Today, 26 June 2002, Afternoon Edition

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    9 1 TODAY Wednesday 2«, 2002. I MITA (P) 063/1 1/2001
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon US markets slide
      34 1 AFP NEW YORK The Dow Jones industrials closed 155 points or 1.67 per cent lower at 9,126.82, while the tech-dominated Nasdaq composite slumped 36.35 points, or 2.49 per cent, to 1,423.99.
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      Lock icon S'pore is world's second-freest economy
      109 1 -AFP WASHINGTON Singapore is the world's second freest economy, according to the annual Economic Freedom of the World Report released yesterday. Hong Kong topped the list for the sixth time straight, while the United States rose from fifth place a year ago to come in
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      Now, what went wrong?
      716 1  -  Chan Chao Peh Puzzle as SingTel's shares slide IF a company's strength is based on its fundamentals, then SingTel's executives believe that South-east Asia's largest phone company has much to boast about. The past three weeks have seen the company introducing innovative services and highlighting new
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  • HOT NEWS
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      For art's sake
      363 2  -  Kim-Kyna Tan THOSE who turn up their noses at inade-in-Singapore arts had plenty of grist for their mill from this year's Singapore Arts Festival. Negative reviews reinforced their belief that if it's local, it's mediocre. This is not to say that all homegrown offerings paled in comparison
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      Lock icon Andrea sues 4 parties
      133 2 Channel NewsAsia MEDIACORP artiste Andrea De Cruz, who reportedly suffered liver failure after taking Slim 10, is suing four parties linked to the ill-fated diet pill, her lawyers confirmed yesterday. The man who imported Slim 10, Health Biz director Semon Liu, has confirmed that he has
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      The big, big response
      81 3 A TOTAL of 92,000 nominations flowed in from the public for the annual Tourism Awards. The total surpasses last year's tally by four times, an all-time record which the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) attributes to the result of "more intensive publicity". Some 27,870 overseas visitors, an
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      Timetable for change
      505 3  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Dr M sticks to plan, questions remain UMNO'S top leadership yesterday tried to calm a jittery nation by announcing a timetable to ensure a smooth handover of power when Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad steps down next year. The announcement, made after an Umno
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      Watch CNA in HK
      223 4  -  Rosalyn him FROM July 1, subscribers to Hong Kong Cable's digital service will be able to watch MediaCorp's Channel NewsAsia (CNA). The Asian TV news channel signed a Carriage Licensing Agreement with the Hong Kong Cable Television Network yesterday afternoon at the JW Marriott Hotel in
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      Zulfikar case
      62 4  -  Jose Raymond THE court yesterday continued to hear conflicting accounts of fateha.com editor Zulfikar Mohd Shariff s alleged wilful trespass of Tanglin police station on. Labour Day. Representing himself, Zulfikar argued in his closing submission that his witnesses had said he was "calm" throughout the time he was
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      Muddled mind
      354 4  -  Elaine Quek HE started out with an illustrious career in the police force. Billy Ng Chee Sing (picture) was a deputy superintendent and had led the Criminal Investigation Department's Secret Societies Branch. The 39--year-old was also head of investigations at the Jurong division. After leaving the force, he
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      186 2 Tel: 6788 5255, website: today.income.com.sg, email: mkquot@income.com.sg Our motor insurance 'Quality Plan' now offers you 2 options: Discounts s v A5% discount will be given for loyal policyholders who Option 1 nave j nsure d their vehicles with us for at least 3 years, the excess for first two accident
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  • HOME NEWS
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      'Warrior' scholars
      286 6  -  Toh Boon Ngee 79 scholarships worth $30m for defence science THE Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), which received a record 830 applications for its scholarships, awarded 79 local and overseas scholarships yesterday. The scholarships are worth $30 million in total. The 54 undergraduate and 25 postgraduate scholars
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      IDA wins award
      75 6 THE Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore clinched the Explorer Award at the E-GOV 2002 Show in Washington yesterday. IDA was recognised for successfully implementing the Public Service Infrastructure (PSi), which serves as the foundation for Singapore's nationwide e-government initiatives. The PSi delivers government e-services, including the
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      Airport case lawyer fined
      271 6  -  Elaine Quek LAWYER Peter Pang Xiang Zhong was fined $3,000 yesterday for insulting the modesty of a security officer and causing a commotion at Changi Airport. On Sept 18 last year, just before his flight to Jakarta at Changi Airport Terminal 2, Pang set off a
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      Why all this fuss? Can't Asians beat Europeans in football?
      226 7  -  Wang Yixing I REFER to Leonard Thomas' article, "Korea in semis? Disgraceful" (Today, June 24). I do agree that the World Cup has been tainted by bad refereeing. However, I feel that we should not blame the Korean team for
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      Fix that price
      335 7  -  Jason Lee Boon Hong We have little time left FOREIGN Affairs Minister S Jayakumar is meeting his Malaysian counterpart, Mr Syed Hamid Albar, on July 1 and 2 to resume talks aimed at resolving an outstanding package of bilateral issues affecting both countries. The focus of the
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Mediator
      357 8  -  Val Chua Help for bank customers soon CONSUMERS not satisfied with the service standards of their banks can take heart. From January, retail banks here will have to comply with standards set by the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) under the Code of Consumer Banking Practice which will
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      Lock icon CapitaLand shares post biggest gain
      132 8 Bloomberg CAPITALAND shares posted the biggest gain in five months on expectations that Singapore's largest developer will be able to offer higher yields on the proper- ty trust by raising rents and adding more space. The stock dropped 8.7 per cent last week on concerns
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        137 8 The STI rose 27.92 points to 1,565.80. Dealers reported healthy trades from investors who remained on the sidelines. For every stock that fell, over five rose while 280 counters were unchanged. Market participation improved with a volume of 413 million shares traded at $504 million. SembCorp Marine rose 18.5
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        World markets
        58 8 Index Value Change Pts Nikkei 225 *****.47 +25.35 +.24 Hong Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan '.Vid *****.98 3176.90 5316.04 -4B.36 -9.10 -63.85 -.45 -.29 ■1.28 Koren (omp SET Index 755.92 398.6? -12.00 +4.81 -1.56 +1.22 Iclii.'ii i :i Mji 516.96 1.85 -.36 Phils Comp Shenzen 3 Mum hoi 1197.89
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 8 USS 0.5650 LKE 0.3758 Yen 68.747 HK$ 4,4071 RM 2.1470 Euro 0.5616 Rupiah 4,891.8 Bali! 23.677 Peso 28.504 A$ 0.9902 Indian S: 27.631 Won 685.72 C$ 0.8597 Yuan 4.6765 NZ$ 1.1520 HT$ 19.053
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        Commodities
        19 8 Gold uss/si 334.700 Silver uss/oz 4867 Platinum uss/w 562.000 Rubber fining 157.50 ?rilnnil 1420 Brent crude uss/bm>l 24.85
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        Straits Times Index — 10-Oay Chart
        5 8 Straits Times Index 10-Oay Chart
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        SGX most active
        53 8 !y volume lun« 25 iingjsl iembMat 'Food tfesTetli ioly '000 25,795 16,577 15,862 14,340 12,935 (opitnlcnd TRY ThniVillag SlarCrusUSS m '001 12,68! 12,28! 11,12; 10,96' 10.11 iy value lun« 25 )B5 JOB iingTel KBC holered 46,215,700 41,587,940 33,905,970 27,303,220 23,461,120 SPH Venture SIA PFood [apilnlond 21,107,261 20,346,201
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        SGX top rises
        76 8 By$ June 25 Close Changs 5PH 20.300 +0.900 SPH1O0 20.200 +0.900 OCBC 11.800 +0.600 CrealivE 50 15.800 +0.500 Venture 14,200 +0.300 CIIYDEV 5.800 +0.300 5TIEIF*****PV 15.808 +0.279 KepCor 4.260 +0.220 SemhNlnr l.OBO +0.185 Ho Negara 2.380 +0.180 3y percentage June 75 Close Change 3C W*****7 0.020+33.333 Gloha
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        76 8 Bloomberg June 25 GrentEast Close Change 9.450 -0.150 Tronsmarta SemhCorp 0.900 -0.050 1.340 -0.040 Hiap Seng CirPlusW*****7 0.150 -0.030 0.060 -0.020 Armstrong 0.070 -0.020 GB 0.800 -0.020 SingTel 100 SingTel 10 0111 1.330 -0.020 1.330 -0.020 4.520 -0.020 June 25 Close Change HuGCenW*****2 0.010 -33.333 CirPkjsWQ***** 0.060
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      Lock icon CFO to CEO
      328 10 Bloomberg Chartered Semiconductor names new chief CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing, the third-largest made-to-order chipmaker, has named chief financial officer Chia Song Hwee (picture) president and chief executive officer, replacing interim CEO James Nor ling. Mr Chia, 40, joined Chartered Semiconductor in 1996 and has been chief financial officer
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      Negative over Nera
      231 10  -  Francis Kan THE proposed listing of a Nera Telecommunications unit is unlikely to go down well with its minority shareholders, analysts said yesterday. While the initial public offering (IPO) of Nera Electronics (NEL) was initially welcomed, minority shareholders are "unhappy that they have nothing much to gain
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      Lock icon US Airways defers some payments
      249 10 Bloomberg ARLINGTON (Virginia) US Airways Group, the seventh-largest US carrier, has deferred some aircraft lease and loan payments as part of a restructuring plan to reduce cost and avoid bankruptcy. US Airways expects the lessors and lenders to agree to the deferrals on the older
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      Lock icon Japan's new plan to revive economy fails to excite market
      276 12 AFP TOKYO Japan's Cabinet has adopted an economic package aimed at reviving the economy through Budget and tax reforms ahead of a Group of Eight (G8) meeting in Canada. The package, the second introduced by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi this
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      Lock icon Going...
      292 12 Bloomberg Buyer for Sydney airport found SYDNEY A Macquarie Bankled group has agreed to buy Sydney Airports Corp, Australia's biggest airport, from the government to tap growth in the country's aviation industry. The Southern Cross group, which includes the Commonwealth Bank of Australia as a lender and Hochtief, beat
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      Lock icon Joint ATM plan scrapped
      93 12 Bloomberg OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) and United Overseas Bank (UOB) have scrapped plans to set up a joint-venture to manage their off-site automated teller machine (ATM) network because of consolidation among banks. The network, planned before Singapore lenders merged into three banking groups last year, was
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      Fourth FTA
      79 14  -  Chan Chao Peh FOLLOWING free trade agreements (FTAs) with Asean, Japan and New Zealand, Singapore this morning signed its fourth such deal with the European Free Trade Association {EFTA). The FTA was signed in Iceland where Trade and Industry Minister BG George Yeo met his counterparts from the
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      Guarantee
      225 14 Scheme to protect depositors A DEPOSIT insurance scheme is to be implemented in Singapore. The scheme will guarantee depositors compensation up to a specified maximum amount if the banks that they deposit their money in fail. This guarantee is backed by a fund from premium contributions from participating banks,
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Bush drops the axe
      288 15 Agencies Arafat loses US support as President calls for new Palestinian leadership JERUSALEM A fatal blow was delivered to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's position when US President George W Bush delivered his Middle East policy speech yesterday. "Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership, so
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      Only the jury can decide
      247 15 WASHINGTON In a land mark capital punishment ruling, the US Supreme Court has ruled that only a jury may impose the death penalty a decision that could affect hundreds of condemned prisoners. The US Supreme Court said on Monday juries and not judges must decide
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      Lock icon Why did crash plane climb so fast?
      166 15 -AFP TAIPEI Taiwan aviation safety authorities yesterday ruled out pilot error and external forces as factors in a China Airlines crash last month which killed all 225 people onboard. "We cannot find any evidence that an outside force had caused the inflight break-up
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      Lock icon Pakistan crackdown
      88 15 AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistani police have been rounding up outlawed sectarian militants believed to have aided Al Qaeda members in recent attacks against foreigners. The police have arrested 62 Sunni militants in the eastern Punjab province on Sunday and Monday, an officer said. "This crackdown is aimed at rattling
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      Lock icon Tanzanian tragedy
      89 15 Agencies DODOMA (Tanzania) Tanzanians have called for an inquiry into one of the world's deadliest train crashes, which killed at least 200 people. An editorial in the state-owned Daily News yesterday said: "Horrific, horrendous, shocking, grim, ghastly, harrowing, gruesome no words can describe accurately what occurred." The train
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Congratulations!
      790 16  -  Richard Seah You've been slickly duped and there's nothing the law will do about it WINNING as players and punters alike in the World Cup know too well is not easy. You need knowledge, talent, skills, hard work and lots more. Or luck. Why, if you can answer 15
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      Lock icon Hong Kong's new Cabinet fails to win people's confidence: Surveys
      257 16 Agencies HONG KONG Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's newly unveiled Cabinet of political appointees has failed to win the confidence of the people of Hong Kong, press surveys showed yesterday. Mr Tung on Monday unveiled his new ministers in Hong Kong's
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  • UPFRONT
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      Who will get the money?
      702 20  -  Ambiga Raju Tamil film star says it's for the poor actors and actresses BESIDES a handful of business tycoons, the richest people in Tamil Nadu are the movie stars. Many live in opulent mansions and earn salaries that are quoted in millions. Yet, the Tamil
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      'All cats eat fish' and other such fallacies
      488 20  -  Gillian Wong MRS Patricia Koh (picture) is sometimes asked by concerned parents why the pre-school she founded, Pat's Schoolhouse, does not "prepare their young ones for the education system". She responds by recounting the experience of one of her former students who
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      177 20 Do Vov Realise How Much Time Kou Have Lost Thru Sbw floppy Reading? )V$T THtNti wtiat it would n~:n to yn,. if you could read comprehend twfie fasLer than you do now. If you're a itudent you would leam more in lets time, and get better grades in your studies
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  • TIMEOUT
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      Eyes pried open
      629 21  -  Gillian Wong Elangovan's play reveals the cruelty of war IF THERE is anything I know for sure now that I have seen Elangovan's play Mines, it is that I know nothing. The play has succeeded in assaulting the comfort zone in which I function. I had been
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Lock icon He flies to conquer
      396 22 Agencies Travolta to go on world tour to promote air travel LOS ANGELES Self-pro-fessed "airline geek" John Travolta has earned himself a new pair of wings, as a first officer for Qantas Airways. In a ceremony at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday, Travolta got his
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      A plug for paint
      138 22 THE idea for the world tour came from a deal Travolta made with Qantas CEO Jeoff Dixon: If Qantas would return his 1960s plane to its original colours, he would fly around the world to promote the airline. It started with a promotional tour for Swordfi&h
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      Lock icon Lawsuit gets go ahead
      99 22 Reuters LOS ANGELES Actress Jennifer Aniston's (picture) lawsuit against two magazine publishers for printing unauthorised photos of her sunbathing topless will proceed next week, a judge ruled. The actress sued Man's World Publications and Crescent Publishing, claiming that paparazzi scaled a 2.4-metre wall to photograph her
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      302 23 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD Tom Cruise (picture) does indeed carry serious clout where it counts: Among movie-goers. Final figures on Monday showed that Minority Report (20th Century Fox) won a disputed weekend box office victory over the cartoon, Lilo Stitck (Disney). Report, the first pairing of Cruise
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      283 23 AFP MUMBAI The radical chief of the National Film Censor Board, Vijay Anand, hopes to halt the onslaught of illegal pornographic films on cable and satellite television by showing it in cinemas Anand's plan is to set up cinemas that will show only hardcore porn,
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      610 26 Agencies Wimbledon Day Three Live, today on Ch24, from 7pm LONDON Thailand's Paradorn Srichaphan (picture) goes into the biggest match of his life today when he takes on American legend Andre Agassi in the second round at Wimbledon. He is hoping that his growing experience will
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      281 26 LONDON Arsene Wenger has backed England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson's call for a shorter Premiership season but at a price. The players, he says, will have to take a pay cut. In an interview with a French newspaper, the Arsenal manager agrees that players
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      117 26 BEIJING With the National Basketball Association draft looming, Chinese basketball authorities have yet to reach agreement with the Houston Rockets on how often likely top pick Yao Ming will be needed for national team duty. The 21-year-old Chinese centre is expected to be the top pick at today's
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      70 26 BANGKOK Thais are expected to wager more than US$lO7 million ($lB9 million) on the World Cup semi-finals and final, particularly if giants Brazil and Germany clash in the championship match, Thai Fanner Bank Research Center said yesterday. Illicit betting on everything from Thai boxing to fish-fighting is rampant. Some
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      84 26 BRIDGETOWN New Zealand romped to a 204-iim victory over the West Indies in the first Test inside four days on Monday, the first time it has ever won a Test in the Caribbean. Set a massive 474 to win, the West Indies collapsed in the final session, losing
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      54 26 AFP LAS VEGAS Panamanian boxer Pedro Alcazar died on Monday, approximately 40 hours after he was stopped in the sixth round of a World Boxing Organisation title bout with Fernando Montiel of Mexico. Dr Flip Homansky of the Nevada State Athletic Commission said that he died from profuse
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      390 28  -  by Stanley Ho Lim Soon Seng's comeback put on hold after alleged drunken assault HE worked so hard for a second chance in his life. But when he finally received one, former S-League Young Player of the Year Lim Soon Seng laid it all to waste in
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      141 28  -  Stanley Ho SHE may look pretty in a miniskirt and with pom-poms, but Geylang United cheerleader Zeenath Bte Elias will gladly trade them for a jersey, shorts and soccer boots. The 19-year-old administration clerk is hoping that one day, the role will be reversed
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      258 28  -  Kelvin Phang WITH three months left to the 14th Asian Games in Busan, Singapore's chef de mission Dr Tan Eng Liang is quietly confident of a better showing than four years ago. At the 1998 Bangkok Games, the Republic's
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      265 29 Reuters YOKOHAMA Professional footballers are risking injury because they are playing too many games, a leading soccer medical chief said yesterday as he unveiled research on injuries at the World Cup finals. Jiri Dvorak, Fifa's chief medical officer at the tournament, said there had been an increase
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      269 29 Reuters LONDON David Beckham is confident that England can build upon the experience gained at this year's World Cup by winning the European Championships in two years. England lost 2-1 to Brazil in a quarter-final on Friday, but the team captain said in The
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      251 29 Brazil v Turkey Prediction: IX2: Turkey is a good side but Brazil has too much class. Brazil to win in 90 minutes. i* 1/2 Goal: Close game. Small bet on Turkey at 1 1/2). Total Goals: 2 or 3 goals. Team news: Brazil: Ronaldinho is suspended. Jiitlier Juninho
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      600 30 Agencies But its greater desire will slay the giant, says coach I World Cup semi-final I Live today, Cho Ch2s-28, 7.30pm I SAITAMA Turkey coach Senol Gunes says love, not revenge, will be the over-riding emotion when his team takes on Brazil in their World Cup semi-final
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      353 30 SAITAMA In comical contrast to his feisty compatriots from Brazil's travelling media circus who started trading punches yesterday while waiting for the players, Ronaldo has been the picture of happiness and serenity during this World Cup. The star striker has
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      648 31  -  Leonard Thomas Turks are good, but Brazil is an unstoppable force now 1 |^Tl||B3ril€l,T I Leonard's take: Brazil 2 Turkey 0 IT IS incredibly sexy. It gyrates and sways, a hynotic beat accompanying moves that get hotter and hotter and increasingly frenzied. Unique to Brazil, the
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      230 31 -AFP SAITAM A Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari is being tipped to spring a surprise on Turkey for their World Cup semi-final here today by unveiling a newlook strike partnership. Scolari has been forced to reshuffle his attacking options following the suspension of
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      557 33  -  S. Murali T^rP^T^^^l German machines triumph, as usual THERE are many giant-killers in the world these days, as this World Cup has proven so convincingly. But there is only one side that can truly assume the name of minnow-killer Germany. Last night, in front of 65,625 screaming
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      82 33 Reuters SEOUL With the eyes of the world upon him Swiss referee Urs Meier delivered a top class display in yesterday's World Cup semi-final, won 1-0 by Germany against South Korea. Indeed, it went some way to restoring the reputation of the heavily criticised match officials in this
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      641 34 Rudi Voeller's side ends Korean dream run in clinical style [World Cup semi-final Germany's first World Cup final as a unified nation SEOUL A little more than nine months ago, German football hit a new low when the team was blitzed in fortress Munich by bitter rival
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      446 35 SAO PAULO So, it turns out the Italian daily Gazzetta Detto Sport was right all along: the World Cup had in fact been rigged. The Italians' conspiracy theory is this: Brazil and Germany will meet in the final this Sunday. As they explain, it's the only
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