The New Paper, 9 July 2002

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  • NEWS
    • 340 2 Wire services. WONDER where the man whose one word can send markets soaring or plunging put his money last year? US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (left), did not invest in stocks His money was parked in government bonds. Mr Greenspan's
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    • 345 2 Wire services. ONCE proceedings started, the two former executives refused to testify before a US congressional committee on their role in the World Com scandal. Mr Bernard J Ebbers, WorldCom's former chief executive, and former Chief Financial Officer Scott Sullivan, invoked their constitutional right against
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 943 4  -  Job entails more than burying the dead Reports/. Jason Tan WITH her youthful looks and ready smile, Ms Hazel Ho looks like the last person in the business of death. But the 44-year-old has been a pet undertaker since she was 24. She is believed to
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    • 371 5 TWO days before New Year's Eve last year, civil servant Judy Kok had to make a painful decision. She had to put her beloved dog to sleep. The dog, a 14-year-old Bichon Frise called Girl, had a
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 320 6 Simultaneous meitdowns in the local property and equity markets together with the global slowdown meant that Singaporean households saw the value of their assets fall by nearly a fifth last year the steepest decline in the world. Both the rich and poor were
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    • 48 6 W-irdi*lh]-W;. This two-day old male hippo has to be bottle-fed by zoo officials in the Dusit Zoo, Bangkok, after its mother refused to breast-feed it. Besides milk, the veterinary team also gave it medicine in an attempt to save its life. Picture/ Ap
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    • 74 6 MPS in Parliament yesterday called for the Housing Board (HDB) to take responsibility for residents' ceiling problems, and attributed the problems to shoddy design and workmanship. But National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said that when the main cause was wear and tear, it was up to
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    • 75 6 THE most expensive city in the world to live in is no longer Tokyo. It is not even second. First place goes to Hong Kong, followed by Moscow, with Tokyo coming in third. Asia is also now the world's costliest region, with 11 of the 15 most
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    • 75 6 MOTORISTS may no longer have to go through the hassle of renewing their driving licences if an amendment to the Road Traffic Act introduced in Parliament yesterday is passed. The licence will be valid for life, but it is not known what the new fees, if any, will
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    • 69 6 WHEN Singapore's fifth polytechnic campus in Woodlands is ready in 2006, it will boost the yearly polytechnic intake by 4,000. Republic Polytechnic will take in 800 students when it starts operating from the Education Ministry's former headquarters in Kay Siang Road next July. It will cater to
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    • 63 6 DESPITE all the fanfare and suggestive advertisements, Virgin Mobile is calling it quits after less than a year. It will shut down all local operations by mid-October. Existing customers can transfer their accounts to Sing Tel Mobile. Virgin Mobile, which promoted subscription-free handphone plans that were the
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    • 69 6 FOREIGN students who want to study in Australia may need to take tougher exams in written and spoken English before they can be accepted into Australian universities. The Australian government, worried that university standards were suffering in the drive for cash, argued that too many students with
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    • 82 7 I think the queueing system is fair, but organisers could also consider getting each resident who wants tickets to send a photocopy of his identity card to his residents* committee. These could then be put into a lucky draw for tickets... People who don't get it one time might
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    • 223 7 CONCERNS about drug giant Merck's accounting practices cut short Wall Street's rally yesterday, sending the Dow and technology stocks sharply lower. Merck admitted it had inflated revenues for a unit by US$14 billion ($22b). Stocks have been falling since mid-May on doubts that earnings will be strong enough
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    • 270 7 ON THE RACK EVERY few years, Britain's government gently suggests introducing identity cards, or ID cards. And every few years, the idea is squashed. And yet, ID cards are the tip of the iceberg, reported the Economist. The process of acquiring new information about
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    • 101 7 rules on accountability The Straits Times: Drug giant's $22b 'unusual accounting' hits bourses Tlie Business Times: Merck scandal dashes hopes for Asian stock rally Uanhe Zaobao: New Bill passed to severely punish those who finance terrorism, properties used in connection with terrorist activities will also be seized Berita
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    • 47 7 International Herald Tribune: Investors spooked by Merck data Asian Wall Street Journal: Merck booked US$12.4 billion of revenue not collected New Straits Times: Terengganu passes Hudud Bill BBC news: Congressional committee in Washington begins hearing allegations that WorldCom made a huge overstatement of its profits
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 44 7 Dilbert /Scott Adams WALLY, IT'S YOUR I BuT WHATEVER B OOH-BABY! YOU TURN TO BE IN Y 0U DO, DO NOT i WANT SOKE OF CHARGE WHILE I'N I SIT IN NY CHAIR. 1 THIS. YES,YOU ON VACATION. IT WOULDN'T BE DO. RJ6HT /j
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • 509 8  -  THAT $388 M MISTAKE BY GOVT COMMITTEE BY Azhar Ghani IT WAS a double blow for Singapore's telecommunications regulator. First, it mistakenly paid $388 million to Singapore Telecom (Sing Tel) in 1997. Then, it failed in a costly legal struggle to recover the money. Not surprisingly, the
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    • 161 8 WORKED out by international accounting firm Deloitte and Touche, the 1997 compensation to Singtel based on the loss of future earnings was for the premature loss of its monopoly rights, said Mr Lim in his written reply. Tlie sum, endorsed by a review committee of civil servants,
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    • EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS TO THE PRESS
      • 86 8 IN discharging their duties, did the IDA officers seek professional advice or did they consult the IRAS? If they did, IDA presumably was either wrongly advised or did not follow the advice given. If not, does that represent a failure to discharge that duty?... What is at
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      • 60 8 APART from losing the case, IDA has to bear the full costs. Considering the high legal costs involved, what is the full cost taxpayers have to bear in this battle of giants? Could this unnecessary waste of public funds have been avoided? Was this just a battle
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      • 160 8 WHAT worries me, as a taxpayer, is IDA's frivolous response that it will "take steps" to ensure that this mistake does not happen again, with no details of action to be taken. It was a $388-million mistake. Our money. The IDA also said that this was "an isolated
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  • 353 9 SPEAKUP YOUR FORUM MrsTanSorPoh Deputy director Pre-school Special Education branch Education Programmes Division Ministry of Education PLEASE refer to your article, Should Education Ministry oversee children with special needs? (TNP, July 8) in which there was a debate on whether education for special children should be under
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 717 10  -  HERE'S ANOTHER LINE OF WORK THAT S'POREANS DON'T WANT TO TAKE UP, EVEN THOUGH THE MONEY'S G00D... BY Genevieve Jiang WHAT Madam Jenny Chai (right) does for a living, Singaporeans will not readily do. Which is why the Malaysian is crossing the Causeway to
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    • 255 10 FOREIGN confinement maids would need a work permit, but that does not mean it has to be a hassle. Employers can obtain application forms from the work permit department (WPD) counters or print the form from the Internet at www.gov.sg/mom/fta/wp/ ftawp.htm Submitted
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    • 367 12  -  44-hour training will lead to National Skills Certificate Level 3 By Eugene Wee WALK into any hawker centre or coffeeshop, and you will usually notice a glistening sheen on many of the tables there. Rim your fingers over them, and you'll realise it's actually a
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    • 571 13  -  Report and picture/ Fraemone Wee THIS man is thinking of selling his car a Honda which he bought only two months ago. There is nothing wrong with it, except Mr Kum, 36, a glass contractor, suspects that it was because of
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 70 15 LAST Saturday, in the TNP/Retro contest, we asked readers which '80s girlband will appear at the Live Loud party on Aug 3. The correct answer is Bananarama (right, with a male dancer). Out of 107 calls, 81 gave the correct answer. Five callers will each win a
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    • 613 16  -  FIVE NEIGHBOURHOOD SCHOOLGIRLS WRECK-CLASSMATE'S HOME... Photojournalist/, Joyce Lim HOW do you punish 13-year-old "havoc girls" like these? Send them off to the public library to repair damaged books and serve as volunteers? That's what the principal of North Vista Secondary School, Mr Lim Lai Chuan, did.
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    • 247 17  -  By Amy Chiew ONE cane won't fit all. That's the basic rule about punishment. One principal says that there can't be a single method of punishment that can be used on all students. Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary principal, Mr Wong Lok Oon, said: "We look
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    • 573 18  -  School's broadcasting programme lets students make their own videos THE HUNT FOR PRII PLACES PART 2 By. Jessica Cheam IF one of these students becomes a famous broadcast journalist, then the school can claim some credit. Balestier Hill Primary School, you see, has
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    • 569 19  -  This week, we bring you The New Paper's guide to schools in the central and southern parts of Singapore. We ask principals why you should put your child in their schools If you have a child born between Jan 2,19%, and Jan 1,1997, you should
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  • WORLD
    • 338 20 SPECULATION is increasing in China about the new leadership line-up of the Communist Party. It comes as leaders prepare to head for the Beidaihe resort for their annual meetings next week. This is where key decisions about the party congress will be
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    • 284 20 FROM June 23 to June 30, millions of TV screens in rural China flashed 20-second images of mass Falungong exercises by thousands of practitioners. The illegal satellite signals lasted from several seconds to hours each day, Chinese officials said yesterday at a press
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    • 275 22 V PIE'S TOO SMALL IN SYDNEY... THE pie in Sydney is just too small for everybody. Its population is bursting at the seams. Each year, 50,000 more people go to live in Sydney. Overseas migrants account for 80 per cent of that
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    • 251 23 FOR decades, you could order an "oranji jusu" from your local "kohi shoppu" and cheerfully ask for a "hamu ando cheesu sandoitchi" in Japan. But in recent years, the steady stream of newly-coined foreign words has become a flood. And the government feels
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    • 76 24 IMAGINE getting this coin back as change. And it was currency during the Ming dynasty. The coin, measuring 58cm in diameter and weighing 41.47 kg, was found in Huize in China's Yunnan province. The Guinness World Records has acknowledged it as the largest ancient coin discovered so
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    • 140 25 Source: Reuters. IT WAS supposed to be a joyous occasion for both sides. Instead, guests from two wedding parties at a restaurant in Arganda del Rey outside Madrid, Spain ended up involved in a fierce brawl. One person suffered burn injuries on his chest and
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    • 142 26 IT is goodbye for yet another celebrity restaurateur. J Actress Cameron Diaz's Miami diner, Bambu, has shut down amid allegations of hygiene violations. Business associates of J the actress, who invested £1 million ($2.7 m) in the i South Beach diner, allege that she was targeted
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 177 27 Bernama. A TANKER carrying almost 22,000 litres of petrol burst into flames after colliding with a trailer near the Damansara exit on the New Klang Valley Expressway yesterday. Bystanders pulled driver Daud Ismail, 36, out of the tanker before it was engulfed
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      662 28  -  Nomination Day for Pendang Seat in Kedah is tomorrow and kampung politics is hotting up d REPORTS PICTURES WOON WUITEK in Kedah THE campaign bases are sprouting, like confused mushrooms, even before the A (political) M storm breaks. At dozens of clearings in sprawling rural Pendang, Kedah, brush-clearing
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    • 272 28 THE Pendang Parliamentary seat fell vacant upon the sudden death of its MP, PAS president Fadzil Noor. He was also the state assemblyman for nearby Anak Bukit. Nomination Day is tomorrow and voters in both seats will go to the polls on July 18. In
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  • 938 29  -  SNAP'S STRESSFUL SEARCH 1 1 By Yeoh Wee Teck REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR ANN Poh is a rare find. One in a million, almost. She is nice, and funny to boot. When asked about her assets, she joked: "I asked God for three
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  • HEY!
    • 162 31 IF you ever get a chance to wake Edison Chen (above, left) up from bed, get ready to flee immediately. The Hong Kong heart-throb is known to be bad-tempered and irritable within the first hour of waking up. Even his assistants will disappear from sight after
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    • 96 31 COME next month, Aaron Kwok (right) will drive Japanese girls wild with his groovy dance moves. He'll be touring Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama as part of his world concert tour, before stopping over at Singapore. He is also set to be the new king of
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    • 399 31  -  BY Wendy Teo HIS surname already tells you that he is one cool dude. But Hong Kong actor Louis Koo (right) does have a soft side. Not only is he a hen-pecked boyfriend, he also has the greatest passion for furniture. Looking every bit the
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    • 120 32 ANDY Lau (left) takes his hat off to Jay Chou (playing a guitar). In a recent interview in Taipei, the Hong Kong heavenly king declared that he's no match for the younger Jay's overwhelming popularity. "Not that I'm not li hai (formidable), but
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    • 115 32 COCO Lee (left) must be dying to fall in love. Why else would she make a music video in which she plays herself, dates someone who is clueless about her superstar status and ends up on the cover of a gossip magazine? In the
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      91 33 Kimchi sushi SEXY Ryoko Yonekura (right) has snagged a Korean beau. But it's only for her new drama co-produced by Japan and Korea. Hot on the heels of Kyoko Fukada who acted opposite Korean heart-throb Won Bin, Ryoko is set to play lovers with Ji Jin-Hee (left), who also hails
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    • 149 33 A MAN in love is one who happily flaunts his Valentine's Day ring. Just look at the silver band on Korean actor Ryu Shi-Won's middle finger (right). It's a gift from his girlfriend, singer Baek Ji-Young (above), on Valentine's Day this year. Later, he also gave
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    • 124 34 ON screen, Jang Dong-Gun often plays the rich guy, while Han Jae-Seok is the poor chap. At least in their dramas All About Eve and Model, both showing over Channel U. In real life, it's the other way around. Jae-Seok reportedly boasts a rich background, while
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    • 107 34 WHEN Japanese rock bands came to town, their fans went wild. Over 6,000 turned up at the Youth Park on June 29 to root for their idols. Baroque, Spinnerbait, Screamfeeder and Love Me Butch were invited by Japanese radio station Hello Singapore FM96.3 to perform at the
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    • 87 34 SHE'S known to be a World Cup fanatic. So what would happen when sex siren Norika Fujiwara meets Japanese soccer hero Junichi Inamoto? Nothing, it seems. The duo met on stage during a pre-final event at Yokohama on June 28 (right). Norika, who's the goodwill ambassador for
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    • 397 35 PRIMErTIMETV MOST Singaporeans can safely say they have been to the Singapore Zoo at least once in their life. You've oohed and aahed at the animals, taken pictures and tried to feed them. But do you really know how much work goes into ensuring the place
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    • 899 43 Reuters 0-0844 Innocent 57 (88) (5ag Meagher-Revenue Aca) *****- Kingview 57 (88) (4ag Laxon-Silver Fern Racing) *****-Yamakawi 56.5 (87) (4nzg Dragon-San San) 09-684 Milano Phone 56 (86) (4argg Shaw-ALA Crabbia) 34-5-3 Mayo's Music 55 (84) (4ag Meagher-Kings) *****6 Shining Sun 54.5 (83) (4eg Thwailes-Tara)
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    • 853 43 Emirates Singapore Derby *****0 Air Chief 58 (90) (4ag Yusof-Chiefton) 1-1841 Blizz Bless 58 (110) (4argg Shaw-ALA Crabbia) *****5 BonAmie 58 (108) (4nzg Leck-Orange) 8-0534 Fire House 58 (89) (4nzg Busuttin-Wikeley) 111-24 Moon Shadow 58 (106) (4ah B'tschiger-Midas Touch No. 2) 1 Que Expresion
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    • 521 44  -  Kranji's newest trainer comes with big exposure By Tan Thean Loon NEW kid on the Kranji block Timothy Pinfield has so much to thank Big Jag, the horse that earned him recognition abroad. If not for his international galloper, the 36-year-old trainer's name would probably be confined
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    • 194 44 SADDLING 110 winners in five years is nothing to shout about. But when there is a high percentage of good performers, it is a different thing altogether. According to Pinfield, he had about 1,000 runners in five years and 75 per cent of
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    • 541 45  -  YAHOO! WORLD CUP FINAL PARTY: IN BALI BY Scott Wilson A YOUNG Singapore woman has stunned thousands of male rivals by coming out tops in a competition run by Yahoo! to predict World Cup football results. Gladys Heng Hwee Ling, 23, top scored
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    • 360 45 TENNIS: TOUR RANKINGS AP. WIMBLEDON champion Serena Williams officially moved up to No 1 in the WTA Tour rankings yesterday, the first time she's been ahead of older sister Venus. The 20-year-old Serena is the 11th woman to lead the computer standings
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      • 538 47 ...says Spanish golfing legend Seve Ballesteros (rights AFP. Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros believes that Jack Nicklaus not Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer of all time. The 45-year-old, whose slump in form hit the depths with an 89 in the first round of last weekend's Irish Open,
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      • 614 47  -  At what point does brilliance become boring? The question is being asked after Tiger Woods won his second Major of the season last month and Michael Schumacher swept to his seventh win in 10 outings last Sunday. Or is it plain moaning by
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      • 403 48 Reuters. TIGER Woods, halfway towards completing the first professional Grand Slam of all four Majors in a calendar year, is unconcerned that his first competitive golf in a month will come at next week's British Open. The 26-year-old American has not played competitively since winning
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      • 199 48 A 15-YEAR-OLD schoolboy today kept alive his dream of becoming ore of the youngest players ever to compete in the British Open golf championship. Abbas-Ali Mawji, a Zimbabwean who was born in Watford and is a member of the Houghwood club in St Helens, f
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      • 306 48 AP. FORMER United States international Roy Wegerle yesterday failed in his bid to qualify for next week's British Open golf championship at Muirfield. The former Chelsea and Blackburn striker, who scored seven goals in 41 starts for the US, carded a 5-over 77
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      • 142 49 WE all enjoyed watching the World Cup but what an effect it had on Terry Venables. He left football management complaining he was jaded after a six-month spell at Middlesbrough last year but the World Cup has rejuvenated his appetite, reported the BBC. Venables said: "I
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      • 120 49 LEEDS chairman Peter Ridsdale is sure he has got the best man for the job, reported football36s. He said: "I had lunch with Terry in Spain on Saturday and within 10 minutes, so infectious is his enthusiasm, that he has you believing that you can play
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    • 419 50 ■■■MORE ON VENABLES Players delighted Experts delighted Fans delighted LEEDS super striker Mark Viduka believes new Leeds boss Terry Venables is the perfect man for the job. Viduka played under Venables M when he was in charge of the Jflj Australian national side and
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    • 264 50 TOUGH FUTURE TERRY Venables was a delighted man this morning but he faces a huge task to turn the club round. There are some real problems at the club and here are the most pressing ones which Venables must start to tackle on his first
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    • PREMIERSHIP: THE PRE-SEASON TRANSFER TRAIL
      • 493 51 Maccarone: 'I will be better than Ravanelli' Wire services. MASSIMO Maccarone knows the Italian pressure at Middlesborough. He has to deliver. He has to prove that he is one better than compatriot Fabrizio Ravanelli the last big-name Italian signing at The Riverside. c "I know Ravanelli did
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      • 79 51 ENGLISH fans have seen Maccarone in action. He scored against England in the European Under-21 Championship in Switzerland in May. Boro coach Steve Harrison said: "I went to the European Under-21 Championship to watch Massimo and I saw him score two great goals. "That's what he wants to
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    • 318 52 Dalla Bona makes bold move to Milan -MORE ON THE TRANSFER TRAIL Wire agencies. CHELSEA'S Italian midfielder Sam Dalla Bona has expressed his joy at clinching a long-awaited transfer to Serie A giant AC Milan. "I'm delighted to be back in Italy and in Italian football and, above
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      216 52 Wire agencies. BARCELONA has signed Argentina midfielder Juan Roman Riquelme (right) for five seasons making it the biggest Spanish club signing so far this summer. After a lengthy negotiation with Boca Juniors, a deal was reached yesterday in a Rome hotel, Spanish National Television said. No-one could be
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    • 96 52 AP. SENEGAL captain Aliou Cisse (left) is set to sign for the Blues (Premiership newcomer Birmingham City's nickname). The central defender will cost £4.smillion (sll.7million) from Paris Saint-Germain. He flew to England yesterday to meet Birmingham boss Steve Bruce and tie up the final details
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    • 73 52 AP. THREE years after quitting pro tennis, Michael Boulding could be playing for Aston Villa. Once ranked in the top 20 tennis players in Britain, the 26-year-old winger switched to soccer and has moved to Villa Park from Division Two Grimsby on a Bosman free transfer despite
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    • 67 52 AFP. NEWCASTLE'S French defender Olivier Bernard signed a new three-year contract yesterday. It represented a surprise about turn on the part of the 22-year-old fullback. He made the sudden move after seeing his appeal, against a decision that he was still a Nev castle player in the face
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    • 243 53  -  WORLD CUP 2002 Ver 2.0 CHAMPION: BRAZIL RUNNER-UP: GERMANY THIRD: TURKEY FOURTH: SKOREA Favourites eliminated Italy, Spain, France, Argentina, England, Portugal REPORTS ERNEST LUIS IT'S been over a week since the last ball In World Cup 2002 was kicked, and a jubilant Brazil captain Cafu
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    • 737 54 Duff: The next Giggs? DAMIEN DufFs (left) emergence at the world stage has come as no surprise to some experts. They had predicted he would shine at the international level, reported The Evening Standard. He had been the star along with Robbie
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    • 123 54 IS Nuno Gomes moving to Tottenham? Not, according to the club's website. The report said: Once again, as pre-season press speculation intensifies, we find ourselves linked with players, such as Nuno Gomes and Massimo Maccarone. Neither of these stories have any truth in them. In the case of
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    • 71 54 Rand R—zoo version Reuters. RONALDO and Rivaldo. They are both animals. Well, not quite. A zoo in Switzerland has named two recently-born giraffes after Ronaldo and Rivaldo Brazil's top strikers at World Cup 2002. The zoo said the names were selected out of over 2,500 suggestions from the public. The
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    • 185 54 FROM bald to a Mohawk hairstyle. And tattoos and sarongs. Now, it's the finger nails! Barely settled after his World Cup campaign in Japan/Korea, England captain and Manchester United star David Beckham has found time for an image update. And this time it's not just his hair
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    • 689 55 WHEN Roy Keane was sent home in disgrace, many had thought the Republic of Ireland's chances were over at the World Cup. But they hadn't taken into account the jk immense talent of a 23-year-old called Sb Damien Duff. m He zig-zagged his way past many
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