The New Paper, 8 June 2003

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  • 23 1 the new paper MITA (P) 026/03/2003 JUNE 8,1003 70 CENTS Singapore Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asial.com.sg on Sunday Email: tnp@sph.com.sg **********00 the new paper
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    • 90 1 Reformed addict-turned-pastor seeks ciaughtf.r 20 years later Does he deserve her? Daddys and their little girts He s jobless, so girl, 4. lived in flat without water, light, furniture Why isn't he working? JUNE 8, 2003 Singapore Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asial .com.sg Separation of Iranian twins THE INSIDE STORY on
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  • NEWS
    • 858 2  -  5 Shock and awe await S'pore businessmen seeking slice of Baghdad rebuilding Report s/j Azhak Ghani HIGHWAYS with craters big enough to swallow whole buses. Burnt-out buildings stripped bare by looters. And pockets of armed resistance that, just last week, killed five US soldiers. Ahlan wahsahlan
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    • 290 3 SINGAPORE companies have been invited through IE Singapore to bid for sub-contracts in the reconstruction of Iraq. So far, more than 50 companies have shown interest. They come from sectors such as infrastructure, business services, healthcare and logistics. All hope to woo
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    • 97 3 THE US Agency for International Development is the leading player in charge of the reconstruction efforts. The following is how the US$9O.9 million (sls7m) provided by the agency for reconstruction is to be distributed: U5534.6 million for infrastructure US$2O million for health (including US$lO million
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    • 1028 4  -  Once, they had no furniture, no electricity, no TV, no water REPORTS SKYE TAN EVERY cloud has a silver lining, they say. For Ong Mei Mei, 4, that cloud was the Sars outbreak. Until the virus hit town, hers was a pitiful life. Her four-room
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    • 388 5 LOOKING at the active, cherubic Mei Mei, one would not be able to tell how hard her life has been. She chatted with us without reservation and giggled in glee when her pictures were taken. When she was hungry, she took out a bowl and
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    • 713 6  -  Ex-addict's teary plea to long-lost daughter By! Skye Tan MS ANG HWEE LAY, are you reading this? If you are, your father is looking for you. His name is Paul Ang, and he asked us to help contact you since he
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    • 290 6 Comment/ SKYETAN I AM 22 years old two years younger than Hwee Lay. And as I approached this interview, I felt a responsibility to step into her shoes, and somehow, by ensuring her father was sincere, protect her. I recalled how my own father piggybacked me
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    • 431 7 AFTER more than 10 years of addiction, Pastor Paul Ang (left) is now free of drugs. He credited the change to his faith and Helping Hand, a drug rehabilitation centre and halfway house. The centre also sponsored his theology studies. Now, he drives a car, has his
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    • 546 8  -  Shock fl Splat crow falls on her forehead Shock II: Report picture/1 Aaron Low THE black crow fell from the clear blue sky, hitting her squarely on the forehead. Then it dropped to the ground. There it laid, bleeding from a gunshot wound. Miss
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    • 158 8 THE shooter stepped on the wounded crow because he was concerned it could go around pecking bystanders, according to a joint statement from the National Environment Agency (NEA) and Cisco. The NEA spokesman apologised for the distress the incident caused the three women on May
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  • NEWS
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      847 10  -  HEARTWARMING TALE OF ONE MAN'S PERSEVERANCE Bangladeshi arrived as construction worker He completed 7 courses He applied for employment pass 7 times He applied for PR status 5 times Now he's... By I Marcel Lee Pereira Bangladeshi Mahbubur Rahman arrived in Singapore 12 years ago as a construction
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    • 650 10 NO discrimination that's the reason why Mr Rahman has decided to make Singapore his home. "When I first came, all the workers, regardless of whether they were Chinese, Indian, or Bangladeshi, were treated equally," he said. Not only
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    • 1351 11  -  HIGH-RISK OP TO SEPARATE IRANIAN TWINS IN STORE One or both could die, but they want to go ahead. They also decide on... REPORTS TEO HWEE NAK AS they sat listening to the cruel possibilities of their decision, tears brimmed in their eyes.
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    • 131 12 THE Medical Samaritans Fund was set up by Raffles Hospital last month to raise money for needy patients who require treatment. The twins will be the first to benefit from the fund. Doctors involved in the operation, including Dr Benjamin Carson, director of
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    • 295 12 HAVING heard the worst-case scenarios from the doctors, the Bijani twins are pushing those to the back of their minds. Their best friend, a 24-year-old teacher who has been spending much time with them for the past seven months, told The New Paper
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    • 884 13  -  Is it PR? Oris it strategy? It's I more, she says Sylvia Lim's quick rise to become Workers* Party chairman By' Teo Hwee Nak FEMALE. Politician. Leader of an opposition party. So, does she see herself as Singapore's Aung San Suu Kyi? Don't even
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    • 342 13 ITS time for a woman to take on a key role in Singapore politics, say observers. Only in recent years have we seen more women filling the seats in Parliament. Still, none of them hold any top positions. There are no female ministers, not even ministers
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    • 690 14  -  WHAT'S THE WISDOM IN CULLING CATS? By < Calvin Low THE sight that greeted me when I landed in Geneva on my first visit to Switzerland four years ago was that of a small, scruffy terrier in a tug-of-war with its sharplysuited owner as it
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  • 507 16  -  NEWS By Sheela Narayanan SHE was playing talent scout for her friend, and had dragged her out to sign up for The New Paper New Face 2003. While they were at it, 19-year-old Seetoh Zhi Min got talent scouted herself. "My friends are
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  • AT A GLANCE
    • 310 34 GET a franchise. That's what more and more Singaporeans are doing. The Franchising and Licensing Association (FLA) says that about 500 new franchise operations opened here last year. That's a 17 per cent increase over 2001, and brings the total number of franchisees here to
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    • 265 34 THESE are hard times, and they've hit not just bank balances, but relationships too. Last year, a record number of 5,825 marriages ended in divorces and annulments. Just a decade ago, in 1982, the figure was less than half
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 71 34 A YOUNG man, found naked and unconscious in a Pending Road flat on Friday night, died soon afterwards. Zakaria Ishak, 18, was declared dead at the National University Hospital at 11.55pm. A 16-year-old girl, who was with him, was also found unconscious. She is in stable condition. Chinese
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      • 84 34 IN the last seven years, at least seven pairs of conjoined twins have been conceived in Singapore. One pair survived for 10 days; another for just a day. Two were stillborn and three were aborted. The first separation of a pair conjoined twins here took place in 1961.
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      • 75 34 WITH the worst of the Sars outbreak over, the Singapore Sports Council and the Singapore Tourism Board want people to get out and enjoy sports. Play! Singapore 10 sporting and outdoor weekend events over the next two months was launched yesterday to coax people outdoors. The events
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      • 69 34 A NEW Zealand handyman's bid to construct a cruise missile in his shed has made global headlines. The British media have dubbed him a threat to world security. Mr Bruce Simpson is is using parts ordered over the Internet. The Guardian said: Don't worry about Russia's bioweapon
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      • 78 34 A SUNNI imam on Friday urged Muslims in Baghdad to wage a holy war against the US. Sheikh Muayyed Al-Aazami, in his weekly sermon at the Abu Hanifa mosque, said US forces should go home since they had "finished their job of eliminating the former regime... and
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      • 74 34 IRAN has secretly imported nuclear material and built facilities to refine and store it, a United Nations agency said in a confidential report leaked to the press. After being confronted by International Atomic Energy Agency officials, Iran has begun to provide more information to meet its obligations under
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      • 72 34 the united Nations nas expressed grave concern about the detention of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. UN envoy to Myanmar Razali Ismail has pressed its military rulers to release her. Yesterday, he met Gen Khin Nyunt, Myanmar* s intelligence chief and third-ranldng leader, as well as
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      • 72 34 THE Sars epidemic has entered a dangerous stage when complacency could allow the disease to quickly flare up again, the World Health Organisation warned yesterday. The disease resurged in Toronto and Hong Kong after health authorities thought they had it under control and inadvertently relaxed some of the
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  • Hey! SUNDAY
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      1147 36 It's the Great Singapore Sale, as if you didn't know. And shopaholics are going 'cheap cheap cheap' all over the island. But there's more to experience than just the bargains. Hey! Sunday presents a quirky 6-page take on the GSS SERVICE ice Me, Baby!: Metro Paragon But No
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    • 830 37 Some of us live to queue at the cashier, while others would rather wait in the TV section holding the bags. WENDY TEO asks some celebrities shop-a-holics and shop-a-phobes to reveal their shopping habits... David Gan Hairdresser/stylist to the stars: I love shopping! I especially
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    • 394 38  -  If he really loves me, he'll SHE SHOPS JEANMARIE TAN SHOPPING can make or break a relationship. Or rather, relationships can make or break a shopping mm expedition depending Jfc ■■B on which you value more. AADIC TAU Men abhor shopping IAKIc TAN with a vengeance. A
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    • 454 38  -  If she really loves me, she'll HE FLOPS ANDREW DUFFY I HAD just been enjoying the Miss Universe contest when the lady of my life asked me to go shopping for clothes in me sale. My brain turned to Chicken SingaPorridge and I said
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    • 1121 39 The task: To find and honour service staff who do not look down their noses at steely-eyed bargain-hunters, especially those with the gumption to ask for a further discount on already marked-down goods. CYNTHIA LOH scours the stores and finds
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    • 375 41 TOUCH, see, hear, feel, laugh, love... live. Sound good? Then do it. After all, we are capable of such functions. The world is an ever-changing panorama of faces, events and landscapes. It has only been a few months since Sars surfaced here and
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    • 240 41 I GRADUATED last year and managed to find a job that I enjoy. The pay is not good, but I count myself fortunate when I look at my peers who are stuck in dead-end jobs. But, increasingly, I have been feeling unsatisfied with
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    • 415 49 AS the saying goes: You are what you eat. So if you're going to be scoffing junk food, don't blame anyone if you get a heart attack at 30. On the other hand, if you consistently pile on grub that is known to have medicinal value or
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    • 101 49  -  NEW BUYS TAN DAWN WEI WHATS NEW: As it turns out, MSG is not the be-all and end-all when it comes to instant noodles. KOKA, which already produces a range of these packet noodles, now has a range which screams "No MSG" in big prints
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    • 734 50 (and army food at Pulau Tekong) WHEN Mr Paul Madden found himself in the jungle eating military rations, his first thought was not "For this, I went to college?". It was "This is good!" Eating army chow was just one of the perks
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    • 654 51  -  By Sim Chi Yin FOR a Bangladeshi teenager who had just landed on English soil, ballroom dancing seemed like the perfect way to get into the swing of things. So that's what photographer Shahidul Alam, then 17, did when he arrived in
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      537 52 MUSIC Coffee Morning—June THIS time around, Coffee Morning delivers a dose of Xinyao and Taiwanese folk songs from TCR Music Station. Xinyao, a genre made popular by singers like Eric Moo, is the term given to local songs that were popular in the 70s and 80s. The ticket price includes
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    • 1049 53  -  You'd be grinning too if you were making big bucks from teddy bears By Melissa Tan WHEN Alicia Quek (above) was a child, she hardly ever picked up a teddy bear. She was a bit of a tomboy. But now Miss Quek, 25, is one of
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    • 322 53 THERE are two kinds of collectors' teddy bears: Artist and Manufactured. According to Mrs Jackie Koh, owner of Jackie Teddy Bear shop at Park Mall that specialises in award-winning Artist teddy bears, there are three main differences. Firstly, "Artist teddy bears are hand-stitched and designed
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    • 605 54  -  Finding Nemo Voices: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Geoffrey Rush and Willem Dafoe Written and directed by Andrew Stanton Rating: By Tan Dawn Wei THE people at Pixar are truly on a roll. Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc, and
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      195 54 The inspiration for Finding Nemo came atef a vfcit'to MarineWorfd by A Andrew Stanton in tHree years before Toy Story was made. Y >( He was toying with the idea of capturing the goings-on in the underwater world with computer animation. Stanton klso adapted his childhood memories of
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    • 427 55 Ju-On: The Grudge Starring: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito Directed by: Takashi Shimizu Rating: itkirCrCt IT has been five years since shockmeister Hideo Nakata first introduced the world to The Ring, the mother of all contemporary Japanese chillers. A wave of copycats followed Dark
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    • 305 55 The In-Laws Starring: Michael Douglas, Albert Brooks Directed by: Andrew Fleming JUST what's so funny about the French connection? John Malkovich stole Rowan Atkinson's thunder as a French villain with the exaggerated accent in Johnny English. Lambert Wilson's Merovingian drew more laughs with his monologue
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      111 55 Spotlight on NOW this is a streetcar named Desire. Supermodel Devon Aoki looks pretty in pink as Suki, the lone female street racer who's sending the boys into overdrive in 2 Fast 2 Furious. One of them is Paul Walker, who reprises his role as a disgraced undercover
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      512 56 I TOP TIPS RACING I Racing Editor PICTURE TIP: Keep an eye on jockey Benny Woodworth (left) this afternoon as all his six mounts have decent claims. RACE £3 2 "A i < r 7 8 •Denotes tipster's best bet Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee
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    • 73 56 BEST BET (Race 7 No. 3) Yet another former Kranji-based galloper who has made good across the Causeway. Notched his maiden victory on Malaysian turf with something in hand last Saturday. Has been kept ticking over nicely by handler Leslie Khoo since then and looks fit and ready
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    • 281 57 AFP, Reuters. ENGLISH raider Kris Kin won the English Derby at Epsom yesterday, landing a major gamble and backing up trainer Michael Stoute's decision to supplement him for £90,000 ($255,600) earlier in the week. Kris Kin, who was giving Stoute his third winner in the
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    • 1239 57 MUDLARKS RACE 1: Diamond Bank, Double-Oh-Seven, Fire Starter, Chongqing Express, United Star. RACE 2s Wonderful Star, Akashi. RACE 3: Radical, Saffron. RACE 4: Limerick, Jeram Star, Time To Remember, The Engineer. RACE 5s Grand Emperor, Victory Jimmie, Bullet Express, Forever Yours, Marchetti, Solar Istana, Winning Dragon,
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    • 398 58 GENERAL May 17 meeting, Race 10: Trainer S Gray, when questioned about the improved performance of EMBASSY SUITES, said that the run on April 25 was the horse's first run in a race, that he had been difficult to settle in the
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    • 327 58  -  By Marc Tan Talented youngster Easy Go Lucky reeled off his fourth straight win at Ipoh yesterday but not without giving his backers a scare in the 1,200 m affair for Class 2 Div 2 gallopers in Race 5. The raging
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    • 1438 59 PERAK TURF CLUB STIPENDIARY STEWARDS 7 REPORT HIGHLIGHTS RACE 1: Passing the 1,200 m, Timeless Kingdom ran onto the heels of Sun Metal and was checked. A post-race vet exam of Timeless Kingdom revealed that the gelding returned cut near-hind hock. Apprentice KT Cheng (Successful Listing) was reprimanded for allowing
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    • 713 60 FRENCH OPEN, MEN'S FINAL: VERKERK v FERRERO AFP. TWO weeks back you would have been forgiven if you had shrugged on being asked whether you had heard about a certain Dutch tennis player named Martin Verkerk. But over the last fornight, the tall
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    • 105 60 FRENCH OPEN PATH TO THE FINAL Martin Verfcerk win play Juan Carlos Farrero in the final on Sunday Holland 24 Age 19 0 Grand Slam titles 0 Spain QuMwmo Ooria Argentina "IT' 74M74 OWr Finals *474*4 AJbertCoeto Spain Carlos Moya Spain 6-3WS-7WM QuarterFinais Fernando Goru»lez 6-1 3-6 6-1 5-7 M
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    • 606 61 FRENCH OPEN TENNIS: WOMEN'S SINGLES FINAL Justine Henin-Hardenne bt Kim Clusters 6-0,6-4 Belgium vs Belgium turned out to be a French Open mismatch. Justine Henin-Hardenne won her first major title, beating Kim Clijsters 6-0, 6-4 at Roland Garros in the first all-Belgian Grand Slam final. Henin-Hardenne
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    • 637 62 NBA FINALS: SAN ANTONIO 1 NEW JERSEY 1 GAME 3: LIVE, ESPN, 8.30 am, tomorrow Wire Services. DIKEMBE Mutombo was the New Jersey Nets forgotten man until yesterday. Now, suddenly he is one of the key figures on which the NBA title might hinge. In
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    • 466 62 AP. THINGS had to change. Jason Kidd knew it. Things had to change, and it had to start with him. Until yesterday, Kidd (right) just didn't like playing at the SBC Center, the arena the San Antonio Spurs moved to this season. Heading into Game 2
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    • 490 63 FOCUS ON FORMULA ONE ACES: MICHAEL SCHUMACHER JUAN PABLO MONTOYA AFP. MICHAEL Schumacher's facade as a cool, controlled "Ice Man" on the track belies the warm heart that melts very easily. And the five-time world Formula One champion said he has always been
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    • 362 63 Reuters. JUAN Pablo Montoya (left) was, in tabloid terms at least, the man who broke the blank in Monte Carlo last weekend. By handing Williams their first Monaco Grand Prix win in 20 years, the Colombian also went a considerable way to
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    • 703 64 FUTSAL 2003: KL WORLD 5s WANG MENG MENG IN KUALA LUMPUR TOM YAM futsal has been making waves at the 2003 KL World ss. And yesterday, Thailand made history. In a special joint announcement made at Kuala Lumpur's Putra Stadium by Thai futsal team
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    • 348 64 THE above was the gist of Victor Beceira's message. Fifa's futsal technical officer was in Kuala Lumpur last night to pledge U*****,000 ($430,875) to Thai futsal's coffers in a bid to kickstart the game in the Land of Smiles under the Financial Assistance Programme
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      646 65 ...MORE ON FUTSAL 2003 CUP SOU-FINAL: BRAZIL 8 URUGUAY 0 FUTSAL fans, you've got your dream final. Brazil will face Argentina today to earn the bragging rights as the 2003 KL World 5s champions. Before 6,000 fans clad in yellow and green at Kuala Lumpur's Putra Stadium yesterday
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    • 291 65 S-LEAGUE 2003: SEMBAWANG 1 SINCHI 1 (Sinchi win 5-3 on pen) BEFORE the season began, S-League newcomers Sinchi had high hopes of being one of the better teams. Fourteen games have passed and there has been good days as well as bad days. One of the
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    • 610 66 FOCUS ON SWEDISH CHAMPIONS DJURGARDENS Manchester United's Swedish scout Tommy Soderstrom has already confirmed: The Red Devils have joined the race to sign Kim Kallstrom. Kim who? He's 20, a midfielder, and a host of top English and Italian clubs are interested in
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    • 223 66 THERE is no doubt that Kim Kallstrom is one of the most promising talents currently playing in the Swedish league. Recently, Swedish scout Tommy Soderstrom was asked by Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson if the youngster is ready for a move to a big club.
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    • 160 67 ...MORE ON DJURGARDENS' TALENTED YOUNGSTERS THERE have been some famous, and infamous, rivalries between teams on Planet Football. Real Madrid and Barcelona have a bitter feud that goes all the way back to the Spanish Civil War in the *****. The hatred between Glasgow clubs Celtic and
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    • 46 67 STANDING TALL: laakaaon (above right) towers over TNP'a Meng Meng while Elmander (right In the picture on the right) hotda up the net for coach Stefan Rehn (bending) to put In the balla after an extra hour of ahooting practice.
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    • 630 67 THANK You, Djurgardens. Two of Sweden's most exciting footballing prospects owe a debt of gratitude to the champions' ground-breaking investment policy on young talents. Striker Johan Elmander and goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson used to share something in common: Their paths to the first-team were blocked by an A-list
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    • 947 68 POWER OF DAVID BECKHAM DAVID Beckham was born to be a Red Devil. And if he has is his way he'd like to stay one too. Unfortunately Manchester United are determined to sell the celebrity superstar. England's most headlined footballer has been at Old Trafford
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    • 412 68 Wire Services. THE brand value of Manchester United 25 per cent of their enterprise value is the highest of any soccer club in Europe at £170 million, says Futureßrand's Charles Trevail. "I believe that Manchester United is a stronger brand than David Beckham," Trevail said.
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        730 69 SCOTLAND 1 Kenny Miller (69th min) GERMANY 1 Fredi Bobic 22 PA Sport. A PREDATOR'S goal from Kenny Miller earned Scotland a draw in the European Championship Qualifier with Germany which delighted both the Tartan Army and manager Berti Vogts. The Wolves striker's second-half equaliser cancelled out Fredi
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      • 713 70 IRELAND 2 Robbie Keane (6th min), Adrian Aliaj (90 own goal) ALBANIA 1 Ervin Skelai (8) PA Sport. BRIAN Kerr has always been regarded as something of a "lucky" manager, and the Gods certainly smiled on the Republic of Ireland boss at Lansdowne Road last night. Just
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      • 149 70 PA Sport. XAVI Alonso may be one of the most sought-after signings in Spanish football but his agent insists he is going nowhere. Last week's declarations from Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson that he was interested in the midfielder, following a brilliant season, started a press frenzy.
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