Today, 11 May 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • Title Section
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    6 1 TODAY Friday M«yn»*Mi* I MITAiPI 138/11/2000
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  • AFTERMPPM EDITION
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      BG Yeo's reality check
      328 1 Have no illusion that the media is always impartial MINISTER BG Yeo put the media under a new microscope and this was his verdict: There is no such thing as an impartial media. Further regulation to ensure accurate and balanced reporting is unlikely to work. So,
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    • Article
      Lock icon US stocks close mixed
      125 1 -AFP I NEW YORK US stocks closed mixed yesterday despite a surprise decision by European banks to cut interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average moved up 43.46 points, or 0.44 per cent, to close at 10,910.44 while the technologyheavy Nasdaq Composite Index lost 27.77 points,
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      Lawmakers snub Bush, hold back on UN money
      256 1 WASHINGTON US lawmakers yesterday delivered on their threat to punish the United Nations for Washington's failure to retain a seat in the UN Human Rights Commission. Despite last minute appeals against the move by President George W Bush and warnings from the
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      Lock icon Little mosquito, big payoff
      109 1 -AFP RIO DE JANEIRO "The little pest that bothers you big time could make you a rich man," reads a poster hanging in a Rio betting office, as attempts to control the epidemic sweeping the city continue full-bore. This week, every person who brings in an
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      Lock icon Star Parade
      44 1 AFP photos Guests arriving for the Cannes Film Festival in France yesterday. From top: actress Drea di Matleo; former Beatle Paul McCartney and his girlfriend Heather Mills, "Distance" director Hirokazu Kore-Eda and actress Natsukama, and former Miss Universe Lara Dutla of India.
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Please say something
      350 2  -  Ivay Tan by ivay@ news today, com. sg PERHAPS it comes with the turf. Perhaps it comes from being the biggest, most active and most talked about Singapore company in recent months. Though Singapore Telecom had made it crystal clear that yesterday's conference was about its increase
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      No-show at the Legal Oscars
      263 2  -  Ng Hwee Koon by hwe eko o n CPnewst oday.com.sg POMP and ceremony, rousing music and a world-class comedy performance could not cover the silence that time and again followed the announcement of award winners at the Asian Law Awards Singapore 2001 last night. Chief
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      Lock icon PM Goh pledges help
      155 3 AFP PHNOM PENH Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday wrapped up his five-day visit to Cambodia with pledges to boost investment and help devise a roadmap for the nation's tourism industry. In a meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday, Mr Goh offered to
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      Lock icon New woe
      244 3 Agencies KL protestors launch hunger strike KUALA LUMPUR Less than 48 hours after he succeeded in averting a unionists' strike, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad must grapple with another one of the hunger kind. Human rights activists yesterday launched a hunger strike to protest the
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      Lock icon Backto prison
      38 3 Reuters Ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim returned to the Sungai Buloh prison yesterday after leaving the hospital when he had been treated for a slipped disc. He is serving a 15-year sentence for corruption and sodomy. photo
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    • Article
      Desperate robber awaits own arrest
      204 3 TAN Chai Poh, 42, was a desperate man. He claimed that his friend borrowed from loansharks in his name and he needed money to repay them. On Apr 6, at about 2 pm, Tan went into a shop at West Mall Shopping Centre in Bukit
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      Making an accident
      82 3  -  Joel Low. FIREFIGHTERS from Singapore and Malaysia working together during a field exercise simulating an accident involving a chemical tanker carrying phenol on the Second Link. As part of the bilateral cooperation programme under the Malaysia-Singapore Joint Committee on the Environment (MSJCE), the Department of Environment, Johor
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      Lock icon Nod for Arroyo foes
      143 3 AFP MANILA In a surprise move, Philippine President Gloria Arroyo yesterday allowed two former military officers wanted for a failed power grab to campaign freely for Monday's elections. Mrs Arroyo approved an opposition request that Senator Gregorio Honasan and former national police chief Panfilo Lacson be
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      Fast-food fumblers
      157 4 A TEENAGER working at a KFC outlet found a very efficient way to boost his income by not keying in some purchases into the cash register. He then pocketed the unregistered sales at the end of the day. Kek Wen Xiong, 17, even roped in his girlfriend Lilian
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      Time to wake up
      243 4  -  Lee U-Wen Case alert on handphone radiation by u wen@newsto day.c om.sg CASE is stepping up pleas to consumers here to be more aware of the dangerous health effects posed by radiation emissions as Singapore has one of the highest numbers of handphone users in the
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      119 4 READ 0N... A yen for politics? Good. But leave others alone/6 The politics of women and cars A lot of them want to be in the driver's seat but can't/15 Gentleman, or Fool? Survivor 2: What a strange turn of events indeed/ 16 Action station City TV will offer 50
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Now, your handphone can buy you drinks
      228 5 NO loose change? No problem. Now, all you need is an Ml handphone the next time you want to quench your thirst. Ml has collaborated with Yeo Hiap Seng to offer a new and innovative vending machine that allows Ml customers to purchase
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      Techno-Navy
      166 5 TO think that it all started with two wooden boats. With its present fleet of more than 30 state-of-the-art combatants, the Republic of Singapore Navy has come a long way. Chief of Navy Rear Admiral Lui Tuck Yew said at the opening of the Naval Platform Technology Seminar yesterday:
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      More shows for MediaCorp
      100 5 MEDIACORP yesterday signed a memorandum of agreement with Dream Forest Productions to produce more English dramas and sitcoms for TV. Three productions are in the pipeline: The $1.4 million, 20-episode war epic A War Diary, local sitcom Brand New Towkay and comedy drama Sam Seow: Private
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  • LETTERS
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      A yen for politics?
      202 6  -  Narayana Narayana Good. But leave others alone I REFER to the letter "Think again, Think Centre" (Today, May 4). I cannot agree more with Mr Lionel De Souza (Today, May 8) that "Singaporeans have better things to do on a Saturday night than going to Yio
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      Do more for the disabled
      100 6  -  Ong Ing RECENTLY, I went to Sentosa with a friend who is visuallyhandicapped. He needs a cane and a guide to get around. As I do not own a car, we had to use buses and the MRT. He was given free transport on a
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      Aren't you asking too much of your maid?
      210 6  -  Trung Nguyen AS a foreigner living in this beautiful city, I find some aspects of the Singapore lifestyle a little bewildering. This country hires many foreign workers with salary discrepancies that can be considered "exploitative" in other countries, especially for those who
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      Don't worry, e-voting will be secret
      453 6 I REFER to the letter "An eye on e-vot-ing" (Today, Apr 25). We would like to reassure your readers that for both e-voting and overseas voting, secrecy will be maintained on the same basis as in the traditional voting system using ballot papers. The
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      337 6 ti 5 -17 May 2001 (Tuesday till Thursday) Annex Building, Singapore Science Centre GAMES SCHEDULE 15 May 2001 Tuesday n.3fl am: Opening Ceremony 2,00 pm: W,ili-Clirnbins> Robol Race i).45 am: Open Category Judging 3.00 pm onwards: MIROSOT Prelims 9.50 am: Cal and Mouse the Scavengers 3.30 pm: Legged Robot Obstacle
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      30 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
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Warships made here?
      217 8 Bloomberg News ST Marine and Rolls-Royce in early talks ROLLS-Royce, a UK gas turbine manufacturer, is in preliminary talks with Singapore Technologies Engineering's marine unit about an alliance to design and build warships in Singapore. "We have had exploratory contacts," RollsRoyce Director for Naval Marine Business Development
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      Lock icon SingTel fourth-quarter profit rises 18%
      120 8 Bloomberg News SINGTEL said its fiscal fourthquarter profit rose 18 per cent, as customers used more data services such as the Internet. The phone company's profit for the three months ended Dec 31 rose to $438 million or 2.84 cents a share, from $370.6 mil-
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      Lock icon Less control for more foreign banks
      106 8 Bloomberg News THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will announce next month details of a plan to give foreign banks more room to operate here, as it opens the financial services industry to greater competition. The "Qualifying Full Bank" (QFB) status allows foreign lenders
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      Lock icon SembCorp to invest $20 mil in Brazilian shipyard venture
      189 8 Bloomberg News SEMBCORP Marine, the largest local shipyard, will invest an initial $20 minion to lease and upgrade a Brazilian shipyard, bringing it closer to customers in that region. The company will lease Maua Jurong Shipyard for about 29 years, together
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      CPF bonanza for insurance companies
      320 8  -  Chan Chao Veh by cha o p e h@ne ws to day.com.sg THANKS to the further liberalisation on the use of CPF money, insurance companies in Singapore announced an almost five-fold increase in sales of single premium sales. For the first three months of the
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      Lock icon British Telecom splits into two
      147 8 AFP LONDON Debt-ridden British Telecom yesterday launched a 5.9-billion-pound ($15.3 billion) share issue the biggest in British history and also announced a breakup of the group. British Telecom would offer the shares at a cut-price level of 300 pence per share, down 47 per cent
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    • Article
      Going Dutch, online
      517 9  -  Prof S. Janakiramanan ABN Amro is a good model of Internet banking to follow by LAST week, I said that if Singapore is to become a true financial hub, it is crucial to allow banks here to engage in all sorts of intermediary and value-added activities. Indeed,
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      67 8 II LIVING FAITH® Join us at our \l I Sunday Worship Service 11 H Time 9.30am to 11.30am H Venue Golden Village Cinema 3, I I H Level 4, Marina Leisureplex, J Marina Square Speaker Rev. Dr John Lim j An Oasis Of Love, Courage And Strength /I II <■
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  • MARKET NEWS
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      One down, two up
      481 10 Market reverses downtrend with gains and good volume THE Singapore market valiantly absorbed bouts of forced selling to end in positive territory, bucking four days of down sessions. The Straits Times Index (STI) finished 6.56 points up at 1688.90, albeit failing to hold on to its
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      Market flat in the absence of buying support
      473 10 KUALA LUMPUR The local bourse gave up early gains to close flat in the absence of follow though buying. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index reached a high of 580.0, before retracing to close at 573.7, edging 0.8 points higher from its previous
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon India polls
      51 12 Reuters GUWAHATI Voting in India's local elections got off to a violent start in Assam state yesterday, but it was relatively peaceful in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Pondicherry. Chief Election Commissioner M S Gill said they had done all "that is humanly possible to ensure peaceful
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      Lock icon Currency plan gets boost
      156 12 Agencies HONOLULU The idea of creating an Asian safety net against currency speculators received a boost yesterday after Japan and three countries signed currency swap deals. On the sidelines of an Asian Development Bank (ADB) meeting, Japan announced that it had struck a US$3 billion ($5.4
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      Lock icon It's cyber ceasefire
      324 12 AFP Chinese computer hackers concede defeat BEIJING Nine days after starting an intense cyberwar with American hackers, Chinese computer hackers conceded defeat yesterday and called for a "ceasefire". "Although Chinese hackers have reported over 1,000 attacks on American Web sites by the end of May 9, they
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      Lock icon Mixed Korean reception to missile plan
      195 12 Agencies SEOUL The United States' so-called charm offensive to sell its controversial "Son of Star Wars" plan in Asia got off to a bad start in South Korea yesterday. A high-level US delegation, led by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, had their cars
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      Lock icon Researchers 'stole genetic material' for Japanese lab
      270 13 Reuters CLEVELAND Two medical researchers have been charged with economic espionage in the United States. Takashi Okamoto, 40, and Hiroaki Serizawa, 39, allegedly stole genetic material relating to Alzheimer's disease for a Japanese government-funded laboratory. Okamoto is believed to be in Japan while
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      Lock icon Fujimori to spy chief: Quit and get $27m
      143 13 Reuters PERU Disgraced former President Alberto Fujimori gave his powerful spy chief a US$l5-million <$27-mil-lion) golden handshake to quit and leave the country. Vladimiro Monte sinos, once Mr Fujimori's right-hand man, became a political liability after he was videotaped bribing a congressman.
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      Lock icon China faces pressure to legalise mercy killing
      169 13 AFP BEIJING The Chinese government is facing growing pressure to legalise euthanasia to ease individual pain and help the over-stretched medical system save money. The debate, which has raged for almost a decade, intensified recently when the Netherlands became the first country in
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      398 13 jfe SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL 2001 3 Ij j. t T Et c*l :j^.' f,-*j .o<-j I jyi'f* tff yf *ftfl F.^i^i tT^ri V^TTtf frf^^^^^K r" 'i' L* im 4 3 4^K^Q|^Bt{/ iml^l |H aJIJ^K i:" .■:^i»M''-:'-;:" t'!- 1/-iiß[ WHlB^^fßflfTWffi"^^;^^^™^*'ffll IffirSs^F^BP P^-I^M ■^mtnSßl^S^SsSt. Singapore symphony orchestra Arena Theatre Company (Australia) The
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon The politics off women and cars
      695 15  -  Ravi Veloo A lot of them want to be in the driver's seat but can't by_ THE dramatic drop of $32,000 for next month's COE prices to $101 that you read about in yesterday's paper is a mask for another issue: The growing frustration
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  • RELAX
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      Gentleman, or Fool?
      730 16  -  Carolyn Wong ADVERTORIAL Survivor 2: What a strange turn of events indeed by axn mktg® s pe. s o ny. com Fool. Imbecile. Idiot. Those were but some of the unpleasant terms used to describe Colby Donaldson (above), runner-up to the US$l million ($l.Bl million) prize. I
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      Lock icon This man survived television ... and won
      139 16 This man survived television and won ONE loyal fan of the hit reality drama series Survivor 2 has been well rewarded for tuning in regularly. Mr Cheng Kim Hai won two tickets to Perth for correctly predicting the winner. He said: "I thought Tina had good composure. Also, she managed
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      Action station
      273 18  -  Francesca Seah City TV will offer 50 hours of international and local sport programmes a week by fra nee sc a newstoday. com. sg When City TV is launched next Monday, fans need not worry that sports will go missing in action. Sports will constitute about 60 per
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      Lock icon Cannes jury gets emotional
      171 18 AFP CANNES The 10-member jury at this year's Cannes film festival said as the event opened on Wednesday that they would rely on their emotions to select the winner of the presitigious Palme d'Or. "What I do with films is to make an experience of them.
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      From Puerto Rico with love, Jaime
      319 18 Our representative to the Miss Universe Pageant in Puerto Rico, Jaime Teo (below), takes time off from her hectic rehearsals to email her thoughts on the eve of the contest finals. f\ s I begin packing to return, the realiiisation that the trip I've
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    • INCINEMAS
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        Lock icon Going international
        636 27 Reuters Thai cinema celebrates its centennial, and with eye to the future BANGKOK Thailand and Hollywood have enjoyed something of a love-hate relationship over the years. Thailand banned 1956 Oscar-winning musical The King and I and 1999 non-musical remake Anna and the King from its cinemas, branding them
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      Lock icon What SPGs want
      571 28  -  Elise Teoh QUEEN OF CLUBS la 'ft, I Nightspots frequented by Caucasian men are bright spots amidst the doom and gloom of the clubbing scene by eliseteoh@themediacampus.cotn You may have heard the doom and the gloom about the clubbing scene, with a couple of nightspots shutting down,
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      62 16 Catch the Survivor 2 participants as they return to their homes and family, tonight on AXN (Ch 19) at 10 pm. Viewers who miss this telecast can watch the re-broadcast on Sundays at 1 pm and 8 pm. If you missed the season, you can watch both Survivor 1 and
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      48 17 Vj "f" f' t A tr' i«i-i P T A;6 Paerin Choo iHI WinsonLeow T^ Stephanie Wong 1 .:V: Wendy Toh M^WonTern^^^^ Joey Hg r^ VhLJ ■■■■-f■■ jff I Who's got it, who hasn't? O^ Ip^ find out os /2 starry-eyed Singapore finalists take centrestage in Round I.
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      363 18 I CANON ROAD SHOW 1 h At Funan Atrium from 11/5 to 13/5 I h Launch of latest S-Series Bubblejet Printers with i lots of FREE Gifts Lucky Dip. Canon Digital Cameras. Slim Line Scanners. Personal Copier. Calculators, etc. are on offer too. I TRADE-IN available. Don't miss it!!! I
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      48 18 (x Wiftn, Lew, friAAAYL <m I wish that I could give her more of my time because we all. get too caught up with our own lives, our jobs, our families. Parents have more time on their hands and we have less on ours, Rahul Pathak, 39, Journalist
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      159 21 f MORE STARS, MORE FUN MORE PRIZES! HAVE FUN WITH 8! 12 May 2001 Venue Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza Time 6.30pm 9pm See the Singapore Star Search contestants in their 'live' singing and dancing test at the Chinese Radio Carnival as well as various MediaCorp artistes' performance at the
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      963 22 RADIO HIGHLIGHTS Free Willy 3 Tonite with Chor Meng Jg^-Wtfc r*i a on cem The Rescue It Ch 8,7.30 pm IP void 90.5 rffl Ch 5 7 30 nm ■■>-%. r l-ll An all-new variety-cum-game Easy Listening Favourites Willy the whale is back, NX show and helmed by Chor Meng
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      982 23 La Bamba Super Movie Fan Club Ch 5, 11 pm the First Emperor t\ fL Q in 9A m -J» The Man, the Myth and the Musk vn v*aw Hm channel newsasi a teat brought America to its feet and f.);'.- Chew Chor Meng grills Gong Li catapulted 17-year-old Ritchie
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      415 24 Cinemax Hallmark Jr** (Ch 59) (Ch 36) Frank Herbert's Christy Return To Dune, Part I Cutter Gap S9 pm 9pm m m m\^i^ m m^Lmm* m^^m^mmr-- Christy Huddleson reminisces about her days as a teacher in the early 1900s in the small Tennessee town of Cutter Gap. Christy recalls the
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      829 24 KGQISTCrWOW Venue: National Rock Cancer Foundation and |-y-1 Climbing Centre, Tanjong Pagar CDC.The projMay Educational Tour Safra Yishun Country Club ect aims to make breast This month, the tour group Registration; Forms are screening easier for the resim^^'i will visit Hay Dairies,Jurong available at Safra clubs, dents. LJ Frog Farm,
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      503 29  -  lan De Cotta by ia li (H>news tod ay.com. sg AUSTRALIA is the top holiday destination for Singaporeans. This is hard!/ surprising for it offers a tantaiising break from Asia and is closer than most medium-haul Asian destinations. The state of Western Australia (WA)
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      737 30  -  lan De Cotta by ian@newstoday.com.sg SIX million /ears ago, nature waved its magic wand to create one of the great natural wonders of the world. It was not until 1769, however, that its creation was discovered -by 40-year-old Captain James Cook when his ship
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      587 32 Refurbished Toys 'R' Us Forum store is now regional flagship operation IF you've harboured fantasies of being the proverbial kid running wild in a toy megastore, yearn no more. Head on down to the spruced-up Toys 'R' Us store at Forum Galleria for its grand opening today.
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      92 32 A member of the Li Fung Group, the first Toys 'R T Us store in Singapore was established in 1984 by the group in a joint effort with Toys 'R' Us Inc in the United States. In 1999, the two companies signed a new joint-venture agreement
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      Lock icon Iverson's one-man act
      479 33 Reuters NBA PLAYOFFS photo "The Answer" carries Sixers with big 54 NBA Philadelphia 97 Toronto 92 PHILADELPHIA Allen Iverson didn't need any help this time. He scored a team playoff record 54 points to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 97-92 win over the Toronto Raptors that
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      298 34 Reuters Cricket BRIDGETOWN South African captain Shaun Pollock wore an expression of extreme contentment after his side clinched the one-day series against the West Indies yesterday. South Africa's seven-wicket victory in the fifth one-day international gave the tourists an unassailable 4-1 lead in the seven-match series, with
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      161 34 AFP Boxing LAS VEGAS David Tua, the Internationa] Boxing Federation's number one heavyweight contender, filed a lawsuit yesterday claiming the rematch clause in the heavyweight contract between Lennox Lewis and Hasim Rahman violated IBF rules. Tua filed the suit in the United States District Court
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      511 35 AFP PHOTO Capriati's poised to cure 11-year itch Tennis BERLIN The old version was a pretty handy player who, in 1990, became the youngest-ever Grand Slam semi-finalist, aged just 14 at the French Open. But 11 years on, Jennifer Capriati (above) says the new version
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      677 36  -  Leonard Thomas Hitzfeld proves he has no peer, not even Man United's Sir Alex by leonard@ne wst o day. torn, sg SO, THE glamour boys from Madrid and Manchester are, for many outside of Bavaria and Valencia at least, prematurely out of this season's Champions
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      AFC gets tough on cheating countries
      258 36  -  Stanley Ho AFC General Secretary Dato' Peter Velappan announced yesterday that the national football associations of Iran, Oman, Thailand and Bangladesh will be handed suspensions and fines in a crackdown on the disease of fielding over-aged players. It was proved beyond doubt, after using
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      99 36 ROME Chile's Marcelo Rios, the ex-world number one in men's tennis, spent a day in jail yesterday, soon after losing in the Rome Masters Series tournament. "A police complaint was filed against Marcelo Rios for resisting arrest and injuring public officials," a police
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      Roma's Totti in record deal
      107 36 ROME Francesco Totti yesterday signed the richest playing contract in football history as AS Roma secured his services until 2005, reported the Times. The 24-year-old Italian football will be paid £28 million ($72 million) for this season and the next four years. However, that will
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      684 37 His final countdown starts tomorrow FA Cup final Arsenal v Liverpool LONDON So the countdown begins. Tomorrow, Tony Adams hears his last-lap bell. Once his third FA Cup final is completed, he will number his remaining professional targets very exactly: One more championship, one more Cup, one more
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      Lock icon Oh no! Not again?
      544 38  -  Stanley Ho Warriors win but Mirko and Razif see Red-dy SAFFC 2 Balestier 0 FOR the third time in five days, two SAFFC players had to leave the pitch for an early bath. Defender Razif Mahamud and star striker Mirko Grabovac were shown red cards in
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      273 38  -  Stanley Ho Tanjong Pagar v Tampines (Queenstown Stadium, 7.30pm) "I DON'T think I am blind," said Tampines Rovers' club chairman Teo Hock Seng. He was speaking to Today on his team's gallant effort against defending S-League champion SAFFC last weekend. Teo maintains that he remains
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      97 38 -AFP PARIS The Accra stadium stampede in Ghana which left 130 people dead will not affect plans to hold the 2010 World Cup in Africa, a Fifa spokesman said yesterday. Meanwhile, Rangers defender Bert Konterman has blamed farmers in his native Netherlands for the positive drugs tests that
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      Lock icon No, Nakata? You've gotta be joking
      619 39  -  S. Gulam AFC should review its Awards voting system THE Asian Football Confederation chief Peter Velappan described him as the most famous Asian footballer today. "Who says there are no stars in Asia? What about Nakata?" he asked in his opening speech at the
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        319 40 Reuters Williams loses to Belgian teenager Tennis BERLIN World number two Venus Williams lost ground in the battle for top spot when she suffered a shock 6-1, 6-4 defeat to Belgian teenager Justine Henin in the third round of the German Open yesterday. Second seed Williams, who had
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        184 40 Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil bowed to pressure from its domestic clubs yesterday and named a weakened squad for the Confederations Cup in Japan next month. The provisional 35-man squad excluded players from Vasco da Gama, Palmeiras, Flamengo and Corinthians, who are all wanted
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