The New Paper, 20 May 2002

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  • 33 1 the new paper MONDAY, MAY 20, 2002 Singapore Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 044/03/2002 •60 CENTS HP 8 *****1 *****1 the new paper
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    • 112 1 n HIR»D||B9 'MR JASMIN,YOU'VE WON $900,000' I itfpr jmmi JUST SCAM Page 4 WORLD CUP TRIP: You stand a chance to win top prize, if you're among lucky 20 walkers on pages 32, 33 is your next step after you have attained your diploma and degree? C.lirtin School of Financial
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    • 10 1 Amidst 69,000 people at The New Paper Big Walk yesterday...
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  • NEWS
    • 396 2 I MALAYSIA AIRLINES TOPS BEST CABIN STAFF SURVEY FOR once, SlA's Singapore Girl is taking the back seat. Malaysia Airlines' cabin crew has done the airline proud by flying away with the Best Cabin Staff 2002 award. SIA had to be content with third place
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    • 273 2 LUST for power, revenge, hatred, envy, fanaticism, opportunism, seLf-centredness and money politics. These are the eight political sins to avoid when fighting for party posts, Malaysian prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad told Barisan Nasional component party members yesterday. The eight deadly sins would only destroy
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    • 414 3 t Without each and every walker's active participation, we would not have enjoyed such a grand turnout. The TNP Big Walk remains the biggest walking event in the world. Thanks to you the participants. Special thanks to Associate Professor Yaacob Ibrahim, Acting Minister for Community Development and Sports and Minister
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 1183 4  -  Letter from Spain tells technician he's won $900,000. First, he's overjoyed. Then... By Seto Nu-Wen MR Jasmin Rohani never considered himself much of a gambler. So it was a big surprise when he received a letter from Spain saying that he had won about
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    • 176 5 THIS is not the first time a scam like this has struck here. In March 1999, a few Singaporeans received letters from a company called the Australian Lottery Winners Service. The letters said that they were winners of an Australian Lotto Bloc for a prize of up to
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    • 464 4 7&>6e>tu> 1662 t 20 22 May 2002 (Monday till Wednesday) Hall 48, Singapore EXPO GAMES SCHEDULE iHHHHBHI 20 May 2002 Monday 9.30 am: Opening Ceremony 9.45 am: Robot Sumo Competition 9.45 am: International Robot Contest (Prelims) Challenge Course 12.00 noon: Micromouse (Sec. Sch.) 9.45 am: Legged Robot Obstacle Race 2.00
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 306 6 LONG-TERM SINGTEL INVESTORS HOLDING on to those shares pays divdends. Literally, in the case of Singapore Telecom shares. Sing Tel shares may be trading sharply below their offer prices. But if you bought the shares with your Central Provident Fund (CPF) savings during the two
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    • 52 6 PICTURE THIS Fans getting hot under the collar? Not here, as some fans cool off without collars at the Red Stripe Pavilion while watching the game between India and the West Indies during the 2002 fifth Test Match Cricket Series at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica.
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    • 72 6 SERVICING more than 3 million POSB accounts costs DBS Bank $44 million a year. That's because the balances in these accounts are so low that it costs more to service the accounts. But despite this loss, he says that the bank will not deny its POSB depositors
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    • 60 6 MORE than 3,000 patients with urgent medical conditions were saved long waits at the hospital accident and emergency departments. That's because they saw their family doctors, who have subscribed to the Direct Access Scheme. Launched by the National Healthcare Group (NHG), the scheme has seen an average
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    • 63 6 COLLECTIVE sales are changing given the gloomy property market and developers' stronger interest in 99-year leasehold government land. In the next six to 12 months, they are expected to be smaller, quieter, suburban and with more creative financing options. That's because developers are more likely to buy smaller
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    • 70 6 ITS a saucy solution to a salty problem. The Health Promotion Board (HPB) had approached sauce companies earlier this year to get them to cut the amount of sodium in their products. From next month, two of Kwong Cheong Thye's dark soya sauces will carry the healthier choice
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    • 71 6 NIGHT-TIME Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) on the Central Expressway (CTE) will be introduced only after the opening of the North-East MRT line, scheduled for this December. This way, if you don't want to pay the ERP charges, you could take a train instead, said Transport Minister Yeo
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    • 70 6 BY the year's end, it is likely that all Singapore government services will be e-enabled. E-services are already proving to be quite a hit with Singaporeans, reported The Business Times. For example, a million transactions are conducted on the omnibus eCitizen website each month. Mr Panneer Selvan of
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    • 57 7 Morale is very important. If we all feel demoralised, then we are not to/ie mood to fight competitively. So at the right time, myself and other leaders have got to give Singaporeans confidence that wecan overcome our present difficulties. —Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong on how Singaporeans may be
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    • 248 7 OH THE RACK FEW would begrudge the East Timorese their moment of happiness. But the fact remains that this tiny country of about 750,000 people starts life in poverty, reported Hie Economist. Many of the working population earn no more than USSO.SS ($1) a
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    • 73 7 The Straits Times: Major Al-Qaeda attack in US a 'near certainty' The Business Times: Banks ramp up ad budgets to woo consumers Lianhe Zaobao: Singapore's economy picking up Berita Harian: Al-Qaeda plans another strike NewsRadio 93.8FM: PM Goh said he is confident of a good ecomomic growth rate
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    • 49 7 International Herald Tribune: East Timor becomes a nation Asian Wall Street Journal: More fighting in Kashmir raises risk of retaliation New Straits Times: Study on meritocracy system BBC news: East Timor becomes the world's newest nation as a declaration of independence ends 450 years of foreign rule
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    • 241 7 INFOCUS ITS a money industry in more ways than one. Singaporeans are pumping more money than ever before into consumer banking products. And Singapore banks are pouring millions of dollars more into media advertising this year too, reported The Business Times. The products range from
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 1401 8 A 3-PART SERIES ON kfjF NURSING SINGAPORE 'Hm Singaporean nurses are in short supply. AMRITKAUR takes a look at the issues behind nursing, starting in the Accident and Emergency department of Alexandra Hospital How much has nursing changed? Find out in our next instalment
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    • 423 8 NURSES are more likely to drop out of college than other students. The only polytechnic that runs a nursing course here says that it has the highest drop-out rates of all its courses. A spokesman for Nanyang Polytechnic wouldn't say exactly how
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    • 219 9 SATISFACTION in a good job well done is one thing: But the Government has also been taking steps to make nursing a more attractive career option. Almost all students on the course get sponsorships from hospitals that cover $850 monthly allowances and a life-long, recession-proof career after
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    • 382 11  -  From today, a voluntary scheme asks manufacturers to state radiation levels By Eugene Wee NO-ONE can say for sure how much of a radiation hazard, if any, your handphone creates. But if PSB Corporation has its way, soon all handphones will
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    • 517 12  -  By Sheela Narayanan A BRIGHT spark went out early yesterday morning. Queena Alinskie died of leukaemia at Singapore General Hospital at 2am. The pretty 18-year-old, who was diagnosed with the disease last June, had been in hospital for the last three months. But since last
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    • 202 13  - Now, the bill for parks public housing By Denyse Yeo SO you think cleaning up the country's parks is small change. Think again. The projected cost of maintaining the Botanic Gardens' 52 hectares is $160,000 per hectare. And the Istana's gardens cost another $48,000 per hectare to maintain. Even the
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 500 15  -  By Michael Lee NINE-YEAR-OLD Kenneth Lee has no problems sitting up straight in class. He's been practising for years. And he's been helped by a table. But it's no ordinary table. It's a study table, ergonomically designed by Moll, a German company considered to
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    • 172 15 OTHER ergonomic school stars are those schoolbags which, despite their cardbox-like shape, are designed to be carried on the upper back to prevent hunching and backache. Ms Janet Lee, 30, a consultant at Crosscom which sells Moll products here, said: "Every day, you see
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    • 776 16 GLORIA CHANDYand SHEELA NARAYANAN tell you why SINGAPORE'S NIGHTCLUB ENTREPRENEUR ON TAX CHANGES THE ENTREPRENEUR Peter Wong (left) is not toasting the opening of his latest pub. Instead, this entrepreneur in the nightclub business regrets opening M Bar a few weeks ago.
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    • 74 18 LAST year, Singaporeans used 2.8 million credit cards to make $11 billion in purchases. Of the $llb, we rolled over $2b of debt, on which we paid interest rates as high as 24 per cent. This comes to credit card debt of about $2,000 per family. But
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    • 143 18 LAST WEEK: US markets had a great week, while Singapore markets ended about unchanged. Nasdaq rose every day last week, the first time it has done so in seven months. Both Nasdaq and Dow had their largest weekly percentage gains in more than 13 months. Economic data showed
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  • WORLD
    • 216 19 Reuters, AFP. HE sent her e-mail messages for a whole year with this lurid request he wanted to meet and kiss her. German fan Albrecht Stromeyer, 33, also tailed tennis star Serena Williams and her sister, Venus, to two tournaments in the US and attended the Berlin
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    • 462 20 IF World Cup fever takes you to South Korea, you may find yourself in a rather interesting hotel. In this hotel, you may find yourself sleeping on beds with round mattresses surrounded by mirrors. The Honeymoon Park Inn, Eros Motel, Love-In
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    • 110 20 AP. THEY are serious about keeping hooligans from the World Cup. A 37-year-old English fan is the first to be refused entry to South Korea as part of tight security measures. According to the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), which monitors the behaviour of
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    • 322 21 1 in 4 British children committed crime last year ONE quarter of Britain's school children admitted to having committed a crime in the past year. Add to that two-thirds of youth not attending school with expelled pupils averaging 44 criminal offences a year, and Britain
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    • 101 21 UP IN EUROPE, DOWN IN US S’PORE CRIME rates across the English Channel are faring no better. Youth crime is on the increase, with the number of teenagers jailed for serious infractions now twice as high as in the mid-*****, reported Business Week. On the other hand, youth crime rates
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    • 151 22 THE word is out. Israel's economy has dipped into recession, reported the Washington Post. The almost 20-month-old conflict with the Palestinians coupled by the global economic slowdown mean that the boom days of tourists milling around in jam-packed hotels and businessmen bustling in high-rise
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    • 262 22 Entry to WTO boosts industry CHINA'S World Trade Organisation (WTO) entry has definitely boosted its hotel industry. And the boom looks set to stay for the time-being, reported Hongkong's iMail. Riding high on this wave is the hotel sector in the Huadong region which includes
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    • 290 23 Reuters. OSAMA bin Laden has resurfaced on tape yet again. The new video footage of the Saudi-born fugitive was allegedly shot in March. But it brings us no closer to solving the mystery of whether he is dead or alive as a debate rages on about
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    • 207 24 SOME jail inmates in Thailand may well take up massage as a profession when they are freed. A massage parlour opposite the provincial women's prison is staffed by jail inmates. And it is proving to be popular with local people and tourists alike, reported Bangkok
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    • 280 25 He also has links with suicide-bomb groups HE'S a fan of a US basketball team and believes in "full rights" for women. But he does not condemn suicide-bombing attacks on Israeli civilians. Mr Abdel-Sattar Qassem, 53, is the first man to officially declare his desire
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    • 371 26 Walk with me, for life After 12 years of one of Singapore's biggest events, we thought we had seen it all. But this year's The New Paper Big Walk still managed to pull a few surprises. Spotted in the crowd of nearly 69,000 people: A marriage
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    • 102 26 COMEDIENNE Abigail Chay (left) got one of the earliest birthday surprises ever yesterday morning. Said her friend, actress-model Eileen Wee (centre): "She was having a hard time getting over her break-up with her boyfriend, so we thought we would cheer her up by surprising her." Also there
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    • 191 27 OF THE YOUNG Five-year-old Ong Wen Yi, going against her mummy's wishes, woke up at 4am just so that she could tog herself out properly for the Big Walk. ...AND THE OLD Oldest member of the 800-strong Brisk Walking Club, 93-year-old Madam Siah Eng, was full
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    • 150 27 WmUdng It good tor fwytutf^ from Ucm teBW to* •m»rty. ft you m, ir» tat your hmn tti)ifyou\lvphn{f$f\ s- Mr U$wrx7iwifoorr^y; 9 l/*aw> ftmi\ for the Jurcng CtH/m. wfio sjUdltutJttmvntoi'Hftvti to run, mAUyttsMtfiormt form fit amrdM far gvurvtum It'sgreat^ exercise. because Walking Is the easiest exercise.
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    • 121 28 HE completed the Men's Open race in 43 mins 52 sees. A very pleased Mr Sharryulhaizy Abd Rahaman said: "I finished so far ahead I couldn't see anybody behind me. It's a race I have prepared myself for for one month. 1 walked 120 km
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    • 276 28 SINCE 1997, now Acting Minister for Community Development and Sports Dr Yaacob Ibrahim (left) has been taking part in the Big Walk. This time around, he joined us as the guest of honour. "I have kept the T-shirts as souvenirs," he said nostalgically. Dr Yaacob, 47,
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    • 190 29 MEN'S OPEN —Md Sharryulhaizy Abd Rahaman (Timing: 0.43.52) MEN'S JUNIOR —Ravi Tumba (Timing: 0.46.41) MEN'S VETERAN Thiagaraja S/O Sinasamy (Timing: 0.47.55) WOMEN'S OPEN Chong Fui Fong (Timing: 0.54.00) WOMEN'S JUNIOR —Yuan Xiao Chun (Timing: 1.13.44) WOMEN'S VETERAN Lim Bee Chan Grace (Timing: 0.52.34) MEN'S OPEN (TEAM) Police
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      179 30 IF you're one of the people featured on these two pages, keep your fingers crossed. You could be the lucky one who gets a trip to the World Cup, courtesy of Singapore Cable Vision (SCV). The top prize includes air tickets, match tickets and accommodation for two.
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    • 151 32 MORE women are stepping up to the bar and ordering a beer. Harry's bar manager Margaret Woodward, said: I've seen a slight increase in women drinking beer compared to two years ago." Two other bars, Provignage and China Jump Bar Grill, agreed. Ms Woodward said it might
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    • 122 32 ONE to two out of every 10 people seeking treatment for alcoholism are women. Some have medical complications such as gastritis or stomach ulcers and in serious cases, liver impairments. And many have marital, relationship or job problems. Said Dr Arthur Lee, head of Psychological, Addiction
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    • 142 33 J EDI Knights have sex after all, according to George Lucas, creator of the characters' hit sci-fi series, Star Wars. Speculation that the lightsaber-wielding warriors were supposed to live a monk-like existence has been rife since details of Attack Of The Clones began
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    • 67 33 GERI Halliwell (inset) has been seeking refuge in gunny Los Angeles and appears to havefoanatove in title process. boyfriend,Damias Warne: "some poor little ■i from L.A.* kissing and clowning around together. Friends of Gerilay she is "head over heels in love
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    • 83 33 RECESSION cutbacks can make superstars very upset. Sarah Michelle Gellar (below) was annoyed when she discovered that her favourite airline no longer handed out cookies as part of their in-flight treats. She said: "We had two hours left of the flight and no treat. So we went
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    • 455 34  -  Veteran MediaCorp actors face lower pay MediaCorp says it is revision of contracts By Yeoh Wee Teck TWO MediaCorp actors fumed when they found out their contracts had been changed and their pay reduced. Veteran actor Yan Bingliang told Shin Min Daily News that his pay has
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    • 362 35 The current hot spell makes the flirty sun dress this season's hot must-have. ERIAKBAR gives you the low-down SUN dresses melt my heart. They make me yearn for the nifty boutiques that line the streets of Kuta, Bali. I went wild on
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    • 375 36  -  PRIME-TIME TV By CandiceChan HOW fitting that a guy with the surname Ma (horse in Chinese) should play the lead role in a serial about making it in the world of horseracing. In TVB's latest offering, On The Track Or Off, Steven Ma plays Gan
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    • 1347 45 RACE 1: LUCK KEEPER, who dislodged his rider on the way to the start, was examined by the vet and passed fit to race. The gelding, who then could not be boxed and was withdrawn, has to pass two starting stall tests. The
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    • 123 45 APPRENTICE Kalitazan Rasu was yesterday suspended for three months over his handling of DESERT WARRIOR in Race 5 at Penang. He pleaded guilty to a charge of incompetent riding in that he failed to give sufficient rein to his mount. An inquiry was held into the
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    • 307 46  -  By Tan Thean Loon UNITED JOY made a triumphant return from a five-month spell to take the RM60,000 ($28,800) Racing Writers Association Stakes in Race 8 at Penang yesterday. The Lim Hoon Hooi-trained four-year-old bled at his previous start on Dec 15
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    • 315 47 War Emblem eyes Triple Crown after Preakness Stakes win AFP WAR EMBLEM won the 127 th Preakness Stakes at Baltimore, Maryland, on Saturday, giving the Kentucky Derby champion a chance to become only the 12th horse to sweep American racing's Triple Crown. The colt, trained by
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      • 370 49 FINAL LEADERS: 267: Nick Price (Zimbabwe) 272: David Toms (US), Kenny Perry (US) 273: Dudley Hart (US) 274: Davis Love 111 (US), PhilTataurangi (NZ) 275: Tom Watson (US) AFP. ZIMBABWE'S Nick Price won his first US PGA Tour event in four years, holding off American rivals
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      • 237 49 AFP. JAPAN'S Isao Aoki became the third Asian in as many weeks to win a US PGA event, claiming his first Senior PGA Tour title in four years yesterday at the t i: a. At lnstmet Classic. Aoki (right) pulled away from the field with a final-round
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      • 170 49 AP. TIGER Woods carded a 64 to move within one stroke of leader Colin Montgomerie after three rounds of the Deutsche Bank-SAP Open yesterday. "It's been a while since I hit the ball like that. I haven't really been able to shape each and every
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    • ORLD CUP WARM-UP: SINGAPORE v URUGUAY TOMORROW ...MORE ON SINGAPORE v URUGUAY TOMORROW
      • 608 50 FOCUS: URUGUAYAN INTERNATIONAL DIEGO FORLAN TIGER BEER CHALLENGE TROPHY SOMETIMES it only takes a few minutes for a coach to decide if a player has the makings of success. In Diego Forlan's case, it took Independiente youth coach Jorge Rodriguez just 10 minutes. That was all
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      • 316 50 TO Forlan, a move to Man Utd was virtually impossible to refuse. Sir Alex Ferguson's side pulled the same stunt with Mickael Silvestre. The Frenchman arrived in England to sign for Liverpool, but like Forlan, was persuaded to go to Old Trafford. "Manchester are
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      • 88 51 AFP INJURED Daniel Fonseca was one of four players with the Uruguay World Cup squad at its training camp in China who were dropped when coach Victor Pua named his final 23-man group yesterday. The three other unlucky players excluded from the group of 27 were Federico Magallanes,
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      • 165 51 Goalkeepers: Fabian Carini (Juventus), Gustavo Munua (Nacional), Federico Elduayen (Penarol) Defenders: Paolo Montero (Juventus), Gonzalo Sorondo (Inter-Milan), Joe Bizera (Penarol), Gustavo Mendez (Nacional), Alejandro Lembo (Nacional), Dario Rodriguez (Penarol) Midfielders: Pablo Garcia (Venezia), Gonzalo De los Santos (Valencia), Gianni Guigou (Roma), Fabian O'Neill (Perugia), Marcelo Romero (Malaga),
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    • WORLD CUP UPDATE: BRAZIL
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        304 52 AFP. THE Brazilian press have been unanimous in the praise of 21-year-old playmaker Ronaldinho Gaucho. After his latest two goals in the World Cup warm-up campaign, he has been hailed as the next Romario. The Paris Saint Germain star's brace led Brazil to a 3-1 win over a
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      • 170 52 AFP. RIVALDO may be a doubtful starter in the Malaysian capital this weekend. As the star-studded Brazilians left for Kuala Lumpur yesterday, Rivaldo stayed back to recover, said team officials. Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari was keeping mum about Rivaldo's non-presence although he had
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    • WORLD CUP WATCH
      • 506 53 BELGIUM NOBODY expected it to beat the defending World and European champion. But just when the Parisian crowd were admiring the sparkling performance of a certain French striker by the name of Djibrill Cisse, Belgium's captain Marc Wilmots ruined the plot. It has been almost
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      • 181 53 WHILE Belgium is a team whose strength lies in teamwork, its performance Korea and Japan will still depend very much on the performance of one leader-captain Marc Wilmots. Nicknamed "Mr 1,000 Volts" at his German club, Schalke 04, Wilmots, 33, is the fulcrum of the national team.
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    • WORLD CUP UPDATE: WORLD CHAMPION FRANCE
      • 231 54 FRANCE may have lost Saturday's game 2-1 to Belgium but new French striker I}jibril Cisse came out a winner on his international debut. The stadium echoed to the booming chants of "CISSE, CISSE" for the Auxerre forward, who was called into the French
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      • 198 54 French coach admits: FRENCH coach Roger Lemerre watched his side wearily lose to Belgium and admitted: "We look tired." Marc Wilmots struck the last-gasp winner to give Belgium a shock 2-1 win over the World Champion. And Lemerre conceded: "Bodies will be ready for the World
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      • 403 54 AP. Reuters. TWO things were missing when the France squad left for Japan yesterday: Zinedine Zidane, and an aura of victory. Zidane, the team's star player, is expected to join the World Champion next week. His wife gave birth to their third son on
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    • WORLD UP UPDATE: ITALY
      • 223 55 Critics claim it looks lost without talismanic Tott^ AP. ITALIAN soccer critics have slammed their team after Saturday's 1-0 loss to the Czech Republic. "Slow Italy, without genius few ideas and insufficient form," read the front page of Italy's largest sports daily, Gazzetta dello Sport.
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      • 216 55 AFP. The Italians head off to the World Cup next week on a losing note after a goal from Liverpool's Vladimir Smicer gave the Czech Republic a 1-0 win. It was only the second defeat for Italy coach Giovanni Trapattoni after last year's 2-1 defeat against
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      • 276 55 ui i i Star blasts back AFP. FRANCESCO Totti has told the Italian press not to turn him into some kind of Superman. Totti, for whom coach Giovanni Trapattoni has specifically constructed a 3-4-1-2 system, was eager to stress that Italy's hopes of winning
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      440 56 11 DAYS TO GO Singapore is eight hours ahead of GMT I I Team Venue Time Date June South American Confederation League Table Results: Ecuador's score in bold Team P W D L F A Pts Team Home Away ECUADOR 18 9 4 5 23 20 31 BcS
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    • WORLD CUP WARM-UPS
      • 241 57 US 0 HOLLAND 2 AP. ITS a shame that Holland will not be playing at the World Cup Finals. This glowing tribute came from US coach Bruce Arena after the Dutch gave the Americans a drubbing in the final warm-up match at Foxboro, Massachusetts. '"The Holland
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      • 128 57 CHINA 0 PSV EINDHOVEN 1 AP. ANOTHER setback for China. The 1- 0 loss to Dutch club PSV Eindhoven came on the back of China's 2-0 loss to Uruguay last week. China has won just one of its four World Cup warm-up matches so far a 3-1 victory
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      • 108 57 RUSSIA 1 YUGOSLAVIA 1 Reuters. RUSSIA continues to show very poor form. It got no boost in this disappointing draw as Yugoslavia earned a 6-5 penalty shootout win in a four-team tournament in Moscow. It was Russia's fourth loss in five preparatory matches this year and reinforced doubts
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      • 111 57 SENEGALO KASHIWA REYSOL 0 Reuters. SENEGAL used its top stars sparingly and played to a scoreless draw against J-League side Kashiwa Reysol. African Footballer of the Year El Hadji Diouf made a late appearance midway through the second half and saw limited action. "We're not worried as we're
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    • WORLD CUP UPDATE: ENGLAND
      • 264 58 ENGLAND manager Sven Goran Eriksson has defended his decision to allow his players to drink alcohol and visit a nightclub during the break in Dubai. Eriksson's squad was accused by tabloids of running up a £37,000 ($97,000) bar bill at
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      • 398 58 FOCUS: DAVID BECKHAM DAVID Beckham says he knows exactly what is coming his way when he leads his country against Argentina. And this time, says Beckham, he will not fall for any of Argentina's tricks. At France 98, Beckham was sent off for a retaliatory
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      • 241 58 DAVID Beckham's return to the Far East will revive memories of last year's pre-season trip to Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand with Manchester United, where the reaction of his Asian fan club bordered on hysteria. Even the presence of an army of police and security
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      • 182 58 AFP. AFTER coming through the biggest injury crisis of his career, David Beckham will take no chances in any of the pre-tournament Warm-ups in South Korea. He has timed his recovery programme to return for England's opening game against Sweden. "I'm going for the first game,
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    • WORLD CUP UPDATE: NIGERIA
      • 346 59 Wire services. NWANKWO Kanu is not afraid. Nigeria has no fears. England will not pose a problem to the "Super Eagles" in Group F billed as the "Group of Death". "It is good that people are only talking about England and Argentina," said Nigeria's Arsenal striker. "It's
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      • 186 59 Reuters. HE'S a veteran former schoolteacher. And he knows his students very well. So well that Nigeria's newly-appointed coach Adegboye Onigbinde has predicted his team will create a series of upsets at the World Cup Finals. "Mark my words: My players will rise to the occasion. It's
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        153 59 GOALKEEPERS: Ike Shorunmu (Lausanne), Austin Ejide (Gabros), Vincent Enyeama (Enyimba). DEFENDERS: Efe Sodje (Crewe), Rabiu Afolabi (Standard Liege), Ifeanyi Udeze (PAOK Salonika), Justice Christopher (Royal Antwerp), Taribo West (Kaiserslautern), Joseph Yobo (Olympique Marseille), Isaac Okoronkwo (Shaktar Donestsk), Julius Aghahowa (Shaktar Donetsk), Celestine Babayaro (Chelsea). MIDFIELDERS: Eric Ejiofor (Maccabi
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        289 60 ...in Warm-ups, hamstring problems or not ENGLAND manager Sven Goran Eriksson said he will not protect Michael Owen in the two Warm-ups before the start of the World Cup. Eriksson has already lost Gary Neville and Steven Gerrard, while Kieron Dyer is undergoing fitness tests for his
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      • 212 60 INJURY-RAVAGED England could be in more trouble when it faces the hard men of South Korea tomorrow. Tough-talking Korea boss Guus Hiddink presided over a no-holds-barred training session yesterday that left two of his own squad needing treatment for injuries, reported the Daily ReCord. The Dutchman insisted
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