The New Paper, 24 July 2002

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  • 7 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2002
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  • NEWS
    • 134 2 Doctors can now screen embryos created through in-vitro fertilisation for disease and gender. It is to help patients select which embryos to implant.The process is called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Doctors mix eggs and sperm in a dish to create embyros. They are grown for three days. At
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    • 392 2 Boy or girl? You pick and here's how SHE had always dreamed of a having a daughter. In fact, Ms Tanya (who didn't want to give her full name) has the name picked out since high school. She wanted the intimate bonding between mother and daughter as they picked out
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    • 188 2 EMBRYO screening is raising some moral questions. Is it proper to discard an embryo based on its genes or gender? And which lives are not worth living? Who decides? Dr Jeffrey Steinberg, of the Fertility Institutes in Tarzana, California, said: "There will come
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 828 4  -  By Desmond Ng THIS man has enough antiques in his shop that even money cannot buy. So, when he was offered a cool $1 million to sell his Tanjong Katong shophouse two years ago, it was no steam off his back.
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    • 255 5 CONSERVATION is not just about buildings. It is also about people. Which is why URA's plans look promising, said Dr Johannes Widodo, a senior fellow in the architecture department at the National University of Singapore. "Conservation is all about human beings. We conserve life and culture, not
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    • 197 5 SO, you often lament about places being torn down or streets changing beyond recognition. Now is the time for you to share your views at the URA website and tell developers what you want to see. The URA Identity Plan launched yesterday consists of ideas to help
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 271 6 S'PORE'S PROPOSED WATER FORMULA: SUCH a formula will withstand the test of time and prevent constant disputes over the price of water, Foreign Minister S Jayakumar said in Parliament yesterday. Thus, Singapore wants the price of any treated water it buys from Malaysia after
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    • 77 6 PICTURE THIS It's being billed as a "100 with a view". After all, this block of former public toilets is within 45m of the beach at Charmouth, England. Estate agent Gordon Cockfield, who is standing outside the toilet yesterday, hopes to sell it
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    • 76 6 THE Government is now studying whether it can make Housing Board flats more like private property, with fewer rules such as not being able to rent out a whole flat and restrictions on selling of flats. This will apply to HDB flats purchased from next year with
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    • 65 6 SLIM 10 distributor TV Media pleaded guilty yesterday to supplying the banned weight-loss pill to customers, even after the health authorities ordered it off the market on April 18. The company said in mitigation that it was fulfilling a "contractual obligation". It also pleaded guilty to 20
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    • 58 6 FOUR small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have cracked an annual ranking of the 50 fastest-growing companies in Singapore. They are Tai-Tech Advanced Electronics (Singapore), Ace Com Technologies, Green Holidays Tours Travel and IMD Technologies. This list, compiled by DP Info, classifies firms by their three-year compounded
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    • 76 6 FROM Dec 16, Singaporean motorists will have to pay $50 for their driving licence but it will be valid for life. The new plastic licence will be the size of a credit card, have a photograph of the holder and other security features. However, motorists above 60
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    • 72 6 JUNIOR executives can now be represented by their unions to seek help if they feel they have been unfairly dismissed, or have disputes over retrenchment benefits and breaches in employment contracts. But they will be represented as individuals, not as a group, as they have no collective-bargaining
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    • 67 6 ABOUT 25 million people around the world are studying Chinese, reported the China Daily yesterday. It quoted the National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language for the figure. As many as 2,100 universities and colleges in 85 countries are offering courses on the language. The
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    • 96 7 One key reason piracy continues to be high is that our navy is too weak to carry out enforcement. How do you expect it to challenge pirates who might be better armed than it is? —Military analyst Kusnanto Anggoro of Jakarta's Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is
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    • 201 7 BATTERED US stocks extended their slide yesterday, as investors punished bank stocks after revelations of secret deals that helped failed energy trader Enron conceal its massive debt. The Dow Jones industrial average sank to its lowest point since Oct 1,1998, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq tumbled to a five-year
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    • 263 7 ON THE RACK SOME marriages like that between Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton seem destined to last forever, and it is shocking when they do not. Others appear troubled from the start: The union of AOL and Time Warner falls into the second category,
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    • 76 7 The Straits Times: S'pore wants water price pegged to Newater The Business Times: Merrill queries accounting at four HK blue chips Lianhe Zaobao: Singaporeans encouraged to take responsibility for their own decisions Berita Harian: Mah gives details of bank loan rules for HDB flats NewsRadio 93.8FM: Singapore and
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    • 56 7 International Herald Tribune: Israeli missile kills key Hamas leader Asian Wall Street Journal: Japan stands up to US meltdown New Straits Times: Arms cache find: Police suspect link with M-16 Gang—two gun-runners shot dead BBC news: The world's two largest banks have suffered a share price collapse after
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • 556 8  -  By. Azhar Ghani THE changes being made to the Central Provident Fund (CPF) aren't without consequences. But as Members of Parliament heard in the House yesterday, not making those changes had its own consequences too. In the end, it was a question of balance. For instance,
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    • 140 8 CPF housing: Adjusting the margins, not the core MORE SELFRELIANCE THE most significant new equilibrium arrived at, seemed to be the balance between the responsibilities of the Government and the people. The HDB changes are a significant indication of this policy shift. According to DPM Lee, the move to do
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 516 9  -  The problem is the men, says this sex doctor Reports and picture/ Andrew Duffy MARRIED sex can be great. I just wrote that down to see how it looked. It looked fine but you probably wouldn't want that on a T-shirt. But if
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    • 102 9 DR Barry McCarthy will be talking about sex and married couples at the Family Resource and Training Centre (FRTC) Family Ist Convention at Raffles City Shopping Centre this weekend. The event will combine family activities with counselling, and childcare with seminars and an exhibition. Experts will talk about
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    • 753 10  -  DRAMA AT WOODLANDS CHECKPOINT A Syndicate driver escapes but six days later he tries stunt again is nabbed By, Joycelyn Wong <A police officer asks Mohd Nazre to drive his car to the inspection pit near lane. 2 Instead, he accelerates and dashes past mM fl I
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 334 13 Stakeholders want out. So will spc close shop? SPC, which has eight out of over 200 fuel stations here, is the smallest player in the field. Its profit record has been dismal, which was largely why DBS and NatSteel sold their stakes
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    • 169 14 THESE blackened remains of a section of the National Day Parade stage are silent victims of a fire at the National Stadium early this morning. The fire partially destroyed a small segment of the stage where the choir will
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  • WORLD
    • 234 16 THESE may be early times, but there are signs that Beijing's military is enhancing its weapons system to counter potentially adversorial US and Japanese forces in Asia. But right now, they are still shooting blanks literally. China recently test-fired a medium-range missile that
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    • 179 17 Wire services. NOT only did a couple beat their infant son to death, they also burned his body in the fireplace before fleeing. The US authorities said a New Jersey couple, Jessica Morgan, 20 and Kevin Abrahams, 25, have been arrested and charged with
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  • WORLD
    • 305 19 'Court mafia' involves police, court administrators, lawyers, prosecutors, judges, prison guards SEEKING justice in Indonesia is not easy. The country's judiciary is so corrupt that money, not justice, was the currency in many courts, said a survey by the Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW).
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    • 70 20 ..Is on this new beehive-shaped City Hall that stands on the South Bank of the tiver Thames near Tower Bridge. It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth 'esterday and will house an assembly chamber, committee rooms and offices, ["he slanted building, which gives one the impression that your
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    • 363 20 As the Hang Seng Index plunges, more Hong Kong men are also dropping their mistresses MORE Hong Kong men are bidding their China concubines farewell. With the economy in one of the longest downturns the Special Administrative Region has ever experienced, many mainland mistresses are finding
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    • 263 21 AP. WHY don't husbands ever remember the fights? It is all in the brain, according to a new study. Women's brains are wired both to feel and to recall emotions more keenly than the brains of men. A team of psychologists tested both genders
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    • 202 22 B B ORE'S a familiar case of a bully brother with a twist. Simpson's prcrifeflis started when she and her <li«rTDrother, Thomas, were at their home in Suffolk, UK, reported London 13»OTother thought it to Pput something differentiate the scanner, an older
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    • 218 22 NASA is facing a shrinking budget. It has not enough money to ugrade its outdated equipment and its contractors either no longer make the components it needs, or have gone out of business. So it has taken to advertising on the
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    • 986 24 hPtegMF* eMa*at«sri One boldly cancels customers' orders or asks them to wait an hour. Another has to turn snaking queues away. In hard times when restaurants are praying for diners, two retro cafes are banking on their unpretentious appeal and laughing all the way to
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    • 421 25 ALONG Maju Avenue at Serangoon Garden, Milano Pizza looked empty last Saturday evening, while the Coffee Bean Tea Leaf nearby had only a few customers. In contrast, a less-established and more haphazardly-painted cafe a few shops away was packed to the seams. People wore waiting to be seated.
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    • 339 25 RETRO, however, does not always work. When something gets too lost in time and too deep in neglect, it gets too remote to endear itself to even the most bohemian chill-outer. At Mitre Bar (right), along Killiney Road, patrons can drink, play chess, throw darts and
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    • 359 26  -  ByI Eri Akbar CENTRO club was packed on Monday when British singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor was singing. And, at the end of her half-hour showcase when she announced she might sing club anthem If This Ain't Love, the crowd sat back in anticipation. But
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    • 215 27 SHE climbs the music charts, he climbs mountains. But when it comes to audience popularity, petite singer Stefanie Sun beat mountaineer Khoo Swee Chiow hands down. Channel 5 gameshow Wheel Of Fortune had a taping for the National Day special recently, and it was
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    • 245 27 CHANNEL U hottie Adam Chen's first working trip to Hong Kong left an indelible impression. He became the station's first male newbie to work overseas (he spent a month in Hong Kong on a project called Feel 100%). He flew business class for the first time.
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    • Article, Illustration
      60 28 one of those who cried buckets over the Korean weepy drama, AU wTd^oserLes actor Song Seung Hun (above) will be coming to Singapore late next month to promote his new film, get things sizzling, he will be accompanied by three hot babes Karen Mok,^Vicki We can't wait
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    • 203 28 GURMIT Singh has been trying his best to keep good buddy Pierre Png (right) company while the latter is recovering from his liver donation op. The two have been fighting a war in cyberspace, each trying to beat the other in the game, 1 Red
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  • RACING
    • 154 43 ON THE KRANJI TRACK with DANNY KHOO FIGHTIN' MAN, with jockey Craig Carmody up, underlined his chances in Friday's Open Benchmark 60 race over 1,600 m with an eye-catching workout at Kranji yesterday. Sent out in the company of Golden Rule (not entered for
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    • 393 43 «JUVENELE CHAMPIONSHIP 1,200 m: Iron Eyes Cody canter/40.2. Lim's Green canter/38.6. Muscle Man canter/44.4. First-up winner Rockefeller canter/43, not extended. Newcomers Shanghai Hero and Diamond Kingdom (Restricted Maiden Div 1) canter/38/. 1, smartly. Slow work: Grand Canyon (CT Kuah), Ninetyfive Emperor. OPEN 1,600 m:
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    • 153 43 RESULTS of four barrier trials over I,ooom on the fibresand Hack at Kranji yesterday. The going was good. TRIAL 1 1 Celebrity Wonder (T Ong) 2 Cool Operator (M du Plessis) 3 Make No Mistake (S John) 4 Fighting Superior (M Hairin)sCetane(G Sharrol) 6 Special Marco (VSivan) Official
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    • 529 43 DELUSIONAL, who will carry trainer Malcolm Thwaites' hopes in the $100,000 Juvenile Championship race over 1,200 m, is the only raced newcomer at Friday's Kranji meeting. The Australian-bred by Sir Lawrence arrived last month with a good record of three wins, a
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    • 390 44 KENTUCKY DERBY WINNING OWNER DIES OF HEART ATTACK AT 43 AP PRINCE Ahmed Salman, owner of Kentucky Derby winner War Emblem and last season's Horse of the Year Point Given, died on Monday of a heart attack. He was 43. Prince Ahmed, a nephew of King
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    • WHIP HAND
      • 245 44 THE Emirates Singapore Derby weekend may be more than a week ago, but still fresh in the minds of readers were the high incidences of bleeding attacks at the two-day meeting. Among those who called The Whip to express their concern was veteran race-goer Tony Lee. He asked
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      • 92 44 RACE-GOERS will be well advised to keep a lookout for front-runners when making their choices on the second weekend of the Kuala Lumpur meeting. For like last Friday's Kranji meeting, the Sungei Besi track leaned heavily towards front-runners. The majority of winners from the 19 races held either
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      • 145 44 HE MAY have lost the plot somewhat back in New Zealand but Thunderaway is definitely on the right track at his new home in Kranji. The four-year-old by Thunder Gulch was able to get off the mark in only his second local appearance last Friday night. Ridden by
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    • 570 44 NST. BABY CHILLIES looks ready to chalk up his third success going on his impressive trial in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-old New Zealand-bred easily thrashed stablemate Best Of Dragon (Class 2 Div 2 1,400 m) by
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  • SPORTS
    • THE XVII COMMONWEALTH GAMES Manchester 2002
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        633 45 150,000 CONDOMS WILL BE AVAILABLE TO THE 5,000 ATHLETES AT THE MANCHESTER GAMES. IS IT AN ENERGISER PLOY OR JUST GOING TO THE EXTREMES IN SPORT? IT works out to three free condoms every day for the 10 days in Manchester for the Commonwealth Games. Every athlete will
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      • 720 46 STAR OFTHE GAMES: AUSTRALIA'S lAN THORPE IF his size-17 feet don't scare you, his black, shark-like swimsuit will. A world champion at 15, a world record holder at 16 and an Olympic Games legend at 17, lan Thorpe will compete in the 100,200 and 400 metres
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      • 69 46 Bone Oct 1982 Hometown: Sydney, Australia Nlclainiei: Thorpey, Thorpedo or Ripper Fanta Father Ken (gardener), mother Margaret (teacher), sister Christina (swimmer) Career MgHgbts: *****0 gold medals, at 14, in New South Wales age short-course championship; 1996 Four golds in Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur, 1999 Six golds in Pan Pacific
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      373 47 Du Toit doubles it AFP SOUTH African swimmer Natalie Du Toit is determined to make history in the pool at the Commonwealth Games by taking part in a disabled event as well as testing herself against her able-bodied rivals. The 18-year-old from Capetown competed for South Africa at the
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      106 47 Reuters FORMULA One world champion Michael Schumaeher will literally step into Ronaldo's boots for a soccer match today. ■life The Ferrari driver (left) will play the charity game in Mannheim wearing the boots with which Ronaldo Hfjlgi scored both goals in Brazil's 2-0 KjiHßk World Cup final
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    • 210 47 Reuters STEVE Waugh, out of favour with the Australian one-day selectors, was greeted like a hero yesterday when he visited a residential school for 281 children at Barrackpore near Calcutta. "Steve (Waugh, above) is such a good cricketer. I have seen him on TV. How can
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      293 48 Sad Busta digs deep i WOULD you have the desire or strength to carry on competing in a world championship if you had just suffered a personal tragedy? But Francisco Bustamante had, despite learning of the death of his baby daughter in the Philippines, reported worldpoolchampionships.com. Bustamante, who eventually
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    • 85 48 CARLA Khan will become tfre first Pakistani woman squash player to compete at the Commonwealth Games. This came after Sunday's decision by the Commonwealth Games Federation that the English-born 20-year-old is eligible to play. One of the youngest I descendants of Pakistan's famous Khan dynasty, PflTlfi i<a onrflnHflftiicfHfPT' VCUlu
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    • 106 48 AP FORMER Manchester United manager Tommy j Docherty described yesterday how he had to be rescued from an automatic car wash. Docherty was on his way home to Manchester when he decided to use the car wash at a petrol station. When the machine did
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    • 750 49 ...MORE ON WHAT'S THE SCORE TOMORROW: Match 01 I Bale &tlerv Tanjong Pagar Both teams come into this game on the back of heavy defeats. Balestier, despite its best attacking efforts, was thumped 4-1 by runaway leaders SAF Warriors while Tanjong Pagar fought hard but was
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    • 419 50  -  Still got the betting itch after last week's high-scoring and no-scoring encounters? SCORE!, the S-League betting system, is still a good bet if you know how to play blind. Our sportswriters ERNEST LUIS and WANG MENG MENG wear the blindfold to predict this week's possibilities By Ernest
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    • 491 50 TOMORROW: Match 01: ft 111 ■111. ..T 1 uaiorocrv laqoig kiku At first glance, ninth-placed Tanjong Pagar would seem the favourite against llth-placed Balestier. But after Tanjong Pagans 6-1 surrender to Tampines last week, the doubts are there. The last time they met at Toa Payoh
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    • 443 51  -  GOLF: JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS BY Lionel Lee AROUND the middle of last year, Singapore junior golfer Yang Lee Keong made an unusual request to his father Yang Choon Siang. He wanted his father to sponsor him for two years so that he could
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    • 573 51 JUSTIN HAN and Heng Su-Ann had plenty of time to kill when they were in San Diego. They could have spent a day at Six Flags Magic Mountain checking out the latest roller-coaster rides there, take a trip down south to the border of Mexico
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    • 403 52 JAPANESE STORM EUROPE AP. JAPANESE World Cup star Junichi Inamoto said he wanted regular soccer at new club Fulham after making only four appearances for Arsenal last year. The 23-year-old midfielder, who has joined Fulham on a 12-month loan deal from Osaka Gamba, made few
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    • 216 52 AFP. JAPANESE international Shunsuke Nakamura sought to dampen expectations on his first season in Italian football after being unveiled by newly promoted Reggina yesterday. The 24-year-old, signed from the J-League's Yokohama Marinos on a four-year contract for 7.5 million euros ($l3-lm), was cautious about
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    • 241 52 TAKAYUKI Suzuki is to join Belgian First Division champion Genk from J-League club Kashima Antlers after both sides reached a basic agreement on a contract for the Japan striker. Suzuki will join Genk on a one-year loan deal with the option of a full transfer at
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    • 464 53 WHILE the football world is in the grip of a financial recession, Man Utd has splashed out again and that means trouble for the rest of Europe. United has spent £77million (s2lom) in the past year, snapping up $82.5 m
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    • 229 53 ...MORE ON MAN UTD MAN Utd defender Gary Neville claims that ending last season without a single trophy has put massive pressure on all the players. Neville, who will miss the start of the season after having problems with his recovery
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    • 150 53 Reuters. RIO Ferdinand's transfer to Man Utd has ended rumours that Argentina moVmg Reports in Italy suggested that the Lazio centre-back was about to move to United as a final But Lazio president Sergio Cragnotti said: "Sorin won't move from Lazio. There's no discussion
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    • 312 54 THE MAN U ZONE... RIO FERDINAND RIO Ferdinand has pleaded with Man Utd boss Sir Alex Ferguson to throw him straight into action this weekend. Ferdinand who signed in a British transfer busting deal on Monday was originally due to take things easy
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    • 322 54 RIO Ferdinand has grown up a lot in the past three years and he'll need all that new maturity to deal with the hatred of Leeds fans in the coming season. Ferdinand displayed his growing maturity when asked how he would cope with the
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    • 210 54 AFP. ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger (above) has claimed that Manchester United paid too much for England centre-half Rio Ferdinand. United may ultimately pay Leeds as much as £33.3mi11i0n (s9lm) for Ferdinand, having already spent at least $82.5 m a world record fee for
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    • 283 55 CHARITY SHIELD: AUGUST 11 AP. The other strikers who have been linked to Spurs this season: Samuel Eto'o, Julius Aghahowa, Kevin Phillips, Nuno Gomes, Massimo Maccarone, Dwight Yorke, Landon Donovan, Qu 80, Dario Silva ALMOST every available striker has been linked to Tottenham Hotspur in
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    • 363 55 TOTTENHAM played two teams in each half. Yet, it was good enough to beat Colchester United 3-1. Both sides created plenty of chances. But it was the Premiership side that made the most of the opportunites presented to them. Spurs had a good
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    • 223 55 Wire services. CRISIS club Chelsea is in more trouble. One of its main assets, striker Eidur Gudjohnsen, may leave the club. According to the player's agent, the 23-year-old Icelandic international could quit because of a pay dispute. Gudjohnsen's agent, Peter Harrison, said
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    • 339 56 BIG EPL KICKOFF: AUGUST 17 WARM-UP: GREEN TOWN 1 LEEDS UNITED 5 Wire Services. LEEDS United thrashed the Chinese Second Division side Green Town FC 5-1 in Hangzhou yesterday night in sweltering heat to kick-off its Far East tour. The mercury hit 38 degrees Celsius
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    • 291 56 WARM-UP: EXETER 2 WEST BROMWICH ALBION 3 WEST Bromwich Albion continued its Premiership countdown with an unconvincing victory at Third Division Exeter yesterday. Goals from Danny Dichio, Jason Roberts and an Igor Balis penalty gave the West Midlands side a win in the end, reported the WBA'
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    • 282 56 WARM-UP: SOUTHEND UNITED 1 WEST HAM 3 JOE Cole (left) and Paolo Di Canio made welcome returns to first team action last night night as West Ham secured its first victory of the pre-season build-up. It beat Third Division Southend United 3-1 thanks to goals from
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    • 272 56 Reuters. ROMA and Lazio have six days to meet various financial requirements or else be barred from the forthcoming Italian league season, the Serie A finance authority Covisoc said in a statement yesterday. Serie B teams Fiorentina, Genoa, Messina, Napoli, Palermo and Verona
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