The New Paper, 9 March 2004

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  • Title Section
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    19 1 the new paper TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2004 Press Holdings mita(p> nsiomim 70 CENTS 1 10 8 *****1 *****1 the
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      52 1 WE'RE SINGAPORE'S NO.l TABLOID M'SIAN ELECTION: FOCUS ON YOUNG CRUNCH MATCH FOR MAN U Page 2 InTiiQm I^^^^M^giMßß^^^Bßßßßili^MMK' IPi P'\.j liilMtftlirMF Hgfl T i -T.-r' W I i-r jat:'•*< v ■^^^O^ljM^^MmLlH'fflpfl T m -V H i#" S PW&" *SH c A I I Hmhh I JB |L Ife*^ Picture/ GUANG
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  • ELECTION, FEVER
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Can vote, no say
      860 2  -  Many of the 800,000 young voters have not registered and are ineligible to vote By Tan May Ping mayping@sph.com.sg I'M part of Malaysia's lost generation. I belong to the 800,000 new voters in the coming election, most of whom did not bother to register. So come
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    • Article
      Lock icon No vote, got say: Some young people who can't vote put pressure on parents to vote their choice
      461 2 THEY are too young to vote. Yet, Malaysia's ruling party is keeping a wary eye on them. TTie ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) knows too well the damage this group can cause in
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    • Article
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      130 3 Job opportunities and action against corruption are what young voters want according to a street poll by the Malay Mail. Here's what some of them said I hope to see plans to improve our lifestyle and better employment and other opportunities for all. —Ms Simerjit Kaur, 25, quality
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon One baby was sent back due to hole in heart
      897 4  -  REFUND FOR ADOPTIONS Last week, The New Paper broke the story of adoption agencies offering payment-by-instalment plans. And on Friday, the Ministry of Community Development and Sports announced restrictions to baby adoptions from China. DAWNCHIA and MELVIN SINGH discuss the
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    • Article
      Lock icon Agencies’ checklist: Get pictures, speak to the families and see babies
      474 4 THEY come from all around the region. They pass through 68 adoption agencies here. Young, often impoverished children find eager parents waiting to welcome them. But how do these adoption agencies go about finding babies for their clients and
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    • Article
      Lock icon Who’s checking?
      388 4  -  Comment/ Melvin Singh THE Government recently imposed restrictions on adoptions from China. From April, two voluntary welfare organisations will vet all applications and deal with the China Centre of Adoption Affairs. It's certainly time. Alarm bells should start ringing when children are at risk of being traded like
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon BUDGET TALK baby ... rules the day in Parliament
    717 5  - BUDGET TALK baby rules the day in Parliament PARLIAMENT By Dawn Chia dawncixxa@sph.com.sg THE B word dominated the debate in parliament yesterday babies, not the Budget. As members rose to give their support for the Budget, most devoted huge chunks of their speeches to the procreation issue. Mr Tan Soo
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon We told you so
      630 7  -  PUB had sent out warning that residents of some low-lying areas could face flooding on Mar 8 y 9 and 10 By Kor Kian Beng kianbeng@sph. com.sg YOU could say the warning fell on deaf ears. Since last year, the Public Utilities Board has been issuing
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    • Article
      Lock icon Getting-to-work blues
      305 8 GETTING wet was the least of their worries. Getting going was the big issue. Yesterday's downpour was so severe that it left some motorists stranded. At an open car park on Lower Delta Road, motorists like Mr Eric Koh found their cars submerged in flood water. The 34-year-old
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      Lock icon Law must treat all accused fairly... even the men in blue
      703 9  -  CJ'S ORAL SEX RULE By Tan Ooi Boon ooiboon@sph. com.sg WHEN cops go bad, many people would naturally expect them to receive a harsher punishment. After all, as the upholders of law, they should know better than to commit
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Makan-suture
      551 11  -  Internet check leads American to Singapore for radical operation to lose weight By Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph. com.sg SHE wanted a solution to a big problem. And she found the answer at Alexandra Hospital (AH). Mrs Sara Veronica Sathyamoorthy (right), 29, an American living in India, has been battling
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    • Article
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      163 11 SURGEONS place a band around the upper part of the stomach, dividing it into two compartments. Dr Haridas Baladas explained: "The upper pouch can hold only a small amount of food. "The rest of the stomach lies below the band. They are connected by a small
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Will taxi drivers now shy away from being helpful?
      626 13  -  CABBY GOT FOOT RUN OVER AND CLAIMED HE COULD NOT GET FULL COMPENSATION By Eunice Lin yizhen@sph. com.sg THE next time you are struggling to get your stuff into a taxi's boot, can you expect the driver to come and help
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    • Article
      Lock icon Comfort assisted cabby with his claim for $250 a week benefit
      289 13 Ms Vera Lui Corporate Affairs Manager Comfort Transportation I REFER to the article It happened outside cab, so it's your problem" (The New Paper, Feb 27) and would like to clarify that assistance was extended immediately to the concerned
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    • Article
      Lock icon Other taxi companies say...
      284 13 HOW will other taxi companies treat a case like that of Mr Ng? It seems Tibs drivers will get more than the $35 compensation Mr Ng got for each day of his medical leave. An SMRT Corporation spokesperson said: "Tibs cabbies will still be covered under
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  • ASK DR MONEY
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      Lock icon Just how much are you saving?
      251 16  -  CAR TAXES CUT BUT... DR MONEY LARRY HAVERKAMP Mat@MfDrMoney.ajin SOMETIMES, I receive insightful e-mail messages from readers of The New Paper. I got one yesterday from a reader I will call Mr Awak Pandai. (It means smart fellow in Malay.) He wishes to remain
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      Lock icon Big cut in taxes, small cut in costs
      456 16 ON Budget Day Feb 27,2004, car taxes were reduced: the Additional Registration Fee (ARF) was reduced from 130 per cent to 110 per cent of the Open Market Value (OMV) of a car. Car distributors responded by slashing car prices immediately. A
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    Lock icon No new centre for addictions
    278 18 SPEAKUP f 3 YOUR FORUM Ms Pauline Tan SP Manager, Corporate Communications, Institute of Mental Health WE refer to the report, Helping Asians Kick Bad Habits, in The New Paper on Mar 1. We wish to clarify that there will NOT be any new centre
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Buried in cement near her home
      798 22 Pretty 18-year-old missing for 12 days, body later found... SHE told her family she was joining friends for drinks in the evening. That was 12 days ago. And that was the last time her family saw 18-year-old See Sheau Fang alive. The only lead
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      Lock icon Homemade bomb used in bank robbery
      338 23 HE allegedly tried to rob a bank in Malaysia with a homemade bomb and was shot in the head by the bank's security guard as he was fleeing. The 40-year-old man walked into Bank Bumiputra Commerce at Pasar Borong Selangor in Serdang at about
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon ‘I didn’t know phone call would be the last’
      358 24 Japanese couple visit India for fourth time in nine-year search for missing son HE brightened her birthday with a long-distance phone call from India, where he was visiting as a tourist. And that was the last time Mrs Yoshiko Mariyama heard
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      Lock icon No protection
      459 25 Soldier's death in Iraq wakes US up to how unsafe Humvee is ON Oct 18, last year, Private First Class John D Hart called his father. He told him how unsafe he felt riding around Iraq in a Humvee. The soldier complained that his vehicle lacked bulletproof shielding
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Lips, tongue so swollen by tumours that eating is hard
      345 27 S'PORE CHARITY RAISES FUNDS FOR BATAM BOY'S OP WHEN Nuo Wen Di was born he looked like any other baby. But when he was 18 months old, two tumours began growing on his face. "The tumours grew bigger every year,
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      Lock icon US mafia hires killers from Italy
      280 28 Why? Americans unreliable THE desperate need for "foreign talent" is enough to make The Godfather turn in his grave. American Mafia families are heading for Sicily, Italy, to recruit their killers because Americans are seen as unreliable and indiscreet, reported The Times. In recent
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      Lock icon ‘Dead’ man returns after 11 yrs
      361 29 He was 8 when parents set him adrift on raft after being bitten by snake HIS family had given him up for dead. Subash Bag was 8 years old when he was bitten by a poisonous snake in a village north west of Kolkata,
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      Lock icon Aussie surf star in court over gangster killing
      426 30 A famous surfer appeared in a Sydney court yesterday over the murder of a gangster. Koby Abberton, who appears on billboards around the world promoting the sunglass brand Oakley, faces five accessory charges over the shooting death of henchman Anthony Hines in
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      Lock icon Rising crime in Japan boosts security business
      300 31 THE land of the rising sun used to be known as a safe country to live in. But now, fears of crime are penetrating every inch of society especially in schools. In stores across Tokyo, rape alarms are hot items and bookshelves are
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  • NEWS IQ
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      Lock icon More doctors leaving govt hospitals to go private
      309 32 A LOT of them are prominent, senior doctors, reported The Straits Times. Of the 177 doctors who quit last year despite the Sars outbreak, 43 were specialists. Sing Health said it has lost a total of 21 doctors. In the two months
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      Lock icon Wear a ribbon, and it shows you don't realty care
      295 32 OH THE RACK Edited extract from Guardian Unlimited: People who wear ribbons to show empathy with worthy causes and moum in public for celebrities they have never met are part of a growing culture of "ostentatious caring which is about
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      Lock icon Stock watch
      53 32 STORE COMPANIES OHH SDM (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 11.59/-0.16 Creative Technology 10.48/-0.37 Flextronics 17.40/-0.86 Chartered Semiconductor 9.70/-0.61 Stats 10.51/-0.07 Yesterday's Percentage ri action change uose Dow Down 0.62% (66.07 pts) 10,529.48 Nasdaq Down 1.9% (38.85 pts) 2,008.78 S+P 500 Down 0.84% (9.66 pts) 1,147.2 STI Down 0.17%
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      Lock icon No 31 -storey condo
      78 32 THE plan to build a massive 31-storey condominium and 21-storey office that will tower over Ang Mo Kio bus interchange has been scaled down. Singapore Labour Foundation said it would build "an integrated shopping mall cum bus interchange" there instead. This will be on a smaller
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      Lock icon Students won't retest
      83 32 ALMOST all A-level students who have at least a D 7 for mother tongue at the AO level said they will not sit for the exam. Only five of 70 students from seven junior colleges (JCs) polled by The Straits Times yesterday, want to retake the test.
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      Lock icon Expat terms demanded
      72 32 SINGAPOREANS looking for jobs overseas are still demanding expatriat pay packages. This is despite the trend in places like China where companies are switching to paying on local terms and expat perks have been reduced. Headhunters say Singaporeans are reluctant to make the move because they are
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      Lock icon Lawyers’ tougher rules
      71 32 FROM next month, there will be tougher accounting measures for lawyers. According to the Law Society's website, the main changes require two lawyers to sign cheques for withdrawals above $5,000 from clients' accounts and lawyers to balance these accounts every month. Firms must also engage an accounting
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      Lock icon SIM card terror clue
      68 32 A TINY handphone SIM card was the clue that helped to unravel the Al-Qaeda network on three continents. Investigators traced Jemaah Islamiah operations chief Hambali when he used an untrackable prepaid handphone card to make a call from Thailand to Indonesia. Officials also nabbed Bali bomber
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      Lock icon Condo dog fee
      81 32 THE management corporation of Bayshore Park plans to make residents with big dogs and those with more than two small dogs pay an annual fee. Residents may have to pay $300 a year if they keep one big dog, and an additional $1,000 for a second big
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
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      47 32 u What a 111 Itl I Qimh i GET A SPOUSE UHO i ISnlinc VOU W° N T Luliy II f COMPLAINS A LOT l?)^P S BELIEVE HOW ENJOYABLE? I AND THEN HAVE A 1 tAUCH YOU 1 FEU KIDS. 3 ENJOY BEING I 5 AT WORK.
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  • Hey! Showtime&Lifestyle
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      Lock icon Asian celebs now want to write too
      997 33  -  THEY'RE SINGERS, ACTORS, COMPERES... By Wendy Teo teowyw@sph.com.sg ELVA Hsiao wants to teach you pilates. Fish Leong is hoping you will peep into her diary, and Tony Sun wants to tell you about his Ambition. But what all of them really want you
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      Lock icon Next, comic book for 5566
      183 33 TAIWANESE hot boy band 5566 will soon have its own comic book series, says the quintet's manager, Mr Suen Te Rung. He said: "It was an idea during our annual career plans discussion. Last year, it was also during such discussions that we came up
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      Lock icon ‘I’m not selling books to earn money’
      243 33  -  By< Chang May Choon changmc@sph.com.sg L FISH Leong has published her first book, My Better Half, but you won't find her face in it. She herself had insisted on "no photos!" "There are so many celebrities publishing pictorial books now... I don't want
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  • HEY!
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      Lock icon Urgh! I control myself too much
      586 34  -  By Yeoh Wee Teck weeteck@sph. com. sg CAN a lauded actress do just as well as a host? That's a question that is giving Chen Huihui (left) pressure. And she is literally breaking into a sweat, trying to be a good host. Huihui Media
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      Lock icon Oh Myers! You'll feel like a cat nap
      456 35  -  Dr Seuss' The Cat In The Hat Starring Mike Myers, Alec Baldwin, Kelly Preston Director: Bo Welch Rating: By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg IF Mike Myers knew what was good for his career, he'd stick to being a green ogre, not a
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      99 45 AUSTRALIAN jockey Jason Patton, 31, has been given the nod to ride at Kranji this weekend. Patton has bagged numerous Group and Listed races, including the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate, Group 2 Kewney Stakes, Group 2 Memsie Stakes and Group 2 Stanley Wootton Stakes. He has ridden
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        167 48 PA Sport. FOR Sunderland, Millwall and Tranmere, the draw means one of them is also guaranteed a place in next season's Uefa Cup assuming both Arsenal and United are again in the Champions League. The financial rewards that come with it are a bonus.
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      558 51 LEICESTER CITY IN TURMOIL PA Sport. MICKY Adams faces the toughest task of his career to prevent Leicester City's season from collapsing. In the latest mega-drama, several key players, not involved in the sexual assault incidents in Spain, are threatening to turn their backs on their accused
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      102 52 PA Sport. SPURS have mixed news on the injury front. Anthony Gardner, Heider Postiga and Darren Anderton return to the squad after recent problems. But Freddie Kanoute (hamstring), Simon Davies (shin), Christian Ziege (thigh) and Jamie Redknapp (knee) will not play. Boro will be without full-back
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      755 53 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: ARSENAL v CELTA VIGO TOMORROW AT THE San Siro last November, Thierry Henry ran to the fans and asked, "Who's the daddy?", after the Gunners hammered Inter-Milan 5-1. If Arsenal do their job against Celta Vigo tomorrow night, he may well revive this Champions League
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      200 54 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: ARSENAL vCELTA VIGO TOMORROW THE Gunners have taken to huddling together nowadays whenever they score. If you're wondering how that came about, Robert Pires has the answer: He revealed that Sol Campbell (above) is the one behind the cuddly practice that so irritates rivals
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      152 54 WHO says I cannot be a success in Italy or Spain I can score anywhere. That's what Gunners hit-man Thierry Henry told Skysports when asked about critics who wonder whether he would do well in La Liga or Serie A. Henry had a spell in
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      593 55 Reuters. CHELSEA v STUTTGART With Chelsea's erratic home form in the Champions League, Claudio Ranieri is likely to use his most experienced side. Chelsea have won all their away fixtures but lost to Besiktas and managed only a 0-0 draw against Sparta
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      315 57 UK TIPSTER: DAVE TINDALL PREMIERSHIP: BORO v SPURS PA Sport. BORO win few at home and Spurs win few away. Five of the last eight meetings between them have ended all square. Any thought of tonight turning into a big knees-up following Middlesbrough's Carling Cup triumph in
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      570 57  -  CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (KNOCKOUT PHASE, 2nd LEG) By Ernest Luis npsports@sph.com.sg FORM, attitude, finishing and defending ability. Four qualities that will come into play in tonight's second legs of the first knockout round in the Champions League. To start with, the big one Manchester United
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      1024 58 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (KNOCKOUT PHASE. 2nd LEG) UK TIPSTER: JONATHAN TURNER PA Sport. THE bookies firmly believe that Manchester United will overturn their first leg deficit against Porto in tonight's Champions League return. But it's hard to find any justification for that stance. United are odds-on
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      395 59 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (KNOCKOUT PHASE, 2nd LEG) JUVENTUS yPEPORTIVOWrst-lcs 0-1) Reuters. Despite injuries, suspension and a current lack of form, Juventus coach Marcello Lippi remains optimistic of overturning a 1-0 deficit in the second leg of their Champions League tie against Deportivo Coruna tonight. Tlie suspension of midfielder
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      196 59 REAL SOCffiMDv LYON WreHegO-1) PA Sport. LYON striker Giovane Elber has urged his side to forget about their successful first leg against Real Sociedad. That he says will give them the best chance of progressing to the Champions League quarter-finals. Lyon, the 2002 and 2003 Ligue 1
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      632 60  -  IfCHAMPIONS CHELSEA v LEAGUE (KNOCKOUT PHASE, 2nd LEG) STUTTGART HHyH By Ernest Luis with Tohari Paijan npsport@sph.com.sg CHELSEA would just love it if Manchester United get knocked out of the Champions League. Especially their new chief executive Peter Kenyon who left Man U for Chelsea to
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      199 60  -  EMtuUM to Tht Nm Paper By MARIO MELCHIOT CHELSEA STUTTGART are sure to come to Stamford Bridge on tonight night with an attacking game plan to try to make the second leg as open as possible. Our away goal and lead have made those tactics a
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      838 61 [CHAMPIONS MAN UNITED LEAGUE (KNOCKOUT PHASE, 2nd LEG) V PORTO The second legs of the Champions League's first knockout round resume tonight. Will giants Manchester United be knocked out? Can under-fire Chelsea go one step further to prove their internal critics wrong? ERNEST LUIS
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      127 61  -  HlHiB By RYAN GIGGS MANCHESTER UNITED It's great to go into tonight's Champions League game on the back of a good win against Fulham on Saturday. Confidence had been affected by our recent form, but thankfully we got exactly the boost we were hoping for. Having
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      93 61 PA Sport. There have been battles of Britain in the past but the Champions League quarter-finals draw on Friday could see its first English civil war. Should they qualify, Man United could meet Arsenal in the next round of Europe as well as in the FA
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      651 62 fj CHAMPIONS MAN UNITED^HJH 7 LEAGUE (KNOCKOUT PHASE. 2nd LEG) V PORTO Wire Services. IT was not a game that needed any hype to raise the stakes, yet Porto striker Benni McCarthy has ensured that he will be afforded a warm welcome ahead of
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      226 62 Mfevas not at all easy in the first-leg, even though everyone said it was... It has to be good for our morale to perform so well against a team of the calibre of Manchester United. You could sense the frustration of their players and their coach. 18fcl|nm
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      858 63 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE CLASH: MAN U v PORT: PA Sport. P RE-MATCH diplomacy has been cast aside. It's clear Old Trafford will be a vicious cauldron tonight. The war of words between Manchester United and Portuguese club Porto reached a feverish pitch last night ahead
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