Today, 8 July 2004, Afternoon Edition

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  • 11 1 today we set you thinking todayonline.com Thursday July8,2004. MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 193 1 Reuters Manila warned it must withdraw forces in Iraq DUBAI Gunmen have seized a Filipino working in Iraq and threatened to kill him unless the Philippine government withdraws its forces from the country within 72 hours, the Arabic satellite channel, Aljazeera, reported yesterday. The
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    • 34 1 REUTERS Japanese fashion designer Hanae Mori (picture), 78, who put Asia on the map in the Parisian world of haute couture, saying au revoir with her last catwalk show yesterday.
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    • 69 1 Reuters NEW YORK US stocks ended slightly higher yesterday as many investors nibbled at technology stocks that were battered in recent sessions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 20.95 points, or 0.21 per cent, to 10,240.29 and the Standard Poor's 500 Index gained 2.12 points, or
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    • 424 1  -  Raymond Andrew raymond@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Medical Council yesterday fired a salvo of facts in answer to the sharp remarks by British neurologist Professor Simon Shorvon about his sacking as head of the National Neuroscience Institute in April last year. The council made public the findings
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 42 1 NEWSrVIEWS S Murali Seeing hope for S'pore football in Lisbon/3 Virulent strain Researchers say bird flu could become epidemic/4 William Pesek Recent Asean meeting a show with no substance/2C LCj %M w% t_m] m_ r*rpiB__^ ■___r^--:-^^L^______L___!__a _^____S_______________t^W"' great's pore Sri IP Em
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    • 16 1 LAY CHARGED AT LAST NO FRENCH REVOLUTION JAPAN SEEKS GAS AT SPURS WORLD 18 SPORTS 51
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 185 2 Channel NewsAsia COMMODITY trading firm Daewoo Singapore is alleged to be embroiled in fraud involving more than $400 million and the High Court has ordered the company's compulsory liquidation. The company's creditor, Korea Asset Management Corp (Kamco), had asked for such
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    • 729 2  -  Val Chua Despite new 'win-win' deal, analysts remain downbeat over company's shaky fundamentals val@newstoday.com.sg A DRAMATIC "win-win" deal may have averted a clash of two tycoons over education group Informatics Holdings, but market watchers said the outlook for the company is still far from rosy.
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    • NEWScomment
      • 685 3  -  S Murali in Lisbon murali@newstoday.com.sg NOW that the dust has settled from an amazing Greek fairy tale in Euro 2004, perhaps it is time for us to take a closer look at how a small country with a population of just over 10
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    • 239 4 JAKARTA Former Indonesian armed forces chief and presidential candidate Wiranto is considering challenging the election result in the Constitutional Court after authorities ordered a recount that could affect millions of votes, reported The Australian. The General Election Commission had ordered the nationwide recount
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    • 316 4 Researchers warn of slender chance of stamping out virus as it resurfaces PARIS As bird flu re-emerged in Asia, researchers warned there were only slender chances of stamping out the virus, which could, in the long term, mutate into a killer epidemic. Yesterday's warning coincided
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    • 104 4 -AFP HONG KONG Hong Kong's health secretary Yeoh Eng-kiong has resigned after being condemned for a series of blunders during last year's Sars outbreak, the territory's chief executive Tung Chee-hwa said yesterday. Mr Yeoh was among five top health officials criticised in a scathing
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 54 4 AFP Cambodia will refuse to join the Asia-Europe Meeting unless the European Union (EU) also allows military-ruled Myanmar entry to the biennial summit, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. Some EU nations are opposed to Myanmar's entry unless it lifts restrictions on opposition leader
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      • 64 4 AFP A suspected Tamil Tiger rebel detonated explosives strapped to her body, killing herself and four policemen yesterday in the first suicide attack in the Sri Lankan capital since a truce was reached in 2002, officials said. The bomber blew herself up while
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      • 58 4 Three months after winning the polls, Malaysia's ruling Barisan Nasional has allegedly not yet paid a dozen firms, which supplied a staggering RMIOO-mil-lion ($45-miHion) worth of election merchandise such as posters, banners, T-shirts and key-chains, reported malaysiakini.com. But, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has
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      • 57 4 AFP Malaysia's armed forces have declared war on obesity, as many of its soldiers are too fat, the Berita Harian reported yesterday. About 20 per cent of the 1,488 deaths among soldiers were due to chronic illnesses, including obesity, high blood pressure and
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    • 159 2 BA (Hons) Logistics S on i Ai~ k n x Vnorthumbna Supply Chain Mgt un^l:.! k ity The BA(Hons) Logistics Supply Chain Management provides participants with an overview of how goods services are managed and move from source to final customer. S Direct entry for relevant diploma holders S One
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 304 6  -  Lee U-Wen A PROMINENT authority on Internet issues has apologised to the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) for false and "malicious" allegations posted on his website in April. Dr Seamus Phan, a professional speaker, author, consultant, analyst and editor, has placed a formal halfpage
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    • 480 6  -  Wong Fei Wan Tycoon grilled over his pre-conditional voluntary cash offer to buy NatSteel shares feiwan@newstoday.com.sg PROMINENT tycoon Oei Hong Leong has accused DBS' chief executive Jackson Tai of lying in a press statement issued during the NatSteel takeover, in which the bank claimed
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 56 6 Newsradio 93.8 Tanjong Katong Secondary School is the latest to join the family of autonomous schools, bringing the total number to 25. Principal Priscillia Chan plans to expand some of the school's programmes, such as student leadership programmes, ana to possibly attach staff to overseas
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      • 51 6 CNA The Singapore Medical Council has suspended Dr Abraham Mathews of the Grace Polyclinic chain for 16 months and fined $10,000 on 33 counts of professional misconduct for over-prescribing sleeping pills. Four other doctors from the same chain were implicated for similar offences earlier this
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      • 85 6 Reuters Singapore allowed into its ports 1 3 ships that failed to meet new UN-backed security laws but the shippers would be barred if they did it again, authorities said yesterday. The vessels were among 1,1 00 ships that arrived at Asia's secondlargest port in the five
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  • LETTERS
    • 190 8  -  Walter Monique Wu WE would like to thank Geraldine Chay Mei Fong for the words of encouragement in her letter, "Think of little Jakob" (July 6). After putting up a fight for nine months, our baby, Jakob, passed away on July 5. Despite all
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    • 237 8  -  Yap Ee Hoe Why does MAS allow practice by banks, insurers? IN April, I received a call from a DBS Bank telemarketer who wanted to sell me an insurance policy offered by Aviva. I told her to send me the forms and brochures and that
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    • 164 8  -  Lu Cheng Yang I REFER to the letter, "Degree from reputable Aussie university not recognised" (July 1) by Mr Kelvin Goh Chin Teck. There is no Government authority in Singapore that assesses or grants recognition to degrees awarded by overseas universities for employment
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 466 10  -  Tor Ching Li More pro-enterprise financial schemes chingli@newsto day, com. sg ONE year into its inception, the Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) is keen to show society that it means business, literally. The Government-initiated community movement was started in May last year to create a more
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    • 113 10 Channel NewsAsia LOSS-MAKING Startech Electronics is making a bold move to reinvent itself through the acquisition of three IT firms specialising in different areas of transaction relationship management The deal will cost it an estimated $15 million, to be paid through the issue of new Startech shares
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    • Market WATCH
      • 4 10 ST Index 1,873.75 -0.82
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      • 60 10 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.86 Change Pis -90.41 -0.79 Hang Seng All Ordinaries *****.26 3565.00 +36.18 +9.10 +0.29 +0.26 Taiwan Wtd 5727.78 -5.79 -0.10 Korea Comp 761.88 +3.41 +0.45 KLCI 855.08 +3.28 +0.39 SET Index 666.43 +1.74 +0.26 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 771.66 1598.39
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      • 59 10 By volume GuangzhaolFB Bio-Treat FibreChem ACCS MediaRing Qtiraya TiongWoon Cosco Corp Ellipsiz Chartered Close 0.285 0.985 0.440 0.670 0.185 0.580 0.430 0.835 0.450 1.380 Change +0.020 +0.035 +0.025 +0.010 +0.020 +0.020 +0.050 +0.040 +0.030 -0.010 'OOO +7.5 46,995 +3.7 43,737 +6.0 39,198 +1.5 36,220 +12.1 29,349 +3.6
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      • 76 10 By$ DBS Bk 6% NCPS10 107.500 +0.401 DBS 14.700 +0.201 OCBC 12.500 +0.201 Isetan(S) 3.100 +0.101 OCBC 4.5%NCPS 100 102.100 +0.101 JurTech 1.250 +0.071 TianjinZUSS 0.485 +0.05. CITYDEV 5.650 +0.051 Hi-P 1.490 +0.051 Jardine C&C 6.400 +0.051 )y percentage .&M 0.015 +50.0 iunlight W*****4 0.030 3MG USS
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      • 80 10 By$ JMH 400USS 12.000 -0.500 Creative 50 17.700 -0.300 Venture 17.600 -0.200 AVJenningsAS 1.860 -0.100 Bukit Sem 13.100 -0.100 F&N 14.100 -0.100 GrealEast 11.800 -0.100 SIA 11.000 -0.100 SIA200 11.000 -0.100 UOB 13.600 -0.100 By percentage Goldtron 0.015 -25.0 Liang Hual 0.045 -18.2 SeeHSW*****0 0.025 -16.7 STI
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      • 118 10 Dow Jones SHARE prices ended mixed, with gains by China stocks offsetting the spill-over impact of Wall Street's overnight losses. Expectations that local companies will report strong second-quarter earnings next week also helped market sentiment. The ST Index fell 0.82 point, or 0.04 per cent, to 1,873.75. Gainers led
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      • 36 10 US$ 0.5827 UK£ 0.3164 Yen 63.799 HK$ 4.5446 RM 2.2141 Euro 0.4743 Rupiah 5235.3 Baht 23.764 Peso 32.597 A$ 0.8171 Indian Rs 26.829 Won 672.89 C$ 0.7738 Yuan 4.8226 NZ$ 0.8971 NTS 19.655
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      • 26 10 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 398 Silver uss/oz 6.055 Platinum uss/oz 785 Rubber centsAg 251 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1444 Brent crude uss/borrei 36.50 Information provided by
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    • 74 10 If Don't believe it when a service provider says that it is offering you 'dedicated' access to the Net. The Internet by and large, is a shared medium. How fast you download from a website depends a lot on the traffic on the Net... it does not matter
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    • 353 12  -  Chan Chao Peh S'pore should model itself after San Francisco or NY chaopeh@newstoday.com.Sj SINGAPORE should position itself as a city in a large country, where people with skills and money are attracted to live despite the higher costs of living, said renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) economist
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    • 222 12 Bloomberg The 1 O-per-cent public tranche of the initial public offering of shares in health and lifestyle company Best World International was about 23 times subscribed. The entire offering of 28 million shares at 30 cents each was about 3.2 times subscribed. The shares begin trading today. PSA International
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    • 309 14 Agencies Aussie govt clears the SingTel unit's $278m acquisition OPTUS, the Australian unit of SingTel, has bought over Uecomm, which operates fibre-optic networks in Australia's five largest cities and the Gold Coast region of Queensland state. Perth-based Alinta, which owns 66 per cent in Uecomm,
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    • 214 14 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S market for office space, which is suffering from decade-low rents and occupancy, may take between three and four years to recover as businesses are slow to hire workers and add space, said CB Richard Ellis executive director Moray
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    • 188 14 Bloomberg SRI LANKA'S second-largest hotelier, John Keells Holdings, said that it was negotiating with Banyan Tree Hotels Resorts about managing and investing in a 250-million-Sri-Lankan-rupee ($4.1-million) spa that it is building in Colombo. "We are in talks over whether Banyan Tree will manage or lease
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    • 131 14 Reuters MOSCOW The main shareholder of Russian oil firm Yukos, Mr Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has offered to give up his 44-per-cent stake in an llth-hour deal to save the company, the Financial Times newspaper reported. Yukos must pay a US$3.4-bil-lion ($5.8-billion) tax bill or face a fire
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      • 123 16  - SIA Engineering ($2.12) Buy Kim Eng We believe SIA Engineering's current price has yet to fully price in the strong cyclical upturn. SIA Engineering's valuation is cheap. Adjusted for the pending net dividend per share of 22.5 cents, the stock now trades at merely nine times current-year earnings versus our
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      • 134 16 SingPost (83 cents) Hold DBS Vickers SingPost is considering a reorganisation of its participation in its European joint venture, which may reduce earnings by $4.5 million to $6.5 million. This will amount to between 4 and 6 per cent of our current fiscal year estimate. SingPost may also adopt a
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    • 444 16 Dow Jones Integrated oil firm to invest up to $515m in the next two years SINGAPORE Petroleum Co (SPC) plans to spend between US$2OO million and US$3OO million ($343 million to $515 million) over the next two years on buying into
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    • 144 16 Channel NewsAsia THE top five funds in the first half of the year were all Japan equity funds, thanks to the Nikkei emerging as the best-performing regional stock index over the last six months. Fund distributor Fundsupermart said all the five
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  • WORLD
    • 209 18 -AFP TOKYO Fearing China could steal its energy resources, Japan yesterday launched a controversial survey for natural gas near a group of disputed islands also claimed by China and Taiwan, an official said. The three-billion-yen ($47-million) survey, which has come under fire
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    • 372 18 Agencies Indictment follows investigations lasting 2 years HOUSTON Former Enron chairman Ken Lay (picture), who was indicted by a grand jury yesterday, said he would turn himself in to the US authorities today, according to US news reports. The indictment returned by the Houston federal
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    • 249 18 BAGHDAD The interim Iraqi government yesterday unveiled a series of security measures that will allow interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi to declare emergency rule. The new security laws will empower the government to impose curfews, set up checkpoints and "pre-emptive arrests" of
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    • GLOBALroundUP
      • 52 18 -AFP Buckling under the weight of multi-million-dollar sexual-abuse lawsuits, the Catholic diocese of Portland announced yesterday that it would file for bankruptcy the first in the United States to do so. The diocese had settled more than 100 claims in the past
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      • 41 18 -AFP One brother of the Lebanese-born US marine missing once-feared beheaded by Iraqi Islamist captors said his brother, Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun, has been released. But there is no news of his whereabouts.
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      • 53 18 Reuters Judges declared Slobodan Milosevic fit enough for his much-delayed war crimes trial to proceed but warned that they might have to impose a defence lawyer on the ailing former Yugoslav president so that the trial can be "concluded within a reasonable
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 801 20  -  William Pesek Jr Did recent Asean meeting achieve anything tangible? COLIN Powell made quite a splash in Jakarta last weekend. No, it wasn't in the realm that the US Secretary of State was there for talks on Asian security. It was for his rendition
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    • 507 20 NOTICE APOLOG^ to the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), its donors, beneficiaries and staff for defamatory publication I, Seamus Ching-Chia Phan, of IC No. *****33J, am the owner and publisher of the website seamusphan.com, which carried a defamatory article against the NKF entitled "NKF Singapore's SslB9 million in the bank (Addendum)".
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    • 699 22  -  Zul Othman North, unfazed by any pigeon-holing, knows its strengths news@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE their good looks and ability to sing and dance, Australian boy band North is quick to point out that they are not a typical boy band. For one, it's a foursome save
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      650 24 MASCARA is, quite literally, the ultimate magic wand in the world of cosmetics giving women long, fluttery eyelashes. Mascaras today can lengthen, colour, thicken, separate and even curl eyelashes working wonders for those of us who have short or straight lashes, or a combination of both. Lancome's loyal
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    • 408 26  -  Koh Chieng Mun HEALTHY LIVING Try this for a fuel-saving, low-fat meal of chicken rice food@newstoday.com.sg YOU must have, at some point, seen your grandmother or your mother cook a dish in a pot of cooking rice. This clever method of cooking, commonly used in Chinese
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    • incinemas
      • 131 28 -AFP Stars not coming here Brotherhood Taegukgi stars Won Bin and Jang Dong Gun and director Kang Je Gyu will not be coming to Singapore. Scheduled to arrive here on Monday to promote the movie, they have cancelled their trip due to "last minute filming commitments", according to
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      • 329 28 Reuters German cannibal's life inspires film BERLIN Armin Meiwes, the German cannibal who gained global notoriety for eating a willing victim, is being immortalised in a movie by a gay filmmaker and not surprisingly the project is already causing a controversy. The film, tentatively called Your
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      • 325 30 Reuters LOS ANGELES The Walt Disney Co is counting on Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer to ride to its rescue at the box office this weekend, by delivering a hit with his dark spin on the classic tale of King Arthur. The stakes for the
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    • great S'pore sale
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        14 32 I SUPPLEMENT DESIGNED BY It's your time to shine m JENNIFER CHEN
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        • 985 34 WHEN you step into The Hour Glass, be prepared to feel like royalty not only because of the dazzling display of timepieces before your eyes but also because one of the company's brand values is to make customers feel like kings and queens. A
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        • 866 34 IF Mr Tay Liam Wee has a favourite word, it is "horology" When he talks about watches, he refers to them as the world of horology. And when he mentions his customers, he calls them fellow "horoloholics'.' It is understandable that Mr Tay lives and
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      • 809 38 They starve for and spend a bundle on their watches, Reeta Raman (reeta@newstoday.com.sg) talks to the hard-core collectors. PASSION STARTED WITH A SEXTEASE LIM Lye Hing will never lose track of time. This is because he owns more than 150 Swatch watches 30 of which he
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      • 676 40 Private eye Harmon Singh wears jewellery as a disguise and for good luck, as Reeta Raman (reeta® newstoday.com.sg) finds out. NEVER in a million years would anyone guess what I do for a living, Harmon Singh says with a chuckle. Clad in his trademark white
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      • 239 41 Can't afford real rocks? Gina Koh and Reina Looi give you other options. Fashion goes full circle, back to the '50s and '60s when women went for the neat, coordinated look by matching their accessories from head to toe. But you don't have to go whole hog.
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    • 705 42  -  Pamela Tang Sunny Greece offers delightful al fresco dining and wining news@newstoday.com.sg SUN-kissed would be an apt way to describe Greece, the newlycrowned king of European soccer. This land of blue skies, flanked by the Mediterranean Sea, offers more than just sights, sailboats and friendly faces. It
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        • 88 43 A NEW site in Japan has been declared as a "World Heritage" by the United Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco). The site consists of three sacred areas Yoshino and Omine in Nara prefecture, Kumano Sanzan and Koyasan in
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        • 105 43 SINGAPOREANS scouting for good- value accommodation in Britain need look no further than Thistle Hotels, one of Britain's largest hotel chains. Thistle, renowned for high-quality four- and five-star properties, has just announced unbeatable room rates starting from £35 ($110) per person per night
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        • 82 43 AIR France and Qantas have agreed to have code-share flights between France and Australia from Oct 31. Under the agreement, Air France will expand its route network with six new Australian destinations. Passengers from both airlines taking the daily Air France flight from Paris to
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      • 521 44 SPAIN FRANCE SPECIAL Two faces of Valencia Valencia is a city of two tales the old and the new. One is indispensable from the other. In the span of a day, I found myself zipping in and out of its various time zones, sometimes even standing on the very spots
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      • 541 44 Karman Tse journeys through centuries in Valencia, Spain and Bordeaux, France A walk through time in Bordeaux A makeover is in the works. Bordeaux, the age-old French city of arts and wine, will have a new face to show quite soon. Old buildings are
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    • 1114 46 CHANNEL CHANNEL sur i a 7' 30 2?™*^ A 8.00 Berita o™ raL n™ s a s Channel of the Year, ATV Awards 2003 6.00AM Super Doll Licca 8.30 Akhir Kata 2004 7.00 Good Morning Singapore i 3.00PM Andini 9.00 Astana Idaman Headlines 6.00 AM Planet's Funniest Animals I 10.00
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  • 482 48  -  ALVIN CHUA S'pore coach to discuss attachments with old pal Worthington news@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE take on Malaysia on Monday in Kuala Lumpur, in the first international match between the two arch-rivals since the Tigers mauled the Lions 4-0 in the Tiger Cup tournament in
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    159 48 Which pages on the Internet do you surf every day? Football websites like sleague.com, Soccernet, Planetfootball and FootballAsia. Other than football, I usually check out news about new movies on the Net because my family like to go to the movies. What's your favourite reality TV show? I
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  • 460 48  -  Alvin Chua LIKE the appetiser to a famous main course, that is what the friendly clash between Malaysia and Singapore in Kuala Lumpur next Monday is being billed as. Both the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) and the Football Association of
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  • 393 49  -  STEPHANIE LOH stephaniel@newstoday.com.sg IT HAS gone down in Singapore football folklore as the "Kallang massacre". Football fans still talk about the 4-0 slaughter the Lions suffered at the hands of arch-rivals Malaysia at the National Stadium, in the 2002 Tiger Cup. This
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    • 778 49 ALL OR NOTHING Ix2 YOUNG LIONS I Ix2 BALESTIER (1) Young Lions $2.15 Probable line-up: Hassan Sunny, Shaiful Esah, Noor Ikhsan, Shi (1> Balestier $8.30 Probab e line up: Zulkifli Zainolabidin, Kim Chan Zoong, Durante 9>WnnHi=nHc «9 7n Jiayi, Vladan Senc, Shahnl Ishak, Baihakki Khaizan, Fadzuhasny *?-f" James, Winston Yap,
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  • 468 50  -  STANLEY HO Singapore drawn with hosts and go back to scene of their greatest triumph stanley@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE will be making a return to Vietnam, the country where they won their first piece of international silverware, for the 2004 Tiger Cup this December. At a ceremony held
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  • 86 50 THE future of Singapore football will be on show next week, when the Singapore national under-17 (above, in red) and under-18 teams take on New Zealand side Soccer Otago in two friendly matches. Fresh from their Lion City Cup triumph, the under-17s will play the Kiwi
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  • 395 50  -  ALVIN CHUA news@newstoday.com.sg THE wheeling and dealing during the S-League transfer window looks to be just about done, after two clubs completed their foreign player quotas yesterday. The Young Lions have finalised the loan of Serb-Montenegrin defender Vladan Seric from Belgrade
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      • 1006 51  -  ROHIT BRIJNATH After displaying grit against Roddick, sublime Federer's stalking Sampras' mantle BEFORE even the first shot of the Wimbledon final was hit, expectation was draped like a lead blanket on Roger Federer's shoulders. His victory had been prearranged, or at least so it seemed. Straight
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      • 239 51 -AFP LONDON New Tottenham manager Jacques Santini is going to take his time to find players who can revive Spurs' glory years, but fans hoping for a French revolution as seen at neighbours Arsenal may be disappointed. The ex-France manager, alongside
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    • 872 52  -  Neil Humphreys Euro 2004 is over, the Greeks have been crowned heroes in Athens and Neil Humphreys can't get a flight out of Lisbon. To compensate, he looks back at the football fiesta (or is that siesta?) to present the best and worst
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    • 163 52 Reuters ARRAS, France Lance Armstrong and his US Postal team stamped their authority on the Tour de France yesterday, after dominating the team time trial held over 64.5km between Cambrai and here. The win, in lhr 12min 03sec, allowed five-time winner Armstrong to pull on the
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