Today, 22 August 2003, Afternoon Edition

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  • 14 1 TODAY SHARE YOUR FREE COPY Frid&y August 22, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002 I www.todayonline.con
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 344 1 Property market holds its breath for details on CPF cut SINCE Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong signalled changes to the CPF scheme last Sunday, an uneasy lull has descended on the HDB resale and private housing market Potential buyers don't know what the new CPF contribution rates will
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    • 502 1  -  Mr Dennis Lee Stanley Ho Today Exclusive FIVE days ago, the Singapore Open gained world prominence when newly-crowned US PGA champion Shaun Micheel explained that his 1998 win at the Safra Resort and Country Club had given him the confidence to move on to bigger
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    • 131 1 Agencies NEW YORK Fresh signs of a strong domestic economy drove US stocks higher yesterday. Technology stocks led the rally, as a solid gain in the semiconductor sector helped push the Nasdaq Composite Index to a fresh 16-month high. The Nasdaq index gained 17 points nearly
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 512 2  -  Serene Foo Musical's gay wedding scrapped for baptism by serene@newstoday.com.sg YOU can have too much of a gay ending. While the happy spirit of The Wedding Banquet's finale hasn't changed, its storyline has for Singaporean sensibilities at least Instead of the spectacle of a gay wedding audiences at
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    • NEWS COMMENT/NG SHING YI
      • 595 3 Is bar-top dancing emasculating or empowering? AT ABOUT lam, the Tiger beer waitresses at the Clarke Quay pub I frequent broke out into a spontaneous dance in the sliver of space between the live performing band and the tables. No mean feat, involving a variation of
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    • 318 3  -  Val Chua THE poster girl of entrepreneurship in Singapore, Ms Olivia Lum (picture), had lots of reason to smile yesterday. That was because her company, water-treatment specialist Hyflux Ltd, reported a sterling set of half-year results. Net profit for the six months ended June
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    • 141 4 Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO A Brazilian man who went to a clinic to have an earache checked ended up having a vasectomy after he thought the doctor had called his name. Mr Valdemar Lopes de Moraes, 39, entered the vasectomy room when another man, named Aldemar
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    • 274 4 -AFP Jl kingpin denies plotting to bomb summit in Bangkok SYDNEY Suspected Jemaah Islamiyah chief Hambali (picture) has denied reports he planned to bomb the 21-nation Apec summit in Bangkok to be attended by US President George W Bush, The Australian newspaper reported yesterday. The paper,
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    • 222 4 Agencies BAGHDAD Ali Hassan Al Majid (picture), a feared cousin of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein nicknamed "Chemical Ali" for his use of poison gas in attacks, has been captured by US forces in Iraq, CNN said yesterday. He was No 5 on a US list
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    • 141 4 Agencies NEW DELHI The Indian government yesterday said tests of 12 samples of beverages made by Pepsi and Coca-Cola in India, ordered after a pesticide scare, conformed to safety standards. The allegations that the drinks included high levels of pesticides which could cause birth defects
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    • 144 6 Today photo by THIRTY-THREE welfare organisations were invited to view lanterns modelled after popular Sanrio characters like Hello Kitty at the Chinese Gardens last night. The guest of honour was Acting Minister for Education, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Visitors were also treated to mooncakes and a performance by
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    • 305 6  -  Chan Chao Peh Let the market decide, says Dr Lee by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg ALTHOUGH a second pay TV licence is up for grabs, the Government is not going to mandate that there must be a new operator. Instead, the market will decide for itself, said
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    • 286 6  -  Channel News Asia THE husband of a woman who was murdered broke down in court yesterday while being questioned about her. He cried while looking at photographs taken at the crime scene at the Bukit Merah double-murder trial. The family's maid, Sundarti Supriyanto,
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    • LOCAL ROUNDUP
      • 61 6 The Ministry of Health said yesterday that it is closely monitoring the reported cluster of cases of acute-respira-tory illness in Vancouver, Canada. Investigations are still underway to establish whether the cases are Sarsrelated. As a precautionary measure, while awaiting the outcome of these investigations, the Ministry
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      • 125 6 A 38-year-old cleaner was arrested yesterday morning for stealing cash cards from vehicles. The man is believed to be involved in more than 20 cases of cash card theft in Woodlands and Bukit Panjang from June to July this year. In almost every case, the vehicle's
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      • 66 6 FREE gifts and big savings await those who make bookings with Ananda Travel during its trade fair this Saturday. The agency's fourth annual travel fair will be held at Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Level 3 Concourse from 1 Oam to 10pm.
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 425 8  -  Madeleine Chong Haach CEO chooses originality over celebrity endorsements people 1 by madeleine@newstoday.com.sg WHEN it comes to looking and feeling good, Ms Ponz Goo (picture) knows it all. The svelte 31-year-old chief executive officer with the flawless skin and silky long tresses embodies the vision that her company,
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    • 545 10  -  Pamela Pang Jeralyn and her fellow students will move to a new $12m centre at Pasir Ris by pamela@newstoday.com.sg SITTING in a wheelchair, Jeralyn Tan (picture), 13, was all smiles when Today visited her at the Spastic Children's Association School (SCAS). There is much for the
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  • LETTERS
    • 397 12 when there are people who are going hungry OUR wage reforms require something more than what is proposed by our leaders because the lowering of wages may not be sufficient to lure more investments into Singapore in the long run. There is no way we can
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    • 168 12 I REFER to the humour piece, "Laugh or I'll slap you" (Today, Aug 21). Fearful of Dr Khoo How San's threatened "slap", I duly put on a wan smile. Dr Khoo makes reference to "political successorship", and historical past The latest (apocryphal, of course) is that, some
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    • 187 13  -  Yak Chin Hua It's possible if Govt relaxes rules on dual citizenship IN his National Day Rally speech, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said that rules concerning the use of the National Flag and National Anthem would be eased further. The PM also said this relaxation is
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    • 167 13  -  Tan Kin Lian THE Ministry of Community Development and Sports is considering helping low-income families by paying part of the cost of sending their children to kindergarten. It was reported that this assistance would be extended only to the parents of children attending kindergartens operated by
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    • 186 13  -  Simon Ng Yap Peng I READ with interest your report, "Heartlands hotel, international flavour" (Today, August 20). It is a good idea for the two blocks of flats along Tiong Bahru Road to be transformed into a three-star hotel to serve tourists from China
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      475 16  -  Tor Ching Li Aircraft systems supplier to expand through IPO by chingli@newstoday.com.sg SPEAKING to Ms Janet Tan (picture) atop Republic Plaza Tower, with a 62-storey-high vista in the background, it is obvious that the sky's the limit for this 42-year-old selfmade chief executive. Early next month, her seven-year-old
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    • 215 16 Bloomberg STARHUB, Singapore's secondlargest phone company, said it will start charging users for its free Internet service from Sept 1. A company spokeswoman cited declining subscriber numbers and reduced advertising revenue as the reasons for the abolition of the free
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    • Market Watch
      • 171 16 Agencies SHARE prices surged yesterday, led by institutional buying in banking stocks, dealers said. The ST Index rose 23.37 points, or 1.45 per cent, to close at 1,635.34. Volume totalled 1.18 billion shares worth $759 million, up from 886.57 million shares valued at $591.37 million on Wednesday. Rising issues
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      • 34 16 UK£ 0.3632 fen 67.83 HK$ 4.4852 RM 2.1851 Euro 0.5231 Rupiah Baht 4,826 23.89 Peso 31.78 4$ 0.8751 Indian Rs 26.35 Won 674.46 C$ 0.8086 Vuan 4.7593 NZ$ 0.9792 NTS 19.69
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      • 65 16 Index Value Change Pis Japan Nikkei 225 HK Hang Seng Sydney All Ords Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp Malaysia KLCI Thai SET Index 10,362.69 10,643.63 3,169.90 5,611.86 754.34 739.96 530.21 +70.63 +168.30 +2.20 +68.25 +17.14 +7.72 +9.11 +0.69 +1.61 +0.07 +1.23 +2.33 +1.05 +1.75 Jakarta Comp 525.583 +6.806 +1.31
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      • 23 16 SGX Bloomberg Sold us$/oz 363.391 iilver us$/oz 4.9; 'latinum us$/oi 698.4! lubber cents/kg 184.50 'aim Oil RM/tonne 1,392.50 Irent crude us$/barrel 29.53
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      • 65 16 By volume Aug 21 StarCrusUSS Goodpack Pac Cent Qtiraya Hotung USS Eastgate SwingMedia Gen Int USS Full Apex PNE Ind W*****8 Close 0.355 0.795 0.275 0.515 0.165 0.215 0.425 0.265 0.735 0.080 Change +0.065 +0.110 +0.025 +0.020 +0.040 +0.040 +0.085 +0.035 +0.020 +22.4 +16.1 +10.0 +13.8 +22.9
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      • 80 16 By$ Hug 21 Close Change DBS 13.000 +0.500 Creative 50 18.600 +0.300 &gt;IA 11.800 +0.300 HOB 13.500 +0.300 5IA2OO 11.800 +0.200 iingamasC 2kHKS 3.725 +0.175 CITYDEV 5.100 +0.160 ISH500USS 3.540 +0.160 CoscolnvRCCPS*****4 1.960 +0.150 )y percentage Xug 21 Close Change 'anpaMedW*****9 0.015 +200.0 (ian Ann W*****7 0.070
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      • 76 16 By$ Hug 21 GreatEast Close Change 10.300 -0.100 KepCorp OUE 5.300 -0.100 7.100 -0.100 &gt;PH 19.500 -0.100 NOL 1.900 -0.090 3B lade 0.775 -0.050 0.365 -0.040 lurEng 2.040 -0.040 Surface MT 1.210 -0.040 Nobel Des 0.110 -0.030 By percent itage Aug 21 Nobel Des Jade Close Change
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    • 201 18 Bloomberg GES International, which makes electronic cash registers for customers such as NCR Corp, said its second-half profit rose 64 per cent as the company cut costs and attracted new customers. Net income rose to $13.1 million for the six months ended June, from $8 million
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    • 392 18  -  Chan Chao Peh Rate change won't affect higher-end market much: CDL by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S largest property developer by market value, City Developments Limited (CDL), expects to sell up to 1,400 residential units this year. The company is maintaining its forecast given earlier this year,
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    • 251 18 Dow Jones NEPTUNE Orient Lines (NOL) yesterday said higher freight rates led to a higher-than-expected US$6B.5 million ($119.8 million) net profit for the second quarter. The world's seventhlargest container shipping company lost U5564.3 million in the same April to June period last year and reported full-year losses
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    • 168 18 Dow Jones COMFORTDELGRO'S second-quar-ter net profit fell 55 per cent to $13.2 million as Sars led to a slump in taxi usage while restructuring charges increased, Singapore's largest land transport group said yesterday. Earnings in the second quarter last year amounted to $29.5 million. The operator of
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    • 192 20 Channel News Asia IDA aims to standardise supermarket supply chain systems SINGAPORE'S Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) is setting up an e-supply chain management system to help cut business costs. For a start, it will test the $20 million, two-year project on supermarkets and their suppliers. Suppliers taking
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    • Corporate Briefs
      • 87 20 Dow Jones has appointed Standard Chartered Bank to arrange a property securitisation which could raise $285 million, said Centrepoint's listed parent company, Fraser Neave (F&N) yesterday. The transaction will securitise the future sale proceeds from Cote d'Azur, a 612-unit condominium project with a 99-year leasehold along the eastern
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      • 33 20 Dow Jones reported a net profit of $4,785 million for the first quarter ended June 30, down from $12,954 million a year ago. Revenue slipped from $63,483 million to $53,482 million.
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      • 40 20 said its net protit tor the second auarter ended June 30 slipped to $19,562 million from $22,823 million a year ago. Its revenue fell to $68,651 million from $70,868 million. It declared a dividend of five cents.
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      • 122 20 Bloomberg a unit of Indonesia's debtridden Sinar Mas Group, said one of its subsidiaries has been sued by Fleet National Bank in the High Court of Singapore for allegedly failing to pay dues of U5533.3 million ($57.8 million). The company had been given a credit line by Fleet
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    • 523 22 Bloomberg It posts first loss in 8 years amid Virgin Blue pressure QANTAS Airways, Australia's biggest airline, said it may start a discount domestic carrier to take on Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Blue. The announcement came after Qantas posted its first loss in eight years in
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    • 482 22 Dow Jones TOKYO Forget market share! How profitable is the company? That may sum up the typical investor's attitude toward a company's ability to expand its market share, in an era when cost-cutting is considered a virtue and the bottom line of a
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    • 337 24 Bloomberg In Shanghai, selling of dollar-denominated B-shares hits index hard SOME holders of US$5 billion ($8.7 billion) in dollar-denominated stock traded in Shanghai are selling and converting the proceeds to yuan, betting the government will allow the currency to appreciate, traders say. Shanghai's B-share index,
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    • 2123 24 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS The 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
    • 315 26 Getty Images Attacks on humanitarian workers rising in conflict-ridden countries BAGHDAD The devastating bombing of the United Nations (UN) headquarters here has brought to light the increasing attacks on humanitarian workers in conflict-ridden countries, especially Iraq and Afghanistan. The destruction of the UN headquarters here
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    • 202 26 Reuters LOS ANGELES With former Secretary of State George Shultz and billionaire investor Warren Buffett at his side, actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged that if he is elected Governor, he would teach California bureaucrats what his six-year-old child already knows: Don't spend more than you
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    • 352 28 -AFP We are not harbouring terrorists, says Abdullah KUALA LUMPUR Stung by reports of the involvement of Malaysians in bomb attacks in Indonesia, Malaysia lashed out at a growing perception it is harbouring terrorists yesterday. Two Malaysians, Azahari Husin and Noordin Muhammad Top, are accused of senior-level
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    • 181 28 AFP BEIJING The World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday it will train thousands of medical workers in China to be better equipped to prevent infectious diseases from spreading in hospitals. The training programme is being introduced as many fear that Severe Acute Respiratory
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    • 180 28 Agencies JERUSALEM -The Palestinian leadership yesterday backed moves proposed by Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas to crack down on Islamic radicals. The move follows a suicide bomb attack on Tuesday which killed 20 Israelis and injured more than 100 others. Earlier, a senior Palestinian source said Mr
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 50 28 -AFP IN AN about-turn of policy, Malaysia is reviewing plans to deport some 250 Acehnese asylum seekers and may instead grant them temporary stay. Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the situation of the migrants from war-torn Aceh had to be given serious consideration.
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      • 50 28 Reuters THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra begins an Asian diplomatic shuttle this weekend to boost trade ties and garner support for his road map to democracy in neighbouring Myanmar. He has also been 3Dearheading efforts to free etained democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
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      • 62 28 -AFP HONG KONG police snared 414 people, 308 of them from mainland China, in an anti-crime sweep yesterday. The mainlanders hold two-way visit permits which allow them to visit family members in Hong Kong. The police said the operation did not coincide
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      • 31 28 Reuters TESTS have shown that the same weapon killed two of the three people gunned down last week by a suspected serial sniper in West Virginia.
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    • 191 30 Reuters LOS ANGELES The story of Elizabeth Smart's abduction and her miracle return is about to hit the small screen and the book stores. CBS has reached an agreement with the family of the Utah teen for a television movie about her ordeal, sources said.
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    • 96 30 -AFP LONDON The British budget airline, easyjet, has unveiled its latest innovation air-sickness bags that can be used as envelopes to send camera film to be processed. In a tie-up with the Scottish-based film laboratory, Klick, the dual-purpose bags have been introduced to most
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    • 331 30 Reuters Washington-based group helps them reconcile sexual orientation with Islam NEW YORK Being gay has never been easy, even in the United States. But being gay and Muslim, especially after Sept 11, 2001, is a unique act of defiance requiring homosexuals to defend their religious
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    • 146 30 -AFP SYDNEY A 90-page book which translates the Bible into Australian slang was launched yesterday. In the Aussie Bible, Jesus was a top bloke who threw ripper barbies. Virgin Mary is "a pretty special Sheila" who gets knocked up with the Big Boss' son,
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 61 30 -AFP BRITISH voters who want to express their views to Prime Minister Tony Blair can now send him an e-mail. The e-mail will be assessed by staff and Mr Blair will receive a monthly report. He will then choose which messages to respond to. Anyone wishing to
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      • 81 30 AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard said he would not sack Minister for Regional Services Wilson Tuckey for the alleged misuse of his position to press for the dropping of a traffic fine against his son, the Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday. Although Mr Tuckey was
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      • 88 30 Reuters "BADA BING",an exclamation to emphasise that something will happen effortlessly and predictably made famous by the hit television show, The Sopranos has earned a place in the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English, which was published yesterday. "Reality TV", "Sars" and "muggle"
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      • 175 54 -Reuters British poll names David Beckham both the coolest and second uncoolest, Briton LONDON Footballer David Beckham topped a list of the coolest celebrities on Wednesday. But he also placed as the second most uncool celebrity. A survey of 18 to 30-year-olds in Britain named Prime
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    • 527 73 Reuters England flattered as Croatia exposes frailties at the back Football friendly England 3 Croatia 1 Beckham in the spotlight IPSWICH There were the good parts, but England coach SvenGoran Eriksson was still left with plenty of work to do after the 3-1 friendly victory over Croatia at
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    • 171 73 Reuters INDIANAPOLIS Reggie Miller (picture) re-signed with the Indiana Pacers yesterday, the only NBA team he has played for in his 16-year star-studded career. Miller, who turns 38 on Sunday, signed a multi-year deal, although the terms and exact length of the contract were not
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    • 325 74 Reuters STUTTGART Germany's woeful recent record against top international sides continued on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) in a 1-0 home defeat by Italy. A classy goal by Christian Vieri was enough to give Italy the win in the heavyweight friendly international between two countries
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