Today, 9 May 2003

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    8 1 TODAY Friday May 9, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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    Some gentle home truths
    662 1  -  Elisia Yeo in Washington Friend to friend, PM speaks his mind to the US by elisia@newstoday.com.sg THERE is a saying for those who are interested in social or political change: You either work within the system or outside of the system. As far as the United
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    Arts Fest junks the bug connection
    440 1  -  Yong Shu Chiang Singapore Jlrts Festival 2003 changed its marketing tagline from "Be Bitten by the Arts Bug" to Impressions". BE Bitten By the Arts Bug. As an advertising tagline in these times of Sars, it was a little unfortunate The Singapore Arts Festival
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Common foe
      609 2  -  Ng Boon Yian and Lee Ching Wern M'sia worried about Sars spread from Spore by boonyian@newstoday. com, sg PANIC leads to finger-pointing. So, as viral jitters hit Malaysia after at least six more probable and suspect Sars cases were reported since the weekend, fearful glances were being thrown
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      Lock icon Stickers to keep the blues away
      384 2  -  Grace Tay by grace@newstoday.com.sg YOU may get a sticker at some stores today and it's not because you have passed a temperature check. At over 350 stores operated by the Dairy Farm Singapore group, customers and staff will be given "Rainbow" stickers with brightly-coloured
      WONG KHING CHONG  -  384 words
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      Baghdad blogger Salam Pax back
      166 3  -  Tan Hui Leng AFTER more than a month of silence, Baghdad blogger Salam Pax is back. Posting through a New York blogger via e-mail, Salam's journal at http://dear_raed. bbgspot. c om was updated yesterday, with excerpts of life during and after the war. In his
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      Lock icon Anwar to attend wedding
      98 3 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's prison department has agreed to allow jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim to attend his daughter's wedding ceremony after all. Anwar will be taken to the appeal court early today for a bail application pending his appeal to the country's highest Federal Court against
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      Lock icon Top marks for the caretaker PM
      307 3 Agencies Mahathir heaps praise on Abdullah's leadership BINTULU (Malaysia) The report card for the performance of Malaysia's Prime Minister-in-waiting, Mr Abdullah Badawi, is out: Passed with flying colours. That was the all-important thumbs-up from Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday for his deputy's two-month stint
      – Agencies; Reuters photo  -  307 words
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Missing link
      404 4  -  Lee Ching Wern No proof Singapore exported Sars virus: Dr Balaji by chingwern@newstoday.com.sg IN the eyes of the world, Singapore may be part of the "Sars Club", together with China and Hong Kong. But what is less well-known is that the Republic does not appear to be an
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      NE Line fares higher
      222 4  -  -Joy Frances COMMUTERS might welcome news from the Public Transport Council that bus, SMRT and LRT fares will remain the same. But, they could baulk at the new fare structure for SBS Transit's North East Line which has made adult fares, on average, 16.5 cents higher
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      Lock icon No secret agenda
      598 6  -  Tan Hui Leng Government researchers going all out to find cure for Sars by huileng@newstoday.com.sg AS the race to find a Sars diagnostic test, vaccine or cure hots up, private biotech companies here are still very much on the sidelines. When this newspaper first asked why these
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  • LETTERS
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      Good stuff?
      226 8  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming Health products and all those claims I REFER to Sherwin and Jeanette Tng's letter, "Scary, this health risk" (Today, May 8), which voiced their concerns about the regulation of dietary supplements in the light of the mass recall of such products recently. I have
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      Diners can ask for serving spoons
      94 8  -  Chiam Yeow Khong WE refer to the letter, "It's in the saliva" (Today, April 29). We agree it is prudent to adopt good hygiene practices. The National Environment Agency (NEA) has informed all food establishments to provide serving spoons for dishes that are to
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      The sad price of honesty?
      140 8  -  Paul Antony MY wife was one of the staff nurses at the Singapore General Hospital who was admitted to Tan Tock Seng Hospital. She had a fever and was suspected to have Sars. She has since recovered and is now under home quarantine. As a
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Tide set to turn
      272 10 -AFX-Asia Sing Tel set for 'positive earnings' growth SINGTEL is expected to return to positive earnings growth in the current year to March next year, ending a two-year slide as its overseas investments begin to pay off, analysts said. Sing Tel will remain saddled with debts
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      Lock icon Hard for UOB to get out
      154 10 Bloomberg UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) chairman Wee Cho Yaw said the Singapore lender cannot walk away from its unprofitable Philippines unit, even though a year-long row with former shareholders makes the proposition tempting. Singapore's No 2 bank is embroiled in a dispute over its
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      Lock icon Creative profits plunge
      77 10 Reuters CREATIVE Technology, the world's largest computer sound card maker, reported a plunge in quarterly profits yesterday due to soft demand for computers and said earnings would fall further. The company expects earnings per share for the three months to June 30 to fall to five US
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        73 10 SINGAPORE share prices closed firmer despite overnight falls on Wall Street as easing concerns over the spread of Sars continued to boost investor confidence, dealers said. The STI closed 10.39 points higher at 1,317.91. Volume was 1.082 billion shares valued at $482,154 million. Gainers led losers 249 to 52,
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        Lock icon Straits Times Index Intraday Chart
        38 10 -AFZ-Asw with other actively-traded stocks like Gul Technologies, Add Value, GES International and New Wave Technologies, it had been asked by the SGX to explain the surge in their share prices and volumes.
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        SGX most active
        59 10 iy volume Aay 8 UniFiber Chartered BIE Intl NWTech DatacrftUSS L&M Strike TTInt ACCS GES Close 0.125 0.805 0.655 0.205 0.635 0.010 0.040 0.285 0.420 0.330 Change +0.045 -0.005 +0.055 +0.055 +0.015 +0.005 +0.005 +0.010 +0.025 +56.3 -0.6 +9.2 +36.7 +2.4 +14.3 +1.8 +2.4 +8.2 '000 202,836
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        World markets
        55 10 Index Value Change Pts Nikkei 225 8031.55 -78.22 -0.97 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd 8901.05 2927.50 4191.25 11.83 -16.70 -84.66 0.13 -0.57 -1.98 Korea Comp SET Index 618.08 378.20 13.75 -1.25 2.28 -0.33 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzen B 471.12 1078.32 212.37 -2.01 0.42 0.45 -0.43 0.04
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5750 0.3590 66.914 4.4842 2.1849 0.5060 4927.4 24.409 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 29.987 0.9036 27.158 689.15 0.8087 4.7588 1.0119 19.962
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        16 10 SGX Sold us$/oi iilver us$/oi 11.35 4.71 Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne I uu.. 145'
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        SGX top rises
        79 10 By$ May 8 Close Change C&C 4.720 +0.200 JMH400USS 6.100 +0.200 UOB 10.700 +0.200 By percentage May 8 Close Change GulTech W*****7 0.050 +100.0 Globa 0.025 +66.7 NWTech W*****1 0.110 +57.1 CSA 1.130 +0.110 UniFiber 0.125 +56.3 DBS Bk6% NCPS *****.000+0.100 BBR 0.015 +50.0 SPH 17.100 +0.100
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        79 10 Bloombarg By$ May 8 Close Change Creative 50 11.500 -0.200 SingamasC 2kHKS 2.100 -0.200 Seaview 5.200 -0.150 SIA200 9.650 -0.100 Sincere 1.090 -0.060 Transit 0.090 -0.060 By percentage May 8 Close Change ChipEngS W*****2 0.015 -57.1 Transit 0.090 -40.0 Goldtron 0.015 -25.0 GMGUSS 0.025 -16.7 Shining 0.050
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      Lock icon Poised for worse
      210 12 AFX-Asia Manufacturing earnings expected to fall 20% THE earnings of manufacturing firms are expected to fall by almost 20 per cent this year as the outbreak of Sars deals a blow to the domestic economy, according to a survey by the Singapore Confederation of Industries (SCI). Citing
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      Lock icon Jet fuel consumption to fall 25 per cent
      165 12 Bloomberg JET fuel consumption in Singapore Asia's biggest oil-trading centre may fall as much as 25 per cent this quarter as the Sars outbreak has deterred many people from travelling in the region. Singapore's consumption of jet fuel may fall to as
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      Lock icon Great Eastern stumbles
      69 12 AFX-Asia GREAT Eastern Holdings Ltd said net profit in the first quarter to March fell to $40.1 million from $80.4 million the previous year as turnover was nearly halved to $883.4 million from $1,725 billion. The company said profit from its core insurance operations fell to $35.8
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      Lock icon CapitaMall contract
      75 12 AFX-Asia CAPITAMALL Trust Management Trust said it has awarded a contract worth $15.5 million to Capita Land Ltd unit, Capita Land Commercial Project Management Pte Ltd, for asset enhancement works at its Junction 8 shopping centre. Junction 8 is one of the three properties that comprise Capita Mall
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      Lock icon Sale above bid price
      78 12 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia's Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) will sell up to 20 per cent of Bank Danamon to the market at a figure above the final bid price entered in the sale of the bank, an agency official said yesterday. Recently, IBRA appointed a consortium led
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      Run for cover?
      325 14  -  Tan Hui Leng Sars could lead to more people buying insurance by huileng@newstoday.com.sg THE Life Insurance Association expects an increase in the awareness of life insurance for the rest of the year following the Sars outbreak even if total new business premiums decreased 31 per cent to
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      Lock icon Corporate Briefs
      308 14 AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia OEI UPS THE STAKE: Indonesian businessman Oei Hong Leong has bought another 20 million shares in BIL International through the open market, lifting his stake in the company to 8.14 per cent from 6.68 per cent. Oei bought the shares at 63 cents to
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      Lock icon 8 banks licensed
      184 17 Reuters MAS gives foreign lenders wholesale licences SINGAPORE'S financial regulator said yesterday it had awarded eight wholesale bank licences to foreign lenders as part of efforts to liberalise the banking industry. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said it had awarded the licences to Bayerische Hypo-Vereinsbank, Fortis
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      US firm questions STT-Global deal
      134 17 NEWARK (New Jersey) IDT Corp, a long-distance telephone company that has been buying distressed rivals, wants the US Federal Communications Commission to scrutinise a proposed sale of Global Crossing. IDT asked the commission to probe whether the planned sale to Singapore Technologies Telemedia, owned by
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      Lock icon SMRT profits up?
      305 18 Reuters Tax cuts to offset higher depreciation, interest expenses RAIL operator SMRT Corp is expected to post a 29 per cent rise in net profit for fiscal year 2003, helped by lower corporate taxes. But analysts said that its financial performance would have been weaker without this
      — Reuters  -  305 words
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      4054 18 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Trie data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services, periodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Although carefully verified, data on compilations is not guaranteed by Lipper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or solicitations to buy or sell
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Reprisals may fail
      373 20 -AFP Tokyo cautious over Pyongyang abductions TOKYO Calls have been getting louder for Japan to impose economic sanctions against Pyongyang over North Korea's abduction of Japanese nationals in the Cold War years. Japanese leaders admitted cautiously that sanctions could be an option but stressed it needed further
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      Lock icon Philippine military accused of conspiracy
      147 20 -AFP MANILA Philippine President Gloria Arroyo yesterday ordered an investigation into allegations by a former American hostage that military officials had colluded with the Abu Sayyaf kidnap group. In her book, Mrs Gracia Burnham, an American missionary who was kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf in
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      Lock icon US olive branch
      294 22 Reuters Proposal gives role in Iraq to UN, anti-war nations UNITED NATIONS The United States is seeking an early lifting of UN sanctions on Iraq that will free oil exports and suspend trade restrictions that were imposed more than a decade ago. US Secretary of State Colin
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      Scandal deepens for Australian politician
      140 22  -  Maurice Perera MELBOURNE Australia's controversial Governor-General, Dr Peter Hollingworth, is facing a new crisis with allegations he raped a 19-year-old girl at a youth camp 40 years ago. As head of state, Dr Hollingworth is under pressure to resign over claims he turned a blind
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      Lock icon Saddam linked to 911
      164 22 -AFP NEW YORK A US federal judge ruled there was a link between the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and the 911 attackers. Judge Harold Baer of the US District Court in Manhattan said the families of two victims of the attacks had convinced him of
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      Lock icon Coming ... robots in the blood
      251 24 Coming robots in the blood -AFP WASHINGTON Consumers around the world are benefiting from advances in nanotechnology as they wear cotton clothes that do not get crumpled or stained and talk on mobile phones that get smaller every year. These products are the first steps in what could become a
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      Lock icon A costly photo op
      353 24 Agencies Democrats blast Bush for jet landing on carrier WASHINGTON US President George W Bush on Wednesday shrugged off criticism that his jet landing on an aircraft carrier last week to make a highprofile speech was an extravagant political stunt. With opposition Democrats accusing the US
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      Lock icon Sexy girls give way to funny grannies
      170 24 Reuters ROME Out with sexy 20-year-old women in teeny-weeny bikinis. Think wise-cracking grannies. Italy's most popular television show plans to drop its regular offering of voluptuous young dancers in skimpy outfits and is on the hunt for the country's coolest woman over 65.
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      716 26  -  Sunny Goh Sars outbreak brings out the worst in its people by sunny _goh@pacific.net.sg WHENEVER I was asked in the past to compare Singapore with Taiwan, the system of democracy in the latter being fashioned after the more liberal American system, I must confess that my inclination
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      521 28  -  Sian E Jay Foreign and young local talents needed, says art head by news@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Milenko Prvacki's exhibition, Construction Site, opened in Pirin, Slovenia last month, he was representing Singapore. It may seem odd for this native from the former Yugoslavia to represent Singapore, but the
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      361 31  -  Serene Foo by serene@newstoday.com.sg THEY lug around books about mathematician Descartes and political philosopher Machiavelli in their backpacks purely by choice. Nineteen-year-old national fencers Aurora Villacellino and Suzzane Khaw have a voracious appetite for books and it is "heavy duty" reading material like these that they
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      461 32  -  Yong Shu Chiang by shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg THE line between noise and music used to be pretty clear to me. Any half-decent composition of notes, played on a musical instrument that's not my guitar or Kenny G's sax, was music. Everything else, such as
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      398 32 Reuters LOS ANGELES Comedian Rodney Dangerfield may not get much respect, but doctors say he's getting a lot more blood flow to his brain these days and doesn't need a humour transplant. In his first public appearance since undergoing brain
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        107 34 BRITAIN'S The Daily Mirror has published the first film review of The Matrix Reloaded. And, quite amusingly, the newspaper is tagging the review as a "world exclusive". Critic Jackie Winter describes the film as "an orgy of highly-choreographed martial arts". Yet, she concludes: "If you're looking for something
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        182 34 Agencies Luhrmann won't compete with Stone THE race between directors Oliver Stone and Baz Luhrmann to get their epics about Alexander the Great out in cinemas has ended before it began. Earlier this week, Luhrmann told The Los Angeles Times: "I am not going to be drawn
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        461 36  - They huff and puff Janice Lee But they can't blow the house down Bringing Dcmm the House (Now showing) FILM REVIEW THIS film dredges up racial stereotypes and skewers them. If you can laugh at the stereotypes, you'll have a good time eventually. Uptight and overworked tax attorney Peter Sanderson
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        181 36 THE DisneyPixar partnership may not be over yet, contrary to reports of a feud between the bosses of the two companies. According to The Los Angeles Times, Walt Disney head Michael Eisner and his Pixar Animation counterpart Steve Jobs are thawing their frosty relationship.
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      427 46 Unlikely offence from Bowen, Ginobili see Spurs thump champion SAN ANTONIO Bruce Bowen drilled a team playoff-record seven three-pointers and scored a careerhigh 27 points as the San Antonio Spurs routed the Los Angeles Lakers 114-95 in the second round of the National Basketball Association playoffs yesterday. The
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      228 46  -  Tan Yo-Hinn Today photo by 1 AFTER an impressive start to the NTUC Income S-League season, the Singapore national under-23 squad's recent barren run continued when it was humbled 3-1 by leader Home United yesterday at the Bishan Stadium. Said coach P N Sivaji:
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      294 46 Reuters MILAN The San Siro Stadium may be home to both Milan teams. But after a 0-0 draw in the first leg of its Champions League semifinal, Inter is convinced it has the advantage going into the return game next Tuesday. It is the first time
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      529 47  -  Stanley Ho Ex-Lions coach and Booth favoured for technical, coaching posts I by stanley@newstoday.com.sg JAN Poulsen's tenure as Singapore's technical director for Goal 2010 ends in July and current national under-23 coach P N Sivaji has emerged as the favourite to take over the post. Sources
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      877 48  -  S Gulam Comment by gulam@newstoday.com.sg If the S-League wants more media coverage, forget the party-line stuff... WHY is there so much interest in the English Premier League? Why do fans swear allegiance to Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur or even Derby County? And not our
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      607 49 Agencies Bolton, West Ham know that relegation will lead to an LONDON Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United face arguably the most important matches in their clubs' recent history on Sunday. For the side that falls through the relegation trapdoor will lose millions of pounds in television
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      770 50 Welsh dragon confident hell stay in first team, even if new faces come in 1 MANCHESTER For a long time, it felt like this was going to be the most difficult season in his glittering career. Ryan Giggs, Manchester United's flying winger, was criticised by the media,
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      551 51 Houllier: Chelsea should not get Champions League nod LIVERPOOL Gerard Houllier said yesterday he believes Liverpool's European experience will help it return to the Champions League, reported Football36s.com. Liverpool faces Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday in a crucial final match of the season needing a victory
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