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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 563 1  -  Tan Hui Leng Law may ask victims to reveal names of partners huileng@newsto day, com. sg THE Communicable Disease Centre (CDC) may soon be empowered to ask HIV/Aids patients for information that will facilitate contact tracing. Senior Minister of State for Health
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    • 578 1  -  Patricia Yap patricia@newstoday.com.sg AS MEN and women and yes, children too gawked and pointed, the women sat in a row quietly. They fidgeted and chatted with one another. But most of the time, they stared into space in boredom. One female onlooker said: They
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      • 649 3  - Let the dance begin Dr Eric Teo Chu Cheow Six nations in a wary clinch as rivalries intensify THE United States-Japanese declaration voicing mutual concern over Taiwan the first fundamental revision to the 1966 US-Japanese Security Alliance could be perceived as an expression of Tokyo's willingness to confront Beijing's might
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  • singapore news
    • 170 4 They may still be just babes in arms, but this group of youngsters proved they can work up quite a crawling speed. They caught the attention of an impressed crowd of Siloso beachgoers yesterday at the baby crawl competition during the Family Fun-nival at South
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    • 400 4 Channel News Asia, AP They seem fine' say doctors as parents face Sydney court THE two young Singaporean sisters allegedly poisoned by their parents in Sydney made a remarkable recovery in hospital yesterday, awakening from a coma. Despite fears that they would suffer permanent brain
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    • 131 4 A SINGAPOREAN man was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head at an apartment in the golden triangle area of Kuala Lumpur. Neo Boon Leng, 36, who came to Malaysia in January, was said to have rented the apartment with a
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    • 472 6  -  Tan Hui Leng Official launch of new group targeting young women set for April 26 huileng@newstoday, com. sg THE People's Action Party's (PAP) latest push to get younger Singaporeans involved in politics is focussing on young women. A new group under Young PAP (YP) called Young
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 81 6 Channel News Asia Singapore has been chosen as the first venue to host the inaugural scientific meeting of Keystone Symposia a reputed US scientific conference organisation. To be held from Oct 25 to 30, the meeting will focus on links between stem
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      • 104 6 Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong is in London today for a three-day visit. Mr Goh will meet British Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss issues of common concern. As patron of Singapore Season (a series of arts and cultural programmes promoting local business and
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  • world news
    • 414 8 Draft law onTaiwan says nation to employ 'non-peaceful means' if reunification possibilities fail BEIJING China will employ "non-peaceful means" to prevent Taiwan's independence, if all possibilities of peaceful reunification are exhausted, says the text of a draft law expected to be passed
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    • 108 8 -AFP ROME Pope John Paul II left Rome's Gemelli hospital in a minibus yesterday to return to the Vatican, ending an 18-day stay during which he underwent throat surgery to ease acute breathing problems. The pope blessed and waved to pilgrims and hospital staff
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    • 189 8 -AFP WASHINGTON United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted yesterday she would not run for president in 2008, despite Internet campaigns by "Condaistas" pushing for her candidacy. Dr Rice beat back speculation that she might run to succeed Mr George W
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    • 425 11 AFP But Beirut asserts it has a role in troop pullout WASHINGTON Syria's troops will probably pull out of Lebanon before elections scheduled for May, Syrian Expatriates Minister Bussaina Shaaban said yesterday. "I think the troops will meet a very fast timetable," Ms Shaaban
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    • 190 11 -AFP LONDON A 21-year-old British student has decided to abandon her career in London and return to Thailand to marry the Thai man who supported her throughout her ordeal after the tsunami, a British newspaper reported yesterday. Ms Naomi Bowman was injured seriously
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 45 11 -AFP The Walt Disney Company's board of directors yesterday named company president Robert Iger to succeed chief executive Michael Eisner, who last year announced his decision to retire. Mr Iger, 54, will take on his new role on Sept 30.
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      • 72 11 -AFP An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale shook central New Zealand late yesterday, but there were no immediate reports or damage, officials said. The strong quake, which struck at 1 I.oBpm yesterday, was centred in the Tasman Sea, 160 km north-west of Wellington
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      • 58 11 .-AFP Spanish investigators yesterday questioned a lawyer they suspect was the architect of a international money-laundering network that may have laundered over 600 million euros ($1.3 billion), media reported. Mr Fernando Del Valle, the head of a law firm in Marbella, was questioned about what may
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    • 163 11 J5 Lindsay Mann, CEO, First State Investments (Singapore) Asia is an area that offers exciting prospects. But how do Foreign Currencies The Forgotten Gems to beat low deposit rates. Speaker Nicholas Tan, Head, Treasury Products Sales Support, OCBC Bank k^L^P a\ 111 k^B Registration Form Please fill in the form
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    • 252 12  -  Dr James Dobson w Tbnws by. ADOLESCENT INFERIORITY Imagine being depressed and miserable over the shape of your nose, or the texture of your skin, or the color of your hair. Dissatisfaction with one's body is an experience that most adolescents live with every day. If
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    • 129 12 HE'S known as Singapore's first political cartoonist, the man whose 1991 bestselling book Hello Chok Tong, Goodbye Kuan Yew set a local milestone. And every Monday starting today, you can enjoy George Nonis' witty insights into Singapore society in his new cartoon, Currycature Cafe. Born in
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    • 251 14  -  IDR LOH CHIAN MIN DRLEEBEEWAH DRUM TOW KEANG IliiWlMiil President, The Singapore Thoracic Society For The Asthma Association Singapore Chair, The Singapore National Asthma Program workgroup WE refer to your report, "Catching your breath again" (March 8) on alternative methods of managing asthma. Asthma
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    • 203 16  -  SAMANTHA TEO| IQIQQ I REFER to the recentlyannounced scheme called Restructuring Programme for Shops. I wonder why the Government is giving $60,000 of taxpayers' money to each struggling Housing Development Board shopkeeper as an incentive to quit Is it fair?
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    • Helping the less fortunate
      • 270 16  -  BENJAMIN GAN lIsUsIIMhB SIEW Kum Hong's news comment, "Heart of the State" (March 11), is indicative of the disparity between the hearts of the people and the hard-head-edness of the State. As a citizen, I appreciate the State's hard-nosed attitude towards the development of
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      • 168 16  -  HARRY CHIA IgJgQi IN ANY developed country, there will always be a bottom 10 per cent who, for some reason or other, cannot be helped and will remain in poverty. At the other end is the top 10 per cent who will remain
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    • 385 18 AFP. -AFP Emerges as an Asian powerhouse after regional expansion SINGAPORE investment company Temasek Holdings is stamping its mark as an Asian powerhouse investor after a trailblazing multibillion dollar shopping spree in the region over the past two years, analysts say. Temasek, which has interests in everything from
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    • business news
      • MarektWATCH
        • 153 20 AFP SHARE prices are expected to trade in a narrow range with a downward bias this week as the market consolidates following previous gains, dealers said. Concerns over high oil prices are likely to weigh on investors' decisions as attention shifts towards Wednesday's meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum
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        • 36 20 US$ 0.6165 UK£ 0.3213 Yen 64.275 HK$ 4.8098 RM 2.3434 Euro 0.4596 Rupiah 5,775.1 Baht 23.625 Peso 33.371 A$ 0.7809 Indian Rs 26.865 Won 616.86 C$ 0.7435 Yuan 5.1045 NZ$ 0.8382 NTS 19.003
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        • 26 20 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 446.40 Silver uss/oz 7.55 Platinum uss/oz 870.20 Rubber centsAg 213.50 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,432.50 Brent crude uss/banel 53.10 Information provided by,
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      • 408 20 to develop student lodgings THE property investment arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC), GIC Real Estate (GIC RE), continues its feverish pace of billiondollar deals, announcing yesterday that it had formed a £350 million ($l.l billion) joint venture with the
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      • 355 23 Agencies It seeks talks with EU, US to avoid textile trade restrictions CHINA is seeking talks with the European Union and the United States over its ballooning clothing exports in a bid to avoid new restrictions on its textile trade, said Mr Wang Shenyang, the director of
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      • 164 23 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE Exchange-listed Celestial NutriFoods has secured financial backing from the Chinese government to develop a 119-hectare Soybean Zone in Daqing. It signed an agreement with the Daqing New Industrial Development Zone administration, under which Celestial's China unit, Daqing Sun Moon Star, will
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      • 344 24 "Modules so useful. I might consider taking more says Dr Betty Hu Bei, Senior Manager (IT), NUS SHE already has a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Engineering from Shanghai Jiao-Tong University and a PhD from the National University of Singapore. No mean
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    • the business of learning
      • 404 24  -  John Bittleston SUCCEED withH Ibittleston@btinternet.com Getting your career unto shape: The bottom line Be realistic about tactics and goals MONEY is not just needed to finance one's old age. It is needed for many things before old age sets in. Bringing up the children, buying
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      • SUCCEED
        • 318 26  -  Lee U-Wen With a new president and COO, AEC Education seeks to boost its presence in private education u-wen@newstoday. com, sg IT MADE headlines last December for being the I,oooth company and first from Singapore to be listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market
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        • 208 26 Melissa Anne Manuel FOR those of us who have faced the dilemma of choosing a career path, help has arrived in the form of a series of career guidebooks published by the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS). The books are intended to
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    • 764 28  -  David Chew QINGAPOREAN singers such Oas Stefanie Sun, Tanya Chua and A Do have sought success abroad so they could claim to have "made it" as musicians. The argument is that once you're recognised in Taiwan and mainland China, you're considered established in the region and
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    • 210 29 -AFP NEW YORK Rapper 50 Cent's new album, The Massacre, has sold 1.1 million units in the United States in just four days: The sixth-highest album sales figure ever, according to music sales tracking company Nielsen Sound Scan. The rapper, whose real
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    • 1082 30 h mji CLARKE QUAY Watch as Curtis Eugene 11, a magician from the United States, takes a plunge into the Singapore River with his feet, neck and wrists shackled in a daring escape act, The Death Trap. Curtis will be shackled to two steel plates by
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      • 288 31  - Happily ever after MERVIN TAY Seven fairy-tale fantasies bring a special magic to the ice SHOW REVIEW by Disney on Ice IT'S a fairy-tale world we gladly indulge in the love story between a prince and his princess. But this year, Disney On Ice's 23rd production coddles us seven times
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      • 96 31 -AP DIRECTOR Alexander Payne and actress wife Sandra Oh have gone from Sideways to parting ways, a spokeswoman told People magazine on Saturday. The Hollywood couple "have mutually decided to separate", the spokeswoman said. The couple met five years ago. Payne wrote and directed the comedy
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    • eatout
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        359 32  -  Karman Tse Ryan Washoku is well worth your money and the long ride ''pHE Changi Village -L Hotel has recently undergone an extreme makeover. And it seems to be attracting savvy twenty-somethings with its stylish new look. No extreme makeover would be complete if it were only skin-deep.
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        124 32 FOOD note Awesome Aussie flavours SAVOUR the delectable treats from Down Under right here in Singapore, as Hamish Lindsay possibly the youngest head chef of Sydney's upmarket celebrity restaurant Hugo's whips up a storm at Le Meridien's Cafe Georges from now till Saturday. The multicultural flavours of modern Australia shines
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        473 33 The pan-fried beef tenderloin, a sizeable portion of which makes up the dish, is cut into bite-sized pieces. Those who wish to beef things up even more can add a touch of mustard. The fine gras, as it turned out, was not the goose liver I had
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    • 107 36 \2) 0 INCOME S7LE&GUE to nun I on uonsy^% I A^l V Skipper Aide wants to lead J 3 Lions to Asian Cup before retiring ifl (\1 a- \ft Bw 3 i ft m Baft. 1 ft _^AWJ A^AW. AW v.v.v ft L^:^^ I ftft ftftftftV lftftA«AAAAA«A«A«A«MA«A«ft V^LaWaT i ftft
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    913 37  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday.com.sg AFTER bagging a Malaysia League and Cup double, two Tiger Cups, two S-League Championships and three Singapore Cup medals during an illustrious playing career, national skipper Aide Iskandar would be forgiven for wanting to call it a day. The defender could have left on the
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  • 430 37  -  Eric Ding FOOTBALLERS will try to prove that they can do more than just kick a ball on Saturday. Singapore skipper Aide Iskandar will form a new group, comprising Home United duo S Subramani and Indra Sahdan Daud and the Young Lions quartet
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    505 38  -  ERIC DING Dhanaraj recovers from career-threatening injury sports@newstoday.com.sg TWO seasons ago, Adrian Dhanaraj made his S-League debut for the Young Lions at the age of 18 and was widely touted to be a future Singapore star. Last season, the defensive midfielder's promising career was almost ended prematurely. He
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  • 530 38  -  JASMINE ZHAO jasmine. zhao@newstoday. com. sg IT MUST be easy to talk about something you love. On weekends, football is a topic discussed by fans at almost every pub, hawker centre and coffee shop across the country. Mark
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  • 495 39  -  ERIC DING At 35, veteran midfielder Jiang puts Sinchi youngsters to shame sports@newstoday.com.sg JIANG Feng is the oldest player in the Sinchi FC ranks. But the 35-year-old is also the fittest footballer not just at his club, but perhaps in the entire S-League. Before he came to
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  • 394 39  -  Eric Ding VETERAN coach Chow Kwai Lam has an impressive track record in the region, having guided the Malaysian national team, lifted the Malaysian Cup with Kuala Lumpur and Selangor and steered Tampines Rovers to the Singapore Cup in 2002. With
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  • Heard it through the grapevine
    • 111 39 WOODLANDS Wellington are top of the table and the highest scorers in the S-League. But they will adjust their training session this month at least for a day. On March 27, Daniel Bennett (picture and his teammates will get on their bikes and pedal together with
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    • 130 39 MYANMAR exacted some sort of revenge for the Tiger Cup semi-final loss when they hammered the Singapore under-21s 6-0 during the Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy in Brunei. The Cubs were down a goal inside six minutes at the Berakas Sports Complex and they never recovered. The
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    • 83 39 YOUNG Lions and national head coach Radojko Avramovic (below) will reveal some of the strategies and tactics that led Singapore to victory in the recent Tiger Cup against Indonesia. He will speak at the Asian Football Confederation's first football conference, which will be held in Kuala
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  • 757 40  -  JOSE RAYMOND Northern club Woodlands put pressure on defending championsTampines at the top NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2005 Weekly round-up jose@newstoday.com.sg LAST season's double champions Tampines Rovers were expected to set the pace in the early rounds of the 2005 NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League, but Woodlands Wellington
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  • 80 40 IT IS hard to ignore Balestier Khalsa Akihiro Nakamura's (picture) three-goal feat against whipping boys Paya Lebar Punggol last Thursday at the Hougang Stadium. The journeyman, who has represented the likes of Sembawang Rangers, SAFFC, Albirex Niigata and now Balestier, was thought to
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  • 69 40 NO ONE can lay claim to this unwanted crown more than Sinchi FC goalkeeper Qin Xiao (picture). The 25-year-old found Woodlands Wellington Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin's free-kick too hot to handle and pushed it into his own net, a classic case of the infamous
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  • 115 40 THE Tigers could be forgiven if they suffered from nose bleeds right now after reaching such lofty heights. Balestier ended the second round in third place, ahead of the likes of Home United, SAFFC and the Young Lions. No one can remember the last
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  • 735 41  -  ERIC DING Eagles coach hopes striker Nwaogazi will find his scoring boots NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2005 Round three preview sports@newstoday.com.sg AFTER two draws in his opening two matches, Geylang United coach Scott O'Donell is hoping a little bit of African magic will secure that first elusive
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  • 126 41 Hougang Stadium Tomorrow, 7.30pm IF THINGS could not get any worse for newcomers Paya Lebar Punggol, defender Norazmi Kasmani and midfielder Nasir Bidin will both be suspended for this clash, after getting sent off against Balestier Khalsa last week. The duo will join Chinese defender He
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  • 124 41 Jurong East Stadium Thursday, 7.30pm ALBIREX fought until the final whistle, but only came away with a 1-1 draw against Geylang in the previous round. Issey Nakajima was the main culprit, spurning several goal-scoring chances and will be looking to make amends against the Young Lions.
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  • 126 41 Choa Chu Kang Stadium Friday, 7pm. live on Channel News Asia SAFFC coach Kim Poulsen will welcome back defender Vladan Seric for this live match on Channel NewsAsia on Friday (7pm) against early pacesetters Woodlands Wellington. However, the Dane will have to decide whether to change things
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  • 116 41 Toa Payoh Stadium Sunday, 7.30pm IRONICALLY, Balestier are third in the S-League table while Home United, one of the favourites for the S-League title, are lying third from bottom. In their 4-1 win over Paya Lebar last week, Balestier may have found a new scoring sensation
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  • Sportstoday
    • 266 44 -AFP BADMINTON All-England Open, men's final BIRMINGHAM World No 1 Lin Dan lost his singles title at the All-England Open championships, when he was beaten in the final by Chen Hong, his close friend from the same province of Fujian last night. Lin looked well
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    • 76 44 AFP DOHA World No 3 Ernie Els made it a profitable two-week desert romp with a sensational one-shot victory at the Qatar Masters yesterday. He reeled off a spectacular 7-under par 65 on the final day to overturn a five-shot deficit and win
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    • 522 44  -  TAN YO-HINN Despite a vote of no confidence at EGM, Chua will stay on yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IN JANUARY, seven members of the Singapore Swimming Club (SSC) management committee resigned in protest against president Alan Chua's handling of the club. Now, the 111-year-old club finds itself in
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    • 123 44 -AFP FA CUP, QUARTER-FINAL Newcastle 1 Tottenham Hotspur 0 NEWCASTLE Patrick Kluivert was the scourge of his Dutch compatriot Martin Jol with the winner as Newcastle edged out their Premiership rivals Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 to book a place in the FA Cup semi-finals
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    • 567 45 Agencies Fergie insists Euro defeat will spur Red Devils to further glory LONDON Another Champions League failure clearly hurt Sir Alex Ferguson. Like the late Sir Matt Busby, the Manchester United manager has one European Cup to his name and desperately wants to win another before
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    • 353 45 -AFP LONDON Newcastle United are no longer interested in recalling controversial striker Craig Bellamy to their ranks. The Welsh international had a public spat with manager Graeme Souness in January over where he should play and he was loaned out to Celtic. He has made
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    • sports
      • 204 42  -  Tan Yo-Hinn LI JIAWEI (picture) must dread the sight of Hong Kong's Tie Yana. Last October, Tie beat Singapore's No 1 table tennis player 4-1 to claim third place in the women's singles of the International Table Tennis Federation World Cup in China. And
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      • 107 42 -AFP PARIS Nawal El Moutawakel, head of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) evaluation commission examining the five cities vying for the right to held the 2012 Olympics, rejected claims that the Paris bid had been harmed by the nationwide strike last week.
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      • 468 42 Bryant's last-gasp buzzer beater rescues Lakers NBA Charlotte 116 LA Lakers 117 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina The story of the LA Lakers' season was there for all to see. They were unravelling amid another defensive disaster in an outdated arena where sell-outs have been rare, victories
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      • 161 42 MADRID Barcelona restored some pride after their exit from the Champions League by cruising to a 2-0 win over Athletic Bilbao on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) to open up an 11-point lead at the top of the Primera Liga. First-half goals by Deco and
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