Today, 25 April 2001

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    Masthead
    8 1 TODAY Wednesday April 25, 2001 MITA(P| 138-1 1-2000
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  • Article
    Death by nickname
    586 1  -  Leong Phei Phei by pheiphei@newstoday.com,sg A PRIMARY school student whose father works for this newspaper suggested he do a write-up on fat children and what they have to put up with. "Hardly anyone in my school talks to them," she said in all seriousness. "Everyone teases them
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    Lock icon Taiwan gets a weapons upgrade
    74 1 AFP WASHINGTON US President George W Bush deferred yesterday the sale of a state-of-the-art Aegis radar system to Taiwan not because of "the EP-3 incident". Instead, Taiwan can acquire four Kidd-class destroyers no longer used by the US Navy but "a significant upgrade" over Taiwan's
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    Lock icon Bull-headed beast
    17 1 A Spanish bullfighter watching as his first bull somersaults in a Seville arena. photo. AFP,
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    Jayalalitha banned from polls
    83 1 CHENNAI Former Chief Minister and actress Jayaram Jayalalitha has been barred from running in next month's polls in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. She has been tripped up by an electoral law which bars anyone sentenced to a prison term exceeding two years from contesting
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    What foreign funding?
    81 1 When cornered, Dr Chee Soon Juan hits out with wild allega- B tions Now Dr Chee accuses the PAP of pursuing policies f which benefit foreigners. But PAP does not receive funding from foreigners, whether or not they are based in Singapore; the Open Singapore Centre does.
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Room in the sky
      247 2  -  Lee U-Wen BA announces its new $1.56b features for its long-haul flights by u wen® newstoday. com. sg JUST two days after Singapore Airlines announced its e-mail service from the sky, keen rival British Airways has unveiled beds in the sky for its Club World business
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      Everything about maids ...
      137 2 Everything about maids THINKING about hiring a foreign maid but wary of the pitfalls involved? Well then you should go to Singapore's first ever maid fair, now on at Hougang Mall. No, it's not a parade of maids from around the region, but rather a valuable source of information on
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    • Article
      Giving a school its soul
      82 2 SCHOOLS are just buildings without three principal communities to give them soul and purpose the teachers, parents and alumni. This was the message delivered by Education Minister Rear-Admiral (NS) Teo Chee Hean at the official opening of Marymount Convent yesterday. In his speech, Rear-Adm Teo
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      Lock icon Goodbye, Gus Dur?
      305 3 Reuters Megawati's party supports second censure motion JAKARTA Indonesian Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri said her political party, the country's largest, would back a second censure of the embattled President next Monday, it was reported yesterday. This could clear the way for impeachment proceedings against President Abdurrahman Wahid, and
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      Lock icon Initial hearing into outstanding charges against Anwar
      120 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR The High Court will hold an initial hearing on Saturday into five outstanding charges against jailed former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, his lawyer said yesterday. Mr Sankaran Nair said that the court had set Apr 28 for mention
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      Lock icon Thaksin in M'sia for talks
      125 3 AFP PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia) Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday that Thailand would seek Malaysia's help in finding Muslim separatists responsible for the recent attacks in his country. He arrived in Malaysia yesterday for his first overseas tour since assuming his post in January. He
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      Fortune-teller suffers dip in fortunes
      137 4 AN elderly couple, Neo Ah Gek and Ho Yew Nam, demonstrated to a police officer that old did not mean frail by shoving the cop around. For their tenacity, they were fined a total of $4,500 by the courts yesterday for using force on a
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    • Article
      SIA replies to crew
      281 4  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Answers SQOO6 compensation calls by kim@ news today, com. sg SICK and tired of being seen as the bad guy, Singapore Airlines has spoken up on its treatment of the 13 surviving crew of the SQ flight that crashed in Taipei last October. Recent
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      107 4 READ 0N... Procedure? What's that? Americans' death could have been avoided/15 Princess or butt-kicker? She sheds her gentle image to be a swordswoman/1 7 Hear the tree talk! David had a wonderful time chatting up a tree/23 Fitzroy Island beckons Win a trip to the paradise Colby and Jerri enjoyed
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  • LETTERS
    • Letter
      From A to B1
      318 6  -  Tan Boon Huat 70-year-old patient not allowed to downgrade IT CAN be a trying experience for hospital patients attempting to cut cost by transferring from an A-class ward to a Bl or B2 ward. Once one has opted for an A ward, government hospitals generally assume
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      Do something about noise
      96 6  -  BKChua I AM a resident of Jurong West Centra! Ave 1, and I empathise with Mr J C S Wong and his letter "Noise from fighter jets" (Today, Apr 23). We hope that the authorities could seriously look into this matter as the jets really create
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      An eye on e-voting
      105 6  -  Shiran Shariff WITH e-voting and overseas voting made possible, the Home Affairs Minister assured the House that the secrecy of the vote would not be comprmised. It seems a third party could be called in to do checks. I agree with this in principle but I
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      I want to strike a better balance
      264 6  -  Chris Ching I TOTALLY agree with the article "The joys of being a Sensitive New Age Grandfather" by Tan Kong Wee (Today, Apr 20). I really love the last four paragraphs: "We have bigger houses and smaller houses; more conveniences, but less time;
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      The air is clearing in Gul Lane
      264 6  -  Edward John Tailford WE refer to the letter "Clear the air at Gu) Lane" by your reader Mr David Koj (Today, Apr 18). We would like to assure your reader that chemical factories including those located in the vicinity of Gul Lane are
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      42 6 Your letter can also appear on this page. Give your full name and address and write to: Today, 24, Raffles Place, #28-01/06, Clifford Centre, Singapore *****1; Fax: 65-*****17; E-mail: news@newstoday.com. sg We reserve the right to edit any letters submitted for publication
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      An 'angel' is in town
      567 8  -  Ivay Tan More opportunities after recent dot-com crash by ivay@newstoday.com.sg MR Hal Nissley is an angel to start-up companies. He nurtures them when they are young and sells them at the right price when the opportunity arises. In 1993, he sold E-mu systems to Creative
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      Another HK purchase?
      117 8 OCBC Bank is reported to have opened talks to buy Hong Kong's Wing Onn Bank through its investment banker. According to a Hong Kong Economic Times report, The Bank of New York has agreed to sell its 25.1 per cent stake in Wing Onn to OCBC. But
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      Lock icon London -the world's most expensive home market
      245 8 Bloomberg LONDON The UK capital has reclaimed its position as the world's most expensive residential market, up from fourth last year, as demand by US investment bankers pushed the price of a twobedroom home to US$2.l2 million {553.84 million). The city topped San
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      Asia-Pacific boost for EMC Corp
      224 8  -  Sol E Solomon by s o lomon@n ews to d ay. com. sg STORAGE vendor EMC Corporation achieved a dramatic 104 per cent jump in its revenue growth in the Asia-Pacific region last year. The region also accounted for 10 per cent of its global
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  • MARKET NEWS
    • The gain goes on
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        Light profit-taking but focus shifts to penny caps
        382 10 US markets closed lower following some deflating comments from a pair of analysts who downgraded the chip and software sectors. The Nasdaq composite had rallied about 33 per cent in 10 sessions so a pull back is deemed necessary and healthy. Index-linked
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        Afternoon buying of blue chips helps market to steady itself
        335 10 KUALA LUMPUR It was another sluggish day and volume traded yesterday amounted to only 82,000 lots. Interest was thin and the market traded largely within a narrow band. The KL Composite Index ended 1.7 points lower at 571.7. Late-afternoon buying
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      Lock icon US$ peg – and pain
      671 11 US$ peg and pain Bloomberg Malaysian exporters hurt as ringgit appreciates over regional currencies KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian exporters are calling for the government to abandon the ringgit's three-year peg to the US dollar. "The ringgit is overvalued it needs to be corrected," said Mr P Subee Subramaniam, vicepresident at Premium
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon ISA used again
      186 12 -AFP Anwar supporter is the ninth arrested in two weeks under the Act KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police yesterday arrested another opposition activist under the controversial Internal Security Act (ISA), the ninth such arrest since Apr 10. Mr Lokman Adam, secretary of the youth wing of the National
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      Lock icon Bhutto vows to return to rule Pakistan
      157 12 Reuters KARACHI Pakistan's exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has ruled out any compromise with the country's military regime. Ms Bhutto said from London she was prepared to contest elections from jail if necessary. "Legally, I should be free but am prepared for
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      Lock icon Tokyo: Submarine case closed
      152 12 -AFP TOKYO Japan will not challenge Washington's decision to leniently punish Scott Waddle, former commander of the US Navy submarine that sank a Japanese fishing trawler. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said yesterday that, as far as Japan was concerned, the accident off Hawaii on Feb
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      Lock icon We have a right to work!
      39 12 Reuters photo An effigy {foreground) hanging outside Taipei's Cabinet building as unionists accused the government of destroying their right to work. Unemployment is expect ed to rise above 3.9 per cent this year.
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      Lock icon Bush doing a good job: Poll
      163 12 -AFP WASHINGTON US President George W Bush gets high marks for job performance, thanks to his handling of China and lessened fears of an economic recession. However, Americans are sceptical of his priorities, according to a poll released yesterday. The ABC News/Washington Post poll
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      Lock icon Mori wins damages
      67 12 Reuters TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori was awarded damages over a story in the magazine Uwasa no Shinso (Truth of the Rumour) alleging he had been caught in a 1958 raid on Tokyo red light districts as part of a crackdown on prostitution. But the Tokyo
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      Lock icon Book behind the crackdown
      138 13 Reuters NEW YORK The Tiananmen Papers, a book on the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown could have led to the detention of US residents and citizens of Chinese origin, a US academic said on Monday. Boston University's Merle Goldman said Beijing may have ordered the detention on
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      Aircrew in hostage drama
      308 13 Cathay Pacific staff freed after 12-hour ordeal HONG KONG Twelve crew members of Cathay Pacific Airways were among the 120 hostages held by pro-Chechen gunmen in Istanbul. The crew two pilots, eight female flight attendants and two male stewards all based in Hong Kong, said they
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      Lock icon Slaughterman gets disease
      139 13 Reuters LUNDOIN Foot-and-mouth disease is extremely rare in humans and not very serious if it does strike. But news that a British slaughterman is suspected of having contracted the infection is bound to have repercussions on the tourist trade and the meat industry. Television pictures of farm
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      Lock icon Horta to return to Cabinet
      132 14 Reuters NEW YORK Nobel Peace laureate Jose Ramos Horta quit East Timor's interim Parliament on Monday. He would return to his former post as a Cabinet member in charge of foreign affairs. The United Nations (UN) said he resigned following his Apr 9 failure to
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      Lock icon Koizumi to lead Japan
      246 14 AFP He wins LDP presidency in landslide victory TOKYO Self-styled reformer Junichiro Koizumi was elected president of Japan's ruling party in a landslide victory yesterday, which also secured him the nation's prime ministership. The 59-year-old former health and welfare minister won a stunning 298 votes from
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      Lock icon Deposit your brains here
      147 14 Reuters BELMONT (Massachusetts) There's a bank opened 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the staff take good care of "deposits". The Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center is known in the world of neuroscience simply as "The Brain Bank". For a brain to be
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      Lock icon Procedures? What's that ?
      330 15 Procedures? What's that AFP Americans' death could have been avoided WASHINGTON The failure of some Peruvian Air Force (PAF) personnel to properly adhere to well-established procedures caused the deaths of an American missionary and her baby. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "Initial assessment of this incident
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      Lock icon NGO chief held in child racket
      152 15 Reuters HYDERABAD (India) Police arrested the head of a child welfare group in Andra Pradesh on suspicion of child trafficking, following a raid on two adoption centres. Police said they had filed a criminal case against Sanjeeva Rao, executive director of a group called
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      Lock icon Baggage handlers were the thieves
      88 15 -AFP ROISSY (France) Police have arrested 17 baggage handlers suspected of regularly ransacking the luggage of British Airways passengers at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport. The alleged gang, all from the Paris region, was identified from surveillance camera footage as a group of handlers working
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      Lock icon Bomber's my boy
      130 15 Reuters NABLUS (West Bank) The family of an 18-year-old Palestinian, identified as the suicide bomber who blew himself up at an Israeli bus stop, expressed pride over his death. "I am very proud of him. He is a martyr. I thank God that my son died a
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      Lock icon Mississippi's wrath
      24 15 Reuters photo lowa firefighters patrolling the downtown Davenport area in a boat as ftoodwaters from the Mississippi River continued to rise yesterday.
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      Lock icon Trafficking in humans: Teen gets 10 years
      160 15 AFP LOS ANGELES A 17-year-old youth was sentenced to more than 10 years in jail for trafficking in humans. Obed Estudillo Martinez admitted in the Federal court to taking part in an illegal immigration scheme in November 1999, which involved transporting a group
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Two Ws of Singlish
      579 16  -  Susan Feroa It's a question of when and where we speak it by there are those who only speak Singaporean and love Singlish, which is after all, very much a part of Singapore. But please, learn to distinguish between Singlish and English and know when to
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  • RELAX
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      Lock icon Princess or butt-kicker?
      555 17  -  Hazel Tan She sheds her gentle image to be a sword sworn an by h azel@news tod ay. com. sg ALEX Su Youpeng is full of praise for her. She is easy to talk to. Much easier to get along with than another costar, Vicki Zhao Wei.
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      Hear the tree talk!
      634 23  -  David Ngiau David had a wonderful time chatting up a tree by david@newstoday.com.sg We have featured The Tree's lead personalities Zoe Tay, Francis Ng and Phyllis Quek. I've interviewed Raintree Pictures' CEO and the film's executive producer, Mr Daniel Yun. A big bunch of us at
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      Fitzroy Island beckons
      355 24  -  David Ngiau You ahh-ed when Survivors Colby and Jerri landed on the paradise island. Now you can win a trip there too. by david@n ews tod ay.com. sg Fitzroy Island, sitting in the middle of the Great Barrier Reef. Two tiny islets connected by a sand spit
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      And the last four are ...
      149 24 And the last four are Colby Donaldson, 26, custom auto designer from Texas; former tribe: Ogakor Pro: Looks strong, coming off a three-episode Immunity-challenge winning streak. Then again: The biggest threat and therefore biggest target at next tribal council. Keith Famie, 40, professional chef and restaurateur from Michigan; former tribe:
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      Who's afraid of Ms Greer?
      447 26  -  Kwok Kar Beng Feminist with a twist she sympathises with men by! Where will women be now if not for the feminist movement of the 70s? Being a Gen-Y woman, and oblivious to the sub-standard treatment women had been subjected to prior to the movement,
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      Viva Verdi! — You don't need to understand the words to enjoy his operas
      553 26  - Viva Verdi! You don't need to understand the words to enjoy his operas Francesca Seah by francesca@newstoday.com.sg Friday night's performance of Macbeth, the opera, at Victoria Theatre was simply spellbinding even without the witchery. Perhaps it was Giuseppe Verdi's masterful composition, designed to raise the hackles of even the most
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      Taking a Power Trip
      738 27 How accomplished is the recently facelifted Lexus GS3OO as a longdistance tourer? COLIN YONG drove one, and covered more than I 000km in a single day, to find out MENTION 'Lexus' to the man in the street and the Japanese marque's heavilypromoted values of refinement and
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        Stream runs into town
        135 28 FIRST displayed to the public at lasc year's Singapore Motor Show, the long-awaited Honda Stream makes its showroom debut at Kah Motor this weekend. This Civicbased MPV is powered by a new ultracompact 2-litre i-VTEC engine that produces Is4bhpand lB6Nm of torque. At 4550mm, the Stream
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        A2 scores 'A' for economy
        144 28 AUDI'S revolutionary aluminium-bodied A2 set a new fuel-economy record during a recent two-week'eco-challenge' in Spain. The 1.2-litre diesel supermini is the first four-door car to record a fuel consumption of under three litres per 100km, or 33.3km/litre. During the eco-challenge, a group of 193 journalists
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        Free shock absorber tests
        116 28 FROM today until Friday, Stamford Tyres, in collaboration with Sachs, is offering free shock-absorber tests for continental cars such as Audis, BMWs, Mercedes-Benzs and Volkswagens. Held at Stamford Tyres' Jurong Mega Mart, this test is conducted by using a pur-pose-built machine, which is capable of detecting
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      245 28  -  HK Chong Do you have a motoring or car-related question? Drop the experts at Today a line and they'll dispense invaluable advice to help, absolutely free of charge! Please e-mail questions to: cotin@newstoday.com.sg Q. I would like to know what the LTA's stand on installing a crash bar
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      Lock icon Heat chilled by Hornets' sting
      446 32 Charlotte routs Miami to take two-game lead NBA Playoffs Miami 76 Charlotte 102 (Charlotte leads best-offive-series 2-0) MIAMI Two games, two mind-bog-gling blow-out wins for the Charlotte Hornets. And it hasn't even played at home yet. Repeating their dominating performance of Game 1, the Hornets
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      282 32 PURCHASE A tense eight-hour hostage stand-off involving Marcus Camby's mother and two sisters ended peacefully yesterday after the suspect surrendered. But one of Camby's sisters sustained minor injuries, reported ESPN.com. The suspect, Troy Crooms, was charged with burglary, first-degree sexual assault, kidnapping, assault,
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      Lock icon Mutombo is NBA's best defensive player
      318 32 -AFP NEW YORK Philadelphia centre Dikembe Mutombo was named the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year yesterday. Mutombo, the NBA's leading rebounder and fifth-best shot blocker, won the honour for the fourth time in a balloting of North American sports journalists, receiving 48 of
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      284 33 RALEIGH -Triple Olympic gold medallist Marion Jones expects to push closer to Florence Griffith Joyner's 100m women's world record during her upcoming outdoor season. "I'm getting tired of those 10.8s and 10.75," Jones said yesterday. "I touched 10.6 last year in Stockholm
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      Lock icon Superwoman
      722 33 REGARDED by many as the greatest female athlete of all time, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was voted yesterday as the top female US collegiate athlete of the last 25 years. While not many would have guessed what she would eventually accomplish while Jackie was just a slip of a girl, her
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      Lock icon A Ruucl Devil, at last
      828 34 Could van Nistelrooy turn out to be better than Marco van Basten? LONDON For 10 years or more, it has been the label attached to every Dutch striker who is more than 6ft tall and shows international promise. For most players described as "the new
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      139 34 -AFP BEIRUT Lebanon's football federation (FLF) has banned players and management of seven of the first division's 12 clubs and stripped champion Tadamon Tyr of its title after discovering a huge match-fixing scandal. Tadamon Tyr was knocked down to third place, behind Nejmeh,
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      Lock icon Altitude a mystery to Argentina coach
      377 35 Reuters South American World Cup Qualifier Bolivia v Argentina (Live, Ch 22, 4.00am, tomorrow morning) BUENOS AIRES Argentina coach Marcelo Bielsa, whose team plays away to Bolivia at 3,600m above sea level today, admitted he was baffled about the effects of playing at such
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      Lock icon Desperate Brazilians
      467 35 Reuters Most successful football nation staring at the unthinkable South American World Cup Qualifier Brazil v Peru RIO DE JANEIRO Fourtime world champion Brazil, the only country to have played in all 16 World Cups, takes on Peru knowing that defeat could leave its proud record in serious
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      Lock icon Zidane versus Figo, France versus Portugal
      359 35 AFP PARIS Dynamite duo Zinedine Zidane and Luis Figo clash head-on as world and European champion France host Portugal in the sides' first match since their tempestuous Euro 2000 semi-final last year. This time round, the friendly status of the Stade de France encounter
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      Lock icon Walsh, you're The Man
      17 36 Walsh waves goodbye to the crowd after his final Test match. Allsport photo
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      Cricket legend ends career on winning note
      411 36 JAMAICA There were predictably emotional scenes at Sabina Park yesterday when Courtney Walsh signed off his long Test career with what he wanted more than anything else a West Indies victory. Walsh, in his 132nd Test match, took three wickets in South Africa's
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      Mixed day for Singapore's table tennis teams
      173 36  -  Kelvin Phang SINGAPORE'S men and women's teams suffered contrasting fortunes at the 46th World TableTennis Championships in Osaka yesterday. Led by Jing Junhong, the women picked up its second consecutive win at the Municipal Centre Gymnasium, but the men suffered a crushing 0-3
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      Bamrung's goals one of the reasons for Sembawang Rangers' rise
      431 36  -  Scott O'Donell S-League SEMBAWANG'S rise in the S-League this season may have surprised some. But, it shows how good and invaluable its Thai contingent is to the northern club's campaign this year. So far, striker Bamrung Boonprom has been one
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      2001 season is really looking good so far
      236 37  -  Stanley Ho by sta nley@ne wstoday. com. sg GOOD news football fans, S-League attendances have gone up by 22 per cent. This was confirmed by FAS Marketing and Communications Director Winston Lee yesterday. After six rounds of football, the average attendance per
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      Lock icon FAS must do the right thing
      703 37  -  S. Gulam Let us honour a legendary Lion by gulam@news tod ay. com. sg HE WAS one of the most affable skippers Singapore ever had. A rare gentleman on and off the field. A no-nonsense, totally-dedicated, com-pletely-honest, highly-motivated and staunchly-loyal footballer, he was given
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      Lock icon You blew it, Sundram
      443 38 Home Utd opens its Cup defence with first-half blitz Home 3 Jurong 0 by Stanley Ho start] ey@news t o day, i* o m. sg IT WAS billed as the most exciting competition in Singapore football. But, last night's NTUC Income Singapore Cup Group D match
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      Shanks, there's more to life than football
      339 38  -  Scott O'Donell TAN Kim Leng's hole in the heart shocker has rammed home the fact that football isn't, after all, the most important thing in the world. The recent tragedies of S. Anthonysamy, Lim Soon Seng, Borhan Abu Samah, and now Kim Leng,
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      Lock icon Unbeaten Jesmine on verge of world title
      255 39  -  Kelvin Phang Bowling by kelvin@ne wsto day. c om.sg JUST one opponent stands between Singapore's Jesmine Ho (above) and the winner's cheque of US$lO,OOO in the inaugural World Bowling Masters in Abu Dhabi. The tournament features some of the biggest names in the
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      55 40 A no-nonsense, fefc 1 totally-dedicated, A Al completely honest, M A highly-motivated I and staunchly loyal T* footballer, he was dubbed v names which were associat- J ed with great leadership qualities like Captain x| r Courgeous and Captain (^B Marvel. ho why can't the FAS honour T> '^^fc Pathmanathan?
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