Today, 11 September 2006, Afternoon Edition

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  • 13 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp mica(P) 192/07/2006 share your free newspaper Monday September 11, 2006 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 678 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO 938 LIVE derrick@newstoday.com.sg AT 10pm last night, police moved in to man their positions for an event that was three years in the making. They cordoned off stretches of Nicoll Highway, Temasek Boulevard and Raffles Boulevard,
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    • 381 1 -BLOOMBERG Prayers feature readings from the Quran, Bible focused on themes of love, reconciliation US President George W Bush began two days of ceremonies marking the fifth anniversary of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, laying wreaths yesterday at the site of the World Trade Centre in
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    • 429 2  -  VALERIE LAW First-year report card in for programme that finds ex-criminals jobs valerie@newstoday.com.sg NEARLY 120,000 ex-offenders have had their criminal records rendered "spent" essentially allowing them to start on a clean slate since amended rules kicked in last October. Senior Minister of State for Law
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    • 906 3  -  FRANK RICH NEW YORK TIMES Five years after 911, America has moved on, but not moved forward "THE most famous picture nobody's ever seen" is how the Associated Press photographer Richard Drew has referred to his photo of an unidentified World Trade Center victim
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    • 481 4  -  TAN HUI LENG New NKF establishes new goals, including lowering dialysis cost huileng@newstoday.com.sg KIDNEY patients under the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) can look forward to even lower dialysis costs by the end of the year. Promising this piece of "good news" yesterday, chief executive Eunice Tay
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    • 344 4 -AFP HELSINKI The European Union yesterday pressed Myanmar to improve its human rights and democracy record at a summit in Helsinki between EU and Asian leaders, Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said. "We regretted the lack of tangible progress in the process of
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    • 173 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA TO HELP prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Singapore is tightening its export control system by expanding its strategic goods control list for export, transhipment and transit. According to a statement issued by Singapore Customs yesterday, the expanded
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    • 77 4 -AFP WELLINGTON Tonga's King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV died late yesterday at the age of 88, ending a 41-year reign over Polynesia's last monarchy. The King had been in ill-health for several years and spent most of this year in New Zealand receiving medical treatment
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  • singapore news
    • 631 6  -  CHRISTIE LOH People will have a chance to understand how these guys in suits affect their lives. Ms LinXueling, who will interview Mr Michael Spence and Mr Steve Forbes, among others News suits law-trained CNA presenter who is also Lim Chong Yah's daughter- to the
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 108 6 The Association of Employment Agencies (Singapore) (AEAS) has embarked on a recruitment drive in Sri Lanka to help get jobs for women who had to return from Lebanon due to the conflict with Israel. AEAS representatives conducted interviews with the women yesterday, according to Sri
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      • 127 6 -938UVE Twenty companies from Singapore's healthcare industry are now in Shanghai, taking part in what is the largest-ever healthcare mission Singapore has organised for the Chinese market. The delegation, led by Minister-in-Charge of Entrepreneurship Lee Vi Shyan, is keen to explore opportunities with the opening up
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  • world news
    • 121 8 -AFP JERUSALEM Israeli President Moshe Katsav, facing charges of sexual harassment, will ask to have his duties briefly suspended this week so as not to preside over the swearing in of the nation's first female head of the supreme court, his office said yesterday. "Katsav will
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    • 445 8 ■AFP Israeli, Palestinian leaders agree to hold unconditional talks to advance stalled Middle East peace process JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Saturday pledged to meet Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to discuss their differences, in particular the fate of the Jewish state's captured soldiers.
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    • 165 8 -AFP TAIPEI A mass protest against Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian continued for a second day yesterday with a vastly reduced turnout, but campaign organisers vowed not to give up until he resigned. Around 3,000 demonstrators braved the cold and rain overnight in the Taiwanese capital, some
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    • 144 8 -AFP HELSINKI Asian leaders yesterday invited India, Mongolia and Pakistan to join future gatherings of the Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem), the only forum dedicated to dialogue between Europe and Asia, Japanese officials said. The invitation came as leaders from 38 Asian and European nations began two days
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    • 354 10 -AFP First defeat in 30 years won't stop his ranting KUALA LUMPUR Former Premier Mahathir Mohamed's shock defeat in a grassroots party ballot shows he is finished as a force in Malaysian politics, analysts said yesterday, even as Bernama reported that Pahang's chief minister urged ruling party members
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    • 250 10 KUALA LUMPUR A human rights group appointed by the Malaysian government called this weekend for the creation of a new ministry to better protect people's religious rights. Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) chairman Abu Talib Othman said the ministry would be
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    • 137 10 PERAK The remains of two 19-century warriors who died in exile were returned to Perak with state honours on Saturday. On Thursday, the graves of Ngah Ibrahim and his father-in-law, Mohamad Amin Alang, were exhumed from two cemeteries in Singapore and on their posthumous
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    • 226 12 -AFP NEW YORK Two days before the United States marked the fifth anniversary of the Sept 11,2001 terror attacks, The New York Times said the first top Al Qaeda operative captured in the wake of 911, Abu Zubaydah, had been stripped naked by his
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    • 333 12 -AGENCIES Thaksin links assassination attempt to protests BANGKOK Thailand's caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Saturday that the recent alleged plot to assassinate him was part of an ongoing attempt to oust him, which stretched as far back as the mass protests at the beginning of
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    • 279 12 -AFP LONDON Long considered the odds-on favourite to replace British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the "iron chancellor" has so angered some quarters with his handling last week of the transition arrangements that his future no longer looks so certain. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown had
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    • 457 13 -AFP Basketball star's condemnation of shark fin soup ignored in China HONG KONG It was supposed to be a media coup: Basketball superstar Yao Ming taking the public stage to condemn the consumption of shark fin soup and vowed never to eat the Chinese delicacy again.
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 80 13 -AFP Canada's minister of citizenship and immigration, Mr Monte Solberg, personally presented the Dalai Lama with Canadian citizenship on Saturday in Vancouver. Mr Monte Solberg presented a framed certificate to the Dalai Lama before a cheering crowd of 12,000 who came to hear the Tibetan
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      • 72 13 -AGENCIES North Korea is testing new medicines in Russia for its leader Kirn Jong 11, who is reportedly ill and has trouble walking, the Yonhap news agency said yesterday. Two people who have the same physique, shape and are the same age
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      • 58 13 -AFP Over 100,000 villagers in China's Yueyang county in Hunan province have been told not to drink local river water after arsenic from a neighbouring chemical plant contaminated the waterway, the Xinhua news agency said yesterday. Local authorities have dispatched fire engines to provide drinking water, it
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    • 280 11 1 life, live it. FROM MICHAEL MANN THE DIRECTOR OF "COLLATERAL" AND "HEAT" 2 se Ptember 20°6) pq^ RicardoTubbs (Oscar winner Jamie Foxx) is urbane and dead smart. He I*. lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy, as they work undercover H iiU J^ transporting drug loads into South Florida to
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    • 179 14  - Anything we can do better MOHAMAD ROSLE AH MAD Letter from I REFER to your report "Ride this wave of hope" (Sept 7) and noted that only 55 per cent of jobs (63,000 of 113,000) went to locals last year, and 54 per cent (44,000 of 81,000) in the first
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    • Let's discover that magic
      • 224 14  -  RAMCHAND RAMESH WHENEVER visitors visit any country, they never leave with a catchphrase. Rather, they leave with impressions and experiences. If what they see and experience is good, it is what they remember and talk to others about Any bad impression is magnified. "Malaysia: Truly
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      • 183 14  -  MICHAEL LOHYIK MING Letter from CRAZY Horse is struggling, Haw Par Villa and Tang Village crashed and burned. Is Singapore ready for Mickey Mouse and Disneyland? (See "Mickey at Marina?", Sept 8). Granted, the folks at Disney would provide most of the training, but we should
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    • voices SHORTTAKES
      • 112 16  -  WONG KUM FOO: I refer to Mr Roy Chan's letter, "OD interest not right" (Sept 6). Mr Chan was fortunate to have this overdraft charge waived by the customer service officer. I had bad experiences with two local banks. On three occasions in which
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      • 133 16  -  VEDHAGIRIS: Everyday, my wife takes bus number 64 to Mci Ling Street to drop my son off at school. She boards the same service a few minutes later to return home. Every day, she gets charged 85 cents for each of the four trips (to and
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    • 1302 16  -  SITI SHAHIRAH MASTUTYAU in memorium ALI SALLIM Beloved father THIS is the story of my beloved father, my Abah, who succumbed to necrotizing fasciitis two weeks ago at the age of 63, robbing us all of a man who was our protector while we were growing
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    • 245 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I TIM AND CHRISTINE BURKE What would you be willing to give up for your family? Your hopes, your dreams, your career, your bank account? Well, I know a man who gave up all of that and more. In 1985, Tim Burke
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    • The high price of fake drugs
      • 296 18  -  HENG CHO CHOON Letter from CHARLES Tan's comment "Vigilance is the best medicine" (Sept 8) is a wakeup call for readers. The sale of fake drugs and pills is today a million-dollar industry that eats into the profits of bona fide pharmaceutical companies. As early as
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      • 299 18  -  PORSUATGNOH Letter from Senior Medical Manager Roche Singapore Pte Ltd WE AGREE wholeheartedly with Charles Tan's article. It cannot be emphasised enough that consumers should be cautioned against buying medicines over the Internet or from any other unauthorised sources. In addition to infringing intellectual property
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    • 228 18  -  SIEW NGUNG CHIA Letter from HO KONG Loon's comment, "Judging teacher? Don't go by the book" (Sept 8), revived unhappy memories of my attempt to become a school teacher years ago. I've always had a strong passion to teach.
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    • 372 20 -AGENCIES Group says multilateral trading system in 'serious crisis' RIO DE JANEIRO Developing nations are calling on rich countries to restart global trade talks, saying the suspension of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations not only threatened the current round of discussions but
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    • marketwatch
      • 174 20 -AFP SHARE prices are expected to be rangebound this week in the absence of fresh trading leads, dealers said. The arrival of about 16,000 delegates for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank annual meetings is expected to boost the city-state's services sector but this has already been
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      • 37 20 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM 0.6361 0.3399 74.018 4.9455 2.3269 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ 32.076 0.8394 29.399 608.05 0.7062 Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5002 5,803.3 23.807 I Yuan NZ$ NT$ 5.0537 0.9932 20.898
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      • 26 20 SGX, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 617.90 Silver US$/oz 12.27 Platinum US$/oz 1,229.50 Rubber cents/kg 283.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,550.50 Brent crude US$/barrel 65.33 Information provided by
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    • 297 21 AFP VIENNA Oil ministers from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) arrived in Vienna at the weekend, saying the cartel would likely keep its output quota stable for its seventh straight meeting. But differences emerged about the significance of a sharp fall in
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    • 275 21 BLOOMBERG CHINA will increasingly turn to monetary policy to slow excessive investment, Vice-Pre-mier Zeng Peiyan said yesterday, signalling that its central bank may raise the cost of borrowing and curb loans in the fourth quarter. "We will use more economic policies, fewer administrative measures
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  • SUCCEED the business of learning
    • 590 22  -  PATRICK FORSYTH Work towards a win-win working relationship SUCCEED with succeed@newstoday.com.sg UNLESS or until you are the CEO, you and everyone else in an organisation, will have a boss. And if you are to survive and thrive in your career, then you must work with
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    • 420 22 Q: Your article last week made me think that a good boss or leader is born and not made. As a young manager, I'm keen to know more. You said that a good boss should be strong, open and brave. Are there set traits a person must have in
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    • 274 22  -  LEE U WEN BRAINFOOD Herb Greenberg, Patrick Sweeney SUCCESS in life, as they say, is not handed to you on a platter. Rather, it's how much you crave it and what you're willing to do to achieve your intended goals. Sure, we may need some
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    • noticeboard
      • 101 22 What are some of the most commonly confused words in the business world today? Do you know what is proper email etiquette? This one-day workshop organised by LCI Executive Seminars could have the answers. Join trainer Shirley Taylor as she shows you some practical tools
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      • 62 22 The United World Colleges (UWC) is offering four scholarships for students to pursue the International Baccalaureate diploma at its colleges in Italy, Norway, Wales, New Mexico and Canada. The scholarships are recognised by the Ministry of Education and applications close on Oct 23. For more
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      • 138 22 Fancy progressing from selfprofessed wine connoisseur to making a business venture out of it? Wine for Asia 2006 and Singapore Polytechnic is putting together a new certificate course in international wine import next month. Billed as the first of its kind in
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    • 594 23  -  LEE U-WEN Design school teaches aspiring designers how to succeed in the industry u-wen@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S design industry may be over 30 years old, but its failure to churn out a regular stream of talented designers could stunt the growth of what is already a middle-aged baby for
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    • 127 23 Loyalty is dead in the workplace. Agree? MR RAY BIGGER, CEO OF THE BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OFTHINKB REPLIES: "When a Gallop survey reveals that only six per cent of employees are actively engaged, the workplace unquestionably has 'loyalty issues'. The solution lies in
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      1132 24  -  Ross Wallace Deputy Plus Editor ross@newstoday.com.sg The viewer numbers have spoken, TV audiences can IF THERE is one phrase that neatly sums up the state of American TV, it is "To Be Continued". Once just the three words used to signal that a cliffhanger ending would be
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    • 330 25 -AP VENICE The Chinese movie Still Life, a surprise entry set against the backdrop of China's gigantic Three Gorges Dam project, on Saturday won this year's Golden Lion the top award at the Venice Film Festival. Helen Mirren and Ben Affleck took the top acting awards. Mirren was named
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    • 338 26  -  David Chew Show needs to engage audience if it's to make grand debut abroad THEATREREVIEW by Forbidden City THIS may be the third staging of the Singapore Repertory Theatre's best-known production of the past four years, but the brains behind Forbidden City have some work to
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    • 370 27  -  DAVID CHEW Decisionto award painting about women's plight was an easy one, says chief judge A YEAR after this reviewer dismissed the annual United Overseas Bank (UOB) Painting of the Year award as a tad too safe, the interesting choice of art teacher Namiko Chan Takahashi's
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    • 255 27  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL plus@newstoday.com.sg IN THE end, it was the students who beat the maths teachers. Three students from National Junior College (NJC) were the fastest of the four teams in Saturday's Sudoku Super-Challenge Grand Final, organised by the People's Association and held at
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    • eatout
      • Article, Illustration
        726 28  -  LAUREEN TOH food@newstoday.com.sg THEY say food is a cultural barometer you get a sense of a place and its people through their culinary specialties. Going by the polished North Vietnamese cuisine that Le Tonkin serves, I wonder, could everything be more refined up north? Here, there are none of
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      • 681 30  -  LAUREENTOH f ood@newstoday.com.sg DON Choo, co-owner of The Tea Party, politely corrected me when I asked if my cup of tea was supposed to taste this "weak". "We make tea the way tea is supposed to taste," said the 29-year-old who co-owns the cafe tucked
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      • Article, Illustration
        145 30  -  BERNADETTE CHONG HAWKER FOOD'S HOT AT PHOENIX GARDEN Until Sept 24, you can enjoy a buffet spread of Singapore's most popular hawker dishes at Phoenix Garden Cafe. Local favourites include chilli crab, stewed pork belly with mantou, fried oyster omelette and more. Prata lovers can look forward to the
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  • sports
    • 629 33 -AFP German ace heats up the world title fight as he announces his retirement FORMULA 1 Italian Grand Prix MONZA, Italy Only Michael Schumacher could do it in such style. The seven-time Formula 1 world champion announced his retirement at the end of the current
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    • 500 34 Visitors Aston Villa denied victory as Argentine star Tevez makes quiet debut ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP West Ham 1 Aston Villa 1 LONDON Carlos Tevez came ott the bench to make his West Ham debut, but it was Bobby Zamora who earned the Hammers a point against a
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    • 195 34 Results: Arsenal 1 Middlesbrough 1, Bolton 1 Watford 0, Chelsea 2 Charlton 1, Everton 3 Liverpool 0, Man Utd 1 Tottenham 0, Newcastle 1 Fulham 2, Portsmouth 1 Wigan 0, Sheffield Utd 0 Blackburn 0, West Ham 1 Aston Villa 1 Tomorrow. Reading v Man City P W D
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    • 293 34 —AFP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Arsenal 1 Middlesbrough 1 LONDON Arsene Wenger (picture) admitted Arsenal had to improve quickly if they hoped to mount a Premiership title challenge, after watching his side held to a 1-1 draw by 10-man Middlesbrough on Saturday. The Gunners were facing a
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    • 433 34 -AFP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Everton 3 Liverpool 0 LIVERPOOL They say top-class managers rarely ever criticise their players in public. When they do so, it is to provoke a response and perhaps that was the thinking behind Rafa Benitez' outburst against
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      610 35 —AFP Van Nistelrooy missing, but Ferguson's happy with his goal options ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man United 1 Tottenham 0 MANCHESTER The dooifls'daysayers all predicted Manchester United would struggle after the sale of Ruud van Nistelrooy to Real Madrid. But after the Red Devils recorded a tight 1-0 win
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    • 367 35  -  Leonard Thomas youcannotbe serious Sports Editor leonard@newstoday.com.sg ROY Keane may no longer patrol Premiership pitches. Or send chills down the spines of those in the tunnels of Premiership stadiums. But based on the action at Goodison Park and Old Trafford over the weekend, the ghost of
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    • 841 36  -  CUBBYLEONG Laakkad's so hot Woodlands are working on getting the striker a Moroccan chef cubby@newstoday.com.sg ABDELHADI Laakkad began the season with high hopes, confident his team would end the 2006 campaign with their first piece of silverware. But on Saturday, that dream lay in tatters after Tampines
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    • 593 37  -  JOSE RAYMOND Stags book Cup final date, now have two other big hurdles in the week jose@newstoday.com.sg TWENTY-FOUR hours before their RHB Singapore Cup 2006 semi-final second leg clash against Woodlands Wellington on Saturday night, Tampines Rovers FC were at Neptune Theatre for their annual dinner
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    • 460 37  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday.com.sg HIS presence, whether in the stands or on the touchline, or on the team bench even, usually brings out the best in his team. But on Saturday, Tampines Rovers chairman Teo Hock Seng deliberately stayed away from Tampines Stadium and so missed his
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    • 357 38 —AFP NEW YORK Switzerland's Roger Federer (picture) won the US Open men's singles title for the third consecutive year yesterday (early today Singapore time), defeating American Andy Roddick 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 in the final. Federer also became the first player to win back-to-back
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    • 310 38 —AFP MADRID Real Madrid's Ruud van Nistelrooy and David Beckham rediscovered the understanding they once had at Manchester United as the Spanish giants comfortably won 4-1 at newly-promoted Levante yesterday. The pair showed that they still have more in common than a mutual dislike of Manchester
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    • 340 38 —AFP PARIS Franck Ribery's name was being shouted from the Pare de Princes rafters after the France midfielder starred in Marseille's 3-1 win over bitter rivals Paris Saint Germain yesterday. Mahamadou Niang had put Marseille into an early lead from a penalty awarded against PSG
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