The New Paper, 12 May 2004

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    31 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2004 Singapore Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia I com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2004 70 CENTS 8 the new paper
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      35 1 KILLING OF ABUSED M'SIAN GIRL I'^S^SH m WSBbM jflE!K9HBHHBIIii Picture/NST Husband to testify as prosecution witness 13 I Osama's man beheads \k American in revenge' rvjL&jjM.// i sa^s we t S ite linked to Al-Qaeda
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Beach Road folk scoot after minor tremors
      553 2  -  But source is earthquake 600 km away in West Sumatra Nervous from Nicoll Highway collapse... By Faith Teo and Alvin Chiang wenli@sph.com.sg, alchiang@sph.com.sg OTHERS were jittery but coffeeshop owner Francis Lim was unmoved. He grumbled about the shakes but stayed put, as many
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      Lock icon Shakes felt because of clay
      825 3  -  By Faith Teo wenli&sph. com.sg PEOPLE in Golden Mile Complex and neighbouring Golden Mile Tower are used to the "shakes". They felt it when Nicoll Highway collapsed, and they felt it yesterday when Sumatra suffered an earthquake. In February, the Golden Mile Complex was evacuated
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      Lock icon Locked out by ex-hubby
      718 4  -  Divorcee wants to sell their flat to start new life but... By Tan Mae Lynn maelynn@sph.com.sg FOR the last nine months, she has been trying to sell the flat she owns jointly with her ex-husband. But she can't, because she can't even get in. In the
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      Lock icon Court can help but...
      255 4 DIVORCE lawyer Kenneth Au-Yong said it is not common to have one party refusing to leave the marital home after it is ordered to be sold. But it does happen. Mr Au-Yong said: "Sometimes they may not be happy with the court's decision and they choose
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      10 2 News IQ: Page 8 Hey!: Page 36-43 TV: Pages 44-45
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  • NEWS IQ
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      Lock icon Pay: Gain after pain?
      311 5 Unionists hope NWC's guidelines will urge employers to up salaries and bonuses GIVE workers their just rewards, say unionists. When the National Wages Council (NWC) releases its wage guidelines next Monday, they hope it will urge employers to compensate workers adequately for having weathered the poor
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      Lock icon They beg for cash while others queue
      46 5 POVERTY AMID PLENTY: a woman and her sick daughter beg on a street corner in Beijing between queues of shoppers waiting to withdraw cash from autoteiier machines highlighting the growing gap between rich and poor in China. Picture/ Reuters
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      52 5 s'pore companies ONNASPA q (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 9.179/-0.211 Creative Technology 10.06/+ O.OB Flextronics 16.06/+0.17 Chartered Semiconductor 8.49/+0.48 StatsB.3s/+0.15 Yesterday's Percentage rin«j» action change Dow Nasdaq S+P 500 STI Up 0.29% (29.45 pts) Up 1.86% (35.28 pts) Up 0.77% (8.33 pts) Up 0.65% (11.61 pts) 10,019.47 1,931.35
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      Lock icon No change to $1 offer
      95 5 THE Singapore Land Authority (SLA) is standing by its $1 offer for a 220sq m plot of land from Chuan Park condominium. Last year, SLA had offered the Faith Assembly of God church in Kim Keat $1 for its 200sq m plot of land. The
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      Lock icon M'sia: Don't invite US
      71 5 MALAYSIAN Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar says Singapore cannot invite the United States to patrol the Straits of Malacca as this may transfer the US' own problems to the region. He said that inviting outside interference would send the wrong signals. Malaysia is opposed a US
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      Lock icon Johor port in the black
      83 5 THE Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), has reported pre-tax profits of RM8.7 million ($3.9 million), its first since it started five years ago. The port loss RM84 million last year. The port, seen as Malaysia's low-cost rival to Singapore's PSA Corp, has also set a
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      Lock icon $65m media boost
      72 5 THE Government is putting a further $65 million for a media development fund over the next five years. This adds on to the $100 million that has already been set aside for the Media Development Authority's (MDA) Media 21 plans to grow the local media industry. The
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      Lock icon White Sands for sale
      74 5 OVERSEA-CHINESE Banking Corporation (OCBC) is selling its eight-year-old White Sands Shopping Mall at Pasir Ris. It was valued at $120 million at the end of last year. OCBC owns White Sands jointly with two other companies: Great Eastern Life Assurance Company (35 per cent) and Robinson
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      Lock icon Indian polls surprise
      73 5 A KEY ally of Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's National Democratic Alliance has been dumped from power in Andhra Pradesh's state assembly election. This has strenghtened fears that India is heading for a hung Parliament, as forecast by exit polls. The India stock market yesterday lost
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      52 5 I THE NON-CREDIBLE GUV 8 UJHY DOES EVERYTHING I SHIM! 2 YOU SAY SOUND SO I D LIKE TO SEE A NOTE LQIIHII DID YOU GET APPROVAL S SUSPICIOUS? J FROIA YOUR SURGEON. FOR THESE EXPENSES? I I I BECAUSE I JUST HE S WHAT? OH, t ILLITERATE. YES 1
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      Lock icon By helping others, it opened up their world
      607 6  -  By, Josephine Chew jochew@sph. com. sg WEIRD. That's what he and his friends used to think of the intellectually disabled before he got involved in a community project at a Touch Community Service centre for the intellectually disabled. Chinese High boy Wee
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      Lock icon Creating social awareness
      236 6 THE 60 GEP students who took part in the scheme presented their projects at a symposium on Apr 24. The scheme was a jointly developed by the Ministry of Education's Gifted Education Branch and the Singapore Management University's School of Business, with the support of Touch Community
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      Lock icon School's 10,000 km target
      460 7  -  All its students and teachers about 1,500 will be at the By Rachel Cheng xinhui@sph.com.sg TEN thousand kilometres. That's the total distance this school hopes to chalk up at The New Paper Big Walk this year. All 1,460 students and 88 teachers of Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary
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      Lock icon Hurry, 5 days left to sign up
      152 8 HAVENT signed up for the Big Walk yet? Hurry, there are only five days left to register. Do it by Sunday and you could drive away in a Nissan Sunny sponsored by Tan Chong Motor Sales. Youll also get a T-shirt and a
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      Lock icon Don't keep buyer in the dark
      509 9  -  If tenant terminates lease, new owner must be informed, court rules By Desmond Ng desmondn@sph.com.sg LET'S say you've just sold your house and you're finalising the paperwork. Meanwhile, it's still rented out. And the buyer understands the lease will continue even after the sale
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      Lock icon WHEN YOU CAN SUE
      182 9 SUCCESS in such a case would depend on several factors, said conveyancing lawyer Peter Ong. It must be on the Sale Purchase (S&P) agreement that the place will come with tenancy. "And there must be evidence that the seller withheld information about the breaking of the
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      297 8 Hunks out, average Joes in Think that only good-looking guys get the girl on TV? Not any more. When it comes to the latest reality dating shows, women are going gaga over men who are burly, bald and bespectacled. Stuart Krasnow, the executive producer of Average Joe, says: "What we're
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      Lock icon Hubby to testify against her
      547 10 FATAL CHILD ABUSE CASE 1: MUM CHARGE ANY mum would cringe at these shocking details: A 2-year-old dead after physical and sexual abuse, including rape with a foreign object. Bruises, bite marks and pinch marks all over her body, including her private parts, and scalding
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      Lock icon She let him drip wax on son's private parts as 'cure'
      382 10 FATAL CHILD ABUSE CASE 2: MUM'S BOYFRIEND PLEADS GUILTY HER boyfriend forced her son to eat his own faeces. He slapped, kicked and hit him with a bamboo pole and a feather duster. He even dropped hot wax on
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      Lock icon 'It was like a bomb went off'
      378 12 GLASGOW FACTORY BLAST Everyone heard it. Followed by screams everywhere. Once the dust settled, it looked like an earthquake zone. Staff caught up in a massive explosion at a plastics factory in Glasgow, Britain, told the BBC of the chaos as the building
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      Lock icon 'Beheading is better than long, torturous death'
      754 13 Killing in revenge for US abuse of Iraqi prisoners FATHER OF SLAIN US CIVILIAN Wire services. THE bound, It>eheaded body of his son lay on the roadside. The reason for his son's horrific death? The abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war, claim the
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      Lock icon US abuse: Tough General, tough report
      521 14 HE is the son of a Japanese prisoner of war. And what his father taught him about right and wrong has constantly stayed with him. So it comes as no surprise that US Major General Antonio Taguba (right) delivered an unflinching report on the
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      Lock icon Arowana dealer killed in Taiping shop
      527 16 He was to meet S'pore buyer keen on pricey fish HE had been on the phone with a Singapore client who was keen on buying his prized arowanas. But Perak fish dealer Chen Guojun insisted on cash, rejecting the Singaporean's offer to pay by
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      Lock icon Melbourne mystery: Why was 'nice' Chinese couple slain?
      335 16 THEY were, by all accounts, a nice, quiet, loving couple with no history of any trouble. Neighbours and workmates liked them a* they were hard working and friendly. That's why the brutal slaying of Ms Zhao Ying, 32, and Mr Li Yuqing,
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      687 17 Reporters allege 3 women who claimed they were raped by Leicester players are prostitutes. One player says: DNA samples are being analysed to decide the fate of three Leicester City players accused of sexual assault in Spain. Their lawyer yesterday
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      273 17 WITH a punch of his fist in the air, Mr Jonny Hurst (right) showed his joy to be chosen English Premiere League's first £10,000 ($30,240) chants laureate. What helped swing it for the Birmingham City fan was his singalong ode to his
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      631 18  -  I mean the phone, not my baby boy:) TECH MAD IAN TAN tanyhi@sph.com.sg MY friends and I have a love-hate relationship with Nokia. Nokia was there for us when we first started using handphones, just like Motorola when paging was still fashionable. Before we knew it,
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      738 19 You can browse as much as 20 per cent of a book on Amazon.com in new search feature LAT IF a giant corporation began copying entire cookbooks into its computer system, then offering all the recipes over the Internet for free, you might expect
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      312 20 Wire services. Microsoft has adopted an e-mail "whitelist" program by IronPort Systems that will allow legitimate marketers to tread the gauntlet of spam filters protecting its inboxes. Microsoft's Hotmail and MSN e-mail services, which together claim 170 million regular users, will require
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      446 24 Conmen use authentic-looking messages as bait to extract credit-card and other personal bank information from victims Wire services. Fraudulent e-mail messages designed to dupe Internet users out of their credit card details or bank information topped the three billion mark last month, according to one
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      265 24 Wire services. BRITISH police arrested a dozen Eastern European men and women last week on suspicion of defrauding online bank customers in the UK out of hundreds of thousands of pounds and diverting the money to a Russian crime gang. It
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    589 27 TECH Wire services. PERHAPS people have taken this wireless thing a bit too far. Just look at Sharp Electronic's new 15-inch wireless television. What, exactly, is a wireless television? More to the point, why is there one? In the interest of eliminating clutter, no
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    63 27 THE built-in high-capacity lithium-ion battery can give up to three hours of viewing in a "dark environment", the lowest of the three brightness settings. When the signal is solid, the picture is terrific, with a wide viewing angle, high contrast and defined images characteristic of Sharp's outstanding approach
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      Lock icon Lure of averages
      605 28 Showtime&Lifestyle Hunks are out, plain guys are in according to the latest trend in reality TV leading men. In Average Joe and The Bachelor 4JEANMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) finds out if average guys always finish last AVERAGE JOE The show: Finally, a reality TV dating show that features
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      Lock icon AVERAGE BOB PROVES JOES CAN BE JERKS TOO
      472 28 THE BACHELOR 4 The show: An eligible bachelor searches for his future wife among 25 beautiful ladies. In this case, it's Average Bob. Star: Mortgage broker Bob Guiney (left), 32, isn't your typical Bachelor candidate. He doesn't have the smoothness of Alex
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      Lock icon Phyllis A still insists it's hard work
      580 30  -  By Chang May Choon changmc@sph.com.sg SCOFF all you want. Or roll your eyes. But Phyllis Quek stands by her claim that she is more hardworking than lucky. Flashback to the Star Awards last August. After snagging the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes trophy,
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      216 30 ONE moment she was a sweet-natured makeup artist, and the next, a hospital director with a fiery temper. Phyllis Quek has been asked countless times if she suffered a mental breakdown while juggling the two extreme roles concurrently. She's demure in the romantic series
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      590 31  -  By Yeoh Wee Teck weeteck@sph. com.sg OPERA is not for everyone, least of all this reporter who is more in tune with Thunderpuss than Handel. So imagine my delight when the opera group first walked on stage at the DBS Arts Centre on
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      186 33 WILL Salman Khan be coming for the International Indian Film Academy (lifa) Awards next week? Salman's manager, Vikas Kapoor, told Bollywood Buzz that the star might not be able to make it because of delays in his filming schedule which will stretch till May 24.
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      217 34 IRELAND might be sending out mixed messages to Indian film-makers. The Irish Film Board and Tourism Ireland are trying to woo the lucrative Bollywood market to use its country as a film location. But its Department of Justice has come under fire for denying
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        459 46  -  Prays for rain to enhance chances of Confluence By Michael Lee manyan@sph. com. sg THE Singapore Airlines International (SIA) Cup never fails to polarise the attention in two distinct camps. The grit of our local runners against the might of the foreign raiders. But this year, there is
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          108 46 IF any trainer wants to break a lean spell or get a quick start, just seek jockey Saimee Jumaat. The perennial champion has been a lucky charm for two trainers recently. First, he broke a bad spell for trainer Patrick Busuttin by steering the Kiwi
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          122 46 THE next time trainer John Meagher's Magical Bell and the Michael Clement-trained Winning Expert line up in the same race put your money on the forecast. It looks like a safe proposition, looking at their past results. Three times they have crossed swords and each time they
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        196 46 A HIGHLY successful training career spanning over three decades is drawing to an end soon. Last Sunday, former seven-time Malayan Racing Association and three-time Hong Kong champion Ivan Allan announced his retirement as a trainer at the end of the current season. Allan, 63, cited
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        570 47 DANNY KHOO'S GUIDE TO KRANJI TRACKWORK AND BARRIER TRIALS FOR the first time, all 16 contenders for Sunday's $3 million Singapore Airlines International Cup turned up in full force to work at the various training tracks at Kranji yesterday. Seen for the first time were
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        606 47 LION CITY CUP l f 200m: See main report below. CLASS 2 1,400 m: Tom Higgs (M Kellady) reeled off 600 m In 39.4 after cantering a round. World Class (K Sara) canter/38.9. Always Good (C Carmody) canter/38.5, smartly. Hidden Surprise and Druids Lodge
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        99 47 TRAINER Charles Leek's pair of Kronos and Super Racer caught the eye with a 600 m "hit-out in 34.55 ec after cantering one round. Leek was astride Kronos, while Saimee Jumaat rode Super Racer. Other workouts: Always An Angel canter/35.7, accompanied by Seirawan (M
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        305 47 SINGAPORE AIRLINES INTERNATIONAL CUP 2,000 m: See main trackwork report. OPEN 1,600 m: Slow work: Sky Frontier, Wannabe Around, Happy Kingdom (T Ong), looking well, Air Chief (Kellady). CLASS 2 1,200 m: Jeffs Choice (Azis) canter/39.2. Slow work: Skip, Bulgari Style, maintaining winning form.
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        352 47  -  FOCUS ON NEWCOMER PHYSIQUE By Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg WHAT a way to start his Kranji racing career! Classy arrival Physique will make his debut in the $3 million Singapore Airlines International Cup (SAIC) at Kranji on Sunday. The Len Treloar-trained five-year-old Australian-bred won
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      264 48 ENGLISH LEAGUE ITALIAN SERIE A SPANISH PRIMERA AT YOUR FINGERTIPS 8®CCER ANALYSES FROM foreign experts ©I ITEM- will IMP Hii LATEST TEAM LINE-OP EXCITING BREAKING NEWS EVERY DAY! KiSSfSSF SCORES a OTHER MATCH ALERTS! emhjsh mam league cook Aston Vina avfc Liverpool lfc Birmingham BFC Man City MCFC Blackburn brfc
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      375 48 BADMINTON: THOMAS AND ÜBER CUP Wire Services. THE monumental rivalry between Malaysia and Indonesia in the sport of badminton will reach another peak when both countries engage in a survival battle during a Thomas Cup quarter-final match at the Istora Senayan Indoor Stadium tonight.
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      219 48 THOMAS CUP (Mm) Japan 3 South Africa 0 Shoji Sato bt Chris Dednam 1543,15-7; Sho Sasaki bt Dean Potgeiter 15-4,154; Tom Matsumoto bt Wiaan Viljoen 15-1, 15-2 Thailand 3 England 1 Boonsak Ponsana bt Aamir Ghaffar 13-15, 15-13,15-11; Anthony Clark/Nathan Robertson bt Pramote Teerawiwatana/Tesana Pavisvas 15-6, 9-15,15-10;
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      194 49 FOCUS: GERMAN 'KEEPER OLIVER KAHN AFP. BAYERN Munich goalkeeper Oliver Kahn said he was ready to give up his captain's armband after a costly blunder by him during the showdown game against Werder Bremen presented the latter with their fourth Bundesliga title. Said
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      507 49 Wire Services. GERMANY'S Oliver Kahn (left) has always been regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in world football, but recent lapses in high-profile matches have seen his reputation wane at home and abroad. Like last Saturday, when the Bayern Munich custodian spilled a harmless pass from Brazilian
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      343 50 EURO KICKOFF: ITALY AND FRANCE ITALIAN CUP: JUVENTUS v LAZIO (first leg: Lazio 2 Juventus 0) Reuters. Juventus coach Marcello Lippi will make his last appearance at the Delle Alpi stadium tonight (tomorrow, Singapore) when his team faces Lazio in the Italian Cup final second leg. Juve
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      338 50 FRENCH LEAGUE AFP. REVIVED French giants Paris St Germain's hopes of clinching their third league title and first since 1994 all but died on Tuesday a Pascal Feindouno inspired Bordeaux to a 3-0 victory. PSG did not help themselves as Frederic Dehu and Reinaldo had
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      51 50 ITALIAN cup l<e (1) Jwvwrtw 1.73 PQ Draw 3.42 (2) Uucto 3.85 1 /2 GOAL jHwMltM (-1 1/2) 3.35 Uoto («1 1/2) 1.25 TOTAL GOALS 0 7.50 5 7.50 1 4.80 6 15.00 2 3.80 7 29.00 3 3.90 8 75.00 4 5.00 125.00
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      714 51 ENGLAND: DIVISION ONE PLAYOFFS PA Sport. MICK McCarthy has challenged his Sunderland players to dig in and work on getting promoted back to the Premiership via the Play-offs. Given the financial problems at the Stadium of Light this season, McCarthy believes it is testament to the
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      82 51 PA Sport. CROWDS for Divisions One, Two and Three are at their highest level for 40 years with 15.9 million attending games this season. Figures show an annual increase of over one million spectators and a 7 per cent year-on-year increase. Division One audiences totalled 8.8 million,
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      429 51  -  THE STAR COLUMN EXCLUSIVE By JULIAN GRAY I CRYSTAL PALACE OUR 2-1 defeat against Coventry was not the greatest way to seal our place in the Play-offs but the most important thing is that we are there. It reflects all the hard work we've put in
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        438 52  -  SOUTHAMPTON v NEWCASTLE By SHOLA AMEOBI NEWCASTLE I HAVE to admit that it hasn't been the greatest week for Newcastle, what with going out of the Uefa Cup and drawing at home to Wolves in the Premiership. It's been tough, but we don't have time to
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        485 52  -  to GARY SPEED NEWCASTLE THERE is no doubt we need to put all the negativity from the 1-1 draw with Wolves behind us ahead of our games at Southampton and Liverpool. It was all doom and gloom around the place but we've
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        94 52 PA Sport. DANNY Higginbotham has joined a long list of injured Southampton players. Higginbotham has entered hospital for an appendix operation, joining Graeme Le Saux, Michael Svensson, Jason Dodd, Neil McCann, Rory Delap and reserve goalkeeper Paul Smith who are out of action. Newcastle midfielder Kieron Dyer could
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        54 52 epl 5tr/t<e <1H taints 3.07 <X)I Draw 3.05 d)i Utaweastia 2.10 1 1/2 GOAL Saint* (*1 1/2) 1.22 Nm raartto (-1 1/2) 3.60 TOTAL GOALS O 7.00 S 6.50 1 4.40 6 15.00 1 3.60 7 30.00 3 3.90 75.00 4 5.50 94
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      476 53 UK TIPSTER: DEREK BILTON PA Sport. FOR Newcastle United, it couldn't be simpler. In fact, it's Black and White. The men from Tyneside must win their last two Premiership games at Southampton tonight and then at Anfield on Saturday to close the five-point
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      157 53 Collect 2 tokens to David Beckham. Thierry Henry. Robert Pires. Zinedine Zidane. Ruud Van Nistlerooy. And so many other amazing Euro 2004 idols! You never know which exciting interactive CD-Cardz you'll get at our redemption booth. SlWOt for it! Goiect 2 of the 3 redemption
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      547 54 SAWADEE-KOP: THAILAND and LIVERPOOL AP. STUDENT Visaruth Hemindra owns hundreds of video-tapes of English soccer matches. His wardrobe is stuffed with replica uniforms of his favorite teams. His bedroom table is piled high with portraits of the players he idolises. Soccer is by far
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      557 55 SAWADEE-KOP: THAILAND and LIVERPOOL DEAR Prime Minister, please think again. While what Mr Thaksin Shinawatra plans to do with Liverpool is not new, neither is the lack of success foreign owners have with English clubs. Do take note that even Roman Abramovich with his multi-millions did not
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      230 55 Surachai Jaturapattarapong, right, Home United: This move will be good for our country because the young Thai footballers are the ones who will benefit from it. Even though I don't think we will see Liverpool signing any Thai players to play for them, sending our youth
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      771 56 SAWADEE-KOP: THAILAND and LIVERPOOL Liverpool are not just a football club full of famous names and famous faces. It is very much a "public club" humble and real. And to Thais, whose culture is both gentle and submissive, this humility is what has drawn them to
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      325 57 SAWADEE-KOP: THAILAND and LIVERPOOL Wire Services. THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's bid for a stake in Liverpool has not been cast in stone yet. Millionaire building magnate Steve Morgan has come out fighting with a rival bid. And in a direct attack
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      79 57 AFP. LEADING British bookmaker Ladbrokes reacted to news of Thaksin's proposed investment by cutting Liverpool's odds to win the Premier League next season from 25/1 to a still generous 20/1. Ladbrokes spokesman Warren Lush said: "An injection of money into a club is commonly followed by an injection
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      411 57 HOLD on to those Liverpool shirts. The ones with the Carlsberg name splashed on its front It could soon become a collector's item. This is because, if a Thai connection has its way, the red shirt with the white lettering could be shoved aside by an
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      60 57 S-LEAGUE (1) Balostier 3.92 (X) Draw 3.50 (2) Yg Lions 1.70 1 1/2 GOAL Balastior (♦I 1/2) 1.40 Yg Lions (-1 1/2) 2 60 1 TOTAL GOALS H 0 14.00 5 5.50 1 8 80 6 7.90 2 5.40 7 11.00 3
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      116 58 LIVERPOOL They write nice letters. half of Thai football fans support Liverpool and to many the fact that Liverpool haven't won much lately does not really matter as long as Liverpool is their Liverpool. It is not just Thai guys who support Liverpool. A good proportion of Thai football
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      90 57 Q&m OLYMPIC ASIAN FOOTBALL QUALIFIERS S KOREA v IRAN Ch 24, 5.55pm, today MALAYSIA v CHINA Ch 24,8.30pm, tonight NBA PLAYOFFS CONFERENCE S-FINALS SPURS v LA LAKERS Ch 23,10.30 am, today BADMINTON THOMAS ÜBER CUP 2004 S-FINALS, ÜBER CUP Ch 21,3.30pm, tomorrow S-FINALS, THOMAS CUP Ch 21,3.30pm, Friday FINALS, ÜBER
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