Today, 25 October 2003

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  • 11 1 weekend TODAY www, todayonline.com October 25 26 2003 mita (p) 009/03/2003
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  • 759 1  -  Lee Ching Wern by chingwern@newstoday.com.sg TO EVEN the most enterprising, North Korea a state isolated from the rest of the world and dependent on international handouts to keep its people alive is hardly an obvious place to pump money into. But away from the
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  • 1023 1  -  Drew McKenzie in Los Angeles by I WHEN news arrived last Tuesday that Penthouse magazine would be sold not at the newsstand but on the auction block it wasn't really news to me. Two years ago, I was sitting in the office of a Penthouse
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 69 1 y Tortured soul who loved drugs Millionaire Durst I admits to killing I neighbour Page 18 S.i *y JM*>\ OTS I Af k^R DTnew Lion I Woodlands star gets citizenship in time for SEA Games Page 53 News Comment Page 3 Home Pages 2-6 Humour Page 7 Letters Page 8
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  • NEWS
    • 157 2 Channel News Asia AN Indonesian maid in her 20s was found dead at a block of flats in Woodlands. Two six-year-old boys who were playing along the 11th floor corridor of Block 426 Woodlands St 41 stumbled upon her body. They were
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    • 738 3 News Comment/Joy Frances The furore over Changi prison is not silly sentiment over a war but a wish to preserve a connection with loved ones WHEN I heard the old Changi Prison was going to be demolished to make way, in true Singaporean style, for a
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    • 420 4  -  Ng Shing Vi 10 women MPs not enough and the answer could be a quota system at GRC level by shingyi@newstoday.com.sg ARE Singapore women bumping their political and career ambitions against glass ceilings? Yes, said a gathering of academics, civil activists and journalists
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    • 182 4 Madeleine Chong A GROUP of maids listening attentively during an English language class, or practising their dance moves for a concert These scenes, depicting a maid's life, are shown in an exhibition by six female photographers here. The exhibition, Bay Off, documents the lesserknown
      – Madeleine Chong; photo by Alvin Toh  -  182 words
    • 404 6  -  Teo Hwee Nak Spores public sector ranks high against MNCs by hweenak@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S public sector has emerged at first glance with flying colours in terms of setting direction, talent development and customer focus after being pitted against Global High Performing Companies (GHPCs) such as Nokia,
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    • 272 6  -  Tor Ching Li IF you have thought walk-a-dog services were far-fetched, chew on this: For $60 to $80 an hour, you can now hire somebody to pet your furry friend! The enterprising couple behind Kreature Care, offer what they call "massages" for your dogs.
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  • HUMOUR
    • 664 7  -  Neil Humphreys and leave those cats alone! by neingnewstoaay.com.sg ONLY Malaysia can both terrify and enlighten at the same time. Last weekend, I visited Johor's beautiful Sibu Island and, to escape the unbearable heat, popped into a gift shop. The shop assistant stood at the
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  • LETTERS
    • 160 8 Gordon Tan Sek Tiong I REFER to Mr David's Soh letter, "Is it EZ-Link's right to raise deposits?" (Today, Oct 23). In April last year, consumers were not given the choice to reject the EZ-Link cards. It was also not transparent to them
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    • 278 8 Reeves Lack of courtesy on the roads puts Singapore in a poor light IT IS about time a courtesy driving campaign is organised. In an advanced country renowned for its efficiency and courtesy, the lack of courtesy on the roads never fails to
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    • 207 8 Camille Engel I AGREE totally with the article, "Expat, Single, Lonely" (Today, Oct 16). Like Ms Julie Sleva in the article, I am a Canadian, a single expat woman living here who faces a similar dilemma of not having a personal
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
    • 313 10 Bloomberg Decline eroding value of US dollar reserves held in many Asian countries THE US dollar, which has slid more than 10 per cent this year against a basket of six major currencies, will probably fall further. "The US dollar is, in our view, likely
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    • 507 10 Lee Yew Meng PEOPLE have often been told that to enjoy retirement, they have to take charge of their own financial management. But that requires prudent planning for which the average person is not well prepared, let alone able to master the skills to maximise
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    • Market WATCH
      • 57 10 Nikkei 225 *****.70 Pis +0.54 0.01 Hang Seng KLCI Sydney All Ords Taiwan Weighted *****.37 Public 3266.10 5918.14 -0.81 Holiday -8.00 -34.09 -0.01 -0.24 -0.57 Korea Composite Thai SET Index 748.17 609.25 -5.97 +4.48 -0.79 0.74 Jakarta Composite Philippines Comp Shenzhen B 634.57 1363.40 252.40 +3.58 -1.04 -1.98
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      • 21 10 Gold us$Az Silver us$/oz Platinum us$/oz 385 5.1720 745.70 Rubber centsAg Palm oil RM/tonne Brent crude us$/barrel 244.75 1810.5 29.91
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      • 37 10 Information provided by SGX, Bloomberg l)K£ 0.34 fen 63 HK$ 4.45 m 2.18 Euro 0.49 Rupiah Baht 4,877 23 Peso 31.73 4$ 0.82 Indian Rs 26 Mn 681 C$ 0.75 /mill 4.75 NZ$ 0.94
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    • 58 10 Index Value Uiange Pis Nikkei 225 *****.70 +0.54 0.01 Hang Seng *****.37 -0.81 -0.01 KLCI Public Holiday Sydney All Ords 3266.10 -8.00 -0.24 Taiwan Weighted 5918.14 -34.09 -0.57 Korea Composite 748.17 -5.97 -0.79 Thai SET Index 609.25 +4.48 0.74 Jakarta Composite 634.57 +3.58 0.57 Philippines Comp 1363.40 -1.04 -0.08 Shenzhen
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  • BUSINESS
    • 229 12 STAR Cruises, one of the world's largest cruise line groups, is seeking to build a terminal complex in China costing more than US$lO billion ($17.4 billion), the China Daily reported, citing Mr Yu Jianmeng, head of the company's China business.
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      266 12 Bloomberg MANDARIN Oriental International, the luxury hotel arm of Jardine Matheson Holdings, will be paid a total of US$l6 million ($27.9 million) of insurance for claims related to lost business earlier this year, when Sars caused travellers to avoid the region. The company, which owns luxury hotels worldwide
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    • 518 14 Industrial land sees improvement, but flatted factories for rentals still down OCCUPANCY for JTC Corporation's industrial facilities showed a general improvement in the third quarter of this year. Net allocation of ready-built factory space narrowed to minus 23,286 square metres (m 2) in
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    • 77 14 SINGAPORE clinched top spot in several categories in this year's Time magazine's Readers' Travel Choice Awards. For the third year running, Singapore was named the best business city, SIA the favourite airline and Changi the favourite airport. The results were based on a survey of over
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    • 280 14 Bloomberg AMERICAN Express Co plans to shut its fund business in Japan and Singapore and transfer their assets to its London-based Threadneedle Asset Management unit. "The ongoing operations in Singapore and Japan will be through Threadneedle and, therefore, we will no longer maintain
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    • 391 14 HONG KONG US brokerage firm Morgan Stanley is bullish about American stocks next year as the economy recovers. Downgrading Hong Kong and Singapore, it is less optimistic about some economies in the Asian region. The firm sees the broader S&PSOO index in the
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    • 314 16 AFP Move gives Australia near complete control of NZ banking industry WELLINGTON Australia's ANZ bank will buy the National Bank of New Zealand for NZ$5.7l billion ($6 billion) from Britain's Lloyds TSB to create New Zealand's biggest banking group. The move gives Australia near complete
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    • 342 16 AFP SHANGHAI China is underestimating its economic growth with its gross domestic product this year likely to be about 10 per cent, one of the country's most prominent economists was reported as saying. Recent industrial output, tax revenue and power generation statistics suggest China is underestimating
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  • WORLD
    • 617 18 Millionaire Durst admits dismembering neighbour Black GALVESTON (Texas) He's a poor little rich boy, literally. At least that's how real estate heir Robert Durst is portraying himself in his trial for the shooting and beheading of a 71-year-old neighbour. In his testimony on Wednesday,
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    • 214 18 Reuters Princess Diana (picture), Dodi Al Fayed and their driver died in a high-speed car crash in 1997 in Paris. Getty Images PARIS Three photographers who took pictures of the late Princess Diana and her friend Dodi Al Fayed in their car shortly
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    • 325 18 Agencies TAIPEI A chapter in modern Chinese history closed on Friday when Ms Soong May Ling, widow of the late Taiwan leader Chiang Kai Shek, who used her charm and fluency in English to lobby America, died peacefully at the
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    • 301 19 Agencies WASHINGTON Hundreds of workers at Wal-Mart stores across United States were arrested on immigration charges as an investigation into its cleaning crews were carried out, said US officials. The investigation, known as Operation Rollback, involved allegations that a contractor had recruited illegal immigrants, mainly
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    • 125 19 Reuters photo Police dogs with garlands and traditional Hindu markings on their foreheads on "dog worship day" on Friday in Kathmandu. Nepal will celebrate Deepavali for five days during which Nepalese Hindus worship crows, dogs, cows and the Goddess of Wealth. AFP photo Mr
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    • global roundup
      • 65 19 AFP The Australia saga over 52,000 stranded sheep on a ship finally came to a close on Friday when they were accepted by Eritrea. Trade Minister Mark Vaile vowed to ensure that the fiasco will never be repeated. The ship has been floating around
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      • 67 19 AFP Seven Nepalese policemen were arrested for allegedly gang raping two girls. If convicted, they could face up to 12 years in prison and can be ordered to compensate the victims by surrendering up to half of their property. The girls, aged 12 and
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    • global roundup
      • 65 20 Reuters Defying a White House veto threat, the US Senate approved a measure that would eliminate funding to enforce a travel ban to communist Cuba. The vote marked a victory for travel ban opponents, who argued the long-standing US ban had failed to oust Cuban President Fidel
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      • 82 20 AFP Exclusive London store Harvey Nichols suffered damage worth more than £500,000 ($1.5 million) after a drunken employee from rival store Harrods set off its sprinkler system, The Daily Telegraph said on Friday. Designer televisions and music systems were destroyed in the flood, which happened
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      • 77 20 AFP British auction house Christie's covered up its discovery that a painting by Dutch master Jacob Duck it hoped to sell had been looted by the Nazis, The Guardian reported on Friday. The auction house failed to alert art authorities or the heirs of the original owners of
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    • 994 20  -  Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney It cannot seek to join Asia's economic community on its own terms by news@newstoday.com.sg PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong's remarks regarding Australian's ethnic composition received wide coverage in the Australian media. During the Apec summit in Bangkok last Sunday, Mr Goh had
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    • 917 22  -  Serene Foo MAYBE it's because they are both adept at producing movies that have mass appeal. Hotshot Hong Kong director Andrew Lav the man behind the Infernal Affairs and Young and Dangerous series of movies said, in a recent phone interview from Hong Kong, that he
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 201 23 rf HE PARK was -Z inspired by a real story of a little girl who fell to her death from a Ferris wheel, according to director Andrew Lav. "I thought of filming The Park because I remember going to an amusement park when I was
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      117 23 Soothe those tired muscles with a range of hydromassage whirlpools from System-ruui uy Espacio. These bathtubs are developed in collaboration with the department of hydrological medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain to make that soak in the tub a pampering experience. For example, the Zenit
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  • WATZUP?
    • EAT OUT
      • 395 24  -  Jeffrey Yang by eatout(gjnewstoaay.com.sg AUSTRALIAN Shiraz lovers should take note of the amazing quality of the 2001 vintage Shirazes coming out from South Australia. The last time South Australia witnessed such a stunning vintage was in 1998 a vintage described by many as one of the best in
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        549 24  -  Tan Yang Think Hokkien dishes are basic and simple? Think again by eatout@newstoday.com.sg A MAN with a perpetual self-satisfied grin and the warm demeanour that is the sine qua non of a restaurateur, Wee Yew Kee incarnates the style of Hokkien cooking: Food that is made with joy
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      • 210 24 Katrina Karim OTHER than being the capital of China, Beijing is also a kaleidoscopic fusion of China's eight regional cuisines. Beijing cuisine claims its roots from the imperial kitchens. After the fall of the last dynasty, many of these "court cuisine" chefs continue to thrive in
        – Katrina Karim  -  210 words
      • 781 26  - is S'pore falling put of love Lan De Cotta by ian(g>newstoday.com.sg Ar i iiK i wrote last weeK mat Singapore women are too preoccupied with materialism, can't engage in a meaningful conversation and do not have a fair idea what a real relationship means, I expected to be lynched. To
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      • 103 26 JOANNA Paul (picture) has been told that she doesn't ak much like an organ player. On the sleeve of her new CD, she sits draped atop her instrument. "Organists are so boring They just sit at the organ, all serious," she laughed. Born in Kuala
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      • 408 26 Yong Shu Chiang Shibu Itty GET set for a treat of South Indian classical (Carnatic) music on the violin by a fatherdaughter combination in an evening that promises to stay with you long after it is over. MS Gopalakrishnan, or MSG as he is
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    • IN CINEMAS
      • 168 28 Reuters LOS ANGELES A Japanese businessman who was ordered to stay away from Britney Spears sued the pop star in a federal court here on Thursday, accusing her security guards of brandishing a gun at him and causing "extreme emotional distress". Masahiko Shizawa, a 43-year-old
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      • 177 30 -Reuters LOS ANGELES Hollywood's major film studios on Thursday lifted their controversial three-week old ban on sending out videotapes of movies vying for Oscars. But the plan met new criticism from groups who feel cheated in the annual race for the US film
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        171 30 Serene Foo Yong Shu Chiang SF YSC Infernal Affairs II: Set before the events of the first Infernal Affairs, Edison Chen and Shawn Yue play the younger versions of Infernal's heroes. Sequels (much less prequels) are rarely as good, this is an exception I can't wait for Part 111.-
        Serene Foo; Yong Shu Chiang; SF; YSC  -  171 words
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        222 30 YSC -YSC YSC -YSC -YSC SF IS: Royston Tan's portrait of disillusioned teens in is an uncompromising, unflattering expose of our seemingly squeaky clean Singapore. For leavening his generally dark story with levity, Royston deserves plaudits, even if the film doesn't delve dee Dlv enough under the skin.-
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    • INSIDE OUT
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        344 33  -  Nicholas Chan Colour your home with whimsical accessories and bold furnishings by news@newstoday.com.sg KENNETH and Geraldine Ko wanted a unique look for their home and decided to combine a number of different interior styles, which is not an easy task. In order to revamp their five-room flat in
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        613 34  -  Colin Yong VW's new Golf scores with quality, refinement by colin@newsto day. com. s last two models for six years each. Improvements in research and development have made churning out new models easier, but keener competition means car makers need to keep their products fresh. So, even
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        34 34 The MINI Cooper S won the 'International Engine of the Year Award 2003. PERFORMANCE MOTORS LIMITED EAST COAST CENTRE 280 KAM PONG ARANG ROAD TEL: 6319 0800 A MEMBER OF GROUP MINI.com.sg
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    • DRIVE
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        480 35 Colin Yong Few cars will put a big smile on your face like the Suzuki Ignis Sport does YOU go through a whole range of emotions when you approach the Ignis Sport Anticipation, for one, because Suzuki's Swift GTi was one of the hottest hatchbacks of the early
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    • 448 50 Reuters photo -AFP In his first game, Kobe ran out of gas but there were glimpses of his All-Star self ANAHEIM Kobe Bryant may wish that the jury for his upcoming sexual assault trial includes the sellout crowd at Thursday's (Friday morning, Singapore
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    • 230 50 -AFP SEOUL South Korea's Se Ri Pak made history for women's golf Friday when she became the first female to make the cut in a men's event in 58 years. "I can't believe it, did I really make it?" asked Pak, 26, after qualifying for
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    • 137 50 WITH two league titles already in the bag, the National Rugby Championship (NRC) Premier and Division One champion Bedok Kings is now eyeing the Cup and Plate titles. At the Padang on Saturday, the Kings' Division One side meets the Singapore Recreation Club (SRC) in an NRC Division
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    • 436 52 Agencies Florida only one win away from a World Series fantasy win Baseball World Series Marlins 6 Yankees 4 Marlins lead best-ofseven series 3-2 MIAMI Pitcher Brad Penny seemed an unlikely candidate for World Series stardom after a disastrous outing in the National League Championship Series when
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    • 554 53  -  Stanley Ho But O'Donell is not impressed by Home coach's mind games Big Trumpet Singapore Cup Final Home United v Geylang United Jalan Besar Stadium, Sat, 7.30pm by stanley@newstoday.com.sg HOME United the underdog for Saturday's Big Trumpet Singapore Cup Final? Well, that is what
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    • 292 53  -  Tan Yo-Hinn by yohinnCSnews day. com. sg WHILE some of the world's top amateur bowlers will be competing at the $100,000 36th Singapore Open International Tenpin Bowling Championship, the presence of perhaps the biggest name of all is in serious doubt
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    • 310 53 Stanley Ho WOODLANDS Wellington striker Agu Cashmir has become the fourth player under the Football Association of Singapore's (FAS) Foreign Talent Scheme (FTS) to receive his Singapore citizenship, it was revealed on Friday. The talented 19-year-old Nigerian received a letter from the authorities notifying
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    • 520 54 Rugby is it clean or not? AFP Top coaches disagree on whether sport is tainted SYDNEY Top coaches here were divided on the threat posed to rugby by doping after the Rugby World Cup organiser the International Rugby Board (IRB) announced tests for a new designer steroid at the centre
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    • 255 54 Reuters BRISBANE The All Blacks delivered another scintillating display of highspeed, running rugby with 13 tries in a horribly one-sided 91-7 win over Tonga in their World Cup Pool D encounter on Friday. Despite constant rain which made handling difficult, the New Zealand backs turned
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    • 576 55 Agencies Houllier is 90 minutes away from being shown the door English Premier League Liverpool v Leeds Owen a major doubt LIVERPOOL Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier will face renewed calls for his dismissal this weekend if his side fails to beat struggling Leeds United at Anfield.
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    • 421 55 Reuters English Premier League Man United v Fulham Fergie will sit in the stands MANCHESTER Premier League champion Manchester United will not be at its best until after Christmas, according to manager Alex Ferguson (picture). United has made its best
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    • 254 55 -AFP LONDON English football chiefs were reported on Friday to have decided to leave Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand (picture) out of the friendly international with Denmark at Old Trafford on Nov 16. He is allowed to play for Manchester United while the Football
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