Today, 6 February 2003

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    8 1 TODAY Thursday February 6, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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    Lock icon Nuclear mujahideen
    340 1 Agencies 2AM LATEST Powell offers proof of Iraqi deception NEW YORK US Secretary of State Colin Powell (picture) told the world this morning Singapore time that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was doing everything to hide weapons of mass destruction as he pressed Washington's case for tough action to
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  • Article
    'Relaxed' COE policy fuels bidding mania
    575 1  -  Joy Frances by joy@newstoday.com.sg THOSE who thought that owning a car in Singapore had never been easier got a rude jolt yesterday as bidding for Category A went into overdrive. Usually, bids for a Certificate of Entitlement (COE) follow a time-tested trend. Buyers play
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon CPIB calls up four
      364 2  -  Jose Raymond Footballers, officials helping in investigations by j ose@newstoday. com.sg AT LEAST two footballers and two officials were taken to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) at Cantonment Road yesterday to assist in investigations. The two footballers Geylang United midfielder Mohd Noor Ali and goalkeeper
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      Firm fined for selling fake golf clubs
      145 2  -  -Jose Raymond A SINGAPORE company which sold imitation golf equipment to a private investigator hired by the makers of the original equipment was yesterday slapped with a $12,600 fine for breaching the Trade Marks Act Seiko Corporation, the Japanese manufacturers of the equipment,
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      Lock icon Woman abandons baby
      136 2 Newsßadio 93.8 A BUKIT Batok East resident was left holding an abandoned baby boy last Sunday. Sixteen-year-old Sharina Eusope was waiting for the lift at the ground floor of Blk 264 at about 9pm when a Malay woman handed the infant to her. She told Sharina that
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      Jayakumar airs concerns
      239 2 A US-LED strike against Iraq could cause problems for Southeast Asian countries with large Muslim populations if the conflict is presented as one aimed at Muslims, said Foreign Minister Prof S Jayakumar, in a CNN interview on Tuesday night Prof Jayakumar said: "It should be presented for
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      Marina for sale
      113 2 THE Ponggol Marina, which was plagued by lawsuits and a wind-ing-up petition last year, is now up for sale by public tender. Real estate agency CB Richard Ellis has been appointed in the mortgagee sale. "Ponggol has traditionally been the gateway for sea travel to the islands
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      Lock icon Murdoch, 71, to be dad again
      290 3 MELBOURNE Australian-born media magnate Rupert Murdoch is on a roll. With rival media giants not doing too well these days and his prostate cancer in remission, things could only get better for the profit-making News Corporation boss, who is to become a father for
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      Lock icon UK ready to strike
      116 3 Agencies LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that his country would be prepared to go to war with Iraq without a second UN resolution if a Security Council member used a "capricious" veto. He told Parliament that Britain would be prepared to launch military action
      – Agencies  -  116 words
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      Attack will fan Muslim anger, says Dr Mahathir
      260 3 PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia) Both Malaysia and the Philippines fear that a US-led attack on Iraq will fan Muslim anger and spark reprisals. Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad warned in an interview with Reuters yesterday that war, and the enmity stoked
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Too little, too late?
      376 4  -  Derrick A Paulo Star Hub launches Blackßerry wireless platform here by derri ck@newstoday.com.sg BILL Gates has one. So does Al Gore. Soon, some Singaporeans will get the chance to own it In a recent announcement, Star Hub and Research In Motion (RIM) agreed to provide the
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      SMEs to get a leg up
      113 4  -  Tan Hui Leng SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) looking for help usually have to decipher the slew of acronyms used by different public agencies. Now there is a new one GET-Up (Growing Enterprises with Technology Upgrade) to add to the verbal mix. An initiative
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      Lock icon Police question S'pore JI leader
      147 4 Channel News Asia TEN officers from the Singapore Police Force are in Bintan to question Mas Selamat Kastari (picture) k the fugitive leader of Singapore's Jemaah Islamiyah 1 (JI) network. jJ The Singapore police offi- n cers, who arrived on Tuesday night, have begun interrogating
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      Lock icon Witness to a murder
      204 4 Channel News Asia A MAN was sentenced to six months in jail yesterday for not reporting a murder he had witnessed. William Ho Kah Wei, 22, was present when four men allegedly killed Mr Leong Fook Weng, 36, along Kheam Hock Road in May 2000. The
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      Lock icon S'pore, India eye pacts
      113 4 Agencies SINGAPORE and India have held talks about an extradition treaty and a mutual legal assistance pact to fight terrorism and crime, Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lai Krishna Advani said yesterday. Mr Advani said the two countries have also agreed to study the establishment of a
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  • LETTERS
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      Win-win formula
      200 6  -  Yang Chang Shi, Job How Malaysia and Singapore can make it work I WOULD like to appeal to the leaders in Singapore and Malaysia to come up with a comprehensive joint water resource development agreement Perhaps, Temasek Holdings or Hyflux can consider setting up an Aquosus system manufacturing
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      HDB studio apartments are for the elderly, not young singles
      327 6  -  Leong Chok Keh I REFER to the letter, "Wanted: Studio flats", by Mr Leong Sze Hian (Today, Jan 27). The objective of the Studio Apartment (SA) Scheme is to provide a housing option for the elderly who wish to maintain
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Insurer blues
      299 8 Reuters AIG announces $3b liability cover; shares sink NEW YORK American International Group (AIG) Inc, the world's largest insurer, pushed the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial average down 1.19 per cent on Tuesday after the company warned that it had underestimated its liabilities. Worries about the foggy corporate profit
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      Lock icon NOL gains on bond talk
      110 8 Reuters SINGAPORE shipping group Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), which is looking to raise funds to cut its $2.5 billion debt, saw its share price rise yesterday amid talk that the company is planning a debt deal. A wire agency report, quoting unnamed sources, said NOL
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      Lock icon Profits under pressure
      68 8 -AFP SINGTEL'S December quarter net profit is expected to be under pressure from weak domestic operations, which will be offset by better earnings from overseas investments, analysts said. Analysts surveyed by financial news service AFX-Asia forecast a net profit of $255 million to $298 million, compared with
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        195 8 The STI was pulled down by declines in companies like Venture Corp which has businesses in the United States, on concern that US Secretary of State Colin Powell's claimed evidence of Iraqi weapons will make a Middle East war more likely. A war with Iraq will derail an economic
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 8 US$ 0.5757 UK£ 0.3485 Yen 68.6000 HK$ 4.4899 RM 2.1875 Euro 0.6286 Rupiah 5104.34 Baht 24.5636 Peso 30.9818 A$ 0.9718 Indian Rs 27.4881 Won 673.632 C$ 0.8717 Yuan 4.7655 NZ$ 1.0452 NTS 19.9764
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        World markets
        53 8 Index Value Change Pts NIKKEI 225 8549.85 64.95 0.77 HANG SENG 9180.47 -72.24 -0.78 ALL ORDINARIES 2898.30 -27.80 -0.95 TAIWAN WTD 5015.16 0.00 0.00 KOREA COMP 600.68 -3.10 -0.51 SET 373.28 -0.09 -0.02 JAKARTA COMP 392.31 -1.83 -0.47 PHIL COMP 1037.26 -12.41 -1.18 SHEN7HENB 209.30 0.54 0.26 MUMBAI
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        Lock icon Commodities
        24 8 SGX Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 384.55 Rubber cents/kg 168 Silver uss/oi 4.94 Palm oil RM/tonne 1 600 Platinum uss/oz 690.5 Brent crude uss/borrel 33.58
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        Straits Times Index Intra-day Chart
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        SGX most active
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        SGX top rises
        72 8 Feb 5 Close Change ieaview 5.200 +1.000 IMH400USS 6.200 +0.150 OBS Bk 6% NCPS*****.600 +0.100 >IA 9.850 +0.100 >ingamasC2kHKS 2.200 +0.100 fepLand 1.130 +0.070 SA 1.150 +0.060 HOL 0.965 +0.060 SingTel 10 1.360 +0.060 By percentage Feb 5 Close Change Goldtron CPS*****6 0.030 +0.020 Yongnam 0.020 +0.005
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        SGX top falls
        70 8 iy$ :eb5 iPH Close Change 17.900 -0.400 jrealEasI 8.300 -0.300 fenture 13.000 -0.300 IBS 10.200 -0.200 :&N 8.300 -0.200 iPH 100 18.000 -0.200 IPB Breweries 4.880 -0.170 Creative 50 11.400 -0.100 JOB 10.300 -0.100 By percentage Feb 5 Close Changi PDCCorp 0.060 -0.03: El-Nets 0.010 -0.00: [yberVill
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      Innovation-land
      217 10  -  Derrick A Paulo Spore edges higher in global enterprise ranking by derri ck@newsto day. com. sg AFTER floundering near the bottom of a global entrepreneurial index for two years, Singapore is starting to recover. Singapore is now ranked 21st out of 37 countries, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.
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      Lock icon Citibank eyes consumer finance
      111 10 The Asian Banker CITIBANK is working up an appetite for the consumer finance business in the Asia-Pacific region. "We have covered the affluent base, we have covered the credit cards fees," said Mr Frits Seegers, Citibank's Asia-Pacific group head (consumer banking). "The third development is consumer
      – The Asian Banker  -  111 words
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3004 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries:Call 852-2973-6600 B9 WjiW E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com ___J^JUPMIiiSM>iTW. Date Name NAV/Bid Oiler .11 Priw Pri" Aberdeen Asset II anagement (Asia) 4/2 A iert een Se -Americgn.Ofipgrtunities 0.548 0.577 \fl A )erc een Se -Asian High Yield 1.242 1.28 4/2 A iert een Se -China Opportunities 0.946 0.994 4
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      Lock icon M'sian exports at 6-month low
      215 11 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian exports grew at the slowest pace in six months in December, pulled down by a decline in electronics exports. Exports rose 8.6 per cent to RM28.5 billion ($13.1 billion) from RM26.3 billion a year earlier, the Ministry of International Trade and
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      Lock icon Manufacturing up again
      56 11 -AFP SINGAPORE'S manufacturing sector expanded for the 11th consecutive month in January due largely to new orders of electronics. The Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management, which calculated the figures, attributed the increase "mainly to higher new orders and new export orders, as well as moderate
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      Lock icon Four Boeings leased
      83 11 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering, the aerospace maintenance specialist, has said that its subsidiary has won a $10 million contract to lease two Boeing 737-300 aircraft to Biman Bangladesh Airlines for a year. It will also maintain the aircraft Separately, Singapore Airlines (SIA) will lease two Boeing 747-400
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      Lock icon Firm ups DelGro stake
      53 11 Bloomberg THE US-based Capital Group Companies has increased its stake in DelGro to 3.5 per cent from three per cent, according to a filing with the Singapore Exchange. Capital Group bought about 1.6 million shares at $2.20 each. DelGro shares advanced three cents, or 1.3 per
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  • INFOTECH
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      A Palm that lets you speak in all countries
      222 12 THE Palm Tungsten W (picture) handheld is now available here. It is the first Palm-branded integrated tri-band GSM/GPRS, MMS-enabled wireless handheld with a built-in keyboard for easy data entry. This data-centric handheld with a 16MB SDRAM, provides users with a sophisticated
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      Home boost to notebooks
      361 12 Mobile PC sales rose 9% last year as desktop sales fell 6% HOME users pushed the sales of personal computers up in Singapore by nine per cent last year. This came as sales of desktop PCs fell by six per cent over those of the previous
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      It should have been ...
      38 12 It should have been THE Phaser 7300 featured on Page 23 of INFOTECH magazine of Jan 28 Feb 17 is from Fuji Xerox Phaser Printing South-east Asia (FXPPS) instead of Fuji Xerox as reported. Its website is: www.xerox.com/officeprinting.
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Howard censured
      428 14 CANBERRA Australian Prime Minister John Howard suffered a historic defeat yesterday in a no-confi-dence vote by the Senate over his handling of the Iraq crisis. It was the first time in the 102-year history of the Australian Parliament that the Upper House had censured a Prime Minister with
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      Lock icon Secrets from a leaky laptop
      165 14 -AFP NEW DELHI -The Indian Army is punishing two officers who offered a military laptop to a civilian, who leaked the military's top-secret strategy for a major strike in Pakistan, official sources said yesterday. The foul-up occurred eight months ago in India's ChaambAkhnoor sector in
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      Tiles that failed to protect
      180 14 WASHINGTON As a probe into Columbia's destruction continues, the focus is on the damage to the tiles on the underside of the left wing caused by falling debris foam, ice or both 80 seconds after take-off, as a Nasa video showed. Some 24,000 six-inch square
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      Lock icon A way around the standoff
      60 14 -AFP photo Buses from the North passing South Korean soldiers at the Demilitarised Zone in Kosung, a town in South Korea's east coast. More than 100 South Koreans travelled to the North's scenic Mount Kumgang by bus to mark the opening of a newly built
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Gout expected to take middle path
      1186 16  -  Mano Sabnani by manoWnewstoday.com.sg D-DAY has arrived. After the best part of a year of soul-searching and path-finding, the high-powered Economic Review Committee (ERC) will put its master report to the Government, seeking whole-hearted adoption of its ideas and strategies. Not a few sacred
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      172 17 Tne 2003 City Shopper Rewards Programme is here. Now, you can redeem even more exciting gifts I j£k a^N^ and privileges, and a chance to win the Peugeot 206? Every $50 updated on your City Shopper card Q^ j^ in a single day from now to 30 April 2003 earns
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  • Watzup?
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      Lock icon It's been a Winding Road
      872 18  -  Chen Sze Kai After 20 years as a xinyao icon, Eric Moo waxes philosophical on his career and return to the stage byß WHILE Singapore was in a frenzy over the MTV Asia Awards recently, one of the pioneers of local xinyao returned to the
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      A Redl Survivor?
      548 20  -  Elisa Chia Can the hit programme make it in Reality TV Land? by elisa@newstoday.com.sg IS SURVIVOR worried about its survival in Reality TV Land? For the first time, TV critics in America were treated to 12 minutes of the sixth season's premiere episode a month before it
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      Underground shoppers
      146 20 MORE Singaporeans are now shopping "underground". The City Link Mall has reported a significant increase in shopper traffic at its air-conditioned subterranean mall. The 350-metre strip connects the City Hall MRT station to Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, Marina Square, Millenia Walk, Suntec City and the Marina Mandarin,
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      Lock icon DAILY BREW
      336 20 Agencies Hello.' slams Douglas and wife: Hollywood stars Michael Douglas and Catherine ZetaJones shouldn't complain that Hello! magazine is using unauthorised photos of their wedding because they actively sought publicity for the event, a court was told on Tuesday. Hello! printed the photographs three days before rival magazine
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    • CITY STYLE
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        Flash that gem of a smile
        184 21 THEY say diamonds are a girl's best friend but we're not talking about the costly stones here. This season, the creative people at Maybelline have come up with Water Shine Liquid Diamonds, a series of 12 liquid lip colours that answers a lady's call
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        Lock icon Wash away Your oes
        540 21  -  Cathleen Tung If you are running out of steam put it all back with a soak by cathleenWnewstoday.com.sg HAS the Lunar New Year holidays been a long weekend of non-stop partying and feasting for you? Now that you are back at work, do you feel that
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        A brush with blusher, for the natural look
        541 21  -  Toh King Yu, Miss Ever Soft SOMETIMES, the best make-up is the kind that doesn't look like make-up at all. Nothing can be more natural than sun-kissed, rosy cheeks. Not only do they give you a healthy I've-just-finished-kickboxing glow, a bit of
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        Competence in the global arena
        702 22 A roadmap to success, the SMCP (International) way SINGAPORE companies with dreams of going global have to first think about sending their executives back to school because the harsh reality is that local executives lack core internationalisation skills. "Singaporeans are generally known to be very
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        Who is eligible?
        170 22 We hope local companies keen on internationalising will recognise this programme as a good opportunity to develop human capital and waste no time in enrolling their executives. Mr Yew Sung Pei, director of Capability Development Group and South-east Asia Division of IE Singapore srhcp INTERNATIONAL Singapore-registered companies
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        An intoxicating mix of East & West
        372 24  - An intoxicating mix of East West Serene Foo Romantic comedy will crack you up Bollywood Hollywood FILM REVIEW AS ITS self-explanatory title suggests, Bollywood Hollywood (picture) is another raucous romp of eastern sensibilities propped up against a western backdrop, in the vein of the successful comedies, The Guru and Bend
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        Lock icon TV sex hotter but safer
        198 24 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD There is more sex on TV, but "safe sex" references are increasing too, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's biennial Sex on TV study, released in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The percentage of shows depicting or implying sexual intercourse rose from 10 per
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        In 'praise' of blurbs
        175 26  -  Timothy M Gray by Variety LET'S offer the nation's film reviewers a word of sympathy. They're just trying to earn a living; when they get invited to press junkets, they're expected to deliver rah-rah quotes that can be used in newspaper ads and TV blurbs. And
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        TIM GRAY'S WORST BLURBS FOR 2002:
        240 26 No Higher Praise Possible "The funniest holiday movie of all time!" Bill Zwecker, Fox-TV, on Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights "One of the funniest, darkest, did I mention funniest films I've seen in forever." Cary Berglund, KCAL-TV, on Death to Smoochy Written on the
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        Akan datang: Jack Neo's Homerun
        201 26  -  Serene Foo YOU might have seen posters (right) for Homerun over the Chinese New Year. No, it's not a film about baseball. Homerun is Jack Neo's latest film, a remake of Iranian director Majid Majidi's acclaimed Children of Heaven and Jack's follow-up to his I
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        722 28  -  Leonard Thomas Annex's online booking system can help corporations save millions by leonard(s)newstoday.com.sg of corporations that have capitalised on the latter's interactive travel booking service to drive down the cost of business travel. In a presentation by Motorola (USA), Pam Borgesen, its corporate travel purchasing manager,
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      654 31  -  Stanley Ho Ex-Geylang star's career in limbo, due to FAM ruling by stanley@newstoday.com.sg HE WAS forced to leave Brunei for Singapore's S-League four years ago due to a ban on foreign players in the M-League. The ban was lifted for the 2001 season, and Geylang United forward Brian
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      515 32 INDIANAPOLIS The giant is stirring, and all those who thought the Los Angeles Lakers were out for the count had better think again. Kobe Bryant scored 35 points as the Lakers held on for a 97-94 victory yesterday over the Indiana Pacers, a win that put
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      Lock icon As Keane as ever
      566 33 Reuters Return of 'serene' skipper has clearly boosted United's silverware hunt LONDON Roy Keane's ultra-disci-plined return to the Manchester United team in recent weeks has been a lesson in the virtue of controlled aggression. It has also coincided with the emergence of Alex Ferguson's team as
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      658 34 BVIHBJK The Prince' adamant he can still do the business CAPE TOWN These have been unusually quiet times for Brian Lara. In the build-up to the World Cup, the mercurial West Indian's name has been strangely absent from headlines, reported The Independent. Instead, the dominant themes have
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      323 34 Reuters JOHANNESBURG The World Cup technical committee will meet today to decide whether England's match against Zimbabwe can be switched to South Africa, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday. After weeks of hesitation, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) finally
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      Coach dropped
      67 34 LONDON Olympic triple Olympic champion Marion Jones was reported yesterday to have broken off working with Ben Johnson's former coach Charlie Francis thanks to pressure from her sponsor Nike. Nike was reported to have told her that if she does not end her association with Francis, plans for
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      Star wanted
      72 34 LONDON Arsenal was reported yesterday to have joined Manchester United and Inter Milan in the chase for Brazil World Cup star Ronaldinho, who is keen on a move from Paris St Germain. The 22-year-old striker has not played for PSG for four weeks after a succession of mysterious
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      87 34 PARIS France's Six Nations Championship campaign was blown off track yesterday when it was reported its South African-born Test prop Pieter De Villiers had tested positive for cocaine and ecstasy. The 30-year-old Stade Francais player, capped 29 times by France, was tested after training by the French sports
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      69 34 SAN JOSE U.S. Open champion Pete Sampras pulled out of next week's tournament in San Jose yesterday. Tournament chairman Barry MacKay said he felt one of the reasons why Sampras withdrew was because the 14-time Grand Slam champion was still considering his future. But he said while Sampras
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