Today, 9 June 2005, Afternoon Edition

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    20 1 TODAY MICA (P) 103/07/2004 icorporating utFCiitS Thursday June 9,2005 todayonline.com TODAY MICA (P) 103/07/2004 incorporating utT6£ltS Thursday June 9,2005 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon First 'America' map sold for $1.6m
      165 1 -AFP LONDON A 500-year-old world map that was the first to name a new-found continent west of Europe as "America" was sold for £545,600 ($1.6 million) at an auction in London yesterday. Mr Charles Frodshan, a London book and manuscript dealer, bought the map
      -AFP; AFP  -  165 words
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      Lock icon EU must build closer ties with Asean
      439 1 AFP GeorgeYeo: Failure to do so would risk harming strong economic links LONDON The European Union should build closer political ties with Southeast Asian countries or risk harming strong economic links that are already enjoyed, Singapore's foreign minister said today. Such a move
      AFP  -  439 words
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      186 1 //\=E)IACORP NEWS LINE *****268 every call has a story 8 "*****6"*****9" ADVERTISEMENT Rock Star Amongst Hundreds LOST ENGLAND Hundreds of fans are They topped the charts with hits keeping vigil outside rockband Drive- like "Let Me Ride" and "(You All) >s^lfc 1^ SHAFT'S founding member Charlie Everybody" and received rave
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      33 1 NEWSX\VIEWS Harvard on hold Justin Ng put off college for the Aids cause/2-4 Great outdoors Land, sea and sky adventures in Oz/46 Rohit Brijnath Why oh why do cities bid for the Olympics?/56
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      This duck is dead, so Europe may breathe
      872 2  -  William Pfaff Now the 'Force' is with the people who want it to be independent; otherwise it would have tied its own hands WHILE it will be months before the results are fully known, the train-wreck of the European constitutional treaty may
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      Lock icon March for China Cheong's release
      92 2 AFP Chanting slogans, a group of protesters march from the Western Police station to the China Liaison Office in the Central district in Hong Kong yesterday, demanding the release of detained Straits Times correspondent Ching Cheong, who is being held on charges of spying. The
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      Lock icon Colors issue yanked off stands
      163 2 Channel News Asia THE Media Development Authority (MDA) has asked the distributor of Colors magazine to withdraw its spring 2005 issue from the market The authority says this is because its content does not comply with its guidelines for imported magazines and so it is
      — Channel News Asia  -  163 words
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      Lock icon Female orgasm, the mate-selector?
      600 3  -  David Adam The Guardian It's all in the genes and has helped women find Mr Right news@newstoday.com.sg WOMEN who fail to have orgasms during sex may be genetically programmed to weed out unreliable men who are a flop between the sheets, according to new research. Scientists
      The Guardian; AFP  -  600 words
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      Lock icon We have N-bombs, building more: N Korea
      339 4 AFP WASHINGTON North Korea has a stockpile of nuclear bombs and is building more such weapons, the country's viceforeign minister Kirn Gye Gwan said in an American television interview released yesterday. "I should say that we have enough nuclear bombs to defend against
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
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        Lock icon Manhunt for escaped offender
        52 4 NewsKadio VJ.ti A manhunt was launched when immigration offender Thangavelu Vellu, 36, escaped from custody yesterday as he was being taken to the Subordinate Courts to be charged with illegal entry. The Indian national is medium-built and about 1.65 m tall. He has a thick moustache
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        Lock icon Carnival at Marina South
        51 4 Channel News Asia A mega-carnival will open at Marina three days before National Day. For nine days, Marina South will be transformed into a mammoth theme park. Covering an area of more than 300 football fields, the carnival will showcase defence equipment, the arts, soorts and
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      Lock icon Hundreds of Chinese geese killed by bird flu
      318 4 AFP HONG KONG Hundreds of geese in China's northwestern Xinjiang region have died from bird flu, Hong Kong authorities said they were told by their Chinese counterparts yesterday. "It was understood that there were about 1,042 geese with signs of illness, of
      AFP  -  318 words
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  • Singapore news
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      Villagers comb hill for lost S'porean boy
      562 6  -  Ansley Ng About 200 people are scouring the thick jungles of Fraser's Hill for him and his 3 M'sian cousins ansley@newstoday.com.sg VILLAGERS from Kampung Tras a rural community at the foot of Fraser's Hill have started a trek up the 1,500 m hill
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      Under-12 'TV journalists' show a thing or two about making award-winning shows
      405 6  -  Jasmine Zhao IT LOOKS as though age and experience are no barriers to producing good television journalism. At least, that is what some under-12 "reporters" from Punggol Primary School proved yesterday as they beat their "older" competition en
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      Lock icon WILL CABLE CAR SERVICES HERE RESUME?
      181 8 A DECISION on whether to resume cable car services will be made in the next few days, said the chairman of the Mount Faber Leisure Group, Mr Soo Kok Leng. Cable car services here stopped operations from June 1 after "inconsistencies" were found in
      MATTHEW TEO  -  181 words
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      Mount Faber's new jewel box
      441 8  -  Tan Hui Leng Swanky cable car station, big plans for Mt Faber, Sentosa, Harbourfront huileng@newstoday.com.sg MENTION Mount Faber and one would think of the place where lovers go for romantic walks while gazing at the glittering cable cars above. But by October, what will take
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      A razzle-dazzle festival for charity
      236 10  -  Loh Chee Kong IT WILL be glitz and glamour galore in Singapore starting June 22, as the beautiful, rich and accomplished from all over Europe, the United States and Asia fly in for a five-day extravaganza. The Indochine Summer Festival, a $250,000 "lifestyle" event modelled
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      Govt e-services grow in popularity
      131 10  -  Patricia Yap MORE people are using electronic government services, according to the latest e-Government Perception Survey. The survey, initiated by the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), revealed that 88 per cent of Singaporeans who needed to transact with the
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      Live aid in S'pore
      321 10  -  Dawn Quek Celebrities converge here for Sept charity concert dawn@newstoday.com.sg GOLDIE Hawn, Brooke Shields, Kurt Russell, Susan Sarandon and other big names in Asian and Western entertainment are coming to Singapore on Sept 30. Their mission: A two-day concert broadcast to 500 million viewers in 80
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      Lock icon Africa's burden of debt
      579 12 The UN says 3 million children will die if Africa does not get promised aid LONDON Three million children will die in the poorest countries of sub- Saharan Africa as a result of the failure of the global community to meet its promise of slashing infant
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      Lock icon N Korea to rejoin nuclear talks 'soon'
      145 12 AFP UNITED NATIONS In a diplomatic breakthrough, North Korea has agreed to return to six nation talks on its nuclear arms programme within "weeks". China's ambassador to the United Nations Wang Guangya, told reporters the talks, which North Korea has boycotted for the
      AFP  -  145 words
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      Lock icon Chinese spy network story is true, says another defector
      200 14 AFP CANBERRA A second Chinese defector has backed claims by diplomat Chen Yonglin who left his job at China's consulate in Sydney that Beijing is running a large spy network in Australia and other Western countries. In the latest twist to
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      Lock icon DUTY FREE
      32 14 AFP The XL International Airport (above) has launched a radio station targeted at travellers. Meanwhile, the airport in Jakarta launched an SMS service to attend to travellers' questions and needs.
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      Lock icon Take comfort in an SMS
      272 14 Agencies Asian airports announce new services JAKARTA The race is on for a world class airport with the best services in the region. Indonesia and Malaysia announced new services to cater to the needs of travellers, in the hope of making airline travel more comfortable.
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Stowaway's lea crashes to Earth
        59 14 AP The body of an apparent stowaway was ripped in half during a flight and his leg crashed into a suburban New York neighbourhood. A homeowner found the severed limb in the middle of her lawn. The leg, with hip and spine attached, dented the
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        Lock icon 13 hotels in Beijing to stop providing toiletries
        51 14 AFP Tourists travelling to Beijing may soon have to pack their own toothbrush and tooth- paste. Thirteen Chinese-run hotels of the Beijing Tourism Group have said they will stop supplying toiletries to guests in a bid to protect the envirOnrnont nnrl rorlnro
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        Lock icon Guerrillas strike again
        44 14 AFP Muslim separatist guerrillas have killed four members of the security forces in the southern Philippines, breaking a nearly two-year-old ceasefire. The violence occurred ahead of peace talks between President Gloria Arroyo's government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front next month.
        – AFP  -  44 words
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      Lock icon Companies tread softly, softly into the blogosphere
      254 16 -AP CHICAGO A growing number of companies are stepping softly into the blogosphere, following a path blazed by Microsoft Corp, Sun Microsystems Inc and others in the technology field. The Internet journal format, they find, lets businesses expand their reach, generate product buzz
      -AP  -  254 words
    • this QUIRKY world
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        Lock icon Oily, underwear-clad robbers strike again
        55 16 AFP Robbers who strike while wearing only underwear, their bodies slathered with oil to make them slippery and harder to catch, have resurfaced in Cambodia. Two unidentified, underwearclad burglars robbed several homes in the southern province of Takeo, and they have given police the "slip"
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        Lock icon Man nabbed while stealing live seafood
        70 16 I AP A Hong Kong man has been caught plucking two lobsters and a grouper from a tank at a seafood restaurant. The man pretended to be with a group of mahjong-playing customers who were allowed to stay and finish their game after the
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      Lock icon Farm shock: Pesticide in their blood
      284 16 -AFP Indian green group calls for govt probe NEW DELHI An Indian environmental group said on Tuesday that tests have shown high levels of dangerous pesticides in people in northern Punjab state and called on the government to investigate further. A study conducted by
      -AFP  -  284 words
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      Focus on The Family
      235 20  -  Dr James Dobson by THE TERRIBLE TWOS Do the "terrible twos" really have to be so terrible? Just ask any 2-year old. The answer will most assuredly be "NO". If there is one word that characterises the period between fifteen and twenty-four months of age, it
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      isay YES, TOOFF-DAYS, NOW, ABOUT THAT 'LOAN'...
      680 20  -  Mary Ong MORE LETTERS ON PAGE 26 THE Association of Employment Agencies Singapore (AEAS) has been championing the rights of foreign domestic workers here asking for four off-days a month for domestic workers and payment in lieu if they are made to work
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      Rest of Punggol Field flats to be put on sale soon
      227 20  -  TAY BOON SUN I Letter from Senior public relations officer for Ag Director (Corporate Development) Housing and Development Board I REFER to Mr Justus Phan Chow Chaan's letter "Punggol Field: A year on, blocks still half-empty" (June 6). Mr
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      I am a victim of workplace bullying
      458 22  -  AVELYN CAREN LIM HR body's help centre will be helpful to sufferers I Letter from YOUR news comment, "Price of workplace bullying" (June 6) was of great interest to me because of my experience with my boss. I have endured his bullying for
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      Lock icon Take a chance, bring motorsport to S'pore
      327 22  -  CHENG KHIM SENG Letter from I AGREE with Mr Tan Teng Lip ("Will we ever get to the starting line?", June 3) that there are too many obstacles that keep us from taking that first step to making Singapore a top motorsports destination,
      AFP  -  327 words
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      Lock icon SO MUCH TO DO, HARVARD CAN WAIT
      792 24 MORE LETTERS ON PAGES 26 At 16, he was an Aids activist and now he has put Harvard on hold to reach out to at-risk youth JUSTIN m 21, undergraduate and Aids issue volunteer HE IS the youngest volunteer that welfare group Action
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      NUH will work on improving processes to address waiting time
      234 26  -  DR TAN WENG MOOI Letter from Director (Operations) National University Hospital I REFER to Ms Teo Siok Hoon's letter, "No clock-in system for doctors?" (June 2). We thank Ms Teo for her feedback and apologise for her experience at our
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      Ideas spurned? Try other avenues
      228 26  -  JERRY SIAH ENG KIAT Do not give up your vision, come what may Letter from I APPLAUD the Government's recent initiatives to get more young people involved in social and political issues, especially, by accepting some 55 of the 91 proposals for shaping Singapore's future
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      Lock icon CAO's creditors okay latest restructuring plan
      490 28  -  Valeric Law They agree to receive 56.6 US cents on every US$l owed valerie@newstoday.com.sg CHINA Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp, or CAO, has been thrown a lifeline after receiving approval from its creditors for a plan to repay US$555 million ($921 million) in debt The
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      Lock icon S'pore's largest private asset management firm in making
      222 30 Dow Jones OCBC and Great Eastern to merge their fund managing units OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corp and its 81-per-cent owned insurance unit Great Eastern Holdings (GEH) gave details of their plans to merge and rationalise their asset management arms. The merger would create
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      SC Global shareholders allow takeover bid for Vantage
      176 30  -  Valeric Law SHAREHOLDERS of SC Global Developments yesterday unanimously approved the takeover bid for Vantage Corporation. The property firm controlled by Mr Simon Cheong made a surprise bid in April for the shares of Vantage that it does not already own, offering
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      Singapore
      63 30 SHARE prices closed mixed, with blue chips slightly lower as a mixed session on Wall Street provided a cue for profit-taking. The ST Index slipped 8.55 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 2,198.29. Gainers outnumbered losers 279 to 1 89 while 862.5 million shares worth $724.5 million were traded.
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      Lock icon STI-2,198.29 8.55
      41 30 Dow Jones as investors switched to rival Star Hub due to its better potential for growth and higher dividends, said a local broker, who also noted that Ml's share of the local mobile phone market has not been growing.
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      World markets
      60 30 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.03 C Pis +63.58 Change +0.5; Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd *****.55 4219.90 6161.66 +61.26 +14.30 +55.87 +0.4' +0.3' +0.9: Korea Comp 976.22 +5.34 +0.5: KLCI 879.44 +2.52 +0.2' SET Index 684.07 +1.92 +0.21 lakarta Comp 1095.51 +2.69 +0.2: Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1953.28
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      Lock icon Commodities
      25 30 SGX, Gold uss/oz 427.10 Silver uss/oi 7.45 Platinum uss/oi 878.20 Information provided by Rubber centsAg 241.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1397.00 Brent crude uss/barrel 53.12
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      Lock icon Your S$l buys
      37 30 Bloomberg US$ 0.6023 UK£ 0.3282 Yen 64.206 HK$ 4.6865 RM 2.2887 Euro 0.4903 Rupiah 5748.8 Baht 24.426 Peso 32.824 A$ 0.7834 Indian Rs 26.232 Won 605.60 C$ 0.7503 Yuan 4.9847 NZ$ 0.8431 NTS 18.803
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      SGX most active
      54 30 By volume ACCS STATSChP UniFiber Chartered Close 0.155 1.240 0.365 1.330 Change +0.010 +0.030 +0.005 +0.060 +6.9 +2.5 +1.4 +4.7 '000 57,073 27,479 25,894 23,949 Ferrochina UTAC Sing Tel AIM Delong Pearl Energy 0.395 0.650 2.610 0.210 0.130 1.690 +0.025 -0.010 +0.250 +6.8 -4.5 +17.4 21,599 17,973
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      SGX top rises
      79 30 By Close Change OCBCCap3.93%Pref2500 101.000 +2.300 Creative 50 12.800 +0.300 Pearl Energy 1.690 +0.250 DBS Bk 6% NCPS 10 108.400 +0.200 F&N 15.400 +0.100 OCBC4.55SNCPS100 101.500 +0.100 SIA 11.500 +0.100 Hi-P 1.540 +0.070 TACCA eCW*****7 0.790 +0.070 Chartered 1.330 +0.060 By percentage LiangHuat SwingMediaW*****3 Close Change 0.010
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      SGX top falls
      78 30 lariline C&C Close 13.300 Changi -0.401 IMH 400USS 18.000 -0.301 ISH 500USS 10.500 -0.201 KepCorp 12.100 -0.201 iingamasC 2kHKS DBS 6.050 14.400 -0.151 -0.101 Fortune Reil HKS 6.400 -0.101 XBC 14.000 -0.101 JOB 14.300 -0.101 By percentage SPH DB eCW*****8 Close 0.070 Changi -5i.; SPH SGA eCW*****5
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      Lock icon Crown Hotel sold
      300 32 Agencies Deal marks entry of Park Hotel Group into Spore HONG Kong's Park Hotel Group has bought the Crown Hotel in Singapore's Orchard Road for an undisclosed price. The tender, which closed last Friday, "witnessed exceptionally strong interest both from established local investors and international parties. It
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      Lock icon CapitaLand buys Bangkok site for $28.8 m
      212 32 Agencies CAPITALAND, South-east Asia's biggest developer, said its venture with Thailand's TCC Land bought a site in Bangkok for 692 million baht ($28.8 million) to build luxury homes. The purchase is the second for the joint venture TCC Capital Land, which plans to
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      Financial muscle equals good reputation
      152 32  -  Chow Perm Nee FINANCIAL strength is the most important factor in determining a company's reputation, a poll of 1,500 Singaporeans showed. The survey, whose results were released yesterday, was conducted by UK-based market research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres to determine public perception of corporate reputation
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      187 34 AP TERROR financing and antimoney laundering experts from over 30 nations began meeting in Singapore yesterday, with several South-east Asian countries expected to outline new measures to prevent the bankrolling of militant activities in the region. Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines
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      155 31 _l_il_Ji dm Mr Terry Lee Nyuk Yong is battling cancer. When the doctors revealed to him that he has nose cancer, there was a sudden lump in his throat. He didn't know how to react. But Terry is a man of extraordinary strength, courage and determination. He decided not to
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      971 36  -  Elisa Chia To turn plane-wreck drama Lost into a thriller, even the cast was kept in the dark RISING Hollywood multi-hyphenate JJ Abrams was deep in thought, mulling over one of the 101 projects on his plate when the writer-director-producer-vision-ary received a call in his office at
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      310 38  -  David Chew This year's Arts Fest is unique for its lack of mid-performance intermissions david.chew@newstoday.com.sg FLIPPING through this year's Singapore Arts Festival's programme, an unusual feature jumps out. Every single theatre production from the opening show Amber to locally-pro-duced Spirits is slated to run without an
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        107 42 Ng Hui heads for the section on self-help, travel or religion whenever she is at a bookstore. She stars as a frenzied producer in the MediaCorp TV Channel 8 variety show KP Club. "I'm reading Zodiac Athena Sunsigns, by Vogue's renowned astrologer. I have always been interested
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      525 48  -  Jenny Kong 1 enny(gnewstoday.com. sg I COUNT Australia among my favourite places in the world: I like the Gold Coast for its holiday-like atmosphere; Melbourne for its rich arts culture and beautiful architecture; and Sydney for its shopping. Most recently I discovered Canberra. There is
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      543 53 -AP Title match-up has purists purring, as Spurs and Pistons simply play ball NBA FINALS San Antonio v Detroit SAN ANTONIO The NBA Finals will be more about substance than style, more about match-ups than minutiae. Neither the Detroit Pistons nor the San Antonio Spurs
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      384 53 Agencies WASHINGTON Promoter Rock Newman feels Mike Tyson is reaching a pivotal moment toward the end of his boxing career. If Tyson can beat Kevin Mcßride on Saturday night (Sunday morning, Singapore time), he could be on track to fight again for the heavyweight championship.
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      205 53 AFP SYDNEY Australian boxer Kostya Tszyu (picture) denied reports yesterday that he had sacked trainer Johnny Lewis, after losing his International Boxing Federation (IBF) light welterweight title to Englishman Ricky Hatton at the weekend. On his return here, the Russ-ian-born 35-year-old ex-champ said that he would take
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      317 54 Agencies ANFIELD Liverpool's inclusion in next season's Champions League is still being decided and the newly crowned European champions cannot wait for Uefa to bring them some positive news. At least, it could make it easier for the Reds to get the players they
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      598 54 Agencies Brazil's new sensation gets to strut his stuff against Argentina WORLD CUP QUALIFIER Argentina v Brazil BUENOS AIRES Diego Maradona's crash diet has produced spectacular results, with the football legend looking almost svelte as he posed for pictures alongside Brazilian stars Robinho and Ronaldinho in Buenos
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      237 55 Agencies LONDON Tottenham Hotspur yesterday reiterated their threat to report Chelsea to the Premier League over their approach for Frank Arnesen (picture), after talks between the two clubs stalled. Spurs chairman Daniel Levy apparently met with Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon and
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      148 55 -AFP HONG KONG Manchester United will field their full first-team including star striker Wayne Rooney, when the club play a Hong Kong invitational side, team boss Alex Ferguson said yesterday. "We are committed to bringing our top players to Asia. We want to make it a match
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      552 55 -AFP Like all world class golfers, young Scott fears that most unwanted of tags GOLF Booz Allen Classic BETHESDA, Maryland He may be only 24, but Australian golfer Adam Scott (above) is impatient to earn the title of Major champion. Simply because there is another tag
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      949 56 All five doing their best to land the 2012 Games so what if it means huge debts and chaos? CITIES hosting Olympic Games are known to perfectly measure human achievement on land and in water to many decimal points, yet fail with alarming
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      263 56 NEW YORK The message to the New York 2012 Olympic bid leaders is clear: They cannot quit the 2012 race with just 27 days to go. The New York Times reported that the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) are pushing New
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      519 57  -  CUBBYLEONG Coach unfazed as boys lose dress rehearsal ahead of Cup Final LION CITY CUP UNDER-18S Singapore Team A 1 Malaysia 3 cubby@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE coach V Sundramoorthy was hardly ruffled last night, even if his boys had just been vanquished by their Cup final opponents. The Singapore
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      255 57  -  Eric Ding LION CITY CUP UNDER-16S Singapore Team A 4 Brunei 1 WHILE Singapore under-16s Team A wrapped up their 20th Lion City Cup campaign in emphatic fashion last night with a 4-1 win over Brunei at Clementi Stadium, coach Mike Wong (picture) was left
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      541 57  -  ERIC DING LION CITY CUP UNDER-16S Hong Kong 1 Malaysia 2 sports@newstoday.com.sg WITH Malaysia and Hong Kong both scheduled to meet in Friday's Lion City Cup under-16 Final, last night's clash between the two sides at Clementi Stadium hardly had any bearing. But it
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        347 58 -AFP FOOTBALL European World Cup qualifiers PIRAEUS European champions Greece's hopes of reaching the 2006 World Cup finals suffered a massive blow when Group 2 leaders Ukraine grabbed a late goal to win 1-0 this morning. Ukraine got their only real good chance to
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        321 58  -  JOSE RAYMOND IN PENANG FAM CHALLENGE CUP 2005 Malaysia 1 Singapore 2 josetsnewstoaay.com.sg SINGAPORE continued their unbeaten run this season with a 2-1 win over archrivals Malaysia, at the City Stadium in Penang last night After clinching the Tiger Beer Causeway Challenge
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