Today, 28 August 2002, Afternoon Edition

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    6 1 TODAY Wednesday Angus* 28,2002 MH'A 063/11/2001
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon US to go alone ...
      353 1 US to go alone Reuters if allies don't support war on Iraq CALIFORNIA US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the United States would find international support should it decide to take military action against Iraq. But he added that President George W Bush would make the decision
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      Lock icon HP posts $3.5 billion loss
      186 1 AFP PALO ALTO, California A downturn in corporate tech spending and merger costs led Hewlett-Packard yesterday to report a third quarter net loss of U552,029 billion ($3.54 billion), US$ll6 million more than in the same quarter last year. The company also reported revenues of US$l6.5
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      Lock icon Dow slips
      89 1 -AFP NEW YORK US share prices slid yesterday after a survey showed consumer confidence slumping for the third month in a row in August. The Dow Jones dropped 94.60 points to 8,824.41, while the broader Standard and Poor's 500 index fell 13.13 points to 934.82. The Nasdaq tumbled
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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      48 1 ''■'Ai: p so^ mW &mm Van Nistelrooy on fire, Man U runs hot Page 30 Inamoto hat-trick sends Fulham into Uefa Cup Page 28 m* m ..s*?■'■■■ y&H^Bamih mKmm^^M mn DPM LEE: THE MAN BEHIND THE AURA Catch the 2-part special on Friday and in our Weekend edition
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  • HOT NEWS
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      New 180-day rule
      406 2  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Meet it or be kicked out, MPs told by z ackari a@newstoday. com.sg MEMBERS of Parliament, who have appealed against bankruptcy or criminal conviction, will no longer be allowed to attend parliamentary sittings until the outcome of their appeal is known. They have 180
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      Soapy water from tap: Five boys arrested
      157 2 ON MONDAY, the water that came out of some taps at Blk 124 Paya Lebar Way was soapy. The Marine Parade Town Council, which investigated the complaint from a resident, found two boxes of soap powder near the two water tanks on the
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    • PARLIAMENT BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Extraditing terrorists
        138 2 -AFP SINGAPORE wants a group of suspected terrorists wanted in connection with a plot to blow up US, Israel and other targets here to be extradited. Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng told Parliament yesterday that negotiations are underway with Indonesia, the home base of the militant Jemaah
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        Lock icon The maid debate
        135 2 Channel NewsAsia THOSE employing maids for the first time will be required to undergo an orientation programme, said Minister of State for Manpower Ng Eng Hen in Parliament yesterday. He assured members that existing penalties have helped reduce the number of abuse cases. Five years ago, there
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        No baby repository
        213 2  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim SINGAPORE will not set up repositories for abandoned babies as this could unwittingly induce parents to abandon their babies. "Such repositories, also known as Baby Drops, may save a life, but they also make it easier for a parent to abandon an infant, thus
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      Illegals: KL faces neighbours' wrath
      283 3 KUALA LUMPUR The crackdown on illegal immigrants has resulted in a diplomatic backlash against Malaysia as sentiments run high in Indonesia and the Philippines. Malaysian officials scrambled to control the damage following an antiMalaysia protest in Jakarta on Monday. Reports from the Philippines said at
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      Lock icon Down go the corridors... one by one
      287 3 Netvsmdio 93.8 AN external corridor of a JTC Corporation building collapsed early yesterday morning (picture), on the same day that JTC was to repair a crack it had discovered on the sixthfloor corridor. The collapsed corridor triggered a domino effect, causing the corridors
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      Lock icon Newater an old idea
      145 3 Channel NewsAsia SINGAPORE might have introduced Newater recently, but the idea of using reclaimed water here came up more than 20 years ago. However, in those days, the cost was extremely high and the membrane technology used in the production of Newater was not fully developed
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      Hazy outlook
      363 4  -  Joy Frances S'pore skies expected to be affected by fires by j oy @ne wstoday. co m. sg FIRES in Borneo and southern Sumatra might cause hazy skies over Singapore in the next two weeks. The National Environment Agency (NEA) said yesterday that Singaporeans can expect slight to
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      Book the Cook on SIA
      201 4  -  Hannah Teoh RAFFLES Class passengers will enjoy more of the good life on Singapore Airlines (SIA) flights with the launch of a new menu and an inflight SMS service. Travellers now have a choice of four dishes. These will be presented with garnishing on square
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      Children toil away to raise funds for charity
      188 4  -  Rosalyn Lim HE'S only five but Ryan Tan is mummy's most indispensable kitchen helper. Together, they whipped up 220 pineapple tarts and helped raise $86.75 for the SingTel Touching Lives Fund. Not to be outdone, four-year-old Victoria Teng put on her cleaning
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      A $450,000 settlement
      134 4  -  Joy Frances THE Chinese tourist who became paralysed from the neck down after an accident here has been awarded $450,000 in damages. Last August, 48-year-old Zhang Wanbo was strolling along Circular Road with his wife and friends when he was knocked down by Poh Kay Le ong's
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      201 5 A Must-Eat Value Deal! With the new Pizza Hut Lunch Express, your favourite pizza or pasta will be at your table in 15 minutes flat. Or your next pizza is FREE! Certainly a Pan-tastic deal that costs only $8.90* per person. So just sit back and enjoy piping hot pizzas
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  • LETTERS
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      Who's griping?
      333 6  -  Yong Yit Kuen Citizens have right to question country's policies I REFER to Mr Cyrus Daruwala's letter, "Oh, stop complaining!" (Today, Aug 27). Mr Damwala does not understand the ordinary Singaporean. We know exactly what we are complaining about. We know how "goodies" are given out before every
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      Light is the guide
      93 6  -  Han Liang Yuan (Ms) I REFER to Mr Jacky Tan's letter, "Let there be light..." (Today, Aug 26). fndicator lights can be found below the screen of ez-link card readers that are installed on buses. When a commuter taps his card on the reader and the
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      Grass may be brown on the other side
      113 6  -  Shirley Rodrigues SINGAPOREANS who labour under the illusion that the grass is greener on the other side are in for a rude awakening when they relocate. The shock comes when they have to deal with the locals every day. Many may be
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      Those 'staying quitters'
      171 6  -  Kathleen Kwan NOW that Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has clarified what he meant by "stayers" and "quitters", we can assure Singaporeans working abroad and living productive lives that they are definitely not "quitters" ("Labels that prick" Today, Aug 26). They are safeguarding and promoting Singapore's interests
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      Let it flow
      161 6  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming AFTER watching a documentary on how Newater is processed in Singapore, I am impressed with the system used to ensure that the end product is drinkable water. Although 1 am all for educating the public about the water-purification process to cultivate a climate
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      91 6 ■passes in 2002V B ________J ____L Exam for Im *Z l^_ iflP!lM_—_■ Graduate J| Bt*-P>JI IfflW I<lf*Tln,ri_ UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Graduate entry route /^INFO TAI_*»T"N Full time Part time classes available (Friday 30 August Year 2 subjects: taw of Tort Trusts Land Law Optional Company Law, Evidence Year 3 subjects:
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      17 6 GMAT GRADUATE MANAGEMENT ADMISSION TEST Do you have what it takes? 24th Intake 21 Sept 2002 v
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Prudence
      330 8  -  Val Chua advise property experts by val@newstoday.com.sg BE prudent when making a decision to buy a private property, even though it now looks more "affordable" than before. That was the over-riding message by industry practitioners at the Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore (Redas) seminar yesterday, ahead of easier
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      MediaCorp gets two new board members
      76 8 MEDIA Corporation of Singapore (MediaCorp) yesterday announced the appointment of two new board members Mr Peter Chan and Ms Euleen Goh. Mr Chan, Permanent Secretary for Ministry of National Development, and Ms Goh, the chief executive of Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore), joined the Board
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        74 8 SINGAPORE shares fell, weighed down by foreign selling of benchmark index names despite overnight gains on Wall Street. Index-linked selling dragged the index below 1500 at lunch time but some short covering and bargain-hunting support trimmed losses with the STI closing 6.6 points down at 1509.48. For every stock
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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
        58 8 )y volume tug 27 jtiinya Ihnrlered JatntiftUSS .Inks I; iembtura 'COO 79,252 21,965 20,968 12,700 9,307 NOt EnerSave TPV Waul WanlUSS (Soldi™ '000 8,834 8,622 6,683 6,127 6,11) By vnlue Aug 27 (hniteied Citiiaya UOB DBS Veirlure s 53,117,560 48,571,020 39,159,460 33,112,500 29,236,800 DaloaftUSS OCBC crnDEV G:
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        World markets
        55 8 Index VMIK Gignge Uikkei 225 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries fniwon Wtd 9907.30 *****.52 3110.90 4878.85 -160.44 ■4081 ■14.80 ■57.05 -1.59 -0.40 -0.47 -1.16 i'i 'j: Comp iET Index 724.17 370.14 ■10.62 +1.12 -1.45 +0.30 lakorla Comp Pbils Comp ihenzen B tfumbtii 452.06 1098.91 245.28 3100.78 -4J5 +6.05 +1.13
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        Your S$1 buys
        32 8 J5$ JK£ fen tK$ tM itm iupioh 0.5703 0.3741 67.802 4.4481 2.1671 0.5849 5075.6 Peso A$ Indian Rs Wm C$ Yuan m 29,723 1.0318 27.659 684.29 0.3360 4.7201 1.2099
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        Commodities
        20 8 joldiM/K 311.00 silver usS/di 4.438 'lotinum ust/oi 549.800 Rubber wm/h 154.50 Palm ail RW.-icnc- 1517 Btenl etude usMaml 26.80
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        SGX top rises
        78 8 Sy$ tug 27 Close Chnnge /entuie 13.400 +0.400 GientEnsI 9.550 +0.350 < B pCor 4.560 +0.100 DelGio500 1.870 +0.050 By percenlnge Aug 27 GrPlusW*****7 Penguin W*****0 Asio Food P GreenWor Close Change 0.060 +20.000 0.050 +11.111 0.050 +11.111 0.235 +9.302 M 6.B00 +0.050 IMH400USS 5.800 +0.050 isDton(S)
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        82 8 Bloomberg By$ Aug 27 SPH 100 Close Change 19.500 -0.200 By percentage Aug 27 Close Change KohBrosW*****6 0.030 -25.000 CITYDEV STI ETF 100 5.950 -0.150 15.490 -0.110 loiSin 0.105 -22.222 Noel 0.105 -19.231 JOB DBS SIA SIA 200 OCBC 13.400 -0.100 12.100 -0.100 11.700 -0.100 11.700 4.100
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      Lock icon $105m Enron settlement
      381 9 Bloomberg Andersen to pay investors, workers, creditors HOUSTON Andersen Worldwide, the network of accounting firms outside the United States linked to Arthur Andersen, will pay US$6O million ($105.17 million) in the first settlement of lawsuits stemming from the collapse of Enron Corp, people familiar with the settlement
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      Lock icon SIA plans to increase flights to Melbourne
      233 9 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) is planning to add more flights to Melbourne from October to meet rising demand. The carrier flies twice a day to Australia's second-biggest city using Boeing 747 and 777 planes. It is still working out the increase it plans
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      Lock icon Top S-Oil executives indicted
      120 9 Bloomberg SEOUL S-Oil Corp's top two executives were indicted by South Korean prosecutors on charges of stock manipulation and overstating profit at the refiner. Chairman Kim Sun Dong and President Yoo Ho Kee, who have been in custody since July 31, were indicted on Monday night,
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      Lock icon US deficit to widen
      262 9 Bloomberg WASHINGTON The United States will have a deficit of US$l57 billion ($275.36 billion) in the fiscal year ending Sept 30 and will not return to budget surpluses until 2006, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said. The deficit next year is expected to reach US$l45 billion
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      Lock icon NOL, others extend cargo fees
      251 9 Bloomberg NEPTUNE Orient Lines (NOL), Japan's Nippon Yusen KK and other shipping lines are extending a peak season surcharge for carrying cargo to the United States from Asia by a month because demand is higher than they had expected. The 14 shipping companies in the
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      Lock icon Positive half-time showing
      167 9 Reuters SINGAPORE healthcare company, Raffles Medical Group, posted a 51 per cent rise in first-half net profit to $1.3 million, thanks to the boost in revenues from its general hospital. The group, which runs a network of 63 clinics and a general hospital, said it expects the
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      Going East
      282 10  -  Chan Chao Peh UOB widens scope of business operations in China by ch ao peh@ne wstoday. com.sg UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) has won approval from the Chinese authorities to expand its business there. UOB's Beijing office has a branch status an upgrade from that of a representative office.
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3370 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries: Coll 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.osio@reuters.com dole Find Noun HAV/Bid OFhr Price Price Aberdeen Asset Maifnemenl (Asia) ft/B Abs-L3S3 Ss taifim OccjrlunriK 0.617 0.649 ft/6 A lerdeen St -Asian High Yield Fd 1.189 1.3JS 74/B It Ml St Chine Ofpcr-LnilicE. Fd 0.969 1.018 ft/3 Aim pen Se-Cpplinenitirspe Eqly
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      Lock icon Marginal growth
      325 12 -AFP Exports demand to fuel Japan's economy TOKYO A in exports is likely to have been enough to keep Japan's fragile economy growing marginally in the June quarter, economists said. Gross domestic product (GDP) data, to be released on Friday, is expected to show the world's second largest
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      Lock icon Aussie pay-TV ruling soon
      91 12 Reuters MELBOURNE-The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will rule on the proposed Foxtel-Optus pay-television alliance in the next few weeks, commission chairman Allan Fels said. The commission will release, for public comment next week, the undertakings provided by Foxtel and Optus Australia's two main pay-TV operators
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      Lock icon Insurance scheme
      146 12 Channel NewsAsia. THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has not decided on who will manage the deposit insurance scheme, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told Parliament yesterday. Mr Lee, who is also chairman of MAS, said that while it is possible to set up an organisation with
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon $25,000 bill for six-month stay in Australian detention centre
      244 13 Reuters SYDNEY Like most asylum seekers in Australia, 27 year-old Shahid Qureshi underwent mandatory detention before he was given a bridging visa pending the outcome of his asylum claims last September. But, together with a bridging visa, the Pakistani was handed
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      Lock icon Thailand-Taiwan labour pact delay
      190 13 Agencies BANGKOK In a cautious diplomatic move, Thailand announced yesterday it had delayed the signing of a labour pact with Taiwan after a Taiwanese minister requested to be present at the ceremony. The event, scheduled to take place tomorrow on the resort island of Phuket, was
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      Lock icon Defiant Mugabe sets up 'war Cabinet'
      152 13 Reuters HARARE The message is clear: Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe will run the country his way and will not give in to international pressure. On Monday, Mr Mugabe swore in a reshuffled "war Cabinet" comprising his loyal and hardline ministers who would fight opposition
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      Lock icon No chance
      329 14 Reuters China onTaiwan's independence BEIJING Its stand is firm and there is no pretence that China will allow or tolerate Taiwanese independence. China's Vice-President Hu Jintao reiterated the point on Monday to US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who was visiting the country. "The separatist activities of
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      Lock icon Cheney beats war drums
      150 14 Agencies CRAWFORD US VicePresident Dick Cheney (picture) made a forceful argument for military action against Iraq despite mounting criticism. "What we must not do in the face of a mortal threat is to give in to wishful thinking or willful blindness," said Mr Cheney at the
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      Lock icon Leaping into 'retirement'
      99 14 -AFP BEIJING A group of 28 Chinese factory workers attempted to carry out a bizarre protest against poor retirement benefits. The protestors were trying to pressurise city officials to pay them pensions and medical insurance by threatening to jump off a nine-storey building in the city centre.
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  • COMMENIARY
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      Money no enough
      789 15  -  Dharmendra Yadev Take responsibility and it won't happen by dpyadav gomadonlin e. com MUCH has been said about "the ElderShield dilemma". I feel this offers a lesson, especially for young workers. Until last year I took my financial situation as a given, depending on my parents to
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  • UPFRONT
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      Big and confident
      744 18  -  Jaime Koh Patricia Wong's book hits at the thin-is-beautiful craze in Asia IT is small but it packs a punch. A well-aimed one. Big Beautiful Women which touts itself as the first Chineselanguage book celebrating plussize women is not about author Patricia Wong's journey to conquer her
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      Lock icon A 'Free Martha' T-shirt – it's a hot thing
      243 18 A 'Free Martha' T-shirt it's a hot thing Reuters NEW YORK It started with Willy. Winona followed. Now, home-style expert Martha Stewart is setting a new fashion trend with the "Free Martha" T-shirt. They may not be as tasteful as her pastel fabrics, or flawless like her cake toppings, but
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        460 20 Reuters NEW YORK Wall Street will never be confused with the Boy Scouts. But after Sept 11, the street has the Scouts' motto down cold: Be prepared. The securities industry has spent the months after the disaster evaluating emergency plans and making necessary and
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      452 23  -  Janice Lee Practice is not enough, says this renowned classical guitarist by j anice @ne wsta day. com.sg MANY people can probably strum a tune or two on a guitar, but it's another thing altogether if you want to master the instrument. Internationally-renowned classical guitarist Manuel Barrueco's
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      603 24  -  Yong Shu Chiang Los Angeles Spy Kids stars are like real family off camera IT WAS just what you'd expect from a brother-sister pair, meeting Daryl Sahara and Alexa Vega, the Spy Kids themselves. On screen, they play Carmen and Juni Cortez, super spies who constantly tease
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      279 24 BRINGING a little work home is fine, but what if your job is to be a psycho? When Robin Williams' work in films consisted mostly of comedies such as Good Morning Vietnam (1987), The Fisher King (1991), Mrs Doubtfire (1993) and
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      360 25 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD In another sign that the late-summer box office is suffering badly, Signs (Disney), which opened four weekends ago, reclaimed the top spot at the North American box office last weekend. "It's a rarity when a movie drops off from No 1 and
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      246 27 -AFP BEUING Chinese basketball authorities yesterday dumped star centre Wang Zhizhi from the national squad for next month's world championships, citing the star's supposed lack of patriotism. In a lengthy statement on its Internet site, the China Basketball Association (CBA) slammed Wang
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      386 27 -AFP NEW DELHI India's cricket chief Jagmohan Dalmiya yesterday rubbished an agreement signed by the Australian team, adding a new twist to the ongoing row over player contracts. "The Australian agreement is the biggest bluff of world cricket," said Dalmiya amidst a crisis over the Indian
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        726 28 AFP Russian triumphs in five-set thriller Tennis US Open Safin will meat either Gustavo Kuerten on Julien Boutter in the second round NEW YORK Second seed Marat Safin (picture) of Russia fought off a dramatic upset bid from Germany's Nicolas Kiefer in a thrilling first-round US
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        201 28 Reuters BARCELONA Barcelona gave up the chase for Chelsea striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink yesterday and ruled out any additions to its squad before a European transfer deadline on Aug 31. In a statement on its website, the Catalan club confirmed it had been looking
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        281 28 AFP Intertoto Cup Fulham 3 Bologna 1 Fulham advances 5-3 on aggregate PARIS A hat-trick from Japanese World Cup star Junichi Inamoto (picture) gave Fulham a 3-1 Intertoto Cup final, second leg win over Bologna this morning and took the Premiership side into
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      714 29  -  Leonard Thomas Reds' perfect start belies unimpressive displays so far English Premier League 1 Blackburn v Liverpool Live, tomorrow on Ck23, 2.55am by le o nard ne wstoday. com.sg IT'S been quite a start to Liverpool's Premiership campaign so far. Two wins out of two, no goals
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      257 29 Reuters LONDON Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has called for a "real Champions League", a new slimmer version of the competition containing only the winners of the leading domestic leagues in Europe. "I believe we want to go forward and create a European
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      144 29  -  Stanley Ho SINGAPORE'S President, His Excellency S R Nathan, is giving away two prized possessions for a charity auction this month. President Nathan is contributing two footballs signed by players of Manchester United and Liverpool for the President's Challenge 2002 Soccermania charity auction from Aug
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      141 29  -  Ray Chen THE Shangri-La Hotel was graced with the presence of President S R Nathan last night as he launched the "E W Barker Professorship and Scholarship in Physical Education and Sports Science". In his speech, President Nathan said: "E W Barker was a true believer
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        513 30 -AFP Red lipvils m|ul Hungarians in fijp-goal feast A Champions League Manchester Utd 5 Zalaegerszegi 0 Man Utd wins 5-1 on aggregate LONDON Manchester United averted a financial disaster by advancing to the group stages of the Champions League with a 5-0 third qualifying round, second leg
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        176 30 Reuters LONDON European giants Bayern Munich and Inter Milan also scored convincing wins to advance to the lucrative group phase of the Champions League. Bayern, which won the 2001 Champions League and three European Cups from 1974-76, secured a 3-1 win over Partizan Belgrade and
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        377 30 English Premiership Arsenal 5 West Brom 2 West Brom remains without a win LONDON English Double winner Arsenal moved to the top of the premier league for the first time this season with a comfortable 5-2 victory over West Bromwich Albion at Highbury this
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      387 31  -  Jose Raymond AT 15, Indra Sahdan was tagged a "future star". This after he led Singapore to an unprecedented victory in the Lion City Cup in 1995. In 1997, it looked as if he was ahout to live up to the tag when
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      Lock icon What now for Khairul?
      1111 31  -  Jose Raymond No stone must be left unturned in developing youngsters by j ose@ne wsto day. com.sg LAST week, the name Khairul Amri hit the headlines in the sports pages. He scored six goals in as many matches during the recent-ly-concluded 30th Asian Schools football championship
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