Today, 20 April 2002

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  • 8 1 TODAY Saturday April 20, 2002 MITA (P) 063/11/2001
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  • 176 1  -  Goodbye, Ally Channel NewsAsia A BALLOTING system may not appease those who are interested in HDB's second walk-in selection for Sengkang, said National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan yesterday. Tempers flared outside the Sengkang Housing Board Area Office, as flat buyers camped out in long queues
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  • 81 1 AFP MANILA One day after convicted Indonesian bomb expert Fathur Rohman AI Ghozi was sentenced, the Philippines yesterday released two Indonesians held for suspected terrorism. President Gloria Arroyo ordered the immediate release and repatriation of Abdul Jamal Balfas and Tamsil Linrung, after prosecutors found a lack of
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  • 554 1  -  Tan Hui Leng A slight shift on many tongues by huileng@newstoday.com.sg THE statement seemed innocuous almost insignificant. But yesterday, when the Advisory Committee on Chinese Programmes (Access) suggested in its annual report that it did not mind shows in dialect on cable television, there was
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  • HOT NEWS
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      381 2  -  Leong Phei Phei Graft from baby's foreskin helps diabetic patients by pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg A BABY's foreskin is being used to promote healing in diabetic patients. For over five years, a tissue-engi-neering laboratory in the United States has been growing human skin from neonatal foreskin. The tissue engineers isolate human
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    • 266 2 THE drowning of a woman and her two children on Sunday in the waters off Tanjung Buloh was unlikely to have been caused by the release of water from the Kranji reservoir flap gates, said the Public Utilities Board (PUB) yesterday. The preliminary
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    • 159 2 Channel NewsAsia SINGAPORE'S next batch of Nominated MPs (NMPs) will probably be chosen from a list of no more than 12 names. The 12 will be shortlisted by six coordinators, before names are submitted to the Special Select Committee by the end of May.
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    • 156 2 Channel NewsAsia PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong has urged Europe to strengthen its links with Southeast Asia through a free trade agreement (FTA). He said an FTA with Singapore provides European countries the means to engage South-east Asia, and gives them an anchor in a region
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    • 159 3 KUALA LUMPUR Terengganu state, ruled by the opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS), will stop using women and other "hedonistic influences" in its tourism campaigns. Mr Wan Hassan Mohamad Ramli, chairman of the state's Youth, Sports, Culture and Tourism Committee, said the decision was to
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    • Article, Illustration
      249 3 Agencies Financial woes the reason, says son ROME Suicide has emerged as a possible cause for the plane crash that stunned Milan on Thursday. The son and a friend of the 67-year-old pilot, Mr Luigi Gino Fasulo (picture), both claimed that he had suicidal tendencies because he was
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    • 144 3 Agencies NEW DELHI An Indian diplomat was kidnapped in broad daylight in Pakistan yesterday but was released after being allegedly beaten in police custody. An Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman said the diplomat, Mr A K Khanna, a member of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad,
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    • 143 3 THE Pakistan High Commission will set up a polling booth for Pakistanis living here to vote in the country's landmark April 30 referendum. The referendum will ask if voters want the presidency of General Pervez Musharraf to be extended by another five years. Gen
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  • HOT NEWS
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      292 4  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Fascinating bits of nature at NUS museum by zackaria@newstoday.com.sg TUCKED away in a corner of the National University of Singapore (NUS) is one of the island's best-kept secrets. Housing over 500,000 specimens, the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research is a gateway to a fascinating world
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    • 144 4  -  Elisa Chia CONTINUOUS, pervasive and fun that's what lifelong learning should be. And as an organisation that shares this attitude, MediaCorp Radio is taking the lead to champion the cause of learning. At the launch of its Lifelong Learning campaign yesterday, Mr Kenneth Tan, chief executive officer
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    • 146 4 THE parents of the four girls who were suspended for wearing their tudungs (headscarves) to school will be filing legal action in the courts in the next few weeks. This was announced at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, where the parents
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    • 181 4  -  Tan Hui Leng THE Advisory Committee on Chinese Programmes (Access) yesterday asked broadcasters to consider producing programmes on sex education, in consultation with the Health and Education ministries. It also wanted more shows to be produced for youths to promote racial harmony. It panel observed in
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    • 179 4 THE Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) says there has been a big jump in the electronic filing of income tax returns this year. For the first time, more than half of those who filed their tax returns did so via the Internet or over the
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  • LETTERS
    • 225 6  -  Lim Chuen Ni (Ms) MS Kathleen Kwan ("Can this panel deliver?", Today, April 18) expressed disappointment that only one member of the Censorship Review Committee (CRC) is directly involved in the performing arts. The committee is appointed to review censorship standards and policies for a wide
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    • 337 6  -  Narayana Narayana No, it's the young that poses a threat I REFER to the commentary, "My friends and I still crack those jokes despite the paranoia after 9/11" (Today, April 17). I appreciate Ms Judith Tan's sentiments that "everyone is equal and we are judged not
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 148 8 Channel NewsAsia Partial restoration of wage cuts SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) is very likely to keep its loss-free record intact a good news for its employees. Its deputy chairman and chief executive, Dr Cheong Choong Kong, yesterday told the carrier's union leaders that SLA employees should be able to
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    • 162 8 -AFP MEDIA giant Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) said yesterday that 65 employees will be retrenched as part of its efforts to consolidate its manpower resources. The retrenchment will take effect today, bringing its headcount to 3,700. "The company is realising the benefits of resource synergy with
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    • Market Watch
      • 133 8 THE STI Index fell 16.72 points to 1730.82 yesterday and has lost 27 points for the week. The market attempted to rally with the launch of the STI Tracker Fund but found resistance at 1800 too strong, attracting some stock downgrades in the process. There were 1.6 losers to
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      • 55 8 Index Valve Change Pti Nikkei 225 *****.01 -63.72 ,55 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wld *****.18 3355.00 6448.12 +35.03 -1.00 +60.91 +.31 -.03 +.95 Korea Camp 923.94 -13.67 •1.46 SB Index 386.51 -.97 -.25 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzen B 532.78 1401.36 218.35 -2.06 -.42 +3.98 -.38 -.03
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      • 36 8 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ KM Euro Rupioh Bohl 0.5489 0.3788 71.508 4.2814 2.0862 0.6158 5,116.0 23.768 Peso A$ InrJion Rs Won C$ Yuan m NTS 27.921 1.0172 26.842 718.10 0.8647 4.5437 1.2262 19.145
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      • 21 8 Gold u»/« 305.200 Silver ib$/« 4.498 Plalinum uss/oi 556.600 Rubber unh/ig 121.00 Polm Oil RM/kmno 1185 Brenl nude us$/laml 25.83
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      • 5 8 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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      • 56 8 By volume April 19 Integra L-Jacob W*****7 Pah Lian Ipco Doyen '000 26,977 25,597 22,65B 19,298 19,021 Unifood FuYu Portek AEM-EVER Miyoshi '000 16,853 14,578 12,059 10,492 10,127 ByS April 19 UOB DBS Chartered OCBC SPH Value 58,701,353 51,876,220 49,231,617 41,345,163 30,625,314 Venture SIA SingTel GreotEasI STEngg
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      • 74 8 By$ April 19 Close Change Ho HegaroW021 209 2.000 +1.930 KepCpr 4.120 +0.100 OUS" 2.280 +0.080 By percentage April 19 Close Change HoNegaraW*****9 2.000+2757.143 Bolcerlech 0.190+58.333 SPP 0.075 +36.364 BakerTech 0.190 +0.070 SIAEngg 2.160 +0.060 IselanfS] 3.000 +0.040 PM Data 0.135+28.571 Sealown 0.025 +25.000 Pertamo 0.200 +25.000
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      • 77 8 By$ April 19 Close Change 0OBe0M19ia261lES101.000 5.000 By percentage April 19 Close Change KionHoW*****9 0.005 -50.000 DIAMONDS 10U5S 102.000 -1.900 Creolive 50 20.600 -0.800 lpcoW02!217 0.005 -50.000 SonTehW*****5 0.005 -50.000 SPH 22.800 -0.600 SPH 100 22.900 -0.500 GreatEost 11.100 -0.500 MMIW02I114 0.045 -25.000 Wraoc 0.060 25.000 MediaS
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    • 3111 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries: Cdl 852-2973-6600 b-mail hppei.asia@ieuteis.com Fund Name NAV/Bld Price Oiler Price Deutsche Premier Asian Bond 11.3786 11.72 Deutsche Premier Select 0.9899 1.0394 Savers India Fund 0.509 0.535 Savers Japan Fund 0.725 0.76! Savers Korea Fund 1.774 1.863 Savers Malaysia Fund 0.985 1.035 Savers Philippines Fund 0.!7! 0.286
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    • 191 10 THE world's third largest contract chip maker, Chartered Semiconductor, posted better-than-expected first quarter results. Its first quarter net loss of US$l2B million ($233.22 million) beat analysts' forecasts of about US$l35 million loss. Chartered expects faster growth this year in tandem with signs of an industry recovery. Its CEO,
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    • 202 10  -  Vasu Menon A SIZEABLE block of 25.5 million warrants of electric motor maker, Lindeteves-Jacoberg (LJ), exchanged hands yesterday at 30 cents per warrant Institutional investors, keen to participate in the company's promising prospects, are believed to have bought the warrants. The institutions that purchased the
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    • 142 10  -  Val Chua MAYBANK has introduced new credit management features for its credit card members. Beginning on Monday, its main cardholders can set a monthly spending limit, at a minimum of $1,000, for their supplementary cardholders. "We have received feedback from our cardholders that they were hesitant in
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    • 128 10 AFP SEOUL Samsung Electronics Co, the world's largest memory chip maker, has posted an all-time high net profit of almost US$l.5 billion ($2.73 billion) for the first quarter this year. This is up more than 50 per cent from the same period last year. "The first quarter performance
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 259 11 After his comeback, Venezuela's Chavez faces a daunting task CARACAS For Venezuela's Comeback Kid, President Hugo Chavez (picture), surviving last week's short-lived coup was the easy part. Now comes the hard part Healing the deep rifts in Venezuela, the world's No 4 oil exporter,
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    • 127 11 WASHINGTON US President George W Bush tried to link the crises in Venezuela and the Middle East to push for a new legislation to help the US drill oil in the Arctic. His efforts suffered a devastating blow yesterday when the Senate voted 46-54
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    • 146 11 MANILA With no major success to show after three months of a US-Philippines joint blitz against the kidnap-for-ransom group, Abu Sayyaf, President Gloria Arroyo has approved the deployment of an additional 300 American soldiers. The move met with grumbles from her Mindanao-born Vice-President, Mr Teofisto Guingona,
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    • 151 11 BANGKOK A group of tourists who have been lured by the cheap gems that turned out to be worthless have urged the Tourism Authority of Thailand to end the scam. The group's leader, Mr Sandeep Mukerji, 26, from Canada and a first-time visitor to Thailand,
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    • 356 12 President calls Sharon a 'man of peace' WASHINGTON Intentional or otherwise, US President George W Bush has just given his official stamp of approval to Israel's current military offensive by calling Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a "man of peace". Mr Bush also said he
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    • 74 12 AFP TAMPA (Florida) An Amtrak passenger train ran off the rails in rural Florida late on Thursday, killing six people and injuring more than 200. The train is popular with tourists and retirees, who spend the cold winter months in sunny Florida but usually head
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    • 150 12 Agencies TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's embattled party was dealt a fresh blow yesterday with the resignation of the speaker of parliament's upper house over hi; alleged involvement in a bribery scandal. Mr Yutaka Inoue, 74 (picture), has denied the allegations but was
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    • 110 12 BEIJING China is committing nine million yuan ($1.98 million) to save what is believed to be the world's only language used exclusively by women. Experts said much of the language, spoken only by elder women of the Yao ethnic group in Hunan province, has
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    • 89 12 AFP BANGKOK Former Thai foreign minister, Dr Suri Pitsuwan, could succeed Mrs Mary Robinson as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Current Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai said: "Dr Surin is suitable for the post because he is a former foreign minister and he
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  • UPFRONT
    • 507 13  -  Serene Foo Watch final season on MediaCorp Channel 5 and say goodbye by serene@newstoday.com.sg IT'S time to bid farewell to one of TV's most celebrated mini-skirted female characters, Ally Mcßeal. An epitome of the sensitive new age woman, the smart but neurotic lawyer (played by Calista
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    • 223 13  -  Serena Sim I LIKE Ally Mcßeal but I have to agree that it's about time the producers gave us a "happily ever after, the end". I wish Ally had married Larry Paul in the fourth season and gotten it over and done with. Then, the show
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    • 264 13  -  -Janice Lee THE Singapore Broadcasting Authority (SBA) announced the results of the inaugural SBA National Scriptwriting Competition at an awards ceremony yesterday. Launched in April last year, the competition aimed to promote the creative industry and encourage the creation of good television scripts.
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  • LIMELIGHT
    • 422 14  -  Low Shi Ping lAm&Kai'- Host of Suria breakfast show voted Mr Sexy, yet loves his books by shiping@newstoday.com.sg T^"HAIRUDIN Saharom (picture) is one X\guy who can boast both brains and sex appeal. Voted Mr Sexy by Malay personalities and Manja readers, he is also preparing for
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    • 127 14 kljlj Chinese Programmes No Programme Channel 1 NKF Show 2002 (Part I) 8 2 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 8 3 The Vagrant 8 4 News BAt Ten 8 5 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (Multi-racial Special) 8 6 Music Happenings 8 7 Health Matters 8 8 The
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  • FAMILY
    • 560 15 Be one of the first to own a Star Wars Episode II toy at the Midnight Sale THIS is definitely not just for the kids. If you're a Star Wars fan, and especially if you're into collectibles, you won't want to miss this. To whip
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 322 16 Charmed life not AFP Queen of Pop has her moments of 'deep insecurity LONDON Pop diva Madonna (picture) on Thursday confessed in a candid letter to her official fan magazine that she suffers from deep insecurity and self-doubt despite the public's image of her leading a "charmed existence". "You may
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    • 184 17 AFP HONG KONG A movie maker has launched a legal battle to get a US$l million ($l.B million) cut of the revenue for Shaolin Soccer (picture), a comedy that smashed box office records in Hong Kong. Hong Kong-based film company Star Overseas Ltd was seeking U*****,639
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    • 215 17 ■AFP PARIS The names of three actresses and five directors who are to join US movie-maker David Lynch in judging next month's Cannes Film Festival have been revealed. Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone, Malaysianborn Hong Kong actress Michelle Yeoh of James Bond fame
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    • Article, Illustration
      294 17 Reuters/Variety TV show detective arrested for wife's murder LOS ANGELES Actor Robert Blake, best known for playing a police detective on the hit TV series Baretta, was arrested on Thursday for the alleged murder of his wife almost a year ago, police said. Police visited the home of
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 318 16 Singapore International Film Festival Screenings TODAY Address Unknown (Korea) R(A) I lam, Prince I 100 mins The Dark I Must Not Name (India) 7pm, Prince I -I 17 mins 4pm,Alliance Francaise -65 mins Millennium Actress (Japan) The Man Who Wasn't There (US) 2pm, Prince I- 87 mins Third World Hero
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  • MOTORING
    • 522 18  -  Colin Yong Renault has given the Clio an all-new look and a 'brain' to sense different driving styles by colin@newstoday. .com.sg AFTER the US, Singapore must have one of the most automatic cars in the world. Given the almost exclusively urban nature of our motoring landscape, who can
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    • 175 18 MITSUBISHI is the latest car manufacturer to offer a product that attempts to combine the advantages of twc different vehicle types. The Airtrek is being launched today by local Mitsubishi agent Cycle Carriage. The car has a spacious interior with highset seats for easy access and greater
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    • 245 18 THE buzz surrounding the new Mini in the United States will reach its peak in July, when the film Austin Powers in Goldmember is released. Actor Mike Myers returns to star as Austin Powers and he will drive a shagadelic Mini Cooper in the third
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1598 19 Stay Home Saturday Movie Panic in the Tamil Silverscreen Doubles Tonight in Person with Ronan Keating J% Skies Channel 5,7.30pm Vasanthem Central, 9.30pm Channel NewsAsia, 7.32pm M The cockpit of a Boeing 747 is WBKSft^tP^k j Pmbhu is the happy-go-lucky owner of E^Hh I Ronan Keating (left), the channel news
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  • SPORTS
    • 401 20  -  Kelvin Phang by kelvin@newstoday.com.sg FOR a country with a rugby union of only six full-time staff and a domestic league just 12 teams, South Korea has a remarkable track record in sevens rugby. In 1997, it became the first Asian team to reach the quarter-finals of
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    • 576 20 Reuters SYDNEY Australia was careful yesterday not to gloat over its successful bid to stage the 2003 World Cup without New Zealand. Rugby officials said they felt sorry for Kiwi fans and wanted to mend
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    • 229 20 AFP HILTON HEAD ISLAND Davis Love 111 parlayed a putting tip from his brother into a first-round nine under 62 yesterday to get a flying start toward a possible fifth title at Hilton Head. Love led after the first round of The Masters
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    • 590 21  -  Jose Raymond Singh-Lim and co not planning to rest on their laurels by jose@newstoday.com.sg WHO could have predicted this? That netball, taken off the schools calendar 20 years ago is now the number one woman's sport in the country. It is truly phenomenal what netball has
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    • 186 21 IN LAST year's hotly-contest-ed NTUC FairPrice National Super League (NSL) final, the Southside Sharks pipped the Eastern Mannas by a single point in a 36-35 thriller. This year, after the traditional game of musical chairs with player moves, it is anybody's guess which
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    • 134 21 Standard Chartered Westside Dolphins Coach: Tony Tan Team manager: Janet Wong Players to watch: Premila Hirubalan, Alice Koh 2001 position: sth Agfa Eastern Mannas Coach: Yeo Mcc Hong Team manager: Michelle Kwok Players to watch: Jenny Lee, Ang Kaisi 2001 position: Ist Nike Northern Marlins
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    • 45 21 Nike Northern Marlins vs Carlsberg Southside Sharks (5.00pm, Court 1) Western Vipers vs NTUC Income Southern Stingrays (6.30pm, Court 1) Agfa Eastern Mannas vs Standard Chartered Westside Dolphins (B.oopm, Court 1) (all matches at the Kallang Netball Singapore Lifehub)
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    • 460 22  -  Stanley Ho IT ENJOYED a brief spell at the top of the S-League, but Sengkang Marine is now well and truly back down to earth. The Dolphins, one of the most hardworking teams in the NTUC Income SLeague, just couldn't match SAFFC for guile and the eye for
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