Today, 12 April 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • 8 1 TODAY Thursday April 12, 2001 MllAil'i 138 11/2000
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 386 1 AFP US crew leaves China but some problems yet to be resolved HAIKOU (China) One impasse between the US and China was out of the way this morning with the release of the US spy plane crew. A chartered commercial Continental Airlines 737 left Hainan Island at
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    • 184 1 Reuters WASHINGTON The explosion on a Thai Airways 737-400, which Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was about to board minutes later, showed no sign of being caused by a bomb, US investigators said yesterday. The aircraft was parked at the gate at
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    • 61 1 -AFP NEW YORK Stocks ended mixed yesterday, as the technology sector held onto gains while blue chips lost some of their lustre. The Nasdaq rose 46.92 points (2.53 per cent) to close at 1,898.95 and the Dow industrials fell 83.09 points (0.82 per cent) to 10,019.65. The Standard
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 388 2  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Kindergarten students soon to receive training in deal-making by. zackaria@newstoday.eom.sg ENTREPRENEURS and technopreneurs seem to be the buzzwords for the new economy. Now, there's another to add to the list kinderpreneurs. Imagine this: A whole generation of children who pack business plans along
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    • 218 2 BEING in the right place at the right time won Mr Jason Tan, now a The New Paper journalist, more than $10,000 in cash and gifts. He was passing by a busy shopping centre when he saw some children playing by the fountain.
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    • 103 2 PEOPLE have tried to sneak into Singapore through Woodlands, and by boat through Changi. On Tuesday, some of them tried to take the river route. The speedboat with its five passengers was spotted heading for Sungei Bulob river by Police Coast Guard (PCG) Special Task
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    • 104 2 "In none of his answers did Mr Lee comment on the spy plane incident, let alone to urge the US to take an uncompromising stance towards China in negotiations concerning the return of the American spy plane that made an emergency landing on China's southern
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    • 172 2  -  Joy Frances by. joy@newstoday.com.sg A MAID was sent to prison for three years for violently shaking the baby she was left in charge of last year. Kolip Widayati Kasripan, 28, was trying to stop six-month-old Ryan Koh Shao Hong from crying on June
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    • 152 3 A LOTTERY player hoping to get his hands on a $20,000 jackpot was sent to jail in handcuffs instead. Yesterday, Zainor Mahmud, 45, pleaded guilty to cheating. He had bought his 4-D ticket on May 13 last year for $1 hut could not rest
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    • 272 3  -  Steven Ooi Why Black 14 is being taken so seriously by. steven@>newstod ay. com. sg "BLACK 14" or Apr 14 this year, the second anniversary of former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim's conviction, has become far more threatening than the first, because the protests
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    • 381 4  -  Lee U-Wen Guess who is helping improve our transport system? by. uwen@n c ws tod ay.c om. sg WHAT happens if there is an emergency on a Light Rapid Transit (LRT) train and passengers have to be evacuated? A group of Ngee Ann Polytechnic students, as part of
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    • 71 4 HEDYKHOO The Leaning Tower of Pisa, made of wafers and biscuit sticks, is part of six Great Wonders created by model builder Sutopo Ngasiman for Lot 1 Shoppers' Mall. They are part of the Food Festival celebrations and can be viewed at the atrium of the
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    • 142 4 A PEEPING Tom struck at a National University of Singapore hostel last November. At about 7am on Nov 4, police received a call that a peeping torn had been detained in a women's toilet. Seah Soon Keong, 31, a self-employed laundry man, had no reason to
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    • 192 4 PERHAPS the Car-Free Day this April 19 should not have been called Car-Free Day. Acting Environment Minister Lim Swee Say told the media yesterday that it was "not a matter of creating a car-free environment. Pollution-free is what we are after". In fact, cars are
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    • 111 4 READ 0N... Hooray for SGH r docs Their splendid jobs made Singaporeans proud/6 Cautious advance Investors decide to play safe/12 Keeping the girls in Ultra-nationalist calls for abortion ban/14 Just plain rude What does it really take to get some consideration?/! 7 The man behind the box For all you
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  • LETTERS
    • 243 6  -  S^eeia Said ON Mar 30, my husband testdrove a second-hand car with the dealer's salesman sitting next to him. My husband noticed that there was something wrong with the power-steering it did not return to the normal position after turning. By then, it was too
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    • 222 6  -  Ananda Perera Their splendid job made S'poreans proud THE successful separation of the Nepali twins, Ganga and Jamuna, who were joined at their heads, by the indefatigable team of surgeons from the Singapore General Hospital (SGH), deserves special commendation from all Singaporeans. In a widely publicised
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    • 203 6  -  Colin Ong Tau Shien AS we approach a worldwide slowdown, it is natural for SMEs to request that the Government provide financial assistance. Through my public speaking and consultation assignments, I feel that there are many SMEs that do not have a proper business plan
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    • 231 6  -  Alex him I REFER to the letter "Poly scholars long way off" (Today, Apr 10). Although most Government-linked scholarship hoards do not offer scholarships for polytechnic students, that doesn't mean that polytechnic students are in any way inferior to Junior College students. I believe
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    • 132 6  -  Akbarjhon I APPLAUD the Government's Recycling Programme in Jurong. This augurs well for a cleaner and greener Singapore. However, to ensure that the public practises the three Rs of recycling, reducing and reusing, the Government must execute three imperative Es. Emulate Singapore must try to
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    • 67 6  -  Jessie Chen WHAT is the rule regarding smoking in air-conditioned areas? Are there exceptions for hotels? From my recent visit to a hotel, I noticed that the patrons were allowed to smoke in airconditioned areas. A reception staff told me that smoking was allowed in certain
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    • 53 6  -  Chan Keng Min I REFER to the ongoing campaign on "good" English. A watchdog committee should be formed to check that spelling and grammatically correct English signs are put up in Singapore. For example, in many hawker centres, the spelling of certain English words and the
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 454 8  -  Ivay Tan Move will provide platform into China by. i vay ©tiewstoday. com. sg DBS Group Holdings will acquire Dao Heng Bank Group in Hong Kong at a purchase price of $7.7 billion. Based on the June 2001 estimated book value of HK519.60 ($4.54) per
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    • 88 8 HOVERT Investment's offer to take over Pacific Carriers Ltd (PCL), is deemed "fair and reasonable" by an independent financial adviser, ANZ Singapore. Hovert Investment, wholly owned by Kuok (Singapore), made the offer to PCL, which has about 24,000 shareholders. The basic offer is
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    • 137 8 Bernama-AFX KUALA LUMPUR Liquidity in the Malaysian secondary bond market is still limited but it has not hampered growth in the market, said Mr Stephen Williams, head of debt capital markets for Asia Pacific at HSBC. But he cautioned that while many players are
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    • 203 8 NEW YORK Accounting and consulting company, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, plans to fire up to eight per cent of staff in its US consulting business as slowing economic growth leads the firm's clients to slow or cancel planned consulting services. News of the
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    • 269 8 Bernama NEW YORK A downturn in the economies of developed countries, particularly the United States and Japan, has triggered a slowdown in the world economy, according to a new United Nations report. The report, produced by a network of researchers from more
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    • 162 10 IDA awards third generation rights to all three operators THE Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has cancelled its third generation (3G) mobile spectrum auction. IDA said in a statement that it has provisionally awarded the third generation spectrum rights to the three eligible bidders. They were
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    • 147 10 Bernama-AFX-ASIA HONG KONG China's Minister of Information Industry Wu Jichuan, said China will step up negotiations in information technology and telecommunications with governments of Asean member states. He said his country will encourage Chinese companies to conduct exchanges with their counterparts
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    • 341 10 Bloomberg ILLINOIS For the first time in 15 years, Motorola Inc had a first-quarter loss because slowing economic growth is crimping sales of handsets and semiconductors. Its shares fell 8.5 per cent. Excluding charges and gains, the loss was US$2O6 million (Ss37o million), or
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    • 245 10 BOMBAY Shares of India's technology bellwether Infosys Technologies plummeted 16 per cent, the daily limit, yesterday after the software service provider reported sales and profit doubled last quarter, but signalled a sharp slowdown ahead. Infosys, with an army of about 9,000 engineers and a
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    • 311 10 TAIPEI Taiwan's export growth might amount to just 0.5 per cent this year, while imports might actually shrink, setting new lows for the period after the regional financial crisis, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) predicted. Mr Hsu Kuo-chung, director of the MOF
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  • MARKET NEWS
    • 480 12 Investors decide to play safe SINGAPORE shares advanced on a cautious mood despite Wall Street's triple digit gains last night. Investors seemed shell-shocked by Motorola's first quarter operating loss, its first in 15 years. Contract manufacturers here saw their gains evaporate as the day progressed, as investors shunned
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    • 463 12 KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange had one of its better days, when the market sustained the upward momentum that started in mid-morning and closed the day near its high. At spm, the benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index gained a commendable 12.4 points to
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    • 62 13 Over 70,000 Singaporeans will need blood this year. We are counting on you to care. Be SomeOne Special. Be A Blood Donor. Come! Join us! Give the Gift of Life. Meet local and sports celebrities and together pledge to be blood donors. venue: Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza Date: Saturday,
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 127 14 -AFP AUCKLAND Some schools have banned handphones after discovering that text messaging is turning into a new form of bullying, especially by girls. Te Aroha College and Hamilton Girls High School have banned students from bringing in mobile phones, the New Zealand
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    • 60 14 -AFP LONDON Northern Ireland's politicians were at loggerheads over the issue of whether a display of Easter lilies at government offices should be allowed to go ahead. The flowers have raised the hackles of Unionists who want Britain to retain sovereignty over Northern Ireland. Eastern lilies
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    • 203 14 -AFP Ultra-nationalist calls for abortion ban MOSCOW To arrest Russia's declining population, an ultra-nationalist leader has called for a ban on young women leaving the country. Mr Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and deputy speaker of the Russian parliament's lower house, said women
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    • 26 14 A bus plunged down a steep slope near Boboras in Spain on Tuesday, killing five passengers and injuring seven others. AFP photo.
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    • 175 14 -AFP WASHINGTON China has advised US members of Congress to keep Beijing's bid to hold the 2008 Olympics out of the current spy-plane diplomatic row. A letter sent by the Chinese ambassador in Washington to several senators and congressmen said that the legislators should
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    • 179 14 Reuters VANCOUVER Canadian immigration authorities have detained 36 Asian immigrants found hiding in two squalid containers on a ship. They were apparently bound for the US. Canadian immigration officials and police began searching the Pretty River immediately after it arrived in Vancouver on Tuesday, having
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    • 117 14 LONDON In the midst of the New York stock market's ups and downs, a 37-year-old British stockbroker stunned Manhattan after leaving waiters an 11,000 pound (5528,452) tip. While several big names on Wall Street, such as Goldman Sachs, currently slash perks along with jobs, the
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    • 341 15 Agencies The Netherlands is first nation to legalise euthanasia THE HAGUE The Dutch Senate on Tuesday passed a law legalising euthanasia under certain conditions, making the Netherlands the first country in the world to allow mercy killing. The vote was passed 46 to 28. The decision followed a
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    • 126 15 Reuters PARIS France was hit by a wave of counterfeit Pokemon products last year. Customs officers seized more than two million cards, stickers and other articles copied from the Japanese children's game which is also popular in many other parts of the world. They said that
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    • 178 15 -AFP MICHIGAN Foul-mouthed rapper Eminem was sentenced to two years' probation on Tuesday. He faced charges stemming from an incident in which he pistol-whipped a man who kissed his wife outside a nightclub. He pleaded guilty to charges of carrying an unloaded, concealed gun in
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    • 104 15 O ana-An tar a JAKARTA Around 22 million Indonesians suffer from goitre, while 9,000 babies are bom every year with cretinism, Health Minister Acbmad Sujudi said yesterday. He told a meeting on the prevention of iodine-insufficiency problems that the government was taking counter-measures to combat
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    • 340 16 Debate continues on whether Australia should open up SYDNEY An Australian company is turning societal discomfort with global homogenisation into a business, with As3B million (5534.20 million) worth of sales in its first year. Mr Dick Smith, one of Australia's best-known entrepreneurs, does not fit the anti-globalisation
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    • 132 16 -AFP HONG KONG A Cathay Pacific Airways pilot has been sacked after allegedly throwing nuts at the company's chief executive in a bar. Mr Scott Munro was dismissed just days after Mr David Turnbull, Cathay Pacific's deputy chairman, accused him of showering him
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    • 173 16 -AFP NEW DELHI Child sex tourism in India is showing an alarming increase with foreign paedophiles prowling the country's sandy beaches and tourist hot spots. Mr Shiv Kumar, a social worker with Delhi-based Child Line said a growing number of foreigners travel to India from Japan,
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    • 19 16 A hooded penitent rests during an Easter procession through central Seville in Spain. Reuters photo.
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    • 74 16 AFP BRISBANE Two helicopters, owned by a security firm responsible for deploying mercenaries around the world, were being stored at an Australian air force base. The helicopters belong to Britain-based firm, Sandline, and are being stored at the Tindal Royal Australian Air Force Base near the northern city
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    • 171 16 AFP SAN FRANCISCO Napster said it acquired privately-owned Gigabeat as part of its on-going efforts to comply with the recent court ruling. The ruling bars Napster from allowing the transfer of copyrighted material via its website. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Gigabeat develops "cuttingedge
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    • 164 16 Agencies DHAKA A 72-hour general strike called by the Bangladesh opposition, entered its final day yesterday, with 11 people killed in violent clashes. Life was disrupted in Dhaka and other major cities, as newspaper reports said more shutdowns were likely. The shut-downs were aimed at
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 795 17  -  by Judith Tan What does it really take to get some consideration? "SHUT that f****** phone or I'll shut it for you!" The statement reflects the feelings of many who are totally absorbed in an engaging movie or a highly-inspiring seminar when the sudden ringing tone or,
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    • 407 17 ■AFP In its editorial yesterday, the South China Morning Post tackles the confusion brought about by the new law on intellectual property rights. FOR all their indignation over the Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance, legislators have to accept a
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  • RELAX
    • 534 18  -  David Ngiau For all you TV addicts out there, meet the man who decides what shows you watch by. da vid(»ne wstoday. com. sg "IT'S not my belief that the media war will be won with the largest army, but by having the best ideas."
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    • 118 18 The public can make donations by calling the NKF hotline at 1900-112-6868. Five dollars will be donated to NKF for every call. Callers under 18 must obtain parental permission. Brrr! It's an icy affair, but singers Kit Chan (left) and William
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    • 351 19  -  Rachel Lo but this doctor prefers cartoons by. rachel@newstoday.com.sg For all you regular viewers of the American hit drama ER, have you ever thought about this question: Does a real life emergency room look like that? On my first eye-popping tour of the Tan Tock Seng
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    • 1020 19 ON THE LILY PAD with Jeremiah Bullfrog It's an oft-repeated statement that the polite Singaporean is just about as extinct as the dodo. Indeed, discussions abound about the "ugly" Singaporean, but few accolades are given to the "beautiful" ones. I wonder if that's
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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    • 951 21 /y\~.DJJiCORP The Envelope Azizah, The Legend m Nascimento Suria, 9.30pm f\ ArtS Central, 11 pm Whet) Azizah first lay eyes on channel newsas!a Ramti, in his attempt to save them The Parsons Dance Company A from a burning hut, both believed Set ies sh oi vs Pai >■■ ons' ust
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    • 1477 23 QCQTrJBPCuT not rest with his knowledge of the I M iHrCSTIVQI It Is accompanied by traditional pan- Japan. Based on its longest running prophecy but instead takes fate into sori music that is performed by a satirical comic strip Tonari No Slava's Snowshow his own hands.The opera is one of
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  • INCINEMAS
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      389 26  -  David Ngiau Bjork film on the lunatic fringe set to music by. david@newstoday.com.sg Dancer in the Dark, last year's Palme dOr winner at Cannes, is one of those hate-it-or-love-it art films. It's a twisted musical and erstwhile diatribe against the capital punishment. Whether it works is not an
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    • 316 27  -  David Ngiau by. daviats'news toa ay. com. sg THE Tree marks Zoe Tay's first film role and the fifth for Raintree Pictures, MediaCorp's movie production arm. The film is also the first time Raintree is collaborating
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    • 476 27  -  Hazel Tan Crack Hong Kong director defends his Mr Cool star by. haz el@news to d ay. com. sg WHO said Ekin Cheng can't act? In the eyes of Hong Kong director Jingle Ma, Ekin Cheng is a credible actor. Never mind the movie
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    • 460 26 BEACH ROAD 12.05 am Valentine (PG): lpm, 3, 15 Minutes (PG): spm Antitrust 7.30, 9.30, 1 1 .45 Pisvisw; The 12. 1 0pm, 5.10, 7.20, 9.30, 11.30 (PG): 2.15pm, 6.45, 9.15, 1 1.45 Crimson Rivers (PG): 11.30pm The Mexican (PG): 1 lam, 1,30pm, Get Over X (PG): 3.15pm, 5.15, BUGIS
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  • style
    • 409 28  -  Serena Sim You know what? For the woman of the new millennium, hope comes in colourful jars and pretty bottles by. serena@newstoday.com.sg THE first thing I was attracted to was the array of pretty bottles. Call me shallow, but I'm a sap for aesthetics. Subtly
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    • 492 30 A whopping $2.15 million in sales have been generated at Homemakers 2001 in just four days.With another three days to go, organisers expect figures to break previous records. The show has a completely different look this year, and in line with its lifestyle theme, showcases some of
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  • SPORTS
    • 770 33 Latest Jazz outings making 'Mailman' Malone look silly SALT LAKE CITY It was about a month ago that a NBA debate was tipped with a question for the ageless. A March 8 debate about whether this is the best, deepest Jazz ensemble in Utah's history, reported
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    • 391 33 NBA Spurs 91 Dallas 79 SAN ANTONIO David Robinson had barely stepped into the Alamodome yesterday when a well-wisher asked him a question he had undoubtedly heard 1,276 times over the last week. How's the back? "Uh," Robinson said, nodding
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    • 832 34 Tiger's triumph at Augusta impacts more than sport Golf AUGUSTA The first time Tiger Woods was exposed to the sculpted beauty of the Augusta National course, he was not imagining himself as a southern aristocrat, a prospective big shot in sport's most exclusive club. "I
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    • 227 34 Formula One MARANELLO Ferrari has admitted that crucial errors by the team contributed to Michael Schumacher's defeat at last weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix and with it the end of his six-race winning streak, reported sportal.co.uk. Schumacher finished second behind McLaren's David
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    • 333 35 Ipswich 1 Liverpool 1 THE race for third place in the Premiership is still up for grabs after Ipswich and Liverpool drew 1-1 yesterday. Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier said he was pleased his side had come away with a point then again criticised the Premier
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    • 506 35 -AFP Roy Keane predicts clearout if United falls in Bavaria English Premier League Man Utd 2 Charlton 1 LONDON Manchester United skipper Roy Keane (left) believes there could be a clearout at the club if the English giant makes a quarter-final Champions League
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      419 36  -  Kelvin Phang He promises a 'priceless' experience for Manchester United fans by. ke 1 vin@ ne wstod ay. com. sg AJAY BHALLA is no ordinary Singapore Die-Hard soccer fan. As Vice-President and Country Manager of Mastercard International, Singapore, he gets free grandstand tickets from the Football Association of
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    • 695 36  -  S. Gulam Comment by gn la m @newstoday. com. sg I ONCE asked a man: What is the hallmark of a great man? His reply stunned me. "Simple," he said. "It's knowing when to go." He didn't talk about achievements. He
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    • 363 37  -  Stanley Ho FieryTiger must control his temper HE was so close to getting sent off last week in Balestier's game at Jurong. By dragging an injured Itimi Dickson Edherefe by the feet and out of the pitch, Ali Imran Lomri nearly started a free-for-all among the
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    • 154 37  -  Stanley Ho NOW we see the light. After massive speculation on the cause of last Friday's stadium blackouts at Bedok and Choa Chu Kang, the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) has finally revealed what happened. According to a press release sent out by SSC yesterday, the power
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    • 291 37  -  Kelvin Phang IF the coaches of Gombak United and Sembawang Rangers are to be believed, one man will decide the outcome of their clash tonight. His name Ballamodou Conde. The Guinean, who made a muchawaited return to the Bulls' line-up last week, will certainly
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    • 501 37  -  Scott O'Donell THE S-League season is four weeks old. Conspicuous by his absence is one of Singapore's best referees, Shamsul Maidin. The 35-year-old is currently refereeing in Japan's prestigious J-League. His stint as a guest referee in Japan ends on
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    • 388 38  -  Tanjong Pagar Stanley Ho But SAFFC stays top as hotshot Mirko nets a double 2 SAFFC 3 by. sta nley® newsto day. c o m. sg AS expected, at the final whistle, Tohari Paijan and Fandi Ahmad shook hands and hugged each other. But for 94
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    • 341 38  -  Scott O'Donell Clementi 2 Geylang 3 by scott@newst od ay. com. sg DESPITE going down 2-3 to Geylang last night, Vlado Bozinoski's men can hold their heads up high after an impressive performance against one of the high flyers of the S-League.
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    • 132 38 Match 3 Balestier v Home Utd Toa Payoh Stadium 12 April 7.30pm Ix2 (1) Balestier $6.60 (X) Draw $3.90 (2) Home $1.37 1/2 Goal Balestier (+1 1/2) $1.70 Home (-1 1/2) $1.95 Total Goals 0 goal $9.00 1 goal $4.80 2 goals $4.00 3 goals
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • 360 39 Reuters Gunners consolidate second spot, Blues almost doomed English Premiership Man City 0 Arsenal 4 LONDON Four goals in the opening 36 minutes guided Arsenal to a 4-0 away victory over Manchester City yesterday, a result with major implications at both ends of the premier league
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      • 294 39 Reuters JOHANNESBURG At least 47 people were killed and scores were injured yesterday when soccer fans tried to force their way into Johannesburg's Ellis Park stadium midway through a key national league match, journalists at the match reported. It was believed to be the
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