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      Lock icon US-led group stops work on N Korean reactors
      391 1 —AFP Halt follows deadlock in talks on Pyongyang's N-programme NEW YORK- A US-led international consortium has agreed to completely halt the construction of two nuclear reactors in North Korea, officials said yesterday. A meeting of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (Kedo)
      —AFP  -  391 words
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      HDB still looking into reverse mortgages
      155 1 THE Housing and Development Board is pushing ahead with plans for reverse mortgages that would allow elderly people to pledge their homes for a regular income to make their life more comfortable, according to a report in today's The Business Times. "HDB is exploring
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      Frantic lobbying for Nguyen
      347 2 Australian state Attorney-General plans to meet Ho Peng Kee today SYDNEY Victoria state Attor-ney-General Rob Hulls arrived here yesterday in a further bid to plea for clemency for Nguyen Tuong Van, scheduled to be hanged on Dec 2. The Australian media reported that he plans to
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      Lock icon China 'to install nuclear detectors in ports'
      271 2 -BLOOMBERG CHINA has agreed to install detectors at its ports in an attempt to thwart the smuggling of nuclear materials, according to the US National Nuclear Security Administration in Washington. The agreement, signed by US and Chinese officials this past weekend while President
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      Lock icon Stocks extend rally, oil lower
      93 2 -BLOOMBERG US stocks extended their rally to a sixth straight day as growing consumer confidence raised investor expectations for the holiday shopping season. The Standard Poor's 500 Index added 4.38 points to 1265.61, the Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 6.42 points to 2259.98 and the Dow
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      Lock icon Israeli rescued from Lebanon
      110 2 -AFP BEIRUT An Israeli hang-glider fell into Lebanese territory along the border with Israel yesterday, provoking a gunbattle between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, sources said. Israeli military sources said the man landed just metres from the frontier after being blown off course by strong winds before
      -AFP  -  110 words
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      EVEN IF IT AIN'T BROKE, TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT
      717 3  -  LIANG DINGZI Why Japan's innovating while Singapore is playing it safe HEARD of the "banana guard"? Developed by a Vancouver-based company, aptly named Aberrant Designs, it has found its way into the Japanese market: a carrying case for a banana to prevent
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      Lock icon We must learn to take risks: MM
      432 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Changi's pulling out of Indian deal a case in point MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday Singaporeans would have to change their work style to take more risks, in order to protect the Singapore brand name and be a major
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA; AFP  -  432 words
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      Lock icon $500 million facelift for East Coast area
      187 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE popular East Coast area will be getting a $500-million makeover over the next five years. The Town Renewal Programme is expected to benefit East Coast residents of all ages, especially the elderly and the disabled. Chairman of the East Coast
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  187 words
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      Lock icon Extradition talks well on track
      133 4 —AFP JAKARTA Indonesian and Singaporean negotiators have already completed talks on more than 60 per cent of the issues covered by an extradition treaty they are working on, a minister said yesterday. "There are 19 chapters in that draft treaty. Thirteen chapters have been completed
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      Lock icon Frequent-flyer swindler swept up $99,900
      232 4 —AFP AN AUSTRALIAN man who collected some 17.6 million frequent-flyer points without boarding a plane was jailed for six months by a Melbourne court yesterday. Austin Perrott, 45, collected the points from some of the world's biggest airlines after he discovered a computer irregularity while
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  • Singapore news
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      He strays, wife ends up HIV+
      578 6  -  VINITARAMANI Unifemhopestosetup 'woman-only'clinic for HIV/Aids testing vinita@newstoday.com.sg FOR THE first time in Singapore, married women may have an avenue where they can go for anonymous HIV/Aids testing, that will act as a more "comfortable" alternative to the existing DSC Clinic at Kelantan Lane. Initiated
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      Israeli Speaker arrives today
      96 6 THE Speaker of the Knesset (Parliament) of Israel, Mr Reuven Rivlin, will be arriving here today on a four-day visit, at the invitation of the Speaker of Parliament, Mr Abdullah Tarmugi. Mr Rivlin is accompanied by a member of the Knesset, Mr Ehud Rassavi, and senior
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      S'pore appoints four ambassadors
      145 6 THE Government has appointed Mr X Kesavapany as Singapore's next ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Mr Verghese Mathews the next high commissioner to the People's Republic of Bangladesh; Mr S Chandra Das the new ambassador to the Republic of Turkey and Mr Leong Horn
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon PM LEE ATTENDS CHOGM MEETING
        184 6 -938 LIVE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta today. Every two years. Commonwealth leaders from 53 countries meet during the summit to discuss world and Commonwealth issues, and to agree on collective policies and initiatives.
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        Lock icon DROP FOR MOST COE CATEGORIES
        83 6 -938 LIVE Certificate of Entitlements (COE) for most categories have fallen across the board. For category A cars, the COE now costs just over $14,000, down $699. COEs for category C goods vehicles and buses are about $8,700, down $178, and for motorcycles, a slight
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        Lock icon PARTICIPATE IN SURVEY: MOM
        104 6 -938UVE The Manpower Ministry has urged households selected for their upcoming Labour Force Survey to cooperate. The survey will be conducted from today until Jan 7. It aims to collect data on employment and other economic characteristics to help formulate manpower related policies. Some 9,000 households
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        Lock icon TETRAPACK MILK SAFE: NESTLE
        41 6 -938 LIVE Following reports that liquid milk sold in tetrapacks in Italy have been withdrawn. Nestle Singapore has said that its products sold here are safe. The products affected in Italy are not imported nor marketed here.
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      Lock icon An 'eye-opening' probation
      357 10  -  VINITARAMANI Judge recommends community service with Malays for racist blogger vinita@newstoday.com.sg GAN Huai Shi, the 17-year-old blogger who was convicted of making racist remarks against Malays, will be on supervised probation for 24 months. Yesterday, District Judge Bala Reddy also issued a strong recommendation that Gan performs
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      Lock icon New $400m building in four years for Alexandra Hospital
      258 10 938 LIVE ALEXANDRA Hospital will be moving into its new $400 million building in Yishun by 2009. Situated in Yishun Central, the building will be a new generation regional hospital for over 1 million residents living in the north. The 450-bed
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      Husband quits job while she's jailed for maid abuse
      524 10  -  LEECH ING WERN THE 29-year-old woman accused of a staggering 79 charges of abusing her Indonesian maid was sentenced to 10 months' jail yesterday. Clad in a red T-shirt with her hair tied up in a ponytail, former production manager Sazarina
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      Lock icon Credit card schemers
      736 12  -  ANSLEYNG In latest case, thief used doctored copy of IC and fake address to apply for two cards a nsley@newstoday.com.sg USING someone else's identity card, a thief applied for two credit cards and withdrew almost $7,000 before the scam was discovered. In July, the thief used Ms
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      Lock icon Raising asthma awareness in children
      234 12 938 LIVE WITH the number of asthmatic children on the rise here, the Asthma Association of Singapore has launched the first Kids' Asthma Day to raise awareness about the symptoms leading up to the disease. One in five children in Singapore has asthma. But while
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      Lock icon Liquid eggs to come in smaller packages
      264 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA BY JANUARY, Singaporeans will be able to buy liquid eggs packed in smaller amounts for home use. Currently, liquid eggs are sold in large quantities mainly to food industries. The authorities are hoping the availability of liquid eggs in smaller packs
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA; AFP  -  264 words
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      Was Aljazeera 'plot' a state secret?
      499 14 Officials charged over report that Bush planned to bomb Arabic broadcaster LONDON The plot thickens as to whether US President George W. Bush had planned to bomb the headquarters of pan-Arabic broadcaster Aljazeera. Even as the White House dismissed as "outlandish" the allegation, which
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      Lock icon SBY hails US aid but others wary
      188 14 AGENCIES JAKARTA Even as Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) yesterday hailed Washington's decision to resume some military aid as marking a new chapter in bilateral ties, other Indonesian officials were more cautious. "The essence is that the sanction imposed by the United
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      Lock icon Abdullah fed up with red tape
      229 14 -AGENCIES PUTRAJAYA Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi is fed up with red tape in his own country, so much so that he gave civil servants a dressing down this week. "Things need to be improved we are not using typewriters now but computers. This
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        WIFE OF MOST WANTED TERRORIST MAY BE FREED
        87 14 Munfiatun, the wife of mostwanted terrorist Noordin M Top, might be released on parole from the Sukun Women's Penitentiary in Malang, East Java, the Jakarta Post reported. Prison warden Purwani said an official letter had been sent requesting that Munfiatun be freed
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        EARTHQUAKE HITS INDIAN ISLANDS
        39 14 A moderate earthquake hit parts of India's Andaman islands on Tuesday, the meteorological department in New Delhi was quoted telling the Press Trust of India news agency. The tremor measured 5.0 on the Richter Scale.
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        Lock icon STUDENTS URGED TO DRESS LESS SEXILY
        57 14 AFP Skintight shirts and short skirts with revealing slits have raised the ire of Thai university administrators, who were urging female students to tone down their sexy school uniforms. Since June, Rajabhat Mahasarakham University officials have campaigned against rising hemlines, saying "inappropriate" dress was
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        Lock icon NO BIDDERS FOR BIRDFLU.COM
        70 14 AFP An enterprising resident of China's largest city, Shanghai, is unlikely to profit from his 95--yuan ($2O) investment in the right to a domain name containing the word for bird flu. The unnamed person put the domain name up for sale on a local auction site,
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      Video Call on Broadband, so easy to use
      585 17 SINGTELVideo Call on Broadßand is a single, easy-to-use and collaborative service. To use this service, subscribers have to install a special client software on their PC. This will allow them to make video calls from the PC to a 3G mobile phone,
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      JAPAN IN NEED OF AN ASIAN STRATEGY
      816 19  -  Yeo Lay Hwee news@newstoday.com.sg East Asia Summit must deal with Japanese foreign policy priorities SHOULD East Asia be defined politically, or geographically? That is a crucial question to be asked ahead of the inaugural East Asia Summit (EAS) in Malaysia. The summit next
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        Lock icon US TV TO SHOW SADDAM TRIAL
        84 20 —AFP The United States television channel Court 7"l/ plans to broadcast the trial of Saddam Hussein on its Internet site when court proceedings resume next week. The trial will be shown on Court TV Extra, the network's online service, with a 20-minute delay. Saddam,
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        Lock icon STUDENT TRIED TO KILL BUSH
        78 20 DPA An American arrested while studying Islam in Saudi Arabia was convicted late Tuesday of plotting to assassinate United States President George W Bush. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 24, was guilty of all charges in a nine-coun indictment, after three days of deliberations at the
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        Lock icon NO IRAQ LINK IN 911 ATTACKS
        80 20 —AFP United States President George W Bush was informed 10 days after the Sept 11,2001 attacks that American intelligence had no proof of links between Iraq and this act of terror, said The National Journal. Mr Bush was also informed that there was some
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      Lock icon 24hr boozing hits Britain
      357 20 —AFP Move divides nation prone to binge drinking LONDON As Britain braced yesterday for round-the-clock drinking in pubs, bars and clubs to be formally allowed at midnight, the new licensing laws have divided a nation with a tendency for binge drinking. The government claims extending last
      —AFP  -  357 words
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      Britain takes US to task
      204 20 LONDON Britain is to write to the United States on behalf of the EU about the alleged existence of American secret service prisons in Europe. "At the request of several delegations, the UK, acting as presidency (of the European Union), agreed to write to the
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      Lock icon Water toxin fear spreads to Russia
      229 22 —AFP River being monitored as tributary in China found contaminated with toxic matter VLADIVOSTOK (Russia) Russian environment ministry officials yesterday started monitoring water content in the Amur river on the border between Russia and China, fearing contamination after toxic substances were discovered in a
      —AFP  -  229 words
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      Naked David upsets officials
      159 22 DAVAO A replica of Michaelangelo's naked statue, David (picture), has stirred controversy in the southern Philippine city of Davao, with local officials seeing it as a veiled advertisement for a local lovenest Officials said the replica of David erected in a beachfront park by the owners
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        Lock icon BOMBING SUSPECTS HELD
        73 22 -AFP Indonesian police have arrest ed three men suspected of involvement in the 2004 bombing of the Australian embassy here and of links to a top Al Qaeda-linked terrorist suspect. The three, identified as Fatkhurrahman, Bukhori and Yasin Al Reza, were arrested separately in the Central Java
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        Lock icon VISAS FOR CHINESE WOMEN TO BE CUT
        90 22 -AFP Indonesia will restrict visas for Chinese women aged under 30 as part of an ongoing government crackdown on foreign prostitutes. Justice and Human Rights Minister Hamid Awaluddin said yesterday that he had instructed immigration officers to reduce the number of visas issued
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        Lock icon MORE AID FOR QUAKE-HIT
        61 22 -AFP Australian Prime Minister John Howard yesterday announced a further Asso million ($62.5 million) in aid for Pakistani earthquake victims. He gave details of the extra relief as he visited Australian troops helping survivors in Dhani, a village near the devastated Pakistani Kashmir city of Muzaffarabad.
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        Lock icon MYANMAR PUTS OFF MOVE
        45 22 -AFP Myanmar has postponed sending the second batch of civil servants to its new administrative capital Pyinmanar because staff accommodation is not ready, a source close to the military said yesterday. There has been widespread discontent among officials over being uprooted.
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        BURNING PROOF
        82 25 A Swiss strip club owner burned his Kienberg club to the ground while trying to prove it was fire-proof to health and safety inspectors. They had questioned whether his decorations were in accordance with fire safety rules, and he used his lighter to set fire to the paper
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        DRUNKARD STARTS FIRE
        63 25 A 60-year-old German man drank too much, wet his bed and set fire to his apartment while trying to dry his bedding. "He was too drunk to go to the toilet," police told Reuters. "The next morning he put a switched-on hairdryer on the bed to dry
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        Lock icon ITS A POLICE CAR, NOT A TAXI
        59 25 —AP Anight of drinking left a Californian man so disoriented that he hopped into a police patrol car thinking it was a taxi, police said. The 20-year-old man was arrested soon after he got into the Santa Cruz County police car on suspicion
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      US to withdraw troops from Iraq 'fairly soon'
      331 25 WASHINGTON The United States (US) has indicated that conditions for a gradual pullout of its troops from violence-torn Iraq could become ripe "fairly soon," but warned that a decision about their withdrawal will not be made unilaterally. Appearing on two television channels,
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      Lock icon Sharon's plan for Palestine
      389 25 —AGENCIES Independence for security the key to peace JERUSALEM Mr Ariel Sharon (picture) will offer the Palestinians independence in exchange for the guarantee of security for Israelis if he is reelected prime minister, according to comments by a senior adviser published in a British daily yesterday.
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      Lock icon Cloning pioneer under a cloud
      257 26 —AFP Prof Hwang under increasing pressure on ethical questions SEOUL—Cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk has come under increasing pressure to answer ethical questions following more revelations concerning the origin of human eggs used in his landmark stem cell research. A member of Prof Hwang's team in
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      Lock icon Mosquitoes highly selective: Study
      232 26 —AFP PARIS People who claim that they are always the target for mosquitoes while others never seem to get bitten have been given support from science. Epidemiologists have discovered that malaria far from being a threat that applies equally to everyone is in fact highly selective.
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      Lock icon Marijuana preferred
      120 26 —AFP SYDNEY Australian youngsters aged between 12 and 15 are more likely to use marijuana than smoke cigarettes. The 2004 National Drug Strategy Survey, released on Tuesday, found that while 4.3 per cent of children aged between 12 and 15 had smoked cigarettes in 2004, 5.2 per cent
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      Dr Chee's actions 'a shame'
      435 28  -  ANTHONYPRAKASAM His talk about getting the US to pressure Singapore on drugs hanging is ironical Letter from I AM a Singaporean student studying in Australia, where the imminent execution of drug courier Nguyen Tuong Van has sparked a frenzy in the Australian media, which has
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      Selfishness is flip side of self-reliance
      149 28  -  TAN SHAN HON Letter from I REFER to Nicklas Hansen's letter, "Pushing and shoving for a seat" (Nov 19-20). I believe "bad culture" has gotten into the blood over the generations. What Singapore is strong for competitiveness and determination is now its downside. From
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      Where is the respect for Singapore's laws?
      331 28  -  SIOWJIARUI Letter from IN RECENT days, the campaign in Australia to prevent the execution of a heroin trafficker in Singapore has intensified. Amidst the calls in Australia for the government to take the case to the International Court of Justice, Singapore opposition leader
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      Why the RFP document costs as much as it does?
      259 29  -  MARGARET TEO Letter from Director Integrated Resorts Singapore Tourism Board I REFER to the letter by Gary Lee, "The $10,000 price tag is prohibitive" (Nov 17). The Request for Proposals (RFP) is a business document that lays out the specifications
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      Punish loan sharks, cane the borrowers
      406 29  -  ZHUO BAORU Only such deterrents can be effective in containing problem of illegal moneylenders Letter from I APPLAUD Parliament's move to approve stiffer punishments for those involved in unlicensed moneylending activities, at its sitting on Nov 21. The doubling of fines and jail terms,
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      225 30  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY MYS MYSTERY IN MARRIAGE PART 4 OF 4 If you want to put some new life in your marriage, try thinking like a teenager again. We all remember fondly, or otherwise, the craziness of our dating days-the coy attitudes, the flirting, the
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      Lock icon isay LESSON FROM FAKE MONEY
      723 30  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@newstoday.com.sg BEING duped is never a pleasant feeling. You feel stupid at yourself, angry even, for allowing yourself to fall prey, especially when you had least expected it. Trust me, I know the feeling. Though it was still some weeks before I was
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      Lock icon The right way ahead
      387 31  -  NELSON QUAH Proper channels needed for teenagers to learn about sex Letter from I REFER to the report, "Sex before marriage: 46% of teens say yes" (Nov 22). The result of a recent survey jointly conducted by MediaCorp News and Singapore Polytechnic's School of Business showed
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      Public expect law enforcers to uphold the law, not to be overly harsh
      318 31  -  JIMMY HO KWOKHOONG Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Empathising with the position of law enforcement officers", by Mr Lionel De Souza (Nov 22). It should be something new and shocking to many Singaporeans to learn
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      Gifted course a joyride of discovery
      502 32  -  ONGXINYI Students able to cope as extra work doesn't feel like 'work' Letter from occurred to us to complain to our teachers about all the extra work, and besides, most people could cope with the workload. In secondary school, the difference in our science
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      SINGAPORESEEN
      112 32 A GOOD OLD STICK IS THIS YOUNG CHAP Today artist Soh Eng Kong captured this scene from his apartment kitchen window in Ang Mo Kio. Nothing can stop this handicapped boy (right) from taking an active part in the soccer game with his neighbourhood friends. 'Armed' with his two
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      isay UNVEIL THE VIOLEN'T TRUTHS
      570 33  -  CONSTANCE SINGAM THIS Friday is the International Day to End Violence Against Women. Violence, especially that which takes place behind closed doors, is not an easy subject to talk about. Most men are uncomfortable when confronted with the issue and a lot of women don't
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      Do we need quarterly results?
      380 34  -  CHRISTIE LOH Timely profit warnings are more useful, says SGX chief executive christi e@newstoday.com.sg IF independent directors of listed companies enforced timely profit warnings, the need for quarterly financial reporting could be reduced, said Mr Hsieh Fu Hua, chief executive of the Singapore Exchange (SGX),
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        Singapore
        73 34 SHARES advanced after the US Federal Reserve suggested it might soon stop raising interest rates. The ST Index climbed 18.48 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 2,296.52. In the broad market, gainers beat losers 339 to 149, with volume amounting to 820 million shares worth $841 million. Interest rate
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 34 US$ 0.5903 UK£ 0.3422 Yen 69.945 HK$ 4.5762 RM 2.2302 Euro 0.4999 Rupiah 5,934.5 Baht 24.316 Peso 32.062 A$ 0.8008 Indian Rs 26.988 Won 611.92 C$ 0.6928 Yuan 4.7708 NZ$ 0.8521 NT$ 19.768
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        Lock icon Commodities
        27 34 SGX, Dow Jones, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 489.10 Silver US$/oz 8.05 Platinum US$/oz 972.90 Rubber cents/kg 277.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,410 Brent US$/barrel 56.50 Information provided by
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        Lock icon ST Index-2,296.52+18.48
        43 34 BLOOMBERG trusts and property firms recovered from recent losses. "The market is speculating that there could be just two more rate rises and that would spell the end of the interest rate cycle," said Phillip Securities senior dealing director Gabriel Yap.
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        World markets
        54 34 Mikkei 225 Closed Hang Seng 15,062.35 +176.70 +1.19 Australia ASX 4,616.60 -6.30 -0.14 laiwan Wtd 6,123.52 +64.33 +1.06 <orea Comp 1,202.02 +37.52 +3.01 <LCI 902.90 +0.36 +0.04 SET Index 669.10 -5.07 -0.75 Jakarta Comp 1,061.00 -5.21 -0.49 Dhils Comp 2,103.75 -27.10 -1.20 Shenzhen B 190.23 +2.00 +1.02 Vlumbai
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        SGX most active
        52 34 GlobalVoice 0.200 Pearl Energy 1.300 Biosensors 1.170 +0.010 +0.030 +0.040 +5.3 +2.2 +3.5 55,130 45,473 26,512 MemoiyD 0.250 +0.005 +2.0 15,143 CapitiJanrDBeCW***** 0.165 SembKim 0.510 Capitaland 3.300 +0.030 +0.020 +6.3 +0.6 14,062 12,300 11,946 Landwind 0.425 +0.010 +2.4 11,203 BiosensonWeCW***** 0.155 DatacrftUSS 1.050 +0.015 +0.030 +10.7 +2.9
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        SGX top rises
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        SGX top falls
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        Lock icon Thailand, S'pore aim to double trade
        348 38 DOW JONES They will jointly develop incentive packages to boost investments BANGKOK- Thailand and Singapore aim to double bilateral trade, investment and tourism by 2010, representatives of the two countries said yesterday. The two countries will jointly develop incentive packages to boost trade and
        — DOW JONES  -  348 words
      • Article
        Lock icon SGX, THAILAND'S SET TO EXPLORE DERIVATIVES LINK
        94 38 Dow Jones THE Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) plan to explore a derivatives link between the two markets, a joint statement by the two bourses said yesterday. The SET and SGX signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to mull
        — Dow Jones  -  94 words
      • Article
        WBL to buy more of Wearnes
        319 38  -  CHOW PENN NEE WBL Corporation plans to continue accumulating shares in Wearnes after crossing the 90-per-cent mark. The company currently owns about 92.2 per cent of Wearnes International a level at which the stock could ultimately be delisted, under Singapore Exchange (SGX) listing rules,
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        Lock icon Regulatory governance here still sound: MAS MD
        254 38 DOW JONES SINGAPORE'S regulatory framework is fundamentally sound, despite the recent increase in scandals involving listed companies, a senior Mone- tary Authority of Singapore (MAS) official said yesterday. At a seminar organised by the Commercial Affairs Department, MAS managing di- rector Heng Swee
        — DOW JONES  -  254 words
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        Lock icon Get a Citibank Paragon Platinum Card in 1 hour
        116 39 DOW JONES CITIBANK Singapore customers can apply for a credit card and, if they meet the income requirements, have the card issued within an hour. The service which Citibank said is the first of its kind in Asia and probably the
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        Lock icon Singapore 3-month rates at 6-year high
        325 39 —AGENCIES Sibor rise comes a week after Govt raised GDP growth forecast to as much as 5% SINGAPORE'S key threemonth interbank rate rose to its highest in at least six years as the Republic's economic expansion fuelled an increase in consumer prices. The three-month
        —AGENCIES  -  325 words
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        Pan-United wins $35m deal
        122 39 PAN-United Marine said that the company had secured new shipbuilding contracts for the construction of two 75-tonne towing and supply vessels from its repeat customer, Tidewater Marine. The combined value of the contracts is approximately $35 million. Delivery of the vessels is estimated to be within
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        Lock icon Telecom NZ says it hasn't received Optus' bid for AAPT
        224 40 BLOOMBERG TELECOM Corp, New Zealand's largest telephone company, said it had not received an offer for its AAPT unit in Australia, responding to a newspaper report that Singapore Telecommunications' Optus unit had bid As6so million ($Bl3 million) for the business.
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        Lock icon HK meeting must create road map for trade talks: WTO
        515 40 —AFP Meanwhile, farm subsidies causing discord GENEVA World Trade Organization (WTO) heavyweights said that a key conference in Hong Kong next month should create a "road map" for global trade talks, even if it misses its goal of crafting the
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      • Article
        Lock icon Fed minutes say rate outlook may change 'before long'
        327 41 BLOOMBERG Some FOMC members warn that risks of going too far with tightening may emerge UNITED States Federal Reserve policy makers discussed the need "before long" to change their outlook for the benchmark federal funds interest rate, with some worried about
        — BLOOMBERG  -  327 words
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        Lock icon MAS plans fare hikes, asset sales to offset losses
        251 41 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is planning to raise fares and sell some of its assets as part of a strategy to turn the troubled national carrier around, a report said yesterday. The New Straits Times quoted Deputy Transport Minister
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      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon THE LEGACY OF PETER DRUCKER
        718 42  -  VINCENT CHIA news@newstoday.com.sg PETER Drucker passed away on Nov 11 at the age of 95. The world will remember him as the Father of Management Theory. Even if you do not need to read Management Theory, I am sure his work still has an impact
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      Hip to the MX
      230 43 Shiro MX MP3 Digital Entertainment Audio Player BOOTH 5E40 The Shiro MX is a small (58x30x22mm) and light (30g) MP3 digital entertainment audio player targeted at the young and trendy crowd. Its 65,000--colour OLED display boasts a resolution of 96x64 pixels, allowing you to view videos
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    SITEX 2005
    88 43 Christmas shopping never looked this good: Sitex is here again, with some 500 exhibitors occupying more than 18,000 sq m of space at Singapore Expo to bring you a wide range of the latest consumer electronic products. This one-stop digital playground packed with discounts and freebies is sure
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      THE NEW BLACK
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      Screen savour
      206 44 LG Ml 940 A Monitor* BOOTH 4GOI LG has launched a multi-purpose, all-in-one television monitor, the Ml 940 A, targeted at fulfilling your computing, gaming and other multimedia entertainment needs. The 19-inch limited-edition model provides convenient plug-and-play access for AY devices such as DVD players, video cassette recorders,
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      BenQ on speed
      150 44 BenQ FP93GX LCD Monitor BOOTH 5E20 BenQ has launched what it claims to be the world's fastest 19-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor. The FP93GX has a 2-millisecond grey-to-grey response time, thanks to the use of original Advanced Motion Accelerator technology. With this capability, the LCD's performance
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      The drive for perfection
      156 44 Seagate External Hard Drive BOOTH 5G40 Safeguard your data with Seagate's latest external hard drives and you don't have to worry about losing important files again. Supporting Fire Wire and USB 2.0 connectivity, the drive is said to be the world's quietest in the 7,200 revolutions
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      PRIMED MOVER
      158 44 lomega ScreenPlay Multimedia Drive BOOTH 5C20 The lomega ScreenPlay Multimedia Drive allows you to play stored movies and music and view digital photos directly on a television set. It's good for travel use, too, as it measures a nifty 17x78x132mm and weighs just 198g. USB 2.0 connectivity gives
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      Love thy Brother
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      Manual control thrown into the Lumix
      155 48 Panasonic Lumix DMC-LXI BOOTH SGIO Panasonic has added a full manual compact camera to its Lumix LX series. The 8.4-megapix-el DMC-LXI is said to feature the industry's first 16:9 aspect charge-coupled device in a digital still camera of its class. The camera is armed
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      1472 54  -  David Chew david.chew@newstoday.com.sg As Guinness World Records turns 50 this year, its editor admires Singapore's strange records SINGAPOREANS are famous for breaking bizarre records. From the world's longest popiah and biggest group of line dancers to stuffing our mouths with the most burgers, this island
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      895 56 Former MediaCorp Radio Gold 90FMDJ STEVEN SHALOWITZ is on a round-the-world journey after leaving Singapore. Having left Tel Aviv, the Chicago resident turns up in Amman without a towel. IF THERE'S any truth to the expression "how you travel is who you are", then I
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      303 57 —AP NEW YORK Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has received a Cambodian passport after being made a citizen of the impoverished South-east Asian country. The actress can use it when she visits the native land of her adopted son, Maddox, said Stephan Bognar, executive director of
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      531 58  -  ELI SA CHI A Olympic champion Robin Cousins promises great show at Singapore Expo elisa@newstoday.com.sg ROBIN Cousins is a revered name within ice skating circles. A multi-award winning skater, including a coveted gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games, he was celebrated for the aerial "back
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      684 59  -  Jeanine Tan plus point jeanine@newstoday.com.sg Peerless TV thriller defies genre conventions and raised the bar for modern dramas WHAT kind of TV drama kills off one of its main characters midway through the first season and then, after establishing a loyal audience, kills offs another in the second
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      468 60 —AFP New York exhibition shows skinned Chinese corpses NEW YORK Curious visitors are queuing up to stare at dead bodies. With exhibits such as skinned and dissected muscles, tendons and organs in full view, 22 bodies provided by a Chinese university have become one of the
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      218 60 Urn Siok Peng (picture), the National Heritage Board CEO, has been busy this week announcing groundbreaking changes for museums in Singapore from next year. But she still finds time to read up on marketing and a little history: lam currently reading two books. Marketing For Cultural Organisations
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      135 60  -  David Chew BOOKREVIEW Stefano Marzano In line with the ongoing Singapore Design Festival, electronics giant Philips has released Past Tense, Future Sense an 800-page tome about the company. Written in the style of business textbooks, the design could ironically be more pleasing on the eye. But
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      576 61  -  EVELINE GAN Spare a thought for the less fortunate and make them feel special this festive season eveline@newstoday.com.sg ALL Jane (not her real name) wants for Christmas this year is a pair of jeans. "I have three pairs of jeans but they're very old. If
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        764 62  -  KYLIM This pristine island with soulful vibes makes for a great getaway traveller@newstoday.com.sg AT FIRST sight, l'ile Maurice the name by which French colonisers called the island of Mauritius seems like just an- other sunny island paradise. When the plane descends to land, the glimpse from
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        649 63  -  NAZIR KESHVANI Sabah's capital offers not only breathtaking spots but also great food traveller@newstoday.com.sg IF THE name Sabah conjures visions of exotic islands, mystical people and majestic mountains, you won't be disappointed. At 4,095 m, soaring Mount Kinabalu is South-east Asia's highest peak and perhaps Sabah's
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        585 64 Planning, games make road trips with kids bearable FOR some of us, there is nothing better than going on a self-drive holiday, be it across the Causeway or in faraway countries such as New Zealand even if it means risking frayed nerves, cramped legs and juicestained upholstery.
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        804 65  -  TIMOTHY SU traveller@newstoday.com.sg STOCKHOLM is not just the capital of Sweden. It's also the capital of modern design and living. After all, it's the birthplace of Ikea and H&M two of the biggest names in design for furniture and fashion. In recent years, Stockholm has
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        101 66 BLAZING HEIGHTS: Hong Kong has set a Guinness World Record for having the largest permanent light and sound show. The nightly Symphony of Lights involves beams and flashes of light that illuminate the sky from 20 buildings on the city's famed Victoria Harbour. Head of
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          121 66 Club Mcd Cherating Beach has won the Best 5-Star Resort award in the Hospitality Asia Platinum Awards 2005---2006. Club Med's Asia-Pacific president and CEO, Mr Joel Tiphonnet, said the award is the ultimate recognition in the hospitality industry as it is awarded by
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          90 66 Cathay Pacific won three accolades at the recent World Travel Awards. It was awarded Asia's Leading Airline, Asia's Leading Business Class Airline and World's Leading Use of In-flight Technology at a ceremony on Nov 13 at the Royal Opera House in London. Earlier this
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      153 75 \^M XXm SEA GAMES 2005 Q ||jj{|| Philippines days to go Win $100 worth of sports vouchers £r an exclusive invitation to the post-SEA Games party!! Answer 1 simple question stand to win fabulous prizes. Four winners will each receive $100 worth of sports vouchers and an exclusive invitation to
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      Lock icon Shyam hopes to end his career with a final dash
      451 76 —JOSE RAYMOND MEN'S national 100 m recordholder U X Shyam will call time on his career after the 2005 SEA Games in Manila. Yesterday, the political science and philosophy graduate said: "I have dedicated the last 10 years or so
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      Lock icon Imperious Singapore
      468 76  -  CUBBY LEONG IN MANILA Record 21st gold on, butwaterpolo men sticking to one-game-at-a-time mantra WATERPOLO Singapore 16 Indonesia 7 cubby@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore men's waterpolo team continue to put up a cautious front, but surely deep down they know they have all but secured a quite stunning 21st consecutive
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      Lock icon vramovic's battle-cry
      743 77  -  Jose Raymond in im.sg Bacolod City jose@newstoday.com.sg Starting today, Singapore coach says his men have three cup finals ahead FOOTBALL Young Lions v Indonesia SINGAPORE football started the year so gloriously, as the National Stadium rocked when the Lions lifted their second international trophy, crowned Tiger Cup champions
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      168 77  -  JOSE RAYMOND THE Bacolod City SEA Games organising committee (Basoc) said they will ensure the competition schedules here go on without any hitch. Yesterday, it was reported that 150 volunteers had threatened to quit by this Saturday, if they were not paid their allowances and
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          661 71 —AFP A clinical display as Chelsea trample Anderlecht 2-0 to qualify for knockout stages CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GRP G Anderlecht 0 Chelsea 2 BRUSSELS Chelsea motored into the Champions League knockout stages following a 2-0 win over Anderlecht here last night (this morning, Singapore time), showing in no
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          363 71 'Emperor' Adriano three times the hero -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GRP H Inter Milan 4 Artmedia 0 MILAN, Italy Brazilian striker Adriano scored a stunning hat-trick as Inter Milan reached the Champions League knockout stages with a comprehensive 4-0 win over Artmedia Bratislava in their behind-closed-doors clash here last night (this
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          Lock icon Shevchenko 4 Fenerbahce 0
          171 71 -AFP ISTANBUL Four goals by Andriy Shevchenko earned AC Milan a 4-0 victory over Fenerbahce here last night (this morning, Singapore time), reigniting their campaign in the hotly-contested Group E. The Ukrainian hitman opened scoring in the 16th minute as he raced from midfield, sliding it
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        370 72 Young Lions have not even made the last four, but NTUC Income's BotakXl have already started losing their locks THEY had originally planned to shave their heads only when the Young Lions bagged a medal at the SEA Games. But, the group of NTUC Income executives
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        314 72 DEVILS BAR, one of Singapore's most exciting nightspots, have pledged their support for the national under-23 football team, becoming the latest big name to join the Football Association of Singapore's DARE campaign. The entertainment outlet located at Orchard Parade Hotel, Tanglin
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        798 73  -  Rohit Brijnath THURSDAY WITH news@newstoday.com.sg Yes, it's an endless list, no I do have a life, but I just love such things, so there MEN are worse than women when it comes to making lists. We're compulsive, obsessive, constantly we're at it Best 10 matches
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        898 74  -  Razali Abdullah razali@newstoday.com.sg Sorenstam has 22 wins to chase, more Majors to win, and youngsters to inspire TWO years ago, she talked about raising a family and spending her weekends cooking. A divorce from husband of eight years David Esch in February this year seemingly put
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        286 74  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday.com.sg YET another Singapore football star has decided to ply his trade across the Causeway. Yesterday, it was confirmed that Woodlands Wellington's Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin (left) will don Johor Football Association colours next season in the Malaysian Premier League. The S-League star is the
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        410 75  -  TANYO-HINN Despite a slow buildup, Philippines promise a show from the heart IN LUNETA PARK, MANILA yohinn@newstoday.com.sg BASKETBALL to the Filipinos is what football is to Brazilians. That is why, when the news came through two weeks ago that the sport would not feature at the
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        253 75 KAUAI, Hawaii Tiger Woods overcame a stomach virus and a bad start to fire a five-under par 67 here Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) and grab a three-stroke lead over Phil Mickelson at the US$l million ($1.69 million) PGA Grand Slam of Golf.
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          OLYMPIC CHAMP DROPPED
          61 75 ATHENS Olympic gold medal winning boxer, Manus Boonmunjong, was a shock omission from the Thailand team that arrived in Manila on a chartered flight from Bangkok yesterday morning. Reportedly dropped for poor conditioning and a poor attitude in the build-up to the SEA Games, Manus, a cult
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          WHAT, NO BASKETBALL!
          77 75 WITH three days to go to the official opening ceremony of the 23rd SEA Games, Filipinos are still extremely upset that basketball has been omitted from the list of sports to be held in their own backyard. Philippines International Olympic Committee member Frank Elizalde criticised the Basketball
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          88 75 THAILAND have set a whopping target of 114 gold medals for the upcoming SEA Games. The Olympic Committee of Thailand (OCT) are quietly confident of reclaiming their status as overall champions, after the sports-mad nation collected 87 gold medals in 2003 to finish behind then hosts
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