Today, 11 September 2008

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    10 1 TODAY Thursday September ii, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    COLUMN
    49 1 Leonard Thomas It has been a great year for Spore in the sporting arena with success in table tennis, swimming and the Paralympics. Now, the No 1 local sport, football, has a chance to end a stunning year the best way possible, says our Sports Editor. Page 48
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    WORLD
    49 1 Samak abandoned Thailand's ruling party yesterday backed off a vow to return the job to Mr Samak Sundaravej, who was stripped of his post as Premier by a court over his TV cooking shows. Other candidates are being sought before a parliamentary vote set for tomorrow. Page 14
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    Costs and ethics
    682 1  -  NEOCHAICHIN HEALTHCARE Khaw on 8 to 9% GDP spending and weeding out black sheep chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg ARE Singaporeans willing to spend $15 out of every $100 they earn on healthcare? With developments such as new drugs and the improvement in doctor-patient ratios, healthcare costs will be driven up.
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    Lock icon Umno man suspended three years
    621 1 KUALA LUMPUR In a bid to pacify its coalition partners and defuse a racially-charged controversy, the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) yesterday suspended a party division chief who remains defiant and unapologetic about his racist comments. When announcing that Mr Ahmad Ismail has been suspended
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      131 1 1» I Wm How this English band i THE SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX I J f 'THE POP STAR' I p Geoff Perry had fans here swooning MP^I but the Kiwi raced for just one woman < t^jk k In 1972, the heart-throb was defending cham- l y^' "ffll p I
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      Not a winning Formula for some
      419 2  -  JESSICAYEO WHAT businesses are wondering: Formula One and discounts will it sell? What some Singaporeans are saying: If there are huge crowds, we will stay away. It is not what some retailers in the Marina Bay area are hoping to hear, but their concern
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      Road closures? We'll just work around them
      596 2  -  LEONGWEEKEAT FORMULA i WEEK A day off, flexi-work bus drop-offs how bosses in Suntec, Marina area will help staff cope weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SOME will be asked to leave their workstations early; others could be given a day off, while a few lucky ones may
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      Lock icon Singapore Flyer raises its game, why not other attractions?
      411 2  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg TELEVISION sets on its premises and in each of its 28 capsules showing live Formula 1 action. Fringe activities such as fire twirlers, samba dance and live band performances. Deejays hitting the deck and gigs by local celebrities like
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      Lock icon Hackers spoil MapleStory fun
      589 3  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN GAMES OUTCRY Players, who have spent as much as $2 ooo on the game, file police reports hedirman@mediacorp.com. sg HAVING sunk time and cold, hard cash into building up their virtual characters in an online game, some frustrated gamers have lodged a police report
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      Great Games but they need time: MM
      633 3  -  ANSLEYNG SOME have called the Beijing Games its coming of age party, but in Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's view, the Olympics was just a demonstration of China's potential not of "present strength". "I think the Chinese realise they need 30, 40 (or)
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      Go ahead, cyber-loaf at work
      446 6 SURFINGTHE NET It could be good for productivity and the soul, study finds MEN in Singapore do it for nearly an hour at work; women for 46 minutes. It's called cyber-loafing, and most employees surveyed claim it actually helps them work better. While employers have
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      Food-powered fans, at your hawker centre?
      415 6  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg THE food scraps you leave behind on the hawker centre table could soon become the key ingredient in keeping the lights on and the fans whirring. With the combined efforts of Republic Polytechnic and Ecovac systems and funding from the National
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      Lock icon For this winner, helping others is second nature
      381 8  -  ALICIA WONG FRIEND OF SINGA AWARD alicia@mediacorp.com.sg AT JUST 18, Ben Laycock has already been to India, Cambodia and Thailand all in the name of charity. About four years ago, he embarked on his maiden charity trip to Thailand. The recent graduate
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      GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO CLEAR THEIR TRAYS
      343 8  -  ALICIAWONG What does being gracious mean to some of the 319 recipients of the Friend of Singa Award? For 12-year-old Jaeni Rajesh Shah, it is providing a listening ear. When she sees primary one pupils upset, she will console them. "Once they share their
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      Lock icon Sorry, brother, says film-maker
      740 10  -  ESTHER NG YELLOW RIBBON PROJECT He got sibling into gang, but it's a happy ending for both estherng@mediacorp.com. sg IT WAS his way of saying sorry to his brother with a one-hour, 40-minute apology. The movie The Days, which opens in cinemas tomorrow, is a true
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon 10 NAMES FOR FUSIONOPOLIS BUILDINGS
        142 10 :hannelnewsasia JTC Corporation has announced the ten winning entries, selected from close to i,600 submissions, for the contest to name the buildings at Fusionopolis. Phase One of Fusionopolis a hub for cutting-edge research in infocomm, science, media and engineering has been completed, and the two
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        Lock icon JET LI TAKES A YEAR OFF, FOR PHILANTHROPY
        155 10 AFP Chinese action StarJet Li (picture) said yesterday he wants to cultivate the spirit of philanthropy among Asians and has taken this year off from making movies to focus on his One Foundation charity. "I don't need to wait till I am
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        Lock icon NEW MOTORCYCLES TO GET NEW IN-VEHICLE UNITS
        92 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA All new motorcycles will now have to be fitted with new In-Vehicle Units, meant to make paying electronic road charges hassle free. The smart devices can automatically top-up one's Cash Card and will also show the amount deducted each time a
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      Work-related accidents up almost 7 per cent
      261 12 THERE were more than 5,200 cases of work-related accidents in the first half, a 7 per cent increase from the same period last year. Less severe injuries, such as temporary disablements, contributed to the bulk of the increase, said the Workplace Safety and
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      Lock icon $500 fine if no SDPC mark on cigarette
      174 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA FROM Jan 1, all duty-paid cigarettes sold in Singapore will be marked with the letters "SDPC" for Singapore Duty-Paid Cigarette to distinguish them from contraband sticks. This new requirement is part of Singapore Customs' effort to curb the selling and
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      Lock icon Clean bill of health for big 7
      284 12  -  HOEYEEN NIE CHANNEL NEWSASIA CHARITIES REVIEW But some areas of governance need cleaning up THE Commissioner of Charities (COC) has given a clean bill of health to seven major charities in Singapore. They are Campus Crusade Asia, City Harvest Church, Faith Community Baptist
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Samak left out in the cold by PPP?
      475 14 AGENCIES THAILAND POLITICS Ruling party to consult allies for candidates to be new Prime Minister BANGKOK Thailand's ruling party yesterday backed off a vow to return the job to Samak Sundaravej, who was forced out by a court over his TV cooking
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      Lock icon Rudd pushes for boost in defence spending
      279 14 AFP SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday flagged an increase in defence spending as he warned that the country's military must start preparing for an arms build-up in Asia and the Pacific. Mr Rudd, a former diplomat elected as leader last November,
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      Lock icon Thai government mulls move to old airport
      189 14 AFP BANGKOK Thailand's government offices may move to Bangkok's old domestic airport to avoid confronting protesters occupying the Prime Minister's compound for two weeks. Thousands of protesters stormed the Government House complex (picture) on Aug 26, and have turned its once-stately tropical garden
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      Lock icon Asean dropping non-intervention policy? You're asking for the moon
      394 16 AP MANILA Rights activists must not press the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) to quickly create a human rights court or drop its non-intervention policy because such pressure is doomed to fail, a Philippine diplomat said yesterday. Ms Rosario Manalo
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      Lock icon 'This is selective justice
      484 16 AGENCIES SODOMY CHARGES Anwar fights bid to move case to High Court KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who faces trial on sodomy charges, fought yesterday to prevent the politically-charged case from being moved to the High Court. Mr Anwar also said outside court yesterday
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      Lock icon Reports on Kim's health a 'conspiracy plot': Pyongyang
      280 18 AFP SEOUL North Korean officials yesterday denied that leader Kirn Jong 11, 66, is seriously ill, rejecting media reports questioning his health as a "conspiracy plot" after he failed to show up at a massive parade on Tuesday in Pyongyang for the
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      Lock icon MUDSLIDE TOLL RISING
      134 18 AFP The death toll from an industrial mudslide that swept through a town in northern China has more than doubled to 128, state television said yesterday. The government had earlier put the death toll at 56 in the disaster, which occurred on Monday when a torrent of
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      Lock icon Infants rushed to hospital
      308 18 AGENCIES FAKE MILK POWDER 14 babies suffering from kidney stones in north-west China BEIJING Fourteen babies have been taken to hospital in China suffering kidney stones and being unable to urinate after drinking a cut-price milk powder. The infants, all aged below 11 months, shared symptoms
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      Lock icon Atom-smasher passes Test No 1
      278 23 AFP HISTORIC DAY In time, the collider will replicate vßig Bang conditions GENEVA Particle physicists were jubilant yesterday after the long-awaited startup of a megamachine designed to expose secrets of the cosmos passed its first test with flying colours. Cheers, applause and the pop of
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      Lock icon Japan PM race kicks off
      251 23 AGENCIES TOKYO A crowded race to be Japan's next prime minister kicked off yesterday, with candidates vowing to support the USled "war on terror" but clashing on the troubled economy. Five lawmakers are vying to succeed Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who abruptly quit last week
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      Lock icon IMPACT OF AN OBAMA DEFEAT
      824 24  -  JONATHAN FREEDLAND THE GUARDIAN WORLD COMMENT A US that disdains Obama for his global support risks turning anti-Bush feeling into something far worse THE feeling is familiar. I had it four years ago and four years before that: A sinking feeling in the stomach. It's
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      Lock icon Palm charges for 'nights at home'
      189 24 NEW YORK Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palm billed US taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first year-and-a-half in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended for expenses incurred while travelling on state business. The Alaska Governor also charged the
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      Lock icon 'Lipstick on a pig'
      259 24 AFP NORFOLK (Virginia) Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama hurled an addic attack at his Republican rivals on Tuesday, likening their promise of change to putting "lipstick on a pig". "We've been talking about change when we were up in the polls and when we were down
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      Lock icon Now rats' turn to devastate Myanmar
      184 26 GUARDIAN NEWS SERVICE CHIN STATE (Myanmar) Deep in the jungles of western Myanmar, an unconventional war wages on. Villager Mgun Ling and his village use traps as their weapon. Their enemy: Rats. Said Mgun Ling: "We can catch hundreds of rats a night, but
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      Lock icon New appeal to oust junta
      318 26 AGENCIES MYANMAR POLITICS Winners of the lggo elections now seek representation in United Nations UNITED NATIONS The winners of Myanmar's 1990 elections are asking United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to have their representatives replace those of the current military junta at the international body.
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      Lock icon Why the rise in fees?
      321 28  -  Alan Tan CHILDCARECENTRES Letter from MY WIFE and I send our two toddlers to a childcare centre as my wife has returned to work after two years. We are glad that the Government is placing great emphasis on the quality, affordability and accessibility of centre-based
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      Never take racial stability for granted
      266 28  -  Ananda Perera Letter from I REFER to "Old threats and new" (Sept 9). The key message of the Prime Minister's thought-provoking speech at the closed-door ISD 60th Anniversary dinner on Aug 30 is simple: Security threats seem far detached from the seemingly peaceful city
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      179 30  -  DR BILL MAIER ....BY FIVE AS OF ACCEPTING BLAME Have your children learnt to take responsibility for their actions? Better yet, have you learnt it? It's amazing how often we blame others for the things that happen to us. And it's not just a problem with
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      POINT OF VIEW
      42 30  -  LekChun Liang Something has to be done about the Arctic-like temperature settings in some buses. If some fuel can be saved in this aspect, then maybe bus fares need not be adjusted. A little difference goes a long way.
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      Lock icon 'A lawyer does not act on his accord'
      472 30  -  Michael Hwang, SC CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS It would be a question of fact for the court to determine whether a case is Ynalicious or vexatious' Letter from President, The Law Society of Singapore THE LAW Society refers to the letter "Don't take on
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      'All a commuter wants is to sit5
      238 30  - 'All a commuter wants is to sit 5 Andy Soon Letter from I REFER to "400 new buses for SBS" (Sept 9). Granted, new buses have better air-conditioning and are more spacious. But all a commuter wants is to be able to just get a seat on a bus, have
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      5 28 HAVE YOUR SAY. news@ newstoday.com.sg
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        469 34  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH THEVERVE How the English rock band managed to get back together... again christophertoh@mediacorp. com.sg BACK in 1997, a band from Wigan, the most unlikely of rock 'n' roll venues in England, managed to top the charts with a simple repetitive ditty called Bitter Sweet Symphony. But
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        281 34 The Verve are just the latest in a line of artistes who have set aside their squabbles to get back for the greater good: Raking in the big bucks! Here are our favourite reunions that worked. THE EAGLES The most highly
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        156 36  -  "MAYO MARTIN WHILE a non-ironic getai show was taking place on the main stage, a man was taking a bath on the sidelines. That's how the Singapore Biennale 2008 was launched on Tuesday night at South Beach Development, one of the three main sites. The mega-contemporary art
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        770 36 THEVERVE INTERVIEW So how did the band get back together? Nick McCabe: It kind of came via Pete, really. I mean, we've always remained friends. I think that Richard might have got wind of Pete being in discussion with me about various things and I got the call
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          233 38 FOLKLORE AND SUPERSTITION BLACK STONE CHERRY What has the bombast of '80s big rock bands like Guns 'N' Roses and Def Leppard, but also has the down-home sound of southern rockers like Lynyrd Skynyrd or Allman Brothers? Why, Black Stone Cherry, of course. Purportedly
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          80 38 Only in blues music can you sing lines like "I'm itchin' and I don't where to scratch Come here, baby, and scratch my back", and still make it sound like the most natural thing in the world. Taj Mahal (the bluesman, not the Indian mausoleum) doesn't mince
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          78 38 The ex-lead singer of Suede has embarked on what's probably his most ambitious project to date. Shorn of the rigidity of band work, this album breathes with a spatial intent not heard since Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor. And within this sparseness, Brett Anderson's vocals wafts
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          77 38 Some people think they sound like a woodchopping machine. But hey, many wood-chop-ping machines don't sound anywhere as good as nu-metal Slipknot, who've come up with what's possibly their tightest album to date. Right from the get go, with tracks like Psychosocial, Vendetta and Gehenna,
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          81 38 He's been tipped to be the next best thing in the UK music scene, and Natty may have some pretensions of being the next Bob Marley his name is taken from Marley's album Natty Dread but this album's reggae styling is tempered with familiar acoustic pop,
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        466 40  -  MAYO MARTIN CONTEMPORARY DANCE Dance scene greets a new group and a comeback this week mayo@mediacorp.com. sg TWO different contemporary dance shows open today. One sees the debut of a new group and the other, the return of a veteran choreographer. Running until Saturday
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    633 41  -  ANNETTE TAN The Caesar Salad is a real treat, especially when it's served with Fair Price's Chicken Popcorn f ood@newstoday.com.sg THE robust Caesar Salad is a favourite among many Singaporeans. It's probably because it is particularly flavourful, with a dressing spiked with anchovies, garlic and
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      1107 42  -  JENNIFER CHEN GUIDEBOOKS S #pore edition launches travel guides in Asia jennifer@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE chef Sam Leong got a writeup in the Michelin guide launched in Singapore last Friday. Before debate rages at dining tables on the worthiness of his inclusion in the reputed bible
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      137 43 PLAN FOR A FREE STARWOOD STAY It's time to rack up those stays in Starwood hotels. The hotel company has teamed up with Mastercard again this year to offer guests a free weekend (consecutive Friday and Saturday) stay if they check into Starwood properties on three occasions from
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      154 44 Five ways to see the Outback in a new light Four-day, 3-night Darwin land tours are available from A 5366 ($450). Contact a travel agent for more details. For more information on Australia's Outback, Northern Territory, visit www.australiasoutback.com See crocodiles up close at the Crocodylus Park and Crocrosaurus
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      624 44  -  JOSEPHYADAO GADGETS BA, Qantas launch iPhone applications for travellers. Now for the fun part... joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg AIR travellers can gain access to flight information such as airfares and departure and arrival times with their 3G iPhones. British Airways recently launched an application for the iPhone that allows customers
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      219 44 SHERMAINEWONG CHAN Brothers Travel will offer unprecedented holiday specials at its Greatest Hits travel fair on Sunday. Make a beeline for this one-day only event to plan for the year-end or Chinese New Year getaway. There are educational tours as well as celebrity-led
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      545 45  -  JENNIFER CHEN TELEVISION For Life's A Trip host Andrew Anthony, curiosity pays in 18 different ways THINK Globe Trekker's lan Wright has a dream job? The eponymous host of travel programme Life's A Trip with Andrew Anthony has done one better. Anthony's work?
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      385 48 AFP BEIJING If Australia's wheelchair basketballers roll to a medal at the 13th Paralympic Games, Brad Ness won't have much time to celebrate. Barely a week after the Beijing Games end, Ness is due back with his pro team in Europe, where growing
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      861 48  -  LEONARDTHOMAS SPORTS MATTERS sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg Singapore's No 1 sport has a chance to end a stunning year the best way possible WE COULD be in for possibly the best finish in the 13-year history of the S-League this season. For the first time,
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      633 49  -  LOW LIN FHOONG 13TH PARALYMPIC GAMES One bronze in the bag, equestrian ace could taste more glory today linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg FEW had heard of Laurentia Tan until her exploits at the 13th Paralympic Games in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Tan became the toast of Team
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      422 49  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg On Feb 11, 2006, Jalan Besar Stadium reopened for play with a spanking new $800,000 onestar grade artificially-turfed pitch funded by the Fifa Goal Project programme. This December, the stadium will close once again for another Fifa-funded makeover. When the facility
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      465 50  -  fsef fsefsdf No trophy this time, but Tampines bank on Thai coach to get it right in 2009 NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Tampines Rovers v Balestier Khalsa Tampines Stadium, j.^spm sports@newstoday.com.sg lirst time i/orawan nich took of TampRovers in 1, the club c entered final
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      304 50  -  THEY are rooted to the foot of the table in the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 standings, but Balestier Khalsa did state before the season kicked off that this year was all about developing their young talent as part of a two-year plan
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      498 52 GET SET FOR FIREWORKS United's Berbatov insists he shuns the bright lights, as he prepares for his big debut MANCHESTER He will almost certainly make his debut for his new club in one of the most explosive match-ups in club football there is, but Manchester United's
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      586 52 MEWYORKTIMES NEW YORK After more than three years away from professional cycling, Lance Armstrong the cancer survivor and seventime Tour de France winner announced Tuesday that he would emerge from retirement and climb back onto his bike. In an emailed
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