Today, 2 January 2002, Afternoon Edition

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  • 8 1 TODAY Wednesday January 2, 2002 MITA (P) 063/11/2001
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 278 1 SINGAPORE'S goods-producing industries are estimated to have contracted by 16 per cent, while services-producing industries are estimated to have declined further by 1.6 per cent Advance estimates released by the Ministry of Trade and Industry this morning showed the decline. The contraction in the goods-produc-ing
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    • 85 1 AFP KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia Both oil producers and clients are in favour of a price of between US$2O ($37) and $25 per barrel, Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister said during a meeting here to discuss the kingdom's oil policies. "All are convinced that the best price
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    • 110 1 AFP MONTREAL Suspected terror mastermind Osama bin Laden has been selected by the Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail as the newsmaker of the year 2001, the daily reported yesterday. Fifty-eight per cent of the paper's readers voted in favour of the Al-Qaeda terror network
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    • 723 1 Clinton on differences, poverty and the challenges ahead IN a world consumed by the immediacy of screaming headlines and news of war and terror, former American president Bill Clinton took a step back and reflected. He spoke of the truths that we hold dear and of the
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 385 2 Channel NewsAsia Airline setting up advanced pilot training facility SINGAPORE Airlines plans to set up an advanced pilot training facility in Queensland, Australia. As part of the move, the company will relocate four Lear jet training aircraft and an advanced flight simulator to the high-tech,
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    • 204 2 PARENTS are spending big bucks to get their children geared up for the new school term. A parent can spend up to $200 on a child attending Primary One, and up to $400 for a teenager in secondary school. Parents interviewed said expenses
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    • 244 2  -  Jose Raymond WHIP out your gear and put on your dancing boots this May if you are a line-dancing enthusiast. NTUC Income is setting its sights on breaking the Guinness Book of World Records by organising the world's largest line-dancing event. After the successful
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    • 268 2 Channel NewsAsia MORE Singaporeans are hunting for jobs in the Civil Service as the economic downturn deepens. Several ministries saw a significant jump in applicants last year compared to the year before. The Defence Ministry, for instance, reported a 20 per cent
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    • 272 2  -  Elaine Quek A SERIES of letters carried in Today has provided fodder for conversation in Minister (Prime Minister's Office) Lim Boon Heng's office. In his speech at the Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers' Union dinner and dance last Saturday, the Secretary-General of the National Trades
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    • 314 3 Agencies But Vajpayee will not avoid Musharraf at summit NEW DELHI Despite efforts by Pakistan to crack down on Islamic extremist groups, India said it is too early for peace talks with Pakistan. A top Indian official said Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee would not hold peace
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    • 65 3 Reuters photo I New York City's new Mayor, Mr Michael Bloomberg (right), embracing outgoing Mayor Rudy Giuliani moments after receiving the oath of office from him at Times Square yesterday. The new Mayor said Mr Giuliani asked him to "take care of
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    • 233 3 KUALA LUMPUR Journalists held vigil outside the offices of The Sun newspaper for the second successive day yesterday, calling for the return of two suspended colleagues and payment of their year-end bonus. A crowd of 30 to 40 people comprising journalists from the newspaper
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    • 180 3 Agencies JAKARTA The New Year in Indonesia got off to a fiery start as four churches were bombed and one person died from a grenade blast yesterday. Christian, Adventist and Pentecostal churches in the Central Sulawesi capital of Palu were rocked by simultaneous blasts as
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    • 386 4  -  Leong Phei Phei First-year NgeeAnn students have to hurdle Sports and Wellness lessons by pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg FOR many who take diploma courses, their last Physical Education (PE) lesson in secondary school could also mean a farewell to sport Unlike their friends in junior colleges, where PE lessons are
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    • 64 4 by ALVIN TOH Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong took it upon himself to introduce these tourists to the Singapore zoo mascot, Ah Meng, at the PAP community day celebrations on Sunday. The event attracted more than 25,000 people to the zoo. Mr Goh also gave out
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    • 203 4 Channel NewsAsia SINGAPOREANS are becoming obsessed with all things Korean, as World Cup fever begins to hit the island. Shops selling Korean products are reporting brisk sales. Said Shine Korea Supermarket managing director Ng Chin Nyan: "There's a good market for Korean products here." Its
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    • 131 4 lj_ JjLr yjJJj-l C f% Yayasan MENDAKI will be launching the third component of our reading programme in February 2002. We are now recruiting volunteers for our Home Enabling Learning Programme (HELP). Help us inculcate the love for reading among the young ones! W Who can be HELP volunteers? C
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  • HOME NEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      351 5  -  Fayen Wong No reason why local writers shouldn't make money by fayen@newstoday.com.sg WRITERS do not have to be paupers, says the president of the Society of Singapore Writers. They just need to think big, and reach out to regional audiences, Mr N G Kutty (picture) told Today. "We just
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    • 229 5  -  Tan Howe Yang GIVE abundantly and you shall be rewarded. BP wants to impart to students this spirit of volunteerism through its mentorship scheme, in which young people serve as counsellors to needy and underprivileged children from primary and secondary schools. Into its seventh year of operation,
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  • LETTERS
    • 321 6  -  Soumitra Chatterji Time for the world to put an end to militancy in Kashmir Valley I REFER to the article, "War dance" (Today, Dec 28). It is true that neither Pakistan nor India wants a war at this time, or for that matter, at any
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    • 245 6  -  Dharmender S. Yadav THIS is in reference to the front-page report "War dance" (Today, Dec 28). When you wrote "analysts say that there is no reason for war" you seemed to undermine the fact that, unofficially, 60,000 people have died in the decadelong Pakistan-backed militancy.
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    • 95 6  -  Albert Tjoeng I REFER to Mr Ong Choon Meng's letter, "Auto-pay Glitches" (Today, Dec 27). At Changi Airport, the auto-pay machines at our car parks accept all local currencies. Motorists who encounter problems with the auto-pay machines can use the manned counters to make payments. Six
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    • 172 6  -  Ananda Perera ONCE again, it is time for reflection and making new resolutions as a new year dawns. As Singaporeans, we need to ensure that racial and religious harmony is maintained. What is the super social-glue that can hold us together? We have to believe that social
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    • 142 6  -  Tham Yim Kheng (Ms) I REFER to the letter by Mr Goh Kar Whee, "SMS boon for deaf-mute" (Today, Dec 29). SingTel Mobile has a special pricing plan for the hearingimpaired at $8 per month. This plan offers them 420 free local SMS. For each additional local
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 441 8 Agencies but arrival of euro notes will have little effect on currency's value NEW YORK Most experts are predicting that the arrival of euro notes and coins, three years after the currency was formally launched in "virtual" form, will have little impact on the euro's value. The euro
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    • 313 8 Bloomberg NEW YORK The yen had its biggest annual decline against the US dollar since 1979. This follows expectations that Japanese officials will let the currency slide to help the economy recover from recession. Japan's currency declined four straight
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    • 213 8 Bloomberg NEW YORK US stock mutual funds had their steepest declines in almost three decades as more than eight in every 10 lost money. Funds focused on Internet and telecommunications companies plunged 39 per cent and those concentrated in utilities, such as the bankrupt Enron
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    • 363 10  -  Tan Hui Leng Cut in industrial rates may prompt others to follow by huileng@newstoday.com.sg JTC Corporation has slashed its rental rates and prices for most of its industrial facilities by as much as 17 per cent in response to slowing demand in the market. "Our market
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    • 322 10 WASHINGTON Nine states seeking stricter anti-trust penalties against Microsoft Corp have asked a federal judge to reject the top software maker's proposal to delay hearings in the case until summer. On Monday, the states said in court papers that a new phase of
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    • Corporate Briefs
      • 47 10 ENGINEERING firm Van Der Horst (VDH) suffered a net loss of $50.8 million for the year ended Sept 30, 2001, compared to a $20.3 million loss previously. Turnover slipped from $18.6 million in 2000 to $16 million last year, a 14 per cent decline.
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      • 41 10 PROFITS at consumer goods distributor Casa Holdings took a 72 per cent plunge to $645,000 for the year ended Sept 30, 2001. The company chalked up sales of $72.2 million, down three per cent from the previous year.
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      • 42 10 AS AT Dec 31, 2001, Fraser Neave had received acceptances for its offer for Times Publishing representing around 88.6 per cent of the issued share capital of the publishing firm. The offer will be open until Jan 10.
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    • 216 10 Bloomberg COMPANIES in Singapore have been pursuing acquisitions as never before: They announced transactions totalling a record US$33 billion ($6l billion) in the first 11 months of 2001, more than double the US$l4.l billion they disclosed in all of 2000, according to Bloomberg data.
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    • 178 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government will be prudent in its spending this year in view of the uncertainty in the global economy and the possibility of "another disaster" following the Sept 11 terrorist attacks on the US, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr
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    • 27 10 Your S$1 buys US$ 0.5416 UK£ 0.3723 Yen 71.324 HK$ 4.2229 RM 2.0582 Euro 0.6110 Rupiah 5632.3 Baht 23.956 Peso 27.969 A$ 1.0640 Rupee 26.141 Won 711.35
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    • 414 11 Bloomberg Asean meets tariffs-cut deadline, now for free trade SOUTHEAST Asian nations have cut tariffs on most of their products to between zero and five per cent, signaling the completion of an eight-year-old process to create a free trade area before Jan 1, 2002. "As far
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    • 227 11 PAN Pacific Hotel has invested several million dollars to convert 35 rooms and nine suites to provide the finest executive accommodation here. The Pacific Floors, as the two floors are known, have achieved an occupancy rate with a return guest ratio of 80 per
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 54 12 Afp photo Firefighters are battling to save the small township of Yerrinbool, one of several towns around the edge of Sydney which are being threatened by a huge spreading blaze. Over 15,000 firefighters, suttorted bv 800 trucks and 55 aircraft, are struggling to bring
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    • 286 12 AFP Mahathir predicts three per cent growth and better relations with US this year KUALA LUMPUR Kicking off 2002 on an optimistic note, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday predicted economic growth would accelerate to three per cent this year after a sharp slowdown last
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    • 162 12 -AFP BUENOS AIRES Argentina ushered in the New Year with a search for a second interim President, hopefully to lift the country out of the economic meltdown. Former interim President Adolfo Rodriguez Saa resigned on Sunday a week after being named to lead the nation of
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    • 150 12 -AFP KABUL The Afghan government blames the Taliban for the civilian casualties sustained during the US bombing of Nizai Qala on Saturday. Border Affairs Minister Amanullah Zadran said yesterday that when the AI Qaeda and Taliban forces fled the province, they left truckloads
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • 251 13 New WTO member set for tough competition TAIPEI It was not all cheer as Taiwan became a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) yesterday. While Taiwanese can look forward to cheaper imports, local producers, especially those in the agricultural sector, fear the competition will put them
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      • 147 13 What the regional newspapers say today New Straits Times /Malaysia Dr M ticks off claims of reporter The Prime Minister yesterday ticked off a reporter from The Sun who claimed that the Government was putting unnecessary pressure on the management of the newspaper. Bangkok Post/Thailand Over 280 killed on the
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      • 180 13 AFP SEOUL Showing that sport and politics can mix, South Korea and Japan have swapped New Year's messages pledging cultural and human exchanges to make this year's World Cup tournament a success. In a videotaped message on Monday, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi described
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 1331 14 Minister uses Today letters to start debate on Singapore family EXCERPTS from a speech by Mr Lim Boon Heng (picture), Secretary-General of the NTUC and Minister, Prime Minister's Office, at a dinner and dance organised by the Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers' Union on Saturday, Dec 29,
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  • UPFRONT
    • Article, Illustration
      1205 15  -  David Ngiau Ravi Veloo on present-day journalists A LOT of our new-age journalists are cappuccino-drinking types who seem more interested in their friends' opinions than in hanging out in the real world of HDB estates and of taxi drivers, Ravi Veloo declared to me last week. "I don't
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  • LIMELIGHT
    • 506 18  -  Janice Lee Electronic band Kosheen casts its spell at New Year Eve's bash on Sentosa by janice@newstoday.com.sg THERE'S undulating Britney Spears pop, bouncing Slim Shady hip-hop and wail-your-lungs-out Celine Dion ballads. No wonder, music is so easily pigeon-holed. So, what do you make of a
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    • 111 18 IF beauty, intelligence, elegance and composure are your greatest assets, then take a step towards fame and fortune by participating in the Miss Singapore Universe 2002 contest A world of exciting opportunities awaits the winner, who will win a MediaCorp contract and go on to compete at
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 123 18 TRAVELLERS: Saturday I Oam Liverpool, Manchester United and Roma all fightA one-hour programme where viewers see the ing to take the crown away from defending chamworld through the eyes of a diverse group of pions Bayern Munich, great football action can be young people. expected. UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE HIGH- ASIA
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 540 20  - Give that man a war David Ngiau Patriotic flick with a good-triumphs-over-evil ending FILM REVIEW Behind Enemy Lines (Opens tomorrow) AT THE film's climax, I wanted to yell out loud: "GIVE THAT MAN A TIGER!" I thought better, as the hero of Behind Enemy Lines, Lieutenant Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson),
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    • 574 21 Reuters/Variety Three-day Christmas weekend fetches big money at the cinemas in America HOLLYWOOD The fabled denizens of Middle Earth battled to the top of the box office again at the weekend. New Line's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (picture) led
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    • 717 22 Reuters/Variety Ogres, hobbits and wizards give Holywood a happy ending for 2001 LOS ANGELES Ogres, wizards, hobbits and all manner of monsters conjured up a record happy ending at the box office in a year darkened by Sept 11, but Hollywood still needs an Oscar front-run-ner to give
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    • 91 22 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Shrek Monsters, Inc. Rush Hour 2 The Mummy Returns Pearl Harbor Jurassic Park III Planet of the Apes Hannibal The Lord of the
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  • TV&RADIO
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      460 25  -  Elisa Chia MediaCorp's Perfect Ten hosts a more intimate countdown to usher in 2002 by elisa@newstoday.com.sg THERE'S no stopping Singaporeans when it comes to welcoming the New Year with a roar not even the current economic uncertainties. Sure, the venue for MediaCorp's annual countdown had shifted from Suntec
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  • TIMEOUT
    • 485 26  -  Janice Lee American artist provokes viewers to define beauly in their own sense by janice@newstoday.com.sg IF beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then why do we follow fashion trends dictated by the supermodels of today? The problem with the world is that we don't take the
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 423 26 Three-Day MUSIC Arts in the City Presents Lavender Trio The trio will perform a number of classical pieces on the violin, cello and flute. Date: Friday Time: lpm Venue: City Square, Raffles City Shopping Centre Entry: Free Enquiries: Call Jennies at 338 7766 An Evening with HKUST Choir In this
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  • JOBBEAT
    • 297 27  - Making without having Roger Konopasek Opportunities are all around you; train your eyes to see money in everything by rogoko@pacific.net.sg THE "it takes money to make money" theory is a medieval truth. Nowadays, money is literally made out of thin air. Ideas become fortunes. Microsoft, Dell, Intel all multi-billion-dollar companies
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    • 307 27  -  Paul Heng by paulheng@nextcareer.net DO you have an interview appointment? Here are some pointers to give you that much needed edge. 1) Your ultimate objective is to secure a job offer after the interview. If you adopt this approach, you will naturally do your
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  • SPORTS
    • 567 28 NBA Washington 98 New Jersey 76 Jordan scores 45 points to help Wizards topple Eastern Conference leader WASHINGTON Michael Jordan Part 111 delivered The Big Game Part II and the sequel was almost as good as his Washington Wizards' original, reported The Washington Post
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    • 526 28  -  Rohit Brijnath Today brings you the first half of columnist Rohit Brijnath's 2002 wishlist. The next half will be featured tomorrow... lAnna Kournikova wins a tournament, marries the Undertaker, poses for Playboy, and retires to a dacha on
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    • 435 29  -  Patwant Singh by THE Government has spent $50 million, or about 10 percent, of the $500 million it set aside to improve the standard of local sports. Minister for Community Development and Sports Abdullah Tarmugi revealed this in an exclusive
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    • 550 29 Reuters PERTH Spain's Tommy Robredo applied the lethal touch to send defending champion Switzerland out of the Hopman Cup yesterday, beating its number one player Roger Federer 7-6, 6-2. Federer and girlfriend Miroslava Vavrinec (picture) lost to Australia in Sunday's opening Group B match and now have
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    • 337 29 Reuters KARACHI Pakistan captain Waqar Younis has called for cricket chiefs to devise a new system for ranking teams and players, insisting the current method made no sense at all. "I just don't understand how these systems work," Waqar said on Tuesday of the International Cricket
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    • 188 29  -  Kelvin Phang HONG KONG'S Ho Chi Ho built an unassailable lead after the third day of the Singapore Open Windsurfing Championships yesterday. Sailing in winds of 10 to 12 knots, he added two more wins in three races off the Pasta Fresca SeaSports Centre at
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • Article, Illustration
        564 30 English Premier League Leeds 3 West Ham 0 Leeds goes two points clear of Arsenal LONDON Putting behind it the negative publicity of the recent court case involving its stars Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate, Leeds United gave its fans a New Year present this morning by
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      • 835 30  -  S Murali ONE careless remark to a journalist and now the talk of the town is whether Sir Alex Ferguson has really decided to call it a day at Old Trafford at the end of this season.
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      • 200 31 LONDON Glenn Roeder has dismissed reports linking Paolo Di Canio (picture) with Manchester United reported the Guardian Unlimited. Speaking before West Ham's game against Leeds, he said Di Canio was not playing because he was injured. But he expected him to be fil for
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      • 313 31 Agencies English Premier League Man United v Newcastle Live on Ch 23 3.50 am LONDON Ryan Giggs issued a warning to Manchester United's title rivals after inspiring the champion to its fifth straight Premiership win. Giggs, playing in a striking role, scored twice
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