Today, 13 August 2002, Afternoon Edition

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    6 1 TODAY Tuesday August 13,2002 MITAtP) 063.11,2001
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Businessman arrested
      56 1 POLICE arrested a 38-year-old businessman early this morning in connection with a case of cheating. The managing director of a financial brokerage firm had allegedly mismanaged about $430,000 of his clients' funds over the last eight months. He was arrested at his semi-detached home along West Coast Road,
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      Lock icon All eyes on Fed
      457 1 Reuters Even as Bush's team sounds upbeat WASHINGTON Faced with a limping US recovery and growing concerns the economy could again stumble into recession, Federal Reserve officials this week will likely attempt to calm nerves without undermining fragile business and consumer confidence. Fed policymakers gather today
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      Lock icon US keeps heat on Iraq
      108 1 Reuters WASHINGTON The United States kept up its war of words against Iraq yesterday, accusing President Saddam Hussein of keeping out UN weapons inspectors since December 1998. "We need to make sure that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction or long-range ballistic missiles," deputy
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      Lock icon Dow dips
      74 1 AFP NEW YORK Most US share prices slid yesterday after US Airways filed for bankruptcy protection, buffeting other airlines, and as investors fretted over the economic outlook. The Dow Jones industrials average of 30 top stocks dropped 56.56 points, or 0.65 percent, to 8,688.89. The wider Standard and
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Moving out
      425 2  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Premier media event plans to go to Malaysia by kim@newstoday.com.sg TOP-level, high-calibre journalists, media owners and politicians recently met in Singapore for the second News World Asia meeting, which saw three days of fervent debate. Due to the crippling effects of global recession, this leading conference
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      4D murder-robbery: Why was security camera not on?
      227 2 THE police believe that at least two people were involved in the robbery and murder at a 4D outlet in Toa Payoh Central on Sunday. The body of Madam Song Beng Hua, 36, was found bound with masking tape. Her eyes and
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      Lock icon A family tragedy
      135 2 Channel News Asia THE National Day weekend turned tragic for one Singapore family, who had travelled to Malaysia for a holiday. Three family members were killed and seven others injured when their van overturned on the way back on Sunday. The family was returning from a holiday
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      Lock icon Looking into containers
      148 2 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE has called for a tender for two x-ray machines to screen shipping containers in its efforts to beef up port security. The move is part of a new US security initiative, which Singapore signed two months ago, agreeing to pre-screen all US-bound cargo.
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      PAS defiant
      320 3 English language plan 'undemocratic' KUALA LUMPUR The government's threat to use the Internal Security Act against "language chauvinists" has not stopped the Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) from speaking out against the plan to reintroduce English in schools. PAS leader Abdul Hadi Awang announced yesterday the party's "full support
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      Repatriation woes
      106 3 JAKARTA The Indonesian government has been slammed over inept handling of the repatriation of illegal Indonesian workers from Malaysia. Manpower Minister Jacob Nuwawea swore yesterday to resign if he fails to send the 480,000 illegal migrant workers from Malaysia back to their homes, reported Antara. More than 100,000
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      Copy pig, pig, pig
      137 3 TAIPEI We are all familiar with the fairy tale, The Three Pigs. But get ready now for The Little Pigs 2002. The third of the three cloned pigs that Taiwanese scientists have successfully engineered Copypig No 3 made its debut at the 2002 Taiwan International Biotech
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      Dear Mr Mah...
      317 4  -  Joy Frances Green group urges ban on more golf courses by j oy@newsto day. com. sg NATIONAL Development Minister Mah Bow Tan may soon be getting an avalanche of "green" postcards. Singapore's newest environment society, thegreening.org, wants to stop the building of more golf courses in Singapore,
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      Lock icon Molest case drama
      246 4 Channel News Asia A PROMINENT Chinese physician has been sentenced to a year's jail for molesting a patient. Chong Shaw Fong, 54, had offered free medical consultation at Thong Chai Hospital for the last 27 years. Yesterday, he was convicted of molesting a 35-year-old woman at his
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      Boy, 9, found after going missing over the N-Day holiday
      169 4 ONE family spent the National Day holiday worrying about their nine-year-old son's disappearance. Yong Han Dong had run away from home after a family argument on the eve of the National Day and had been missing until yesterday. He had
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      NJC wins LKY award
      215 4  -  Lee Ching Wern STUDENTS at the National Junior College (NJC) sing the National anthem every morning to music played by a "live" band. They also chalk up an impressive two to three hundred hours of community service in their two years at the junior college. The
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      249 5 Touch the lives of children in need. I Sing Tel Touching Lives Fund J ||35r^ ipairment '^/ltt\ J i^^J palsy or autism. Or they could conns from single-parent families. But like any of us, these >a^jQJ d children also have? hopes and dreams. However, to fulfil their aspirations, they need
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      The way we are ...
      333 6  - The way we are Kathleen Kwan Here's a primer on how to behave like true-blue Singaporeans I READ with disgust Mr S Gulam's article, "How about a Singaporean gesture from this Shanghai-born?" {Today, Aug 7). It is puzzling how foreign-born Singaporeans are questioned on the origin of their births and
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      No rebates, please
      169 6  -  X Manoharan I AM shocked and disappointed that the Monetary of Singapore's (MAS) is allowing insurance agents to offer clients rebates on their commissions. The insurance authorities have for many years educated agents on a code of ethics and it will be sad if clients start basing
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon A brutal makeover?
      315 8 Bloomberg Falling bandwidth prices a hurdle in rebuilding of Global Crossing HONG KONG Hutchison Whampoa and Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte (ST Telemedia) will contend with an oversupply of network capacity and low prices as they try to rebuild Global Crossing, investors and analysts said. Prices for network
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      Lock icon More SSF contracts to be launched
      124 8 -AFP THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) will introduce six more Single Stock Futures (SSF) contracts that will begin trading on the derivatives market from Thursday. It said the six new SSF contracts will be based on the following stocks: Creative Technology, Datacraft Asia, Pacific Century
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        106 8 THE local market opened yesterday on a positive note following the National Day holiday. However, early morning buying was not sustainable and the ST index closed trading yesterday at 1,486.44, down 0.37 points. Volume was light, with only 363 million shares changing hands. Select blue chips, including banks, posted
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        World markets
        55 8 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 9747.82 -251.97 -2.52 Hang Seng All Ordinaries 9959.92 3052.10 -54.14 -0.70 -0.54 -0.02 Taiwan Wtd 4852.07 +0.63 +0.01 Korea Comp SET Index 695.39 367.07 +2.94 +7.04 +0.42 +1.96 Jakarta Comp 448.52 -1.72 -0.38 Phils Comp Shenzen B Mumbai 1098.58 240.90 3007.85 -3.79
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 8 US$ 0.5686 UK£ 0.3724 Yen 67.800 HK$ 4.4351 RM 2.1607 Euro 0.5831 Rupiah 5032.1 Baht 24.012 Peso 29.425 A$ 1.0528 Indian Rs 27.641 Won 683.03 C$ 0.8933 Yuan 4.7062 NZ$ 1.2273 NTS 19.258
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        Commodities
        21 8 Gold uss/oz 316.00 Rubber centsAg 147.50 Silver uss/oz 4.670 Palm oil RM/tonne 1453 Platinum uss/oz 545.50 Brent crude uss/barrel 24.95
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        Straits Times Index — 10-Day Chart
        5 8 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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        SGX most active
        53 8 By volume Aug 12 Strike Citiraya SingTel NOL Chartered 'OOO 55,791 43,298 38,101 19,051 15,585 UniFiber UniFood TTInt DatacrftUSS PFood 'OOO 9,748 6,160 5,935 5,514 5,243 By value Aug 12 SingTel UOB Chartered DBS Citiraya 57,230,674 49,178,400 40,518,220 23,776,728 20,754,400 OCBC NOL SIA Venture CITYDEV 19,689,000 15,558,085
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        SGX top rises
        75 8 By$ Aug 12 Close Change UOB 13.400 +0.300 By percentage Aug 12 LHT Close Change 0.080 +60.000 OCBC 10.600 +0.200 C&C 4.320 +0.120 DBSBk6%NCPS10 103.500 +0.100 Ooldtron LionTeckC Strike W*****5 0.020 +33.333 0.160 +33.333 0.025 +25.000 Creative 50 16.400 +0.100 SingTel 10 1.500 +0.070 Cerebos 1.880 +0.060
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        SGX top falls
        82 8 By$ Aug 12 Close Change Shang Asia 2kHKS 4.850 -0.450 Venture 10.900 -0.300 DBS 11.600 -0.200 SingamasC 2kHKS 1.560 -0.130 Chartered 2.580 -0.120 JMH400USS 5.650 -0.100 SIA 11.400 -0.100 By percentage Aug 12 Close Change ShanghaiAC 2kHKS 0.013 -31.579 Cytech 0.120 -20.000 Xpress 0.040 -20.000 Cyber Vill
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      Lock icon Boom, boom
      256 10 Channel News Asia Construction industry on road to recovery THE construction industry is on the road to recovery with higher demand projected for this year and next year. And after last year's slump, the news was a morale booster for some 150 contractors and materials suppliers at the
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      Maybank's guarantee
      141 10 MAYBANK will on Thursday relaunch a retirement product that guarantees an annual return of 3.5 per cent on a customer's investments till his retirement at age 62. The minimum investment for the plan, which is underwritten by AIA, is $2,000 and customers will also enjoy insurance coverage equal
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3922 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries:Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com Date Name NAV/Bid Oiler Price Prke Aberdeen Asset Management (Asia) B/8 A ierc een Se -American Opportunities 0.575 0.605 B/8 A ierc een Se -Asian High fielcl Fd 1.184 1.22 B/8 Aierceen Se -CTiina Opportunities Fd 0.955 1.003 B/8 A lert een Se-Continental
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      Lock icon Japan's economy edging closer to stability
      182 12 AFP TOKYO The Japanese economy is edging closer to stability, led by exports and production. But recent volatility in global financial markets could hurt recovery prospects, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) said yesterday in its monthly assessment of the economy. "Japan's economy, despite persistent
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      Lock icon Feeling the pinch
      286 12 Reuters US Airways goes bust WASHINGTON/NEW YORK US Airways Group Inc sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday, the first such filing by a major US carrier since the Sept 11 attacks triggered a financial crisis in the airline industry. The sixth-largest US airline is desperately trying
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Australian govt accused of racism in crackdown on illegals
      293 13 SYDNEY The Australian government, still smarting from criticism over its handling of asylum seekers, yesterday rejected accusations of racism in a new move to crack down on illegal immigration. A plan drawn up by the immigration department would require some visitors
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      Lock icon 'Ants' linked to terror funds in the US
      171 13 Agencies WASHINGTON If you are a Muslim or Arab small-time businessman in the United States, chances are that you are suspect in funding terrorist groups and are being investigated. Many of these investigations into Muslim and Arab businesses were initiated in the
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      Lock icon Strike yes, bash no
      107 13 Agencies JAKARTA Instead of throwing a birthday bash, the Aceh separatist rebels will be marking the Indonesian independence with a general strike. The commander of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), Mr Muzakkir Manaf, said in a statement faxed from Sweden yesterday that the Aug 17 strike
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Just who is a S'porean?
      1019 14  -  Simon Tay Wearing Singaporean colours alone is not enough by MANY Singaporeans watched the Commonwealth women's table tennis finals recently and cheered when we beat New Zealand. Yet, some have noted that the two players wearing our colours, Junhong and Jiawei (picture), were originally from
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      351 17 And now, when you book your Sydney holiday on your Visa before 2 Sep 2002, you'll enjoy $200* worth of FREE Sydney Highlights. This offer is limited to the first 1,000 adults, so hurry! Pick and mix from these 12 exhilarating Sydney Highlights to the value of $200*. With 240
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Play hard to get
      540 18 Reuters Talking points One golden rule to finding Mr Right online LOS ANGELES You've used it for shopping, playing solitaire, checking your horoscope, booking a hotel room and diagnosing that mysterious rash. So, why can't you find Mr Right in cyberspace? Maybe it's because you are
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      That National Day fervour
      254 18 MORE Singaporeans watched the National Day Parade this year on MediaCorp TV's Channel 5 and Channel 8 compared to last year. The "live" full broadcast of the parade drew 860,000 viewers on Channel 8 (22.6 per cent), about 12 per cent more than last year's audience
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  • INFOTECH
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      SMS gateway
      230 19 A cheap and simple solution for firms A LOCAL pioneer in wireless and SMS .f"\.technology, Inspire-Tech has released COMgsm, which it describes as an affordable and comprehensive SMS gateway. The importance of quick and costefficient communications for business has resulted in firms turning to SMS as a vital
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      Integrated enterprise suite
      129 19 FRONTSTEP Inc, a provider of business solutions for manufacturers, has unveiled SyteLine 7 its extended ERP suite built on the Microsoft .NET platform. SyteLine 7 delivers a global, integrated enterprise suite including Extended ERP, Customer Relationship Management and Supply Chain Management on a single technology platform. It
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      Using XML to manage data
      163 19 QOFTWAEE AG and Altova have Obegun marketing their XML Spy and Tamino software package designed to help organisations develop high-perform-ance XML-based applications. The platform independent Extensible Markup Language (XML) makes possible the exchange of business documents and data between suppliers, customers and partners. The vendors'
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      Heavyweight winner
      405 20  -  John Lvi FOR CORPORATES This Toshiba Satellite scores with its impressive CPU power and fast 3D graphics THE Toshiba Satellite 1950-A740 (picture) desktop replacement scores a few firsts and among them, the award for being closest to a desktop in size. Luckily, it backs up the bulk with
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      Protect your PC with Symantec
      188 20 DESIGNED to protect PCs from blended threats, Symantec Client Security integrates anti-virus, personal firewall and intrusion detection technologies. By integrating the central management of these multiple technologies, it helps IT administrators lower the total cost of ownership and increase the security of the network client.
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      Printers with panache
      153 20  -  Hannah Teok EPSON S latest large-format printers the Stylus Pro 7600 and Stylus Pro 9600 (picture) feature seven photo colour ink cartridges and the first edge-to-edge printing capabilities, the vendor said. With a resolution of 2880 by 1440 dpi, the seven-ink set includes a shade called Light
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      Onyx goes places
      216 20 ONYX Software has signed a partnership agreement with North 22 Solutions, the Industry Solutions and Internet Applications arm of North 22 Technology Services Group. North 22 Solutions will handle the marketing of the Onyx products and distribute Onyx CRM solutions in China. It will also localise Onyx
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  • IT FOR SME
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      Making digital imaging simple
      639 21 HP's new slew of products promises customers that DIGITAL imaging is increasingly becoming a medium for users to create, connect and communicate more efficiently. It is not only moving into the living room but is also becoming a key part of mobile and wireless communications. As
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  • HOMECHEF
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      Take flight with wings
      320 23  -  Pauline DLoh Ten chicken wings and two delicious ways to enjoy them /~*HICKEN wings will never go out of fashion. V^ Whether they come as part of the party buffet or part of a set lunch menu, or just as a snack it's hard not to
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      Teriygki chicken drum lets and Thai-style stuffed wings
      251 23 Ingredients: 10 large chicken wings 1 cup teriyaki marinade 1 packet Thai aromatic grill marinade 2 fresh shiitake mushrooms, diced 2 water chestnuts, peeled and diced 1 egg white 1 tblsp cornflour, salt and pepper Method: 1. Cut chicken wings into half,
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      Morning chocolate
      160 23 HOT chocolate Is pure comfort food. It is what mothers dish out after a bout of sniffles or if you got drenched by an afternoon shower after school or work. Making hot chocolate used to be a rather tedious process. The raw cocoa powder had to be "cooked"
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      Car for movie patron
      95 24  -  Yee Wei Zhen LIBRARIAN Tan Mvi Lin receives the key to her Hyundai Matrix from Mr Kurt Rieder (left), the managing director of Golden Village, and Mr PN Balji, chief executive officer of Today. Ms Tan, 28, was the winner of the four-month long promotion by
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      Playing Freddie...
      740 24 Queen star look-olike Scott Maley says there's a spiritual side to it FREDDIE Mercury look-alike, Scott Maley (picture), groans when you ask him if he's as gay as his hero. But, he dismisses talk that he's gone under the knife to impersonate the flamboyant Queen frontman, who died
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  • INCINEMAS
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      282 25 -Agencies LEXINGTON (Kentucky) Actor and racing enthusiast Jason Priestley (picture) fractured his spine and suffered a head injury on Sunday when he crashed his car into a wall during practice for the Indy Racing Infiniti Pro Series at Kentucky Speedway, officials said. The
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      Lock icon Locarno fest winners booed
      240 25 -Agencies LOCARNO (Switzerland) Only a handful of films received awards at the Locarno International Film Festival on Sunday, lending credence to reports that several members of the main competition jury were dissatisfied and had walked out of some screenings. Ascetic drama The Longing, directed by British-born,
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      Lock icon Oscar stays
      125 25 Reuters/Variefy HOLLYWOOD The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has refuted reports that it has held talks with New York City officials about moving next year's Oscars to the Big Apple. On Friday, The New York Times ran a front-page story saying that a group of New
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  • SPORTS
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      Goosen among the star names for Tiger Skins
      465 28 RETIEF Goosen, currently the world's fourth ranked golfer, has added his name to the star-studded list of golfers that will take part in the inaugural Tiger Skins at the Tanah Merah Country Club on Nov 17, 2002. The South African will tee
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      Lock icon Who infill stop Tiger?
      563 28 GRAND BLANC This is how much better Tiger Woods is than the rest of the PGA Tour: He can win even when he isn't at his best. He's the No. 1 player in the world. He's the favourite every time he enters a tournament. And if
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      New boys
      90 28 PARIS -Jacques Santini called up four new players yesterday in his first squad since replacing Roger Lemerre as France's coach after its World Cup failure. Midfielder Bruno Cheyrou, who has just joined Liverpool, is among the 22 players selected for a friendly game in Tunisia on Aug 21.
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      Who Rambo?
      85 28 ISTANBUL Turkish champion Galatasaray took an early Super League lead with a 4-1 win over Samunspor. The home side ignored a knife-wielding Fenerbahce fan nicknamed "Rambo", who ran out shortly before kick-off to plant his side's yellow-and-blue flag in the middle of the Galatasaray ground. Newspapers said he
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      Song moving
      84 28 SEOUL Song Chong Gug yesterday agreed a US$4 million {$7 million) move to Dutch side Feyenoord, becoming the latest South Korean World Cup star to secure a transfer to Europe. The 23-year-old defensive midfielder played in all seven matches at the World Cup. Song is to sign a
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      Juninho down
      49 28 LONDON Middlesbrough fs new signing Juninho will miss the start of the season and could be out for several months after picking up a cruciate ligament injury. The Brazilian World Cup winner damaged his left knee during a friendly with Italian side Modena in Mantova on Saturday.
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      Lock icon Great stadiums don't win titles
      853 29  -  Neil Humphreys With five days to go to the English Premiership kick-off, TODAY looks at the key contenders for the title, beginning with defending champion Arsenal Arsenal has invested in a luxurious new home, but... ARSENAL has finally completed a £400-million ($l.l billion) deal for
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      Lock icon Keane says McCarthy fouled up World Cup
      487 29 LONDON Manchester United captain Roy Keane has revealed that he would have played for the Republic of Ireland in the World Cup had national team manager Mick McCarthy not accused him of faking injuries. Keane walked out of the Irish squad in May
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      Lock icon Hewitt's got a fine game ...
      995 30  - Hewitt's got a fine game Rohit Brijnath it's his PR that needs some work I LIKE Lleyton Hewitt. I really do. Swear on my boss' head. But a lot of people don't believe me (hey, some people collect cactus, okay?). Because a lot of people don't like Lleyton Hewitt. That's
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      Threatened
      79 30 KARACHI Pakistan's Commonwealth Games boxing gold medallist Haider Ali revealed yesterday he received a threatening anonymous call from Bombay before his final against India's Som Bahadur Pun. "On the eve of the final, I received an anonymous call from Bombay which warned me that my opponent in the final
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      Thug suit?
      82 30 DURBAN Irish referee David McHugh was considering suing a South African rugby fan after a crushing tackle which dislocated his shoulder during a TriNations Test, it was reported yesterday. McHugh had to retire with a dislocated shoulder after burly 43-year-old spectator Pieter van Zyl tackled him to the
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      Pervez fails
      95 30 SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday that Pakistan's leader had personally guaranteed the safety of Australia's cricketers during a planned tour to Pakistan, but the pledge was not enough to prevent the trip being cancelled. Howard said he had spoken at length with President Pervez Musharraf
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      Moya triumph
      52 30 CINCINNATI Carlos Moya managed to overcome a rain delay to stun Lleyton Hewitt on Sunday to clinch the Cincinnati Masters title with a 7-5, 7-6 win in a classic baseline battle. Meanwhile, Chanda Rubin upset defending champion Lindsay Davenport 5-7, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 to capture the WTA Los
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        Lock icon Rio out for 2 games
        436 31 AFP But Man U's record signing will make debut against Chelsea LONDON Rio Ferdinand's (picture) injury is not as bad as originally thought but Manchester United's record buy will only be fit to play in the club's next Premiership clash away to Chelsea, Alex Ferguson
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        Jurong parts with sponsor
        275 31  -  Jose Raymond JURONG FC has lost its $100,000 sponsorship deal with Canadian 2 for 1 Pizza. Though the club and the sponsor held a cheque presentation ceremony in March, the deal was never finalised and the club has not received any money from the sponsor. Confirming
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        Noh Rahman returns
        251 31  -  Stanley Ho NO ONE at the club was sure if he was ready for battle. After all, Mohd Noh Rahman, the ex-Lions' defender, had only just returned to training after an eight-month absence due to a career-threatening knee injury. But last month, runaway NTUC Income S-League leader
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        Lock icon India alive with draw
        216 31 Reuters NOTTINGHAM, England Century-maker Rahul Dravid played the central role in a marathon rearguard action as India scrambled to safety in the second test against England yesterday, claiming an enthralling draw to keep the series alive. Dravid's five-hour, 40-minute occupation of the Trent Bridge crease was
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        Lock icon S Africa in 54-run win
        109 31 AFP TANGIERS, Morocco Herschelle Gibbs scored 114 and took two catches to steer South Africa to a 54-run victory over Pakistan in the opening match of the three-nation Morocco Cup here yesterday. The gifted opener batted till the 45th over to compile his seventh one-day
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        S'pore in 5 finals
        175 31  -  Stanley Ho HOST country Singapore will feature in five of the 14 finals at the Asia Pacific Pencak Silat Championship today. And in all five bouts, the Singaporean exponents will come up against Vietnamese opponents. Yesterday, two of the Singapore men who featured in the semi-finals
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