Today, 28 June 2001, Afternoon Edition

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    8 1 Thursday June 28, 2001 mita (P) 138/11/2000 TODAY
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Quarter point cut
      434 1 AFP Fed bid to add impetus to tepid US economic recovery WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve, seeking to add impetus to an apparent tepid US economic recovery, cut the key interest rate by 25 basis points yesterday. The sixth rate cut this year disappointed some market watchers. The
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      58 1 AFP NEW YORK Stocks ended narrowly mixed yesterday in a muted response to the Fed's quarter-point rate cut The Dow closed down 37.64 points (0.36 per cent) at 10,434.84 while the Nasdaq gained a modest 10.12 points (0.49 per cent) to 2,074.74. The broader Standard and Poor's 500
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      Lock icon The corrupt and the least corrupt
      297 1 Reuters PARIS Finland is the least corrupt country in the world and Bangladesh the most corrupt, according to a worldwide survey of official corruption issued yesterday. Singapore was the fourth least corrupt, together with Iceland. The annual survey by Berlin-based Transparency International awarded Finland
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      Lock icon It's not frosted glass
      89 1 AFP photo CAPE KENNEDY It's a 12- to 14-billion-year-old grouping of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. This Hubble Space Telescope image released yesterday unveils the grouping in the central region of the globular cluster M 22. The telescope's view of the cluster's core measures 3.3 light
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      Eyeball mistakes
      99 1 Yes, we started stumbling from Day 1. We made the mis- -w—^ take of hitching ourselves to the dotcom bandwagon. And m M although we were pretty proud of our website, you know J what websites are like they don't make money. And we made the mistake of
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Wiped out!
      398 2  -  Ng Boon Yian by boonyi an@n ews today.com.sg AN opposition party which has been actively tapping the Internet to reach out to Singaporeans got a rude shock when it found its online mailing list of about 8,000 subscribers vanish overnight. While they claim that it is a "specific
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      Plans for Bt Timah
      117 2 BUKIT Timah plans to have a centre offering the services of HDB, Town Council and the Community Development Council (CDC) all under one roof. It will be called a People's Hall or Civic Hall. There are also plans to build a Sports and Culture Hub, and
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      MediShield discounts
      111 2 ELDERLY CPF members who join MediShield early and continue to stay protected will get a boost in their MediShield benefits from July 1. Members must have joined the scheme before they hit 60 to receive the benefits, which they receive between ages 71 and 75. The first batch
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      Obesity beckons when you eat like you did in school
      320 3  -  Leong Phei Phei by ph e iphei @newstoday. com. sg ADULTS shouldn't put on weight after the age of 20, warned obesity expert Professor Philip James. The chairman of the International Obesity Task Force, Prof James said: "Obesity happens very
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      Judges continue to needle govt
      416 3 Anwar lawyer freed, earlier ruling ridiculed KUALA LUMPUK Malaysian judges have been surprising their critics lately with rulings that are deemed unfavourable to the government. In the latest case, three judges from the Federal Court yesterday threw out a contempt of court conviction and a
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      Lock icon Estrada won't enter plea
      157 3 Reuters MANILA Deposed Philippine President Joseph Estrada refused to enter a plea on a charge of perjury in a court yesterday guarded by thousands of troops. "Your Honour, I will have to follow the advice of my lawyer and not enter any plea," Estrada told the
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      Lock icon Mahathir's Chinese political aide sworn in
      295 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian Chinese was sworn in as a political secretary to Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday, the first person from the minority race to hold the post under Dr Mahathir. Lawyer Matthias Chang Wen Chieh, 51, took an oath of
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      Lock icon Drawings by asylum seeker
      62 3 Reuters Drawings by 17-year-old North Korean Chang Gil-su, who had sneaked into the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Beijing on Tuesday with his family, and demanded refugee status. The UNHCR said the seven, who face harsh punishment if returned to North Korea, deserved
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      Twin scholars of DSTA
      125 4  -  Lee U-Wen by uwe n@ newsio f i a y. r o n i. i.' BY coincidence, the 40 scholars of the Defence Science Technology Agency (DSTA) this year include a set of twins and a pair of cousins. They were selected by merit out of
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      A fencer's SilkRoute
      236 4  -  Audra Lim And that very special quality by Audra@newatoday.com.sg VISIONARY. Athlete. Entrepreneur. These attributes have earned Mr Wong Toon King Singapore's highest youth accolade. He is the winner of this year's Singapore Youth Awards, entrepreneurship category, which will be given out at the Istana on Sunday. One
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      Follow their adventure on the Web
      86 4 ADVENTURE enthusiasts can follow the ascent of Tibet's highest peak by four Singaporean climbers through their official website www. xixa.com.sg. The climb of the 8,027m Xixabangma mountain is scheduled for March 2002. The team, led by aeronautical engineer Dr Robert Goh, will be follow-
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      99 4 READ 0N... Donations and the law Checks and information needed to protect public/6 $39m profit for Starhub Detailed plans on SCV merger out in two months/8 They stole thoughts Indian military think-tank analysts plagiarised/14 Customer service? Bank mergers could lead to cost being passed on to depositors/ 16 One hot
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      Donations and the law
      200 6  -  him Ee Leong Checks and information needed to protect public THE incident described here may be minor but the issue involved is important. I was approached by a woman asking for donations to help the poor and needy. She even passed me a leaflet explaining the
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      Not just son's fault
      186 6  -  Ong Chee Geh I REFER to the article "Stiffen penalties for those who abandon parents" (TODAY, Jun 26). I feel that we should not put all the blame on the son for behaving in such a manner. There is a Chinese proverb that says: "You can't
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      Animal lover speaks of her 'classroom'
      149 6  -  Julie Lint Chee Lee I AM saddened by some of the responses from the public on the recent spat regarding stray animals. By their very presence in our midst, animals have awakened in us the desire to respond to them and to show them
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      Driving test dilemma
      74 6  -  Sharon WHY is there such a big difference between taking lessons from a driving school and hiring a private instructor? Private students who are retaking their practical test have to wait at least four months for a test date, while driving school students can retake their test
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      In defence of Peng Siong
      154 6  -  Fiona Loo I REFER to the article on Singapore Olympian Ang Peng Siong being left out of the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, (Today, Jun 26). The reasons given by the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association (Sasa) for excluding him from the team were not strong at
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      Where should cyclists be?
      117 6  -  P Moor thy I RECENTLY read that cycling on pedestrian walkways is an offence. I would like to know whether cycling by the roadside is also an offence? When I was cycling on Cuff Road last week, I was forced aside as a mini-lorry dashed by
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      41 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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      $39m profit for StarHub
      299 8  -  Chan Chao Peh 1 S=l I Detailed plans on SCV merger out in two months by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg STARHUB ended its first fuO year of operations with a profit of $39 million. But this was boosted by a $361 million compensation from the Infocomm Development Authority of
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    • $ Market Watch
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        Profit Warning
        114 8 EXCEL Machine Tools has warned that the group expects a net loss for the first-half period ending June 30 this year. In a statement to the Singapore Exchange, it also said it expects revenues to drop about 30 per cent compared to the same period last year. It
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      Lock icon Asia's growth forecast dips
      351 10 AFP ADB blames it on global downturn MANILA East Asia faces a sharp decline in economic growth this year due to a global downturn, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned yesterday. Revising an earlier, rosier forecast, it said: "In the wake of slower global growth and
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      Lock icon Toyota boycotts China
      139 10 AFP TOKYO Japan's number one automaker Toyota Motor Corp said yesterday that it would stop exports to China from next month after a move by Beijing to slap 100 per cent tariffs on certain Japanese products. "We shall not be exporting cars to China from July," company
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      Lock icon Mega man moves up
      100 10 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia yesterday named a high profile parliamentarian from Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoutri's party to head the body which overseas desperately needed investment in the country. "We need to promote investment," Chief Economics Minister Burhanuddin Abdullah said. Mr Theo Thoemion, a member of the parliamentary commission
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      No such change
      212 12 DBS Group Holdings has no plan to improve the terms of its cash and stock takeover offer for Overseas Union Bank. DBS said its cash and stock offer to its smaller rival is fair, and it has no plan to change the terms of the offer. In
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      Lock icon $6m loss due to rule on banned substance
      203 12 Bloomberg TIANJIN Zhong Pharmaceutical Group, a China-based drugmaker, said it will have a onetime toss of as much 27 million yuan ($5.95 million) because a venture must stop making medicine containing a banned substance. The company has a 25 percent stake in
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      Cytech beefs up stakes
      102 12 SGX-listed Cytech Software has acquired a 39 per cent stake in Twyla Services for HK$63.B million ($14.89 million) or seven times its estimated earnings for the fiscal year ending June 2002. Under the agreement, if Twyla 's profits fall below the guaranteed RMB2S million ($5.51 million),
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    • Market News
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        Singapore
        258 12 THE ST index slipped 6.69 points lower to 1,703.38 as investors were unwilling to take big positions ahead of the conclusion of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting last night. There were 1.5 gainers to every loser with 287 counters unchanged. Turnover was 478 million shares valued at
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        Malaysia
        199 12 KUALA LUMPUR Profit-taking eroded most of the previous day's gains, sending the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index down 4.6 points to 590.7. Index-linked issues bore the brunt of the selling, although the lower liners also closed mixed to lower. Institutions locked in some gains ahead of the outcome of the
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon They stole thoughts
      281 14 AFP Indian military think-tank analysts plagiarised NEW DELHI India's only military think-tank responsible for shaping national security strategy has run into a storm over allegations that two of its top defence analysts passed off plagiarised data as their own. The Indian Institute of Defence Studies (Idsa) has
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      Lock icon Stick to mammograms
      87 14 Reuters OTTAWA Monthly breast self-examinations are actually of little use in fighting cancer and could even be harmful, a group of Canadian experts has said. The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care said a careful review of seven international studies into the effectiveness of breast self-exami-nation
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      Lock icon US ex-colonel guilty of spying
      119 14 AFP TAMPA, Florida The highestranking United States military officer ever to face espionage charges was found guilty yesterday of selling thousands of topsecret documents to the former Soviet Union's KGB security agency. George Trofimoff, 74, a retired US Army colonel who specialised in intelligence, was
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      Lock icon Protest after Chinese cops beat lensman
      206 14 Reuters BEIJING The United States Government and an international news agency have protested to China's Foreign Ministry over the police beating of a photographer. Mr Stephen Shaver, a US citizen and photographer with Agence France-Presse (AFP), was covering a Three Tenors concert, staged to
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      Lock icon Teens charged with murder
      148 14 -AFP LONDON Four teenagers appeared before a juvenile court yesterday charged with the bloody murder of a 10-year-old Nigerian boy in a rundown London housing estate. The youths are accused of stabbing Damilola Taylor to death as he made his way from an after-school computer course
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      Lock icon Royal display of affection
      101 14 Reuters LONDON Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, kissed his long-time companion Camilla Parker Bowles for the first time in public on Tuesday. Royal watchers saw the display of affection as the latest step in Charles's campaign to persuade the public to accept Mrs Parker
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Customer service?
      554 16  -  Prof S Janakiramanan Bank mergers could lead to cost being passed on to depositors by THE new trend towards bank mergers in Singapore will be great for its reputation as a regional financial hub but it could spell more woes for ordinary customers. One of the arguments for
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  • INFOTECH
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      20 Gs in your pocket
      403 17  -  John Lui And its makers say it is 'Peerless' by_ HOME PC hard disks now have storage capacities matching enterprise file servers of the past. But home users don't have a luxury that businesses have: A tape-based backup system. Enter lomega's Peerless, a drive system
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      A handheld and more
      101 17 SONY introduced the Clie handheld. Running on Palm OS, it also integrates a MagicGate Memory Stick direct slot, headphone/remote control function, and a 320 by 320 pixel colour LCD touch-screen, all in a sleek and stylish design. Users can also be entertained by its audio, video
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      1204 18 §\^L Family Law Second Chance Journey to the West II Layar Suria KLU channel newsasia Channel 5, Mn Channel B,7pm Suria, 9.30pm MORNING A: />,-(/v runs into trouble with the law '^§fefc- Maria, daughter ofDatuk Nordin becomes the love target of 2 male classmates, 6 00am Headlines inßolved in a
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  • STARTTALK
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      Lock icon Love is all I want
      523 21  -  Hazel Tan Sharon Au reveals her craving in life What comes to mind when I mention Sharon Au (below)? Is she a beautiful, smart and articulate woman who knows what she wants in life? Well, yes and no. Sharon does know what she wants but
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Lock icon The humour is out there
      346 22  -  Rachel Lo Duchovnys new film is wickedly funny FILM REVIEW EVOLUTION (Now Showing) by rachel@newstoday.com.sg This summer, alien life forms attack the silver screen in director Ivan Reitman's new production, Evolution. It's about a meteorite that crashes into earth, sparking a series of alien life
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      A visual extravaganza
      398 23 Some of the characters in Evolution weren't cast: they were created. According to the film's website, a team of visual effects wizards, led by visual effects supervisor Phil Tippett, worked with director Ivan Reitman to design an ever-evolving assortment of alien creatures, which were then digitally rendered
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      Lock icon One hot Berry
      356 24 The sizzling Swordfish star is no shy gir T Tnlike some of her more LJ conservative Hollywood colleagues, actress Halle Berry is comfortable naked. So much so that when Warner Brothers offered her an extra £357,000 ($2.18 million) to do the topless scene in Swordfish, she agreed,
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      Lock icon Iranian director Panahi pushes barriers
      253 24 Reuters LOS ANGELES A powerful new film suggests that to be a woman in Iran today is a crime and Iranian censors had a simple response: They will not let it be shown at home. Director Jafar Panahi's The Circle won the grand prize at
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      'Indlish' films new trend in India
      174 24 BANGALORE A new trend is emerging in Indian cinema that fuses the language of Hollywood with the accent, slang and emotions of India. Films in Indian English, or "Indlish" as it is popularly known, appeal to the rapidly growing numbers of young people who
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      263 26 Reuters Three-time winner hit by withdrawals RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian players Rivaldo and Antonio Carlos snubbed the Copa America yesterday, saying they did not want to play in the South American tournament. On the day Mauro Silva had to pull out through injury, the latest withdrawals will further
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      70 26 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Yesterday, Malaysian police freed five Sarawak state football players who were arrested last week for suspected drug abuse. Urine tests showed they are not "drug dependent", said Superintendent Awang Bujang Awang Antek, police narcotics chief in the eastern state. Awang Bujang, quoted by Bernama
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      185 26 Reuters BRASILIA Congressmen who investigated Brazilian soccer have dismissed threats of a lawsuit from Pele's business partner Helio Vianna. The congressmen accused Vianna in their final report of tax evasion, and criticised the former player himself. "We maintain everything that is in the report," said Silvio
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      319 26 Reuters BUENOS AIRES South American Football Confederation (CSF) president Nicolas Leoz said yesterday that a question mark now hung over Colombia's hosting the South American Nations Cup next month as a result of recent incidents of violence in the country. The Paraguayan said that Colombia
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      838 27 World stars seem to shun the bright lights of...Manchester LONDON If Sir Alex Ferguson imagined that it was only the parsimony of his employers that stood between Manchester United and the leading lights of world football, the events of the past weeks may have acted as an unwelcome
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      112 27 Reuters BERLIN Bayern Munich goalkeeper Oliver Kahn has hinted that he might be interested in a move to Spanish giant Barcelona. "There has not been any official contact with Barcelona yet," the German international told yesterday's Bild newspaper. "But if I were to decide to join
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      574 28 AFP But Las Vegan's on-court performance looking good Wimbledon LONDON There were two no-go areas in terms of questions for Andre Agassi as he made a winning start to his Wimbledon campaign girlfriend Steffi Graf and former US president Bill Clinton. Agassi and tennis legend Graf
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      279 28 AFP LONDON Jennifer Capriati dedicated her French Open triumph to her and Lindsay Davenport said she is an inspiration for the whole WTA tour. Thoughts for Corina Morariu (below) are uppermost in the minds of many players here as the 1999 Wimbledon doubles champion battles for
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      583 29  -  Scott O'Donell by s c o tt@ne wstoday. com. sg ABOUT a year ago, Egmar Goncalves got the local soccer scene buzzing when he declared his interest to play for Singapore. And now his Home United team-mate Peres de Oliveira (right) wants to follow in his
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      302 30  -  Kelvin Phang SUPPORTERS of Team Singapore will be easily identified and welltaken care of at the 21st South-east Asia Games in Kuala Lumpur. In order to get more supporters to travel up north, the Singapore Sports Council is set to announce
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      63 30 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's national coach Allan Harris has had his contract with the Football Association of Malaysia extended by one year. The Englishman, who worked with Terry Venables at Barcelona, coaches both the Malaysia national team and the under-23 side. He has guided the Malaysian under-23s into
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      91 30 Reuters BERLIN The International Amateur Athletic Federation {lAAF) has been ordered to pay Krabbe 1.2 million marks ($960,000) in compensation plus four per cent interest for the period running since 1994, to former double world sprint champion Katrin Krabbe, her lawyer said yesterday. Krabbe, 31, claimed
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      128 30  -  Jose Raymond IN THAILAND'S Kiatisuk Senamuang and Mirko Grabovac, the Warriors have the most potent strikeforce in the league today. The duo have accounted for 32 of the 36 goals scored bySAF. But a little mystery regarding the two has boggled the club's officials
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      107 30 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian cabinet has endorsed the establishment of the Former Malaysian Athletes Association (FMAA), Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said yesterday. He said with the formation of FMAA, the government would be able to look into the welfare
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        433 31 Reuters Wild card Cowan causes scare Wimbledon LONDON Pete Sampras wobbled badly before getting back on track for a record eighth singles crown in the second round of Wimbledon yesterday. The defending champion and holder of a record 13 Grand Slam titles allowed British wild card
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        230 31 -AFP KANO Twenty-five fans were seriously injured in a stampede when more than 50,000 spectators turned up at a 14,000 capacity stadium to catch Nigeria's national team in training on Tuesday. The squad was training for a crucial World Cup qualifier against Sudan, but the
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        160 32 Reuters ROME An Italian court has opened a bankruptcy file on Serie A club Fiorentina, Italian agencies reported yesterday. Ansa said the head of Florence's bankruptcy tribunal started proceedings after receiving a document outlining the group's finances from Fiorentina's auditors. Fiorentina denied that its auditors
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