The New Paper, 31 March 2005

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  • 32 1 the new paper THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2005 Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asial .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MICA (P) 094/03/2005 70 CENTS (Illllll 8 *****1 *****1 M paper
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 1063 2  -  Buyer refuses to pay full price, claiming fish not fresh. Seller sues Bv r Teh Jen Lee jenlee@sph.com. sg A SWEET deal between two friends in the fish business turned sour and ended up in court. The reason: A misunderstanding over the contract between their
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    • 196 2 THE court battle did not resolve the question of what amounts to "fresh fish" but here are some tips, from a biologist, on what you should look out for when you buy fish: NO SMELL While it is often suggested that fresh
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    • 10 2 News Watcher Page 8 Hey!: Pages 20-26 TV: Pages 28-29
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  • NEWS
    • 629 3  -  By Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg THE authorities in Batam are cracking down on crooked immigration officials. Such officials will become "poster boys" if caught: Their photographs and misdeeds will be put up at key points all over the island. Offenders will also face jail terms and fines. This
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    • 259 3 SEVERAL Singaporeans have complained of being abused and forced to pay bribes by Batam officers. Businessman Tan Ban Hock contacted The New Paper to say he and another man were punched and kicked by a Customs officer in Batam on 14 Mar. Mr Tan, 53, had been in
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 712 5  -  She's third victim of 'apple tricksters' this year By Alvin Chiang alchiang@sph.com.sg TWO weeks ago, a 71-year-old woman took out $178,000 and watched as it was put in a bag. When she opened the bag later, she found a bunch of apples. She had
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    • 118 5 LAST Thursday, another woman, in her early 60s, was conned of more than $93,000 in cash and jewellery. The cheats two women and a man had accosted her at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10. They used the same trick they used on Madam Wong and this woman
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    • 508 6  - He helps to hatch S'pore's one only blue chick By Faith Teo uienli@sph.com.sg IT has been popping out of a shell again in newspaper ads. The blue chick was an idea hatched by the 'eggheads' who launched The New Paper some 17 years ago. Among them is Singapore Press Holding's
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    • 84 6 Mr Tham upgraded advertisement booking to a real time online system. Spearheaded 1993 ad campaign for imaginary XO Beer that grabbed industry and public attention. Introduced electronic transmission of advertisement materials. Introduced electronic invoicing and billing for advertisements. Served as president, Advertising Media Owners Association Singapore, from 1986
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  • The news watcher
    • 207 7  -  COMMENT V K SANTOSH KUMAR com CONSIDERING the controversy surrounding its $130-million investment deal with handphone care services provider ACCS, calling it off was probably the best option for Sing Post. It said yesterday it will no longer take a 29.9 per cent stake
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    • 158 7 TO have a casino in Singapore or not? It's a tough call but you have to progress with the times. So said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew last night. His belief is that the older generation, like him, are dead set against the casino.
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    • 123 7 YOU may have to consume more electricity given the prevailing warm conditions. But you'll have some relief from tomorrow. SP Services is reducing electricity tariffs by an average of 4 per cent or 0.67 cent per kWh for the quarter 1 April to 30
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    • 106 7 HOW to keep his business empire solid when forced to dispose stakes in non-core holdings? United Overseas Bank (UOB) chairman Wee Cho Yaw, 76, is again showing why he is a shrewd banker. His bank has come up with a much-awaited solution to selling
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    • 43 7 IT'S not rain pouring down. But buckets full of coloured water. Residents of Bhopal in India had a celebratory outing yesterday. They got themselves drenched in coloured water while celebrating Rangpanchami, the Hindu festival of colours. Picture/ AP
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    • 124 7 OLIVIA Lum, CEO and president of Hyflux, has won the Businessman of the Year award. It was the first time in the Singapore Business Awards' 20-year history that a woman was given the honour. The Business Times and DHL, organisers of the awards, said the 44-year-old
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    • 23 7 Yesterday's action change Close Dow Up 1.3 0% ■row SI Nasdaq Up 1.6 i% 2,006 STI Dn 0.2 1% 2,123 fUlJ
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • 337 8  -  By Emilyn Ng tigem ilyn @sph. com.sg SAY hello to the new face of interactivity. More pictures, news blogs the hottest issues covered vividly. The Electric New Paper, the online version of this newspaper, has gone through a makeover. It emerges tomorrow morning with
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    • 241 8 Step with it, Singapore p I Formore YES, that's what these primary j) pictures, school kids are into. The active A_ r a goto lifestyle event by F&N Coca-Cola (Singapore), now in its third year, tfiMi x was held on Monday. gtjKltHc About 4,000 pupils took part, IgKpflh' with aerobics
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  • 532 9  -  This will be in Januaiy, not March By Veena Bharwani veenab@sph.com.sg WHEN the single intake for junior college students is implemented, it will be in January, not March as earlier proposed. And it won't happen till 2008 at the earliest, said Education
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  • 203 9 HE would have liked the single intake to be in place in time for him. Sec 4 student Daniel M, 17, said: "I thought I wouldn't have to worry about the preliminary exams, as it can be really draining to do two exams so close to each
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  • 489 11  -  All they wanted to do at the cinema was... REPORT PICTURE By Bryna Sim and Bryna Sim and Esther Teo brynasim@sph.com.sg, esthert@sph.com.sg MOVIE patrons at last Friday's Swing Girls 5.30pm show could be forgiven for thinking it was a publicity stunt. No, said the dancers they
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    • 205 11 No American Idol S'pore fans miss show because contractor cut cable For full story, goto newpaper. asial.com.sg 1= SINGAPORE I INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT SIM and RMIT Business invite applicants for the following fully-accredited Australian programmes PROGRAMME START DATE 1 1. Master of Finance June 2005 B Briefing: April 1 6.30pm,
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 634 12 KLCARJACK HORROR HE paid RM3,000 ($1,300) extra for a high-tech device to protect his Mercedes-Benz. It ended up costing accountant K Kumaran the index finger of his left hand. About two months ago, Mr Kumaran, 29, paid RM300,000 for a second-hand Mercedes Benz 5320.
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    • 163 12 HIGH-TECH gadgets that even James Bond would envy are already starting to appear in luxury cars. You can now unlock and start your car with the touch of a finger which can't be duplicated, lost or forgotten like a regular key, reported Computerworld. In a car
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    • 433 13 Bernama. TOUR guide Ranchop Charenchit, 54, was chatting with a tourist when the bus they were in suddenly lost control. "Everyone was screaming," said the leader of the group of 39 Thai tourists. The bus was descending from Genting Highlands yesterday morning when the brakes
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  • WORLD
    • 181 14 Wire services. IT was a good day for the markets. US stocks jumped as worries about oil prices eased. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 135.37 points (1.30 per cent) to 10,541.37. The Nasdaq Composite lifted 31.74 points (1.61 per
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    • 310 14 With rise of job hopping, HK bosses send new workers on paid leave to stop poaching THEY may have won the first round of luring and hiring top candidates for job vacancies. But with competition hotting up in the Hong Kong job market,
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  • 613 15 GROUND ZERO: NIAS Wire services. WHEN the killer quake struck Nias island on Sunday night, Madam Destriani woke up thinking she was suffering from dizziness. Then, as the whole house shook, she rushed to save her children. But before she could reach her sleeping
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    • 332 17 I I Dear reader, Singapore's first 'blue chick' came out of its shell on 26 July 1988. No genetic wonder (like Dolly the cloned sheep), this virtual chick's colour stood for the brand DNA of The New Paper what makes us unique. Even our name, coined by a reader, made
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  • Hey! Showtime&Lifestyle
    • 572 19 There may be slashing action in S'pore director's new film, but unlike previous film... The upcoming Singapore International Film Festival may showcase movies from around the world, but local film-makers are vying for the spotlight too. JILL LIM (jilllim@sph.com.sg) susses out what three of
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    • 332 20 IT may not have the hot new look of animation, especially for Asia. That title would go to anime. But film-maker Srinivas Bhakta doesn't care. He has been doing his own thing and going his own way, and that has been good enough to
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    • 369 20 THERE are going to be no heartwarming, heartlander-type films from this film-maker. Not in the immediate future, anyway. It's just not his thing. Said Tzang Merwyn Tong (right), whose second film, A Wicked Tale, will show at the Singapore International Film Festival next month: "I
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    • 383 21  -  By Feng Zengkun zengkun@sph. com.sg PRODUCER Mark Burnett has announced that one of his hit reality TV shows may be Broadway-bound. Negotiations for The Apprentice: The Musical was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter in January. While details remain sketchy, a deal seems inevitable. Just
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    • 521 23  -  By Sheela Narayanan sheela@sph.com.sg ANTHONY Bourdain might not fancy the title of lain Hewitson's new travel cooking show. Never Trust A Skinny Cook, which debuts over Discovery Travel Living channel today, sees Hewitson sampling the fare in places like Bali, Mauritius, Thailand, Australia and
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    • 79 20 SHOWNFO; Malice and A Wicked Tale will be screened with G-23 at 11am on 23 Apr at the Singapore History Musuem. Tickets at $8.40 are available from Sistic. Elephant Ok will be shown with the other Singapore Shorts finalists for the Silver Screen Awards on 16 Apr from 11am at
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 657 27 PRIME-TIME TV THE NEW PAPER/Thursday, 31 Mar 2005 0C losing sizzle Channel 5, 11.30pm In the second season opener, Lucas J" e n NCE upon a time, a they were ostracised), and and Keith decide to return to Tree Hill Star World (Ch 18), 10pm phenomenon known as mfKUM/l/jMn resists
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    • 708 28 THENEWPAPER/Thursday, 31 Mar 2005 PRIME TIME TV Page 21 6 6.00: Spy TV 5.00: Point Of 6.30: Singapore 6.00: Teenage 6.00: Masakan 6.02: Glam! 6.00: Niea 6.00: The >6.00: The (Variety) No Return Today (News) Mutant Ninja Cina (Cooking) 6.32: Asian (Episodes 9 10) Simpsons Assassination tim 6.30: Now See
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  • Tech
    • 718 29 Corporate bigwigs: Baring their souls or talking shop? LAT-WP. THE soul-baring, anything-goes, free-for-all phenomenon called the Web log is now being seen as potential vehicle for marketing campaigns. And who are making use of these Internet forums? Corporate bigwigs. For example, General Motors vice-chairman Robert A
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    • 326 31 LAT-WP. THANKS to identity theft, the sales of shredders have gone up. "They're hot," said Mr John Lostroscio, vice-president for merchandising at Office Depot, the office supply retailer, referring to shredders. "Hotter than five or six years ago. The market has grown, and the market
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  • 64 42 What's my line? Mr Ken Khoo spends his days and nights with a flurry of ammunition flying around him at 320kmh. Here's what he does: He handles guns He encourages team-building He prioritises safety He spends his time in a field Is he a: A)
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    • 190 49 DANNY KHOO'S GUIDE TO KRANJITRACKWORK OUSTED: Jockey Sam Sublan has bean suspended two days for careless riding atop Nothateaayln Race 2 last Friday. Jockey Yan Weng Kuan coppeda two-month ban for hla ride on Northwlnd In Race 6 last Friday. He had stopped riding fully when
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    • 192 49 THE Malayan Racing Association has started investigations into the sudden deaths of six horses two at Ipoh and four at Penang last month. Autopsies have been performed by senior veterinary surgeons from the Perak and Penang turf clubs. The six horses are Magic Timing and Contentment
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    • 251 49 KRANJI SPRINT 1,200 m: First Touch took it easy when disposing of 600 m in 42.6. Slow work: Tom Higgs, Octavo. CLASS 3 1,400 m: Papakura and Mykanos (T Jackman) 38.2. The latter is handicapped in the Class 5 Div
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    • 339 49 CHAIRMAN'S TROPHY 1,800 m: Que Expresion (M du Plessis) and Surveyor (M Pay) matched strides over 600 m in 36.3. Spectro Power (B Vorster) showed usual brilliance in 34.8. Moon Shadow (E Wilkinson) canter/37, too good for Fast Eddie (M Kellady). The latter is
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    • 729 50 IT'S one of the biggest showdowns in European soccer this season: Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho (right) versus Uefa, the governing body of European soccer. Mourinho faces a Uefa disciplinary hearing later today in Nyon, Switzerland, charged with bringing the game into disrepute and
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    • 243 50 PA Sport. KEY points of Uefa's case charging Chelsea with bringing the game into disrepute: That Chelsea, Jose Mourinho, his assistant Steve Clarke and security official Les Miles deliberately lied to Uefa about seeing Frank Rijkaard leaving referee Anders Frisk's (above) dressing room at
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    • 673 51  -  Thailand's top woman golfer creates buzz GOLF: THAILAND LADIES OPEN REPORT LIM HAN MING npsporo@spJi.com.sf SHE is currently Thailand's top woman golfer. So there was a media frenzy yesterday at the Alpine Golf and Country Club in Bangkok. Nothing surprising, really. For every time Virada Nirapathpongporn returns
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      499 52 Miyazato hopes to shrug off Nabisco disappointment GOLF AFP JAPANESE teenage golf sensation Ai Miyazato (left), who has reinvigorated the women's game in her country, promised yesterday to bounce back after her disappointing US debut last week. The 19-year-old World Cup champion admitted being put in the
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    • 200 52 AP. PHIL MICKELSON believes the field at this week's Bell South Classic is strong despite the absence of the top three players in the world. "We have so many quality players on the tour that we have a competitive field every week no
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    • 191 52 Reuters. BRITAIN'S Nick Dougherty (left) hopes to close the gap on compatriots and young rivals Luke Donald and Graeme McDowell with victory at this week's Estoril Portuguese Open. Dougherty began his professional career bracketed alongside 2001 Walker Cup team-mates Donald and McDowell but,
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    • 302 53 Reuters AFP Iran 2 North Korea 0 IRAN coach Branko Ivankovic claimed his players' lives were in danger after their victory in North Korea yesterday. Iran's win meant they took the outright lead in their Asian World Cup qualifying group but their joy was soured by a
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    • 329 53 Reuters KUWAIT 0 S ARABIA 0 SAUDI Arabia missed out on the opportunity to regain top spot from South Korea in Group A of the Asian World Cup Qualifiers as they were held to a goalless draw in Kuwait last evening. Both sides were looking to maintain
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      • 148 55 AFP. SPAIN'S stuttering World Cup campaign suffered another hiccup on Wednesday when they were held to a 0-0 draw by Group Seven rivals Serbia-Montenegro. Spain were expected to display their full technical repertoire but Serbia-Montenegro, with Igor Duljaj outstanding in midfield, were able to contain the threats
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      • 83 55 Reuters. SLOVAKIA scored early and held on to notch a 1-1 draw against Portugal In their World Cup Group Three Qualifier this morning. Portugal substitute Helder Postiga equalised with a close range shot just past the hour to leave the two teams still joint top of the group
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        • 149 55 A group-by-group analysis of this morning's European World Cup Qualifiers THE top three in the group all won with Holland beating Armenia 2-0, the Czech Republic beating Andorra 4-0 and Romania winning 2-1 in Macedonia to make it a three-horse race for the finals. Holland top the table
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        • 176 55 UKRAINE maintained their unbeaten record with a fifth victory in seven matches after a tense 1-0 win over Denmark in Kiev. Andriy Voronin scored the only goal after 67 minutes to take Ukraine on to 17 points three ahead of European champions Greece who beat Albania 2-0 in
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        • 161 55 GROUP leaders Portugal, who had scored 20 goals in their previous five Qualifiers, were restricted to just one in a 1-1 draw at second-placed Slovakia, leaving the two level at the top with 14 points from their opening six matches. Third-placed Russia remained third on 11 points but
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        • 162 55 FRANCE and Israel moved into first and second places and knocked Ireland back to fourth after drawing 1-1 in Israel where the home team equalised late in the game for the second successive Qualifier. After drawing 1-1 with Ireland with a 90th-minute goal on Saturday, Israel thwarted France
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        • 111 55 ITALY remained untroubled at the top without playing following a 0-0 draw between Moldova and Norway and a 1-1 draw between Slovenia and Belarus. Italy are four points clear with 12 points from five matches followed by Norway (8) and Slovenia (8) with Italy playing in Oslo next
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        • 156 55 ENGLAND, Poland and Austria all won but were made to battle hard for their victories against Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland and Wales. Azerbaijan lost 2-0 to England while Poland beat Northern Ireland 1-0 and Austria beat Wales by the same score with both their goals coming in the last
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        • 119 55 GROUP Seven remains tightly bunched after Serbia-Montenegro drew 0-0 with Spain, Bosnia drew 1-1 with Lithuania and Belgiumscrambled to a 2-1 win over San Marino. Serbia stay top with 11 points followed by Spain and Lithuania on nine and Belgium, winning for the second time in five days,
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        • 145 55 Reuters. CROATIA replaced Sweden, who were not playing, at the top of the group after beating Malta 3-0 to take their tally to 13 points from five matches. Sweden have 12 points from their five games and benefited hugely from Peter Rajczi's last-minute goal in Budapest which gave
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        430 57 HOLLAND 2 (Romeo Castelen 3rd min, Ruud van Nistelrooy 34) ARMENIA 0 At last, Ruud scores again Wire Services. AS if the pouring rain had washed away all his woes, Ruud van Nistelrooy came back to scoring form for Holland yesterday and not a day too soon.
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      • 173 57 STRIKER Milan Baros and midfielder Tomas Rosicky guided the Czech Republic to an easy 4-0 away win over Andorra yesterday. The win, which follows their dramatic 4-3 home victory over Finland on Saturday, gave Karel Brueckner's side 15 points from six games, one behind leaders
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      • 76 57 Wire Services. A WELL-TAKEN double from Nicolae Mitea helped Romania to a win which Macedonia all but conceded at the start when influential Lazio striker Goran Pandev injured his knee during warm-ups. Ajax midfielder Mitea scored after 18 minutes, meeting a great cross from veteran Viorel
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      • 508 58 Trezeguet: Hero villain ISRAEL 1 (Walid Badir 83rd min) FRANCE 1 (David Trezeguet 50) PA Sport. FRANCE were aiming to catch up on the points lost at home after three goalless draws against Israel, Ireland and Switzerland, and opened the scoring after 50 minutes through David Trezeguet. But the Juventus
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      • 72 58 AFP. HOW lucky can you get, Switzerland. The Swiss capitalised on a game in hand with a 1-0 victory in their World Cup qualifier against Cyprus in Zurich after they nearly squandered the precious home points. Switzerland were saved in the final minutes by a
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      • 60 59 ENGLAND 2 AZERBAIJAN 0 Maybe it has been so exasperating that we've run out of things to say about the Big O, the Big Zero Owen. Four big misses on the dayjoragame in which he said there should be a few goals about...what do you think
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      • 271 60 PA Sport. GO ALSC ORER Steven Gerrard (above) is confident England will win their World Cup qualifying group despite a frustrating match at home to Azerbaijan. The 2-0 victory over the Group Six minnows captain David Beckham scored the second was not what was
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      • 623 60 MAN ON THE SPOT: WANG MENG MENG Here is another relieved man. It is not just David Beckham who has found himself under the microscope as his England place was put in doubt after a string of unimpressive performances. Sven-Goran Eriksson (above) had also
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        743 61 MAN ON THE SPOT WANG MENG MENG ATTHE PRESS CONFERENCE ENGLAND 2 AZERBAIJAN 0 Michael Owen has been called a few things in his life. Speed demon, Galactico and St Michael are some examples. But midget and dwarf? In an incredible 15-minute tirade, Azerbaijan coach Carlos Alberto tore
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      • 464 62 Wire Services Azerbaijan boss Carlos Alberto launched an astonishing outburst directed at "midget" Michael Owen as he condemned the England striker for supposedly vowing to score five times at St James'
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        162 63 ENGLAND 2 AZERBAIJAN 0 England: Paul Robinson; Gary Neville, Rio Ferdinand (Ledley King 77), John Terry, Ashley Cole; David (Jermain Defoe 84), rp Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole; Wayne Rooney (Kieron Dyer 77), Michael Owen Azerbatym: Dmitry Kramarenko; Rashad Sadygov, Rafael Amirbekov (Vugar Guliyev 45), Aftandil
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      • 268 63 3rd mhrate: Wins the ball down the right-hand side and centres for Wayne Rooney, who mis-hits shot. 4th miii: Whips in another cross but this time Rooney heads over. 10th miii: Michael Owen forces the first save after Beckham finds his head six metres from goal. 18th
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      • 630 64 MAN ON THE SPOT: WANG MENG MENG POSH Spice, seated about 20 rows behind this reporter, gave her hubby the thumbs-up sign as he left the pitch. Their sons, Brooklyn and Romeo, wore bright smiles on their faces as they partook in the Mexican Wave that engulfed
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      • 181 64 NOTHING beats replying with your boots. England skipper David Beckham answered some of his critics with a good game. But he stressed the personal criticism had not driven him on and he was more concerned with the quality of the team's display.
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        1327 65  -  THE BIG FLOP THE BIG FLIP ENGLAND 2 (Steven Gerrard 51st min, David Beckham 62) AZERBAIJAN 0 OUR MAN ON THE ENGLAND STRIKER GETS A BLASTING FROM CONFERENCE 62 Jf AZERBAIJAN COACH By Brian Miller npsports@sph.com.sg PA Sport. DAVID Beckham, the captain, had already turned off the "fasten
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