The New Paper, 30 July 2001

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  • Title Section
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    26 1 the new paper MONDAY, JULY 30, 2001 Singapore Press Holdings Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg MITA (P) 106/03/2001 60 CENTS
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon RM20,000 reward for info on porn VCD makers
      413 2 MALAYSIA GETS TOUGH ON PORN PEDDLERS THE death threat over his head has got him on the warpath. Malaysia's Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassi, has declared an "all-out" war on the pornographic and pirated video compact disc
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      Lock icon Bandit queen's murder: Husband questioned
      278 2 AFP. EVEN as one man confessed to the brutal killing of India's "bandit queen" Phoolan Devi (left), the police have moved in to question her husband, Umed Singh. He was grilled by crime branch detectives for an hour over the 38-year-old Ms Devi's murder at
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      Lock icon Beware, this video game fights back
      84 2 If you are a video game fanatic, this is just the gadget you would want to find in your Christmas stocking this year. Its game controller shocks the user if his character suffers damage on the screen. It could momentarily paralyse your hand when
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      168 2 Leisure Hey! Pages 14-25 A Long History of Unsurpassed Support, Now Even BETTER! For years, Spinal Guard sleep sets have been satisfying the needs of those who want to wake up without a backache caused by the inadequate support of a too soft mattress. The heart of this Chiropractor Endorsed
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    Lock icon What the zoo says...
    366 5 THE Night Safari has taken Friday's incident very seriously, and Chawang (below) has been put in a high security confinement area as a safety precaution. Mr Bernard Harrison said they were conducting an inquiry into what happened. He said: 'The welfare and safety of our staff
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  • NEWS IQ
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      Lock icon $300 to $500 for most HDB households
      210 6 REBATES THE rebates from the February Budget mean more money in your pocket to help tide you over the tough times ahead. Most households in Housing Board (HDB) estates can expect between $300 and $500 in rebates over the next 10 to 12
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      45 6 PICTURETHIS CAN I FIT?: Mr Ramli Shadan checks out a car which was used to smuggle illegals into Singapore. It is one of three vehicles on display outside the Singapore Immigration and Registration Building in Kallang Road (left). Pictures/ Berita Harian
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      Lock icon Govt will SMS
      144 6 NEWS4U ITS not just for sweet messages from your friends. Short messages on your handphone, that is. Now, the Short Message Service (SMS) is being used to keep subscribers informed of events by the Tanjong Pagar Community Development Council. It's part of a service called Mobile Club,
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      Lock icon Thinking changes
      68 6 The Think Centre, a political think-tank here, has applied to become a society open to members of all political parties. If approved, the think-tank would be dissolved, said its founder and former chief James Gomez. The current directors had decided this. Mr Gomez said the centre wanted to
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      Lock icon Girl dies after fall
      71 6 A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl, Wendy Tay Hwee Wen, fell to her death from the ninth-floor parapet outside her Tampines flat at 11.15pm on Saturday. She had been clinging to the parapet and shouting for help, but her boyfriend couldn't pull her up in time. Neighbours then heard
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      Lock icon Banking study
      67 6 SINGAPORE'S five local banks may be more efficient and profitable or less than conventional measures indicate, a Nanyang Technological University study has found. The study from 1991 to 1998 found Overseas Union Bank the most efficient, but not the most profitable, reports The Business Times. OUB happens to
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      Lock icon Hands-on scholars
      70 6 SOME scholars going overseas go through hands-on courses to prepare for life in a foreign land. Besides cooking and Outward Bound courses, their sponsors want them to gain insights into the culture and accepted behaviour of the land to which they are headed months before they depart. The
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      Lock icon Maid tax in HK?
      66 6 THE Hongkong government is considering taxing people HK$4OO ($92) per month if they hire foreign maids. It's aimed at "encouraging" people to hire local domestic help. There are about 220,000 foreign maids in the territory, most of them from the Philippines and Indonesia. If the proposal
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      Lock icon Signs of better times
      76 6 FIRMS here are gloomy about the near future after the last three months have been slow, according to latest surveys. But analysts say there are signs the economy could turn, reported The Business Times. The indices were falling at a lower rate, which can be an
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      Lock icon THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR THE WISHES
      75 7 QUOTE WORTHY lam very humbled by the strong affection from those who congratulated me through the newspaper advertisements... Maybe it's because I've been active in the Chinese community in the past few years. Mr Chan Soo Sen, 44, who has received
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      Lock icon e-books Napster again?
      246 7 ON THE RACK THE Napster issue is now old hat. But publishers and libraries are worried. Are libraries in the US going to be the next Napster? It is not the books, but the electronic content like e-books that is the cause of worry, reports Time magazine.
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      Lock icon LOCAL HEADLINERS
      56 7 The Straits Times: Japan's ruling LDP captures Upper House The Business Times: Early turnaround signs in business survey Lianhe Zaobao: Koizumi's party coalition emerged victorious in Upper House elections Berita Harian: Mita sends out important national news through SMS NewsRadio 93.8FM: A new lease of life for Japan's
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      52 7 International Herald Tribune: Restarting Clinton's ex-presidency Asian Wall Street Journal: LDP clinches a solid victory in Japan's Parliament election New Straits Times: Reward for info on porn BBC news: After his visit to Beijing, the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has spoken of improving relations between US
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      Lock icon S'PORE STOCKS
      19 7 The Straits Times Index stood at 1,642.08 at 9.15 am today On Friday, it closed at 1,640.40.
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      Lock icon The economy and...
      270 7 IK FOCUS PAWNSHOPS WHEN the economy is down, so is the pawnshop business. That puts paid to the belief that more people pawn their valuables when times are bad, reports Streats. The reason for the trend: Singaporeans don't pawn their belongings for money to buy food. Instead,
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      107 6 JAMS 2000 PROUDLY PRESENT Mr. Miss Jfotefier 2001 every Monday on Hotelier's Nite 16th July 2001 (preview of Miss 'tfotefier I Tina fist 23rd July 2001 <Preview of Mr. 'Jfotefier c Finatist 30th July 2001 (jrancf TinaC Win a Mobile Phone by... Voting for your favourite Mr Miss Hotelier Jiff
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      39 7 Dilbert /Scott Adams THE ANGRY DUfAB GUY g| I T I ...I'LL BEAT YOUR OH YEAH? IF ANYONE WANTS f IT OUT OF IAE! 1 OPINION LET'S SEE t\i OPINION... IF I HAVE i l I onei P i
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Come see what school's like, mum
      428 8 PRIMARY 1 REGISTRATION: PHASE 2C i4s Phase 2C of the Primary 1 Registration Exercise nears, some schools are trying their best to show parents what it will be like for kids to study there. AMY CHIEW visits an Open House, held on a normal
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      Lock icon ClearPlan contest results
      58 8 IN the Clear Plan contest held last week, we asked you how many days can a woman's most fertile phase last. The answer is six days. And the IC number of the winner who walks away with a Clear Plan Easy Fertility Monitor worth $299 is *****89.
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      Lock icon REGISTRATION
      62 8 PHASE 2C: For a child who is ineligible for or was unsuccessful in earlier phases. Registration: July 31, Aug 1 and Aug 2 Result: By Aug 7 PHASE 2CL:For a child who is unsuccessful in gaining a place in a school of choice at Phase 2C Registration: Aug 14
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      Lock icon WHY VACANCIES?
      91 8 THE 11 primary schools in Yishun have many places left, even after Phase 28. Explained Jiemin Primary principal Jenny Law: "Yishun is a mature estate. Many families have moved to newer estates like Woodlands, Sengkang, Sembawang. And these estates have their own schools." Jiemin Primary still has 253
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  • ASK DR MONEY
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      Lock icon Buy or sell? 2 simple rules
      581 9 DR MONEY'S QUICK QUOTE Lqcjk of money is the H m 3MI w w roatofall evil! George Bernard Shaw E Shares have been falling and I want out. I want to know what is the best time of the day and the best day
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      Lock icon Twocentsworth Government still spending?
      188 9 EWhy isn't the Government trying to save money like the rest of us? It seems the Government is not saving, but spending and spending with its so-called "stimulus spending"? A Yes, consumers are spending less, businesses are spending less. But the Government is spending more with
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    Lock icon Wizards, pixies and things I don't want to grow out of
    389 10 himjovlife_awgelihesono COMMENT WHEN I was a kid, storybooks were my world. Being an only child and sickly to boot I wasn't allowed out all that much. So I escaped into a world of make-believe where children mingled with elves
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon $1.8m IOU?
      302 11 fuSSpffuVNEARERMAT^^^ Reuters. THREE months ago, the relationship between the US and China was in pieces. That was the condition of a US spy plane forced to land on Hainan island, and later returned to the US, dismantled. China had also detained the 24-member crew for nearly two weeks.
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    • Article
      Lock icon And now... a suicidal sheep
      155 11 IT was an unusual sort of "ramming". A sheep jumped off a 10-m high Austrian railway bridge and landed on the head of a passing woman. The woman was dazed and bruised and her German Shepherd dog was so scared, it hid under a bush,
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      Lock icon THEY DIED... ... when this car rolled into lake
      453 12 THEY DIED... when this car rolled into lake THEY were trapped in the submerged car for over an hour and a half. And when they were finally taken out after the car was towed out by a fire engine, it was too late. Doctors tried to revive them for four
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      Lock icon Revenge of the economy class passenger...
      212 12 Reuters. BRITISH victims of the economy class syndrome are to sue major airlines for millions of pounds this week. The carriers, said to include British Airways, could face compensation costs of more than £10 million ($25.5 m) for failing to warn passengers about the
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    • Article
      Lock icon 'Help, there's a cockroach in my mouth!'
      83 13 AWFUL; right? But the Israeli woman, who had this very unpleasant experience, did something which made matters much worse. In her panic, she grabbed pesticide and sprayed it into her mouth, reported Ananova. It burned her so badly she had to go to
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      Lock icon Teen 'witch' says she killed 51
      313 13 AFP. YES, she participated in her father's murder and 50 other ritual killings. Thirteen-year-old Jummai Hassan was arrested on July 17 in north-east Nigeria over the disappearance of a two-year-old boy. Interrogated, the Nigerian pupil at an army college confessed to taking part in
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  • Hey! Showtime&Lifestyle
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      Lock icon 'I've no idea why it happened'
      318 14  -  By Yeoh Wee Teck SHE is like a cat on a hot tin roof. She sounds as though she has been fired, but she is really only a part-timer released recently from her retainer. (See report at right.) After September, Wendy Jacobs will no
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      Lock icon 'WENDY WASN'T FIRED'
      265 14 TV WORKS senior vice-president Andrea Teo (left) said she didn't know why Wendy felt she had been fired. After all, she is a part-timer. "We're just releasing her from the retainer because of our budget." Ms Teo wouldn't disclose the sum of the retainer, saying it is
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      Lock icon Travis + Coldplay... what a night!
      664 15 Travis Coldplay... what a night! Two top Brit bands live is one night that will go down in Singapore's concert history. ERIAKBAR reports BRITAIN'S latest alternative exports Coldplay and Travis surprised the ecstatic crowd with a spur-of-the-moment jamming session at the Singapore Indoor Stadium last night. Just before the curtain
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      Lock icon you repeat that again, Blva?
      524 16 Elva Hsiao is fine in Mandarin andfined in Cantonese as FLORENCE TAN finds out at her concert in Hongkong HER crash course in Cantonese, well, crashed. Taiwanese singer Elva Hsiao was penalised HK$2O ($4) for every word in Mandarin she uttered, in a bid to
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      Lock icon Daytime soaps bubble over with trouble
      433 18  -  PRIME-TIME TV \At*Tf* B8 ww m% 1 li IT V I!!!! 11 V" MiilldSiß! AFTERNOONS. When the blinding sun is beatin down on your living room floor anc there's little else you can do but watch TV. For the housewife in each of us,
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      26 18 From Mon to Fri on Ch 5, Days of Our Lives is on at lpm; Port Charles is at 3pm; and General Hospital is at 3.30pm.
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      703 19 THE NEW PAPER /Monday, July 30, 2001 7WHC TY SHU 6.00: View From 6.00: The Price 6.30: News 6.30: Singapore 6.00: Godzilla 6.00: Sajian 6.00: Headlines 6.00: News at 6 6.30: News in the Top is Right (Variety) Today (News) The Series MasakApa? 6.02: 6.32:Galeri— Mandarin (Infotainment) 6.30: Wheel of
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    Lock icon HEY! FALL FOR A NEW LOOK
    324 20 This autumn, shed the golden tan and "bronze" makeup of summer. ERIAKBAR shares one hot makeup trend forfait SMOKE gets in your eyes... this autumn! Autumn in Singapore, fresh off the Paris and Milan runways, means dark eyeshadow. Top off the look with nude
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  • NEW FACE 2001
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      151 21 Mediterranean Beantv:J New Face Finalist H Mariam H Daskalopoulou H is sweet 16 today H but this sultry H beauty's no plain JH schoolgirl! H SHE was a bit of a damsel in distress. When she was relatively new to her school, Mariam was taunted by a group
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      Lock icon A'Cat woman...
      156 22 IXatherine Zeta-Jones is 'oh so attractive' b am THE side of Catherine Zeta-Jones (right) that most inspires Mariam isn't her swashbuckling personality, but the star's femininity. "She has features no other woman has. She stands out, but she's oh so attractive and very, very sexy." What Mariam admires
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      Lock icon How to get the look
      283 22 MAKEUP artist Yuan Sng of Sabun Cabane created Mariam's look using Maybelline Cosmetics. A real time-saver: Maybelline's Express Foundation, which is a concealer, foundation and powder all in one. It's a stick, so it's virtually foolproof and can be layered for more coverage and for
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      Lock icon Med about cooking
      289 23 WITH her sunny, Mediterranean good looks, you'd expect to see Mariam Daskalopoulou out on the party circuit, air kissing the night away. But Mariam is a very serious young lady. Her studies (she's in Secondary 3 at Chai Chee Secondary School) are very important to her, and
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  • HEY!
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      Lock icon Andy, the perfect lover
      123 24 ANDY LAU (left, partly hidden) is a professional... lover. Playing a cool hitman in Full-Time Killers, all it took was one take to cosy up to busty actress Lin Xilei (pictured with Andy). First, a passionate kiss. Then a steamy bed scene with Andy exposing his
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      Lock icon Look, no more goatee!
      101 24 SINGER JACKY CHEUNG (right) has shaved off his precious goatee. He plays a good guy teacher in the movie, Nan Ren Si Shi (loosely translated as Man at 40), reported Apple Daily. Retired singer Anita Mui (pictured with Jacky) plays his wife. After a six-year absence
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      Lock icon Slick moves wow fans
      70 24 WHILE AARON KWOK (above) was a no-show for his Singapore fans on July 25, he did not disappoint his Guangzhou fans. He flew there on Thursday for the premiere of his movie, Para Para Sakura, as scheduled. He wowed 2,000 fans at a shopping mall with
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      Lock icon Wuff-wuff, he's in character
      91 24 ACTOR EDISON CHEN (above) was asked to dub the voice of a canine character in the movie, Cats and Dogs. He accepted the job without being concerned about the pay and spent three intense days in the studio yelping and howling like a dog. It helps
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      404 36 FORMULA ONE RACING: GERMAN GRAND PRIX COULTHARDASKS: Reuters. DAVID Coulthard prayed for a miracle before yesterday's German Grand Prix but it never came. Instead the McLaren driver was left suspecting the dice was loaded against him, struggling to comprehend why organisers had apparently lent his title rival Michael
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      62 36 DRIVERS: 1 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Ferrari 84 points 2 David Coulthard (Bri) McLaren 47 3 Ralf Schumacher (Ger) Williams 41 4 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Ferrari 40 5 Mika Hakkinen (Fin) McLaren 19 CONSTRUCTORS: 1 Ferrari 124 points 2 McLaren 66 3 Williams 56 4Sauberl9 5 BAR 16 6 Jordan
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      345 36  -  By Brian Miller IF you ever wondered why a Formula One driver is paid such a huge salary, you had only to watch what happened at the German Grand Prix. There, in front of millions of racing fans who were glued to their television sets,
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      521 36 THEY don't call the Hockenheim circuit the most unpredictable of all Formula One stops. Yesterday, and on the track which is set amidst a pine forest in northern Germany, everything which we thought could never happen, happened. Yes, that
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      356 37 EURO KICKOFF: GERMANY BORliSSlA MOENCHENGLADBACH 1 <M» Van Lent. 22r<» BAYERN MUNICH Q COACH Ottmar Hitzfeld blasted European champion Bayern Munich for its poor performance in the Bundesliga opener on Saturday. Bayern lost 1-0 to newly-promoted Borussia Moenchengladbach. Bayern has also had a poor run-in
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      250 37 onefootball.com. BAYERN president Franz Beckenbauer was unhappy with his club's loss in the season opener. Said Beckenbauer: "That was a big disappointment. "We wanted maximum reward for minimum effort, and it just doesn't work like that in the Bundesliga these days. "You have
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      208 37 Reuters, BAYERN'S Brazilian striker Giovane Elber said his team had problems concentrating in the season opening loss to Moenchengladbach. Said Elber: "We weren't totally focused. "I'm actually a bit pleased that we lost...it brings a bit of normality to the proceedings. "After last season you can
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      371 38 EURO KICKOFF: GERMANY. SCOTLAND, FRANCE BORUSSIA DORTMUND 2 Marcto Amoroso (12lh iran, 33rd) NUREMBERG 0 BORUSSIA Dortmund forward Jan Roller has spoken of his awe at the abilities of strike-partner Marcio Amoroso. The Brazilian began his Bundesliga career by scoring both goals in a 2-0 win over Nuremberg
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      133 38 MONACO 0 SOCHAUX 1 DIDIER Deschamps, who took over as coach at Monaco from at the end of last season, had a miserable baptism. His side lost 1-0 at home to newly-promoted Sochaux on the opening day of the French season on Saturday. Said Deschamps: "A defeat like
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      260 38 CELTIC 3 (Johan Mjalby 37, Paul Lambert 64,72) St JOHNSTONE 0 AP,planetfotball.com CELTIC began the defence of its Scottish Premier League title with a convincing 3-0 win over St Johnstone in front of a jubilant Parkhead crowd on Saturday evening. Paul Lambert was the hero for The
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        578 39  -  AJAX 3 (Machlas 35th min, 56; Arveladse 84) LIVERPOOL 1 (Fowler 37) By Lan Brown ALL the difficulties experienced by Liverpool against Valencia last Thursday goalkeeping uncertainty, j catastrophic central defending and lack of imagination were seen in even sharper j focus on Saturday. Ajax exposed
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        107 39 Ananova. LIVERPOOL manager Gerard Houllier said after the match that the 3-1 defeat was a real warning to his players to improve. Houllier said: "I can't accept a game like that. "Maybe we needed a warning. We had one last season against Chelsea at our ground
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        418 39 TACTICS: The structure employed by Gerard Houllier militated against seizing the initiative even during the brighter spells for Liverpool. Against Ajax, Robbie Fowler was deployed as the lone striker. Markus Babbel was heavily encouraged to advance from right back (at some cost defensively) while Gregory Vignal rarely
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      239 40 ...MORE PRE-SEASON WARM-UPS RED DEVILS' ASIAN TOUR THAILAND 1 Tawan Sripan 35th min MAN UNITED 2 Ryan Giggs 29 Dwight Yorke 78 Crowd: 60,000 Sporting Life. D WIGHT Yorke received a pat on the back from Sir Alex Ferguson for his new attitude during the Asian tour. Yorke
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      195 40 Reuters. THAILAND has 1.8 million of Manchester United's 50 million supporters worldwide and those lucky to have a ticket to yesterday's game were treated to some gripping action. In their toughest test yet in the run-up to the new season, the Red Devils encountered stiff
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      319 40 Sunday People. SUNDERLAND and Middlesbrough had contrasting victories against lesser rivals as the two English Premier League clubs warmed up for the coming season. While Peter Reid's new-look Sunderland ran riot in sauna conditions to outclass Torquay 5-0, Mansfield gave Steve McClaren's Middlesbrough an
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      159 40 CHELSEA'S star-studded side was embarrassed by its west London pauper neighbour. Rangers, relegated to the Second Division at the end of a traumatic season, made mugs of the Stamford Bridge aristocrats in the blazing sunshine. It was all too much for Chelsea fans in the crowd.
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      449 41 FINAL: COLOMBIA 1 Ivan Cordoba 65th min MEXICO 0 AP. COLOMBIA was perfect in the Copa America. It beat Mexico 1-0 in the final this morning to complete a six-game sweep and win Latin America's oldest soccer tournament for the first time. Defender Ivan Cordoba leapt over
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      144 41 AFP. HONDURAS 2 Martinez 14 II Izaguirre 41 URUGUAY 2 Bizera 21 Martinez 45 (Honduras wins 5-4 on penalties) HONDURAS claimed an unexpected third place. It beat 14-time champion Uruguay 5-4 on penalties after 90 minutes left the sides locked at 2-2. All the
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      693 42 Reuters. CAMEROON: The African champion was the first of the five to qualify, albeit just a couple of hours ahead of South Africa. Its trip to Asia will be a record fifth World Cup Finals appearance for an African country. Cameroon still holds the
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      173 42 AFP. NIGERIA erupted into wild victory celebrations yesterday after the Super Eagles qualified for next year's World Cup. Nigeria booked its berth with a 3-0 defeat of arch-rival Ghana. The celebrations began right from when President Olusegun Obasanjo's surprise presence at the Liberation Stadium was announced.
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    430 43 NIGERIA 3 (Victor Agali Ist min; Tijjani Babangida 19,34) GHANA 0 Reuters, Planetfootball. NIGERIA qualified for next year's World Cup Finals in Japan and South Korea with a 3-0 defeat of arch-rival Ghana yesterday. The victory gave Nigeria 16 points, one point more than Liberia,
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