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  • 15 1 TODAY WC (1 II C S (1 £i V November 28, 2001 mita p>c63/i 1/2001
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  • 721 1  -  Francis Kan Don't bet on it, say analysts of KepLand move by franc is@?n ews today.com.sg WHENEVER the big boys of the property market begin to revalue their land assets southwards, buyers can be forgiven for thinking that the move will culminate in one big price
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  • 51 1 Reuters photo. ZAMBOANGA CITY (Philippines) -About 70 Filipinos were turned into "human shields" yesterday by armed Muslim guerrillas loyal to rebellious governor Nur Misuari. The guerrillas had stormed into these civilians' home in this southern city after they were pounded by government helicopters gunships and
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  • 132 1 -AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka's top Tamil Tiger leader has surprised everyone by suggesting that his group is willing to negotiate for something less than a separate state. In a radio broadcast, Mr Velupillai Prabhakaran said yesterday that his Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was not a "terrorist
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    • 78 1 1A/ hat will happen to Jj^ W Keppel Land and Keppel Transportation and Telecoms?... My own J view is that these two companies will eventually be merged with similar entities now under the wing of the sprawling Singapore Technologies group. Mr Mano Sabnani in a commentary on Keppel Corporation's future.
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 417 2  -  Woo Sue-Ann Star Hub stands by its decision to suspend lines by sueann@news today, com.sg SUSPENDING 10,000 mobile phone lines was a last resort and one that Star Hub hopes to avoid in future, said the company yesterday. It said it stood by its decision
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    • 168 2  -  Ng Hwee Koon A WORKING group has been formed to review Singapore's legal services sector, announced Law Minister S Jayakumar yesterday. The committee will consult legal and business groups and make recommendations to the Economic Review Committee, which is in the process of drawing up a new
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    • 285 2  -  Elaine Quek ON the seventh day of the trial of Anthony Ler (picture), 34, and a 15--year-old boy for the murder of Ler's estranged wife, Ler told the court that he had drawn a sketch plan of the lift landing area of his wife's
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    • 178 2 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan plans to file his defence against the two defamation suits which have been brought against him by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. He indicated this to the court
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    • 313 3 To cut off Osama's escape routes KABUL US troops are poised to take over a key combat role in the war against terrorism in Afghanistan with the deployment of Marines. Washington-based analyst, Mr John Pike, told the International Herald Tribune that the contingent equipped for high
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    • 126 3 Agencies BONN Landmark talks on Afghanistan's future began yesterday on a positive note. At the end of the day, United Nations spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said that all four Afghan groups had agreed to strike a deal on a transitional government within three to five
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    • 134 3 KABUL A planned women's freedom march through the streets of Kabul was banned yesterday by Northern Alliance Interior Minister Younis Qanooni, organisers said, setting back their hopes for restored liberty. "They said it was for security but that is just a pretext they don't want women to improve,"
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    • Article, Illustration
      395 4  -  1 Lee Ching Wern Gillian Wong Play a role in its computer industry, urges govt by Today photo by gillia n@newstoday. com. sg PLAY a major role in China's computing industry and the Government will back you up, said Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications and the
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    • 176 4  - Go green without laws -Joy Frances SINGAPOREANS need to take responsibility for the waste they produce, said newly-appointed Minister for the Environment Lim Swee Say. Households and the different industries here churn out 7,000 tonnes of solid waste every day, and the country has limited landfill space. In an interview
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    • 287 5  - Where the customer is not king -Joy Frances FOR the first time in more than two years, the services sector has shrunk in the last quarter. Retailers are cutting costs and tightening their belts. Instead of being paralysed by uncertainty, Singapore should regroup and consolidate, said Minister (Prime Minister's Office)
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    • 332 5  -  Leong Phei Phei Optometrists to change focus by pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg OPTOMETRISTS with a diploma can diagnose common eye diseases like glaucoma and cataracts, but instead are often trusted to carry out simpler tasks. "For a long time, the role of optometrists has been relegated to that of a shopkeeper,"
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    • 34 4 Featuring Today... it 28 Cambodia women get their make-up back iuo 30 Uncovering the myths about life insurance ii 31 Zouk Out gets better InCinemas 32 A Heist to go for (above) s 34
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    • 25 5 PSLE Results This year's PSLE results will be released tomorrow. The Education Ministry says pupils may collect their results from their schools after 1 2pm.
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 438 6  -  Leong Phei Phei It doesn't matter which field you're in, says professor by pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg BEING creative is not just about thinking out of the box. You have to prove your worth first before people can sit up and take notice of you, said wellknown mathematician
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    • 220 6  -  Esther Fang Visitor arrivals last month, totalling 568,585, declined by 10.6 per cent compared to the figure for the same month last year. The aftermath of the Sept 11 attacks in the US, which contributed to a fear of flying, as well as the
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    • 107 6 A MOTHER saw red when she forked out $260 for a tutor who never showed up. So she called the police and yesterday the boss of the tuition agency was charged with cheating. Goh Wee Kiat, 33, had allegedly advertised his agency's services in February last year.
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    • 149 6 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Singaporean man who tried to snatch a bag containing cash amounting U*****,000 ($456,000) from a friend will appear in court here this week, police said yesterday. The 41-year old man, who was arrested at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on
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    • 343 8  -  Ckia Kok Hwee Educational therapists should be recognised, too AS A certified educational therapist, I read the article, "Only 43 a year: Singapore needs more therapists to help elderly, disabled," (Today, Nov 20) with keen interest. It is a most timely piece of news, and there
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    • 187 8  -  Mohamad Rosle Ahmad READING about the "roughly 50 per cent" take-up rate of new HDB flats, one would think that a major review of Singapore's housing policy is in order. Firstly, I would argue that the "fancier but smaller and dearer" blueprint has got to go,
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    • 187 8 I REFER to Mr S Ramamirtham's letter, "Barking up the wrong tree?" (Today, Nov 26). We thank him for his feedback and observations. We would like to assure him that we do not condone errant phone subscribers but we do encourage good business practices. In this
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    • 88 8  -  See Leong Kit I REFER to Ms Susan Ferroa's timely commentary, "The woman's touch" (Today, Nov 21). It is heartening that more educated women are speaking up on non-economic matters such as health and social issues. There are no divine or manmade laws which state
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    • 323 10  -  Tom Ong Parents, teachers, some action please I REFER to the commentary by Mr Ravi Veloo, "Taming our brats?" (Today, Nov 27). I agree wholeheartedly with the writer. His commentary reflects the state of Singapore's youth. To add to it, I have noticed that Singaporean youth
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    • 286 10  -  Kathleen Kwan I READ with interest Mr Wong Teck Tian's article, "Why not retire here?" (Today, Nov 26), encouraging Singaporeans to make Singapore a great place to retire for both locals and foreigners. I believe that most retirees,
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 272 12 Travel figures worse than those during Gulf War AIR ticket sales in Singapore dropped by as much as 35 per cent after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the US. That's according to National Association of Travel Agents in Singapore's (Natas) chief executive, Mr Robert Khoo, in an
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    • 269 12  -  Tan Howe Yang by howeyang® tie wstoday, com. sg SINGAPORE is close to sealing a free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association (Efta), made up of Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. Trade and Industry Minister George Yeo said officials have concluded
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    • 205 12 -AFP ANGLO-DUTCH bank ING Barings said yesterday it has downgraded Singapore bank bonds from a "buy" recommendation to a "hold" as the island's economy continued to deteriorate. The level of non-performing loans (NPLs) is expected to rise as asset quality declines amid an
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    • 173 12 Bloomberg JAKARTA The shares of PT Astra International, Indonesia's largest automaker, rose after the Singapore Government's investment arm raised its stake in the company. They rose as much as 75 rupiah ($0,013), or 3.9 per cent, to 2000 on the Jakarta Stock Exchange. Government
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    • 67 12 -AFP SEOUL South Korea yesterday raised its official target of next year's economic growth from below three per cent to higher than four per cent as consumer confidence led the recovery, officials said. "The government will continue to take steps to boost domestic demand to attain a growth
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    • Market Watch
      • 82 12 PROPERTY developer United Overseas Land has divested its entire stake in investment holding group Haw Par for almost $29 million. The stake was sold to investment holding firm Wee Investments, in which UOL chairman Wee Cho Yaw and director Wee Ec Cheong have a controlling
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      • 63 12 FUND management firm Pioneer Investments has set up shop in Singapore. The unit of Italian banking group, UniCredito Italiano, is managing some 3.2 billion euros, or slightly over $5 billion worth of assets at its new Singapore hub. This is its first operating centre in
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      • 105 12 KIKKOMAN Corp the world's biggest soy sauce maker, plans to increase production at plants in Singapore and the US, Nikkei English News said. The Japanese company expects to raise offshore annual output and sales by 60 per cent to 200,000 Xl from current 127,000
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      • 57 12 SINGAPORE based on-line travel site Zuji announced that it will be cutting staff and scaling back launch plans. The company has cut 14 out of 40 jobs, and has reduced salaries of remaining staff by five to 15 per cent. Zuji is owned by 10 Asia-Pacific
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      • 50 12 Channel News Asia EVERGREEN Marine Corp, Taiwan's largest shipper, is expected to decide next month whether or not to relocate from Singapore to Malaysia's Tanjung Pelepas port. The company is currently doing a feasibility study. And there is a good chance that Evergreen may relocate.
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      • 27 12 Your S$1 buys US$ 0.5451 UK£ 0.3870 Yen 67.676 HK$ 4.2513 RM 2.0715 Euro 0.6206 Ruplah 5665.6 Boht 24.035 Peso 28.369 A$ 1.0441 Rupee 26.150 Won 688.40
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    • 826 14  -  Mano Sabnani It should focus on marine-related business by ma no@news to d ay.co m .sg IT SEEMS like a conglomerate that has lost its way. At one time, Keppel Corporation knew where it wanted to go and top management used to boast that all seven of
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    • 288 14 Bloomberg AUCKLAND The New Zealand government raised its bailout fund for Air New Zealand (AirNZ) by a sixth to NZ51,035 billion ($785 million) to keep the national airline flying as sagging global demand for air travel deepens losses. The support tops up the NZ$BB5
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    • 203 16  -  Ivay Tan by ivay® news to d ay.com.sg DIGITAL trust service provider Trust Asia has acquired VCHEQ Singapore-based online payment company to leverage on the latter's enterprise payment solutions developed for financial institutions and other companies. The acquisition is also seen as strengthening Trust
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    • Market News
      • 262 16 THE STI index spurted to a new 2-1/2 month high on MSCI-related buying by fund managers. The key index finished at its high with a 26.55--point rise to 1502.10 led by firm gains in banks, property and some technology counters. Market breadth was mixed as penny caps retreated while
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      • 122 16 THE Malaysian stock market's key barometer, the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI), drifted lower in the afternoon trading session yesterday. It lost 2.1 points to 638.35 after vacillating in a range-bound band of 3.7 points in the morning session. The morning's cautious market sentiment gave way to profit-taking in
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    • 1923 18 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative) Fund Home Bid Prioe/HAV Aberdeen Asset Maootjemenl Asia Lid Aberdeen China Oppnrlonriies Fund 0.909 Aberdeen Clabol IMC land B.CS73 Aberdeen Glnhrd Tedioaltgy Fund 0.541 Aberdeen UK Blue Chip Fund D.73B Aberdeen American OpportunHias Fuad 0.756 Aberdeen Couliuemal Europe fquily Fund 0.336 Aberdeen Jupan
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 200 20 KUALA LUMPUR Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) has threatened to take legal action against Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) over an article in the party's Kedah bulletin allege that the university had concealed a rape case. According to the New Straits Times, UUM vice-chancellor, Datuk Dr Ahmad
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      336 20 Agencies Misuari's men take hostages ZAMBOANGA (Philippines) The position of guerrilla Muslim leader Nur Musuari looked increasingly desperate yesterday as Malaysian allies abandoned support for him and his ragtag followers were forced to take hostages to protect themselves. Flushed out of their hilltop base by early morning air
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    • 103 20 Reuters JAKARTA The eastern Indonesian city of Poso was gripped with religious tension after a church was bombed. The police in the Sulawesi town said the church was attacked early on Monday but there were no casualties. The bombing came amid renewed tension between Christians and Muslims in
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    • 136 20 HONG KONG A nearly 20-year-old debate about choosing a national flower has resurfaced after a Beijing professor said the peony and the plum blossom should both be chosen in a "one country, two flowers" system. "It would best represent the complexities between traditional and modern China between north
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    • 355 23 Bleak outlook Agencies ifTaiwan's President Chen sticks to his stand TAIPEI Ahead of Taiwan polls this weekend, analysts say that prospects for ties with China will remain bleak as long as President Chen Shui-bian clings to his pro-independence stance. Since his presidential victory last year, Mr Chen has offered to
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    • 166 23 Agencies KATHMANDU Nepal's army will attack and disarm Maoist guerrillas fighting to topple the Himalayan kingdom's constitutional monarchy, the defence ministry warned yesterday. A Home Ministry official said four policemen were killed and six others injured when Maoist rebels attacked a police post shortly
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    • 39 23 Afp photo Cambodian rescuers searching for survivors at the site of a collapsed building in Phnom Perth yesterday. At least five people remained trapped and another 10 injured after the three-storey block of flats collapsed.
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    • 106 23 Agencies BRISBANE Four people on board a light plane were killed after it crashed in eastern Australia yesterday morning. Queensland state Health Minister Wendy Edmonds toid parliament three of her staff were among the dead. The fourth fatality was the pilot. Witnesses said the aircraft crashed
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    • 198 23 Agencies JERUSALEM Middle East peace talks began between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and two US envoys yesterday after Israel completed an overnight troop withdrawal from Palestinian land. Theoretically, the withdrawal from Jenin, the last of the six West Bank towns, should also smooth the
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    • 209 25 -AFP CHICAGO Early-stage breast cancer patients may be able to dispense with radiation therapy after one week with the help of two experimental techniques being tested in Britain and the US. According to a radiological conference held here on Monday, the two procedures could
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    • 191 25 What the regional papers said yesterday New Straits rimes/Malaysia Sukma given discharge not amounting to acquittal on false evidence charge Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's adopted brother, Sukma Darmawan Sasmitaat Madja, who was charged with providing false evidence at the former Deputy Prime Minister's corruption trial, has been given a discharge
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 582 26  - Play it again, SAM Richard Seah Easy payment that's not easy by THE other day, I became a wanted criminal. I opened my mailbox and discovered, to my horror, that a warrant of arrest had been issued against me. I immediately turned myself in at a police station and had
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  • UPFRONT
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      460 28 -AFP Restoring a sense of feminine beauty in Cambodia PHNOM PENH Trading assault rifles for lipstick once earned Cambodia's only modelling agency the ire of women's groups, and cash offers from hopeful generals in search of high-class prostitutes. Sapor's Modelling Agency, however, snubbed the insistent generals and
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  • PORTFOLIO
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      217 30  -  Karma n Tse The truth about life insurance by karinan@ newstoday, com. sg LIFE insurance is probably one of the most misunderstood industries. There are simply too many myths about insurance that need to be clarified. Insurance has often been overlooked as a helpful financial tool as most
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      312 30 Myth 2: To many people, insurance is a waste of money. Investing in stocks and shares may seem like a more attractive option. Undeniably, the stock market is where your money can grow quickly and immensely. But there are risks. Insurance, on the other hand, provides security. And
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    • 254 30  -  Vasu Menon by TECH stocks were out of vogue after Sept 11, but they have rebounded with unexpected vigour in the last two months. Nasdaq, the technology barometer, is up by more than 30 per cent from the recent low on Sept 21, posting one
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    • 251 31  -  Rachel Lo The party's better second time around by rach el@n ews tod ay.com. sg ZOUK Out, also known as "the party of the year" (picture) to many clubbers, lived up to its name last Saturday. It was the second in as many years,
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    • 302 31  -  Sophia Ang The Reunion. by sop J) laWnewstoday. co m, sg DOUBLE-award nominee, Nick Shen (picture) for Best Supporting Actor and Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes may have walked away emptyhanded from Sunday's Star Awards, but that
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    • 633 32  -  David Ngiau TJeist is written and directed by David Mamet. Go watch it. If you need more details than that, read on. Heist begins with Joe Moore (Gene Hackman) and his team Bobby {Delroy Lindo), Pinky (Ricky Jay) and Moore's wife Fran (Rebecca Pidgeon) relieving a jewellery
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      486 33 -Agencies Indie films get back on track at Sundance HOLLYWOOD The competition lineup for the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, which will unspool between Jan 10 and 20 in Park City, Utah. It is marked by "unusual work that is not formulaic or generic, but that pushes limits" in
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    • 516 35  -  Ivan Lhn Leaving the SSO has given the Tang Quartet more breadth IT HAS been close to a decade since these four young men came together to form the Tang Quartet but there remains a youthful spiritedness about each of them. On top of that,
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    • 297 35  -  Rosalind Png by m sal i nd@newsto day. c o m. sg HERE'S a treat for contemporary dance lovers: Odyssey Dance Theatre (ODT), a two-year-old local dance company, has joined forces with two renowned dance groups to stage the nine-day Xposition '0' Contemporary Dance
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    • 479 36  -  Chan Sect Fun but you must think fast, act fast and be able to handle stress by They signed on with the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) in their teens and have not looked back since. Now, they are enjoying the challenges, financial stability and career
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  • SPORTS
    • 690 39 Saturday's World Cup draw will unfairly ignore Ireland PUSAN Only security fears and the desire to find England a secluded place at next year's World Cup finals, probably on an island out of the mainstream, can possibly justify the country's hopes of Sven-Goran Eriksson's
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    • 537 40  -  Stanley Ho WHEN the S-League announced an increase in the combined salary cap for all S-League clubs during a club chairman's meeting earlier this month, the news only got a lukewarm reception. Why? Well, some S-League clubs especially those operating on a shoestring budget in
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    • 532 40  -  Jose Raymond Coach Sivaji faces one of the biggest decisions of his life by jose@newstoday.com.sg FORMER Balestier Central coach P.N. Sivaji (picture) is a wanted man. Both S-League club Home United and the Football Association of Singapore have offered him jobs. The FAS wants him to lead
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    • 446 41  -  Stanley Ho Rudy the only Singaporean to score in Tiger 5s by st anley @newstoday. com. sg STANDING I.Bm and weighing a massive 90kg, Tamer (pronounced Tah-meer) Ismail Aly looks a little overweight to be a futsal player. But yesterday, at the Tiger 5s international futsal tournament,
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    • 677 42 That's Pele, thanks to newsreels, black and white footage and the 70 World Cup SOMETIMES, Cruyff was the number one. Other times, it would be Best, or Di Stefano or Puskas. But, all through the years I have been a football follower, there was one name, a
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    • 221 42 Reuters NEW YORK The Knicks finally had their regular starting centre in the line-up and Marcus Camby made the most of his season debut by contributing a 'double-double' to New York's 88-83 victory over the Atlanta Hawks yesterday. Camby, who missed the first 14 games of
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    • 306 43  -  Jose Raymond by joseis'news to a ay.co m. sg THE Football Association of Singapore yesterday appointed former international Quah Kirn Song as the acting director of competitions with effect from Feb 1 2002. This follows S-League Chief Executive Officer Chris Chan's impending move to
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    • 143 43 Bayern is InterContinental champ AFP TOKYO Jet-lagged German club Bayern Munich stunned defending champion Boca Juniors of Argentina 1-0 in extra-time to lift its first InterContinental Cup for a quarter century here yesterday. Ghanaian defender Samuel Kuffour (picture) scored the only goal in the 109 th minute in a goalmouth
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    • 193 43 Reuters BANGKOK Former European Cup winner Peter Withe will decide by the end of the week whether to accept a new contract to coach Thailand's national team. "At this moment in time, I just need to sit down and think about it," Withe told reporters
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