streats, Nov 24), it was stated that Singapore and Bahrain signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Tuesday. The MOU was actually signed yesterday. We are sorry for the error.
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    • 85 22 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. We reserve the right to edit your letters for brevity and clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be
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  • Global
    • 366 24 Don’t use terror bogey to oppress: ex-DPM -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Freed politician Anwar Ibrahim will be the star speaker in a major new nationwide campaign against the detention without trial of alleged Islamic militants and others in Malaysia, rights activists said yesterday. The
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    • Article, Illustration
      48 24 An Indonesian police officer displaying photographs of four suspects held over the Sept 9 bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta, which killed 10 people. Australia hailed the arrests as a ‘major breakthrough with Foreign Minister Alexander Downer praising the determination of the Indonesian police Reuters
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    • 140 24 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will tomorrow make his first visit to insurgency-hit Aceh where his troops are involved in a major campaign against rebels, an official said. The planned visit to the resource-rich province of Sumatra came after state of
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    • 461 24 Reuters NEW YORK For US$5O (SsB2) an hour, Meredith sips cocktails with well-heeled men who dream of getting lucky. But Meredith is no escort and certainly no prostitute: She’s a “wing woman”. The 28-year-old works by day at
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    • 351 26 Russia squares off with the West over Ukraine poll spat KIEV, Ukraine Russia’s relations with the US and Europe look set to emerge battered from the growing row over who is the victor in Ukraine’s presidential election. Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has declared himself the winner
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    • 306 26 -AFP NEW YORK Mr Dan Rather, one of the most famous faces of US television news, said on Tuesday that he will step down as CBS Evening News anchor, just months after making a primetime apology for a report on US President George W
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  • Medical
    • 130 28 LONDON Daylight, it seems, helps babies sleep better, BBC Online reported yesterday. According to a study, babies exposed to plenty of daylight are more likely to sleep better during the night. The researchers at Liverpool John Moores University found that babies who were exposed to twice
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    • 256 28 -AFP PARIS A stressful event can more than quadruple the likelihood of an asthma attack within two days, and nearly double the risk of an attack up to seven weeks after the event, a study published on Tuesday said. British doctors asked 60 children
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  • Thursday Tech
    • 481 29  -  Mozilla’s open-source design allows others to write useful program add-ons that enhance the Firef ox Web-browsing experience By Koh Su Haw IF the many reports of security loopholes in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer have not convinced you to abandon the proprietory Web-browser, Mozilla’s new Firefox Web-browser’s many extensions
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    • 191 29 FOR users who surf the Internet on slow dial-up connections and have problems downloading large programs, Linspire Inc on Monday introduced OOoFf! which brings together, in one CD-ROM, two of the more popular open-source programs: Open Office and Firefox. Open Office is an office productivity suite
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  • SPECIAL Family Festival PRODUCED BY THE SPECIAL PROJECTS UNIT, MARKETING DIVISION, SPH
    • 804 30 For the Jumain and Mah families, exhibitors at the Family Festival, the food business involves working together THIS IS THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE FAMILY. The inaugural Family Festival is on from Friday to Sunday, from 10am to 10pm at Levels 4 and
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  • EasyStreats weekender
    • 573 32  -  Reports by Sharlene Tan FOR Famy, Jon and Eddie, meeting Rone and Gigi was very much like meeting their favourite movie stars, although with their big ears, red noses and giant shoes, the two are hardly your typical celebrities. They are, instead, award-winning female clowns from Japan
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    • 335 32 THEY had never seen a clown before they entered the Ringling Clown College Japan programme more than 10 years agoBut Japanese clown duo Rone and Gigi, who only go by their stage names, are now famous the world over and have even opened their country’s first and
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    • going out
      • 401 33  -  r-, By Sharlene Tan BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON Directed by Beeban Kidron Starring Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Renee Zellweger THREE years ago, a woman named Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) lit up our cinema screens. Women identified well with her and even adored this overweight
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      • 67 33 Set your Christmas gifts e arly at Chijmes Christmas Weekend Market. It takes place at Chijmes Wn area on Saturday and Sunday from 4pm to 10pm. Besides live music And entertainment for kids, you’ll find about 80 v endors offering an eclectic a **d intriguing mix of handicrafts,
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      • 141 33 CAN you do any amazing feats, such as hula-hooping while standing on your head, bending a spoon with mind power or balancing a bicycle on your nose? If you can, take part in the Incredible Feat Challenge, a joint promotion by Streats, The New Paper and
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      • 69 33 A ONE-DAY holistic lifestyle fair will be i held at The Elements of Living, a shop that specialises in the art of stone appreciation. It also sells items such as suisekis (fossilised volcanic rocks), garden rocks, natural fossils and crystals that can be used in feng shui. For
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      • 417 34  - His goal culinary perfection By JillLim RITZ-CARLTON chef Benton Toh (above) has known for a year now that he will be representing Singapore at the 10th Annual Bocuse d’Or World Cuisine Contest in Lyon, France, in January. And he practising at length for the event, where, with his assistant, Toh
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      • Article, Illustration
        562 38 GREGORY LEOW is bowled over by Royal Selangor Pewter’s School of Hard Knocks at Clark Quay MEMORIES of technical workshop in secondary school flooded back as I knocked, hammered and produced my own pewter bowl at the new Royal Selangor Pewter Centre at Clarke Quay yesterday. The new
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    • eating out
      • 371 36  -  r LA By_ Sharon Soh BIOPOLIS seems an unlikely address for stylish dining. But Infiizi has chosen to locate itself at this biomedical hub in the west of Singapore, and has a snazzy, Wallpaper-ish interior. Both the chef, Freddie Lee, and restaurant manager Purdey Poon used
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    • 120 39 When the sun goes away and the weather gets gloomy, it’s normal to feel a little lethargic or irritable it’s called the seasonal affective disorder. Said Ms Renee Bumpus, a licensed professional counsellor in the US: “People who are exposed to low light levels for long
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    • Tune in TV $ MOVIE NEWS
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        48 39 lOpm, Central Mick Jagger’s career and private life is well documented in the press, but what is life really like for the music icon. This documentary follows him over the last year as he makes a new solo album and produces his first feature film, Enigma.
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      • 56 39 9pm, Channel U When Chengzhi tells Wen Yi’s daughter that he is going to the House of Wen to look for Wen Yi, Qingqing volunteers to lead the way. The Wen elders get Wen Qian to disguise himself as as Wen Yi so that they can deceive Chengzhi
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    • Happenin’
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        59 39 THE BEATELS LIVE! Tomorrow and Saturday, Bpm Stadium Waterfront, Singapore Indoor Stadium Tickets at $35 from Sistic Relive the psychedelic ’6os with The Beatels, one of the world’s premiere Beatles tribute bands. Come in your mod outfits, Mary Quant hair and macho sideburns and get a door gift. There’s
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      • 73 39 VALAR PINAI (VOICE OF WOMEN) Today, 7-30 pm Performing Arts Auditorium, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (151, Bencoolen Street) Tickets at $2O, call Aware at 6779-7137 This performance by Monica Sharma Menon and G Kalavathy commemorates the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence and to raise funds
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    • 207 41 THE TMCC-JGF Junior Open golf championship one of the few local I tournaments which turns down interested players because of its popularity is back again. Into its ninth year, a total of 196 players from eight countries will compete in the Junior Golf Foundation’s
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    • 94 41 BASKETBALL -AFP CHARLOTTE, North Carolina Rookie §meka Okafor scored 22 points to lead Charlotte Bobcats past Detroit Pistons 91-89 on Tuesday, becoming the first new team since 1971 to defeat a reigning NBA champion. Bobcats snapped an eight-game losing streak by beating the Pistons, afp Other results
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    • 117 41 GOLF -AFP KAUAI, Hawaii South Africa’s Retief Goosen fired a seven-under-par 65 here on Tuesday to grab a one-stroke lead over Fiji’s Vijay Singh after the first round of the US$l million (551.64 million) PGA Grand Slam of Golf. US Open champion Goosen opened with five birdies in
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    • 74 41 FOOTBALL -AFP LONDON Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp resigned yesterday after days of speculation about his future. Redknapp had been at the Premier League club since March 2002 and led the club to promotion from Division One at the end of the 2002/3 season. However, he had a highly
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      480 43 United manager toasts I,oooth match with victory -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Man United 2 Lyon 1 MANCHESTER Alex Ferguson (below) looked set to spend yesterday with a splitting headache after threatening to toast his victorious I,oooth game in charge of Manchester United in epic fashion. Ferguson was presented with
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    • 252 43 Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Monaco 1 Liverpool O MONACO Liverpool coach Rafael Benitez was faming at Danish referee Claus Bo Larsen after his injury-hit side were beaten 0-1 in their Champions League Group A clash here on Tuesday. “The entire world saw there was handball, even the referee
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