Streats, 9 November 2004

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  • 12 1 Streats TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2004 website: www.streats.com,sg# e-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MICA (P) 196/03/2004
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  • 273 1  -  By Chua Kong Ho THE Government has been discussing raising the mandatory retirement age from the current 62 years, in view of the predicted increase in <*he life expectancy of the average Singaporean, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday. He said that the Cabinet
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  • 512 1 US, Iraqi troops prepare to clear besieged town of terrorists Wire services BAGHDAD Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi yesterday gave the go-ahead to clear Fallujah of “terrorists” after the first wave of 20,000 US and Iraqi troops thundered into the rebel stronghold, killing
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    • 87 1 IV i- > olden dream GYMNAST LIM HEEM WEI MAY SKIP SCHOOL IN BID FOR SEA GAMES GLORY PAGE 33 “DIRT POOR” TWINS SPOT ON WITH CHAIN OF SALONS FOR MEN PAGE 10 124,678 guests flown to/from Changi Airport Uti jr 9 Si 111 Direct flight from Singapore Phuket 1
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  • Morning Rush
    • 302 2 Asia should brace itself: US economist -AFP BEIJING China and other Asian economies should brace themselves for possible severe trade friction with the United States due to large American trade deficits, a top US economist said yesterday. The spectre of a more protectionist
      -AFP; AFP  -  302 words
    • 255 2 AS the greenback continues to slide against the Singapore dollar, it will be cheaper for Singaporeans to visit places such as Malaysia, China and Hong Kong. In fact, to any country whose currency is pegged to the US dollar. The local currency rose
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    • 331 3  -  Women here want more voice in Parliament, PAP poll shows By Sharlene Tan POLITICS here is too maledominated and more women should be MPs and ministers, Singapore women aged 40 and below said in a survey initiated by Dr Amy Khor. “The survey confirms what many have
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    • 225 3 LONDON Could this be the ultimate in reality TV? Making love on camera while a sex guru watches and gives tips on improving performance. This is what Britain’s Channel 4 has on offer with its late-night show Sex Inspectors, national daily The Observer reported
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    • 307 3 VOLUNTEER charitable movement Food From The Heart, the mobile breadline that collects leftover bakery goods and gives them to the poor, has started a toy project for needy kids. For this festive season, it will give away a collection of 4,000 toys to children
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    • 417 4  -  Unionists raise concern of losing talent to rivals By Chug Kong Ho SINGAPORE Airlines must pay competitive wages in order to attract and retain talent in the face of increasing competition, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday in his second meeting with
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    • 205 4 SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s ongoing visit to Indonesia was yesterday hailed by its president as proof of strong ties between the two countries. Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pointed out that Mr Lee had come for his inauguration on Oct 20 and was now the
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    • 122 4 AMSTERDAM Dutch doctors at Leiden University transplanted the ovary of a woman, who was being treated for cancer, into her arm to save her fertility, reported BBC News yesterday. Dr Carina Hilders and her colleagues claim that this technique keeps the ovary whole and
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    • 311 6  -  By Gary Lim THE Singapore flag will be soon be flapping at one of the world’s most prestigious international yachting events. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and Clipper Ventures pic yesterday announced the signing of a sponsorship agreement that will see Singapore joining the Clipper
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    • 435 6  -  By SarahNg HUMOUR coach Jim Winter says that laughter is not only the best medicine, but also the best classroom assistant a teacher can have. Mr Winter, 53, was in Singapore yesterday to conduct a seminar on how humour can promote effective learning. He told Streats:
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    • 149 8  -  BUZZSTOP Khushwant Singh SOMEWHERE in Singapore a tiger and a Malayan sun bear are reportedly being kept as pets. And an animal rights group is offering a $l,OOO reward for information leading to the confiscation of
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    • Article, Illustration
      36 8 A Malaysian Hindu woman having her hand painted with henna in Kuala Lumpur as she prepares to celebrate Deepavali, the festival of light, which marks the victory of good over evil, on Thursday Reuters
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    • 138 8 Taiwan dispute could be a trigger -AFP JAPAN has determined that China will become Asia’s top military power and charted out scenarios for a Chinese attack against Japan which could be triggered by disputes over Taiwan or energy resources. Kyodo News agency yesterday reported that
      -AFP  -  138 words
    • 129 8 Poll identifies weak areas TO develop successful brands, Singapore companies need to work harder on areas such as human resources, leadership and culture, the results of a survey indicate. Singapore-based brand consultancy Brand Hub polled more than 200 executives and managers from more than 30
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    • 143 8 S pore, M’sia govts to study findings THE independent experts appointed to investigate the effects of reclamation works around Pulau Tekong have submitted their final reports to both the Singapore and Malaysian governments, The Straits Times reports today. In a joint press statement issued yesterday, both governments
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    • 91 8 -AFP A TREATMENT which enables damaged spinal cords to be regrown in mice was announced yesterday by University of Melbourne researchers. Details of the breakthrough are to be published in the Journal of Neuroscience tomorrow. The mice regained their full stride length within three weeks of injury
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    • 106 8 MORE than 1,000 people crowded under a Clementi apartment block yesterday to bid farewell to Huang Na, the eight-year-old girl whose disappearance on Oct 10 moved the nation, The Straits Times reports today. Her body was found stuffed into a small cardboard box in Telok Blangah Hill
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    • 81 8 ABOUT 80 residents of Block 223 in Toa Payoh were evacuated from their homes early yesterday morning after a fire broke out on the 20th storey, The Straits Times reports today. Four children were treated for smoke inhalation. When firefighters arrived just after 5.30 am, they
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    • 93 8 -AFP CHINA yesterday ordered restrictions on the indiscriminate use of farmland for other purposes in a bid to maintain its dwindling acreage and protect farmers. Urban residents are prohibited from buying agricultural land to build new homes, according to regulations issued by the Ministry of Land and
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  • Financial
    • 641 10  -  Chris Chm landed in Britain in 1990 with just $2 in his pocket and a dream he shared with his twin Adam. Now they are running a s2m-a-year chain of salons for men I I repreneurs^ Janice Wong IF you did a double take when looking at the
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    • 130 10 SINGAPORE The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) is holding a forum on the Government’s casino proposal on Nov 17. There will be four sessions. The first session sketches out the Government proposal in detail and invites discussion of other ideas on how the proposal can be
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    • 116 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines Ltd and its regional unit Silk Air Pte will increase a fuel surcharge levied on all flights to help cover a rise of 37 per cent in jet-fuel costs since June. The surcharge for flights between Singapore and South-east Asian destinations will
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    • 140 10 Reuters SINGAPORE The smallest of Singapore’s three cellphone operators, Star Hub Ltd, narrowed losses in the third quarter on a rise in market share and drop in capital spending. Star Hub reported a net loss of $700,000 in the three months to Sept 30, compared with a
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    • 295 12  -  Govt unveils 3-pronged approach By Khushwant Singh THE Government is adopting a three-pronged approach to developing the maritime legal services sector here. This approach will entail: Building on Singapore’s maritime legal expertise; Ensuring that regulatory policies are conducive to growth in maritime legal
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    • 148 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Cosco Corp Singapore Ltd, a bulk carrier and ship-repair unit of China’s biggest shipping company, said third-quarter profit rose 73 per cent, driven by its Chinese shipyards and record demand for bulk ships. Net income increased to $12.1 million, or
      – Bloomberg  -  148 words
    • 238 14 -AFP HONG KONG Nine Asians, including Ms Ho Ching, executive director and chief executive of Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, are in the Wall Street Journal’s list of the world’s top 50 businesswomen, announced yesterday. Ms Xie Qihua, chairman of China’s Shanghai Baosteel
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    • 535 14 Monet painter and marketing genius T I i -AP ZURICH His impressionist landscapes gave him worldwide fame. But Claude Monet was also a brilliant art market strategist who knew how to manipulate the media. New perspectives on Monet’s work are offered at the Kunsthaus, Zurich’s prestigious Museum of Fine Arts,
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    • 159 14 Bloomberg MELBOURNE Gold futures yesterday traded at their highest since December 1988 after rising as the US dollar fell against the euro, increasing the appeal of the metal as an alternative investment to the US currency. The dollar traded at an alltime low
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    • 141 14 STI: 2,009.96 5.81 SHARES reversed early gains to end lower yesterday, weighed down by losses in Sing Tel and Venture Corp. The Straits Times Index was down 5.81 points, or 0.29 per cent, at 2,009.96. Sing Tel, which fell 2.5 per cent to $2.30, has been under selling pressure since
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    • 24 14 *AS AT NOV 8 US$: Ssl-653 553.070 EURO: 552.144 Ss: 63.72 YEN Ss: RM2.298 Ss: HK54.701 Ss: 24.66 BAHT Ss: 5,451 RUPIAH
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  • Comment
    • 738 16  -  By VIKRAM KHANNA The Business Times ON Sept 22, 1985, a landmark meeting on currencies took place at the Plaza Hotel in New York. The aim of the meeting, which was attended by representatives from the US, Japan, France, Germany and the United Kingdom,
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  • Vocal
    • 234 18 I REFER to the letters, “Defining disposable income”, by Mr Leong Sze Hian, and “SRS insurance bonus”, by Ms Jane Wong (both in Streats, Nov 3). Mr Leong has himself pointed out that the definition of disposable income is “the amount of income left
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    • 138 18 I REFER to the letter, “HDB 2nd loans: More info, please” (Streats, Nov 4), by Mr Allen Neo. Second-timers who are downgrading from a private property to an HDB flat are not eligible for a second HDB concessionary rate loan. Nevertheless, for those who
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    • 177 18 WE refer to the letter, “Why no feeder bus?” (Streats, Nov 1), by Ms Norida Ibrahim, and we would like to thank her for the feedback. We take this opportunity to advise commuters that they can take service 154, which connects Eunos interchange to
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    • 52 18 THE elegant white marble used to form the underground walkway being installed at Raffles MRT station looks good but is impractical. The new flooring appears to be slippery and will definitely cause people to fall where thousands pass daily. Can the authorities look into this?
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    • 180 18 I REFER to the letter, “Slapdash mail delivery” (Streats, Nov 3), by Ms Sahyah Mohamed. We are deeply concerned to learn of Ms Sahyah’s experience with the mail delivery service at Block 964 Hougang Avenue 9. We would like to assure Ms Sahyah that our neighbourhood
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    • 85 18 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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  • Global
    • 413 20 144 university lecturers issue open letter to Thai prime minister, seeking redress for deaths at Tak Bai AP BANGKOK Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday shrugged off a demand by 144 university lecturers that he publicly apologise for the deaths of 85 Muslims at the hands
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    • 183 20 -AP MAE SOT, Thailand A guerilla group with close ties to Myanmar’s recently ousted prime minister detained about 20 government soldiers after a brawl near the Thai border. Members of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army rounded up the soldiers late Sunday after they allegedly beat two
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    • 216 20 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim wants opposition leaders who championed his cause during his six-year imprisonment to seek new issues to keep them politically relevant, party officials said yesterday. On Sunday, Datuk Seri Anwar held his first meeting since his release from
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    • 192 20 AP SYDNEY The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said yesterday that he hoped Iran would suspend its nuclear enrichment and reprocessing programmes following a tentative deal over the weekend with France, Germany and Britain. Mr Mohamed Elßaradei also said the world must hurry to
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    • 389 22 Palestinian leader’s wife accuses aides of plot to ‘bury him alive’ Reuters RAMALLAH, West Bank Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie and former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas were expected to arrive in France yesterday evening to be with ailing Yasser Arafat, a senior Palestinian
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    • 144 22 PREVIEW TALK 17 th (Wed) Nov 04, 7pm By Mr. Ravindra Naidu Digging into Human Minds K Diploma in Applied Psychology Principles of Psychology I Principles of Psychology II Human Growth and Developmental Psychology Psychology of Learning Emotional Motivation and Intelligence Principles of Social Psychology Specialist Diploma in Applied Psychology
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  • Medical
    • 278 24 IT was an unusual meeting of minds last month a team of scientists and Tibetan Buddhist monks gathered in the Dalai Lama’s home in Dharamsala, India, to discuss neuroplasticity. This refers to the brain’s recently-discovered ability to change its structure and function,
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  • Driving ambition
    • 425 25 A trend is suddenly visible in Japan’s car market elderlyfriendly cars with wheelchairs and seats that swivel JAPANESE carmakers are speedily ditching an American maxim that it is better to try to sell an old man a young man’s car than the other way around.
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    • Article, Illustration
      57 25 SOME people will do anything for a Mercedes Benz 240 Diesel. Even die for it, we presume. This grave marker at Linden Park Cemetery, New Jersey is perfect example. A fiill-sized MercedesBenz sedan carved from a single block of granite parked right next to the tomb,
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    • 77 25 Bloomberg HONDA Motor Co, the first Japanese carmaker to set up factories in China, said yesterday that it is considering a plan to expand production there. Honda, which has two factories with combined annual capacity to make up to 270,000 Accord, Fit, Odyssey and CRV vehicles,
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    • 66 25 -AP WITH more than 600,000 Fiat 500 s still out on the roads, two Italian senators are pushing a Bill to make sure that the Fiat 500 isn’t done in by modem anti-pollution laws. Senators Cesare Salvi and Luciano Magnalbo want the car and others
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  • EasyStreats
    • Article, Illustration
      686 26 American film-maker Jason Wishnow, who was here for digital film festival Resfest, tells SHARLENE TAN about his recent short film, a veggie version of Oedipus RICS INSTEAD of being swarmed by paparazzi and fervid fans, the Los Angeles studio where short film I Oedipus was shot was plagued
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    • 380 27  -  nUCK) 't Amy Van FEEL like tucking into something Indian for Deepavali? From Friday to Nov 21, Mirchi at Esplanade Mall will feature a special menu in conjunction with Kalaa Utsavam Indian Festival of Arts at the Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, which begins on Friday. The
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    • 501 30  -  By Gregory Leow THINGS are very different for Kelvin Tan these days. The philosopher-songwriter, who led a secluded life for the past eight years to focus on writing music, decided this year to step out of his isolation. The past year was the most intense period of
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    • 396 30  -  In transit JANICE WONG MY father hasn’t any vanities about himself save for one. Every morning, he inspects his thinning hair from every angle with two mirrors and laments his impending baldness. Men’s concern with their hair, or the lack of it, bewilders
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    • 110 32 US Weather Service officials in an in-house critique admitted that conservative predictions during Hurricane Isabel, communication breakdowns within the agency and confusing bulletins led Washington area officials to underestimate the tidal flooding. Isabel, which hit last year, is considered one of the area’s most destructive natural
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    • Happenin’
      • 57 32 PETER HUANG’S FAREWELL CONCERT Friday and Saturday, Bpm Chamber, The Arts House Tickets at $3O from the box office Songwriter, arranger and performer Peter Huang performs original compositions in various styles and instrumentation in this concert of piano, guitar and vocals to mark his departure to Berkelee School of
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      • 54 32 OUT OF THE ORDINARY Tomorrow till Nov 30 The Arts House Tickets at s6from the box office The selection of films at this mini-festival represents a range of iconoclastic film-making styles. They include The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover; Immortal and Torremolinos 73. Check www.theartshouse.com.sg for
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 454 32 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com jp AQUARIUS JAN2O-FEB 18 PISCES ,S| F£B 19-MAR2O Distraction is good for you. Instead of idly bouncing off the walls, your frantic zigzag has a purpose. Some of what you notice now will come in handy later. A few notes will help. What others are
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  • Sports
    • 541 33  -  Gymnast Heem Wei plans to skip 0 levels to train for SEA Games By Lim Han Ming SHE won two silver medals at the South-east Asia Games in Vietnam last year. But it is the elusive gold that national gymnast Lim Heem Wei, 15, is eyeing in
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    • 299 33  -  By Tan Kim Han HE won three S-League titles with Geylang United (2001) and Singapore Armed Forces FC (1997, 2002). Next season, seasoned defender Winston Yap’s next stop could be S-League newcomers Paya Lebar Kovan FC (PLKFC). The strapping 28-year-old is one of several
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    • 559 34 Ferguson slams strikers, admits United out of title race Wire services MANCHESTER Frustrated Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has left his misfiring strikeforce in no doubt that there are no excuses for their current pitiful form. The Red Devils drew yet another blank in the Manchester derby on
      – Wire services; Reuters  -  559 words
    • 309 34 -AFP ROME AC Milan missed out on the chance to reduce Juventus’ lead at the top of Serie A to two points when Roma held them to a 1-1 draw on Sunday. Juventus took a five-point cushion into Saturday’s away match against
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    • 280 34 Wire services LONDON Arsene Wenger said yesterday that he has no fears about the future of Sol Campbell at Arsenal. The England defender is sidelined with a recurring Achilles injury and has yet to sign a new deal at the club. He missed
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    • 112 36 BASKETBALL TORONTO Vince Carter drilled a tie-breaking three-pointer with 4.Bsec remaining to lift the Toronto Raptors to a 101-97 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers at Air Canada Center. Carter finished with 25 points on 10-of-16 shooting to help the Raptors to their first 3-0 start in franchise
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    • 135 36 GOLF -AFP ATLANTA Tiger Woods squandered a lead on the final round of a PGA event for only the third time in his career, allowing South Africa’s Retief Goosen to win the Tour Championship by four strokes on Sunday. Goosen, the reigning US Open champion, was four
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    • 72 36 FOOTBALL BUSAN Singapore lost 1-3 to Busan I.cons in a friendly match at the Yang-San Sports Complex yesterday. The Lions went a goal down in the first minute of the match, but equalised through Itimi Dickson in the 39th minute. But they conceded two more goals from counter-attacks
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    • 538 36 Real Madrid striker has no complaints about starting on the bench Wire services MALAGA Michael Owen (below) responded to being dropped in the best possible fashion by coming off the bench to score yet another Real Madrid goal. The England striker was dropped to the bench
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    • 296 36 Wire services VALENCIA Manager Claudio Ranieri tore into his side after Valencia slipped to a 0-1 defeat to lowly Getafe in the Spanish League on Sunday. Valencia have gone nine matches in all competitions without a win and have slipped 11 points behind leaders Barcelona.
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