Today, 7 June 2010, Afternoon Edition

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  • 22 2 AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday June 7, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 26 2 WORLD CUP PAGE W10 SAFETY CONCERNS RAISED AFTER AT LEAST 15 INJURED DURING FRIENDLY FIFA DISAVOWS RESPONSIBILITY, BLAMES LOCAL ORGANISERS FOR CHAOS
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  • 562 2 TEL AVIV Israel rejected calls for an international probe of its raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship that left nine dead, saying it was discussing how to conduct its own inquiry with the United States. “We are rejecting the idea of an international commission” Mr Michael
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  • 59 3 Leaning at 18 degrees over four times the angle of Italy’s famous Leaning Tower of Pisa Abu Dhabi’s Capital Gate tower has been recognised as the ‘furthest-leaning man-made tower’ in the world by Guinness World Records, Abu Dhabi newspapers reported yesterday. The 160-metre tower was developed by
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  • 571 3  -  It explains its five businesses to its congregation TEO XUANWEI xu anwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A week after it emerged that 17 members of City Harvest Church had been called up for investigations into alleged misuse of funds, another mega church, New Creation Church, spent time during
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  • 737 5  -  They say Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association is looking at issue from purely profit perspective ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The recent ruling for exclusive content to be shared among payTV providers violates three international treaties, and will cause Singapore to lose its position as a
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  • 570 5  -  But Mindef says there is no proof of link between man’s service-related hearing loss and his condition ANDREYEO andreyeo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Can hearing loss cause schizophrenia? The family of a former full-time national serviceman think so. They have asked the Ministry of Defence (Mindef)
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    • 679 6 ADVERTISING FEATURE EMBARK ON A JOURNEY THAT WILL TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE AND THE WORLD THROUGH THE YEARS, the integration of technology and design has paved the way for countless cutting-edge innovations that have transformed the very world we live in. The new Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), established
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  • 113 7 A young participant getting a slice of the action at the Lam Soon 60-Hour Cookathon South East, a round-the-clock cooking marathon organised by Lam Soon in conjunction with the South East Community Development Council (CDC). The event, held at Marine Parade Central Promenade, saw 300 participants taking turns
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  • 486 7 ANKARA A Turkish newspaper yesterday published photos of bloodied Israeli commandos being overpowered by activists on board an aid ship, even as claims emerged that commandos had killed an activist to stop him from uploading video images of the deadly Israeli raid to
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  • 163 9 SINGAPORE Residents of Sengkang have banded together with the police to get more teeth against “sharks”. The project Rivervale Against Sharks has 35 residents who will be the eyes and ears of the estate on loansharking activities. To reinforce the fight against crime, the Punggol East
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  • 98 9 Right in the heart of Orchard Road lies a flora and fauna treat that provides shade and sanctuary, and also gives a sneak preview of what’s in store at Asia’s No 1 garden and flower show. Located at the junction of Orchard Road and Cairnhill Road
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  • 108 9 SINGAPORE More tuition centres have adopted high technology as part of their educational aids. One such centre, A Tick for That!, spent $50,000 to incorporate the iPod Touch as one of its teaching aids. Students who sign up for a six-month course will be provided
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  • 168 9 SINGAPORE NTUC is giving out $1.5 million in vouchers to union members and their families under its U Stretch scheme this year. Each family will get $30 worth of discounts on groceries, healthcare and eldercare services. During the recession last year, each family
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  • 157 11 How did MRT graffiti go unnoticed by staff for 2 days? Letter from Daniel Chan Wai Piew THIS is what we hear everyday on the trains: “If you see any suspicious person or articles, please inform our staff The recent defaced train incident has shown that SMRT
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  • 111 11 Letter from Paul Antony Fernandez SECURITY of key installations is vital and MRT depots are perfect targets for terrorists. In the wake of the recent intrusion in which graffiti was sprayed on a train, I wonder as a security professional why a Fence
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  • 116 11 Letter from Denis Distant IT WAS with sheer delight that I read of the return of Mr Bertie Cheng to POSB as adviser, and even more so to see it once again referred to, officially, as the “People’s Bank”. I must
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    • 288 11 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices GAMBLING ADDICTION: HOW SERIOUS IS IT? By Mr. Kirby Chua (Counseling Psychologist) Gambling addiction is considered an impulse control disorder by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association). It is the person failing to
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    • 26 12 T.r •K r i > h I 1 V N We listen. And we understand that no two stories are alike. PRLDENT1AL1% www.prudentidi.com.sg Always listening. Always understanding.
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  • 463 13 Indonesia’s environmental problems have deep structural roots Letter from Kwan JinYao MR RICHARD Hartung’s commentary, “Adding firepower to the fight for our forests” (June 5-6), gives a brief summary of the “groundbreaking” agreement between Indonesia and Norway to place a two-year moratorium on new logging
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    • 176 13 INDOOR FUN What do you do when you’re cooped up indoors with a bunch of bored kids? That’s easy you get creative! Instead of mindlessly flipping through the channels, hoping something decent is on, why not turn off the television and get busy having fun? Try designing an obstacle course
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 797 15  -  MAUREEN DOWD The writer is a New York Times columnist who won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1999. THE NEWYORKTIMES It’s hard to feel sorry for a woman who frets about being too beautiful. Ordinarily in life, extraordinary good looks are an advantage for men
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    • 748 16  -  CONRAD RAJ conrad@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is editor-at-large at Today. Nothing unlocks value in a company like a good fight between two strong combatants. So the current bid by Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, Khazanah Nasional, to gain control of Singapore healthcare provider Parkway Holdings at
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    • 803 18  -  Postponed Obama visit is a reminder of the gap between good intentions and actual outcomes SIMON TAY United States President Barack Obama’s decision to postpone his trip to Indonesia and Australia because of the oil pollution on the Louisiana coast is understandable but not without
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    • 402 18  -  THOMAS L FRIEDMAN The writer has won the Pulitzer Prize three times, the most recently in 2002 for commentary. This is an edited THE NEW YORK TIMES I adore the Israelis and Palestinians, but God save me from some of their European and American friends. Their
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    • 688 19  -  Its future as a democracy hinges on winning the battle against a threat greater than terrorism RIZAL The writer is executive director at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Jakarta. In the late ’60s, Indonesians coined the term “ketahanan nasional” (national resilience).
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  • 95 20 Heavy rains and winds lashed the port city of Karachi yesterday, killing at least four people as Cyclone Phet swirled along Pakistan’s coast after claiming the lives of 16 people in Oman. At least four people had been killed by electrocution in Karachi since
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  • 454 20 Naoto Kan makes debut call to President Obama AFP TOKYO Japan’s new Prime Minister Naoto Kan made his diplomatic debut yesterday in a telephone call with President Barack Obama, reaffirming his country’s alliance with Washington and promising to work hard on an agreement to
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  • 698 20 GAZA CITY With its tastefully hung fairy lights twinkling above a patio bedecked with topiary, Roots is not your typical Gaza eatery. Snazzily dressed waiters hover attentively; a speaker playing Tom Jones’s She’s a Lady provides a nod to western sophistication, while the waft of
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  • 505 21  -  DPM Teo: This can already been seen in anti-piracy efforts in the Gulf of SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL saifulbahri@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean has called on the Asia-Pacific countries to embrace a new cooperative paradigm to discover shared interests and tackle
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  • 11 21 DEFENCE CHIEFS: DISASTER RELIEF MUST BE CORE TASK OF THE MILITARY
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  • 357 21 SEOUL South Korea’s President toned down criticism of North Korea in a Memorial Day speech yesterday that stressed the need for peace with the nuclear-armed nation, which Seoul hopes will be punished at the United Nations for allegedly sinking a warship. “We have an unachieved
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  • 83 21 Disaster relief must be the core task of the armed forces in the Asia-Pacific, which is prone to natural catastrophes ranging from earthquakes to flooding that often overwhelm the civilian authorities, the region’s defence chiefs said yesterday. Addressing the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual security summit, the defence ministers of New
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  • 103 21 gency services,” said New Zealand’s Wayne Mapp. “Humanitarian relief is increasingly a core task for all defence forces,” he said, adding that it should be the main part of “military business, not simply a secondary task”. The Asia-Pacific region is one of the world’s most disaster-prone areas, with frequent earthquakes
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  • 91 21 humanitarian operations. The military stepped in immediately with 20,000 soldiers to maintain order against looters, provide humanitarian relief and then oversee reconstruction. Meanwhile, Malaysia’s Ahmad Zahid Hamidi spoke of international cooperation in disaster management. “Governments of nations facing major disasters, with limited state capacity, should accept foreign assistance, be it
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  • 144 21 BEIJING China will invest 700 billion yuan ($145 billion) in high-speed rail construction this year as part of the nation’s ambitious plan to revitalise its railways, state media said yesterday. By the end of the year, China should have over 11,000km of high speed track in operation, up from just
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  • 174 22 AUSTRALIAN POLICE TO PROBE GOOGLE OVER ALLEGED PRIVACY BREACHES The Australian government has ordered a police investigation into Internet giant Google over alleged privacy breaches, Attorney-General Robert McClelland said yesterday. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy last month accused the company of committing the “single greatest breach in the history of privacy”
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  • 35 22 Visitors at the marine theme park in Manila Bay looking at scuba divers dressed as a bride and groom. The park staged the stunt, called ‘June Weddings’, to draw more visitors. AFP AFP
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  • 356 22 Abhisit Vejjajiva talks of fears of fresh unrest in weekly TV speech AFP BANGKOK Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday said that it was too early to lift a two-month-old state of emergency in place across about one-third of the country, including Bangkok,
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  • 118 22 AFGHAN MINISTER, SECRET SERVICE CHIEF REPLACED Afghanistan’s Interior Minister and secret service chief have resigned after security failings at a “peace jirga” in Kabul that came under militant attack. “President Hamid Karzai accepted the resignation letters of Minister of Interior Hanif Atmarand of the chief of the NDS (Afghan secret
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  • 184 22 CHICAGO A new experimental drug developed by BristolMyers Squibb and Medarex extends the lives of patients with advanced melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, researchers said on Saturday. The results paved the way for dealing with a form of cancer that has
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  • 257 22 KUALA LUMPUR Legalising sports betting in Malaysia will generate up to 3 billion ringgit ($1.3 billion) a year for government coffers, the magnate leading the controversial project said yesterday. The government last month granted a sports betting licence to Ascot Sports, a company controlled by
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  • 397 23 Small sign of progress in efforts to stop crude spilling into sea AP LOUISIANA A containment cap that sucked some of the oil from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico offered a small sign of progress for a region that has
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  • 238 23 LOS ANGELES A porn actor wanted for allegedly murdering a co-worker with a samurai-style sword died after falling from a cliff edge following a standoff with Los Angeles police, officials said. Stephen Hill (picture) plunged around 15m off a sheer rock face after
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  • 106 23 A southern California mother whose two children were reported missing 15 years ago has tracked them down in Florida using Facebook. The children’s father, Mr Faustino Utrera, took off with them in 1995 when they were two and three years old, said Deputy District Attorney Kurt
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  • 107 23 Two New Jersey men who allegedly intended to kill American troops were arrested on Saturday at a New York City airport before boarding flights on their way to join a militant group in Somalia, a newspaper reported. Mohamed Hamoud Alessa, 20, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 26, were
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  • 476 24  -  Oil trader confirms sailing chief Low still his team adviser IAN DECOTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It is almost certain that former hurdler Tang Weng Fei will stand unopposed when affiliates of the Singapore Athletic Association elect a new president at their annual
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  • 314 24 SINGAPORE With six major sports set to be held within its boundaries during the Youth Olympic Games from Aug 14-26, BishanToa Payoh GRC has recruited an army of volunteers to rally support from residents and increase the buzz in the community. Over
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  • 316 24 PARIS Rafael Nadal recaptured the French Open crown yesterday, gaining revenge over Robin Soderling with a 6-4,6-2, 6-4 win and, in so doing, he also retook the world No 1 spot from Roger Federer. Nadal was simply too powerful on clay for the Swede, who 12
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    14 25 Kobe’s ready to strike again as he chases a fifth title ring AFP
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    580 25 NBA FINALS, GAME 2 LA Lakers v Boston Celtics (Lakers lead best-of-seven series 1-0) ‘Live’ on ESPN (Starhub channel 294) at 8am LOS ANGELES The engine of the jet-black Chevy Tahoe car remained running while in Park, its driver impatiently pacing nearby on the sweltering Saturday afternoon. Finally, the passenger
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  • 477 25 Golf’s whippersnappers find themselves at forefront of the sport by THE NEW YORK TIMES DUBLIN (Ohio) Like the rainswollen rivers roaring through the grounds at Muirfield Village on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), golf’s new wave of 20-somethings swept up on the leader board
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  • SUCCEED
    • 799 32  -  COMMENTARY Take ownership of your career through constant renewal and reinvention KAMAL KANT The writer is a career management professional and a lecturer in careerrelated courses at a local university. succeed@mediacorp.com.sg The economic and social pressures today on organisations are so strong, they are changing the work
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    • 262 32  -  DAN ARIELY ONG DAI LIN When it comes to making decisions in our lives, we think we are making smart, rational choices. But are we? That is the question author Dan Ariely seeks to explore in this book. A behavioural economist from Duke University, he says we are
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  • BUSINESS
    • 318 27 AGENCIES ROME Hungarian officials may be exaggerating the country’s fiscal difficulties in order to prepare the public for austerity measures, said New York University economist Nouriel Roubini. “Talk about default in public is not constructive,” Prof Roubini told reporters at a conference
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    • 263 27 Thursday 10,255.28 p 0.06% Wednesday 10,249.54 p 2.25% Tuesday 10,024.02 q 1.11% Monday US markets closed DOW FRIDAY CLOSE THE WEEK THAT WAS Wall Street limited its losses over the past week amid worries about economies in Europe and China, but Friday’s weak
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    • 487 27 Merkel to unveil $17b a year in cuts BLOOMBERG BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany is poised for a “decisive” round of budget cuts that will shape government policy for years to come, fuelling disagreement with United States officials who favour measures to step up
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    • 157 29 NEW DELHI Reliance Communications, India’s second-largest mobile phone provider with 106 million subscribers, plans to sell 26 per cent of the company in an effort to raise cash to cover costs that include US$1.8 billion ($2.5 billion) for licences for high-speed data services. At Friday’s market
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    • 98 29 OMAHA Billionaire Warren Buffett hopes the chance to dine with him will draw multimil-lion-dollar bids for a charity that helps the poor and homeless. The annual lunch auction started yesterday evening with a US$35,300 minimum bid on eBay, and will close on Friday. The bids benefit
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    • 306 29  -  EPHRAIM SEOW ephraimseow@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Local developers of mobile applications, or apps, are turning to companies as a new driver of growth. Analysts and industry players estimate that apps creation and maintenance for companies will be worth some US$3 billion ($4.2 billion) worldwide
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    • 155 29 TAIPEI Foxconn Technology, manufacturer of Apple iPhones and Hewlett-Packard computers, said for the second time in less than a week that it will raise employee wages, more than doubling base salaries at its Shenzhen factories within four months, after being criticised for contributing to worker suicides.
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    • 426 30 Kerviel cost bank $8.2b, says bosses knew about risky deals AFP PARIS Former trader Jerome Kerviel (picture), who has insisted that his bosses knew what he was up to, goes on trial tomorrow, accused of fraud that cost the French bank Societe Generale €4.9
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    • 95 30 MINISTER TO SPEAK IN SAN FRANCISCO, BERLIN Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam will be in San Francisco and Berlin from today to Thursday to attend two conferences on global economic challenges. Today, he will deliverthe keynote address on “Global Recovery: Asia and the New Financial Landscape” at the Federal Reserve Bank
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    • 96 30 US RETAILERS REPORT SLOWING DOWN OF SALES Sales at United States retailers last month grew at the slowest pace of the year, pointing to a deceleration in demand that may further restrain employment, economists said priorto Commerce Department figures due this week. Purchases increased 0.2 per cent following a 0.4
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    • 146 30 DELL MUST HONOUR ERRONEOUS PRICING: TAIWAN COURT AFP A group of Taiwanese consumers has won a lawsuit forcing computer giant Dell to honour bargains it says were offered in error on the Internet. A court ordered the firm to deliver 18 laptops and 76 flat-panel monitors to 31 consumers for
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    • 290 31 BUSAN European Central Bank President Jean- Claude Trichet and United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner diverged on prescriptions to sustain growth, as Europe gets set to tighten budgets and the US seeks stronger domestic demand. The impact of narrower budget gaps “on growth could
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    • 442 31 AFP WASHINGTON With the euro reeling from a budget crisis and the yen tarnished by political turmoil, the United States dollar is stamping its mark as the top safe haven and international reserve currency. Even a mounting debt problem in the US
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    • 520 31 The charge before the World Cup It appears that equity markets around the world have gotten over the fears sparked by the Greek debt crisis. This week we see the financial markets post modest gains, but it is still too early to call this a recovery. The
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  • WORLD CUP 2010
    • 125 43 UZBEK TO REFEREE OPENER AGENCIES Uzbekistan’s Ravshan Irmatov has been chosen to referee the World Cup opening match on June 11 between hosts South Africa and Mexico. An international referee for eight seasons, Irmatov is the only one from his country chosen to officiate in a Fifa-organised tournament at any
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    • 107 43 FRENCH MINISTER UPSET OVER SWANKYTEAM HOTEL AFP French secretary of state for sport Rama Yade (picture) yesterday criticised the choice of hotel the five-star Pezula Resort at Knysna for the French squad at the World Cup finals as “overly luxurious”. “I would not have chosen this hotel. Spain, for example,
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    • 86 43 SPAIN HOPE FOR AUSTRIA TALISMAN AP Spain defender Joan Capdevila is counting on the team’s recent trip to Austria for inspiration to win the World Cup. Spain won the European Championship in Austria in 2008, and the team trained in the Alpine country to prepare for the World Cup in
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    • 65 43 Hyundai Motor Company is donating one million footballs to African children through NGOs such as the United Nations. One of Fifa’s top partners, the car-mak-er initiated a programme called “1 Million Dream Balls for Africa”, to commemorate its sponsorship of the tournament.
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    • 756 43  -  COMMENTARY After a bumpy ride, the world is finally focusing on the game LEONARDTHOMAS in South Africa in South Africa leonard@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is executive sports editor at MediaCorp NewsHub. Alongside the condition of Wayne Rooney’s metatarsal and the health of Diego Maradona’s mind, the
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    • 379 43 JOHANNESBURG World Cup injury scares continued yesterday when crack Uruguay striker Diego Forlan appeared to injure his left foot during training. England defender and captain Rio Ferdinand and midfielders Michael Ballack from Germany and Michael Essien of Ghana have been ruled out of
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    • 708 42  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg Some of football’s greatest classic matches have come at the group stage of the World Cup finals. Brazil 1 England 0 in a Group C clash at Guadalajara’s Jalisco Stadium at Mexico 1970 was a classic, featuring a timeless duel between Pele and
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    • 346 41 AFP GENEVA Italy were held to a 1 -1 draw by Switzerland on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), dashing the Italian fans’ hopes of a Swiss appetiser before the World Cup holders fly out to South Africa. Playing without Fabio Cannavaro, the Italian back
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    • 216 41 D. AP BELGRADE Serbia twice came from a goal down to earn their first victory in World Cup warm-up games with a 4-3 win over a Cameroon side playing without their captain Samuel Eto’o. Achille Webo headed Cameroon into a fifth-minute lead and
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      756 41  -  COMMENTARY The greatest World Cup matches had more than just a deluge of goals TANYO-HINN yohinn @mediacorp. com. sg The writer is a senior reporter at MediaCorp NewsHub. Even a penalty shootout wouldn’t settle the debate on which are the greatest, most memorable World Cup matches ever. Some
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