Today, 9 October 2002

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    7 1 TODAY Wednesday October 9,2002 MITA (P) 063/11/2001
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    That familiar fear
    659 1  -  Asif Ansar Choppers patrol skies for lone gunman on the prowl in US WASHINGTON DC In what seems like a flashback to those dark days of a year ago, the capital of the United States is feeling watched. Targeted. Hunted down. This, too, is an enemy without
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      12 1 Carrefour <|4 Singapore RIGHT NOW FOR THE CARREFOUR BUY OF THE CENTURY!
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Water talks head to next round
      131 2 THE tricky issue of the price of water will continue to take centrestage during the next round of bilateral talks between Singapore and Malaysia. Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday said officials from both sides would try to further narrow the differences over
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      High note for Jeremy
      491 2  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Yong Shu Chiang Royston Tan. MR Smooth on the ivories, Jeremy Monteiro (picture), will sing his blues no more. The jazz piano maestro who put Singapore on the world map of all that jazz has finally come of age. Last night, in a ceremony
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      Forecast stays but ...
      306 3  - Forecast stays but Ng Boon Yian PM Goh says US port shutdown a crucial factor THE US West Coast port shutdown is hitting Singapore to the extent that Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong foresees a possible cut in the Republic's economic growth this year. "The port shutdown is having an
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      Lock icon For proving why the sun shines...
      140 3 Reuters STOCKHOLM Scientists Raymond Davis and Riccardo Giacconi of the US and Masatoshi Koshiba of Japan won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday for proving why the sun shines and making the discovery of far-away stars possible. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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      Lock icon Deportation or asylum?
      125 3 Agencies KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia arrested an American fugitive yesterday who had been on the run after the United States authorities alleged that he was part of a "suspected terrorist cell". The US hailed the arrest of Mr Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal, 24, and said arrangements were being made
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      The opt-in businessman
      499 4  -  Lee Ching Wern Tan Hui Leng NTUC Income boss hopes to persuade 60,000 to rejoin ElderShield FOR most people, prudence is the way to go when it comes to putting a number to things. But Mr Tan Kin Lian (picture) is willing to stick his neck out
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      Beep, beepl SMS your sex queries
      362 4  -  Tor Ching Li YOUNG, bashful and tongue-tied when it comes to the subject of sex? Fret no more. For the next 10 days at least, youths can ask via short message service (SMS) "sexpert" questions. And they can expect a personalised reply within 48
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      Lock icon Say goodbye to single trip tickets
      105 4 Channel NewsAsia FROM next Monday, the single trip ticket on the MRT and LRT will be replaced by the Standard Ticket In a statement, the SMRT said the standard ticket is a contactless smart card valid on the day of purchase only. The price
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      189 4 If you or your loved ones cannot hear clearly without straining, it could be due to many reasons; from excess wax blocking the ear canal to nerve deafness. No on* con s*s how wall To determine any existing or potential you can nowhrar. conditions that may result in the loss
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  • HOME NEWS
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      A waste website
      310 6  -  Joy Frances To promote recycling mentality MATERIALS that are discarded by manufacturers as waste can be used as raw products by other companies. For example, a plastics manufacturer would produce debris that a plastic bottle maker could use. So, to minimise wastage and promote a recycling mentality
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      Lock icon Run the Peak gauntlet at Pulau Ubin
      210 6  -  Yee Wei Zhen IT is the "mother of all challenges" for visitors at the Outward Bound Singapore on Pulau Übin. At 28 metres, the Peak Ascent is the tallest adventure-training tower in Singapore. Climbers will encounter rotating logs, swinging poles and shaky platforms.
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      Lock icon Schoolwork blues
      329 8  -  Jimmy Ho Kwok Hoong Have an 'optimise', not 'maximise', approach IN the report, "Education provides a key but not a lock" (Today, Oct 3), the Minister of State (Education), Mr Ng Eng Hen, attributed the stress on our students to their "drive to excel" and not the education
      WONG KHING CHONG  -  329 words
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      Offer Literature as a non-exam subject
      164 8  -  Fok Kah Hon STUDENTS have said that it is difficult to score a distinction in Literature, compared to other humanities subjects like History or Geography. I opted to take English Literature for my GCE 0 Level examinations. It was indeed a tough decision, as
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      More on ElderShield, please
      181 8  -  Jeffrey Law Lee Beng I REFER to the report, "New ElderShield deadline" (Today, Oct 8). The Ministry of Health is doing the right thing by extending the deadline to the end of the year to enable those who have opted out to reconsider their decision. I
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      Civil Service dos and don'ts
      131 8  -  See Leong Kit THE report, "Push out civil servants" (Today, Oct 7) highlighted the radical recommendations made by the Singapore Overseas Network Working Group. Indeed, Singapore's economy must be largely driven by the private sector. Our Civil Service is sustained by taxes and dues paid
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      30 8 Your letter can also appear on this page. Give your full name and address and write to: Today, 24, Raffles Place, #28-01/06, Clifford Centre, S'pore *****1; Fax: 65-*****17; E-mail: news@newstoday.com.sg
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Bush may step in
      368 10  -  SAN FRANCISCO Bloomberg Port row will not be allowed to affect US economy President George W Bush may intervene to open US West Coast ports after contract talks between shipping companies and locked-out dock workers broke off. The President authorised a board to present him with
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      Lock icon SPH arm 'to post $45m loss'
      112 10 Channel News Asia THE broadcasting arm of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), MediaWorks, is expected to incur a full-year loss of $45 million, according to an estimate by kelive.com, the online research site of the stockbroking firm, Kim Eng Ong Asia. For the previous financial
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    • Market Watch
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        Straits Times Index—10-Day Chart
        5 10 Straits Times Index —10-Day Chart
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        Singapore
        115 10 SHARES rose for a third day. The STI hit an intraday high of 1,411.08, helped by institutional interest in banks, before closing 17.90 points higher at 1,396.51. It has risen 49 points since last Thursday. A dealer at a foreign brokerage said proprietary traders were squaring off their shorts
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 US$ 0.5589 UK£ 0.3572 Yen 69.4520 HK$ 4.3594 RM 2.1239 Euro 0.5702 Rupiah 5035.4 Baht 24.4557 Peso 29.4637 A$ 1.0194 Indian Rs 27.0310 Won 697.063 C$ 0.8900 Yuan 4.6264 NZ$ 1.1585 NTS 19.6317
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        World markets
        50 10 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd 8708.90 8985.40 2901.20 3964.28 +20.90 +54.00 +5.60 +40.24 +0.24 +0.60 +0.19 +1.03 Korea Comp 634.84 +7.44 +1.19 SET Index 337.50 +1.62 +0.48 lakarta Comp Phils Comp ihenzen B 402.05 1075.75 224.63 +0.21 -22.26 -6.98 +0.05 -2.03 -3.01
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        Commodities
        21 10 Gold uss/oz 323.100 Silver uss/oi 4.450 Platinum uss/oi 556.500 Rubber cents/kg 150.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1362 Brent crude uss/barrel 28.53
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        SGX most active
        54 10 fy volume 3d 8 'OOO '000 j'tiraya tatSteel .inks Is JatacrftUSS 29,570 27,594 25,030 24,769 Chartered BIL Intl SembMar SingTel 13,500 11,289 11,021 10,501 :JBenW*****6 15,085 NWTech 9,934 )y value Dct8 JOB 70,747,601 SPH 16,172,800 MatSteel 53,283,810 DatacrftUSS 14,852,435 )BS 47,969,098 SingTel 14,679,460 XBC 30,079,354 Venture 13,191,100
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        SGX top rises
        75 10 By$ Set 8 >IA Close Change 10.000 +0.400 By percentage Oct 8 BBR Close Change 0.020 +33.330 ilA 200 5TIETF100 JOB 10.000 +0.350 14.300 +0.230 12.500 +0.200 TyeSoon Superbowl NTI Inl 0.100 +25.000 0.140 +21.740 0.095 +18.750 iTI ETF100IOPV 14.267 +0.180 FJBenW*****6 0.065 +18.180 XBC 9.900 +0.150
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        80 10 Bloomberg Set 8 Close Change By percentage Oct 8 Close Change ZentralP 18.800 -0.200 GenMag 0.060 -33.330 iPH 19.900 -0.200 Falmac 0.055 -31.250 iPH 100 19.900 -0.200 Berger 0.210 -27.590 Haw Par 4.120 -0.100 LCDev 0.080 -15.790 fhai Prime200USS 4.000 -0.100 ABR 0.110 -15.390 /enlure Serger 11.300
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      Lock icon 'Drop the 3G deadline'
      309 12 Agencies Two telecos say no point launching network just for sake of doing so STARHUB said the rollout deadline for third generation (3G) mobile networks should be removed to give telecoms providers more flexibility. "Frankly, consumers do not care what we use for our infrastructure technology,"
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      Lock icon NOL considers options
      112 12 Agencies NEPTUNE Orient Lines (NOL), the world's sixthlargest container shipping group, said yesterday it was considering options for its tanker unit after receiving approaches from various parties. NOL said in a statement the options under consideration included a possible sale, a merger, a joint venture, or an
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      Lock icon Down again
      226 14 Reuters CSM share price plunges in uneasy market CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing share prices hit a record closing low of 91 cents yesterday on fears that unsubscribed stock from the firm's recent rights issue could hit the market. The $1.13 billion rights issue by the world's third-largest contract maker
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      Lock icon Olympus vision
      56 14 Channel NewsAsia THE Japanese optical maker Olympus plans to "assist with Singapore's national vision" in the life sciences arena. The firm says it is in early talks with the Economic Development Board on possible genetic or genome research. Olympus has set aside 1.5 billion yen ($21.6 million) for
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3806 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries:Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com )ota Nome NAV/Bid Oiler Price Price Aberdeen Asset Management (Asia) 0/7 A ten eai Se -American Opportunities 0.532 0.56 10/7 A erdeen Se -Asian High field Fcl 1.217 1.255 0/7 A erdeen Se -China Opportunities Fd 0.893 0.938 0/7 Aieneen Se -Continental Europe
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Election standards dubious but the US needs Musharraf
      286 16 Agencies ISLAMABAD Pakistan goes to the polls tomorrow with questionable election standards but analysts say other countries will ignore these because of President Pervez Musharraf's pivotal role in the war on terrorism. "Musharraf is the safest tinpot dictator in the whole Third
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      Lock icon Israel testing its clout with the US
      206 16 Agencies JERUSALEM With its deadly raid on the Gaza Strip on Monday, Israel is testing its ability to manoeuvre with Washington as the White House demands relative quiet in the region ahead of a possible war with Iraq. The US State Department declared
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      Lock icon Border to be reopened
      143 16 Agencies BANGKOK Myanmar will reopen its border with Thailand next week after a five-month closure prompted by a series of bloody clashes and a row over illicit drugs production. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday the three main crossings in northern Chiang Rai and Tak
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      Not so hot, Mr Bush
      403 17 WASHINGTON It was not breaking news even major US networks did not show it live but President George W Bush yesterday put before the American public his case for attacking Iraq. With US public opinion polls showing uneasy support for attacking Baghdad, he said Iraq's
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      Lock icon Is Jordanian linked to blast?
      141 17 Agencies MANILA A Jordanian arrested for immigration violations is now being investigated for possible links to a bomb attack in the southern Philippines. Mohammad Amin Al Ghaffari (picture), 36, was initially held for staying in the Philippines longer than permitted and having irregular travel documents.
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      Lock icon Why so rich, Mr Attorney-General?
      187 17 -AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian AttorneyGeneral's days in office may be numbered unless he can offer a satisfactory explanation about his wealth. Pressure yesterday mounted for Mr Muhammad Abdurachman to resign after he failed to clear up discrepancies in the wealth report he gave to the
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Mad, this media frenzy
      739 20  -  Ricky Carandang PHILIPPINE media recently published a disturbing report. A Manila woman was arrested on Sept 30 for the murder of her two young children. Police told the tnedia that Rosalinda Piloneo, a 43-year-|ald single mother, killed her two youngest children because, as one newspaper put
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      86 21 It's 7.10am. You have to drop the children and maid at the in-laws, your wife at her office and get to your meeting by 8.15am. Then, why not start your morning with TODAY? I^EraSS: H I I wt^kendrpr^ I I "claßgW^^ 2 ~7J'"'' m !T Tirr-TTT™ Sultan's gambit LUI-1 H
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  • UPFRONT
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      A man obsessed
      665 22 The President talks about what kind of a boss Goh Keng Swee was ETC and DSO had to be like this. A shell of tight J secrecy to develop a secret edge, to be able to surprise. Yet inside, you had to develop a core of people
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      Call of fame
      412 23  -  Yee Wei Zhen Talent quest gets many wannabes excited THIS promise of superstardom is simply too alluring. The winner of Warner Music's first Super Idol Talent Search will get a three-year contract with Warner Music Taiwan and a cash prize of $55,000. Better still, a $1 million
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      Give a gold medal performance
      538 23  -  Neil Humphreys Rm Room I'VE been asked to review some diverse products in my time, but this request took the biscuit. "Excuse me, Neil," asked my colleague, "We need a review for durex's entire range of condoms and we thought you were the man for
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      Drum roll
      438 25  -  Elisa Chia Lee Horn turns his act on its head 'T^HE thought of it is enough to send -L shivers down your spine. But in the name of showmanship, singer-songwriter-actor Wang Lee Horn (picture), put aside his fear and challenged himself to take on a gravity-defying stunt. Picture
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      Lock icon Salman gets three days in custody
      279 25 AFP MUMBAI A city court remanded disgraced Bollywood superstar Salman Salman to three days in custody on Monday when he turned himself in after allegedly killing a homeless man by driving over him while drunk. Salman surrendered to police in the Mumbai suburb of
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      Shark's tale
      55 25 Conservation group WildAid takes its shark awareness campaign to the skies with a life-sized 50-foot whale shark balloon that was flown above the Padang on Monday. The aim is to raise awareness of the declining number of whale sharks in the wild ahead of the upcoming Convention for
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      176 23 Happenings THEATRE this dance examines the depths of love and Epitaph For The Whales the search for it. What role does the family play in a rapidly Date: Friday and Saturday changing world? How are honour and family Time: Bpm responsibility reconciled with individual Venue: Victoria Theatre needs? And, perhaps,
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  • YOURMONEY
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      Lock icon A new take on trash
      886 24  -  Bernie Schaeffer Bloomberg If you're holding single^Jigit technology stocks, think of them as options AT investor conferences, I am asked constantly about the group of formerly high-flying technology companies that now trade in the single digits. The people who ask questions admit that major portions
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Fine and dandy
      616 26  -  Joy Frances Though Oscar Wilde purists may not be so pleased FILM REVIEW The Importance of Being Earnest WRITTEN in 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest was Oscar Wilde's last play before he was jailed for two years for being gay. He died in Paris in 1900,
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      Calling all skinny kids, Jack wants you
      330 26  -  David Ngiau FOLLOWING the box office and critical success of I Not Stupid, Jack Neo is already working on his next film. Filming begins "mid November", Jack told Today. The film-maker, and MediaCorp TV artiste, has begun casting for what is tentatively titled
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      One strength
      356 28  -  Serene Foo Serene Foo And that's about it for this Haunted Office THE most unnerving element of Hong Kong splatter-flick Haunted Office, is also its only strength: The premise that evil is lurking in your workplace Never mind that the cast features Hong Kong biggies Karen Mok, Jordan
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      SINGAPORE TOP 10 (OCT 4-6) weeks
      65 28 Rankings according to Cinematograph Exhibitors Association Last weekend's position in brackets, *denotes new release. The Tuxedo K-19: The Widowmaker Haunted Office (Mandarin) Enough The Way Home (Korean) G The Importance of Being Earnest Reign of Fire 8 Femmes 8 Women (French) The Bourne Identity
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      114 28 Figures according to Reuters/Variety. Last weekend's position in brackets, *denotes new release Red Dragon (1) Sweet Home Alabama (2) The Tuxedo (3) My Big Fat Greek Wedding i (3) Barbershop i Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (5) The Banger Sisters i (6) 77ie Four
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      331 28 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD Red Dragon (Universal) gorged itself at the weekend box office with an October record U5537.5 million in opening grosses. But the latest Hannibal Lecter suspense film, this time pitting Edward Norton against Anthony Hopkins' serial killer Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, hardly
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      81 30 DUBLIN Mick McCarthy pledged his future to Ireland, ruling himself out of the running for the vacancy at English Premiership side Sunderland. McCarthy had been linked to the job after the dismissal on Monday of Peter Reid but insisted his target was to take Ireland to the Euro
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      554 30 LONDON Peter Reid spent the first night after his sacking by Sunderland "having a few Scouse beers" in front of the television at home. But, as he begins his first day of unemployment yesterday, what does the future hold? The simple answer is another job
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      176 31 Reuters LONDON Former England midfielder Paul Gascoigne has applied for the vacant manager's job at English Third Division club Exeter City, it was reported yesterday. Gascoigne, who has been linked with teams in the United States and New Zealand since leaving First Division Burnley at
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      145 31 Reuters NYON Scottish champion Celtic was drawn to play English side Blackburn Rovers when the Uefa Cup second round draw was made yesterday. The all-British tie was one of several eye-catching fixtures to come out of the hat at Uefa headquarters, including Italian club
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      230 31 AFP ROME Juventus striker David Trezeguet has been named player of the year by his fellow professionals in Italy after finishing last season as leading goalscorer with 24 goals. The French international, whose tally helped Juve win the Serie A title, was also voted
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      Lock icon Best Everton side in years
      621 31 Agencies But it is still Manchester United which comes up with the 3-0 win, thanks to hitman Scholes MANCHESTER Sir Alex Ferguson admitted that it was not "a 3-0 win", although many doubted whether Everton deserved to lose at all. For all but five minutes
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      633 32  -  Tan Yo-Hinn MOHAMMED Rafi Ali, one of Singapore's most naturally gifted footballers, looks set to make a timely return to the national squad. The Jurong FC utility player was named in national coach Jan Poulsen's provisional squad of 25 for the Tiger Cup tournament, to be
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      Provisional Tiger Cup Squad
      100 32 Goalkeepers: Rezal Hassan (SAFFC), Shahril Jantan (SAFFC), Lionel Lewis (Geylang Utd), Adi Salleh (Home Utd). Defenders: Razif Mahmud (Sembawang Rangers), Aide Iskandar (Home Utd), S. Subramani (Home Utd), A. Sivakumar (Woodlands Wellington), Mohammed Noh Rahman (SAFFC), Daniel Bennett (Wrexham), Nasiruddin Sawardi (Woodlands Wellington). Midfielders: Nazri Nasir
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      203 32  -  Jose Raymond THE LIONS are in line for a big bonus if they bag the coveted Tiger Cup this December. Football Association of Singapore chief operating officer John Koh said yesterday that the FAS would only keep a small portion of the winnings should the Lions
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      168 32 Reuters BISHAM ABBEY England could face Slovakia on Saturday without either of its two firstchoice central defenders after Sol Campbell failed to report for training yesterday due to a stomach upset Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand is already out of coach Sven-Goran Eriksson's squad due
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      Lock icon ...but Al-Saffar steals the show
      485 33 AFP L The 100m showdown sAsahara Isaid he Iwould twin... s8 BUSAN A stunned Jamal al-Saffar and a determined Susanthika Jayasinghe were crowned Asia's top sprinters yesterday as the track and field competition at the Asian Games exposed a new order of athletic wealth. At
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      353 33 AFP BUSAN After beating top-ranked Lleyton Hewitt to reach a career-best 26th in the ATP rankings, Thailand's Paradorn Srichaphan finds himself the man to beat at the Asian Games. Top seed Paradorn beat Kyrgyzstan's Eduard Koifman 6-0, 6-1, in his singles opener yesterday, losing only
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      Lock icon Koji keeps it in the family
      443 34 -AFP This Asiad has the strongest lifter, the smallest wrestler and a dynasty... BUSAN Japanese Genial giant Koji Murofushi had double reason to celebrate yesterday when he broke his own Asian Games hammer throw record on his 28th birthday to keep alive a family
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      296 34 AFP BUSAN Iran's Hossein Rezazadeh, the world's strongest man, is ready to produce another Herculean effort to win gold at the Asian Games. The gold medallist at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, who prays before every lift, has been practicing ahead of the superheavyweight showdown
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      Lock icon Japan's mini-wrestler battles to gold
      322 34 AFP BUSAN Pocket-sized Saori Yoshida has turned her diminutive stature into a golden advantage in a successful debut by beating Japanese women wrestlers at the Asian Games. The 1.52-metre tall tackier, who has never lost to foreign opposition since twice winning the junior world championship,
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      Golden hat-trick?
      389 35  -  Kelvin Phang NATIONAL captain Remy Ong (picture) delivered yet another world-class performance at the Homeplus Asiad Bowling Alley to remain on course for his third bowling gold medal in Busan yesterday. In the first block of eight games in the Masters, the stylish hook-bowler scored 1,906 pinfalls for
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      More medals for Singapore
      332 35  -  Kelvin Phang TEAM SINGAPORE will hit double figures in the medal stakes in today's 14th Asian Games in Busan. Yesterday, the Republic was assured of at least two more bronzes from table-tennis and sepak takraw, with more medals expected from sailing. Paddler Li Jiawei advanced into
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      Where did it go wrong, Shyam?
      290 35  -  Jose Raymond THE signs were there. And even though UK Shyam cruised into the semi-finals of the 100 metres in Busan in 10.63 seconds on Monday, the general feeling was that his involvement at the Games would be short-lived. And how true that turned
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      Thais in semis
      170 35 BUSAN Thailand clinched a place in its second successive Asian Games football semi-final last night when it defeated North Korea 1-0 in their quarter-final clash. Manit Noyvach scored the decisive goal in the 52nd minute. In other quarter-final matches, Japan defeated China 1-0, Iran beat Kuwait 1-0
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