Today, 27 December 2001, Afternoon Edition

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    11 1 TODAY T ll UrSClftY December 27, 2001 MITA (PI 063:1 1/2001
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Unemployment in Japan rises
      133 1 AFP TOKYO Japan's unemployment rate is expected to hit a record 5.5 per cent in November, marking a record high for the third straight month, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said today. The nation's unemployment rate reached five per cent in July and rose to 5.3 per
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      Lock icon US stocks rise
      100 1 AFP NEW YORK- US markets rose yesterday thanks in large part to strong holiday sales reported by retailers, with both the Dow Jones industrial average and the tech-heavy Nasdaq making gains. The Dow gained 52,73 points, or 0.53 per cent, to close at 10,088.07, and the Nasdaq
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      I didn't want to be a legal conman, says The Insider
      598 1  -  Richard Seah by_ MALCOLM LIM is a young man, barely in his mid-20s. Yet, he has already "retired" from a business that used to earn him more than $3,000 a month when he was just a teenager, Malcolm, who
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      Lock icon Osama tape revives hunt
      369 1 Reuters though Pentagon unsure if it's real, new or old WASHINGTON The hunt for Osama bin Laden came dramatically alive again yesterday when Al Jazeera television broadcast a videotape of the world's most wanted man (picture), made possibly about two weeks ago. In the broadcast by
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Mendaki's Indian chief
      418 2  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim He says his ethnic roots are not an issue by z a ckari a ©newstoday. com. sg MENDAKI's new Chief Executive Officer is a police officer. If that is not enough to raise a few eyebrows, then how about the fact that he is
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      A sound-breaking gift
      251 2  -  Tan Howe Yang NINETEEN-year-old Samuel Chua yesterday received his best Christmas and birthday gift. He got to break the sound barrier on board a Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) F-5 fighter aircraft. Together with fellow Singapore Youth Flying Club (SYFC) member, Zishan Amir, the Singapore polytechnic
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      Access to Chek Jawa to be controlled
      245 2 TOO many curious visitors have been flocking to Chek Jawa, the now-famous mudflat on Pulau Übin where anemones, starfish and other exotic creatures are known to thrive. So much so that the National Parks Board (NParks), Nature Society of Singapore and the Raffles
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      Lock icon Children killed in crash
      195 2 Channel NewsAsia A FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy and an 11-year-old girl were killed in a traffic accident in Sembawang early yesterday morning. They were in the back seat of a car when a lorry collided into its rear. Police have yet to establish their relationship. Both died in
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      Lock icon New salvo
      104 2 Reuters SEOUL North Korea slammed Japan yesterday for linking a mystery vessel sunk over the weekend to Pyongyang for "no reason". The official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said: "This crime committed in another country's territorial waters is nothing but brutal piracy and unpardonable terrorism of modern brand
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      A money war
      292 3 India trying to hit Pakistan's economy NEW DELHI Despite an appearance of getting ready for war, India may be gearing up for nothing more than an economic strike to hurt Pakistan's economy, reports yesterday suggested. A Bloomberg report yesterday said India was considering subsidies for cotton and
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      Lock icon Death games – Misuari's turn now
      175 3 Death games Misuari's turn now AFP KUALA LUMPUR It could have been a wife's feeble attempt to try and make her husband out to be someone like the world's most famous terrorist, Osama bin Laden. Ms Tarhata, the wife of former Muslim Mindanao governor Nur Misuari, said her husband could
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      Lock icon Dr M: Hit report will hurt M'sia
      196 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad is more concerned about the country's image than a report of an alleged assassination plot against him. Dr Mahathir said the report in The Sun newspaper on Tuesday could bring about economic
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      Such a rare gift
      342 4  -  Fayen Wong When old wives' tales can hamper blood donations by faye n@n ewsto d ay. c o m.sg SIXTY-FIVE per cent of Singaporeans are eligible blood donors but only one per cent regularly come forward to extend their "gift of life". This does not bode
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      Lock icon In hot water over heater
      87 4 Channel NewsAsia A SRI LANKAN national allegedly went on a Christmas Eve shopping spree at Isetan Scotts and walked away with more than $2,600 worth of items. Rajakulage Chandrika Jayaseeli, 57, was charged in the Subordinate Courts yesterday with committing theft from the store at
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      24 4 IFeaturingToday... lupFkont 18 Giant strides for MTV I IwCiNEMAS 20 Mumbai's hope a hit overseas but slips at home LimeLight 23 Starry starry Sunday
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Ride on a relic
      781 6  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Glimpses of old and new on a bumboat cruise Paddle Pedal Frequency: Daily I Oam to I pm Normal rates: Adult ($33); Child ($l7) Special rates: Adult ($8); Child ($4) For bookings, contact Singapore Sightseeing Tour East Pte Ltd at 332 3755 or e-mail
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  • LETTERS
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      Don't lose out this season
      127 8  -  fasline Lock LAST Monday, my friends and I went to Parco Bugis Junction to do some Christmas shopping. We stopped by a shop on the third floor to take some neo prints. We placed our belongings on the floor beside us while we took the
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      Price of autonomy
      169 8  -  Lim Boon Hee Private schools should not be given state subsidies I CANNOT agree more with Education Minister Teo Chee Hean regarding the issue of "private" schools. If independent schools want to privatise and to have the complete freedom to do whatever they want when it comes
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      How to reap 'green' results
      272 8 WE thank Mr Akbar Jhon for his comments about the importance of environmental education in his letter, "Think Green, teach Green" (Today, Dec 7). Mr Akbar has made the crucial observation that the cause and effect of environmental problems must be understood before any conservation
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      Tribes, terror and govt compulsions
      282 8  -  R Murugesan I REFER to the letter, "The sad truth behind India's rights legacy" (Today, Dec 21). Ms Gurmansa Kaur clearly exhibits ignorance of democratic values. Britannica explains democracy as a "form of government, usually a representative democracy, in which the powers of the majority
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      Auto-pay glitches
      69 8  -  Ong Choon Meng RECENTLY, I had problems making payments at auto-pay machines at carparks located at Changi Airport, Cairnhill and Ikea. These machines either had problems accepting $2 notes or only accepted dollar coins. Not all of them had cash card payment facilities. In light of these problems
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      More homes put on the block
      480 10  -  Lee Yew Meng A rise too in auctions of HDB retail and JTC industrial properties by y e wmeng@ne wstoday. c om. sg A RECORD number of about 1,400 mortgagee sales was put on the block by banks and financial institutions this year because
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2040 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative) Fund Flume Bid Price/NAY Offer Prke Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Ltd Aberdeen (Sun 0pnortenlies Fond 0.913 0.960 Aberdeen Global tffic Fund 0.6S3 0.(87 Aberdeen Global Technology Fund 0.543 0.571 Aberdeen UK Blue (hip Fund 0.731 0.768 Abecdeen Americao Opportunities Fund 0.755 0.793 Abecdaen
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      Lock icon S$ hits new low
      231 11 Bloomberg It tracks the decline in the Japanese yen THE Singapore dollar has fallen to its lowest level in eleven-and-a-half years against the US dollar, tracking the decline in the yen. It dropped as much as 0.2 per cent to $1.8443, the lowest level since June
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      Inactive mobile users get the chop
      629 11  -  Chan Chuo Peh THE campaign by the local telecom operators to weed out inactive mobile subscribers is taking shape. Last month, another 300,000 prepaid mobile lines were terminated, bringing the total to 659,934, said the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). With this termination,
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      Shadow space: Up to 50% off
      14 12 When someone's misfortune means low rent for others
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    • Corporate Briefs
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        Your S$1 buys...
        28 12 US$ 0.5424 UK£ 0.3758 Yen 70.917 HK$ 4.2292 RM 2.0613 Euro 0.6162 Rupiah 5,530.2 Baht 23.908 Peso 27.841 A$ 1.0673 Rupee 26.065 I Won 714.83
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        Flash on Wednesday
        60 12 FLASH estimates for Singapore's fourth quarter GDP will be out at Sam on Wednesday. The Government has forecast a three per cent fall this year. This would mean a record 10 per cent fall in the fourth quarter. In comparison, a Monetary Authority of Singapore survey shows
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        Port business slack
        82 12 SINGAPORE'S ports handled five per cent fewer containers in October from a year earlier owing to sluggish global trade. This latest figure from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore is a smaller decline than the nine to 13 per cent year-on-year fall in the first eight
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    • Market News
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        Singapore
        215 12 THE market was slow yesterday as investors were still in the holiday mood and fund managers were away for the Christmas break. As is typical at this time of the year, there was a dearth of news to fuel the market. Hence, the Straits Times Index closed up 5.64
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        Malaysia
        124 12 THE Kuala Lumpur market sprang to life in the afternoon yesterday after a lethargic start. Local funds were reportedly buying into selected index-linked issues, sending the benchmark Composite Index 1.45 per cent or 9.7 points higher at 679.3. Buying spilled over to the rest of the market, leading share
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • AFTERNOON EDITION
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        Lock icon Reid's riddle
        358 14 Agencies Link to Al Qaeda a possibility: Paper LONDON A British newspaper has suggested the first Islamic link between the "shoe bomber" and the Al Qaeda movement of Osama bin Laden. It confirmed, quoting official sources, that the fingerprints of the man who was captured on a trans-Atlantic
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        Lock icon Refugees storm tunnel
        286 14 Agencies What the regional papers say today New Straits Times /Malaysia More manpower for flood-hit States especially Kuan tan The Government will mobilise additional manpower from other slates to help in the Flood relief efforts in Pahang, especially the worst-hil area in Kuantan. Jakarta Pott/ Indonesia No
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        Lock icon Ice haul: Five get death
        166 14 Agencies HONG KONG A court in Shenzhen, China, has sentenced a Hong Kong drug lord and his four accomplices to death in what is believed to be the world's largest haul of "ice". The court convicted Chong Cho-shing, 40, the leader of a narcotics ring,
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        Lock icon Scare at Narita, LA airports
        175 14 Agencies TOKYO Passengers and employees at Narita Airport were evacuated yesterday when a fire broke out on a moving walkway. An airport official said there was no report of casualties. "We have yet to determine the cause of the fire. "So far the fire has
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Giant strides for MTV
      703 18  -  Elisa Chia From nowhere four years ago to ATV's Broadcaster of the Year WHEN Mr Frank Brown said MTV Networks Asia did not expect to win the coveted Broadcaster of the Year honour at the recent Asian TV Awards 2001, you can take his words seriously.
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      What MTV won this year
      129 18 Broadcaster of the Year: MTV Networks Asia Best Infotainment Programme: MTV India's Maha Kumbh Mela Most Innovative Programme: MTV UPOP Runner-up: Best Entertainment Special: MTV-CCTV Music Honors 2000 Best Music Programme: MTV Celebrates with Ricky Martin Live and Loaded Highly recommended: Best Entertainment Programme: MTV
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  • INFOTECH
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      5 gigs for a jig
      386 19  -  Sam Chua An AAP3 player that offers non-stop performance by sa m newstoday, com. sg THE company that invented the personal computer, Apple, has set new standards in portable music. And its iPod (picture), though not perfect, is the best MP3 player that this reviewer
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      Samsung targets colour handset screens
      367 19 DEMAND for mobile phones with colour screens has been growing sharply recently and Samsung Electronics is responding by going into mass production of 1.8-inch thin-film-transis-tor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCD). The same amorphous silicon technology that is used in larger LCDs for notebook PCs or desktop
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      CNETAsia Breaking News
      89 19 Hynix-Micron alliance South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc expects to form a strategic alliance with Micron Technology Inc with a memorandum of understanding in January. Micron and Hynix are in tie-up talks to tide over overcapacity problems which have sent chip prices below production cost. l-mode subscribers exceed
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      CNETAsia Downloads
      101 19 NetScan Scan through a subset of the Network Neighbourhood on the Windows platform. You can specify a full or partial scan by editing a target list of workgroup names or computer names, or an IP range scan. Flexible Multimedia Album With one click of your mouse, arrange your
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      Microsoft Word 2002 tips
      175 19 Here are some tips to enhance your use of Microsoft Word 2002. Find recent documents faster It's often easiest to open documents from your list of recently used documents in the New Document task pane but the default setting in Word 2002 is just four documents.
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Lock icon Joy and sorrow
      469 20 AFP K3G a hit overseas but slips at home MUMBAI Bollywood's costliest movie has topped box office records for Indian films overseas but is not enjoying quite the same success at home, according to film analysts and critics. Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Ghum (Sometimes Joy Sometimes Sorrow), or
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      Lock icon Bollywood re-invades Kabul
      382 20 Reuters/Variety KABUL Bollywood has returned to Afghanistan in a blaze of colour and sound, much to the relief of Indian filmmakers who lost an important market when the Taliban imposed its strict antientertainment regime five years ago. Just days after the Taliban began fleeing Kabul ahead of
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      Lock icon Aaliyah gets posthumous help
      282 22 Reuters/Variety LOS ANGELES The vampire movie Queen of the Damned, whose star, R&B vocalist Aaliyah (picture), was killed in a plane crash, will make it to theatres with a little help from her brother, Time magazine reported. Aaliyah's older sibling Rashad, whose voice has a similarly
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      Lock icon We didn't do it
      337 22 Crowe clarifies Courtney's romantic ruse RUSSELL Crowe (picture, above left) hasn't forgotten how Courtney Love (above right) kissed and told on him after the Golden Globes awards ceremony in January this year. Crowe, who won the best actor Oscar this year for Gladiator, did spend some
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      Going 'guerrilla' to get High
      113 22 WITH any mention of marijuana barred by the major US TV networks and the Motion Picture Association of America, Universal marketers have turned to "guerrilla marketing tactics" to promote its pothead film How High on the streets, the Wall Street Journal reported. The film stars
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      Lock icon Starry starry Sunday
      424 23  -  Elisa Chia Celebrity-packed event for Singapore and China viewers FRIENDS in China, here's Tay Ping Hui for you. Singaporeans, get to know Hu Bin. Call it a cultural exchange programme or a grand year-end bash. Sunday will no doubt be one Starry Starry Night for television viewers
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      Class 95's Vernon A ties the knot
      381 23  -  Elisa Chia WHEN she asked him for a car decal four years ago, the least she expected was to have him ask for her hand in marriage. But come Saturday, Vernon A, MediaCorp Radio Class 95 programme presenter-producer and music director, will be
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      202 24 /A=.DJj-\CORP /Vm& A Channel News Asia Headlines 6am, 10.30am, Ipm, 3.30pm, 6pm, Bpm, lam Headlines/Singapore Update 8.30am, 9.30am, 11.30am, 2.30pm, 4.30pm, 7.30pm MORNING 6.00am Headlines/Knowing Asia 6.30 Daybreak World Market Report 7.00 Prime Time Morning 8.00 Asia This Morning 8.30 Sports Update/Business Report 9.00 Asia Today 9.30 Sports Update/Knowing Asia
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      1204 24 M=diaCorp Who wants to be a Love Revolution Channel 8,10.30pm Sled dogs -An Alaskan Epic Klinik Kita Suria, s.3opn, Million dire Channel 5, Bpm Asaoka Kyoko, who is looking forward Arts Central, 9pm In this season finale, we meet Siti «k to qualify herself for a doctorate, is in a
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  • TIMEOUT
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      The truth on a Silent Night
      568 25  -  Low Shi Ping Sub-plots are intricately woven into the storyline by ship i n g n e wsto d ay. co m. sg THERE'S much truth to these words from the play, Silent Night: "The truth is already out. If you believe in something,
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      THREE-DAY LISTINGS
      556 25 DANCE An Enchanted Evening Of Dance And Fairy Tale This show hy the Siglap South Community Centre is bound to enchant. Date: Today Time: 7.30pm Venue: University Cultural Centre Theatre Price: $15, $20, $25 Ticketing: Call the Siglap South Community Centre at 241 1925 MUSICAL Disney On Ice
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      54 26 Condolence With Deepest Sympathy And Heartfelt Condolences To The Family Of Our Late Director i "l.;-- J*r* v i*« LIM YOKE SOO alias LIM YUI XIAANG Age: 57 (who passed away peacefully on 25 December 2001) From: The Management Staff of P R I RK T I N G KHL
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      239 27 r v*^'V _H_ Ik. '^_k_ LIM YOKE SOO alias LIM YUI XIAANG Age: 57 Passed away peacefully on 25 December 2001. Fondly loved and remembered by: Father: Lim Ee Pan Mother: Neo Mary (deceased) Wife: Tan Suat Hua Sons: Lim Wee Kiat Grand-Godson: Chew Marcus Lim Kong Wee Brothers: Lim
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  • SPORTS
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      New claim to fame
      509 28  -  Kelvin Phang Fandi, Kunalan and Chan will finally be recognised by ke 1 vin® ne wstoday. com. sg SOME of Singapore's biggest sporting heroes are finally about to get the recognition they deserve next month. This will come about as the Singapore Sports Council has apparently
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      Well done, SSC. If s a move in the right direction
      464 28  -  S. Murali Comment by murali@Dcwstoday.com.sg IT IS heartening to hear that athletes like Fandi Ahmad, C. Kunalan and Patricia Chan will finally get their due recognition from the Singapore Sports Council's Hall of Fame next month. Not having those
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      Susilo aims to end drought at the Games
      276 28  -  Kelvin Phang RONALD SUSILO hopes to land Singapore's first ever Commonwealth Games badminton medal in Manchester next year, if his citizenship application is approved. Said the Indonesian born shuttler, after receiving a $50,000 sponsorship deal from Singapore Power Ltd yesterday: "I was
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      Tiger trials
      42 28 BALESTIER Central is organising trials for Under-16s at 2pm today at the Toa Payoh Stadium. The Tigers will be holding trials for the Under-18s at the same venue at 3pm tomorrow. For further information, please page Mohd Zainudeen at *****413.
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      Lock icon Too soon a comeback?
      953 29  -  Terence Ang AFP photo by te re n ce@ n owstoday. com. Kg SHEER exhilaration at a frenetic pace that's the attraction of English football for many. But are players in the English league running themselves into the ground? The frequent and prolonged injury woes of
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      Lock icon Hamilton out for four weeks?
      168 29 Reuters WASHINGTON -Washington Wizards guard Richard Hamilton, who has helped take the scoring load off Michael Jordan, could be sidelined for up to four weeks with a partial tear in his right groin. The Washington Post reported that an MRI on Monday revealed the injury
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      Lock icon Shaq hurt
      77 29 Reuters LOS ANGELES Los Angeles Lakers centre Shaquille O'Neal was placed on the injured list due to continuing toe ailments on both feet. O'Neal sat out the first of a mandatory five games on Tuesday when the Lakers beat the Philadelphia 76ers 88-82. Before he was forced to
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      Lock icon Gunners delight
      549 30 AFP Arsenal wins derby, Fowler hat-trick downs Bolton English Premier League Arsenal 2 Chelsea 1 The Blues lose again at Highbury LONDON Arsenal reinforced its Premiership title ambition with a hard-fought 2-1 win over London rival Chelsea at Highbury last night. French international Sylvain Wiltord came off the
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      Hitzfeld: Watch us next season
      118 30 MUNICH Bayern Munich will be the team to beat next season after winning the battle to acquire German star Michael Ballack, said coach Ottmar Hitzfeld. After beating out rival bids from Real Madrid and Barcelona, the club said Ballack had opted to exercise an exit
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      Daum to stay
      61 30 BERLIN Besiktas coach Christoph Daum plans to see out the season with the Turkish club regardless of the outcome of his drugs trial. Daum, who was discarded as German national coach last year when the drugs scandal broke, faces charges in Germany of conspiring to buy 100
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      Gaspart behind coach, players
      97 30 MADRID Barcelona president Joan Gaspart has pledged his support to coach Carles Rexach and ruled out signing new players during the winter break. After a bright start to the season, Barca has taken just eight points from its last eight games and slipped to eighth in
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      Zabaleta in for Hopman Cup
      47 30 PERTH Mariano Zabaleta will represent Argentina in place of Guillermo Coria in this week's Hopman Cup after Coria tested positive for a banned substance, officials said on Tuesday. Zabaleta, 23, a US Open quar-ter-finalist this year, is ranked 60th in the world.
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        'Giggs the best'
        713 31 English Premier League Everton 0 Man United 2 Red Devils make it four wins on the trot LONDON Sir Alex Ferguson hailed Ryan Giggs (picture) as the best in Europe as Manchester United stormed to its fourth win on the trot. Giggs returned to the starting line-up
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        Bradford 'no'to Collymore
        211 31 LONDON Stan Collymore's hopes of cutting his teeth in management at Bradford City have been rebuffed by chairman Geoffrey Richmond. The former striker had expressed interest in the manager's job at Valley Parade following the departure of Jim Jeffries. However, Richmond revealed that he did not consider
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        93 31 AFP RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian fringe international Romario said he is mulling over the offer of a move to Italian second division side Napoli. Romario, who is currently in the middle of a financial dispute with his Brazilian club Vasco de Gama, gave no further
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