Today, 8 July 2003

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  • HOT NEWS
    • NEWS FEATURE-VAL CHUA
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        Was it a bungle at
        657 2  -  Val Chua A public relations disaster, says MP of SBS Transit's last-minute act to by val@newstoday.com.sg Pasir Ris Group Representation Constituency. He revealed that there were rumours among his residents as early as January that the station may not open. A clarification with the Singapore
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      Tough brain separation underway
      270 2  -  NEUROSURGEONS were last night cutting millimetre by millimetre through tissue between the brains of the conjoined Iranian twins, Ladan and Laleh Bijani. Although the brains are separate, they have become adherent, having been so close to each other over the 29 years of the twins' lives.
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      RAFFLES SHARES RISE
      82 2 AS the world followed the operation to separate the twins, the market reacted favourably for the Raffles Medical Group. The publicly-traded company, which runs Raffles Hospital, rose 19 per cent to close at 44.5 cents yesterday, its highest in 28 months. Four-and-a-half million shares were traded yesterday,
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      Buangkok?
      465 3 inform of station's non-opening 37 hectares of vacant state land which used to be agricultural land surrounding the station is reserved for high-rise residential projects. "The government has no immediate plans to develop it," it said. Currently, there is a lack of commercial activities in the area Apart from
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      SPC's China unit being probed
      162 3  -  Kim-Kyna Tan WHEELING and dealing in China comes with its share of risks and liabilities. The Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) has become embroiled in an investigation over a joint-venture company in which it has a 50 per cent stake. Mr Kiew Hock Thiam, general manager
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      Post-Sars HK in bid to woo visitors
      182 3  -  -Jasmine Yin HONG KONG was taken off the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Sars list on June 23. The government has earmarked nearly HK$l billion ($225 million) to revive its economy, with HK $417 million being allocated to tourism-related programmes. The Hong Kong Economic
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Sars Channel to end transmission
      183 4  -  Lim Wei Vi IT has been 38 days since the World Health Organisation (WHO) took Singapore off its list of Sars-affected countries. Saturday saw the removal of Taiwan, the last country on the list With these events, the Sars Channel will cease transmission at midnight
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    • IN THE NEWS
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        WINNING ENTRIES TURNED INTO TV SERIES
        61 4 NINE local writers have been awarded Golden Pen Awards worth a combined total of $16,000 in the Media Development Authority's National Scriptwriting Competition, and some of the winning entries will soon be made into a TV series by MediaCorp TV. Viewers can expect to
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        HIGH DEMAND FOR HDB FLATS
        72 4 MORE than 3,700 Sinaaporeans have bid for HDB flats under the board's latest balloting exercise. This is about three times more than the number of flats on the market. About 1,286 four- and five-room flats in Ang Mo Kio, Bukit Merah and Queenstown are for
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      Lock icon Pierre's surprise
      576 4  -  Joy Frances by Actor says Rayson offered treatment for Andrea ioy@newstoday.com.s IN A surprising revelation, MediaCorp artiste Pierre Png told the High Court that his colleague Rayson Tan was willing to take Andrea De Cruz to China for treatment if Singapore doctors were unable to help her. Mr
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      SARS AND THE LAW
      403 4 SARS AND THE EMPLOYERS' DUTY DO employers have a duty to their workers to ensure that the workplace is safe from Sars? It could be argued that employers have an implied contractual duty to take reasonable steps to ensure their employees' safety and not to expose
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      Stop the virus
      344 6  -  Grace Tay Eli Lilly coughs up $122m to fight tuberculosi by grace@newstoday.com.sg INADEQUATE funding and treatment, coupled with ignorance have led to a steady rise in tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). MDR-TB is as infectious as TB and seen as an international health threat, particularly
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      Thank you Hardaya
      141 6 DESPITE the bleak economy, Singaporeans have shown that they can spare a thought for the under privileged. Indonesia-based sports apparel distributor, Hardaya Equipment, raised more than $17,000 for the Down's Syndrome Association last month by pledging five per cent of the proceeds from its warehouse sale last
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      A simple paint job goes a long way
      526 8  -  Razali Abdullah Customer satisfaction is contractor's calling card by razali@newstoday.com.sg IT LISTS Johnson Johnson and SIS Sugar among some of its clients. It undertakes $100,000 worth of major renovation works of landed property regularly. But for Earnest Interiors and Renovation Company, it
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      Maid services under one roof
      335 8 HAVING a maid makes life easy. Hiring one, or renewing their contracts, though, can prove quite a chore. In fact, most of us find ourselves having to apply for leave from work just to settle the administrative matters pertaining to our foreign maid. Now, you
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  • LETTERS
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      Axe the S-factor
      341 10  -  Gerald Giam Sin-factor events may boost tourism, but at what cost? I REFER to the commentary "The tourism S-factor" (Today, July 7). The writer is of the opinion that the "sin" factor in events held here will "put some oomph into the tourism industry" and thus the
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      Limits to liberalism
      223 10  -  Jason Lee Boon Hong I REFER to the article "Local gays, foreign gays" (Weekend Today, July 6 and 7). Over the last decade or two, we have been taught words such as "regionalisation", "globalisation" and "knowledge-based economy". The advent of the Internet and IT age has inevitably
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Raffles' rally
      187 12 Bloomberg Occupancy doubles at hotels RAFFLES Holdings Ltd doubled occupancy at its four Singapore hotels since April, analysts said, erasing concern about the effect of Sars and pushing its stock to a one-year high. Raffles is filling more than 60 per cent of its hotels' rooms, analysts said,
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    • Market Watch
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        Lock icon Singapore
        96 12 AFP SINGAPORE shares surged past the crucial 1,500 resistance level yesterday amid expectations of strong gains on Wall Street, dealers said. The STI rose 29.85 points or 2.01 per cent to 1,516.09, while the broader All-Singapore Equities Index was up 8.62 points to 408.63. This was the fifth straight
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        World markets
        61 12 Index Value Change Pts Nikkei 225 9795.16 247.43 2.59% Hang Seng KLCI 9892.40 730.40 255.59 +5.29 2.65% +0.73% Sydney All Ords laiwan Weighted 3005.40 5322.26 4.60 170.41 0.15% 3.31% Korea Composite Fhai SET Index 704.29 489.33 +11.04 -6.39 +1.59% -1.29% lakarta Composite Philippines Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai 511.378
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 12 US$ 0.***** UK£ 0.***** Yen 67.3152 HK$ 4.***** RM 2.***** Euro 0.***** Rupiah 4,665.35 Baht 23.7542 Peso 30.4450 A$ 0.***** Indian Rs 26.4447 Won 674.812 C$ 0.***** Yuan 4.***** NZ$ 0.***** NTS 19.6152
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        Commodities
        21 12 Gold uss/oi 349.676 Silver uss/oi 4.***** Platinum uss/oz 670.000 Rubber cents/kg 174.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1417 Brent crude uss/borrel 27.37
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        Straits Times Index
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        SGX most active
        60 12 By volume July 7 Chartered DatacrftUSS StarCrusUSS Digiland GES 4siaFoodP MultiVis L&M IAC 2OOUSS Japan Asia Close 1.050 1.160 0.290 0.125 0.450 0.195 0.300 0.015 1.740 0.100 Change +0.080 +0.090 +0.030 +0.015 +0.050 +0.020 +0.015 +0.110 +0.020 +8.2 +8.4 +11.5 +13.6 +12.5 +11.4 +5.3 +6.7 +25.0 '000
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        SGX top rises
        80 12 luly 7 Creative 50 Close Change 15.000 +0.600 :&N 9.300 +0.500 iPH 100 )ukit Sem 18.900 +0.500 12.500 +0.300 jreatEast 10.300 +0.300 iPH 18.800 +0.300 JOB 13.200 +0.300 fenture 16.900 +0.300 iTIETFlOO 15.350 +0.220 :iTYDEV 4.700 +0.200 Jy percentage Iuly7 Close Change <ian Ann W*****7 0.030 +50.0
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        SGX top falls
        77 12 )y$ luly 7 Close Change »IA 200 10.400 -0.100 Ipollo 0.530 -0.050 .eaview 6.050 -0.050 .ingamasC 2kHKS 3.500 -0.050 law Par 4.320 -0.040 .PH-SIA DBeSCW*****70.660-0.040 VVJennings AS 1.610 -0.020 .imSiangC 0.100 -0.015 kpial 0.320 -0.010 By percentage July 7 Close Change El-Nets 0.015 -25.0 BBR 0.020 -20.0
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      SingTel moves up chart
      92 14 OUT of the six Singapore companies that made it to "The Global 1000 The World's Most Valuable Companies" list of the Asian edition of the Business Week, only one rose up the chart from the previous year. The company is SingTel, which moved up from 268th
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      Case steps in
      539 14  -  Val Chua to mediate rising complaints against banks by val@newstoday.com.sg THERE is now a seven-day "free-look" period for you to cancel your unit trust investments, but one consumer who invested $40,000 based on poor advice in 1999 got a full refund, said Consumers Association of Singapore (Case).
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      Lock icon EU, Asean and a free trade agreement?
      186 16 Agencies BRUSSELS The European Union (EU) is ready to negotiate a free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) once the current round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks is completed, the European Commission said. The commission will formally agree
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      8.5% more containers for PSA
      118 16 PSA handled 2.33 million 20-foot equivalent units, a standard container size, in June, compared with 2.14 million units a year earlier, it said on its website. The Singapore Governmentowned port operator moved 8.5 per cent more containers at its terminal here last month, or a
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      Aussie dollar defies gravity
      620 16 Business Comment/Vasu Menon LOCAL investors may not have made a lot of money from the stock market over the last two years, but if they had placed their money in an Australian dollar fixed deposit, they would have enjoyed gains of more than 40 per cent
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      Lock icon Media Prima's purchase of TV3 in final stages: Report
      167 17 AFX-Asia KUALA LUMPUR Media Prima is finalising its purchase of private television company Sistem Televisyen Malaysia (TV3), the New Straits Times quoted an industry source as saying. The newspaper also quoted the source as saying that Media Prima is now in
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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      Lock icon APP probe ends
      254 18 Bloomberg What's next for $24.6b defaulter? SINGAPORE investigators have completed an 18-month investigation into Asia Pulp Paper Co (APP) and are now weighing their next move against the company that defaulted on US$l4 billion ($24.6 billion) of debts two years ago, a police spokeswoman said. "The Commercial
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      Lock icon Corporate Briefs
      104 18 AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia Bloomberg SNP Corp will spend HK$5OO million ($1 12.3 million) on new acquisitions, particularly in Hong Kong. Crest Petroleum Bhd's independent and non-execu-tive chairman Badri Masri and managing director Razman Ariffin resigned last Friday. No reasons were given.— Nat Steel Ltd will hold an extraordinary
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon British government cleared of misleading nation in Iraq war
      165 19 Agencies LONDON A parliamentary committee yesterday cleared the British government of misleading the country in the run-up to the Iraq war but criticised Prime Minister Tony Blair for publishing an unreliable intelligence dossier. A report by the House of Commons Foreign
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      Taipei blamed
      238 19 Families of Sars victims seek more money from govt TAIPEI Angered by the government's handling of the Sarsoutbreak, families of victims are demanding compensation from the authorities with the help of a consumer watchdog, a local newspaper said yesterday. The Consumer Foundation said on Sunday it plans to
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    • AROUND THE WORLD
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        Lock icon HAMBALI INDICTED
        80 19 -AFP THE Philippines has indicted Asia's most wanted man, Hambali, and seven other people for the bombing of Manila's overhead railway that killed 22 people in 2000, the justice department said. Hambali and Faiz Abubakar Bafana, two alleged leaders of the Jemaah Islamiyah group, were indicted along with
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        Lock icon HACKERS MESS UP INTERNET
        87 19 -AFP A WEEKEND hacker contest in Washington resulted in "the messiest day in the whole Internet history", as it disabled hundreds of websites from Brazil to the Netherlands, said Zone H, a site that monitors cyber attacks. The site said it was targeted even though it
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        Lock icon TAYLOR ACCEPTS ASYLUM OFFER
        74 19 -AFP LIBERIAN President Charles Taylor (picture) has accepted an offer of asylum in Nigeria to end a civil war but gave no indication when he would leave and stressed the need for an orderly depar- ture. Mr Taylor also urged Washington to intervene quickly to ensure
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        Lock icon SHOPPER SETS HIS OWN PRICE
        93 19 AFP A SHOPPER in southern France determined the price of his purchases at several supermarkets near Montpellier. According to police, the 22-year-old suspect made barcode labels on his home computer and replace the originals with them to buy goods for a fraction of their real
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      Lock icon Political pawn?
      221 20 Reuters Russia's richest man investigated for theft MOSCOW Mr Mikhail Khodorkovsky (picture), Russia's richest man, said he and a key business ally, who has been charged with theft of state property, were pawns in a power struggle between competing Kremlin factions. The head of oil giant, Yukos, said
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      Lock icon Lost plane surfaces, vanishes again
      118 20 -AFP LONDON A Boeing 727 plane, which disappeared suddenly in Angola in May and unnerved US intelligence agencies, reappeared last week in the Guinean capital of Conakry before vanishing again, The Guardian reported yesterday. Washington has been working with African governments in the past month
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      162 20 Why Law? All of us are presumed to know the law jo aiim Do we really know the law? Knowing the rules will help you succeed in business and life j People worry unnecessarily due to ignorance People can make a change if they knew that laws are based on
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon A lesson from the Danes
      983 22  -  Yeo Lay Hwee Affairs. The world does not stop if you lose and Singapore needs a soul to survive by news@newstoday.com.sg THE year 2002 was an interesting one for me. I was working in Denmark and closely observing the discussions there about necessary reforms in
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      45 22 INSTITUTE OF TheSllAis°T* INTERNATIONAL ™-9°™< ***■'<■ AFFAIRS Through different programmes for its members and Singaporeans, it is helping to make Singapore a B i more cosmopolitan and global S society with a people who know ti and care mare about the region www.siiaonline.org and Wider world.
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  • WATZUP?
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      Not too cool to keep it real
      486 23  -  Janice Lee Collaborating with Warren G is all in a day's work for Malaysian rap group,Too Phat IT SEEMS to be in the nature of hiphop artists to be completely nonchalant about their music, "keeping it real" even during interviews designed to promote
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      Old hits, new sounds
      348 24  -  Teng Qian Xi make Canadian singer Michael Buble's debut album a big seller by AMONG the many young vocalists who have reinterpreted classic songs is 25-year-old Michael Buble qianxi@newstoday.com.s; (picture), whose self-titled debut album was released here in April. Although he is an experienced song-writer, Buble
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      OF MODERNITY AND MEN
      70 24 THE Theatre Practice presents Moving Gods, a new play about urban redevelopment and its impact, tomorrow at Bpm at Jubilee Hall. Written by Lim Jen Erh and Wu Xi, who also directs, the story uses the demolition of an old temple as the jumping-off point for
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    • HEALTH
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        Put the gold into golden years
        599 26  -  Genevieve Woo You have a choice between anti-ageing treatments and a change in diet, lifestyle by genevieve@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE is the second fastest greying nation in Asia, after Japan. By the year 2050, 29 per cent of the population, or nearly one in three persons,
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    • BUSY COOK
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        Rainbow salad
        243 27  -  Pauline DLoh L A colourful revamp of a classic Chinese banquet appetiser ONE of the main motivators in helping the Health Promotion Board create its Guidelines to Healthier Chinese Cooking was Chef Huang Qingbiao, one of Singapore's most respected chefs and food and beverage consultant. His creations summed
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        RECIPE
        228 27 FRESH FRUITS AND JELLYFISH SALAD Ingredients (Serves 8 10): I kiwi fruit 1/2 mango 4 strawberries 1/2 nashi pear 120 g honeydew melon 50 g jellyfish 120 g cooked chicken 120 g cooked shrimp, peeled 8 g sesame seeds, toasted 4 tablespoons plum sauce 2 tablespoons apple sauce Method:
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        CHEF´S PROFILE
        151 27 Chef Huang Qingbiao was the founding chef at Charming Garden, one of Singapore's first and most successful restaurants featuring Hunan cuisine of which the Vegetarian Mock Duck and Minced Pigeon Soup in Bamboo Tube are signature dishes. After a long stint there, the chef moved to Cherry Garden
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        Stardom can wait
        777 28  -  Yong Shu Chiang For now, Whale Rider star Keisha Castle-*! Hughes just wants to be an ordinary teen SOME actors don't care much for riding off into the sunset. If you ask veterans such as Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood or Judi Dench, they may tell you that
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        Lock icon Star-struck
        235 30 -AFP photo Celebs prove an occupational hazard for five-star hotel staff THINK it's glamorous working in a swanky hotel frequented by celebrities? Think again. Two missteps by staff of the Carlyle Hotel infuriated Jack Nicholson and Nicole Kidman and resulted in firings. Nicholson complained about how a CD and
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        Lock icon Blockbusters to take over MSN.com
        175 30 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter LOS ANGELES Two things are very popular right now: Blockbuster movies and personalising computers. MSN.com is bringing the two phenomena together in a campaign it calls "Summer Movie Mania". MSN product manager Christine Andrews said the idea is to provide "a one-stop shop
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        Lock icon American TV's navel gazing to intensify
        182 30 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter NEW YORK Countering television's bicoastal bias, a former EchoStar and CNN executive is aiming to launch a new cable channel that reflects the America heartland. The America Channel will feature original programming that emphasises community and storytelling, two attributes of interest to
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      Lock icon All-Star Kobe arrested
      603 44 Agencies Lakers' superstar gives himself up to police, denies sexual assault LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Lakers were shocked to learn yesterday that their superstar guard Kobe Bryant had given himself up to police in Colorado after a woman accused him of sexual assault in a hotel.
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      Lock icon Beloki throws down the gauntlet but Armstrong's not interested
      477 44 -AFP Cycling Tour de France The race is about to get serious LA FERTE SOUS JOUARRE Lance Armstrong has been served notice by Joseba Beloki that his reign as four-time Tour de France champion could be under threat. As the race
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      Lock icon Slump eh!
      529 45 -AFP Tiger strolls to another win as the Open looms Golf Western Open Woods not threatened in final round LEMONT Two weather delays slowed Tiger Woods down, but nothing and no one could stop the world's top golfer on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Woods coasted to a
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      471 45 -AFP LONDON Claudio Ranieri said yesterday he was unsure if new Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich wanted to keep him on as coach. Russian oil billionaire Abramovich grabbed control of Chelsea in a shock takeover last week and immediately
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      Kewell a Red?
      179 45 LIVERPOOL Liverpool is likely to secure the services of £6 million ($17.4 million) Harry Kewell this week. But there is still some way to go before the 24-year-old is unveiled as a Liverpool player. BBC Sport understands there are still some obstacles to overcome and it will
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      170 45 Reuters LONDON Midfielder David Dunn has completed his move from Blackburn Rovers to Premier League rival Birmingham City after passing a medical, the Midlands club announced yesterday. The 23-year-old, whose fee was not disclosed, struggled to establish himself in Graeme Souness' squad last season after falling out
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      Lock icon Tennis has been waiting for him
      998 46  -  Rohit Brijnath Getty Images, Reuters photos Federer's Sampras-esque performance could not have come at a better time IT IS 3am in London, Monday morning, and sleep is beckoning but more powerful is the taste of victory that keeps him awake. And so, he goes
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      Lock icon A lion never dies
      427 47 -AFP State honours Foe as autopsy reveals death by natural causes YAOUNDE Cameroon international footballer Marc-Vivien Foe, who collapsed during a match in France last month and later died, was honoured with a funeral at the Notre-Dame Cathedral yesterday. The 28-year-old Cameroon star, who starred in
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      Teenager Chew makes history, reaches World Dressage Finals
      289 47  -  Tan Wee Boon FOR the first time ever, a Singapore rider has qualified for the World Dressage Finals next month. And she's only 14-years-old. Catherine Chew, who only started riding competitively last year, scored a superlative 69.40 per cent in the Children's
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      Lock icon US boxers humiliated
      225 47 -AFP BANGKOK The United States was left licking its wounds yesterday after all seven of its boxers were beaten in the first round in early action at the World Amateur Championships. A former powerhouse in the amateur fight game, the US has slumped embarrassingly in recent major
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      Rooney's safe
      84 47 LIVERPOOL lan Ross, Everton's head of corporate affairs, said yesterday that teen sensation Wayne Rooney was not at risk of an extortion plot. But Everton will hold urgent meetings with Rooney's agent Paul Stretford, who made the claim. The English Premiership club will speak with Stretford and local
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      Lee says Hola
      69 47 SEOUL South Korea's World Cup star Lee Chun Soo, Asia's young player of the year, joined Spanish first division runnersup Real Sociedad yesterday on a three-year contract. The 21-year-old midfielder who plays for Korean side Ulsan Hyundai signed a contract worth around US$5 million ($B.B million), his
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      Gadaffi double
      46 47 ROME Saadi Gadaffi, son of Libyan leader Muammar, made an impressive start for new club Perugia at the weekend, scoring twice in a 36 minute run-out as a substitute. The Italian Serie A club romped to a 12-0 win over the Italian amateur side.
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      Party time
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      No McLaren
      49 47 LONDON McLaren has effectively ruled out racing its new Formula 1 car at the British Grand Prix on July 20. Team boss Ron Dennis said it might be some time before drivers Kimi Raikkonen and David Coulthard got to race the MP4-18, if at all this season.
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