Today, 19 April 2006

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    14 1 TODAY /A=DIJ\CORP share your free newspaper MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Wednesday April 19, 2006 todayonline.com I
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    IR's giant footfalls spook the Mice men
    831 1  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine.yin®newstoday.com.sg WHILE officials speak effusively about how the Marina Bay integrated resort (IR) will move Singapore's conventions and exhibition industry to the next level, current leader Singapore Expo is worried and candid about it. The fate of the Singapore Expo is
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    Lock icon Durai in court- Episode 2
    791 1  - Durai in courtEpisode 2 ANSLEY NG SUBORDINATE COURTS Former NKF chief accused of falsifying claims, corruption a nsley@newstoday.com.sg NINE months since his fall from grace after a botched defamation suit, former National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chief T T Durai was back in court this time to face two charges under
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      36 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 10 voices 16 business 20 growth 32 plus 34 1v radio listings 39 classad 40 careerstoday 41 sports 42 we set you thinking HB i: 11 Q||j|||||^^^y H
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      Lock icon The hidden player in NKF
      364 2  -  ANSLEYNG NKF manager who'ran the purchasing show' runs from the media a nsley@newstoday.com.sg SHE was not a key official in the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). So when Ragini d/o Vijayalingam stood up in Courtroom 26 to answer to charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act,
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      HAYWIRE PRIORITIES?
      681 3  -  CHARLES TAN From obesity and hunger to torture tactics and war, the world needs a reality check WHAT are the world's priorities coming to? Difficult to fathom, but true: McDonald's golden arches are more recognisable than the cross of Christianity. A survey of 7,000 people by Sponsorship Research
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      No hike in public transport fares yet
      586 3  -  LEE U-WEN Any increase will not take effect before Oct as PTC postpones fare revision u-wen@newstoday.com.sg ANY increase in public transport fares will only come into effect in October this year at the earliest, instead of July as originally scheduled. In a statement
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      198 2 The Integrated resorts are The 2 IRs will invest up to SsB billions and create 35,000 jobs. Learn how you can position yourself to be a pioneer in the t IR industry! jC^^ BBA MBaBH in Tourism Hospitality Management with a major project on £L I MANAGEMENT Internationally accredited program.
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  • Singapore news
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      7,000 new jobs with VivoCity
      164 4  -  UNYANQIN MORE shopping means more jobs for everyone, according to developers of Vivo City, the upcoming shopping development at Harbour Front Some 7,000 people will be required to staff the mega mall when it opens in six months' time. Vivo City's developer Mapletree will also
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      Lock icon SDP's four planks
      417 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG Dr Chee identifies the issues his party will raise in the polls cheekong@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Democratic Party's (SDP) campaign for the upcoming election will revolve around four main issues: the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) saga, CPF contributions, Ministers' salaries and the rising cost of
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      Long wait for Chiam opponent
      210 4  -  ■LOHCHEEKONG DESPITE the rain, Mr Lim Kian Heng was all ready to make a speech at the Speakers' Corner yesterday. The 46-year-old former taxi driver, who has declared his intentions to stand as an independent candidate against Potong Pasir MP Chiam See Tong, had in
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      CHIAM COINS NEW SLOGAN
      120 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG THE Singapore Democratic Alliance is banking on the clamour for alternative voices to pull in the votes for the Opposition in the elections. The slogan the alliance will use during the hustings is "Down with the one party rule", said its chairman, Mr Chiam See
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      Lock icon SM Goh confident of Yio Chu Kang win
      373 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA EVEN as Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong expressed disappointment that the Opposition was not planning to contest his Marine Parade ward, he gave his endorsement to People's Action Party (PAP) MP Seng Han Thong, who will be facing the Opposition
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      Social safety? You bet
      383 6  -  LEECHINGWERN IR bidders' proposed social safeguards are beyond expectations: Lim Hng Kiang chingwern@newstoday.com. sg A $100 daily entry fee and exclusion orders may be a hint of more to come when the Marina Bay integrated resort (IR) opens in 2009. Some of the four bidders eyeing
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      Lock icon Cod liver oil capsules pulled off shelves
      295 6 -CHEOWXINYI. ABOUT 1,000 bottles of a popular brand of cod liver oil capsules were taken off shelves two weeks ago due to a breach in permitted levels of dioxins. Manufactured by Seven Seas, a unit of German pharmaceutical company Merck, the affected batches
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      Rapist father gets 32 years in jail
      431 8  -  LOH CHEE KONG He abused five of his daughters with wives' consent cheekong@newstoday.com.sg THE man who raped five of his daughters and impregnated two of them was sentenced to 32 years in jail and 24 strokes of the cane yesterday. Describing the incestuous
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      Mobil stations rebrand as Esso
      203 8  -  -TEOXUANWEI THE familiar blue Mobil petrol stations will be no more by the end of this year, as ExxonMobil embarks on a major rebranding exercise. The fuel giant will turn all 40 of its Mobil stations into Esso ones. With the renaming, Esso will become
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      CNN to host live tech forums here
      229 8  -  UNYANQIN TERMS like cloning, robotics and genetic engineering are well known, but what does this mean for the average man in the street? That's what CNN International hopes to address with its latest initiative: A global dialogue on technology and the future, to
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Iran will cut off the hand of any aggressor: President
      195 10 AGENCIES MOSCOW As the world's top powers held talks in Moscow yesterday on how to keep Tehran's nuclear drive in check, Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that its armed forces will "cut off the hand of any aggressor". At
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      Lock icon Asean held hostage by Myanmar
      430 10 AGENCIES Junta is hampering progress in region, says Malaysia's foreign minister JAKARTA As the foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) get down to business in Bali today, the agenda for their annual retreat will include brainstorming a proposed Asean Charter and
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      Lock icon 'Axis of terror' includes Hamas govt, says Israel
      174 10 -AGENCIES UNITED NATIONS A fiery exchange between Israeli and Palestinian diplomats took place at the United Nations yesterday as Israel warned that a new "axis of terror" composed of Iran, Syria and the Hamas-run Palestinian government was sowing the seeds of the
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      Lock icon Dr M lambasts Abdullah
      322 13 Decision on bridge is'surrender to Spore, says ex-PM KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has accused his successor, Mr Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, of caving in to Singapore's opposition to plans for a new bridge linking the two countries. "I never thought in my lifetime
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      Lock icon GIVE CURRENT LEADERS A CHANCE -SYEDHAMID
      214 13 Malaysia's Foreign Minister, Mr Syed Hamid Albar (picture), defended the current administration's leaders, saying that they did not sacrifice the country's interest by scrapping the bridge project. "We beg to differ. We would never sell the country off. What the government did was the
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      Lock icon If you're thinking of quitting, just leave now
      455 14 AFP AGENCIES New White House chief of staff makes pointed bid to 're-energise' team WASHINGTON American President George W Bush's new chief of staff said on Monday it was time to "refresh and re-energise the team", and he told senior White House
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      Lock icon 911 plotter 'suffers from schizophrenia'
      181 14 AFP ALEXANDRIA (Virginia) A renowned mental health expert diagnosed Sept 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui as a paranoid schizophrenic on Monday. "Mr Moussaoui suffers from schizophrenia and it is a paranoid subtype," said Mr Xavier Amador, an eminent specialist in the disease, who has evaluated Moussaoui
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon GO EASY ON THE LAWS, SAYS M'SIAN MINISTER
        84 15 -AFP Malaysian laws that ban kissing and hugging in public must not be enforced too strictly. The New Straits Times quoted Local Government Minister Ong Ka Ting as saying. "The bylaws should be enforced in instances when someone is naked in the
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        NEW IMMIGRATION PROPOSALS
        75 15 Malaysia and Singapore are studying new immigration proposals, including the use of the Malaysian identity card, MyKad, to enter the Republic, Home Affairs Minister Radzi Sheikh Ahmad was quoted as saying in The Star newspaper. "Singapore needs workers from Malaysia and our people are willing to work
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      Lock icon Power of the blog
      304 15 —THE GUARDIAN Internet pundits can shape business trends LONDON Bloggers and Internet pundits are exerting a "disproportionately large influence" on society, according to a report by a technology research firm. Its study suggests that although "active" web users make up only a small proportion of Europe's
      —THE GUARDIAN  -  304 words
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  • Voices
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      Speak up ... but politely please
      893 16  - Speak up but politely please YVONNE LIM Voices Commentary editor SPOILT brats, ingrates, whiners, disrespectful upstarts. These were accusations hurled at the 10 young panellists of last week's Channel NewsAsia dialogue with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, as they found themselves under fire for both their questions and the cut-and-thrust
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    • Letter
      SDA's plans contravene Act
      286 17  -  MICHAEL NGIN Sinking Fund is for specified use only Letter from Public Relations Manager, Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council WE REFER to Mr Desmond's Lim's comments on our Town Council's Sinking Fund in the article, "SDA is the quantity surveyor" (April 17). We wish to clarify that
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    • Letter
      Medical history not a factor
      139 17  -  JEAN TAN Letter from Director, Corporate Communications for Permanent Secretary Ministry of Manpower PLEASE refer to the letter "History of epilepsy forces job-seek-er to be rejected" by Ms SarahMarie Teo Ru Chen (April 13). The Ministry has investigated Ms Teo's complaint The company has clarified
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      233 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY MY CHILDREN'S INHERITANCE Maybe you've seen the bumper sticker that reads: "Out spending my children's inheritance." That's one approach to retirement. Somebody once said that ages one to 21 are when you do what your parents tell you to do, ages 21
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      Out of the classroom ...
      540 18  - Out of the classroom Mr Miyagi and onto the Web how GP teachers engage students AT THE blog "The General Paper" (generalpaper.wordpress.com), Victoria Junior College {www.vjc.moe.edu.sg) teacher Hoe Gim Yau points students to Internet articles relevant to the A level General Paper (GP) subject, telling them that they should practise
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    • Letter
      Are China imports for real?
      108 19  -  ANG QIANUNG Letter from I AM concerned about the increasing number of "China imported CDs" in many reputable music stores here. A friend just bought Emil Chau's Rain Man CD from such a store at Bukit Panjang. Not seeing any other versions available, she was
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      Safeguards in place
      345 19  -  LEE KIM HUA Letter from Director, Family Services Division for Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Community, Development, Youth and Sports WE REFER to Ms Caroline Tan's letter, "When guidelines are ignored" (April 11). Ms Tan asked about measures taken by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports
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      92 16 CATHERINE LIM ...AMUSES The speaker said,'Four Fs drive us 'Feed', 'flee', 'fight' and wait! The lady there is about to faint So I'll make do with 'mate'. ...MUSES America the sole superpower? Maybe now, but soon no more Will it be the giant China That's been racing to the fore?
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Sats to purchase Qantas unit?
      513 20 DOW JONES Singapore airport ground handler bids for the airline's catering arm: Source SINGAPORE Airport Terminal Services (Sats) is bidding for the catering arm of Qantas Airways, a deal that will increase the Singapore company's revenue by more than half, a source familiar with the
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      Lock icon HP opens S'pore centre to license technology
      168 20 BLOOMBERG HEWLETT-Packard Co the world's largest printer maker and No 2 maker of personal computers opened a centre in Singapore to license its technology to companies, researchers and governments in Asia. The Asia Pacific IP Licensing Center aims to licence Hewlett-Packard's intellectual property,
      — BLOOMBERG  -  168 words
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        HEALTHY PROMOTIONS
        123 20 EU VAN Sang is holding a health and beauty roadshow promotion with Tampines Mall until Sunday. Among the promotional items is its Essence of Chicken on sale at $9.90 each instead of $16.60. You can also buy two packets of the Revitalizing Tonic Soup for $7 instead of
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        NEWS FOR WEIGHT WATCHERS
        144 20 EXPRESSIONS has launched Killo Killer, a 14-day weight-loss supplement specially formulated in accordance with how and when the body absorbs and makes use of ingested fats. Each set of Killo Killer comprises three types of tablets for morning, mid-day and evening consumption, to help combat fats
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        EASTER FAIR OF FOOD AND FUN THIS SATURDAY
        52 20 LORNA Whiston Pre-School Easter Fair comprising fun, food and games on Saturday from 10am to 2pm will be held at 9 Winchester Road. Admission is free but coupons for various activities are on sale at the pre-school office. Call 6272 8826 or
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    • business news
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        Lock icon GIC unit to buy controlling stake in China developer
        182 22 DOW JONES THE real estate arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire a 29.12-per-cent controlling stake in Super Shine Co, a Shenzhen-listed property developer. GIC Real Estate said in a statement late
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      • marketwatch
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          Singapore
          69 22 SHARE prices soared to a fresh six-year high on the back of sharp gains in blue chip Fraser Neave, and following the lead of higher Asian markets. The ST Index ended up 8.91 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 2,559.25. Gainers led losers 424 to 220 as 2.44 billion
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          Lock icon ST Index—2,559.25 +8.91
          35 22 DOW JONES $21.80 after it said that its unit, Fraser Serviced Residences, and Kuwait's Global Investment House were jointly forming a US$5OO-million ($BOl-million) Middle Eastern hospitality company in the next five years.
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          Lock icon Your S$1 buys
          37 22 US$ 0.6242 UK£ 0.3528 Yen 73.534 HK$ 4.8418 RM 2.2911 Euro 0.5096 Rupiah 5608.4 Baht 23.751 Peso 32.015 AS 0.8465 Indian Rs 28.173 Won 596.61 C$ 0.7150 Yuan 5.0064 NZ$ 1.0010 NT$ 20.260 Bloomberg
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          World markets
          55 22 Nikkei 225 *****.86 +232.50 +1.37 Hang Seng ASX *****.53 5248.60 +208.08 +72.90 +1.27 +1.41 Taiwan Wtd 6989.46 -10.63 -0.15 Korea Comp 1427.00 +4.37 +0.31 KLCI 940.57 +0.83 +0.09 SET Index 764.17 +4.75 +0.63 Jakarta Comp 1417.37 +30.59 +2.21 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2225.72 290.22 -3.64 +1.33 -0.16 +0.46
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          Lock icon Commodities
          25 22 !sgx. Dow Jones Gold US$/oz 618.80 Silver US$/oz 13.37 Platinum US$/0z1,112.10 Rubber cents/kg 346.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,417.00 Brent US$/barrel 71-46 Information provided by
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          SGX most active
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          SGX top rises
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        159 26 -BLOOMBERG Mobile One (Ml), the smallest of Singapore's three mobile-phone operators, said first-quarter profit rose 12 per cent as it cut costs, especially for advertising and promotion. Net income rose to $45 million, or 4.6 cents a share, in the three months
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        429 31  - Sing Tel seeks jackpot in small doses CHRISTIE LOH Cheaper prepaid cards and handsets open up low-income markets christie@newstoday.com.sg NEW ways of selling mobile phone services are turning SingTel's attention to low-in-come markets that used to be overlooked, according to Ms Chua Sock Koong, the group's chief financial officer (CFO)
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      1414 34  -  Ashraf Safdar I Method acting? What's that? Lauded actress Karen Tan does it her own way THESPIAN Karen I Tan refuses to be I called a "veteran" I actress because I she's never fought I in a war. However, she I has performed in I
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      572 36  -  YONG SHU CHIANG in CANNES Upper-crust roles are a departure for British star Colin Firth plus@newstoday.com.sg SIFTING out the truth about "Mr Darcy" can be difficult Anyone who's ever had a mental block about British actor Colin Firth would invariably describe him
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      283 36  -  -ASHRAFSAFDAR DIRECTOR David Warwick rarely goes into a production with an idea of how it's going to turn out Speaking to Today about his latest, a staging of Noel Coward's Private Lives, Warwick said that once he's in the rehearsal room, its all
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      462 37  -  JEANINETAN jea nine@newstoday.com.sg EXOTICA can only carry a non-Hol-lywood film so far, says the man behind an internationally renowned film company that helped bring Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai's works to international audiences. Wouter Barendrecht is the cochairman of Fortissimo Films, an international
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        101 38 IFFH|GHUGHTS Catch these films tonight at the Singapore International Film Festival. Tickets at $8.40 are available from TicketCharge (6296 2929). ROOM BOY 7pm, Alliance Francaise A Filipino man falls in love with a prostitute and grapples with abandoning his mentally ill wife for his new love. WHO BURIED
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      487 42 ■AFP Kenyans revel in Boston as men's 12-year-old record is broken TRACK AND FIELD Boston Marathon BOSTON Kenyans enjoyed another glorious showing at the Boston Marathon on Monday, as Robert Cheruiyot and Ben Maiyo swept to a 1-2 finish in the men's elite division. The 27-year-old Cheruiyot set
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      609 43  -  TANYO-HINN SBF launch new development programme as they target a world bowling champion by 2014 yohinn@newstoday.com.sg HE WON three gold medals at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan and followed it up with a silver in the AMF World Cup in Latvia. Remy Ong is
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      346 43  -  CUBBYLEONG NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO6 Albirex 2 Balestier 0 cubby@newstoday.com.sg ALBIREX Niigata left it till the last seven minutes to secure a 2-0 win over Balestier Khalsa in a S-League clash at the Jurong East Stadium last night. Albirex went into the match looking
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      223 43 -AP SAN ANTONIO Manu Ginobili scored 18 points and Tim Duncan added 16 to help the San Antonio Spurs beat the Utah Jazz 115-82 and clinch the Southwest Division title and the best record in the NBA's Western Conference on Monday (yesterday morning,
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      344 44  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg LAST year's champions, Northside Arowanas of Malaysia, will not return for the 2006 NTUC Fair Price Netball Super League (NSL) competition, but there will still be a foreign team vying for honours this season. The Bangkok Arowanas will give the 2006 NSL season
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      457 44 ■AFP Faldo and Monty both feel China's youngsters will challenge the world's best GOLF BMW Asian Open SHANGHAI European stars Colin Montgomerie and Nick Faldo predict China will be golf's future powerhouses, with a raft of teenage players coming through the ranks. The two are in Shanghai to
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      201 44 -AFP CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh Jason Gillespie (picture) was the unlikely hero with the bat for Australia yesterday, striking a maiden Test century as the visitors took control of the second Test against Bangladesh. Days after narrowly beating the minnows in the first Test, normal service
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      581 45 —AFP West Brom get one, Portsmouth drop two, as every point turns priceless in relegation battle WEST BROMWICH West Bromwich Albion picked up what could prove to be a vital point in their fight to stave off relegation with a goalless draw against Bolton at The
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      333 45 LONDON Newcastle striker Alan Shearer will have a scan on his knee tomorrow to discover if his playing career is over. Shearer, scheduled to play three more games before retiring at the end of the season, limped off in the 71st minute of Monday's
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      97 43 WILL SARAWAK BE A FORCE AT HOME? Young Lions on the brink of semis. SLeague Geylang Woodlands Wed, 19/04/06 7,30pm SCORE Sarawak Young Lions Wed, 19/04/06 8,45pm UE Champions Arsenal Villarreal Thu, 20/04/06 2.45 am S.League Sengkang Gombak Thu, 20/04/06 7,30pm UECup Steaua Middlesbrough Fri, 21/04/06 1.30 am UECup SchlkO4
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        SOUP AND WINE'S FINE
        123 46 LUIS Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo and the rest of Portugal's national team will be served healthy doses of chicken soup during the World Cup in Germany to ward off homesickness, the squad's chef has said. Helio Loureiro, who has cooked for the team for eight years, said
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        KING COULD STILL PLAY
        78 46 TOTTENHAM manager Martin Jol last night said that Ledley King may still be fit for the World Cup despite confirmation that he has become the latest Premiership player to break a metatarsal. "He's got a stress fracture, but it's not a big one," said Jol. Asked
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        SCHOLL SET FOR SHOCK RECALL?
        92 46 VETERAN midfielder Mehmet Scholl could be in line for a surprise recall to the Germany squad for the World Cup finals. The 35-year-old retired from international football after becoming injured in the build-up to the 2002 World Cup. But German assistant coach Joachim Low saw
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        EMIRATES FLYING HIGH
        73 46 EMIRATES Airline yesterday signed a US$l95 million ($312 million) deal to become a Fifa Partner from 2007 to 2014. As a FIFA Partner, Emirates have rights to all Fifa events including both the 2010 and 2014 World Cups. The sponsorship deal -the largest the airline has ever
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      689 46 -AGENCIES While title is all but wrapped up, United clash still has much spice LONDON Maybe this was all part of Jose Mourinho's scheme a fiendish plan devised to ensure that Chelsea clinch their second successive Premiership title by beating Manchester United at Stamford Bridge. Mourinho is
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      273 46 —AGENCIES LONDON It may all be over bar the shouting, but publicly at least, Manchester United claim they are up for one last do-or-die bid to wrest the English Premiership title from Chelsea when they go to Stamford Bridge on April 29. A draw for
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      988 47 -AGENCIES Gunners wary of Riquelme, Spaniards worried about Henry CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, SEMI-FINAL IST LEG Arsenal vVillarreal LONDON Arsenal dodged powerhouses Barcelona and AC Milan when the draw was made for the Champions League semifinals, but the Gunners still must deal with one of football's most talented
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      26 47 SPORT TM 11.45 am Cricket Australia Tour of Bangladesh, Ch9s 4pm Tennis Masters Series Monte Carlo, Ch24 ■diLMil;l;li'iM 2.30 am Football Champions League: Arsenal vVillarreal, Ch5&23
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