Today, 3 April 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 547 1 Agencies Stocks fall in 29-month low on US-China tension /NEW YORK Stocks fell sharply yesterday in volatile trading, pushing the Nasdaq Composite Index to its lowest close in 29 months. Economic and earnings concerns were intensified by US-Chinese tensions resulting from a collision of aircraft from the
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    • 201 1 WASHINGTON The last communication from the crew of the US navy surveillance plane that made an emergency landing on Hainan Island was that armed Chinese soldiers were boarding, SCMP Online said, quoting US officials. The crew of the highly sensitive EP-3E Aries II electronic surveillance plane
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    • 44 1 -AFP photo Apt Israeli missile is caught just as it is exploding next to the SParadise hotel in the West Bank town ofßethlem yesterday. An Israeli soldier and 10 Palestinians were wounded in heavy fighting that erupted near the hotel.
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    • 171 1 AS Prince Edward's wife flew out of Britain on an official visit to the Middle East at the weekend, it was in the certain knowledge that her next encounter with a sheikh would not have such catastrophic results as her last. For, despite the best efforts of
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    • 116 1 Reuters An experimental AIDS vaccine forged from the virus that causes the common cold blocked the disease from developing into its full-blown stage in laboratory monkeys, although it did not prevent the actual infection, a top scientist said yesterday. Mr John Shiver, director of vaccine research
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 309 2 Will oil firms follow suit? ELECTRICITY is going to cost less come May 1. Power Supply is cutting its electricity tariffs to domestic and small business users by 2.66 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh). This is a 13.4 per cent cut. These low tension supplies used to cost
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    • 119 2 A NEWBORN baby girl, with her umbilical cord still attached, was found outside a lOth-floor HDB flat in Hougang on Sunday. She was one or two days old. The baby was wrapped in a towel and placed in a carrier bag in front of the
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    • 107 2 IT was practically open house for a burglar over the weekend. Madam Vijayah, 46, secured her Bishan flat on Thursday morning and left for her mother's home. She locked her door and windows but left the key to her windows in the keyhole. When she returned
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    • 410 3 Both countries play blame game following mid-air plane collision INCREASINGLY testy China-US relations may have come to a head with Sunday's collision between an American spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet. It was a situation which had become routine an
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    • 163 3 Reuters BANGKOK Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's graft case starts today but the court that will hear his case seems to have more reason to be worried than the man himself. The Constitutional Court will have to decide whether to uphold a ruling by
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    • 142 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The judge hearing Keadilan Youth chief Mohamed Ezam Mohamad Noor's sedition case should not withdraw himself, argues the defence counsel. Mr Christopher Fernando, acting for Ezam, who is charged with uttering seditious remarks which were published in the Mingguan Malaysia on Mar
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    • 85 3 Bernama PUTRAJAYA Singapore will issue the smart identity card, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng told his Malaysian counterpart yesterday. Mr Wong met Datuk Sen Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is also the deputy prime minister for talks in Malaysia. Both countries are looking into
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    • 359 4  -  Ng Hwee Koon It will save everything from logos to inventions by hwe ekoon@news tod ay.com. sg HAVE you a new invention? Have you changed your company logo or come up with a new product design? The new place to file your monopolistic rights over these,
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    • 101 4 THE number of motorcyclists who were involved in fatal accidents increased from 94 in 1999 to 113 last year. Eighty-five of these riders were Singaporeans and 20 were still on probation. Of these riders, 76 died. Half of them were younger than 25 years of
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    • 106 4 A VETERAN lawyer is on trial for shoplifting three household items from Tangs. Lilian Ong, 50, who owns Lilian Ong Associates, allegedly took the items from the department store on Mar 14 last year. A key witness, security guard, Mr Lam Wee Cheong, who detained
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    • 81 4  -  WEE TECK HIAN INTO the footsteps of the one-armed swordsman steps freelance photographer Pak Herman R, seen here at Pulau Bengkalis, off Sumatra. Pak, who has been working the shutter for the past 20 years, took up photography after he lost his right arm in an
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    • 108 4  -  Ruth Kam by repo rter@n ews today.com.sg THE biennial Red Cross International Bazaar will return with a big bang on Sept 1 this year, at the Padang. It aims to raise $500,000 for the humanitarian services. Twenty-one embassies and high commissions have promised to take part
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    • 175 4 AN average of about five maids have been reported missing every week in the last two years. The Manpower Ministry told Channel News Asia that their reasons for running off include the inability to adapt to the new work environment, being unfairly treated, and
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    • 252 5  -  Elaine Quek by e laino@n(.1 wst o d ay. com. sg SMRT to merge with TIBS? That's a possibility. With SBS running the NorthEast Line from next year, SMRT will no longer be Singapore's only MRT service operator.
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    • 180 5 ONE of Singapore's prime tourist attractions is set to roar back to life. Haw Par Villa will revert to its original name, Tiger Balm Gardens. It will also be more true to the concept that its creators Tiger Balm ointment tycoons, the Aw brothers
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    • 80 5 A TRANSPORT driver managed to steal thousands of dollars worth of company funds over two months. Lim Kim Huat, 50, was entrusted with collecting payments from clients for his company, Sam Logistics. But instead, he pocketed the cash in sums ranging from $500 to $4,400. In
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 103 4 READ 0N... Japan feels the US blues Survey shows falling business confidence/9 Too much at stake A Pahang by-election may determine Dr Mahathir's political survival/ 12 Job ads could use a little mix Online fob advertising can aid traditional channels/13 Lights out, have fun! Heineken's cheeky ad bags a prize/14
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  • LETTERS
    • 329 6 One way to return the favour to those who helped keep prices down I REFER to the letter "Help the needy or the loyal" (Today, Mar 17). We would like to clarify that the guiding principle behind the Government's Assistance Scheme is to help all
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    • 138 6  -  Chen Kuo-Wei PUBLIC tenders are called in order to determine the highest, most appropriate bids for a particular shop. The successful tenderer will then start his business based on the rent which he submitted. I was told rental renewals are based on the current
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    • 212 6  -  Chai Philip I REFER to Ravi Veloo's commentary on ethnic pride and the Oscars (Today, March 29). In it, Mr Veloo commented that Asians do not need Hollywood to feel good. This is but his own view. What he fails to mention is
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    • 86 6  -  Narayana Narayana I REFER to the letter "Take a bow, educate the public" (Today, Mar 30). I myself have carried several copies away on occasions. If the aim of Today is to create as wide a readership as possible, it is unlikely that they will object. Readers who
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    • 234 6  -  GohME THE Raffles Town Club (RTC) saga has opened up many areas of concern and all governing bodies should investigate further. I am one of the 5,000 individuals who was invited by RTC to join their prestigious club. As a UOB Corporate Card
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 155 7 THE Singapore dollar yesterday fell to its lowest level in more than three years. It shed 0.8 per cent to 551.817 against the US dollar, its biggest one-day drop in 15 months. Since January this year, the Singdollar has fallen 4.1 per cent
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    • 381 7  -  Ivay Tan Singapore won't shake the bear just yet, says real estate analyst by ivay@n ewsto d ay. com ,sg SINGAPORE'S residential and office markets will remain bearish as worldwide economic conditions weakened demand in Asia, said Cushman Wakefield, a global real estate services firm. The company
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    • 141 7 SINGAPORE'S private home prices fell 3.7 percent in the first quarter from the previous three months, according to preliminary estimate by the Urban Redevelopment Authority. The URA said the flash estimate is compiled based on caveats lodged during the first 10 weeks of the first
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    • 113 7 PANPAC Media.com, a Singapore-based magazine and online publisher, said it will cease operations of its AsiaStockWatch.com web site in Malaysia and Singapore from yesterday after it failed to sell it. The company said two weeks ago it was in talks to sell the financial Web site. However,
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    • 69 7 SINGAPORE will soon revise its growth forecast for this year to reflect a sharper-than-expected slowdown in the US, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Currently, the Government expects growth to slow to between five and seven per cent from last year's 9.9 per cent.
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    • MARKET NEWS
      • Why so little trade?
    • 285 9 AFP Survey shows falling business confidence TOKYO Gloom over Japan's economic recovery darkened yesterday as the Bank of Japan's latest Tankan survey showed that business confidence had plunged again following the United States' economic slowdown. The index of business confidence of large manufacturers in the
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    • 183 9 Bernama-AFX-ASIA LONDON The US economy is already on course for stabilisation and acceleration in economic growth to a 3.5 to four per cent quarterly rate by the year end, according to SG Securities. In its second quarter Global Economic Outlook research report, the brokerage
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    • 171 9 AFP SYDNEY Australia's corporate leaders stepped up the pressure for a cut in interest rates yesterday as another survey showed plunging business and investor confidence. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry said its latest survey showed business confidence was down in the three months to
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    • 207 9  -  Ivay Tan by ivay®ne wsto day. co m. sg THE next time you board an SIA aircraft, note the human friendliness of its inflight environment. It could be the brainchild of undergraduates from the Nanyang Technological University. Singapore Airlines has teamed up with the
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    • 166 7 PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM Infertility and Preparing for In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Stress and emotional reactions What to anticipate? How to prepare yourself? How to develop good coping skills? ART IVF treatment: what happens before, during and after A/Prof Jothi Kumar. Senior Consultant. Depl of Obstetrics Gynaecology, NUH Stress and emotional reactions to
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 224 10 Agencies Speculation rife after Milosevic gives himself up BELGRADE Jail cells and a series of court trials await the man many call the "Balkan Butcher". Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic (right), who surrendered himself to the authorities after a 36-hour standoff on Sunday, now faces charges ranging
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    • 147 10 AFP HONG KONG A Hong Kong bookshop owner linked to the pro-democracy movement in China has been detained in China for allegedly spying for Taiwan. Mr Leung Hwa has been missing since last November. According to news online provider, chinesenewsnet, Mr Leung went to
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    • 156 10 AFP SEOUL A North Korean leader has expressed anger at the new US administration in public for the first time at an international forum. Speaking at the InterParliamentary Union in Havana, Mr Kim Yong-Dae, vice-presi-dent of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly presidium, said
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    • 264 10 A good ruling but it leads to chaos AFP NEW DELHI This Indian capital was struggling yesterday to sort out a public transport tangle threatening to plunge the city into chaos. Traffic has already been thrown into disarray by a Supreme Court ruling forcing all buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws to
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    • 137 10 HONG KONG Hong Kong police have arrested six foreigners suspected in connection with a false document claiming 4,000 tonnes of gold reserves worth around HK$2B4 billion (Ss66 billion). Two Filipinos, two Germans, a Singaporean and a Thai national were alleged to have collaborated
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    • 320 11 Israelis nab Arafat's elite guards in covert operation JERUSALEM Israeli special forces, camouflaged with tree branches, stole into Palestinian-controlled areas in the West Bank and captured at least five members of Mr Yasser Arafat's elite bodyguard unit. The operation, shortly after midnight on Saturday, is seen as the
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    • 240 11 AFP NEW DELHI Indian detectives have arrested the suspended chairman of the Central Board of Excise and Customs on bribery charges. Along with Mr B P Verma, the central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) also arrested his son, Mr Siddharth, and two of
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    • 110 11 AFP RIO DE JANEIRO A Brazilian lawmaker has launched a crusade to purge Portuguese of foreign expressions. Representative Aldo Rebelo urged his colleagues to pass a measure banning English expressions such as "self-serv-ice" and "online". He said the country needs a law that would make use of
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    • 159 11 AFP MANILA Muslim extremist kidnappers threatened yesterday to murder their US hostage as a birthday "gift" for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who turns 54 on Thursday. "We will send her a gift the head of Jeffrey Schilling," said Abu Sayyaf spokesman Abu Sabaya. Gunmen
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    • 126 11 Reuters LOS ANGELES A majority of teenagers in the US said they used violence in the past year, and one in five high school-age boys took a weapon to school. According to a new survey conducted by the California-based Institute of Ethics, 75 per cent of
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    • Article, Illustration
      28 11 Reuters photo A devastating fire on Sunday, which started from a bakery, left 500 shops in a pile of rubble in the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka.
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    • 249 11 Reuters CANBERRA Australian Prime Minister John Howard's five-year coalition has won back key voters from the opposition Labor party. According to The Newspoll, published in The Australian newspaper, the Liberal-National coalition was regaining its election-winning 1998 standing in marginal seats, after policy reversals on unpopular
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    • 32 11 Reuters photo Aurora Australia or (he Southern Lights is glowing in the sky over Glenn Ourua town, in northern New Zealand in the area's most dazzling display since 1989.
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 1152 12  -  G Purushotman A Pahang by-election may determine Dr Mahathir's political survival ON Friday, United Malay National Organisation (Umno) state assemblyman for Beserah, Datuk Fauzi Abdul Rahman announced his intention to resign his seat, plunging his party into renewed frenzy. By now, the wayang kulit (shadow play)
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  • INFOTECH
    • 459 13  -  Sol E Solomon Online job advertising can aid traditional channels by so 1 omo n@ne wsto day. c o m.sg Most firms have already embarked on, or at the very least, are contemplating going into the "click and mortar" mode of doing business.
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    • BREAKING NEWS
      • 56 13 Sun Microsystems has named Mark Canepa as the new head of its storage products, a move that could mean big changes for the often-struggling division. Mr Canepa had been in charge of Sun's workstations and low-end servers, a division that caught attention by using aggressive pricing to
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      • 86 13 BroadVision turned up the heat on its competition Friday with the release of its latest e-husiness software server and the expected announcement of a new travel e-commerce deal later this week. The e-commerce software maker said its BroadVision One-to-One Enterprise 6.0 adds much-anticipated Java support to its
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      • 69 13 Five thousand small companies in Hong Kong will shut or move to mainland China following the enforcement of a law tackling me use of illegal software in offices next week. Mr Simon Shi Kai-biu, president of the Hong Hong Small
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    • 165 13 Software AG, a system software provider and pioneer in Extensible Markup Language (XML), has signed a Memorandum of Intent (MOI) with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). Under the memorandum, the software vendor will promote wide and rapid adoption of XML
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    • 216 13 Sun Microsystems Inc and supercomputer vendor, Cray Inc, have entered into an agreement that gives Cray the right to rebrand, directly market and sell Sun's new Sun Fire servers as data management nodes within Cray's next-generation Cray MTA-2 and Cray SV2 supercomputer products. The recently introduced Sun Fire
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    • 90 13 NETg, a provider of a range of e-learning offerings, has opened a sales office in Singapore. The company incorporates over 75,000 learning objects with Internet services and interactivity. It has a portfolio of over 1,000 courses in 12 languages, covering professional IT, desktop and personal development
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  • RELAX
    • 698 14  -  David Ngiau Heineken's cheeky ad wins third prize by david@newstoday.com.sg The Heineken "Lights Out" advertisement, produced by advertising agency, Bates Singapore, took third prize at the i-TVC Awards held last week. The Internet advertising awards, organised by MediaCorp Interactive, was the first of its kind in
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    • 700 16  -  Mahesha Thenabadu These young men have chosen to make a career out of busting crime by reporter@newstoday.com.sg THEY have chosen a life of battling crime. But Lian Ghira Hua, Aivin Moh, Leon Chan and Tan Tat Ting are more than just plain do-gooders. These young men
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    • 607 23  -  Mr Showbiz Courtney Cox worked hard to get into her latest film, 3,000 Miles to Graceland You know that you've arrived when tabloids try to follow up the Tom Cruise-Nicole Kidman shocker with stories that you and your spouse are on the verge of a breakup.
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    • 718 24  -  Rachel Lo Slava will captivate you with his childlike imagination in his Snowshow by ra che ©newstoday. com. sg the time. He rediscovers the world everyday," Slava said with a twinkle in his eye, punctuated with animated gestures. Born in 1950 in a village near Orel in
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    • 536 25  -  Hazel Tan What does Cass have to say about getting prettier by the day? by hazel@ne wstod ay. co m. sg The first thing you'd notice about Cass Phang is that she looks different. Or should we say, she's getting prettier by the day. And the
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    • 586 26 Once an abandoned puppy, now the love of many, making big money The tiny pup huddled filthy, diseased and unkempt, on the dump where he had been left to die. But when she spotted him, Ms Lara Jo Regan knew that that pathetic bundle of fluff
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    • 239 26 ESPLANADE Theatres on the Bay and the National Arts Council (NAC) will jointly present Music Box 2001 in a second year running. Music Box started last year as a seeding platform for Singapore's young and promising musicians, who make music in a wide
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1030 18 RADIO highlights @Moulmein High g^ f?> 0\ fy Manchester United vs The New Morning Drivetime Rhapsody Express with Petrina, 5-8 pm the Flying Dutchman On your drive home or and Jamie Meldrum to that evening appoint- TVTATT7T fj( AFTERHOURS 10.00 News Bat 10 6-10 am. ment, tune in to CHANNEL
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    • 847 19 Gelada Baboons Beyond the Great Wall Ethiopia's Bleeding Hearts on Journey To the Inner i\ Arts Central, 9 pm Mongolia (Part 1) e I I Channel news Asia Set in Ethiopia's breathtaking Simien Channel NeWSASIO, Mountains, this film is a dramatic story of 7 37 pm a male baboon's struggles
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    • 1315 20 5 O HMH «W '^A attain that perfect look FOOCIFeStiVOIS Cantonese, Nony a, Indian, (CH 24) through digital photo N^J Malay and more. T" retouching, online universi- Fun With Food BBQ, Dates: 10. 12, 17 and 19 April Wrestling-WCW ties, digital animation, digi- Grills,Thrills And More 2001, 10.30am to 12.30pm
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    • 1372 21 TheatreßeOt Tickets: $21, $26 and $31, available Venue: Drama Centre I MySkß6Qt »Wf at Sistic outlets, hotline website* Tickets: $22, available at Sistic fc BP Zoom outlets, hotline website* J Aaron Kwok Concert 2001 Live I^^/^ The Birds (right) wtmPWFm&i W*2* Tne Birds is a comedy by Greek Pan Island
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  • SPORTS
    • 656 27 Coultharcl puts the brakes on Schumacher's winning run Formula One SAO PAULO So Michael Schumacher is human, after all. Enzo Ferrari once said that you never stop learning if you are losing and those words rang true on Sunday as McLaren and David Coulthard (right) ended
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    • 577 27 NBA LA Lakers 78 New York 79 LOS ANGELES Kobe Bryant returned to action on Sunday, but was pacing in the locker room when the Los Angeles Lakers needed him the most. Marcus Camby scored seven of his 20 points
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    • 939 28  -  Rohit Brijnath I'm sure that will be his epitaph THERE is something restrictive about television. You cannot tell spin (not as in cricket, but in tennis, the kick that arrives from an Andre Agassi topspin forehand). You cannot tell speed either. The radar gun shows you
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    • 312 28 Reuters Cricket BRIDGETOWN A maiden Test century from Ridley Jacobs gave West Indies an outside chance of victory in the third Test against South Africa yesterday. After the home side was bowled out for 387 in its first innings, South Africa finished the fourth
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    • 492 29 -AFP Primera Liga Barcelona 4 Las Palmas 1 MADRID Barcelona fired four goals past lowly Canary Islanders Las Palmas to signal its intention of staying in the hunt for the league title, or at least a welcome European place. On what was the only relevant
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    • 577 29 AFP Closest rivals Juventus and Lazio falter Serie A Juventus 1 Brescia 1 MILAN Brescia's Roberto Baggio scored a late equaliser to grab a draw at Juventus yesterday to leave his former club nine points adrift of Italian first division leader AS Roma. It was a
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    • 461 30  -  Leonard Thomas Man United v Bayern Munich by leonard@newstoday.com.sg JUST as the history of German football is littered with its various teams' storied last-gasp 'never-say-die' comebacks, so over the years has it had a number of individual gifted footballers who can be bracketed in the 'arrogant'
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    • 404 30  -  Leonard Thomas OVER the past two weeks, England has seen its reputation enhanced and its 2002 World Cup qualification chances enjoy a similar renaissance. Just three days ago, Man Utd, England's strongest representative in European club football, was extraordinarily made to look pedestrian by its bitter
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    • 165 30 Galatasaray v Real Madrid ISTANBUL When Galatasaray beat Real Madrid 2--1 in the Super Cup final in Monaco last August, the Turkish club's players and fans celebrated as if they had won the European Cup itself rather than just the friendly curtainraiser to the
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • 458 31 AFP Marcus Stewart hat-trick brings Ipswich up to third English Premiership Southampton 0 Ipswich 3 I.ONDON Marcus Stewart moved to the top of the Premiership's scoring charts as he fired a hat-trick for Ipswich Town in its 3-0 victory over Southampton yesterday. Stewart, who
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      • 164 31 AFP LONDON Southampton finally released Glenn Hoddle's registration yesterday, thus allowing the former England coach to become manager of English Premiership rival Tottenham. Saints chairman Rupert Lowe had been insistent he would not release Hoddle, a White Hart Lane hero in
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      • 347 31 Reuters Cricket BRIDGETOWN The West /Indies suffered a batting collapse but held out for a draw in the third test against South Africa on Monday. After reaching tea in no apparent danger at 16 without loss, chasing an impossible 265 to win,
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    • 527 32  -  S. Gulam Major shake-up atTampines Rovers by gulam® n e wstoday. co m. sg JITA Singh is back in S-League football. The former national coach was appointed technical director of struggling Tampines Rovers yesterday. His appointment is significant because the wily Jita has a reputation of
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    • 355 32  -  Stanley Ho by Stanley @ne ws to day.com. sg IT will only be a matter of time before the executioner wields his axe. And the first head to roll will belong to a Brazilian. Tampines Rovers, the only team in the 2001 NTUC Income S-League without a
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