The New Paper, 16 May 2004

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  • 37 1 the new paper on Sunday MAY 16, 24 MITA (P) 024/03/2004 Singapore Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asial .com sg I Email: tnp@sph.com.sg 80 CENTS Hotline; 1800- 7 33 44 55| nm 8"8871 81"*****9 > the new paper on sunoay
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  • NEWS
    • 358 2  -  REPOfflSi TAN MAY PING REPORT MELVIN SINGH THIS is the story of Alex, a scared, scarred boy. His clothes hid the bruises and burn marks on his impish frame. His cherubic smile and good manners masked the fear and pain he felt inside. Alex was
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    • 716 2 All the sisters then 12 and 15 could do was to wipe away his tears and offer him protective hugs. Chong refused to allow them to take Alex to a doctor. They too were beaten, claimed Sherie, the younger of the two sisters. They were
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    • 885 3  -  WHAT MUM TOLD THE COURT Neither myself nor my daughters laid a hand on my son. During the time while Chong lived with us y I was the one who borrowed money to maintain this family. I was afraid that Chong would hurt the
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  • NEWS
    • 1360 5  -  She attacked her son with a chopper because he didn't finish his homework. What drove her to take such a drastic step? REPORT AND PICTURE JOYCE LIM oycel@spb.comsg THERE are no seats in the living room, let alone a sofa
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    • 298 6 BEN (not his real name) was first sent to the Chen Su Lan Methodist Children's Home when he was 5. It was over an alleged incident of abuse, Mr See Choon Wai, the home's executive director, told The New Paper On Sunday. "At
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    • 656 7  -  By Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg A MOTHER'S pain as she's parted from her child to go to jail; a child's confusion as he loses his mother. Lawyer N Kanagavijayan has seen it happen before. It happened to his client a mother of a 12-year-old
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    • 171 7 THE Child Protection Service will assess the level of risk posed to the safety of the child when they investigate a complaint of child abuse, a spokesman from the Ministry of Community Development and Sports (MCDS) said. If the child is assessed to be at risk
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  • NEWS
    • 1213 9  -  Desperate Taiwanese man roams S'pore looking for his lost love By Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg YOU may have seen him at an MRT station. He would be clutching an MRT map. He would've seemed lost and forlorn. He would've looked like a man seeking directions,
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    • 174 10 HE earns NT$3B,OOO ($1,944) a month. And yet, Mr Theng said he has spent about NT$6OO,OOO on PI services. He also spent about NT$4O,OOO on his trip to Singapore. He might now sue the PI agency who gave him the false Singapore lead, he added. And he is
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    • 610 11  -  If local clubbing entrepreneur Dennis Foo (right) had money to buy a football club, he'd invest it elsewhere By Faith Teo wenli@sph.com. sg ONE is a Russian oil magnate, another owns department store Harrods in England. But Mr Roman Abramovich and Mr Mohammed A 1 Fayed
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    • 598 11 IT sounds like a good deal. Buy up an English club and you can set up football academies for local players and give them professional exposure. And maybe one day, we might even see a local player in the English Premier League. Which is
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    • 222 12  -  By Edwin Yeo tnp@sph.com.sg ENGLISH football clubs can be like the English weather unpredictable, and not just in their performance. Their prices can vary just as wildly. Take Chelsea, for example. Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich paid £140 million ($425 m) for the club
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    • 624 13  -  Report and picture By Rachel Cheng x inhui@sph.com.sg THEY call her The Speedster. From needing more than 10 minutes to walk briskly once round the 400-metre track, Madam Rosnani Maulan now takes only 3V* minutes. It's hard to believe only four months ago, the 41-year-old
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    • 150 13 HAVEN'T signed up for the Big Walk yet? Today's the last day to register. 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. And the
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    • 317 15 [Vj Aussie becomes Danish princess, Sonia for PM IT'S not just Singapore that welcomes foreign talent. India and Denmark have gone even further, embracing foreign talent at the highest levels. Italian-born Sonia Gandhi (above, right) looks set to be India's prime minister while an Australian could be
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    • at a glance
      • 126 15 Snapshots of the main news to save you time FORMER Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid's bid to win back his old job suffered a blow when the election commission said he had failed a medical fitness test. "The examination found that I am visually impaired, thus I
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      • 116 15 WASHINGTON must hand Iraqis control over their country's oil revenue and security forces or the Jun 30 transfer of power will be meaningless, says Iraq's Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi. Washington says the postwar Iraqi army and security forces will not be ready to take over when an
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      • 125 15 MORTGAGE rates in Singapore look set to rise from the present record low of around 1 per cent. The spark will most likely come from a hike in short-term US interest rates by the US Federal Reserve. The US rate hike is widely seen as
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      • 141 15 TAKE note if you've noticed that your new apartment seems smaller than it's supposed to be. You may find that the total area includes space taken up by window ledges, planter boxes, and even the ledge for the air-conditioner, after you've read the fine print on the
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    • 375 18 They hated his accent, age posh upbringing But they voted him India's youngest MP, believing his promise to turn Mumbai into Shanghai PEOPLE sniggered when the young upstart opened his mouth and spoke in clipped English. His promises to turn Mumbai into Shanghai seemed ridiculous! What did he know of
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    • 668 19 I Skull removed to treat brain injury after car crash No insurance so hospital delays operation AP. AFTER a lot of red tape, Briana Lane (right) has her skull back in one piece. Ms Lane, 22, was injured in a road
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  • 372 21 after tribal council gave the go-ahead [NEWS Wire services. THE 16-year-old was harvesting wheat in the fields with her father when they were summoned by the landlord. He then allegedly raped Sabeen (not her real name) and her sister-in-law at gunpoint. Her father could only watch
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    • 406 22 Pure excitement... A star-studded! cast... J* The stage fc oetf Catch champion thoroughbreds and jockeys from around the world and Singapore fir"" H battle it out for the $3 million prizemoney and K top honours in the 2004 SlnQQpOf Afcfaec 11 If liimwHonal Cap, 2nd leg of the prestigious II
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  • 835 23 Needs help to stand and walk after near-fatal train crash Gains 30kg from appetite disorder I NEWS Tanya Liu wrote an open letter to her mother, specially for Mother's Day, which appeared in Feminine magazine. Here are a few highlights, which show the special
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    • 193 23 THE NEW PAPER/ COOKIN 04 CONTEST 40 TICKETS, each worth $125 UP FOR GRABS! South Korea's answer to Stomp is all set to whip up another fast and furious show in Singapore. Cookin', with its delicious blend of infectious rhythm and culinary humour, have wowed more than 1.5 million people
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    • 280 25  - Get in touch with your dark side It's the best way to put off, till tomorrow, what you should be doing today TECH BUDDy EUGENE WEE eugenew@sph.com.sg JUST like The Force, technology has a Light side and a Dark side. The Light side of it helps increase productivity and efficiency.
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      81 25 YOUR company probably has a strict computer usage policy that forbids you from installing games on your PC at work. But that doesn't mean you can't sneak in some downtime with arcade or boardgame action. There are several sites that provide all sorts of games that can be
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    • 166 25 WHERE TO GO: Yahoo Games (http://games.yahoo.coni): From oldtime favourites Chess and Reversi to brain workouts like Word Racer and Text Twist, this site lets you pit your skills against other players from all over the wovM. WHETHER it's idle gossip or a heated discussion on last night's big
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      114 25 FOR true fans, just talking about their favourite sport is never enough. You have to live it and breathe it. And there's no better way to indulge in your sport of choice at work than join a fantasy league. Fantasy leagues are sites that allow members to start
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  • TECH
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    • 278 29 UK group to start implanting human gene in tree IT may not be ashes to ashes for much longer. Two London artists have come up with a scheme to take DNA from a dead person and insert it into apple trees to create a living memorial
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  • TECH
    • 325 34 THE movie is supposed to inspire viewers to repent of their sins. But movie pirates obviously missed the message. Last month, Mel Gibson's box-office smash, The Passion Of The Christ, became the most-pirated movie on Internet file-sharing networks, an online piracy-tracking firm said. According to California-based
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      221 35 FINE $200 German pensioner fined for sending nasty e-mail to ex-girlfriend DO check before you click on the "send" button when you are writing an e-mail to a woman. If your note contains terms which are deemed insulting to a woman, you can be taken to court,
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  • 311 37 900,000 CHEATED OF $64m TECH Wire services. IF you are the sort who doesn't bother to check credit card transactions, especially when it involves small amounts, perhaps you should start doing so. A cheat in Los Angeles recently took US$37.5
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    990 39 The latest fad from the idiot box is making you an idiot REALITY TV: SUNDAY J YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND Sometimes, even the most hardcore Survivor can't survive another moment of reality TV. On Monday's Survivor: All-Stars reunion special, contestant Jerri Manthey got booed by the
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      997 40 JEANMARIE TAN takes a brief look at the alleged rigging within several reality TV shows REALITY TV: REAL or BLUFF? EYE FOR A GUY EVEN the guys on the local reality dating show admitted that they occasionally discussed the possibility of it being rigged. One of them, Sharif
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      660 41  -  By Fawziah Selamat fa wziahs@sph. com. sg THINGS are going to get less ugly at Mohamed Sultan. No, we're not talking about a ban on loud, drunken pub-crawlers. We're talking about Coyote Ugly the bar on Mohamed Sultan known for its barmaids shaking their booty on
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    • 225 41 WHILE imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, most companies aren't going to buy that argument should they find you ripping off their names. So before naming your company, lawyer Alban Kang advises that you make sure your chosen name hasn't already been
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    • 703 42 AQUARIUS GAL is a woman in her late twenties. She got married two years ago to a wonderful husband who dotes on her. Recently, she got to know a guy A, through her best friend, B. She became friends with A and they go out often.
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    • 229 42 MY friend has always been crying lately. Maybe he has an emotional problem or something. Each time he approaches me with his problem, he cries even before he finishes talking about it. I know that as a friend I should support and console him,
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    • 102 42 WHAT do you think this writer should do? Have you ever been in a similar situation? Do you have any advice? We are inviting YOU to act as counsellor to our Dear Aggie advice-seekers. E-mail us your advice to them before Tuesday to tnp@sph.com.sg or
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    • 181 43 I AM an 18-year-old guy who masturbates once every day. I know that masturbation is natural but I am still afraid and I have these questions: Firstly, will masturbation cause me to suffer from any health problems later? Will I still be able to have babies when
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    • 364 44  -  By Sheela Narayanan sheela@sph.com.sg CAN Bollywood stars play football? Coming from a country where a World Cup tournament usually means cricket, it's unusual, certainly. But we'll soon find out if stars such as Abhishek Bachchan can kick a ball when they play in
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  • 590 48 HEY/ FACT, they say, is stranger than fiction. Whoever said that probably hasn't read much fiction or watched Light Years. Every now and then, however, we do get pieces of news which could potentially end up as fodder for humour columnists on their dry weeks.
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  • RACING
    • 1989 50 STIPES'REPORT—SEE PAGE 56 9 ROYAL CAPTAIN 57 (18-8) GMosse (4) 2 2 1 (539) 13 PACIFIC CHIEF 54 (48-13) AWhelan (8) 1 1 2 (449) 2.75L 10 TRANSFORMATION 57 (53-13) BVorster (3) 4 4 3 (456) 0.5 5 GAMGEE 57 (28-9)
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    • 296 50  -  By Michael Lee manyan@sph.com.sg THE ambulance had a busy afternoon at Kranji yesterday. Just one race before Saimee Jumaat was dislodged but reportedly unhurt from raging favourite Ninetyfive Emperor in the Lion City Cup, two other jockeys ended their race with a ride inside the
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    • 572 51  -  $350,000 sprint classic marred by champion jockey Saimee's fall from hot favourite Ninetyfive Emperor Bv Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph. com. sg TRAINER Charles Leek capped his fourth success in the $350,000 Lion City Cup in five years with a 1-2 finish at Kranji yesterday. But
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    • 373 52 Racing Editor Marc Tan Danny Khoo Michael Lee Tan Thean Loon RACE 6 Strong Han 1 Chess Master 10 Universal Glory 7 Royal Princess 3 Lim's Vision S Speed Lake 7 Royal Princess 5 Speed Lake 6 Strong Man 3 Urn's Vision S Speed Lake 1
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    • 85 52 Wasabe (Race 8 No. 3) A fourth win on the trot is not beyond this four-year-old Personal Escort gelding. He made winning look so easy at his last start over 1,400 m on April 23, when he swept past pacesetter Mayo's Music in the run home and had
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    • 1284 52 RACE 1: Trainer P Shaw was fined $200 for not declaring his intention to race TRANSFORMATION with blinkers within the prescribed time at declarations. VALIANT was scratched when found to be inappetant. M Kellady replaced M Razali on ALONSO as the latter was
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    • 1292 53 FRENCH FLAIR: Frenchman Gerald Mosse (astride the Charles Leek-trained Lion City Cup winner Super Racer) has four rides today, including Ain't Here In the $3 million Singapore Airlines International Cup. Picture/ Kenneth Koh |ii| Maiden (Restricted) 4.00
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    • 1236 54 SWEET VICTORY: Jason Patton rising to the occasion on the John Meagher-trained Mayo 's Music in the Kranji Mile on April 11. The Australian hoop teams up with the John Meagher-trained galloper again in Race 8 tonight against
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    • 378 55  -  By Michael Lee manyan@sph.com.sg THE link-up between top Australian jockey Darren Beadman and France-based British trainer John Hammond may surprise a few. Surely, there is no dearth of talent among the French riding ranks to pick for the steering job aboard Gruntled in tonight's Singapore Airlines
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    • 649 55 No. L—tSc— HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Banter (Age/originVsex. trainer-owner) 1 *****0 ABTT HERE 57 (108) G Mom 4 (4ag DA Hayes-Robert Ng) Has good record over2,000m but may fall short of what is needed to win here. 2
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    • 357 55 WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR? ONLY one galloper will be running under his banner but trainer Patrick Shaw will be doing'double duty today. The South African was a last-minute guest when champion middle-dis-tance older horse Blizz Bless secured a berth after Godolphin's Vespone sidestepped. But Shaw is also
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      852 56  -  BEST OF THE KRANJI SEVEN: REPORTS #TAN THEAN LOON JoooQsph 9g THE foreign armada looks awesome in today's $3 million Singapore Airlines International Cup (Race 9, 8.30pm). Can one of our Magnificent Seven do them in? I think so. This time, our own backyard has the right team to
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    • 783 56 PICK OF THE NINE FOREIGN INVADERS: ■SAINT HERE (HK) ■■57kg Jockey: G Mosse (barrier 4) Trainer D Hayes Owner Robert Ng 4YOJtay Australian-bred peldinmbyiDehere: 21 starts for stakes won 't won for some tftl&'jh/t showed recent form tCmFtoird placing to Lucky Owners in 2,000 m Hong Kong Derby
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    • 37 51 4-D DRAW SATURDAY May 15, 2004 FIRST 6698 tit lh>* SECOND 923S THIRD I 1276 STARTERS CONSOLATION 6468 0246 6136 4784 0820 9640 7972 9485 4586 1188 9163 4144 0515 0844 7852 7698 3469 4923 5762 3822
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  • SPORTS
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      1046 57 NBA 2004 SPURS' FRENCH GUARD TONY PARKER AP. BRUCE Bowen saw a name flash across the television three years ago and could not fathom what he was hearing: "With the 28th pick in the 2001 NBA draft, the San Antonio Spurs select... Tony Parker." "No way, can't be
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    • 359 58 GOLF: BYRON NELSON C'SHIPS AP. ERNIE Els picked up this week's tournament programme, turned to the biography of Byron Nelson and just couldn't get over what he read about Nelson's final competitive tournament, the 1955 French Open. "He won it," Els said, "and he
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    • 77 58 TIGER Woods moved into a one-shot lead after two rounds after shooting a three-under-par 67 that left the world No lon eight-under 132 on Friday (US time). Woods carded four birdies and one bogey to hold a slim advantage over his friend Mark O'Meara in the two-course event
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    • 426 58 BADMINTON: THOMAS AND ÜBER CUPS AFP. DENMARK'S emotional semi-final badminton victory over hosts Indonesia has given them a "mental boost" as they prepare to battle top seeds China for the Thomas Cup tonight, their coach said. Steed Pedersen conceded his men were second-favourites
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    • 185 59 WORLD CUP 20 IO Reuters. HE'S a world ambassador for freedom. Now Nelson Mandela (left) has won the rights for his country to host soccer's biggest event. The former South African president was among the mega-celebrities who had campaigned for South Africa to host the World Cup
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    • 460 59 ENGLAND: DIVISION ONE PLAYOFFS Ipswich v West Ham Second leg: Tuesday Played on Friday: Crystal Palace 3 Sunderland 2 Second leg: Tomorrow Final: May 29, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff The May 29 winner will join Norwich (First Division champion) and West Bromwich (runner-up) to play in next season's Premiership.
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    • 428 59 EURO KICKOFF: SPAIN PA Sport. REAL Madrid coach Carlos Queiroz has slammed club president Florentino Perez's policy of "Zidanes and Pavons" on the eve of their encounter with already relegated Murcia. Perez has brought world superstars Luis Figo, Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo and David Beckham to
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    • 417 60  -  SULTAN OF SELANGOR'S CUP By Suresh Nair npsports@sph. com.sg IS the soccer rivalry between Singapore and Malaysia still hot? Do die-hard Singapore fans still have the passion to egg on their side with the Kallang Roar? For the answers, tune in to tonight's extravaganza at the
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    • PREMIERSHIP SEASON: BURNING ISSUE
      • 633 62 LEEDS UNITED After reaching the Champions League semi-finals in 2001, very few would have predicted Leeds United to free-fall from the English Premiership to the First Division after this season. ERNEST LUIS asks what was really rotten in the state of Leeds... IF Alan Smith's
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      • 628 64  -  CHELSEA By Erwin Wong lifts funis "sflll (1)111 ROMAN Abramovich came, he saw, but he didn't conquer. Still, Khairil Zam, 28, felt that Chelsea have excelled by finishing second in the English Premier League. Said the secretary of the Chelsea fan club here: "They have done
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      • 655 66 THE HAS-BEENS: »ra» MANCHESTER UNITED Manchester United went from reigning champion last season to third this season. ERNEST LUIS asks what manager Sir Alex Ferguson missed most BEHIND every good man is, not a woman, but a man. At least, that's the case for Sir Alex
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      • 811 67  -  By STEVE WATTONS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport Rejuvenated Manchester United struck twice in the opening 10 minutes to leave Aston Villa's UEFA Cup dream in tatters. Needing victory to secure a European place, Villa were rocked by Cristiano Ronaldo's brilliant curling strike and a coolly-taken Ruud
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      • 477 68  -  By Clay Anderton SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT JESPER GRONKJAER'S third goal in three games ended Chelsea's season and perhaps boss Claudio Ranieri's stay on a summertime high against relegated Leeds. Second-place Blues were totally dominant in the sunshine, and from the kick-off it had only looked a matter of
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      • 298 68  -  By Tim Hartley SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport AIYEGBENIYAKUBU cracked four goals and substitute Teddy Sheringham the other in a fond farewell to Fratton Park as dismal Middlesbrough were taken apart in the season's finale. In a week dominated by the row between chairman Milan Mandaric and
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    • 680 70  -  COMING IN FOURTH: LIVERPOOL PREMIERSHIP SEASON: BURNING ISSURE 2003-2004 By Erwin Wong npsports@sph.coni.sg FANS who acted like they weren't. For the Singapore Liverpool fan club secretary James Lim, that was the one thing that stood out while watching his beloved football club this season. Said the
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    • SUNDAY cheers
      • 471 72 LIVERPOOL 1 (Michael Owen 67th min) NEWCASTLE UNITED 1 (Shola Ameobi 25) Crowd: 44,172 MICHAEL Owen's (above) 19th goal of the season sent Liverpool fans home happy while Newcastle's Toon Army were left to celebrate qualification for the Uefa Cup. They had produced a
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      • 487 72 PA Sport. GERARD Houllier has launched a staggering rebuff of Steve Morgan's attack on his record as Liverpool manager. The Anfield chief did not mention Morgan's name once as he hailed his players for achieving Champions League qualification.
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    • 675 74 B (Arsenal, PREMIERSHIP SEASON: BURNING ISSUE] 2003-2004 Arsenal are the new English Premiership champions, following up on their title wins in 1998 and 2002. But who symbolised this season s amazing run? ERNEST LUIS asks fans THINK of Arsenal this season and it's very difficult to go
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      • 655 76  -  ARSENAL 2 (Thierry Henry 47th min penalty, Patrick Vieira 66) LEICESTER 1 (Paul Dickov 26) Crowd: 38,419 TV VIEW ERNEST LUIS Hotel/ Restaurant EN an age where television ratings and money drive up the demand for more football matches, Arsenal have shown it's possible to be perfect. How
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      • 206 76 m UHi lan Walker tips over a Thierry Henry fcaeklck heading for the top corner. 2§tli ate (KML! Leicester take a shock lead as Lauren foils to track an in-coming Paul Dickov. The former Arsenal player heads in Frank Sinclair's cross as the Highburyfeithftji look on in disbelief.
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        580 77  -  By Leonard Lau npsports@sph. com.sg PERFECT? No, but Arsenal are close to perfection. Perfection would mean winning 38 out of 38 games. But Arsene Wenger's Gunners are close enough. To go unbeaten in arguably the toughest league in the world is a Herculean achievement. Some say it supercedes even
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    • 91 77 BADMINTON THOMAS ÜBER CUP 2004 FINALS, THOMAS CUP Ch 21,8pm, tonight SPANISH LEAGUE OSASUNAv A BILBAO Ch 22,11.25pm, tonight BARCELONA v RACING Ch 22,1.25 am, tomorrow MURCIAvR MADRID Ch 22,3.25 am, tomorrow ITALIAN LEAGUE EMPOLI v INTER-MILAN Ch 22,8.55pm, tonight LAZIO v MODENA Delayed, Ch 22,11pm, tomorrow AC MILAN v
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