Today, 10 December 2007, Afternoon Edition

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    13 1 TODAY /A=diaCofip MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Monday December 10, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      MEDAL TALLY
      61 1 Singapore's shuttlers get a shot at gold today. THAILAND 66 58 41 165 VIETNAM 29 14 39 82 SINGAPORE 25 20 14 59 PHILIPPINES 16 25 44 85 MALAYSIA 15 14 30 59 INDONESIA 13 21 23 57 MYANMAR 2 10 12 24 LAOS PDR 2 0 9
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      Lock icon More arrests, turmoil in M'sia
      717 1  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Elections will be unlikely next year, say analysts IN KUALA LUMPUR nazry@mediacorp.com.sg RISING political tension with lawyers arrested as they staged a march in the capital yesterday and more turmoil in the streets expected today, have shaken Malaysia like never before. And even as
      WEETECKHIAN  -  717 words
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      Facts on the ground more eloquent than statistics: Ngiam
      707 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp.com.sg MORE than four decades ago, former top civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow then a young public officer in the Finance Ministry was tagging along with former Deputy Prime Minister Dr Goh Keng Swee at a highlevel
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      44 1 PAKISTAN POLLS SHARIF'S PARTY TO TAKE PART WORLD PAGE 13 MORE SHOOTINGS TWO REPORTED IN COLORADO WORLD PAGE 13 SUBSTITUTE SCORES WEST HAM'S ASHTON DOWNS ROVERS 1-0 SPORTS PAGE 30 BARCA FIGHT BACK CLUB WINS AFTER BEING GOAL DOWN TO DEPORTIVO SPORTS PAGE 31
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      119 1 STUNNING DAY FOR SINGAPORE Singapore's gymnastic twins Tabitha Tay and Nicole Tay (picture) were inseparable as they mounted the champion's rostrum yesterday. More golds followed from swimmers Zach Ong and golden girl aspirant Tao Li. Bryan Tay made history as he erased a 23-year-old swimming mark. The table-tennis team contributed
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  • hot news
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      NGIAM-SPEAK
      169 2 On Singapore's economic decision-making: Former Deputy Prime Minister Goh Keng Swee decided to build a bird park before a zoo as "bird seeds cost considerably less than meat for tigers and lions". Finance Ministry rejected flood-alleviation works at Bukit Timah Canal because it flooded "only three to four times
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      A MODEL FOR THE MUSLIM WORLD
      752 3  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Spotlight was once on Malaysia, Indonesia but now the focus is on Oman nazry@media corp.com.sg THE standing of the Muslim world has taken a recent pummelling. First, a gang-rape victim in Saudi Arabia was jailed and ordered to be lashed 200 times. Then,
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      159 2 The Unfair Competitive Advantage In Your Career The internationally-accredited Gibaran DBA. is a mark of professional excellence that places its graduates on the top echelons of the business community. The DM is the terminal qualification which sets you apart and a must-have business tool for the middle managers and above
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      A knotty issue...
      413 4  -  TEOXUANWEI Can love between a couple of different religions survive? xuanwei@media corp.com.sg WILL inter-faith marriages affect harmony among religions? Can a couple with differing religious beliefs end up together? These were some of the questions participants levelled at religious leaders at an inter-faith dialogue held yesterday. The
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      Lock icon Women under 45 can't go on pilgrimage without a close male relative, says Muis
      316 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA FROM next year, the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore, or Muis, will no longer accept applications from women who are under 45 years old and wish to perform the Haj without a close male
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      SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      253 4 OMAN, SINGAPORE STRENGTHEN TRADE TIES Oman's Deputy Prime Minister Sayyid Fahd Bin Mahmoud Al Said is visiting Singapore at the invitation of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. He arrived yesterday with a high-level delegation made up of ministers and businessmen and will be here until Wednesday. Mr Lee and
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      Lock icon We saved the day: Case
      450 6 Without protection plan, China would have banned its students from private schools in Spore FOLLOWING the high-profile collapse of several private schools here in the last few years, the industry faced a crisis after China almost banned its students from pursuing courses in these privately-run
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  • world news
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      Rife vote-buying likely: Sonthi
      248 8 SINGAPORE Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Sonthi Boonyaratglin urged Thai voters in Singapore yesterday to vote for good politicians who do not buy votes, The Nation reported. Speaking to a group of Thai workers in the East Coast, General Sonthi told them more than 6,600 of 20,000
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      111 8 -AGENCIES POWER PLUG: Democratic presidential hopeful. Senator Barack Obama (left), campaigning at an event in Cedar Rapids, lowa, with talk show host Oprah Winfrey (right) on Saturday. Ms Winfrey, 53, called Mr Obama a politician with an 'ear for eloquence and a tone dipped in unvarnished truth', saying his life
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      Lock icon Row over water torture tapes
      385 8 -AGENCIES US lawmakers knew about controversial CIA tactic: Report WASHINGTON The question of who knew what about the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) destruction of video tapes of harsh interrogation techniques sent Washington scrambling over the weekend, with the announcement of a joint investigation and reports
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      Lock icon Thaksin's involvement in Dec 23 polls questioned
      304 8 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand's election commission said yesterday that it was investigating whether ousted Premier Thaksin Shinawatra broke campaign laws for the Dec 23 parliamentary polls in which he is banned from standing. Mr Sutthiphon Thaveechaiyakarn, the commission's secre-tary-general, said it was trying to
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      62 10 FOREIGN WORKERS IN TAIWAN DEMAND FOR DAY OFF: Some 1,000 foreign workers marching along the streets of Taipei yesterday, demanding that they be allowed to take at least Sunday off each week. The protesters, mostly working as domestic helpers or caretakers, said their employers make them work seven days a
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      Lock icon Taiwan ex-leader regrets his choice
      352 10 —AFP Lee Teng-hui cites graft increase as reason to oust Chen Shui-bian's party TAIPEI Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui (picture) has broken ranks with former ally and successor Chen Shui-bian, saying he was wrong to back him in 2004 and urged the electorate to oust
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      Lock icon Aussie prisons' X'mas dilemma
      143 10 DPA SYDNEY Some prison officers in Australia are peeved at not getting Christmas Day off to spend with their families because they have to be on duty to supervise the visits inmates receive from their families, said news reports yesterday. The prison officers' union has threatened
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      Lock icon Top union backs Lee ahead of S Korea presidential polls
      270 10 —AFP SEOUL South Korea's conservative presidential front-runner Lee Myung Bak yesterday won rare political support from the country's top umbrella labour organisation. The Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU) said it would team up with Mr Lee, a former business
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      Lock icon Sharif's party to contest polls
      384 13 -AFP But it leaves open possibility of late pullout LAHORE (Pakistan) Former Pakistan Premier Nawaz Sharif's opposition party joined Pakistan's election race yesterday despite boycott calls and fears the polls will not be free and fair. A spokesman said that Mr Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz
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      Lock icon HUMAN CHAIN OF HOPE:
      69 13 AFP Environmental activists and supporters gathered yesterday atKuta beach in Bali to form a human chain in the shape of a world map as part of campaigns to coincide with the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali. Climate change activists called for greater efforts
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      Lock icon Two shooting incidents in US
      170 13 AFP LOS ANGELES A shooting at a church in the western state of Colorado claimed "multiple victims" yesterday, only hours after another shooting in the same state killed two people, local television reported. The latest shooting occurred at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs
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      Lock icon China whips up healthy recipes for youngsters
      249 14 -AP Plagued by scandals, it will launch food safety drive this month BEIJING China is launching a nationwide drive to boost food safety and healthy diets among children following repeated poisoning incidents and scandals over tainted milk powder and other sub-standard products, a
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon WANTED: WINE TASTERS IN CHINA
        93 14 —AFP Wine tasting has become an official profession in China, the Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. Wine tasting is one of 10 new jobs, ranging from colour design consultant to nuts chef, added to the list of officiallyrecognised occupations. Being on the list drawn up
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        Lock icon BIRD FLU VICTIM RECOVERING
        92 14 -AFP A 52-year-old Chinese man whose son died on Dec 2 from the HSNI avian flu strain and who has been infected with the virus is recovering, state media reported yesterday. The patient, identified by his surname Lv, showed signs of improvement on Saturday, five days
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        Lock icon MINERS FREED AFTER 129 HOURS
        95 14 -AFP Eleven miners staggered out into the open early yesterday after being trapped in a collapsed mine for 129 hours. The miners were trapped when an iron roof that was supposed to stabilise the shaft collapsed, Xinhua news agency reported. The men were sent to
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      90 15 MASSIVE CLEAN-UP: South Korean residents struggling to clean up Mallipo beach in Taean, about 170 km southwest of Seoul, yesterday. The beach was covered with crude oil spilled from the Hong Kong-registered tanker Hebei Spirit, which had collided with a barge off South Korea's west coast on Friday. More than
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      Lock icon Chan receives death threat
      269 15 —AGENCIES HONG KONG Newly-elected pro-democracy legislator Anson Chan asked for police protection last Friday after she received what appeared to be a death threat in an anonymous letter containing a razor blade, The Standard reported. The report said the letter, which was mailed to the Legislative
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        Lock icon NEA didn't reply to request for recycling bin near home
        282 16  -  ETHAN GUO Letter from I RECENTLY moved into a new apartment in the city. Having lived previously in a landed property where I had my own recycling bin, I continued to separate recyclable material from the usual trash at my
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        133 16  -  SAULSIO Letter from IT WAS a good initiative to provide recycling bins for old computer parts during the Sitex 2007 fair from Nov 29 to Dec 2. However, it was disheartening that there was no recycling bin for paper. I saw only
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      200 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON /////BY BATTLESHIP AND LIGHTHOUSE In the Naval Institute's official magazine, Mr Frank Koch wrote about an unusual encounter at sea involving a battleship caught in bad weather. Shortly after the sun went down, the lookout spotted light in the distance. The captain ordered
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      Lock icon Mysterious summons
      197 18  -  SEAHGEKHOON Driver is puzzled-he is booked for offence in a car he doesn't own Letter from ON OCT 15,1 sent a letter of appeal to the Housing and Development Board's Chin Swee branch regarding a parking summons which I had received on Sept 30 at Zion Road. I
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      Second chance for errant driver
      119 18  -  DICKSON CHAN Letter from Complex Manager For and on behalf of the Management Corporation Strata Title No 1789 WE REFER to Mr Woon Wee Teng's letter "Get tough on illegal use of handicap lots" (Dec 4). We wish to point out that the fact that
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      Kids scared by unleashed dog
      119 18  -  ABDULRAHIM Letter from RECENTLY, I took my two children to a playground behind Block 12 at Jalan Bukit Merah. We were having a good time until a woman brought her pet dog to the playground. The dog was let loose, was running around and playing
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      281 19 m^\ Brighter I i When a missing page from the diary ofJohnWilkes Booth surfaces, Ben's /^a^> J > great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in I Jj Bmi^^^B _j- <.' Abraham Lincoln's death. Determined to prove his ancestor's innocence, B^^3^^^^j^r!^^^^^^«^^P iK -'I?' Ben follows an international chain
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      Lock icon China opens market further
      374 20 -DOW JONES Quota for qualified foreign institutional investors programme triples to $43.1 b BEIJING Banks and financial institutions like DBS and ÜBS Asset Management will have more room to grow their investments and business in China, the world's fourth-largest economy. China has tripled the total quota
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        A-SONIC ANTICIPATES LOSSES
        75 20 A-Sonic Aerospace expects to register losses for the financial year ending Dec 31, the aviation engineering and freight-for-warding firm warned in a filing with the Singapore Exchange on Dec 8. A-Sonic said it anticipated losses from its logistics business that was acquired last December, including a write-down
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        IPCO TO BUY STAKE IN GRAND PROSPER
        72 20 Ipco International has agreed to buy 55 per cent of Hong Kong-based investment holding firm Grand Prosper Group for US$9.5 million ($13.7 million), according to a regulatory filing by the Singapore-listed engineering and systems integration company on Dec 8. Ipco will pay US$5.BB
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        Lock icon WORLD BANK'S IFCTO SELL STAKE IN OLAM
        85 20 -DOW JONES The International Finance Corp (IFC), the financing arm of the World Bank, said on Dec 8 it planned to sell its equity stake in Singapore-listed agriculture and resource firm 01am International. The stake in the agribusiness was worth US$7.5 million ($lO.B
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      Lock icon All eyes on Fed's Dec 11 meeting
      257 20 —AFP SHARE prices in Singapore may trade higher in the week ahead if the United States Federal Reserve moves to cut interest rates, dealers said. Analysts are tipping that the US central bank will cut key interest rates by half a percentage point
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      Lock icon MONEY TALK
      334 21 —AFP US, China to discuss critical economic issues this week WASHINGTON With their economic woes mounting, the United States and China will hold high-level talks this week on key issues amid concerns over a tightly-controlled Chinese currency and protectionism. The Cabinet-level talks in Beijing will also tackle the
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      Lock icon China to increase bank reserve ratio requirement by 1%
      201 21 —AFP BEIJING China's central bank announced on Saturday that it would raise the bank reserve ratio requirement by a full percentage point to 14.5 per cent on Dec 25. The People's Bank of China made the move "in order to strengthen
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        RESTRUCTURING: A POSSIBLE STUMBLING BLOCK
        612 22 Change needed at times but too much could cause stress HOW much of the restructuring we hear about in business is necessary? Not all of it, certainly. The building blocks of any organisation are its people. Get them right and the organisation will work. So,
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        brainfood
        194 23  -  LOH CHEE KONG Managing Understanding in Organisations by Jbrgen Sandberg and Axel Targama For the most part of the last two decades, the powerbrokers in the sharp suits have been advocating for changes in their organisations to meet the demands of the knowledge economy. But in reality, most, if
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      181 21 DAILY GOLD UPDATE Last Business Day: Dec 7, 2007 SPOT GOLD OPEN (9am) U*****.70/oz SPOT GOLD CLOSE (spm) U*****.40/oz CHANGE -0.54% Gold has eased back off from the top of the US$7B5US$Bl5 range, but the precious metal is likely to remain boxed in ahead of the Federal Reserve Board's Open
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      375 23 TLAZAHAJOC£.T&ATt SZ&WUAKCAUJLT 1,2,8,9,15,16,22 23 Dec 2007 24 Dec 2007 High Tea $32 per person Dinner $78 per person, 21 23, 26 30 Dec 2007 7-course family-style or 5-course plated set menu Lunch/Dinner $35/$4B per person Dinner $88 per person, 8-course family-style or 6-course plated set menu 24 Dec 2007 Dinner
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      Lock icon Shakespeare's in fashion
      1153 24  -  MICHAEL BILUNGTON —THE GUARDIAN hn McKellen as Lear. Ewan McGregor as lago. Patrick Stewart as Macbeth, because there's nothing like a famous face to get people interested in a play The Bard is booming they studied at O levels plus@newstoday.com.sg THEY say that £1,200 ($3,500) is the
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      Lock icon EVERYBODY LOVES ZOE
      244 25 ZOE Tay won two major awards at last night's Star Awards: 25 th Anniversary Show. The Queen of Caldecott took home the awards for Screen Sweetheart of the '90s and Classic Character for her ca-reer-defining role as the wild child Bobo in Pretty Faces. Chen Liping won
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      306 26 —AFP After Lust Cautions triumph, director Lee Ang wants to try making comedies LUST, Caution may have won seven awards at the Golden Horse Awards on Saturday night, but director Lee Ang would rather have a giggle instead. "I think shooting Brokeback Mountain was like being
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        124 27 For the next two weeks, the kids won't just be creating a buzz —they will be making some noise right in their own backyard. This year's Noise Singapore 2007 Festival, organised by the National Arts Council as a platform for artists under 25 years old, kicked off
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      694 29  -  HAKIKAT RAI Team International get a spanking, press conference called off LEXUS CUP Team Asia 15 Team International 9 IN PERTH hakikat@mediacorp.com.sg SHE delivered Asia's winning putt last year to prise the Lexus Cup from Team International's grasp. And at The Vines Resort and Country Club here yesterday,
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      325 29 —AFP LAS VEGAS After hearing Ricky Hatton supporters sing their man's praises to the tune of Winter Wonderland all week, Floyd Mayweather Jr rewrote the England songbook after stopping Hatton here on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Minutes after flattening Hatton in the 10th round to keep
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      626 30 -AFP West Ham's Ashton does it five minutes after coming on BLACKBURN (England) Substitute Dean Ashton came off the bench to score the only goal of the game as West Ham continued their fine recent form with a 1-0 win over an off-colour Blackburn Rovers at
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      207 31 ■AFP MADRID Barcelona showed real character to stay within four points of leaders Real Madrid with a 2-1 win over struggling Deportivo La Coruna yesterday (early today, Singapore time), maintaining their flawless home record. Cristian put Deportivo ahead after only two minutes to stun the
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      580 31 Wenger's men suffer first league defeat of the season ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Middlesbrough 2 Arsenal 1 LONDON An inspired Middlesbrough side handed Arsenal their first Premiership defeat of the season when they beat the leaders 2-1 at the Riverside Stadium yesterday, reported BBCSport. The hosts took the lead after
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      296 32 SELECTED RESULTS (Singaporeans otherwise stated) Women's team semi-final: Singapore 3 Malaysia 2 Bowling Men's doubles (long oil): Ng Qenn/Remy Ong (2358pts, 6th), Carl De Vries/Jason Yeong Nathan (2250pts, 12th), Lee Yu-Wen/Teng Weijun (2209pts, 14th) Women's doubles (long oil): Jasmine Yeong Nathan/Amanda Ng (2255pt5, 7th), Cherie Tan/Jazreel Tan (2188pts,
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      400 32 SINGAPOREANS COMPETING TODAY Athletics Women's 4xloom relay final: Lee Van Lin, Ann Siao Mci, Wong Ze Teng, Amanda Choo, Bapreet Kaur Purba, Seema Pereira Valeric Men's 4xloom relay final: Mohd Shameer Mohd Ayub, Poh Seng Song, Gary Yeo, Calvin Kang, Muhammad Yusof Azhari, Muhd Amirudin Jamal, Alfred Sim
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      555 32  -  Cubby Leong Both Singapore's men's and women's teams will battle for gold today THE Malaysians were without their stars, but Singapore's badminton women and men deserve the plaudits after both reached their respective finals in the team events at the SEA Games with wins in the
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        144 32 LAST night, the 23-year national men's 100 m freestyle record of 51.09s held by Ang Peng Siong finally fell when his protege Bryan Tay froze the electronic timer at 51s in the first-leg of the 4xloom freestyle relay final, which Singapore won. However, no press photographers were present
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        57 32  -  -TANYO-HINNINKORAT SINGAPORE'S SEA Games bowling squad had a good laugh on Friday, when two unidentified persons donning Team Singapore's red and white colours turned up at the Korat SEA Games Organising Committee office in Bangkok requesting to collect the entire 12-strong squad's accreditation passes. Problem was, all the 12
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      539 33  -  LOWUNFHOONG Medical student ensures Singapore defend triathlon title linfhoong@media corp.com.sg IT MAY not be a winning run like the waterpolo team's 32-year goiden reign, but for now at least Singapore are unbeatable in men's triathlon at the SEA Games. In 2005, Singapore's Cheng Jing
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      397 34  -  Cubby Leong Twins Tabitha and Nicole match each other to win all-round gymnastics event MUM and Dad looked on with nervous excitement as their twins stretched, pulled and jumped, straining muscle, both focused on the big prize. They hoped for one gold, they worried about the
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      603 34  -  Tan Yo-Hinn FIVE golds won, two to go. Two years after sweeping six of the seven gold medals on offer, Singapore remain on course for a clean sweep at the 24th SEA Games table tennis competition. Last night, Singapore's paddlers won gold
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      573 35  -  David Ngiau Singapore teen lights up Korat and thrills the girls with his surprise win IF NO one knew who Zach Ong was before his race yesterday, then he made sure they took notice 59.46 seconds later. No one, not his coaches, his father or the 17-year-old
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      206 35  - Tao Li from a pout to a smile DAVID NGIAU SINGAPORE swimming star Tao Li cruised to her first gold medals of the 24th SEA Games yesterday. The 17-year-old won the women's 100 m backstroke with a time of 1:04.055 ec, while in the women's 100 m butterfly, her pet
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      286 35  -  -DAVID NGIAU TWO of Singapore's oldest records in swimming fell on Day 3 of the competition at the Aquatic Centre yesterday. And Ang Peng Siong, the man who held them, couldn't have worn a bigger smile as he watched from the sidelines. Nineteen-year-old
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