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Article470 2000-12-14 1 Agencies. All eyes on what he'll say after Supreme Court blow WASHINGTON After five agonising weeks of trying to keep his White House dreams alive, US Vice-President Al Gore was forced to call it quits yesterday. Earlier, a divided US Supreme Court denied Mr Gore's– Agencies. - 470 words
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Article, Illustration395 2000-12-14 1 Mahesha Thenabadu - Mahesha Thenabadu by_ HE has travelled through 21 countries in five continents to raise money for charity. But in safe-as—a-vault Singapore, British biker Simon Milward awoke yesterday morning to find the front brake of his handbuilt motorcycle missing. Milward, who is in Singapore as part395 words
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Miscellaneous71 2000-12-14 1 PTHE Nasdaq fell yester- THE Dow Jones day amidst concerns A Industrial average LiverD Ol moves about the tech sector's managed to post a growth prospects. The modest gain of Up O gear in ,^J M^ tech-laden composite B^^. 26.17 points, or extra time index dropped 108.96 0.24 per cent,71 words
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HOT NEWS
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Article97 2000-12-14 2 Reuters BEIJING China reacted with indignation yesterday to a US decision to tighten import quotas on Chinese textiles. "We strongly demand that the US government reconsider its decision to reduce the quota, thus averting possible damage to China-US trade relations," Xinhua news agency quoted a– Reuters - 97 words
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Article, Illustration321 2000-12-14 2 Zackaria Abdul Rahim - Zackaria Abdul Rahim They set up website to make schools fun for kids by zackaria@newstoday.com.sg IT all began when a group of mothers started grumbling about the primary school education system. And it culminated in the launch of a website. The mothers might even take on assistantHEDYKHOO - 321 words
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Article203 2000-12-14 2 A CABBIE'S road rage landed him in jail yesterday. The court heard that on April 4 this year, at about 9pm on Yio Chu Kang Road, cabbie Low Eng Whye showed the middle finger as he overtook lorry driver Mr Hang Cheow Pong. Mr Han, 64,203 words
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Article133 2000-12-14 2 IT'S an industry that's expected to grow to over US$5B billion ($100.7 billion) in the next three years. Yet customer service agents at call centres here don't see any future in their jobs. Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) hopes to change all that. NYP's strategy, through its School of133 words
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Article177 2000-12-14 2 AN aggressive islandwide drug bust netted 201 suspected drug offenders on Tuesday. The youngest arrested was 15-year-old and the oldest 60. Two others in their 20s were also arrested at Serangoon North for trafficking ecstacy pills. Codenamed Operation Dragnet, the 19-hour operation led by Central177 words
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Article, Illustration466 2000-12-14 3 Agencies Specialist spinal treatment not available in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR Jailed ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim should be allowed to travel abroad for a delicate spinal operation, his supporters said. They argued that the operation, if improperly conducted, could leave Anwar, 53, paralysed. Anwar has been– Agencies; REUTERS photo. - 466 words
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207 2000-12-14 3 Mahesha Thenabadu - Mahesha Thenabadu by_ NTUC Fair Price hopes to distribute used textbooks to over 8,000 needy students from various schools and welfare organisations. Over the past two weeks, the supermarket chain's annual community service project has collected a total of 100,000 books from the public. Unfortunately,207 words
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246 2000-12-14 3 Ng Hwee Koon - Ng Hwee Koon by hweekoon@newstoday.com.sg COME Jan 1, the Central Provident Fund (CPF) will free up at least $12.3 billion from the Special Accounts for investment purposes. That amount is from CPF contributions of 1.6 million members up to June this year. Do246 words
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90 2000-12-14 3 THE MRT train service between Jurong East and Boon Lay was delayed for about 40 minutes yesterday morning. There was a point machine failure between the two stations from 7.45 am to 8.24 am, the SMRT said. Point machines are used to switch moveable90 words
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Article, Illustration405 2000-12-14 4 Shazalina Salim - Shazalina Salim Expert to help set up ChaoTzee Cheng professorship by shazalina@newstoday.com.sg A WORLD-RENOWNED forensic expert is here to help set up the Chao Tzee Cheng Professorship in Pathology and Forensic Science. The professorship, launched early this year, needs $1.5 million so that the income generated from the405 words
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Article114 2000-12-14 4 THEY'RE not just licking stamps at the Singapore Post Centre. This weekend (Dec 16 and 17), make a trip to the futuristic building next to the Paya Lebar MRT station. It will play host to Funtasia 2000. There will be loads of children's activities, entertainment114 words
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Article, Illustration204 2000-12-14 4 Hazel Tan - Hazel Tan by: hazel@newstoday.com.sg MICHELLE Yeoh kicked her way into Singapore and partied with more than 200 children from several non-profit organisations at a Christmas party yesterday. Partly because she has a soft spot for children. Partly because of her secondWEETECKHIAN - 204 words
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Article, Illustration149 2000-12-14 4 CELEBRATE the spirit of Christmas with Caldwell Arts Entertainment's Amahl and the Night Visitors. Critics have called the musical a true and inspiring story about the real meaning of Christmas. It tells the story of a young, crippled shepherd and his mother, who are visited149 words
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Advertisement14 2000-12-14 2 Ramadan Fast Times .Efe Start of fast: 5.35 am Break of fast: 7.01 pm14 words
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Miscellaneous104 2000-12-14 4 READ 0N... Ailing Taiwan banks up for grabs Singapore banks unlikely to be keen on them/7 India's eunuchs as debt collectors They have a high success rate in getting debtors to pay up/8 Peru was Japanese prefecture for 10 years? Peruvians fume over news that Fujimori has Japanese citizenship/14 Bigger104 words
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HOME NEWS
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Article, Illustration315 2000-12-14 6 S. Ramamirthan - S. Ramamirthan I REFER to a report in TODAY (Dec 12) about Sunday's human rights gathering. On the occasion, the Secretary General of the Singapore Democratic Party, Dr Chee Soon Juan and several opposition members and members of Think Centre were reported to have taken315 words
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Article101 2000-12-14 6 PLEASE note that your report "Steam boiler fire: Three still in ICU" (Dec 12) is inaccurate. In paragraph four, you have stated that a fourth worker, Ng Kok Eng, is also in hospital in a general ward. Please note that we do not have such an employee101 words
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Article, Illustration112 2000-12-14 6 Lin Pei - Lin Pei KUDOS to NTUC Income for coming up with a scheme to assist members of the public, by checking the travel and identification documents and work permits of potential tenants, to ensure their legal status. Once again, Mr Tan Kin Lian, NTUC Income's112 words
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140 2000-12-14 6 Lionel De Souza - Lionel De Souza I REFER to the article in TODAY (Dec 12) captioned "JBJ Refuted". The abolition of the Internal Security Act (ISA) is apparently an old song which Mr JB Jeyaratnam enjoys singing whenever the general election is approaching. Gathering from recent newspaper140 words
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BUSINESS NEWS
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Article313 2000-12-14 7 Lee Yew Meng - Lee Yew Meng Local banks may not buy out troubled counterparts By yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg LOCAL banks are unlikely to jump in to buy financially troubled Taiwanese banks, the way they did in Thailand and the Philippines. Analysts said although the Taiwanese government has agreed to allow 100313 words
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Article139 2000-12-14 7 Bloomberg TOKYO Japanese business confidence stalled this quarter after two years of improvement and may slide in the first three months of next year. The Bank of Japan quarterly Tankan survey's main index showed confidence among large manufacturers was unchanged at 10 points in December. EconomistsBloomberg - 139 words
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Article, Illustration766 2000-12-14 8 Bloomberg News The "third sex" has 60 per cent success rate getting debtors to pay MUMBAI In medieval India, eunuchs kept watch over royal harems so the king's consorts didn't fall prey to sexual advances from their guards. These days in Mumbai,they're protecting assets of– Bloomberg News; India. Bloomberg Photos - 766 words
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362 2000-12-14 8 Chin Weilin - Chin Weilin By i INTERNATIONAL hotel chains still have a firm grip on managing five-star hotels, despite attempts by some of them to break free and become independent. Mr Robert Hecker, managing director of a hotel consulting agency, Horwath Asia Pacific,362 words
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Article, Illustration268 2000-12-14 9 Chan Chao Peh - Chan Chao Peh Photo courtesy of By chaopeh@newatoday.com.sg MENTION Nikon and one would associate it with cameras and other photographic equipment. But what is less known is that the precision equipment division of Nikon Corporation accounts for more than half of the net salesNikon Precision Singapore - 268 words
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120 2000-12-14 9 Bloomberg News SEMBCORP Logistics, a unit of SembCorp Industries, said it will raise $203 million in a share sale to help fund the purchase of a stake in Kuehne Nagel International AG, Europe's biggest sea freight company. It will sell 24.3 million new shares atBloomberg News - 120 words
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MARKET NEWS
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Article, Illustration625 2000-12-14 10 SINGAPORE shares rebounded after some initial weakness on news that the US Supreme court reversed Florida's Supreme Court ruling on a hand recount for disputed presidential ballots in Florida. The announcement in late morning caused the Nasdaq Globex futures to trade limit up625 words
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Article, Illustration516 2000-12-14 10 KUALA LUMPUR Regional markets closed higher, encouraged by the fact that the tussle over the US presidency could be coming to an end when the US Supreme Court overruled the decision for recounting votes in the key Florida state. However, the mood516 words
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WORLD NEWS
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Article294 2000-12-14 11 -AFP from group executioners JAKARTA A human-rights worker has given a chilling account of narrowly escaping a group execution in Aceh in which four people were shot dead. Mr Nazaruddin, 22, a volunteer worker with the Rehabilitation Action for Torture Victims in Aceh (Rata), said the executioners-AFP - 294 words
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Article129 2000-12-14 11 AFP HANOI Fifty-five students have been poisoned over the past few days by chemicals left over from the Vietnam War. The students, from a school in Dong Nai province, were hospitalised with respiratory infections, vomiting and diarrhoea. Aged between 11 and 14, the students had beenAFP - 129 words
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Article120 2000-12-14 11 AFP SYDNEY Tycoon Rupert Murdoch has given his son, James, a birthday present he won't forget a seat on the board of his family's US$7O-billion (5564.3-billion) global media empire, News Corp. James, who turned 28 yesterday, is Mr Murdoch's youngest son and has attracted little of theAFP - 120 words
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Article, Illustration190 2000-12-14 11 NORTH CAROLINA The fate of a US military aircraft that flies like a plane but lands and takes off like a helicopter hangs in the balance after the second fatal crash this year. The commandant of the US Marine Corps has grounded all MV-22 Osprey aircraft190 words
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264 2000-12-14 12 Ng Hwee Koon - Ng Hwee Koon By hweekoon@newstoday.com.sg IT was a disaster waiting to happen. Like so many thousands before them, some 167 illegal immigrants left Indonesia clandestinely for Australia only to go missing. The journey to Ashmore Islands, 240 km away was not long264 words
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Article, Illustration411 2000-12-14 12 Agencies Bank apologises for 'stalling on information' MANILA Much was expected when the star witness in the impeachment trial of President Joseph Estrada took the stand yesterday. But it proved to be an anti-climax. Provincial governor Luis Singson's testimony sounded like a broken record, repeating onlyAgencies; Routers Photo I - 411 words
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145 2000-12-14 12 AFP KUALA LUMPUR An elderly Malaysian taxi driver turned the tables on two knife-wielding robbers, stabbing one of them to death and forcing the other to flee, police said yesterday. The driver, aged 61, escaped with four stitches in his hand after theAFP - 145 words
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248 2000-12-14 12 AFP PARIS An international group of scientists announced yesterday they had cracked the first genetic code of a plant, an achievement that could throw open the gates to a new "green revolution" of supercrops. The object of their study isAFP - 248 words
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Article272 2000-12-14 13 Thai agents looking for violations BANGKOK Undercover agents are on the prowl in Thailand's 400 constituencies, looking for evidence of vote-buying. Their mission is to investigate politicians who offer gift items and <ish to villagers and commit other forms of electoral violations in the run-up to next272 words
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130 2000-12-14 13 AFP HONG KONG Tycoon Li Ka-shing has likened Hong Kong to a "knight in rusty armour" in search of wisdom but with the courage to change for the better. Speaking at the unveiling of Open University institute, to be named after him, Mr LiAFP - 130 words
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Article, Illustration57 2000-12-14 13 Reuters photo FIREMEN help a badly burned unidentified boy out of the window of a five-storey apartment building on fire in central Istanbul on Tuesday. Two people were killed, nine residents injured and five firefighters had to be sent to the hospital. TheReuters photo - 57 words
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Article, Illustration399 2000-12-14 14 AFP Peruvians fume over news that Fujimori has Japanese citizenship LIMA Peruvians have long known that their disgraced ex-president Alberto Fujimori is half-Japanese. Still, news that he has Japanese citizenship ah" these years still came as a shock and an embarassment to manyAFP - 399 words
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324 2000-12-14 14 -AFP TOKYO -Japan's embattled Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has sued a magazine for alleging he had close links to a convicted murderer with ties to farright gangsters. "Prime Minister Mori filed a libel suit with Tokyo district court late yesterday against the-AFP - 324 words
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Article, Illustration78 2000-12-14 14 -AFP JAKARTA Seven people were killed and seven others were buried and feared dead in two separate landslides in central Java, disaster relief officials said Wednesday. Six of the dead were buried in mud in the village of Banjarasri late on Monday, said disaster-AFP - 78 words
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107 2000-12-14 14 Reuters WASHINGTON China last month "successfully" tested an intercontinental missile that it has been developing since the late 1980s. The test was conducted while US Army General Henry Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was visiting China. Pentagon spokesman Kevin Bacon said: "I believeReuters - 107 words
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Article, Illustration213 2000-12-14 16 AFP LONDON Watching a video at home with his family, a quick flick through a biography of Charles de Gaulle and getting up at night to look after his teething baby that is a typical night for British Prime Minister Tony Blair," reported TheAFP; Reuters photo - 213 words
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Article380 2000-12-14 16 Reuters Unicef warns that unaided toddlers will suffer later in life UNITED NATIONS Failure to protect and educate the world's youngest children is sabotaging the quality of life of entire nations, says a new UN report. The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) is calling for an annual US$BOReuters - 380 words
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Article97 2000-12-14 16 -AFP PORT-AU-PRINCE Former populist priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide was officially proclaimed Haiti's President on Tuesday, according to the official Monitor newspaper. The 47-year-old former shantytown priest, who won 91.69 per cent of the vote in balloting boycotted by opposition groups, will succeed President Rene Preval on Feb-AFP - 97 words
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Article, Illustration52 2000-12-14 16 Reuters photo HOLLYWOOD The Simpsons will be "playing" a new board game soon. Fox Licensing and Merchandising has struck a deal with USAopoly for a new version of Monopoly based on the comic characters. The game will be launched at a toy fair in New YorkReuters photo - 52 words
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105 2000-12-14 16 KUALA LUMPUR -The Malaysian immigration authorities have detained 28 people in connection with a gang allegedly smuggling Nepalese into the country via Thailand, a newspaper reported said yesterday. A Myanmar citizen, aged 28, reportedly behind the racket, was arrested on Monday along with 24 Nepalese,105 words
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COMMENTARY
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Article, Illustration713 2000-12-14 17 Sudha G Tilak - Sudha G Tilak Mass producers of beauty queens have forgotten to install a most important component: the thinkpad by In New Delhi THE tiara adorns the perfect product with an imperfect thinkpad. I am not going to beat my non-silicone breasts over this. IfReiheks photo - 713 words
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RELAX
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Article, Illustration610 2000-12-14 18 Hazel Tan - Hazel Tan Today photo by Coco boasts she is not just popular in Chinese-dominated countries by hazel@newstoday.com.sg HOW big a star is Coco Lee? According to the singer herself, she is "bigger than Faye Wong", or so she was quoted as saying in a local English tabloidWEETECKHIAN - 610 words
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Article, Illustration752 2000-12-14 23 Rick Anthony - Rick Anthony -UPS Jim Carrey on his grumpiest, greenest character yet by: HE hops, skips and jumps his way across the big screen as The Grinch. Jim Carrey pushes the envelope once again, creating one of the most memorable characters to hit the screen in-UPS - 752 words
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Article, Illustration813 2000-12-14 24 Joan Bungar - Joan Bungar No barn. No hay. No fiddlers. No harvest moon. by_ They were not dancing in a barn. There were no screechy fiddles or couples twirling arounc with their elbows hooked. Conspicuously absent were bales of hay, chicken poop and shrieks of "yee-ha!" Instead, theyENGKONG - 813 words
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Article167 2000-12-14 25 Reuters HOLLYWOOD Mark Wahlberg has committed to star in Jonathan Demme's The Truth About Charlie, a remake of Stanley Donen's 1963 thriller Charade. Thandie Newton will co-star with Wahlberg; the two will respectively assume the roles played by Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant The Charade– Reuters - 167 words
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Article, Illustration620 2000-12-14 26 Cathleen Tung - Cathleen Tung New concept Taipan Circus from Switzerland has no animals, no fixed routines, and blends the classical with the modern by i A CIRCUS with no animals and no fixed routines Just human performers in stunning costumes under dazzling lights and beguiling music.HEDYKHOO - 620 words
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Article, Illustration553 2000-12-14 27 Edmund T Shern - Edmund T Shern NOT SAY I WANT TO SAY Don't know what to give the man or boy of your dreams? What about a boy toy? THIS Christmas is going to be sooooo easy for the women out there. Why? Because buying any guy a Christmas553 words
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227 2000-12-14 27 De Niro to set up home in London just like Tom Cruise and Madonna Reuters LONDON Film star Robert De Niro is reported to be the latest big Hollywood name to cross the Atlantic to buy a home in London. Fittingly for De Niro, who starred as a boxer inReuters - 227 words
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Article, Illustration654 2000-12-14 28 Maurice Png - Maurice Png Horse-riding is loved by disabled children and adults as therapy for body, mind and soul byj The thirteenth horse has been adopted but there is one more to go, for this year, at least. Is that a mathematical problem sum? No, it's just sponsorship figures thatMAURICE PNG - 654 words
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Article, Illustration505 2000-12-14 28 Janaki Venkataraman - Janaki Venkataraman by_ CHENNAI actress Viji Aswath's recent suicide throws up the issue of whether the film industry is a death trap for actresses. Why do so many movie actresses, especially Tamil ones, kill themselves? The latest victim of this tragic trend is505 words
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Article, Illustration403 2000-12-14 29 Hazel Tan - Hazel Tan Actor Simon Came spills the beans on sexy Liz Hurley by hazel@newstoday.com.sg HORSEY. An English rose, That's how the man who claimed he had a wild, passionate three-night fling with sexpot Liz Hurley described her. Actor and martial arts expert Simon Came has become the403 words
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Miscellaneous965 2000-12-14 19 Christmas horse for the season Compiled by Rosalind Png The Substation Garden Asian Boys Vol. 1 R(A) rosalind@newstoday.com.sg The play is based on a true Cambodian story. The Tomorrow till Dec 17 Pol Pot government accuses Bophana of being a 8 pm (Thursdays Saturdays); Glenn Singer and The spy for965 words
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Article, Illustration591 2000-12-14 31 Reuters Hawks get fifth win of season NBA Hawks 107 Kings 99 ATLANTA Jason Terry, who briefly lost his starting job earlier this season, enjoyed the best game of his career as the Atlanta Hawks surprised the Sacramento Kings. Terry scored nine of his careerhigh 38– Reuters; Reuters photo - 591 words
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252 2000-12-14 31 -AFP Toronto 104 Indiana 90 TORONTO Vince Carter scored 33 points and Charles Oakley added a season-high 22 as the Raptors spoiled Isiah Thomas' return to Toronto with victory over the Indiana Pacers. Carter buried five three-pointers, including three in a five-minute span of the-AFP - 252 words
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Article, Illustration731 2000-12-14 32 After signing the biggest contract in sports history, shortstop Alex Rodriguez held a press conference yesterday, where he spoke on a variety of topics, including what he plans to do with the money and whether he is worth all the fuss. We731 words
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Article, Illustration253 2000-12-14 33 Reuters Golf superstar is the second athlete after Michael Jordan to top the 10-year-old list ST LOUIS Tiger Woods (left) has been named the most powerful person in sports for the year 2000 by the Sporting News magazine. Woods is the second athlete toReuters - 253 words
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313 2000-12-14 33 2 Paul Tagliabue (Commissioner, National Football League) Tagliabue has consolidated the league's many businesses into a single entity, the more the NFL looks like the Empire's invincible Death Star. This year he had to deal with a handful of313 words
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Article, Illustration243 2000-12-14 34 -AFP Superstar Ronaldo denies that he was caught drink-driving MILAN Brazil and Inter Milan striker Ronaldo denied yesterday that he failed a drink driving test after a late visit to a top-class restaurant. Spanish press reports said the incident occurred as Ronaldo emerged from-AFP - 243 words
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Article, Illustration189 2000-12-14 34 AFP I don't want to leave Roma ROME AS Roma's out-of-favour Japanese midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata will not be leaving the Italian capital for Manchester United, the player's management company announced Tuesday. Earlier reports in the British press had suggested the best player Japan has ever produced was on theAFP - 189 words
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Article132 2000-12-14 34 Reuters I won't go to West Ham, says Soma LONDON Norwegian defender Ragnvald Soma turned down a move to premier league West Ham because players in England drink too much, the Evening Standard newspaper reported on Tuesday. "All the drinking at the English clubs doesn't tempt me," the underReuters - 132 words
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Article497 2000-12-14 35 Reuters Unscrupulous agents capitalising on young soccer hopefuls' naivete BRASILIA Brazilian congressmen hit out at "greedy, unscrupulous agents" on Tuesday at the way they treated a 16-year-old. The youth told the congressmen how he was abandoned alone in Belgium by a man who had promised to findReuters - 497 words
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Article, Illustration228 2000-12-14 35 AFP PARIS French international defender Bixente Lizarazu (right) has become the latest extortion target of Basque separatist group ETA, a police official said here on Tuesday. The Bayern Munich defender, who was born in Saint-Jean-de-Luz around 20 km from theAFP - 228 words
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Article, Illustration308 2000-12-14 36 AFP. Indian captain slapped with one-match suspension Cricket RAJKOT Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly will miss the fifth and final one-dayer against Zimbabwe tomorrow after being penalised for on-field behaviour. Ganguly had a one-match suspension imposed by match referee Barry Jarman for putting the umpiresAFP.; Allsport photo - 308 words
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Article, Illustration271 2000-12-14 36 Reuters JOHANNESBURG South African captain Shaun Pollock and his New Zealand counterpart Stephen Fleming (left) are pondering over the surprising decision to hand groundsman Chris Scott and his staff the man-of-the-match award. The award recognises their efforts to ensure that at least part of the third testReuters - 271 words
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Article, Illustration394 2000-12-14 37 Reds get dreaded draw NYON Liverpool found it was on the wrong end of the stick when it was drawn to meet mighty Italian challenger Roma in the Fourth Round of the Uefa Cup yesterday. Liverpool knew that its fate was at the mercy of the gods whenAi.usroßT photo - 394 words
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336 2000-12-14 37 Reuters BRUSSELS World soccer's governing body Fifa said yesterday that it was close to agreement with the European Commission on revamping disputed soccer transfer rules. Speaking ahead of a meeting with commission officials, Fifa general secretary Michel Zen-Ruffinen said he was optimistic about– Reuters - 336 words
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135 2000-12-14 37 BELGRADE Yugoslav basketball player Haris Brkic was in a critical condition after a unidentified assailant shot him in the head, local media reported yesterday. The assailant approached Brkic and fired two shots in his face at point-blank range wit a small-calibre handgun when the– Reuters - 135 words
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Article231 2000-12-14 38 Reuters Italian Cup Udinese 4 Lazio 1 UDINE Holder Lazio crashed out of the Italian Cup after a 4-1 quarter-final second leg defeat to Udinese on Tuesday, ending the match with nine men after two second half dismissals. The defeat is the latest setback forReuters - 231 words
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427 2000-12-14 38 Worthington Cup Birmingaham 2 Sheff Wed 0 BIRMINGHAM Sheffield Wednesday manager Paul Jewell was banished from the touchline at St Andrew's last night after a row with referee Jeff Winter as his team sank to defeat, reported Soccernet. Jewell was given his marching orders427 words
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Article, Illustration209 2000-12-14 38 LONDON Referee Graham Poll made around 20,000 enemies last night when he abandoned the Worthington Cup quarter-final tie between Manchester City and Ipswich because of a waterlogged pitch, reported Soccernet. He called a halt to the game in the 23rd minute after Paul Dickov had209 words
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Article, Illustration526 2000-12-14 39 S. Gulam - S. Gulam Questions like this can rarely be answered to everyone's satisfaction PELE or Maradona? Who's the Player of the Century? Fifa (the football's world govering body) may have chosen to play it safe by giving the awards to both players. But526 words
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Article378 2000-12-14 40 S. Gulam - S. Gulam Another blow for clubs as fields are to be repaired by gulam@newstoday.com.sg THE year 2001 is going to be a memorable year for the SLeague. For all the wrong reasons. First, there was the cut in subsidy, a blow the S-League clubs have yet378 words
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