The New Paper, 25 January 2006

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  • NEWS
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      • Tampines blaze
        • 976 2  -  ♦Husband, wife and kids found unconscious ♦Neighbours knock knock but no one answers /Page 4 By Liew Hanging Ong Rui Lin tnp@sph.com.sg THE couple were jobless and, according to neighbours, kept mostly to themselves. After their Tampines flat went up in flames early yesterday,
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        • 627 4  -  These neighbours tried their best to save family By Samantha Fong sfong@sph.com.sg THEY pounded on the door. But there was no answer. "We knocked and knocked, but no one responded. Then the SCDF came, and they sawed open the gate." Mr Richard,
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  • NEWS
    • SINGAPORE
      • Sindee death fall trial
        • 630 6  -  THE VERDICT *1 Joycelyn Wong tnp@sph.com.sg YOU are a man of many vices. And you had a part to play in your daughter's death. That's what the judge said of Sindee's dad, Neo Eng Tong, 34 (left). His ex-lover,
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        • 241 7 SHE was a quick-witted but forlorn individual. Constance Chee Cheong Hin, 37, also had a good memory, even though she was suffering from simple schizophrenia. These were some of the observations Justice V K Rajah made about Chee in his 47-page judgement. Justice Rajah said
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      • 544 8  -  Bleeding driver caught after trying to escape on foot Byl Christine Tee teechris@spb.com.sg A SIMPLE change in his daily routine may have saved Mr Yong Shui Chan's life. The cleaner usually stands by the entrance of the Tampines Central Community Complex for a
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  • 587 9 She swallows glass stone JB bomoh's bizarre remedy leaves S'pore housewife in pain NEWS MALAYSIA A SINGAPOREAN housewife claims a bomoh in Johor Baru forced her to swallow five pieces of glass and a small "gem stone". And the housewife, in her 30s, said she was charged RM1,470 ($636) for
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  • 521 11  -  NEWS SINGAPORE By Wendy Teo teowyw@sph.com.sg HE grabbed her hand, kissed her on the cheek and then asked her to marry him. But it wasn't her boyfriend, actor Christopher Lee. It was an obsessed fan. The incident on Sunday shocked actress Fann
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      • 335 13  -  By Ian Tan tanyhi (Stsph.com.sg EVERYONE loves freshly printed dollar notes, especially when you are taking them out of a red packet during Chinese New Year. But if you hate queueing up at banks to get new notes, try the new "eHongbao" from
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      • 40 13 HSBC Bank is giving away 100 $88 prizes with an online quiz (www.hsbc.com.sg) which is open to non-customers too. Maybanxhas also been running a mail-order promotion with Singapore Mint to sell -zodiac coins and medallions to its customed.
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    • 189 13 SIMPLY <$► AUSPICIOUS! us at the Singapore Racecourse on Tuesday, 31 January 2006 and start the unar New Year with a bang! Programme Highlights 8,888 "Good Luck" Hong Bao ($2 betting vouchers) will be given away FREE admission for those born in the year of the Dog (1922, 1934, 1946,
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  • NEWS
    • WORLD
      • 423 14 Maxim's Indian publisher apologises for mock shot, but Khushboo says sorry's no cure AFP. WHAT was meant as a light-hearted read has now landed a London-based men's magazine in trouble. South Indian film actress Khushboo (left) said yesterday that she plans to sue Maxim over
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      • 299 15 Malaysian daddy's girl is THE first runner-up at this year's Miss America pageant has a Malaysian connection. Miss Monica Pang's dad is from Malaysia, I reported Shin Min Daily news, quoting US sources, a Her mum is a blonde with blue eyes from Georgia.! "They actually met
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      • 415 16 LOOKING for a virgin bride? In China, advertising for one has turned into a controversial mini-industry. It all began two years ago when Shanghai lawyer He Xin, 25, put such an ad in the newspapers on behalf of his billionaire friend,
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      • 608 17  -  ♦Adopt Singapore's 'world best' mathematics syllabus, says Washington lawmaker 1 in 2 college students there needs remedial tuition in maths By Eugene Wee tnp@sph.com.sg WHILE some feel that the mathematics syllabus here is too tough, one US lawmaker believes it is the key to arresting
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      • 523 18 THOUGH she was only 14 when she committed the crime, the judge lifted an order banning identification of juveniles to allow her name to be released. The reason? She, along with three men, beat bar manager David Morley, 37, to death just for
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      • 81 18 "Happy slapping" started in south London around the time of the attack on David Morley in October 2004. It makes the most of the emergence of 3G video on handphones. Perpetrators, usually teenagers, attack an individual while their friends record the victims' reaction. The clips are then
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  • NEWS
    • News watcher
      • 229 19 WITH 12 wins from 12 elections, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has proven to be a hard man to beat at the hustings. And now, at 82, he wants to add a 13th election win. "Yes, I think so," he said, when asked
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      • 54 19 Model Monica Mckenzie wears a dress made from tea boxes and about 800 tea bags as she poses on a New York street yesterday. US-based tea company Celestial Seasonings partnered with fashion designer Brett Cooper to make the dress to raise awareness of heart disease
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      • 56 19 US President George Bush, talking about what his friends and supporters think about his official residence and duties when he takes them
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      • 15 19 Yesterday's action change Close Dow +0.22 10,712 Nasdaq +0.75 2,265 STI +0.14 2,368
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      • 109 19 WAS insider trading involved when Shin Corp shares surged 25 per cent in die weeks before Monday's announcement that Singapore's Temasek Holdings would buy a 49.6 per cent stake in the firm? that is what the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) suspects and it
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      • 127 19 TWO years ago, diesel fuel here cost only half as much as petrol. But after a series of price increases, including an eight per cent hike yesterday, it is now only 25 per cent cheaper than petrol. Yesterday's price hike by ExxonMobil and Shell pushed
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      • 111 19 NEPTUNE Orient Lines has replaced Singapore Airlines (SIA) as the top local "global" firm here. According to IE Singapore's list of the top 100 local companies with international operations, the shipping giant's overseas sales surged 16 per cent to $10.7 billion, eclipsing SlA's 3.8
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      • 110 19 THE National Kidney Foundation (NKF) will be one of the cheapest dialysis providers here. From 1 Feb, its dialysis rates will drop from $162 a session to $150 a session. The NKF has also tightened its eligibility criteria. For the moment, it will not accept
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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  • SPEAKUP
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      • Talk of the town
        • 559 21  -  MID-WEEK with Peter H L Lim tnp@sph.com.sg DEAD is a highly stretchable word. Its meaning ranges from no more life as in a dead body, to dead certainty, as in absolute belief. That kind of conviction cannot be killed, sometimes not
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        • 143 21 Net BUZZ Gain weight. At least 30 pounds. Stop exercising. Read less. Makes you think Watch more TV. You've been missing some good stuff Procrastinate more. Starting tomorrow Get more toys Get further in debt Break at least one traffic law Wait around for opportunity Never
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        • 184 22 THE ministeriajcommittee recommended that a "one-off bonus" be given to workers earning $1,200 and below. To qualify, they must have held a job for a minimum of six months. The Government can really achieve its aim of helping low-earners if it is easier on the
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        • 176 22 I REFER to the report, "Insurance agents quitting NTUC Income" (The New Paper, 17 Jan). Your report said at least 50 agents have left within a year because they were dissatisfied with the introduction of a salaried team. This is not correct. Each year, about
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 42 21 DILBERT SCOn ADAMS HI EVERYONE. SORRY IfN LATE. <7 I HAVE THE WORST CASE OF JET LAG EVER. ITA STILL A BABY IN THIS TItAE ZONE. ft £3 I DONT THINK IT WORKS THAT WAY. HEY, I JUST GOT A CRAZY IDEA.
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  • SHOW
    • 767 23  -  There will always be comebaclt kids in Mandopop. Whether they can still hold a captive audience remains to be seen.. Especially when theix fans have all grown m But these singer#l are at least brave I U enough to try Jj By Chang May Choon changmc@sph.com.sg
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    • 380 24 showed how codl Hoklden rap is Then there is Sam Lee Sheng Jie and Steve Chou, whose recent returns were made possible by their songs that remained popular in karaoke lounges despite their absence. Kenji Wu Ke-chun earned renewed respect after shifting
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    • 598 25  -  Backstreet Boys return after 5-year break to wow fans Gregory Leow WWsptLComsg k IHINK of family traditions and 1 Christmas, Chinese New Year and JL Hari Raya spring to mind. For the Hassan and Chaudhry families, enjoying the music of the Backstreet Boys is another family MrsNeelofm:
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    • Dishum
      • 106 27  -  By Sheela Narayanan sheclaGbsph.comsg OVER the Chinese New Year weekend, Arts Central will screen Paheli, India's Oscar nomination for best foreign language film. The film stars Rani Mukherjee, Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan and is based on a Rajasthani folk tale of a ghost who
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      • 143 27 LARA Dutta (above) has replaced Sushmita Sen in director Priyadarshan's new film. Sushmita, the 34-year-old former Miss Universe told The Hindustan Times that she was unable to commit to the yet-unnamed production as she has to perform in several stage shows. "I had already made
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      • 173 28 HE much-awaited Aamir Khan feature, Rang De Basanti (Colour Me Yellow) opens worldwide today. Its planned release on 15 Jan was reportedly postponed because it came under fire from the Indian government. The Indian Air Force weren't happy about how it was depicted in the
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      • 204 28 ZAYED Khan's (below) upcoming release has to be one of the biggest Hollywood rip-offs. It is called Fight Club and can be considered the Hindi version of the 1999 Brad Pitt-Edward Norton film. The fllm is about a group of amateur urbanites who have bare-knuckle fist
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  • SHOW
    • 225 31 DAILY DISt WE just can't keep up with who's dating Kate Moss (right) anymore. The latest man to be linked to the supermodel is reality TV star Jack Osboume (son of rocker Ozzy), after they were spotted dancing at a Golden Globes after-party. Moss, 32, and Osboume, 20,
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    • 121 31 THERE may be life after 'N Sync for Lance Bass (right) and Joey Fatone as television stars. The former boy band members are developing a new reality-comedy series about their lives for UPN. Tentatively dubbed Out Of Sync and described as a modern-day Odd Couple, Fatone, 29,
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    • Article, Illustration
      144 31 FOR Britney Spears (above left, with husband Kevin Federline), the more the merrier seems to aptly describe her varying religious interests. The pop princess was raised a Baptist, then studied Kabbalah and is now dabbling in Hinduism. She was recently spotted at a Hindu temple in Malibu, where
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    • Article, Illustration
      148 32 DAILY DISH DAVID Hasselhoff (left with his daughter, centre, and wife) has admitted that his marriage collapsed due to his drinking problems. The ageing former Baywatch hunk and actress wife Pamela Bach filed for divorce two weeks ago after 16 years of marriage, citing "irreconcilable differences". The
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    • 106 32 SEAN "Diddy" Combs' (right) new fragrance ad has caused a stink. The steamy commercial for Estee Lauder's Unforgivable features the 37-year-old rap mogul in bed with two scantily-clad women, in a post-coital situation implying a menage a trots. It was pulled for being too racy
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  • GUIDE
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      • Beyond O-Level Seminar
        • 536 34  -  By; Veena Bharwani vcenabQsph.comjg AS some of the other polytechnics join in and start organising their own post-O-level talks, the original organisers of the seminar have gone one step further. They have added entertainment to education and information. Yes, heads were spinning at last Friday's Beyond O-Level Seminar
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        • 102 35 HERE'S to a fat-free Year of the Dqe. WaU's Balance ice cream promflks to be 97 per cent fat-free. But you won't be able to tell merely by tasting it. This ice cream is as rich and creamy as the sin%tl, fattening version. It comes in
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        • 99 35 THERE'S another healthy alternative from Yeo's. The company has added two new drinks to its products tie guan yin tea and pu'er chrysanthemum tea. These teas are believed to help aid digestion and flush toxins from your body. The teas also contain anti-oxidants that keep
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    • S'pore foodie
      • 131 36 IF you're ayu sheng freak,'check out Rendezvous Hotel. The hotel offers five different varieties of Prosperity Yu Sheng (extreme right), from ikan parang to the usual salmon and even vegetarian mock duck. And it's inexpensive at $68+++ per plate. When you're there, check out the
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      • 273 37 CHECK out what's happening at this year's Singapore River Hongbao Chinese New Year festivities. Held at Esplanade Park from 27 Jan to the 12 Feb, the annual event includes cultural and acrobatic performances, folk art, art and crafts and a huge
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      • 78 37 IF you hove wanted to s3uUiWsxtr Slngapura's Creative k r" Wackiest Valentine Proposal contest. You can pick up your entry format Plaza Singapura from 26 Jan or sencfjui e-mail to how you intend to propose You have to be above 17 and most form a team with'
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    • 606 38  -  Comic shelf By Jonathan Roberts jonrob@sph. com. sg NAMES have been changed to protect the innocent. And in Planetary, it is to avoid a lawsuit. Warren Ellis' inspired series about self-styled "archaeologists of the unknown" takes pop icons from comics, film and literature and gives a twist
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      • Kranji trackwork
        • 237 54 Reuters. BREEDERS' Cup Gassic winner Saint Liam picked up the 2005 Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year in Los Angeles last Monday, easily out-polling Afleet Alex for the honour. The five-year-old son of Saint Ballado won a stretch duel with
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        • 391 54 OPEN BENCHMARK 81 1,400 m: Borneo Holiday 0 Saimee), a winner of his last two starts, continued to impress in 37.4 after cantering one lap. He had Double Happiness, who is handicapped in the Maiden event over 1,600 m, for company. Quick Fire 37.5,
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        • 126 54  -  By D; Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg TRAINER Bruce Marsh's Royal City drew notice to his chances in the Initiation Plate event over 1,400 m on Friday with a smart hit-out at Kranji yesterday. Accompanied by Mavros (O Chavez), he was finishing better than his stablemate at the
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        • 307 54 KRANJI STAKES B— 1,400 m: Last-start winner Breckenridge (A Spiteri) canter/39.6, smartly. Bintang Rezeki (D Azis) canter/37.2, showed form. Gemini 36.6. King's Carnival and last-start winner Blazing Habit (M du Plessis) canter/37.4, kept together. Yaakeen (S Sam) canter/41.7. Slow work: Tom Higgs. CLASS 3
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        • 153 54 ONLY two newcomers have been entered for Friday night's Kranji meeting on turf. And newly-licensed trainer David Hill will be sending out his first runner in the form of Little Gem (late Doitforreel). The four-year-old bay mare, by Princely Heir out of Chehana, had 16 outings in England
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        • 425 55 NST. STREET TALK drew attention to his chances in the RM500.000 ($225,000) weight-for-age Tunku Gold Cup, the first leg of the RM2.5 million Triple Crown Series, over 1,200 m next Monday with a smart hit-out yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the
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        • 162 55 Results of three Mais conducted over I,ooom on the fibresand track at Kranji yesterday. The going was good. TRIAL 1 (test): 1 Tucson (J Salmee) 2 Urn's Spear (J Burridge) 3 Aces Pierre (M du Plessis) 4 Boots And Spurs (V Sivan). Unofficial margins and time: 5, Vi,
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        • 121 55 WHIP HAND THERE was certainly no sign Of race or travelling fatigue shown by Light Of Success and King And King, Kranji's two representatives to the Penang Governor's Gold Cup at Batu Gantong on New Year's Day. The 1-4 finishers in the Penang jewel did not waste time
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        • 113 55 JOCKEY Mark du Plessis is not just a good jockey. The two-time Singapore Gold Cup-winning hoop is also a shrewd tactical race-rider. Trainer Patrick Shaw said last Sunday that his stable jockey played a huge part in Hulk's victory. "Mark spoke to me this morning and asked
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      • 936 56 AFP. Wire Services. WORLD No. 2 Vijay Singh is looking forward to a keen battle with "good friend and contemporary" Ernie Els when the US$2 million ($3.2 m) Qatar Masters gets underway tomorrow. Vijay spoke of his friendship with Els and the camaraderie they share both on
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      • 114 56 Reuters. THE 2006 British Open was worth more than £72 miion ($206.5 m) to Scotland, according to an economic study released by tournament organisers yesterday. The value of last year's championship at St Andrews was largely based on £40m worth of woridMride television exposure for the host country.
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      • 604 56 BUICK INVITATIONAL: Reuters. ONE of the biggest talking points on the PGA Tout, because of his booming-drives, Bubba Watson (left) is certain to attract the galleries at this week's Buick Invitational. Although the 27-year-old rookie has played only once on die world's most lucrative golf
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        • 547 57 MARCOS BAGHDATIS (CYP) M IVAN LJUBICIC (CRO) M, 6-2,4-6,3-6,6-3 AP. SO just who is Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis? The 20-year-old unseeded player, a virtual unknown outside tennis circles, continued his giant-killing charge into the semi-finals of the Australian Open with a five-set win over seventh seed Ivan
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        • 169 57 Reuters. NATIONAL service could wreck the rising career of Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis. Just like in Singapore, all males over 18 in Cyprus must spend 26 months in the armed services. sfSSMBI Baghdatis is currently the talk of Cyprus, a country with virtually no tradition in tenfris,
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        • 273 57 Wire Services. MARCOS Baghdatis may be the headline-grabber at the moment but his semi-final opponent David Nalbandian is fast shaping up to be world No. 1 after Federer's biggest challenger. .7^ Nalbandian, at No. 4 the highest remaining seed in the draw, reached the semi-finals after thrashing
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      • African Nations Gup
        • 331 58 GROUP B: CAMEROON v TOGO AFP. RIGOBERT Song's international career looked Hke being a short one he was sent-off in the 1994 WorlcAip Finals but» today, he will winras 101 st cap for Cameroon. And t}e shows no sign of hanging up his boots. Hie 29-year-old
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        • 418 58 GROUP LIBYA 11VORY COAST 2 AFP. TWO dreadful errors by Libyan 'keeper Muftah Ghzalla handed Ivory Coast a fortunate 2-1 victory in their African Nations Cup Group A match yesterday. Goals by Didier Drogba his 19th in 26 internationals and Gnegneri Toure put the Elephants
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        • 170 58 GROUP AHHI EGYPT 0 MOROCCO 0 AFRICAN Nations Cup hosts Egypt were held to a goalless draw by Morocco yesterday in a Group A tie marred by crowd trouble. The 0-0 draw put group leaders Ivory Coast, with six points from two matches, into
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      • Pot shots
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          378 59 SCOTT WILSON, a former sports sub-editor with The New Paper, is now the sports editor of The Sunday Express. He brings you the stories that they don't want you to read! IT'S a question just about as old as football should the 'keeper punch a tricky ball or
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        • 105 59 PARK Ji-Sung is continuing to impress at Old Trafford on the field, and is starting to settle in well off the field. There is 6ne problem, though the constant rain in Manchester. The South Korean midfielder (right), who joined United from PSV last summer,
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        • 302 59 ENGLAND manager Sven Goran Eriksson has been under tremendous pressure which might explain the bizarre idea he came up with before Monday's fateful meeting with the FA. Eriksson, who endured a media storm as the British press pored over transcripts of the tapes in the Fake
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        • 297 60 (It's not who you think) SIR Bobby Robson may be 72, but he'll be calling thfcjiew Ireland manager Steve Staunton "boss" from now on. Robson is now Staunton's assistant for the Republic of Ireland, even though he is just about old enough to be his grandad. The
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        • 136 60 BAD news to report, I'm afraid —Thierry Henry has broken a leg and will never be quite the same force ever again. But thankfully for Gooners supporters, it's not the imperious football striker but his canine counterpart that has been injured. Australian racing greyhound
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          157 60 REMEMBER when the lights went out two weeks ago in the Carling Cup game between Wigan and Arsenal? Well, if you're an electrician, you could have got into Highbury last night (this morning, Singapore time) for free! Sponsors Carling were offering electricians the free deal after the power
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        • 153 60 Reuters. AN ASSISTANT referee was sent off from a Swedish third division ice hockey game recently after the players began to suspect he was drunk. During the contest between Sveg IK and Halsingegardens AIK, one of the two assistant referees started behaving increasingly erratically
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        • 149 60 PA Sport. NEWCASTLE striker Michael Owen has revealed he is unlikely to become a manager when he retires from playing. The 26-year-old England international is passionate about horseracing and admitted he would probably pursue a career owning and breeding horses when he hangs up his boots. Although
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      • 401 62 Wire Services. SERIE A leaders Juventus have picked up five of the top awards at the annual Italian football "Oscars", which are based on the votes of their fellow footballers. Juve's Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic won two awards, for Best Foreign Player and Most Loved
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      • 150 62 PA Sport. AC MILAN striker Alberto Gilardino has won the Serie A Player of the Year for 2005, as voted for by his peers. Having been the most prolific striker in Serie A for the last two seasons, the 23-year-old completed a £24 million ($69.6m) transfer
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      • 326 62 ITALIAN CUP LAZJ01 (Christai Mvrfredni, 27ti mta; IKTER-MHAW1 (Dafr9ttftovfc,26) AFP. HOLDERS Inter-Milan are well placed to reach the last four of the Italian Cup after they drew 1-1 atLazio. It was an unruly first leg quarter-final tie this morning (Singapore time). Both teams had a man
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    • Carling Cup
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        649 63 Man U midfield woes: Scholes out for season, O'Shea for six weeks, Smith still unfit SEMMNAL (2nd MAN UTD v BLACKBURN (Ist LEG: 1-1) PA Sport. MANCHESTER United's rollercoaster season is in danger of being thrown off the rails completely by an acute midfield injury crisis which has
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      • 55 63 PAUL Scholes is out the remainder of the season with an eye problem. John O'Shea is out for up to six weeks with fractured ribs. And Alan Smith may not be fit to face Blackburn for the Carting Cup semi-final tomorrow morning (Singapore time) as he is still
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      • 197 63 EVERTON v ARSENAL gs(lX2:Pmton. Vk Evorton, TG: 1, HT-FT: H-H, T«f*. IX2. v*, TG, Score WMM'mmn t UK Hi BMBNMNAM v PORTSMOUTH C MniMfrpaw. 5. M*. 5-0; t Brian: IX2, v*. HT-FT i KjKI)gHT-FT j BOLTON MAN CITY (Boton, Botan. 2. H-H. 2-0) .'Brian: IX2, TG.
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    • Carling Cup
      • 819 64 Wigan fulfil Cup final dream with away goal victory SEMI-FINAL (2nd LEGIHB ARSENAL 2 Thierry Henry 65th min, Robin van PersieloB WIGAN ATHLETIC 1 Jason Roberts 119 (Aggregate score 2-2. Wigan win on away goal) PA Sport. WIGAN'S unlikely success story continued this morning (Singapore time). Jason
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      • 209 65 It% an unbelievable feeling, the away goal taking us through. It is unbelievable. We kept battling and managed to nick a goal I missed a few chances and thought I wasn't going to score but I kept trying. Wigan's Jason Roberts (right) I just gambled, picked a
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      • 1073 66 WHAT NOW THE FRANK MALLEY COLUMN <, a*#- vW tT* ENGLAND? PA Sport. LET us first dispel a popular myth. The job of England football manager is not the impossible job Yes, England is a footballing nation with huge and often unrealistic expectations but it is
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      • 828 67 Wire Services. WHAT next, Sven? When asked if he intended to look for work with an English club after the World Cup, he said: "I have absolutely no idea. The only thing I know for'sure is that I don't want to claim my pension yet. I don't
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      • 461 67 What can England best do in the wake of the scandal as they prepare for the World Cup? ERNEST LUIS asks EDGAR THAM, 39, a sports psychologist formerly with the Singapore Sports Council, and now deputy director of Republic Polytechnic's neu School of Sports,
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        1012 68  -  SVEYS MEN CAN LEARN FROM BRAZIL TEAM OF 1970 WHAT NOW ENGLAND WU BECKS REMAIN CAPTAIN? Byl Ernest Luis npsports@sph.com jg PEOPLE often compare the 2006 England World Cup team to the 1966 side in terms of World Cup-winning hopes. But now that Sven Goran Eriksson will step
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        484 68 England wiu fail. That's our soccer analyst Tohari Paijan's prediction after the announcement that Sven Goran Eriksson would leave the England manager's job after the World Cup. Tohari (right) referred to what Eriksson said in the January edition of Fifa's magazine before he was exposed by English tabloid
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    • 304 69 Wire Services. RONALDINHO has caused a furore by picking six Chelsea players in his European dream team and none from Barcelona. The Brazilian will line up against Chelsea alongside his Barca team-mates when the two sides meet in the last 16 of the Uefa Champions League
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