The New Paper, 11 May 2004

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1 57 The New Paper
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    43 1 the new paper TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2004 +gjf Singapore Press Holdings I website: .com.sg I Emaj tnp@s p hc0ms Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 mita (p> 025/03/2004 I I 70 cents I I I 11 j| 8 *****1 *****1 the new paper
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      35 1 H CANNY ONG MURDER: ACCUSED TELLS COURT... She asked to be left to die in manhole v r FOCUS ON LIVERPOOL g c r-i i I 3| I H ■r^ i:: v S 1 p
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      40 1 -I H UK LANDMARK DIVORCE CASE ARSENAL STAR'S EX-WIFE DEMANDS AS MAINTENANCE UP TO... Court gives her two houses worth $3m, $750,000 lump sum $750,000-a-year maintenance. But she argues she helped his career and deserves more maintenance, Local lawyers say
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  • SINGAPORE
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Widow still in shock
      1225 2  -  It has been three weeks since her husband died in the Nicoii Highway collapse... Lawyers visit site 25 lawyers representing the victims, contractors and organisations involved in the Apr 20 Nicoll Highway tragedy visited the site for the first time yesterday. The visit, organised by the
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      Lock icon $37,000 raised by Tampines Central
      342 3 MORE than $37,000 has been raised for Mr Vadivil's family by the Tampines Central constituency. As a Singapore permanent resident, Mr Vadivil had put down his sister's address in Tampines as his local residential address, although he rarely lived there. But his widow, Madam Paremswary
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      Lock icon Watch out for a belly good show
      549 4 RICKY Martin might have once had you shaking your bon-bons. Now he's about to get these Singapore girls belly-dancing in the streets. Belly good, you may say. It's even better, say some fans it's really live art. Ah yes, a winking navel on
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      378 5 We've learnt about human bonding. I We've also learnt about opening up J leads to closer ties. W I^pBACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY MASTER OF EDUCATION (HONOURS UPON INVITATION) One of the longest standing providers in teacher education in Queensland, JCU's Bachelor of Psychology is an in-depth and Cw® /ster «oWfo, JCU
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon My 4-year-old was locked in dark closet
      511 6 After reading The New Paper on Sunday, a mum writes in... Childcare centres or "child-scare" centres? The New Paper on Sunday report about the ill-treatment of children at some centres touched a raw nerve among parents who had similar stories to tell. NG
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    • Article
      Lock icon What other parents and childcare centres say
      388 6 I am concerned about the way one childcare centre handles children, especially newcomers. As far as I know parents go off immediately after dropping the children. They are told not to worry if the children cry. They are assured the children won't cry
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  • NEWS IQ
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      Lock icon Ticket prices may be reviewed
      289 7 OIL PRICE HIKE SIA WARNS: SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA), like many other local companies, is beginning to feel the heat of high fuel prices. "The rising prices are a matter of concern to SIA as much as any other airline, as fuel accounts for about a
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      Lock icon Newspapers break unwritten rule
      223 7 UNWRITTEN rules prevent Malay-language newspapers in Malaysia from using graphic images even in regular coverage of local murders. Leading Malay-language papers like Utusan (left), Berita Harian and Harian Metro don't take the gory route favoured by Chinese dailies, to avoid annoying their more conservative readers. But
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      51 7 S'PORECOMPANIES on nasdaq (dose in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 9.39/-0.66 Creative Technology 9.98/-0.22 Flextronics 15.89/-0.13 Chartered Semiconductor 8.01/-0.41 Stats 8.2/-0.34 Yesterday's Percentage Close action change Dow Nasdaq S+P 500 STI Down 1.26% (127.32 pts) Down 1.14% (21.89 pts) Down 1.05% (11.58 pts) Down 2.82% (51.94 pts) 9,990.02 1,896.07 1,087.12
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      Lock icon CAD probes GLC
      64 7 INSOLVENT government-linked firm Synergy Construction is being investigated by the Commercial Affairs Department for "severe accounting irregularities". Major shareholder Jurong International, a subsidiary of JTC Corporation, said substantial losses had been intentionally hidden from it. Initial estimates show Synergy is more than $40 million in debt. Its
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      Lock icon Valuair flight cancelled
      67 7 VALUAIR had to call off its maiden flight to Jakarta yesterday morning. Its 51 passengers were transferred to a Garuda Indonesia flight. All Valuair flights there are also off for the next few days, said executive director Jimmy Lau. Cancellations were not due to technical faults with
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      Lock icon No leak of reserves
      74 7 THE Government has dismissed Internet postings including one from opposition politician Chee Soon Juan that an Apr 19 constitutional amendment lets key agencies spend funds transferred to them. The Finance Ministry reiterated that any attempt to use the funds needs the assent of the Elected President
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      Lock icon Cloning penalties cut?
      67 7 THE S'pore Government may ease up on proposed penalties for rogue scientists caught trying to clone human beings. The penalties earlier stood at a maximum of 10 years'jail and a $100,000 fine. The new punishments could be reduced to five years jail and the fine. The draft
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      Lock icon Polls put Arroyo ahead
      77 7 EXIT polls have shown that Philippine President Gloria Arroyo is expected to return for a six-year term as the country's president. The polls, conducted by radio networks yesterday, indicated she will beat her main rival, film star Fernando Poe. One poll gave Ms Arroyo 38 per
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      Lock icon Free transfers to Senai
      71 7 TO draw Singapore travellers, Johor's Senai airport will start free transfers to and from a new city lounge in Johor Baru, which opens next month. Next month, 400 new parking lots will be added and a new closed-circuit monitoring system will be installed. The first phase
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon New citizens game to do some Big Walking
      474 9  -  By Loh Wanyun wanyun@sph.com.sg AT 48, she's a new Singaporean all set for the Big Walk. And don't think this aunty isn't up to it. Why, she could walk all the way from Shenton Way to Pasir Ris. That's how far Ms
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      134 9 SIGN up and you could drive away in a Nissan Sunny sponsored by Tan Chong Motor Sales. You'll also get a T-shirt and a coupon booklet of money-saving deals when you register. FUN WALKERS Distance: 5.6 km Registration fee: $4 per person. Registration: All
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      138 9 YOU'VE heard the jingle on TV. The first official song since the Big Walk started 14 years ago. Now, re-write the song and be one of 10 lucky winners to get a Timex ***** watch (above). Send your entries to: The New Paper Big Walk Song
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    Lock icon Repair of leaks not regulated by PUB
    267 10 SPEAKUP w* YOUR FORUM Mr Peter Tan Nam Song Director, Sewerage Public Utilities Board (PUB) WE refer to the article "Plumber from Hell: Victim so scared she withdrew complaint" (The New Paper, May 4). We would like to point out that the two
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      716 10 f ADDITIONAL MATHS FOR POLY The rithms going to get you Here's to help you with logarithms. It can be funky and won't throw you into a funk if a you can just deal with those numbers. So wise up. jjmr The maths to measure earthquakes could jOF* also help
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  • ASK DR MONEY
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      Lock icon Are complex investments worth it?
      647 11  -  LARRY HAVERKAMP Mai@AskDrMoneY.com BANKS sell complex products they claim are great investments. But are they? One such product is a "twin currency deposit" (TCD). Typically, you must invest a whopping $50,000 in a TCD, but that doesn't seem to deter people. DBS says: "Our more
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      Lock icon DERIVATIVES — THEY'RE A BIT LIKE GAMBLING
      234 11 DERIVATIVES THEY'RE A BIT LIKE GAMBLING TWIN currency deposits are an example of a new type of investment that is sweeping the globe, called "derivatives". Derivatives are not an asset but a contract, the value of which is "derived" from an underlying asset. Common derivatives are warrants, futures, swaps and
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      239 11 Eye for another guy r She didn't choose him on TV. Jff But when sparks flew, Eye For A Guy L ~CLjS* bachelorette Rachel Lee (centre) and i runner-up Mark Zee (right) ignored the show producers' warnings not to talk to k each other. They hit it off, leaving winner
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    Lock icon Black Monday...again
    431 12 WORLD Dow's plunge blamed on Rate rise fear Surging oil prices China slowdown Iraq woes Wire services. FEAR. This one word sums up the reason for the US stock market taking a drubbing when markets closed this morning (Singapore time). Fear of what? Opinions are divided. Many attribute
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Wife: I want a part of his earnings forever
      735 13 ARSENAL PLAYER'S MAINTENANCE TUSSLE: LANDMARK CASE UP to half of what you earn as maintenance for your ex-spouse. That's what Britons could be looking at paying in a divorce if an ex-wife succeeds in a landmark test case to get more
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      Lock icon UNFAIR PLAY?
      63 14 What possible defensible reason is there to give the husband the freedom to save for his twilight years, but to deny the wife the same freedom? There is none. It iipure discrimination to treat them differently. He was saying that playing football for Arsenal is four times more
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      Lock icon Will same thing happen in S'pore?
      258 14  -  By Sim Chi Yin simcy@sph.com.sg EVEN if women here asked for half their husband's earnings in a divorce, they are unlikely to succeed. That's what family lawyers here told The New Paper. In the first place, it's unlikely the Parlour case will be cited
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    Lock icon He says sorry as she lay dying in manhole
    640 15 High Court accepts as evidence confession of accused in Canny Ong murder trial MALAYSIA HERS is a story of many ifs. A sad story of a young, pretty woman whose life was snuffed out just as it promised to bloom. She
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Lungs punctured, boy, 7, stumbles 2km for help
      396 17 WITH nine broken ribs and his lungs close to collapse, 7-year-old Tyler Moon dragged himself through the Australian bush. He had to make it back to his home. Or his father, trapped under a quad-bike and with serious internal injuries, would die.
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      273 17 'Herbal Viagra' sold on Net may be deadly Reuters. THE doctors bought the "herbal" Viagra. But the pills hawked via spam to millions of e-mail users as so-called natural alternatives for treating impotence weren't for their personal use. Instead, Dr Neil Fleshner of Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, Canada,
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      33 17 lost because of a dare An employee unleashed a virus through his corporate network, bringing business to a halt. All because colleagues challenged him to write a virus. puterTimes e Straits Times tomorrow
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  • Tech
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      Lock icon Zipping in and out of favour
      715 18  -  w»tech Guy OO GIN LEE tnp@sph.com.sg IF you had asked lomega what it thought of floppy disks six to eight years ago, you would probably have got a chuckle or a guffaw. After all, its flagship Zip drives and disks were quickening the demise
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      525 20  -  TECH MAD IAN TAN tanyh@sphcom.sg SIX years ago, I was most impressed with my 250 megabyte lomega Zip drive, thinking it was a storage solution to last for years. In 2000,1 stopped using it because it was too expensive to keep
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      Lock icon Run! Pac-Man, run!
      339 21 NYT. LIFE imitates art far more than art imitates life. So said celebrated writer Oscar Wilde once. Little did he know that life would eventually also imitate video games. New York University students recently staged a live Pac-Man game in New York, as part of a project
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  • TECH
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      Lock icon Laws cannot control spying program... for now
      565 23 Wire services. INTERNET surfers have been bombarded with spam and sucked into downloading viruses. But some see a more insidious problem, known as "spyware", which can lurk in the background, track movements and sometimes "hijack" a computer. Spyware is a loosely defined term
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      Lock icon World's smallest robot ... but so what?
      341 25 World's smallest robot but so what? Wire services. US chemists have designed what is probably the world's tiniest robot with two feet. Measuring 10 billionths of a metre, the molecular robot's legs are the first nanoscale device to be capable of bipedal movement, reported the British weekly New Scientist. Inventors
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      Lock icon How it works
      159 25 THE DNA robot is able to "walk" because it is made out of scraps of DNA called bases. This comprises a dual strand joined together by mating pairs of chemical rungs. A single strand of DNA, like one side of a zip fastener, provides the track along
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Fewer foreign scientists in US
    285 27 Science, technology fields may become less competitive TECH Wire services. CAN the US produce another Thomas Edison, the Ohio-born scientist who invented the electric light bulb and motion picture camera? It'd better. Because it may lose its prominence in the fields of science and technology,
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  • Hey!
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      Lock icon They broke contest rules to be together
      878 29  -  Showtime&Lifestyle By, Jeanmarie Tan (jeanm@sph.com.sg) LAST night on television, you saw how Sivert Ong and bachelorette Rachel Lee walk off together into the sunset on the final episode of Eye For A Guy. By now, you'd probably know that Sivert, 27, turned out
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    • Article
      Lock icon "We were under house arrest!"
      483 29 THE happy lovebirds desperately want to be left alone and get on with their lives. Since they started dating 1 Vfe months ago, Rachel and Mark have been holed up at his apartment almost every night and are allowed to go out in public together
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      Lock icon Oh, my papa ... Vern, Carrie & Jamie's lowdown
      888 30 Oh, my papa Vern, Carrie Jamie's lowdown New local sitcom Daddy's Girls deals with a single father who needs to marry off his three daughters. SHEELA NARAYANAN (sheela@sph.com.sg) asks the three leading ladies Vernetta Lopez, Carrie Chong and Jamie Yeo about their relationships with the first man in their lives
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      110 47 FOUR extra race meetings will be staged at Kranji this year. They are on June 2 (Vesak Day, day meeting), Aug 9 (National Day, day meeting), Sept 3 (night meeting) and Sept 10 (night meeting). The Singapore Turf Club's objective in organising the additional race meetings
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      199 47 APPRENTICE Mohd Hairin was discharged from hospital yesterday and, thankfully, his injury was not as serious as first thought to be. Instead of a broken collarbone, Hairin said that he sustained a "soft tissue fracture or muscle tear" on his left collarbone. "When
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      1282 47 LAST SATURDAY RACE 1: ABUNDANCE (lame near-fore) was scratched. KOROMIKO returned lame off-fore. TRULY SERIOUS had blood in his off-side nostril. RACE 2: Apprentice S Kumar (HAPPY DANSEUR) was found guilty of a charge of careless riding in that near the 1.200 m,
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      443 48 BADMINTON: THOMAS AND ÜBER CUPS AFP. CHINA loosened Indonesia's 10-year grip on the Thomas Cup men's team badminton title yesterday, dousing a fiery reception to take an unbeatable 3-0 lead against the hosts. World No 1 Lin Dan fought back from 14-16 down in the first
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      224 48 THOMAS CUP (MEN) Denmark 5 Japan 0 Peter Gade bts Hidetaka Yamada 15-2, 15-10; Kenneth Jonassen bts Sho Sasaki 15-2,15-10; Niels Christian Kaldau bts Toru Matsumoto 15-13,7-15,15-5; Lars Paaske/Jonas Rasmussen bt Keita Masuda/Tadashi Otsuka 15-12,15-9; Jens Eriksen/Martin Lundgaard-Hansen bt Nakao Shuichi/Toru Matsumoto 15-3,15-6 China 5 Indonesia 0
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      795 49 GOLF: LPGA TOUR JAN Stephenson, a veteran Australian golfer, thought she was being sportingly correct when she once said that Asian women golfers were "killing the US LPGA Tour". In her now-infamous address, she moaned: "They don't speak English or are unwilling to speak English and they
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      300 51 PORTO striker Benni McCarthy has launched a scathing attack on his beloved Manchester United and declared: I'm no longer a fan. The South African's dream of one day moving to Old Trafford appears to have died amid this season's bitter last 16 Champions League clash with Sir
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      167 51 MANCHESTER United have a big surprise for all the US fens next summer. Nike has already designed the new kit that United will use during the next US tour. The new kit will be used just for the US tour and not in the Premier
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      120 51 AP. FANS of Japan's ancient sport of sumo favour keeping the traditional ban that keeps women from climbing atop the game's raised dirt mound. So found a survey commissioned by tike Japan Sumo Association. Of those surveyed, 69 per cent felt the ban should be kept.
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      122 51 MONACO'S outstanding skipper Ludovic Giuly has revealed the secret of his club's amazing progress into the Champions League final. Giuly believes that a chance conversation with Zinedine Zidane (above) just as the players of Monaco and Real Madrid trooped off the pitch at half time during the
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      341 52  -  LAST WEEKEND'S TIPS: REVIEW By Brian Miller npsports@sph.com.sg HOW could two teams with a scoring record play 45 minutes without a goal? How could Aston Villa, with so much to fight for, fail to get a result against Southampton? Well it did happen and the "no
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        423 53 PA Sport. THEY are his harshest critics and also most ardent supporters. And yesterday, for the second year running, the journalists of the Football Writers' Association (FWA) voted Arsenal's Thierry Henry as the Footballer of the Year. It's the first time a player has won it
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        189 53 AP. MICHAEL Schumacher and Annika Sorenstam were yesterday named Sportsman and Sportwoman of the Year respectively. Schumacher, of Germany, won a record sixth Formula One title in 2003, and Swedish golfer Sorenstam completed a career Grand Slam on the LPGA Tour. The awards were
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        126 53 PA Sport LEEDS United last night confirmed that Eddie Gray will no longer be manager of the club with immediate effect. Gray had met with managing director David Richmond and following "an amicable exchange" was told he had to go. The decision leaves Leeds looking for
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        1907 54 ■#J mAAI 1 Gerard Houllier has mounted a ferocious defence of his position as Liverpool manage and vowed his team would re-emerge with a vengeance next season with or without Champions League football. In a lift-the-lid interview just before the bi; clash with Newcastle this
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        742 55 Wire Services. AS the wheels move swiftly to grind out an agreement which will give Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra 30 per cent shares in Liverpool Football Club, the Arifield faithful are grinding their teeth. Fans are asking: "Who is this man?" In the latest issue
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        122 55 LIVERPOOL Up to £40million for Gerard Houllier to sign new players and perhaps to retain the services of Steven Gerrard and Michael Owen in the long term. o Significant funding towards the proposed relocation to a new 61,000-seat stadium at Stanley Park. o Increased revenue from
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        146 55 Wire Services. LIVERPOOL fans in Thailand are hailing Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's imminent purchase of stakes in the English Premiership club saying it would help develop Thai football and encourage more youngsters to take up the sport. If the move is successful, it is expected that
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        667 56 PA Sport. MICHAEL Owen has promised Liverpool he will not leave them in the lurch by sitting out his contract and leaving Anfield on a Bosman-style free transfer at the end of next season. The England striker has struggled to find his best form
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        120 56 PA Sport. MICHAEL Owen has warned Liverpool not to be complacent as they enter the final stage of a season that could end with Champions League qualification. The Anfield men will be home and dry if Newcastle fail to win at Southampton tomorrow and even if Newcastle
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        60 56 S-LEAGUE (1) AIMrwx 1.09 (X) Draw 8.60 (2) T« Wrn m mr 10 SO 1 1/2 GOAL Alfelrax (-3 1/2) 2.30 Tg Pagar (♦a 1/2) 1.50 TOTAL COALS O 26.00 S 4.80 1 13.00 6 6.20 2 5.80 7 9.40 3 4
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