Today, 23 January 2003

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  • 14 1 TODAY T h U r S (1 ay January 23, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • 600 1  -  Chan Chao Peh MAS opens up the car market by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg THE battle between banks may literally move to the streets and target car-buyers as well as home-buyers. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) removed borrowing limits for car purchases yesterday, potentially setting the stage for a
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  • 460 1 THE National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has been left $1.7 million by a 73-year-old woman who died two years ago and never suffered from kidney problems. She also left $1.7 million to the Community Chest Madam Chia Fong Ying (in whose memory the NKF
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 476 2  -  Tan Hui Leng Drug being tested to stem growing problem by. huileng@newstoday.com.sg ONE out of three overweight children in Singapore has Type II diabetes, a disease which usually affects obese adults above the age of 45. And in a frightening reflection of the growing incidence of the disease,
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    • 112 3 THE police are looking for a China national, Zhang Yujie, 28, who is believed to be connected with the murder of a woman at a Geylang hotel. Ms Lu Sheng Zhu, 34, was found with neck injuries, lying face-up beside a bed in the Princeton
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      226 3 Channel NewsAsia DPMTan calls on KL to end intrusions DILI Singapore called on Malaysia yesterday to stop repeated intrusions by the Malaysian navy and police boats into Singapore's waters off Pedra Branca. Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan (picture) urged the Malaysian government to be wise and show restraint
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    • 113 3 Agencies JAKARTA Regional police chiefs are to propose making acts of terror into extraditable offences at an Asean meeting on transnational crime in Hanoi later this year. The move came following Indonesia's proposal at a three-day workshop of police from the Association of Southeast Asian
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    • 439 4  -  Derrick A Paulo Terror threat a 'clear and present danger' by derrick@newstoday.com.sg THE THREAT of a terrorist attack on Singapore is a "clear and present danger" and the Government wants to prepare the public for the worst. "Even one bomb going off in Singapore is one too many.
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    • 132 4 LEE HWA Jewellery, which slashed its 916 gold price last week, has gone one step further to woo more customers this Lunar New Year. The company is offering free workmanship under a special promotion that lasts till the end of the month. A spokesman
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    • 281 4  -  Joy Frances PROPOSALS aimed at enhancing Singapore's greenery and preserving its historic treasures are moving closer to reality. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) yesterday accepted most of the recommendations put forward by subject groups to its Parks and Waterbodies Plan and its Identity
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 304 6  -  Grace Tay SENNETT Estate's residents may have taken the carrot dangled in front of them, but their votes against their longtime opposition MP Chiam See Tong (picture) gained him his "most satisfying" political victory to date. Yesterday in Parliament, Mr Chiam asked if the recent
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    • 248 6 MEDIACORP had requested anonymity over its contribution to rival MediaWorks' Ren Ci Charity Show. But yesterday, its role had to be disclosed, after an editorial appeared in Lianhe Zaobao on Jan 17. The Chinese newspaper had published a comment by a Mrs Lim from Sengkang, who
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    • 354 6 Agencies TamilTigers trained them to ram boats SEA-BORNE suicide bombers, linked to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network and trained in attacks developed by Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, pose a huge threat to global shipping, experts said yesterday. The Maritime Intelligence Group (MIG), a Washington-based think tank,
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    • 123 6 Channel NewsAsia SPH MediaWorks artiste Irin Gan was charged yesterday with driving carelessly and losing control of her car. The court heard that one morning last October, the 31-year-old lost control of her car and crashed into a guardrail at the slip road joining Keppel Road and
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  • LETTERS
    • 380 8  -  Rachael Teo Jing Hwa Push for excellence is crucial to take on competition I REFER to the letter, "All burnt out", by JC student Timothy Lin (Weekend Today, Jan 18-19). Like him, I am affected by the changes in the education system because I am an
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    • 151 8  -  See Leong Kit IN THE letter, "All burnt out" (Weekend Today, Jan 18-19), Timothy Lin speaks out on the stress he feels under the education system and asks fellow students to do likewise. Most adult Singaporeans are still fearful of expressing their views openly.
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    • 200 8  -  Tan Stew Hoon I REFER to your article, "An eye on valuations" (Today, Jan 22). I think people should put more effort into understanding the concept and principles of valuation. It is not based on the sale price alone. If it were so, there would
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    • 124 8  -  Leong Sze Hian I WOULD like to suggest that our schools start teaching financial planning to our children. In the United States, the National Endowment for Financial Education's (NEFE) High School Financial Planning Programme (HSFPP) was initiated as a public service to increase the financial
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    • 205 10  -  Narayana Narayana I REFER to your report "Candid, guarded" (Weekend Today, Jan 18-19). It is good to know that the Singapore Exchange (SGX) has been able to find a suitable local replacement so soon after the departure of its CEO. In addition to being "candid"
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    • 278 10  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming No logic to possible rise in fares TRANSPORT Minister Yeo Cheow Tong, in answer to MP Low Thia Khiang, said that the fares on the Northeast line could be higher. Among the reasons given was that the line was built underground, and being
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    • 120 10  -  Tan Bee Lay A JAPANESE car manufacturer has come up with what it considers to be an innovative idea. To create additional space at the rear portion of its newly imported small capacity cars, it has relocated the petrol tank to the front under the
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 243 12  -  Chan Chao Peh Shell plays safe by chaopehcgnewstoday.com.sg OIL and chemicals giant Shell, yesterday downplayed the proposed 100 billion yen ($1.46 billion) joint venture to build an ethylene plant in Pulau Bukom. "A lot depends on the outlook for the economy," Mr Malcolm Brinded (picture), Shell's
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    • 161 12 SPENDING by media and information technology companies fell 3.3 per cent last year, the Economic Development Board (EDB) said. Faced with a $30 million decline in business spending from the previous year to $870 million and lower employment figures, EDB noted that conditions
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    • 104 12 THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) has introduced separate membership categories for securities trading and clearing. In line with the newly introduced Risk Based Capital framework, the segregation of clearing and trading rights will allow members to comply with significantly lower capital requirements. Central Depository market participant members
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    • Market Watch
      • 115 12 SINGAPORE shares were mostly lower. But the STI managed to keep its head above water, thanks to bargain hunting in property and banking stocks. Buy orders in the afternoon helped the STI extend gains, rising 3.81 points to 1369.13. Market breadth was 1.5 losers to every rising issue and
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      • 36 12 USS 0.5773 UK£ 0.3585 Yen 68.142 HK$ 4.5040 RM 2.1948 Euro 0.5397 Rupiah 5131.1 Baht 24.682 Peso 31.012 A$ 0.9857 Indian Rs 27.668 Won 679.57 C$ 0.8840 Yuan 4.779 NZ$ 1.0604 NTS 20.004
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        18 12 Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 357.500 Silver uss/oz 4.820 Platinum uss/oz 625.500 Brent crude uss/barrel 33.190 Information provided by:
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      • 81 12 )y$ Ian 22 SPH Close Changi 19.100 +0.401 JMH 400USS 6.250 +0.151 OCBC 9.800 +0.151 C&C 3.700 +0.101 SIA 200 10.600 +0.101 SPH 100 TCIL 3k HKS 19.100 +0.101 1.090 +0.061 OUE 5.950 +0.051 Sincere 1.200 +0.051 APB Breweries 5.100 +0.051 iy percentage Ian 22 Close Change
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      • 82 12 )y$ Ian 22 Close Change DBS Bk 6% NCPS *****.400-0.200 GreatEast 8.750 -0.150 ChewEH 0.015 -0.100 JSH500USS 2.450 -0.080 NHCeram 0.125 -0.075 SC Global 0.915 -0.055 SembLog 1.600 -0.050 SingamasC 2kHKS 2.100 -0.050 Haw Par 40 3.380 -0.040 CapitaMall 1.030 -0.030 iy percentage Ian 22 Close Change
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    • 253 15  -  Lee Yew Meng Serangoon hub up for tender by THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) has opened for tender a "white" site, which can be used for commercial and/or residential development, in the centre of the proposed transport hub at Serangoon Central. It is located at an MRT
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    • 233 15  -  Chan Chao Peh WITH the easing of hedge fund investment regulations by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), DBS Asset Management (DBSAM) is offering the first in a series of funds aimed at low-risk-appetite retail and institutional investors. DBS Absolute Return Fund will
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    • 128 15 Bloomberg TOKYO Mizuho Holdings Inc rose 2.4 per cent yesterday after the bank said it will increase capital by one trillion yen ($14.7 billion) as accelerating bad-loan disposals forced it to widen its loss forecast to the largest ever in Japan. Two days ago, Mizuho widened its
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    • 345 17 -AFP Solid 2002 results indicate emergence from Asian crisis BANGKOK Solid full-year results for Thai banks released over the past week point to a strong outlook for 2003, with lenders largely overcoming Asian crisis concerns over provisioning, non-performing loans and weak loan growth, said analysts.
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    • 146 17  -  Val Chua STEPPING up the HDB mortgage war, OCBC Bank has abandoned its first-year rate to 1.5 per cent. Explaining the move to cut limited-time-only packages, Mr Y Y Chin, the bank's executive vice-president, said in a statement "Speaking to customers, we realise that they
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    • 185 18  -  Chan Chao Peh SingTel wins contract from Toyota by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg SINGTEL has won a contract to manage the Asia-Pacific data communications networks of Japanese carmaker, Toyota. Under the terms of the contract whose value is not revealed SingTel would also be providing international voice calls for Toyota
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    • 175 18  -  Val Chua SINGAPORE'S already-flag-ging ambitions to become a semiconductor hub may take a further beating as Taiwan receives a boost of NT$lO billion ($5Ol million) over the next three years to upgrade its chip industry, particularly in the higher-value segment that is chip design. According
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 312 21  -  Agencies 'Lack of planning for post-war Iraq' WASHINGTON As the United States mobilises its forces for a war against Iraq, a fresh round of criticism has emerged over Washington's lack of planning for a post-war Iraq. A leading security think tank, the Center for Strategic and International
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    • 46 21 With the Year of the Goat around the corner, these plush animals made an arresting display in front of a shopping mall in Shanghai yesterday. The worker above was counting them, to make sure that none of the goats had gone astray. photo -Afp
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    • 220 21 JAKARTA Frustrated by mounting criticism over her performance, Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has said that she will run in next year's election and challenged critics to be fair. "For those who want to create unrest... I challenge them to be fair and just and meet me
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    • 157 21 -AFP WASHINGTON In a tragic mistake, a woman had both her breasts removed after being told she had advanced breast cancer, only to find she had been given another patient's diagnosis. "There was an accidental switch. Two patients' slides were switched. It was a
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    • 89 24 Reuters SEOUL A veteran bureaucrat is to become South Korea's Prime Minister when Presidentelect Roh Moo Hyun takes office in late February. Mr Goh Kun (picture), 65, was Prime Minister for several months at the start of the 1997 Asian financial crisis and was later
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    • 303 24 Agencies Carter has plan to end Venezuela strike CAEACAS Peace crusader and former US President Jimmy Carter has risen to the challenge of trying to end Venezuela's 51-day strike that has had disastrous effects on the crucial oil industry. Venezuelan television network Globovision announced that the Nobel Peace
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    • 103 24 Agencies PANMUNJOM (Korea) Frustrated American and South Korean soldiers have given their North Korean counterparts a phone and fax machine to facilitate communication. The North Korean military in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that separates the two nations had been using a 1950s Russian crank
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    • 78 24 -AFP photo Cars lining up at a compressed natural gas station in Islamabad yesterday as millions of Pakistanis were unable to heat their homes, cook or fill up cars. A key pipeline was ruptured in a sabotage rocket attack by angry armed tribesmen in the
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    • 168 24 Agencies SYDNEY Arsonists were blamed yesterday for the destruction of at least four of the nine homes lost as firefighters battled against bushfires across drought-rav-aged Australia. While the fire danger in the national capital, Canberra, had eased, towns in Victoria state were under threat from new
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  • COMMENTARY
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      793 26  -  Marites Danguilan Vitug With no successor in sight, Arroyo faces a growing list of domestic problems THE PRESIDENT'S WOES Accusations that recent Cabinet appointments were politically-motivated. Criticism of a proposal to replace the presidency with a parliamentary system. Pressure to reduce a deficit that stands at 5.6
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  • UPFRONT
    • 672 28 Reuters and their Web of codes HONG KONG When is the number 520 worth a whole lot more than its numerals imply? When it is sent to you in a Chinese Internet chat room, where it means you've just been propositioned by someone using Chinese Web shorthand to
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  • LIMELIGHT
    • 398 30  -  Serene Foo Follow the Yips; saga on another channel CHANNEL surfing may take on a new meaning next month when the second instalment of the Hong Kong TVB blockbuster, At the Threshold of an Era, makes its appearance on MediaCorp Channel 8. The first series was shown on
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    • 107 30 -AFP LOS ANGELES Diva Jennifer Lopez's divorce from dancer Cris Judd will become final in a few days, leaving her free to marry her sweetheart, Ben Affleck, court documents showed on Tuesday. Papers filed in Los Angeles showed that the 32-year-old
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    • 404 30  -  ChenSzeKai QINGAPOREAN singer Rui En O(picture) knows how to make herself comfortable during an interview. "Eh, can I sit like that? Do you mind?" she asked, crossing her legs into a lotus position on the sofa. You may remember her in
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    • 293 32 -Reuters LOS ANGELES Pop singer Anastacia (picture) has revealed that she has breast cancer but has urged her fans not to worry, declaring: "I'm a fighter." The illness was confirmed by a biopsy that the 29-year-old recording artist underwent last week in New York City. "My
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    • 355 32  -  Janice Lee American Idol's Mr Nasty and team brings reality to Ch 5 by. janice@newstoday.com.sg r I "*HE hugely popular talent show American Idol is J. set to hit television screens tonight. MediaCorp Channel 5 will screen the second season of the series, which was
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    • 153 32 Reuters/Variety ATLANTA Entertainer Bobby Brown, who was jailed last week after pleading guilty to a 1996 drunk driving charge, has been admitted to a hospital in Atlanta. Brown, 33, was sent to hospital after complaining of an undisclosed ailment, said Mikki Jones, public
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  • CITYSTYLE
    • 539 33 Reuters Golden Globe awards show exposes Hollywood's odd tastes LOS ANGELES Mystery swirled around the red carpet at the 2003 Golden Globe awards on Sunday, where the night's gilded display by Hollywood's hottest talent raised more fashion questions than answers. Why did Lara Flynn Boyle appear in a
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    • 534 33  -  Toh Xing Yu, Miss EverSoft TAKE a look at your bathroom and there's a good chance that while you have many bottles of cleansers, moisturisers and creams on the shelves, you may not have a single bottle of facial toner. When I
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  • INFOTECH
    • 515 34  -  Aloysius Choong The 6100 handset is a top-notch blend of form and function by aloysius.choong@asia.cnet.com IT did not take long for the Nokia 6100 mobile phone to jump to the top of the charts. But it's no surprise, given that this phone, like its predecessors, bears all
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    • 144 34 MICROSOFT Game Studios will offer its multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), Asheron's Call 2 Fallen Kings, here from mid-February. Local players will be able to buy the game at retail shops, pay for their online subscriptions in local currency and play on servers based
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    • 185 40 QANTAS is celebrating Australia Day by offering bargain fares to major international destinations. The airline's three-day Celebration Sale from today to Saturday is for travel between Feb 3 til June 30. Its fare to Paris or Rome from Singapore during the three-day sale is $648.
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    • 192 42 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD Only months before its latest animated entry Finding Nemo hits cinemas this summer, Pixar Animation Studios is developing its potential 2006 release, which jointventure partner Disney may or may not distribute. Pixar's current co-production deal with Disney ends in 2005, after the release
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    • 68 42 -AFP LOS ANGELES Winona Ryder is to make a screen comeback in a black comedy, her first role since she starred in a reallife courtroom drama in which she was convicted of shoplifting. Ryder, 31, has signed up to play a role opposite TV star Ray
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    • 554 42  -  Yong Shu Chiang 8 Mile is probably the fullest glimpse yet of who the real Eminem is FILM REVIEW 8 Mile BORN and raised in the American industrial city of Detroit, he's the white boy with a catchy nickname who can outrap any of the brothers
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    • 97 42 The nominees are Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD The Directors Guild of America (DGA) announced the nominees for their award on Tuesday. They are Stephen Daldry (The Hours), Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers), Rob Marshall (Chicago), Roman Polanski (The Pianist) and Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York). The DGA
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    • 520 44  -  David Ngiau Tired of the usual Hollywood fare? Watch Full Frontal and call me in the morning FILM REVIEW Full Frontal hcu TILL last week, I've been away for about a month. During which time, I did not step into a cinema once. Watching movies especially since most
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    • 370 46 Reuters/Variety After winning eight Globes, studio's tactic may just pay off HOLLYWOOD In the Directors Guild of America award nominations announced on Tuesday, Miramax accounted for two-and-a-half of the five nominations. In the litany of thank-you's onstage at the Globes on Sunday, one name was mentioned more
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    • 540 49 Agencies SAN DIEGO It is the one day during Super Bowl week where no question seems too absurd, no request seems to go unanswered. Over 3,500 journalists, photographers and television crews have been credentialed for Sunday's (Monday morning, Singapore time) Super Bowl XXXVII between the Oakland
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    • 336 50 AFP Tennis Australian Open American becomes youngest in semis MELBOURNE Young American Andy Roddick won an epic five-set, five-hour masterpiece over Moroccan Younes El Aynaoui to reach the semifinals of the Australian Open yesterday. The 20-year-old US ninth seed dug deep into his energy reserves
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    • 616 50 Reuters Tennis Australian Open Live today, Ch22, 10.30am MELBOURNE Two Belgian friends stand between Serena and Venus Williams completing a family Grand Slam at the Australian Open today. The American sisters have played each other in the last three Grand Slam
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    • 339 50 -AFP MELBOURNE Andre Agassi has made a mockery of his advancing years and reduced his younger rivals to gasping wrecks on his relentless charge to a fourth Australian Open title. The 32-year-old American looks a class apart from the others here, even more
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    • 93 51 KUALA LUMPUR Asian football is a "sleeping giant" that has fulfilled just 20 per cent of its potential, Asian Football Confederation (AFC) chief Mohamed bin Hammam said yesterday. Hammam identified administrative problems among Asia's 45 national associations and a lack of strong grassroots development as key reasons for
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    • 54 51 SYDNEY Australian leg-spin-ner Shane Warne will quit playing one-day cricket immediately after the World Cup in a bid to prolong his Test career. The superstar spinner has been troubled by shoulder problems in recent years and said the wear and tear of oneday cricket was finally taking its
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    • 426 51  -  Stanley Ho Woodlands has yet to concede a goal in the tournament by stanley@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE THE scoreline, it was almost like a stroll for the home side. Woodlands Wellington eased its way past reigning Malaysia FA Cup champion Penang 1-0, and with a game to spare,
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    • 427 51 A WIN, and by a big margin. That was what Sri Lanka needed yesterday to put some daylight between itself and host Singapore to stay on course for this Sunday's final of the second women's Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) Cup. And
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    • 413 52 Agencies I asked Els how I can get 10 more metres with my drives. He looked at my equipment and then said: 'Your clubs look alright so I think you better hit the gym'. I think that is good advice. Prime
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    • 713 54 Almost all Leeds' stars are available and fans are not happy LEEDS They say money talks, but at Leeds United it says "goodbye". First there was Rio Ferdinand, then Robbie Keane, Lee Bowyer, Olivier Dacourt and, in the next week or so, possibly Jonathan Woodgate and Seth
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    • 272 54 AFP LONDON Brazilian World Cup goalkeeper Marcos was expected to be in London yesterday to open talks with Arsenal over a reported £2.5--million ($7-million) move, press reports said yesterday. The 29-year-old could prove an ideal long-term replacement for England 'keeper David Seaman, who will
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