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  • 13 1 /A=DIJ\CORP TODAY share your free newspaper MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Monday June 5, 2006 todayonline.com
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  • 590 1  -  CLEMENT MESENAS Capture of Osama bin Laden won't end conflict, he says EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@newstoday.com.sg ON A day when United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (picture) was trying to explain why the war on terror would not end with the capture of Al Qaeda leader
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  • 552 1  -  TAN HUI LENG IN WASHINGTON huileng@newstoday.com. sg SENIOR Minister Goh Chok Tong spent more than 30 minutes getting inside the head of the American whose words and actions see money made and lost in Singapore not United States President George W Bush (whom Mr Goh
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    • 27 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 8 voices 16 business 22 succeed 26 plus 28 1v 35 classed 36 sports 37 we set you thinking
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    • 477 2  -  LOH CHEE KONG After High Court finalises damages, party likely to meet to discuss its future cheekong@newstoday.com.sg THE fate of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) could be decided tomorrow when the High Court passes judgement on the defamation suit slapped against it by Prime Minister Lee Hsien
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    • 797 3  -  THOMAS KOSHY It is high time thatthe law in Singapore on costs in criminal cases is reviewed ON AUGUST 4 last year, when Jagatheesan Krishnasamy met Gunaprakash N Thuraisamy to collect on a loan, little did he know that Central Narcotics Bureau
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  • singapore news
    • 692 4  -  ANSLEY NG TAN HUI LENG SM Goh says they should scrutinise the Opposition's performance in their wards and a nsley@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE the possibility that he would not be fielded in Hougang five years from now, defeated People's Action Party (PAP) candidate Eric Low is
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    • 254 4 AGENCIES SINGAPORE has called on the international security community to move beyond dialogue to build practical cooperation. Speaking on the final day of the Shangrila Dialogue yesterday, Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean urged countries to pool their knowledge, experience and ideas. He said: "We
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    • 359 6  -  TEOXUANWEI xua nweit@newstoday.com.sg LEAVE your hands off the plastic when you are shopping, for today at least. The plastic bags, that is. In support of World Environment Day, 13 major supermarket and retail chains, including NTUC Fairprice, Cold Storage and 7-Eleven, will go all out
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    • 598 6  -  LIN YANQIN University explains scheme to cut workload and pay ya nqinl@newstoday.com.sg WHEN he was offered a contract that reduced his workload and his salary after his tenure expired, National University of Singapore (NUS) Professor John Elliott was not surprised. "They decided
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    • 197 8  -  TREVOR TAN An exhibition of works by the late lens guru, Henri Cartier-Bresson, opens at The Arts House on Wednesday trevor@newstoday.com.sg Widely regarded as the "father of photojournalism", Cartier-Bresson coined the term "decisive moment" to describe the perfect moment where a photographer captures the essence of the
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    • 162 7 mum "nj^NYANG 1 P"^sr"| TECHNOLOGICAL Congratulations to all of you offered a place at NTU. You recognise that NTU's programmes in humanities, fine arts and communication studies will give you a strong foundation for success. Art, Design Media The combination of academic and professional excellence, as well as exposure to
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    • 360 9 VICTORIA UNIVERSITY -^mmmmm MBA MPA MERP Victoria University has been conducting their professional masters SIC recently launched the SIC Graduate School, an $8 million investment degrees in Singapore for over 13 years. With a view to strengthen its located across from the Clarke Quay MRT station and offers one of
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  • world news
    • 399 10 Residents protest new housing in landslide-prone area KUALA LUMPUR Less than a week after a deadly landslide in a Kuala Lumpur suburb, residents near the site of the disaster are up in arms over another housing project situated on a fragile hill slope. The landslide
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    • 308 10 —AFP SYDNEY As fresh violence broke out yesterday between rival gangs in Timor Leste's capital Dili, Australia warned against any forced resignation of Timorese Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri. Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said such a move would further destabilise the tiny nation while the
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    • 309 13 AFP Hundreds lured from Africa, Asia and Europe LONDON Gangs of traffickers are taking hundreds of children from Africa, Asia and eastern Europe into Britain every year to be used as slave labour, a newspaper reported yesterday. Traffickers are often able to lure the children
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    • 238 13 WASHINGTON United States President George W Bush on Saturday kicked off a campaign for a constitutional ban on gay marriage as he sought to consolidate the Republicans' political base ahead of the November congressional elections, and shift the national
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    • 141 13 AFP BEIJING Beijing largely ignored the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre yesterday, although in Hong Kong, tens of thousands of people gathered for a candlelight vigil. In mainland China, state media maintained its usual blackout on the crackdown, which Beijing refers to as "an incident". The
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    • 766 14  -  MARIANNE KEARNEY A reporter's experience in Timor Leste as she sees the nation's hopes go up in flames IN DILI news@newstoday.com.sg LOOKING out from Dili, across the Ombar Sea with the smoky blue hills of Atauro Island, and the brilliant flash of hot pink bougainvillea
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    • 188 10 Mobile Homes Tents and Shelters for People on the Move 30 May 9 August 2006 Asian Civilisations Museum NEW EXHIBITION! Mobile Homest Teats and Shelters for People on the Move features three full-size tents from Central and West Asia and showcases the ingenuity of the nomad and a way of
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    • 112 15 In honour of World Environment Day, 5 June 2006 PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN BAG TO CARREFOUR ««k Mca Bw«^M^^^^ fit, Plastic bags may cause serious environmental problems. If you're serious about preserving the health of our planet and all its precious life forms, please bring your own reusable shopping bag
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  • Voices
    • 590 16  -  WAN KWONG WENG IN THE epic Opium War, Chinese General Lin Ze Xv reportedly remarked that one should not take lightly those who use metal contraptions as eating utensils. In the same way, Western apparel may appear ugly to some, but they allow for easy
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    • Of mandates and image
    • 277 17  - What's in a name in passports? CHRISTOPHER LENHIAP LEE Letter from Sweden I REFER to the reply by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) concerning the matter of surnames in passports (June 3). Not everyone has a surname but certainly everyone has a first name and I would say a
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    • 233 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY THE THE FOUNDATION OF SOCIETY It's been said that strong families represent the foundation for a stable and well-ordered society, and it's true. So, much of what brings health and happiness to human beings and especially to children depends on committed individual
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    • We must preserve Seletar's heritage
      • 243 18  -  MR AND MRS SOH EDWARD FITZGERALD Letter from I REFER to the letter "Spare Seletar's soul the bulldozer" (June 2) by Jayandran Sandra Alison. Many people have the misconception that only expatriates and the "arty" type live in Seletar air base. In fact, many Singaporeans
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      • 185 18  - Buildings torn down to make way for grass? FRANKLIN SHELBYTAYE Letter from AS A Singaporean, I have seen many places that I have fond memories of get demolished to make way for an empty plot of grass. The following are some places which are no longer in existence: The Good
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      • 143 18  -  TANCHIWEI Letter from I SHARE Jayandran Sandra Alison's view on the importance of preserving our heritage and that we should beware of reckless rebuilding. As a Singaporean in my late 20s, I can still remember vividly several heritage buildings that have been torn down in the
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    • If only S´pore could also be a happiness hub
      • 276 20  -  HOHAHTOON Letter from I READ Kesang Dema's article "Happiness and family, cultural links" (June 1) and cannot help but envy the people living in the beautiful, land-locked nation of Bhutan. Though its GDP may not be much compared to many countries,
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      • 85 20  - We're No 1 in many fields but are we truly happy? CHNGHOONHOON Letter from RELIGION teaches, among other things, that contentment is key to happiness. Bhutan might not have much worldly materials, but it has Buddhism as a central national way of life. People get by with little and are
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    • 118 20  -  KIM MAY Letter from Assistant Director Corporate Communications National Arts Council (NAC) I REFER to the article "Expanding the line-up" (June 1) in which the reporter wrote: "Similarly sceptical was NAC's (Susan) Loh, who felt that the arts festival, which opens today, was unlikely to
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    • 74 20 CATHERINE LIM ...AMUSES MUSES "Wine, women and song Freedom continues to provoke debate In your life so carefree It's not clear who loses and who wins If you had to give one up Freedom for Arrow is death for Sparrow Tell us, which would it be?' Your freedom ends where
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    • 589 22 ■AFP It faces a cooling economy but hotter-than-expected inflation figures WASHINGTON Clear signs of a cooling trend in the United States economy have created a new conundrum for the US Federal Reserve, which faces a tough decision in the coming weeks on how far it
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    • 411 22  -  CHOW PENN NEE WITH $5,000 minimum investment, retail investors can now invest in currencies and commodities, and Chinese and Eastern European equities. United Overseas Bank today launches the UOB Vic3 Deposit, a structured deposit product that the bank claimed was the first of its kind in
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    • 159 22 OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corp is providing its EasiCredit customers cash rebates in what the bank claims to be the first of its kind for the unsecured personal line of credit market in Singapore. For example, EasiCredit customers who accumulate regular interest payments of $840 or more
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  • 439 24 -AFP Air transport association to tackle challenge of costlier fuel at annual meeting PARIS Representatives from the world airline industry, facing larger-than-expected financial losses this year, are to convene here today and tomorrow to confront the challenge posed by rising oil prices. The International
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  • marketwatch
    • 95 24 -AFP SHARE prices here are expected to fall further this week on persistent concerns over US interest rate hikes and the lack of fresh trading leads, dealers said. "The (market's) upside is still quite limited, with 2,420 to 2,430 as the new resistance," said Fraser-AMMB research director Najeed Jarhom.
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    • 26 24 SGX, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 641.00 Silver US$/oz 12.09 Platinum US$/oz 1,244.90 Rubber cents/kg 417.00 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,398.50 Brant crude USS/barrel 71.16 Information provided by
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    • 672 26  -  JASMINE YIN Prof Pang of SMU's school of business says diplomatic stint enhanced cultural sensitivity jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg HE MAY no longer be negotiating deals with politicians or hobnobbing with royalty, but Professor Pang Eng Fong is putting his years of diplomatic experience to work as the
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    • 459 27  -  AUDREY LIM SJl's Sec 2 students also learn entrepreneurial skills news@newstoday.com.sg SINCE the start of this year, 26 students of Saint Joseph's Institution (SJI) have been trading their leisure time for a taste of how the corporate world operates. The Secondary 2 youngsters-turned-budding businessmen have
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      251 28 While it might seem as if every conceivable TV crossover has been done, ROSS WALLACE makes a few fantasy picks: LOST/ GILLIGAN'S ISLAND The plane crash. The island. The beast in the jungle. The hatch. The hallucinations. The "cursed" numbers. The Dharma Initiative. The Others. You heard it
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    • 1359 28  -  Ross Wallace The small-screen tradition of the TV crossover just got bigger AT Disneyland, it's a small world after all. On TV, it sometimes seems even smaller. Tomorrow night on cable channel AXN, the latest episode of CSI: Miami sees characters from the popular crime show a
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    • 373 30  -  AMELYNN LIONG Jesseca's first attempt at a lead role was an emotional challenge a melynnl@newstoday.com.sg COULD this be what it takes to seal Jesseca Liu's status as an A-list actress? Premiering tonight on MediaCorp TV Channel 8, drama series Rhapsody in Blue is Jesseca's first leading
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    • 231 30  -  ASHRAFSAFDAR BY HIS own admission, Jeremy Monteiro is an amateur student of psychology. The 2002 Cultural Medallion winner who recently became the first Singaporean to be appointed a professor and visiting chair of jazz at Lasalle-SlA's school of music admits that he wishes to marry an
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    • in cinemas
      • 242 32  -  Ashraf Safdar THEATREREVIEW by, MICHAEL West's excellent translation of Death and the Ploughman transforms Johannes yon Saaz's dense German medieval play into a nimble series of monologues between the Grim Reaper and a man recently bereaved of his wife. In the hands of Anne Bogart's US-based
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      • 274 32  - Samovar Check Out Chekhov Ashraf Safdar THEATREREVIEW by I CALL it Chekhov for geeks. Nina from The Seagull is a wide-eyed, perpetually petrified-looking actress. Meanwhile, Olga, Masha and Irina from The Three Sisters are depicted as a threeheaded chimaera. These and some of famed Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov's most famous
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      • 159 32 -AP NEW YORK Wolverine, the bladebearing X-Men superhero played by j Hugh Jackman, ranks as the top fictional power player, according to Entertainment Weekly. The magazine lists the top 10 franchise characters in its latest issue. Wolver- f me beat out Harry Potter, Spider-Man and
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    • eatout
      • 548 33  -  AMYVAN Gather your mates and head to Serangoon Gardens for this cheery, cosy eatery f ood@newstoday.com.sg I'VE NEVER actually gone to Serangoon Gardens Village for a meal until a friend suggested that I check out Friends, a semi-fine-dining neighbourhood restaurant Opened a year ago, this place has
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      • 692 34  -  LEE HUI SHAN Szechuan Court's menu is an inspired mix of tradition and innovation huisha nl@newstoday.com. sg I DID a double take at the door of Szechuan Court. Were we at the right place? Despite the big, bold words at the entrance, my colleague didn't
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    • 524 37 Mavericks make Finals for first time as the Suns'energy burns out NBA PLAYOFFS, WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS Dallas 102 Phoenix 93 (Dallas win playoffs 4-2) PHOENIX Avery Johnson put the "D" in Dallas. Then the coach put the Mavericks in the NBA finals for the first time in
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    • 247 37 ■AFP TENNIS French Open PARIS Dinara Safina finally stepped out of big brother Marat Safin's shadow yesterday when she sent Russian compatriot Maria Sharapova spinning out of the French Open winning 7-5, 2-6, 7-5 in the fourth round. The 20-year-old Safina will face another Russian, Svetlana
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    • 817 38  -  LI ZAI SHI Skipper Sevki hopes the Bulls will follow his lead in bouncing back and stamp their mark on the S-League sports@newstoday.com.sg HE IS the strong, silent type that has had to learn to be more strong and less silent, as a result
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    • 418 39  -  LI ZAI SHI Watch outTampines, as Africans are confident they have improved sports@newstoday.com.sg THE MESSAGE emanating from Yishun Stadium is as clear as a note from an African djembe drum: The promise of a tighter, wiser Sporting Afrique in the second round of the S-League. The African
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    • 553 39  -  LI ZAI SHI TAMPINES ROVERS are hoping the arrival of national team captain Aide Iskandar (picture) on loan from Johor FA will provide a shot in the arm for their SLeague title charge. The Stags are aiming for an unprecedented hat-trick of league titles but
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    • 512 40  -  JOSE RAYMOND Coach satisfied with Malaysia win, but warns China will be much tougher in Paroi, Negri Sembilan jose@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE stretched their winning streak against Malaysia to four games on Saturday, but national coach Radojko Avramovic is refusing to get carried away. Just as in the
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    • 497 40  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THE Vipers and the Stingrays the top two teams in the NTUC Fair Price Netball Super League (NSL) 2006 will battle in the Grand Final of this season's competition, after booking their places over the weekend at the Toa Payoh
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    • 333 42 -AGENCIES MELBOURNE Middlesbrough and Australia hitman Mark Viduka (picture) has revealed he is considering retiring from international football after the World Cup. Viduka, who will be making his World Cup debut, has said that a combination of family reasons and concerns over frequent
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    • 548 42 -AGENCIES Portugal coach concerned over winger's tendency to retaliate METZ Portugal have not been past the first round of a World Cup since 1966, but Cristiano Ronaldo has shown in warm-up games that he's fired up to prove the Portuguese are better than the record
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    • 528 43 ■AFP Problems still haunt team, but coach Lippi remains upbeat ROME Italy coach Marcello Lippi is sweating on the results of a scan that will decide whether injured defender Gianluca Zambrotta should go to the World Cup. Zambrotta has a left thigh strain and has already
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    • 191 43 ■AFP WORLD CUP WARM-UP Switzerland 4 China 1 ZURICH Switzerland, who previously drew 1-1 with both Ivory Coast and Italy, completed their World Cup warm-ups with a resounding 4-1 win over China on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Two goals each from Alexander Frei and
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    • 567 44 -AGENCIES But ageing defence could pose problems for Brazil WEGGIS, Switzerland Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira has confirmed that he will adopt an all-out attack approach at the World Cup in Germany. Parreira stated he would put his faith in his famous "magic foursome" as the
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      • 154 44 CZECH CRUISE PAST T T STRIKER Jan Koller (picture) notched a pair of goals and Pavel Nedved added another as the Czech Republic beat Trinidad and Tobago 3-0 on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) in their final tune-up ahead of the World Cup finals. Koller looked to have regained his
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      • 120 44 UNITED States coach Bruce Arena is confident that captain Claudio Reyna will be fit to face the Czech Republic in the World Cup on June 12. Arena told reporters at the US team hotel that midfielder Reyna "fully participated" in training, as did midfielder John
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    • 260 44 THE GUARDIAN LONDON They are the most sublime team on earth, boast some magical talents, and are everyone's favourites to win the World Cup. But some of the stars who have helped Brazil win the trophy five times before believe Ronaldinho and his team-mates
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    • 97 44 Q: The first World Cup final in 1930 was between hosts Uruguay and Argentina. Four years later, Italy and Czechoslovakia played in the final. In that game, Luis Monti became the first player to appear in two World Cup finals. How was that possible? A: Monti was
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    • 672 45 -AFP Crouch pledges to keep on scoring and dancing WORLD CUP WARM-UP England 6 Jamaica 0 MANCHESTER Peter Crouch did not mark the completion of his first England hattrick with his robot-dance, but the giant Liverpool striker is confident he will get a chance to repeat
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    • 311 45 -AGENCIES MANCHESTER David Beckham has warned World Cup favourites Brazil to watch out for England during the World Cup finals. The England captain is desperate to gain revenge for the Three Lions' defeat to Brazil four year ago, and is confident that his side
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    • 232 45 —AFP LONDON Paraguay, England's first opponents in the World Cup, have been accused of selling nearly half of their tickets for Saturday's match to touts who are charging fans up to £645 ($1,900) a seat, according to reports here yesterday. At
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    613 46 -AGENCIES Despite team's lack of killer instinct, coach targets semis MADRID If form could serve as indicators of a nation's chances, Spain will certainly enter the World Cup finals as red-hotfavourites. An opportunist strike from Raul and a superbly-struck free kick from substitute Jose Antonio Reyes earned Spain
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  • 182 46 NICKNAME: La Seleccion FIFA RANKING: 5 FIFA WORLD CUP RECORD: This is their 12th Finals appearance. Fourth: 1950 RECORD AT LAST FIVE WORLD CUPS: 1986 —Quarterfinals 1990 —Round 2 1994 Quarterfinals 1998 —Round 1 2002 —Quarterfinals CURRENT TOP SCORER: Raul, 43 goals in 94 games AVERAGE AGE OF
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  • 326 46 AGENCIES ELCHE, Spain Spain rediscovered their scoring touch with a 2-0 win over African champions Egypt on Saturday {yesterday morning, Singapore time) but question marks over striking woes and team selection remain. Captain Raul (picture) may have ended a seven-month goal drought when he
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  • 549 47 Coach confident his team will surprise many in Germany TOKYO -Japan coach Zico promises to pull more surprises out of his hat at the World Cup as the Asian champions ended their World Cup finals preparation with a 1-0 win against Malta yesterday. Winger Keiji Tamada
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  • 207 47 AGENCIES LONDON England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson has confirmed that standby striker Jermain Defoe will fly out with the England squad to Germany today. Eriksson has maintained his belief that Wayne Rooney will play at the World Cup, but the injured forward
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    253 47 ROTTERDAM Tim Cahill's 54th minute strike gave Australia a 1-1 draw with Holland in their World Cup warm-up yesterday. Ruud van Nistelrooy gave the hosts the lead in the 10th minute, but Everton midfielder Cahill ensured Guvs Hiddink's side a share of the spoils. Elsewhere in Dusseldorf, Japan
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