The New Paper, 19 August 2008

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    • 72 1 -Bj_ t S. Still sexy after half a century >/ m 'r 19 Aug 08 As Madonna marks 50th birthday, we look at other golden oldies, like Holly Hunter (left) PAGE 23 pv/ aper PM URGES S'POREANS: PLEASE SAY PLEASE This elderly man did —and was mocked at Little India
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    • National Day Rally
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        959 2 Elderly S'porean mocked for saying please Graciousness onS'pore's streets COFFEE EXCHANGE Retiree orders a drink at a LJttle India food court saying: "Coffee, please" 2_ Server, also a supervisor, replies: "What is coffee please? How to make that?". He keeps repeating it Another customer, outraged, scolds the server.
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      • 353 3  -  STREET TALK SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO Sv J*!NCvV'Oßfc "J.j s TtVi! \o.'. .It -io t"0 ot. State M.*e> a O VHpU- tO .it t\ .>t cod-piateo »ears .reacv ts otoe"* p\ o .Td o .v Nov. Jo wv t.K; curt* ;•ooru r
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        636 3  -  MONEY: Shrinking dollar, growing aid 1 HONEY, WHO SHRANK OUR DOLLAR? Your pay went up, but a lot of your wage increase went to oil producers. Higher fuel and food prices are hurting consumers everywhere. Even governments are hurting because they can't maintain fuel subsidies. How to give
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      • 132 3 1 WHAT CAN MUMS GET? Maternity leave: Extended from 12 weeks to 16 weeks (paid by Government). Can claim any time of the year from the birth of the child. 2 WHAT CAN PARENTS GET? Childcare leave: Extended from 2 to 6 days a year.
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      • 360 3 IT was not so long ago that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was lamenting our baby woes in his maiden National Day Rally speech in 2004. Four years later, our baby blues have yet to go away. And once again, PM Lee has
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      • 610 3  -  STREET TALK KAREN WONG karen@sph.com.sg WHAT does it take to beget more Singapore babies 7 The situation here is so dire that even the Prime Minister gave tips on how singles should take steps" to find their life partners and then, after marriage,
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    • 377 4 7-ELEVEN TIE-UP MS Tina Tan had a pleasant surprise when she picked up her copy of The New Paper at a 7-Eleven outlet yesterday. Not only did she get a paper with new, snazzier design and content, she received a free can of Boss
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    • 46 4 Monday: One 240 ml can of Boss coffee _2 Tuesday: One 500 ml bottle of Pokka Pure drinking water _3 Wednesday: One 425g can of Mill mushrooms _4 Thursday: One 500 ml bottle of Coca-Cola Zero _5_ Friday: onel6ozcupof 7-Eleven Slurpee
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    • 22 2 Got a view? Should Mr Ramchandani have done what he did? Was he a kaypoh or a hero? What would you do?
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    • 25 2 Inflation woes? Got help /Page 4 COFFEE JOINTS ARE SMILING Not just big chains but neighbourhood shops too L I IN THE STRAITS TIMES TODAY
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      620 6  -  Pasirßis crocodile caught on fishing line DESMOND NG desmoncbiOspluxmsg SEEING is believing. Especially for Mr Muhd Rizhal Senin, who loves to swim in the cool waters of Sungei Tampines off Pasir Ris beach. For the last five years, he has been brushing off talk from others that there were
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    • 90 6 PAST CAPTURES Two crocodiles were caught at MacRitchie Reservoir in 1996, reported The Straits Times. CURRENT CROCS National Parks Board confirms at least two "permanent resident" crocodiles in the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. APPROACH Board takes non-interventionist approach to crocodiles. It will act only if reptiles are
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      • 867 8  -  When we broke the story of Miss Lee's disease, a nation readily showed their kindness A WOMAN SHUNNED: 1992 ARUL JOHN anathan@sph.com .sg ALL she wanted was friendship. Love would have been a sweet, unexpected windfall. But people who saw Miss Maria Lee Kwai
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        146 8 NKF SCANDAL: 2005 IT WAS one of the biggest scandals in Singapore's history, and The New Paper got the one photograph no one else had. It was 4.30am when photographer Simon Ker got a phone call from a member of the public, informing him that someone had
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    • 608 9  -  ANDRE YEO andrey@sph.com.sg HE is considered one of the bright hopes of local soccer, and recently played in the Singapore Selection team against the Brazil Olympic team. But a few days after that match on 28 Jul, in which Singapore lost 0-3, Shahril
      PICTURE: BERITA HARIAN  -  608 words

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    • 157 10 The New Paper on cL 1 ve STREET TREATS Enjoy a range of fabulous discounts at Suntec City, plus free parking with our inflation busters OUR COOK WITH THE LOOK Chef Hedy Khoo takes you into her kitchen to share easy-to-follow mouth-watering recipes FANCY CANDY Exposes on expat models in
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  • Local
    • 222 11 Up: 5 gantries Down: Business THE recent feedback that businesses in Chinatown have seen a dip in sales has prompted the authorities to review the rates for the five Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantries around the Singapore River in October. This
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    • News watch
      • 103 11 FOR the next five years, 7,(XX) healthcare workers are needed, and there won't be enough Singaporeans to do it These positions range from doctors to nurses to pharmacists. Speaking at a National Day observance event yesterday, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said that "foreign talent
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      • 98 11 SINGAPORE sports officials believe it will not take another 48 years for Singapore to win another Olympic medal, after the women's table tennis won a silver on Sunday. The Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOQ said it will conduct an assessment of Team
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      • 102 11 IN another sign of a slowing economy, Singapore's non-oil domestic exports continued to fall in July. Trade promotion agency IE Singapore said exports fell by 5.7 per cent to $13.7 billion last month, following the 11 per cent drop in June.
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      • 116 11 THE lighting consultants for the first Formula One (Fl) night race in Singapore said that representatives of the Fl teams have approved the lighting system when they visited Singapore last month. Valerio Maioli from Italy was appointed consultants by organisers
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    • 65 11 Miss Faraliza Tan. 21, a communications undergraduate, was crowned Miss Singapore World 2008 on Saturday at Raffles Convention Centre. She will represent Singapore in the 58th Miss World beauty pageant. The international contest was to be held in Ukraine in October, but due to the
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    • 33 12 •f A woman in Beichuan mourns her husband who was killed during the Sichuan earthquake. Today marks the 100th day since the natural disaster in China. PICTURE: REUTERS
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    • 266 12 WILD CELEBRATIONS IN PAKISTAN AFP PAKISTAN President Pervez Musharraf resigned yesterday. It brings down the curtain on a turbulent nine years in power to avoid the first impeachment in the nation's history. Mr Musharraf, 65, who seized power in a 1999 coup, announced the
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      • 109 12 CLINICAL trials for testing new drugs and therapies at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Aiims) in New Delhi has claimed as many as 49 babies over the last two-and-a-half years. Many of them had not even celebrated their
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      • 110 12 AP. MALAYSIA'S government proposed a law that would make it mandatory for criminal suspects to provide DNA samples. It's a move that critics claim is meant to bolster a sodomy charge against oppo- sition leader Anwar Ibrahim. Home Minister
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      • 100 12 AP. TAIWAN will enlist the help of US and Singaporean authorities in an investigation into alleged money laundering by former president Chen Shui-bian, an official said. Taiwan has been working with Swiss authorities in a probe into the financial dealings of
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    • 483 13 M'sian DPM Najibon 'conspiracy' claim: AS CAMPAIGNING for Permatang Pauh by-elec-tion entered its third day yesterday, the Quran-swearing issue remained a talking point The Barisan Nasional camp has come out in support of Mr Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan's decision to swear on the
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    • 169 13 Zubaidah Nazeer HOLY BOOKS NOT NEEDED HERE, SAY LAWYERS: Lawyers here say that swearing on the Quran is not a practice in Singapore courts. All five lawyers The New Paper contacted said it was not necessary as the courts would only require an oath. Said Mr Ahmad
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    • M'sian election briefs
      • 98 13 WEDDING functions have become the latest must-do in the Peimatang Pauh candidates' campaign strategy. BN's Datuk Arif Shah had 10 wedding invitations while Mr Anwar, PKR's candidate, had six, reported The New Straits Times. Both candidates took advantage of the wedding functions to gamer support for
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      • 154 13 DATUK Arif Shah Omar Shah has been surviving on two hours of sleep every night since his candidacy for Permatang Pauh was announced last Saturday. The affable 52-year-old told Berita Harian: "I just have about two hours of sleep nightly. "The
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      • 118 13 HIS brother is a bankrupt An SMS making die rounds in Malaysia alleges Umno candidate Arif Shah Omar Shah's brother is involved in a shipping scandal and has since been made a bankrupt Mr Arif Shah said in response to the SMS: "I have no
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      • 82 13 MR Arif Shah denied he was chosen as the candidate due to his brother, Mr Amin Shah's, close ties with Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, who is also Umno deputy president. "Most of the corporate (figures) in Malaysia are somehow having a
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    • 539 14 TERENGGANU villager Abdullah Abdul Rahman had been trying to dig a hole for his toilet. His hard work turned out to be pure gold. The 68-year-old resident of the village of Marang recalled: "I saw something shiny in the muddied waters so I
      PICTURES: NEW STRAITS TIMES  -  539 words
    • 500 15 Netizens slam China's Liu Xiangfor dropping out ofllom hurdles CHINA'S golden boy Liu Xiang went from national sporting hero to a victim of scorn and pity yesterday after he dramatically exited from the Olympics. Liu, a 2004 Olympic gold medallist, failed to perform when he hobbled off
      PICTURE: REUTERS; PICTURE: XINHUA  -  500 words
    • 560 16 Shopper, saver orgambler? Check out these findings YOU walk into an Orchard Road Mall and buy yourself a $2,OOOYSL Easy bag. But somehow, you still aren't happy. Now research by a New York psychologist has shed some light on why people who spend big time are
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    • 61 16 1 Big spenders: Buy everything full price and buy only the best. 2 Non-spenders: Don't spend much and don't want to. 3 Experiences: Spend freely on experiences, such as good food or travel, but not materialistic. 4 Value seekers: Seek bargains on nice things. Findings: Experiences are
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    • 155 16 Whales Mostly white, middle-aged men with high incomes who go to casinos most weeks of the year. They spend the most money. Jumbo shrimp Mostly older white females with very low incomes and visit casinos most weeks of the year. Frequent gamblers with moderate
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    • 558 17 It depicts character in his 30s and includes sex scene BLISTERING barnacles; someone has introduced sex scenes in a Tintin comic book. A Spanish version of one ofTintin's most famous tales, The Blue Lotus, has turned the Belgian reporter into a voracious lover, reported the Guardian.
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    • 354 17 AFP. UGLY women, come to my town because there are men here but not enough women. Although the mayor of Mount Isa in northwestern Queensland used the term "beauty-disadvantaged", Its meaning was not lost on anyone and he caused an uproar.
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        22 18  -  FROM READER JONATHAN KWONG CAREER CHANGE?: Has Singapore's most wanted man found a new profession at this Potong Pasir medical centre?
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      • 64 18 1 Whether we want foreign-bom sporting winners, and whether they make us feel less proud when they win because they are not bom here 2 Maternity leave, paternity leave and fathers taking on more parenting responsibilities. 3 Can super-athlete Usain Bolt run even faster?
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      • 27 18 WRITE WIN PRIZES Your letter or photo could be picked to got a $80 Borders voucher. Entries must include your full name, age, occupation and contact number.
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      • 64 18 E-mail tnptalkQsph.com.sg or write to: The New Paper, 1000 To* Payoh North, Level 6, Annexe Block, Singapore *****4 For verification, we need the writer's fuM name and contact number (preferably of a handphone). We reserve the right to edit letters. By.your submission, it is deemetf that you have
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      • 317 18  -  Development of sports in S'pore FROM READER YANG HANZHONG I REFER to S Murali's commentary on the issue of foreign-bom sports talent (The New Paper, 18 Aug) and thank him for his comments. So far, it is the only piece in the three English
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      • 336 18  -  FROM SEAH SENG CHOON EXECUTIVE DRECT0R CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION OF SNGAPORE WE refer to Mr Mak Yuen Teen's letter, "Do more to punish dishonest shops" (The New Paper, 6 Aug) and would like to make die following clarifications. We agree
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      • 38 19 "The entire Singapore sailing team was born, bred and trained in Singapore. All these years, they seem to be the ones bringing back the most medals. Makes me proud to say I'm a Singaporean." -ChrisBBllo
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        183 19 Airline food on KL-S'pore bus route: Does it encourage you to take buses to KL more? Want to have your views heard on a hot topic? Then join our reader feedback database. E-mail us at tnptalk@sph.com.sg with your full name, age, occupation and a recent photograph of yourself. FROM
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    • 36 20 PSST... EVER TRIED SATAY PENYU? KF Seetoh sinks his teeth into contraband satay in Bali. PAGE 26 MAKAN SITES: This House call is worth it. page 27 TABLE FOR 4: Fit for Korean royalty, page 30
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    • 812 20  -  The Material Girl is half a century old but still a style icon, as are other stars JEANMARIE TAN joanmOsph.com.SQ FIFTY is the new 40. And we're quite certain Madonna would agree. She celebrated her 50th birthday at the Volstead club in London over the weekend, with
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      102 21 PRINCE, 50 True, he is not easy to grasp and made music that was way ahead of his time. Yet. his Purple Weirdness can always be counted on to keep the party going way beyond (all together now) nineteen-nine-ty-nine! ALEC BALDWIN, 50 He has come full circle, and
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      • 101 22 WHEN he doesn't smile, he looks spookily mysterious, i Bui when he does, Thai actor Kantapat turns into a boyish imp who cracks people up with Ms candid ways. >• I'm friendly, fun, and told The New Paper with a laugh. But in tte short film In The
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    • 769 23  -  Makarisutra K F SEETOH djhfdjfh A FRIEND mentioned it almost a year ago and it was one of those thoughts that never left my mind. "Saetoh (was how they would pronounce my name), you have to try the satay penyu in Bali. Sensational man." That
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      • 331 24 I 1 11 """I* home to me, but it is worth I almost didn't want to go stop relaxation place located at the Dempsey Road. It was ovemyied that I knew I was going to be harsh. Also, it is at Dempsey.
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      • 91 24 Crispy pork belly Roast duck risotto The crispy Kurobuta pork belly ($3O) was good. And because of the amount of work that goes into this dish, there are only a few portions served a day. So call in advance to book yours. Another winner was the roasted
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      • 358 25 Where to eat for under $20? A MEAL for two for under $20, and with drinks? It is not impossible. The New Paper found a few places that fulfilled these two conditions: The food is tasty and your body is cooled by air-conditioning. One of
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      • 279 25 1 WANG WANG SEAFOOD SOUP This stall serves excellent sliced-fish soup. When we were there, there was a long line of customers and the accolades never stop rolling in as well. WE RECOMMEND Sliced fish mini steamboat set with rice and dessert, $6.50 Curry seafood
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      501 26  -  YVONNE PHOO djfhdjfh SINCE this is my first appearance in this food column, I think it's appropriate for you to get to know me a little better. To begin with, I can't cook. My prized (and only) culinary skill is scrambled eggs. But I love eating. I mean,
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      • 527 38 RACE 1 CARRY ON WINNING hung out in the home straight and finished the race wide. LHo, the rider ofLIM'S WORLD, was shown the video of his ride in the home straight and warned to ride his horses out fully to the
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        330 39  -  Godfrey Robert npsports@sph.com.sg IT WAS no surprise that Quincy Quek returned the best score on the first day of the Singapore National Amateur Championships at Safra's Kranji Course yesterday. Quek shot a tvyo-under 70 to be best among 60 golfers in his tune-up for the Putra Cup next
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      • 491 39 Tennis FOR Rafael Nadal's rivals, the bad news is that the Spaniard thinks he can get even better. The 22-year-old woke up yesterday as the new world No. 1 with an Olympic gold medal in his pocket after Sunday's victory over Fernando Gonzalez in Beijing. Typically modest,
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        • 399 40 It's stm early days yet in the Premiership. But based on the first round of games, who do you think wiM be the champions? I think Chelsea look really strong and powerful They have kept the nucleus of the squad and made a couple of good signings.
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        • 37 41 BRIAN MILLER STRIKE CARD HITS 23 ERIC DING STRIKE CARD HITS 23 GARY LIM STRIKE CARD HITS 21 >. *i'> 1 DANIEL FINKELSTEIN STRIKE CARD i HITS 18 JAMES EASTHAM STRIKE CARD HITS ti
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      • 515 42  -  IAIN MACINTOSH DJKFDKF T HERE'S little point in arguing about which member of the Big Four had the best start to their campaign. Chelsea were breathtaking at the Bridge, while their competitors will all have returned to training yesterday with creases to iron out
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        98 42 How unlucky is Valeri Bojinov? The Bulgarian missed most of last season with a knee injury and was set to start for Man City against Aston Villa until he snapped his Achilles tendon in the warm-up. He's out for six more months. fy -v ns x.j i fx?
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      • 206 43 THE frenzy of the Olympics and the epitome of sporting excellence every four years descended on Asia in a big way with China as host to this mega Olympics event This year, we are treated to architectural wonders like the "Bird's Nest" and the "Water Cube".
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      • 101 43 The Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt made his mark in an entirely different way. He could have started off 10 metres behind the starting line and still win. He could have stopped at the 90-metre mark for a photograph while waiting for his competitors to catch up,
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      • 212 43  -  Lim Say Heng npsports©sph.com.sg THEY say first impressions count a lot And it is especially true in the world of Premiership football, where players are expected to hit the ground running to justify the tens of millions of pounds spent on them. Over the last weekend,
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      • 69 44 BARCELONA fought hard to prevent Lionel Messi from for the Champions League third qualifying round matches. But the all-action 21-year-old has iHuminated the Olympic tournament as he did when Argentina won in Athens four years ago. Messi scored a brilliantly-taken early goal and set upl* the second
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      • 360 44 ARGENTINA v BRAZIL AFP. ONE of football's combustible rivalries is rekindled with defending champions Argentina taking on Brazil today for a place in the Olympic Games final. The Argentinians, inspired by Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi, have negotiated Ivory Coast Australia, Serbia and Holland to get to the
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        • 558 45  -  Lim Han Ming npspoits@sph.conisg REPORTING FROM BEIJING FOOTBALL purists would argue that this should be the final of die Olympic tournament Any football match that involves Argentina and Brazil is a classic in the making. What a pity that one of the two South American powerhouses will kiss
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        • 323 45 Wire Services. THE young Belgium team have been the revelation of the Olympic football tournament so far. But can the Belgians, who upset Italy 3-2 in die quarter-finals, beat a technically-gifted Nigeria in today's semi-final clash? Belgium played most of the match against the Italians
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      • 455 46 AFP. Y ELENA Isinbayeva of Russia put in yet another masterful display of high-class pole-vaulting yesterday. She bettered her own world record on the way to defending Olympic gold. The reigning double world and triple European champion cleared 5.05 m, Icm higher than her own world
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        314 47 Pressure? AFP. FORMER world record hurdler Colin Jackson said the huge expectations placed on China's Olympic champion Liu Xiang could have hampered his recovery from injury, leading to his early Games exit yesterday. "Just the same as a normal everyday person, if you are stressed your body does not
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      • 295 47 Reuters. LIU Xiang" s Olympic prospects were ruined by China's sports system, so claimed his former coach. Gu Baogang, the man who discovered Liu 16 years ago, hit out at China's treatment of its sportsmen and women, insisting Liu could have been fit to claim his second successive
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      • 148 47 20 Liu Xiang endorses more than 20 brands in China. His face can be seen on billboards and in TV ads pushing everything from local milk to big Western brands such as Nike, Coke, Visa and Cadillac. $1,233 This is how much a ticket for the Olympic 110
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      • 715 48  -  BRIAN MILLER npsports@sph.com.sg AT 11.45 am yesterday, China went into mourning. Heads bowed, shoulders sagging from the weight of expectation gone wrong, grown men walked out of the Bird's Nest. There was pain on their faces which, I reckon, hurt more than the inflamed tendon that put
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      • 761 49  -  LIM HAN MING npsports@sph.com.sg THERE were two words on every Chinese lip yesterday Liu Xiang. From the journalists to the volunteers to the man on the street, everyone was talking about the demise of the man who had become an iconic figure in the
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      • Article, Illustration
        359 50  -  REPORTING FROM BEIJING UM HAN MING npsports@sph.com.sg FOUR years of preparation, all gone down the drain. Liu Xiang trained so hard for that gold on home ground. The 110-metres hurdles final on Thursday was supposed to be his showpiece. But now, he will be remembered as the defending
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  • 276 52  -  IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg YOU can understand why Tottenham Hotspur are so reluctant to let Dimitar Berbatov fulfill his "dream move" to Manchester United. But leaving the Bulgarian striker to sulk on thei>ench is helping no-one. It's time for them to say goodbye now. No-one can sulk like
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