Today, 17 October 2002

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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Five JI men held in M'sia
      141 2 Agencies KUALA LUMPUR Five Jemaah Islamiyah members were arrested in different states by Malaysian police yesterday. Police chief Norian Mai said two of the five had received military training in Afghanistan and one was linked to the Al Qaeda network. "We believe those arrested
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      Police call at offices
      102 2 OFFICERS from the Commercial Affairs Department, Singapore's white collar crime unit, are believed to have visited the offices of four brokerages last morning looking for documents. Sources told Channel News Asia that the officers were looking for documents related to Datacraft and other firms in the
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      Lock icon Chilling details
      604 2 Agencies Eight bombers in two vans staged Bali attack: Report JAKARTA As Indonesia gathers the resolve to deal with terrorism, details of what happened with the two Bali bomb blast started to trickle in yesterday and they are chilling. With an international police task force pressing on with
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      Lock icon India to pull back some border troops
      120 2 Agencies NEW DELHI In a move that signals a major effort at easing the tension with Pakistan, India yesterday announced a limited withdrawal of troops from its mutual border. Defence Minister George Fernandes, however, said there would be no scale-down in the military
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      Lucky to be alive, but ...
      531 3  - Lucky to be alive, but Jose Raymond where are my mates? FOR someone who had just experienced a close shave with death, Singapore Cricket Club (SCC) rugby player Andrew Crook was in unusually high spirits yesterday. The 26-year-old was among the hundreds who were injured in the blasts that rocked
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      Lock icon No jail term, just community service
      216 3 Reuters HONG KONG A Hong Kong court spared pop star Nicholas Tse a jail term yesterday, ordering him instead to perform 240 hours of community service for allowing his chauffeur to take the blame for his car crash. The 22-year-old heart-throb, dubbed Hong Kong's
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      The next biggies
      299 4  -  Tor Ching Li Microsoft boss says they'll take world by storm IT pundits and gaming enthusiasts are waiting with bated breath for the arrival of the Tablet PC and XBox, both touted to be next big things. The names might not yet be in the vocabulary of
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      Concerns over the accidental divide
      202 4  -  Lee Ching Wern IN five focus group discussions involving about 100 residents of the North East Community Development Council (CDC), one interesting message has emerged: That some Government campaigns inadvertently create awareness of differences between races. These Take a Stand discussions were held over two
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      How about Bollywood ambassador to promote Singapore?
      220 4 SINGAPORE must sell itself as a must-see destination to India and China. It's one of the ways to keep afloat during these uncertain times, when the competition for the tourist dollar is hotting up. The recently concluded meeting of the International Advisory Council
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  • LETTERS
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      A double-edged sword?
      116 7  -  Leong Sze Hian I REFER to the debate on health care costs. I understand that when a patient is asked to undergo medical tests, the provider of the tests may be paying referral fees to the referrer. Would such a practice be an incentive to suggest more
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      No rivalry in Asme
      433 7  -  Asme Council Members WE refer to the article, "Asme president to step down, dismisses rumours" (Today, Oct 14). We would like to clarify several inaccuracies in it There is no leadership rivalry in the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (Asme). Asme council members and office
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Ascendas to launch $240m REIT
      260 8 Bloomberg ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust, a joint venture between Ascendas and Macquarie Goodman Management (MGM) Ltd, plans to raise as much as $240 million to buy properties in Singapore. The real estate investment trust, or REIT, will offer 272.5 million units, similar to shares,
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        134 8 THE ST index rose 9.37 points to 1439.05, boosted by strong gains on Wall Street overnight Trading was choppy as the index approached the 1450 level with gains crimped by the volatile futures market Bellwether Intel gave a downbeat forecast about the next quarter, sending its stock 13 per
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        World markets
        54 8 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 8884.87 +48.14 +0.54 Hang Seng Ordinaries Faiwan Wtd 9459.14 2948.80 4223.32 +122.75 +2.30 +91.85 +1.31 +0.08 +2.22 Korea Comp SET Index 636.25 332.62 +6.68 +4.33 +1.06 +1.32 lakarta Comp 357.38 +15.17 +4.43 Phils Comp ihenzen B Wumbai 1048.17 220.10 3005.27 +0.48 +2.42
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 8 US$ 0.5568 UK£ 0.3590 Yen 69.170 HK$ 4.3428 RM 2.1159 Euro 0.5677 Rupiah 5124.3 Baht 24.461 Peso 29.480 A$ 1.0166 Indian Rs 26.922 Won 694.31 C$ 0.8824 Yuan 4.6085 NZ$ 1.1623 NTS 19.472
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        Commodities
        21 8 Gold uss/oz 313.40 Silver uss/oi 4.323 Platinum uss/oi 581.40 Rubber cents/kg 146.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1394 Brent crude uss/barrel 29.72
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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
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        SGX top rises
        77 8 Oct 16 Close Change SPH 19.600 +0.800 SPH100 19.500 +0.700 Thai Prime200USS 4.400 +0.400 DBS Bk 6% NCPS*****.600 +0.200 DBS 12.400 +0.200 Robinson 5.650 +0.150 GrealEast 8.750 +0.150 STAssemb 1.150 +0.130 STI ETF 100 14.400 +0.110 By percentage Oct 16 SinSoonH Close Change 0.055 +37.500 GMG USS
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        83 8 Bloomberg Dct 16 :&c >hang Asia 2kHK$ Cilye 2kHKS SingamasC 2kHKS Close Change 3.500 -0.320 4.475 -0.150 0.450 -0.100 1.330 -0.100 talock 0.320 -0.060 :&N 'Food 7.800 -0.050 1.030 -0.050 StarCruslISS 0.300 -0.035 Seksun 0.785 -0.035 SC Global 0.850 -0.030 By percentage Oct 16 Close Change Goldtron
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      Forecast mistake
      584 10  -  Adrian Tan Commentary The fault lies in analysts' misguided confidence in general equilibrium theory ANALYSTS really got things wrong when the Government's third-quarter GDP growth estimate came out at 3.7 per cent they had been forecasting six to seven per cent My astrologer would be ashamed to have
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      Top group auditor at OCBC steps down
      114 10 MR DUNCAN Edwards, OCBC Head of Group Audit, is leaving for "personal reasons", said the bank yesterday in a statement. He was the fourth senior man to leave the bank after the resignation of its chief executive officer Alex Au, chief financial officer
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      Lock icon S'pore exports may rise again
      146 10 Agencies SINGAPORE'S exports are likely to rise for the third straight month in September as manufacturers rushed shipments of electronics and other products to beat the strike by US west coast ports that began on Sept 29. Non-oil domestic exports are likely to grow 17.3
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      For State properly rental information, log on to ...
      299 12  - For State properly rental information, log on to Chan Chao Peh THE Singapore Land Authority (SLA) yesterday launched an online portal, which provides potential tenants easy access to information of properties under government management The State Property Information Online (Spio) portal is developed at a cost of about $55,000. "Spio
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      Lock icon Singapore to host R&D hub
      76 12 AFP FRENCH smart-card maker, Gemplus, will invest $100 million to beef up its research and development activities in Singapore. The investment will see Singapore host the first R&D hub for the world's leading smart-card systems supplier outside of its headquarters in France. "This investment is
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3840 12 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com Date Fd Name NAV/Bid Price Oiler Price Aberdeen Asset Management (Asia) 15/10 Aberdeen Sel-American Opportunities 0.564 15/10 Aberdeen Sel-Asian High Yield Fd 1.205 15/10 Aberdeen Sel-China Opportunities Fd 0.914 15/10 Aberdeen Sel-Continental Europe Eqty 0.756 15/10 Aberdeen Sel-GlobalMNC 0.499 15/10 Aberdeen Sel-Global
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Spy planes hunt sniper
      255 14 FBI, US military surveillance planes join police manhunt WASHINGTON The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the military will join the hunt for the sniper who has claimed nine lives and traumatised the Washington area. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that military planes and crew
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      That Taiwan officer who went missing
      160 14 TAIPEI A Taiwanese army officer who left for Thailand without permission may have defected to China with family in the first such case in decades. The Taiwanese military said yesterday that Lieutenant Wang Yi-hung flew to Beijing from Bangkok on Oct 7 and has
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      Lock icon Bombs rock border
      105 14 Reuters MAE SOT (Thailand) There have been three small explosions in a Myanmar border town since the border with Thailand was reopened this week. There were no casualties and no one has claimed responsibility for the bombs. But, police blamed Myanmar's ethnic minority militias, who had supplemented
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      Lock icon 8 injured in Karachi blasts
      244 16 KARACHI Eight people, including five policemen, were wounded yesterday when three parcel bombs exploded at different places in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, officials said. A fourth bomb was defused by the police. "It may be a threat or it may be terrorist activity.
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      Lock icon Belafonte fires more salvos
      167 16 AFP WASHINGTON Singer-activist Harry Belafonte has refused to take back a comparison he made between US Secretary of State Colin Powell and a House slave, despite Mr Powell's demand for an apology. Asked by CNN's Larry King if he would change the Oct 9 statement he
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      Azalina's KO
      278 16 Clean sweep despite scandals KUALA LUMPUR Puteri Umno has decided on its chief. Ms Azalina Othman Said (picture) was officially elected as its leader yesterday after receiving nominations from all 165 Umno divisions. None of the other four contenders Ms Mastina Abdul Hamid, Ms Raihan Sulaiman, Ms Mazibah
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      Lock icon No-tear onion
      73 16 AFP PARIS The discovery of what it is in onions that makes our eyes water may one day make chopping the vegetable more comfortable. Scientists reporting in today's issue of British weekly Nature say the culprit is an enzyme they have named lachrymatory-factor synthase. The researchers say this
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      Rocket down
      117 16 MOSCOW A Russian rocket carrying a research satellite exploded 29 seconds after blastoff, killing one person in a setback that could hit the International Space Station (ISS) programme, officials said yesterday. The unmanned Soyuz-U rocket took off from Russia's Arctic Plesetsk cosmodrome on Tuesday. A 20-year-old serviceman was
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Terror with a brand name
      954 18  -  Wimar Witoelar P JHHi2£ Al Qaeda's a market leader but Indonesia must nab other culprits, too RECENTLY, two people were arrested in Singapore. They were suspected of planning a bomb attack on the Yishun MRT station. It is very comforting to see the com petent
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  • UPFRONT
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      Tutored or sunburnt?
      920 20  -  Kalinga Seneviratne What naturalised and native Australian parents want for their kids THE success of students of Asian background in the Australian school system is attracting the resentment of Anglo-Saxon parents. The issue surfaced in April after an alumnus of an elite public high school in Sydney
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      Lady sings the blues, Cape Verde-style
      281 20  -  YeeWeiZhen TEN years ago, the word "morna" meant little to the world. Thanks to its close association with singer Cesaria Evora (picture), this musical genre continues to grow popular around the world. Evora will introduce Singaporeans to morna in a one-night-only concert this Saturday
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  • INFOTECH
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      Mad about Nomad
      404 22  -  John Lvi But this jukebox lacks some features of its older sibling CREATIVE has launched the Nomad Jukebox Zen a new hard drive-based MP3 player that's smaller and more portable than the Nomad Jukebox 3. The Jukebox design has remained mostly unchanged since it appeared in late
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      Home photo lab: Affordable and user-friendly
      370 22 PRINTERS, scanners and cameras, which have been traditionally used as work-related tools, can now be a part of one's lifestyle. Canon aims to help users take advantage of these technologies through its home photo lab that is easy to set-up, affordable and userfriendly. The
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        Hard-drive tape
        136 22 THERE'S a replacement for VHS tape coming, say some, and it's called the hard drive. A growing number of hard drive manufacturers and start-ups are touting a new use for the data vault that's been one of the chief PC components for more than two decades. They want
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        The massage solution
        121 22 OPERA Software says it has solved the longstanding problem of reading big, bulky Web pages on tiny mobile phone screens. "We massage the content so that it fits on to the screen," said Opera chief executive Jon yon Tetzchner of the company's new small-screen rendering technology. Opera's
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  • FOOD FORUM
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      Fancy an orange juice or perfume?
      594 24  -  Katrina Karim tmSaVr DID you know that ripe oranges sometimes remain unpicked until they are ready to be sold? Did you know that the orange is a kind of berry known as a hesperidium? While most of us are familiar with the orange and
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  • BEAUTYSPECIAL
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      Lock icon Water's the key
      262 25  -  Pearlyn Tham 3 *J Emelda Chor UNLIKE most women, Emelda Chor, 23, doesn't have the luxury of a daily hair-care routine. Being an air stewardess, she is often away from home. Moreover, the dehydrating atmosphere inside an airplane can wreak havoc on one's hair. But, Emelda, whose
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      Congratulations to this week's winning entries!
      129 25 I think Yun Nam products and services are... good for people who have hair problems. The products and services are affordable and they give good results. Jacelin Ng, 35 (IC no: *****612J) Yun Nam products and services are reliable, judging from the existence of
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      366 26  -  Jenny Kong Music pioneers come together for tribute XINYAO means Singaporean music. And as Liang Wenfu, one of the music movement's pioneers, puts it "It's music that celebrates the joys of school and daily life." To most Chinese pop lovers, xinyao evokes a sense of nostalgia when singers
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      Vivacious Vonda dazzles
      321 26  -  Janice Lee SHE'S beautiful, she's talented and her voice is simply classic. Like in the many albums she's released, the vocals of superstar diva Vonda Shepard soothed many at the Raffles City Convention Centre on Monday. It was obvious to all that the Ally Mcßeal songstress has
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      298 27  -  Pearlyn Tham This funky machine is one mean cellulite buster AFTER the last of our school days when we no longer have a PE teacher sending us off on 2.4 km runs, most of us tend to skip exercise routines. The common excuse we don't have the luxury
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      103 27  -  Pearlyn Tham REJOICE with Goldheart Jewellery as it celebrates its 28th anniversary. Until Nov 17, the jewellery chain is offering customers a 20 per cent discount on jewellery, accessories and timepieces, excluding wedding bands and promotion items. With one new outlet at
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      185 27 THE new cX "endless" timepiece by Calvin Klein Watches is a must-have if you like your fashion accessories sleek and minimalist. It is a bracelet watch made up of linked squares and has a face that is an almost-hidden narrow rectangle. Available in brushed or polished stainless steel at
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      No more puffy eyes, with these simple home remedies
      385 27  -  Toh King Yu, CUCUMBERS and tea bags may belong on your dining table but they can also be part of your beauty kit especially if you have puffy eyes. After a late night out, you may wake up the morning after
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      383 28 Discover the reasons why Tasmania was voted one of the best island holidays of the world AUSTRALIA has become Singapore's favourite holiday destination and most of us are now very familiar with the major cities of the east and west coasts. But there is one more relatively
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      526 28 1. TASTE THE DIFFERENCE Tasmania has ideal growing conditions for seafood, award-winning cheeses and wines, some of Australia's best beers, mouth-water-ing berries, honey and more. Pick your own fruit at Sorell Fruit Farm, shuck oysters at Barilla Bay Oyster Farm or sample chocolates
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      351 29 HOBART MIT ZITRONE 333 Elizabeth St, North Hobart, Tel: +613 6234 8113. BYO. Chef Chris Jackman is well known on mainland, having worked with Stephanie Alexander for two years at her Melbourne restaurant. KELLEYS 5 Knopwood, St Battery Point, Hobart Tel: +613 6224 7225. Mainly seafood
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      WHAT AND WHERE TO BUY IN TASMANIA
      163 29 Shop at Salamanca Market, Hobart, from 8.30 am until 3pm on Saturdays. Salamanca Place (picture, left) is lined with hundreds of street stalls filled with quality arts and crafts.Browse the rows of organic veggies, fruit and fresh flowers, handmade jewellery, clothes, Tasmanian art
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      To turn or not to turn?
      664 30  -  David Ngiau Changing Lanes will provoke you FILM REVIEW Changing Lanes TOWARDS the end of the thoroughly engaging Changing Lanes, the film changes lanes on us and wraps itself up in a resolution that's too pat, too ill-fitting. That's about my only grouse with
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      228 31 Reuters/Variety BEVERLY HILLS Winona Ryder's trial on shoplifting charges was delayed again on Tuesday after the actress failed to show up in court because of what the judge called "an unusual circumstance". Neither Ryder's lawyers nor the prosecution elaborated on reasons for her no-show for the much-delayed
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      Lock icon France banks on 8
      174 31 Reuters/Variety PARIS Francois Ozon's 8 Women is France's foreign-language film Oscar contender this year. The US$lO million ($l7 million) murder mystery with a line-up of actresses including Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart and Fanny Ardant was wide-ly-tipped to get the vote ahead of the nature
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      389 32  -  Janice Lee Mr Deeds' cast has spot-on comic timing FILM REVIEW Mr Deeds I WAS in hysterics during Adam Sandler's latest film, Mr Deeds. When media mogul Preston Blake dies, he leaves a large inheritance to his only living relative Longfellow Deeds (Sandler), who didn't even know
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      331 32 Reuters/Variety ROME If anyone thinks Hannibal the Cannibal is just a misunderstood guy because of an unusual taste in food, Anthony Hopkins wants them to digest the terrible truth. "I think he's nuts," the British-born actor told a news conference on Tuesday ahead of
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      539 33  -  Yong Shu Chiang Show digs up truth about Empress THE Dragon Lady was a fearsome ruler. She threw women down wells, slaughtered peasants on a whim, and even murdered her own son. Such is the reputation of China's Empress Dowager Cixi, who presided over the Qing Dynasty from
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      1570 34 On TV Layar Cinta Yana Dan Addin Are You Being Served? Arts Central, io.3opm Beyond the Facade Hotels In Conversation with Steve Suria, 9.30pm ~ta«^^^^^^H chc"ine' NewsAsia 8- 30 Pm Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Yana, a tomboyish bus driver, is interested in Shamsir. J mm* 'jrTL This is a documentary
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      Lock icon Giant Yao says he could leave for NBA as early as next week
      287 35 AFP BEIJING China's NBA top draft pick Yao Ming said yesterday that he could leave the country to join up with the Houston Rockets as early as the start of next week. "The 21st of October would
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      Lock icon Americans need to toughen up
      438 36 Agencies Only Funk has travelled to England after Bali bombing WENTWORTH America's Mark McCormack, who first introduced the World Matchplay Championship to the calendar 39 years ago, suggested yesterday that American golfers who are reluctant to travel needed to reconsider that decision. "People get on
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      Legends of golf postponed
      190 36 SINGAPORE'S first seniors tournament, the Ballantine's Legends of Golf, has been postponed until mid-2003. This was announced by tournament organiser Excel Golf yesterday. The tournament was to be held at Laguna National next month. Said Excels managing director Chuan Campbell: "We are concerned that a quality
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      67 36 AFP LONDON Bolton's Danish midfielder Stig Tofting was yesterday preparing for this weekend's Premiership clash against Tottenham, despite being sentenced to jail in his homeland. The 33-year-old faces a fourmonth prison term after being convicted of assault by the City Court in Copenhagen but will rejoin Sam Allardyce's
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      Singapore to host first regional hockey championship
      416 36  -  Tan Yo-Hinn LIKE football's Tiger Cup, hockey is set to have its very own regional championship when the inaugural South-east Asian Hockey Championship comes to Singapore in December 2003. This was revealed by M. Lukshumayeh, President of the Singapore Hockey Federation (SHF). Speaking
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      Lock icon Scolari wants Euro job
      361 37 Reuters LONDON Brazil's World Cup-winning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said he is keen to work in Europe one day as he considers an offer to take charge of Mexico's national team. "The idea is to work outside Brazil. Mexico have a very well organised project and
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      Lock icon Panama club side scores record 19-0 international win
      185 37 Reuters NEW YORK Deportivo Arabe Unido posted a record win when the Panama side crushed FC Deportivo Jalapa of Nicaragua 19-0 to advance to the first round proper of the Concacaf Champions Cup. The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association
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      Lock icon Major shake-up for next season?
      514 38  -  Stanley Ho S-League set to reduce number of foreigners AT LEAST one third of the foreign players plying their trade in the S-League will lose their jobs before the new season kicks off in March 2003. In a major revision of S-League competition rules, the
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      Lock icon Sunita loses medals after testing positive
      179 38 AFP SEOUL Indian runner Sunita Rani was stripped of her Asian Games medals yesterday on doping charges, pulling her country's ranking at the sports event down by one notch, sports officials said. She had won the gold in the women's 1,500 metres and the
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      Lions surprised at heavy training during Ramadan
      333 38  -  Jose Raymond SINGAPORE'S Muslim national players received a rude shock on Monday morning during a meeting to discuss preparation for December's Tiger Cup. To their surprise, the players discovered that they have to undergo two training sessions daily, even after the Muslim fasting
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      Lock icon Serves him right
      597 39 Forget the book, the punishment is actually for the tackle BOLTON So justice has finally been served. Roy Keane has 14 days to appeal against the five-match ban and £150,000 ($417,796) fine meted out by the English Football Association's disciplinary commission yesterday, but the decision should take
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