Today, 2 June 2001

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  • 7 1 TODAY SiitllFCliiy June 2, 2001 MTM(l»)i3&i 1/2000
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  • 533 1  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Plays with a political edge in this year's Arts Fest b by kim@newstoday.com.sg AS recently as 1994, The Necessary Stage was branded a leftist group and its two creative heads, Mr Alvin Tan and Mr Haresh Sharma, accused of training at "Marxist workshops". Words like
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  • 290 1 KUALA LUMPUR The influential Utusan Malaysia yesterday morning set the country abuzz with a frontpage report that Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin would finally tender his much-anticipated resignation later in the day. Tun Daim, whose close friendship with Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 284 2  -  Najib Ahmad Salesgirls made false claims, court rules by reporter@newstoday.com.sg FURNITURE wars can be ugly. A local company sold sideboards, L-shaped sofas and coffee tables of similar designs as the OM furniture brand. It claimed it had the right to distribute the furniture here. That's when OM
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    • 223 2 IT could be a question about the legalities of applying for a flat, or registering title deeds, or the status of your HDB shophouse. For anything related to land, you just have to make your way to the 26th floor of Temasek Tower. That is
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    • 157 2 MURDERED footballer Sulaiman Hashim was buried at the Chua Chu Kaiig Cemetery yesterday afternoon in a funeral attended by friends, fellow national footballers and Football Association of Singapore officials. The 18-year-old, considered one of the best in the national youth squad, was murdered at Boat
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    • 350 3 Agencies Gus Dur removes ministers as time runs out JAKARTA In a bid to save his sinking presidency, President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday fired his four top officials. The four who were booted out unceremoniously were Chief Security Minister S Bambang Yudhoyono, Attorney-General Marzuki Darusman, Maritime Resources Minister Sarwono
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    • 161 3 Agencies BEIJING Mock attacks on Taiwan's outlying islands and aircraft carriers will be the highlights of China's massive war games next month. The exercises involve thousands of troops and high-tech weapons, but the Chinese Foreign Ministry was quick to describe the planned exercises as normal.
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    • 92 3 AFP MANILA Abu Sayyaf guerillas holding 20 hostages including three Americans in the southern Philippines have indicated they would consider swapping their captives for cash. "In broad terms, they sent a message that... this has always been for ransom money," said a spokesman for President Gloria
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    • 69 4 AS part of celebrating 65 years of broadcasting, MediaCorp Radio has launched the Radio Card, a smart card that also doubles up as a cash card and ERP card. It offers listeners many privileges, including free passes to radio events. It is the first of its kind
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    • 291 4  -  Lee U-wen Your kids have a mother, but they need a loving father too by uwen@newsto day. com. sg TO all dads reading this: Have you been spending enough time with your children recently? A recent study in the United States revealed the astonishing fact that fathers spend
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    • 129 4 AN independent audit commissioned by the Public Transport Council (PTC) found that bus services failed to fully meet some absolute standards. For instance, HDB towns in Choa Chu Kang, Jurong West and Woodlands were not adequately served. More trunk services would need to be introduced to meet
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    • 97 4 SINCE 1972, this man had been in and out of the Institute of Mental Health (IMH). But between October and December last year, he went absolutely berserk. He raped his 13-year-old daughter a total of 19 times during these two months. The man cannot be named to
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    • 107 4  -  Jose Raymond A 45-year-old woman was injured in a dramatic three-vehicle pile-up at Central Expressway yesterday afternoon. The truck in which she was travelling collided with the truck in front of it. That truck, in turn, had hit a car in front The accident took place
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 109 4 READ 0N... Little sticks, cancer tips Reflections of a former party-puffer/ 8 Thai power play Sacking of central bank's governor bodes ill for its independence/1 4 Asian beat Let the rustic charms of a bygone era move you/1 7 Bay on Harbor Director explodes into manhood re-telling a poignant moment
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  • LETTERS
    • 314 8  -  Ananda Perera Reflections of a former party-puffer I REFER to the informative article on World NoTobacco Day (Today, May 31). I have lost a brother and a father-in-law to smoking. My brother was only 52 years old when he died of a sudden heart attack, mercifully
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    • 123 8  -  Annie Tan THREE Cheers to Brett Home who has aired his views on "Why shouldn't foreigners speak up?" (Today, May 31). I strongly agree with what he had said. I am an Asian myself and have live abroad for many years. Hence, I am
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      381 10  -  Chan Chao Peh Currency consolidation makes sense: Expert by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg WILL currencies in Asia go the euro way in terms of consolidation? Dr Stanley Fischer (right), first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, does not rule this possibility out for some Asian currencies in related economies.
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    • 297 10 WASHINGTON Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan urged Japan to immediately embark on the task of disposing bad loans in the banking sector. Disposal of non-performing loans is an urgent task facing the Japanese government, Mr Greenspan said, according to Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) secretary general
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    • 152 10 CONTRACT manufacturer, Flairis Technology Corp, warned that since the effects of the slowdown in the electronics industry have been more severe and prolonged than expected, it has had to revise its end-year results. With the continued slowdown in the US consumer market and the soft margins,
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    • Market news
      • 353 10 SINGAPORE shares struggled to remain in positive territory as a combination of forced selling and worries over key US job data to be released, kept a lid on follow through buying. The ST Index closed 7.27 points down at 1649.78 in relatively muted trading as most money managers had
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      • 113 10 KUALA LUMPUR Most investors continued to be cautious on concerns over near-term corporate earnings and the state of the local economy. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index finished 1.6 points lower to 571.3, as key index-linked stocks fell. Trading volume was pathetically thin, with only 97,659 lots traded, most of
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    • 390 11 Bloomberg UMC says it's because of competition TAIPEI United Microelectronics Corp, which makes chips for companies such as STMicroelectronics NY of France and Xilinx Inc in the US, said it's giving customers discounts as rivals are forcing it to cut prices. "When people want to negotiate for better
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    • $ Market Watch
      • 76 11 Bloomberg BEYONICS Technology, a Singapore disk drive parts-maker, said its unit will buy Seagate Technology's printed circuit board assembly plant in Batam, Indonesia. Beyonics didn't disclose tlie price. Seagate, the biggest private maker of disk drives, also agreed to buy printed circuit board assembly from
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      • 25 11 US$ 0.5525 TJK£ 0.3897 Yen 65.5515 HK$ 4.3094 RM 2.0995 Euro 0.6520 Rupiah 6317.85 Baht 25.0946 Peso 27.9013 A$ 1.0853 Rupee 25.9841
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 299 12 -AFP Will Beijing repress it as it did with Falungong? BEIJING While China continues its efforts to crack down on the spiritual group, Falungong, a new cult has emerged. Police yesterday confirmed that four adults at the boarding school run by the Falanhui (Blue Law Society)
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    • 177 12 -AFP BANGKOK Thai Defence Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, a former army chief, yesterday blasted a commando-style police raid to arrest a top soldier accused of murdering a provincial governor. The dramatic televised arrest of Major Chalermchai Matchaklam on Wednesday, in which some 30 crime suppression
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    • 113 12 -AFP WASHINGTON The US Defence Department has blown its budget this year. So, President George W Bush plans to ask Congress for a US$6.l billion ($ll billion) supplementary budget, a sizeable reduction from the US$B to US$lO billion that the US service chiefs said they would
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    • Article, Illustration
      140 12 Reuters JOHANNESBURG Nkosi Johnson (left), the 12-year-old hailed by former South African president Nelson Mandela as an icon of the struggle against Aids, lost his battle against the disease yesterday. Nkosi was the public face of Aids in a country struggling to come to terms with the
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    • 191 12 LONDON One of Britain's most notorious prisoners, Charles Bronson, married a woman he met just three times, reported Ananova.com. Yesterday's ceremony took place inside the country's high-est-security prison unit at Woodhill, near Milton Keynes. Armed robber Michael Peterson, 48, who goes by the name of
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    • 253 12 Agencies TOKYO Fearing that his popularity would be undermined, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday told sharp-tongued Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka to end the feud with bureaucrats and concentrate on diplomacy, Japanese media reported. He also instructed her to lift the freeze on personnel
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    • 321 13 Reuters US Democrats to set the tone on region WASHINGTON Now that the Democrats will control the US Senate, it plans to set a different tone on Asian affairs from the Bush team, foreign policy experts said. Asia can expect to see a greater Senate focus on Southeast
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    • 73 13 "I applaud strong government, but not overweening govern- m ment sustained by cronies, ~W ciphers and a personality S cult." Former Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher, warning that a landslide victory for Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair's government in the June 7 election would lead to an
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    • 125 13 -AFP WASHINGTON The Chinese editor of the socalled Tiananmen papers claims that Beijing has set a dragnet to find and arrest him. The papers, based on secret documents smuggled to the US, purportedly detailed deliberations of top communist leaders during the 1989 democracy protests. The man, who operates
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    • 81 13 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian businessman escapee a kidnap gang after his guard got drunk and fell asleep. Three armed men abducted the lottery operator in Johor on Wednesday, reported the Sun. They took him to the XL suburb of Damansara, bound and gagged him and
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 627 14  -  David De Rosa Sacking of central bank's governor bodes ill for its independence by in Washington HERE'S a story that can be filed under the "stranger than fiction" category. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (extreme right) on Tuesday fired Bank of Thailand Governor Chatumongkul Sonakul (right) for
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    • 574 14  -  Nasya Bahfren by BACK in 1996, Time magazine awarded its annual Man of the Year title to Dr David Ho, head of the Aaron Diamond Aids Research Centre (the world's biggest Aids research organisation). The award honoured his determined efforts to lead
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    • Article, Illustration
      451 17  -  Francesca Seah Let the rustic charms of a bygone era move you by francesca@newstoday.com.sg Fort Canning Hill will throb with an Asian heartbeat recalling the atavistic sights and sounds extracted from the heart of Asia. The Festival Village has been immersed in the rustic charms of an untouched
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1403 16 HIGHLIGHTS f endor f' s Tribe H nosis r^m Fj*^. Gold 90.5 FM I^A, Channel 5,7 pm Channel 8,11 pm J#* jLAaIB^ EnCuentro Latino -^r'&B Ik A widowed anthropology professor, who The film opens with a trio of inexplicit- JiLmbJk *f" Uto Steven "t" to present his findings on an
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 802 17 The Living Home Channel News Asia, 9.30 am 6.00 am Graphic Headlines Hopia (r) This is America with Dennis 6.00 Headlines Council Chairman, DrLiu Channel News Asia visits a cozy govern- 6.02 Videofashion! The 9.00 The World Today Wholey in Singapore, Part 3 6.02 Money Mind Thai-Ker, in the start
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  • TIMEOUT
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      479 18 Festival Village Fort Canning Hill comes alive with the sounds, colour and aroma of traditional Asian arts and cuisine. From melodious songs to pounding drums; from folk dance to tribal ritualistic dance; from traditional games to acrobatics, experience a magical evening in the park with artistes from Iran, Indonesia,
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    • 331 18 Black Moon Party A new venue for party-goers. For every month starting today, Sentosa wants to push the dance culture in Singapore like no other event has accomplished. Explore the different types of dance and party on. Date: Today, 9 pm till late Venue: Sentosa, opposite Central Beach Tickets:
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    • 225 18 Transgenic Fish and Jellyfish This is the world's first display of transgenic fish. It contains artificially introduced foreign genetic material.As a result, the fish are seen in radiant green or red colour that glow under special lighting. Venue: Underwater World, Sentosa Tickets:sl7(adult),sll (12 years old and below) and free
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    • 116 18 The Way We Are In the 60s, Izura and Shiela are two university undergraduates who return to their kampung, bringing along with them their modern thinking. Tension and confusion surface when their ideas stir discomfort. Date: Today, 2.30 pm Venue: Tampines East CC Tickets: $8, available at Tampines East
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    • 81 18 Lights, Camera, Action! This photography and video compe- tition is open to all Singapore citizens and permanent residents.With no genres and themes specified, you are free to work on anything under I the sun. Your works must be original and have not been used for other competitions or any
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 78 20 LOS ANGELES Critically acclaimed film director Curtis Hanson (Wonder Boys and LA Confidential), will team up with rapper Eminem (left) to make a movie about a troubled kid from Detroit who finds his voice in hip-hop, trade paper Daily Variety reported. Hanson, unconcerned that Eminem's
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    • 136 20 It'll cost $78m to produce The Art of War HONG KONG Jackie Chan (right) is set to star in what is expected to be the most expensive Chinese film according to Studio Briefing. Golden Harvest Studios has set the budget for the epic film at US$7B million
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    • 180 20 SURVIVOR contestant Dirk Been has given additional testimony in connection with a lawsuit filed by the series producers against Stacey Stillman, reported Studio Briefing. Stillman, a fellow contestant of Been's on the first Survivor, has alleged that her early departure from the show was
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  • RELAX
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      851 21  -  Simon Banner Director explodes into manhood re-telling a poignant moment in history by_ Asa child, Michael Bay (left picture and xxextreme right on right picture) loved playing with trains, building miniature volcanoes and blowing things up. As an adult, he's making his living doing exactly the same
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    • 98 21 Reuters LOS ANGELES Dream Works announced on Thursday that it is planning a sequel to its US$ll2-million ($202.58 million) blockbuster movie Shrek (left). The company's partner Jeffrey Katzenberg said its animation division, which is hoping for the type of block- buster movie that spawns movie
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    • 580 22  -  Rachel Lo Author Andrew Matthews aims to give teenagers hope through his latest book by ra chel@newsto day. com. sg The author of the best-selling motivation titles, Being Happy! and Follow Your Heart, has come up with a new book Being A Happy Teenager. Andrew Matthews
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    • 451 22  -  Elaine Quek by: elaine@newstoday.com.sg EUTHANASIA was brought closer to home last November when a Singaporean man smothered his can-cer-stricken sister with a pillow. Yesterday, that same act of mercykilling tugged at the heartstrings of many when we witnessed the love between two sisters
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  • SPORTS
    • 524 28 I__ _L _L 11 _L l__ Golf DUBLIN It was too early for Tiger Woods to start worrying, or for Chris Smith to begin celebrating. Through 10 holes on Thursday, though, Woods was trailing the unlikely early leader of the Memorial Tournament by a whopping eight
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    • 408 28 Cricket OLD TRAFFORD The pleasures of Blackpool beach may not be to everyone's liking in this frenetic age but they appear to have done Inzamam-ul-Haq a power of good. The behemoth at the heart of Pakistan's batting order, Inzamam scored his third
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    • 397 28 NBA Eastern Conference finals (76ers lead the best of seven series 3-2) MILWAUKEE The NBA would prefer to see the Philadelphia 76ers face the Los Angeles Lakers in the finals, so said Milwaukee Bucks' Ray Allen yesterday. According to ESPN.com,
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    • 149 29 -AFP LONDON Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson may accept a role to lead Britain's fight against drugs if he walks away from football next year. Britain's finance minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, has asked Ferguson to be the public face of the British
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    • 114 29 Reuters SEVILLE Badminton politics gets a rare but intriguing public outing this weekend with the Sultan of Brunei in line to become the governing body's president But there is substantial unease at his lack of experience of the inner workings of the International Badminton Federation he
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    • 76 29 AFP TOKYO Osvaldo Ardiles, the former Spurs star who captained Argentina in its 1978 World Cup win, was sacked yesterday as head coach of Yokohama Marinos. Ardiles, who took over at the J-league club last year, paid the price for his club's dismal start to the season, which
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    • 388 29  -  Kelvin Phang Xavier wins Youth Challenge with 22 strikes in two games Bowling by kelvin@newstoday.com.sg A STAGGERING 22 strikes in two games. That was what Xavier Chew accomplished yesterday on his way to winning the 2001 Youth Challenge yesterday. Trailing Asian FIQ Masters champion
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    • 507 29 AFP PARIS Ireland can start to dream of a trip to the World Cup in Japan and South Korea next year if it manages to extinguish the threat of a starstudded Portugal in the 2002 World Cup Europe zone qualifier today at
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    • 493 30  -  Scott O'Donell S-League SAFFC 2 Jurong 0 SAFFC fans may not have got to see its newest signing Fandi Ahmad play last night but they did get to see its two star strikers Mirko Grabovac and Kiatisuk Senamuang back in action. The deadly duo didn't disappoint
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    • 318 30  -  Scott O'Donell LAST year, Balestier Central finished bottom of the S-League and was widely criticised for being an ultra-defen-sive team with little imagination. A year later, the Balestier Tigers are roaring, having surprised everyone with their attacking football of late. Against
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    • 135 30 Match 5: Tanjong Pagar v Marine Castle Queenstown Stadium June 2 7.30pm IX2 (1) Tanjong Pagar $1.23 (X) Draw $5.20 (2) Marine Castle $7.50 1/2 Goal Tanjong Pagar (-1 1/2) $1.50 Marine Castle (+1 1/2) $2.30 Total Goals 0 goal $20.00 1 goal $7.80 2
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    • 95 31 Reuters ULSAN, South Korea South Korea scored a deserved 2-1 win over Mexico with a lastminute winner in a thrilling Confederations Cup match yesterday. Korea took the lead after 57 minutes when Hwang Sun Hong powered a header past goalkeeper Oswaldo Sanchez. Mexico
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    • 92 31 NATIONAL bowler Jesmine Ho received $20,000 from NTUC Income and the Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress yesterday for winning last month's World Tenpin Bowling Masters title. She received the award at a special dinner for the bowler at Copthorne Waterfront last night. Ho, 35, is hunting
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    • 67 31 -AFP PARIS France's 1993 European Cup champion Marseille was relegated from the First Division yesterday by the French Football League's Financial Directorate for lacking the necessary funds to continue among the elite. It was also relegated in 1993 after a matchfixing scandal involving then president
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    • 408 31 AFP French Open PARIS Tim Henman's dreams of finally getting past the third round of the French Open turned to dust on the slow red clay of Roland Garros yesterday when the llth-seed-ed Briton was knocked out by Guillermo Canas of Argentina. Henman was bidding to
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    • 399 31 -AFP BANGKOK China was handed a dream draw yesterday for the second round of the Asian zone qualifying competition for the 2002 World Cup finals, avoiding in-form heavyweights Iran and Saudi Arabia. China is desperate to make its first ever World
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    • 180 32 -AFP TAEGU Two months ago Clayton Zane (left) was nearly out of work. Yesterday, he was the toast of Australia after scoring the goal that defeated world champion France in a Confederations Cup match. Said the 23-year-old striker: "Everything has come right
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  • THE GREAT SINGAPORE SALE
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      224 33 ±t+]£j.*j//. /sv '"--^^_s'^_______^___«____________k V __________r//f I »-__J^__-v NO squeezing with the weekend crowd, no endless walking, no waiting in line. That is the beauty of e-shopping.You can do it just about anywhere, and not just from home, especially with the proliferation of gadgets like WAP phones, PDAs and
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    • 448 34 Here are some steps you can take to safeguard your privacy FOR those who shun online purchases because of the misconception that all net transactions are insecure, you really have nothing to fear about Using your credit card online is as safe as using it at any
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      340 36 To start you off your online shopping experience, here are some recommended Web sites you can try Fashion www.tangs.com Orchard Road stalwart C KTang is awarding 10 Trends for every $10 spent online.These can be used as discounts for future purchases. Register now and receive 200 Trends free! www.metro.com.sg For
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    • BARGAIN WATCH
      • 195 38 FROM May 25 to July 8, use your Visa or Visa Electron card when you spend a minimum of $100 in a single receipt, anywhere in Singapore, and get a shot at an instant dip and a grand lucky draw. To enter the promotion, simply present your receipts
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        159 42 Hi tech products at low, low prices American Greetings Craft! 2 UP $69 GSS $39.90 From Challenger, Funan Sony Digital 8 Handycam GSS $1,399 From Tangs Cordless Freedom Navigator UP $189 GSSsls<i From South Asia Computet, Creative Jukebox j X MP3 Player j UP $699 GSS $635 From
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      • 336 45 NON-STOP bargains at Parkway Parade await shoppers who cannot resist the urge to splurge. With its own sale bazaar in conjunction with the Great Singapore Sale (GSS) running from May 26 May to July I, Parkway Parade also offers bargainhunters weekly showcases at its basement where
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      • 309 45 THE sale and shopping frenzy is at an alltime high at Raffles City Shopping Centre. Shop for great bargains and special offers with discounts of up to 60 per cent at participating outlets during the Great Singapore Sale, between May 25 and July You could end
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