Today, 19 January 2005, Afternoon Edition

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    24 1 MEDIACORP Press TODAY incorporating utfCiitS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Wednesday January 19,2005 todayonline.com MEDIACORP Press TODAY incorporating IjtFCiltS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Wednesday January 19,2005 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Abbas presses on with truce talks
      168 1 -AFP Israel demands action after new suicide bombing GAZA CITY New Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas pressed ahead with truce talks with Hamas leaders yesterday even after the Islamist group claimed a Gaza suicide bombing that left six Israelis dead or wounded. Mr Abbas, who
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      Delayed dawn for S'pore's first animated film
      464 1  -  Yong Shu Chiang shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S first animated film, Sing to the Dawn, is taking longer than expected to see the light of day. The $2.5 million project, a collaboration between the Media Development Authority (MDA), MediaCorp Raintree Pictures and homegrown digital animation firm
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      Lock icon Ex-WorldCom chief on $18b fraud rap
      130 1 -AFP NEW YORK Former World Com chief executive Bernard Ebbers (picture) goes on trial today, charged with complicity in the biggest bankruptcy in US history. Ebbers, 63, who oversaw the rise of World Com into a communications giant worth US$l6O billion, is accused of
      -AFP  -  130 words
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      Lock icon Guilty plea in oil-for-food case
      97 1 -AFP businessman pleaded guilty in a New York court to acting and conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the Iraqi government in relation to the UN oil-for-food programme, Attorney-General John Ashcroft said yesterday. Samir Vincent faces as many as 28 years in prison.
      -AFP  -  97 words
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      Lock icon Stocks close up, oil ends unchanged
      131 1 -AFP NEW YORK US stocks pushed higher yesterday as Wall Street got a lift from mainly upbeat quarterly earnings reports. The Dow Jones Industrials Average recouped early losses and climbed 70.79 points to close at 10,628.79, the Nasdaq Composite Index rallied 18.13 points to
      -AFP  -  131 words
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      Lock icon Nanorobots now muscle-powered
      408 2 UCLA scientists use rat cells on silicon chips SCIENTISTS at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have created tiny robots powered by living muscle, the BBC reported yesterday. According to a research report in the journal Nature Materials, the devices were formed by "growing" rat cells
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      Lock icon Pakistani mortar rounds land in India
      250 2 -AFP JAMMU (India) At least one person was injured last night when about 15 mortars were fired into India from Pakistan, in the first such incident in more than a year, police said. The mortars came from across the border and landed in India's
      -AFP  -  250 words
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      Lock icon UN officer thanks S'pore for relief effort
      138 2 Channel News Asia THE United Nations' Special Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance, Ms Margareta Wahlstrom, yesterday thanked Singapore for its contributions in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster. Here in Singapore, she called on Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo and said she was impressed
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        Hu's Confucian approach to stem unrest
        833 3  -  Dr Eric Teo Ancient ideology gels well with stability-seeking Chinese president's political philosophy news@newstoday.com.sg WITH the pursuit of wealth and the widening and uneven distribution of wealth, the threat of social unrest is on the rise in China. The fear that social injustice within
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      Saving up for a rainy day
      439 4  -  Wong Fei Wan NTUC co-ops plan on setting up savings, learning accounts for employees teiwan@newstoday.com.sg TO ENSURE retrenched workers have enough money to tide them over until their next job, three NTUC co-operatives will set up individual savings accounts for their employees, NTUC secretary-general
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon President Nathan presents Thailand with $400,000 donation for tsunami relief
      258 6 Channel NewsAsia SINGAPORE and Thailand will continue to forge closer ties, said President S R Nathan at a reception hosted by Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. On the second day of Mr Nathan's state visit to Thailand, the President presented
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      Lock icon Tourism on the mend in Phuket
      596 6  -  David Ngiau in Phuket david@newstoday.com.sg PETER Bonnesen left Phuket three weeks before the tsunami struck. He heard about the tragedy on Boxing Day back home in Denmark. That's why he is back here. Not for friends or family. The 71-year-old's relatives, four children and
      AFP  -  596 words
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      University students to be schooled at the Science Centre
      229 8  -  Suba Siva STARTING this month, some 80 students from the Singapore Management University (SMU) will help explain the science behind the Singapore Science Centre's exhibits to visiting primary and secondary school students. They will be doing that as part of their
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      SMU to raise fees by 15%
      443 8  -  Lee U-Wen u-wen@newsto day, com. sg WHILE its more established counterparts recently raised tuition costs by a nominal 5 per cent, the Singapore Management University (SMU) will increase its fees by 15 per cent for all undergraduate courses. Yesterday, SMU president Professor Howard Hunter
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
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        Lock icon Six face death penalty for murder
        108 10 Newsßadio 93.8 Six men, including two brothers, have been charged witn the murder of a woman in Little India. They are Clement Suresh Ramasamy, 17, Muhammad Yunus Mohamed Barat, 1 9, Sathish Sivasothy and Tanabalan Vella Kannoo, both 27, Jaya Perakas, 24, and his
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        Lock icon Nine S'poreans still uncontactable
        56 10 Channel News Asia The number of Singaporeans still uncontactable in the Asian tsunami disaster has been reduced by one to nine. According to the police, that Singaporean had visited Indonesia before the tsunami but was not in the affected area and has returned. The death toll
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        Lock icon Security checks up at checkpoints
        66 10 Channel NewsAsia The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority has warned travellers of heavy traffic at the Tuas and Woodlands checkpoints during the Hari Raya Haji period. It added that security checks at the checkpoints have been stepped up, and travellers may have to put up with
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      Change vs continuity
      346 10  -  Tor Ching Li It's all about trust, say MPs, of political and social change in Spore chingli@newstoday.com.sg MUCH as the President's Address last week reinforced the Prime Minister's vision of Singapore as a land of opportunity, non-Peo-ple's Action Party MPs, such as Mr Steve Chia and Mr
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      Inspiring green governance
      373 11  -  Sheralyn Tay Experts advise Singapore to take a leadership role in environmental issues sheralyn@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE is well poised to be a leader on environmental issues in Asia, say two visiting experts. In fact, one of them, Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor Prof Gustave Speth, sees a "big
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      Lock icon Firm to take stake in China recycler
      124 11 Channel NewsAsia A SUBSIDIARY of SembCorp Environmental Management has signed a joint venture with China's XiangHong Waste Paper Recycling. SembEnviro Tay Paper is to acquire a 60 per cent stake in XiangHong, Shanghai's leading waste paper collector and recycler for $900,000. It will
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      Lock icon Welcoming the CNY celebrations with open ... ears
      204 11 Welcoming the CNY celebrations with open ears Sng Li Wei MADAM Ho Hong Lin, 62, was straining to hear the four lucky digits that "Cat Shen Ye" (the Chinese God of Fortune) was whispering into her friend's ear. But she did not mind that she didn't manage to catch the
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  • world news
    • GLOBALroundup
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        Charged for harbouring a terrorist — her husband
        62 12 Charged for harbouring a terrorist her husband The wife of Indonesian terror suspect Noordin Mohammad will be charged in court for deliberately harbouring terrorists and forging terrorism-related documents. Noordin, who is on the run, is implicated in the Bali and Jakarta bombings. Madam Munfiantun, 28, is the first woman officially
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        Construction banned on tsunami-threatened land
        50 12 Land up to 15 metres above sea level on Thailand's Phi Phi Islands will be labelled as vulnerable to tsunamis and should remain an open zone, Krabi's Deputy Governor Theerathep Sriyaphan told The Nation. He said that buildings must now be situated on higher ground.
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        Kidnapped Syrian archbishop released
        74 12 The Catholic archbishop who was kidnapped in Iraq has been released. Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa, who leads the 35,000 member Syrian Catholic community in Mosul, told AFP that he had not been mistreated by his abductors. "I was not mistreated, the kidnappers were very kind to
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        Lock icon Tamil Tiger leader sighted
        46 12 AFP Tamil Tiger leader VelupiTlai Prabhakaran allegedly made a rare public appearance in the rebel-held town of Kilinochchi earlier this week, his first since tsunamis devastated Sri Lanka. His appearance ended speculation that he may have died in the Dec 26 disaster.
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      Lock icon American aid bolsters 'strong' US-Indon ties
      498 12 Asif Ansar asif@newstoday.com.sg AMERICA'S massive relief effort in Indonesia's tsunami-battered Aceh province looks set to bolster already "strong" relations between the United States and the world's biggest Muslim nation, analysts said yesterday. But the experts told Today that the US aid mission, spearheaded by
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      Lock icon M'sia traffic police track down S'poreans
      262 14 Offenders to be taken from M'sian homes to police stations JOHOR BARU Singaporean motorists who have not paid their fines for traffic offences in Malaysia will be targeted in a nationwide clampdown, reported The New Straits Times. Offenders will be picked up at their
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Biologically incorrect sheep on stamps
        51 14 A New Zealand stamp designer has added horns on an ewe, a female sheep, on the country's national stamp, to the outrage of many politicians, reported DPA. One politician said the one million stamps should be withdrawn. New Zealand is famous for its mutton and
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        HK's first nudist colony?
        46 14 Hong Kong's nudists are asking for permission to open the territory's first naturist colony on a deserted outlying island off Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post reported. The nudists hope to avoid upsetting Hong Kong's residents by their choice of locale
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        US flags found in poo
        39 14 German police are hunting pranksters who have been sticking miniature US flags into piles of dog poo in parks, reported Ananova.com. The incidents were thought to be a protest against the war in Iraq.
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      Use SMS to track your spouse
      148 14 KUALA LUMPUR Straying spouses had better beware. Malaysia's telecommunications service provider, Maxis, is offering a service that helps friends and spouses pinpoint each other's location via SMS right down to the very street The Maxis Hotlink FriendFinder service is activated with the consent of
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      Lock icon China leader's public funeral in doubt
      298 16 Agencies Rights group says govt clamping down on service BEIJING A Hong Kong human rights group believes that the family of Mr Zhao Ziyang (picture) is facing pressure from some government officials not to hold a public funeral for the ousted prime minister. A
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      Lock icon Iraqi polls shrouded in secrecy
      156 16 Agencies BAGHDAD Iraq's first post-Saddam Hussein elections were meant to mark a democratic celebration. In effect, the vote is almost a covert operation, with rebel attack fears veiling it in a weird secrecy. Col Dana Pittard, who heads the US army contingent in the strife-torn
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      Lock icon Harvard chief casts sexist slur
      425 19 Furore over remarks about women, maths and sciences CAMBRIDGE (Massachusetts) The president of Harvard University has caused a furore by arguing that men outperform women in mathematics and the sciences because of biological differences and discrimination is no longer a career barrier for female academics.
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      Lock icon Highest-security inauguration
      161 19 Agencies WASHINGTON The second inauguration of President George W Bush will be the highest-security inauguration in the country's 229-year history. Amid fears of a possible terrorist attack, up to 200 central city blocks will be restricted or closed to vehicles and at least 3,000 police officers will be
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Gold rush in land-locked Laos
        70 19 DPA Laos enjoyed a gold rush last year when at least 40 firms, drawn by rising international prices of the metal, invested in mining operations in the land-locked country, news reports said yesterday. During the first three quarters of last year, the Laos Investment Committee
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        Lock icon Mark Latham to resign
        48 19 AP I he leader ot Australia s opposition Labor Party announced yesterday that he will quit politics because of ill health Mark Latham has been on leave since he suffered a second bout of pancreatitis, a painful inflammation of the pancreas, late last month.
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        Lock icon 129 journalists killed last year
        46 19 -AFP A record 129 journalists were killed last year, with Iraq and the Philippines proving to be the most dangerous countries for the media, said an International Federation of Journalists report yesterday. A total of 93 journalists were killed in 2003.
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    Focus On The Family
    241 20 Dr James Dobson TblMY's byl ADOPT A YOUNGER ADULT There's a very special gift that men and women in their fifties, sixties and seventies have to offer to the people they come in contact with. That gift is wisdom, gleaned from years of experience. Wisdom can
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      NMP Olsen should have changed schedule to attend swearing-in
      100 20  -  JASON PHOON WING OON Letter from IT WAS disappointing to learn that Ms Eunice Olsen (picture) missed the first sitting of the second session of the 10th Parliament on Monday because she was away on a promotional tour of her album.
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    • Letter
      What's the big deal?
      405 20  -  JEREMY WANG Judge students on the inside, not the outside Letter from I REFER to the article, "Could students who are overweight be denied places in school?" (Jan 17). I am appalled that something like that happened in one of our schools. The purpose of going
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      Schools' autonomy causes problems
      147 20  -  LIM BOON HEE Letter from I REFER to the Ministry of Education's reply (Jan 13) to my observation about school rules on girls who have too-short hair resulting in a one-week suspension. Apparently, the ministry's stand is equivocal that schools have the autonomy to set rules
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    • Letter
      Tsunami threat low but S'pore prepared
      314 22  -  WOON SHIN LAI FONG YOUNG KIAN Letter froml Director-GeneraHvleWrologTCaTCen/ice^^^ Division, The National Environment Agency ancß SecretanaT^omerronu!^^ Centre, Senior director, Homefront Security Office, Ministry of Home Affairs WE REFER to the concern expressed by Mr Cheng Shoong Tat in his letter, "What are tsunami chances
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      NTUC Income shelves plan to hike gym fee
      279 22  -  TAN KIN LIAN I Letter from I Chief executive officer, NTUC Income I WE REFER to the letter, "Why the hike in gym fee?" by Tan Kam Ying (Jan 14). NTUC Income has been running the fitness centres for the past 10
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      Lock icon SCIENCE + ARTS = GENIUS
      626 24  - SCIENCE ARTS GENIUS JEAN-MARIE LEHN coffee 66, Nobel laureate AT THE age of 48, Frenchman Jean-Marie Lehn won the 1987 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Yet his youth was spent immersed in the humanities he studied the Latin, Greek, English and German languages as well as French philosophy and literature and
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Grand Airbus A380 roll-out
      415 26 -AFP SIA to be first to fly world's largest passenger jet TOULOUSE Airbus laid on a lavish presentation at its headquarters in south-west France yesterday for the official unveiling of the world's biggest passenger plane, the A3BO. The leaders of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and
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    • business news
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        Lock icon To succeed, ambition alone is not enough
        545 27  -  Jaime Koh Teckwah's chief Thomas Chua gives SMBToday seminar participants a tutorial in getting it right jaime@newstoday.com.sg STARTING out as a young executive representing his family business years ago, Mr Thomas Chua was often seated furthest from the YIPs during business events. But
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        TREMENDOUS RESPONSE
        154 27 The SMB TODAY Inspire, Interface, Innovate seminar series started two years ago as a platform for SMBs to network and better understand the issues they face in the business environment. On the decision to continue a second series, Mr Sanjiv Aiyar, Hewlett-Packard's vice-presi-dent and managing director of consumer
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        Lock icon Civil service needs a change in mindset to help build a pro-business environment
        500 27 Jamie Koh DESPITE the numerous initiatives by both the private and public sectors to encourage the spirit of enterprise, Singapore's track record in entrepreneurial activity is an uncharacteristic "average". Pointing to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey, Singapore
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        Are profit warnings cause for alarm?
        517 28  -  Lee Han Shih AT the last count, some 20 listed companies have been forced to issue profit warnings for their 2004 results. Is this cause for concern? Since June, profit warnings have been hitting the business pages of local newspapers. The pace picked up
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        223 30 Channel News Asia Bloomberg United Overseas Bank (UOB) said yesterday it had purchased an additional 82,060 shares in Far Eastern Bank to raise its stake in the latter to 77.75 per cent from 77.17 per cent. Separately, UOB's property affiliates United Industrial Corp ancf Singapore Land said they had
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          121 30 Dow Jones SHARES ended slightly lower amid active trading yesterday, hurt by profittaking on stocks that had rallied in recent sessions. The ST Index fell 2.93 points, or 0.14 per cent, to 2,084.19. Traded volume totalled 1.15 billion shares worth $823.8 million. On the broader market, decliners led advancers
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        205 32 Agencies JAKARTA The Indonesian government raised about US$l4B million ($243 million) from selling a 15.25-per-cent stake in Bank Internasional Indonesia (BII), Mr Mohammad Syahrial, president director of the state-owned Asset Management Company, said yesterday. The Indonesian government put up for
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        293 32 Channel News Asia A quarter are locally-based companies A RECORD number of 54 companies were awarded "headquarters" status in Singapore last year, double the 27 in 2003, the Economic Development Board (EDB) said yesterday. In its annual sector review, the EDB said another bright
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        171 32 Dow Jones THE number of undischarged bankrupts in Singapore continued to increase in December despite strong economic growth and falling unemployment, government data showed yesterday. As of Dec 31, the number of bankrupt people hit a new record high of 21,434,
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      404 41  -  Mervin Tay Alterations made to keep viewers interested mervin@newstoday.com.sg AS THE fourth season of American Idol begins this week, the producers have made some changes to prevent the audience from suffering from Idol fatigue. The fourth season, which airs tomorrow and Friday night at 10 on MediaCorp TV
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      365 43 Agencies Down-and-out writer has hit show thanks to mum FOUR years ago, Marc Cherry, then 40, was a down-and-out scriptwriter who had gone without an interview for 30 months. He had been at the top of his profession as a writer for the hit series, The Golden
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      417 43 Yong Shu Chiang FOUR-year university film schools are fine for teenagers or young adults. But for working adults, a weekend crash course may be all they need to learn how to make a film, get it seen and, possibly, earn you a decent
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        197 46  -  Yong Shu Chiang US, local movie charts see new entries at No 1 shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg NEW basketball movie Coach Carter, starring Samuel L Jackson, has bounced holiday favourite Meet the Fockers, North America's No 1 film for three weeks, off its perch atop the box-office
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        250 46 -AFP MUMBAI More than 200 Indian and Pakistani film stars and artistes will perform in a concert to raise funds for the hundreds of thousands of people affected by last month's Indian Ocean tsunamis. The two film industries will come together for the first
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      594 55 -AFP TENNIS Australian Open, day 2 MELBOURNE A bitter drugs controversy embroiling Russian star Svetlana Kuznetsova (picture) overshadowed play at the Australian Open yesterday, as the big guns cruised through in first-round matches. Former US Open champion Andy Roddick, world No 1 one Lindsay Davenport, French
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      328 55 NBA Detroit 94 Phoenix 80 AUBURN HILLS, Michigan The Phoenix Suns have lost as many games in the past week as they had all season. Tayshaun Prince scored a career-high 26 points to lead the Detroit Pistons past slumping Phoenix 94-80
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      259 55 -AP MANILA Philippine companies, led by food and beverage giant San Miguel, have put together a financial package to help the country's athletes at the South-east Asia (SEA) Games in December. As the country is hosting the tournament, the training fund
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        580 56 AFP Traore's howler sends Reds out of FA Cup ENGLISH LEAGUE CUP Burnley 1 Liverpool 0 BURNLEY A comical own goal by Djimi Traore handed Championship side Burnley a deserved 1-0 victory over Premiership giants Liverpool in the third round of the FA Cup this morning. Liverpool
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        254 56 Agencies PARIS Andrei Shevchenko, Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry and Steven Gerrard are among the 50 players confirmed for Fifa's "Football for Hope" benefit match in aid of the Asian tsunami victims. Barcelona's Nou Camp stadium will host a match between a team captained by Fifa
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        333 56 -AFP BLACKBURN Blackburn Rovers look poised to achieve their ambition to sign fiery Welsh international midfielder Robbie Savage from Birmingham City. Birmingham have been fighting hard to keep the 30-year-old at the club, but a spokesman yesterday conceded defeat. "We are resigned
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      429 57  -  STANLEY HO GETTY IMAGES Eight clubs expected to join eight local outfits this season stanley@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Cup will take on a distinctly foreign flavour this season, with eight foreign clubs likely to compete in the knockout competition against eight local teams. Yesterday,
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      303 57  -  JASMINE ZHAO jasmine.zhao@newstoday.com.sg ADRIAN Yap may be deaf, but he will never let his handicap stop him from achieving his goals. The 25-year-old computer programmer has climbed mountains, trekked through dense jungles and travelled to more countries than most Singaporeans. The eager adventurer
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      236 57  -  LEAGUE CHAMPIONS CUP Jose Raymond Tampines v Pahang CAUSEWAY rivalry will be renewed tonight, when the inaugural Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) and Football Association of Singapore (FAS) League Champions Cup kicks off. Involving the league and cup champions from Singapore and
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      174 57 Tan YoHinn THE Asian Tour will hold a Tsunami Relief Fund Pro-Am tournament at Sentosa Golf Club on Jan 31. With 18 teams three amateurs and one Asian Tour professional in each team the organisers hope to raise $90,000. "We are expecting a full field
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      125 57 SINGAPORE will send a team to the upcoming Asian Junior Squash Championships. Four boys and four girls will take part in the event in Mumbai, India, from Jan 20-28, which will feature 10 teams, including Malaysia and India. The four boys are Vivian Rhamanam, Kenneth
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      633 59  -  JOSE RAYMOND Coach keen to improve squad's balance before SEA Games |ose@newstoday.com.sg THE Tiger Cup is won, but Radojko Avramovic (right) is not resting on his laurels. The Singapore coach will now undertake a nationwide search for left-footed players. And if there are any
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