The New Paper, 25 August 2001

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  • 28 1 the new paper SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2001 Singapore Prs&s Holdings Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpaper.asiaI com.sg MITA (P) 106/03/7001 60 CENTS the new paper
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  • NEWS
    • WHEN GAMES TURN DEADLY
      • 339 2 IN THAILAND PARENTS, worried about your kid's addiction to computer games? Here's food for thought. Computer games can kill as in the case of this Thai worker. He could not resist Half-Life: Counter-Strike, a 3D shooting game. After work
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      • 146 2 IN SINGAPORE DANIEL Tan Thiam Soon, 21, stabbed a fellow player who "killed" his game character. Yesterday, he was sentenced to six years' jail and six strokes of the cane. When Ng Qiyong, 16, confessed that he had "stabbed" Tan's game character, Tan pulled out a knife
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      • 214 2 IN THE UK EVEN a non-violent game like Monopoly got nasty in the UK when a man punched his 13-year-old stepson and kneed him in the groin after losing to him, a court heard yesterday. Apparently the stepfather, 49, who cannot be named
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    • 78 2 Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Mechatronics Part tune by University of Wotverhamptoc (UK) iMvMvHyaf B Eng (Hons) Multidisciplinary «—Eng. (Mechanical/Electrical) Distance Learning by University of Sunderland (UK) __g Higher National Diploma in Electrical/Electronic Engineering FuM/Part time by Edexcel BTEC British National Award (OCXCCL FOUWDATIO* Foundation Certificate in MCOWO4ATIS fTTC AMO tx
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    • 4 2 Leisure Hey! Pages 26-31
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    • 444 3 It's new and wildly diverse. Singaporeans Exposed: Navigating the Ins and Outs of Globalisation is a collection ofessays focusing on 'Singapore and the wider world'. It has been launched by the Singapore International Foundation as part of its 10th anniversary celebrations. We offer some excerpts
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    • 433 4  -  r^sEij By Amrit Kaur HE would answer his phone and it would be her. He would walk out of his clinic and she would be there, giggling and making suggestive comments. She didn't just want her psychiatrist's time and advice she wanted his
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    • 10 4 PATIENTS WHO STALK THEIR DOCTORS
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    • 244 4 rcF6£2j THE patient cursed her doctor and said she hoped the doctor's child would die. The doctor, a psychiatrist in private practice, who did not want to be named, said: "She was extremely needy. She needed somebody to care for her constantly. "She expected the
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    • 84 4 PATIENTS who stalk their doctors will be the subject of a talk when the Institute of Mental Health holds its annual conference in October this year. According to Dr Stephen Phang, most stalking cases involve patients of the opposite sex. Usually male psychiatrists are stalked by female patients.
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 270 6 MOST kids already know how to read their ABCs and 123s before they go to Primary 1. Soon, they will be seeing more of the alphabet on an eye chart. The National Myopia Prevention Programme, launched yesterday by the Health Prevention Board (HPB), will start
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    • 56 6 PICTURE THIS No, the boat is not upside-down, with its propeller sticking up. That's a windmill to power this revolutionary sailing boat on British waters. The £300,000, ($750,000) 36ft catamaran has been built according to a prototype design by retired electrical engineer Jim Wilkinson of Guernsey in
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    • 64 6 THREE Muslim bodies have revived a programme to aid retrenched Malay/Muslim workers. The programme is Project Cerah, which Mendaki, the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) and the Association of Muslim Professionals launched in 1998. It will offer monthly grants ranging from $90 to $400. Overall, Mendaki
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    • 67 6 FORMER Indonesian leader Abdurrahman Wahid, also known as Gus Dur, has hit out at Singapore. He has attacked the Republic for "interfering in Indonesia's internal affairs". In comments published in the Rakyat Merdeka last week, he called Singapore a small country that could be "swallowed up"
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    • 67 6 1.8b drug raid THEY have called it the biggest drug raid in Victoria state in Australia. The police seized a Ferrari sports car, a penthouse and drugs worth an estimated As 2 billion (sl.Bb) in a series of pre-dawn raids across Melbourne yesterday. Ecstasy, ephedrine, cocaine, amphetamines, hashish and LSD
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    • 75 6 TAN Lay Bee, the wife of Teo Cheng Kiat, who siphoned nearly $35 million from Singapore Airlines, has said she wasn't "prepared to give any plea yet". Tan, 50, faces eight charges of receiving $20,000 and a BMW car, both suspected to have come from stolen money. But
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    • 74 6 KL come home MALAYSIA has put plans to woo its talent back home into overdrive. Thanks to a tax-incentive drive and plans to cut red tape, it is confident of reversing the brain drain and bringing home about 400 of its top professionals working overseas, the country's Human Resources Minister
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    • 71 6 TAX divorced people with a special levy, and reward couples who stay married with special benefits. This was what the Archbishop of Sydney, Dr George Pell, said yesterday. Saying that the Australian legal system made divorce easy, he called for tougher measures to make it harder for
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    • 238 7 IN FOCUS SOME of them had failed their driving tests. Others had been banned from driving. Yet these men were so desperate to get behind the wheel that they each paid up to $4,000 for a fake driving licence, reported Streats. On Thursday, the police busted
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    • 90 7 STOCKS on Friday posted their biggest rally in more than six weeks after US technology bellwether Cisco Systems Inc. said business is stabilising. The Dow Jones industrial index jumped 194.02 points, 1.90 per cent, to close at 10,423.17 while the Nasdaq composite index surged 73.83 points, 4.01 per
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    • 263 7 ON THE RACK TAIWAN'S economy is in dire straits. It was immune, to a large extent, when the rest of Asia got burnt in the 1997 economic crisis. But today, it is a different story. The country is plunging towards recession at great speed, says Asiaweek
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    • 56 7 The Straits Times: Singapore-Philippines air travel gets a boost The Business Times: SGX unveils draft of new listing manual Lianhe Zaobao: 1.1 million people will be insured automatically under the ElderShield Scheme Berita Harian: Eldershield to protect people against disabilities NewsRadio 93.8FM: Philippine President Gloria Arroyo stresses the
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    • 38 7 International Herald Tribune: US will quit ABM Treaty at 'Convenient' time, Bush vows New Straits Times: Monitoring gender bias BBC news: A former US Air Force serviceman specialising in military intelligence is arrested on spying charges
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    • 29 7 Dilbert /Scott Adams YOU IF I I I CAftE DOUJN TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS |2 YOUR NEW GIRLFRIEND TO...UK...SAVE BUT NOU I THINK IT'LL ENERGY? IV BE AWKWARD.
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    • 864 8 <|P|J "For today and every day of your life, find a way to do some good pßEsiDcnrs for someone less fortunate." CHRLienGE 2001 REACH OUT SinGHPORC A Callfrom President S R Nathan The President's Challenge presents a line-up of events from 29 August to 9 September 2001 during which you
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    • 144 9 YOU can now use our value-added Personal Infotainment Centre (PIC) handphone service. The PIC service allows you to retrieve more information from The New Paper ranging from text and audio to video content by dialling a special PIC number. You can also take part in
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    • 254 10  -  By Andre Yeo THERE he was, waiting in the departure-transit lounge at Changi Airport like any other passengers. Then all of a sudden, he whipped out a razor blade and reportedly slashed himself with it. This happened on Wednesday night. The 32-year-old Bangladeshi was at
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    • 399 10  -  TNP-eWOS PROMOTION By Ruth Kam COPIES of The New Paper were selling like hot cakes outside eWorld Of Sports (eWOS) at Marina Square yesterday more than 800 copies sold in two hours. There was a very good incentive: The half-price promotion at eWOS, only for
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    • 398 11  -  I BABY WITH AIDS By Irene Kew THEIR agonising wait is over. Baby Thariq, now 10 months old, is theirs to keep. "Now I can finally call him my son," chirped an elated Mr Bani Buang, 36, a firefighter with the Civil
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 465 13 Mrs Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines (above), spoke at the Shangri-La hotel yesterday on "Workable Policies for a New Philippines'. WOON WUITEK left impressed AIR PACT Singapore and the Philippines will sign a pact today to add more seats on flights
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    • 833 14  -  ELDERSHIELD By Santokh Singh ELDERSHIELD is good news for Mr Lim Thian Seng (right) and his wife, Madam Sally Loh. Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang yesterday gave details of the long-term care insurance scheme (see report below). The couple, both 45, who run a drinks
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    • 193 15 SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM Miss Wong Tze Wei, Public Affairs Executive, Public Affairs Branch, Central Provident Fund Board WE refer to the article "Medisave oomph" (The New Paper, Aug 22). In your report, it was mentioned that "insurance agents will be able to
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    • 250 17  -  By Lim Lee Ching BUKIT Batok Secondary School knows how to press its suit for charity. It has signed up for The New Paper Project y s B-U Day (Bye, Uniform Day) campaign. Its B-U Day will be held on Aug 31, along with Teachers'
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    • 129 17 BUKIT Batok Secondary School is one of the three schools taking part in The New Paper Project Y B-U Day. The other two are CHIJ Saint Nicholas and Anglican High School. Think B-U Day is a cool idea? Then we'd love to have you take
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    • 406 18 HARDLY any light filtered into the room. The curtains were splashed with goat's blood. Huddled together in the room was a group of teenagers calling out to the devil. This is not what the Malaysian authorities stumbled upon in their latest crackdown
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    • 175 18 IT was an attraction to all things unusual which led a teenager to dabble in the occult. The student, 17, from the Ang Mo Kio Institute of Technological Education has since stopped the practice. In an interview with Berita Harian, he said he got involved when
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  • 421 19 HI E SMMAIAWK COMMENT BAD, bad, bad! This has been the refrain I have been hearing for a few weeks now. Singaporeans are rude; they drive recklessly in Malaysia; they throw their weight around, and so on. I had been reading the reports, and not
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    • 97 20 MOVIE buffs were shaken, not stirred, when James Bond first swapped his Aston Martin for a BMW. The suave secret agent drove the German Roadster Z3 (left, driven by Bond star Pierce Brosnan) for three films, reports Sky News. But now,
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    • 276 20 ABOUT 30,000 Malaysian bank workers could lose their jobs. They are expected to become redundant when banks start to farm out their backroom operations. The central bank, Bank Negara, has given its nod, reported The Sun newspaper. It gave the go-ahead as the move
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  • 544 22  -  MALAYSIA By Seto Nu-Wen and Uyen Vu VICTIMS describe him as a mild-mannered man. Wearing a yellow robe used in his rituals, he appeared religious and law-abiding. And he promised "buried" ancient treasures in a blink of an eye. People
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  • WORLD
    • 430 23 THEY were having breakfast when he arrived at the Kowloon warehouse. A woman colleague told him: "Don't worry, you're not late." But he allegedly lashed out with a hammer and crowbar at four women. Mr Chan Wai-kwan (above), 43, tried to protect them
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    • 68 23 A record number of IV viewers in the US saw Congressman Gary Condit (above left) deny killing missing intern Chandra Levy. Nearly two out of every three people watching TV at that time—or an estimated 23.6 million households tuned in to see ABC's Connie
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    • 130 25 SCANDINAVIA'S image as a tolerant society may just be taking a beating. The far-right Danish People's Party (DPP) has taken out a full page advertisement in a national newspaper naming every immigrant given citizenship this year. The party has also "named and shamed" the
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      512 26 Or perhaps we should call her forgetful Fann. YEOH WEE TECKfinds out why Fann Wong has memory lapses UETSETTING is not always as much fun as it seems, especially for MediaCorp star Fann Wong. Even though she flies first class. She said: "Flying here and there is tough.
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    • 531 28  -  By Chang May Choon TAIWANESE singer Phil Chang (that's him, four times over, on the left) has released a new album called Double. He would love to have one a body double, that is. So that it can absorb his wife's scolding!
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    • 226 29 DmU» PM Chang (OH) SOME things never change. Like Taiwanese crooner Phil Chang's signature gut-wrenching singing, and his solid-as-rock devotion to his childhood sweetheart wife Shi Yi-lang. n i Perhaps that* s why the love songs they co-produce (he composes, she writes the lyrics)
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    • 377 30 YOU don't normally connect Norway with lanterns, but these Norwegian ice lanterns are special. Ms Maryann Labrie, who runs the shop, Scandic Wonders, said: "People are buying it for their parties as something different. "I had a woman who was celebrating her husband's 50th birthday.
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    • 555 31 On the hunt for a house? Cartoonist FABIAN CHAN shares his recent experience, and tips on how to buy a re-sale flat I WAS looking for a resale flat in the classifieds recently. "Move-in condition", some said. Yes they were, if it meant
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    • 501 32  -  PRIME-TIME TV WATCH YON6SCWPBW TRAILERS are one of the most useless things around. If you watched the trailers for Channel s's new sitcom House Of Chow, and thought the show would be dumb don't. Chow turns out to be rather clever and amusing. The
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 200 32 Grounded for Life TV Works, 7.30pm Sean humiliates Lily by overreacting when he sees her making out in a car with a guy. Then he finds out something else is upsetting her more. 48 Hours: Fertility Dilemma Channel NewsAsia, 11.30pm JayCee, 3, was created by an egg donated by one
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    • 996 33 THE NEW PAPOVSaturday, August 25,2001 Pas* 33 12.00: Big Wolf 12.00: VIP— 1.00: We Are 12.00: Chinese l2.00:Uon 11.30: TV Media 12.02: Two 12.00: Lara I2.OO:DRTV I on Campus Franco in Love TheWotid Top 20 King's TimonA Home Shopping Hearts/Thinking Sunti/Afternoon Home Shopping I m 12.30:2Gether (Drama) 2.30: Invitation 1.00:
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    • 254 40  -  By Lionel Lee TRAINER John Brink and jockey Johnny Geroudis had three great reasons to be happy at the end of last night's proceedings at Kranji. Before a crowd which included dignitaries from 18 overseas turf clubs and authorities here for the three-day racing carnival,
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    • 1446 41 RACE 1: PRESS CONFERENCE and SMARTER THAN YOU were crowded on jumping between GOLD MEDALLION, who jumped out, and MARSGAR, who jumped in. CASH IN was slow into stride. JUDGE 'N' JURY and GOLD MEDALLION brushed on jumping. Shortly after the start. SUPER
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    • 938 42 THE consistent but winless Sky Luck looks ready to greet the judge in Race 5 tomorrow. In his winding-up trial at Kranji yesterday, the three-year-old gelding by Corporate Raider showed a nice turn of foot to reel off the final 600 m in 39.35
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    • 322 42  -  By Danny Khoo TRAINER Charles Leek's Pacific Prince, by his high standards, has had a relatively quiet season. His two wins and three placings pale in comparison to his grand harvest of five wins and two seconds last year. Tonight, the eight-year-old
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    • 1763 43 TODAY'S KRANJI (LONG COURSE, C) RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD Race 1 4.30 Class 4 D»v 2 1200m iLCI Pdflili Turf Cluli Trophy SUkri.S45.000 Ho. 1 Lot 6 runs Hors* Wl Rattn 9 Burt* r trnoifKWfiwJ r 6640G7 ELGIGALO 59 (6lf JGenxrfs 9 (Sargg Shaw-ALA CrafcUa) 2 316 HIGHLAND STAR
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    • 325 44  -  By Lionel Lee LAM MUN CHIEW, better known as MC Lam to local racing fans, has secured stabling facilities at the Perak Turf Club (PRTC). The club's approval has paved the way for the former glamour jockey to be issued a trainer's licence. Earlier
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    • 1027 51  -  SEA GAMES KUALA LUMPUR, SEPTEMBER 8-17 rffpam FOCUS ON MIDDLE-DISTANCE RUNNER G ELANGOVAN By Wang Meng Meng SOME prefer to talk the talk. Some prefer to walk the walk. But national middle-distance runner G Elangovan prefers to talk the talk while
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    • 402 52 PREVIEW OF NTUC FAIRPRICE NETBALL SUPER LEAGUE GRAND FINAL Tonight Eastern Mannas: GS:Tan Su Hui GA: Wendy Tan WA: Quek Jia Min C: Kathryn Dwyer WD: Siti Nurwati GD: Zhang Rongzhen GK: Premila Hirubalan. Southside Sharks: GS: Kuah Yuh Cheow GA: Sng Lee
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    • 153 53 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Woodlands 4 Sembawang 2 Balestier2SAF4 TONIGHT Jurong v Gombak (Jurong East) Marine Castte v Geylang (Hougang) Matches start at 7.30pm. Call 1900-*****13 after 8.30pm for half-time scores and after 9.30pm for full-time results. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. WANNA BET? Odds asat 830am JURONG v
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    • 298 53  -  By Wang Meng Meng GET ready for an early kick-off next year. The S-League, which traditionally gets under way in March, will probably start in February. S-League CEO Chris Chan explained: "The earlier kick-off is in view of the important international competitions next
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    • 376 53  -  BALESTIER TIGERS 2 SAFFC WARRIORS 4 By Ernest Luis THE Warriors are back on the warpath! After thrashing Tampines 8-2 last week, they beat the Balestier Tigers 4-2 last night at the Toa Payoh Stadium. With nine rounds left, the Warriors are suddenly looking much sharper.
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    • 207 53 15th iran: GOAL! Warriors' Hafizat Jauharmi crosses into the Tigers' box for Mirko Grabovac to head the ball past 'keeper Fajar Sarib. 23rd: GOAL! New signing Zeijko Ackar makes his mark by scoring from a well-taken free-kick, leaving Fajar with no chance. 31st TIGERS MISS! Daorueang Krongpol lays the
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    • 783 54  -  THE B WORD A wo B< I y c i > y Brian Miller MY friend Clem was fuming. He strode into The Dog Bone and snarled. ,f What the hell's happenin' with this world?" When we shrugged and carried on throwing darts, he
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    • 284 54 ATHLETICS Reuters. GOLDEN girl Marion Jones is back to her winning ways. The Olympic champion was her usual modest self after beating newly-crowned world champion Zhanna Pintusevich-Block of Ukraine in the women's 100 metres at a Golden Gala League event yesterday. "Obviously, on this given
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    • 510 55 The new JUST over two weeks ago, Adriano was another Brazilian talent trying to make a name in Europe. Another Brazilian who European clubs were hoping would turn out to be another Ronaldo. Italy's Inter-Milan couldn't have guessed that they had hit the jackpot when it
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    • 216 55 DESPITE his remarkable likeliness to Ronaldo, Leite Ribeiro "Adriano" says inpiration has been Brazilian great Zico. "My footballing idol is Zico. He was such a great player and achieved wonderful things in Serie A. He is my inspiration." He also acknowledged a debt to Ronaldo,
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    • 642 56 ITS time for Leeds to go into the lead, pardon the pun. With Bolton not playing this weekend, a win at Upton Park against West Ham would see the Yorkshire club go clear on top of the table, even if
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    • 679 56  -  THE FOOTBALL MILLIONAIRES BBC WORLD (SCVCh 13) 3.10pm. Today By Leonard Lau HERE we go again. Every time yours truly watches a TV soccer programme, some strange bulb lights up in his head. The last time it was David Beckham and our national team. This time, it's,
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      1235 57 ROUND 2 CALL INFOUNE Call 1900-*****13 after 12.15am for results of today's matches. Call after 6.30am on Monday for results of tomorrow's matches. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. MORNING LATEST: TEAMS UPDATE Arsenal v Leicester: Martin Keown is fit again for Arsenal but manager Arsene Wenger
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    • 543 58  -  OWEN HESKEY COMMENT EDWIN YEO WHILE Liverpool fans shouldn't go overboard with its fifth trophy in about as many months, the Uefa Super Cup clash with Bayern Munich this morning did highlight one good thing. That Emile Heskey and Michael Owen are going to be one
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    • 467 58 Reuters. GERMANY coach Rudi Voeller has singled out David Beckham as the England player he admires and fears most. Speaking ahead of next week's decisive World Cup Qualifier against England on Sept 1, Voeller said that even his eight-year-old son Kevin understood the Manchester United
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    • 740 59 Guess who's praising Oliver Kahn ®Jjp ER Five cups, we've only won five cups the small band of Liverpool followers who were totally outnumbered in the 15.000-seater JOY Stade Louis II stadium in Monaco. Wire services. EMILE Heskey and Michael Owen were jubilant last night
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      399 60 UEFA SUPER CUP: BfIYERN MUNICH 2 LIVERPOOL 3 SCORERS: BAYERN: Salihamidzic (57th); Jancker (82nd) LIVERPOOL: Riise (23rd): Heskey (45th); Owen (46th) LEAGUE CUP UEFACUP FA CUP CHARITY SHIELD Arid now... SUPER CUP Reuters. Liverpool collected its fifth trophy in six months yesterday when it beat European champion Bayern
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