Today, 3 July 2002

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  • HOT NEWS
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      Malaysia's 2 surprises
      510 2  -  Ng Boon Yian Bridge, water price not in package IN a sign that Singapore and Malaysia still have a long way to go in settling their differences, the two neighbours could not even agree on the definition of the package of issues to be resolved. While Singapore
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      Zulfikar's latest brush with authorities
      328 3  -  Jose Raymond ANOTHER chapter was added to the colourful recent history of Fateha.com editor Zulfikar Mohd Shariff when officers from the Criminal Investigation Department raided his home and office last night. The man who recently played host to politicians from Malaysia's Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS)
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      Lock icon Dive to death
      286 3 Agencies UEBERLINGEN (Germany) The warning of impending doom was apparently given. But it was not enough to prevent a Russian passenger plane and a Bahraini cargo jet from colliding into each other in mid-air. The Monday night collision, above Lake Constance on the German-Swiss border, left 71
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      Not just digits...
      378 4  -  Kim-Kyna Tan ONE of the new Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs) believes that there should be "more soul" in Parliament. In his first and previous term, which lasted all of 18 days before Parliament was dissolved for the General Election, lawyer and president of The Roundtable, Mr
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      Can 10 sue on behalf of 4,885?
      303 4  -  Elaine Quek CAN one say for sure that 4,895 people believe in exactly the same thing and feel exactly the same way? If not, what gives 10 people the right to launch a representa-tive-action suit against Raffles Town Club on behalf of 4,885
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      Folding their way to a SingTel donation
      219 4  -  Chan Chao Peh NAN Hua Secondary School students not only shared their paper heart-fold-ing skills with the students of Chao Yang Special School (picture), they also helped raise money for them. Last Thursday, 89 Nan Hua students embarked on a mission to help
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      TV Media charged
      122 4 TV Media, the distributor of Slim 10, was charged in court yesterday with selling the drug without a wholesale dealer's licence. The case had been adjourned for two weeks to allow the Health Sciences Authority to prepare its papers for another 55 charges, which are expected to
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Simulation for success
      359 6  -  Rosalyn him IN A bid to stay ahead in the regional port and shipping industry, Singapore will be stepping up efforts in and resources to become a logistics and distribution hub. To achieve this goal, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) will play a large
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      454 6 SINGAPORE ACCOUNTANCY ACADEMY TRAINING ARM OF THE INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS OF SINGAPORE Important Announcement The SAA would like to thank all students who have supported us in the July 2002 intake on the following courses. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) The ACCA is a professional accounting
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      The IDA-SingTel drama: Was this a battle of bruised egos?
      143 8  -  Ananda Perera I REFER to the report "IDA will not appeal against SingTel compensation ruling" (TODAY, July 2 The sums involved are in the millions. Besides having lost the case, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) had to bear
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      Thank you, Mr Brijnath, you made my day...
      127 8  -  Dip to Chakraborty MY thanks to Mr Rohit Brijnath for his article, "The long walk to freedom" (Weekend Today, June 29 and 30). I experienced a range of emotions as I savoured the article. Sports news has been a part of ray
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      Oh, for a spot of football
      267 8  -  Tan Kok Tim Why not open school fields to the public? THE Health Promotion Board's (HPB) $5,000 grants to promote better health in workplaces should also consider those who do not have workplaces to go to or those who do not have gyms at
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Another buyout?
      407 10  -  Val Chua Temasek may divest itself of CPG THE senior management of CPG Corp formerly PWD Corp may buy out the govern-ment-linked company from Temasek Holdings, its president and CEO Khor Poll Hwa hinted yesterday. If it comes to pass, the management buyout (MBO) by over 10 key
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        146 10 THE STI slid through the day to its nadir at 1533.66 and was swiftly buoyed up by bargain hunting and players actively neutralising their short positions. It ended 2.37 points up at 1552.73 as more players began to abandon their bearish disposition. Market breadth was mildly negative but participation
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        World markets
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 US$ 0.5639 IK£ 0.3697 Yen 68.067 HK$ 4.3982 RM 2.1428 Euro 0.5753 Rupiah 4967.9 Buhl ***** Peso 28.600 AS 1.0045 Indian Rs 27.537 Won 679.91 C$ 0.8604 Yuan 4.6675 NZ$ 1.1586 NT$ 18.937
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        Commodities
        21 10 GolrJust/oz 314.40 Silver usi/oi 4,888 Platinum m/a 525.60 Rubber ™isAg 149.50 Palm oil SM/tonm 1365 Erent crude us tflmi 25.44
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        Straits Times Index — 10-Day Chart
        5 10 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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        SGX most active
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        SGX top rises
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        79 10 Bloomberg lul 2 /enlure N1 00 Close Change 13.400 0.500 7700 0.150 By percentage Ml HoGCenW*****2 Koh Bros W041 DCt Close Change 0.010 -33.333 0.030 -25.000 m jemive 50 bartered JVnntWanlUSS iPE Breweries SreotEnst 7.850 -0.100 11.600 0.100 15.700 -0,100 3.460 -0.030 0.925 -0.060 5.300 0.050 9.300
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      A higher pay rise this year
      392 12  -  Chan Chao Peh Companies expect average pay hikes of 3.1% SINGAPORE companies expect to give their employees an average pay rise of 3.1 per cent this year. This should bring some cheer to employees, whose overall annual base salary increased by 1.7 per cent
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      Haw Par CEO to retire
      137 12 CHANGES at the top have become a feature among Singapore companies these days. The latest is Haw Par Corp which has announced that its president and CEO, Dr Hong Hai, will retire in March next year. He will remain with the company as a non-executive
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      Distressed properties on the block rise 3%
      154 12 THE number of distressed properties for mortgagee sales rose three per cent to 349 in the second quarter of this year. This is up from 339 in the first quarter, according to property consultancy firm, Jones Lang LaSalle. In the year to date,
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      Corporate briefs
      138 12 TPV net profit up 37% HONG KONG-based computer monitor maker TPV Technology yesterday reported a 37 per cent increase in net profit to nearly US$ll million ($19.5 million). The company attributed the performance to better margins from its traditional cathode ray tube and liquid crystal display monitor businesses.
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      Lock icon AEM buys chip plant
      84 12 Bloomberg AEM-Evertech Holdings, a designer and manufacturer of semiconductor equipment, said it has bought a production plant in Singapore from a unit of Canada's Celestica for US$3.B million ($6.7 million). AEM bought the facilities of MicroCircuit Technology, which makes and sells semiconductor substrates raw materials used
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      Lock icon Acquisition advisor
      88 12 Bloomberg MENTOR Media, an acquisition target of US printing company Banta Corp, has appointed Dexia BIL Asia Singapore to evaluate the acquisition proposal. Dexia BIL will advise the independent directors of Mentor Media about the takeover. Banta, which prints books, magazines and catalogues, said last month it wants
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      Another water-treatment firm to go public
      261 14  -  Toh Boon Ngee LOCAL water-treatment firm Darco Water Technologies expects more than half of its IPO net proceeds of $6.8 million to go towards its expansion in China and Taiwan. The company is investing $3 million in a fabri-cation-cum-service centre in Shanghai and another
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      Aspnetcentre IPO
      51 14 ANOTHER IPO launched yesterday was Aspnetcentre, which provides e-business and software development services. It will raise a total of about $12 million by selling 25 million new shares and 42 million shares sold by existing shareholders at 20 cents each. Its offer is at 15.4 times its 2001
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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      Lock icon Foreign carriers can boost stake in Chinese airlines
      360 16 BEIJING China will raise the limit of foreign ownership in mainland airlines to 49 per cent from 35 per cent in a move that may spur foreign carriers like Singapore Airlines to invest in Chinese airlines. Under the new rules, effective from
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      Lock icon SIA unit leases A319 to Air Luxor
      164 16 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Aircraft Leasing Enterprise has leased an Airbus A319 to Air Luxor of Portugal, finding a home for the last of four aircraft it took back from Sabena after the Belgian carrier's bankruptcy. The aircraft leasing company, which is partly owned by
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Reprieve for dictator
      83 18 -AFP SANTIAGO Ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial by the Supreme Court, Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet need not face charges of human-rights abuses during his 17-year rule. The four-to-one vote ended a two-year battle to hold the 86-year-old accountable on charges he had participated in the
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      The biggest statistical error in history
      186 18 A CASE of double-counting led the British government into thinking that its pension funds totalled £86 billion ($232 billion) when the actual figure could have been less than two-thirds that amount Work and Pensions Secretary Andrew Smith said an inquiry is being set up
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      Lock icon Bombing disaster
      334 18 Agencies Heat on US after blunder kills 40 KABUL —US forces in Afghanistan are currently engaged in what Washington calls its most accurate ever air campaign. But on Monday morning, one of its laser-guid-ed bombs apparently went astray and killed at least 40 people attending a wedding celebration
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      Seoul to fire first
      405 22 Tougher stand towards North following clash at sea SEOUL President Kim Dae Jung may be clinging to his "Sunshine Policy" but signs have emerged that a tougher stance is now the favoured approach towards North Korea. Following Saturday's clash between naval vessels from the two countries,
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      China pressure? No, says S'pore
      148 22 SINGAPORE did not block Taiwan's accession to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement {GPA) in February because of pressure from China. Instead, the Singapore move was made because Taiwan discriminated against Singapore by offering some of its concessions under the GPA only to a number of
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      Lock icon Gusmao meets Megawati
      117 22 Agencies JAKARTA Once jailed for seven years as a subversive, former guerrilla chief Xanana Gusmao received a red carpet welcome as he arrived in Indonesia for his first visit as President of newly-independent East Timor yesterday. The visit symbolised a new era of relations between the former
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      Lock icon Israeli cure for Palestinian tot
      97 22 Reuters PALESTINIAN child Salsabil Abu Said (picture), one of the first "Bubble Babies" in the world to be cured of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), with her father at a media conference in Jerusalem on Monday. A team of Israeli and Italian researchers developed a successful
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Missing buzz
      856 23  -  Richard Seah All because we've become strait-laced? THERE must have been at least 2,000 people on the lawn at Raffles Place, when Brazil played Turkey in the World Cup semi-finals. I was there for that one night but I can imagine that the situation was pretty much the
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      408 23 Cfcine/e fflu/icol Drama for hid/ Learn Chinese Proverbs Through Humorous dfr Musical Drama (Two) St#¥ To talk Philosophy to a fool yjEISBSr-'t± aiSISM Use Fake Power to Bully others^4 i^HS Milliter's Determined Lave p' RSPtt limning out of survival capability Ride on (he fllondorin Ufaggon. Venue: Jubilee Hall (Raffles Hotel)
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Indian truth or dare?
      799 24  -  Sudha G Tilak TV baroness' portrayal of subservient women hits raw nerve SHE produced her first blockbuster television programme at age 19, and was voted one of Asia's top 50 communicators by Asiaweek magazine at 25. Two years later, at 27, Ekta Kapoor, czarina of Indian
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      Lock icon Michael shoots the poodle in Blair
      247 24 Reuters LONDON British singer George Michael goes politically incorrect with his latest new song, Shoot the Dog. The song, released on Monday, is a political satire in which he presents his views on the state of world affairs, including depicting British Prime Minister Tony
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  • YOUR MONEY
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      Live cheap, live happy
      603 25  -  Liz Pulliam Weston Experts give tips on how to make the best of what you have IT can be tough when you're just starting out. But take heart, a lot of people who are prosperous now started out just like you broke and looking for ways
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      42 25 k§L^ Heads or tails? Now you don't have to choose. j HI% o r leal p*r f o r man c hq a 9ho w n b9t t r r•tu r n < >h g n >qvl n g rg>• I :Lll IS
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Paranoia will prevail
      314 26 And it will pervade future films too, says Spielberg FOLLOWING the Sept 11 tragedy, the United States has seen a resurgence of national pride and unity. But the trend will not last long and will not be reflected in the movies, as fear and loathing take over.
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      174 26 -Reuters/Variety LONDON A taxi driver, who accused actor Woody Harrelson of wrecking his cab, has dropped charges after he was paid for the damage caused. Harrelson was arrested last month on suspicion of damaging the vehicle during a late-night taxi chase through the streets of London.
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      296 26 -AFP MUMBAI Bollywood cheered as two of its wellknown stars Shatrughan Sinha, popularly known as Shotgun Sinha, and Vinod Khanna -joined the federal Cabinet in a major ministerial shake-up. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has named Khanna as Minister of State (Tourism and Culture) and Sinha
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      222 26 -AFP GUWAHATI (India) A powerful militant group in India's north-eastern state of Assam has thrown its weight behind a student movement aimed at stopping screenings of Bollywood films in the region. The United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa), a militant group fighting for an independent homeland in Assam,
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      218 28 Reuters/Variety LOS ANGELES The organisers of the Academy Awards have decided that Hollywood waits too long every year. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has tentatively voted to shorten the Oscar calendar by a month, moving Hollywood's highest
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      119 28 PART-Singaporean produced horror film The Eye debuted here at No 1 last week, beating other openers Bad Company and Insomnia from the US, and UK comedy Bend It Like Beckham. And despite it being the final weekend of the 2002 Fifa World Cup, The
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      345 28 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD Adam Sandier did a good deed for Sony this weekend, as his Mr Deeds comedy opened with a strong U5537.2 million ($66 million) for No 1. But the animated Hey, Arnold! The Movie (Paramount) misbehaved with a US$5.7 million opening for sixth place. At
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      381 29  -  Janice Lee This energetic musical also strikes an emotional chord T7AME The Musical will leave you .i transfixed and inspired, and dispel the notion that the singing and dancing in musicals are just a means to string together a poorly-developed play. From the moment the curtains rise
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      147 29  -  Eltsa Ckta SING Singapore, organised by the National Arts Council, got off to a rousing start yesterday. Telok Kurau Primary School the first of 10 schools involved in the campaign tour was graced by popular MediaCorp artistes such as Tay Ping Hui, Jaime Teo, Nick Shen
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      345 29  -  -Janice Lee HAIRDRESSERS do not just cut hair, they are artists in their own right, too. And this year's "hair'pening" Intercoiffure Night tomorrow will play a big part in proving that this is so. Organised by Intercoiffure Singapore and Boom Boom Room, the event will showcase
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      378 33 RECRUITMENT SERVICES This Saturday (6» July 2002) A «3| lnf% |0% B»M esunti?4 c s r- a".o% Levsi2 Learn as tou earn The cyclical ups downs of the world economy are unavoidable not within our power to control. However, we believe we can prepare ourselves by being more 'V, enterprising
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      452 34 Cycling Tour de France Host's cyclists have little chance PARIS Not to put too fine a point on it, but this has not been a golden period in French sports. First, the women's final of the French Open had two Americans on court;
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      492 34 Agencies PARIS Oliver Kahn's fumble might have cost his side the World Cup final but yesterday the German goalkeeper won some consolation by edging out Ronaldo as the player of the tournament. Fifa announced that Kahn, 33, obtained 25 per cent of votes cast by the
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      418 35 Agencies Tennis I Wmbledon Only Tim Henman left for British I LONDON Belgium's Xavier Malisse (picture) ended Greg Rusedski's Wimbledon dream in 32 tense minutes yesterday, winning the final set of their fourth round match 6-4 after the pair returned to complete Monday's match with the score locked
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      436 35 LONDON Athletes today, they're just not like they used to be. They're too good, not to mention too strong, too fast, too powerful. They're ruining sports, these brutes. Take Wimbledon. "Perhaps they hit the hall too hard for the good of the game."
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      97 35 BEIJING China crashed to a 82-65 defeat to Italy late on Monday in a World Basketball Championships warm-up, despite 28 points from last week's NBA number one draft pick Yao Ming. Yao scored 16 of China's first 25 points, but was double-teamed by the Italians for much of
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      113 35 DUBAI World Cup referee Ali Bujsaim accused Fifa yesterday of bowing to pressure in nominating popular referee Pierluigi Collina for the World Cup final between Brazil and Germany. "We thought the referee in the final would not be from Europe since Germany is a European country," the
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      93 35 NEW DELHI Former South African president Nelson Mandela may be asked to persuade India and Pakistan to resume cricket ties amidst border tensions between the South Asian neighbours, officials said yesterday. India's refusal to play cricket against Pakistan in protest at Islamabad's alleged support of insurgency in the
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      68 35 MEMPHIS Len Mattiace's one shot victory in the St. Jude Classic on Sunday has lifted him into rarefied air. The 34-year-old from Mineola, New York, joins the likes of world number one Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson as the only multiple winners on this year's USPGA Tour
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      634 36  -  Stanley Ho Local businessman pumps in six-figure sum for struggling football talent IT ALL started when local businessman Steven Chan read a story in Today headlined "Peter and his boots". Published on June 20, it told of how 18-year-old Peter Oh a talented footballer who
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      253 36  -  Stanley Ho HIS first contract ended in December 2001. At the time, R Suria Murthi (picture) was happy to sign a new one that would see him continue in his role as a staff coach in the Football Association of Singapore's (FAS) Goal 2010 Division. In
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      174 36 WORLD Cup or the S-League? For 28-year-old Tan Chin Peng (picture), there is no contest. An ardent fan of the Lions since the Malaysia Cup days, Tan feels embarrassed supporting any other country but Singapore. "A lot of my friends support Brazil, but they have never even stepped
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      563 37  -  Jose Raymond AS WOODLANDS Wellington striker Agu Cashmir (picture) became the latest foreign footballer identified to come under the Football Association of Singapore's (FAS) Foreign Talent Scheme (FTS), the football body said yesterday that it will be re-looking the scheme. Said FAS' director of
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      554 37  -  Kelvin Phang FORMER Member of Parliament Choo Wee Khiang has succeeded Yeo Guat Kwang (picture) as the president of the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA). Choo, a 47-year-old business consultant, was elected unopposed at last Friday's biennial general
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      802 39  -  Neil Humphreys Unless it rebuilds quickly, France will become a., BEFORE the World Cup, a football 'pundit' stated boldly that France would emulate Garrincha's Brazil and win the World Cup in consecutive tournaments. The vindictive French rewarded his faith by losing to Senegal 1-0. Undeterred by
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      412 39 LONDON Brazil won, Germany lost. But the Germans are winners in some way. In four years, the 18th World Cup will take place in the country where it was held in 1974, when Gerd Muller's goals brought West Germany victory, reported The Guardian Unlimited.
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