Today, 18 June 2001

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  • 10 1 TODAY Monday June IS, 2001 MITA (P) US II 2000
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  • 482 1  -  Chan Chao Peh Cathleen Tung Sing Tel attempts a toehold in broadcasting by COUCH potatoes the battle for your attention has just gone a notch higher. Less than three days after Star Hub and Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) announced that they would merge, Sing Tel
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  • 137 1 Mad cow new fears -AFP HONG KONG Residents in the territory might have been exposed to the deadly human form of mad cow disease as a result of the government's decision to keep importing contaminated animal feed after it was banned in Britain in 1988, said a report yesterday. The
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  • 104 1 Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR The recent action taken against 15 Umno officials found guilty of money politics shows that the party is not afraid to go after the "big fish", said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar yesterday. He was commenting on a report that six
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 294 2 Reuters Australian govt backs foreign telco bids SYDNEY Australia is open to investment by foreign governments in its telecommunication companies and has extended a review whether to allow SingTel's bid for Cable Wireless Optus. "It is okay for foreigners to come into the country and offer competition,"
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    • 66 2 SINGAPORE'S highest-ranked football official flexed his bowling skills at the Charity Bowl yesterday. National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan teamed up with World Masters champion Jesmine Ho to help raise additional funds. Mr Mah, together with Members of Parliament, national bowlers, businessmen, and MediaCorp artistes had all
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    • 53 2 Five-year-old old Matthew Chan was among 100 children auditioning for the role of Tarn" in the musical "Miss Saigon" at the Action Theatre yesterday. Only three children will be chosen. In order to identify the child with the Xfactor, the auditioners devised a series of games
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    • 197 2 SMALL-TIME video vendors can now opt for a daily-rated licence that costs just $6 a day for each outlet that they operate. This new scheme, introduced by the Films and Publications Department (FPD) on Friday, will benefit video distributors at pasar malam and trade fairs
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    • 196 2 Reuters ZURICH Swiss prosecutors have frozen bank accounts containing 250 million Swiss francs {$248 million) they suspect could stem from bribes a French company is alleged to have paid to sell warships to Taiwan. The case is part of a bribery scandal surrounding Elf Aquitaine,
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    • 231 2 SIAM REAP The call of nature is forcing thousands of tourists to cut short their visit to Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat. A lack of toilets at the temple site means that many tourists have to go back to their hotels or use the nearby forests for relief. This
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    • 45 2 A COMPANY that produces doors lost about $5,200 when their office premises were broken into yesterday. One of the window panels had been removed and the office premises ransacked. The theft was discovered by a technician. Witnesses can call Bedok Police at 244-0000.
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    • 290 3 AFP Abdullah attacks meeting with Aussie minister KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi decried an opposition leader's meeting with Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer recently over domestic matters. He said it reflected a "colonial mentality". Datuk Seri Abdullah said Parti
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    • 241 3 Reuters AHMEDABAD Forty-seven people have died over the past fortnight in heavy monsoon rain lashing the west and south of India, officials said. The rains in the western state of Gujarat have forced hundreds of people to evacuate to safer areas of the
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    • 152 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police have arrested 111 people in pre-dawn raids at four discotheques around Kuala Lumpur as part of a nationwide crackdown on drug abuse. The 80 men and 31 women, aged between 20 and 42, tested positive for drugs such as
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    • 296 4  -  Joy Frances Centres have been set up to help solve community problems by. j oy@ newstoday.com.sg HAVE you seen a convoy of Minis racing around your neighbourhood? It's all part of the Ministry of Law's drive to spread word of their Community Mediation Centres (CMC). Instead
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    • 194 4 FEARS of layoffs may be the order of the day but there is hope of better times, said Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Lim Swee Say. His words of reassurance were addressed to union members of the United Workers of Electronic
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    • 229 4 TEDDY bear lovers thronged to the Singapore Botanic Gardens yesterday to participate in Asia's Premier Teddy Bears Picnic and Fair 2001. This charity event was organised by Sasha's and Company and the Northeast Community Development Council. The organisers expect to raise around $80,000 from
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    • 156 4 NEEDY families in Punggol Central can now turn to a network of people to help them with repairs. The Cheng San GRC has started a pilot community service initiative "Friends of the Family" under which, trained volunteers help out in home repair,
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    • 127 4 SOME sporting fathers had a field day on Fathers' Day, as they turned football coaches for a day. Their footballing skills might not be that great, but their intentions were good. According to Channel News Asia, 17 fathers volunteered to be trained as assistant coaches for their
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 104 4 READ 0N... See bus fares in perspective SBS explains cost of operating services/6 Bomb kills 22, injures 100 Bangladesh PM points finger at opposition party/12 Marking identities Developing a distinctive variety of English not really a bad thing/13 New star Actress Shuf Ling is carving her own niche/17 Get connected!
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 342 5  -  Najib Ahmad b y ro p orter@n c ws to d ay. com.sg KIDNEY transplants between unrelated living donors and recipients keep the patients off dialysis and allow them to live longer, US-based medical experts said during the NephroAsia 2001 Transplant Forum at the National
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    • 150 5 THE driver of a white BMW tested negative for drugs during a routine urine test at the Woodlands checkpoint on Saturday night. But the 59-year-old Singaporean's nervousness led officers from the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) to suspect that something was amiss. A search of his
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  • LETTERS
    • 530 6  -  Cheng Lay Tin SBS explains cost of operating services WE refer to the recent letters on the feeder fare alignment. We understand public sentiment about the impending alignment of the feeder fares, especially given the current economic climate. Nobody likes price increases, however small, even
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    • 164 6  - Stop smoking for the sake of society Tom Ong NOT too long ago, Mr Alex Chan, chairman of the committee on smoking control, proposed extending the nosmoking rules to pubs and clubs. Generally, these rules are beneficial to the non-smoking public. In these smoker-concentrated entertainment joints which are open to
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    • 271 6 ANIMALS will soon be extinct with people like Mr Bruce James around. In his letter "The Cat Menace" Mr James said: "We never believed that horses, chickens, bats or pigs could pass fatal diseases to humans by airborne means. "Yet we are constantly reading of new
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 190 7 Bloomberg NEW DELHI Bharti Enterprises, which runs India's biggest non-state fixed phone network, may buy British Telecommunications out of a mobile-phone venture in India. "We're in advanced stages of discussions," said Mr Hemant Sachdev, a Bharti spokesman. He wouldn't comment on a Times of India
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    • 286 7 Bloomberg Despite European inflation FRANKFURT -The European Central Bank will keep borrowing costs in the 12 countries using the euro unchanged, even as evidence mounts that growth is slowing, economists forecast. The ECB, faced with accelerating inflation, will keep its benchmark interest rate at 4.5 per
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    • 208 7 Reuters PARIS Genera] Electric Co said it did not expect European anti-trust regulators to approve its US$42 billion ($75.6 billion) acquisition of Honeywell International. GE President Jeffrey Immelt said the company would not negotiate further with the European Commission and had submitted its final offer. "We are
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    • 122 7 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR KLM Royal Dutch Airlines agreed to jointly market some of its routes with Malaysian Airline System, which may lead to the Southeast Asian airline joining an alliance led by KLM. KLM will sell and market code-share flights with MAS. The two have had code-sharing agreements
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    • $ Market Watch
      • 95 7 TELEDATA (Singapore) Ltd, a data and voice communication system integrator has partnered with Davox Corp, which provides customer interaction management (CIM) offerings. Under the partnership, Teledata will provide professional services via subsidiary, TD-Services, to integrate front and back-office applications with Davox's contact centre technology. The Davox/Teledata integrated products
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      • 81 7 DATAONE Asia, an Internet Data Centre (IDC), has joined with Frontstep Singapore, which provides business systems for mid-sized distributors and manufacturers, to offer joint application service provider (ASP) packages. Frontstep has a wide portfolio of ASP-ready Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
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      • 65 7 UNITED Overseas Bank has teamed up with Life Medic to launch the UOB-LifeMedic Visa Gold Card. The card combines the functions of a credit card and an electronic emergency medical history alert. It also supplies doctors with vital medical information of the card member through Life Medic's Medical
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    • 380 8  -  ENG KONG Reuters Fear that downturn may break consumer NEW YORK Keeping the world's largest economy from tipping into recession is no light task. While American consumers have so far shouldered that burden, dangerous cracks are starting to appear in household balance sheets. Analysts fear consumers
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    • 211 8 JtJloomberg WASHINGTON Microsoft Corp and AOL Time Warner said they will stop bundling America Online software with the Windows operating system after the two companies ended talks that began six weeks ago. Microsoft will stop distributing AOL software with Windows when a new version of the product
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    • 125 8 -AFP PARIS The United States is "seriously concerned" that European subsidies to Airbus mean that the aircraft maker's A3BO airliner will have an unfair advantage over competition, "I think that's something that we must and we will look very carefully into," US Commerce Secretary Donald Evans
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    • Market news
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        210 8 EARNINGS downgrades, warnings and poorer than expected US economic data pushed the Dow and Nasdaq down throughout last week, but it had little impact on the ST Index. The Dow closed 353 points or three per cent to ***** while the Nasdaq shed 187 points or eight per cent
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      • 154 8 KUALA LUMPUR Last week was generally a good week for the Malaysian stock market, with the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index even breaching 600 midway through the week. Bargain hunting from retail investors and institutional interest sustained the rise on the local bourse despite the lack of fresh positive domestic
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    • 475 9 AFP Accusations fly amid clash over newspaper deal KUALA LUMPUR A rift in Malaysia's largest Chinese party over its controversial takeover of two independent newspapers appears to be widening with leaders trading insults in newspapers yesterday. The takeover of Nanyang Press, which publishes Nanyang Siang Pau
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    • 335 9 -AFP WASHINGTON -Japan is back on top of the list of foreign policy priorities for US President George W Bush's new administration. After five months in office, Asia hands in Mr Bush's foreign policy team have been consumed with rapidly worsening relations with China
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    • 124 9 -AFP WASHINGTON The Italian clothing maker Benetton has agreed to pay US$5O,OOO ($90,500) to a fund for crime victims to settle a lawsuit alleging the company misrepresented interviews and photographs of condemned inmates for its "We on Death Row Project", Missouri state attorney-general Jay Nixon said. Benetton
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    • 72 9 Reuters Boys in mediaeval dress stand in front of Italy's famous leaning tower of Pisa during the official opening ceremony marking the end of restoration in Piazza det Miracoli (Miracle Square). In yesterday's ceremony, the Mayor of Pisa was given a key as a symbolic gesture of handing
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    • 142 9 -AFP MANAMA (Bahrain) A man found dead near London's Heathrow airport was apparently a Pakistani stowaway. He had apparently plunged to his death from the wheel bay of a British Airways flight from Manama. Gulf Daily News said passengers on last Thursday's flight told the crew
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    • 202 9 AFP MANILA Philippines President Gloria Arroyo will visit the southern island of Basilan today, where Muslim Abu Sayyaf rebels are holding 26 Filipino and American hostages, the presidential palace said. Mrs Arroyo leaves Manila this morning for the western province of Palawan, where the rebels last
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 549 10 Reuters Uneasy allies China, Russia join hands against common enemies SHANGHAI Behind the bearhugs and back slaps of a Central Asian security summit last week lay a geopolitical struggle for influence over the oil-rich region reminiscent of the Great Game of the 19th Century. China, Russia
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    • 198 10 BODHGAYA A vast 150 m statue of Buddha will soon soar over the horizon of India's poorest state, Bihar. But the project has aroused deep misgivings among the impoverished peasants in the vicinity. Construction of The Buddha Maitreya, or Buddha of the Future, will start in September
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    • 246 10 HONG KONG Police have launched a crackdown on young offenders by ordering them to do better at school... or face jail. Academic failure Lai Ming-ho, 15, was sent to a youth training centre last November on a wounding charge but pleaded with a High Court
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    • 84 10 -AFP WASHINGTON A Texas entrepreneur has told federal investigators that Mr Roger Clinton, half-brother of former President Bill Clinton, promised to provide him with two diplomatic passports in exchange for US$3O,OOO ($54,000). Businessman Richard Cayce told authorities that Mr Roger Clinton also said he could arrange
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    • 178 10 -AFP BANGKOK Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (right) today fights for his political life in a dramatic closing address to the court which will decide whether he is guilty of corruption. Today, the Constitutional Court wil hold its final hearing into allegations that the prime minister concealed
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    • 357 12 AFP Bangladesh PM points finger at opposition party NARAYANGANJ (Bangladesh) The deadliest bomb attack in Bangladesh's history killed at least 22 people and wounded 100 at a meeting of the ruling Awami League on Saturday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed condemned the bombing and
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    • 193 12 LONDON The British hospital where unrefrigerated corpses were left in a pile on the floor has now admitted to accidentally dumping the body of a miscarried baby in a wastedisposal machine. The remains were in a sealed box at Bedford Hospital awaiting examination to establish
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    • 124 12 Agencies TOKYO The US Navy plans to recover a Japanese fishing trawler that sank after being rammed by a US submarine off Hawaii. The plan to raise the Ekime Mara got the greenlight on Friday. The Navy has accepted an environmental assessment that concluded there
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    • 88 12 MOSCOW A Russian bakery, disappointed with sales of its Pokemon and Mickey Mouse cakes, has started baking Vladimir Putin desserts. Bosses at the N7 Bakery in the city of Chelyabinsk market-tested the cakes and think they'll be popular. They think people who don't like the Russian President
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    • 133 12 Bloomberg PARIS Liquor company Reiny Cointreau SA said it hopes to make life in space more enjoyable for astronauts by introducing Remy Space, a cognac especially processed to be drunk in orbit. Remy introduced 3,000 limited editions of 100 millilitre-bot-tles of champagne cognac "for ice-chilled
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    • 93 12 OLDHAM British police have made 14 arrests after right-wing National Front supporters staged a demonstration here. It's members were handing out leaflets in part of the town, hit by recent race riots, when police moved in, reported Ananova. Around 40 Anti-Nazi League supporters staged a
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 516 13  -  Lionel Wee Developing a distinctive variety of English not really a bad thing by UTTERANCES such as "Is the door open?" and "The door is open" are commonly trotted out as clear examples of language being used to ask for and to provide information. The danger of such
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    • 580 13  -  Melina Nathan by IN the wake of the Asian financial crisis, pundits have hailed the emergence of a new Asian regionalism. Examples and visions of this abound: meetings between heads of state and ministers of Asean, China, Japan and South Korea have become
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    • Article, Illustration
      331 15  -  Jenny Kong Not just high-class waiters and waitresses, these clowns by jenny@newstoday.com.sg Attention: Air Connection is preparing for boarding. All viewers are requested to make their way to the living room when the Now Boarding sign is on. Next month, MediaCorp TV Channel 5 will take you on
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    • 78 15 WONG KHING CHONG IN the driver's seat is Mrs Foo Ai Lee, the grand prize winner of the "Lust for Living Contest", organised by Media Corp Publishing Pte Ltd for 8-Days and I-Weekly. MediaCorp artiste Cynthia Koh presented her the key to her brand
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 1309 14 /V\B.DJA>CORP M~D}j\CORP HIGHLIGHTS Double Team a JP^^ Love Generation Channels,7.3opm f > Channels, 10.30pm Vox Pop by SinqTel Jac^ Quinn, the nation's top counter-ter- Teppei is a graphic designer being (11pm Midnight) If you are tech- I fwi* wants to out °fthe fcwufcrrarf fe fte mwfetotf departnosawy, crazy about music
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    • 697 15 •m BT MORNING 10.34 Correspondent's Report 9.00 CNA Tonight Jfc 6.02 Tonight In Person (r)/Asia Notebook (r) 3.34 Spore Stories on \ly First 9.30 Asian Weddings on Union and Beyond 11.00 Asia Today/Regional Time (r) of the Hearts X 6.30 Biz B'fast Market Report 4.00 CNA Today 10.00 Spore Tonight
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1314 16 M^ Event Calendar 2^ repuca of dead sea Talk Courses hoi,™ and M ik e B^e <* I Musicßeat J Scroll Ultra Feedback Pte Ltd and Colin Phil Chang Miracle World China Art Now! The Scroll is considered by Reading Comprehension for Jevons, Lecturer in eMarketing, Tour 2001 Works of
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  • RELAX
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      302 17  -  WEETECKHIAN Jenny Kong Chinese actress Shui Ling is carving her own niche TODAi photo by by. j enny@n ewstnday.com.sg Most Singaporeans may not have heard of Chinese actress Shui Ling, but you may remember the girl who acted opposite Hong Kong actor Julian Cheung in the Taiwanese drama
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      381 20  -  Francesca Seah Meet the Arts Fest's personalities with just a click of the mouse by: fran c c sca@n c wsto d ay. com. sg Get up close and personal with various performers and composers which made the Singapore Arts Festival 2001 happen. MSN Singapore, the official online
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    • 543 20  -  Francesca Seah by francesca@newstoday.com.sg LEITMOTIV opened last week at the Victoria Theatre with the spotlight on a woman played by Caroline Lavigne. She reads a letter from her mother, Rosa, explaining why she was abandoned at birth. Then the play tunnels back through the
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 693 18 The most-awaited movie of the year kicks off a six-month countdown NEW YORK Gandalf the Wizard and Frodo the Hobbit invaded New York from Middle Earth to kick off a six-month countdown for the first Lord Of The Rings movie. New Line
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    • Article, Illustration
      574 19 Reuters First, a fictional film critic. Now, Columbia Pictures 7 workers pose as fans LOS ANGELES A week after Columbia Pictures disciplined executives for creating a fictional critic to tout their films, the studio admitted that two employees posed as fans in a television testimonial for one of
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  • SPORTS
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      653 24 NBA CHAMPION With Shag and Kobe around, anything is possible for the Lakers PHILADELPHIA When it was over Friday night, they shared a word on the court before going their separate ways to summer, two seven-foot heavyweights whose fight had raged for 10 days in the NBA Finals.
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    • 565 24 PHILADELPHIA Being a sevenfooter himself, Greg Foster is amazed at what Shaquille O'Neal can do on the floor to show off his skills. The dance floor. "You see him break-dancing all over the place. I mean, he can dance," Foster said. "He's got
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    • 486 26 While its English Premiership rivals settle for second best LONDON Manchester United has proved once again that when it comes to buying big, it is head and shoulders above any other team in the Premiership. United has moved further out of sight of rivals Arsenal
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    • 191 26 LONDON Chelsea managing director Colin Hutchinson has revealed the club is in talks with Barcelona about bringing Emmanuel Petit back to London. But the £7 million ($lB million) swoop for the for- mer Arsenal midfielder is unlikely to go ahead until the
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    • 783 27 US OPEN Can he go all the way? TULSA As opening acts go, this one bombed. Big time. Stewart Cink was in the third-to-last group at the US Open, golfs centrestage. And when the curtain opened, he took a pratfall, reported Espn.com. Bogey at the first.
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    • 216 28 A pep talk does the trick HE HAS been taken to task of late, labelled a prim a donna and not a team player, for threatening to quit the relay squad if he is not allowed to run in the individual sprints. He also pulled
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    • 155 28 Jose Raymond AFTER a long lay off from competition, the question on everyone's lips was: can he match his previous 'golden distances'? And the 1.96 m SEA Games record holder for the discus answered in the only way he knew; by qualifying for the
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    • 186 28 Jose Raymond OVER the last two months, the 4XlOOm relay team has seen seven different runners in total. But they all only had one goal in mind: to get as close as possible to the 40.08 sec qualifying mark. The squad improved with every race, save
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    • 258 28 Stanley Ho THE 'DAVIDS' of NTUC Income S League are rather hard to find nowadays. And for the second week in a row, our panel of judges have decided that no team did well enough to take the S-League Giant Killer
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    • 268 29  -  Stanley Ho Talent on show at Lion City Cup by Stanley news today, com. sg FOR most teenagers, the June school holidays is a time to unwind and have fun. But for the boys in the Singapore national Under-16 and Under-18 football teams, they will be representing
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    • 385 29  -  Jose Raymond by sp o rts@ne wsto day. c om.sg HAVING signed Hiroyuki Ishida last week, Clementi Khalsa is on the verge of completing a move for an Australian goalkeeper. And when the new addition to the Elephants is confirmed later today, player-coach Vlado Bo2inoski
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    • 161 29 NTUC Income Fan of the Week FORTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Musbah Hassan (left) lives in Woodlands, but the part-time driver is not a Rams' fan. He has, for the longest time, been an Eagles fan, and is also the head of its kompang and cheer team. "If you cut me,
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      400 30 photos Roma sweeps Parma 3-1 to claim Scudetto in style. Montella (above),Totti (right) and Batistuta strike in title decider Italian Serie A MILAN AS Roma was crowned Italian first division champion for the first time in 18 years last night after defeating Parma 3-1 at the Olympic Stadium. The
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    • 143 30 Renters TURIN The Serie A game between Juventus and Atalanta was suspended in the 74th minute when hundreds of fans invaded the pitch. The players eventually returned. Juventus was leading 2-0 in its game when fans pressed open a gate at the south end of
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