Today, 23 November 2005, Afternoon Edition

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      Sea GAmes host city shaken by mutiny among volunteers
      462 1  -  JOSE RAYMOND IN BACOLOD CITY, PHILIPPINES |ose@newstoday.com.sg THEY are the heartbeat of every major sporting event, looking after the teams that participate in the games, helping out with security, arranging transport and generally overcoming all the obstacles and logistical problems that
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      Lock icon Three new bird flu outbreaks in China
      230 1 DPA Poultry culled within radius of 3km of each area BEIJING China said yesterday three new outbreaks of deadly bird flu had been detected, bringing the total number of confirmed outbreaks in the country to 24 this year. One outbreak each struck in
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      Lock icon US stocks higher on Fed hint
      118 1 -DPA NEW YORK US stocks rose for a fifth straight day after word yesterday that the Federal Reserve may be on the verge of halting its 18-month policy of steady hikes in interest rates. Minutes released from the rate-setting Fed's Nov 1 meeting indicated
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  • hot news
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      Get new cars within a day
      415 2  -  ANSLEYNG New LTA portal, ready by March 2006, will hasten car ownership procedures a nsley@newstoday.com.sg AS EARLY as March next year, buyers could get their new vehicles within a day, instead of waiting about three days to drive their new cars home. Making this
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      Lock icon US to resume military financing aid for Indonesia
      348 2 -AFP WASHINGTON The United States announced yesterday that it would resume military financing aid for Indonesia as another step towards normalising defence ties with the predominantly Muslim Southeast Asian nation. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Washington planned "to provide assistance for
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      Lock icon Canada discovers second bird flu case in poultry
      169 2 -AFP VANCOUVER (Canada) The second case of bird flu in a week has been discovered in domestic poultry in Canada's westernmost province, a federal official said yesterday. The authorities suspect it is a low-pathogenic H5 strain that is common in North American
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    • Article
      ALLOW CPF FUNDS FOR HOME RENTALS
      729 3  -  KUO HOW NAM Rent amounts now nearly same as interest rates, so won't affect CPF accounts IT IS time the Government reviews the rules governing the use of the Central Provident Fund (CPF) for home ownership. So far, Singaporeans have had to buy their
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      Lock icon Australia rules out International Court in Nguyen case
      336 4 -AP AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard has ruled out taking Singapore to the International Court of Justice to prevent the execution of an Australian heroin trafficker. The move, he told reporters, could be counterproductive in the bid to save Viet-nam-born Australian Nguyen
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      Lock icon Terrorists do not respect borders
      500 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG Teo stresses need for global cooperation in anti-terror fight cheekong@newstoday.com.sg TIME is scarce and countries have to work quickly together in the international fight against terrorism, Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean said yesterday. With South-east Asia as a key battleground, national efforts
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  • Singapore news
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      Vying for the Asian pie
      568 6  -  LEECHINGWERN Why it's been a challenge for Channel News Asia to market itself in Asia chingwern@newstoday.com. sg WHILE Channel News Asia is the most watched news channel in Singapore today, penetrating the Asian market has not been easy. Speaking at the Asia to Asia segment
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      Lock icon Two new autism centres next year
      238 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, 938 LIVE TWO centres will open next year offering specialist treatment to autistic children. Announcing the plans at the opening of the Autism Best Practices Conference yesterday, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Dr Vivian Balakrishnan also said that the Government's
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      New pool of engin-scientists
      273 8  -  LOH CHEE KONG NUS offers new integrated course cheekong@newstoday.com. sg IN AUGUST next year, the National University of Singapore (NUS) will start a new engineering science undergraduate degree programme. The engineering science programme (ESP), offered jointly by the engineering and science faculties, will take 40 to
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      Lock icon Study to help others
      396 11  -  JASMINE YIN A Harvard scholarship for winner of volunteer awards jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg SHE visited Harvard University during an overseas trip in 2001 for a group of vice-prin-cipals from Singapore. Come next July, Mdm Rashidah Ab Rasip, 45, is making another trip to the university but this time,
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      'Missing' Chinese found in Europe
      151 12 KUALA LUMPUR Some of the mainland Chinese tourists who went "missing" in Malaysia reportedly turned up in several European Union countries with tampered Malaysian passports and fake credit cards. About 300 of them have been arrested in the past two years. The latest development comes
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon PANIC OVER WATER POISONING
        40 12 ■AFP Panic spread through Harbin, one of China's largest cities, yesterday as residents hoarded water and food ahead of a four-day water stoppage due to fears that a Nov 13 chemical explosion had contaminated drinking supplies.
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        Lock icon BIRD FLU CASES UNDER REPORTED
        51 12 -AP The number of human bird flu cases in Indonesia is likely far higher than reported because of poor surveillance outside the capital, Jakarta, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said. "I'm afraid there are also many cases in other areas that are going undetected," he
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      Strongman Yadav loses in Bihar state
      457 12  -  SANJAYKAPOOR Humiliating defeat poses threat to Indian government news@newstoday.com.sg NEW DELHI A key ally of India's national Congress-led government lost state assembly elections in lawless Bihar yesterday, ending the 15-year reign of regional strongman and the country's Railway Minister, Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav. The
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      Lock icon Merkel, under fire, takes office
      677 14 AGENCIES Economists and the German public lash out at new Chancellor BERLIN Mrs Angela Merkel, the new German Chancellor, faced a daunting task as she took the reins of Europe's largest economy after two months of politicking that has thrown up an unwieldy left-right "grand
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      Lock icon A CHANCELLOR WHO HAD HIS WAY
      103 14 -AFP It was a military send-off for Mr Gerhard Schroeder (picture), who took a bow as he stepped down after seven years as German Chancellor. But the band also played his H^^^^^ favourite tunes. Mack the Knife from Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera, the story
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      Lock icon She wanted to go out for a fag – at 39,000 feet
      202 14 She wanted to go out for a fag at 39,000 feet AGENCIES SYDNEY A woman passenger, who was on her honeymoon, tried to open the emergency door of a plane at 39,000 feet so that she could step outside for a cigarette. Fellow passengers on the Cathay Pacific flight from
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    • this quirky world
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        JAILBIRD WINS TRIP TO LONDON
        50 16 Russian Sergei Repinovskywon a fivestar trip to London but will not be able to claim his prize because he is in prison, ananova.com reported. He had filled a ticket for a prize draw sent by a relative, hoping to win a teapot for his cell.
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        Lock icon GEORGE BUSH IN AUSTRALIAN COURT
        45 16 AP A distant relative and namesake of US President George W Bush has been fined A$550 ($686) in a Queensland court for driving while disqualified. George Richard Wright Bush, 21, a third cousin of the US leader, lives in Australia.
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        YOUR HONOUR, IT STINKS
        56 16 A judge has abandoned a blackmail trial because of a smelly juror, ananova.com reported. British judge Carole Hagen said: "Two jurors have complained about the personal hygiene of one sitting next to them. It seems entirely unreasonable to expect any citizen to have to contend with
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      Lock icon Bomb Al Jazeera? US dismisses report
      266 16 -AFP White House describes claim as'fanciful' WASHINGTON The White House yesterday dismissed as "fanciful" a British newspaper report that President George W Bush had wanted to bomb the Arab television news network, Al Jazeera. The Daily Mirror tabloid published what it called a "top
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      Lock icon Model warned not to cash in on drug-induced fame
      275 17 -DPA SYDNEY While the spokesman for Australian model and convicted drug user Michelle Leslie (picture) has been trying to sell her story to the highest bidder, Leslie has been warned off from cashing in on her tale of partying with the
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      Lock icon N Korea compares Bush to Hitler
      265 17 AGENCIES SEOUL North Korea's foreign ministry has threatened to multiply its defences a "thousand times" in an angry response to a United Nations vote which expressed serious concern about Pyongyang's human rights record. The ministry dismissed the UN General Assembly vote as an "absurd
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      Lock icon TIGERS TO ROAR AGAIN IN SRI LANKA?
      787 18  -  AMANTHA PERERA IPS The separatist rebels are expected to greet poll result with threats and, even, war news@newstoday.com.sg COLOMBO The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to give the Tamil Tigers their full name control about 15 per cent of Sri Lankan territory.
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      17 14 Congratulations TO ALL Our Graduates PSB ACADEMY ACHIEVERS AWARD 2005]^ PSB Academy Leamkig for trie real world
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      167 16 1 PRESENTING I THE CLASS OF 2005 f 1^ PSB Academy congratulates all graduands. |1* The PSB Academy Achievers Award 2005 will be held at the gt Swissotel Merchant Court Hotel on Wednesday, 23rd November 2005. |l Awards Conferred I "^^k PSB Academy School of Business f- W=^ L Advanced
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      GEP not an elitist breeding ground
      212 22  -  SIEWPHUIYIN Letter from IN HER defence of the Gifted Education Programme (GEP), Michelle Qiu ("A second look at the gift", Nov 21) raised some controversial ideas and her comments hinted at an elitist attitude. But Kelly Koh BenLin's criticism of the GEPers ("For the
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    • Let cooler heads prevail
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        Emotions should not cloud debate on case
        222 22  -  VICTOR QUEK Letter from IT IS a pity for a promising young man like Nguyen, who is a good son and brother and apparently well-loved back home, to face the death penalty. But before we take sides, let us look at the facts.
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        Australia sending wrong signal to the world
        203 22  -  JASON PHOON WING 00N Letter from SINGAPORE is a sovereign country which is well-known for its strict laws. The world knows drug trafficking carries a death penalty here, as it does in many other countries. So, I do not understand why Australia is
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      Make JTC a listed company
      222 22  -  KANE TAN Letter from I REFER to "Yellow pages' rule guides JTC's plan" (Nov 22) and the JTC's intention to sell all their industrial properties and divest some estates in a Reit Some 20 years ago, I suggested to the Government to divest JTC and
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      Whose turn to take care of mum?
      639 24  -  CORINNAUM Policy and mindset changes needed to help women take care of elderly in present times Letter from Chair, Beyond Youth Sub Committee Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) WE THANK Dr Kanwaljit Soin for her commentary, "Helping Grandma when Grandpa's
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      Answers wanted for Bukit Sembawang Rights Issue
      222 24  -  NARAYANANARAYANA Letter from THE Bukit Sembawang Rights Issue closed on Nov 7. Over the weekend, I received a call from a shareholder who had applied for his rights through an ATM of a participating bank, and also applied for excess shares to round
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      Companies, not women, to blame
      365 26  -  TANWEIZHE While they're not'crap', many female professionals prevented from excelling by discriminatory corporations Letter from I REFER to Neil French's abridged statement ("Sorry, if the word 'crap' was offensive", Nov 21). It is true that, traditionally, women are the ones who take care of the
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      Why charge motorists who fulfil LTA's aims?
      177 26  -  DENIS DISTANT Letter from I REFER to the report "ERP changes impact retail business" (Nov 22). Since the main reason for introducing the ERP on Saturdays and extending the daily evening ERP period along Orchard Road was to curtail traffic headed for Suntec
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    • Letter
      Outdated information on some display boards on SMRT buses
      153 26  -  HENGCHOCHOON Letter from I REFER to SMRT's letter, "Towards an even more userfriendly SMRT" (Nov 22). As a commuter, I appreciate SMRT's efforts to assist commuters by means of the Passenger Information System (PIS) which displays information on the next bus
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      231 28  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY............... HEALTHY FIGHTING It's not the fights that should worry us; it's what happens when the fights are over. Almost all marital partners experience conflict from time to time, and these minor confrontations can actually be healthy to the relationship. A verbal spat
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      Blog away, but be mindful of security
      782 28  -  Mr Miyagi Removed postings restored after storm in a teacup over writings on army life THIS week, I received calls from concerned friends and relatives who wondered if I had gotten myself into trouble with the authorities because of- surprise, surprise my blog.
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      Close eye kept on all centres of childcare
      522 30  -  LEE KIM HUA Staff must undergo medical check-up, declare mental illness and past offences Letter from Director, Family Services Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports I REFER to the letter, "Lack of information on monitoring of childcare centres disconcerting" by Ms
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      635 32 -AFP Stirs memories of time before tech bubble burst, but analysts stay bullish NEW YORK It is beginning to look like the heady days of yore for the technology sector on Wall Street again. The Nasdaq once touted as the "new economy" index has hit
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      288 32 -BLOOMBERG SHARES of Creative Technology, whose music players compete with Apple Computer's iPod, had their biggest gain in 12 weeks on optimism that it would sell more of its Zen and MuVo devices during the Christmas season, improving earnings. Creative's stock rose
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        197 34  -  —VALERIE LAW DUE to strong demand from Singapore institutions, Singapore Power's subsidiary SP AusNet has started accepting orders for its $3.3-billion listing as of Monday, sources said, rather than start the book-building process on Dec 5 as was originally scheduled. Singapore Power, through
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        292 34 Capita Land will partner with Hong Kong's Lai Fung Holdings to develop a 3,000-home residential estate in Guangzhou city in China. The property developer will buy a 50-per-cent stake in a unit of Lai Fung for $22 million. The unit will be granted rights to develop the 356,623 square
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        311 34 -BLOOMBERG Offer terms to be finalised on Dec 1, trading begins Dec 12 GENTING International, the overseas investment unit of Asia's biggest publicly traded casino group, plans to raise about $150 million from an initial public offering in Singapore, according
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        286 35  -  VALERIE LAW Also comes with 'minimum floor' price to limit capital losses valeri e@newstoday.com.sg A NEW fund that guarantees a fixed payout of 4.8 cents per unit every year has been launched by SG Asset Management (SGAM). The Bonus Builder Fund pays 1.2
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        374 37 BLOOMBERG HSBC may offer Islamic insurance there HSBC Holdings chairman John Bond said that the lender, Europe's biggest by market value, plans to offer Islamic insurance services in Malaysia as it expands its operations in Southeast Asia's third-largest economy. "Islamic finance is one of the fastest-growing businesses
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        230 37 BLOOMBERG YTL Corp, Malaysia's biggest builder, plans to raise about RM523 million ($235 million) selling shares in its real estate investment trust (Reit), offering investors a stake in some of its most valuable property assets. Starhill Real Estate Investment Trust, will
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        305 38 —AFP WASHINGTON United States economic growth will remain on track through 2006, with minimal impact from hurricanes Katrina and Rita that hit the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year, a survey of business economists showed. The survey by the National Association of Business Economists
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        682 40  -  CHET CURRIER BLOOMBERG news@newstoday.com.sg IF THE next chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Mr Ben Bernanke, succeeds in making the Fed more "transparent", imagine how life might change for investors. Gone could be a lot of the guesswork involved in deciding when to
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      605 60  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Triathlete Jing Hean wants sport's first gold and a place in history weekeat@newstoday.com.sg ON DEC 1, Singapore's Cheng Jing Hean will be among eight athletes from five countries lining up for the start of the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games' first triathlon race. He will
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      359 60  -  CUBBYLEONG cubby@newstoday.com.sg TWO years ago in Vietnam, Singapore defeated the Philippines 7-6 en route to their 20th consecutive water polo gold medal at the South-east Asian (SEA) Games. Yesterday, there was a sense of deja vu as Singapore came out tops
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      473 61  -  Jose Raymond Myanmar-lndonesia draw leaves Raddy's boys firmly in the hunt ON SUNDAY, it was all doom and gloom in the Young Lions' camp, after a demoralising 1-2 defeat to Vietnam in their opening match. Yesterday, their spirits and hopes were given a massive boost When Filipino
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      327 61  -  DARREN LAI WHEN Team Singapore's Chef-dc-Mission Oon Jin Teik confidently predicted that Singapore would win at least 35 gold medals at this year's SEA Games, five more than in Vietnam, part of his optimism stemmed from the return of traditional "gold mine" sports like bowling
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      348 61  -  -JOSE RAYMOND WHILE preparing fortheir do-or-die mission against Indonesia tomorrow at the Paglaum Sports Complex, the Young Lions were given a minor scare yesterday at the Manuel Torres Sports Centre at Bago City. The Young Lions were being put through
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        509 53 -AFP Hosts brace for All Blacks' might in their last British match EDINBURGH Scotland flanker Allister Hogg was only half joking when he expressed the hope that Richie McCaw's head injury would keep him out of action long enough to miss out on the final
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        578 54 —AP Michelle Wie is not just hoping to make the cut, she wants to win Casio event GOLF Casio World Open KOCHI, Japan Michelle Wie is expecting to make the cut in a Japanese men's event and even has her sights set on winning at the
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          289 54 AFP ZURICH, Switerland World football's ruling body yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) hit back at criticism from WADA which have claimed that Fifa's antidoping rules did not conform with those of the World Anti-Doping Agency. WADA chief Dick Pound on Monday accused Fifa president
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        364 54 -AP CRICKET Pakistan v England FAISALABAD, Pakistan England batsmen Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen took advantage of some sloppy Pakistani fielding to post an unbeaten century partnership yesterday, as the visitors fought back strongly on the third day of the second cricket test Danish Kaneria
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        468 55 —AP Battling sickness, Sixers star leaves Hornets feeling dizzy NBA Philadelphia 103 New Orleans 91 PHILADELPHIA On any other night, Allen Iverson would have begged to go back in the game. On Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), he was begging for extra rest. Playing with
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        163 55 AFP SEATTLE, Washington The Seattle Mariners have signed Japanese catcher Kenji Jojima (picture) to a three-year contract, their executive vice-president Bill Bavasi said yesterday. Jojima, a seven-time Gold Glove winner from 1999-2005 in Japan, will be the first Japanese catcher to play in baseball's
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        749 56 Chelsea need to cure awaygame sickness to progress to knock-out stages CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GRPG Anderlechtv Chelsea BRUSSELS —Jose Mourinho will remind his Chelsea players they cannot afford to underestimate Anderlecht when the teams meet in Brussels today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) as the Belgian club seek
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        458 56 -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GRPG Liverpool vßeal Betis LIVERPOOL A draw against Real Betis would be enough to book Liverpool's passage into the knockout stage of the Champions League. For Peter Crouch, there is also the increasingly pressing matter of his failure
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          416 57 AFP 0-0 stalemate relegates Man U to Lisbon where they must win to reach knockout stages CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP D Manchester United 0 Villareal 0 MANCHESTER, England Manchester United will have to beat Benfica in Lisbon to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League after being
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          254 57 -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GRPB FCThunO Arsenal 1 BERN, Switzerland Doughty Swiss minnows Thun succumbed to a controversial penalty in the dying minutes of their Champions League tie against Arsenal yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) after dominating the second half despite being down
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          343 57 -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GRP C Barcelona 3 Werder Bremen 1 BARCELONA Another virtuoso performance by World Footballer Of The Year Ronaldinho inspired Barcelona to a 3-1 victory over Werder Bremen in their Champions League Group C clash here yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). While Barcelona march
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        379 58 -AFP Turkey coach quits over role in Swiss match violence ISTANBUL Turkey's assistant coach Mehmet Ozdilek resigned yesterday for his role in the fighting that followed last week's 2006 World Cup play-off match with Switzerland. Ozdilek was accused of sparking the trouble at Istanbul's Sukru Saracoglu stadium
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        230 58 —AFP SEOUL A decision to snub some European-based stars for the Asian player of the year award has incensed the Korean Football Association (KFA), which insists the best man should win regardless. Manchester United's Korean star Park Ji Sung (picture) and other European-based players
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        445 59  -  TANYO-HINN Having trained attough Serapong course, Manilabound squad have also produced a course guide yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THE last time Singapore won a medal in golf at the South-east Asian (SEA) Games was a bronze at the 1999 Brunei Games by Lam Chih Bing. This
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        359 59  -  DARREN LAI da rren@newstoday.com.sg WHILE the national under-23 side are battling it out for regional supremacy at the South-east Asian Games in the Philippines, a litter of lion cubs will be trying to outdo two regional rivals on a smaller scale back home. Singapore
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