The New Paper, 24 September 2002

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  • 30 1 the new paper TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2002 Picture/MOHD ISHAK III llll I III m M*Singapore Press Holdings HHIiHiMtfclil8B.-l.-M Mn»<P)04»M002 I 60CENTS 11 mm I i—iMiMMBfckMM I 8 i^/w.'kpoooi the m*
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    • 27 1 How retrenched professionals in US .'..V '•>' o• create wacky jobs for themselves: Poop Woman Billboard Man Pesky Bird Man q V The New Paper team in Beijing
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  • NEWS
    • 514 2 In the US... MANY people who have been laid off in the US are letting their imaginations run wild. Small business experts say, as the US economy slumps, more people typically decide to strike out on their own. And among those who join the breed
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    • 211 2 In S'pore... SIX months ago, Mr Henry Lee lost his job as a factory supervisor. Desperate, the 51-year-old started selling personal items shoes, clothes and knick-knacks at the Sungei Road Thieves' Market. Now, he is a regular at largest second-hand marketplace. He has moved on to
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    • 664 3 THE garden is like a mini zoo. To the right, a brown giraffe stands tall and proud, while a lone white duck is frozen in mid-waddle a few metres away. A giant turtle protects her eggs, while in the middle, two
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 1162 4  -  THE DOUBLE LIFE OF A DRUG BUSTER REPORTS FRAEMONE WEE UNDERCOVER officers walk the high-wire between cop and bad guy. They work in secret operations, and adopt false identities to infiltrate tight-knit groups. Film and television have filled us in on
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    • 311 5 INTELLIGENCE officers made up a good number of recipients who received the Minister's Award for Operational Excellence this morning. Among them is Sgt Mikail, whose real name we cannot reveal. He made narcotic history in the first LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide, a hallucinogenic drug)
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    • 165 5 SOME months ago, Sgt Mikail was to buy Ice (a methamphetamine) from a dealer. They were meeting for the first time, so under the cover of night, Sgt Mikail set up a meeting place and time. "I was standing there with my money in
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 257 6 The closing date for the bioscience course offered by MDIS and Bradford is Oct 22. Enquries: 6419-3130. FOR years, private schools have specialised in computing, business management, accounting and language courses. But now, with Singapore developing into a biomedical science hub and world-class research centre,
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    • 58 6 How much is a 114-year-old football worth? PICTURE THIS Plenty... if it was used in the 1888 FA Cup Final. The ball was used in the game that saw West Bromwich Albion beat Preston North End 2-1. Now, it's part of a 300 lot football memorabilia sale that will be
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    • 82 6 YESTERDAY, the haze reached its worst level so far, with the Pollutants and Standards Index (PSI), which measures air quality on a scale of zero to 500, hitting 61. But this is still within the moderate range. The good news is that the PSI is not expected
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    • 74 6 FOOD and beverage and property player Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd dived into the red with interim losses of $5.3 million, down sharply from first-half profits of $2.5 million last year. The losses for the six months to June came despite a 60 per cent spike in
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    • 72 6 IN order to help make Singapore the best place in the region to settle disputes, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (Siac) yesterday announced that it is reducing fees for arbitration services across the board by 40 per cent. Siac will now be four to five times cheaper than
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    • 67 6 CRUDE oil prices surged to a new 19-month high yesterday, with some members of The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) resisting earlier pledges to respond to sustained high rates by boosting output. Benchmark US crude oil had jumped 41 US cents (70 cents) to U5530.25 a
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    • 67 6 THE police in southern Thailand arrested almost 100 gamblers, including Malaysians and Singaporeans, in a raid yesterday on a temporary casino. The gambling den in Pattalung province was established several days ago just a few metres away from a police checkpoint. The authorities also seized playing cards,
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    • 67 6 SILICON Valley-based semiconductor equipment firm Electroglas is moving 90 per cent of its manufacturing operations to Singapore over the next six months. The $13 million move will put the company in the heart of the fastest-growing region of the semiconductor industry. So far, the company has invested
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    • Article, Illustration
      52 7 AWvfus have an emotional Wtt^ ient to the living heritage us. Under trees we have ex&Kiged stories or that furtive first kiss. —Minister of State (National Development) Vivian Balakrishnan, on the Heritage Trees Scheme to identify and save rare old trees, like the 150-year-old Tembusu tree in the Botanic
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    • 232 7 ON THE RACK MOST mainland Chinese companies are delighted to be awarded one of the rationed slots on the Shanghai or Shenzhen stock exchanges, reported Businessweek. Stocks newly listed on these bourses invariably shoot up in price, quickly enrichingthe founders of the companies involved. But when Mr
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    • 54 7 The Straits Times: Jakarta car blast near US property The Business Times: Infocomm tech sector target: Up to 10 per cent of GDP by 2012 Lianhe Zaobao: Singapore to develop into a tourism business capital Berita Harian: Recommendations to increase contribution of tourism sector Streats: Yesterday, a bomb
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    • 31 7 International Herald Tribune: Schroeder elected with tiny majority The Asian Wall Street Journal: Chinese tycoon will lead North Korean trade region New Straits Times: Health fund to tap 'sin'tax
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    • 221 7 THE Nasdaq composite index slid to a six-year low yesterday amid a worsening outlook for the US economy. Investors have increasingly lost confidence due to mixed economic news, earnings warnings, and concerns about a war with Iraq. New York Stock Exchange volume was moderate at 1.35 billion shares,
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    • 42 7 Dilbert /Scott Adams III Mi YOU HAVE CHRONIC HAVE YOU BEEN YOU HAVE INTERFACE rWtfOBBIS CRAPPUS EXPOSED TO ANY 1 POISONING. YOU1L BUT THAT'S NOT UJHY J USER INTERFACES 1 BE DEAD IN A WEEK. YOU PUKED. DESIGNED BY I I ENGINEERS?
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  • NEWS
    • 980 8  -  PAVEMENT ART THAT VANISHES ON THURSDAY Singapore businessman bounces back after being burnt in China REPORTING FROM BEIJING EUGENE WEE IN Beijing' s tranquil Jingshan park, which overlooks the magnificent grounds of the Forbidden City, Mr Li Hiiaizhi is known as something of a magician. Wielding
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    • 402 9 A LOUD "hei!" breaks the tranquillity of the Jingshan Park. Retired storekeeper and budding calligrapher Li Yanchun snaps her head around in mid-stroke at the commotion. She spies a gaggle of old folks doing their morning Qigong exercises about 50m away, giving an enthusiastic
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 571 10  -  Is it wrong to kill animals for their skins? BY Eugene Wee HANDS up those who are against the trading of animal fur. You should be. It involves animals suffering in the name of fashion. Now those with your hands up, when was the last time
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    • 666 11  -  LONDON SCIENTISTS SAY A NEW FLU VIRUS IS ABOUT TO DESCEND AND A pandemia R^TT BY Genevieve Jiang THE flu is a nuisance for most, but in one year it killed 50 million people. That was back in 1918, when a deadly form of the influenza
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    • 117 11 SCIENTISTS in London warned against a global outbreak of deadly influenza after they discovered that a strain of the virus has developed the ability to get round the human body's main defence against the disease. The Sunday Telegraph in London reported that researchers who studied
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  • 227 12 SPEAKUP SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM Matthew Wong Public Affairs Branch Central Provident Fund Board g-j. V Mr K William's case (right), which you reported, was unusual as it involves a person who was at one time mentally incapable of
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  • 247 14 WORLD AP. SHE was the darling of the Russians when she was crowned Miss Universe in May. Yesterday, Ms Oxana Fedorova, 24, was sacked by officials after she reportedly failed to carry out her responsibilities. Officials are to replace her with the runner-up, Ms Justine Pasek,
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  • WORLD
    • 251 16 ITS now a competitive sport. And it even has a national tour circuit in the US, similar to tennis or golf complete with trophies, cash prizes and a television special on the Fox network called The Glutton Bowl. Eating is the latest sport
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    • 198 17 Reason: Security concerns Reuters. FROM tomorrow, Malaysian passport holders will not be able to enter Canada on the visa waiver programme. Canada, which announced this decision yesterday citing security reasons, has been under persistent US pressure to tighten security. It imposed the same visa
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 191 19 MALAYSIAN MINiSTER SAYS: in cementing trading ties with China even overtaking Singapore in the process. Total trade with Malaysia accounted for 26 per cent of China's trade with the Asean region. And globally, the country is China's seventh largest trading partner. So said
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    • 230 19 JOKES about Proton cars being theft-friendly won't be so funny anymore. And owners could have the last laugh, at a price. Proton will soon introduce a high-tech radio-tracking device for its cars. When the alarm is activated, the control centre will immediately receive
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  • WORLD
    • 113 20 PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat checking a document with the help of a flashlight after the electricity was cut off by Israeli troops besieging his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday. Mr Arafat had rejected Israel's demand to hand over the names of all those
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    • 243 20 THERE'S no better way to learn about a country than through its food. That's what student David Saeger found out sifter he signed up for the Explore East Asia programme at the University of Southern California. Lesson No 1: Learn to order dianxin small plates of
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    • 304 21 HE filmed up women's skirts at a street festival. And targeted little girls too. Yet, Peeping Tom Richard Sorrells was set free by a US court last Thursday. He was caught for "upskirting", a form of voyeurism in which peeping toms either secretly rig up
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    • 180 21 IN March, Tan Chin Wee, 30, an engineer, wli* jailed forthree weeks for using a video camera to film the underwear of women at Northpoint Shopping Centre. On April 8, a 24-year-old woman saw Tan standing behind a woman on the escalator. He was holding a red
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    • 455 22 DISORDER seems to b& spreading IA Japanese schools. In primary school, students in the lower classes commonly talk out of turn and wrestle with one another in class. By Primary 4, they are using bad language, often directed at
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    • 72 22 Who says models have to be young? Youth is sidelined, and maturity takes centrestage at this first nauonai modelling pageant for middle-aged am j seiiiof citizens in China. The contest, held last week, attracted 18 total of more than 360 contestants aged
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  • 407 23 COMMENT MY friends will tell you I make Roy Keane's many lunges look like that of a ballerina swinging wildly to get her ballet shoes off. I've been called "animal", "lout", "menace". And those are just the compliments. Yes, I love football. And much as
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    • 478 24  -  This Jennifer got none BY Jeanmarie Tan ALL eyes were on the two Jennifers. It was supposed to be their night, with all that favourable pre-show buzz. Friends star Jennifer Aniston (left) and Alias newbie Jennifer Garner (right) were both considered shoo-ins for their categories
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    • 452 24 OKAY, so we all know by now that Friends found some good buddies among Emmy voters, who also loved Raymond. The West Wing won big yet again (yawn), burying their nearest competition Six Feet Under. Here's our own list of winners and losers
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    • 77 25 Best Drama: The West Wing Best Comedy: Friends Best Actor (Drama): Michael Chiklis (The Shield) Best Actress (Drama): Allison Janney (The West Wing) Best Actor (Comedy): Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond) Best Actress (Comedy): Jennifer Aniston (Friends) Best Supporting Actor (Drama): John Spencer (The West Wing)
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    • 529 26  -  JIM ADKINS, LEAD SINGER GUITARIST OF JIMMY EAT WORLD Reports pictures/ Ernest Luis FROM READING. ENGLAND BY all accounts, never believe a rock singer when he tells you hell catch you later. Especially if you're not someone famous, and not the kind of person everyone is
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    • 91 26 HOW would you like to land a copy of Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American, especially since it has been autographed by all the members of the band? The New Paper and Universal Music have five copies to give out, and all you have to do is answer
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    • 406 26 EMO rock is a term that would probably stump most music fans here. It stands for emotional rock, or emotional hardcore rock. At its most basic, the music is loud but articulate, and with good lyrics. It can be played at breakneck speed but it doesn't
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    • Article, Illustration
      233 27 Two J-pop icons are currently gracing the covers of two top European fashion magazines. Fur-clad Ayumi Hamasaki strikes a sensual pose in Vogue, while Takeshi Kaneshiro turns on his brooding charms in GQ. Here's the latest on the red-hot idols J-POP queen Ayumi Hamasaki (above) is seething mad.
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    • 101 27 IF you ever spot Japanese actress Rie Tomosaka sobbing while yakking on her handphone on the streets of Tokyo, do not be too alarmed. She's probably just overwhelmed with emotion. She was on board a train in Tokyo last year when her buddy, singer Ringo Shiina, called
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    • Article, Illustration
      193 28 LAST year, he was so elusive that he granted only one media interview. Now, the chiselled good looks of Takeshi Kaneshiro (above) are all over the place, as he is busy promoting his new Japanese sci-fi film, Returner, and drama, Golden Ball. But try to remind the Taiwanese-Japanese
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    • 88 28 KOREAN actor Song Seung-Hun is superstitious, and not shy to admit it. He always puts on his left shoe first or he might throw tantrums, and his house is adorned with lucky ornaments, as he believes in fengshui. "I won't do anything that others say
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    • 119 28 TEN days after she got married, an impish Hikaru Utada posted this message on her personal website: "I have not divorced yet!" The J-pop star was responding to media speculations and concerned fan mail last week, while enjoying her honeymoon in the US with her hubby, director
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    • 345 29 PRIME-TIME TV- IN the wake o£The Sixth Sense, The Eye and the whole deluge of Asian horror flicks, don't count on Restless the new TV imitator on the block to take the genre to new heights. In the trailers for this local drama, we
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      • 802 38 THEY say that when you cannot remember what a referee did during the game, it means he did a good job. When I was in Turkmenistan recently as part of a coaching instructors' panel, I saw a game where the referee's actions shocked me. The crowd jeered
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      • 128 38 SCOTTISH referees confirmed what fans have always suspected: They need glasses to help them do their job. They announced a sponsorship deal with leading British opticians Specsavers in an agreement that will cause chuckles throughout Scottish stadiums. The contract, worth £750,000 pounds ($2.2 m) to
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    • EPL: MATCHTAKE week 5
      • 287 39 It was a weekend of frights for the Premiership big boys. Not one of the challengers went off without a scare as close scores were the high points of the weekend. From champions Arsenal's last-gasp goal for a 2-1 home win over Bolton Wanderers to Manchester United, needing
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      • 416 41 Goalkeepers were in brilliant form last weekend in the English Premiership. They not only saved penalties but also made spectacular blocks from open play. Even Peter Enckelman, Aston Villa's butter fingers, came up tops against Everton, tipping over a dangerous move. Here we capture the saves which
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    • 886 43 ON THE BALL TODAY, I'm going to introduce a highly successful forecasting strategy, and I'm going to do it for free, just because I like you guys so much. It's a very simple strategy which I invented, and 1 call it the Which Is More
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    • CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: TEAM UPDATE
      • 296 44 CALL INFOLINE Call 1900- *****13 after 6.30 am tomorrow for the results. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. GROUPE Reuters. NEWCASTLE v FEYENOORD: Newcastle manager Bobby Robson will seek to secure his club's first Champions League points with the same side that overcame Sunderland 2-0
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      • 273 44 GROUPF Reuters. BAYER LEVERKUSEN v MAN U: Bayer lost 3-2 at Werder Bremen on Saturday on the back of their 6-2 thrashing by Olympiakos in their Group F opener. Last season's Bundesliga runners-up and Champions League finalists are now fourth from bottom in the league with
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      • 288 44 GROUPG Reuters. LENS v BAYERN MUNICH: Last week's defeat at AC Milan could well be followed by another when Lens host 2001 winners Bayern Munich. The French side will be without injured defender Adama Coulibaly. Lens have suffered three consecutive defeats over the last 11 days
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      • 291 44 GROUPH Reuters. CLUB BRUGES v LOKOMTIV: Bruges, who put up a fight in last week's 3-2 defeat by Barcelona, limbered up for their second Champions League outing with a 1-0 victory over Ghent in the Belgian league on Saturday. Lokomotiv, who had Saturday's Russian premier league match
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    • CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (GROUP E) NEWCASTLE v FEYENOORD
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        564 45 Reuters. LOOK out for Pierre van Hooijdonk. The Feyenoord dangerman. The free-kick specialist. That's the job primarily for Newcastle's defence and Irish World Cup goalkeeper Shay Given when the Magpies face Feyenoord in the Champions League tonight (Singapore time, tomorrow morning). "We are aware of van Hooijdonk's ability
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        388 46 GARY SPEED Newcastle United IT was a massive win against Sunderland in last week's derby game. It was so vital for Newcastle to get the Premiership campaign back on track with a home win and we did just that. Craig Bellamy opened the scoring in the first minute
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    • CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (GROUP F): BAYER LEVERKUSEN v MANCHESTER UTD
      • 233 47 BELIEVE (TOR NOT.. Wire Services. RUUD van Nistelrooy is being slammed for his lack of goals so far this season. But surprisingly, he is just one behind his record at the same stage last season, having grabbed his fifth goal in 10 starts
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        398 47 Solskjaer's deadly vow Manchester United striker Old Gunnar Solskjaer has vowed to wreak revenge tonight on the Bayer Leverkusen team who wrecked his season. United went out on away goals in the Champions League semi-final to Leverkusen back in April missing out on a great opportunity to
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      • 47 47 AP. ROY Keane will go before the Engl jsh FA on Oct 15 to answer two disciplinary that he deliberately set out to injure Atf Inge Haaland. The FA announced the date last night after Keane said last Friday that he would fight the charges.—AP.
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      • 383 48 Bayer cost Neville's World Cup dream AFP. Manchester United defender Gary Neville is also a man on a personal mission of revenge tonight. England fullback Neville's World Cup dreams were shattered when he broke a bone in his foot in the last match against Bayer Leverkusen.
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      • 215 48 GERMAN SIDE IN TURMOIL BUT... Reuters. DESPITE a serious defence problem and a disastrous start to the season, Bayer Leverkusen believe they can upset Manchester United yet again. "We are clearly the outsiders," Bayer coach Klaus Toppmoeller said on the eve of their Champions
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      • 325 48 FERGUSON'S WARNING: Wire Services. MANCHESTER United boss Alex Ferguson has warned against taking Bayer Leverkusen too lightly. The German side have lost key players Michael Ballack and Ze Roberto to Bayern Munich in the summer, and have made a poor start to their domestic
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    • FULHAM 0 CHELSEA 0
      • 341 49 Wire Services. CHELSEA'S young defender Roberth Huth came of age this morning (Singapore time) as the Blues held London rivals Fulham to a 0-0 draw at Loftus Road. Playing in the absence of skipper Marcel Desailly, the 18-year-old ably manned the central defensive position as Chelsea beat
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      • 131 49 IhEBT Huih typifies the German approach to football he is ruthlessly efficient. On top of that he has a calm mind. This morning the 18-year-old German, signed by Chelsea as a trainee early this year, made several timely interceptions as the Blues hung on to a
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      • 654 50  -  COMMENT ERNEST LUIS ROBERT Huth and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. Two different stories...and two different extremes this morning as Chelsea worked their socks off to stave off a determined Fulham in the 0-0 draw. While one brims with potential, the other shows signs of drying up even though
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        290 50 WHAT THEY SAID: CHELSEA defender Robert Huth reckoned his first Premiership appearand for the club was a success for himself and the Blues. The former Union Berlin player made a solid debut as Chelsea earned a 0-0 draw with west London rivals Fulham. The German told Sky
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    • 421 51 Wire Services. RONALDO'S birthday will be three days gone (he was born on Sept 22, 1976, in Bento Riberio, Rio de Janeiro). Yet tomorrow could be the real occasion when he celebrates his reaching 26. The best birthday present the Brazilian football star wants is
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