The New Paper, 30 September 2003

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    31 1 the new paper TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2003 Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2003 60 CENTS 8 !I!!i!SISII the new paper
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Changi Hospital most expensive
      654 2  -  By Ng Wan Ching LOOK at the average bill sizes for common illnesses at different hospitals and you will be in for a surprise. Changi General Hospital (CGH) charges the highest for seven of the 28 conditions under the class B2 and subsidised day surgery rates.
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      Lock icon Click to find out who charges what
      224 2 WHO charges the most for what and who charges the least? The table (above) is what we compiled for the B2 class and subsidised day rates to find out where treatment for the 28 medical conditions is the most and the least expensive.
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      Lock icon KEY TO HOSPITALS
      272 3 Bill sizes are all for B2 class, except" subsidised day surgery CGH: Changi General Hospital SGH: Singapore General Hospital KKH: KK Women's and Children's Hospital NUH: National University Hospital TTSH: Tan Tock Seng Hospital I AH: Alexandra Hospital I I NNI: National I Neuroscience I NCC: National
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      241 2 Sorry How they spot fraud (IMP, yesterday): We incorrectly said that $120m had gone missing from Asia Pacific Breweries' (APB) coffers. A former APB finance manager is alleged to have instead cheated banks of that money. What's on TV? Pages 38 39 News IQ: Page 31 sleep improves the Immune
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      Lock icon I hired English tutor so they'd know of real risks
      968 4  -  Iranian Twins' surgeon finally breaks his silence, speakutejo TNP By Arul John HE was going to be talking about life and death, so he wanted to be able to talk directly with his patients, not through an interpreter. So months
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      Lock icon THE TWINS
      125 4 LAD AN and Laleh, both lawyers, came to Singapore in November last year to undergo surgery to separate them. They chose Singapore after reading about the successful separation of Nepalese twins Ganga and Jamuna Shrestha in April 2001. The Nepalese twins were also joined at the head. But
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      505 5 IMOKIA Connecting People hello! SingTel subscribers, mobile fun from Nokia is at your fingertips now! Zest up your mobile life with these latest adrenaline-pumping Java™ games and groovy wallpapers from Nokia. And now, you can purchase them via SMS. Hurry, get your thumbs moving and have fun wherever you go!
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      Lock icon Auntie, it's better than fixed deposit
      804 6  -  3% returns attract grandma to unit trusts She plonks $74,000 life-savings on plan Loses $7,000 when she backs out By Michael Lee MADAM Tok Kwee Ing is a 69-year-old drinks stall helper at Hougang. She has been making kopi-o and selling canned drinks for
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      Lock icon Costs and returns were well explained, says finance company
      280 7 HONG Leong Finance (HLF) denies any wrongdoing on its part. A spokesman acknowledged they had sold the plan, but any suggestion of "pushy sales tactics" was promptly dismissed. He said that one of the rules of the Financial Advisers' Act relates
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      Lock icon MAS to monitor banks to ensure compliance to rules
      240 7 COMPLAINTS like Madam Tok's can also be forwarded to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Just like Case, MAS takes a stern view of mis-selling investment products. "We have highlighted to banks the need to ensure full compliance with the Financial
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      Lock icon More complaints against banks
      149 7 OLD and don't know your debit from your credit? The Consumer Association of Singapore (Case) has words of caution for you before you walk into a bank. It has up to now received 16 complaints of cases similar to Madam Tok Kwee In^s. Said executive director
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      Lock icon COSTLY KISS
      792 8  -  Do you see the damage? Tibs wanted to claim $2,400 By Lee Tee Jong A minor road accident led to a double shock for car owner Tan Khin Nguan. His car, which was driven by his wife, had knocked into the back of a Trans Island Bus Services
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      Lock icon Inflated claims common
      239 9 NTUC Income CEO Tan Kin Lian said in an e-mail reply that many third party claimants submit inflated claims. He said: 'They claim for repairs that are not carried out and loss of use and earnings beyond the actual period of repair. "Sometimes, the workshop carrying out
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      Lock icon Budding writer, woven dragon
      400 10  -  By Lee Sze Yong She may be only six years old, but Primary 1 pupil Janelle Yong Bao En has had her work published in a book. Not bad for someone her age, especially after a recent Straits Times survey found that the standard of English
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      Lock icon A greedy dragon, a beautiful robe and a wanderer
      597 11 Can't believe how good a Primary 1 student's story can be? Here is the tale that won Janelle Yong the third prize ONCE upon a time in China, there lived a dragon. This dragon was very greedy. It wanted all the
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      Lock icon 1.5% That's how much average pay is likely to rise
      625 12  -  By Joycelyn Wong IF you are a non-executive earning $2,000 a month, you are looking at an average of $32, or 1.6 per cent, in wage increment this year. Overall, the average basic wage is likely to go up by
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      Lock icon BUT 6% OF FIRMS PLAN TO CUT PAY
      175 12 WHILE some companies are planning to dish out pay increments, the same SNEF survey also found that 6 per cent intend to cut wages, by an average of 11 per cent. The findings are close to those of last year, when 5
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      94 8 Friday Weekly Mock Examination Papers Your Recipe ior Success is Here! PUBLICATION DATES 22 August 29 August 19 September 26 September 3 October LEVELS SUBJECTS Sec 4 Chinese Sec 4 English Sec 1 Chinese Sec 2 English Sec 2 Chinese Sec 3 English Sec 3 Chinese Sec 1 English The
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      Lock icon Steel rods pierce his head, body — and he's OK
      342 16 Steel rods pierce his head, body and he's OK HOW DOCS REMOVED BARS CONSTRUCTION SITE HORROR IN CHINA IT must have been a gory sight as construction worker Zhu Huaiyong lay skewered by two metal rods after falling from a scaffold last week. It is not known from how high
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      Lock icon A terrible trade off
      162 17 AFP. POVERTY and fear made them doit. The Albanian couple didn't know what to do when approached by a gang of human traffickers, and handed over one of their five children to them in return for a colour television. Italian news agency ANSA citing judicial sources
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      Lock icon Made-in-lab diamond can fool experts
      424 20 MAN-MADE diamonds so flawless that they can pass off as the real thing. That's what scientists at two US companies believe they have created. In a warehouse outside Boston, scientists at one company have perfected a complex process for making diamonds in a lab. Founder
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      Lock icon Sunscreen not again
      276 21 IF you want to cut the risks of getting skin cancer, better just stay out of the sun or cover up when outside. Because sunscreen lotions may not stop the sun's damaging rays from penetrating the skin, a study by British doctors has found. Professor Roy Sanders
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      Lock icon Indian docs turn away patients fearing legal suits
      311 22 THE patient needed emergency care but was refused surgery by three hospitals in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. The reason? That Mr S C Majumdar was a cardiac patient who also suffered from cirrhosis of liver and doctors were scared that
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      Lock icon Yahoo forums in India shut
      286 24 ...because of technical problems after blocking access to separatist site AP. THE government ban came down hard. India's dozens of Internet service providers were told to block access to a Yahoo discussion group run by an obscure Indian separatist movement. But because of the ban,
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      Lock icon Gorilla escapes and injures toddler, teen
      310 25 AP. A GORILLA escaped from the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston for the second time in two months, snatching a 2-year-old girl and injuring a teenager, zoo officials said. The 135kg gorilla, known as Little Joe, escaped on Sunday night. It roamed the zoo
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      Lock icon Karishma's magical wedding
      69 25 Bollywood actress Karishma Kapoor (whose name means magic in Hindi) got married to Sanjay Kapur, an auto parts dealer, in Mumbai yesterday. The glittering ceremony at her family home, which was done up to look like Sheesh Mahal (Palace of Mirrors), was attended by most of the
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      581 27 CORPORATE SCANDALS Reuters. THESE corporate bigwigs are alleged to have feathered their own nests, tried to destroy important documents and overstated their profits. They come from various companies in corporate America. And the three separate trials are an indicator of how rotten the underbelly of some US firms
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      Lock icon 'A huge fireball and roaring sound'
      295 28 Meteor crash-lands in India's Orissa state One dies from heart attack, 20 hurt IT lit up the night sky like daylight. Some villagers were scared out of their wits. Others were mesmerised by the beauty of a sensational fireworks display put on by Mother
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      Lock icon Dad kills teen for having a boyfriend
      342 29 Wire services. HE thought she had become too Westernised. And he was furious that she had started a relationship with a non-Muslim. So Abdalla Yones, a Kurdish refugee from Iraq living in London, carried out an "honour killing" on his 16-year-old daughter, Heshu.
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      Lock icon Lifesaver for construction #J m brought forward
      292 31 $600m in projects brought forward THE projects have been brought forward by the Government to pump-prime the construction industry. The industry is so sluggish that some big firms have gone under. The Housing Board also terminated the contracts of the two contractors who
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      Lock icon Now worshipping at your multiplex church...
      335 31 OK THE RACK Edited extract from The Christian Science Monitor:Nine months after starting a new church in Washington, the Rev Mark Batterson got the bad news: The school where his congregation of 20 met on Sundays was closing down. As they scrambled to find
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      52 31 store companies ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 7.53/-0.20 Creative Technology 10.78/+0.03 Flextronics 14.44/+0.82 Chartered Semiconductor 8.65/+0.27 StfctS 1» Yesterday's action Percentage change Close Dow Up 0.72% (67.16 pts) 9,380.24 Nasdaq Up 1.81% (32.49 pts) 1.824.56 S+P 500 Up 0.98% (9.73 pts) 1006.58 STI Up 0.07% (1.17
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      Lock icon Sing Power profit up
      75 31 SINGAPORE Power reported a surge in net profits to $749 million for the year ended March 31, more than double the $332 m it raked in last year. This is due to better cost management and greater efficiencies in operations. However, revenues fell by 12.7 per
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      Lock icon Dog ban in HK flats
      78 31 THE Hong Kong government will clamp down on public housing tenants who keep dogs, in violation of a ban that has been flagrantly breached for years. It's an effort to clean up the city in the wake of the recent Sars outbreak and the finding
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      Lock icon Marcos funds here?
      68 31 THE Philippine government's battle to recover the vast fortune allegedly stolen by former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos has reached Singapore. The local branch of German bank WestLß AG said it would not release the sum believed to be US$22 million (s3Bm) until "complex legal, jurisdictional issues" have
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      Lock icon Global women's group
      71 31 HAVING been at the forefront of issues on women and the family for almost 30 years, lawyer Dr Anamah Tan is now the first Singaporean to head the International Council of Women. Founded in Washington in 1888, the organisation was one of the earliest to press for
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      Lock icon Berjaya Times Sq opens
      76 31 AFTER nine long years, Beijaya Times Square in KL, was finally opened yesterday. The mall, South-east Asia's biggest, opened four years behind schedule due to the Asian financial crisis. Twice the size of Suntec City, the RMI.B billion ($B2O million) mall has 1,000 shops and even
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      60 31 A GROUP from the Land Transport Authority (LTA), Housing Board and the Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council spent two hours yesterday checking out the four "hazard" spots in Pasir Ris. Two students from White Sands Primary School died in separate accidents this month. Both were hit while
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      379 32 IN Japan, A is not for apple, but Ayumi Hamasaki, the country's biggest trendsetting pop icon. Going by a stylishly-designed letter A, this business-sawy singer has single-handedly spawned a whole empire of glitzy merchandise that is all the rage among legions of adoring fans. She's like the J.Lo of
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      Lock icon Ayu Inc: What every die-hard fan would love to have
      569 32 $Mascot: Ayupan (below) Designed by the pop queen herself and named as such because Ayumi thinks she looks like a panda. It is an animated version of Ayumi, with long hair and round eyes framed by curly lashes. It only
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      Lock icon She has no problems tackling degrading scenes
      645 33  -  DIRECTOR STEPHEN FREARS ON STAR AUDREYTAUTOU: By Jeanmarie Tan AMELIE has got a new look. Remember French actress Audrey Tautou as the beguiling gamine waitress from Montmartre who launched a thousand copycat bobs? But in her new movie, Dirty Pretty Things, she has
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      Lock icon Oops! She didn't know
      607 35  -  MALE CONTEST RUNNER-UP ADMITS CHEATING ON GIRLFRIEND By Fawziah Selamat THEY say honesty is the best policy. But male pageant contestant Nicholas Tang (left) might have cause to think differently. When asked what his greatest lie had been, Mr Tang made the gaffe of admitting to
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      297 48  -  $150,000 COMMITTEE'S PRIZE: S'PORE GROUP 3 1,60PM t By Tan Thean Loon TODAY is D-Day for comeback hero Blizz Bless (right with jockey Johnny Geroudis astride and getting a kiss from owner Alfredo Crabbia). The nine-time winner's participation in Friday night's $150,000
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      135 48 Reuters. MAMOOL, ridden by Frankie Dettori for the Godolphin group, on Sunday booked his passage to the Melbourne Cup with his second Group One success in Germany in three weeks. In Britain, bookmakers Coral trimmed the colt's odds from 9-1 to 6-1 favourite after
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      165 49 ROUND 30 HIGLIGHTS S-LEAGUE 2003: LEADING SCORERS 28: Peres De Oliveira (Home). 26: Aleksandar Duric (Geylang), Egmar Goncalves (Home). 24: Indra Sahdan Daud (Home), Chang Hui (Sinchi). 22: Noh Alam Shah (Tampines). 20: Pitipong Kuldilog (Sembawang). 18: Brendon Santalab (Geylang). 17: Mirko Grabovac (SAFFC), Itimi Dickson
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      516 50 USA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP SOCCER Wire Services. GHANA gave China an assist yesterday when they beat Australia 2-1. The result helped China clinch a spot in the quarter-finals even before the Asians took the field for their match against Russia. China then defeated Russia 1-0 to
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      326 51 scon WILSON brings you the soccer stories they don't want you to read!! RUMOURS are flying around Manchester City that David Seaman is to be given Chinese lessons after his misunderstanding with Sun Jihai last week resulted in a gifted goal to Lokeren in the
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      287 51 THE reason Roy Keane kept his head when so many players were losing theirs at Old Trafford in the bust-up against Arsenal can be revealed yoga. The Manchester United skipper acted as a peacemaker when all hell brokeloose at the end of the top of
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      355 52 DAVID Moyes makes no apologies for assuming the role of a control freak j where Wayne Rooney is concerned. i The Everton boss is like a second dad as he helps develop the 17-year-old sensation. But if Moyes is like a father figure then
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      257 52 CHELSEA'S Roman Abramovich wants to add a full-size football pitch to the luxury leisure complex at his £12million ($33m) country estate. The Stamford Bridge Czar has told builders he wants to j switch the use of one of the estate's polo fields. And the move is fuelling
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      171 53 ENGLAND: DIVISION ONE WALSALL 2 GILLINGHAMI PA Sport. WALSALL seemed their second successive victory. It came courtesy of an own goal from Gillingham-player boss Andy Hessenthaler in the final six minutes. Gary o*NeiTs corner to the far post was headed clear to Chris Baird, whose volley was
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      659 53 TODAY Bradford v Derby Cardiff v Wigan Norwich v Reading Rotherham v Stoke Watford v Burnley West Brom v Millwall Wimbledon v Sheff Utd Sunderland v Ipswich TOMORROW Coventry v Crewe Nottm Forest v Preston West Ham v Crystal Palace PA Sport. SHEFFIELD United manager Neil
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      605 55  -  By Wang Meng Meng THE latest member of Real Madrid's Super 6 needs no introduction. Beamed onboard Battlestar Galacticos this season, David Beckham has turned out to be a hit signing so far after an inauspicious start that threatened to leave egg on the faces
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      581 56  -  BY Brian Miller WHAT a weekend. Or, like my friend said, what a fickle, fluky weekend it turned out to be. I think you get the picture. The guy lost. Big time. So it was, he asked himself, how on
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        884 57  -  GROUPS A, B, C, D (Today in UK) E, F, G, H (Tomorrow in UK) BRIAN MILLER THE favourites for the Champions League will all flex their muscles in midweek. And I see the astute punter coming away with quite a decent haul. But first, let's
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        468 58  -  UK BETTING SOURCES By Luke Pachymuthu Heading this week's Champions League action is Real Madrid's showdown with FC Porto tomorrow. The Spanish giants, coming off a 2-0 loss to Valencia in the Primera Liga last Saturday, will be without their inspirational midfield dynamo, David Beckham.
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        542 58 GROUP A: CELTIC v OLYMPIQUE LYON Celtic defender Joos Valgaeren is fit but Johan Mjallby, Steve Guppy, Paul Lambert, Ulrik Laursen and Stephen Crainey are all injured. Lyon's midfielder Christophe Delmotte is out with a heel injury. Celtic (probable): Hedman; McNamara, Balde, Varga; Thompson, Agathe, Lennon, Petrov, Sutton;
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        481 59 LOKOMOTIV v ARSENAL (GROUP B) After the first group games two weeks ago, the Champions League resumes again this week. ERNEST LUIS looks at the key games with Tanjong Pagar youth coach TOHARIPAUAN asking especially if Arsenal can save themselves from another European nightmare. Arsenal play like
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        251 59  -  pwufm* |By DENNIS BERGKAMP ANYONE who writes off Arsenal after the sloppy Champions League start against Inter-Milan will regret it. The 3-0 loss was not a disaster. It was the big game of the group stage and it is still early days yet. No-one
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        246 60 (GROUPS A, B.C, D) GROUP B: INTER-MILAN v DYNAMO KIEV PA Sport. INTER-MILAN are riding on the crest of a wave sifter their rip-roaring win over Arsenal at Highbury. The excellent start in the Champions League is further boosted by No 5 position in the Italian
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        214 60 GROUP D: OLYMPIAKOS v JUVENILIS PA Sport. THE return of France striker David Trezeguet, from an ankle injury, will be the biggest boost to Juventus coach Marcello Lippi. It makes up for Juve captain Alessandro Del Piero who will be sidelined with a problematic left thigh.
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        127 60 PA Sport. BAYERN Munich's ace striker Roy Makaay will be the man to watch. But he is keen to point out, though, that the team's success is more important than any personal scoring achievement. He said: "For me, it's more important that the team
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        78 60 dfd BACK-TO-FORM Lyon have warned Celtic to expect an "extremely ambitious" performance at Parkhead. Their leading Brazilian marksman Elber has also questioned the credentials of Celtic star Henrik Larsson ahead of their Champions League showdown. "Larsson is a big-name player who has scored a lot of goals
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        54 60 GROUP D: GALATASARAY coach Fatih Terim: My players have the power, the belief and the concentration to get three points against Real Sociedad. We will chase our luck to the last moment, as we always do in most matches. When we win we will be more powerful
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        64 60 GROUP C: DEPORTIVO La Coruna coach Javier Irureta: PSV play open football and they have always been characterised by their attacking. They are ambitious and their need to win will make them very dangerous rivals. But home games are very important, both in terms of the
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        119 60 PA Sport. MONACO coach Didier Deschamps is full of confidence. After defeating top Holland club PSV Eindhoven two weeks ago, he knows the sky's the limit. "We have prepared extremely very well," Deschamps said. "The players put in the effort, of course, but without
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        793 61 (GROUP B) LOKOMOTIV v ARSENAL THE FRANK MALLEY COLUMN PA Sport. ARSENE Wenger would swear black is white when it comes to supporting his own players. Despite the most begrudging of apologies following the charges against Arsenal and six of their players after the
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      386 62 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (GROUP B): LOKOMOTIV v ARSENAL PA Sport. ARSENE Wenger insisted that Arsenal would produce another "backs-to-the-wall" display to revitalise their Champions League hopes. This, despite a debilitating injury crisis. Wenger will have to cope without Patrick Vieira, Fredrik Ljungberg, Sol Campbell and Dennis Bergkamp as
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