Streats, 2 April 2003

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    11 1 Streats WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com„sg mita <p> m/03/2003 Reuters
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  • 476 1  -  Patient reacts positively to serum treatment, but doctors say it’s early days yet Julie Sim THE mother of “super-infector” Esther Mok has recovered slightly after being given a serum from a blood donor on Monday. Battling with the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) in the intensive care
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  • 51 1 -AFP HONGKONG authorities yesterday said they would move 240 Amoy Gardens residents to two government-run holiday camps in an effort to contain a deadly viral epidemic here. They will get check-ups and free meals in the quarantine camps, said Dr P Y Leung, Hongkong’s deputy director of health.
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  • 74 1 EmpText A HONGKONG teen’s website hoax about the killer virus sparked panic food buying and financial market falls yesterday, forcing the government to deny it would isolate the entire territory. The website had mimicked the online portal of Mingpao, one of Hongkong’s leading newspapers, and posted a
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  • SARS UPDATE
    • 661 2  -  Sars hits karaoke lounges with business dropping about 50% By Choong Choon Yee IT’S not OK at the karaoke lounges. The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) has hit business at these nightspots badly, especially those with hostesses from China. Operators say regulars are staying
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    • 437 3  -  Disease outbreak affects room, function bookings Deepa Vijiyasingam HOTELIERS are getting hit as an increasing number of events are being cancelled and foreigners give Singapore a wide berth because of concerns over the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) outbreak. A check with some hotels,
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    • 690 4  -  Most parents polled by Streats heed advice to keep kids at home B v Zubaidah Nazeer MANY parents, worried about the Sars outbreak, have been firm about not letting their children hang out at malls and other public areas during this 11-day school closure. Of
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    • 695 6  -  MOE’s rigidity hampers students’ all-round education Comment By Lee Han Shih By LEE HAN SHIH The Business Times THE HUNDREDS of top brains in the Ministry of Education, working day and night to cope with the impact of the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak on school life,
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    • 204 6  -  %L Khushwant Singh RACHEL WEE HUAY MIN is barely 12 years old but she knows the power of the written word. Disappointed when she read in the newspapers that the Ministry of Education might take away part of the June school holidays to make up for the
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    • 388 8  -  GLCs cutting back on business travel to Sars hotspots By Julie Sim THE word is out: Cancel or cut down on business trips to Sars-hit countries. This order has been issued from the boardrooms of some Government-linked companies, including Singapore Telecom and SembCorp Industries. But some
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    • 238 8  -  By Gary Lim DON’T be surprised if a Star Hub technician turns up at your home to install your cable TV or Internet line, then whips out a protective mask and puts it on. This is a precautionary measure the info-communications organisation has taken to minimise
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  • GULF WAR II
    • THE PRESS CORPS
      • 770 10  -  NBC sacks one, Pentagon wants the other out B v Elston Soares IT IS rare that journalists become the story. But this was just the case on Monday when two high-profile US journalists got into trouble for their reports on the Iraq war. Mr Peter Arnett,
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      • 210 10 -afp KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government is paying for 30 local journalists to travel to the Middle East and cover the war in Iraq because of biased reporting by Western media. “We want Malaysians to know the truth about the situation in Iraq. We
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    • ANOTHER BLUNDER
      • 611 12 Driver who did not stop initially thought to be a suicide bomber KARBALA Shoot first, ask questions later. That seems to be the motto of US troops in Iraq after four of their soldiers were killed in a suicide attack at a checkpoint on Saturday.
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      • 393 12 Wire services BAGHDAD The coalition forces scored a major coup yesterday when they captured an Iraqi general and took control of western Basra. American forces captured the general in fighting in the Karbala region south of Baghdad, a senior US commander said. “The attacks were
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    • BREAKING SILENCE
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        382 13 After Powell’s outburst, Syria wants allied forces defeated Wire services LONDON Syria has came closer to forging a formal alliance with Iraq, picking up the gauntlet thrown by the HS and declaring that it hoped to “see the invaders defeated in Iraq”. The bellicose remarks came after
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      • 551 15 US wants to open a northern front Wire services Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was °nce reported to have told a key aide fhat should he be killed or taken captive, h would be at the hands of a Kurd. With the war almost two weeks old, the
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  • Morning Rush
    • 499 16  -  100,000 books from shut units to be reused B v Gary Lim IT is the place he goes to almost every day to meet friends and play computer games. So when Faiz Jafridi, nine, heard last month that the Ang Mo Kio Community Children’s Library (CCL)
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    • 140 16 Marion Mae I dropped my cheque without realising it, on the morning of March 6. When I returned to the office, I received a message through my phone mail that a person named “Nick” had picked up the cheque. He said that he had already
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    • 112 18 BUZZSTOP THE Katong “Red House” bakery will have to raise some dough if it wants to move back into the 75 East Coast Road address that it had to vacate last Sunday. Its lease expired last Monday and was not renewed by the landlord, Mr
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    • 128 18 News for the overweight -AFP BEIJING The world's overweight received a message from the Chinese yesterday: Come live on a dusty plateau in north-western China and lose that annoying flab. “The world's overweight could achieve significant weight loss through living in a low-oxygen plateau environment
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    • 157 18 Real estate prices PRIVATE real estate prices slipped to a four-year low in the first quarter of this year, while the cost of resale HDB flats climbed to their highest in 18 months, preliminary figures from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) showed yesterday. Property analysts
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    • 55 18 A Sri Lankan labourer using his cellphone in Colombo’s main wholesale market on Monday. He uses the cellphone with his wholesaler clients. Telecommunications is one of the fastest growing sectors in Sri Lanka and the government has issued licences to 21 operators after opening up the
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    • 151 18 MALAYSIA will not use “water as a weapon” against Singapore despite recent disputes between the two nations over water supply because it would do no good to either side, said Malaysian Deputy Foreign Minister Leo Michael Toyad. Responding to a supplementary question from opposition
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    • 90 18 TWO years before the Malaysian government is committed to scrapping high protectionist taxes, foreign cars already cost less across the Causeway, The Straits Times reports today. The lower prices are a result of foreign car companies reducing their own profits and the government’s gradual relaxation of
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    • 84 18 -AP PHILADELPHIA The message that over-prescription of antibiotics nullifies the effectiveness of the drugs has gotten through to doctors, but they are still to quick to hand out powerful new superdrugs, a study indicates. Overuse and incorrect use of broadspectrum antibiotics pose a serious health threat because this
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    • 89 18 NATIONAL servicemen in the police and civil defence forces can now, like those in the army, take their annual fitness test as many times as they want to in a year. This change, effective immediately, means that a serviceman’s best result will be recorded as his
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    • 87 18 A PANEL drafting an education Bill in Jakarta will retain a clause requiring mission schools to provide instruction in the pupils’ own religion. However, it left enforcement open and said that schools would not be penalised for non-compliance, The Jakarta Post reported yesterday. Panel chairman Anwar Arifin
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  • Financial
    • 589 20  -  Citibank’s cards and credit promotion takes it to the far side By Deepa Vijiyasingam CITIBANK’S business manager for cards and ready credit, Mr Yuen Kam Fai, admits that he is not into adventure trips. The most daring thing he has done is ski on the slopes of
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    • 349 20  -  By Deepa Vijiyasingam PIZZA HUT is hoping to grab a slice of a multi-million-dollar speciality coffee market by converting 17 of its 25 dine-in outlets to cafes on weekday afternoons. Said Pizza Hut and KFC CEO Michael Gian: “We have seen in recent years
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    • 85 20 Bloomberg SINGAPORE-BASED ST Assembly Test Services, the world’s fourth-biggest provider of chip-testing services, said it paid chief executive officer Tan Lay Koon $287,226 last year. The company also said it granted Mr Tan options to buy 2,325,000 shares at prices ranging from $2.20 to $2.89. The options
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    • 102 20 Bloomberg ASIA’S jet fuel demand may drop as much as 10 per cent in the second quarter as concern about a US-led war in Iraq and a new form of pneumonia keeps travellers at home, forcing airlines to cut flights. Asia’s consumption of jet fuel may
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    • 79 20 Reuters STANDARD Poor’s ratings services yesterday assigned an A-plus long-term rating to Singapore Post Ltd (Sing Post). S&P said the rating was based on its dominant market position, low operating costs, robust profitability, and good cash flow protection despite an expected increase in debt and reduction
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    • 82 20 AFP SINGAPORE and Hongkong offer Asia’s friendliest environments for Internet-based business, reflecting their governments’ strong support for electronic commerce, a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) showed. In a global survey of 60 countries with 10 as the best possible score, Hongkong led the region with
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    • 357 22 -AFP SYDNEY Virgin Blue refused to confirm previously flagged plans for a mid-year partial float yesterday, amid reports the airline’s co-owners Virgin Group and Patrick Corp were at loggerheads over the issue. Mr Richard Branson’s Virgin Group wants to stick to the original timetable
      -AFP; AFP  -  357 words
    • 395 22 STI: 1,282.58 14.79 Reuters SHARES ended up yesterday as banks and blue chips such as Singapore Telecommunications gained on mild bargain hunting after tumbling on Monday on worries about the Iraq war and a deadly virus. The Straits Times Index finished 1.16 per cent, or 14.76
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    • 24 22 *AS AT APRIL 1 US$: 551.767 552.795 Ss: RM2.150 Ss: HK54.413 EURO: 551.927 Ss: 66.76 YEN Ss: 24.25 BAHT Ss: 5,030 RUPIAH
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  • Vocal
    • 168 23 I TAKE Tibs service No 61 along Telok Blangah Road to attend classes at the Singapore Institute of Management. The fare for this trip is $1.03. However, I have noticed that I am often overcharged and usually $1.23 is deducted from
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    • 124 23 THE closure of schools by the Government has sparked panic over severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). I know the parents of many of my classmates insist that they stay at home like those under quarantine. Some families even went into selfquarantine. I also know that some of
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    • 48 23 ONLY hospital staff and close relatives are currently allowed to visit Sars patients at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. How do they get there? If it is by public transport such as the MRT, wouldn’t that expose other commuters to the risk? Ning Siong Loong
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    • 47 23 MOST foreign students seldom get to meet their parents and look forward to the school holidays for such reunions. So please do not deduct this period of school closure from our June holidays. I hope the Ministry of Education sympathises with us. Rachel Annabel Effendy
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    • 72 23 THE Asian custom of community eating diners around a table picking up food on a plate with chopsticks should be discouraged for now. I hope the environment and health ministries will advise restaurants to provide individual plates and bowls for each diner. Serving spoons or chopsticks
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    • 112 23 WE refer to the letter, “Improve hawkers’ hygiene standards” (Streats, April 1), and would like to thank the writer for the suggestion. In consultation with the Ministry of Health, the assessment is that such a measure is not necessary. This is because infection in Singapore
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    • 101 23 CHILDCARE centres should refund the school fees to parents for the current school closure. There is no way that these centres can make up for the 10-day shutdown, which could well be extended. This is because the centres also operate during the June holidays. Many
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    • 154 23 I AM surprised that the Energy Market Authority (EMA) has allowed a big, 17 per cent increase in electricity charges from this month. The reason for the increase was explained as a means to partially recover losses incurred through the tariff for the first quarter
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    • 67 23 IT is a truism that when prices go up, they seldom come down to their original levels. With electricity rates up by 17 per cent, partly because of the Middle East war, will they come down again after the war is over? And why is
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    • 85 23 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. We reserve the right to edit your letters for brevity and clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be
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  • Medical
    • 219 24 LONDON Chicken with broccoli or salmon with watercress aren’t just new menu items to tickle jaded palates. They are foods that, when eaten together, can fight cancer. A combination of food components called sulphoraphane and selenium could make them up to 13 times more powerful in
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    • 185 24 QI have had a BCG keloid scar for 13 years. How can I remove it or at least stop it from spreading? A Keloids occur because of increased, disorderly collagen production over a wound area. They can never be removed, but can be reduced in size. To reduce
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  • Easy Streats
    • 529 26 Phil Collins has launched a set of Swatches designed by him and packaged with his single in aid of charity. JANICE WONG was in Switzerland for the event IT may be something to do with age, or maybe the fact that he is reportedly worth US$3OO
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    • 160 26 HONGKONG Cantopop singer and actor Leslie Cheung plunged to his death from the Mandarin Hotel in the territory’s Central district, according to reports in the Hongkong yesterday. Local media said he committed suicide, and Cable TV reported that Cheung had left a note saying he
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    • 96 26 FIRST came the “shocking” news that the sensitive guy in The Pianist, Adrien Brody (yes, we know he was just acting, but 5ti11...) was also A Ranger, a hip-hop producer. Now, Brody will play model, after winning a contract, and will be shot for Ermenegildo Zegna’s
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    • 394 27  -  KymNggets to play bus captain while Bryan Wong and Quan Yifeng team up to run amok around our HDB estates in two new programmes By Yvonne Kwok SINCE yesterday, Toa Payoh’s bus interchange became busier, thanks to the presence of Channel U Ah Jie, Kym Ng. The
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    • 99 28 THE PSI in Iraq must be through the roof. The UN Environment Programme declared on Monday: “There is an urgent need to monitor the air quality, t “The black I smoke (from blazing oilwells in southern Iraq and oil-filled trenches e around Baghdad) that we see
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 56 28 9pm, Channel U Mayou returns to sell fish soup for a living. A connoisseur who goes by the name of Taste sends flowers to the shop on the day of the opening ceremony and orders three special dishes. How is Mayou going to handle the orders?
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      • 69 28 10pm, Channel i New York cop Frank Keller is on the trail of a serial killer who murders men who answer personal ads. The ads are romantically written in poetic couplets but those who meet their mysterious author end up dead in their own apartments with a
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    • Happenin’
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        77 28 THE ELEANOR WONG TRILOGY INVITATION TO TREAT Tomorrow till April 26, Bpm Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel Tickets from $26 to $B6 at Sistic Featuring a trilogy of plays by lawyer and acclaimed playwright Eleanor Wong. First staged in the *****, Mergers Accusations and Wills Secession made a huge impact
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      • 50 28 MENTAL HYGIENE Till Thursday, Bpm Guinness Theatre, The Substation Tickets are pay-what-you-want Mental Hygiene films were shown widely in US classrooms from 1945 to 1970. They were created to “adjust attitudes” among young viewers and covered party etiquette, personal hygiene, substance abuse, venereal disease and juvenile delinquency among others.
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 58 28 If you wish to have your event highlighted in Happenin’, e-mail Streats at streats@sph.com.sg or fax 6319-8191 ome buyers: e C tl--new How many homes did it sell? P«PGT Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg TODAY IN Lianhe Zaobao Surge m number of Slno-S'pore joint-venture proiects& compunies m
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
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  • Sports
    • 314 29 LONDON Michael Owen has seen enough of Wayne Rooney (left) to be convinced that they can form a dynamic duo for England. “He didn’t have long to make an impression on Saturday (against Liechtenstein) but he did get a couple of half chances
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    • 686 29 Little evidence that Eriksson has rediscovered tactical touch Wire services EURO 2004 QUALIFIERS England v Turkey SUNDERLAND It is not just England’s Euro 2004 ambitions that are on the line against Turkey here today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). Since last summer’s World Cup campaign ended with the
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    • 477 30 Silvestre: Soccer’s money men exploiting players Wire services EURO 2004 QUALIFIERS France v Israel PALERMO, Italy France’s Manchester United defender Mikael Silvestre (below) says players have become pawns in the hands of the football money men out to exploit them. Silvestre, here for France’s Euro 2004 qualifier against
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    • 76 30 Group 1 Slovenia v Cyprus Israel v France Group 2 Luxembourg v Norway Denmark v Bosnia Group 3 Czech Republic v Austria Moldova v Holland (1700) Group 4 Poland v San Marino Hungary v Sweden Group 5 Lithuania v Scotland Group 6 Spain v Armenia Northern Ireland
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    • 109 30 BASKETBALL AFP ORLANDO, Florida Philadelphia pulled off a hard-fought 118-113 victory over Orlando in overtime play of the National Basketball Association on Monday. It was a tough and tight game from tip-off to final buzzer. For the Sixers, the win was as impressive as any they had
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    • SOCCER
      • 67 30 THE Singapore Under-23 continued to impress in the NTUC Income S-League with a 3-2 win over Tanjong Pagar at Queenstown Stadium yesterday. Aliff Shafaein (9th min), Faizal Sazali (61st), and Masrezwan Masturi (87th) were the scorers. Fadzuhasny Juraimi (55th) and Hiroaki Tanaka (86th) scored for Tanjong Pagar.
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      • 80 30 Reuters LONDON Losses at Chelsea almost trebled in the first six months of the financial year owing to high player costs and a “moribund” transfer market, the Premier League club revealed on Monday. Chelsea, which operates as Chelsea Village, a business that also includes hotel and
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    • 502 31  -  Terry chosen for his experience and inspirational qualities By Tan Kim Han FORMER Singapore captain Thambiayah Pathmanathan (above) is back in the limelight, minus his soccer boots. Better known as Terry, he will be the players’ spokesman in the new Football Association of Singapore (FAS)
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 57 30 IN THE LIVING ROOM GENERAL' Sportscentre Asia (ESPN Ch23, 8pm). SOCCER: Euro 2004 Qualifiers: England v Turkey (SuperSports Ch22, tomorrow, 2.55am), Spain v Armenia (SuperSports Plus Ch21, tomorrow, 3.40am). DELAYED TELECAST SOCCER: Euro 2004 Qualifiers: Israel v France (SuperSports Ch22, tomorrow, 5am), Moldova v Holland (SuperSports Plus Ch21, tomorrow, 5.45am),
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