Today, 14 August 2007, Afternoon Edition

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  • 14 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Tuesday August 14, 2007 todayonline.com
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    • 163 1 -BLOOMBERG SINGTEL, South-east Asia's largest phone company, said first-quarter profit rose 10 per cent on record earnings at its Indian unit. Net income climbed to $927 million or 5.81 Singapore cents a share, in the three months ended June 30,
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    • 663 1  -  CHRISTIE LOH —ADDITIONAL REPORTING BYCHEOWXINYI But some stay cautious amid subprime uncertainty christie@mediacorp.com.sg HALF empty or half full? At a time when financial markets are weak at the knees from fears of a full-blown global credit crunch, investors are asking themselves if the recent selldown is
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    • 291 2 —AFP WASHINGTON US doctors have called off their attempt to separate three-year-old conjoined twin girls who are fused at the head because the operation is too risky, the hospital said yesterday. "Further surgery is not in the best interest of the Dogaru
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    • 162 2 -AFP CHICAGO US researchers said yesterday that they had invented a lightweight paper battery that could serve as an enhanced power storage device for the next generation of consumer electronic devices. The battery produces electricity in the same way as the conventional lithium-ion batteries that
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    • 627 3  - A room with a view will cost you LEE U-WEN Hotels to be charged room levy for five days during F1 week u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg AS THEY gear up to cash in on the thousands of expected visitors for Singapore's first Formula One (Fl) race nextyear, atleast 11 hotels located around the
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    • 224 3 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Twenty people were killed yesterday in a bus crash thought to be one of Malaysia's worst traffic accidents. The driver apparently lost control of the vehicle (picture) which skidded and overturned near a village in northern Perak state, said the Bernama news agency,
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  • Singapore news
    • 807 4  -  WILLIAM PESEK OF ALL the breathtaking factoids about China's rise, the most fantastic may concern the stock markets. They are now bigger than China's gross domestic product (GDP). The combined value of shares traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets reached U552,795
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    • 613 5  -  ANSLEYNG Judge who jails bartender, 27, says he was not seeking vengeance against attacker ansley@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN he was 18, the police praised him after he single-handedly helped nab a group of thieves and burglars in his housing estate. But four years later,
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    • 262 5 'I THOUGHT DAD HATED ME', SAYS SON, UNTIL TEARS of reconciliation flowed in court yesterday, as a poignant drama played out between father and son. The cause: An "impassioned" note written by Sadayan, which Justice Tay Yong Kwang read out in court yesterday. Sadayan, it transpired, suffered from "dissocial personality
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    • 352 6  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Record rise in number of smuggling cases, especially security-related items, uncovered in Ist half by ICA nazry@mediacorp.com.sg AMID the threat of transnational terrorism, one figure stood out in a slew of smuggling statistics released by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) that of se-curity-related
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    • 237 6  -  JOSEPH YADAO A HUNDRED minutes that's the minimum ground time required to turn around the 480--seat Airbus A3BO, just 10 minutes more than the 390-seat Boeing 747. Yesterday, Singapore Airlines (SIA) and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) completed a slew of
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    • 187 6 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will deliver the keynote address at the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Singapore from Sept 10 to 12. The event, which is the region's foremost business conference, is an annual opportunity for corporate leaders to discuss and
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    • 546 8  -  DAPHNE CHUAH Of 73 schools, lesser-known West Grove turned away the most parents in this year's Pri 1 balloting exercise daphne@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE most schools stop at providing dental services for their students, this one goes the extra mile by offering barber services by a professional
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    • 142 8 MPA EFFORT SAVES 19 FROM ABANDONED SHIP The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) coordinated a search and rescue operation last Wednesday that saved 19 seamen. They were part of the 24 crewmembers of the Thai-registered freighter Pailin Maritime, which had sunk in the South China Sea at
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    • 269 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT FOUR workers have been sentenced to between four and six weeks' jail for making false claims under the Workmen's Compensation Act (WCA). They are the first to be prosecuted this year by the Manpower Ministry (MOM) for such an
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    • 191 8 DISCOVER THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WEALTH MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY! "Singapore's Private banking sector needs to beef up its talent pool in line with the nation's aim of becoming a major ASEAN Wealth Management Hub..." (extracted from The Straits Time) J have now became a Financial Consultant with IPP Financial Advisers,
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  • world news
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      70 10 -AFP DEATH ACT: Indonesian activists acting a scene portraying four Indonesian women who were allegedly tortured by their employers in Saudi Arabia, in front of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Jakarta yesterday. Two of the women died early this month while the other two were so severely abused they remain
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    • 175 10 —AP BEIJING A chemical plant leaked arsenic into a river in southern China that supplies water to at least 20,000 people, a human rights group said. High levels of arsenic and other chemicals have killed at least 10,000 fish in the 70km Chongan river
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    • 379 10 —AP BEIJING —The head of a Chinese toy manufacturing company at the centre of a huge United States recall has committed suicide, a state-run newspaper reported yesterday. Mr Zhang Shuhong, who co-owned Lee Der Industrial Co, killed himself at a warehouse over the weekend,
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    • 609 12 —AP Separated South Asian twins prepare for each country's independence anniversary-and birthday NEW DELHI Twins Azhar Shervani and Zafar Hameed grew up separated by one of the world's most dangerous rivalries. And this week, as India and Pakistan mark their 60th anniversaries today
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    • 265 13 -AP GHAZNI (Afghanistan) Two women among the 23 South Koreans kidnapped by the Taliban on July 19 were freed yesterday on a rural Afghan roadside, the first significant breakthrough in a hostage drama now more than three weeks old. The two women, who broke
      -AP; AFP  -  265 words
    • 350 13 —AFP DENPASAR Indonesia confirmed its first human bird flu death on the resort island of Bali yesterday, bringing the nation's overall toll to 82 and raising fears of an impact on tourism. A 29-year-old woman who died in a hospital in Bali's capital
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    • Article, Illustration
      118 14 CHARTER COLOURS: Thousands of Thajs joined a government-organised march through Bangkok yesterday to encourage people to vote in a key constitutional referendum this weekend. Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont led the crowd from a plaza near the Grand Palace to the Democracy Monument. The march is the authorities' latest effort to
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    • 821 14  -  OONYEOH A TACTIC used by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, in his fight against the opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) in 2001, was to declare Malaysia an Islamic state. This, he figured, would take the winds out of the sails of the PAS, whose stated aim
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      100 16 -AFP 3 KILLED BY GUNMAN IN US CHURCH The street leading to the First Congregational Church in Missouri is cordoned off as ambulances arrive to transport the wounded, following a deadly shooting which left three dead on Sunday. The pastor. Reverend Kernal Rehobson, 44, and two worshippers were killed when
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    • 342 16 -AGENCIES Aussie held hostage in Africa for 12 days in Internet bride scam ADELAIDE An Australian farmer who was held hostage in Mali for 12 days, by a gang of men masquerading as an online love interest, has cautioned others who are also
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    • 259 18 —AFP Political guru to leave White House at end of the month WASHINGTON White House political adviser Karl Rove (picture), who has often been called President George W Bush's "brain" and linked to the most controversial decisions of his presidency, said in an interview
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    • 302 18 li ua -AFP UNITED NATIONS The official website of the United Nations appeared to have been hacked on Sunday and briefly displayed a message protesting United States and Israeli policies in the Middle East The section of the site reserved for
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    • 331 19 -AFP Seoul's goodwill gesture as summit nears SEOUL North Korea yesterday agreed to hold a working meeting with South Korea to prepare for their second-ever summit as Seoul postponed a major military exercise as a goodwill gesture. They will meet today at the North's border city of
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    • 253 19 —AP BHUBANESHWAR The coach of a six-year-old boy who ran a marathon last year in an attempt to set a world record was arrested yesterday and charged with torturing the boy, police said. Biranchi Das was arrested and charged after the boy's mother said
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  • Voices
    • 417 20  -  CHIA HERN KENG Tighter rein required to prevent US-style debt crisis here Letter from THE current volatility of the stock market should concern everyone, not just stock market investors. If markets around the world melt down, everyone would suffer. But the good
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    • 276 20  -  FRANCIS HONG KIM HUA Letter from I REFER to the Housing and Development Board's (HDB) letter, "Clinics are also business" (July 27). I am one of the 500 patients who signed the appeal to HDB. But we did not appeal
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    • 263 22  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY KIND ACT FOR AN OLD LADY A few years ago, I slipped into a market to pick up a few groceries for lunch. Standing in front of me at the check-out counter was an elderly woman who didn't seem to be lucid.
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    • 403 22  -  LOOITEIKSOON LTA will assess and conduct ground audits on actual bus service performance Letter from Secretary, Public Transport Council (PTC) I REFER to the letter, "It's about enforcement" (Aug 2) by Mr David Soh Poh Huat. The waiting time at bus stops, particularly during peak
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    • 237 23  -  SIMCHOONCHYE Letter from MY FRIENDS from Taiwan recently took a taxi from a taxi stand along Scotts Road at about 11pm on a weekday. Upon boarding the taxi, the driver told them that he would charge
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    • 142 23  -  LTC N SUBHAS, Letter from Director, Public Affairs Department, Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) I REFER to the letter by Mr Peter Lo, "Are these emergencies?" (Aug 8). The SCDF emergency vehicles make use of the flashing lights and sirens when they
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    • 251 23  -  YUELAITHENG Teachers thought my son had 'passed out' Letter from I REFER to the letter from Mak Wai Keong, "Are teachers certified in first aid?" (Aug 13). I agree that teachers need to be trained to recognise life threatening situations and take life
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  • Business
    • 454 26  -  JASON LEE Singapore a leading investor with more than 500 projects jason@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE may be a top investor in Vietnam, with US$9.6 billion ($14.6 billion) and more than 500 projects there, but the country's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (picture) wants even more business
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    • 155 26 -BLOOMBERG SEMBCORP Industries Ltd s industrial park in the Vietnamese city of Bac Ninh, outside the capital Hanoi, has attracted U*****.5 million ($279 million) of investments from 10 companies. Work on the industrial park will begin in January next year, SembCorp said in a statement. SembCorp's Vietnamese
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    • 156 26 DOW JONES NEWSWIRES SINGAPORE investment company Temasek Holdings will start the bidding process for the sale of three domestic power generation companies next month, and some of the biggest global names in the sector are expected to make offers, people familiar with the situation
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    • 275 27  -  -LEONGWEEKEAT OVERSEAS operations drove transport operator ComfortDelGro forward, as second quarter revenue rose by $56.1 million or 8.1 per cent from a year earlier to $746.7 million. Bus operations in Australia, the UK and China, as well as taxi operations in the UK and China,
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    • 207 27 —AGENCIES SINGAPORE Telecommunications, South-east Asia's largest telephone company, said it added a record number of subscribers for a fifth straight quarter, buoyed by growth in India and Indonesia. Sing Tel gained 12.6 million users in the quarter ended June 30, from the preceding threemonth
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    • business news
      • 418 28 —DOW JONES ASIA-Pacific central banks continued pumping cash into the banking system yesterday but eased off the liquidity spigot after massive fund injections by global central banks seemed to have calmed financial markets at least for now. The actions show that the central banks remain
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      • 265 28 -BLOOMBERG CHINA scrapped limits on the amount of foreign-currency earnings that companies can hold, seeking to slow growth in US$l.33 trillion ($2 trillion) of reserves that are flooding the world's fastest-grow-ing economy with cash and fuelling inflation. "The new policy
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      • 346 29 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE'S stocks advanced, led by United Overseas Bank, on speculation that a fourweek slump in the key index triggered by United States subprime mortgage losses was excessive. "Sentiment is very uncertain because we don't know the full impact of sub-prime," said Daphne Roth, Singapore-based
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      • 247 29 AGENCIES COMPETITION WATCHDOG CLEARS ALINTA TAKEOVER Australia's competition watchdog yesterday said it had cleared the way for an AsB-billion-dollar ($10.2 billion) takeover of energy utility Alinta by a Singapore-linked consortium. The bid by Singapore Power and Babcock and Brown got the green light but the Australian Competition and Consumer
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    • impact
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        350 30  -  JOSEPH YADAO Fed Ex's new TV ads use humour to show the efficiency of its couriers joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg HUMOUR is one of the best ways to get your brand into the heads of consumers; and FedEx Express has repeatedly gone down that road. The express transportation company recently
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      • 235 30  -  JOSEPH YADAO THE Singapore Tourism Board's (STB) Uniquely Singapore campaign has won the prestigious Gold Award for a marketing campaign primary government/destination from the Pacific Asia Travel Association (Pata). "We are delighted and encouraged by the accolades the Uniquely Singapore brand campaign has been receiving."
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    • 405 34  -  MAYO MARTIN Funnyman Willie Nepomucenocan be 30 different people mayo@media corp.com.sg WHEN Willie Nepomuceno performs, it's par for the course when presidents, politicians, Hollywood celebrities and the occasional terrorist join in the fray. In a manner of speaking, that is. The veteran Filipino comedian is
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      • 85 35 Hans Zimmer IT'S odd to hear a fullblown orchestral score being used as a soundtrack for The Simpsons' first celluloid outing. Composer Han Zimmer does a decent job of giving it a cinematic feel. Still, Zimmer's cobbling together of notes are bland. But there are a
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      • 120 35 Pearl Jam GRUNGE rockers Pearl Jam may be remembered as the people who gave Kurt Cobain a run for his money back in 1992. They may have dropped off the pop radar but the Seattle-based quintet is still alive and kicking, earning their stripes as
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        64 35 Roots Echoes The Coral England's The Coral plays an unusual mix of old fash ioned country, *****-style psychedelic pop mixed with some rock 'n' roll. While the fusion may sound deeply unfashionable, their fifth album Roots Echoes is feisty, perched somewhere between Oasis and Arctic Monkeys. But while the album
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    • 99 35 CHINESE CULTURAL ICONS WITH A TWIST Art Seasons at the Loft presents a solo exhibition. Faraway, by Hui Kin, a Chinese painter who dabbles with unique methods and motifs. Through the use of airbrush techniques, Hui Kin takes on traditional Chinese cultural icons, such as Bruce Lee, and transforms
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      • 412 36  -  NGIAMYINGLAN Peter Chan gives love stories a break and goes for the jugular yinglan@mediacorp.com.sg YOU won't be needing your hankies for Peter Chan's latest movie. The Warlords, a US$4O million ($60.8 million) historical battle epic scheduled to open here in December, marks a departure into uncharted
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      • 206 36 TWO documentary films about Brazilian treasures, football legend Pele and bossa nova, are the highlights in this year's Brazilian Film Festival the third in Singapore. It begins today and runs until Sunday at Golden Village Vivo City. Apart from Eternal Pele, a 2004 Cannes-winning film on
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      • 533 37  -  JOANNEYAP Adults with prediabetes are more likely to increase their risk of heart disease than those with normal glucose levels joanne@media corp.com.sg BEFORE you reach for that slice of chocolate cake, read this. An Australian study published in the journal Circulation has found that adults
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        181 37 TO KEEPING AN ASTHMA ATTACK AT BAY With the haze likely to return to our shores soon, preventive measures are important for asthma sufferers to take note of. According to the Health Promotion Board, the condition affects about 5 per cent of adults and 20 per cent of children
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      • 434 38  -  JOANNEYAP Studies say the humble seed might benefit cancer treatment joanne@media corp.com.sg FLAXSEED and ginseng are the latest of nature's weapons added to the arsenal in the fight against cancer, with new studies suggesting that both can be effective in helping the treatment of certain forms of
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      • 124 38 APART from being high in omega-3 fatty acids, flaxseed also has a high amount of soluble fibre, similar to that found in oat bran. This makes flaxseed beneficial in helping to bring down one's blood cholesterol levels. Preliminary studies also indicate that flaxseed oil may help in healing the
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      • 278 39 BABY'S COMMUNICATION SKILLS Learn more about nurturing your child's communication skills to enhance his speech and language development. Date: Today Time: Ipm to 2pm Venue: National University Hospital, Health Education Hub, Main Building 1, Level 1 Fee/Registration: Free. Registration required. Call 6772 2184. ANTENATAL PROGRAMME Atalk on preparing for
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      • 276 39 —AFP THE diets of pregnant women may have an important role in determining whether their children will be obese later in life, a new study suggests. The study by New Zealand and British scientists indicates that children born to mothers who ate badly during
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        551 40  -  Irwan I AM 28 years old and weigh 81kg. I have a problem with my menstrual cycle, which has been very irregular for many years. In fact, I have missed my period for more than a year now. I haven't consulted a doctor about this yet As
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        154 41 DECODING FOOD LABELS That packet of potato chips you pick up off the shelves might entice you with its "fat-free" label, but did you know that this does not indicate that the product is completely devoid of fats? Products that are labelled fatfree still contain fat, but have to
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    • 72 39 What it takes to treat liver cancer. i What it takes to lower the risk of it. You only need 3 injections to lower the risk of liver cancer. Hepatitis B is estimated to cause 60% to 80% of liver cancer worldwide. An infected person may show no obvious signs
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    • 607 44  -  JOSE RAYMOND Suspensions to key players will give new signing Chiang a chance to shine NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Home United v Balestier Khalsa Bishan Stadium, 7.45pm jose@mediacorp.com.sg HOME United's mid-season signing Jeremy Chiang will tonight finally get the chance he has been waiting for.
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    • 338 44  -  DARREN LAI darren@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S young footballers did the country proud with their best-ever showing in five years at the annual Saitama International Junior Football Tournament last month, finishing a commendable 12th out of 40 teams. The international under-12 football tournament (July 25-29) featured top young players
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    • 552 45  -  CUBBY LEONG Throwers disappear, Loh says they have got the most to lose cubby@mediacorp.com.sg JUST when it looked like their badly fractured relationship with the Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) was on the mend, throwers Zhang Guirong and Dv Xianhui abruptly returned to their native
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    • 301 45  -  -TANYO-HINN AT THE 2005 Asian Youth Bowling Championships in Perth, Singapore finished seventh out of nine overall, with two silver and four bronze medals. Today, an eight-strong national youth side leaves for this year's tournament in Beijing looking to improve on their position. With
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    • 684 46 MCT Won't be long before Woods passes Nicklaus' Major mark TULSA, Oklahoma An old foe and a hot-tem-pered journeyman prodded at his perch, but Tiger Woods could not be dislodged. On Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), the world No 1 was tested late as
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    • 260 46  -  CUBBYL£ONG IT IS confirmed: Phil Mickelson (picture) will play at the Barclays Singapore Open 2007. The announcement by the organisers yesterday means four of the world's top 10 players will tee off at the Serapong Course at Sentosa Golf Club
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      601 47 THE GUARDIAN One club and an entire nation are reeling from Rooney's injury MANCHESTER The first match of a new season is usually a time for heady anticipation but at Old Trafford on Sunday, it brought only anti-climax. And in the case of Wayne Rooney, a grim
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    • 390 47 AFP MANCHESTER (England) Carlos Tevez will make his Manchester United debut at Portsmouth tomorrow in place of the injured Wayne Rooney. Argentina striker Tevez, 23, was paraded yesterday by manager Sir Alex Ferguson having finally concluded his long-running transfer on Friday. Ferguson had hoped
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