Today, 16 July 2001

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  • 7 1 TODAY iVIO IlCliiY July 16,2001 MITA(P 138/11/2000
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  • 516 1  -  Joy Frances A minister's nightmare and how he'll avert it by. j oy@ newstoday.com.sg WHEN Acting Minister for the Environment Lim Swee Say talks about the big picture, it is very big indeed. At least as large as Sentosa. At the rate at which Singapore
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  • 254 1  -  Kim-Kyna Tan by kim@n ewsto day. c o m. sg OPPOSITION maverick James Gomez has left the think tank he founded in a muddle. Even as he announced he had joined Workers' Party, he wondered if Think Centre should be dissolved. He hadn't even taken the
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 414 2  -  Ivay Tan No threat of foreign takeover at present, but be prepared by i vay @ne wstoday. com. sg AFTER all the frantic action of the past month, the dust is starting to settle and three large figures are emerging on the banking scene. Oversea-Chinese Banking
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    • 160 2 A JAPANESE national based in Singapore died during a diving trip near Pulau Aur, although the exact cause is still not clear. Mersing Police told Channel NewsAsia that Mr Shinsho Tanaka was on his third dive when he began to feel unwell. DSP Abdul Manaf
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    • 205 3 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Pornographic materials, easily accessible in Malaysia, have been blamed for the recent spate of sex crimes that have shocked the nation. Women and Family Development Minister Datuk Shahrizat Abdul Jalil was quoted as saying that pornographic video compact discs were easily
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    • 233 3 Reuters JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid (above) called yesterday for legal action to deal with defiant police chief General Bimantoro after cancelling an order to arrest him earlier in the week. Mr Abdurrahman ordered the arrest of Mr Bimantoro last week for not
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    • 150 3 Reuters TOKYO North Korea has criticised Japan for refusing to make major changes to a controversial school history textbook, saying the decision was intended to cover up past crimes and fuel aggression among younger Japanese. Tokyo said last Monday that it had no intention
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    • 74 3 Reuters MOSCOW Chinese President Jiang Zemin arrived in Moscow yesterday for a four-day visit to be crowned by the signature of a new defence pact. Mr Jiang arrived in the Russian capital two days after Beijing was named host of the 2008 Olympics. Mr Jiang and President Vladimir
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    • 158 4  -  Cathleen Tung LIVERPOOL star Michael Owen could be forgiven for imagining that he was back home. The unexpected downpour on Sunday in Singapore must have brought back memories of rainy days in his own land, especially since he was cruising the island in a Tibs' London
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    • 325 4  -  Leong Phei Phei Bad practices are increasing injuries by ph ei ph ei@n ews to day.com. sg BAD manners on the golf course means more business for doctors. And bad play means even more. The situation has become so bad that Changi General Hospital (CGH) is planning to
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    • 277 4 EVEN as he was helping raise funds for charity, the Deputy Prime Minister, BG Lee Hsien Loong, had some practical advice for those facing the downturn. "Try to keep your job. The longer you are out of work the harder it is to get back in,"
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 106 4 READ 0N... We must innovate Or lose gains made in English/15 A unique fantasy Watching the film with its amazing realism is like a wondrous dream/ 18 Good cheer Fans came out in full force for Radio and Music Awards/20 Perfect porridge East Coast shrine to good food delivers the
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  • LETTERS
    • 186 6  -  Khng Eu Meng IF any of my day to day experiences with my fellow Singaporeans is anything to go by, I think this country will soon be a rather impersonal and unpleasant place to live in. There has been a definite erosion of our social mores
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    • 290 6  -  Ananda Perera Touched by enthusiasm over Olympics 2008 THERE was a sense of deja vu when I watched the joy which erupted in Beijing and other Chinese cities after the venue of the next Olympics Games was announced. Tiananmen Square was filled with crowds hoisting
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    • 189 6  -  Ms Han Liang Yuan WE thank Mr See Leong Kit for his letter, "LTA must not dither on bollards" (Today, July 10). In our continuing efforts to improve the safety of bus commuters, we have installed safety bollards at 17 bus shelters at various
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    • 86 6  -  Chris Yew EVERYDAY around noon, I see a number of parents driving into the compound of East Spring Primary School, although there is a sign saying that entry is for authorised vehicles only. These parents simply ignore it, or pretend not to see it. All parents
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    • 138 6  -  I Linda Tan I'VE always thought it a blessing if one manages to fulfill all of one's interests. However, I think Mr Khoo Swee Chiow has gone overboard. He is on his way to climb in Turkey. Instead of doing that, shouldn't he be fulfilling his
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 258 8 -AFP Over-reliance on US market affects economies A RELIANCE on exports has left Asia vulnerable in the face of the US-led global slowdown, say analysts. Although most countries may escape the stigma of being tagged "in recession", growth targets are being slashed close to zero. Analysts
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    • 237 8  -  Ivay Tan by ivay@newstoday.com.sg THE merged Hong Leong Finance (HLF) and Singapore Finance (SFL) will result in projected cost savings of nine to 11 per cent of their combined 2000 operating cost base. This is "comparable to the cost savings of the local banking mergers,"
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    • 311 8 AFP TAIPEI A prolonged world economic slowdown has dragged Taiwan's once proud IT industry to its first ever decline, analysts say. All sectors in the IT industry which in the past enjoyed 20 to 40 per cent annual growth are cutting
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    • Market Watch
      • 106 8 RETAIL sales in May rose by 4.4 per cent over April. Total sales were valued at $2,259 million, compared to $2,165 million in April this year. Compared to a year ago, the May 2001 figure rose by 8.2 per cent, CNA reported. The Department of Statistics attributed
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      • 112 8 SINGAPORE'S BCA and the local steel industry are taking steps to upgrade the industry, said Minister of State for National Development, and Communications and IT, Dr John Chen. The Singapore Structural Steel Society {SSSS), jointly with BCA, is developing a professional development programme to be launched
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      • 68 8 NOKIA has appointed Temasek Engineering School as its approved training provider for courses based on material from the telecommunication products maker. These mobile computing lessons form part of the School's Diploma in Info-Communications course, as well as similar modules of the parttime Infocomm Specialist Manpower Programme
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    • 476 9 Bloomberg Maybe not for Beijing, unlike former host cities Montreal and Sydney BEIJING Those who think Beijing's US$2O billion {$36.74 billion) 2008 Olympic building plan is a waste should try swimming a lap in the pool built for the 1990 Asian games. Last Thursday, over
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    • 328 10 Bloomberg Low profit bar stirs optimism NEW YORK US stocks may climb in the next few weeks as companies report earnings and outlooks that are above dampened investor expectations. That's what some investors are saying as the peak period for companies to confess shortfalls ends and
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    • 200 10 -AFP TOKYO Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi would not rule out the prospects of a supplementary budget to tackle Japan's economic woes, despite advocating a tighter hold on the country's purse strings. But the conservative reformist leader said his government would not resort to a
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    • 300 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Southeast Asia's poor farmers will get a chance to raise their incomes and leapfrog decades of underdevelopment, thanks to a project for them to trade over the Internet. The "Asean e-Farmers" initiative will start in Indonesia in November and expand to the
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    • Market news
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        210 10 AFTER a slow start, the US markets chalked up strong gains last week with the Dow and Nasdaq indices rising by 286 and 81 points respectively. Unemployment numbers were worse than expected because of the spate of corporate layoffs, but this was offset by certain tech stocks, namely Yahoo,
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      • 135 10 RENEWED institutional buying on Friday halted the market's losing streak. The local bourse has been slip-sliding since Monday on profit taking after the previous week's gains. Volatility on Wall Street throughout the week did not help to boost local sentiment. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index gained 1.8 per cent
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 185 11 -AFP TAIPEI Taiwan military authorities were tight-lipped on a successful test of a controversial US missile defence system strongly opposed by Beijing. "As usual, we are not going to respond to such reports," a Defence Ministry spokesman said after an interceptor missile
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    • 156 11 SUNDERLAND A Hindu woman has won £4,000 ($10,320) in damages after surgeons used "sacred" cow cartilage in an operation. The educational administrator said she would never have consented to the operation if she had known doctors were going to use parts of the cow, which is sacred to
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    • 106 11 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A cult, which dabbles in black magic and recruits teenagers from broken homes, has been uncovered in Malaysia. "Their followers burn holy texts of various religions and behave in an abnormal manner," Social Development Minister Datuk Dr Siti Zaharah Sulaiman said. Its members
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    • 343 12 -AFP Will Bush approve stem cell research? WASHINGTON President George W Bush (right) is expected to announce in the next few days whether the US government will fund research using stem cells from human embryos, at a time when there is fierce debate on the subject in
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    • 231 12 SUTTON (UK) Britain's latest so-called "metric martyr" has lost his battle to sell fruit and vegetables in pounds and ounces. Grocer Peter Collins, 51, from Sutton, Surrey, had claimed that Sutton Council had breached his commercial freedom of expression under the European Human Rights Act by
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    • 64 12 Reuters photo RUBBER ducks float at the start of the "million ringgit charity duck race" in Kuala Lumpur. Each duck cost RMIB ($8.60), and a number will be given to the buyer. The winning yellow duck carries a prize of RMIO,OOO, while the winning red duck carries
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    • 228 12 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is to celebrate Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad's 20th year in power with the biggest dinner ever hosted in the country. More than 25,000 people from Malacca will attend tonight's dinner with the premier. Datuk Amid Nordin, Speaker of the
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    • 130 12 AFP MANILA Deposed Philippine leader Joseph Estrada, who revived the death penalty, can expect more mercy from President Gloria Arroyo than seven convicts executed during his rule. Mrs Arroyo said she would commute Mr Estrada's sentence if he is convicted, not to appease his followers, but
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    • 115 12 Reuters PARIS French President Jacques Chirac has used his annual Bastille Day television address to refute accusations of sleaze. Mr Chirac has been questioned over how he came up with 2.4 million francs ($570,000) in cash to pay for family holidays in the early 1990s when he
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    • 68 12 MALABO A man in Equatorial Guinea allegedly had part of his tongue bitten off during his first kiss. Mr Saul Obama Bindang, 20, had asked a 56--year-old woman, named only as Teresa, to teach him "the art of loving". According to the TFI website, the man
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    • Article, Illustration
      332 14  -  Shanoo Maharaj Indian red-carpet welcome for Pakistani leader by in Agra, India DEFYING the cynics and hawks on both sides of the border, the historic peace summit between India and Pakistan is becoming a modest success. On a sunny day in the northern Indian town of Agra, home
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    • 113 14 AFP photo SEOUL Rainstorms lashed South Korea yesterday, leaving at least 51 people dead or missing and forced thousands to flee their homes. Victims were swept away by rivers, electrocuted or drowned in their homes, emergency services said. Hundreds of cars were wrecked (left)
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    • 71 14 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Selangor police will publish the names of offenders with unpaid traffic tickets on electronic billboards to shame them into paying up. The Sun newspaper said police in the state have sought the cooperation of local councils to display the offenders' names. They said almost 408,000
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    • 94 14 LONDON Scientists are developing a cream that can change skin colour. The drug's developer, OSI Pharmaceuticals, said it is for people with liver spots, birth marks or other skin irregularities. The skin lightener works by stopping the production of melanin, the dark skin pigment, while the skin
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    • 142 14 AFP BERLIN A German court has issued an arrest warrant for two leaders of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim rebel group which held a German family hostage. It was issued against Ghalib Andang, known as "Commander Robot", and his cousin, by a court in Goettingen, northern Germany, earlier
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    • 269 14 -AFP LONDON British agents posed as Arabs working for Saddam Hussein to secure the arrest of suspected ringleaders of an Irish group responsible for Northern Ireland's worst single act of terrorism. The Sunday Times said that after months of secret meetings with undercover operatives of the
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 560 15  -  Lionel Wee Or lose gains made in English by HOMER Simpson's catch phrase doh was recently reported to have been included in the updated online edition of the Oxford Dictionary, where it was glossed over as an expression of frustration. What was particularly interesting was that, in
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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  • TIMEOUT
    • 266 17  -  Sian E Jay by THIS retrospective by the late Huang Yao provides a unique opportunity to see some of the finest works of a man who was both writer and artist. Born in Shanghai in 1914, Huang worked as a cartoonist and journalist before immigrating
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    • 340 17  -  Jenny Kong by j enny@ne wstoday. com. sg LOCAL arts lovers must be familiar with The Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT) but not that many are as wellacquainted with the SRT Young Company. Confused? The Young Company is the "child" of the SRT and all its members
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    • 403 17 THREE-DAY ARTS LISTINGS MUSIC This exhibition, drawn from tones of blue which will Singapore Symphony two private collections, evoke memories of the sea Orchestra: International showcases the works of as depth, light and shade Music Series- Nexus Chang Dai-Chien, one of the play on the water surface. Formed in 1971
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 677 18  -  David Ngiau FILM REVIEW Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Mow showing) Watching the film with its amazing realism is like a wondrous dream by d avi d @n ews to d ay. co m .sg T^inal Fantasy: The Spirits Within is based on IP the computer game
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    • 581 19 Reuters LOS ANGELES Four leading cast members of NBC's Emmy Award-winning White House drama West Wing (above) may be headed for a showdown this week with producers at Warner Bros TV over how much they
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    • 123 19 Agencies BURGER King has forged an alliance with new movie, Lord of the Ring, in the Hamburger Wars. It will not be long before the film's merchandise and toys make their presence felt in more than 11,000 Burger King outlets around the world. The promotional
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    • 130 19 -AFP LOS ANGELES Reality TV series Big Brother 2 got a little too real last week when a contestant was kicked off for pulling a knife on another, CBS network said. Producers said they made the decision on Wednesday after seeing Justin Sebick, a 26-year-old
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    • 88 19 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD At a time when the studios are cutting back on megabudget events, the big showbiz event of the summer was being thrown on Saturday by a former studio owner. Former 20th Century Fox owner Marvin Davis and his wife, Barbara, celebrated 50 years of
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  • RELAX
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      315 20  -  Jenny Kong Fans come out in full force for Radio and Music Awards by j e nny newstoday. com. sg Screaming and cheering fans brought the house down last Saturday evening at the Radio and Music Awards 2001 held at Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre. The show
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    • 327 20  -  Hazel Tan by hazel@ne wsto day. eo m.sg ANDY Hui looked tired. He can't wait to holiday in Thailand with his buddy, Dicky Cheung, and he has been gorging himself with food, putting on five kgs. "I eat supper
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  • EATOUT
    • 670 21 East Coast shrine to good food delivers the goodies and more While we are not quite yet the Famous Five, our little group of makan kakis has roamed far and wide in search of the delectable and delicious in recent months. A challenge came last week from someone
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  • SPORTS
    • 348 26  -  Jose Raymond by jose@newstoday.com.sg IN the seven weeks since Chenab Contractor offered a sum of $1,000 to the S-League team which creates the biggest upset in each round, only one has captured the 'Giant-killer of the Week' prize. Tampines Rovers walked away with the first
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    • 119 26 CLEMENTI Khalsa fan Mohd Idham Abdu] Rahman may only be 13 years old, but he's already tried his hand at coaching. Not only does he play for Clementi Primary School where he is a student, but he also helps coach
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    • 164 26  -  Jose Raymond SINGAPORE'S middle-distance runner G. Elangovan slashed his personal best for the 5,000m by almost 14 seconds at the Berlin Open State Championships on Saturday. He finished in 15 min 06:06 sees and came in fourth in the race. His previous personal best was 15.20:08s, achieved at
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    • 131 26 AFP BANGKOK More than a thousand Thai fans of Premiership giant Liverpool queued up yesterday for tickets to the English side's practice session before they take on the Thai national side this week. The crowd, mostly football-mad teenagers, got out of bed early to claim a
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    • 109 26 Reuters TOKYO Japan forward Aldnori Nishizawa could be on his way to English premier league side Bolton Wanderers, according to Japanese newspaper reports yesterday. Nishizawa, who returned to J-League club Cerezo Osaka recently after a frustrating spell at Spanish side Espanyol, was scheduled to travel
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    • 580 27  -  Ivan Lim Flying Finn walks over Schumacher at Silverstone Formula One by ivan@ newstoday. com. sg MICHAEL Schumacher would have celebrated his 51st race victory yesterday, equalling Alain Prost's world record number of wins, had the Ferrari driver held on to his first place on the
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    • 117 27 Reuters MOSCOW— Outgoing Internationa! Olympic Committee (IOC) president Juan Antonio Samaranch still hopes to attend executive board meetings after his retirement, senior lOC members said yesterday. They said a proposal would be put to the lOC today asking that Samaranch be allowed to attend meetings of the ruling
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    • 156 27 -AFP SYDNEY Australian captain John Eales may say there was nothing between the two sides, but the Lions limped home yesterday a battered, bruised and beaten side. Two penalty kicks by full-back Matt Burke, playing his 50th international, decided Saturday's Test that saw the world champion edge home
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    • 84 27 Reuters COLMAR Lance Armstrong's US Postal team suffered a major Tour de France setback on Saturday when Christian Vandevelde was forced to retire from the race with a broken arm. "It's very unfortunate for us," said Armstrong, who finished in the main pack of riders after
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    • 618 28  -  S. Murali by! murali® tie wstoday. co m. sg "GOD" sat next to me at dinner over the weekend. It was an unusual experience, to say the least. Thanks to the wonderful people at Carlsberg, I was invited to the Liverpool Gala dinner on Saturday night. Good
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    • 123 32 MANCHESTER David Beckham will be offered a contract worth £23.4m ($58.5m) to keep him at Manchester United, according to reports. The ciub has accepted that the England captain has a case for a percentage of profits from club merchandise bearing his name. The image-rights factor
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