Today, 9 August 2004

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    25 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Monday August 9, 2004 mita(P) 103/07/2004 TODAY we v-u Ihin<irig todayonline.com Aaiitti'>, jimu vi n a i.h.i i in.KiT.jiWi
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    NATION IN TRANSITION
    156 1 A BIRTHDAY is a time for M celebration, all the more so M^ when it is the M m birthday of a nation that has, in 39 years, pulled itself so decisively out of the Third World and settled so comfortably in the First World. It is
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      49 1 I FORTHE I PLEASURE fl OF SEEING I HERAGAIN ITI Hen? Kone I I Acrylicßlood I Get your FREE 16-page arts events guide at MRT stations in the CBD, selected Starbucks and Coffee Bean Tea Leaf outlets, hotels, the airport, ticketing centres, Singapore Visitor Centres and selected performance venues.
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      129 1 INSIDE OUR NATIONAL DAY SPECIAL I TEO HWEE NAK SIEW KUM HONG No room for bystanders in 3G Spore 4 Safety nets and the First World 24 TAN SOO KHOON NEIL HUMPHREYS friend, comrade, leader 6 No honey, no money, no more 26 GEORGE NONIS S MURALI Hello Hsien Loong
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      17 1 PM'S NATIONAL DAY MESSAGE i 'i MRGOH: THE y HIGHEST h*~* HONOUR i V OF MY LIFE
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    THE HIGHEST HONOUR OF MY LIFE
    1688 2 Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's National Day Message MY FELLOW SINGAPOREANS, When I was sworn in as Prime Minister on Nov 28, 1990,1 pledged "to ensure that Singapore thrives and grows after Mr Lee Kuan Yew; to find a new group of men and
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  • NATIONAL IN TRANSITION
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      Lock icon No room for bystanders in 3G S'pore
      1271 4 That fire in the belly needed to drive thirdgeneration Spore must come from its citizens, says Deputy News EditorTeo Hwee Nak MY FAMILY was having our usual Saturday dinner at my sister's place when the handover date was announced during the evening news
      WEE TECK HIAN  -  1,271 words
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      Lock icon Five stars for the red and white
      180 12  -  lay Tsen-Waye LIKE a mirror reflecting the transition of leaderii ship, these images capture a country in intimate conversation with the then, the now and the future. Even as the old graciously makes way for the new, indelible hallmarks of our founding fathers
      I PHOTOS BY WEE TECK HIAN AND TREVOR TAN  -  180 words
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  • LEADERSHIP IN TRANSITION
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      Lock icon friend, comrade, leader
      1149 6  -  Tan Soo Khoon Fierce dedication and an engaging personal style are the foundations of Mr Goh's success I FIRST met Goh Chok Tong at the Party Conference of 1976 when we were introduced along with nine others as the People's Action Party's (PAP) new candidates for the
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      Dear Mr Goh,
      602 10 May I relate an incident long forgotten in which a young man made the decision of his life. 1983. It was during one of your Meet-The-People sessions at Marine Parade when you listened to the reasoning of a young man, 28 years of age, who was seriously
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      Daunting task ahead: Changing attitudes
      762 14  -  Lee Han Shih New PM's toughest job will be to deal with the complacency that follows success THERE'S the terrorism threat and the falling population; and dealing with China and keeping the economy humming. Mr Lee Hsien Loong will have many challenges to grapple with
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      Lock icon PM, SM pay tribute to OUB founder
      299 14 Channel News Asia PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong praised the late Mr Lien Ying Chow on Sunday for his many contributions to the development of Singapore. Mr Lien, who founded Overseas Union Bank (OUB) in 1949, died on Friday at the age of
      — Channel News Asia; TREVOR TAN  -  299 words
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      Business leaders back new team
      231 14  -  Tay Tsen-Waye THE Chinese business community paid tribute to Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and expressed confidence in his successor Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong last night. The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) had wanted to publish a congratulatory message to
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      152 8 George Nonis. cartoonist and author of Hello ChokTong, Goodbye Kuan Yew r and JFrcira Kuan Yew To Click Tong And Beyond', give? his lake on the change of leadership. r— rt Akhnugh Kho* Tnflrj's ]D mora the tuj» ruin hi? i p;wsr r-.f-r as pw. J \Jy r A J
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Singapore's own William Hungs and Simon Cowells go on show tonight
      262 16 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE'S William Hungs and Simon Cowells will hit your TV screen tonight Singapore Idol hopefuls came in the thousands to strut their stuff, and after weeks of gruelling secret auditions, Singaporeans will finally see them in
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      Lock icon Relevance of newspapers in the Google age
      387 16 Derrick A Paulo Internet leading to decentralisation of reporting, says playwright THERE was no shortage of views from students for these talking points at a Singapore International Foundation symposium on Thursday. Likewise, in a give-as-good-as-they-got exchange, both panelists, lawyer and playwright Eleanor Wong
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon The Yukos effect
      443 18 -AFP High oil prices result from its legal woes, too OIL prices are set to remain at record highs at least until the uncertainties surrounding supply from Russian oil giant Yukos can be resolved, analysts said. "The outcome lies in the Russian government's hands. Prices will remain
      -AFP; AFP  -  443 words
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        Lock icon Singapore
        129 18 AFP The ST Index closed on Friday at 1,922.75, up 31.04 points or 1.64 per cent from the week earlier. Over the past week, average daily volume totalled 613.21 million shares valued at $766.83 million, up from 493 million shares worth $499.76 million the previous week. Singapore share prices
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 18 US$ 0.5823 UK£ 0.3163 Yen 64.3373 HK$ 4.5398 RM 2.2129 Euro 0.4743 Rupiah 5340.1 Baht 24.083 Peso 32.445 A$ 0.8164 Indian Rs 27.002 Won 676.8 C$ 0.7644 Yuan 4.8201 NZ$ 0.8934 NTS 19.891
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        Commodities
        22 18 Gold uss/oz 402.100 Silver uss/oz 6.775 Platinum uss/oz 832.000 Rubber ontAg 239 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1 464.5 Brent crude uss/barrei 39.94
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  • Mr Brown on Transition
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      Lock icon A (slightly blurry) vision of youth
      1062 20  -  mr brown Take heart, Lion City, even at 39 you're still FINALLY, it has come to this: The Big Three-Nine. One more year, and Singapore will hit The Big Four-Oh. Time for a mid-life crisis. Time to buy a sports car. At 39, it
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  • the BUSINESS of marketing
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      BRANDING OF A UNIQUE 'ROJAK
      721 22  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Of a campaign that captures Singapore's essence shobha@newstoday.com.sg THE essence, or "soul", of Singapore has had several re-incarnations in the last decade but arguably none on as high a plane of existence as its current avatar. The "Uniquely Singapore" branding campaign came
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      GRAB BAG
      301 22 NTUC Club marketing campaign The National Trades Union Congress Club launched the Downtown East Marketing Campaign on Aug 1 to position Downtown East as a one-stop entertainment destination. The five-month campaign will see NTUC Club spending on print, radio, television and outdoors advertising from August to December. The
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      36 22 Impact Tiger Beer sparkles for National Day Asia Pacific Breweries' among the clutter of cam- r^^|Ll:y five plan that "extends" shelters, using light-emit-ting diodes (LED) in 150 bus stop shelters islandwide, a first in Singapore. 1
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  • ECONOMY IN TRANSITION
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      Lock icon Safely nets and the First World
      842 24  -  Siew Kum Hong More help needed for Singaporeans left behind I MET Jose at a John Kerry benefit gig in New York City recently. (I was there more for the music than the politics.) He works as a poorly paid freelance translator in hospitals,
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  • ANG MOHS IN TRANSITION
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      Lock icon No money, no honey, no more
      841 26  -  Neil Humphreys It's time to say goodbye to the ang moh con artists THERE have now been several changes in leadership. Some were considered benign: Others more costly, with the man on the street feeling the pinch. But no one really cares who calls
      WEE TECK HIAN  -  841 words
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon AI Qaeda computer whiz was US mole
      478 28 Reuters Critics deplore outing, calling it 'incompetence' and 'another debacle' of US intelligence LONDON The arrest of an Al Qaeda computer expert led to the launch of an "orange alert" in Washington and New York. But, unknown to many, Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan
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      Badawi proposes common features for Asean
      229 28 SHAH ALAM A common time zone, common travel documents and common currency for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)? Those were some of the possibilities that Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi proposed for the regional grouping to be more "cohesive", the Sunday
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      Lock icon New ransom demand for trucker hostages
      235 28 Agencies NEW DELHI The release of seven truck drivers from India, Kenya and Egypt who were taken hostage in Iraq has been delayed, with their captors making a new demand, a spokeswoman for their employer said yesterday. Ms Rana Abu-Zaineh, a spokeswoman for Kuwait
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      Lock icon HK has highest abortion rate
      212 28 AFP HONG KONG Hong Kong has the highest abortion rate in the developed world with almost a third of all pregnancies terminated, a media report citing official figures said yesterday. Officials, however, have warned that the figure could be much higher, as the data does
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Edict of mercy
        46 28 AFP The king of Bhutan has issued an edict ordering compassion for HIV-posi-tive people in a new Aids-control measure in the isolated Himalayan state. The revered King Jigme Singye Wangchuk warned that a spread of Aids would seriously hamper the Buddhist country's development.
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        Lock icon 2nd Myanmar airline to be launched
        63 28 AFP Myanmar will launch a second international airline at the end of the year to expand its links throughout Asia and to Australia, said the Myanmar Times. Air Myanmar intends to debut with flights from Yangon to Sydney via Singapore and a four-leg route
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        Lock icon Couple abduct baby with pepper spray
        80 28 AP A couple has abducted a 3-week-old baby after temporarily blinding her mother with pepper spray in an underground car park at a Melbourne shopping mall. The mother, Anita Ciancio, made a tearful plea yesterday: "Please look after her; she's only three weeks old
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        Lock icon Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Iraq
        47 28 Reuters Militants from a group calling itself The Islamic Army in Iraq have kidnapped an Iranian diplomat in Iraq, accusing him of helping cause sectarian strife in the country, Arab television Al Arabiya said yesterday. The hostage was identified as Fereidoun Jahani.
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  • PARENTHOOD IN TRANSITION
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      Lock icon The bottomline in bringing up baby...
      813 30  -  S Murali It's always been worth it, even before baby bonuses were conceived really ON JULY 28, my wife and I welcomed the second little addition to the family. Yes, that's right We silly people had a child before all the baby incentives, which
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon HK's Democratic Alliance leader has colon cancer
        54 30 AP Mr Ma Lik, head of Hong Kong's top pro-Beijing party, yesterday said he has been diagnosed with colon cancer. He said he will remain as chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong and run for a legislative seat
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        Lock icon Howard criticised by former leaders over Iraq war
        51 30 AFP Following in the footsteps of the American and British counterparts, a group of more than 40 former Australian diplomats and defence chiefs yesterday issued a statement, accusing Prime Minister John Howard of deceiving the country over the reasons for the Iraq
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        Lock icon 26 die in illegal attempt to reach Italy by boat
        66 30 -AFP Twenty-six would-be refugees died attempting to reach Italy by boat from north Africa, Italian police said on Sunday, citing accounts from some of the 74 survivors rescued off the Sicilian coast. They were picked up from their drifting boat
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        Lock icon Karachi bomb blasts kill at least 7, dozens injured
        39 30 AFP At least seven people, including a child, were killed and dozens injured when two bombs exploded on Sunday near an Islamic seminary in Karachi, witnesses and police officials said.
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        Lock icon Al Jazeera censured for violence-inciting coverage
        41 30 AFP The caretaker Iraqi government on Saturday ordered pan-Arab television channel Al Jazeera to close its offices in Baghdad for 30 days following charges it is inciting violence and racial tension in its Iraq coverage.
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  • SOCIETY IN TRANSITION
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      Lock icon Riding the 'Nice' bus to KL
      817 32  -  Constance Singam and gaining a fresh sense of identity and belonging A VISIT to Kuala Lumpur last month reaffirmed my faith in civil society as a space for responsible and active citizenship, and for reclaiming a history that has been confined to the margins
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      Lock icon Stranded dolphins euthanised in Florida
      74 32 Thirty out of 36 dolphins who beached themselves on a Florida beach were euthanised after experts and volunteers spent hours trying to get them to swim back to the ocean. With limited space at the area's only dolphin-care facility experts decided they could nurse only
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  • HUMOUR IN TRANSITION
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      lost in transition
      846 34  -  Tor Ching Li The Great Singapore Scrip Tease chingli@newstoday.com.sg AS the film opens, we see a man named AH PEH standing in Doobuy Got MRT station. Ah Peh (who turns 39 today) looks uncomfortable in his new, all-white uniform. It's his first day as an MRT security
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    827 36  -  Jeanine Tan NO OTHER talent contest in the history of Singapore has attracted quite as many starry-eyed wannabes as Singapore Idol. Over 3,000 young Singaporeans queued up for hours for the first round of auditions in June, knowing very well from watching the highly popular American version
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    810 38  -  Yong Shu Chiang The arts have come a long way in the past 15 years, but the commercialisation of art in the past year has pushed it a few steps back shuchiang(gnewstoday.com.sg FIFTEEN years ago, the local arts and film landscape was starkly different. There
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      392 40  -  1 WENDY CHENG .j/i-*"'. DAVID YEO ASDF 9 CONCERT REVIEW by \cooipia^^^^^^^^^^^^\ I r SOMEONE had a smashing 28th I I birthday last Saturday (Aug 7), it would have to be Zhang Shan Wei. For the first time in his life, he fulfilled his dream of holding his
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      266 40  -  david chew THEATRE REVIEW by I HAVE never laughed so hard in the Esplanade before. Watching The Revenge of the Dim Sum Dollies, which runs at the Esplanade Theatre till Aug 14, was like eating too much cake in one sitting. The powerful
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      117 41 -AFP LOS ANGELES Fowlmouthed animated character Donald Duck is getting his very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The 70-year-old irascible cartoon duck will be honoured in a ceremony today when his star is unveiled outside a Disney Store at 6840 Hollywood Boulevard.
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      600 42  -  CMLim Da Pai Dang serves up Cantonese cuisine at food-court prices food@newstoday.com.sg THE Mouth Group of restaurants is known for serving up authentic Cantonese cuisine. But judging from the spate of no-frills eateries it has introduced, Mouth looks set to corner a segment of the fast-food market The
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      1586 44 National Day Parade 2004 (Live) Singapore Idol j Olympic Countdown j Get Real channel 5 channel B,6 P m Audition (Premiere) Olympic Century (Debut) HDP Really Don't miss this spectacular Channel 5,8.15pm I HJ j Arts Central, 9pm j Channel News Asia, 8.32pm Among the highlights are the ir't i
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    522 45  -  ALVIN CHUA From Nigerian fruits to love, Casmir's well settled in Spore alvin@newstoday.com.sg IT'S a long way from the fruit plantations of Nnaka village in Nigeria to the urban jungle of Singapore. When a young Agu Casmir woke up in the morning in Nnaka, one of the
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    Lock icon Jaguars football clinic for kids
    99 45 www.tpufc.org.sg WANT a taste of the Moroccanstyle training regime that Karim Bencherifa has brought to Tanjong Pagar United? That's what young footballers can expect at the Jaguars' FreeKicks Programme 2004/05, organised in conjunction with the Central Singapore Community Development Council. Kids from 7 to 15,
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    110 45 S-LEAGUE fans can now log on to www.bigtrumpet.com, to predict the winner of the NTUC Income-ToDAY S-League Coach of the Month Guly) award. Tampines Rovers head coach Vorawan Chitavanich, Home United boss Steve Darby and Kirn Poulsen of the Young Lions are the trio nominated
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    Lock icon Fandi to coach new U-21 team
    299 45 Stanley Ho MORE Cubs should translate to a bigger pool of talented Lions that seems to be the prevailing philosophy in Singapore football at the moment, with a new national under-21 team to be formed. The aim in forming the new age-group team to
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    747 46  -  STANLEY HO But Home and Young Lions are still in with a great chance for the S-League title stanley@newstoday.com. sg MATHEMATICALLY, any of the top six clubs can still lift the 2004 S-League championship trophy, come the end September. That's how close this year's NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League championship
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    ALL OR NOTHING
    515 47 Geylang v Woodlands Bedok Stadium Tomorrow 7.30pm GEYLANG Probable line-up: Shahril Jantan, Md Noh Rahman, Mark Williams, Aleksandar Duric, Stewart Petrie, Faizal Abdul Hamid, Rudy Khairon, Razali Johari, Wayne O'Sullivan, Md Noor Ali (left, topi, Fazrul Nawaz Form: DLLDD (2-2 v Tanjong Pagar, 2-4 v Home, 0-2
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    S-League awards all about the honour
    490 47 THE S-League Awards this year will once again not feature any cash prizes. S-League CEO Chan King Fook (picture) confirmed this last week. Previously, awards such as the Player of the Year and the season's top goalscorer featured a cash bounty of up to
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      Lock icon First blood to Arsenal
      344 48 AFP Impressive Gunners fire down United, with Reyes the star FA COMMUNITY SHIELD Arsenal 3 Man Utd 1 CARDIFF Arsenal got their 2004-05 season off to the perfect start, by reclaiming the Community Shield from Manchester United with a 3-1 victory in the traditional curtain raiser
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      Lock icon Alam asks Eriksson to quit, brands Swede a master in bed
      414 48 -AFP LONDON The former English Football Association (FA) secretary, whose relationship with England coach SvenGoran Eriksson nearly cost him his job, has called on the Swede to quit his job because his employers "want to destroy him". Faria Alam
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      Perses elect non-Malays as controversy mars AGM
      276 48  -  Tan Yo-Hinn ABDUL Halim Kader was reelected for a second two-year term as president of the Singapore Sepak Takraw Federation (Perses) yesterday, but that was hardly the talking point. Instead, the elections at the annual general meeting (AGM) were marred by controversy. It
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      467 49 Asian Cup in China proves continent is moving forward BEIJING With 17 sending offs, the Asian Cup was a bad-tempered affair, but it also showcased the strides the continent is making to match the top teams of the world. While lacking the star power of Euro 2004,
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      202 49 -AP -AFP BEIJING Asia's top soccer official publicly rebuked China's Dutch coach Arie Haan, for refusing to accept the second-place medal after his team lost to Japan on Saturday in the Asian Cup final. Peter Velappan, general secretary of the Asian Football Confederation, said Haan showed "great disrespect"
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      Lock icon STBCs league creating future stars and helping lesser-known schools
      521 49  -  DAN PEK Ist STBC Secondary Schools Bowling League dan@newstoday.com.sg THE performance of the young keglers after three rounds of the nation's premier secondary school bowling league organised by the Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress (STBC) bodes well for the future of the
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        641 50 Reuters Tyagachyov says team have improved from Sydney Olympics and can knock US off top spot MOSCOW Russia do not like coming second, and third does not even bear thinking about Their Olympic team are going to Athens to win. Officials and the media
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        450 50 AFP PARIS All have been vilified, isolated and boycotted. Some have been deemed to be so dastardly that they've even earned their own damning soundbite of being an "Axis of Evil". Now these rogue states are targeting the United
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        Wanted: A higher standard for sport in S'pore
        940 51  -  LEONARD THOMAS From now, let's aim for success at the highest levels THE Athens Olympic Games will welcome back her birthright this Friday. Among the myriad of nations that will file past a packed Olympic Stadium, will be Singapore. For the XXVHI
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        302 51  -  Tan Yo-Hinn BIRTHDAY girl Li Jiawei has a simple wish: for Team Singapore to do well at the XXVIII Olympic Games in Athens. Li, who turns 23 today, was presented with a birthday cake as a surprise the highlight of the official send-ing-off ceremony for Team
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        148 51 SINGAPORE'S Ronald Susilo got the worst possible draw for the Olympics yesterday, with top seed Lin Dan as his first round opponent in the men's singles badminton tournament. Lin is a hot favourite to underline Chinese supremacy in the sport. But Susilo was one of
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      391 56 MediaCorp TV Channel 5 brings you the best this August! ,\H>*r i^mem i^u,^ Idol starts today! I- ''■SpSS- TONIGHT, right after National Day Parade ■w■■■'"■■' I i:SINCj APOkhAI^S lmii 1" Tid Tt^ir forvicivvTi^s is nnw linnyii sJiowni^.-, wzw. net fliiflfy noraro v-?. '&s'.'■■ I .vlimiiMilouc lifitlliiiH.'hlihl finally nvrr. Toniphr. Sin^pniir:
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