Today, 4 October 2008

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  • 10 1 weekencflbD4Y October 4 5, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 244 1 BLOOMBERG 1.30 AM LATEST WASHINGTON, DC The United States passed a US$7OO-bil-lion ($1 -trillion) rescue plan designed to unlock credit markets, reversing a rejection that sent global stock markets plunging and threatened to worsen an economic slowdown. The legislation, a bipartisan effort to restore confidence in
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  • 813 1  -  LINYANQIN SERANGOON GARDENS New road other measures to address residents' worries yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg SERANGOON Gardens' grassroots group adviser Lim Hwee Hua probably summed it up, when she told Today: "I don't expect any of my residents to tell me they are happy, but I think
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  • 139 1 IT COULD have, according to Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Homer. The Formula 1 team's Mark Webber retired after 30 laps at about the halfway point of last Sunday's inaugural 2008 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix. At Turn 13, the
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  • NEWS
    • 237 2  -  LINYANQIN By the end of this month, more sites could be added to the list of locations suitable for use as temporary foreign workers' dormitories, when technical studies and consultations with grassroots leaders are completed. National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan declined to reveal where
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    • 850 3  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE XTRA INDIA FEVER Singapore's 'India quotient' can take root only if it moves out of things cultural AN EVER-INCREASING accommodation of "things Indian" has been one of the more subtle changes in Singapore in the seven years that I have lived here. It isn't
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    • 410 4 AGENCIES FINANCIALCRISIS AIA #s parent company seeks to raise cash to repay loan AMERICAN International Group, the United States-based parent of AIA Singapore, said it planned to sell its life insurance operations in the US, Europe, Latin America, South Asia and Japan to raise
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    • 452 4  -  JESSICA YEO PAWS AT THE BEACH This Sunday, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) will commemorate World Animal Day (WAD) at East Coast Park. "Paws the Beach", from 10.30pm to 6pm near McDonald's, will involve appearances by SPCA animals, and
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 165 4  -  TEOXUANWEI One day before the anniversary of the 911 attacks, he sent an email to Delta Airlines, warning the American carrier that a bomb would be planted on one of its flights. Signing off as "Mr Islamic Jihad", Mr Josemaria Miguel Ye Yong Qiang
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      • 102 4  -  TEOXUANWEI The Chinese national who allegedly stabbed his colleague and flatmate to death on Sept 4 was on Friday ordered to be detained for further investigations. Mr Luo Faming, 35, was charged with the murder of his fellow countryman, MrGuo Hui Long, 28, in
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    • 369 6  -  TEOXUANWEI HE FLEW here from Shenyang, China, because he wanted to have a good look at the man said to have been responsible for the brutal attack which left his daughter in an intensive care unit for five days. And
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    • 635 6  -  JESSICA YEO GOOD PATIENT AWARD jessica@mediacorp.com. sg SHE was bedridden for nearly two years. Now, 10 years after being admitted to Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) for brain injury, Ms Anisah Ahman is still a regular face there, but this time as a volunteer at its
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    • 1831 8  -  NICHOLAS FANG XTRA TAO LI INTERVIEW Getting to know this young athlete away from the swimming pool Nicholas fang@mediacorp.com.sg SWIMMING is different to a lot of sports, in that most of the action takes place out of sight. The hundreds of training hours and thousands of
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    • 482 12  -  ONG DAI LIN URA ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE AWARD dailin@mediacorp.com.sg MANY Singaporeans may remember taking their wedding photos at the Look-out Tower at the Toa Payoh Town Park in the past. Today, the memories will live on not only in picture albums but through the efforts of
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    • 291 12 WHEN he first saw the black-and-white bungalow in 2005, he had a shock. The doors and windows were missing, and the wood was badly infested by termites. But Mr Khoo still decided to buy the house, No 14 Cable Road, because he felt that it had character.
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    • 289 12  -  ONGDAI LIN TWO of the 2008 URA Architectural Heritage Awards are bagged by architects from Ong Ong, for their work designing The Screening Room and a Cairnhill Road bungalow. The company has previously won four URA Architectural Heritage Awards, but this is the first time that architects
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    • 165 12  -  ONG DAI LIN FOR 26-year-old Ms Yellowrose Gu, the bandstand in the Singapore Botanic Gardens (picture) holds memories of one of the most important days in her life. She took her wedding photos there last year in May. "There were a few locations... but
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    • 486 14  -  TANHUI LENG MENTAL HEALTH Two centres help recovering young psychiatric patients re-adjust to society huileng@mediacorp.com.sg DIAGNOSED with psychosis at an early age, Anne (not her real name) attacked her mother and displayed so much violent behaviour that at times, the police had to be
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    • 261 14 A carnival and a movie for your mental health AN OUTDOOR carnival and movie screening are the highlights of World Mental Health Day this year, and the Health Promotion Board (HPB) is encouraging positive interpersonal relationships. Persons with these "are more likely to enjoy mental well-being", said Dr Koh Yang
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    • 410 14  -  ALICIA WONG alida@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN Dr Chee Soon Juan and several members of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) dropped by unexpectedly at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in August, the student press took out their notebooks and video recorders. However, the Nanyang Chronicle, NTU's
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  • WORLD
    • 928 16  -  LESLIE LAU XTRA MALAYSIAN POLITICS Teresa Kok's attempts to reach out to Malay Muslims has no doubt been a threat to Umno SHE has been villified as a Chinese chauvinist and portrayed as anti-Muslim. She was detained one week under the Internal Security Act (ISA)
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    • 315 19 AGENCIES NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Award could go to human rights fight in China, Russia OSLO This year's Nobel Peace Prize could go to a human rights activist in China or Russia to put the spotlight on the situation in those countries, experts suggested a week before
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    • 245 19 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian couple were beaten to death by family members in a bizarre ritual to cure them of a smoking habit and illnesses, reports said on Friday. A 15-year-old daughter of one of the four relatives who carried out
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    • 191 19 DPA,AFP BANGKOK Thai police on Friday arrested one of nine leaders of the protest movement that has occupied government headquarters for the past 39 days and detained him to face treason charges. Mr Chaiwat Sinsuwong, a leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) that
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    • 1084 24  -  BERNHARD PLATZDASCH XTRA INDONESIAN POLITICS Indonesia's political parties caught between Islamic commitment and a pluralist heritage NEWSPAPERS reported recently on the construction of a cathedral in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, noting that it took a 16-year lobbying effort by its supporters for the project to
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    • 339 25 AGENCIES TAINTED MILK SCANDAL Taiwan minister allegedly attacked over tainted milk TAIPEI Taiwan's Health Minister was hospitalised on Friday after he was allegedly attacked by opposition lawmakers angry over the government's response to the widening scandal over tainted Chinese milk products. Footage broadcast on several Taiwan
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    • 151 25 AFP PHNOM PENH At least three soldiers were injured when Cambodian and Thai troops exchanged gunfire on Friday at the countries' disputed border near an ancient temple. The governor of Thailand's Si Sa Ket border province said the incident, which lasted less than three minutes, left
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    • 252 25 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON A former Wall Street broker has swapped Manhattan for a monastery in Bulgaria to become an Orthodox monk. Mr Hristo Mishkov had a successful career as a broker on the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York until he decided to give
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    • 278 26 AGENCIES LONDON-Britain's ambassador to Washington described United States presidential candidate Barack Obama as intelligent but untested in a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The Daily Telegraph said that ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald sent a letter
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    • 858 26  - PALIN SURVIVES BARELY ADAM NAGOURNEY NEWS COMMENT In vice-presidential debate, Republican ticket passes one test GOVERNOR Sarah Palm made it through the vice-presidential debate on Thursday without doing any obvious damage to the Republican presidential ticket. By surviving her encounter with Senator Joseph R Bidenjrand quelling some of the talk
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    • 661 27 2009 ELECTION Its cadres, long out of power, should run for the top posts GOLKAR Party Chairman Jusuf Kalla's readiness to partner with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) once again in next year's presidential election has sparked debate. A number of party cadres have argued the
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  • Voices
    • 614 28  -  Eng Soh Seng PARKING AT HOLLAND VILLAGE Letter from Deputy Director (Car Parks) for Director (Housing Administration) Housing Development Board I REFER to "Let's leave well enough alone" (Sept 17) and other media reports regarding the parking situation at Holland Village (picture), specifically car park
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    • 77 28  -  Foo HeeYang Letter from I REFER to "NSF had left MC in cupboard" (Oct 4). Perhaps, it is time to implement a link between Government clinics and hospitals and Mindef so that whenever a National Serviceman has been given medical leave or is being hospitalised, the
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    • 125 28  -  James Hall Letter from I WAS eager to buy a ticket yesterday to see my fellow Aussie, Kylie Minogue in concert on Nov 25. I thought I'd be able to get a reasonable seat at a reasonable price, but was shocked to find out that
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    • 304 28  -  Goh Kian Huat Letter from I REFER to the report, "Forensics for food safety" (Oct 2). I applaud Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan's suggestion that a new forensics unit should be set up by the AgriFood and Veterinary Authority (AVA) to test
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    • 831 29  -  CONSTANCE SINGAM XTRA POPULATION NUMBERS As numbers keep changing, presence of foreigners raises questions about us as a community IMMIGRATION has become a source of concern for Singaporeans and may even become a politically-contentious issue. Formost of its history, Singapore was a land of migrants, most of
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  • business
    • 209 30  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg MOST Singapore parents are choosing OCBC as the home for their Baby Bonus accounts, the bank says. The government, which matches parents contributions to their children's CDAs (Children Development Accounts) dollar-for-dollar, in April gave them the choice of using OCBC
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    • WHAT THEY OFFER
      • 30 30 Interest rate: 1 per cent Convenience: Carry out transactions at more than 800 ATMs islandwide Perks: Discounts/offers at Abbott Nutrition, The Little SkoolHouse International, Mothercare and NTUC childcare co-op
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        35 30 Interest rate: 1 per cent Convenience: Carry out trans- actions at more than 150 ATMs islandwide Perks: $50-a-day hospitalisation cash benefit for hand foot and mouth disease; up to $50,000 accident insurance cover FAIZAL
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    • 442 30 AGENCIES ASIAN stock markets closed lower on Friday, taking the lead from the plunging United States markets, which were fearful that plans for a US$7OO-billion ($l-trillion) bailout might not prevent a recession in the US and an economic slump around the world.
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    • 449 30  -  KELVIN CHOW SGXCHIEF Shareholder asks that he stay on to steer exchange through tough times kelvinc@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) chief executive Hsieh Fu Hua (picture) has indicated he plans to step down, but said he would wait until a replacement is found. During its annual
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    • 275 31 ÜBS, the European bank hardest hit by the credit crisis, said it will cut 2,000 more jobs from its investment banking unit and reposition the division to reduce costs and improve efficiency. The reductions will bring job cuts at the unit to around
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    • 992 31  -  RICHARD HARTUNG XTRA FINANCIAL CRISIS How to survive a run on the bank news@newstoday.com .sg THE unthinkable seems to have become almost commonplace recently as increasing numbers of financial institutions faced a "run on the bank" where customers queue to take out their money when they
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    • 679 32  -  JUSTIN SANTIAGO XTRA ANWAR AND INVESTMENTS ANWAR Ibrahim thought he could take a swipe at the government at a forum in Hong Kong recently when he said that for the first time, Malaysian investment abroad had exceeded inward foreign investment in 2007. However, it is
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  • STYLE
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      972 35  -  SHERMAINE WONG BYE-BYE, BOUTIQUES You have till next May to shop at Stamford House before it gets refurbished shermainewong@mediacorp.com.sg I AM still nursing sore eardrums, thanks to the shrill screams of my fashionista friend who is also quite the drama queen. It all happened a few days ago
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    • 177 35  -  PEARLYN THAM EVEN tampons can be fashionable. Australian brand Millie More has designed Moxie hailed as "the first truly premium tampon brand" with tongue-in-cheek slogans such as "Have a beautiful day in hell!" and "I'm disturbed. Do not disturb me". The private contents come
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      694 36  -  PEARLYN THAM Renowned Japanese hairstylist releases book to celebrate 40 years in the business pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg SOMEONE once told Shunji Matsuo that he was a hairstylist to Kabuki actors in a previous life. It seems, then, that the Kobe native-turned-Singapore permanent resident is destined for a career in
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    • 391 36  -  PEARLYN THAM FROM what I see on the public transport, commuters here are an exhausted and sulky lot. Some doze off and miraculously jolt awake to alight at their destination. Others find comfort on the shoulders of irate strangers.
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  • MAKAN
    • 606 37  -  SHERMAINE WONG CYBER MARTS Online grocers are offering consumers greater convenience and personalised service, too ;hermainewong@mediacorp.com.sg YOU spot a slab of wagyu beef and decide it's perfect for dinner. Next, you decide to stock up on biscuits and cereal, and grab a bag of cat
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    • 629 38 2. YUMTRADE '-mi»-'$ vrww.yumtrade.com vrww.onlinegrocery.com.sg vrww.grocerystore.com.sg Buy: General provisions ranging from canned drinks, to sauces, to liquors and body care products such as facial foam cleansers and body creams. They do not carry any fresh produce currently. There is also a small selection
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      187 39  -  DON MENDOZA ITALIAN INCITEMENT Apparent in Fabbrica's revamped menu are the gallant pairings of seasonal Italian flavours donm@mediacorp.com.sg MUCH can be said about what makes a good Italian restaurant. But one thing's for sure: Its finger foods, or pre-appetisers, to be precise, should not be listed as tapas.
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      609 39 BY DEFINITION Certain traditional labelling of foods and preparation methods is getting evermore egalitarian with each passing generation.So here are the definitions of just a few common terms and appellations that you may have come across in your recent reads. Tapas: A Spanish term for an assortment of finger
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      349 39  -  AARON CHONG SHERMAINE WONG TEA TALK Considered the brew of royalty in ancient times, tea is now the second most popular beverage in the world after water. The Gryphon Tea Company has won the Gold Great Taste Awards this year for its Artisian Selection of Straits Chai. The awards
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      478 40  -  CHEN FEN CLUB ANTICS Staying true to its desire to bring diners the best it has to offer, this brazen restaurant unveils yet another welcome novelty news@foodtoday.com.sg ITS tingkat meals are its signature. Not the mess that the more plebeian order for dinner but tasty gourmet lunches delivered
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      358 40 WINE ON TAP Once the wines are fitted in the wine dispenser (from Italian manufacturer Enomatic) argon gas protects them from oxidation, helping them stay true to their taste, aroma, body and colour for up to three weeks. White wines are kept at 1 0 degrees C and red
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    • 747 41  -  Volkswagen tries to shut out the competition with its sixth-gen Golf COLIN YONG IN REYKJAVIK, ICELAND colin@mediacorp.com.sg THE attention to detail on Volkswagen's new Golf borders on the obsessive. Not just in easily noticeable things, such as the cute VW logos within the headlamps or the parking
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    • 559 52  -  MILTON TAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Protectors keep title hopes alive with a clinical win NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Home United 3 v Geylang United 1 sports@newstoday.com. sg DESPITE knowing the race for the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 is now no longer in their hands after
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    • 234 52  -  TANYO-HINN THE spat between national badminton star Ronald Susilo and ex-fiance, national table tennis star Li Jiawei, has been settled, according to a local media report on Friday. When contacted, Li's lawyer, Raymond Lye of Pacific Law Corporation, confirmed that a
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    • 496 53  - London Games 5 Ramadan clash concerns Malaysia LOW LIN FHOONG 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES Country calls for a change in Olympic schedule due to overlap with fasting month linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg BARELY two months after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, National Olympic Councils (NOCs) around the world are already muscling down for the
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    • 581 53  -  LOW LIN FHOONG EAT YOUR HEART OUT, FERNANDO ALONSO A passion for Formula 1 paid off for 50-year-old self-employed businessman Bernard Lav, who topped the Sing Tel Prediction Challenge with 1,483 points and won a replica of the 2008 Formula 1 Sing
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    • 508 54  -  TANYO-HINN SAILING Singapore Sailing prepares bid to host Youth World Sailing Championships yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE is considering a bid to host the Volvo International Sailing Federation (ISAF) Youth World Sailing Championship in 2012. The under-19 meet is the most important at youth level and one
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    • 308 54 AFP ALICANTE (Spain) Competitors in the Volvo Ocean Race, one of the greatest challenges in the world of sailing, are making final preparations before embarking on a gruelling journey of 37,000 nautical miles around the world. "I think
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    • 545 55 AFP CYCLING Bruyneel confident that Armstrong will be ready for next year's Tour de France PARIS Lance Armstrong's will to succeed is one "intangible" that his manager at Astana, Johan Bruyneel, will be counting on come next July when the Tour de France
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    • 570 56  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg A STATIC charge may have prematurely ended Mark Webber's hopes at last Sunday's inaugural 2008 Formula 1 Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix. Speaking to British-based Autosport magazine's website on Thursday, Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Homer suspects that an
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    • 626 56  -  SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ sports@newstoday.com.sg I HAVE a confession to make. Prior to Singapore's Formula 1 race last weekend, I had only seen the much hyped, state-of-the-art, super-sleek cars on television, and I thought they weren't that fast. I must have angered the racing gods
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    • 587 57 CRICKET Cricket powerhouses to resume fierce rivalry in next week's four-Test series Border-Gavaskar Trophy India vAustralia HYDERABAD (India) It's billed as the mother of all cricket battles, greater than the Ashes for many Australians and bigger than any Pakistan rivalry in the eyes of
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    • 388 57 MADRID Barcelona host title rivals Atletico Madrid this Saturday (Sunday morning, Singapore time) determined not to compound coach Pep Guardiola's already frayed nerves by leaving it late to secure victory. In their last three matches, Barca have scored winning goals in the final
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    • 647 58 AGENCIES EUROPEAN CLUB FOOTBALL Bayern striker laughs off allegations club were paid to throw last season's Uefa Cup semi-final MUNICH Bayern Munich striker Miroslav Klose on Thursday laughed off suggestions the German giants were bribed to lose last season's Uefa Cup semi-final to Zenit St Petersburg.
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    • 479 58 AFP ROME Serie A table toppers Lazio host lowly Lecce on Saturday (Sunday morning, Singapore time) with club president Claudio Lotito claiming his side are well on their way to a return to their glory years. Lazio have been in decline since the
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    • 642 59 AGENCIES ENGLISH FOOTBALL Pressure builds on Everton boss Moyes after Uefa Cup elimination English Premiership Everton v Newcastle Goodison Park, Sunday, 11pm LIVERPOOL It is a bit early to declare the death of Everton's season but it is no exaggeration to suggest that the most
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    • 430 59 The Looney Toon comedy continues AGENCIES NEWCASTLE Kevin Keegan is in talks with a South African consortium over a return to St James' Park, according to reports on Friday. Johnathan Cleland, the businessman heading the consortium, confirmed he has spoken to the manager. "My meeting with Kevin went very well,"
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    • 571 60  -  STEVE MCMAHON It's a shame referees are making headlines again, because the likes of Hull deserve to be hailed sports@newstoday.com.sg ROB Styles should not referee another Premier League game at least for this season. He made an unbelievable decision in Manchester United's clash
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    • 406 60 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Tottenham Hotspur have apparently sounded out Manchester City manager Mark Hughes about replacing embattled head coach Juande Ramos at White Hart Lane. According to a report in The Sun on Friday, ambitious Tottenham officials are working overtime to have Hughes in place
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    • 239 60 LONDON Wigan Athletic chairman Dave Whelan believes the Premier League need to take a stand against West Ham United, and has suggested the club be docked points. With the Carlos Tevez affair continuing to rumble on, Whelan remains firmly in Sheffield United's corner on the
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    • 651 61 AGENCIES ENGLISH FOOTBALL Arsenal boss relieved his side reacted positively to shock home defeat to Hull English Premiership Sunderland v Arsenal Stadium of Light, Saturday 10pm SUNDERLAND Arsene Wenger's stomach will have been settled by their 4-0 demolition of Porto in the Champions
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    • 345 61 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH English Premiership Chelsea v Aston Villa Stamford Bridge, Sunday 10pm LONDON Chelsea received a huge boost with the news that Didier Drogba (picture) is unlikely to need surgery on the medial knee ligament injury he sustained in Romania on Wednesday. The
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    • 696 62 THE GUARDIAN ENGLISH FOOTBALL Sky Blues' muscle on and off the pitch means Liverpool will take nothing for granted English Premiership Manchester City v Liverpool LIVERPOOL They have won the European Cup and 21 league titles, but PSV Eindhoven are not the most dangerous club Liverpool
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    • 626 63 ENGLISH FOOTBALL United boss Ferguson to give Blackburn a taste of the Berbatov-Tevez attack English Premiership Blackburn Rovers v Manchester United Ewood Park, Saturday 12.30 am BLACKBURN Alex Ferguson is set to give Carlos Tevez and Dimitar Berbatov another chance to prove they can form
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