Today, 19 March 2003

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    Fed stands pat on rates
    75 1 3AM LATEST THE US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Tuesday but voiced uncertainty about the future state of the US economy on the eve of war on Iraq. Central Bank policy-mak-ers agreed to hold to their 1.25 per cent target for the federal
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  • EYES ON IRAQ
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      War in the ruins of diplomacy
      740 1 COMMENT/ElisiaYeo WITHIN a few short hours, the world has come to know the difference between talking about a world with a single superpower and the reality of living in one. If Iraqi President Saddam Hussein would not budge, the US would get him after
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  • HOT NEWS
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      VOICES
      145 2 "There will a greater danger if the US loses its power as a policeman. And sometimes, when you have to act as the policeman, you have to be a bully." Mr Seah Chiang Nee, a veteran journalist who runs iittiespeck.com "There are H^H^P^P^P^PJ so many per-B spectives, I H^H^H^H^H^HJ
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      M'sieur bad boy
      427 2  -  -Elista Yeo IF every war needs a villain, then the one sitting alongside Iraq in the United States' most-hated list is a strange choice. While 11 of the 15 members of the United Nations' Security Council were apparently not convinced by the case for immediate war, the
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      Lock icon Mark my words
      160 3 Agencies Traders celebrating at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday as share prices rose for a fourth day running after the Bush administration signalled that war against Iraq is imminent, Asian markets followed suit. LONDON He may be facing political extinction but British Prime Minister Tony
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      Markets love a good war ...
      458 3  - Markets love a good war Val Chua SOME are raging against Mr Saddam Hussein, others against the high-handedness of President George W Bush. But the markets seemed to have more pragmatic concerns. They merely hate uncertainly. After President Bush's 48-hour ultimatum to Mr Saddam, Asian markets jumped collectively with delight
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      Lock icon OPERA PROTEST
      38 4 Bloomberg photo Protesters painted "No War" on the main sail of the Sydney Opera House yesterday. Australian Prime Minister John Howard said his Cabinet authorised its military to join US and UK troops in disarming Iraq.
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      Lock icon Treading on eggshells
      498 4 Reuters Trapped between offending US and alienating population KOTA KINABALU South-east Asian nations will tread a delicate path over any war in Iraq to maintain ties with their major trading partner, the United States, without alienating their large Muslim populations, a senior official said yesterday. Further complicating
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      Spore urges Saddam to avert war
      280 4 SINGAPORE urged Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to seize his chance to avert war following US President George W Bush's ultimatum. A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) stressed that the UN Security Council's Resolution 1441 made it dear that Iraq must "comply
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Pressure to discharge?
      569 6  -  Tan Hui Leng MP asks whether doctors are too hasty by huil eng@ne wstoday. co m. sg tions rather than the duration of their stay. In reply, Health minister Lim Hng Kiang (picture) said: "Casemix is not the culprit as we have to trust the professional judgment
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      Alaïa pulls out of fashion fest
      155 6  -  Anwar Hashim Haute couturier Azzedine Alaia has pulled out of this year's Singapore Fashion Festival because of the impending war on Iraq. Curator Jean-Louis Froment said yesterday: "We had hoped that the threat of war would recede, and that the Alaia events could proceed
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      In Parliament
      385 6  -  UPGRADING ACCORDING to Opposition MP Chiam See Tong's calculations, it will take 333 years before the blocks of flats in Toa Payoh Lorong 8 get lift upgrading (LUP). In Parliament yesterday, Mr Chiam wanted to know why this was so, when Kirn Keat neighbourhood, which is under the
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      Accident and then marriage
      335 8  -  Joy Frances Expat wins hand of fiancee and likely payout by j o y@ne wstoday. co m. s; THE Court of Appeals yesterday threw out a request to introduce new evidence concerning a motorcycle and lorry accident that occurred in August 2000. In the accident, the
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      New Sars cases found
      183 8 TWO more people who displayed symptoms of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) here, have been hospitalised. The mysterious illness has so far claimed nine lives and infected 500 people worldwide. A first suspected case was detected yesterday in Israel. There are 23 cases here to date,
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      Kallang storage facility opens
      163 8 RETAILERS, businesses and individuals who have lamented a lack of storage space in the past, can now find the answer to their problems at StorHub Self Storage in Kallang. The company a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hersing Corporation Limited boasts the largest storage facility in Asia and
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      Lock icon Bristol-Myers starts R&D hub here
      211 8 Newsradio 93.8 SINGAPORE'S push to become a biomedical hub in the region gets a boost today with the opening of Bristol-Myers Squibb's first Asian clinical development hub in Katong. The global pharmaceutical company plans to pour $12 million into the new centre, which will focus
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      Sharing a lifelong gift
      683 9  -  Mr Adair Goh MR Adair Goh, 36, and his wife, Ada, also 36 (picture), believe in giving and have made it a part of their lives. Mr Goh, a selfemployed trainer who teaches technical subjects to full-time students and retrenched workers, said: "I feel that I
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  • LETTERS
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      Best defence
      226 10  -  Yak Chin Hua Is rise in weapons spending justifiable? I REFER to the letter by Mr Tan Kok Tim (Today, March 18). I agree that defence outlay is crucial to maintaining peace amid the current heightened threat. Nevertheless, it is equally crucial to ask whether the funds needed
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      Scrapping LRT is not a viable option
      240 10  -  Ckionk Chye Kit I REFER to Mr Nelson Quah's letter "Replace Bukit Panjang LRT with a feeder bus service" (Today, March 17). I feel that the writer has trivialised an issue that I believe worries SMRT and SLRT management. We are talking about
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      'Atypical' penalties for cancelling trip
      175 10  -  Ong Choon Hack I REFER to Mr Lim Boon Hee's letter "Scared by new disease" (Today, March 17). I had booked four tickets to Hong Kong and was to depart on March 20. Due to the outbreak of atypical pneumonia, I wanted to cancel the
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Ease debt limit: CapitaMall
      120 14 CAPITAMALL Trust, Singapore's first property trust, said the Government should increase or remove a limit on debt for real estate trusts. Singapore imposes a limit on borrowings by a property trust to 25 per cent of its equity. A gov-ernment-appointed committee said last year that the
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    • Market Watch
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        Straits Times Index – Intra-day Chart
        5 14 Straits Times Index Intra-day Chart
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        Singapore
        92 14 SINGAPORE'S stocks rallied as the STI had its biggest percentage gain in more than five months. DBS Group Holdings led shares of Singapore's largest companies higher on optimism a war between the US and Iraq will start soon and end quickly. The STI jumped 39.70, or 3.2 per cent,
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 14 US$ 0.5647 LIKE 0.3600 Yen 67.1842 HK$ 4.4038 RM 2.1457 Eurrj 0.***** Rupinh 5101.64 Bnhl 24.2357 Peso 31.05% A$ 0.9570 Infer, Ri =6.9119 Won 707.933 C$ 0.8373 Yuan 4.6737 NZ$ 1.0333 NT$ 19.6090
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        World markets
        52 14 Index Volue Change NIKKEI 7951.46 82.B2 1.05 HANG SENG 9041.51 237.35 2.70 ALL ORDINARIES TAIWAN WTD 2804.40 4539.72 93.40 181.73 3.45 4.17 KOREA COMP 537.31 22.07 4.28 SET 362.85 8.24 2.32 JAKARTA COM? 334.64 2.49 0.65 PHILIPPINES COMP 1005.5? 6.13 0.61 SHENZHEN B 196.12 -0.54 -0.28 MUMBAI 30B4.91
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        Commodities
        20 14 Gold !J! Silver uss/k Platinum ib$/oi 335.25 1.450 686.3 RubberWks 187.25 Palm oil Mtfaite 1502 Breal trude usUnnd 31.93
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        SGX most active
        66 14 By volume March 18 ACCS Qiolered DatocrftUSS ASL f-.'i: 11 i 11 c 1PV C:i:)'i(ll(lll(l not SingTel Pot Cent IPC Close 0.385 0.660 0.540 0.720 0.465 1.130 0.985 1.320 0.215 0.035 Change +0.035 +0.025 +0.050 +0.010 +0.020 +0.040 +0.050 +0.010 +0.010 +0.005 +10.0 +3.9 +10.2 +4.8 +4.5
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        SGX top rises
        80 14 3y$ Worth 18 jEotiue 50 Close Change 11.400 +1.000 By percentage Mardi 18 EI-tlEts Close Changi 0.010 +0.00! /enluie 14.500 +O.800 L&M 0.010 +0.00! JOE 10.300 +0.550 Comport O.04O +0.01! >PH 17 B00 +O.500 BBR 0.015 +0.00! iFPliO 17.800 +O.500 GolrJtran O.015 +0.0O! DBS 9.150 +O.400 Yongnnm
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        82 14 SGX Dioomoerg March 18 Close Change iBS Bl= -i- IICPS10 104.600 4100 By percentage March 18 Close Changi Excel 0.015 -0.0O! ■jiiiiiiji-c-'j'.LJi 4.340 -0.060 G!:l:;i 0.015 -0.00! «ovisw 5.450 -0.050 CSC 0.025 -0.0O! nngKee BMO 0.440 -0.030 FJBenW07O716 0.030 -0.00! laarneslnt 0.675 -0.020 Teamsptiere 0.080 Oj'l Irilliant
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      Lock icon The Wella gamble
      103 16 Reuters FRANKFURT Procter Gamble (P&G) will take control of German hair care firm Wella in a 6.5 billion euro ($l2 billion) deal. P&G said it has agreed to buy the majority stake belonging to the group's family owners and would launch an offer to the remaining shareholders.
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      Lock icon Out of M'sia
      91 16 AFX KUALA LUMPUR A total of 24 manufacturing companies with investments totalling RM638.9 million ($297 million) halted operations in Malaysia last year, while 51 companies downsized, said International Trade and Industry Ministry Parliamentary Secretary Fu Ah Kiow. The New Straits Times quoted Mr Fu as saying in
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      Ready to act
      340 16  -  Grace Tay Contingency plans in place if war unfolds: MAS by grace @news today, com. s a THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has said in a statement that should the United States go ahead in leading the war against Iraq, it "stands ready to act, where
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      Lock icon Corporate Briefs
      158 16 AFX DELGRO MERGER: Delgro, which is merging with Comfort Group, has requested a suspension in the trading of its shares today pending the outcome of shareholders' meetings. Shares of Delgro rose to $2.52 yesterday. Bloomberg KEPPEL CONTRACTS: Keppel Shipyard has secured two conversion contracts worth about $100 million.
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      Lock icon SPH tightens recruitment policies
      156 18 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) chief executive officer Alan Chan has set up a committee to help the company's newspapers, TV stations and magazines work together to improve competitiveness. SPH is coping with weak demand for advertising, which caused sales to fall 12.5 per cent last
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      Lock icon Not the time to bail out
      447 18  -  Vasu Menon Build on portfolio: Expert by tie wslffn ews to d ay. c o m .a g THE investment outlook appears very bleak and most investors do not see light at the end of the tunnel. Many are spooked and may be looking
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      Ray of light
      473 20  -  Carmen Lee Demand for LCD monitors will drive growth forTPV by news@ne watod ay. en m. sg THERE is growing uncertainty in the local market, aggravated by rising concern over the situation in the Middle East and the possibility of a war. In addition, there is concern
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      Lock icon Temporary staff cut of 1,000 at Qantas
      228 20 -AFX SYDNEY Qantas Airways said it will temporarily cut staffing levels by another 1,000 because of the downturn in the airline industry as the United States edges closer to war with Iraq. The airline last month announced it would reduce staffing levels by
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      Lock icon End of cold war?
      376 24 -AFP New Bank of Japan governor to mend ties with govt TOKYO The new team which takes over the running of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) tomorrow should at the very least put an end to five years of "cold war" over co-ordinating structural reforms and
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      China knew all along
      392 26 Report questions why it kept mum GUANGZHOU In the wake of a global outbreak of a deadly respiratory disease, many are questioning why the Chinese authorities did not disclose the more than 300 cases it had encountered earlier. The events of the past four months suggest
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      Lock icon New PM for Palestine
      144 26 Reuters RAMALLAH (West Bank) The Palestinian Parliament yesterday approved powers for a new Prime Minister beyond what President Yasser Arafat had sought as part of a reform drive launched under international pressure. Mr Arafat, who had been facing a US-led effort to dilute his powers, was
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      Probe into attack raises more Queries
      162 26 i JAKARTA It was meant to be a hearing on the recent attack on Tempo magazine journalists but the House of Representatives instead scrutinised the alleged mastermind's supposed illegal business ventures and questioned press freedom, The Jakarta Post reported yesterday. The hearing came as
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      MCA discord
      109 26 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) presidential council has decided to refer youth chief Ong Tee Keat to the parry's disciplinary board for allegedly tarnishing the party's image, The New Straits Times reported yesterday. MCA president Dr Ling Liong Sik said Mr Ong had repeatedly expressed doubts
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      Lock icon A question off abuse
      279 28 Reuters Kidnap girl case delayed SALT LAKE CITY A debate between the prosecutors and the Smart family over whether sexrelated charges should be included is delaying the formal filing of charges against the kidnapper. Brian David Mitchell, 49, and his 57-year-old wife, Wanda Barzee, were supposed
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      145 28 Agencies BEIJING Listening to parts of Chinese President Hu Jintao's first public address makes one wonder if the new leadership is heralding new ideas for the country. "China's development is at a new historical starting point," Mr Hu said in a nationally televised speech yesterday.
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      79 28 With Chile's Vina del Mar's skyline in the background, American adventurer Phil Buck and his crew sail the reed boat Tiracocha" into the Pacific Ocean on Monday. It took Mr Buck three months to build the raft on a Chilean beach. He plans to be the
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      129 28 LONDON Bishops who refuse to ordain practising homosexuals could be prosecuted under new laws which forbid discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday. The new draft regulations were drawn up for Britain to meet its obligations under a European Union directive
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      110 28 AFP NEW YORK A Brooklyn federal court convicted the brother of the late New York mob boss John Gotti on Monday on charges of racketeering, conspiracy and money laundering. Peter Gotti, 64, was found guilty after a twomonth trial that included testimony from actor Steven Seagal. Other members
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      101 28 -AFP BANGKOK Two Cambodian casino moguls have contributed to the multi-million dollar compensation, their government made to Thailand for damages in the January riots, a report said yesterday. Gambling kingpins Kok Ahn and Pad Supapa contributed U555.92 million ($lO million) to the compensation amount in bid
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      800 30  -  William Pesek Jr Don't just rely on those TV images to make Asian investment decisions by in Manila IN the days before flying to the Philippines, I heard two words uttered over and over again: "Be careful". The warnings came from colleagues in Tokyo and London, as
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      1022 32  -  David Njjiau Why delete scenes crucial to film's message? FOUR legs good, two legs bad. Explicit sex scenes okay, with the R(A) rating, but not even the tamest of kisses between two people of the same sex. This inflexible policy of our Board of Film Censors (BFC)
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      563 33 Reuters/Variety Integrity of award is destroyed by campaigning: Streep LOS ANGELES Oscar win ncr Meryl Streep said on Monday that vying for Hollywood's highest honour has become as complicated as a political campaign because, as in politics, when it comes to the Oscar, money talks, talent
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      239 33 LINKIN PARK LISTENING PARTY ATTENTION, fans of Linkin Park! Want to be among the first in the world to listen to Meteora the band's highly-anticipated follow-up CD to its Grammy-winning debut release Hybrid Theory in 2000? Just head down to HMV at the Heeren on Saturday. Besides a
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      300 33  -  Tor Ching Li by in Sydney eh i ngl i (3) n ewstoday. c om. sg "CAN we buy ourselves out of this?" was the first thing Ec Lin, 28, said to her two roomies yesterday morning in her distinctive nasal voice (which listeners of Class
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      371 34  -  Serene Foo Today photo by Miss Spore Universe 2003 finalist withdraws by sere ne(S>n ewsto dav.com.se SO CLOSE and yet so far from the crown. Yesterday, Miss Singapore Universe 2003 pageant finalist Lynn Yeow decided to withdraw from the pageant, four days before the finals.
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      733 36  - A real tough guy till he met Jet Li Serene Foo In Cradle 2 the Grave, Hawaiian hunk Dacascos mixes it up with his idol IT'S tough fighting gongfu veterans. Even if it's only for the movies and you are a highly-trained martial arts expert yourself. American actor Mark Dacascos
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        362 37 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD Three new films failed to dislodge Bringing Down the House from the top of the North American box office last weekend, as Disney's odd-couple comedy became only the second movie this year to rank No 1 for two straight weeks. According to studio estimates
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      624 39 Fergie thinks winning title this season would be his crowning glory LONDON Alex Ferguson claimed yesterday that winning the Premiership again this season would be his greatest achievement because he could make Arsene Wenger eat his words. The Manchester United boss is delighted that his side is now
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      578 40 AFP Missing defenders and home advantage raises Valencia's spirits Champions League Group B Valencia v Arsenal Live, tomorrow, Ck 5, Ch23, 3.30 am PARIS Both Arsenal and Valencia clash today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) desperately seeking to land the knockout blow to cither's Champions League hopes and also
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      447 40 Champions League Group A Newcastle v Barcelona Live, tomorrow, Ck 23, 3.30 am NEWCASTLE Alan Shearer yesterday promised that he would be fully focused on Newcastle United's Champions League encounter with Barcelona at St James 1 Park. However, his club's hope of
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      312 41  -  Stanley Ho WHAT a difference a day makes. The first day of training saw grey clouds gather over the Lions' camp, with five players on the injured list. Yesterday, the clouds lifted as caretaker national coach P N Sivaji received the news that
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      91 41 -AFP AUCKLAND New Zealand's sevens rugby and field hockey teams are reconsidering taking part in upcoming events in Asia because of the threat of war in Iraq and a pneumonia outbreak. The New Zealand rugby team is scheduled to fly out on Sunday for the annual
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      562 41  -  Stanley Ho Young Lions' midfielder Shahril tipped for great things by sta nley(g> newstoday, com. sg EARLY last year, Shahril Ishak, like many other youngsters, was playing football for his school, representing ITE Ang Mo Kio. So good were his performances for his school that he
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      633 42  -  With the investigation not completed, player should have been warned first Comment by S Gulam gulam@newstoday.com.sg RACE, religion and language have always been sensitive issues. Which is why the allegation made by former national footballer R Sasikumar that he was abused by racist comments by a foreign
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      246 42 -AFP LONDON England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson (picture) said yesterday he is confident his side will reach Euro 2004 as crucial qualifiers against Liechtenstein in Vaduz a week on Saturdaj and Turkey at Sunderland on April 2 come into sharp focus. Eriksson took some flak after
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      125 42 AFP KATHMANDU Nepal easily defeated football newcomer Afghanistan 4-0 in a Group C preliminary round qualifying match yesterday for next year's Asian Cup in China. Nepal's Nirajan Rayamajhi scored the first goal of the game after 35 minutes, closely followed by Hari Khadka
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      101 42 DUE to the tremendous interest in the sport at the youth levels, the closing date for the annual 41st National Bodybuilding Championships has been extended to Mar 31. This after the Singapore Body Building Federation continued to receive application requests after the initial closing date of
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      87 43 KEY BISCAYNE In what is considered the 'fifth' Grand Slam, world number ones Lleyton Hewitt and Serena Williams were drawn as top seeds of the WTA and ATP Masters Series hardcourt events that begin here today. The ATP showdown sees Australian Open champion Andre Agassi of the United
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      80 43 BERLIN Germany's European 4x400m relay gold medallist Florence Ekpo-Umoh was suspended yesterday by the German Athletics Federation (DLV) on suspicion of doping. The DLV said in a statement that Ekpo-Umoh had been suspended following a positive test for the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol. The test was taken during
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      71 43 INDIANAPOLIS Arvydas Sabonis scored 16 points 12 in the fourth quarter as the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the slumping Indiana Pacers 95-88 in National Basketball Association action yesterday. Ruben Patterson added 15 points for the Trail Blazers, who snapped a two-game losing streak by sending the reeling Pacers
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      47 43 SYDNEY Australia is committed to sending a team to the Hong Kong rugby sevens tournament despite a pneumonia outbreak in Asia, the Australian Rugby Union said yesterday. The Hong Kong tournament, on March 28-30, is a leg of the International Rugby Board World Sevens series.
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      259 43  -  Stanley Ho by stanley @>newstoday. com. sg OUTGOING national coach and technical director Jan Poulsen (picture) may remain in Singapore after all. Not with the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), but with S-League newcomer Sinchi FC. Sinchi's vice-chairman Wang Jinhui confirmed
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      522 43 Agencies ICC World Cup semi-final j Lee rips out top order I PORT ELIZABETH Brett Lee inspired Australia to victory over Sri Lanka in a rainaffected World Cup semi-final yesterday. Bowling with lightning speed in his opening spell, Lee dismissed Marvan Atapattu (14), Hashan Tillakaratne (3)
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