The New Paper, 5 February 2001

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1 44 The New Paper
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Surprise, surprise... she will still get degree
      406 2  -  SINGAPORE GIRL CHEATED TWICE AT PERTH'S CURTIN UNIVERSITY... By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY FIRST, the girl from Singapore handed in an assignment that her tutor traced to an Internet website. That's plagiarism, the tutor told her. But the tutor decided to give
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      Lock icon Action hero 'duped' by ex-minister
      322 2 PLENTY of movie-style action is going on in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Saturday, noon: Sleuths from the White Collar Offences Wing of the City Crime Station swooped in on the residence of a former minister and whisked him away to court, reports rediff.com.
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      Lock icon ATTACK AT DAWN
      189 3 In the early hours of yesterday, four armed men attacked a police station in Kedah, Malaysia. But they were challenged by two policemen. Even though one of the policemen was shot in the cheek, he managed to shoot back. The men may have 0 been trying to
      Pictures and graphics/ New Straits Times, The Star, China Press and Nanyang Siang Pau  -  189 words
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      10 2 Leisure Showtime: Pages 18-23 Comics: Page 17 TV: Page 47
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      83 2 Vote for jMm valentine 1 Amantha 2 Priya 3 Petrina 4 Paul J& i 5 Ken Q Richard These are the finalists of The New Paper on Sunday's Mr and Miss Valentine contest. Call 1900-914 0801 now to vote for the winning couple. 12 lucky callers will each win a
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon The preferred passports
      361 4 SHE had been briefed on the questions immigration here was likely to ask. Armed with the Singapore International Passport bearing the name Ids Jenny Shih, Ziu Xiu Zhen walked confidently around Changi Airport last September. The 29-year-old was headed for New Zealand. But the Chinese national overlooked
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      Lock icon USUAL ROUTES
      49 4 THE major passport offenders hore usually try these routes: Bangladeshis: Dhaka/Colombo to Vancouver/London/ M Vnrlf mw Tin it Pakistanis: Karachi/Lahore/ Bangkok to Vancouver/London/ Los Angeles Sri Lankans: Colombo/Kuala Lumpur to VancouvorAjoudon/ Auckland Imtlanr Cbennal/Kuala Lumpur to Vancouver/ Auckland/London Chinese: Xiamen/Bangkok/ f Penang/Kuala Lumpur to Hoogkong/Tokyo/ Osaka/Lot Angeles
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      Lock icon Jetsetting illegals: The inside story
      1115 4  -  No country is spared the headache, including Singapore. The New Paper's crime team gives glimpse of how the shadow people operate BY Arul john WHILE millions fly off to holiday and business destinations, thousands are using the cover to dart illegally into countries. They show
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Lock icon The taxman's richer by $3.4 billion
      269 5 HOT STORY Revenue from taxes rose 24 per cent last year. About $17.6 billion was collected in the first 11 months of last year, up from $14.2 billion collected in the same period in 1999. The increase was because of the quick economic recovery
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      Lock icon Fresh tremors in Gujarat
      73 5 Picture This On Saturday, an aftershock measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale hit the quake-devastated Indian state of Gujarat. The picture shows survivors placing their hands in one of the cracks in the ground near the epicentre of the original quake which measured 7.9. Meanwhile, the
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        Lock icon More using it
        63 5 HANDPHONES BY 2005, nine out of 10 Singaporeans will own a handphone, says a survey. This compares with the average of about seven out of 10 Singaporeans having such phones now. As of December, Singapore had 2.4 million handphone subscribers, representing almost 75 per cent of the
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        Lock icon Ex-minister ill
        66 5 M WARDED U FORMER Cabinet and law minister E W Barker (left) had an emergency operation on Saturday morning. He is in a critical but stable condition, doctors say. Mr Barker developed a bad fever on Friday. It was known he had a colon condition that could be
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        Lock icon Tube strike
        57 5 I BRITAIN DRIVERS of the Underground London's MRT system are on a 24-hour strike. The strike began at 5.30pm yesterday (1.30 this morning here). Hundreds of thousands of London commuters will face travel chaos after dawn breaks there today. The drivers are on strike to protest against government
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        Lock icon $3.5b 'lost'
        51 5 INDONESIA STRIKES and unrest last year cost Indonesia an estimated US$2 billion ($3.5 billion). There were 250 strikes involving some 100,000 workers, affecting domestic and foreign companies. Japan's Sony Electronics moved some of its operations after technicians walked off. Recently, tourism was hit, with strikes at two five-star
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        Lock icon Ties with Berlin
        55 6 I DEFENCE SINGAPORE and Germany are looking at working together in the area of defence technology. Deputy Prime Minister. Tony Tan said it was hoped that an memorandum of understanding with Berlin would be signed by the middle of the year. He met with German defence minister
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        Lock icon Engine trouble
        71 6 I SIA I TWO Singapore Airlines flights had engine trouble. On Jan 20, Flight SQ 418 from Lahore to Singapore turned back because of a failure in the combine section of the No 4 engine, an SIA spokesman said. On Jan 19, Flight SQ 229 to Adelaide was
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        Lock icon PAP candidate?
        60 6 I ELECTION MR Heng Chee How {right), the NTUC deputy-secretary general could be the PAPs new man for Jalan Besar GRC. Minister for Manpower Lee Boon Yang, who is an MP for the GRC, yesterday named him as a likely candidate for the next election. Mr Heng, 39,
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        Lock icon Bomb attack
        59 6 I NEPAL U NEPAL'S Maoist rebels bombed and fired at a convoy carrying the country's Supreme Court chief justice on Saturday, the authorities said. Chief Justice Keshav Prasa Upadhyay escaped the attack 450km west of Kathmandu. But six people were killed. At least 1,600 people have been killed
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      50 5 New Straits Times: Four attack policemen International Herald Tribune: US intends to put anti-missile shield around the world Asian Wall Street Journal: Wahid refuses to step down BBC news: US Secretary of State Colin Powell spells out key points in US foreign policy in the Bush administration
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      Lock icon Banks, you want us to go online, but...
      126 6 in FOCUS ONLINE banking is inconvenient. That's according to a survey by The Business Times. The survey found that customers who move to this form of banking will be inconvenienced as many transactions are still not available online. But Singapore banks score
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      77 6 The Straits Times: No doubt US will stay committed to region The Business Times: Online banking in S'pore short on features: Survey Lianhe Zaobao: House Speaker urges Gus Dur to take public opinion seriously and step down Berita Harian: $68m for building and renovation of mosques RCS
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      Lock icon GOVT WILL TRY
      63 6 Quote We cannot solve each individual's problems. The Government must dealwith these issues on the national, macro level. For certain segments of the population who do face certain difficulties, the Government will see what it can do to help them as much as possible. Home Affairs Minister
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      Lock icon DEFEND MALAY PRIDE
      65 6 Malay wiity defeated the communists during the Emergency our Malay pride is once agaih being challenged. We will have to defend our pride with the kris (dagger) if necessary and we will take this rally from state to state. DatukKhalidYunus, Malaysia's Deputy Information Minister, at a rally
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      135 6 Call our news hotline. If your tip-off leads to a news report, you'll receive a home-delivered LARGE CURRY CHICKEN PIZZA! Vv c ~~-11 uii—ti < 9 Hfe ua pizza* the pizzs profession*!* I East Coast Seafood Centre I 01 Dec'oo to 28 Jan'ol I (rfTh& Lucky Draw I mmssmsk List
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    Lock icon Hey, there's a gas leak in front of my garden
    422 7  -  iffMMMIM By Lee Tee Jong HE knew it was only a matter of time before his nightmare came true. Gas tanks placed outside his Cambridge Road home had made him nervous. Yesterday, there was a loud pop followed by the
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      340 8 ayn In this increasingly Web-focused work environment, e-sawy IT professionals are edging ahead! The Advantages: fl v JKW' r s^^ > i Communicate your ideas effectively by •JSBf Microsoft sharing documents with your coworkers and 4V QjfjjiM IVi tie your documents together with hyperlinks VniiWdUM Vf= Create high quality Web
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    Lock icon Killer wife to hang
    488 9 SINGAPORETODA Y Murder and betrayal. Julaiha Begum (below), 52, masterminded the savage murder of retired Inspector T Maniam, 56. She killed her husband for his $1.15 million house. Greed. When she was found guilty by the High Court, she appealed for clemency. President S R Nathan
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Missing girl found in lake
      299 10 Source: Utusan Malaysia, NST. DEAD bodies cannot speak. But sometimes, they can tell a story. The clothes worn by a missing schoolgirl, for example, helped her father identify her decomposed body. Lai Chai Ling, 15, a student of Sekolah Taman Skudai Baru in Johor Baru,
      Source: Utusan Malaysia, NST.  -  299 words
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      Lock icon S'pore Rambo floored
      346 10  -  By Andre Yeo THE Hollywood Rambo was a lean, mean fighting machine who knew no fear. See Choong Siong, also known as Rambo, imagined himself just as macho. Trying to take on a group of men, See, in his late 20s, was stabbed several times. Once in
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon I killed our sons... OR DID I?
      568 12 Ex-hubby, convicted of killing sons, torments woman by saying one of the boys may still be alive IS he, or is he not, telling the truth? First, the killer took Ms Chantilly Harrell's two young children and now, he is teasing her with
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      Lock icon Religious about football
      56 12 nut I'm ui* A footbaH-mad nun has begun coaching her school team. Sister Josepha of St Vincent's Primary in Walker, Newcastle, has followed Newcastle United religiously all her life. She told The Sun: f I just love football. As a schoolgirl, I'd arrive early just so I
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      Lock icon Nothing to clown about here...
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      Lock icon Parasites are good for you...
      323 13 CLEANLINESS is bad for you. It will make you extinct. Controversial views from a professor who studies parasites, and says he is being treated as a parasite himself. Japanese parasitologist Koichiro Fujita, 61, says his "hygiene-obssessed" countrymen "will be extinct in the next 100 years",
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      Lock icon Another London teen stabbed
      138 13 A 17-YEAR-OLD girl is fighting for her leg on Thursday. The Btabbing is strikingly similar to the murder of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor, who bled to death from a knife wound in his leg last November in a stairwell on the North Peckham estate. The girl's main
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      Lock icon Expect a 'generous' budget
      542 14 MARKET WATCH THE budget this year might bring good news for Singaporeans. This is what Cabinet Ministers indicated yesterday. They said this year's Budget would be more "generous", reported The Business Times. In fact, Finance Minister Richard Hu went se far as to describe it as
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      Lock icon World fair was to small for Big Mac
      102 14 AFP. After all, that is twice the number that flock to the wAfWfi 1 ATniiflAmAnt worm o idfgeoi amusciuvut |Qpaii£ Disneyland Tokyo. However, for the organisers of Germany's Expo2ooo^woridfairin far below what &ey had visitors from around the world were expected* of
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      Lock icon 'You'll win... you're so handsome'
      617 15 FROM PHILIPPINES NATIONAL POLICE CHIEF TO SENATOR TO PRESIDENT? WHEN Director-General Panfilo Lacson entered the restaurant for his interview with the Philippine Daily Enquirer, the paper took time out to record his effect on the women there. "...the women saw him at once and squirmed
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      279 12 UK (Feb/Sep Intaka) Canada I Coventry University Nan/Mny/Auq llrtak?) I Middlesex University University of Winnipeg I M Oxford Brookes University IBT X M Thames Valley University Australia (Feb/Jul Intake) University of Central England Central Queensland University of Hertfordshire University I University of North London Curtin University of University of Nottingham
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      50 13 LUCKY DRAW RESULTS Draw held on 31 Jan 2001 Julius Chan Cum Five *****190Z Tay Gek Leng *****381 A Dione Choo *****771J Kevin Tan Tze Wee *****168H Julius Chan Cum Five *****190Z |Congratulations to all 5 winners of our "Fly to Hong Kong" draw. Winners will be notified by post.
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      104 14 Singapore Cancer Society Presents Public Symposium I Chairman: Professor Low Cheng Hock Chairman. Education Committee, Singapore Cancer Society Speakers 1. Is Cancer Preventable? Professor Robert 6urton Director of Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria. Australia 2. Is Cancer Curable?'' Professor Stener Kvinnsland President, Norwegian Cancer Society Secretary-General UICC The public symposium addresses
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    456 15  -  e T CETERA WITH HELVIN SINGH MELVIN SINGH GIVE me a woman any day. Now, before you go jumping to conclusions, let me clarify. I'm no Don Juan or Casanova, great lovers of the past. Still, I prefer the company of women to men and
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  • Showtime
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      Lock icon Mrs PCK — she's the boss
      1007 17  - Mrs PCK she's the boss By Yeoh Wee Teck IRENE Ang's mobile phone ring tone is the Mickey Mouse Club theme. Her TV alter ego, Rosie Phua, will probably have a Teresa Teng tune as her ring tone. Irene's bright yellow office walls are adorned with naughty posters (of the
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      Lock icon Hmmm... Isn't that Daniel with pink luggage and makeup bag?
      224 18 LOVEBIRDS Daniel Chan and Cecilia Cheung spent their Chinese New Year holiday in Japan. They deliberately made it known to the press in advance that they would be overseas. Probably to throw the paparazzi off their trail. Guess what? Hongkong
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      Lock icon Whoa, Edison has fans even in Vancouver!
      172 18 HEARTTHROB Edison Chen (left) sang his heart out in a charity show in Vancouver this Chinese New Year. His parents and elder sisters were rooting for him. Being the filial child, he had set aside 30 tickets for his big family. But clamouring
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      Lock icon Believe it or not... Gigi's cooking
      142 18 TO shake her porcelain hand is a dream if you are a fan. To step into her home is a fantasy. We are talking about Gigi Leung (left). And getting her to don an apron and cook for you? That's equivalent to going to
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      Lock icon Strange tale of weird fan mail
      508 19 A fan has been sending bizarre letters to ex-DJ Bernard Lim (right) at Perfect 10. SERENE FOO takes a look at them and is baffled IMAGINE getting more than 80 handwritten letters from the same person over five years, all posted to where you
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      Lock icon They're HOT!
      118 20 SKIN-TIGHT football jerseys never looked so good. Never mind the action on the Super Bowl XXXV pitch. Pop princess Britney Spears' figure-hugging outfit probably pumped up the fans' adrenalin even more. So eye-popping! Makes you wonder how she ever got voted the Worst Dressed Woman of 2000 by
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      Lock icon I DIDN'T SIGN THAT!
      135 20 Don't ever mess with Leonardo DiCaprio (right). A memorabilia shopowner found that out after an embarrassing encounter with the Titanic star, reported The National Enquirer. Apparently, DiCaprio was strolling along the streets of Florence while filming the movie Gangs of New York. Dressed in shades and
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      Lock icon STAYS IN THE FAMILY
      189 21 She now wears his name on the back of her jacket. Soon she will have his name on the credits of her music videos. Madonna's (left) husband, Guy Ritchie, will shoot the MTV video for What It Feels Like for a Girl, the third single from
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      Lock icon LOVE IS IN BLOOM
      166 21 SNOW gets in her eyes. Showing off her shamelessly lacy pink bra to photographers at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan 25, Courtney Love (right) also bares her new outlook on love. The Blow singer is more careful with relationships right now. After all, she's had
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      Lock icon NO BOOBY' TRAP
      165 21 EVER wondered why some women go for much older men? Lara Flynn Boyle, 30 (above), of The Practice fame, is the latest example. She's seeing Jack Nicholson, 63. At the premiere of his new film The Pledge on Jan 9, Boyle seemed contented and assured in his
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      49 21 H 19th lannary' to 7th Febraaiy 2001! #*j at Marina Promenade li (Opposite Marina Square Shopping) ol m JPk Come and have the ride of your life The Singapore River Hong Bao Carnival 2001. There's going to be other super attractions, i?* including great music dance! j Don't miss
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    Lock icon Be My Valentine
    367 22  -  Pirector: Terence Ang Pirector of Photography: Dominic Ylng Art Pirector: Simon Ang Cast: Lee Wal (Carrie Models), Soon Heng Anthony Yap (Sunny Ooi's Models). Hair Makeup (Hamour Shots Clothes Accessories: Polo Ralph Lauren, Furla, lora, Isola, Dockers, Pearl Caret, all at Suntec City Flowers: Fleuridee Locations: Balaclava,
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      304 34  -  By Lionel Lee CHEVOCHELLE proved her last-start victory was no flash in the pan when the three-year-old again outgunned her opposition to land the RM$50,000 ($22,500) Pangkor Special Stakes at Ipoh yesterday. Displaying the same fighting qualities that enabled her to score a
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      451 34 YESTERDAY'S HONGKONG (SHA TIN) RESULTS GOING: GOOD 3 INDUBITABLY BLISS 125 (17-7) FCoetzw (6) 1 2 CLASSIC MASTER 125 (8-5) JEgan (10) 2 1 ALWAYS WIN 125 (58-12) C Williams (5) 3 Winning trainer: AS Cruz. Margins: Nk, 7 3 A. Time: Imin 10.9 sec. Forecast: $4. Tierce: $58. Ngau
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      1551 35 YESTERDAY'S IPOH RACE RESULTS GOING: SOFT SHOCKER: Ipoh-based Evelyn Seet, the local circuit's only woman trainer, sends out big outsider Blue Fountain (SAnandan) in Race 1. The Bluebird colt rewarded his backers with a $571 win payout at Kranjianda RM69B ($314) bonus across the Causeway. 12 BLUE FOUNTAIN 53 (571-100)
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      1614 36 RACE 1: Trainer YF Lee was fined RM4OO ($180) for wrongly declaring the use of blinkers on REINSTATED and failing to declare the use of pacifiers and a shadow-roll on HOT LEGS. HOT LEGS was difficult to be boxed, reared repeatedly and
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      579 37 EURO KICKOFF: ITALY Reuters. Gabriel Batistuta scored two spectacular goals yesterday and earned Roma a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Parma in the Italian Serie A. But that wasn't half as sensational as what he told the website onefootball.com later. He has practically been playing and scoring
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      131 37 Reuters. LAZIO president Sergio Cragnotti is suing AS Roma coach Fabio Capello. The reason: Capello said Lazio should be punished for fielding Argentine midfielder Juan Veron as a European Union citizen last season. Veron was granted Italian citizenship in 1999 on the basis of a great-great-grandfather
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      279 38 EURO KICKOFF: SPAIN. SCOTLAND Reuters REAL MADRID 4 MALAGA 3 REAL Madrid restored its seven-point lead in the Spanish league after a pulsating 4-3 home win over Malaga yesterday. Malaga levelled after Guti had opened the scoring for Real and then went ahead through striker Dely Valdes. But
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      169 38 Reuters. HEARTS 0 CELTIC 3 HENRIK Larsson fired a hat-trick in Celtic's 3-0 win At Hearts yesterday. The Swedish striker, who took his season's tally to 35 goals, showed that the winter-break had no bearing on his form. The win helped Celtic regain its nine-point lead
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      205 38 Onefootball.com. ARGENTINIAN striker Martin Palermo (right) said he was satisfied with his > debut performance for Villareal after helping it to a 2-0 victory over Alaves on yesterday. "I felt really comfortable, more than I did in the friendly sgflinst Eintracht n "The Spanish league
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        286 39 IPSWICH urns 2 Football365. HE has not trained properly all week due to the on-going court case in which he is accused of attacking an Asian student, but Leeds midfielder Lee Bowyer still managed to help inspire his team to a second win in
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        568 39 LIVERPOOL 3 WEST HAM 0 Football365. HE'S back in top gear. Robbie Fowler's insistence that he was not bothered at being denied a hat-trick against West Ham is proof of that. And that can only spell danger and fear among Premiership defenders. The 25-year-old has had a torrid
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        403 39 COVENTRY 0 ARSENAL 1 ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger was relieved to end a three-month wait for a league victory away from Highbury. Said Wenger: "Dennis has now scored two goals in a row with his head which is quite unusual for him, but it was an
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        140 39 MAN U 1EVERTON 0 PAUL Scholes (extreme right) could miss Man U's Champions League clash with Valencia after he suffered a recurrence of his rib injury in its lucky 1-0 win over Everton. Scholes, who missed four games last month with the problem, came off at half-time
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        53 39 VILLA manager John Gregory believes his team can still clinch a place in Europe next season. Villa ended a run of five successive Premiership defeats with an emphatic 3-0 victory at Bradford, with Darius Vassell scoring his first league goals for the club and Julian Joachim
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        80 39 LEICESTER manager Peter Taylorwas a relieved man after the Foxes finally ended their barren run with victory over Chelsea. Muzzy Izzet and Gary Rowett were on target in a 2-1 win over Chelsea. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink scored for the visitor, but the defeat means that Chelsea's
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        84 39 DERBY boss Jim Smith was left to count the cost of his side's epic 1-0 victory over Sunderland at Pride Park. The Rams' exertions bagged a vital three points but left Darryl Powell with a suspected broken nose and Malcolm Christie concussed along with a sky-rocketing
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        57 39 Football365. MANCHESTER City drew 1-1 with Middlesbrough, no thanks to a controversial offside decision. Boro defender Colin Cooper made amends for team-mate Steve Vickers' first-half own goal, but Man City boss Joe Royle was furious that an earlier strike by Danny Tiatto had been ruled
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        35 39 TOMORROW FA CUP FOURTH ROUND Middlesbrough v Wimbledon WEDNESDAY FA FOURTH ROUND REPLAYS Derby County v Blackburn Kingstonian v Bristol City FA CUP FOURTH ROUND Charlton v Tottenham PREMIER LEAGUE Everton v Leeds
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        37 39 NEWCASTLE'S Premiership clash with Southampton yesterday was called off less than two hours before kick-off because of snow. But with Alan Shearer and Carl Cort nearing full fitness, a delay could prove beneficial to Newcastle.
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      179 40 Reuters. SERGEI Bubka, the world's greatest pole-vaulter, closed the final chapter of his record-breaking career yesterday. It came at a farewell meeting in his home town. The Ukrainian legend (left) watched from the VIP box as a capacity crowd of5,000 crammed into Dzuzhba Sports Palace for
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      431 40 Six years ago, they were launched with great fanfare. Today they are duds. Malaysia's soccer academies, FAM's dream project, is in ruins. Poor attendance, drop-outs, health problems and indiscipline have all contributed to it. Is it an eye-opener for Singapore? NST. AFTER spending some RM6.B million
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      Lock icon Love conquers Pebble Beach
      99 40 GOLF: DAVIS Love carded a 63 to win the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Love tied the Pebble Beach Golf Links record with a 28 on the front nine and finished with an impressive birdie at the par-five 18th for a 16-under 272. Vijay Singh finished second,
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    • WORLD CUP GP 4 QUALIFIERS: SINGAPORE 0 KYRGYZSTAN 1
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        481 41  -  FIXTURES TOMORROW Bahrain v Kyrgyzstan (6pm) Kuwait v Singapore (Bpm) FRIDAY Kyrgyzstan v Kuwait (6pm) Singapore v Bahrain (Bpm) COMMENT SURESH NAIR ITS very, very tough being a loyal Lions fan. Schoolboys and senior citizens alike were made to suffer again as Singapore got off to
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        110 41 KUWAIT Prince Ahmad Yousuf Saud was reportedly hauled up by security officers on Saturday at the National Stadium after the Bahrain-Kuwait match. After Kuwait's 2-1 win, he raced down the steps of the VIP box and onto the field to congratulate the players. As he was not wearing
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        118 41 DONT go after the match officials. Well come down very hard on you. This warning was sent to the four team managers of Bahrain, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan and Singapore after the incident involving Bahrain team manager Khalid Hassan. He is alleged to have confronted Hongkong assistant referee Lum Hoy
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      405 42 You see or hear a familiar name and you assume that it's the same guy. If you are so gullible, you might be just be the person Mike Maguire, who phoned Sven-Goran Eriksson pretending he was Kevin Keegan, is looking for. But hoaxers have been around in
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    401 44 ALEX Ferguson goes, tiiey wilLgo. This is what will happen ifxhe Manchester United manager retires after next season, according to one of its "veteran" players Gary Neville. "When the manager leaves, it may be that five or six of his side will leave. And before
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