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  • 35 1 TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Tuesday June 01, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking Tbiw MICA (P) 160/10/2009 HOTLINE 6822 2268 Tuesday June 01, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 829 3  -  Specific transactions, individuals being investigated Religious services need not be disrupted and can continue NEO CHAI CHIN ANDZULOTHMAN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY HOEYEEN NIE SINGAPORE Seventeen members of Singapore’s largest stand-alone church, including its charismatic pastor, are being questioned in what is the biggest charity investigation here
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    • 86 3 MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 10 DAYS TO THE WORLD CUP 10 PAGES OF WORLD CUP NEWS EVERY DAY AND IT’S FREE TURN TO THE BACK PAGE IN YOUR T SECTION ARTS MEET ALAIN SEBAN ENTERTAINMENT THE GREAT HOLLYWOOD WHITEWASH HEALTH BREATHLESS IN S’PORE THE REAL CHALLENGE
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  • NEWS
    • 526 5 AGENCIES JERUSALEM At least 10 pro-Palestinian activists in a flotilla of ships carrying aid to Gaza Strip were killed in a battle at sea with Israeli naval commandos yesterday, sparking a diplomatic crisis. Dozens of activists and at least 10 Israeli soldiers
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    • 93 5 MFA STATEMENT The Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it is still trying to determine the exact circumstances of the incident involving the Gaza aid flotilla. “But loss of life is always a tragedy and we extend our condolences to the families of those who were killed or had been
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    • 280 5 A WARM WELCOME grants LOW LIN FHOONG With one hand holding the Marcel Corbillon Cup, FengTianwei emerged with a wave, and raised a huge roar at Changi AirportTerminal I last night (picture). More than 200 fans waited for little over an hour to greet Singapore’s allconquering women’s table tennis team.
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    • 168 7 SERVICES, OPERATIONS WILL CONTINUE NORMALLY: CITY HARVEST While investigations are being carried out, normal services and religious activities for City Harvest Church (CHC) members “need not be disrupted and can continue”. This was the assurance from the Commissioner of Charities and the Commercial Affairs Department. In a statement on its
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    • 243 8 Singapore oil spill clean-up shows ‘positive results’, says MPA WATCH IT >> channelnewsasia.com CLAIRE HUANG AND NG LIAN CHEONG SINGAPORE Efforts to contain and clean up the oil spill from a collision at sea last Tuesday have shown “positive results”, said
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    • 326 8 SINGAPORE One of Singapore’s longest civil trials the Raffles Town Club (RTC) lawsuit came to an end yesterday after more than 80 days of hearing with the High Court dismissing all claims against Mr Peter Lim (picture) and the club’s former directors. It
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    • 443 8  -  IMELDA SAAD imelda@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Property agents have been urged to be respon­sible in the light of “scare tac­tics” on clients’ concerns. Emails forwarded to Media­ Corp detailed how some agents are highlighting the Govern­ment’s recent land sales to lower client expectations of property
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    • 395 10  -  NG JINGYNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A writ of summons has been issued against Singapore-based investment firm Profitable Plots a division of the Profitable Group by an investor who failed to get her money back, a sum amounting to US$22,500 ($31,500). The investor,
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    • 207 10 SINGAPORE Changi Airport is joining the Great Singapore Sale with a bang. It is offering a prize of $1 million to attract more shoppers. Visitors in both the transit and public areas across all four terminals, including the Budget
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    • 177 10 NVPC PORTAL RAISES OVER $500,000IN 100 DAYS FOR CHARITIES Going online to appeal for donations has proved a success for the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC). Its recent-ly-launched donation portal, SG Gives (Singapore Gives), raised $561,293 in its first hundred days. SG Gives (www.sggives.org), which went “live” on Feb
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    • 144 10 EMPLOYEES WITH WSQ TRAINING HAVE GREATER JOB MOBILITY A Ministry of Manpower (MOM) survey has shown that one in five resident employees changed jobs in the two years between 2007 and 2009. And workers who had undergone Workforce Skills Qualification (WSQ) training had greater job mobility. In all, 28 percent
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    • 239 12 SINGAPORE He wanted to check on a number of expenditure items and took his case to the High Court. In the process, Mr Peter Purcell (picture) was removed as a Singapore Flyer board director. Mr Purcell then filed a suit for disclosure
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    • 224 12  -  IMELDA SAAD imelda@mediacorp.com.sg imelda@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Throughout the year, neighbourhoods are filled with activities that bring together people of different races and religions. So if you have a “friendship” story, the organisers of this year’s Orange Ribbon Celebrations want to hear from you. An online photo blurb
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    • 161 12 HSA ORGANISES FIVE-DAY COURSE ON PHARMACOVIGILANCE In order to build up capabilities in drug safety, regulators from the region are here for a five-day course organised by the Health Sciences Authority, World Health Organisation and the Uppsala Monitoring Centre. This is the first tailored training on pharmacovigilance for members of
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    • 191 14  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A technical officer, who masqueraded as a nurse and molested a patient in a ward at Raffles Hospital, was given a discharge amounting to an acquittal in court yesterday after he compounded the offence. The court was
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    • 267 14 SINGAPORE Scientists from Singapore, China and the United States have identified three new susceptibility genes in a genome-wide association study of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), commonly known as Cantonese Cancer. A type of cancer that forms in the area of the upper throat that lies
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    • 266 9 CSanflJ Let your kid be part of a Singapore record-setting event! Join thousands of pre-schoolers for a kids' walk and a milk toast. It's a fun-filled day packed with a host of activities and games for your children. Come be part of history as we aim to set a new
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    • 192 11 Standard Chartered Ik Pay credit card bills of any bank in Singapore and access the most billing organisations online. First We are the first bank to let you pay any bank's VISA or MasterCard credit card bill through Standard Chartered Online Banking. Most We bring you access to over 200
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  • VOICES
    • 336 16 Watch out for private tutors who lie about their teaching qualifications Letter from Yeo SeowWoon I ENGAGED a tutor in Chinese for my son, who is in Primary 6, in January this year. I found her through the classified ads. In the advertisement, the
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    • 301 16 When two queues collide Letterfrom Liu MeiYing WE KNOW of bullying in schools, at the work place, and even cyber-bullying. I was recently “bullied” in a public place a supermarket. There were only two check-out points in operation, so I joined the slightly shorter queue. A customer was paying for
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    • 178 17 Letter from Colin OngTau Shien I READ with pride about how Singapore won the World Team Table Tennis Championship against China in Moscow. I am sure there will still be a lot of debate and cynicism about the birthplace of the members of
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    • 138 17 COUNTERFEIT NOTES SOLD OPENLY I have been amazed at the brazen cough syrup peddlers selling their wares in the vicinity of the Subordinate Courts, but I was even more shocked to see a couple of men selling counterfeit Singapore and Malaysian currencies in front of the NTUC FairPrice supermarket in
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    • 140 17 WANT TO DO A GOOD DEED? WHY NOT VOLUNTEER? I refer to “When a good deed just isn’t right” (May 25). Only two days after Vesak Day, I was horrified to see two small dead terrapins on the ground outside my block in Yishun. These poor animals had been left
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    • 132 16 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices Watch 'LIVE' football and sport channels with this amazing card! i am a l?f JUi Plug in to thousands of Internet TV, radio and game channels Watch 'LIVE' matches, search content by keywords and bookmark your favourites One
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    • 166 17 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community (£2)' js a>..* s e~T©/ a (S)»®u «sr r 2> V 2> ©j <7g> 0 2J «J Si as, v<& @a 2? 6 2i z> >/® <s 2j w >/ I "agT55& (0 S3 w©) vr I r c
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    • 158 17 BABY’S FIRST TOOTH Hey, what’s that in your baby’s mouth? Is it a rock a toy No, I think it’s a tooth! Waiting for baby’s first tooth is exciting. Unless, of course, you’re the baby then it’s just painful. Well, here are some tips you should know while waiting. First
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  • COM M ENT&AN ALYSIS
    • 774 18  -  RICHARD “There is no cause for alarm,” the National Environment Agency (NEA) said right after the recent oil spill, and reassuring statements continued to flow in. The NEA said it didn’t detect any toxic chemicals in the air, even as fumes
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    • 829 19 THOMAS L FRIEDMAN It took almost the entire press conference at the White House for United States President Barack Obama to find his voice in responding to the oil disaster in the Gulf—and it is probably no accident that it seemed
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  • WORLD
    • 180 20 JAKARTA An Indonesian court yesterday sentenced a man to eight years’ jail for sheltering terrorists involved in suicide bomb attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta last year. Aris Susanto (picture), 31, was convicted of hiding Syaifudin Jaelani,
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    • 459 20 But China is not ready to support plans to bring N Korea before the United Nations Security Council AGENCIES TOKYO Japan’s Prime Minister told his Chinese counterpart yesterday that he supports Seoul’s plans to bring North Korea before the United Nations Security Council
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    • 223 20 WASHINGTON Surprised by how easily a South Korean warship was sunk by what an international investigation concluded was a North Korean torpedo fired from a midget submarine, senior American officials say they are planning a long-term programme to plug major gaps in
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    • 172 21 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who is on trial for sodomy, has an alibi and will argue he was in a meeting at the time of the alleged incident, his lawyer said yesterday. Anwar’s accuser, 25-year-old Mohamad Saiful Bukhari
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    • 214 21 BANGKOK Thailand’s Prime Minister faced accusations, during a heated no-confidence debate in Parliament yesterday, of violating human rights by ordering a deadly army crackdown on opposition protesters. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is now facing questions about his administration’s handling of the anti-government Red
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    • 184 21 GERMAN PRESIDENT QUITS OVER MILITARY REMARKS German President Horst Koehler resigned yesterday after being criticised for reportedly linking military deployments abroad with the country’s economic interests. The resignation came a year into Mr Koehler’s second term as the ceremonial head of state. The current president of parliament’s upper house Bremen
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    • 170 22 BEIJING Police in south-western China said yesterday they had freed 24 people forced to work at a brick kiln the second such rescue in a week. The workers in Yunnan province had been lured into working for the kiln in Shilin county, where
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    • 501 22 XIAMEN As many as 3 million Chinese babies are being hidden by their parents every year in order to get around the country’s one-child policy, a researcher has discovered. “I am the biggest offender against the one-child policy in China!” said Mr
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    • 250 23 WASHINGTON President Barack Obama’s administration is increasing pressure on Pakistan to provide the United States with much broader airline passenger information a crucial tool that American investigators use to track terrorist travel patterns but a step that the Pakistani authorities have
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    • 72 23 A bridge in El Salvador that was damaged when the first tropical storm of the season swept across Central America yesterday. At least 100 people were killed across the region in flash floods and mudslides caused by Tropical Storm Agatha. Tens of thousands of people had to
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    • 109 23 BREAST CANCER VACCINE TRIALS PLANNED American scientists have come up with a vaccine which they say has prevented breast cancer from developing in mice. They are planning to begin trials on humans within a year. Dr Vincent Tuohy from the Cleveland Clinic Learner Research Institute said the drug targets a
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    • 98 23 WHAT YOU SHOULDN’T NAME YOUR WEBSITE A list of the Internet’s most inadvertently amusing web addresses has been compiled into a new book called Slurls: They Called Their Website What? Among the amusing web addresses are: •The Mole Station Nursery an Australian gardening business was originally “molestationnursery”, now “molerivernursery” Experts
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  • SPORTS
    • 677 24  -  Best swimmers will head to Guangzhou and give Commonwealth Games a miss TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At the 2006 Doha Asian Games, Singapore’s swimming team returned with their first gold medal since 1982. And the quadrennial Games, the sec-ond-largest multi-sport event after the Olympic Games, will
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    • 456 24  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With highly-touted players like Indonesian Super League winner Ridhuan Muhamad of Arema Malang, Persija Jakarta’s Baihakki Khaizan and Home United’s Shahril Ishak in the team, the national under-23 side became the first Singapore footballers in 16 years to
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    • 216 25 From left, Mr Ting Chung Hua, MrChua Song Cher, Mr Gabriel Rao, Mr Moiz Malik, Ms Ruth Ng, Mr Jay Sng of Compassvale Primary School, Mr Ken Tan, Mr Dominic Tung from Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Mr David Wong. Everyday heroes will take
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    • 482 25 Mourinho won’t say who he has identified to turn Spanish giants into champions AGENCIES MADRID Jose Mourinho has already started work as Real Madrid’s new manager, by all accounts. At the press conference yesterday to introduce the Portuguese as the Spanish giants’ latest manager, the former boss
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    • 326 25 TENNIS French Open PARIS Sam Stosur ended Justine Henin’s hopes for a comeback victory at the French Open, converting her second match point yesterday for a shock 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 victory in the fourth round. Needing one point to secure the upset win, Stosur
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    • 778 26 Lakers, Celtics chase redemption as basketball season reaches a climax THE NEWYORKTIMES NBA FINALS LA Lakers v Boston Celtics PHOENIX In the mystical, everything-Zen universe of Phil Jackson, happenstance and happy endings are a way of life. Not long after winning the NBA championship
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    • 323 26 ISTANBUL Red Bull drivers Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber yesterday blamed each other for the crash that ended both their hopes of winning the Turkish Grand Prix, reported BBC Sport Online. Webber was leading Vettel on lap 40 on Sunday when the
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 49 24 YOUR SPORTING FIX FOOTBALL TOMORROW 2.25am Friendly Portugal v Cameroon (Ch222) 2.30am Friendly Holland v Ghana (Ch202) TENNIS 8pm French Open (Ch203) ICE HOCKEY 8am Stanley Cup Philadelphia v Chicago (Ch256) BASEBALL 9am MLB Arizona v LA (Ch294) SPORTSZONE MINUTES Sports updates live hourly on 938Live (6.35am to 11.35pm)
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  • 810 27  -  IMPACT HE PEIWEN hepeiwen@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU had gone past the John Little building or what used to be the John Little building between Singapore Visitors Centre and Midpoint Orchard in the last two weeks, you would have noticed Courts’ striking yellow sign in what
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  • 191 28 MUMBAI A rebound in the manufacturing sector and recovering farm output drove India’s quarterly growth to 8.6 per cent, according to government data released yesterday, the best showing in two years as Asia’s third-largest economy returns to pre-crisis levels of expansion. Manufacturing
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  • 503 28 ECB chief calls for budgetary discipline, watchdog for government finances AGENCIES VIENNA The European Central Bank (ECB) will not tolerate a lack of budgetary discipline in the euro area any longer and governments must get their act together immediately, ECB President
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  • 340 28 SINGAPORE Employers here should be able to comfortably accommodate recent pressures to increase wages, as productivity levels surge. This was the view of analysts and company owners in response to the recent proposal by the National Wages Council (NWC) to give sustainable wage
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    • 47 29 r_ Jm] SU-TONG I CJ SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY »SfT "I EllJi PARK la* INOTMI1QN ,1,- y' -jr' wHurt ryfi. Jm Su-Tong Science and Technology Park Promotion Seminar is to be held in the Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore Grand Ballroom (Level 1) from 16:00 to 20:00 of June 10th, 2010.
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  • 341 29  -  MAYWONG maywong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE There is more funding available for companies to improve productivity though new training programmes. Small and medium-sized enterprises will enjoy 70 per cent of funding, while multinationals can tap on 50 per cent of subsidies given by the Workforce Development Agency (WDA). This
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  • 148 29 MORE INTEREST IN WATERFRONT, CITY HOMES Resale waterfront and city homes in Singapore are seeing a rise in popularity, according to a CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) report which highlighted that secondary sales in the prime inner city districts, such as Marina Bay and Sentosa, hit $750.8 million last year. This
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  • 126 29 PARKWAY SHARES UP AFTER KHAZANAH OFFER Shares of Parkway Holdings jumped as much as 25 per cent yesterday following news that Malaysia’s government investment arm Khazanah Nasional has launched a $1.18 billion partial offer to raise its stake to 51.5 per cent in the healthcare group. The stock hit the
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  • 134 29 GIC ACQUIRES 5 PER CENT STAKE IN REIT The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) has agreed to acquire a 5 per cent stake in the proposed real estate investment trust (Reit) of the Malaysian developer, SunwayCity. SunwayCity said it has entered into a cornerstone agreement with GIC for the
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  • ■ BUSINESS
    • 343 30 SINGAPORE Two freehold residential sites have been put up for collective sale for the same asking price at least $22.5 million each while another en bloc deal has been sealed for $95 million. The 11-storey Waldorf Mansions in the Balestier area was built in the
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    • 258 30 Tuesday 2,650.61 q 2.69% Wednesday 2,696.02 p 1.71% Thursday 2,739.70 p 1.62% Friday Closed STI TOP 5 BY VOLUME MONDAY CLOSE 2,752.60 (+0.47%) NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Genting SP 242,812 1.060 p 3.92% GoldenAgri 72,036 0.510 p 0.99% Noble Group 36,640 1.810 p 4.02% SingTel 29,788 2.900 p 1.05% CoscoCorp
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    • 448 30  -  MELVIN YONG melyong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore Exchange has slammed the defence given by the audit committee of technology services firm NEL Group. This concerns a reprimand by SGX last week over NEL’s breach of listing rules by failing to disclose material information in a timely manner,
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    • 39 40 16 10 Winners 1930, 1950 Finished 5th in Conmebol (South America), qualified by beating Concacaf’s Costa Rica in playoff We know Uruguay are never going to start as favourites, but we’re there and we’re not ruling anything out. 100:1
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    • 49 40 mexico 17 13 Quarter-finals 1970, 1986 Finished 4th in Concacaf (Central North America) This is a great team and Javier Aguirre is a great coach. We worked hard and got the job done, the credit goes to all my team-mates and to the coach. They are all amazing. 80:1
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    • 62 41 france 9 12 Winners 1998, runners-up 2006 Finished 2nd in European Group 7 behind Serbia, qualified by beating Ireland in playoff France are not currently the best in the world, nor among the three best teams in the world. There are good individuals in the group, but there’s no great
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    • 37 43 GROUP STAGE FIXTURES Group B JUNE 12 Group A JUNE 11 Group D JUNE 13 Group C JUNE 13 Group F JUNE 15 Group E JUNE 14 Group G JUNE 15 JUNE 24 Group H JUNE 16
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  • WORLD CUP 2010
    • 726 43 AGENCIES JOHANNESBURG When South Africa was announced as the host of the 2010 World Cup, it was understood across the continent that, in part, this was Africa’s tournament. Rooted in the material reality of Africa’s growing significance and power in world football, it
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    • GROUP B ARGENTINA, GREECE, NIGERIA, SOUTH KOREA GROUP B ARGENTINA, GREECE, NIGERIA, SOUTH KOREA
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      • 661 37  -  COMME MTARY A strong and fierce defence, but the cover’s thin for Argentina TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is a senior reporter with MediaCorp AS THE old adage goes, great players don’t always make great coaches. From Buenos Aires to Rosario and River Plate, Argentina
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      • 431 37 AGENCIES JOHANNESBURG Javier Mascherano (picture) knows Argentina’s rivals perceive them as dangerous opponents and will be given the utmost respect by their rivals. England coach Fabio Capello has already admitted that he expects the South Americans to be a force to be reckoned with, and that is
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      • 307 38 AGENCIES MILTON KEYNES (England) Nigeria, traditionally the giants of Africa, head into the World Cup without much fanfare and concerns over their sluggish form. The Super Eagles were held to a 1-1 draw by Colombia on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) in a quiet friendly played
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      • 338 39 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Park Ji Sung is on South Korean television often. Catching up with his Manchester United exploits on the national news is a Monday evening tradition in Seoul for those who missed the live action. He also does his fair share of commercials especially
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      • 308 39 AGENCIES LONDON Greece’s biggest star at the World Cup remains Otto Rehhagel who, at 71, will be the oldest coach prowling the touchlines in South Africa. Yet, this is his first World Cup. Greece had reached one World Cup and one European Championship prior
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    • 491 35 Dutch medical team says his hip injury is minor as van Persie talks up title chances AGENCIES AMSTERDAM The Netherlands’ star winger Arjen Robben has been training on his own recently after a hip injury caused him minor problems. The Bayern Munich ace ended last Friday’s
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    • 271 35 AP LONDON adidas hit back yesterday at criticism that the 2010 World Cup finals ball is difficult to control and a nightmare for goalkeepers, stressing that it was widely tested and approved long ago. Company spokesman Thomas van Schaik said he was surprised to
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    • 814 33  -  COMMENTARY England skipper ready to try to match Charlton’s ultimate World Cup achievement HENRYWINTER The writer is The Daily Telegraph’s football correspondent. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Rio Ferdinand doesn’t do European championships, having been omitted in 2000, banned for 2004 while England never even reached 2008,
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    • GROUP A FRANCE, MEXICO, SOUTH AFRICA, URUGUAY GROUP A FRANCE, MEXICO, SOUTH AFRICA, URUGUAY
      • 545 41  -  COMMENTARY A lumbering lout they may appear to be, but you can never rule out France DAVID NGIAU david@mediacorp. com.sg The writer is deputy sports editor at Today. I can’t see France tripping up at the World Cup. Not with the bar set so
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      • 378 41 AP RADES (Tunisia) France needed a sec-ond-half equaliser from Arsenal defender William Gallas to earn a 1-1 draw against Tunisia in a World Cup warm-up match on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Slack French defending allowed Tunisia striker Issam Jomaa space to tap home
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      • 380 42 AGENCIES JOHANNESBURG (South Africa) On paper, hosts South Africa are big underdogs and won’t be expected to get out of Group A at the World Cup. But Everton winger Steven Pienaar remembers watching his country’s Springboks lift the Rugby World Cup on home soil
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      • 222 42 AGENCIES PARIS The French public has come to regard Raymond Domenech (picture) as a paradox unto himself since he took the reins in 2004. Praised for his communication skills when he first arrived, but heavily criticised when France flopped at Euro 2008. Mulhouse and Lyon were
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        7 42 Steven Pienaar, 28 AFP
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      • 269 40 AGENCIES BERLIN Mexico, making their fifth successive and 14th overall World Cup appearance, are regular attendees at football’s quadrennial showpiece, thanks to geography. Up until the recent rise of the United States, their only real challenger, the Mexicans were comfortably the big fish in a
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      • 316 40 MONTEVIDEO Once upon a time, before the second World War, Uruguay ruled the roost in South American football. Winners of the first ever World Cup in 1930, and again in 1950, Uruguay are one of five countries alongside Brazil, Argentina, Germany and Italy that have won
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  • 57 46 JUNE 01, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF THE CENTRE POMPIDOU’S ALAIN SEBAN ON WHY S’PORE NEEDS CONTEMPORARY ART. >> T2 MICHELLE CHIA AND SYLVIA RATONEL GET BUFFETLICIOUS. AND HOPEFULLY SLATHERED IN CHOCOLATE. >> T7 WHY ETHNIC ACTORS DON’T GET JOBS PLAYING ETHNIC ROLES. >> T10 EASY, WHEEZY:
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  • ARTS
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      1308 47  -  Today sits down with France’s arts and culture go-to guy, Alain Seban MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg WITH his sleek fashion sense, those intense eyes, and stylish salt-and-pepper stubble,Alain Seban,at first glance, may come across as one of those suave, goodlooking James Bond villains. Except that he’s not a baddy.
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      209 51 STATE OFTHE ARTS: Even as the Singapore Arts Festival opened its doors to its first batch of productions by international superstar artists (Lin Hwai-Min’s Wind Shadow and Peter Brook’s 11 and 12), there were grumblings afoot concerning the absence of local artists at the parallel ConversAsians conference at The Esplanade.
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    • 187 51 VISUAL ARTS CUT2010: Parallel Universe This exhibition of new photography from South-east Asia features Singapore’s Mintio and Zhao Renhui alongside artsy shutterbugs from Malaysia,Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. June 4 to 27,Valentine Willie FineArt,Artspace@Helutrans,39 Keppel Road,Tanjong Pagar Distripark, #02-04. www.vwfa.net/CUT2010. Free admission. Closed on Mondays. Singapore 1960 A 100-year-old
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    • 410 51 J singaporeiartmuseum v X Art Garden Children's Season at the Singapore Art Museum runs through 18 July 2010 SAM at 8Q The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) proudly presents our inaugural Children's Season for the school holidays. Enter Art Garden, an interactive contemporary art exhibition inspired by nature and specially designed
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 513 52 Michelle Chia and Sylvia Ratonel swim naked in a chocolate fountain? MAY SEAH BUFFETS and babes are the words of the day for Michelle Chia and Singapore Idol runner-up-turned-MediaCorp-artiste Sylvia Ratonel.The two ladies are the hosts of the new variety food programme, Buffetlicious. It’s about “buffets and delicious
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    • 157 53 CELINE Dion’s struggle to have one more baby has more than paid off. Publicist Kim Jakwerth told The Associated Press in an email Sunday that the 42-year-old Canadian songstress is 14 weeks pregnant with twins, and she plans to find out the sex of the babies next
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    • 780 53 POINT OF VIEW What the local arts scene needs is more talk between artists and administrators MAYO MARTIN THESE are exciting times for the Singapore theatre scene. That is, if you equate “exciting” with “nail-biting” and “an overall foreboding sense of the unknown”. The past few
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    • 180 54 AGENCIES The Hobbit needs a new director. Guillermo DelToro announced to a Lord OfThe Rings fansite yesterday that he is no longer directing the two movies based on J R R Tolkien’s The Hobbit. The Pan’s Labyrinth director told TheOneRing.net that he will continue to co-write
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    • 513 55 Is Hollywood guilty of ‘whitewashing’ ethnic roles? THE DAILY TELEGRAPH profits and are reluctant to take risks on casting unknown ethnic minority actors. Chon Noriega, a professor of cinema at UCLA, said: “It has become habitual practice. I think it’s the default setting and it
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    • 248 52 RECHARGE Critical Thinking Leadership Problem Solving THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE DEGREE A Reputation of Excellence Associated with 5 Nobel Laureates 102 Rhodes Scholars 104 Fulbright Scholars Programs Offered in Singapore Campus POSTGRADUATE PROFESSIONAL ACCREDITATION MASTER OF COMMERCE (ACCOUNTING) MASTER OF COMMERCE MASTER OF COMMERCE (APPLIED FINANCE) Certlfied Publlc Accountant (CPA)
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    • 171 53 WALK THE RED CARPET WITH NAEA TALENTS 2010 NAFA GRADUATION SHOWS THE PREVIEW BEGINS... BE A PART OF THE GLAMOUR IN THE ARTS. Diploma in Fashion Merchandising Marketing GRADUATION EXHIBITION 1-3 June, 10am 10pm NAFA Campus 1, Lim Hak Tai Gallery For this showcase, the graduating Diploma in Fashion Merchandising
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    • 1062 57 ON MEDIACORP ON MEDIACORP CHANNEL THE NOOSE III (Season Premiere) Channel 5, 8.30pm 3.00 Fighting Spiders 4.00 Survivor XIX: Samoa (Season Premiere) 5.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show VII 6.00 Entertainment Tonight 6.30 The Price Is Right USA 7.30 Wheel Of Fortune 8.00 Buffetlicious (Premiere) 8.30 The Noose III (Season Premiere)
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  • 332 58 THINGS TO DO 1 Sea Monsters 3D Follow fossil hunters to remote locations as they excavate the remains of magnificent ancient creatures to solve an 82 million-year-old mystery. Photorealistic computer-generated animation transports audiences back to the Late Cretaceous period. Date: Till June 17 Time: 9.15am, 12.05pm, 2.50pm
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      208 59 Common Skin Concerns Experts from the National Skin Centre will talk about common skin problems such as dry skin, fungal infections, acne and allergies.The forum will be conducted in Malay. Date: Saturday Time: 2.30pm to 5pm Venue: SMU, Administration Building, Conference Hall 1, Level 5 Fee/Registration: $4. Registration required.
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    • 767 59  -  To breathe easy, all it takes is a little control Eveline Gan eveline@mediacorp.com.sg AT 53, Mr Koh C S was a tad too young to be considering death. But when he suffered a massive asthma attack in 2002, which left him struggling for every breath as he
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