Streats, 4 June 2004

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  • 10 3 Streats FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg M!TA (P) 196/03/2004
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  • 623 3  -  Construction firm will cease operations if creditors don’t accept new settlement deal By Janice Wong FORMER Synergy Construction chairman Goh Song How nearly fell off his chair in mid-April when he was informed that the JTC Corporation-linked company was in financial troubles. Unbeknown
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  • 171 3 PARIS When it comes to his daughter’s wedding, money is no object for England’s fifthrichest man. Indian-born steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal will fork out US$55 million (5593.6 million) to rent the 17th-century Vaux de Vicompte, one of France’s most prestigious historical sites, for daughter
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    • 38 3 It speaks well that DPM Lee is only our third PM in 40 years, says PHILIP LEE 'Why not’ make a date with award-winning choreographer Paul Ocampo? Gerard Yeo, 13, shows his potential as he registers another 299
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  • Morning Rush
    • 211 4 Wire services RIYADH Saudi Arabia is closing down a large Riyadhbased charity, the A 1 Haramain Islamic Foundation, that has raised as much as US$5O million (SsBs million) a year and has been linked to the financing of terrorist organisations. The charity’s closing
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    • 134 4 LONDON The German inventor who sued Sony over claims that he pioneered the technology behind Walkman, is now threatening to go after Apple Computer. Mr Andreas Pavel, 57, has been offered several million euros to settle outstanding disputes with Sony, even though his
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    • 404 4  -  Singapore Pools to introduce ez-link payment from August By Chug Kong Ho IT will literally be “tap and bet” at Singapore Pools from August, after the gaming company rolls out contactless payment using the ez-link system at its branches and outlets. Besides ez-link,
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    • 261 4 CITIZENS and permanent residents (PRs) can apply for National Day Parade tickets from today to June 13. The tickets will be for the parade at the National Stadium on Aug 9 or for the preview on July 31. Applications can be made through SMS,
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    • 193 5  -  By Christopher Lim SINGAPORE is set to allow more round-the-clock entertainment at places such as pubs and nightclubs. About 240 such establishments in Clarke Quay, Boat Quay, Orchard Road, Chijmes and East Coast Park are eligible to apply for licences to run 24-hour operations
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    • 359 5  -  125,000 people a day expected to join bargain hunt By Janice Wong RETIREE Sally Liew, 50, was one of the first visitors to the PC Show 2004 at the Singapore Expo when it opened yesterday morning. She went early to avoid large crowds. Ms Liew’s
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    • 351 5  -  A former student pays tribute to his devoted teacher who even paid fees for children who couldn’t afford to go to school Streats i-FO ijj j By Sarah Ng WHEN Mr Vincent Gabriel saw the obituary of his former teacher, Mr Cheong Hock Hai, he
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    • 205 5  -  By Zubaidah Nazeer WHAT started out as a oneoff tournament of activities to lure people out of their homes post-Sars last year has become an annual event. Because of Play Singapore’s tremendous success, its organiser, Gwyndara International, has decided to stage it every year from now
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    • 325 6  -  Prices drop to 10 cents a fruit as stalls compete By Lee Choo Kiong TEN durians for $l. No, this isn’t part of the Great Singapore Sale. In fact, this low, low price is the outcome of a prickly war between two durian vendors
      Ashlelgh Sim  -  325 words
    • 286 6 -ap SINGAPORE US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will today and tomorrow hold talks here with Singapore officials and those of 19 other nations in the region on a Pentagon proposal to help provide security in the Malacca Straits. The US has offered to help
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    • 443 8  -  S’pore’s brightest kids attend top varsity’s first study camp held outside the US By Khushwant Singh SECONDARY 3 student Rosemarie Low, who is attending the Stanford University holiday camp for gifted students, found the experience to be an eye-opener. She said: “In school, they
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    • 130 10 BUZZSTOP SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday urged East Asian nations to support US efforts to bring back stability in Iraq. He warned that if the Americans fail in Iraq, it would have far-reaching implications for the stability and
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    • 154 10 Gus Dur won’t endorse anyone AP INDONESIAN power broker Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday refused to endorse any of the five candidates running for the country’s presidency, including former general Wiranto, whose running mate is Mr Abdurrahman’s brother. “No candidate is up to the job,” he said at a
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    • 144 10 She was offended by e-mail i.-AP AN 11-year-old Japanese girl has admitted killing her classmate with a razor knife after receiving an offensive Internet message from the victim, defence lawyers said yesterday. The court-appointed lawyers have been questioning the girl in juvenile detention in Tokyo
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    • Article, Illustration
      68 10  -  Text and picture by Edwin Koo A Police trainee balancing on top of a pole while performing the Eagle Wing stunt during the Log Physical Training sequence at the Police Academy yesterday. It involves 10-men teams heaving and throwing a 70kg log, and took the trainees two months
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    • 137 10 AFP THE Japanese Parliament yesterday enacted legislation to ban the import of cheap Japanese music CDs produced overseas for the Japanese market. Under the revised law, selling Japanese music CDs produced overseas is defined as an infringement of copyright. The move for the ban
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    • 94 10 FROM July 1, the CPF minimum sum will be increased to $84,500, after adjusting for inflation. This minimum sum will apply to CPF members who turn 55 from July 1 this year to June 30, 2005. CPF members who set aside the minimum sum fully in
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    • 84 10 Bloomberg TEMASEK Holdings said yesterday that a new competition law should be limited to phone companies, the media, utilities and other industries that directly affect the Singapore’s efficiency. The Bill shouldn’t focus on real estate, manufacturing, transport and industries already open to competition, Temasek managing director
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    • 78 10 TEACHER Kenneth Kwok has disproved the notion that the gifted education programme would produce snobs. Mr Kwok, 29, who joined the programme when he was 10, was yesterday presented with an Outstanding Youth in Education Award, which recognises outstanding young teachers. He was recognised for
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    • 93 10 AFP A MAN in eastern Finland has been paid a lottery jackpot of 722,000 euros (Ssl.s million) despite losing his lottery ticket, officials said yesterday. The man went to two retailers for the Finnish national lottery Veikkaus to have his winning numbers confirmed. He then lost
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  • Financial
    • 448 12  -  S’poreans prefer to go to supermarts, shows survey By Choong Choon Yee IT could take another 10 years for online grocery shopping to take off in Singapore. That’s because people here enjoy shopping at supermarkets, according to ACNielsen Research Singapore manager for retailer
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    • 217 12 L. Wire services SINGAPORE The Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC), which manages about US$lOO billion (Ssl7o billion) in assets worldwide, has agreed to buy two buildings being built in the Shinagawa area in Tokyo for 42.5 billion yen (***** million). The buildings,
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    • 177 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE OCBC Bank’s $2.9 billion offer to buy the shares it doesn’t already own in its insurance affiliate is “not compelling”, said Morgan Stanley, which is advising the insurer’s independent directors. OCBC offered 976 of its own shares for every 1,000 Great
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    • 95 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Robinson Co, Singapore’s oldest and biggest retailer, said chief executive Peter Husum is retiring after 14 years at the helm, following the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Oct 19. Mr Husum, 60, will stay on as a director. He will move back to his native
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    • 104 12 Reuters BEIRUT Opec yesterday homed in on an output increase of two million barrels a day, 8 per cent, in a bid to ease oil prices from US$4O a barrel. Delegates said ministers in two hours of talks reached an informal deal on that scale
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    • 137 14 CITY Developments (CDL) has entered into a joint venture with an American real estate fund to develop a five-star hotel (right) in Bangkok. The Millennium Hilton Bangkok on the banks of the Chao Phraya River will have an “aggressively contemporary interior design”, according to a
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    • 413 14 Wire services SINGAPORE The economy is expected to grow 10.3 per cent in the second quarter ending June 30 from a year ago, according to the median estimate of 19 economists surveyed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Gross domestic product for the
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    • 869 18  -  Comment By JOHN DORFMAN Bloomberg HOW does US$4O-a-barrel oil affect your investments? In many ways. If oil prices stay at present levels or rise, chemical companies, railroads and airlines will struggle for profits. For them, oil is a raw material and a major expense.
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    • 326 18 STI: 1,780.88 11.09 Reuters SHARES snapped a five-day winning run to end lower yesterday as a slump in regional markets prompted investors to book profits amid renewed concerns about rising crude oil prices. Chartered Semiconductor and other semiconductorrelated stocks dropped due to disappointing outlooks given by some US peers. The
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    • 24 18 *AS AT JUNE 3 US$: 551.708 553.126 EURO: 552.082 Ss: 64.84 YEN Ss: RM2.225 Ss: HK54.566 Ss: 23.82 BAHT Ss: 5,541 RUPIAH
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    • 285 22 Respected chairman of Paramount unit not comfortable reporting to newly promoted execs: analyst Bloomberg LOS ANGELES Viacom, the third largest US media company, announced that Mr Jonathan Dolgen has resigned as chairman of Viacom’s entertainment group one day after president Mel Karmazin quit and two
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    • 168 22 L, Bloomberg HONG KONG Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong’s second-largest publicly traded lender by assets, is seeking further investments in asset management and insurance companies in China, after buying a stake in Industrial Bank of Fujian. The unit of HSBC Holdings pic paid HKSI.62
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    • 458 24 SABMiller won’t top rival’s sl.2b offer for brewery Reuters HONG KONG Anheuser-Busch won the takeover battle for China’s fourthlargest beer maker yesterday after archrival SABMiller withdrew from bidding for Harbin Brewery, sources familiar with the situation said yesterday. Anheuser-Busch offered US$72O million (Ssl.2 billion), or
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    • 448 28 $20.4m takings for late heiress’items gf I* I I n/ife lit? /rl** m v i Sol* OV wllllhlltJs r Bloomberg NEW YORK Diamonds, pearls and emerald jewellery owned by tobacco heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke, who died in 1993, produced US$l2 million
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    • 179 28 Bloomberg BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has scrapped plans to finance the purchase of a 30 per cent stake in Liverpool Football Club through a lottery because of rising opposition. The Thai Cabinet on May 18 approved a plan to fund
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  • Comment
    • 1002 32  -  By PHILIP LEE AFTER nearly 40 years of independence, Singapore is soon to have DPM Lee Hsien Loong as its third prime minister. When it is considered that some countries change prime ministers like badminton players change shuttlecocks during a match, the political longevity
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  • Vocal
    • 321 34 THREE Streats readers recently raised concerns about education issues such as students returning to school for holiday classes, schools requiring students to seek permission to go abroad during vacation and teachers who work hard to arrange these extra lessons. I am grateful for my teachers and
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    • 216 34 I AM the father of a Primary 6 boy in Temasek Primary School. I learnt from my son only recently that he must attend school for supplementary classes from May 31 to June 9, Bam to 4pm. I tried to arrange school
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    • 180 34 THE Government announced some time ago that it would allow secondary students to study Chinese at a less demanding level. However, I was told recently that for PSLE, out of the 300 points, English and Chinese languages constitute 100 points each and science and maths will
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    • 233 34 I BOUGHT four tickets for the Jose Carreras concert scheduled for Nov 26 here last year. The concert, organised by the M 2 Group, was cancelled as the singer could not keep the date. Ticket holders were told that they would receive full refunds.
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    • 250 34 A TELEMARKETER recently called me on the phone to persuade me to sign up for a dining card at a posh hotel in the city. I was told that all I needed to pay was $2OO for the classic membership, and this $2OO would be stored
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    • 222 38 I READ with interest recent reports about overwhelming demand for natural fuel to produce electrical energy. China has speculated that its coal supplies may not meet demand. Meanwhile, instability in the Middle East has pushed oil prices to record highs. There have in the past
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    • 218 38 WHEN will Singapore wean itself off the dependence on oil? We are often warned about the impact of high oil prices on our economic recovery. The Opec countries say they will increase production, but uncertainty about supply remains. This is
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    • 163 38 I RECENTLY encountered what I see as an unethical ploy that some car dealers use to lure customers to view cars. Their newspaper advertisements said that 1993 models were going for prices ranging from $12,800 to $15,800. Unfamiliar with buying cars, I called three of the
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    • 85 34 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at sfreats@sphxciifi.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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  • Global
    • 191 42 SHANGHAI Chinese President Hu Jintao, unlike his predecessors, is trying out a new system that would include consulting the country’s top intellectuals while contemplating on major policy initiatives. In a major shift from the Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping eras, the present Chinese leadership
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    • Article, Illustration
      39 42 SpaceShipOne, a privately developed manned rocket, will attempt to reach space on a sub-orbital flight over the Mojave Desert in California on June 21. It will be the first non-governmental flight to leave the earth’s atmosphere AP
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    • 387 42 Daughter demands probe into disappearance on eve of Tiananmen anniversary Reuters BEIJING Dr Jiang Yanyong (pictured), the military doctor who exposed China’s Sars cover-up last year, and his wife have disappeared on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen
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    • 170 42 BEIJING Behavioural problems are plaguing millions of Chinese children, a survey has shown. As many as 70,000 minors were held by police last year, up 12.7 per cent year-on-year. Children made up 9.1 per cent of all suspects arrested last year. The survey, conducted by
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    • 131 42 BEIJING China has organised a male beauty pageant scheduled for November, the Australian Herald Sun reported yesterday, quoting the Beijing Weekend newspaper. The Mr China pageant will test more than just outward appearances as contestants will vie for titles such as Mr Honest, Mr Wisdom
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    • 343 46 FBI probe to focus on top Pentagon officials: report WASHINGTON Mr Ahmad Chalabi, the head of an Iraqi exile group backed by the US, is believed to have leaked more top secret information to Iran than was previously thought, US government sources are reported
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    • 206 46 -AP WASHINGTON President George W Bush said yesterday that CIA director George Tenet has resigned “for personal reasons” and that his deputy will temporarily lead America’s premier spy agency until a successor is found. “He has been a strong and able leader at the agency.
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    • 385 48 M’sian PM Abdullah calls for single Asian currency AFP TOKYO Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday called for tighter economic and cultural integration of East Asian countries and urged discussion over creating a single regional currency. “This tidal-wave push towards trade bilaterals, trilaterals and
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    • 219 76 IF you have not visited the World Book Fair this year, you still have three more days to do so. The annual fair features English and Chinese publications by local and international exhibitors, children’s books, comics and stationery. This year, three new sections have been added:
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    • 229 82 -AFP PARIS Anastasia Myskina made it an all-Russian French Open women’s singles final when she defeated former champion Jennifer Capriati of the United States 6-2, 6-2 in the semi-finals yesterday. Myskina, the sixth seed, will play fellow Muscovite Elena Dementieva in tomorrow’s
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    • 154 82 AFP PARIS Britain’s Tim Henman will reignite one of the most intense sporting rivalries today as he pits his stylish English serve-and-volley game against the baseline artillery of Argentine Guillermo Coria for a place in the final of the French Open. Henman has surprised everybody in
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      518 82 Scolari to quit if Portugal falls at first hurdle at Euro 2004 -AFP LISBON Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari (below) has put his head on the chopping block. The Brazilian will leave his post if his talented squad do not get past the first round of Euro 2004
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    • 416 84 Saez turning success AFP MADRID Nobody will be able to accuse Spanish coach Inaki Saez of taking a leaf out of Sir Alf Ramsey’s book at Euro 2004. Sir Alf’s “wingless wonders” captured England’s only major trophy with its 1966 World Cup triumph but Spain, whose solitary success
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    • 226 84 Reuters BERLIN Germany coach Rudi Voeller has taken a gamble by picking teenagers Lukas Podolski and Bastian Schweinsteiger for Euro 2004. Cologne striker Podolski, 18, and Bayern Munich midfielder Schweinsteiger, 19, were included by Voeller in his squad after a 2-0 win over Switzerland in
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    • 383 84 -AFP PRAGUE Wily veteran coach Karel Bruckner finds himself in the spotlight after rebuilding the Czech Republic side into one of the major forces in Europe. Appointed in December 2001 after the nation failed at the playoff hurdle to reach the World Cup finals
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      539 86 Eriksson warns Rooney to control his temper at Euro 2004 Wire services LONDON England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has warned Wayne Rooney that he must control his temper ahead of the Euro 2004 finals or risk being sent off. Rooney struck out after being fouled by Shinji Ono
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    • 405 86 Reuters CLAIREFONTAINE, France Tty time for VIPs, sponsors and fans a$ with cameras has passed at the Clairefontaine training camp. France is now preparing singlemindedly for the defence of its European title. There is still the official squad to be taken this morning,
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    • 123 88 OLYMPICS AFP SEOUL International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Kim Un Yong was jailed for two-and-a-half years yesterday after being found guilty on corruption charges involving millions of dollars. The 73-year-old, once one of the most powerful men in world sport, was convicted of diverting 3.3 billion won
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    • 79 88 FOOTBALL -AFP MANCHESTER Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo has been voted Manchester United’s Player of the Year by the club’s fans. The 19-year-old opened the scoring in United’s 3-0 victory over Millwall in the FA Cup final in Cardiff last month. United manager Alex Ferguson signed him from Sporting
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    • 428 88 English coaches fast becoming a rare breed in the Premiership -AP LONDON The English may have invented football. Coaching it is another matter. England, Spain and Italy have the world’s best leagues. Yet, in the two Mediterranean countries, top players are mostly homegrown, along with a smattering of
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    • 336 88 Ronaldo scores hat-trick from penalty spot Wire services WORLD CUP QUALIFIER Brazil 3 Argentina 1 BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil Rival coaches Carlos Alberto Parreira and Marcelo Bielsa agreed that Ronaldo made the difference after the striker’s penalty hat-trick gave Brazil a 3-1 win over Argentina in Wednesday’s World Cup qualifier. Said
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    • 405 90 DUBLIN, Ohio World No 1 Tiger Woods (right) returns to Muirfield Village to play in this week’s Memorial Tournament confident that he can overcome a slump in form. Woods, who won his eighth major at the US Open in 2002 but failed in his
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    • 323 90 AP EL SEGUNDO, California Shaquille O’Neal bills the NBA Finals as the Fantastic Four against the Wallace Guys and believes they will be one of the most watched ever. The Lakers’ big man probably did not watch the Eastern Conference finals, where the emphasis
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      501 90  -  Schoolboy, 13, just one pinfall from a perfect game on two occasions By* Gary Lim HE is only 13 years old, but bowler Gerard Yeo (below) has already missed playing a perfect game by a whisker on two occasions. Both times, he totalled 299, just one pinfall short
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