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  • 23 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp c a CO C o Q. O o c w o o CM Si < O 2 Wednesday September 21, 2005 todayonline.com
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  • 663 1  -  CLEMENT MESENAS Branded'gay'by former boss, Anwar seeks some political mileage FOREIGN EDITOR clement@newstoday.com.sg TWO men who cannot bear to stay out of the limelight may find it in the courts again. Only this time, it may work to the advantage of Mr Anwar Ibrahim instead of
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  • 558 1  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@newstoday.com.sg HE HAS argued passionately in Parliament that dengue patients should be isolated and ring-fenced. Ayer Rajah MP Dr Tan Cheng Bock doesn't want such patients infecting mosquitoes who may bite them and start spreading the disease anew. But
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    • 510 2  -  TORCHING LI The best is yet to be for Singapore: Former Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan chingli@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE having retired from public office last month, matters of national interest were still very much on Dr Tony Tan's mind when he spoke at an appreciation dinner for
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    • 692 3  -  MAAROF SALLEH Muis should use education to enlighten and clarify and identity will evolve naturally IN THE four years since 911, Muslim minority communities around the world have been under persistent pressure. The subsequent bombings in Madrid and London each time heightened, in some quarters,
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    • 390 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, 938 LIVE Visit of Vice-Premier Wu Vi sees launch of joint business portal and HR partnership BILATERAL ties between Singapore and China got a significant boost yesterday during the second day of Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Yi's visit to Singapore. The nearly three-hour 2nd
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    • 210 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE'S investment in research and development has borne fruit over the years. Last year, more than 1,250 patents were filed and almost 600 patents awarded, according to the 2004 National R&D Survey. In 1992, only 20 patents were awarded. The number of companies in
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    • 406 8  -  LEECHINGWERN Survey shows many are ignorant about hospice palliative care chingwern@newstoday.com. sg THEY provide compassionate care to the terminally ill, but they have suddenly realised that most Singaporeans don't even know about them. This, despite the fact that hospice care services have been around in Singapore for
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    • 153 8  -  ANSLEYNG a nsley@newstoday.com.sg JUST four days after a teenager drowned while fishing off Sembawang, another drowned yesterday at Sentosa. And less than an hour later, the body of a man (picture) was found floating in Bedok Reservoir. In the first case yesterday, Steven Sim Jian
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    • 99 8 RAFFLES Junior College, Dunman High and Xinmin Secondary School have been given the top Education Ministry's School Excellence Award (SEA) The award, in its second year, is the most prestigious given by the ministry to recognise schools that produce good results and have good systems. Eight
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    • 298 10  -  DAWNQUEK WAY Systems has come up with a way for you to keep an eye on your credit card when it's time to pay the bill. Its Mobile Transaction Terminal (MTT) allows merchants to swipe your card, key
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    • 530 10  -  LOH CHEE KONG People trained to work, not retire, say elderly cheekong@newstoday.com.sg THEY are well educated and established in their respective professions, but when it comes to growing old, their worry is as basic as this jobs. At the government feedback session organised for the elderly
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    • 413 12  -  VINITARAMANI Doctors can monitor chronic conditions like diabetes through information sent to them daily over the Internet vinita@newstoday.com.sg THE increasingly mobile and Internet-sawy Singaporean of tomorrow will also be an "expert patient" when it comes to healthcare, according to a team of doctors and
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    • 268 12  -  -DAWNQUEK IN LIGHT of the nationwide war on mosquitoes to curb the number of dengue fever cases, Rentokil Initial, a leading pest control company in Singapore, has launched a self-contained device that traps and kills mosquitoes. The Target unit attracts mosquitoes by emitting carbon dioxide and
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  • hot news
    • 385 6  -  JAIME KOH Sydney court hears expert's reconstruction of twin murders IN SYDNEY news@newstoday.com.sg A SYDNEY court was given an explicit look into the tragic final few hours of the lives of Singaporean students Tony Tan Poh Chuan and Tay Chow Lyang, who were murdered in their
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    • 363 6  -  —TANHUILENG IN A bid to improve primary healthcare in Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MOH) is proposing more stringent guidelines for family doctors be put in place with the setup of a Family Physician Register. This move comes in response to calls from the
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 121 6 —AFP The Philippines will send three pathologists here, at the invitation of the Singapore Government, to observe the autopsy of the remains of Filipina maid Jane La Puebla, the Philippine foreign ministry said yesterday. The trio are to observe the autopsy to
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      • 123 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The introduction of Singapore biometric passports will be postponed to the latter half of next year. This comes after the United States extended its deadline for countries under its Visa Waiver Programme by one year to Oct 26 next year. The
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      • 84 6 938 LIVE A former managing director of Performance Motors has been convicted of corruption. Marc Singleton was found guilty of obtaining a $78,000 bribe from car dealer Jeslin Teo in July 2002. The money was paid in exchange for Performance Motors continuing to appoint her
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      • 133 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Motorists may find parking overnight at Housing and Development Board (HDB) car parks more convenient and cheaper if a pilot project is successful. It is extending the half-hourly parking arrangement at 40 of its automated car parks with the Night Parking
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  • world news
    • 297 14 AGENCIES Despite pledge to scrap arms, it now wants US concessions BEIJING North Korea said yesterday it would not dismantle its nuclear weapons until the United States delivered light-water reactors (LWRs), casting doubt on a deal heralded as a breakthrough for peace. On Monday, the Stalinist
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 72 14 The suicide bombers who attacked London on July 7 staged a practice run nine days before the bombings, police said, the BBC reported. Detectives studied tens of thousands of hours of CCTV footage in their investigation into the attacks which killed 52 people and the
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      • 52 14 AFP The United States will send four astronauts to the moon in 2018 in a return to its pioneering manned space mission. The last manned mission to the moon was in 1972. The new mission will help prepare for a permanent base on
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      • 26 14 AFP Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal (picture), who helped track down more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals, died yesterday in Vienna aged 96. AP
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      • 44 14 -AP Hundreds of students at an American international school in Malaysia were evacuated and the school was closed yesterday after it received a "credible" bomb threat, officials said. The threat came in a telephone call to the school.
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    • 152 14 -AFP JAKARTA Suspected bird flu patients can be forced into hospital under "extraordinary" measures welcomed by the World Health Organization to counter a widening outbreak of the virus in Indonesia, officials said yesterday. A day after declaring that Indonesia
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    • 272 16 -AFP Residents told to postpone return to New Orleans amid fresh fears NEW ORLEANS New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin suspended the return of residents to his flood-strick-en city as the tropical storm Rita strengthened into a hurricane that could come dangerously close to New Orleans, which
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    • 217 16 —AGENCIES BEIJING China's National Population and Family Commission admitted yesterday that some of its officials in eastern China had carried out illegal birth control practices including forced abortions and sterilisation procedures. Following "successive complaints", police have arrested several officials involved in the illegal
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    • 158 16 -AFP WASHINGTON Some world leaders have called for an urgent initiative at the United Nation's Security Council to bring reforms to military-ruled Myanmar. A report, commissioned by ex-Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Havel and retired South African archbishop Desmond Tutu, compared the situation in Myanmar
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    • 468 19 AP AGENCIES Al Qaeda counting on these militants to mount major attacks CAIRO A United Nations panel said that the Al Qaeda terror network has capitalised on the insurgency in Iraq by creating a new training ground there to replace the bases it
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    • 285 19 -AFP JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon admitted he risks being ousted from the helm of his right-wing Likud party as polls favour a leadership contest as early as November. Although his historic pullout of the Gaza Strip after a 38-year occupation won massive
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    • 211 21 LONDON According to a book published on Monday, the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair submitted his toenail clippings to a health guru's pendulum, the Independent reported. Mrs Cherie Blair, a human rights lawyer, has long been the
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    • 594 21 A woman's dead after reality TV show dumped her sister LONDON Human frailty and vanity is grist for the mill for cheap, voyeuristic "reality TV", but is the genre prepared for death in its wake? According to The Times of London, the Hollywood producers
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  • Voices
    • 602 22  -  Tang Li IT WAS a delight to read Mano Sabnani's commentary, "Spore on a stronger bedrock?" (Sept 15). After reading about natural disasters, dengue fever and racist bloggers, it was refreshing for somebody to point out the positive. His comments were well-timed.
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    • 266 22  -  JOHN BAPTIST TAY Letter from Managing Director, Power Gas WE REFER to Dr Lim Boon Hee's letter, "Underground leaks a worry" (Sept 19). The design and installation of gas pipelines incorporate features to protect the pipes against construction works. In addition, Power Gas
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    • 362 24  -  PATRICK NG Reserved seats at stadium were barely filled, while fervent fans paid to sit on cement stands Letter from IT WAS an evening with a cool, lazy breeze, and one could have been tempted to just stay seated on the comfortable couch, and watch Liverpool
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    • 231 24  -  HAN LIANG YUAN TRISTAN SIM Letter from Director, Corporate Communications, Land Transport Authority Assistant Director (Media Relations), Singapore Police Force We REFER to Mr Foo Der Ho's and Mr Cheah Sin Tatt's letters published on Sept 7 and 13 respectively. Mr Foo
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    • 262 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON dfb dxdBY THE LAST LEAF ON THE TREE Here's a portion of a classic poem about old age written by Oliver Wendell Holmes. It's called "The Last Leaf on the Tree". saw him once before as he passed by the door, and again,
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    • 190 26  -  JOHN BAY Letter from WITH the increase in bus and MRT fares in July, there have been many appeals for improvement in service levels to justify the increase in fares. One is to increase the frequency of buses during peak hours, because of the long
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    • 677 26 Not just the young or idle but mothers, fathers, husbands and wives are also recording the days of their lives THIS week, we take a break from the current "blogging troubles" sedition charges and all that and turn to the wholesome, nonseditious phenomena of families
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    • 172 27  -  SEE LEONG KIT MOZZIEMMENACE Letter from I REFER to "Dengue: HDB 'water traps' to go" (Sept 20). In his ministerial statement in Parliament, Minister for Environment and Water Resources Yaacob Ibrahim said the Government will review the design of perimeter and car park drains,
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      • 184 27  -  LIEWKAIKHIUN Letter from I REFER to the letter by Mr Bertrand Tan on "Mozzies thrive on fear of fines" (Sept 19). The fear of a fine for mosquito breeding is certainly very strong among Singaporeans. In fact, it extends even to foreigners. I recall
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      • 106 27  -  DANNYCHUA Letter from TWO out of five cases of mosquito breeding were found to be in outdoor areas managed by the town councils. Town councils should take responsibility for this. If a resident or company can be fined for breeding mosquitoes, then why should
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    • 981 30 Mr Loh Khum Yean (picture), chief executive of Spring Singapore, talks about how local enterprises can use standards as a stepping stone to the world Can you tell us more about the mission of Spring Singapore? In what ways does the standards body contribute to the
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    • 407 31 ONE might think that only multinational corporations have the resources and expertise to set industry standards. But small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can play an important role, too. One such SME is Singapore Exhibitions Services. Its chief executive officer Mr
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    • 153 32 938 LIVE FIRSTLINK Investments Corporation said that it was seeking shareholders' approval for the removal of its former chief executive officer Ngu Tieng Ung as a director. The company is involved in a number of legal suits filed against Mr Ngu and companies related to him. First
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    • 131 32  -  —VALERIE LAW THAKRAL Corporation said that it had incurred losses of $2.85 million for the two months ended Aug 31, and expected to report a loss for the first half of its financial year ending Sept 30. For the five months to Aug 31, Thakral, which manufactures and
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    • 556 32  -  CHRISTIE LOH Lawyers unsure if his, Heshe's investments will sway lenders christie@newstoday.com.sg TYCOON Oei Hong Leong will not get to lay his hands on Citiraya Industries if two major creditors insist on shutting down the troubled electronic waste recycler. Lawyers told Today that if
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    • 125 32 TIEN Wah Press Holdings, a Malaysian printing and paper company, plans to buy some businesses of Singapore-listed New Toyo International Holdings, a maker of laminated paper products. The proposed acquisition will result in a "reverse takeover" by New Toyo, Integrated Public Relations said
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    • business news
      • 337 34  -  VALERIE LAW valeri e@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday said that 10 financial institutions would offer clearing services as part of its plans to launch a clearing facility for oil and freight derivatives, or swaps, in the first quarter of next year. The
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      • 246 34 -DOW JONES PRIME Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) rose 7.1 per cent on its debut on the Singapore Exchange yesterday, reflecting stillstrong demand for Singapore Reits despite a steep run-up in prices over the past two years. Prime Reit, the seventh property trust to
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      • 132 34 -DOW JONES ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) plans to raise up to $217.1 million from the issue of new units. Between 101 million and 103.1 million units will be offered to investors in a range of $2.10 to $2.15 for
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      • market watch
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        • 66 34 SHARE prices closed higher as gains in most Asian markets bolstered investor sentiment. News of the Government maintaining its full-year economic growth forecast of 3.5 to 4.5 per cent also helped prop up the upbeat mood. The ST Index rose 8.92 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 2,307.42. Gainers
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        • 56 34 Nikkei 225 *****.57 +189.89 +1.47 Hang Seng All Ordinaries *****.86 +258.66 4588.98 +29.78 +1.73 +8.65 Taiwan Wtd 6185.35 +69.76 +1.16 Korea Comp 1198.93 +16.88 +1.43 KLCI 922.83 -1.24 -8.13 SET Index 723.16 +14.18 +2.88 Jakarta Comp 1855.59 -11.88 -1.83 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1933.51 +5.42 232.47 -1.72 +8.28
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        • 26 34 <SGX, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 472.90 Silver US$/oz 7.45 Platinum US$/oz 937.00 Rubber cents/kg 293.00 Palm oil RM/tonne 1397.00 Brant crude US$/barrel 62.88 Information provided by
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      • 411 36 DOW JONES Funds must be able to handle complex products: MAS SINGAPORE'S $600-billion fund management industry will have to reinvent itself in order to boost returns in an environment where yields are falling from traditional investments in bonds and equities, a central bank official
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      • 218 36 THE market was abuzz with news late last night that Hyflux chief executive Olivia Lum Ooi Lin and venture capital firm 2G Capital were in the process of selling 10 million shares each in the water treatment specialist through a placement
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      • 70 36 -DOW JONES SINGAPORE-listed Total Access Communication, Thailand's second-largest mobile phone operator in terms of market share, said yesterday it planned to have its shares also listed on the Stock Ex- change of Thailand by the end of the year. Under the plan approved by the
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      • 472 38 BLOOMBERG They will serve maximum of 25 years in prison for taking $1 b from company NEW YORK Former Tyco International chief Dennis Kozlowski and his top lieutenant Mark Swartz were each sentenced to up to 25 years in prison on Monday for looting the company
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      • 167 38 —AFP VIENNA The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) will make an extra 2 million more barrels per day (bpd) available to oil markets from Oct 1 if there is demand for the crude, it said in a statement yesterday. "The conference
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      • 298 40  -  CHOW PENN NEE SMALL local start-ups with limited funding and other resources to spend on consulting services, projects or market research can now tap into a new centre at the Singapore Management University (SMU). The UOB-SMU Entrepreneurship Alliance Centre a tripartite effort between United Overseas
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    • 1138 42  -  David Chew Meet the man who is taking the Singapore Chinese Orchestra to the world stage BY HIS own admission, he was the dark horse for the job. A rank outsider, he really wasn't a major contender for the Singapore Chinese Orchestra's (SCO) job of music director, which
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    • 405 43  -  -JEANINETAN IT WASN'T even the concert, but you could already feel the love at the media conference for the Black Eyed Peas. Just hours before their show at the Singapore Indoor Stadium yesterday evening, Fergie, WilLi.am, Apl.de.ap and Taboo the four members
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    • 545 44  -  JEANINETAN Critics pan Zombie's film as depraved, he says it's made for grown-ups jeanine@newstoday.com.sg IN ONE scene from the film The Devil's Rejects, a woman is forced to wear a mask made out of the skin of her husband's face. Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects is one
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      284 45  -  DAVID CHEW Candeloro keeps art of frescoes alive david. chew@newstoday.com. sg IF YOU'VE been to the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City, you're probably familiar with the huge ceiling frescoes done by Michelangelo. Painstakingly restored over a period of 10 years, the task was overseen by chief restorer Gianluigi
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    • 197 45 —AFP NEW DELHI A film on India's ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi (picture) will profile her as a reluctant leader who entered politics only to fulfil the dreams of her assassinated husband, whom she loved dearly. Sonia will be an Englishlanguage epic about
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      • 436 46  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS Weathering well behind The Brothers Grimm are A Sound of Thunder and The Cave DEPUTY PLUS EDITOR neil@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S moviegoers flocked to see The Brothers Grimm last weekend. The No 1 movie at the box office here tells the tale of two conman siblings,
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    • 575 54 —AFP Injuries, suspensions put Luxemburgo and Co in real trouble LALIGA Real Madrid v A Bilbao MADRID Real Madrid's third successive defeat at the weekend has made the visit of Athletic Bilbao tomorrow (Friday morning, Singapore time) to the Santiago Bernabeu a make-or-break affair for the Spanish
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    • 275 54 -AFP SERIEA Udinese v Juventus ROME Reigning champions Juventus, the only team in Serie A with a 100 per cent record after three matches, face a thorough examination of their title credentials away to Udinese today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). While Juve extended their flawless
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    • 489 55 -AGENCIES Crowds are turning away, goals are drying up and Ferguson's players are angry with United's measured game LONDON Is the English Premiership in trouble? After a decade branding itself as the most exciting league in the world, some of the latest statistics from the weekend
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    • 429 55 Mourinho for England not quite -AFP LONDON Chelsea's Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho has played down speculation that he could one day become manager of the England national team. In an interview with Time Out magazine, Mourinho seemed to suggest that he could coach England, but only after the end of
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    • 212 55 —AFP LONDON Arsenal centreback Sol Campbell is targeting an England return after marking his Premiership comeback with both goals in a 2-0 victory against Everton on Monday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time). "I want to be in," he said. "One of my main goals is to
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    • sports
      • 497 51  -  TANYO-HINN No multi-million dollar reward, but Asian champions are ploughing ahead yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THEY may be Asian champions, but the Singapore netball team will not receive any reward under the Singapore National Olympic Council's Multi-million dollar Award Programme (MAP). Earlier this month, the team defeated arch-rivals Malaysia
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      • 227 51  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE made a poor start in the Nomura Cup, as the quartet of Choo Tze Huang, Goh Kun Yang (picture), Jonathan Leong and Patrick Tang struggled with the wind at the Narita Golf Club in Tokyo yesterday. They could only manage
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      • 589 52 —AFP Honours shared in South Africa, now Americans and Internationals want it all GOLF Presidents Cup GAINESVILLE, Virginia Two years after Tiger Woods and Ernie Els staged an unresolved tensionpacked twilight playoff duel in South Africa, someone might finally take sole possession of the Presidents
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      • 303 52 —AFP BEIJING China's capital Beijing is busy completing its venue construction in time for the 2008 Olympics, but so far not a single foreign company is taking part, organisers said yesterday. "We have no foreign companies participating in the construction," said
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      • 496 53  -  ERIC DING Facing a must-win game, Chitavanich wants stadium to become a cauldron AFC CUP, QUARTER-FINAL, 2ND LEG Tampines v Al Faisaly sports@newstoday.com.sg THEY are popularly known as a football team's "12th man", primarily counted on to provide inspiration when the chips are down. And Tampines
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      • 187 53  -  DARREN LAI THE fortunes of Geylang United continue to freefall. At the Toa Payoh Stadium last night, the former two-time champions fell 4-3 defeat to Balestier Khalsa in an S-League clash, leaving the Eagles just a place off the bottom of the standings. While Balestier are now
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      • 258 53 BENEATH the demure disposition, she is determined and will give anything she takes on her best shot Yolanda Loke admits she is shy, but as far as her support for the S-League goes, the 17--year-old pulls no punches. Since the start of the
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