The New Paper, 27 January 2004

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    30 1 the new paper WE'RE SINGAPORE'S NO.l TABLOID TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2004 m /J*Singapore Press Holdings Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 M,TA(P) 3/JOO3 70CENTS 8 *****1 *****1 the new paper
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Fewer kids = fewer schools = more meters
      856 2  - Fewer kids fewer schools more meters PAST 5 YEARS: 31 SCHOOL CLOSURES/MERGERS INVOLVING 70 INSTITUTIONS m DR MONEY WILL APPEAR TOMORROW By Hajerah Kutus tnp@sph.com.sg Employees often lose jobs or have to make career adjustments when companies merge. So what happens when schools merge? Quite the same. Teachers are often
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    • Article
      Lock icon No department head position, so she retired early
      313 2 SHE was a head of department in a primary school for nearly 18 years, and has more than 33 years of teaching experience. The 54-year-old unmarried woman, who declined to be named, drew slightly less than $6,000 as her monthly pay. As
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon To have more babies we need...
      128 3  -  REVIEW OF BABY BONUS SCHEME By Dawn Chia dawnchia@sph. com.sg You don't expect money to bring you love, do you? Well, nor can it bring Singapore more babies, it seems. The introduction of the baby bonus scheme in 2001 has not helped the birth
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      Lock icon Making babies... Keep out!
      101 3 IF employees are given leave to take a much needed break from work, why not time off for making babies? Said Madam Doris Loh, a lactation consultant in private practice, and mother of two teenagers: "Our lifestyle is so hectic nowadays, and people find themselves working
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    • Article
      Lock icon Less stress from education
      110 3 WHILE financial concerns are important to some parents, others are worried about intangibles like stress from the education system. Producer Melvyn Goh is concerned that the educational environment has got to a point where kids are subjected to too much pressure, with all the competition. The
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    • Article
      Lock icon Cheaper childcare
      95 3 MAKE it easier to hire maids. In many dual-income families, couples have to turn to foreign domestic workers for childcare. Account manager David Lee, 32, a father of two girls, said: "It's virtually impossible for people to ask for shorter work days, so at the end of the
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    • Article
      Lock icon No-pay leave without strings
      124 3 PARENTHOOD should not affect one's career. A mother of two boys, who gave her name only as Mrs Koh, said the Government should be more accepting when it came to new mothers taking no-pay leave. She said she was passed over for promotion because she had
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    • Article
      Lock icon Give paternity leave
      117 3 PARENTING is a two-person job, not just the mother's, says lactation consultant Doris Loh. She suggested: "Just as mothers have maternity leave, fathers should be given paternity leave. "We must learn to be more pro-family, and think of the support system." Engineer Ho Vincent agreed. The 28-year-old,
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      Lock icon Free transport
      127 3 HELP families who have no means of transportation to get around on i weekends for day trips to the zoo or picnips on the beach. T Couples migfct be enticed to have kids if thejr knew they could get around more easily with their young ones. Macfani Alicia
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    Lock icon Can we be like this?
    495 4  -  S'pore M'sia NEWS By Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg EVEN heavy rain couldn't keep them away. Thousands of Singaporeans and Malaysians flocked to the seaside resort at Lido Beach in Johor last Saturday. Malaysian tourism officials put the figure at 100,000 visitors, including some 10,000 Singaporeans. The
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    Lock icon Watch out! Credit card tale is no hoax
    390 5  -  SINGAPORE WEBSITES TO CHECK Check out suspected hoaxes and urban legends on these websites: www.symantec .com/avcenter /hoax.html www.vmyths .com www.urban legends.com www.snopes .com By Alvin Chiang alchiang@sph,com.sg AN e-mail message has been going around, warning you about someone calling, claiming to be
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    Lock icon Smooth talker wanted for rape
    450 6 Man believed to be Singaporean NEWS HE was suave, smartly dressed and was chauffeured around in a Mercedes Benz. But the smooth-talking Casanova is now wanted in connection with two cases of rape and theft in Malaysia. He is believed to be a Singaporean in
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    Lock icon 'He seemed nice and friendly'
    483 7  -  PASSENGER CLAIMS CABBY TOOK OFF WITH WIFE'S HANDBAG SINGAPORE By Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg HE had his wife's handbag with him in a taxi, and left it behind when he stopped at a coffeshop. Before he went to buy food, the cabby, who stayed in
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Brawls spoil fireworks ShOW
    584 8 HUNDREDS INJURED IN PERTH RIOT NEWS IT was to be a day of celebration, an opportunity for the people of Perth to enjoy a fireworks spectacular. Indeed, some camped overnight so they could grab vantage points to watch the Sky Show, the highlight of Perth's Australia
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Face masks, sprays, spot checks...
      652 9  -  BIRD FLU: LOCAL FARMS ON HIGH ALERT BY Teh Jen Lee jenlee@sph. com. sg BEFORE Mr Meng Qingli gets to see his charges, he takes his temperature, showers and changes into a clean uniform. After putting on a face mask, latex gloves and rubber boots,
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      Lock icon Bird flu facts
      503 9 What is bird flu? Bird flu, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is a poultry disease caused by some strains of the Type A flu virus. The disease is extremely contagious and causes high mortality in chickens, turkeys, quails, ducks, geese and a wide variety
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      Lock icon Have Malaysian birds been hit?
      480 9  -  By. Josephine Chew jochetv@sph. com.sg GO easy on the chicken. That was the cheeky advice from one Malaysian poultry worker, following The New Paper's queries about whether bird flu had spread to farms in the country. But behind the tongue-in-cheek remark, there is more security
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Are migratory birds to blame for spread?
      506 10 B.JiVJ MIGRATORY birds used to be a welcome sight in many Asian countries, Singapore included. But would we now be so welcoming to these egrets, terns and other birds if they are responsible for the spread of the bird flu? Debate is raging
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      Lock icon Australia tightens checks on Asian travellers
      297 10 ALL Asian travellers to Australia are being screened and searched in an attempt to keep the bird flu away. Australian Customs officials began tightening checks on Asian flights four months ago when the disease showed up in Vietnam. Officials now comb through all luggage
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      Lock icon Jacko's not father of the two kids
      559 11 Singer's ex-wife says sperm came from bank YEARS ago, he sang "the kid is not my son" in the chorus from one of his hit songs, Billie Jean. But he'll be singing a different tune now, since his ex-wife has taken up that
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      Lock icon Donate your organs, pay less tax
      283 12 US state passes bill That, in a nutshell, is the carrot that is being dangled before residents of the state of Wisconsin, US. The Wisconsin Senate has passed a bill calling for a state income tax deduction of up to US$lO,OOO ($17,000) to cover
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    Lock icon 21 children in all — and dad wants more
    702 15 21 children in all and dad wants more MALAYSIA WHEN he visits his relatives during Chinese New Year, Mr Lim Ya Er never takes his entire family along. He's embarrassed to be labelled a "money-grubber". That's because the 53-year-old Malaysian, who lives in Ipoh, has 21 children. He told Guang
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    Lock icon 16 still trapped in this Cairo building
    314 16 WORLD FROM a distance, it looks like a pile of floor tiles smashed through by a martial arts exponent. But this was al2-storey building which collapsed in a Cairo suburb last night, after a fire broke out on a ground floor store, injuring
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Daughters dump mum TWICE
      390 20 Yet Spanish court fines them one-tenth the amount for dumping a pet ONE daughter dumped her on the doorstep of a second and left. A third daughter then arranged for her to be driven back to the first daughter's house. When no-one came to the door,
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      Lock icon Pope flips over break-dancers
      156 21 AP. IT was an unusual spectacle at the Vatican: 83-year-old Pope John Paul II presiding over a performance of break-dancers who leapt, flipped and spun their bodies to a dance beat from a tinny boom box. What is more, the pontiff seemed to approve, waving his
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    Lock icon Rolled over by tractor, he's rescued after 51 hours
    341 23 78-year-old Aussie fanner survives ordeal WORLD PARAMEDICS who rescued farmer John Stratford, 78, said he was "an extremely lucky and tough old bugger". A typically left-handed compliment worthy of the Australian outback, you might say, but one that speaks volumes. And
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  • NEWS IQ
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      Lock icon Older HDB estates are hot
      285 25 FORGET Bishan and Marine Parade. Older estates like Queenstown and Bukit Merah are now some of the most expensive Housing Board flats around. Overall, resale prices of Housing Board flats rose about 1.2 per cent over the third quarter. Latest figures from the HDB showed
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      Lock icon Is too much copyright wrong?
      352 25 OH THE R Edited extract from The New York Times: ONCE a dry and seemingly mechanical area of the American legal system, intellectual property law can now be found at the centre of major disputes. The most publicised development came in September, when the Recording
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      Lock icon Stock watch
      53 25 yPORECOMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) 81 Pacific Internet 8.171/+0.031 V^T^ hnology 12.0/+0.04 Flextronics 17.77/-0.03 Chartered Semiconductor 10.90/-0.15 Stats 13.81/-0.2 Yesterday's Percentage ri action change ose Dow Up 1.27% (134.22 pts) 10,702.51 Nasdaq Up 1.41% (29.96 pts) 2,153.83 S+P 500 Up 1.21% (13.82 pts) 1,155.37 STI Up 0.55%
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      Lock icon STI hits 34-month high
      68 25 THE Straits Times Index yesterday hit an intra-day high of 1,905.16 before closing at 1,899.98, a new 34-month high. News of the bird flu, which hit Thailand and Indonesia, had initially caused the market benchmark to recoil almost 1 per cent, but blue chips overcame the
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      Lock icon Fewer start-ups
      58 25 FEWER Singaporeans were engaged in new business start-ups and young firms last year. Singapore dropped from 22nd to 26th place out of 37 countries on the rankings of entrepreneurial activity by Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) But the Republic did well in GEM's first global look at "entrepreneurial-like" activity
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      Lock icon Swift justice for JB rapist
      72 25 JUST nine days after the offence, a security guard was sentenced to the maximum of 20 years'jail as well as 20 strokes for the rape and murder of Nurulhuda Ghani, 10, in Johor Baru. Mohamed Abbas Danus Baksan pleaded guilty in the Johor Baru Sessions
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      Lock icon 'Dead' man spotted?
      75 25 THE police here are investigating a case of a Singaporean who possibly faked his own death in Sri Lanka about 16 years ago. It may have been an elaborate scheme to claim insurance money. A retired lawyer who had helped the man's wife and brother collect $400,000
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      Lock icon DPM Lee in Jakarta
      70 25 DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is in Jakarta for three days to meet with political, religious and business leaders there. The visit would help him get a feel of developments as Indonesia gears up for elections due in April. It is also a chance to
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      Lock icon Seletar's minor upgrade
      65 25 ALTHOUGH the $100-million plan to upgrade Seletar Airport and extend the runway has been shelved, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (Caas) is now studying whether to install runway lighting and landing instrumentation. This would make landing in bad weather or at night much easier, and it
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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      Lock icon 'Cheating samurai'
      836 26  -  Showtime&Lifestyle Jli* L Jf ill A veteran at playing high mighty warriors, actor Hiroyuki Sanada has down-to-earth origins By, Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg FROM playing the sensitive Twilight Samurai to a fierce fighter in The Last Samurai and innumerable others in period samurai flicks before you'd think Hiroyuki Sanada
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      Lock icon He is serious about job, playful at love
      285 26 Making it In Hollywood Like all young talents, Hiroyuki also dreamed of making it big in Hollywood. He said: "When I was a kid, I saw a lot of American films and that's why I started training in martial arts and stunts."
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      Lock icon She's got it... She's lost it
      550 27  -  6 1st ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBES AWARDS Charlize Theron nicks coveted Best Actress award while last year's winner, Nicole Kidman, is left out in the cold By Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg SUDDENLY, the lights appear to have dimmed for Hollywood's undisputed golden girl. After winning for
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      Lock icon ...And so have they
      173 27 Newly-single Jennifer Lopez walked the red carpet alone, days after she officially ended her engagement to Ben Affleck. The haggard-looking star quickly strode past throngs of media and tried her best to look peach-y keen in her tangerine Greek goddess gown. Hollywood seems stricken with Scarlett
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      Lock icon MAIN WINNERS
      142 27 Best Picture (Drama): The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King Best Actress (Drama): Charlize Theron, Monster Best Actor (Drama): Sean Penn, Mystic River Best Picture (Comedy): Lost In Translation Best Actress (Comedy): Diane Keaton, Something's Gotta Give Best Actor (Comedy): Bill Murray, Lost In Translation
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      837 41  -  LAST WEEK'S TOP TIPS: REVIEW By Brian Miller npsports@sph. com.sg AFTER that fiery and tumultuous weekend which saw punters reeling when Wolves floored Manchester United in that EPL shocker, last week's FA Cup action was considered mild. No, make that uninspiring. Look at it this way. Almost
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        479 42 Cameroon's new one-piece fashion suit ETO'O BLAST Fifa seem to have a fixation with us: i At the last World Cup there was the matter of the shirts without sleeves and the refereeing of (Spanish official) Lopez Nieto against Germany. Since then they did not authorise the Cameroon
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        515 43 Kanoute: More to come for Mali MALI 3 KENYA 1 Reuters. Tottenham Hotspur star striker Frederic Kanoute did make the right choice after all to play for Mali. He fired Mali to a 3-1 victory over Kenya on his competitive international debut early this morning and said it
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        243 43 SENEGALO BURKINA FASO 0 Reuters. WORLD Cup quarter-finalists Senegal failed to capitalise on a myriad of chances in a 0-0 draw with Burkina Faso in their opening African Nations Cup match last night. The Senegalese dominated the derby match in Group B
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        309 44  -  I H 12 By JLLOYD SAMUEL ASTON VILLA THERE'S still plenty to play for when we take on Bolton tonight. They put five past us in the first leg so why shouldn't we put three past them this time? The first leg score
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        429 45 PA Sport. SIX years after arriving in England, Brazilian Emerson Thome is one match away from booking a date at a domestic final for the first time. The defender is in a "Bolton wonderland" following their Carling Cup adventure. They face Aston Villa today with one
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        140 45 BOLTON manager Sam Allardyce has been delighted at the way Thome, who started out in England with Sheffield Wednesday, has bedded in. "He has huge key factor in our Success this season, "Emerson's contribution is such that without him we wouldn't be in the semi-final or
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        170 45 PA Sport. ROUND two of Aston Villa and Bolton has all the hallmarks of a dead rubber. You certainly could not blame the latter for booking their accommodation in Cardiff after last Wednesday's 5-2 triumph in a match which had just about everything. There was shambolic defending, dodgy
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        412 46  -  |Byl MARIO MELCHIOT CHELSEA I'VE just heard that we've drawn Arsenal in the FA Cup yet again and I'm not surprised because we have played them every year for the past few years. So far, we haven't beaten them but that doesn't mean we can't win
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        159 46 LIVERPOOL V PORTSMOUTH PA Sport. LIVERPOOL were paired with Portsmouth in the second of only three all-Premiership ties. Gerard Houllier's side lost 1-0 at Fratton Park in October as they slipped out of the title race. But John Aldridge, an FA Cup-winner with the Merseysiders, tipped
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        179 46 FORMER Arsenal defender Nigel Winterburn believes his old side will have the edge over Chelsea when the two sides meet in the fifth round of the FA Cup. The Gunners will have home advantage when they continue their hunt for a third successive FA Cup triumph. It is
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      763 47 THE TOTTENHAM TARGET: BRAZIL are currently world l champions at Under-17, Under-20 and senior levels. The Olympic gold medal would complete the set. Indeed, the Olympic quest has become something of an obsession; it is the only title Brazil have never won.
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      418 48 iTRANSFER TRAIL PA Sport. FRENCH international defender Jean-Alain Boumsong is an angry man. Angry because he believes Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier lied to him. Houllier, he says, had indicated that the Premiership club was interested in signing him from Auxerre. So, when no deal was struck,
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      333 48 Wire services. EVERTON: Manager David Moyes has confirmed he is interested in signing Manchester United midfielder Nicky Butt (left). The England international asked to be placed on the transfer list having failed to hold down a regular first-team place at Old Trafford. Middlesbrough, Tottenham, Newcastle and Birmingham have all been
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      206 49 TRANSFER TRAIL PA Sport. GLASGOW Rangers reunited j| the de Boer twins when they signed defender Frank from Turkish side Galatasaray early this morning. The Scottish champions who trail Celtic by 11 points in this season's title race already have de Boer's twin brother, midfielder Ronald, on their books. Frank
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      344 49  -  |By FRANK DE BOER GALATASARAY THE latest news is that I am currently in Glasgow where I have just signed for Rangers until the end of the season. It's all come as a bit of a surprise really. Four days ago I was
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      269 49  -  |b7 RONALD DE BOER RANGERS FOR the past three or four days, I had known about the possibility of Frank joining Rangers. But I had to keep it quiet. Frank has recently been dissatisfied with how things were at Galatasaray and he and
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      324 50 PA Sport. DAVID Beckham feels his new role in the Real Madrid engine room is going to see him suspended for a Primera Liga game sooner or later. "I don't want to get another yellow (card), but it's bound to happen in the next stage of the season,"
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      599 51 CASH-STRAPPED LEEDS UNITED GET: Wire Services. AS talk of a takeover by local businessmen looms, Leeds United have been given "extra time" or four days, precisely to get out of their financial crisis. Under a previous agreement Leeds, more than £80 million ($146 million) in debt, had to
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      218 51 MANCHESTER United are expected to announce Sir Alex Ferguson's new deal in a bid to silence the rumblings from j major shareholder, John Magnier. 1 With speculation mounting the Irish consortium is i preparing to make a takeover bid for United. Ferguson revealed at the
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      189 51 ARSENAL manager Arscne Wenger called on Fifa. the world football s governing body, to scrap tournaments that were of no interest to fans. Fifa have scheduled a one-off exhibition match between France and Brazil just two days before the FA Cup final in May. Holders Arsenal are
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      542 52 PA Sport. SIR Alex Ferguson may have made a modest living out of proving Manchester United sceptics wrong. But he now faces the greatest unrest surrounding his management since the club's persistent European failures in the mid-90s. The travelling United faithful made their support
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      185 41 League T Home Team T Away Team I 9 I I (Singapore date/time) Sales Period Mon, 26/1/04 to Tue, 27/1/04 E League Cup Aston Villa Bolton Wed, 28/1/04 3.45 am Sales Period Tue, 27/1/04 to Wed, 28/1/04 Italian League Milan Siena Thu, 29/1/04 3.30 am E League Cup Middlesbrough Arsenal
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      98 51 Mod AUST OPEN TENNIS 2004 Q-FINALS Bam, tod torn S-FINALS 10.30 am on Thurs, noon on Friday WOMEN'S SINGLES A MEN'S DOUBLES FINALS 10.30 am, Saturday (All on Ch 22) CARLIN6 CUP (S-FINALS, 2nd LEG) ASTON VHIAv BOLTON Ch 22,3.40 am, tomorrow S-Ftaal 2 (2nd Lag) BONO v ARSENAL Ch
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