Today, 30 June 2004, Afternoon Edition

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    14 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Wednesday 1 June 30, 2004 mita (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Bomb threat in jet over Germany
      222 1 Reuters Pilot turns back immediately, 150 passengers safe MUNICH A man made a bomb threat on a plane carrying 150 passengers to Istanbul shortly after take-off but was arrested after the pilot turned around and flew back to Munich airport, German police said this
      — Reuters  -  222 words
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      Lock icon UN workers among 24 killed in crash
      103 1 Reuters FREETOWN Twenty-four people, including United Nations staff and aid workers, were killed when a helicopter crashed into a hillside in thick jungle in Sierra Leone yesterday, UN officials said. The Russian helicopter, leased by the UN peacekeeping mission in the West African
      — Reuters  -  103 words
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      Lock icon Saddam faces war crimes-related charges
      252 1 Reuters LONDON Iraqi prosecutors expect to indict former President Saddam Hussein on 12 counts of crimes against humanity related to a series of military actions he ordered during nearly 24 years of his rule. Mr Salem Chalabi, an Iraqi lawyer overseeing the trial, told CNN
      — Reuters  -  252 words
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      Lock icon Another massive blackout hits Singapore
      189 1 Jose Raymond A MASSIVE power failure hit thousands of homes across Singapore from about 10 last night. The blackout, the second in less than three months, was reported in Bishan, Joo Chiat, Serangoon, Ang Mo Kio, Woodlands, Jurong, Toa Payoh, Sengkang, Hougang, Holland Village, Katong
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      Lock icon Rate uncertainty caps gains in US
      120 1 Reuters NEW YORK US stocks rose yesterday after a report showed that consumer confidence in June hit a two-year peak but uncertainty about the Federal Reserve Board's plans for interest rates in the months ahead capped gains. The Conference Board, a private research group,
      — Reuters  -  120 words
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      Lock icon Cassini-Huygens probe nears Saturn
      167 1 AFP WASHINGTON The US-EU CassiniHuygens craft is near the end of its sevenyear voyage, in the immediate neighbourhood of Saturn, which it is due to orbit later this week, Nasa said yesterday. The craft will begin orbit insertion today by firing its rocket engine for about
      AFP; WEE TECK HIAN  -  167 words
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  • HOT NEWS
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      NTUC Income challenges sunken tanker insurance claim
      292 2  -  -Jose Raymond ALMOST two years after an oil tanker carrying 500 metric tonnes of palm oil sank off the Sri Lankan coast, a Singapore company is suing NTUC Income Insurance Cooperative for U*****,750 ($487,000), the sum insured for the cargo. According to legal
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      Lock icon Joint patrol of Malacca Straits
      397 2 CNN, Agencies Singapore, M'sia, Indonesia set up task force for year-round patrols INDONESIA, Malaysia and Singapore have agreed to carry out year-round joint naval patrols in the pirate-infested Malacca Straits, Indonesian navy chief Admiral Bernard Kent Sondakh said yesterday. The three nations have agreed to
      – CNN, Agencies; AFP  -  397 words
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      SLA to farm out management
      172 2 THE Singapore Land Authority (SLA) is starting a pilot project to put vacant state land to better and more revenue-generat-ing use, by farming out its management Calling for a public tender from today, the SLA's brief to the successful managing agent is to put the
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      MPs who sit on several boards ...
      968 3 MPs who sit on several boards NEWS—JIL Do they have enough time to fulfil obligations to their constituents? THERE is no reason why Members of Parliament should not sit on the boards of private companies. But they should only do so if this does not cut into their time serving
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      Lock icon EU picks Barroso as President
      233 4 AFP BRUSSELS European Union leaders finally broke a deadlock yesterday to appoint Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso (picture) as the new President of the powerful EU executive. Barely 10 minutes into an extraordinary summit, the heads of government broke out in ringing applause
      AFP; REUTERS  -  233 words
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      Lock icon New Iraqi government to take 'legal custody' of Saddam today
      343 4 Agencies BAGHDAD A day after taking control of Iraq, the new government announced it would take "legal custody" of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (picture) today and begin proceedings against him tomorrow. Even as Iraq started its first day as
      Agencies  -  343 words
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      Lock icon Player's death deemed a 'misadventure'
      240 5 Newsßadio 93.8 Coroner's verdict for Sinchi FC's Jiang Tao who was struck by lightning THE Coroner yesterday returned a verdict of misadventure in the death of Sinchi footballer Jiang Tao. Mr Jiang, a Chinese national, was training with his team-mates at Jurong Stadium three months
      — Newsßadio 93.8; TREVOR TAN  -  240 words
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      Acquitted cashier gets two years after prosecution appeals
      371 5  -  Wong Fei Wan A CASHIER who was acquitted in March of stealing nearly $200,000 was yesterday packed off to jail for two years. In its appeal, the prosecution argued that the trial judge had failed to consider properly the "cumulative effect" of
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  • HOME NEWS
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      PowerSeraya overhaul
      424 6  -  Lee Ching Wern Power provider restructures wage and organisation structure THREE months after a painful retrenchment exercise, PowerSeraya, one of Singapore's leading electricity providers, announced the biggest overhaul of its workplace structure in a decade. Under a collective agreement signed with the Union of Power and Gas Employees
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      Explosive fireworks at Marina Promenade
      279 6  -  Tan Hui Leng ONE could say it was chemistry that led Mr Adam Tan to leave the military as an ammunition technical officer to start his fireworks production company in 1992. It was during his first National Day Parade in the 1980s, when he was
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      Problem-riddled Eurofighters set for S'pore tests
      497 8  -  Jose Raymond Newspapers quote leaked UK defence ministry report about aircraft's failures THEY are worth about $132 million a piece and two are now on their way to Singapore for a performance evaluation. The Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet is on the Ministry of Defence's
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      122 9 i \IT B Km M m sFm I fl I^^^ v^ if n HBHH «A I <<fl 1 'Ml U H^H"V II 1111 I" V a^' b^HbY I I H Congratulations to Kimberly who single-handedly blew away the competition in the Sing Tel SMS Shootout 2004. Not only did she
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      Jang Jung, my family will miss you in action
      222 10  -  Magdalene Kwek AS I read your report on Jang Jung's removal as coach of Balestier Khalsa (Today, June 25), I felt sad that another of Singapore's sports imports had been penalised. I grew up watching local soccer back in the late
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      English and that camel
      388 10  -  Murali Kumara Sharma If Singlish is given greater leeway, it will push out the English language I REFER to Mr Prithpal Singh's commentary, "Make Singlish our lingua franca" (Today, June 29). I am no lover of Singlish. The sooner it dies the better, but I do
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • MarketWATCH
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        World markets
        60 12 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI SET Index Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex Value *****.81 *****.30 3521.50 5741.52 778.72 823.28 649.62 722.29 1586.35 247.57 4841.38 Change Pts -23.25 -78.30 -0.90 +31.68 +7.77 +1.06 -2.24 +1.75 +6.00 +5.83 +3.78 -0.20
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 12 US$ 0.5844 UK£ 0.3193 Yen 63.087 HK$ 4.5574 RM 2.2209 Euro 0.4796 Rupiah 5504.2 Baht 23.889 Peso 32.81 A$ 0.8357 Indian Rs 26.846 Won 673.53 C$ 0.788 Yuan 4.8371 NZ$ 0.9186 NTS 19.725
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        Commodities
        21 12 Gold uss/oi 398.3 Silver uss/oi 5.935 Platinum uss/oi 772 Rubber centsAg 260.50 Palm oil RM/tonne 1575 Brent crude uss/borrel 33.62
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        Lock icon Singapore
        119 12 SHARE prices closed higher in a sudden bout of buying late yesterday ahead of an expected rise in US markets. Traders, fund managers and retail investors who returned to the market with the end of the June school holidays raised the market interest. The ST Index rose 1 3.82
        — Dow Jones  -  119 words
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        ST Index: 1,830.24 – +13.82
        4 12 ST Index: 1,830.24 +13.82
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        Lock icon SGX most active
        59 12 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by TeleChoice Citiraya NOL ChinaCast LifeBrandz Chartered SembCorp FibreChem UTAC AsiaPharm Close 0.305 0.495 2.320 0.300 0.195 1.370 1.350 0.410 0.805 0.545 Change +0.005 -0.005 +0.070 +0.010 -0.010 -0.030 +0.015 +0.030 +0.005 +1.7 -1.0 +3.1 +3.4 -4.9 -2.2 +3.8 +3.9 +0.9 'OOO 47,372
        SGX,; Bloomberg  -  59 words
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        SGX top rises
        78 12 DBS Bk 6% NCPS 10 JMH 400USS 107.000 +0.300 11.000 +0.300 OCBC 12.200 +0.200 RSH 0.600 +0.200 SIA 10.800 +0.200 SIA 200 UOB Shang Asia 2kHKS Bukil Sem 10.900 +0.200 13.400 +0.200 7.600 +0.150 13.100 +0.100 F&N 14.500 +0.100 By percentage L&M RSH MediaS Close Change 0.015
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        SGX top falls
        79 12 By Close STIETF100 18.510 Change -0.240 SeeHS W*****0 0.030 CSA 1.070 -0.135 -0.110 GreatEast 11.900 -0.100 Venture 17.800 SingTel DBePW*****8 0.305 Haw Par 5.000 -0.100 -0.055 -0.050 Jardine C&C 6.600 -0.050 TPV 1.180 -0.050 SeeHS 0.110 -0.030 By percentage SeeHS W*****0 Benefun 20k Goldlron Close 0.030 0.010
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      Telecom product maker launches IPO
      120 12 SNOWCITY International Holdings, which designs and makes telecommunication, data network and transportation communication products in China, launches its initial public offering of 43 million shares today. These new shares repre- sent 30.1 per cent of Snowcity's enlarged share capital of 143 million shares. The issue
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      Informatics' losses could hit $39 million
      438 12  -  Val Chua It defends its 'pathfinder' franchising scheme LOSSES for troubled education group Informatics Holdings may hit $39.2 million almost double earlier forecasts, said an analyst, ahead of the release of actual figures by the company today. Based on the report by independent auditors
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      Work in the comfort of your HDB home
      502 13 Small-scale businesses can be set up in HDB flats if they meet certain conditions GRAPHIC designer Mrs Eleanor Lim, 35, gave up her full-time job at a top design firm to work from home. "I was so happy when I heard about
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      Check your parking fines via SMS
      144 13 HDB has a useful new service that allows you to check the status of your parking fines via Short Message Service (SMS). All you need to do is to key in the word "Fine" followed by a space and your vehicle number or parking
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      Live it up at The PinnacleODuxton
      87 13 Applications close on July 2 YOU can still make The Pinnacle@Duxton, HDB's award-winning residential development, your home. Just submit your application at the showflats at Cantonment Road or online at HDB InfoWEB at www.hdb.gov.sg and click on the leftpanel photo of The Pinnacle@Duxton>BTO Launch
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      Lock icon CORPORATEbriefs
      180 14 Reuters Capita Land has sold 11 floors of a 30-storey Tokyo office building for 10 billion yen ($155 million) to a Tokyo-based real-estate investment trust. The sale of Shinjuku Square Tower to Japan Prime Realty Investment will result in a gain of $6.5 million, Capita Land said. It would
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      Swiss firm gets Changi licence
      141 14 ZURICH-based Swissport International has edged out Dallasbased Worldwide Flight Service to clinch the tender for Singapore's third airport ground-handling licence, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) said yesterday. The tender, part of moves to make Changi Airport more competitive against regional rivals, was called
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      Insurer's chief exercised option
      398 14  -  Val Chua Great Eastern explains CEO's move ONE day before an offer to take it private expires, Great Eastern Holdings (GEH) came out strongly to rebut media reports on why its CEO Tan Beng Lee and two other executives sold shares in the insurer. In a
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    • market BUZZ
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        Canon's new products
        92 16 Canon doubled the happiness of the fans of Double Happiness at the television programme's roadshow by displaying its latest products to an adoring public. The roadshow, held at Hougang Mall on Saturday promoted the sponsors and the cast of the MediaCorp television programme. Canon, one of the
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        What a bash!
        59 16 Talented and bubbly MediaCorp actress Jeanette Aw (left) the official ambassadress for SK Jewellery celebrated her birthday, with about 50 fans, on Monday at the Toa Payoh HDB Hub branch of SK Jewellery. The company presented the star with a Starry Starry diamond pendant worth 1,800 said
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      Lock icon Meet SingTel's highest-paid executive
      307 16 Bloomberg Optus chief gets a higher salary than his boss does OPTUS chief executive Chris Anderson, was the highest-paid Sing Tel executive last year, with a salary of between $2.6 million and $2.7 million, from as much as $2 million in the previous year. The salary
      – Bloomberg; BLOOMBERG  -  307 words
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      Lock icon Fee will not cover SlA's costs
      206 16 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) said that a fuel surcharge introduced this month will not cover the cost of higher oil prices. "The fuel surcharge is meant to compensate some of the increase, but it won't completely cover it," said the carrier's senior vice-president of
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      The PKS threat to Susilo's lead
      705 20  -  Karim Raslan NEWS__ OVER the weekend, the streets of Jakarta were awash with the flags of front-runner, Mr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) Democrat Party. As hordes of young men with the flags coasted up and down the city's main thoroughfare on motorbikes, it was
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      Lock icon Aceh governor named in $5.7m corruption scandal
      189 21 -AFP JAKARTA Yesterday, the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Commission (KPK) declared a governor a suspect in a US$3.2-million ($5.74 million) graft scandal. Aceh Governor Abdullah Puteh and an entrepreneur, Bram Manoppo, were both named suspects in the case linked to the purchase of a 12-billion-rupiah
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      Lock icon HK democracy camps divided
      462 21 REUTERS -AFP Activists divided on rally cries for march whileTung's ratings are up HONG KONG A rift has emerged within Hong Kong's democrats, ahead of a massive street rally tomorrow calling on China to allow full democracy in the former British colony. Factions within the movement
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      Lock icon Bush-Chirac's Nato spat
      471 22 Agencies Chirac: Bush has 'gone too far'; Blair: Nato-US differences not over ISTANBUL United States President George W Bush's assertion that Western allies have put aside their deep divisions over Iraq was in doubt following a fresh spat between him and French President Jacques Chirac at the
      — Agencies; AFP  -  471 words
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      Lock icon NZ to jail high-tech peeping toms
      205 22 AFP WELLINGTON New Zealand will pass a law to jail those who use modern technology such as mobile camera phones to secretly film others having sex or in other intimate situations without their consent, Justice Minister Phil Goff said yesterday. Mr Goff said modern
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon US-Libya resume ties
        50 24 AFP The United States and Libya have re-established direct diplomatic relations formally after 24 years. A US liaison office was opened in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Six months ago, Libya agreed to dismantle its nuclear, chemical and biological warfare programmes and renounce the pursuit of it
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        Lock icon Minority rules here
        26 24 Reuters Canada's ruling Liberals won Monday's federal election, but it lost its majority in Parliament, becoming Canada's first minority government in 25 years.
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        Lock icon Dissident turned PM
        39 24 Reuters South Korea's Parliament voted to approve former political dissident Lee Hae-chan as prime minister yesterday. Mr Lee, 51, was jailed as a political prisoner for opposing South Korea's military rulers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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      Lock icon What Asean must do for Burma
      729 24  -  Jose Ramos-Horta AFP Grouping can and must help lead change there DILI In Burma, the respected popular national leader and Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi continues her struggle for democracy, alone in her villa in Rangoon, the capital. Incarcerated by her country's
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        178 26  -  -Jeanine Tan YOUR pledge to the NKF Children's Medical Fund (CMF) really matters to the fund's ambassador, Jeremy Lim, who celebrated his 14th birthday yesterday. Jeremy, who suffers from brittle bones and moves about in a wheelchair, sang for guests yesterday at a media gathering
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        739 26  -  Felix Cheong news@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE, the setting for a sci-fi flick? If Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn had his way, that cinematic vision would come to pass and will be coming to a cinema near
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      403 33 -AFP American champion sets up tasty q-final clash against Capriati LONDON American Serena Williams and Amelie Mauresmo moved a step closer to another Wimbledon semi-final showdown, when both scored straight sets wins in their fourth round ties yesterday. Top seed and defending champion Williams saw off the
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      140 33 Reuters LONDON British Open organisers expressed their disappointment yesterday, after nearly half the field for the US leg of international qualifying failed to turn up. The Royal and Ancient Club had hoped to make qualifying for July's third Major at Royal Troon more accessible to overseas
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      307 34  -  Tan Yo-Hinnl IT USED to be a core sport, which meant a maximum of $3 million in annual funding from the Singapore Sports Council (SSC). But shooting was reclassified as a merit sport at the National Sports Association (NSA) Review two
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      268 34  -  Alvin Chua A CROWD of 2,448 were at the Jurong East Stadium last night, as Albirex Niigata played out a 1--1 draw with the Young Lions in an NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2004 clash. But for the Japanese players, one particular person
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      461 34  -  TAN YO-HINN Only half of group challenging for SSA foothold win THE group of seven were first-time challengers, trying to get elected to the Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) executive committee. Their blueprint included the promotion of swimming as a mass participation sport
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      778 35  -  Neil Humphreys With the big boys out, conspiracy theorists are having a field day FOOTBALL has always been rife with conspiracy theories. Ray Stubbs, the presenter of BBC's Football Focus and a broadcasting veteran, has a particular favourite. "I was told about a gambler who kept
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      449 35  -  Dan Pek THERE will be many out there who will think Patrick Gerald, 23, has a screw loose somewhere in his head. First, he turned himself into a cow. Then, for a date to Lisbon, Portugal,
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        295 36 LONDON It keeps getting worse for ex-Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier. Milan Baros, the striker Houllier relegated to the sidelines, is currently the leading scorer at the Euro 2004 champiNow, Spanish star Ruben Baraja (picture) has been handed a chance to prove the
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        956 36 Agencies Portuguese look to a teenage winger for inspiration, Dutch count on a striker desperate to stamp his class EURO 2004, SEMI-FINAL Portugal v Holland LISBON The teenager started off as a substitute, a pimply-faced winger for the future sitting on the bench, supposedly there
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        325 36 -AFP ALBUFEIRA First impressions can be deceptive, as Dick Advocaat discovered with Dutch midfield general Clarence Seedorf. The Dutch coach almost said something he would regret, after meeting the then Ajax Amsterdam star as a teenager. "When you first meet him, you often find
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      279 37 -AFP ALCOCHETE Portuguese star Luis Figo, controversially substituted in the quarter-final win over England, said yesterday he had "nothing to prove", ahead of the semi-final against Holland. The 31-year-old was clearly upset, after coach Luiz Felipe Scolari hauled him off after 75 minutes
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      176 37 Who would have said that France, England, Spain and Italy would have been gone from Euro before the semi-finals! Certain pundits say that the players were tired because they came from the strong leagues in Europe Portugal also have players who had a difficult and long
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      266 37 LONDON Liverpool captain Steven Gerard (picture) decided to stay at Anfield because of family threats, it was reported yesterday. The Daily Mail claimed the abuse directed at Gerard reached vitriolic levels in local newspapers and on websites and his family received threatening phone calls and letters.
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