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    12 1 /\AediaCorp TODAY incorporating utrCfltS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Friday April 1,2005 todayonline.com I
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    Would you prefer a boy or a girl?
    859 1  -  Ansley Ng S'pore company claims it can help choose sex of baby with 98.7% accuracy ansley@newstoday.com.sg BEING able to choose the sex of your child has become a scientific reality, with doctors able to manipulate the genetic makeup of the embryo. But
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    Today's readers give it the thumbs-up
    375 1  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla shobha@newstoday.com.se THIS newspaper aims each day to bring to its readers the most compelling package possible of news and views, and also to reflect the concerns and perspectives of a wide range of Singaporeans. This approach has been given a hearty
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      45 1 NEWSX^/lEWS H Nicoll Highway I Construction firm may face fine for its collapse/2 Adrian Tan Timely disclosures and good governance/3 Ban and fine Mourinho out of Bayern Munich crunch ties/49 36 wm MICHELLE W CHIAIS if^jf READY FOR WKr\ THE NEW I 1 CHANNEL U1
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      'Hold NCC criminally liable'
      554 2  -  Wong Fei Wan Nicoll Highway inquiry also asked to find four people guilty of negligence feiwan@newstoday.com.sg STATE counsels in the Nicoll Highway inquiry yesterday asked that Nishimatsu Construction Company (NCC) and four people be held criminally liable for the collapse of the highway in April 20
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        Timely disclosures and good governance
        753 3  -  Adrian Tan But failures to disclose should not be treated with the same level of culpability QUITE a few persons and companies have owned-up of late to failing to declare their interests in shares in a timely manner. Generally speaking, this is good. Disclosing share
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Mosquitoes may hold the answer to Aids
        77 4 AFP A virus found in northern Australian mosquitoes could provide the basis for vaccines to prevent Aids and cure cancer, researchers said yesterday. The team, from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, said proteins taken from the mos-quito-borne Kunjin virus had the potential
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        Lock icon European homosexuals hit by rare VD
        82 4 AFP A previously rare venereal disease, Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), a bacterial infection of the anus and genitalia, has been detected among European homosexuals, according to a specialist journal. LGV started to spread to Europe in 2003 when an outbreak was detected among 1 00
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      Lock icon Indonesia admits to flawed relief distribution
      288 4 Agencies Slow response to crisis leaves survivors desperate for food, water GUNUNG SITOLI (Indonesia) Indonesia's government acknowledged yesterday it has been slow in delivering food and water to victims of the 8.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Nias island, as rescuers pulled survivors and bodies out
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      Lock icon Singapore rescue efforts continue around the clock
      165 4 Channel NewsAsia More than 160 Singaporeans are working round the clock in Nias to help victims. They include Singapore Armed Forces (SAFj personnel, Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDFj officers, as well as medical teams from the SAF, Red Cross, Mercy Relief and City
      — Channel NewsAsia; AFP  -  165 words
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      Lock icon JBJ claims casino protest march application turned down
      193 6 Channel NewsAsia FORMER Opposition MP JB Jeyaretnam called a news conference yesterday to protest that his application to hold a march from the Padang to the Speaker's Corner against the proposed casino had been turned down. He said the refusal to grant
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      Lock icon Wolfowitz looks set for top job
      165 6 AFP as World Bank chief WASHINGTON The World Bank looked set to appoint Mr Paul Wolfowitz as its 10th president, but the hardline United States Deputy Defense Secretary still has a long way to go to disarm his army of critics. The World Bank's
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      Lock icon Terri Schiavo dies
      125 6 AFP PINELLAS PARK (Florida) Mrs Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman at the centre of a right-to-die controversy in the US, died yesterday in a Florida hospice, almost two weeks after her feeding tube was removed, her parents' spokesman said. Mrs Schiavo, 41, died as her husband,
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Maids admit to killing
      247 8 Channel NewsAsia 2 detail how they suffocated, strangled employer TWO maids accused of murdering their employer, Madam Esther Ang, confessed to police officers how they suffocated and strangled her on March 2 last year. Police officers who took the stand said Juminem, 19, and Siti Aminah,
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        Lock icon HDB drops 2 projects
        67 8 Newsßadio 93.8 The HDB has decided not to go ahead with the building of two build-to-order projects, The Anthias in Punggol and Coral Green in Sengkang, as the takeup rate is under 65 per cent for each. Meanwhile, it is launching the sale of a new
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        Gay concert appeal rejected
        82 8 The Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts (Mica) has rejected the appeal by a gay support group to stage a charity concert. Safehaven, the organisers of Affect 05, were informed by Mica that it has decided to uphold the Media Development Authority's position that the
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        Lock icon Serial robber to be charged
        61 8 Newsßadio 93.8 A man believed to have committed over 30 robberies and snatch thefts has been arrested. The 36-year-old cleaner was caught in an ambush by police officers at Choa Chu Kang Crescent. He had been robbing elderly women in the vicinity of Jurong West,
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        Lock icon NKF swimming marathon ends
        31 8 Channel NewsAsia The National Kidney Foundation's (NKF's) charity swimming marathon ended yesterday with 12,510 phonedin pledges received. More than 250 swimmers chalked up 1,250km over 26 hours.
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      Tharman on why single-entrance exercise put off
      235 10 EDUCATION Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said yesterday that the single-entrance exercise for junior colleges (JCs) had been put off because of the "disruption" it would cause and not because the Ministry of Education (MOE) was unprepared for it Speaking on the sidelines of the
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      Twin marks for Senoko
      351 10  -  Sheralyn Tay Plant launches $600m repowering project and $7m desalination unit sheralvn@newstodav.com.se SENOKO Power Plant celebrated two environmental milestones yesterday, officially launching its $600-million Stage One Repowering Project and its $7-million desalination plant. According to Mr Roy Adair, president and CEO of Senoko Power, these projects
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  • world news
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      Over 19m in online anti-Japan petition
      294 12 Worldwide protest against the country's bid to be a permanent member on UN Security Council BEIJING Even as a worldwide protest on the Internet against Japan's campaign to join the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) gains momentum, Japan upped the ante yesterday by announcing
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      Lock icon Powell furious at WMD misinformation
      183 12 BERLIN Former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell revealed that he was "furious and angry" about being misinformed about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) before the Iraq war. In an interview with Stem magazine, which was reported in The Times, he admitted that America's
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      Lock icon Shock partial pullout from Thai south
      110 12 AFP BANGKOK In a surprise turnaround, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday ordered the partial withdrawal of troops from Thailand's southern provinces, where separatist violence has claimed more than 780 lives since January last year. The announcement came after lawmakers criticised Dr Thaksin over his
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Lock icon Lace bras for the deceased
        62 16 AFP Hong Kongers are snapping up effigies of saucy underwear to burn as offerings to deceased randy relatives at the upcoming Qing Ming festival, reported Apple Daily. Black lace bras and wedding dresses are among the racier paper offerings and food items have been upgraded
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      • Article
        Six-star hotel for animals
        56 16 A six-star animal hotel with a lobby, food and beverage services, housekeeping and room service is set to make its debut at Malaysia Airlines cargo section soon, reported the New Straits Times. The animals will be given special bathrobes, accessories and toiletries. The cost is RMISO
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        World's longest lecture
        62 16 An African lecturer delivered the world's longest lecture in a Polish university after talking non-stop for more than three days on democracy, even after his audience fell asleep, reported ananova.com. Zimbabwean Errol Muzawazi, who made it to the Guinness World Book of Records, stopped briefly every eight
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      Lock icon KMTs China trip under fire
      225 16 AFP But we are helping to build bridges, says Taiwan's opposition BEIJING As Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang (KMT) pushes to build closer ties with China, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party slammed the KMT yesterday, accusing them of being a "communist propaganda tool". DPP's Secretary-General Lee Yi-yang
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      Lock icon Dance bars get the chop but Mumbai parties on
      190 16 AFP MUMBAI All dance bars in India's western state of Maharashtra are to be shut down except those in Mumbai because the drinking houses featuring scantily-clad dancers have become breeding grounds for crime. Home Minister R R Patil said: "The government
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Academic role for Anwar Ibrahim
        53 18 AFP Former Malaysian deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim will join the Johns Hopkins University as a visiting scholar, said the university. His responsibilities will include teaching students more about South-east Asia and the Muslim world. He will also present seminars on contemporary regional politics, economic reform,
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        Lock icon Tugboat attacked by pirates
        63 18 AFP Gun-wielding pirates have attacked a Malaysian tugboat and kidnapped three of its crew off Semporna in the eastern state of Sabah on Borneo island. They then fled towards nearby southern Philippines, police and officials said yesterday. A Malaysian police official said the attackers could be
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        Lock icon Bush-chimp photos leave Belgium minister red-faced
        63 18 AFP Belgium s Interior Minister Patrick Dewael was left red-faced yesterday after it emerged that pnotos comparing United States President George W Bush to a chimpanzee had been used in a police training manual. The pictures in question showed a series of the US
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      Lock icon Baby boom in Australia
      303 18 AFP Government's baby bonus spurs highest birth rate in nine years SYDNEY Sydney's maternity wards are facing a baby boom nine months after Australia's conservative government offered a A53,000 ($3,826) bonus to women who have babies. The situation was highlighted yesterday by the case of a
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      Lock icon Greying Japan may bring in more workers to ward off looming crisis
      274 18 AFP TOKYO Japan has been forced to look at the once unthinkable and consider widescale immigration to tackle its low birth rate. This is set to pose a threat to the country's economy. A justice ministry report has
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    Focus On The heFamily
    277 20  -  Dr James Dobson TblMY's by dfsaf WHEN PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT At 2.2 metres, Sandy Allen is the tallest living woman, but it's her big heart that's most impressive. Most people would consider it a thrill to be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, but
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      The genius of toddlers
      796 20  -  mr brown All my son's brain cells seem designed to solve obstacles in his eternal quest for mischief SOME people say that I don't talk about my son, Isaac, enough, and that my older daughter, Faith, who is autistic, gets more of my attention. That is
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      NTUC's employee policies are generous
      203 22  -  ROLAND ANG Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Is penalty for early resignation fair?" by Mr Ngiam Shih Tung (March 30) and the response from Mr Tan Kin Lian (March 31). As a former employee of NTUC Income, I believe the early resignation penalty
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      Loyalty at work is a two-way street
      235 22  -  DORIAN GOH It is not wrong to upgrade one's position, pay Letter from probably would not have our best interests in mind. Should we serve blindly until the day we are made redundant? Loyalty works both ways. If employers do not demonstrate any
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    • Letter
      Awareness and action can curb dengue
      300 22  -  S SATISH APPOO I Letter from Head, Environmental Health Department, National Environment Agency (NEA) WE REFER to Mr Tan Hock Ann's comments about the effectiveness of thermal fogging to kill mosquitoes in construction sites (March 24). Mosquito control in a construction site comes under
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    • Letter
      SCDF should advise us on how to respond during tremors
      113 24  -  ISHWAR MAHTANII Letter from I WOKE up at around 12.30am on Tuesday when my building began to shake. It became obvious the shaking was due to an earthquake in a neighbouring country. We were unsure what we should do. While
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      Give the public reliable service
      328 24  -  |YEWKONGTHAM Bus companies may be private, but their functioning affects our daily lives IBBHIiBIiJI I SYMPATHISE with Haslinda Shamsudin ("Travelling woes of passengers", March 31) because as a public-transport commuter, I understand her frustration with the Singapore public transport system, in particular, the bus system.
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    • Letter
      Several causes of hypertension
      165 24  -  ANNAULIAGDCUISON I Letter from I MP I REFER to the article, "Pressure mounting" (March 29). The write-up was very informative, but I would like to point out that one does not have to "be obese, lead a sedentary lifestyle, drink regularly and smoke excessively" to be
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      SingPost 'acted prudently'
      481 28  -  Val Chua Mail services provider defends sudden decision to call off deal with ACCS val@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE Post (SingPost) has defended its abrupt decision to withdraw from a controversial deal with troubled mobile phone services provider Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS), dismissing allegations that it had nitpicked at
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      Lock icon Wee Cho Yaw's pay tops $7.5m
      143 28 Bloomberg UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) paid its chairman and chief executive, Mr Wee Cho Yaw, as much as $7.8 million last year, when the bank reported a record profit Mr Wee, whose father founded the bank in 1935, was paid between $7.5 million and
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        412 30  -  Val Chua Says unfair to let minority creditor scuttle rescue plan val@newstoday.com.sg CHINA Aviation Oil (Singapore), or CAO, has hit back at a petition to place it under judicial management, saying that it has the majority support of creditors to oppose the move by SK
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        329 30 DELOITTE Touche Corporate Finance (DTCF), the financial adviser appointed by Global Active to look into Osim International's mandatory takeover offer for the nutritional supplements distributor, has recommended that its shareholders should, in general, reject the offer. DTCF said, among other things, that
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          139 33 Dow Jones SHARES rose yesterday for the first time this week following Wall Street's strong overnight performance deriving from lower oil prices. The ST Index climbed 18.27 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 2,141.43. Sentiment improved across the broad market, with advancers leading decliners 254 to 162. Traded volume
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          211 33 When Ms Helena Ong, 45, let her fingers do the walking, little did she realise it would lead her to $2,888. Yellow Pages (Singapore) Limited ran a contest in Today (March 17, 2005) which got readers to identify an advertisement within the Yellow Pages. This
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        341 33 -AFP Wall Street giant's financial outlook may suffer amid dissent NEW YORK Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley, facing a rare display of dissent from its ranks, got a warning on Wednesday that its financial outlook may suffer from the turmoil as it lost another key executive.
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        309 34  -  Valerie Law That is the way for IPO aspirant System Access valerie@newstoday.com.sg BESIDES keeping costs under control, banking software specialist System Access chooses to focus on research and development (R&D) to improve its profit margins. The Singapore firm lodged its preliminary prospectus on Monday with the Monetary
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      48 30 TODAY has 3 times more PMEB readers than The Business Times. 52 CD T3 CO i 197,000 LJJ D_ "S i_ CD 58,000 TODAY The Business Times Source: Nielsen Media Index 2004 PMEB: Professionals, Managers, Executives, Businessmen Get your FREE news, complete with advertisements, at: r%v www.todayonline.com IOT)/W
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      574 36  -  Mervin Tay Acting, hosting —bring it on, says Michelle Chia, the multi-talented star of the revamped Channel U mervin@newstoday.com.sg «TT SEEMS like a way of .Lremembering someone who has passed away." That was Michelle Chia's (picture) response when this reporter told her a website has been set
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      336 36 UNLIKE previous parent-child teams on The Amazing Race who joined the reality show to spend time together or in a quest to understand each other better, Susan and Patrick Vaughn were not in it to strengthen family ties. "We weren't there to bond we already
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      170 39 FUN CLUB what: Taiwan's variety king Jacky Wu tours Taiwan with celebrities in search of good food when: Saturdays, 7.30pm why it's hot: The last of Channel U's top 3 Taiwanese variety shows to return GOOD LUCK what: Takuya Kimura as a dashing airline first
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        488 40  -  DAVID CHEW When the clash of cultures shows how much we can learn FILM REVIEW by Spanglish IF YOU'VE seen the trailer for Spanglish, all I can say is, it doesn't do the movie justice. Presumably a comedy about clashing cultures between Latinos and White America, the
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        381 40  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEW by Be Cool WHEN Get Shorty hit screens in 1995, John Travolta had only just returned from the showbiz wilderness, thanks to his role the year before in Pulp Fiction. Based on the Elmore Leonard novel of
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        228 42  -  MERVIN TAY Veteran Anthony Wong packs the most punch FILM REVIEW by House of Fury THIS film draws attention to itself by virtue of the folks behind it Stephen Fung directs, while its martial arts advisor is Yuen Wo Ping, the action bigwig behind Kung Fu
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        247 42  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEW by 3 Iron CANCEL that spa trip. For a greater sense of well-being and peace, savour prolific South Korean director Kim Kiduk's latest effort, 3-Iron, a strange yet comforting drama about a drifter and the girl he rescues from an
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        109 42  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEW by Colour Blossoms FIVE minutes would have worked for the aesthetically pleasing, but woefully vapid, vision of director Yonfan (Peony Pavillion, Bugis Street: The Movie). At one-and-three-quarters hour long, Colour Blossoms feels like a soft-core pornographic film made to look
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        381 49 -AFP Chelsea boss also fined, will not be on the bench for Bayern matches GENEVA, Switzerland Chelsea were fined 50,000 euros ($107,114) and their manager Jose Mourinho (above) banned for two games by Uefa here yesterday, for accusing referee Anders Frisk of improper conduct in the Champions League
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        380 49  -  JASMINE ZHAO jasmine. zhao@newstoday. com. sg TWENTY of Singapore's best rugby sevens players will leave for Bangkok today, as they compete for a place in the 12-man squad that will represent the country in the upcoming Standard Chartered Sevens Singapore 2005. The 20
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        407 49  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday.com.sg NATIONAL coach Radojko Avramovic has been tasked with yet another important mission this year end the Singapore Selection team's drought in the Sultan of Selangor's Cup. Yesterday the Serbo-Mon-tenegrin, who guided the Lions to Tiger Cup glory in
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        266 49  -  Jasmine Zhao SINGAPORE'S Ronald Susilo advanced to the quarter-finals of the US$BO,OOO ($131,849) Siam Cement Thailand Open last night, but 15th seed Kendrick Lee fell agonisingly to home favourite Boonsak Polsana in his round of 16 clash. Singapore No 1 Susilo defeated Denmark's Niels Christian
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        777 50  -  LEONARD THOMAS, Moscow 2012 bid chief Chernov says city is eager to show the world modern Russia SPORTS EDITOR leonard@newstoday.com.sg IT IS one of the greatest cities in the world, storied, with Red Square and the Kremlin and St Basil's Cathedral with its onion-shaped
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        260 50 -AFP PYONGYANG North Korean football was in the dock yesterday, after thousands of fans hurled bottles and chairs at players and officials following a World Cup qualifier defeat by Iran. Syrian referee Mohammed Kousa was stranded on the pitch for more than 20
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      564 52 Agencies Carlos Alberto brands striker a disrespectful midget, but Real star says coach is mistaken WORLD CUP QUALIFIER England 2 Azerbaijan 0 LONDON England striker Michael Owen has hit back, after the savage criticism he received from Azerbaijan coach Carlos Alberto. The Brazilian great thought Owen
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      305 52 AFP WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Conmebol MONTEVIDEO Powerhouses Argentina and Brazil consolidated their positions atop the South American zone, in World Cup qualifying action on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The Argentinians stayed ahead on 28 points from 13 games after a 1-0
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      693 53 Agencies OldTrafford prepares to welcome one of their all-time favourites, whose stock as manager is rising fast MANCHESTER Talk of Sir Alex Ferguson's impending retirement has cropped up intermittently over the last couple of seasons. The latest buzz came last week, when the 63-year-old Manchester United
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      249 50 League I Home Team I Away Team I Match KickOff M (Singapore date/time) E Premier Charlton Manchester City Sat, 02/04/05 7.45pm E Premier Birmingham Tottenham Sat, 02/04/05 10.00pm E Premier Arsenal Norwich Sat, 02/04/05 10.00pm E Premier Crystal Palace Middlesbrough Sat, 02/04/05 10.00pm E Premier Liverpool Bolton Sat, 02/04/05 10.00pm
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