The New Paper, 27 March 2005

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    • 683 2  -  KTV and the DRUG TRAP CUSTOMMStELL HOSTESSES: Faith Tee wenli@sph.com.sg HEIR workplace is assailed ■I by a cacophony of Canto, v m Chinese and English pop tunes coming from the tiny karaoke rooms with discreetly shut doors. Men come with thick wads of money in
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    • 825 3 Lisa's story: LIKE so many other young women, becoming a KTV hostess was never Lisa's intention, but she had no choice. With only a Secondary 2 education, and a self-imposed pressure to make enough to support her mother who suffers from high blood pressure,
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    • 417 4 Annie's story: ANNIE, a seven-year veteran KTV hostess, is a bubbly, plump woman. She laughs easily and doggedly refuses to be bogged down by her troubles. The single mother of two boys aged 4 and 3 sees them only once a week because
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    • 98 4 ON 19 Mar this year, CNB raided a KTV lounge in Coleman Street and arrested 13 hostesses and six patrons on suspicion of drug abuse. A mamasan from Ego's 3 KTV was arrested on 5 Mar after she tried to sell Erimin-5 tablets to an undercover
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    • Article, Illustration
      763 5  -  WEKNOW WHERE TO GET OFF Sisters leap off moving train. They had earlier phoned their mother to say... Joyce Lim joycel@sph .com .sg IT was their first train trip to Malaysia on their own. But the two sisters, aged 11 and 8, were confident. They had told their
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    • 975 6  -  DesmondNg desmondn® sph.com.sg THESE are the days when tenants are king. Just flip through the newspaper classifieds and you'll see that there is no lack of homes for rent. For starters, there are about 18,000 vacant private homes out there
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    • 487 7 The $226 million Marina Barrage is scheduled for completion in 2007. It will create the Marina Reservoir S'pore's 15th reservoir that will meet 10 per cent of water demand here. How do you turn a saltwater basin into a freshwater one? Infographic journalist
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    • 53 8 Imagine the glass is Marina Bay and it is filled with fresh water and salt water. Pour out some of the water. Dilute the water with fresh water. Repeat the process over and over again. The glass will soon be filled with nothing
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    • 236 8 1 A total of 9 steel gates are controlled by computers. Every gate is operated by a hydraulic piston on each side. 2 When the computers detect low tide at sea, the gate will tilt to allow some of the water to flow out into the sea.
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    • 529 9  -  SINGAPORE FASHION FESTIVAL 2005 Jacintha tnp@sph.com.sg GADS, everything's so "spesh" (that's short for "special", my dears) at the fash-fest this year. Opening night on Thursday was like, "Was that the third be 11...?" as crowds hung about outside before the start of the show. But it was
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    • Stubbing out: shape up or ship out?
      • 810 11  -  SMALL PUBS: Tomorrow, the Feedback Unit will be holding the first of lour sessions to get the public's opinion on the extension of the smoking ban, which includes nightspots. But what do pub-owners think? Can they adapt and survive? DIALOGUE SESSION WHAT: Dialogue session to
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      • 658 11 LARGE PUBS: CALM down, calm down. That's what the major nightspot operators are telling themselves about the impending announcement of a smoking ban in night entertainment outlets by year's end. So far, most have not torn their hair in frustration or stamped their
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      371 13  -  SLICE OF SINGAPORE LIFE HedyKhoo tnp@sph.com.sg FORGET the feathered headgears which Mardi Gras participants usually don. At Sentosa's Tanjong Beach on Good Friday evening, it was just bikinis for The Corona 100 degree C Fiesta Mardi Gras Beach Party. The mood was, however, as jubilant. There was plenty
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    • 193 14 TAKE that, you heap of junk. And if you don't fix it, Japan, 111 set fire to it in front of your embassy. That's what Mr Sathian Thabmaliphon (above) was threatening outside the Bangkok Motor Show. He and four other car owners were protesting against
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    • 462 14 BRITISH MUM'S TRAGIC HEROIC ACT SHE saved a disabled elderly man from an inferno. But it cost her the health of her unborn child. Ms Alison Mulvaney is being hailed a hero in Britain after risking her own life to help lead the frail
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  • 675 16 news Or is that revolting riches? Head hondios of mega German firms want to light a law that will force them to declare their earnings. Elsewhere in the world, top-earners are subject to various degrees of transparency in declaring their salaries IF you are earning, say,
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    • 204 17 after 17 years Still different. Still tops in human-interest reports, soccer coverage and investigative scoops. Older, yes, but still brash enough to offer these: GOLF: Action BUSINESS: People behind the news ISSUES: Sharp angles, The New Paper twist GLAMOUR: Through the eyes of a wit a celebrity columnist ALL COMING
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    • 1145 18 IRA members allegedly slit forklift truck driver's throat over staring incident. Now, they have to face the.. The five McCartney sisters had long ago learnt that the best way to live a decent life in their violence-plagued Belfast neighbourhood was to ignore all the troubles
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    • 153 18 THIS Is the defiant poster (above right) that the five McCartney sisters and their slain brother's fiancee pasted all over their Belfast neighbourhood asking for information on the murder. The little boy looking at the camera is Declan, a nephew of Mr Robert McCartney. Mr McCartney was
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    • 74 19 Pope John Paul is doing more than fight for his own life.- He is saying that he is unwilling to be shunted off the stage before he is ready to go. He is saying that his suffering is universal. But he is saying, above all, that all lives
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    • 73 19 THERE were long queues of vehicles at checkpoints into Malaysia as people hit the road for the long Easter weekend. Bus lanes at the Second Link were jammed from Thursday night. Traffic was crawling even after midnight, although all the lanes were open, Malaysia's Star newspaper
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    • 50 19 TWO fire-fighters were killed and three more hurt in a fire at a furniture store in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Friday afternoon. One of the firemen scrambled back to a cherry picker and hung on with one hand until he was lowered to safety. picture daily talwan
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    • 82 19 A SINGAPOREAN was killed after he was flung off his high-powered motorcycle and hit by a van in Malaysia on Friday. Mr Lee Kein Kwok, 25, was trying to overtake a lorry in Temerloh, Pahang, when his motorcycle hit the lorry's rear and spun out
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    • 153 19 MALAY TEEN PREGNANCIES QUADRUPLE IN 5 YEARS THERE were an average of 100 teen pregnancies among Malays each year between 1995 and 1997. Then the number shot up. There were 431 of them in 2002. Yesterday, a VCD was released by Associate Professor
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    • 98 19 SEX Chinese who were trying to reach France by using the passports of Taiwanese look-alikes were detained at Cairo airport yesterday, an Egyptian official said. The six had "rented" the passports for US$4,OOO ($6,580) each, and were due to send them back to their owners by post
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    • 181 19 IN one of the largest demonstrations in Taiwan's history, about a million people marched through Taipei to protest against a new Chinese law that authorises an attack on the island if it moves toward formal independence. "What do we want from China? Peace,"
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    • 50 19 Mr Jeff Pyne and Mr Rahul Patel, professional tasters Britain's Tesco supermarket cha|n,have eaten 350 Easter eggs over the last six Mr Pyne said: "I can never give boxes of chocolates to Mends or family, who know I get them from work and trips the gym have become an
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    1697 21 PILFERING from bars is big business. Nightspot operators estimated that the industry generates some $3 billion in sales a year. "Even if one per cent were pilfered, we're talking tens about millions lost to the industry," said Mr Dennis Foo, owner of Devil's Bar. A seasoned operator, he
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  • 375 21 BAR operators whom The New Paper on Sunday spoke to were forthcoming about what to do. Mr Devin Otto Kimble, managing director of Brewerkz Singapore, recommended three methods. First, always check references of new staff. He said: "All it takes is a phone call. There have been many
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      505 22  -  Some desperate teens sneak past cinema ushers to avoid paying for shows or to watch age-restricted movies Zubaidah zubaidah @sph.com.sg YOU have heard of adventure movies, but do you know about movie adventurers? They are the kids who sneak from one movie theatre into another, playing hide-and-seek with
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    • 223 22 CINEMA sneaks do not bother the operators too much. Said Ms Cynthia Goh, executive director of operations at Eng Wah: "We are aware of this and it's not a new problem. It has been happening since the first cineplex came out. "But the numbers are
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    • 583 23  -  IT'S NOT EASY BEING A PUBLIC RELATIONS MAN. HE MUST WEAR A FAKE SMILEr SUCK UP AND TRY TO PLEASE EVERYONE Joyce Lim joycel@ sph.com.sg HE described his business-world as an industry full of "kaypohs" (Hokkien for nosy parkers). Public relations consultant Jason Tan (not
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    • 527 24  -  EdwinYeo tnp@sph.com.sg THIS week, there has been much talk about some things that pose a danger to our society's well-being. But I'm not quite ready to talk about Miss Singapore Universe yet. However, I do want to touch on a subject which is probably
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    • 475 24  -  JonathanLim tnp@sph.com.sg WE may not all carry arms to defend our land, We must all do what we can together hand in hand. Belting out this reassuring piece of total defence propaganda as a schoolkid, I had no idea how valid it would one day
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  • 607 26  -  Hey! Johnson Ong tnp@sph.com.sg IS there some sort of worldwide contest that I'm unaware of where parents are competing to see who can come up with the most ridiculous name? Isn't David Beckham naming his son after Tom Cruise's ex-girlfriend enough? Do we also
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    • 514 28  -  ArinetteTan tnp@sph.com.sg SOMETHING'S happening on TV that's changing the way men are portrayed. It's emasculating, of course, but perhaps that's why, week after week, we all tune in on Monday nights to watch the men of Desperate Housewives experience something akin to public castration. Pissed
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    • 680 28 MY morning began promisingly enough. There was much heavy breathing as he licked my hand and drooled all over me, leaving a wet patch down the front of my jeans. He pawed me, almost ripping apart my expensive designer denims with the ready-to-wear holes.
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    • 501 28  -  About last night Rache| tn p@sph.com.sg BEER has never been my favoured choice of alcoholic beverage when at a pub or disco in Singapore. For some strange reason, I seem to reserve the gold liquid for my holiday getaways to Koh Samui or Bali. It
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    • 500 29  -  TrudyLim trudy@sph.com.sg i FOR the longest time, I dreamt of owning a multi-purpose vehicle (MPV). You know, those cars with three rows of seats that can take up to eight people. They are practical family cars that can carry loads of people or belongings with ease.
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    • 558 30 DAVID and Christina are not ashamed to admit that their relationship started off with a mutual attraction to the physical: Both were active in sports. David was an avid triathlete and Christina, a netball player. "We spent lots of time together keeping fit
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    • 873 30 Need help? Want to help? Do you have any advice to offer D? Are you facing problems yourself and need the help of our panel of professionals? E-mail us at tnp9sph.cobm.sg re: Dr Love. Or fax to 6319-8266. You may also write to:
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    • 848 32 WHAT'S YOUR TAKE? WHAT'S YOUR PIC? By setting up a casino n a huge theme park sentosa, preferably a disney land! girlgirl I would say S'pore is a peaceful multi racial country which is
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 328 34 Television i »<■ j Zee Cine Awards 2005 Zee TV (Startlub Channel 90) Today (27 Mar), 7.30pm The Mumbai glitterati from Aishwarya Rai to Salman Khan will be at the Zee Cine Awards, which was held in London yesterday. It will be worth catching this delayed telecast to see if
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    • 359 34 Reality check Faking The Video MTV SEAsla (Staiflub Cb 20) Today (27 Mar), lpm MTV needs to go back to the drawing board with this turkey about six hopefuls hired to work as assistants on a fake music video shoot equipped with a crew out to make life hellish for
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    • 136 34 The Apprentice Channel 5 Tonight (27 Mar), 10pm It's DIY renovation time for the two teams this week. And no, there will be no falling plaster episode which will incapacitate one of the contestants like in the last season. (Although, we could all hope.) Instead, losers from past episodes return
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 335 35 V! Television life Channel U 10:00am I Cover Stovy (Variety) 11:001 Movie— Curry Pepper 1:001 Durian delight (Variety) 1:301 Meteor Rain (Drama/Episode 3 4) 3:301 Guess 3 (Variety) 5:151 Kindred Spirit (Drama/Episodes 477 478) 7:001 News 7:301 Movie Hn 9:301 Variety Bg Brother II (Variety) 11:001 News 11:301 Midnight RAovie
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    • 386 35 Channel 8 10:00am I I Am So Clever/The Eco Warriors (Children) 11:001 TIm Witty Attorney (Drama/ Episodes 15 16) 1:00pm I World This Week (Educational) 1:301 Rootsmania (Last Episode) 2:001 SinSlngSong (Last Episode) 2:301 Super Sunday (Variety) 4.-OOI Trivia Trove (Variety) 4:301 Sunday Movie Special Fractured rOIMW 6:301 S'pore Today
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  • 481 36  -  W»T£CH GUy OO GIN LEE tnp@sphcomsg I REMEMBER hunting around my neighbourhood in Bukit Timah for a pre-school centre for my 3-year-old. It was tough. Somehow the centres were nestled deep in the urban jungle, away from the eyes of drivers along the main roads.
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  • racing
    • 393 45  -  MarcTan marc@sph.com.sg WITH a jackpot sum of $52,046 added to the quartet pool in Race 3 this afternoon, it may be wise to focus more on the exotic bet in this event as the rest of the nine-race card look a bit tricky. It
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    • 76 45 (Race 3 No. 4) BEST BET Now that he is back in form, this former Kranji-based galloper must be followed again. He produced a scintillating move in the home straight last Sunday and mowed down his rivals over the 1,700m. The extra 300m today will give him even more
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    • 69 45 IK 2nd 3rd C Robert 14 3 6 YB Lee 10 11 11 J McGillivra^ 10 7 3 F Maynard 9 9 4 P Tennent 9 3 2 R Lines 8 8_ 7 B Brogan 8 4 9 P Lee 8 2 6 M Breukelen 7 8 2
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    • 87 45 RACE 2: De Hoss, Command Conquer, Trust N Sincere, Gaya Unggul, Cheers Cheers. RACE 3: Built Of Bronze, Celebration, Crouching Tiger, Mawin Prince, Good Happiness, Danzuround, Congruence, Happy News. RACE 4: Lago Alumine, D'Connection, Celebrity Stalker, United Naga. RACE 5: Kelven's Express, Chevochelle, Yearly Victory. RACE 6: Ranger Warrior,
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    • 1583 46 GOING FORECAST: GOOD End of long lane: Jockey Moses Kway, who finally opened accounts for the year astride good-priced winner Heavenly Bliss in Race 7 yesterday, has a top chance to increase his tally when he legs up on last-start winner .Lavender in Race 3 this
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    • 671 47 GOING: GOOD 4 PANTHER POWER 52.5 (38-9) LSofhan (3) 5 3 1 (445) 2 DOUBLE TAKE 53 (22-7) ISaifudin (2) 2 2 2 (441) 7 ACCORDANCE 50 (22-6) MWepner (8) 4 5 3 (445) Winning stable: Tycoon. Trainer: Tan Soo Beng. Margins: 2 V4,IH, hd. Time:
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    • 169 47  -  MarcTan marc@sph.com.sg ROOKIE K Eirwan, who is riding with greater composure these days, went about his job with great focus at Penang yesterday. Legging up on eight-year-old Truly Serious again, following an easy win last Sunday, Eirwan got the best out of the Dr Tan Swee
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    • 662 47 GOING: GOOD Moore of the same: Trainer John Moore bagged a hat-trick in the card of 10 races at Sha Tin yesterday, including $420 winner Bobo Win (apprentice C W Wong) in Race 9. Jockey Michael Rodd had started the celebrations for Moore
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  • SPORTS
    • 536 48  -  BOOK REVIEW by GARY LIM THIS is a perfect gift from a guy to the missus. Especially if she needs convincing that her partner is really not the worst rascal ever to grace the planet. Billed as an encyclopaedia of footballers' sex scandals in the UK,
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      913 49  -  CALLING all sporty bosses, do you have an active sporting lifestyle away from your busy schedule in the office? Do you play one or more of non-traditional sports? Or do you know of such a boss? Please e-mail details to npsports@sph .com .sg Gary Lim npsports@ sph.com.sg BY
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    • 252 49 ADRIAN MOK is a rugged man. So rugged is he that he chose to propose to his then-girlfriend Josephine Lee at the finishing line of New Zealand's Ironman Triathlon in 2001, his first Ironman. With a ring sealed in a ziplock bag
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    • 222 49 IF not for a wrong turn, Adrian Mok could have found his way into the Guinness Book of Records. In 1999, he took part in the vertical marathon, an annual event held and organised by Swissotel The Stamford. The event
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    • 526 51  -  Reporting from Sepang, Malaysia Ivan Um npsports® sph.com.sg IT was scorching, and the heat wasn't just from the sun. Sepang appeared starved of celebrity this year with the only notable names outside of Formula One being China actress Bai Ling and Japanese actor/singer Takuya Kimura. But lucky
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    • 173 51 WE travelled to Kuala Lumpur in style: In the lead car of a convoy of Nissan 350Ze. The lead car, though, was a Lexus RS3OO, driven by Wheels For Fun road boss Christopher Quek. Apart from attempting in vain to teach photojournalist Dominic Ying and I to
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      1177 52  -  Reporting from Sepang, Malaysia ft Ivan Urn npsports@ sph.com.sg WHILE David Coulthard's seat in Red Bull Racing is unchallenged on account of his ability and experience, Christian Klien knows he has to fight hard to retain his seat in the other car. His indifferent form last year meant
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    • 1049 54  -  f^pr Reporting from Sepang, Malaysia Ivan Urn npsports@ sph.com.sg DAVID Coulthard is a very focused person. He is very relaxed, but also very focused. And when you ask him a question, he fixes his gaze on you and makes sure you get every word he is saying,
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    • GOLF: PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP
      • 684 55 AP. PGA TOUR official Mark Russell sat before a microphone at The Players Championship, once again fielding questions about weather problems. "I believe we've had this conversation on the West Coast," said Russell, the tour's tournament director. And in Hawaii, and in Florida, and just about anywhere
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      • 508 55 AFP. SINGAPORE'S Mardan Mamat (left) is in contention to win his second title on the Asian Tour. The reigning Indian Open champion is among four players who are one shot behind leader Thaworn Wiratchant of Thailand when the third round of the
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        729 56 AP. WHILE Annika Sorenstam shot a 3-under 69 yesterday to move into a tie for the lead with 45-year-old Rosie Jones after two rounds of the Nabisco Championship, teenage phenom Michelle Wie (left) was one of the day's casualties. Sorenstam did it in her typical fashion, playing
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    • WORLD CUP
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        660 57 BRAZIL v PERU ON a glittering front line with World Cup champions Ronaldo and Ronaldinho, the spotlight is on a skinny, 21-year-old striker who hasn't even been guaranteed a spot in the lineup. He's Robinho (above), a rising star on Santos who may get his big break later
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        376 58 ENGLAND 4NIRELAND 0 PA Sport. JOE Cole proved that he can really be a cold "killer". In the end, after finishing as one of England's heroes, he said he put in a "disciplined" performance to mark his first competitive start with flying colours. Cole played wide on the
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      • 178 58 ASIA QUALIFIERS: JAPAN'S World Cup squad returned home after a shock 2-1 loss to Iran with Brazilian coach Zico under fire for gambling too much on out-of-form Fiorentina midfield star Hidetoshi Nakata. "It serves them right," cried the headline in the tabloid Nikkan Gendai. The shift from the
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      • 789 59  -  ENGLAND 4 (Joe Cole 46th min, Michael Owen 52, Chris Baird 53 og, Frank Lampand 62) N ISLAND 0 TV VIEW Emest Luis npsports@ sph.com.sg THE luck of the Irish deserted Northern Ireland's football team last night as they helped England to a 4-0 win. Three of England's
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      • 27 60 WANG MENG MENG is in England for their World Cup Qualifier against Azerbaijan. Catch his reports as he tracks down Eriksson's heroes
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      167 61 Merciless England go on second-half rampage ENGLAND 4 N.IRELAND 0 JOE Cole has arrived. And how timely it was on two counts last night —for England, and for himself. Just when it looked as if Northern Ireland's stout defence would hang on grimly after a 0-0 first half, Cole
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