Today, 11 August 2004, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon US stocks up after 1/4-pt rate hike
      107 1 Reuters NEW YORK US stocks jumped yesterday after Wall Street shrugged off the Federal Reserve's quarter-point interest rate hike to 1.5 per cent and took reassurance from comments that the economy was poised to pick up after a recent slowdown. The Dow Jones
      – Reuters; AFP  -  107 words
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      Lee's new team for Singapore
      936 1  -  Tor Ching Li Proposed Cabinet suggests youth, women are among key priorities chingli@newstoday.com.sg THE much-anticipated leadership transition got under way yesterday, with no major surprises in the incoming Prime Minister's proposed Cabinet line-up. Outgoing Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, looking cheerful, formally tendered his resignation
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  • HOT NEWS
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      PROPOSED CABINET AND OTHER CHANGES
      437 2 PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE Mr Lee Hsien Loong (Prime Minister) Mr Goh Chok Tong (Senior Minister) Mr Lee Kuan Yew (Minister Mentor) Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam (DPM, Coordinating Minister for Security and Defence) Prof S Jayakumar (DPM, Minister for Law) Mr Lim Boon Heng (Minister)
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      Goh's 'surprising' move
      545 3  -  Val Chua Outgoing PM as MAS head seen as unexpected but wise AFTER weeks of intense speculation, it was finally revealed yesterday that the hot seat at the central bank is to be filled by outgoing Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong a decision that observers describe as
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      Want kids to be smart? Let them play more
      703 4  -  Silva Kandiah NEWS£fifiSffl£— Schools must do more to encourage sports and team discipline SOMETHING is amiss with the state of sports in some schools and homes. Readers have written to a local newspaper lamenting how some school fields are locked during
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    • GLOBAL roundup
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        Lock icon Oil prices likely 'to top US$3O for now'
        50 6 -AFP Crude oil prices in New York are likely to top US$30 ($51.44) a barrel for the "foreseeable future", the US administration said yesterday. Imported oil would ease to an average of US$34 a barrel next year, said the Dennrtment of Energy.
        -AFP  -  50 words
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        Lock icon 'Sudan chopper attacks' in Darfur region
        44 6 Reuters budan carried out tresh helicopter attacks in Darfur yesterday while Janjaweed Arab militia forces attacked refugees trying to escape the conflict, the United Nations said. It added that the Sudanese government was hampering access to hungry Darfuris.
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        Lock icon Iraqi militants kill 'Egyptian spy'
        53 6 Reuters An Islamist website played a videotape yesterday purportedly showing a militant group in Iraq killing a man identified as an "Egyptian spy" working for US forces, reports said in Dubai. The tape was purportedly made by a group led by Al Qaeda ally Abu
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        Lock icon Former CIA operative tapped to head agency
        48 6 Reuters President George W Bush has nominated Florida Congressman Porter Goss, a former CIA operative and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, to head the agency. The move follows the resignation of former chief George Tenet amid controversy over intelligence failures.
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      Lock icon 2 groups behind Turkey blasts?
      183 6 Reuters Tourists among 11 people injured ISTANBUL Two groups have claimed responsibility for simultaneous bomb attacks which rocked two hotels and a gas depot in Istanbul yesterday, killing a Turk and an Iranian and injuring 11 people including foreign tourists at the height of the
      – Reuters; REUTERS  -  183 words
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      Lock icon New passports: 27 nations get more time
      83 6 Reuters WASHINGTON Countries with visa waiver agreements with the United States have been given an extra year to start issuing passports with biometric measures like fingerprints, the US State Department said yesterday. The 27 nations affected now have until Oct 26 next year
      — Reuters  -  83 words
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Celebrating the nation's 39th birthday at the Istana
      56 8 DAVID YEO President S R Nathan (centre) leads the celebration of Singapore's 39th National Day at a garden reception at the Istana yesterday. Cutting the cake with him are Mrs Nathan, Prime Minister Goh Chok long and Mrs Goh and Senior Minister
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    • Article
      Lock icon Top NTU students paid to do research
      262 8 Lee U-Wen WORK on any research project you like with a professor of your choice, earn credits towards your undergraduate degree and get paid for it Going all out to immerse its brightest minds in a research culture more typically found in post-graduate
      – Lee U-Wen  -  262 words
    • Article
      Supervisor'scared'to find beams not in place
      385 8  -  Wong Fei Wan Nicoll Highway Collapse Inquiry: Day 6 Normally, struts would go up after digging works, he said A SITE supervisor at the MRT Circle Line worksite yesterday told the Nicoll Highway inquiry that he had been "scared" that beams were not in
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      Lock icon Unemployment rate may dip below 4%
      181 8 Newsßadio 93.8 THE jobless rate here may fall to below 4 per cent, according to Ministry of Manpower (MOM) divisional director Elizabeth Quah. The unemployment rate now stands at 4.5 per cent But if the economy continues to grow strongly, it could push the
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      Lock icon A new look at NTUC supermarkets
      84 8 Kenneth Tan Orchids are sprouting up all over the shop at NTUC FairPrice supermarkets. That's because the new uniforms for staff, which come in peach and beige tones, feature bigger, brighter orchid prints. Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and NTUC chief Lim Boon
      Kenneth Tan  -  84 words
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  • LETTERS
    • Ang moh expats: Good, bad or ugly?
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        Lock icon S'poreans, don't fall for the ang moh's hype
        331 10  -  Arul Ramiah I AM writing to applaud Neil Humphreys astute observations in his commentary, "No Money, no honey, no more" (Aug 9). There are serious negative professional implications to the expat/local divide that have often been glossed over in an attempt to
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        Writer's commentary full of venom, stereotypes
        392 10  -  Kate Smith ON NATIONAL Day, when the whole island was celebrating "One Nation, One People, One Singapore", it seems one group was singled out as being unworthy of inclusion. Neil Humphreys' "No money, no honey, no more" left a sour taste in my mouth
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      The young 'unsung heroes' who go hands-on for charity
      277 10 I AGREE with Mr John Chua ("Do more than just "begging" for money", Aug 6) and Mr Jeffrey Law Lee Beng ("Get youth to raise funds through work attachments", (Aug 7-8). We owe the success of our recent Bth Annual Golden
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      Work-for-funds won't work
      78 10  -  Wong Mei Xuan MR LAW suggests work attachments for young people to raise funds. Given that CIP (Community Involvement Programme) takes up only 6 hours a year, would you want a new petrol pump attendant or sales assistant who has a shelf life of six hours? Training
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      Another who lost that loving feeling
      104 10  -  THE commentary "No room for bystanders in 3G S'pore" (Aug 9) reflects my sentiments exactly. I cannot remember what it is like to feel that this country actually belongs to me and my fellow citizens. I am in my 40s and I remember vividly
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Impact of oil prices limited: MTI
      479 12  -  Jaime Koh S'pore economy able to cushion shocks of surging oil prices, no 'great deal of damage' expected EVEN as oil prices continued to breach record levels, Singapore remained confident that the impact of high energy prices on its economy this year would be
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      Q2 growth up
      187 12 SINGAPORE'S second quarter growth of 1 2.5 per cent was "the fastest pace in 1 0 years", the Ministry of Trade and Industry said yesterday. This was up from 7.5 per cent in the first quarter. The robust second quarter performance boosted gross domestic product growth in
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    • MarketWATCH
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        Singapore
        57 14 SHARE prices closed lower in slow trade as investors stayed sidelined ahead of the US Federal Reserve's meeting, shrugging off news of strong economic growth and Singapore's new parliamentary Cabinet. "The euphoria over the political handover was a little overdone last week. Investors are now waiting for the Fed's
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        World markets
        61 14 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Value *****.55 *****.04 3499.60 5393.73 C Pis +44.85 -59.37 -9.60 -5.72 Change +0.41 -0.48 -0.27 -0.11 Korea Comp 748.62 +6.49 +0.87 KLCI 820.78 +3.97 +0.49 SET Index Jakarta Comp 606.94 752.44 -0.53 +2.40 -0.09 +0.32 Phils Comp Shenzhen B
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 14 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 401.700 Silver uss/oi 6.690 Platinum uss/oz 838.000 Rubber cents/kg 239.5 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1417 Brent crude uss/barrel 40.91 Information provided by
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        Lock icon STI – 1,901.41 -21.3
        43 14 STI 1,901.41 -21.3 Dow Jones prisingly weak US jobs data," said a trader. The ST Index fell 21.3 points, or 1.1 per cent, to 1,901.41, down for the second straight session. Losers outnumbered gainers 249 to 88 as 455 million shares were traded.
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 14 US$ 0.5827 UK£ 0.3165 Yen 64.459 HK$ 4.5446 RM 2.2144 Euro 0.4748 Rupiah 5346.6 Baht 24.134 Peso 32.464 A$ 0.8145 Indian Rs 27.054 Won 674.05 C$ 0.7678 Yuan 4.8232 NZ$ 0.8926 NTS 19.875
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        SGX most active
        57 14 fy volume TO vleghmani SDS JTelecom SingTel iTATS ChipPAC JniFiber (1 Ventur bartered ilL Intl Moble Grp Close 2.860 0.240 0.290 2.190 1.100 0.160 0.330 1.100 0.865 0.955 Change -0.090 -0.020 -0.050 -0.050 -0.040 -0.020 -0.045 -3.1 -6.5 -2.2 -4.3 -3.5 -2.3 -4.5 '000 24,851 23,212 18,167
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        SGX top rises
        84 14 By Close Change Creative 50 17.700 +0.300 F&N 14.500 +0.200 Jardine C&C 6.750 +0.150 OCBC 4.5%NCPS 100 102.300 +0.100 Haw Par 4.920 +0.080 HL Fin 2.910 +0.050 DBS SGA eCW*****7 0.265 +0.045 TAC200USS 2.680 +0.040 Capitaland 1.520 +0.030 HKLandUSS 1.950 +0.030 By percentage GulTech W*****7 Close i
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        SGX top falls
        77 14 By$ Close Change UOB 13.400 -0.300 DBS 15.600 -0.200 STIETF100 19.040 -0.200 Venture 16.400 -0.200 CITYDEV 6.050 -0.100 CITYDEVW*****0 3.580 -0.100 GreatEast 11.500 -0.100 OCBC 12.800 -0.100 Semb Eog 2.250 -0.100 SIA 10.700 -0.100 By percentage Close Change L&M 0.005 -50.0 Goldtron 0.010 -33.3 Sunlight W*****4 0.015
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      CORPORATEbriefs
      182 16 PSA International handled 15 per cent more traffic in July than a year earlier, as trade expanded between Asia and both Europe and North America. The port operator handled 2.9 million standard containers last month globally compared with 2.5 million a year earlier, PSA said on its Web site.
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      Lock icon SembLog earnings down 3%
      207 16 -Dow Jones But company sticks to 15-20% target for net profit growth this year SEMBCORP Logistics (SembLog), Southeast Asia's biggest logistics firm, yesterday reported a 3-per-cent year-on-year decline in second-quarter net profit due to higher taxation. Its net profit for the April-to-june quarter totalled $25.3 million,
      -Dow Jones  -  207 words
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      Lock icon SGX's first Indian scrip dives on Day
      94 16 Channel NewsAsia THE debut trading of the first Indian scrip to list here, Meghmani Organics, ended under water 14 per cent below its issue price of 28 cents a share. It was the second most heavily traded counter yesterday with some 23 million
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      Khoo family aims to delist Goodwood Park
      379 17 Siblings offer to buy all remaining shares in the company THE TRUSTEES of the late Khoo Teck Puat's estate have made an offer to de-list Goodwood Park Hotel and acquire all the shares not already controlled by the estate. The trustees four of
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      Lock icon Temasek may buy India's Punj stake
      94 17 Bloomberg TEMASEK Holdings and Merlion India Fund may invest 2 billion rupees ($74 million) in Indian construction firm Punj Lloyd, the Economic Times reported, without saying where it got the information. The Singapore investment company and Merlion have reached an in-principle agreement with Punj
      — Bloomberg  -  94 words
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      Lock icon Life policies soar
      115 17 Channel NewsAsia THE BUOYANT stock market has boosted sales of new life insurance policies, the Life Insurance Association said. Sales of such insurance policies soared 66 per cent to over $3 billion in the first half of this year. The lion's share almost 94 per cent was
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    • market BUZZ
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        Conqueror Awards 2004
        194 17 BUNGEE Associates (designer category), Ngai Heng BookBinder Pte Ltd (printer category) and Lydia Foo of Temasek Polytechnic (students' category) were among the winners at the Conqueror Awards 2004, held on Friday evening at the Spring Singapore auditorium. Australian designer Garry Emery was the guest judge-cum-speaker at the
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Graft in M'sian police force rampant: Panel
      312 18 Chairman tempers criticism by citing constraining factors KUALA LUMPUR The police in Malaysia have come under fire following a special commission's report that corruption exists at every level of the force and that resources to enforce law and order effectively were lacking. "Corrupt
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      Lock icon HK prosecutor drunk in court
      146 18 -AFP HONG KONG A Hong Kong barrister admitted to being "drunk as a monkey" after his giggling and mumbling caused the adjournment of a court case, local media reported yesterday. Mr Roderick Murray clapped, put on his sunglasses, drummed his fingers on his desk and
      -AFP  -  146 words
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      Lock icon Al Qaeda 'bent on terror hits in run-up to US presidential polls'
      198 18 Agencies ISLAMABAD Al Qaeda operatives captured in Pakistan were plotting terrorist attacks aimed at influencing the United States presidential polls in November. The terrorist network was looking to pull off major attacks in the US, Britain or Pakistan
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon US keeps its distance from Chalabi
        42 18 AFP The United States has declined to offer any help to disgraced former Washington-darling and prominent Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi in his fight against felony charges but urged the authorities in Iraq to follow "due orocess".
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        Lock icon Report on US presidential poll drawbacks
        59 18 Reuters Major international monitors will issue an unprecedented report on the handling of this year's United States presidential election, after the 2000 vote raised concerns of disenfranchisement. Some of the monitors have observed US presidential polls before, but this year will be the first
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        Lock icon Philippines open to new mission in Iraq
        68 18 -AFP I he Philippines said yesterday it was open to sending a fresh humanitarian mission to Iraq under a United Nations charter, after a diplomatic spat with the US for its recent troop pull-out. Manila faces a possible reduction or suspension of American
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        Lock icon Oklahoma City bomber qets '161 life terms'
        45 18 Reuters Calling him a "terrorist", an Oklahoma judge sentenced Terry Nichols to 161 life sentences without parole after he apologised for his role in the 1 995 Oklahoma City bombing and asked his victims' families to forgive him.
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Battle to unseat a president
      843 20  -  Humberto Calderon Berti -IPS Opposition forces referendum on Venezuelan leader Chavez's rule Venezuelans will vote in a referendum on whether or not to revoke the presidential mandate of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez, in compliance with Article 72 of the Venezuelan Constitution. The Venezuelan people have
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      Lock icon isay HOLD YOUR TONGUE, MR CHENEY, THE KIDS ARE LISTENING
      585 20  -  Ana Veciana-Suarez -KRT MY 13-year-old son, Ben, has discovered the joys of peppering his speech with expletives. Not that he hasn't flirted with those words before. It's just that, as he pushes the chafing boundaries of childhood, a certain defiance
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      LEAN N ME
      578 21  -  Elisa Chia Gurmit Singh knows a thing or two about comforting rejected hopefuls he was once in their shoes GURMIT Singh is the first guy Singapore Idol rejects run into after their auditions. And, as we saw on Monday night's debut episode, the host is ever ready
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      His tears have dried and Rocky now has lots to say
      304 21  -  Jeanine Tan r^u saw mm cry nisH on the shoulder I when he was by the gapore Rocky Wang (pic- I the young man I from stoodß out among the contestants not for being a bad singer, but for
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      august activities AT IMM
      288 21 IT'S A month of activities at IMM this month. Spend $20 at IMM and spin the Wheel of Celebrations. You will have a chance not only to redeem IMM vouchers and other gifts but you also stand to win Osim vacuum cleaners, VCD players, mobile phones
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        Moving target for lemon-throwing
        505 22  - Moving target for lemon -thro wing Jeanine Tan Kelvin Sim's earnest singing and bad dancing has made him S'pore's answer to William Hung HIS performance was one of the most unforgettable in Tuesday night's debut Singapore Idol episode. Kelvin Sim appeared before the judges and, to the tune of the
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        Crime pays for Cruise (but not much)
        97 23  -  Yong Shu Chiang PLAYING the bad guy was risky business for Tom Cruise. His new film Collateral debuted atop the North American box office last weekend, but made just U5524.7 million ($42.6 million) the summer's second-smallest No 1 opening! Still, the film, featuring
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      80 21 Idol debut makes a splash According to TNS, the first episode of Singapore Idol on Monday was watched by 1.2 million people, aged 14 and above. This makes it the highest-rated debut for a locally-produced programme on MediaCorp TV Channel 5. It also beats the ratings for the first episode
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      556 26  -  DAN PEK Classy Stags ease past the Warriors to post a magnificent seventh win on the trot NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE Tampines 2 SAFFC 0 THE NTUC Income Yeo's S-League 2004 title looks to be eastbound, after last night's result at the Chua Chu Kang Stadium.
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      Lock icon Thai youngsters head for Everton
      311 26  -  THREE Thai youth players have been selected for a nine-month training stint at Everton's football academy, putting an end to speculation that the country's senior stars were set to go on trial with the Premiership club. Two weeks ago, a report on ESPN StarSports claimed
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        550 27 AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUALIFYING AK Graz 0 Liverpool 2 GRAZ Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard gave new manager Rafael Benitez an early taste of the Reds' European potential, scoring twice in a 2-0 win over AX Graz in the third qualifying round of the Champions League this
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        Lock icon Juventus suffer fright in Turin
        205 27 Reuters LONDON Juventus had to come from two goals down to scrape a 2-2 home draw with Swedish underdogs Djurgarden, while Benfica made a winning start in their first leg tie, beating Anderlecht 1-0 in Lisbon. The upset of the night came in Turin, where
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        225 27 Agencies LONDON Striker Francis Jeffers joined premier league club Charlton Athletic from champions Arsenal yesterday for £2.6 million ($8.15 million). The 23-year-old, who signed a two-year contract with Charlton, moved to Arsenal from Everton for £8 million in 2001 but never tied down a regular
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      Lock icon Africans eye golden hat-trick
      572 28 -AFP Mali, Ghana, Morocco andTunisia aim to follow in footsteps of Nigeria and Cameroon OLYMPICS Football JOHANNESBURG The treasure hunters from Africa will be hoping to complete a hat-trick at the Athens Olympic Games football tournament, starting tomorrow. The "Super Eagles" of Nigeria finished first in
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      lOC drops rogue Hassan
      70 28 ATHENS Indonesian tycoon Mohammad "Bob" Hassan was expelled from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday. Released on parole earlier this year for graft, he was expelled by 101 votes to three against A friend of former Indonesian president Suharto and himself an ex-government minister, Hassan an
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      379 28 Reuters ATHENS She saved him from drugs and he loved her almost to death it's a Romeo and Juliet tragedy updated for the 2004 Athens Olympics. A lovers' tiff prompted Greek Olympic judoka Eleni loannou to jump off the balcony of
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      482 29 Agencies Australian coach claims other nations could challenge the big two 0LYMPICS Swimming ATHENS The Olympic swimming competition is not just a meet between the United States and Australia, despite their powerful squads. Speaking at a news conference yesterday, Australian head coach Leigh Nugent said: The
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      387 29 Reuters ATHENS -Armed with advice from everyone, from parents to high priced security consultants, a new breed of American is emerging at the Olympic Games, opening here on Friday "The Cautious American". Unlike the confident, boisterous, even arrogant counterpart
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        Palestine's Sakorafa can't throw
        52 29 ATHENS The International Olympic Committee have barred Greek champion Sofia Sakorafa, a 47-year-old former javelin world record-holder, from staging a symbolic comeback for the Palestinian team. Sakorafa, javelin world recordholder in 1982-1983 and bronze medallist in the 1982 European Athletics Championships, obtained Palestinian citizenship earlier in
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        Thorpe wants more tests
        48 29 ATHENS lan Thorpe has called for more emphasis on outof-competition testing. The Australian swimming superstar raised the hackles of worla governing body Fina last month, when he said it would be naive to believe swimming would be clean of drugs at the Athens Games.
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        Swimmer KHajima turns barber
        57 29 ATHENS Japanese Olympic hope Kosuke Kitajima (picture) has helped teammate Tomomi Morita cut hurtdredths off his training times by shaving his hair off. Kitajima, double world champion in the 100 and 200m breaststroke, whipped out the hair clippers to make Morita a skinhead, after the 19-year-old
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        Greece ban sports ministers
        43 29 ATHENS Greece yesterday bannec the sports ministers of Zimbabwe and Myanmar from the Olympic Games, i accordance with European Union san tions. The ban applies to the sports ministers of Zimbabwe, Aeneas Chigwedere, and Myanmar, Brigadier-Gen-eral Thura Aye Myint.
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        Vulgar T-shirts stirs anger
        72 29 ATHENS A German International Olympic Committee member yesterda called on the athletes' commission to check on T-shirts, after spotting one with a reference to a Nazi war tactic. "I saw an athlete in the Olympic village wearing a T-shirt that said, "Blitzkrieg it's only a game,"
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        Tall Yao makes Olympic history
        68 29 ATHENS Basketball star Yao Ming is not only one of the most prominent Asian athletes at the Olympics. China's flag bearer is also the tallest ever to compete. Yao, 23, stands at 2.29m and plays for the NBA's Houston Rockets. Forbes magazine put Yao at
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