The New Paper, 16 March 2001

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1 83 The New Paper
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      Lock icon Is gee-whiz ball spoiling game?
      315 2 TIGER Woods (left) does not use it. He doesn't need to, with his staggering drives that puts him well ahead of the pack. But even mediocre golfers are narrowing the gap with a revolutionary ball. Correctly struck, the newly designed golf ball travels faster and
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      Lock icon We want to be media watchdogs too
      366 2  -  Singapore media already regulates itself. It also comes under close scrutiny in Parliament from time to time. And now an independent group says... By Azhar Ghani THEY call themselves the Singapore Media Watch Community. Their blueprint to be unveiled this morning was prepared
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      Lock icon Hijacked But they got out
      449 3 Armed men try to wrest control of Russian plane Fight breaks out near cockpit 15 people escape through rear exit after it lands in Saudi Arabia Pilots lock themselves inside the cockpit A GROUP of 15 hostages made a dramatic escape from a hijacked Russian
      Pictures/ Apand Reuters  -  449 words
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      11 2 Leisure Showtime: Pages 40,41, 44-48 Comics: Page 49 TV: Page 83
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon No school for kids, they play in a rubbish dump
      629 4 Measures to introduce compulsory education in 2003 are being put in place, Dr Aline Wong, Senior Minister of State for Education, told Parliament yesterday. These three kids would have benefited from such measures. GAYLE KOH and SHEELA NARAYANAN report THESE
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      Lock icon Yet dad says no to help
      238 5 A ROTUND Mr Ibrahim insisted they do not need help and his family is fine. "We don't need any help. I feed my family/' he said. He said he manages to feed his family on his salary of about $600. He said he also
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      Lock icon Received aid, but lost it
      166 5 A CHECK with Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (Muis) revealed that Mr Ibrahim and his family received financial assistance ranging from $75 to $85 a month from Muis in 1997. 'DIP NOT TURN UP* Muis said the aid was cut off in 1998 when he did
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      Lock icon School too tough? But others praise our system
      562 5 THE Singapore education system receives its share of brickbats at home. Its critics flay it as the "pressure-cooker system". They say students "end up on a treadmill, whose speed is cranked up from time to time to separate the outstanding from the
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      Lock icon Sticking to 5% – 7%
      194 6 Sticking to 5% 7% m GROWTH FORECAST THE Government has decided to stick to its 5 to 7 per cent economic growth forecast for this year. This is despite the steadily worsening global economic conditions. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday that the Ministry of Trade and Industry
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      Lock icon Three more years for CJ
      117 6 in FOCUS CHIEF Justice (C J) Yong Pung How (left) has been re-appointed to head the judiciary for another three years. So CJ Yong, who turns 75 next month, will serve on the Supreme Court Bench until 2004. The fit and healthy "Chief* is the
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      Lock icon Singer dies
      62 6 MECCA VETERAN Malay singer M Bakri (left) has died in Mecca, where he was performing the Haj for the third time. M Bakri, 63, was a popular 1960s singer who had a hit with the song Sumbangsih. He is believed to have succumbed to a massive heart attack
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      Lock icon More jobless
      60 6 JOBS THERE were fewer jobs and more jobless people last December, says a Manpower Ministry report. Vacancies fell to a low of 22,115, as against the high of 32,385 in September. The jobless rate hit 2.8 per cent, well below the 4.3 per cent of December 1998. Reasons:
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      Lock icon 300 a year
      65 6 SNAKES ABOUT 300 snakes are caught here each year and given to the zoo. They are kept there, given to new homes, or put back in the wild. Unhealthy ones are put down. Most of the snakes are non-venomous pythons. The snakes are mostly caught by the
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      Lock icon Case settled
      55 6 COURTS TANGLIN Club's ex-vice-president's defamation case ended yesterday when lawyer Chandran Aral, 65, withdrew his private summons charges against club member Victor Chew Chi Aik, 71. Their out-of-court settlement is said to include an apology from Mr Chew, a Justice of the Peace, in the club magazine and
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      57 6 New Straits Times: Clashes: 32 charged International Herald Tribune: Markets, calming down, seek to interpret signals by Bush Asian Wall Street Journal: Tokyo makes moves to boost confidence BBC news: Hours after a Russian airliner is hijacked to the Saudi holy city of Medina, more than 30
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      Lock icon Rig blast: 9 missing
      166 7 -v AFP. HOPES are fading for nine oil workers missing after a massive offshore oil drilling platform exploded and caught fire 220 km (135 miles) north-east of Rio de Janeiro (picture). The P-36 platform is considered the largest of its type in the world and is
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      Lock icon Most suicides
      59 7 SRI LANKA MORE suicides are committed in Sri Lanka than anywhere else. Aid officials said the trauma of the long separatist war with the Tamil Tigers is driving many people to utter despair. On average, 23 people a day there commit suicide. One out of eight people suffers
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      Lock icon Cops to die
      64 7 PHILIPPINES TEN policeman in Manila have been sentenced to death for bribery. They took $23,000 in bribes from two Chinese traffickers then freed them. It is the first time there that the death sentence has been given for bribery. Under Manila's law, if an officer hinders prosecution
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      Lock icon Crash close-up
      65 7 MIR STATION SINGAPOREAN engineer Chia Yeong Kwong, 42, has a costly date with soon-to-crash space station Mir. Mr Chia has spent close to $10,000 for a five-minute glimpse of Mir, Russian for peace, which is leaving its orbit next week. He will be the only Singaporean among 45
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      Lock icon Highway ready
      56 7 MALAYSIA A NEW elevated highway in Kuala Lumpur is finished and should be open to cars early next month. The highway will help reduce jams in Ampang, one of the most congested suburbs there. The 7.4 km intra-urban highway, which cost RM754 million ($337 million), runs from Taman
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      Lock icon STOCK WATCH
      27 7 THE Dow Jones advanced 57.82, or 0.6 per cent, to close at 10,031.28. The Nasdaq composite index slipped 31.38, or 1.6 per cent, to 1,940.71.
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ
      36 7 Close in US$/Change 1. Pacific Internet $3.6875/ +0.1875 2. Creative Technology $10,125/ +0.1875 3. Flextronics International $22.9375/ -2.9375 4. Chartered Semiconductor $28.6875/ +1.0 5. STATS $11.0625/ +3.125 STI Index at 9.15am: 1787.93
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      64 7 The Straits Times: Rigorous education system 'benefits' S'pore The Business Times: Wall Street gets a case of sudden Japan jitters Lianhe Zaobao: Water taxis to ply the Singapore River Berita Harian: Streaming: Almost all complete secondary education PCS morning news: Students here given life-long advantage through Singapore's
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    Lock icon 'You're a very lucky man' —judge tells man
    442 8  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Lingam Ponnampalam HE could have been locked up for a long time.. But Lian Chin Nam, 41, will spend only 18 months in jail because of a technicality. He was charged with housebreaking by night. The judge said he should
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    Lock icon Warn drivers well before danger sites
    231 10 SPEAKUP SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM Bryan Tang (e-mail} I AM concerned over the unsafe working conditions on the road by some road contractors. When I am travelling on the expressways, far too often Fve had to jam on my brakes because the road is
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      Lock icon Beware of sending SMS gossip... you can be sued
      424 12  -  By Chua Ying-hong HAVE you spread saucy gossip bu phone? By sending it to friends via your handphone's Short Message Service (SMS)? If you have, then better think twice before you do it again. You can be sued if your message
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      Lock icon Difficult to trace
      158 12 IT is impossible to trace the origins of a message, said a Sing Tel spokesman, especially if it was forwarded several times before reaching the final recipient. It is even more difficult if the message came from an Internet source, a website or from abroad, as the
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      Lock icon TRACKED DOWN
      64 12 IN May 2000, the National Kidney Foundation tracked down the sender of e-mail that defamed them. Madam Tan Kiat Noi, a senior executive, was behind the e-mail that -alleged the Foundation had rejected her brother-in-law's application for dialysis treatment. She had to pay $50,000 in damages and legal
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      Lock icon He became someone else to help rent van
      262 14  -  By Seto Nu-wen TALK about split personalities. Jagdish Singh Dhillon wanted to rent a van from En-En Marketing Household. He needed a guarantor so he approached his friend Ravendran R Gunasekaran. But Ravendran was 17 and underaged. So Ravendran pretended to be
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      50 14 RAVEN DRAN was sentenced to a total of two months in jail and an $800 fine for both charges. He could have faced up to three years in jail and a fine, or both, for the first offence, and up to two years in jail for the second offence.
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      Lock icon She learnt recipes at gunpoint
      383 17  -  By Teng Pei Yun MENTION World War II to Madam Chan Ai You (above, right) and the 65-year-old shudders. It is a terrible nightmare never to be forgotten. It killed her father and threw her family into bondage. As she recalled the ordeal: "My mother,
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      Lock icon Trapdoor almost hit girl, 8
      391 18  -  The town council and Fujitec Singapore are doing a thorough check on the lift. Fujitec Singapore Corporation Ltd is the subcontractor responsible for maintenance of the lifts in that block. Mr Sam Lim,the property officer of Pasir RisTown Council said that there had been no
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    48 20 muifmuirf SINGAPORETODAY |Ms Dana Lam, president of the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware), in an interview with Big 0 magazine: I love to think of feminism as the other F word: Dirty in public, clean in private and so life enhancing!
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      Lock icon His dream was to open a cyber-cafe
      605 22 A teenager, Leon Neo Kai Cheng, 17, was murdered yesterday morning outside Lucky Plaza. Police believe it's a case of mistaken identity. TANYA FONG profiles the teen HIS favourite hang-out was Orchard Road, as he was doing his O levels in a private
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      Lock icon HE DIED BECAUSE OF A MISTAKE
      155 23 LEON NeoKah Cheng, 17, was stabbed twice near the bus stop in front of Lucky Plaza around 2.45 am yesterday (March 15). He died in hospital about an hour later. His father, Mr Leonard Neo Soon Png, 43, and his relatives rushed to hospital
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      Lock icon Hurts the pocket, not your health
      347 24 FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE THE previous foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) epidemic to sweep though Britain was in 1967. Then, 500,000 animals were slaughtered. Doctors reported that only one person caught it, and suffered symptoms similar to a mild flu. In this ongoing battle against FMD, 170,000 animals
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      Lock icon What if FMD turns up here?
      146 24 WHILE Singapore is not a meat-and-dairy producing country, there is a need to keep out the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). There is a small number of cows and goats here 690 and 350 respectively and they have to be protected from the disease as Singapore
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      126 24 f UNIVERSITY OF WALES SWANSEA The Director of International Development will be in Singapore from 19-20 March 2001 to interview candidates for the new academic session commencing September 2001. Founded in 1920, the University of Wales Swansea is part of the Federal University of Wales, the second largest university in
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      Lock icon Defence chief quits over bribery scandal
      399 26  -  By E Shailaja Nair THE Indian website, tehelka.com has lived up to its name. Tehelka means chaos in Hindi, India's national language. Its seven-month Operation Westend on defence deals and bribery in India is yielding results that not even editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal had expected.
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      324 27 THE tehelka.com Internet news site taped secret video footage of senior politicians, bureaucrats and army officers apparently taking money in connection with a fake defence deal. The scandal has forced the resignation of Mr Bangaru Laxman, president of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Here
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      Lock icon IT WAS AN EASY STING BY REPORTERS
      249 27 WHAT is disconcerting is how easy it was for the reporters to con key officials in Operation Westend (right). Said Mr Tejpal on his website: "We are still astonished... that two rank amateurs with close to no knowledge of defence hardware, hawking a
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      241 29 FOUR children had died unexpectedly in the hospital over eight months. That death rate was suspiciously high. So, on Monday, doctors at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, England, asked for an investigation. Soon after, a nurse was arrested over the deaths, reported Sky News. She
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      Lock icon 1,500 lose homes in Peru floods
      124 30 RESCUE squads were out in full strength in Peru's capital, Lima, yesterday, trying to save people caught in swirling floodwater and take them to safer ground. Heavy rains in the mountains of in the central region led to floods in the capital caused the
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    417 38 WORLDTODAY HOCKEY sticks, tennis rackets, frying pans, rolling pins... Even jumbo-sized washing liquid. They are pretty useful. Not for hitting at friends or errant husbands but robbers and such like. For as long as I could remember, my mother had always gone to sleep with my brother's
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      105 41 THE Sundance Film Festival, founded by actor Robert Bedford, takes its name from the film institute he established in the US state of Utah in 1981. The 2001 festival was the 17th in the history of this event that was organised to give smaller independent filmmakers a
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      66 42 YOU can call the Christie's office here (235-3828) if you'd like to be notified of future sales or to subscribe to the Christie's catalogue. Or log on to www.christies.com. Besides information about upcoming sales, you can search auction lots for a particular item, like
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      220 42 CHRISTIE'S and rival Sotheby's aren't the only jewellery road shows in town. C artier has put on some pretty spectacular shows here for favoured clients. About two years ago, Cartier created a garden of earthly delights at the Botanic Garden. Guests were flown in from
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      111 45 CALL it a bad joke. When news reports of Cecilia Cheung (above right) being hospitalised dominated headlines, her love interest Daniel Chan's (above left) latest single titled Patient started airing on the radio. When asked about Cecilia's well-being, Daniel said she was only an outpatient. He
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      57 47 Jfl kjf" em? Just as the movte Chocotat is packing in the I local cinemJjaowds, chocolate shops acrosiC«i|||||f?|^ J§E the island are also seeing an increase fljljgjf jj"|j sales recently. zbNOW introduces a variety of original chocolate cakes as well as shares c tips on making chocolate. z n°w c
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      371 47 OPENING THIS WEEK Story: It's 1984 and in a town in north England where 1 iil% B gi W miner's strike is going on, a young boy is ditching his boxing m^. eS^° nS w^ere e ets P a^? 0T ballet lessons. Needless to |f ■(■aWHi Stars: Denzel Washington, Will
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    452 48  -  ET CETERA WITH WOON WUI TEK TO USE another of those words I dislike, I was creamed. As in "utterly crushed". The background? I entered a Scrabble competition last week. You know the game: You get a few tiles, each inscribed with a letter of
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      319 64  -  By Michael Lee KRANJI race-goers, who are used to air-conditioned comfort, will have to move one level up on non-Singapore race-days from April 1. Following a survey which revealed that less than 3,000 race-goers, from the average turnout of 13,000, patronised Levels 2 and 3 of
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      328 64 NST BIG MILANO is the only Class 1 entered for the Selangor Turf Club's Sultan of Selangor Gold Cup Meeting starting at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. The six-year-old chestnut New Zealand-bred gelding by Nassipour out of Gull Mundur landed on July 20 last year with stakes earnings
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      253 64 Reuters THE Cheltenham festival, due to start this week but postponed because of the foot-and-mouth outbreak, will now be staged on April 17-19. In a statement on Wednesday, Cheltenham managing director Edward Gillespie said an agreement had been reached with the British Horseracing Board over new
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      260 64 AFP TOP New Zealand racemare Sunline has been caught up in a foot and mouth scare in Dubai which has left her owners worried about whether they would be able to leave the Gulf with her. As Sunline arrived in Dubai yesterday to begin preparations for the
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      554 65 YESTERDAY'S KUALA LUMPUR TRACKWORK (GOING: GOOD) NST EL DIABLO is poised to win, going on his dashing workout at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by a riding boy, the six-year-old bay Australian-bred displayed good action as he clapped on the pace in the straight to
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      13114 65 n IDEAL LAD 57 (61) M Clarke (8) (4nzg HS Lim-Up Up) By Spectacularphantom-Supreme Gem;grey; landed04.06.00; 3r 1-1-1 (II 100s 1:08.4 57). 25.11.00 M-1 Cameron 57 (53) (1) 2 2 1/9 ($56) IK Burst Away *****s 1:08.4 (524) 17.12.00 C4-4 RLim 57 (61) (6) 3
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      172 65 n STAR GENERAL 57(48) Wilkinson (4) (4nzg Baertschiger-Star General) By Waikiki Star-Maazel; bay; landed6.1.98; 8r 1-0-0 (KRsl700f1:49.153.5) 12.12.99 C5 Soo 55 (42) (5) 9 9 4/11 ($23) 1 ParisAmour KRb1800g 1:52.1 (415) 05.01.00 C5 Wilkinson 53.5 (40) (1) 5 3 1/8 ($11) Shd Natural
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      456 73  -  FOCUS: ALL-ENGLAND BADMINTON CHAMPION PUIIELA GOPICHAND By Sumit Mukherjee IT'S a long haul from the dusty bylanes of remote Nagandla village in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to Birmingham, but for Pullela Gopichand it was a journey into self-discovery. The terrain was harsh. He suffered
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      180 73 IN many ways Pullela Gopichand is the product of a revolution brought about by his idol, Prakash Padukone, India's only other All-England winner. Padukone took up the cudgels on behalf of fellow players in their tussle against the Badmintion Association of India (BAI). Fed up when his
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      154 73 IT NEVER rains for Pullela Gopichand. It pours. His All-England crown has brought in its wake a promotion, cash awards and, now, an offer for a seat in the Indian Parliament. The chief minister of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Chandrababu Naidu,
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      645 74  -  EDWIN YEO YESTERDAY: OWEN'S MY MAN TT\ n AY/- SCONMO§## NORMALLY, if Liverpool I I J I JIA y had scored a controversial I I P"oal. as it did this mnrnincr UEFA CUP Q-FINALS: LIVERPOOL 2 PORTO 0 COMMENT EDWIN YEO NORMALLY,
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        497 75  -  Samba soccer by Liverpool By Leonard Lau ON A joight when the Portuguese should have produced Latin football, it was an English club that lit up with samba soccer. Made up of supposedly rough-house Englishmen and mechanical northern Europeans, Liverpool produced a game of such
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        304 76 LIVERPOOL'S resurgent Michael Owen has admitted that the Reds are eyeing a Cup Treble. <7 We're in the semi-finals of the Uefa Cup now, which is a great achievement," he said after his side's 2-0 aggregate win over Porto this morning. "We're also in the semi-finals of the
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        92 76 Reuters. AFRICA is to host its first-ever soccer World Cup after Fifa said it would award the 2010 event to the continent. The statement came after a day this decision was at first denied by the sport's governing body. But today in its website, Fifa
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      466 77 LIVERPOOL 2 PORTO 0 UEFA CUP QUARTER-FINALS, SECOND LEG LIVERPOOL 2 PORTO 0: Liverpool wins 2-0 on aggregate Danny Murphy 33, Michael Owen 38. Crowd: 40,502 IT was Michael Owen all the way. The diminutive England striker scored one of Liverpool's two goals as the English
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      480 78 CELTA VIGO 3 BARCELONA 2; Agg 4-4 BARCA WINS ON AWAY GOALS Catanha 34, Gustavo Lopez 64pen, Alexander Mostovoi 90 Rivaldo 29,44 Crowd: 29.000 9 1 Reuters. IN the end, the difference between the two sides boiled down to one player Rivaldo. Said a disappointed
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      359 78 RAYO VALLECANO 2 ALAVES 1: Alaves wins 4-2 on aggregate Reuters. A FIRST-HALF strike by Jordi Cruyff helped Spanish side Alaves make history. It reached the last four of the Uefa Cup in its debut season in Europe. It lost 2-1 away to Rayo
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      1374 79 The New Paper's QWEST LUIS and photographers MOHDISHAK and KUACHEESIONG spend matchday with Tampines Rovers, capturing the mood behind the scenes It was a full house: 4,142 fans packed the Tampines Stadium last night, another3oofans shut out,as Stags lost 2-1 to Geylang United. But the news
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      379 80  -  MEET TAMPINES ROVERS' NEW BRAZILIAN SIGNING ADILSON dOSE DE PAULA BY Wang Meng Meng THE tall, dark stranger walked in almost unnoticed into Tampines Stadium last night. Only, he was no ordinary stranger. He was Adilson Jose De
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      187 80  -  I MARlN^AST^^^™jON^AGA^MStever^aiW9th) By Lim Han Ming HE'S still in mourning over his father's death. But Tanjong Pagar's Croatian goalkeeper Dragan Talajic showed no strains of depression as he inspired the Jaguars to a hard-fought 1-0 win over Marine Castle yesterday. No wonder Steven Tan ran the whole
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      44 80 TODAY Balestier Central v Gombak United (Toa Payoh Stadium) Woodlands Wellington v Clementi Khalsa (Woodlands Stadium) All matches start at 7.30pm CALL INFOLINE Call 1900-*****13 after 8.30pm for half-time score and after 9.30pm for full-time results. Calls cost 30 cents a minute.
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      111 80 Odds as at 8.30 am BALESTIER v GOMBAK Ix 2: (1) Balestier: $2.60 (x) Draw: $2.95 (2)Gombak: $2.40 1/2 GOAL: Balestier (-11/2): $3.60 Gombak: (+ll/2): $1.22 TOTAL GOALS: OGoal: $6.50 1 Goal: $3.80 2 Goals: $3.80 3 Goals: $4.10 4 Goals: $6.00 5 Goals: $10.00 6 Goals: $18.00
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      415 81 img PSV EINDHOVEN 0 RAYO VALLECANO 2 I Danny Murphy 33, Michael Akxallder KAISERSLAUTERN 1 Jose Maria Quevedo 41, Luis Owen 3% e»prei ama o Mario Basler 71pen Cembranos 79pen PORTO 0 Kaiserslautem 2-0 ALAVES1 Uve,poo, wins 20 o* aareae s may JQ J^£2f 19 79 goals rule PSV
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