Today, 24 October 2002

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    7 1 TODAY Thursday October 24, 2002 MITA(P) 063/11/2001
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    Durian divide
    589 1  -  Serene Foo Of highbrow shows and the huh? factor CHATTING online with reporters last week, the Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Mr David Lim, made an interesting confession. He had attended the October 12 premiere of Reminiscing The Moon at the opening of the Esplanade,
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    The doctor and the 'typo'
    331 1  -  Joy Francis HE is one of Singapore's top neurosurgeons and he has testified in one of the most-watched medicolegal battles in recent memory. To most observers, the credentials of Dr Premkumar Pillay, former head of the neurosurgery department at Singapore General Hospital, are impressive. And
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  • HOT NEWS
    • Article
      Singapore wants UN's terrorist label on JI
      257 2 THE Singapore Government has written to the United Nations Security Council Committee, asking for the inclusion of Jemaah Islamiyah 01) to its list of terrorists. Indonesia and Malaysia are among the 30-odd countries which are expected to do likewise. Such a move may
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      Dr M's letter
      529 2  -  Ng Boon Yian HEARING Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad proclaim on matters from globalisation to terrorism experts and to water talks is nothing out of the ordinary. But some people are puzzled that on the issue of water, his rhetoric contradicts his private correspondence.
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    • Article
      No word yet on LRT service
      196 2 IT IS not known when the Bukit Panjang LRT service will resume. Both Services A and B have been down since Monday, after one of the train's eight guide wheels fell off, damaging about Ikm of the track and causing a power trip. Service
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      Lock icon PM not going
      87 2 Channel News Asia PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong is down with flu and will not be travelling to Los Cabos in Mexico for the 10th Apec (Asia-Pacific Economic Forum) Economic Leaders' Meeting this weekend. A statement from the Prime Minister's Office says Mr Goh's doctors have advised
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      Lock icon Hunting kids
      369 3 Agencies Sniper hints children may be targets WASHINGTON The sniper had a chilling message for the residents of the Washington area he had terrorised for the past three weeks. "Your children are not safe anywhere at any time," he wrote in a letter found at the scene of
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      Lock icon Batam touted as gateway to south
      199 3  -  Tor Ching Li IT may be tough attracting tourists to Indonesia after the Bali blasts, but some officials are mustering their resources to promote the 186-island archipelago of Barelang particularly among Singaporeans. Yesterday, Indonesia's Ambassador here, Mr Eddi S Hariyadhi, and the Vice-Mayor of
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      Hall of Famers
      146 3  -  Tan Hui Leng SINGAPORE'S Changi Airport and Singapore Airlines have topped TTG Asia Media's awards list so many times that the travel trade publication decided to give them a lifetime award a place in its Hall of Fame. However, Hall of Fame inductees will no longer be
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      Lock icon Bombing suspects paraded for press
      193 3 Agencies MANILA Five members (picture) of the Abu Sayyaf rebel group suspected of involvement in at least three bombings in Zamboanga this month were paraded before the press on Wednesday. The suspects, aged between 18 and 27, were caught on Tuesday in Zamboanga based on
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      Cabbies with drive
      693 4  -  Toh Boon Ngee Expect more than a taxi ride from these ambassadors of the road DRIVING a cab wasn't the profession of choice for any of them. But all three finalists in the annual Tourism Host of the Year Transport (Taxi) Award have grown to love the
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      18 2 Planning a holiday to Malaysia? Check out our bumper supplement, "Discover Malaysia Tourism Fair 2002", in tomorrow's Traveller
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  • LETTERS
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      No quick fix for LRT
      331 6  -  Chong Chee Wah Long-term solutions needed to boost efficiency, justify fare hike NEWSPAPER reports have quoted Chua Chu Kang MP Low Scow Chay as saying that the "woes of the LRT in his constituency stemmed from it being a driverless system". SLRT's Deputy Director, Mr
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      Variety of anti-smoking programmes now underway
      550 6  -  Kylie Strong (Ms) WE refer to the letter, "Find out why teens smoke" by Mr Vishal Tiwary (Today, Oct 11). We thank Mr Tiwary for his views and suggestions. The rising trend of youth smokers is one of the greatest challenges faced by the
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      144 6 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, Singapore *****1; Fax: 65-*****17; E-mail: news@newstoday.com.sg Get a headstart with a globally 5Sc recognized American degree! ___W_s3_j Earn a degreefrom one of over 3,000 universities, |(CS(C_W
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Soaring higher?
      344 8 -AFP Analysts expect SIA to post bigger net profit SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) should post a significant increase in its half-year net profits later this week, boosted by improved load factors, analysts said yesterday. Analysts polled by AFP's financial news subsidiary, AFX-Asia, said they expect SIA to post a
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      Lock icon First beauty firm eligible for listing
      136 8 Channel News Asia THE beauty and healthcare company, TR Networks, is now eligible for a Sesdaq listing. If all goes well, it is likely to be the first beauty and healthcare firm to be listed on the Singapore Exchange. The company hopes to be
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        147 8 SHARES rebounded, led by optimism of recovery next year and growing perception that a bottom was being formed. Technology stocks fared the best as investors buying for the long-term started accumulating again. The ST index rose 6.63 points to 1,463.33 after a weaker opening. For every stock that fell,
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        World markets
        56 8 Im Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 8714.52 +25.13 +0.29 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd 9804.65 2987.20 4589.88 +255.71 +26.50 +203.42 +2.68 +0.90 +4.64 Korea Comp SET Index Jakarta Comp 657.43 346.21 354.85 +18.16 +1.93 +1.04 +2.84 +0.56 +0.29 Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai 1012.86 212.56 2949.12
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 8 USS 0.5622 UK£ 0.3628 Yen 69.762 HKS 4.3848 RM 2.1364 Euro 0.5742 Rupiah 5177.9 Baht 24.515 Peso 29.893 A$ 1.0166 Indian Rs 27.199 Won 692.75 C$ 0.8828 Yuan 4.6533 NZ$ 1.1618 NTS 19.551
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        Commodities
        21 8 Gold uss/oz 313.60 Silver uss/oi 4.412 Platinum uss/oi 576.80 Rubber centsAg 145.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1450 Brent crude uss/borrel 28.07
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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
        80 8 By$ Oct 22 C&C Creative 50 Close Change 3.740 +0.140 13.700 +0.100 By percentage Oct 22 Koh BrosW*****6 Reed Close Change 0.035 +75.000 0.030 +20.000 JMH 400USS 6.000 +0.100 Melalock 0.350 +16.667 KepCor SIA200 OUE 4.400 +0.100 11.100 +0.100 6.200 +0.100 Amara IRE Corp Jade 0.165 +13.793
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        78 8 Bloomberg By$ Oct 22 Venture Close Change 12.700 -0.400 By percentage Oct 22 Rolol Close Change 0.055 -21.429 SPH 19.300 -0.200 Presscrele 0.040 -20.000 CITYDEV 4.800 -0.100 ABR 0.105 -19.231 SPH 100 ST Assemb (iipiliiliiml Chartered 19.400 -0.100 1.190 -0.070 1.230 -0.060 0.910 -0.060 Cyberm GulTech W*****7
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    • Article
      Lock icon Will they start spending?
      396 10 Reuters SINGAPORE'S consumer prices eased more than expected in September despite a rise in transport and health costs, signalling a continuing lack of consumer confidence here, analysts said yesterday. They said prices were flat on a seasonally adjusted basis, due to weak global commodity prices and
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      Lock icon On the block
      638 12 Bloomberg Rush to sell office buildings in Singapore HSBC Holdings' Mac Donald House branch in downtown Singapore withstood a terrorist bomb blast in 1965. It did not survive a round of corporate property sales sweeping through the city's office market The bank has put the 10-storey redbrick
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      Sophia Rd apartment block site up for sale
      212 12 A VACANT residential site in Sophia Road has been put up for sale. The Urban Redevelopment Authority has given clearance to redevelop the 10,953 sq m freehold site into a five-and-a-half storey boutique apartment block with 19 units and a basement carpark.
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      Lock icon Games village
      53 12 AFX-Asia CAPITALAND unit Australand Holdings and its partner Citta Property Group have been selected by the government of Victoria to develop the accommodation village for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. Australand said its involvement in the project is not likely to have any impact on its
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      Lock icon HK listing
      66 12 AFX-Asia HONG KONG People's Food Holdings said it will list on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong by way of introduction, without raising fresh capital. The company has been listed on the Singapore Exchange for over a year. Chairman Ming Kam Sing said it is in talks to
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      HDB's new showflats open today
      64 12 THE HDB will launch Habitat Forum, its new showroom in the HDB Hub in Toa Payoh today. Its two mock-up showflats are typical four and five-room HDB units. Each is designed and furnished with a different theme to cater to various household preferences. The HDB
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      In Singapore, to look at hotels and partners
      355 14  -  Chan Chao Peh LEADING Hotels of the World Ltd (LHW), a hotel marketing company with some of the world's top hotels in its portfolio, plans to set up an investment fund to acquire hotels in Asia. The company, which was founded in
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      The Ascott's profit up 237%
      96 14 THE Ascott Group achieved net profit of $25.7 million for the first nine months of the year a 237 per cent increase over the same period last year. Due to the planned winding down of Ascott's non-core retail and residential trading sectors, group turnover dropped
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3830 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com Date Name NAV/Bid Oiler Price Plice Abeideen Asset Management (Asia) 10/22 Aberdeen Sel-American Opportunities 0.594 0.625 10/22 Aberdeen Sel-Asian High Yield Fd 1.195 1.232 10/22 Aberdeen Sel-China Opportunities Fd 0.922 0.969 10/22 Aberdeen Sel-Continental Europe Eqty 0.774 0.814 10/22 Aberdeen Sal-Global MNC
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Is cleric buying time?
      481 16 SOLO (Indonesia) It seems like a familiar delaying tactic. Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir (picture), accused of heading the Jemaah Islamiyah 01), yesterday remained in hospital after falling sick last Friday. There was no sign that police would question him soon about fatal bombings two years
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      Lock icon 'Dr Rude' struck off
      148 16 Reuters LONDON A rude British surgeon who reportedly told a patient "you have cancer, I have asthma, we all have to die some time" has been struck off the medical register. The General Medical Council said that Dr Mohammad AI Fallouji's conduct "has rightly been described
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      Lock icon Electric fence ahoy?
      177 16 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Ships and tankers may soon be sailing in specially-protected lanes. In a bid to combat increasing piracy and marine terrorism, the International Maritime Bureau (1MB) has proposed two radical initiatives: Electric fences for ships and special protected channels for oil tankers. A report released
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      Lock icon Seoul wary of using 'sanctions bomb'
      223 18 Agencies SEOUL Despite failing to extract a promise from Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons programme, Seoul remains determined to resolve the issue through dialogue. South Korean President Kirn Dae Jung yesterday rejected the use of economic sanctions as a tool to force the
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      Lock icon Body search creates diplomatic uproar
      110 18 AFP TAIPEI Reports that wheel-chair bound Taiwanese First Lady Wu Shu-chen (picture) was body-searched during her recent trip to the United States have triggered a furore. The opposition parties are demanding that Foreign Minister Eugene Chien resign. Taiwanese officials confirmed the reports but tried to
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      End of death penalty
      96 18 LONDON It is final. No one anywhere on any British territory can be sentenced to death regardless of the crime he commits, be it murder, treason or mutiny. The British government abolished the death penalty on Tuesday in the Turks and Caicos islands in the Caribbean,
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Marketing S'pore
      1020 20  -  Daryl Loo "I'M really not a marketing professional," Professor Tommy Koh confesses to The Edge Singapore almost self-deprecatingly. At the official opening of the Marketing Institute of Singapore's new building last Saturday, where he gave a lecture on the subject to a roomful of marketing professionals, the professor
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon This time, he really wins
      385 22 Agencies LONDON It's a wonderful life indeed for Canadian novelist Yann Mattel (picture) who won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction yesterday for his second novel, Life of Pi. "I feel like I am in the arms of a beautiful woman," said the overjoyed Montreal
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      Irin hurt after road accident
      181 22 MEDIAWORKS Channel U actress Irin Gan (picture), 31, suffered minor injuries after an alleged drink-driving accident on Oct 11, according to a Lianhe Wanbao report on Tuesday. After a night out with friends, she apparently lost control of her car while driving home on the
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      Rush for driving licences in India
      273 22 BOMBAY Top film stars are rushing to transport offices for driving licences after one of India's top film stars, Salman Khan, landed himself in court over a car crash. Salman got into trouble after allegedly driving drunk in his Toyota Land Cruiser before killing
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      Queen of exuberance
      512 24  -  Elisa Chia in Taipei This pint-sized dynamo enthrals fans and reclaims her throne SMILING and eyes twinkling, A*mei was a picture of exuberance. "I'm relieved that it's over the Taiwanese pop diva, Chang Huei-mei, gushed to journalists last Saturday. Earlier, the 30-year-old had wowed 30,000 fans at
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      A night of fever with A*mei
      183 24 IF the Taipei leg of A*mei's tour is anything to go by, expect an extravaganza when she descends on the Singapore Indoor Stadium next month. Not only can she be expected to wow the audience with her vocal prowess, the $5 million production will
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      The secret to Ivy's svelte figure
      231 25  -  -Pearlyn Tham SHE may have lied and plotted her way through to achieve her ulterior motives as the scheming and two-faced Jiaxuan in the TV drama, The Wing of Desire. But this Saturday, rest assured that MediaCorp artiste Ivy Lee will not be hiding
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      An apricot a day keeps the dermatologist away
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      290 26  -  Pearlyn Tham HER late father preferred her to have short hair, so Irene Chua didn't grow her tresses until she was old enough to work in the hotel industry. "I suppose my dad liked boys a lot because he made me play with toy soldiers and guns
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      670 30  -  David Ngiau Red Dragon is an effective suspense thriller if you can 'forget' about Silence of the Lambs TAKEN purely on its own merit, as a big-budget Hollywood film, Red Dragon is a taut and effective suspense thriller, its faults notwithstanding. You might have
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        505 32  -  Serene Foo SAMSARA is modern-day escapism for the harried and world-weary. This meditative tale on desire and destiny is a breath of fresh air, and a delightful distraction from all those recent horror flicks. It could well catapult Hong Kong actress Christy Chung
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        Lock icon Clooney dumps agent over a villa
        238 32 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD George Clooney has ditched his talent agent amid a furore over a finder's fee for a posh villa in Italy. Michael Gruber in turn resigned abruptly from his firm, according to a terse, one-line statement from the Creative Artists Agency (CAA). A
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      352 36 LONDON The English Football Association (FA) and the Premier League are to meet to discuss setting up a new body designed to reduce the influence amateur officials have on the administration of top-level English football. In the coming weeks, the FA chief executive Adam
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      666 36 Agencies Home is not too heavenly for Baker's boys World Series Giants 4 Angels 10 Angels lead best-of-seven series 2-1 SAN FRANCISCO So many Angels were moving around the bases that it looked like heaven. Now, Anaheim's helacious hitters have San Francisco in a heck of a mess.
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      Lock icon Owen: Rooney who?
      571 37 Reds star proves he's still the top striker on Merseyside LONDON Michael Owen plundered his first Champions League hattrick proper to enable Liverpool to become the first British side ever to win at Spartak Moscow yesterday. The latest example of Owen's predatory finishing comes hot on the
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      Lock icon Winds of change?
      425 38  -  Jose Raymond S-League may become separate football entity again THIS morning at the Amara Hotel, Football Association of Singapore (FAS) president Mah Bow Tan should make important announcements about the S-League's future. It is thought that Minister Mah will address topics like the composition of the S-League,
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      Banking on Low to improve bowling's financial status
      447 38  -  Kelvin Phang THE SINGAPORE Tenpin Bowling Congress (STBC) is taking another step towards putting its house in order by appointing ex-banker Low Teo Ping (picture) as head of its new audit committee. Last August, the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) suspended all funding
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      SCC 7s to still go ahead after bombing
      272 38 THE 55th annual Singapore Cricket Club (SCC) Rugby Sevens tournament at the Padang, scheduled for Nov 2-3, will go on. In a statement released yesterday, the SCC said that the tournament will go ahead despite eight of its rugby members killed or
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      Easy for Eagles
      60 38 GEYLANG United has moved into round three of the inaugural Asian Football Confederation Champions League. Last night, it demolished Brunei club side Duli Pengiran Muda Mahkota FC 4-0 at the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Stadium. The goals came courtesy of Aleksandar Duric (two), Azhar Baksin and Sazali Salleh.
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      Lock icon Powder's gone dry
      511 39 Agencies Gunners blame punishing schedule for second defeat Champions League Group A Arsenal 1 Auxerre 2 First home loss since March LONDON Considered invincible five days ago, Arsenal's players and its manager awoke tired and shocked yesterday after their second surprise defeat in succession. Auxerre's 2-1 Champions
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      Ong's game almost perfect again
      395 39  -  Kelvin Phang ASIAN GAMES champion Remy Ong came agonisingly close to another perfect game in his career at the prestigious 38th AMF World Cup in Latvia yesterday. The southpaw hit 11 consecutive strikes in his opening game on day four and only left pin seven
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      Champions League results
      228 39 Group A Arsenal 1 (Kanu 51) Auxerre 2 (Kapo 8, Fadiga 27) Borussia Dortmund 1 (Roller 10) PSV Eindhoven 1 (Bruggink (47) Group B Spartak Moscow 1 (Danishevsky 23) Liverpool 3 (Owen 29, 70, 90) Basel 2 (Ergic 32, 88) Valencia 2 (Baraja 38, Torres 71) Group
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      Becker mistake
      69 39 MUNICH Former tennis great Boris Becker, speaking at the start of his trial over tax evasion charges, told a court yesterday he had made a mistake by failing to pay taxes during his career. The 34-year-old could face a jail sentence of up to five years, but legal
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      Italy slides
      47 39 PARIS Three-time world champion Italy has dropped out of the top 10 Fifa ranking as Brazil remains top and England climbed to sixth. The 1998 world champion France held down second place while Spain slipped to third. Germany and Argentina are fourth and fifth respectively.
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