Today, 10 July 2004

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  • 14 1 weekendTODAY July 10 -11 2004 1 mita (P) 009/03/2003 we set you thinking todayonline.com
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  • 1296 1  -  Ng Shing Yi More young Singaporeans are taking to heavy drinking without realising the dangers LEMUEL Lim started when he was 18 and at university. At lunch, he would have a glass. After classes, he would have another one, or two, or more. At a gathering with
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    • 149 2 —1 ~Q LIVING FAITH CHURCH®) 1 st Service Sunday July 1 1 i 9.30am -11.1 sam: English Service 1 2nd Service Sunday July 11 1 1 -3Oam 1 pm: English Service with Mandarin interpretation via headset L~ 8 Pan Pacific Hotel, Level 1, Pacific Ballroom I Monday 12 July, 7.30pm
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    • 94 2 WHERE YOU CAN GET HELP: Community Addiction Management Programme (CAMP) at the Institute of Mental Health, 1 0 Buangkok View. Tel: 6389 2387/89 Al-Anon or Alateen Family Groups at the Blessed Sacrament Church, Damien Hall Basement, 1 Commonwealth Drive. Every Monday at 7.30pm and Saturday at 5.30pm. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
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  • NEWS
    • 479 3  -  Teo Hwee Nak Some say he may replace Prof Jayakumar Deputy News Editor hweenak@newsto day, com. sg WITH a political transition and Cabinet reshuffle just around the corner, a news report has come out suggesting that Trade and Industry Minister Brigadier-General George Yeo will
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    • 249 3 TALKS on the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) between Singapore and India are on track, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. In India on a state visit, where he met with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Friday night, Mr Goh
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    • 291 3 Channel NewsAsia CHANNEL NewsAsia (CNA) is marking another milestone in Asian broadcasting. Mediacorp, which runs the channel, signed an agreement on Friday with the Thailand Cable TV Association to carry CNA on over 170 cable operations in the kingdom. This officially
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    • 380 4  -  Tay Tsen-Waye A SECOND gas pipeline, a study on the viability of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an alternative energy source and the closing of a regulatory loophole these were measures raised at a media briefing yesterday following the June
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    • 96 4 Mr Singh: This entire thing (the EGM) was a show, a theatre, because in your mind it was doomed to fail because you were going to vote against it (the resolution)? Mr Oei: It may be a show, but they are the director, producer and
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    • 419 4  -  Wong Fei Wan In new move, tycoon sues BTover Informatics report THEATRICAL metaphors were the main ammo on Friday, as the acerbic war of words in court between tycoon Oei Hong Leong and senior counsel Davinder Singh continued. Mr Singh said Mr Oei's proxy had put
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 89 4 Reuters Tengku Razaleiqh Hamzah said on Friday he would challenge Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi for the top job in the country's ruling United Malay National Organisation (Umno) a move that could split the politically dominant Malay majority. "In front
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      • 68 4 AFP The family of Filipino worker Angelo de la Cruz, who is being held hostage in Iraq, made an emotional appeal to President Gloria Arroyo on Friday to bow to the kidnappers' demands and withdraw troops from the shattered country. The kidnappers
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    • 243 6 The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) has urged its member banks to "consider offering an ATM card to a visually handicapped person who requests it". This comes a month after Today ran a report on June 11 about blind masseur, Mr Seet
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    • 409 6  -  Kenneth Tan Nadir AN Zafar's experiences reflect exciting ride of SMU's pioneer batch IN FOUR years, Nadir Ali Zafar (picture) has spent a considerable amount of time in seven countries. But he is not a jet-setting businessman. Rather, he is among the first batch of
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  • HUMOUR/NEWS
    • 212 8 A COMPLAINT about insurance company Aviva selling a product based on an opt-out strategy has elicited a reply from the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case). Mr Yap Ee Hoe described, in his letter published in Thursday's issue of Today, how an inter-bank Giro (IBG) deduction had been
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    • 139 8  -  SINGAPORE, which imports 90 per cent of its food, enjoys one of the world's lowest rates of food-borne disease outbreaks, thanks to the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA), which, yesterday, opened its new Veterinary Public Health Centre (VPHC) on Perahu Road. The AVA
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    • 733 8  -  Neil Humphreys Meet Mr Motormouth, non-stop from Frankfurt to Changi SLEEP was coming. The eyes were drooping and the stick-like body had contorted itself into a comfortable position. Do you know that sublime feeling that surges though your body, as you are about to
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  • LETTERS
    • 169 12  -  William Tneah Chye Heng After reading the letter by Mr Kelvin Goh Chin Teck, "Degree from reputable Aussie university not recognised" (July 1) and the Ministry of Education's reply (July 8), I am really bothered. Years ago, I read about a nongraduate woman
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    • 434 12  -  Jason Lee Boon Hong Patience, not foreign talent, is the way to success in sporting arena I REFER to the letter, "Develop our own sporting talent" by Mr Bhas Kunju ouly 9). A year or so ago, I would have disagreed with the main thrust of
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    • 108 14 Give your hair the silk treatment when you colour your hair with Revlon Colorsilk. The After Color Conditioner now boasts a new improved formula that is enriched with Silk Protein Complex containing hydrolyzed silk and silk amino acids. The colourant is also enhanced with botanical extracts to
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  • BUSINESS
    • 422 14  -  Chan Chao Peh It will distribute the entire net gain to shareholders UNITED Overseas Land (UOL) plans to sell its 4.2-per-cent stake in parent United Overseas Bank (UOB) within a year, less than two months after the bank rejected two offers to sell the
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    • 206 14  -  Tor Ching Li LAST night, the top five "enterprise-friendly" Government agencies in the Action Community for Entrepreneurship (Ace) Pro-Enterprise Rankings received their awards at the inaugural Bluesky Festival Gala Dinner attended by 500 entrepreneurs. After a perception survey of 1,062 small and medium enterprises (SME)
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    • MarketWATCH
      • 60 16 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp Value 11,423.53 12,202.26 3,558.90 5,777.72 747.46 Change Pis +101.3 +0.89 +82.51 +0.68 -3.90 -0.11 +64.33 +1.13 +3.82 +0.51 KLCI 854.06 +2.29 +0.27 SET Index 666.59 +7.45 +1.13 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 761.14 1,592.46
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      • 78 16 SHARES rose on Friday amid optimism ahead of Monday's release of gross domestic product data. The ST Index gained 1.53 points to 1,862.03. Singapore's US$9l-bil-I lion ($155 billion) economy likely grew at a 5.9-per-cent annual pace in the three months ended June, according to the median of estimates in
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      • 36 16 US$ 0.5857 UK£ 0.3167 Yen 63.841 HK$ 4.5678 RM 2.2255 Euro 0.4735 Rupiah 5,259.3 Baht 23.911 Peso 32.709 A$ 0.8137 Indian Rs 26.844 Won 673.48 C$ 0.7721 Yuan 4.8475 NZ$ 0.8927 NTS 19.764
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      • 27 16 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/.i 406.90 Silver uss/m 6.47 Platinum uss/oi 804.10 Rubber ™ts/k 9 229.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,486 Brent crude uss/iorrei 37.63 Information provided by
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    • 593 16  -  Val Chua Education firm says it will be able to continue as ongoing concern INFORMATICS Holdings has secured an extension for the repayment of its loans from its two banks, DBS and ABN Amro, the board of directors of the education services provider said
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    • 111 16 SINGTEL welcomed India's move to allow foreigners greater access to its booming telecommunications market and may consider raising its stake in Bharti-Televentures, India's secondlargest mobile phone company, SingTel spokesman David Lim said. In its 2004-05 annual budget, the new Indian government proposed on Thursday
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    • 194 16 Bloomberg Dow Jones The 7.5-per-cent public tranche of laboratory instruments maker Techcomp Holdings' initial public offering (IPO) was about 59.9 times subscribed. The entire IPO of 40 million shares at 40 cents each was about 5.5 times subscribed. The IPO shares represent about 30 per cent of the company's
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  • wh?ch PROPERTY
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      621 20  -  Kevin Tan Fewer choices for HOUSING Development Board dwellers intending to upgrade to lower-priced mass-market condominiums may have to act soon, as the robust economic recovery sets the stage for property prices to rise in the near future, said property consultants. But the limited new launches of condominiums
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    • 189 20 THE very fact that this terrace house is a mortgage sale should be compelling enough for those looking for a bargain. Besides, at a good pinch under $1 million, it must surely be one of the most attractively priced landed properties around. The three-storey intermediate terrace
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    • 290 21  -  Ted Chen FOR budget-conscious property buyers hunting for their dream properties near the East Coast, AllGreen Properties' newlylaunched Baywater condominium might be the answer. Marketed at an average selling price of $450 per sq ft, the 99-year lease-hold Baywater is one of those increasingly rare
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    • Article, Illustration
      103 21 THIS sleek, two bedroom-and-study flat in Park East condominium has been featured in one of Singapore's leading decor magazines. It comes with all the mod cons like a fully customised built-in cabinetry in the kitchen, a walk-in wardrobe in the master bedroom and full height shelving in the
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      687 22  -  Cindy Tong SMALL BUDGET, BIG IDEAS One couple's flat in Punggol proves that a small budget doesn't always mean small ideas in interior design. CREATING a stylish home is possible even on a shoestring budget The owners of this home, Mark Koh and his wife, spent less than
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  • WORLD
    • 936 24  -  Jim Lobe -IPS Abusive, dour 'warmonger' could drag down Bush's chances for re-election WASHINGTON Now that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has chosen Senator John Edwards as his vice-presidential running-mate, the United States capital's attention has shifted to the fate of Vice-President Dick Cheney.
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    • GLOBALEroundup
      • 97 24 Sri Lanka's local council elections set for Saturday was in doubt after the island's 62-year-old polls chief, Mr Dayananda Dissanayake, suffered a heart attack, leaving the vote literally depending on the hospitalised man's life. "The law is such that if the commissioner
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      • 71 24 Reuters American Marine Wassef Ali Hassoun, who turned up in his native Lebanon after being presumed abducted and killed in Iraq, left Beirut on a US military plane bound for Germany on Friday, security officials said. In another twist to the story, relatives of
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      • 56 24 Reuters A 1 00-year-old British man who slit his ailing wife's throat to keep her from being moved to a distant nursing home was spared jail on Thursday after pleading guilty to manslaughter. The judge said Bernard Heqinbotham's act appeared
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  • REFLECTIONS
    • 562 25  -  Ivy Singh-Lim "SLOWLY" that seems to be the mindset of some of our bureaucrats! I have often raved about the many quaint and beautiful restaurants in Australia's farms and vineyards and how we should introduce a similar concept
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    • Article, Illustration
      43 25 Dusk at Chanqi Point Boardwalk The close of day makes for a pictureperfect moment for the lucky few on the kelong. Photographer STEVENSON LIMSZUWEI,29,is a civil servant whose passion for photography was inspired by his wife, who loves to have memories captured.
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    • 680 25  -  Dave Barry I HAVE written a blockbuster novel. My inspiration was The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, which has sold 253 trillion copies because it's such a page-turner. NOBODY can put this book down: MOTHER ON BEACH: Help! My child is being attacked by a shark!
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  • wh?ch GADGET
    • SHOPPING GUIDE
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      • 93 26 CREATE a high-quality two-hour DVD video on a 4.7G8 DVD disc in less than 10 minutes with Imation's external DVD+/-RW burner. The drive is packed with easy-to-use software suites and a burn speed of 8x (DVD+R and DVD-R). You can also
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      • 116 26 Tamagotchi Connexion Be merry, make Tamababies JUST when you thought virtual pets were passe, the Tamagotchi is back, all ready to make new friends, fall in love, get married and make Tamababies. The new and improved Tamagotchi Connexion features Tamacom, an interactive infrared function that allows two virtual pets to
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      • 139 26 Nikon Coolpix 4200 Speedy power-up for impromptu shots NIKON has launched another easy-to-operate compact digital camera the Coolpix 4200. Incorporating a 3x Zoom-Nikkor lens with a focal range of 7.8-23.4mm (equivalent to a 38-114mm lens in 35mm format), this 4-megapixel camera promises to give you clear and brilliant images. All
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      • 106 26 Why buy new batteries when you can recharge them? Sanyo's latest charger boasts an innovative Refresh function that discharges the battery fully so that it is restored to its original capacity. Batteries can also be maintained at full capacity thanks to the Power
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    • Article, Illustration
      195 26  -  Francis Chin Locatrix lets your friends know if you're available for chit-chat WHEN you call someone on their cell phone, you often start off by asking: "Can we talk?", in case it's not a good time for them. An Australian company, Locatrix Communications, wants to offer a
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    • 137 26 OWNERS of the Palm or Pocket PC can now organise their data in a more professional manner, with FileMaker Mobile 7. Designed for the two handheld devices, it is compatible with FileMaker Pro 7, a popular database software for consumers. FileMaker Mobile 7 allows
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    • 300 26  -  Ariel Jam Mobile Phone Reviews Samsung SGH-D4IOC THE SGH-D4IOC is Samsung's first slide-up mobile camera phone. You need not fumble with clumsy clamshells nor be stuck with common bar-type handsets with this slinky metallic model, which glides open smoothly with a gentle push of a
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    • 203 27 DDR2 memory and the much-anticipated PCI Express are some of the new power features that have been incorporated into Dell's latest desktop computers the OptiPlex SX2BO and GX2BO. Both models feature the Intel Pentium 4 500 family of processors and the 915G Express chipset The
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    • 261 27  -  Ariel Tarn Motorola E398 MUSIC junkies will love Motorola's E398, a Bluetoothenabled mobile handset designed to maximise your sensory pleasure with sur-round-sound quality, vibration technology and rhythm lights. Dual 16mm 22KHz stereo speakers deliver clear audio quality while advanced Haptics technology gives you the synthesised
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    • 1285 28  -  Derrick A Paulo It was a tough fight on the Hollywood front to tell the 'untold true story' behind the legend I WASN'T keen on going, but the +plus editor was insistent. "Dude, this is a movie produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, the man behind Pirates
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    • 380 29 For most, the romantic imagery of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is the stuff of legends. Which is why historians for this movie, which purports to be the more historically accurate story of the Briton leader, realise they may not
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    • 304 30  -  Jeanine Tan SHARON Au is still a little sore from when she performed at the National Kidney Foundation Charity Show in April. Not from the stunts so much as from what she feels were excessively harsh criticism from certain newspapers. Celebrities are not paid to perform
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    • 83 30 WEE TECK HIAN MediaCorp artistes practising skipping with fire ropes during rehearsals on Thursday night for the firstever National Kidney Foundation Children's Medical Fund Charity Show 2004. The first part of the show will be telecast live on MediaCorp TV Channel 8 at 7pm this
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    • incinemas
      • 88 32 Watch the real-life misadventures of a cross-continent expedition gone wrong on the giant iWERKS screen at the Singapore Discovery Centre. Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure recreates the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-16, which was led by explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. The ship the men were travelling
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      • 189 32  -  Eveline Gan WINNIE Hsin (picture) is romantic as she looks, she claims. The veteran Taiwanese singer is in town to perform in a free concert this Saturday at Bpm, at Ngee Ann City's civic plaza, alongside Taiwanese balladeers Phil Chang and Huang Ping Yuan.
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      • 1073 34  -  Unfancied Greece may have won the soccer tournament, but it is the traditional European powerhouses which are releasing this year's hottest high-performance machines Maserati GranSport: Sporty, speed, style THE enigmatic Italian carmaker is launching a special variant of its Coupe here this weekend. First seen
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        528 35  -  Colin Yong Alfa Romeo's latest station wagon puts style before space but is still fun to drive PEOPLE do not buy station wagons for space anymore. Take the case of the Alfa Romeo 156 Sportwagon. Its boot swallows 360 litres of luggage or 20 litres less than
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      • 292 35 What's new and hot in showrooms this week Audi THE A4 2.0 multitronic is I now being offered at $145,000 with COE this price includes zero downpayment and free instalments for the first seven months. For this weekend, Premium Autc mobiles is also giving away a limited
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        • 150 35 A UNIQUE seating arrangement is what Honda hopes will set its new mid-sized multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) apart from its rivals. The Edix, which has just been introduced in Japan, has six seats arranged in two rows of three so a trio of passengers can get
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        • 147 35 ITS name may be a bit of a mouthful but this new Peugeot looks set to revolutionise the way small cars are constructed. What makes the 1 007 (say one double-oh seven) special is the single electric sliding door on each side, which allows for
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    • 482 39 AFP Hansen smashes world record to finally qualify LONG BEACH Brendan Hansen (picture) erased a disappointment that had rankled for four years, when he broke the 100m breaststroke world record at the US Olympic swimming trials. The 22-year-old clocked 59.30 seconds on Thursday (Friday morning, Singapore
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    • 138 39 Reuters LONDON Lance Armstrong will never win an Olympic gold medal. The American has stood on the winner's podium five times at the Tour de France, yet in three visits to the Games he has taken just one medal home, a bronze four years ago.
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    • 534 40 Agencies Making his debut, man-of-the-match goalkeeper Julio Cesar saves Brazil's blushes COPA AMERICA Brazil 1 Chile 0 AREQUIPA, Peru Angry with the Copa America scheduling, Brazil were reluctant to take the tournament seriously, and they almost paid the price. A last-minute Luis Fabiano goal saved Brazil's
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    • 323 40 Agencies LONDON With the Premiership currently besotted with the uncertain future of Wayne Rooney, one club is quietly signing several high profile names with little fuss or fanfare. Middlesbrough boss Steve McClaren is orchestrating a mini-revolution on Teeside. Having confirmed the £4.5 million ($14.2 million) purchase
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    • 134 40 LONDON Chelsea's new manager Jose Mourinho is expected to break the British transfer record for a striker with the signing of Didier Drogba (right) from Marseille for £22 million ($69.4 million), reported the Guardian Unlimited on Friday. The Ivory Coast forward is supposedly in
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    • 666 41  -  lAN DE COTTA Not unless the talented Japanese ends his crash-happy stunts HE HAS been called costly, a lunatic, even amateurish. On track, he looks more like a rampaging samurai gone berserk, than a top racing driver. Takuma Sato's (picture) aggressive style has irked a few
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    • 224 41 Colin Yong, TODAY motoring correspondent I 1 M Schumacher 2 R Barrichello 3 J Button The Schumacher show I will continue this weekend. The German had an uncharacteristically poor British Grand Prix last year, but he will prove unstoppable this time. Barrichello has always done well at
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    • 315 41  -  STEFANIE LOH SINGAPORE put up a valiant fight, but in the end, they were outmuscled, outplayed and outlasted by an exciting Papua New Guinea (PNG) team. At the Singapore Sports School on Friday, in their first match of a three-test Energizer Netball series, PNG
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    • 384 42  -  LEONARD THOMAS SPORTS EDITOR leonard@newstoday.com.sg NO ONE can blame Lions coach Raddy Avramovic for saying all the right things, before Singapore's clash against Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur on Monday. Whatever the result against our biggest rivals, it will
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    • 757 42  -  STANLEY HO International Friendly Malaysia v Singapore (8.45pm) Cheras Stadium, Kuala Lumpur Monday Singapore coach Avramovic downplays Lions' first meeting with Malaysia since the 2002Tiger Cup humiliation FLASHBACK: December 18, 2002. The Scoreboard at the National Stadium read: 0-4. In front of 40,000 die-hard fans, Singapore's
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    • 203 43 It's no ordinary rivalry, this as these men would testify Matches between the two teams are all about pride. My best memory of a Singapore-Malaysia tie was when we won 2-1 at the 1983 SEA Games here at the National Stadium. I scored the winner and the team made it
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    • 675 43  -  JOSE RAYMOND IT WAS 18 months ago, when his young Tigers stunned South-east Asian powerhouses Thailand and their then-coach Peter Withe, with a slick 3-1 win at the National Stadium in the preliminary rounds of the Tiger Cup. A visibly pleased Allan Harris (picture) told
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