The New Paper, 12 February 2005

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  • 36 1 the new paper SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2005 Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MICA (P) 025/03/2004 I 70 CENTS I) II 8 *****1 *****1 the new paper
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    • 971 2  -  So, does this man... He's not a cop He gets volunteers to look for missing persons He sets up Crime Libraiy S'pore By Low Ching Ling and Farth Teo tnp@sph.com.sg Depending on who you speak to, Crime Library Singapore's (CLS) Joseph Tan (right) is either a great
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    • 506 3 EVERY day, many people go missing, said former police officers. Many are teenagers, who run away from home after a fight, or senile people, who get lost. Then there are the more complicated ones. Like Huang Na. Is it time for a special missing persons
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    • 389 4  -  By Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg THESE Vietnamese sisters had been resigned to marrying farmers in their country. Miss Ha Kim Amh and her younger sister, Miss Ha Kim Ngoc, never dreamt of marrying a foreigner. But now, the Ha sisters want Singaporean husbands. They are looking
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    • 657 5 Kim Ngoc left school after Secondary 1 and 3 respectively. Both work at a shoe factory. So why are Singapore men better? Miss Kim Amh, 22, explained: "Vietnamese men have a reputation for alcoholism and violence. We hear that most Singaporean men don't do that
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    • 933 6  -  I'M NO S'PORE MAN-HUNTER By Dawn Chia dawnchia@sph. com.sg SHE was a pretty 26-year-old from China when she arrived here three years ago, hoping, she said, for fun and a relaxing time here. Instead, Chinese tourist Chang Juan (not her real
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    • 324 7 MS Chang Juan, then 26, was holidaying here in 2002 when she met her ex-husband. Ms Chang recalled: "We kept in touch, calling and messaging each other regularly. "He encouraged me to get a work permit to come to Singapore to work as a singer as he
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  • The news watcher
    • 186 8  -  SETO NU-WEN i*tc&y&xv<n.sg FOR the first time, music, movie and software industries in the US want legal action against China to stop piracy. The World Customs Organisation estimates that 7 per cent of world merchandise trade is bogus. As a result, retailers are forking out more
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    • 115 8 HOW much homework should students get? Queensland says its kids are getting too much and is planning a syllabus review. Over here, there was a recent suggestion to ban homework on weekends. Education experts are divided over what is too much or too little. But
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    • 133 8 SINGAPORE'S top trade event organiser Singapore Exhibition Services (SES) hopes to grow its business by 10 to 12 per cent over the next few years. It is a right move. Last year, two million out of the 8.3 million arrivals here were made up of business-related
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    • 120 8 US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has agreed to make an official trip to China. The main focus is US-China ties but the US might want to consider adding Taiwan to the agenda. The biggest threat to Asia now, apart from North Korea's recent nuclear weapons
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    • Article, Illustration
      50 8 Look at the eggs laid by this lorry which overturned at Bukit Mertejam in Penang yesterday. Luckily, no-one was hurt. But the egg supplier who rushed to the scene wasn't smiling. He couldn't stop others from carrying away the eggs. He claimed he lost RM50.000 ($21,000) Picture/ China Press
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    • 141 8 MONEY LAUNDERING Reuters INDONESIA said yesterday it had been taken off a list of countries which have failed to stop money laundering. This could help it get more foreign investment. Chief Economics Minister Aburizal Bakrie said the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) had removed Indonesia from the
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  • 982 10  -  SINGAPORE REPORT PICTURES:# ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF fgh WHEN he failed to find a retirement job for years, Mr Joseph Lee just went windsurfing. What he didn't realise then was that it could be more than a hobby. It eventually landed him his job.
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  • 265 12 MAIDS SPEAKUP SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM Rebecca Lau I refer to the article "You may have to pay even more for Indon maids" (TNP, Feb 7). A maid with a right attitude can be trained to perform. But a maid with poor attitude will fail. In
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    357 14 This is the latest problem facing South Korean restaurant owners WORLD CAMERA-TOTING customers have become a headache for restaurant owners in South Korea. The reason? They photograph any violation of food safety standards and report it to the authorities. Which, in turn, draws a fine from the Korean
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    • 958 15 J j»pr»' jy Supported by 'fifth sdksHINE w Itf lifl IB HI if itting in Ms Regina Ko's clean and bright apartment, watching her laugh and talk with her case manager, Kenneth Wee, it's hard to imagine that Ms Ko has multiple chronic illnesses and difficulties. But then her gloved
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    • 493 16 HE was probably just about an hour old when he had to go through the trauma. He was put into a plastic bag and thrown from a car, maybe by his parents. Luckily, he landed on a grassy patch and suffered no broken
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    • 299 18 A GRIPPING colour photograph of a woman grieving next to the body of a dead relative (top) won the World Press Photo award for 2004 yesterday. It was taken by Indian photographer Arko Datta of Reuters and selected from a record 4,266 photographers from 123
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    • 44 19 AWARD-WINNING SHOTS: Clockwise from top, left: World Press Photo of the Year2oo4 byArko Datta (REUTERS); 2nd prize, Natures Singles category by Pierre Holtz (REUTERS); 2nd prize, People In The News Singles category (REUTERS); First prize, Sports Features by Daniel Silva Yoshisato (AFP).
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      722 20 As Pope John Paul II battles age and illness, the world's media is scrambling in a morbid fight to get a front seat in case he dies IN Rome it is called the "Big Story". It has the potential to be the biggest report to come out of
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    • 853 22  -  Owner of 'upgraded' Asoka club wants to improve Indian nightspots' image: I By Sheela Narayanan I sheela@sph.com.sg I J SK lovers of Tamil and CM Hindi music where they like to chill out, and you can bet Asoka club will be at the top of
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    • 461 23 Bigger easier to get to ASOKA'S Balestier location makes its old Kallang home look like a cubby-hole. 'The old place was about 4,000 sq ft and it was so far away. This location is much more central," said owner James Bala. "There are more food outlets here and transportation is
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    • 727 24  -  Blondie star Deborah Harry is eager to make amends for pulling out of concert here two years ago By Feng Zengkun zengkun@sph. com.sg BLONDIE fans might have cursed when the group's lead singer Deborah Harry cancelled her scheduled concert here in 2003. But they
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    • 452 26 PICK OF THE WEEK NIGHTBIRD Erasure WHEN a man, without the aid of crotch clamps, hits octaves even women struggle with, you know you've found a fantastic singer. Perhaps it's the constricting pants he insists on wearing, but Andy Bell sounds like a man undergoing a
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      117 26 —etui Dal lu FIRST it started with comparisons to OY Blue Eyes. Now, it's Harry Connick Jr. Though imitation is great flattery, whatever happened to originality? Michael Buble might as well be a wedding singer. His voice is uninspirational, and if not for his looks, he would have
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      123 28 Brian McFadden FORMER Westlifer Brian McFadden steps out of his boyband past with this debut album. Too often, ex-boybanders make two mistakes they over-compensate by trying too hard, or they make carbon copies of their previous work. Thankfully, McFadden does neither. He balances a part-rock feel with his
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      113 28 Michael Wong MICHAEL Wong's new album after two years comprises mostly tender, emotive love ballads that this boyish-sounding singer-songwriter does so welL While pleasant to the ears, none of the songs really jumps out at you, except for the self-penned title track. Fairytale is a touching confession of a
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      101 28 Wallace Huo WALLACE is gorgeous, croons in a soft, mellow voice and makes promises forever in his ballads. What else can a girl want? Arguably the next Prince Charming after Vic Chou, he injects into his songs just the right mix of passion, sensitivity and devotion. Mushy, yes, but
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  • Tech
    • 630 32  -  TECH MAD IAN TAN tanyhi@sph.comsg SOMEWHERE last year, some game developers started thinking it was cool to add mind powers to the tired genre of shooter games. First there was Psi-Ops, and now comes Second Sight, both which feature characters than can run, shoot
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    • 436 34 AP. MS Lynn Parker designs and sells custom-made period and bridal costumes on eßay but has never been involved in eßay sellers' chat groups. That changed when eßay announced in January that it would increase listing fees and subscription fees for people who
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    • 506 36 World's largest chip maker finds a way to let computers run cooler Reuters. SEARING heat from Intel's microprocessors is making some of the company's best customers sweat. Heat production the enemy of electronics tends to rise as chips go faster. Intel's former chief technical officer predicted
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    • 1827 46 5 EANAGI TIGER 57 (13-7) MduPlessis (1) 1 2 1 (454) 3 GRAND LOGIC 57 (113-20) MZahra (8) 8 9 2 (493) 3L 6 LIGHT WIN 57 (55-12) MPay (3) 5 3 3 (459) 1.75 12 TRIGGER EXPRESS57 (464-62) JSaimee (11)
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    • 378 46  -  By Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph. com.sg TRAINER John Meagher welcomed the Lunar New Year with a bang at Kranji last night. After an unusually quiet start, the bespectacled Australian returned with a vengeance, sending out four winners including the EW Barker Trophy with rising star
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    • 1559 47 RACE 1: Trainer P Busuttin was fined $200 for not attending declarations last Monday as required. He was also fined $200 for being negligent in presenting MISTER FORTUNATE late to the pre-race holding area. HEDGE FUNDS (inappetant) was scratched. E Wilkinson was allowed
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    • 182 48 THE Daniel Murphy-trained Terfel showed improvement to run third in the International Rated Stakes at Nad A 1 Sheba, Dubai, last Thursday. Stepping out from his sixth to history-maker Lim's Classic a week ago, the Irish-bred put up a gallant effort under Irish jockey
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    • 315 48  -  By Marc Tan marc@sph. com.sg IF YOU are looking for a Lunar New Year hongbao at Kuala Lumpur this afternoon, wait until Race 7 before proceeding to the tote window. For that's when the Francis Nathan-trained Recharge steps out for the RM55,000 ($24,750)
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    • 366 48 NST. DRAGON WARRIOR wrapped up his preparation for his second success in the Class 5 Premier Division event over 1,600 m in Race 9 tomorrow with a pleasing workout yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-old Australian-bred gelding by Sea Road was eager
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    • 1203 49 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer) 1 86 KRYPTONITE 57 (48) GCooksley 3 (6nzg Osman-Simply Great) 2 --490- DEBT 55 (44) *J Nizam c3 4 (6nzg V Nathan-CN Tan) 3 -0-8-8 KIMNADIA 55 (44) P VeHaikannu 6
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    • 201 49 STAR SINGA (RACE 3 NO. 5} Despite being baulked in the concluding stages last Sunday, this Osman Sidek-trained galloper still finished only 4% lengths behind runaway winner Yearly Victory over an unsuitable 1,200m trip. That was a solid tune-up for his assignment over the mile today. Note that
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    • 988 50 fghgh AP. ITS late afternoon and 19-year-old Dwight Howard is three metres from the basket, leaning back, sweating, feeling the ever-present forearm of 56-year-old assistant coach Clifford Ray buried in his back. Ray is mumbling in Howard's ear, talking, talking, talking, much as he used to do
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    • 1024 51 gfhgh AP. USED to be if you bought a ticket to see the Philadelphia 76ers play in Washington, you came primarily to see Allen Iverson. No Iverson equalled mass disappointment. But not now. Not with the way the Washington Wizards are playing, not with the way Gilbert
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    • 469 52  -  WOMEN'S WORLD CUP fw WORLD OF GOLF L By Lim Han Ming npsports@sph. com.sg NOBODY gave them much of a chance. After all, the Italian pair of Diana Luna and Guilia Sergas were ranked 66/1 outsiders to win the Women's World Cup of Golf. But
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    • 85 52 —r~ j AFP two-stroke lead over V-rtgliahmaw Miles Tunnicliff with a 16-under 128. Fasth, runner-up in the 2001 British the par-five 11th and the par-four 12tb. He complemented the eagles withthree birdies. "It wasn't that spectacular, it was jug£/|lr pure good playing and good putting as well," Fasth
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    • 291 52 k —<—— v"h '■■>!,." PEBBLE BEACH NATIONAL AFP AMERICAN Phil Mickelson (right) shattered the course record with a 10-under-par 62 to grab a three-shot lead after the opening round of the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on Thursday. Mickelson, who is the 1998 Pebble Beach
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    • 784 55  -  EURO KICKOFF: SPAIN ITALY By Pete Jenson Special Correspondent SHARP shooters Jose Antonio Reyes (above, left) and Michael Owen (above, right) will swap places at the end of the season, according to gossip in London and Madrid. Top sports daily AS has been running
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    • 36 55 INTERS Milanpust keep on drawing, asl inspire a win over IMinAKA vM/1 ?*v- v 4 Milan will win but only j awaygam^e They only just won last week, thanks to a late, Andriy Shevchenko.
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      • THE WEEKEND SHOW
        • 1001 56  -  fghgh Ivan Lim pjlim@sph.com.Bg Hello Gavin. Hello, Ivan. You want to discuss the Everton v Chelsea game? Yes, please. It's away, isn't it? »If s away for Chelsea. Everton are playing at home. Oh, yes, I can't say away, can I? I know, but I'm sorry,
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        • 447 57 Besides helping me recommend drinks to Premiership managers Oliver Benjamin has actually served players and former players of the Manchester United team. It happened when Manchester United visited Singapore some years ago. Here's the proof... FROM the look on his face in these photos
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        • 362 57  -  MINDY'S MIND mindytan@sph.com.sg FISH markets are beginnning to remind me of the EPL. The club with the most money will probably win the league. Since players hopping from team to team seems to be the norm, do things like loyalty and tradition still count? Wasn't
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      • 831 58  -  You've heard how managers, notably Sir Alex Ferguson, would talk over a bottle of wine after a game. Recently, Jose Mourinho offered him a bottle of vintage Portuguese wine at the Carling Cup match between Manchester United and Chelsea, which Chelsea won. Gerry Francis,
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        • 1658 60 TEAM lIPMTE Chelsea will again not be able to use Aijen Robben. The Dutch striker is out for the count and they will miss his services. Everton, however, could parade their new Spanish midfielder Mikel Arteta and this will not be good news to Jose Mourinho.
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        • 268 61 IT'S crunch time in the Premier League. The top three are feeling the pressure of the title race, and the bottom dwellers are playing their hearts out trying to avoid the drop. There's no such thing as an easy game from now. Arsenal are at
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      • 669 62 THE FINK TANK a new way to beat others BETTING NOW is not a great time to be an Arsenal fan. At the beginning of the season, they were doing so well. They seemed unbeatable. Then it turned out that they were only
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      • BETTING
        • 785 64  -  By Tay Tze Siong npsports@sph. com.sg LET me take this opportunity to wish all readers Gong Xi Fa Cai. Fa Cai in Chinese means making money and one of the many ways to make money is to put your money on your favourite teams
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        • 275 64  -  EXCLUSIVE 1 mkm |#m BLACKBURN v NORWICH STEVEN REID BALACKBURN IT hasn't been the best couple of weeks for me personally, because Fve only really played for about 10 minutes in each of Blackburn's last three games. After having such a long run in
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        • 680 65  -  By] Edwin Yeo tnp@sph.com.sg WHEN Tottenham Hotspur first unveiled their new striking sensation Mido, most of the Spurs fans' reactions were like: "Who?" After Mido's brace against Portsmouth last weekend, they're not asking that anymore. The buzz among some Spurs fans is that they're
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        • 301 65 AFP. NEW Spurs star Mido was to make an attempt to rescue his international career this weekend by issuing a public apology to the Egyptian people. The Tottenham striker is banned indefinitely from playing for Egypt by his country's football association following a row
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        • 38 65  -  I STAR-- EXCLUSIVE DARREN PURSE J WESTBROM resumes. Pa g!n sur^rWe^ltmthe ber f ts rm fully aware time is .LJ.«-L.LL.< L l In concentration in tine detence i c- "T* y s <* f
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      • 139 66 CARRICK: PA Sport. SPURS'S Michael Carrick (left) has appealed to England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson to give him another chance. Carrick's form has been a revelation in Tottenham's midfield since the departure of French manager Jacques Santini after 11 games of this season. The former West
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      • 112 66 BROWN: PA Sport IT had been so long since Wes Brown had pulled on an England shirt that the Man U defender feared his international career was over. Brown admitted he could not even remember his last cap it was against Australia at Upton Park in
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      • 662 66  -  gfhgh JOHN DYKES FUNNYas this may sound, as I sat and watched England's friendly with Holland this week, my thoughts were with at least temporarily a player who surely has no hope of ever pulling on the shirt with the three lions. Again. Bemember Michael Ricketts?
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    • 624 68 THE WOHLBWWCL£A»€*mSPORTS I KliiUill, A LEADING British expert in football finance believes Chelsea's bank-busting route to success could have grave implications for the Premiership. Roman Abramovich's massive nine-figure spending spree has lifted his side to the top of the pile and sent shock waves through the
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    • 242 69 YOU'VE seen him in it. Prowling the lines at Stamford Bridge or wherever, he looks like a flasher in his trenchcoat. But it's no ordinary trenchcoat. It's a rag that has got so frayed and faded that it could have come right off
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        773 70 Chelsea have that United hunger for title Gudjohnsen PA Sport, Wire Services. WILL Chelsea bottle it against Everton tonight? Eidur Gudjohnsen believes the Blues have the same hunger as Manchester United which drove the Red Devils to the first of their modern-day EPL titles. Sir Alex Ferguson steered
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      • 382 71 FERGUSON: Reuters. Manchester united manager Sir Alex Iferguson (right) believes Premier League leaders Chelsea are no longer at the top of their game going into another crucial weekend in the title race. Chelsea's lead over United was trimmed to nine points after they were held to
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      • 230 71 PA Sport. ''j .v. KEVIN Keegan believes Manchester City could gift wrap the Premiership title for ChelsSa tomorrow. The blue half of Manchester did United a favour after holding Jose Mourinho's side to a goalless draw last weekend. Keegan's side entertain The
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      • 233 71 PA Sport. REAL Madrid vice-president Emilio Butragueno has denied the club are interested in a swap deal involving Michael Owen and Arsenal forward Jose Antonio Reyes (above). There is mounting speculation in the Spanish capital that Real are ready to offload the summer signing from Liverpool to
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