Today, 4 October 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • 7 1 TODAY ThlirSday •October 4, 2001. MITA(P) 138/11/2000
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 234 1  -  Peariyn Tham by... p early n@newstoday. com.sg NEXT week, there is a date that a bunch of GCE '0' Level candidates have marked on their calendar with a shaky hand. On Nov 12, they will have to sit
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    • 429 1 AFP Early morning drama for passengers on Indian flight from Mumbai to New Delhi NEW DELHI Confusion and mystery surrounds the alleged "hijacking" of an Indian airlin-. er this morning. After four hours of drama, in which CNN gave live half hourly updates and the foreign wires buzzed
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    • 180 1 Reuters ZURICH Grounded Swissair jets are set to take to the skies again today after being grounded for two days by a cash crunch which ended after a Swiss government bailout. Mortified by news pictures sent around the world of stranded passengers
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    • 177 1 -Reuters NEW YORK The Nasdaq Composite Index soared 88.48 points, or 5.93 percent, to 1,580.81, notching its biggest gain since April 18. The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average jumped 173.19 points, or 1.93 percent, to 9,123.78, after rising more than 2 percent at one:point. The broader
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    • 91 1 YESTERDAY, we published a report about DBS bank, based on a Channel News Asia news item. It turned out to be inaccurate. Channel News Asia has since issued the following statement and apology: "On Oct 2, we ran a story quoting sources that DBS is 'searching for a new
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 295 2  -  Pearlyn Tham Teo did not confide in wife by... pe arlyn@n ewa today, com. sg FORMER Singapore Airlines supervisor Teo Cheng Kiat, who embezzled $35 million from SIA, professed his love for his wife on the stand yesterday, but was stumped when he was asked for the date
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    • 189 2  -  Elaine Quek SINGAPORE needs to step up its surveillance over the next one to two months to prevent and deter terrorist attacks from happening in Singapore, said Deputy Prime Minister Dr Tony Tan yesterday during his visit to Nee Soon Central. He told reporters
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    • 135 2 WORKING with the Law Society of Singapore, Visa International has initiated the first payment service of its kind in this country that allows credit card payments for legal fees. On Monday, the Law Society of Singapore issued a directive to its members allowing them to
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    • 96 2  -  Jose Raymond A SENIOR business analyst for Ml was killed on Tuesday night in what is believed to be a robbery attempt. Miss Soh San, 28, was on her way home to her Bukit Batok Avenue 8 flat when she was stabbed in the chest. Her body was found
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    • 319 3 Umno, PAS clash on definition of Islamic state KUALA LUMPUR A war of words over the definition of an Islamic state is escalating between the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) and the opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS). Under pressure to clarify what constitutes an Islamic state, the
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    • 207 3 FOUR optical companies have been taken to the High Court for selling spectacles with clip-on tinted lenses of allegedly patented designs. Contour Optik Incorporated, a Taiwanese-registered company, is the proprietor of the patents. Also suing are Dalmink Fashion Products 1989 Pte Ltd, the exclusive licensees of
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    • 160 3 TOURIST arrivals in Singapore in the eight months to August crawled 0.6 per cent higher compared to the same period last year on dampened travel from Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan, officials said yesterday. However, for the full year, Singapore expected arrival numbers to plummet by as
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    • 126 3 CLIMB on board a Pfizer-char-tered Superbus for a free health check (picture). Since Monday, three such buses have been plying the streets. At any one time, two buses will dock at interchanges where anyone can get their cholesterol and blood pressure checked. Pfizer hopes
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    • 173 3 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's armed forces have replaced the regional military commander for East Java as part of a major reshuffle, it was announced yesterday. Major-General Sudi Silalahi, who will become a secretary to the Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs, Mr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, was one
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    • 378 4  -  Leong Phei Phei Prof conducts study on inmates in Changi Prison by... p hei phei@news to d ay.co m .sg TALK about the witching hour. For rapists, the hunt begins in broad daylight or under the shroud of midnight, depending on who their targets are. A two-year
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    • 166 4 BUCKET shops are now telling genuine jobseekers that they need to make a deposit in a foreign bank account in order to secure the job. Then their money gets invested in commodities. Said Mr Muthu Kumaran, a representative of the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) legal
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    • 322 2 AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL INFORMATION SESSIONS SOUTH AUSTRALIA ILKKIJUKY I 1 Adelaide University Australian National University Enrolment for foundation/diploma Flinders University of SA University of Canberra courses is based on school University or South Australia preliminary examination results NEW SOUTH WALES f or F eb 2001 Australian Catholic University TASMANIA Charles Slurt
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  • LETTERS
    • 307 6  -  Emotions and the slippery slope I REFER to the recent comments by Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong that the government's anti-terror stand was in Singapore's national interest. I concur with BG Lee that Singapore must stand up to terrorism. As is the case with other countries, Singapore's
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    • 121 6  -  Narayana Narayana I REFER to the report "Yes, there will still be upgrading, but (Today, Oct 1). National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said that upgrading programmes already announced would not be affected by the current economic downturn because the budget had already been allocated. If
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    • 130 6  - Blood how celebs can help Akbarjhon THE recent terrorist attacks in the United States have highlighted the significance of blood donation. In Singapore, there has been a shortage of blood donors over the years. Donating blood is one of the kindest and most generous acts one human being can do
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    • 159 6  -  Saravanan MC I REFER to the story, "Once upon a time..." (Today, Oct 2) by Elaine Quek. It evoked memories of the days when snuggling into bed with a book was all the entertainment I needed in this world. Alter reading the article, I
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 428 8  -  Francis Kan Car distributor tops hotel bid by franc is @newstoday. com. sg THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has managed to attract bids for its tender of two commercial and two residential sales sites, which closed yesterday. While the bids were generally within expectations, property analysts were surprised
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    • Market Watch
      • 94 8 FLEXTRONICS International, the second-larges maker of electronics goods for other companies will take a US$3BO million ($675.56 million) charge in the second quarter. The charge is related to acquisition costs am severance payments, chief executive Michael Marks said in a Bloomberg report. Flextronics is firing
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      • 27 8 Your S$l buys US$ 0.5613 UK£ 0.3811 Yen 68.072 HK$ 4.3776 RM 2.1329 Euro 0.6095 Rupiah 5562.3 Baht 25.140 Peso 28.951 A$ 1.1246 Rupee 26.894 Won 740.04
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    • 371 10  -  Chan Chao Peh Collaboration the way to tap China business by... eh ao peh@ne wstoday. c om. sg SINGAPORE companies may be better positioned to tap business opportunities in China if they combine forces, said participants at a business forum here yesterday. And one of
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    • 133 10 AFP BEIJING China's decision to sign a US$l.6 billion ($2.85 billion) deal for 30 new aircraft demonstrates strong confidence that its air travel market will continue to grow despite the current crisis in the global aviation sector. The agreement between US aviation giant Boeing and the China
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    • 128 10  -  Ivay Tan SINGAPORE'S trade with New Zealand grew this year following the signing of a bilateral trade agreement last year. Its exports to New Zealand grew 13.3 per cent to $487.6 million from January to August, while imports increased by about 11.7 per cent to $221.5
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    • 1597 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative) Fund House/Fund Names Offer Price Bid Price/WAV [MG First State Internet S Communications Fund 0.26 0.275 CMG First State Global Balanced Fund 0.59 0.62 CMG First State Global 100 Growth Fund 0.86 0.905 CMG First State Regional India Fund 0.55 0.58 CMG Firsl
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    • 304 11  -  Ivay Tan Unprofitable SPH portal to be clelisted by... ivay@newstoday.com.sg LOSS-MAKER SPH Asia One is to be delisted, one year and four months after its shares started trading on the Singapore Exchange. The reason: The Internet environment has changed drastically in the last one year with the dotcom
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    • 188 11 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia's largest power company, said it sent officials to Singapore two weeks ago to look into acquiring one of the three power plants to be sold next year. Singapore plans to sell the three power plants owned by Temasek
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    • 136 11 CITIGROUP Inc has won a US$2.2 million ($3.91 million) lawsuit against Asia Pulp Paper Co in Singapore's High Court. It is its second victory in three weeks against Asia's biggest defaulter this year, court documents show. Last month, Citigroup unit, Citibank NA, won
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    • 187 11 THE US Fed's decision to cut interest rates yesterday did little to spark a weary Singapore market as investors remained cautious in anticipation of a possible US-led military attack on Afghanistan forcing prices of stocks down. As a result, trading in the broader market was muted while selected blue-chip
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    • 85 11 THE Fed's interest rate cut, the ninth this year, spurred investors to return to the local bourse to take fresh positions. Volume traded yesterday significantly improved with 279,137 lots traded compared with the paltry 150,000 lots on Tuesday. Market breadth was positive, with advancing issues outpacing declining issues by
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  • GROUND ZERO/BUILDING A COALITION
    • 349 12 Agencies Bush open to idea of a Palestinian state WASHINGTON In a tacit acknowledgement that the IsraeliPalestinian problem cannot be separated from US' efforts to wage war against terrorism, President George W Bush publicly endorsed the creation of a Palestinian state for the first time. "The idea of
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    • 204 12 AFGHANISTAN The anti-Taliban coalition claimed yesterday that some 10,000 men were ready to desert the hardline Afghan regime. The Northern Alliance's chief spokesman, Dr Abdullah Abdullah, said the grouping had been in contact with dozens of commanders fighting alongside the Taliban recently, AFP
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    • 181 12 Reuters WASHINGTON US intelligence agencies have identified 23 terrorist training camps in Afghanistan as targets of military action, The Washington Times reported yesterday. Citing US officials, the newspaper said the camps are located throughout the central Asian nation and included sites near the
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    • 140 12 Reuters DUBAI Two anti-aircraft artillery sites in southern Iraq were hit yesterday by western war planes, a US military spokesman in the region said. "Coalition aircraft used precision-guided weapons to strike at two anti-aircraft artillery sites near Shahban, about 360 km southeast of Baghdad," the spokesman
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    • 107 12 AFP WASHINGTON US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday spearheaded a last-minute diplomatic drive to prepare the ground for military strikes on Afghanistan. Mr Rumsfeld set out for the Middle East and Central Asia for talks with frontline states in the US-led war on terrorism. He will
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    • 338 13 How good is the US evidence WASHINGTON Nato, Russia and Japan, who have been privy to classified US information, say they are now convinced of Osama bin Laden's involvement in the Sept 11 attacks. Nato secretary-general George Robertson called the facts presented by the US on Tuesday as "clear and
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    • 269 13 LONDON-It was a domestic affair with an international appeal when British Prime Minister Tony Blair (picture) addressed his party faithful on Tuesday. He warned the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan: "Surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice." Mr Blair, who said this in a keynote speech at
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    • 117 13 -AFP HONG KONG A couple who allegedly wrote a threatening letter and signed off as "Hong Kong's bin Laden" have been arrested. The letter, sent to Oriental Daily News last week, demanded that Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, Financial Secretary Antony Leung and other officials
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    • 160 13 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia cannot stop its citizens with proper travelling papers from going to Afghanistan to fight against any US attacks, a minister said yesterday. "The government or the immigration cannot prevent anyone who has a passport from going overseas because it's very
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 150 14 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's stateowned aircraft manufacturer came under fire yesterday as some 5,000 of its workers protested against what they called rampant corruption in the company. Picketing outside the presidential palace, the workers said in a statement that the rally was to show
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    • 151 14 JT (41 JL-UIJIIIJT IV li bllV AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's King, Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah (picture), is in Singapore ahead of minor surgery scheduled for this weekend, reports said yesterday. The King's private secretary, Raja Hydar Raja Iskandar, denied a report by a
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    • 312 14 ALOR STAR Speculation that Health Minister Datuk Chua Jui Meng was dropped as the Kedah party chief due to a leadership struggle and fallout over the party's takeover of Nanyang Press looks set to dog the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA). Party president Datuk
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 850 15  -  Hwee Goh Channel News Asia What the world needs now, more than ever, is human connection by_ I CAN never forget Mr Zulkifli's eyes. They had an immense depth to them which spelled sincerity and goodwill. We connected, if only for that brief moment. Mr Zulkifli
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  • UPFRONT
    • 579 16  -  Rachel Lo Try some positive parenting to keep the decibels down by... rachel@ne wsto day. c om.sg MANY parents fall into what is called the "escalation trap", when they scream at their children to make them obey. For example, if your child throws a
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    • 516 16  -  PMS My Say by poormanonthe shelf@ne wstoday. com. sg BREAST milk protects babies from infection, reduces risk of some chronic illnesses and may aid brain development. In short, breast milk is good for baby. So good that some companies making infant formula
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  • INFOTECH
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      125 17 www.zdnetasia.com/news Get StarOffke 6.0 beta Sun Microsystems has unveiled the beta of StarOffke 6.0, a streamlined version of its free office productivity software aimed at gaining ground against Microsoft s Office. The multi-platform software runs on machines using the Solaris operating system, Linux or Microsoft Windows. With StarOffke's
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    • DOWNLOADS
      • 37 17 This powerful FTP client program for Windows lets you update a website with a single click, transfer files directly between FTP servers, resume interrupted downloads and perform advanced file searches while doing other FTP tasks.
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      • 36 17 Eggsucker In this falling-block-style game, you control a group of egg-eating dinosaurs who just want to play with their food a little. Features 3D rendered graphics, four types of games, and cooperative and competitive multipiayer.
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      • 41 17 Clickguide Clickguide is a rapid web navigation software that simplifies and accelerates Web surfing. It integrates seamlessly into your browser and gives you oneclick instant access to the best search engines, shopping and news sites from anywhere on the web.
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      • 24 17 Create attention-grabbing Flash-like effects for your website. This affordable and easy-io-learn Flash-authoring tool applies effects to images imported as GIFs, JPEGs and PfiGs.
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      • 38 17 Odigo Odigo is a cross-platform instant messenger that allows users to connect with users of ICQ, and AOL and Yahoo messengers. It takes only a minute to import your buddy list from AIM, Yahoo Messenger or ICQ.
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    • Article, Illustration
      370 17  -  Josh Taylor John Morris me humble I rodent acts better oy... and 'T^ECHNOPHILES are constantly tinkering with A their systems, adding and upgrading things in their PCs. But they rarely give much thought to the mouse where there's lots of room for improvement. Microsoft was the first to
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    • 118 17 SONY Singapore has launched the Network Handycam IP, a new generation of digital camcorders that employ Sony's "MicroMV" recording format and Bluetooth technology for wireless digital connectivity. The first model in this new generation of high-quality, userfriendly digital camcorders is the Sony Network Handycam IP DCR-IP7E,
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    • 213 17  -  Lee U-Wen IT is a portable video game machine, television, MP3 player and Internetready pocket computer all integrated into one. Hewlett-Packard has shown once again why it leads in the Pocket PC industry with the release of its Jornada 560 series. The Jornada 565 and 568
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    • 113 17 BACK by popular demand, Cool Gear Action the gadgetry show for technology professionals and consumers returns with greater offers on the latest gadgets and gizmos from some of the most exciting technology brands. Organised by Singapore.CNET.com, the two-day event at Funan The IT Mall on Oct
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  • CITYSTYLE
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      315 18 Meet these contestants of Ford Models' Supermodel of the World Singapore 2001, and 12 others, this Sunday at 7.30pm, live' on MediaCorp TV Channel 5 I'm aiming for Milan and Paris. I've wanted to be a supermodel since I was a kid. Eva Roslan, 17 I want to
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 276 20  -  Sophia Ang IN a country divided into North and South, a murder threatens to jeopardise an unlikely friendship between two border guards on opposite sides of the line. Acclaimed South Korean epic Joint Security Area USA) (picture), is set at a tense meeting of the communist
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    • 168 20 -Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD Six months after producers were fighting for the right to make the feature directorial debut of Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst (picture), it is no clearer what the film could be or when it will happen. Wannabe seemed to be
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    • 105 20 Reuters/Variely LONDON —John Cusack (picture), who returns to North American theatres on Friday in the romantic comedy Serendipity, will tackle a considerably darker project next month. He will star in Max, playing a Munich art gallery owner who takes a young Austrian painter
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    • 290 22 HAVE you been waking up to the bubbly voice of Power 98 DJ Denise Tan (picture) on Breakfast Club on weekdays? Now, you can have her vivacious company during dinnertime too once a week on the MediaCorp TV Channel 5 sitcom, House of Chow.
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    • 663 22  -  Michael Fleming But release or Him on terrorist threat is uncertain by... Variety's Dish columnist AFTER a long TV run on Walker, Texas Ranger as its titular character, Chuck Norris (picture) has signed with Endeavor and is ready to get back to action films
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    • 148 22  -  Michael Fleming WHILE the World Trade Center disaster still has New Yorkbased casts of shows like The Sopranos vacillating on whether to leave the city and head to Los Angeles for the Emmy Awards, there's one definite cancellation: The annual road trip taken by the entire
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    • 500 24  -  Rachel Lo There is plenty to do in Central Sydne but dining and shopping top the list by... rach el@n ewst od ay.com. sg SYDNEY is the perfect destination if you want to shop, dine or just relax under the bright Australian sunshine. When you
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 1378 25 /A=diaCorp -b^ -^diaCorp 77/ a/ I? Afemt Charmed Bride and Gloom Beautiful Days City TV, 9pm Terms for o Witch Celebrity Deathmatch £L ChonnelSJOpn^^^^^^^^^^ Minzhi creates trouble at the hotel Anthony Edwards VS Eriq M where Xina is working. Xina retaliates mtt I ncniip w« Nnnh Wvlp E*lM -fifi j
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    • 413 26  -  Sian E Jay Victor Tan shapes sculptures of the human body with his sensitivity to three-dimensional space by... Victor who lost his sight in his early 20s, felt he needed to find an alternative way of drawing. The result of his attempts is the creation
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      605 27 Reuters, Soccernet Make-up of England's strikeforce is still anyone's guess MANCHESTER The pundits can keep guessing till the cows come home, but England coach Sven Goran Eriksson is not revealing the identity of his new attack pairing. Michael Owen's injury means change is inevitable. But even Emile
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    • 456 27 AFP WILMINGTON Michael Jordan impressed his new Washington Wizards team-mates at two private practice sessions yesterday in his hometown, picking up where he left off after a three-year layoff. The 38-year-old superstar, coming out of retirement for a second time, was fine
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    • 367 26 MUSIC Price: $10, $15 SSO Great Classics: The Two Ticketing: Call The Substation Viennese Schools/ Rossini, box office at 337 7800 Mozart and Dvorak Renowned French pianist Pascal MUSICAL Roge plays Rossini's Overture to ExxonMobil Campus La Cenerentola, Mozart's Piano Concerts Hello Young Concerto No 25 in C major. Lovers:
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    • 279 28 Reuters MILAN Argentine midfielder Juan Veron says he has rediscovered the joy of the game since his move from Italy's Lazio to English champion Manchester United. In an interview with the Italian sports daily Corriere dello Sport, the shaven-headed former Sampdoria and Parma
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    • 449 28 AND so the hunt is on. Who is Singapore's little Tiger Woods? We should know the answer in another two weeks, after the final of the Perfect Swing Challenge, which is held in conjunction with the JBAToday Singapore Challenge Series. Entry into the
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    • 254 28 Reuters WILLIAMSBURG Five British Open champions, including this year's winner David Duval, will be in the field for this week's Michelob Championship. Duval, who won so impressively at Royal Lytham in July, heads a line-up that also features 1994 British Open
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    • 382 30  -  Stanley Ho by... st anley@ne wstoday. c o m.sg THE inaugural Asian Youth Under-14 Championships kicked off two days ago with Thailand handing South Korea a 3-2 defeat. Thai FA vice-president Thirachai Vuthitham immediately revealed plans to groom that team of youngsters for the World
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    • 428 30  -  Kelvin Phang by... kelvi n@news to d ay.com. sg A WHOPPING $300,000 will be handed out to Singapore's SEA Games goldmedallists later this month. Under the Singapore National Olympic Council's Multimillion Dollar Award Programme (MAP), an individual SEA Games gold is worth $10,000, while a
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    • 70 30 SYDNEY Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh has confirmed he is suffering from deep vein thrombosis, the potentially fatal condition better known as "economy class syndrome". But Waugh said his case was not considered serious and while he was receiving daily medication to thin his blood, he
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    • 132 30 HOUSTON The major league homerun record eluded San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds on Tuesday, but he edged closer to Babe Ruth's record for most walks in a season against a timid Houston Astros bullpen. Bonds is one run shy of tying the sin-gle-season homer record
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    • 71 30 TOKYO Top seed Lleyton Hewitt demolished Germany's Marc-Kevin Goellner 6-2 6-2 to advance to the third round of the Japan Open tennis championships yesterday. The 20-year-old Australian, who climbed to number three in the world after winning the US Open last month, took just 49
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    • 57 30 CURITIBA Ronaldo has been ruled out of Brazil's World Cup qualifying match against Chile on Sunday with a thigh injury. Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari had controversially called up the Inter Milan striker, even though he has not completed a full first-team match since returning from
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        497 31 AFP But joy for rival Barcelona as it goes top MADRID Defending champion Real Madrid continued its indifferent start to the season with its third league defeat while Barcelona went to the top of the Spanish league for the first time in nearly two years yesterday. Real's mediocre
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      • 238 31 Reuters LONDON Tottenham Hotspur's Dutch midfielder Willem Korsten has been forced to retire on medical grounds because of a recurrent hip problem, the English premier league club said yesterday. Spurs said it had taken advice from two specialists on Korsten's medical problem and
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    • 196 32 LONDON Sven Goran Eriksson read the riot act to Steven Gerrard yesterday after the Liverpool midfielder confessed to a late-night drinking session earlier this week. But despite his crime, chances of him being dropped are unlikely. Soccemet reported that the 21--year-old, touted as a
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