Today, 11 December 2002

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  • 7 1 TODAY Wednesday December 11, 2002 MITA(P) 002/11/2001
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  • 46 1 "Singaporeans tend to be fairly dismissive of Malaysia. Its inefficiencies are derided as its general 'messiness'. But that messiness permits a certain amount of creative thinking." Don't miss the best-selling author's take on the challenges that Singapore faces in COMMENTARY tomorrow
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  • 96 1 Reuters 3.15 AM LATEST] WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve has kept US interest rates steady at four-decade lows as expected, saving its ammunition for next year as it waits to see whether the economy can weather the recent "soft spot". The unanimous decision leaves the trend-setting federal funds rate
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  • 448 1  -  Tor Ching Li Will Asian carriers benefit from US airline's nosedive? by chingli@newstoday.com.sg IS there no end to the nosedive of the airline industry? Last year, the post-Sept 11 dip in passenger numbers plunged the Swiss national carrier, Swissair, to its corporate death. Now, America's United Airlines
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 598 2  -  Derrick A Paulo Banks start jostling for piece of HDB loan pie by derric;k@newstoday.com.s£; FOR 85 per cent of Singaporeans, yesterday marked the first step into the unknown the commercialisation of home loan mortgages for HDB flats. The market will actually be freed up only from Jan 1
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    • Service Excellence
      • 543 3  -  Sarah Chua Service motto drives Comfort Bus to excellence by sarah@newstoday.com.sg COMFORT Bus is a relatively new transport company, but it has already received a number of accolades. The most recent is the Service Excellence Awards given out by SPRING Singapore. Officially launched in April this year,
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      • 113 3 Launched in 1994, the Excellent Service Award or EXSA is a national award that recognises individuals who have delivered outstanding service. It seeks to develop service models for staff to emulate, create service champions and professionalise services. EXSA is managed jointly by SPRING Singapore and seven industry
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    • 267 4 -Agencies HK anti-subversion legislation raises rights concerns HONG KONG As the date for the implementation of a tough anti-subver-sion law draws near, the voices of concern that fundamental freedoms will be curtailed are growing louder. Hong Kong's government aims to enact by July an anti-subversion law, which
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    • 192 4 Continued from Page 1 passengers change their bookings. If you have mileage programmes with United and you're not sure they will deliver on that, you will choose another carrier." SIA itself appeared unruffled by the bankruptcy of its fellow Star Alliance member with
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    • 174 4 -Reuters BALI The Indonesian police have turned the heat on the Jeraaah Islamiyah group by sending a team of investigators to Malaysia to track funds they say were supplied by the militants to finance the Oct 12 Bali bombings. Police said last week about
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 464 6  -  Tor Ching Li Technopreneur joins group which includes Blair, Bono by ching] i@ tie wstoday. co m. sg WHAT do Bono, the lead singer of the Irish rock band U2, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Mr Joshua Koh (picture), a 28-year-old Singaporean rebekurned-technopre-neur, have in common?
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    • 118 6  -  Grace Toy SPEAKER of Parliament Abdullah Tarmugi (picture) is Acting President until Dec 23 while President S R Nathan is in Europe on a private visit. The duty normally falls on Mr Lim Kirn San, chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisers. However, under the Constitution,
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    • 366 8  -  Sarah Chua Residents talk of the good life last year by sarah@newstoday.com.sg LIFE in Singapore a year ago was not bad at all, unless you wanted to buy a car or house. This was the conclusion drawn by three researchers from the National University of Singapore's Business School Dr
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    • 315 8  -  Lee Ching Wern SINGAPORE'S best-known opposition figure, Mr J B Jeyaretnam (picture), will turn 77 next month. Yesterday, the veterar «vd«*i«wi submitted an unusual "birthday request" to the police. At a press conference in his office in Sim Lim Tower yesterday, Mr Jeyaretnam announced
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    • 139 8 Channel News Asia THE facilities management arm of CPG Corporation, previously known as the Public Works Department (PWD), will be able to serve clients better on the move from January next year. That's when it will launch a $5 million state-of-the-art technology system to allow
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  • LETTERS
    • 343 10  -  Tan Kin Lian One way to help those out of work I REFER to the article, "Sunday market a boost" (Today, Dec 9). I congratulate the Member of Parliament for Tampines GRC, Ms Irene Ng, for initiating the Sunday market to help housewives and retrenched residents set up
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    • 296 10  -  Oh Kirn Chong I REFER to your report "Credit caution" (Today, Nov 22). It was comforting to hear Senior Minister of State for Finance and Industry Tharman Shanmugaratnam say that the Government is concerned about surging household debt, which has hit 174
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 221 12 -AFP 98 Holdings cannot raise offer before Dec 23, Oei says 'no' THE takeover saga of Singapore industrial giant Nat Steel Ltd has seen a new development, with the chief bidder barred from raising his offer and the biggest shareholder refusing the amount on the table. The Securities Industry
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    • Market Watch
      • 119 12 SINGAPORE stocks rose, led by DBS Group Holdings and other banks, as some investors judged their 4.6 per cent decline as a group in the past four days excessive, given the outlook for profit. The STI added 19.18, or 1.4 per cent, to close at 1,367.10. DBS climbed 50
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      • 59 12 Index Value Change Ft! Nikkei 225 8804.52 -23.53 -0.27 Hnng Seng All OrdinwiB Taiwan Wtd 9857.99 2955.70 4755 Ql ■10.49 ■32.20 63.66 ■0.11 ■1.08 1.42 Karen i j SET Index 702 41 365.35 ■6.47 +0.26 ■0.94 +0.07 Jakarta la up 397.0E ■0.65 -0.1* Phils Camp Sherizen B Mumhni
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      • 36 12 us$ LIKE Yen HK$ RM Euro Rujlicil Bohl 0.5668 0.3530 69.786 4.4201 2.1537 0.5592 5103.7 24.6Q04 Peso AS Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NT$ 30.2426 1.0060 27.3181 689.923 0.8846 4.6911 1.1240 19.7540
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      • 22 12 SGX kid uW« 325.500 >ilver U5$/oz 4615 fernwn usvk 599.900 Rubber tanvig 147.00 Palm Oil RM/tonru 1601 Brent crude iKS/boitd 25.90
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      • 58 12 By volume Dm 10 Chartered DatntrftUSS SingTel fcirci l:l:i Ml Gtiraya TPV SembCorp TR Heiwofks STtaemb Close 0.905 0.755 1.270 0.430 1.210 0.455 0.570 0.S15 0.115 1.430 Change 0.010 +0.010 +0.020 ■0.005 +0.005 +0.010 +0.005 +0.010 -1.1 +1.3 +1.6 -1.1 +1.1 +1.8 +0.6 +2.9 'OOO 63,692 16,545
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      • 84 12 By$ Dec 10 DBS Close Change 11.200 +0.500 UOB 11.800 +0.200 JMH *****5$ 6.050 +(1.150 Veniore 14.600 +0.100 Cr«nriva 50 13.700 +D.1W) HKLond USS 1.400 +0.100 DCBC 9.650 +0.1 DO Mono Polo 1.710 +0.090 SingamasC 2!:HI!S STItTFlOO 1.600 +0.080 13.960 +0.080 By percentage Dot 10 L&M Kyosho
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      • 82 12 BLOOMBERG By$ Dec 10 Close Change SIA 10.700 -0.200 SIA 200 10.600 -0.200 DBS Bk i% NCPS *****.700 -0.200 SPH 19.600 -0.100 SpLond 3.100 4060 UOI 2.940 -0.060 GreatEost 8.750 4050 OUE 5.800 4050 Courts Sp 0.495 404S OrtiniNlold 0.250 -0.030 By percentage Dec 10 WiiOffice (lose
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    • 235 14 Bloomberg Merrill sells Chartered stake, likely at profit JUST one month ago, Merrill Lynch was sitting on a potential-ly-huge loss from its underwriting of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing's rights issue. When Chartered's share price fell below the issue price, the investment bank was left holding a large
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    • 73 14 Bloomberg MULTIVISION Intelligent Surveillance, a provider of digital video products and solutions, is raising $16.1 million in an initial public offering. Hong Kong-based Multi Vision will sell 70.1 million shares at 23 cents each, 10.5 million shares to the public and 59.6 million shares to
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      317 17 Bloomberg Asian currencies fall as investors bank on US dollar ASIAN currencies, including the Singapore dollar, were lower yesterday on expectations a new US Treasury Secretary picked by President George W Bush will boost growth in the world's biggest economy, luring investors to the US dollar. The Singapore
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    • 207 17 SINGTEL announced yesterday that it will receive an extraordinary dividend of $133.7 million from its associate Belgacom SA. Belgacom Belgium's biggest telephone company approved an overall dividend of 570 million euros ($l.Ol billion) at a meeting yesterday. Sing Tel expects to receive its share by the
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    • 198 17 Bloomberg SINGAPORE will lift a 20 per cent foreign ownership limit on finance companies from today, a move that will allow those companies that trade on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to merge their local and foreign shares, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said
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    • 116 17 Channel News Asia TEMASEK Holdings said it is impartial in its search for a buyer for the CPG, formerly known as the Public Works Department. The company is being divested as part of the Temasek charter for diluting or selling non-strategic businesses. A management buyout (MBO)
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    • 493 19 Bloomberg Friedman to follow long line of Goldman partners to Washington NEW YORK President George W Bush's choice of former Goldman Sachs Group chairman Stephen Friedman (picture) as his chief economic advisor continues a long tradition of Goldman partners trading Wall Street for Washington. Mr Friedman, said
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  • WORLD
    • 234 20 Agencies LONDON A real-life soap opera is unfolding in Downing Street, revolving around Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie (picture), her "lifestyle guru" and an Australian conman who faces deportation. Even if nobody has broken the law, Downing Street is hard-pressed to play down the scandal
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    • 114 20 Reuters WASHINGTON A federal judge has dismissed an unprecedented lawsuit by Congress' investigative arm seeking the names of executives consulted by the White House on its energy policy. The head of Congress' General Accounting Office, Comptroller General David Walker, filed the suit in February this
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    • 128 20 -AFP WASHINGTON Facing an alarming rise in anti-American protests in recent weeks, Washington reminded South Koreans that they rely on the United States to defend them against rival North Korea. "Remember, we're there for the defence of the South Korean people and we
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 144 22 Agencies CARACAS Venezuela's main airline, Aeropostal, yesterday joined in the nationwide strikes which have paralysed the country's oil output and exports. Speaking on behalf of Aeropostal staff, Captain Pedro Camero said only "humanitarian flights" would be operated and 60 national and international flights would be suspended
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    • 274 22 Agencies It grabs only full copy of Iraq report UNITED NATIONS The United States upset members of the United Nations Security Council after its officials removed the only complete copy of Iraq's arms declaration from UN headquarters soon after it arrived, said reports on Monday.
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    • 127 22 Reuters NEW YORK Plans are being made to keep the streets free of gridlock as New York braces itself for what could be a devastating bus and subway strike in the coining week. The 34,000 members of the city transit workers union are threatening to
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 786 24  -  Dr Eric Teo Bombings galvanised opposition to terror but will its resolve last? by news (KTiewst od ay. com. sg OCT 12, 2002 is generally considered the 911 of South-east Asia, a turning point in the region's efforts to combat terrorism as part of the international
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    • 341 24 -AFP MELBOURNE Australia's highest court yesterday made a landmark defamation ruling which Internet experts said would have global implications as to what can be published online. The High Court unanimously dismissed an appeal by international news service agency, Dow Jones, to have
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  • UPFRONT
    • 234 26 Here come the Women of the Year Reuters/Variety WASHINGTON -A movie star with a sagging middle, a whistle-blower at Enron and the new House Minority Leader were among those named in Ms magazine's list of Women of the Year. "For all those who thought this was the post-feminist era, get
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    • 682 26  -  Yong Shu Chiang Locally made cartoon about the Monkey King aims high by shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg '"PHERE'S something familiar about an J. animation series that's currently in the works. It's not the American-sounding voices or the impressive three-dimensional visuals but the whimsical characters of the science-fiction adventure. The
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  • TIMEOUT
    • 588 28  -  Asif Ansar But they've kissed goodbye to their hell-raising days by asif©newstod ay. com. sg TT was a clean, lean and a little lless mean Red Hot Chilli Peppers that sizzled on Sunday night at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. The band, which sparked an inferno with a
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    • 62 28 CHRISTMAS PROMOTION 2002 CHRISTMAS CAROLLING A series of carolling sessions has been organised to create a festive air for shoppers. Caroilers from five different groups will be performing. SADeaf Carollers will kick off the event with fheir song-sign versions of all-time Christinas favourites. Date: Dec 15- 23 Time:
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  • LIMELIGHT
    • 267 30 CLASS is not over but Cynthia Koh is already one of the top scorers. A decade after her debut on television in 1992, her popularity is still running high judging from her recent nomination as one of the Top 10 Most Popular Actresses
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      545 30  -  Lee Sze Yong Fanny takes on ambitious role in First Touch by sz eyo ng® newstod ay.com. sg UNDERNEATH Fannie Khng's seemingly cold exterior is a warm and fun-loving person. "I am born with this dao (Singlish for aloof and unfriendly) look. You can't blame me for that!"
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    • 148 31 Reuters LONDON Rock legend Pete Townshend is almost deaf after nearly 40 years of subjecting his ears to his own crashing guitar riffs with the British band, The Who. The Sun newspaper quoted Townshend, 57, on Tuesday as saying that his hearing had worsened since
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    • 86 32 Singapore Top 10 (Dec 5 Dec 8) weeks 1 Die Another Day 1 2(1) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 4 3 (2) Treasure Planet 2 4 Surprise Party (Korean) 1 5 (3) Ghost Ship NC 16 3 6 (4) Swimfan 2 7 (8) Santa vs the Snowman (IMAX)
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      315 32 Reuters/Variety Die Another Day delays demise to stay on top HOLLYWOOD -James Bond took his own advice as the 007 action film Die Another Day (MGM) delayed its demise at the weekend box office with another No 1 performance. The picture took home another US$l2.B million
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  • SPORTS
    • 342 38 BOSTON Tough shots by Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker dealt the Orlando Magic a tough loss. Long jumpers by Pierce and Walker in overtime lifted the surging Boston Celtics to a 114-109 victory over the Magic, whose road woes continued, reported NBA com. Pierce scored
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    • 116 40 -AFP DOHA Olympic legend Haile Gebreselassie of Ethiopia and women's world champion Sonia O'Sullivan of Ireland are favourites for the US$l million ($1.7 million) Doha 10km road races here today. Gebreselassie, double Olympic 10,000 m champion, is making his comeback after surgery to a foot following the
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    • 106 40 LA QUINTA- Casey Martin, who successfully sued the US PGA Tour to use a golf cart in competition, failed to qualify for the 2003 tour on Monday after falling apart on the final few holes of a qualifying tournament. Martin, who suffers from a circulatory disorder in his
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    • 193 40 -AFP LONDON Plans to help China match European and South American countries on the world soccer stage centred on the biggest grassroots football project in the world, unveiled here. It is hoped that six million young players will take part in the scheme
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    • 76 41 TEHRAN An Iranian appeals court has confirmed a five-year ban on an international football player convicted of off-the-pitch antics in a brothel, a court official said yesterday. However, the Tehran appeals court spared 22-year-old Mojahed Khaziravi the punishment of 99 lashes handed down by a court after his
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    • 97 41 LONDON Sunderland was booed off the pitch after its poor season continued with a crushing 3-0 home defeat to Manchester City in the English Premier League yesterday. Howard Wilkinson's side suffered its fifth successive defeat in all competitions and left it second bottom of the table with
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    • 69 41 LONDON Arsenal's Martin Keown is sweating over the Football Association's view of the match video which shows his clash with Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy during the Gunners' 2-0 defeat at Old Trafford on Saturday. The England defender apologised to his manager Arsene Wenger for the incident
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    • 71 41 LONDON Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was named Britain's Racehorse Owner of the Year on Monday thanks to the seven Group One successes of Rock of Gibraltar. The Scotsman singled out Aidan O'Brien as "a fantastic trainer" and praised the two jockeys who rode the horse, Johnny
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    • 267 41 -AFP Champions League Bomssia Dortmund v AC Milan Live, tomorrow morning, Ch 23, 3.30 am ROME World Cup winner Rivaldo is unlikely to play for AC Milan in today's (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) Champions League second phase match away to Borussia Dortmund, despite
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    • 724 42  -  Neil Humphreys Manchester United legend George Best tells Today... Exclusive in Today's Afternoon Edition Neil Humphreys reports on the Champions League showdown between Arsenal and Valencia from Highbury THE greatest British footballer of all time has heard the question many times. But George Best,
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    • 346 42 MANCHESTER United has-beens who criticise the current stars at Old Trafford are a disgrace to their profession, according to one of the club's legends. Paddy Crerand, one of the 'Busby Babes' who lifted the European Cup in 1968, is fed-up with
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    • 81 43 VENICE A court here yesterday began hearing a request by the United States to extradite an Uzbek national accused of conspiring to fix skating events at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov is alleged to be a major figure in the Russian mafia. US
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    • 115 43 NEW DELHI India has rejected players' contracts for next year's World Cup, leaving the International Cricket Council (ICC) facing a showdown with its corporate partners. The Indians will forego personal endorsements which conflict with official sponsors only during the February 8-March 23 tournament in southern Africa, instead
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    • 62 43 MIAMI Ricky Williams and the Miami Dolphins ignored the effects of a torrential downpour to romp to a 27-9 victory over the Chicago Bears in the NFL yesterday. Williams rushed for 216 yards and two touchdowns to help improve Miami's record to 8-5. It was his second straight
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    • 64 43 KUALA LUMPUR South African Relief Goosen, king of the European Tour for the past two seasons, and America's John Daly will headline the US$l.l million {$1.9 million) Carlsberg Malaysian Open next year. World N0.5 Goosen and twotime Major winner Daly will aim to get their year off
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    • 714 43  -  Stanley Ho Minnow Philippines perfect time for strikers to click into gear Tiger Beer Challenge Trophy Singapore v Philippines National Stadium, Bpm I by stanley@newstoday.com.sg THERE is little doubt Singapore will come out on top tonight against Philippines in its final warm-up match for next
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    • 233 43 Agencies SYDNEY Martina Hingis yesterday withdrew from next month's Australian Open, raising concerns about the future of her career. The former world No.l has struggled to recover from ankle surgery in May that kept her out of the French Open
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