Today, 13 June 2011, Afternoon Edition

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  • 20 1 AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE *****268 Monday June 13, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 577 1 Global economy could be in for a hammering, warns Prof Roubini BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE A “perfect storm” of fiscal woe in the United States, a slowdown in China, European debt restructuring and stagnation in Japan may converge on the global economy, New York
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    • 161 1 IN YOUR T SECTION COMMENT&ANALYSIS WHO WILL LOOK AFTER OUR ELDERLY? 3 BEFORE THE EXPECTATIONS BUBBLE BURSTS 14 THE THAI PEOPLE WANT NORMALCY 16 WHEN WILL CHINA OVERTAKE AMERICA? 18 DYING TO TELL THE STORY 20 ROOTING OUT RESUME LIES 21 IS YOUR WORLD SAFE IN APPLE’S iCLOUD? 35 CANADIAN
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 447 2 REUTERS BEIJING China’s inflation rate may accelerate to more than 6 per cent year-on-year in June, which could bring the full-year consumer price index for this year to as high as 5 per cent, a government researcher said in remarks reported yesterday.
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    • 805 3  -  The challenge is getting locals to fill jobs in the long-term care sector, to reduce reliance on foreigners COMMENTARY THERESE LEUNG, SUMYTRA MENON Therese Leung is an associate fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs and a senior research fellow at the Centre
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    • 521 4  -  ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY S RAMESH REUTERS JAKARTA With interest rates near zero in many advanced economies and the world “awash” in liquidity, emerging markets have been at the receiving end of heavy capital flows, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said
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    • 466 4 REUTERS JAKARTA G20 member Indonesia threw its backing behind France’s Christine Lagarde for the head of the IMF on Sunday, marking her first public endorsement from a major emerging market and padding her lead in a three-way race. Indonesia has previously been noncommittal on
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    • 382 6 AP WELLINGTON Thousands of passengers in Australia and New Zealand were affected when airlines suspended flights yesterday as an ash cloud from an erupting volcano in southern Chile spread, threatening to damage engines. Australia’s national carrier, Qantas Airways, said all the airline’s flights in
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    • 306 6 AGENCIES TAIPEI Taiwan is planning to beef up its presence on the disputed Spratly Islands with missile boats and tanks, a military spokesman said yesterday. The islands in the South China Sea, which may lie on top of large undiscovered oil reserves, have
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    • 274 6 BLOOMBERG TAIPEI GlaxoSmithKline, the United Kingdom’s biggest drugmaker, was ordered to recall two antibiotic products by Taiwan authorities, following a similar demand by the Hong Kong government, after an industrial plasticiser was found in samples of the medicines used to treat bacterial infections.
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    • 747 8  -  TEO XUANWEI xu anwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE To realise the Government’s commitment to ramp up the supply of flats over the next few years, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) is looking to woo more contractors to bid for public housing projects. Construction
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    • 574 10 Strauss-Kahn trial gives maids a chance to speak THE OBSERVER NEW YORK Ms Lourdes Colon-Santos knew she was in trouble when the guest asked to stay in the room while she was cleaning it. As she emptied the bin in the bathroom,
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    • 310 10 THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund (IMF), still struggling to find a new leader after the arrest of its managing director last month in New York, was hit recently by what computer experts describe as a large and sophisticated
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    • 522 12 THE BANGKOK POST BANGKOK Prime Minister and Democrat Party leader Mr Abhisit Vejjajiva admitted on Saturday that his Democrat Party has fallen behind its main rival, the Puea Thai Party, but he insisted that it is going to be a close fight
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS ANALYSIS
    • 1115 14  -  We need to return housing policy to the fundamentals of home ownership and affordability EUGENE K BTAN Eugene K B Tan is assistant professor of law at the School of Law, Singapore Management University. In a flurry of announcements since he assumed office on May
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    • 1156 16  -  ANSLEY NG ansleyn@mediacorp.com.sg With the Thai election on July 3 approaching, it promises to be a close fight between Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s Democrat Party and the opposition Puea Thai Party led by Yingluck Shinawatra, Thaksin’s sister. In Singapore recently, the Thai government spokesman, Dr
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    • 862 18  -  In 2014, 2016 or has it already done so? The answer lies somewhere in its citizens’ purchasing power YAO YANG Yao Yang is the director of the China Center for Economic Reform at Peking University. Is China poised to surpass the United States to become
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    • 1093 20  -  Syed Saleem Shahzad is the fifth Pakistani reporter to die this year, in a land where they are shot like stray dogs UMAR CHEEMA Umar Cheema is an investigative reporter at The News International, Pakistan’s largest English-language daily. He was a Daniel Pearl Fellow at
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    • 641 21  -  VIVIEN KG LIM, RASHIMAH RAJAH Vivien Lim is associate professor and deputy head, department of management and organisation, NUS Business School. This research project was in collaboration with Rashimah Rajah, a PhD student at the department. With exams over, it is that time of the year
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    • 97 14 The eggs in our basket always come with Zl doubt Eggs trying to make the grade at McDonald’s" are always in for a tough time. For instance, we were the first to insist that our suppliers wash, sanitise and oil the eggs to ensure they stay fresh. They’re also inspected
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  • VOICES
    • 214 22  -  Letter from Tan Tan Seng Wei I AM writing to highlight the unfair dis-tance-fare charged when travelling by bus between the Johor Bahru checkpoint and Woodlands checkpoint. Since the end of November last year, the road between the checkpoints has been “straightened”.
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    • 291 23  -  Letter from Jennie Lee Hin Ming PUBLIC graciousness has improved slightly since the SMRT took great pains to publicise the use of the reserved seats on its trains. Nowadays, if you enter a compartment you can see that most people except for a few
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    • 186 23  -  Letter from Quek Soo Beng THE powers of an Elected President are enshrined in the Constitution and any serious prospective candidate ought to know the extent of those powers and accept them. The presidency is Singapore’s face to the world. It should not
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    • 90 23  -  LETTER FROM CHIN KEE THOU I applaud the Public Utilities Board’s (PUB) move to include a children’s playground, still under construction, at the MacRitchie Reservoir Park under the second phase of the makeover programme. However it is situated at the most unfortunate location beside the
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    • 73 23  -  LETTER FROM DAVID DAVID KWOK NG KAN Many use the overhead bridge (No *****) outside Blk 265, Boon Lay Drive, every day. It has more than 50 steps with a steep ascent and descent, and the nearest pedestrian crossing is more than 500m
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 248 24  -  STELLA LEE SINGAPORE With cotton prices nearly doubling in the last 12 months, consumers might have to contend with more expensive garments, according to commodities experts. Retailers could also use more polyester as a cheaper production substitute, they added. Between May last year
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    • 395 24  -  Punggol South residents take part in first water distribution exercise TAN WEIZHEN tanweizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Sometime in the ’60s, the sight of a parched MacRitchie Reservoir after a drought what was left was just mud and cracked earth shocked a very young Mr Teo Chee
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    • 181 25  -  QIUYI TAN tanqiuyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE SIM University (UniSIM) and Business China are offering five new scholarships to help nurture young Singaporeans who can be bilingual and bi-cultural professionals. The scholarships—which will be awarded to five recipients for a start are for Chinese-related degree
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    • 105 25 The National Vertical Marathon, which is into its 17th year, saw a record-breaking number of participants this year with 2,631 taking part almost 560 participants more than last year. The Men’s Open category saw Melvin Wong, 28, finishing first in a time of 9.35sec. The competition,
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    • 241 25  -  LIANG KAIXIN SINGAPORE The Singapore Vehicle Traders Association (SVTA) is urging the Government to scrap the 2-per-cent transfer fee for used cars. Describing the rule as outdated given the high prices of cars now the association wants a review to be carried
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    • 122 25 The police have arrested a 37-year-old man who is believed to have outraged the modesty of an 11-year-old boy at a stairwell at Tiong Bahru shopping mall. In a statement, the police said officers saw the pair entering the stairwell
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  • WORLD
    • 134 26 REUTERS China said yesterday it will start allowing its citizens to visit Taiwan as individual tourists from late this month, relaxing rules that tether mainland tourists to tightly-run groups and wooing the island with an economic boost. The trial start of
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    • 134 26 AP Police said yesterday that 25 people in southern China were arrested after a clash between street vendors and security forces, the second such recent incident highlighting government difficulties controlling widening social unrest. The arrests were made following a dispute between a
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    • 403 26 REUTERS HANOI Vietnamese authorities tolerated a second day of anti-China protests in the capital yesterday as more than 100 people demonstrated against what they see as bullying behaviour by Beijing in an escalating row over maritime territory. In a park in front of
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    • 116 26 Microsoft founder and philanthropist Mr Bill Gates was in China on Saturday to raise awareness of the dangers of secondhand smoke in the country with the world’s largest smoking population. Mr Gates is partnering Mr Robin Li, chief executive of Baidu, which operates China’s most popular
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    • 167 27 AP A poor Filipino blacksmith’s son who stands less than 60cm tall was declared the world’s shortest man by Guinness World Records on his 18th birthday yesterday, sparking a celebration in his hometown. The title was bestowed on Mr Junrey Balawing in
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    • 212 27 AP BEIJING More than 600 people, including 103 children, have fallen ill in China’s latest case of mass lead poisoning, state media reported yesterday. China has suffered widespread problems in recent years from heavy metal contamination, with thousands of children affected by lead poisoning
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    • 230 27 AP KAWIT (Philippines) President Benigno Aquino III said yesterday that his government has stopped several graft-tainted projects and cut bureaucratic perks, allowing it to raise extra money to feed the poor, equip troops and improve the country’s image among investors. But Mr Aquino acknowledged in
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    • 228 28 AP KUALA LUMPUR Thousands of Malaysians joined an online protest yesterday against a government effort to block access to 10 popular websites often used to download movies, television shows and music illegally. It is the biggest move to curb Internet entertainment piracy in
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    • 140 28 AGENCIES MCA Public Services and Complaints Department chief Mr Michael Chong has warned that the increase of sleazy massage parlours operating in residential areas in Selangor is threatening to destroy families. Mr Chong said he has received
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    • 216 28 AP PESHAWAR (Pakistan) Two explosions went off minutes apart in the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing 34 people and injuring more than 100, officials said. The blasts, one of which was caused by a suicide bomber, occurred just after midnight on
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    • 132 29 AP The authorities in Bangladesh jailed dozens of protesters yesterday as the opposition staged a second nationwide general strike this month against government moves to amend the Constitution. At least 50 protesters were sentenced to up to a month in jail in one-day trials for
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    • 333 29 AGENCIES MOGADISHU Fazul Abdullah Mohammed (picture), Al Qaeda’s leader in East Africa and the mastermind of the American Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed in a late-night shootout at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, Somali and American officials
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    • 126 29 AP Four assailants gunned down a well-known investigative journalist late on Saturday and then escaped on motorcycles in the Indian commercial capital of Mumbai, police said. Mr Jay Dey was known for his reporting on Mumbai’s underworld and had worked as investigative editor for
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    • 129 29 AP Syrian troops yesterday regained control of a restive northwestern town where residents say groups of police and soldiers joined the revolt against the regime. An AP reporter says the army is in full control of Jisr al-Shughour. Syria’s state news
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    • 722 30 THE NEW YORK TIMES RIYADH You know you are attending a Saudi Arabian comedy night when the sprawling performance tent is pitched 80km out into the desert to avoid the morals police and, astonishingly, the ushers are women, even if they remain shrouded
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    • 299 30 AP SAN FRANCISCO Having survived the first and worst years of the AIDS epidemic, when he was losing three friends to the disease in a day and undergoing every primitive, toxic treatment that then existed, San Francisco travel agent Peter Greene is
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    • 376 31 THE NEW YORK TIMES MIAMI On the first tee, former United States President Lyndon Johnson often warned his golfing partners: “One lesson you’d better learn if you want to be in politics is you never get out on a golf course and
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    • 209 31 AGENCIES The emails of Ms Palin more than 24,000 pages of them released on Friday by the state of Alaska from herfirsttwo years as Governor paint a picture of an image-conscious, driven leader, involved with the day-to-day duties of running the state and
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    • 162 31 AGENCIES Defying forceful demands for his resignation, United States congressman Anthony Weiner, a Democrat, said on Saturday that he was entering a psychological treatment centre and seeking a leave of absence from the House of Representatives to deal
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    • 579 31 Advertising Feature WATER FOR CITIES Towards Sustainable Solutions According to the United Nations, the world's population will reach around 9 billion by the year 2050. This growing global population, rapid urbanisation and emerging economies will place even more strain on precious resources such as water. For cities worldwide, integrating water
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  • BUSINESS
    • 373 32 REUTERS HONG KONG Italian fashion house Prada, which is seeking to raise up to US$2.6 billion (S$3.2 billion) through a Hong Kong IPO, has generated five times demand for its offer, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters yesterday. The
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    • 332 33  -  STELLA LEE stellalee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic has overtaken Hong Kong’s gross domestic product (GDP) for the first quarter of this year as the emphasis on the manufacturing sector continues to sustain growth. Based on data compiled by Bloomberg, Singapore’s real GDP for the first quarter of
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    • 250 33 Listed printing services firm Xpress Holdings said its net profit for the third quarter ending April 30 fell 33.9 per cent on-year to S$1.09 million from S$1.65 million in the same period last year. According to its
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    • 203 33  -  STELLA LEE Local construction players may have more Housing and Development Board (HDB) contracts to bid for if the income ceiling for first-time buyers for flats were lifted, according to analysts. Mr Liu Jinshu, an investment analyst with SIAS Research, said
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    • 175 34 REUTERS A number of Wall Street’s biggest banks are preparing to lower their use of United States Treasuries in August, the FinancialTimes reported yesterday. The decision comes as a precaution against any turbulence that could follow if conflicting
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (JUNE 6 TO 10)
      • 55 34 FRIDAY 11,951.90 (-1.42%) THE WEEK THAT WAS The Dow and S&P 500 closed out their sixth week of losses on further signs of a global economic slowdown. The Dow closed below 12,000 for the first time since mid-March. Thursday 12,124.40 p 0.63% Wednesday 12,048.90 q 0.18% Tuesday 12,070.81 q
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      • 9 34 NASDAQ 2,643.73 (-1.53%) È S&P500 1,270.98 (-1.40%) È
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      • 14 34 È FTSE100 5,765.80 H DAX È È DAX 7,069.90 (-1.90%) CAC40 3,805.09 (-1.90%)
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      • 5 34 È OIL US$98.83 (-US$0.46)
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      • 9 34 US$1 s$1.237 US$1 £0.616 US$1 €0.698 US$1 ¥80.362
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      • STOCK CALLS
        • 34 34 Buy S$1.55 Yangzijiang Shipbuilding pares gains in a falling market (STI down 0.6 per cent), but the counter remains up 1.3 per cent at S$1.55, after its S$700 million contract win from Seaspan.
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        • 51 34 Neutral S$1.64 CIMB upgrades Indofood Agri Resources to Neutral from Underperform, and lowers its target by 2 per cent to S$1.90. The house notes Indofood Agri’s 72-per-cent-owned PT Salim Invomas Pratama (PT SIMP) gained 14 per cent on Thursday to 1,250 rupiah per share on its trading
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  • DIGITAL
    • 1033 35  -  COMMENTARY ADRIAN HON Adrian Hon is the founder and chief creative at Six to Start, an online games company. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Once upon a time, a computer was a grey box with a bulky monitor that sat in your office. We accessed
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  • SPORTS
    • 567 36  -  Women’s doubles pair have had a barren run since last year’s win on home soil LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg BADMINTON 2011 Li-Ning Singapore Open SINGAPORE Riding on a wave of loud home support at the Singapore Indoor Stadium last year, women’s doubles pair
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    • 500 37 Turkish FA angry, as Dutchman plays down Chelsea link and pours cold water on Sneijder talk AGENCIES LONDON There is not a day that goes by without Guus Hiddink (picture) being linked to Chelsea. Many in England are almost certain Chelsea’s billionaire owner Roman
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    • 350 37 AGENCIES LONDON Manchester United are confident they will complete the £16.5 million (S$33.13 million) signing of Phil Jones by today, despite an audacious last-ditch attempt by Liverpool to hijack the move. Blackburn’s Jones was due to play for the England Under-21s against Spain
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    • 147 37 SINGAPORE Japan’s Daigo Saito of Team Spark Motorsports ruled the track yesterday at the VIP Formula Drift Singapore 2011 Presented by Achilles Radial, which was held at the Formula 1 Pit Building. There was double joy for the team, as Saito and the United States’
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    • 302 38 AGENCIES LONDON Arsenal’s second largest shareholder Alisher Usmanov has blamed the Gunners board for the club’s recent failures. The Russian billionaire is far from happy that the Emirates Stadium outfit have gone six years without winning any silverware. In an interview
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    • 339 38 AP FIFA have weighed in on Concacaf’s ongoing power struggle, declaring Alfredo Hawit the rightful acting president of football’s governing body for North and Central America and the Caribbean. FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke has told Hawit, Concacaf’s 40 member federations and their executive committee that football’s
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    • 146 39 REUTERS A late Danny Welbeck equaliser gave England a share of the points in their opening Group B qualifying clash against Spain at the European under-21 soccer championship last night. Spain had taken the lead with an Ander Herrera header in the 14th minute,
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    • 187 39 AP Mike Tyson broke down in tears and cut short his speech while Sylvester Stallone proclaimed “Yo, Adrian, I did it!” as the two stars from different fields were inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame yesterday. Mexican champ Julio Cesar Chavez, Russian-born junior welterweight KostyaTszyu,
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    • 141 39 THE GUARDIAN Alex McLeish resigned as Birmingham City manager yesterday, fuelling speculation that he is on the verge of making a controversial cross-city move by taking over at Aston Villa. Birmingham’s acting chairman, Peter Pannu, received an email from McLeish in which the manager informed him
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