Today, 17 July 2002

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    11 1 TODAY We d n c s d ay j»'y i7 MITA(P)O63/11,'2001
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    Lock icon The sip says it all
    591 1  -  Chan Chao Peh AT the end of a packed press conference yesterday, the experts paused for a drink. Deliberately, without batting an eyelid, they quenched their thirst with the very subject of their talk bottles of NEWater which could one day be flowing through our
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    Lock icon Greenspan paints a positive outlook
    413 1 Agencies WASHINGTON The overall outlook painted for the US economy in Mr Alan Greenspan's semi-annual monetary policy testimony to the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee yesterday was markedly positive. Mr Greenspan (picture), the Federal Reserve chairman, had strong words to say against the
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      29 1 Captain Marvel Nazri's goal helps Lions beat the Malaysians in their territory after 21 years See Page 3 1 >■*£'? ™wm&m mr wm*L J^E fc^Jmi mm i My Jr*a^aa.^\^B I:i/f
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  • HOT NEWS
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      US helicopters collide at Paya Lebar: Debris kills aircraft engineer
      239 2  -  Lee Ching Wern A SINGAPORE Technologies Aerospace employee died after being struck by debris from a US helicopter collision at Paya Lebar Air Base yesterday. Mr Mohamed Ruslan Radin, 41, an aircraft service engineer, was working on an aircraft in
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      Short cut leads to jail
      358 2  -  Joy Frances Woman forges bosses' signatures A FORMER civil servant who admitted to forging her bosses' signature more than 200 times had committed the crime because she was overwhelmed by paperwork. The authorities believe that Pushpa Vathi, who worked at the Motor Accidents section of
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      Lock icon Jakarta urges illegals to return
      126 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Indonesian Ambassador to Malaysia Hadi Wayarabi Alhadar has urged all Indonesians living in Malaysia illegally to return home before the end of an amnesty period in two weeks. Malaysia granted a March 21 to July 31 amnesty which allows all fflegals to
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      Poll fraud
      305 3 XL reveals manipulation of electoral roll PUTRAJAVA Some temporary staff of Malaysia's Elections Commission have conspired with political parties to manipulate the electoral roll to influence votes. The revelation was made yesterday by commission chairman Datuk Abdul Eashid Abdul Rahman as he unveiled a new voter registration system,
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      Eye-opening trip for students
      129 3 KANCHANABURI Some 120 poor students from Kanchanaburi, Thailand, were taken last month on a field trip which included a visit to a transvestite cabaret and a stay at a luxury hotel. The Bangkok Post reported that explicit contents from the cabaret show were excluded and teachers
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      Ethical way to better bottom line
      134 3 AN East Asian consortium of centres of corporate ethics has been created as an initiative to encourage good corporate governance in the region. The move was the result of a roundtable discussion over the weekend organised by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in
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    • Article
      What did you read?
      269 4  -  Elaine Quek As RTC case proceeds, the grilling gets underway THE judge presiding over the Raffles Town Club (RTC) repre-sentative-action suit has decided to allow the trial to proceed after considering submissions from both sides. One of the 4,895 members suing RTC took the stand yesterday.
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      1kg phone directory = $1 to charily
      86 4 1kg phone directory $1 to charily SAVE the environment and underprivileged children at the same time. Sing Tel Yellow Pages (SYP), through its parent company Sing Tel, plans to donate $1 for every kilogramme of SYP directories collected for recycling. The donation will go to the Sing Tel Touching Lives
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      The wireless race
      195 4 A COMPETITION has been launched to promote the innovation of wireless technology in Singapore. Termed the Wireless Challenge, the competition aims to elicit creative inventions for wireless platforms and technologies. "We want fertile ground for creativity to grow in this area," said Mr Yip Hon Mun, chairman
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      288 2 Invisible Hearing I I Up to 40% Discount Exclusively for NTUC Income Policyholders NTUC Income has teamed up with Hearing Partners to offer a solution to policyholders suffering from hearing difficulties. We hope that by being active in addressing this problem, more people will come forward to seek treatment. Compared
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      256 3 -L.;:;'.... said that?^d I application W?W, we did. Af jg K. i_ a ""^^aPSK* hard pill to stipulations to SWaIIOW" tfiere womW security saying, PRIFYSGOL EH| CYMRU l«|§|y UNIVERSITY VlS^ OF WALES The University of Wales is the second largest university in the U.K. The University has over 80,000 students
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      182 4 Sing Tel TOUCHING JfttiifiiilinTrfffmr KGSX Cx rxGlclX r~ r^ What's better than a rejuvenating trip IPpPIFf to Banyan Tree Bintan. PI B|l|l|CluC HS^'T^ Simply spend $30 and you may be on iiH iili^EH pip^;--.'; your way there! Illlf liliP gEEEEI^999EEEEEI9B mEEkEhEhBSk ■ys^wT^".-?-?-?^"*" "*^-v. i ja M^ a I JtH^ JH|L
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  • HOME NEWS
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      The threshold
      627 6 Minister explains why workers in 40s not targeted ON Monday, the committee tasked with reviewing the Central Provident Fund (CPF) scheme had proposed that an employers' CPF contribution for those in the 50 to 55 age group be frozen, at 16 per cent. The rationale was that it
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    • Article
      TV Media's Slim 10 troubles
      115 6  -  -Joy Frances ANOTHER 55 charges were slapped on TV Media yesterday at the Subordinate Court for distributing Slim 10 diet pills without a wholesale licence. It had sold over 16,000 bottles of the drug to companies such as NTUC Healthcare Pharmacy, Watson's and Guardian SEA
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  • LETTERS
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      Must we suffer pay cut?
      229 8  -  Henry Tan Not everyone who earns $6,000 or more a month is well off I FELT much anxiety and distress when I came to know about the Economic Review Committee recommendation that the Central Provident Fund (CPF) salary ceiling be lowered from $6,000 to $5,000.
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      Will savings create new jobs?
      94 8  -  Yak Chin Hua THE Economic Review Committee (ERC) has proposed to cut the salary ceiling for Employers' CPF to $5,000 per month from the current $6,000 cap. How will this help retain jobs at the lower levels? It will affect aspiring middleincome earners. An employer
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      Morgan Stanley stake in HTL: A win-win situation
      201 8  -  Mr Tay Kheng Hee WITH reference to your article about Morgan Stanley Private Equity's investment in HTL International Holdings Limited (Weekend Today, July 13-14), the strategy behind HTL's partnership with Morgan Stanley Private Equity goes far beyond the mere transaction price alone.
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      209 8 Public Forum [Psychosis- Coping sind Caring 20 July 2002 (Saturday) at Revenue House (near Novena MRT station) Auditorium, Level 5,55 Newton Road, Singapore *****7 1.30pm -2.00pm: Registration 2.00pm 5.00pm: Psychosis Update Dr SwapnaVerma Clinician, Department of Early Psychosis Intervention ff\ /"v Coping with Psychosis I lum t [fell MrsLynChua \J}\*
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Culture clash
      344 9  -  Francis Kan Why bancassurance growth can't last WHILE banks have emerged as a major player in the distribution of insurance products here, most consumers will continue to buy their policies from agents they are familiar with, the head of an insurance company here believes. "Most people buy life
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      Non-oil exports slightly down
      327 9  -  Chan Chao Peh SINGAPORE'S non-oil domestic exports for June fell unexpectedly by 0.6 per cent as compared to the same period last year, said International Enterprise (IE) Singapore, a contrast to the market consensus of a three per cent increase. However, last month's dip was less
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      Lock icon S$ soars to a 10-month high
      145 10 Bloomberg THE Singapore dollar climbed to its strongest level in almost 10 months. This is on expectations that a strengthening yen will prevent Japan's electronics exporters from gaining an advantage in overseas pricing. The Singapore currency rose by 0.3 per cent to $1.7350 against
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      Lock icon BA seeks foreign funds
      254 10 Bloomberg LONDON British Airways is asking shareholders to allow Europe's biggest carrier to be majority-owned by foreign investors for the first time. However, an arrangement will keep voting control with UK investors. British shareholders in the unprofitable carrier will keep control through a "special share" with
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      SPH setback
      208 10 It holds plan to spin off property unit SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) is postponing its plan to Spin off and list its property unit six months after the move was announced. SPH said the decision has been prompted by unfavourable market conditions, made worse by uncertainties surrounding regional
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        143 10 THE STI index broke through the 1600 barrier to close 23.91 points down at 1585.85. For every stock that rose, about five fell while 320 counters were unchanged. Volume was 392 million shares with a value of $412 million. Qian Hu topped the actives list, rising 5.5 cents to
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        Worid markets
        56 10 Index Valve Change Pis s Nikkei 225 Hong Seng All Ordinories hr-.'cr Wld *****.42 *****.49 3106.90 5318.01 -124.73 ■160.17 -3910 -75.00 -1.20 ■1.51 ■1.24 ■1.39 Koreo Comp SET Index Jakarta Camp Phils Comp Stamen 8 Mumbai 771.45 392.55 4B1.77 1169.73 245.63 3229.18 -12.07 -6.81 +0.86 +7.04 +0.72 -49.53
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 USS 0.5764 UK[ 0.3660 Veil 66.6906 HK$ 4.***** RM 2.***** Euro 0.5689 lupin i 5210.07 Bpht 23.2292 Peso 29.0415 A$ 1.***** Indionßs 28.1244 Won 675.350 Ct 0.8861 Yuen 4.7706 NZ$ 1.***** NTS 19.0680
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        I Commodities
        20 10 GoldusVoi 319.900 Silver US$An 5.113 ■'b-iiii.iin.r. 526.900 Rubber Mnis/kj 143.75 Palm oil sm/ioiuii 1390 Brent crude uss/b«riei 26.555
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        Straits Times Index — 10-Day Chart
        5 10 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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        SGX most active
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        SGX top rises
        72 10 By$ July 16 QinnHu (lose Change 0.895 +0X55 By percentage July 16 Trareview Cose Change 0.145 +26.087 :\-:k-%$■■::. 1.050 +0.050 L&M 0.035 +16.667 GPBd HKLand USS SpLlIFKJ Innovdu T=c:n=vEe"1.650 +0.050 1.580 +0.040 3.550 +0.040 1.530 +0.030 0.145 +0.030 TaiSin AsianMic Cow TyeScon CMP D [ifi[ 0.115 +15.000
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        Lock icon SGX top fails
        83 10 Bloomberg By$ July 16 Crentive SO (lose Change 17.700 -0.100 By percentage July 16 Close (hinge Netwrk W*****1 0O35 -30.000 DBS UOB OCBC 12.700 -0.400 13.300 -0.3O0 12.100 -0.3O0 1.390 -0.240 Vicplos WO***** 0.020 -20.000 Goldtran 0.020 -30.000 SimSittngC 0.160 15.789 Noble 1.290 -15.686 STIETF1OOIOPV 15.995 0,239
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    • Article
      More than an academic interest
      168 11 THE National University of Singapore Society (NUSS) says it is interested in acquiring the Pinetree Town Country Club at Stevens Road. Its management committee expects to convene an extraordinary general meeting early next month to seek members' approval before submitting a firm offer. In expressing
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      Lock icon Inflation hits a new low in the UK
      173 11 Bloomberg LONDON Inflation reached a record low last month in the United Kingdom as clothing prices dropped, giving the Bank of England time to allow an economic recovery to take hold before it raises interest rates. Retail prices excluding mortgage interest payments,
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      Banking on the rich becomes a DBS priority
      233 11 TAPPING the rich is a priority banking service DBS Bank is aiming for. It is targeting more than 100,000 Singaporeans each with over $200,000 worth of assets to invest. Such accounts are 15 to 20 times more profitable than the mass retail
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      Cheaper flat loans
      231 11 Private banks may take over market rate HDB loans FLAT buyers taking market rate loans from the HDB may soon get lower rates from banks. The Government is planning to let banks take over such market rate loans from the HDB, said National Development Minister Mah Bow
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      Lock icon GM doubles profit to $2.2b
      74 11 AFP DETROIT General Motors said yesterday that its second quarter net profit more than doubled from the same period a year ago to US$l.29 billion ($2.24 billion). That amounted to U552.43 per share, just ahead of estimates by analysts on Wall Street. For the world's
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      Lock icon Headed up
      330 12 Bloomberg CapitaMaU Trust shares may rise on trading debut CAPITALAND'S property trust shares may rise when they begin trading today, after demand for the initial offer outstripped supply, investors said. Last week, the company said that it received five applications for every share offered in the Capita Mall
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon US concession
      318 13 Agencies Arafat could have symbolic leadership role: Powell NEW YORK -The fate of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat could dominate current talks on the Middle East between the diplomatic "quartet" of the United States, the United Nations, the European Commission and Russia. With the lack of international support on
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      Lock icon Rumsfeld review fans rumour of war against Iraq
      252 13 Agencies WASHINGTON The rumour of war against Iraq grew stronger yesterday as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he had ordered an update of all US contingency war plans. He refused to give details, but they include plans that outline possible military
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      Lock icon Ecstasy claims 10-year-old victim
      197 13 Agencies LANCASTER (England) At a time when Britain's drug policy has dominated the headlines and political debate, a 10-year-old girl has possibly become the youngest victim of the Ecstasy drug. Jade Slack, a cheerful and popular child, is believed to have swallowed five tablets of the
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      Lock icon Mega wins support
      117 13 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday won support for a key part of an economic reform programme prescribed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The government has come in for criticism for sticking to some IMF prescriptions in exchange for a $USS billion ($8.6 billion) aid
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      Surprise ending
      235 14 AmericanTaliban jailed but questions remain WASHINGTON Issues that could have raised complex constitutional questions went out the window when "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh (picture) pleaded guilty. The 21-year-old pleaded guilty to two charges of aiding the Taliban and carrying explosives. The surprise deal got him 20 years
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      Domestic spies join war
      166 14 WASHINGTON The United States will be recruiting at least 11 million civilians as domestic spies to report "suspicious activity". The Terrorism Information and Prevention System (Tips) is an informal surveillance network that the Bush administration has introduced in a bid to strengthen domestic security. The Times
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      Lock icon US policy on China 'fragmented'
      124 14 Agencies WASHINGTON Following a Pentagon report that highlighted the threat Chinese military capabilities posed to US security last Friday, a special US panel report on US policy towards China was released on Monday. The bipartisan US-China Security Review Commission report, the result of a year-long
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      Lock icon Killer dogs' owner sent to jail
      120 14 Agencies SAN FRANCISCO Marjorie Knoller, the owner of two huge dogs which mauled lacrosse coach Diane Whipple to death last year, has been convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to four years in jail. Knoller, 47, has to pay more than US$ll,OOO ($19,085) in fines
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Do they 'walk the talk'?
      982 15  -  Dharmendra Yadav Taking a closer look at what companies say and what they do THE courts in Singapore are facing an interesting question: Can a company be held liable for what it says in an advertisement? The question has been raised in Singapore's largest class
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon A helping hand
      459 18  -  Serene Foo ASA strives to make an actors lot better BARELY seven months old, the Association of Singapore Actors (ASA) boasts of a modest but commendable report card. "We are a collective group for actors in the performing arts industry. It is a collective voice for the
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      Lock icon The Powerpuff Girls' big day
      180 18  -  Yee Wei Zhen '7h£ Powerpuff Girls (picture) have J. descended upon us at least, that was the case at NTUC Lifestyle World's Downtown East last Saturday. At the exclusive premiere of The Powerpuff Girls Movie, the area for the event was adorned with girl-power memorabilia.
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    • Article
      Wine appreciation through e-learning
      168 18  -  JeffYeo IT seemed like it was a matter of time before someone came up with the idea of teaching the art of wine appreciation through e-learning. Focus Trainers International, a Singapore-based specialist in people development training, is launching a wine appreciation e-learning course in collaboration with
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  • YOUR MONEY
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      No money trees
      898 19  -  Terry Savage Seven ways to educate children on the value of money HELPING your children to learn to gain respect for money and the links between work, money and saving, could be one of the best things you can do for them. I saw a young mother
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  • INCINEMAS
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      496 20  -  Serene Foo Actress Xv Jinglei writes and directs, rather than wait for roles SHE may not have the international acclaim Gong Li has, or the attention Zhang Ziyi got after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but actress Xv Jinglei is getting there. Back in China, the fresh-faced actress
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      759 27 Reuters GULLANE Everybody will have their 15 minutes of fame and at the home of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, where the 131 st Open Championship will start tomorrow, a woman security guard had hers soon after breakfast on Monday. She was at work outside
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      296 27 AFP NEW YORK Mike Tyson is looking for a rematch against Lennox Lewis, but the reigning heavyweight champion is looking at retirement unless he can achieve a historic payday. Britain's Lewis took home more than US$3O million ($52 million)
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      136 27 Reuters GULLANE Tiger Woods will play tomorrow's opening round of the 131 st Open at Muirfield in the company of Japan's Shigeki Maruyama and England's Justin Rose, it was announced yesterday. The world number one will tee off in the first round at 0801 GMT (3.01pm,
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      179 27 -AFP CALCUTTA India's one-day heroes Mohammad Kaif and Yuvraj Singh were yesterday rewarded for their outstanding display in the series in England by being retained for the upcoming Test tour. Kaif, Yuvraj and Dinesh Mongia were due to return home at the conclusion of the final match at
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      642 28 QUIMPERLE Their names give off the same solemn ring as battlefields, epic theatres of cruelty, courage and triumph: Sestrieres, Hautacam and l'Alpe-d'Huez. In each of his three Tour de France victories, Lance Armstrong (picture) has used the first mountain stage to separate himself from the
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      87 29 BEIJING One of the stars of China's World Cup finals debut, midfielder Li Tie, is most likely heading to English Premiership side Everton, with a deal basically worked out and waiting to be signed, local press reports said yesterday. Cheng Penghui, manager of Li's local club
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      80 29 MELBOURNE Terry Venables will oversee his first match in charge of Leeds United here later this month. Venables will miss Leeds' opening pre-season tour match in China because of business commitments. He will link up with the team here for the second game of the tour, coaching his
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      67 29 KASHIMA Japanese striker Takayuki Suzuki yesterday thanked the World Cup finals for lifting him out of the international shadows to a move to Belgian champion Genk. Genk made an offer to Suzuki earlier this month and formal talks on the move began last Friday. He signed a
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      334 29 Agencies LIVERPOOL English Premiership giant Liverpool signed Senegalese World Cup striker El-Hadji Diouf on a five-year £10 million ($27 million) contract here yesterday from French championship runner-up Lens. The 21-year-old African Footballer of the Year, known as the 'Serial fuller' for
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      389 30  -  Ray Chen IF THE dream of a semi-final slot was lost on Monday in a morale-sapping defeat at the hands of arch-rival Malaysia, then at least Singapore's cricketers salvaged some consolation when they wrote themselves into the record books yesterday. In its final Group
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      78 30 IRVINE Olympic silver medallist and Commonwealth Games 100 metre champion Ato Boldon of Trinidad and Tobago has ended his season and will not compete at next week's Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England. The 28-year-old, who has performed poorly in the past few months, said he and coach John
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      92 30 SYDNEY Former Wallaby great David Campese has questioned the decision by the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) to recruit rugby league convert Lote Tuqiri a year before the World Cup. Said Campese: "Tuqiri will play rugby league until the end of the year, then join a Super 12
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      45 30 WELLINGTON All Black lock Norm Maxwell has been ruled out of Saturday's TriNations Test match against South Africa, the New Zealand Rugby Union said yesterday. Maxwell, 26, has had to withdraw because of a hamstring injury, Waikato lock Royce Willis has been recalled.
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      52 30 UMAG The opening day of the US$4OO,OOO ($694,000) Umag ATP tournament turned out to be a nightmare for the organisers as top seed David Nalbandian of Argentina lost in the first round here on Monday. Wimbledon finalist Nalbandian was easily defeated by little known Spaniard David Ferrer
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      475 31  -  Jose Raymond Malaysia humbled at home for the first time since 1981 thanks to golden goal HE WAS thought to be over the hill. Rumours were rife this season that his best days were over. But last night, before a partisan 30,000 crowd at Stadium Darulmakmur,
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      282 31 LEEDS Reports in the English press yesterday said that Rio Ferdinand is likely to deliver a hammer blow to Leeds United and its manager Terry Venables by confirming his desire to move to Manchester United for what would amount to a British record
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      165 31 SUFFOLK Newcastle manager Sir Bobby Robson today insisted dethroned champion Manchester United will still be the team to beat next season, reported Football36s.com. The Red Devils recorded their worst-ever Premiership finish last season third and ended the campaign without a trophy after another
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