Today, 13 August 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    20 1 TODAY Wednesday August 13, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Wednesday August 13, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • afternoon edition
    • IN OUR MORNING PAPER
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        ANWAR SLAMMED
        34 1 He is not known to be a firebrand. But Malaysia's new Minister for International Trade and Industry Muhyiddin Yassin did not need much prompting to criticise Anwar Ibrahim as a "self-glorified" spin-doctor.
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        CCS ACTS
        39 1 Inthespaceofa week, it issued a warning to the Singapore School TransportAssociationand dished out advice to the Institute of Estate Agents. The Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) has been busy performing its role as Singapore's competition watchdog recently.
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        DOING BUSINESS
        45 1 From missing factory rooftops to the perennial Causeway crawl, businessmen from both sideshavevoicedtheirconcerns over doing business across the Causeway. Malaysia's Minister for International Trade and Industry has pledged to personally attend to these issues. todayonline.com m^L^JiV Log, on to read the full reports
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      Lock icon Terry taunts United
      256 1 AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP 4 Chelsea skipper says Red Devils are past their prime LONDON Sir Alex Ferguson has started his traditional mind games ahead of the new season, and John Terry believes the Scot has been driven by his fear of Chelsea. The Blues captain yesterday fired
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      Lock icon A mellow Ferguson?
      179 1 AP MANCHESTER As Sir Alex Ferguson nears the end of his Manchester United reign, he wants rival managers to believe he has mellowed. Long gone, he claims, is the controlling and obsessive persona that helped him become English football's most successful manager. "At 66,1 can't be involved
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      Lock icon 'We're not racists
      575 2 AFP BEIJING 2008 Spanish basketball star Calderon defends slant-eye pose in controversial photo MADRID A star member of Spain's Beijing Olympic basketball team, Toronto Raptors guard Jose Calderon, has defended a controversial advertisement where the entire squad posed while making slit-eyed gestures, saying it was an "affectionate
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      Lock icon Fiorentina almost there
      547 3 AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Champions League beckons for Serie A outfit, thanks to goals by Mutu, Gilardino FLORENCE Strikers Adrian Mutu and Alberto Gilardino scored as Fiorentina took a big step towards the group stage of the Champions League yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) with a 2-0 win
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      Lock icon We don't rely on Thaksin's money, says City chief
      249 3 AFP LONDON The controversy surrounding Thaksin Shinawatra (picture) will not create instability at Manchester City football club, executive chairman Garry Cook said. Thaksin has arrived in Britain after a warrant was issued for his arrest in Thailand and the Premier League
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      Lock icon He blamed everyone but...
      475 4  -  TEO XUANWEI APPEAL CASE Judge finds former ICA officer's jail term to be inadequate, adds 9 months xuanwei@mediacorp.com. sg FROM the moment he was convicted of abetting his then-mistress in committing multiple immigration offences, sacked senior immigration officer Thong Sing Hock set about blaming everyone except
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      Witness at Stirling Road murder grilled for 4 hours
      256 4  -  TEOXUANWEI A PROSECUTION witness in the murder trial of odd-job labourer Tharema Vejayan Govindasamy spent four hours on the stand yesterday being grilled by the defence. Bus driver Goh Chin Hock had said that he saw Mr Tharema shortly after a
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      Lock icon That democratic dilemma
      439 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT SECURITY Former French intelligence officer says no security system is foolproof weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THERE is no such thing as a zero-risk security system in a democracy, as security forces will need to balance personal liberties with countering threats, said the man who devoted over 30
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      Lock icon New cardiac drug, few side effects
      248 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A NEW drug that promises to lower the heart rate of cardiac patients and reduce chest pain with minimal side effects is now available in Singapore. Angina, or chest pain, usually occurs when the heart is deprived of an adequate blood supply.
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      Lock icon North East CDC fills their lunch box
      488 8  -  ALICIA WONG FINANCIALAID $sO ooo of which half is donated by NOL to fund needy students alida@mediacorp.com.sg WITH the $4 pocket money that she gets daily, Nourhafezza Ahmad Sani usually doesn't have much change left especially when she has to stay back after
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      $1.7m in wakaf disbursed
      70 8 MORE than 300 Muslim beneficiaries including mosques, madrasahs and needy families received a boost yesterday, as the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) disbursed $1.7 million in wakaf or endowment funds. The Islamic education sector got a significant share of the funds, which is the highest
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      Two weeks' jail, fine for driver who tampered with fuel gauge
      249 10 A DRIVER who was heading for Johor Baru thought that he could save money by using a remote control to tamper with his car's fuel gauge. But in doing so, Mr Abu Khalid Md Jadi, 52, had committed what
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      Lock icon BAD HABITS
      52 10 SEIZURES AREUP DRUG TYPE iH vO7 lH yoB Heroin No 3 6.Bkg 28.6 kg Heroin No 4 10.8 kg Cannabis 28.5 kg I.2kg Ecstasy 3,985 tablets 3,553 tablets Ice o.Bkg lkg ABUSERS BY DRUGTYPE DRUG TYPE %abusersiH yoB Heroin 40% Subutex 25% Ice 17% Ketamine 6% Eremine-5 5%
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      Curbing the habit
      406 10  -  ANSLEYNG DRUG USE Efforts focus on inhalant abuse, where three in five are first-time offenders ansley@mediacorp.com.sg WITH the number of inhalant abusers up slightly in the first half of this year, compared to the same period last year, the Central Narcotics Bureau will launch several initiatives to
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      35 2 NIXON DIGITAL CAMERAS UP FOR GRABS! Join the Nikon Olympics Shots Of The Day contest from 8 to 24 August 2008. For more information, please turn to page 10. n" rrT 7ai> WwUl^^^^rrtk l v^Sf!
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      137 6 Rutgers University Executive MBA Knowledge Leadership Series the American Association professional networking initiative 'Connexions' jointly invite you to "Connexions on Capitalism". Mingle with the best and brightest of Singapore and catch this phenomenal speaker on a topic that's got us all boiling over these days. BUBBLES AND HOT CAPITAL: CAUSES,
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      309 10 HH OLYMPICS SHOT OF THE DAY Nikon Best Caption Contest is to 24 August2ooB] Look out for the m Send us your Captions now! The best 10 captions will be showcased and the top 3 entries will stand to win Nikon cameras worth up to $2,100! Email your entries to
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon No Taiwan flag? Myanmar's will do
      106 12 AP TAIPEI A Taiwanese newspaper said fans are preparing to skirt a Chinese ban on displaying the Taiwan flag at the Olympics by waving the Myanmar flag instead. United Daily News said yesterday that fans plan to wave the Myanmar flag because, like the
      AP  -  106 words
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      M'sia to safeguard Layang-Layang atoll
      217 12 SEMPORNA (Sabah) Malaysia will safeguard its sovereignty over the LayangLayang atoll located off Sabah on Borneo island, reported Bernama. Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said in the news agency's report yesterday that Malaysia does not want a repeat of its "loss" of Batu Puteh known
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      Lock icon Umno women declare jihad against Anwar
      406 12  -  JESSINTATAN AFP, MALAYSIAN POLITICS KUALA LUMPUR The women's wing of the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) has declared a "holy war" against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. "It is a jihad (holy war) because this individual should not be given the chance to destroy the
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      Lock icon Not only were the Olympic fireworks fake, so was the singer
      364 14 AGENCIES BEIJING The little girl who starred at the Olympic opening ceremony was miming and only put on stage because the real singer was not considered attractive enough, the show's musical director said. A member of China's Politburo asked
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      Lock icon Strike three
      382 14 AFP XINJIANG ATTACKS Security officers stabbed to death at checkpoint BEIJING Three security officers were killed in China's remote north-west yesterday, state media reported, raising the death toll from over a week of unrest there that has flared during the Olympics to 31. Assailants jumped off a vehicle
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      Lock icon CONFUCIUS WAS KOREAN?
      810 15  -  MARIA SIOW TODAY IN CHINA east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg Hoax article shows Chinese anger against Koreans over what they see as theft of culture JUST what is going on between South Korea and China? Recently, an article purportedly published by South Korea's Chosun Ilbo claimed that
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      Lock icon Enough punishment
      356 16 AFP AGENCIES RUSSIA-GEORGIA CONFLICT But Georgian presidency says fighting still ongoing MOSCOW Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered a halt to military action in Georgia yesterday, after five days of air and land attacks that took Russian forces deep into its small United States-allied neighbour in the Caucasus. Mr
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon PAKISTAN BOMBING CLAIMS 13
        102 18 AFP A roadside bomb ripped through a Pakistan air force bus in the north-western city of Peshawar yesterday, killing at least 13 people as fighting with Taliban militants raged nearby along the Afghan border. The violence added to the instability in the nucleararmed nation, with lawmakers
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        Lock icon NOT ENOUGH PUBLICTOILETS
        105 18 BLOOMBERG London Mayor Boris Johnson has called on businesses to open their toilets to the public to compensate for the lack of public restrooms in the British capital. There are just 419 city-owned toilets in London, the Mayor's spokeswoman, Ms Leona Daly, said, citing a 2006 report.
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        Lock icon NORTH, SOUTH KOREAN BOATS COLLIDE
        100 18 AFP A North Korean fishing boat sank yesterday after colliding with a South Korean cargo vessel in North Korean waters, maritime police said. Two crew members from the North Korean boat are missing, while two others were rescued by the South Korean boat, a police
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      Lock icon Toddler starved to death
      285 18 AP CULT HORROR Cult members, including his mum, charged with murder BALTIMORE A toddler whose remains were found inside a suitcase in Philadelphia was starved to death by members of a religious cult, including his mother, in part because he refused to say "amen" after meals,
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      Lock icon SO WHERE'S PAVAROTTI?
      771 22  -  DAVE BARRY IN BEIJING TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES DAVE BARRY AT THE OLYMPICS news@newstoday.com.sg What Chinese opera needs is more sex scenes I WENT to see the Beijing Opera, a traditional Chinese art form that combines singing, mime, dancing and acrobatics. I would say the highlight was the
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      155 24  -  DR BILL MAIER BY WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? If you have a baby at home, do you ever wonder what they are thinking? Probably more than you can imagine. Infants are more intelligent than we realise. Their motor skills may not be developed, but their brains
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      A modern dilemma
      437 24  -  Gilbert Goh KeowWah FATHERHOOD Time to create a new model for contemporary parents Letter from in Sydney, Australia I REFER to "The struggling father" (Aug 12). I have a 14-year-old daughter and have come to realise that it is not easy to be a father in our
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      Teacher outreach
      105 24  -  Gwee Ei Peng Letter from I REFER to "Will subsidies help in the face of fee hikes?' (Aug 4). With inflation, whatever salary increases and subsidies the PAP Community Foundation (PCF) offers, lower-income families will still be financially burdened. The same goes for those whose salary just exceeds
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      5 22 HAVE YOUR SAY. news@ newstoday.com.sg
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  • plus MOVIES
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      Lock icon Flicks for free
      1022 28  -  GENEVIEVE LOH THE CHEAPSKATE'S GUIDE genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg MOTHER always said there is no such thing as a free lunch. Or a free movie, for that matter. Well, it shows what she knows. As every true-blue cheapskate will tell you, there is always a freebie round every corner. You
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      PLUS PICKS BACK TO SCHOOL
      156 28 CINEODEON2OOB Under the watchful eye of industry professionals and the Asian Film Archive (AFA), students in a youth-initiated cinema chain project learn how to programme and manage screenings of films from the AFA collection. Cineodeon 2008 features a selection of culturally important Singapore films screened
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      They sing song, cry cry
      269 30  -  GENEVIEVELOH MOVIE REVIEW 12 LOTUS Royston Tan's follow-up to 881 is darker and very, very dramatic genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg YOU are a nubile young beauty named Pitiful Lotus blessed with the voice of an angel and in possession of some strong getai stage prowess. But alas, you
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      189 30  -  MAYO MARTIN THEATRE director Ivan Heng will helm The Last Temptation of Stamford Raffles, one of the productions in this year's OCBC Singapore Theatre Festival. The Wild Rice artistic director has replaced the original director Christina Sergeant, who stepped down to attend to an urgent
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      201 32  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEW MEET DAVE Come on Eddie, bring back Axel Foley genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg ONE of life's biggest mysteries is how a movie like Meet Dave gets the Hollywood green light. One can't help but think the pitch most likely boiled down to: "I assure you it
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      229 32 MOVIE REVIEW FATE YOU may have seen the movie poster plastered around town you know, the one with the two half-naked Korean dudes smiling blithely out into the distance. You might then be disappointed to find out that the movie only has one scene of Korean
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      861 35  -  LEONARD THOMAS BEJING BUZZ Remorseless Phelps is a must-see attraction, at least for most of us sports editor in beijing leonard@mediacorp.com.sg AT ABOUT 10.20 this morning, those famous long arms will flap so loudly, as they slap his body, that they will resonate around the stadium
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      365 36 AGENCIES PRESIDENTOFFTO BEIJING President S R Nathan left for Beijing yesterday to support Team Singapore's athletes at the Olympics. While there, he will meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao and will receive Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. President Nathan is scheduled to leave the Chinese capital on Saturday for
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      818 36  -  LEONARD THOMAS BEIJING BUZZ Paddlers Li Wang and Feng open their team campaign today with glory in mind sports editor in beijing leonard@mediacorp.com.sg MOST of the time it's only the best who get to wear the highly-prized name on their back. It means the person has
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      224 36  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE swimmer Tao Li left Beijing's Water Cube yesterday the way she entered it three days earlier in record-setting mode. The teenager smashed her national record in the heats of the 200 m butterfly, clocking 2min 12.635 ec 0.53s
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      400 37 AGENCIES CORRECT AT PRESS TIME BASKETBALL World champions make good in the arena after off-court antics BEIJING World champions Spain shocked a passionate home crowd as they came from behind to beat hosts China 85-75 in the Olympic men's basketball tournament yesterday. The Spanish trailed by
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      240 37  -  LOW LIN FHOONG OLYMPIC debutant Hendri Saputra (picture) was weighed down by the expectations. And the Singaporean, who partnered Li Yujia in last night's mixed doubles badminton match in Beijing, failed to raise his game. The pair struggled to find their rhythm, losing 21-12, 21-14 to
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      220 37 CANOEING Men's Ci: 1 Michal Martikan (Svk) 176.65, 2 David Florence (Gbr) 178.61, 3 Robin Bell (Aus) 180.59; DIVING Women's synchronised 10mplatform: lWang Xin/Chenßuolin (Chn) 363.54, 2 Briony Cole Melissa Wu (Aus) 335.16, 3 Paola Espinosa /Tatiana Oritz (Mcx) 330.06 FENCING Men's individual sabre: iZhong Man (Chn),
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      59 37 SWIMMING Women's 100mfreestyle heats: Quah Ting Wen; 200 m breaststroke: NicoletteTeo SAILING Men's 470 races 5 6.-XuYuan Zhen /Terence Koh, Laser Standard races 3 4: Koh Seng Leong; Women's 470 races 5 6.- Toh Liying/ Deborah Ong, Laser Radial races 3 814: Lo ManYi TABLE TENNIS
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      112 37 BRAZIL, FOOTBALL The samba kings face the Chinese in what could be the last appearance for the hosts in the competition. Brazil have found their feet, thumping five past New Zealand, and threatening to run riot as they look to capture the one accolade that has eluded
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      162 37 MEDIACORPTV gam Ch 5 Highlights 10am Ch 5 HDS Swimming semis finals: 200 m freestyle, 200 m butterfly (M&W) 11.50 am HDS Cycling: Women's individual time trial final 2.30pm Ch 5 HDS Diving: men's synchronised 3m springboard final 3.30pm Ch 5 HDS Weightlifting: Women's 6gkg group
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      583 38  -  TANYO-HINN OLYMPIC ODDITIES Like everybody else, top athletes need their fix prior to the crunch yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg THEY have the financial muscle, the best doctors and trainers to guide them. But some of the world's leading sportsmen and sportswomen still revert to
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      318 38  -  TANYO-HINN DON'T write them off yet. That is the message from Mark Robinson, team manager of Singapore's Olympic sailing squad, despite the six-strong squad being well off the pace at the Olympic sailing competition in QJngdao. Both the men's and women's 470s pair are languishing in
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      205 39 I think I have to also re-shave to set up the opportunity to have a perfect swim tomorrow. Swim star Michael Phelps, bidding for a record-breaking eight golds at a single Games, reveals his hair-control techniques No longer will a gold medal surprise us. Never again will
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      416 40 AFP AFP PARTING OFTHE WATERS BEIJING Many have looked hopefully at the Beijing Olympics as a possible agent of change in China. Teenager Xue Shengyuan is pinning his hopes on beach volleyball. "Our society has always been very conservative but this is the kind of thing
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      484 41 NEWYORKTIMES Chinese gymnasts turn in a hair-raising golden show BEIJING With the pressure of the host country weighing heavily upon them, the Chinese men's gymnastics team came into the Beijing Olympics knowing full well what was expected of them: A gold medal and nothing less. Yesterday,
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      416 41 AFP BEIJING China is relying on a legion of foreign coaches in its drive towards Olympics domination, while other countries have turned to the host nation in their own quest for sporting glory. More than 40 trainers from abroad were drafted in to help China's
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      793 42 PREMIERSHIP BUILD-UP The league's debutant managers, save Scolari, are in for a rough ride this season IT'S anybody's guess which of the Premiership's four newest managers will thrive and who will flounder. But you can always count on the bookmakers to rate their chances. None
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      292 42 THE PREMIERSHIP'S TOP SCORERS OFF THE PITCH Peter Crouch owes David Beckham. Ever since the pin-up/player stepped out with former Spice Girl Victoria Adams in 1997 (they got married two years later), footballers have become a regular presence in British tabloids and gossip columns. The ever-increasing paycheques have certainly helped,
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      312 43 LONDON Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger expects Cesc Fabregas (picture) to ruin Steve McClaren's Champions League debut with FC Twente in the third qualifying round tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). The Gunners travel to Holland for the first leg against former England coach McClaren's new
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      212 43  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SAFFC captain Aleksandar Duric (picture) celebrated his 38th birthday last night by breaking Mirko Grabovac's record of 244 goals in local competitions. The striker scored his 244 th and 245 th goals in the Warriors 2-2 draw with Geylang United, in an NTUC
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      559 43  -  MILTON TAN NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Tampines Rovers v Home United Tampines Stadium, 7.45pm sports@newstoday.com. sg TAMPINES Rovers could be headed for another trophyless season. The Stags are in fourth place and 13 points behind leaders SAFFC, with 12 games left
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      374 48 BLOOMBERG JPMorgan Chase will write down the value of mortgage-backed assets by at least US$l.5 billion ($2.1 billion) this quarter after creditmarket turmoil and the United States housing slump deepened. Trading conditions "have substantially deteriorated" since last month and "sharply widened" spreads on
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        55 54 3G IPHONE It's official. The first iPhone will be distributed in Singapore on Aug 22. Singapore Telecommunications announced the longawaited release date of Apple's iPhone here yesterday during its financial results briefing, after the much-coveted smartphone was launched in other countries in June. ©ktodayonline.com Log on
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        427 54 AFP US ECONOMY US trade deficit shrank sharply in June, thanks to surge in exports WASHINGTON The US trade deficit unexpectedly shrank in June as a weak dollar stoked exports, offsetting record crude oil imports and a politically sensitive growing gap with China, official data showed yesterday.
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        331 54 AGENCIES SINGAPORE-listed Golden Agri-Resources has more than doubled its first-half earnings on the back of surging global demand for palm oil. Its net profit for the six months to end-June rose 129 per cent to US$l.O2 billion ($1,437 billion), as prices and production surged. Net
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