Today, 3 July 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    26 1 TODAY /A=ryJj-\CORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Thursday July 3, 2008 todayonline.com Tbiw yV\=£JJj-\CORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Thursday July 3, 2008 todayonline.com
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      Lock icon He's Manf City's $51m man
      497 1 -AFP [Brazilian Jo joins for record fee, 1 Hughes hints of more to come MANCHESTER Brazilian striker Jo joined Manchester City from CSKA Moscow yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) for what the English Premier League side said was a "club record" fee. The 21-year-old forward,
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      Lock icon Ron keen to play for City
      408 2 -AGENCIES Hughes says Brazilian star has sent positive signals MANCHESTER Manchester City manager Mark Hughes is playing a waiting game over Ronaldinho as talks continue to sign the Brazil playmaker from Barcelona. Ronaldinho has two years left on his Camp Nou contract, but has
      -AGENCIES; AFP  -  408 words
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      Lock icon Trapattoni tells Keane: Go join Reds
      322 2 AGENCIES LONDON New Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni has risked tarnishing his relationship with Tottenham Hotspur after recommending that his captain, Robbie Keane, should join Liverpool. Liverpool have reportedly made a play-er-plus-cash offer for the striker, who has subsequently put in a transfer
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      Lock icon Speak up, Ronaldo
      519 3 AGENCIES LISBON Cristiano Ronaldo has refused to comment on his future after meeting with doctors from both Manchester United and Portugal yesterday ahead of a possible ankle operation. After admitting he wanted to join Real Madrid following Portugal's Euro 2008 exit, Ronaldo promised to make an official
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      IN TODAY'S MORNING EDITION
      423 3 Mongolia clamps down Peace was in short supply in the home of Genghis Khan yesterday after protesters stormed the Mongolian capital, burning buildings, overturning cars and smashing windows over alleged vote-rigging, which left at least five people dead, 329 injured and about 1,000 detained. Mongolian police
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      Scholar gets 16 years' jail, 16 strokes
      336 4  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat__mediacorp.com.sg IHJi private scholar arrived here with "high expectations of a promising future", as a High Court Judge put it But Indian national Batla Jatin Navin (picture), 23, left behind a trail of destruction when his relationship with an older
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      Kidney sale duo get lawyer
      444 4  -  TEO XUANWEI Mitigation plea for Indonesians to be entered today xuanwei_.mediacorp.com.sg THE two Indonesians in the illegal kidney sale case have been appointed a lawyer by the Indonesian Embassy. Sulaiman Damanik, 26, and Toni, 27, had pleaded guilty last Friday to making false statutory declarations
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      Was it exorcism?
      419 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Priest denies accusation, says it was salvation weekeat_.mediacorp.com.sg IN THE witness box, he sang hymns and showed how she had apparently slithered like a snake. Yesterday, one of the two priests accused of performing a forced exorcism at the Novena Church about four years
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      SHE ASKED PRIESTS FOR HELPTHRICE
      203 6 According to Father Simon Tan's (picture) 25-page sworn affidavit, he was told by Madam Amutha Valli's family that she was "possessed by a soldier's spirit" and was asked to pray for her. Mr Resham Singh, a close family friend, then apparently showed the two priests
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      134 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA FORMER ARCHBISHOP CREMATED: Close to 2,000 people attended the funeral mass of the late Catholic Arch- I bishop Emeritus Gregory Yong, held at the Cathedral of Good Shepherd at Queen Street yesterday. The 83-year-old died of heart failure on Saturday at the St Joseph's Home in Jurong, where
      – CHANNEL NEWSASIA; PHOTOS KOH MUI FONG  -  134 words
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      Kids' rights: Plan of action
      430 8  -  NAZRY BAHRAWI Be intuitive, get children's views, social workers urged nazry_.mediacorp.com.sg EDUCATING youth workers on children's rights and developing a national plan of action for children. These proposals were welcomed by some 250 participants, which included social workers and educators, at a forum to discuss
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      Lock icon New long-term pass for foreigners to enhance security
      237 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA LONG-TERM visitors to Singapore such as foreign students, workers and their dependants will soon be issued with new identification passes as part of the Government's effort to enhance national security. Called the Long Term Pass (LTP), it will include features
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  237 words
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      Lock icon Police conduct questioned
      452 10  -  ESTHER FUNG Kicking case trial over, Stratech boss seeks to set the record straight esther__medicorp.com.sg NOW that a district court has cleared him of kicking a locksmith in the groin, a businessman is questioning the conduct of police investigations into the matter. Mr David Chew (picture), executive
      PICTURE COURTESY STRATECH SYSTEMS  -  452 words
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      235 6 Count Sing Tel Stand a chance to win a Motorola Handphone worth $508 everyday by counting the number of Sing Tel coverage icons in TODAY from cover to cover. Here's the first one to start you off: ID To play,tune into Class 95FM's Morning Express 7 9am, Mon Fri. With
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      Lock icon SBY avoids topic of torture in police cells
      264 12 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's police force marked its 62nd birthday on Tuesday but few were celebrating across the country where torture in police cells is accepted as routine, human rights activists said. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono avoided the open issue of widespread torture
      — AFP  -  264 words
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      Lock icon Indian truckers go on strike
      145 12 AP NEW DELHI Millions of truck drivers went on strike across India yesterday to protest against rising fuel prices and road tolls, union leaders said, in a move that could paralyse much of the Indian economy. Talks between the main truckers' union and the government
      — AP  -  145 words
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      Lock icon Anwar: I'll cut fuel costs
      530 12 AGENCIES Opposition chief vows to seize power soon KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has vowed to seize power soon, stepping up his campaign against the government as he fights an accusation of sodomising a young worker in his office. Addressing some 7,000 people
      — AGENCIES; AFP  -  530 words
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      CHINA CASTS WIDE NET FOR TALENT
      796 14  -  MARIA SIOW Skilled contract workers lured to civil service EAST ASIA BUREAU CHIEF mariasiow__mediacorp.com.sg WANTED: At least seven years of relevant experience, including two years in a managerial capacity, a Master's degree from an accredited European, American or Japanese university; prior experience at renowned
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      Lock icon Six policemen killed in revenge attack
      222 16 AFP Man stabs Shanghai police after his arrest on suspicion of bicycle theft SHANGHAI A Chinese man armed with a knife killed six policemen on Tuesday when he went on a stabbing frenzy at a Shanghai police station in what the authorities said was
      — AFP; AFP  -  222 words
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        Lock icon OFFICIAL'S SON NOT INVOLVED'
        106 16 AFP Police in south-western China have ruled out allegations that a government official's son was involved in the rape-murder of a girl that sparked a 30,000- strong riot. The denial by the authorities in Guizhou province, reported by the province's Jinqian Online news service yesterday, appeared
        — AFP  -  106 words
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        Lock icon THE RACE TO EXTERMINATE LOCUSTS
        117 16 AP More than 33,000 exterminators have been dispatched to battle a locust infestation in northern China in the hope of preventing a potentially disastrous migration to Beijing during next month's Olympic Games. The insects, which devour crops, routinely plague the Inner Mongolia region and have
        — AP  -  117 words
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        Lock icon HYUNDAI WORKERS ON STRIKE
        160 16 AP Tens of thousands of South Korean auto workers went on strike yesterday to oppose resumed US beef imports and the pro-business policies of new President Lee Myung Bak, joining anti-government protests that have raged for weeks. The walkout came a day after US beef returned
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        Lock icon THAI PRISON BANS GIFS OF DEAD TOADS, CURRY AND CLAMS
        90 21 AFP The Thai prison authorities on Tuesday banned personal gifts for inmates in a bid to eradicate increasingly bizarre forms of drug smuggling. Dead toads, gutted and filled with drugs, then thrown over prison walls were one of the more
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        Lock icon PHILIPPINES TO REFLOAT DOOMED FERRY
        92 21 AFP A Philippine ferry that sank in a typhoon will be refloated, officials said yesterday, ditching a bid to use divers to retrieve hundreds of bodies and toxic pesticides 11 days after the disaster. Amid anger at the slow-moving recovery operation, the government and ferry
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      Lock icon Sarkozy caught snapping at TV technician
      126 21 AFP PARIS Video footage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy reprimanding a television technician who did not greet him when he arrived at the studio for an interview drew more than 300,000 hits on the Internet on Tuesday. "It's a question of manners," Mr Sarkozy
      — AFP  -  126 words
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      Lock icon Where could Nepal's former crown prince be?
      307 21 AFP NEPAL'S former Crown Prince Paras has arrived here, a source said yesterday, as speculation was rife that he was planning to abandon his homeland for good. Mr Paras, 36, boarded a Silk Air flight to Singapore on Tuesday, according to a senior
      — AFP; AFP  -  307 words
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      Lock icon Colombian raid frees 15 from years of captivity
      214 22 -AFP BOGOTA French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, three US nationals and 11 soldiers were rescued from Marxist FARC rebels yesterday freed from years in captivity by a daring Colombian military raid. Ms Betancourt, who was captured in 2002 while campaigning for the presidency
      -AFP  -  214 words
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      Lock icon How the blind take photos
      373 22 AFP TOKYO Yutaka Meijo holds his breath to make sure his camera stays steady carefully brings the object into focus and waits just a moment before clicking the shutter relying only on his ears and a hunch. "I take pictures relying on sound," said the
      — AFP; AFF  -  373 words
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      344 24  -  PATRICK KEE CHIN WAH Spare a thought for the self-employed Letter from I REFER to "Lunch for $2.50 or less? Still no problem" (June 28--29). Hawkers in the South zone should be commended. They have demonstrated compassion and moral leadership, which everyone in Singapore would do well to
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      172 24  -  TANCHEKWEE Letter from I REFER to "Birds are harmless why would someone hurt them?" (June 27). If there is any real chance of pigeons spreading disease to humans, we would see epidemics among pigeon fanciers who race pigeons and spend much of their time in
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      Traffic police: Mixed signals
      173 24  -  LAMWEIGUANG Letter from EVERY day, a traffic rule is broken by of thousands of motorists, but most, if not all, getaway with it The Traffic Police does not present statistics of how many people are booked each year for this on their website. It is the
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      190 26  -  DR BILL MAIER BY KEEPING YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE Making friends is one thing; keeping them is another. We all need friends in our lives to keep us going, but we don't always have time to stay close. The best relationships are long-term ones and there are
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      Lock icon 'Treat with much more circumspection allegations
      724 26  -  It is personalities who determine the state of relations between two countries, says Commissioner Letter from High Commissioner of Malaysia to Singapore DATO' N PARAMESWARAN DEAR Balji, A PERSONAL PLEA FROM A SOON OUTGOING HIGH COMMISSIONER I am under no instruction to write you
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      Leave it to our readers to judge
      352 27  -  P N BALJI Reply frorr Editorial Director THE publication of the Malaysian High Commissioner's letter in some Malaysian and Singapore newspapers yesterday morning came as a surprise. The headline, "A Personal Plea From A Soon Outgoing High Commissioner", the tone, and the hand-written
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        58 30 DOW JONES Capita Commercial Trust will exercise an option to buy the 1 George Street office building from Capita Land for about Ssl.2 billion. In a filing with the Singapore Exchange, the trust said the acquisition is scheduled for completion on July 11. Capita Land owns a
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        72 30 BLOOMBERG Mapletree Investments plans to set up a fund of at least US$5OO million ($6BO million) to invest in "mixed-use" property projects in Vietnam, the timing of which will depend on market conditions. Mapletree, which posted a net income of $1.04 billion for the year ending
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        64 30 Singapore's manufacturing sector expanded again in June after three months of contraction, according to the latest Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) compiled by Singapore Insitute of Purchasing and Materials Management -which posted a reading of 50.6, up 1.6 points over the previous month. Any figure over 50 indicates growth.
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      391 30  -  BARRY PORTER Construction not putting tenants off ba r_y ©media corp. com. sg SENTOSA Cove is slowly, but surely, attracting high-end tenants with the completion of an estimated 300 homes, including the 200-unit The Berth by the Cove condominium. Despite ugly construction sites dotting many parts of
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      363 30  -  LOH CHEE KONG -heekong__mediacorp.com.sg ROYAL Caribbean, the second largest cruise operator in the world, has made Singapore a permanent port of call for one of its luxury liners. From November next year, it will dock the 70,000--tonne Legend of the Seas at Harbourfront Cruise
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        314 32  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg A NEW corporate governance index for over 700 Singapore-listed companies could come out as early as the middle of next year. It is being developed by Singapore Management University's new research centre, the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics. "One of
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        244 32  -  -CONRAD RAJ THE Straits Trading Company control of which recently passed on to the family of the late Tan Chin Tuan, is expanding its coal mining business by taking a controlling stake in an Indonesian venture. The company says its listed subsidiary Malaysia Smelting Corporation
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        220 32 -AFP NEW YORK Wall Street stocks tumbled yesterday in volatile trade as crude oil prices raced to record highs above US$l44 a barrel, triggering fresh economic jitters. Investors fear that soaring oil prices could prolong an existing economic slowdown. The market
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        408 34 AP Weakening economy and rapid expansion to blame? SEATTLE Starbucks will lay off about 12,000 workers worldwide and close 600 company-operated stores over the next year a sign the coffee shop operator is struggling with the faltering United States economy and its own rapid expansion. This projection
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        372 34 AFP SEOUL South Korea's largest business group Samsung is facing a leadership crisis after its chairman quit in the wake of a scandal, said its acting chairman Lee Soo Bin on Wednesday. Mr Lee was speaking after holding the first meeting with chief
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      934 36  -  Christopher Toh He used to rail about politics and social dysfunction, but now X'Ho is more interested in the spiritual side of things HE'S been called everything from "enigma" to "anti-hero" to "nuisance", but X'Ho (pronounced Chris Ho) has never been as upset about being misunderstood as he is
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      353 38 Jolie resting in Nice's Lenval hospital as birth of twins draws closer BRANGELINA'S twins aren't here yet, but the big day is drawing closer. The seafront Lenval hospital in Nice (picture) in the south of France said Tuesday that Angelina Jolie had checked in at its
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      247 40 Sound vision WATCH out MTV and Channel V, SingTel's mio TV is making its foray into the music television arena in a big way with a cornucopia of musical genres from Bollywood tunes to J-pop to hip-hop that's meant to "excite audiophiles across all genres", said their PR spokesperson. Catch
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        96 40 Gabriella Cilmi "Echo Beach, far away in time," sings Australian singer Gabriella Cilmi (pronounced "chill-me"), and it's the perfect description for this album, the latest in the trend of female singers, such as Amy Winehouse or Duffy, who marry retrofitted rhythms with modern technique. Kicking of
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        80 40 The Offspring After four long years. The Offspring is back with another album that's one of their most diverse efforts so far. Fix You, for example, carries the emotional weariness of a bluesman; while A Lot Like Me resonates with its Coldplay-esque rhythms (incidentally.
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        191 41 Emmylou Harris She's been called the First Lady of country music and it's not hard to see why. Emmylou Harris has remained one of the last relevant singers from the country-folk era, along with contemporaries like Rickie Lee Jones and, to a lesser extent, Joni
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        117 41 Chicago This album's history is as mythical as the object in the title. Originally meant to be released in 1994, it was shelved indefinitely (and yes, several conspiracy theories abound). But while some tracks have surfaced on bootlegs and compilations, fans can nowhearthe album in its entirety.
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        74 41 Various There's more to Quebec music than Leonard Cohen and Celine Dion, as this compilation meant to mark Quebec's 400 th anniversary from Putamayo will show you. True, a lot of the songs reflect the state's French roots (as Cette Ville by Mathieu Mathieu and Au Chaletby
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        75 41 Jaycee Chan This is a charity single that features the vocal talents of Jaycee Chan (yes, the son of Jackie) and Eric Ng (of Funkie Monkies Productions). Thankfully, it's not one of those throwaway numbers. This ballad (written by Jaycee and Eric) is given the appropriate emotional
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        72 41 Sonny J Sonny J is the stage moniker of Sonnington James 111, but this album thankfully isn't as cumbersome as his surname. In fact, it's one big mind-blowing musical experience, as the turntablist mixes kitsch cabaret, oldschool soul and brash '60s pop. Gem tracks include Enfant Terrible, Can't Stop
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      298 42  -  MAYO MARTIN The Eurasian beauties from Mamas Wedding hate filling out application forms mayo__mediacorp.com.sg WHAT happens when you put four Eurasian women that's three actresses and a theatre director together in the same room? Onstage at least, expect a barrel of laughs when Action Theatre's new production
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      414 43  -  ANNETTE TAN KAYA SWIRL CUPCAKES MAKES 12 140g butter, softened 3/4 cup sugar 3 eggs, at room temperature 1/2 tsp vanilla essence 200g plain flour 1/4 tsp salt 2 tsp baking powder 1. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. 2. Line 12 muffin tins with paper liners. 3.
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      856 44  -  NGJINGYNG Graffiti art and beautiful neighbourhoods make walking Germany's capital a joy traveller ©mediacorp.com.sg IN BERLIN, it is perfectly cool to be clueless about where you are, especially in summer when the days are long. Part of what makes the German capital fascinating can be found
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      349 45 BERLIN BRUNCH: Sunday brunch is a tradition in the city. Ask around for a good restaurant, or hop on the bahnto any of the neighbourhoods for more budget-friendly prices. BERLIN CITY TOUR: After this three-hour walking tour with knowledgeable guides, you could probably score
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      999 46 AP IT'S earth's most-remote inhabited land, a South Pacific speck of volcanic rock so isolated the locals call it "Te Pito 0 Te Henua" or "The Navel of the World". But Easter Island is a bellybutton experiencing a tourist boom and some are worried the onslaught of
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      171 46 FIVE STARS TRAVEL FAIR Meet the stars and grab holiday deals at Five Stars Tours' Mega Travel Fair this month. Bargains include a trip to Shanghai for $299 (terms and conditions apply) and up to $500 discount on holiday packages. There will be games, performances and giveaways every weekend,
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      570 48  -  JENNIFER CHEN Lion Air offers travellers elements of full-service airlines at budget prices WITH one-way economy flights to Bali going for $9 and Ho Chi Minh City for $15 excluding taxes and fees Indonesia-based Lion Air offers Singaporeans yet another option to travel affordably. But there's more
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      282 50 AFP OMAHA, Nebraska Natalie Coughlin (picture) broke through yet another backstroke barrier on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), lowering her own 100 m world record to 58.975 ec at the US Olympic swimming trials. Coughlin, the first woman to break a minute in the
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      684 50  -  LOWLINFHOONG Top water polo nations are headed here for an Olympic warm-up, but Singapore won't be in the pool linfhoong__mediacorp.com.sg NINE top water polo teams are headed here for a pre-Olympic invitation tournament at the Singapore Sports School, giving Singaporeans a preview of some of
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      626 51 AFP If they win their remaining matches, they will collide in a Grand Slam final for the sixth time and the 14th in all tournaments TENNIS Wimbledon LONDON Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal moved to within one win each of a third successive Wimbledon final
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      798 52 AGENCIES Chelsea owner looks set to go on another spending spree, with Robinho the next target LONDON July 1 marked the fifth anniversary of Roman Abramovich's takeover of Chelsea. The Russian billionaire began his reign at Stamford Bridge with a summer on the transfer market
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      368 52 -THE GUARDIAN LONDON Inter Milan believe they will be able to secure the signing of Frank Lampard from Chelsea this summer in a deal worth around £7 million ($18.95 million) despite claims from their new manager, Jose Mourinho, that the England midfielder
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      623 53 AGENCIES Platini heads to Poland, Ukraine as concerns grow over 2012 co-hosts' slack preparations WARSAW, Poland By all accounts, Euro 2008 was a resounding success. The tournament, co-hosted by Switzerland and Austria, ended on Sunday with the team that played the best football,
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      300 53 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Joey Barton (picture) is expected to be offered one last chance by Newcastle United, but will almost certainly be required to accept a modest reduction in his salary and adhere to a strict code of conduct On Tuesday, the Magpies midfielder
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      195 53 DPA Spain shot to the top of the world football rankings for the first time yesterday, following their winning Euro 2008 on Sunday. The European championships brought a major shake-up in the rankings issued by the ruling body Fifa, with
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