The New Paper, 24 May 2004

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  • 28 1 the new paper MONDAY, MAY 24, 2004 Press Holdings Wfebsitt: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: IH00- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2004 70 CENTS 8 ft*
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    • 37 1 S'pore kids dumped at cruise-ship childcare centre as parents gamble at casino Where's my mummy? Child-minder: We don't know what to say when they ask for their parents 2 BMh Who needs jSS-" ,T mummy? Hcta/MNIMCHI Mn/SMNKB
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    • 20 1 Robbed. Robbed. Robbed. Robbed. Then she dies Tragic ending of M'sian victim who suffered four snatch thefts in 15 years
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  • NEWS
    • 986 2  -  Some leave kids at childcare centre for up to 15 hours By Desmond Ng desmondn @sph. com. sg THEY go on a cruise, leave their children in the childcare centre for hours while they gamble at the casino. Casinos usually don't admit those below 18. So
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    • 190 3 CHILDREN left unsupervised while their parents gamble in the casino. There have been several high profile cases in Australia over the last few years. Barely three weeks after Melbourne's Crown Casino opened back in 1994,13 children some as young as 3 years old were found unattended in
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    • 146 2 Aim j For' Succe, With or BA (Hons) Business Entrepreneurship University of Huddersfield (HUBS). UK UK Highest Climb University I mies I eague lahle l-'OO.I f xcellent record of placing student* with companies such .is ICI. I lewlett Packard. Marks Spencer. ICI IBM and British Airways Bachelor of Business (Marketing)
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 844 4  -  K\ Dawn Chia <iawnrliiafisph.com. s# REMEMBER that line in Monopoly go straight to jail, don't collect $200? It didn't apply to these people. They get paid to go to jail. An elaborate scheme, uncovered by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB), cast the
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    • 205 4 ONE of the excuses which the hawkers gave for hiring illegal workers was the difficulty of finding manpower. But it appeared that these illegals were not only used as workers. One of the hawkers found another use for two of his workers after office hours. He not
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    • Think you’re saving petrol? Think again
      • 192 5 MR VINCENT NG, product manager at Honda distributor Kah Motor, said that using octane ratings higher than what is recommended won't do very much more for your car in terms of performance or fuel economy. According to Mr Ng, most cars
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      • 105 5 FUEL-saving gadgets often boast mileage improvements of up to 30 per cent. However, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US, which has conducted in-depth tests on dozens of them, reports that the majority of them don't work as advertised. Mr Brinal Chua, managing director of
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      • 110 5 THE reasoning is simple if you don't step on the accelerator, you won't burn fuel. But the Automobile Association of Singapore (AA) warns that motorists who coast in neutral to minimise consumption risk endangering their lives for little gain. "For some manual cars, it may
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      • 128 5 YOU may have seen people rocking their cars from side to side while pumping petrol, especially where prices are discounted. The idea is to shake out all the air bubbles to maximise the amount of cheap petrol they pump. They also continue
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    • 169 5 THE best way to improve your fuel economy ironically costs you nothing. "The easiest way to save on fuel costs is to change your driving habits," said Kah Motor's Mr Ng. "This could increase your fuel economy by up to 20 per cent." Here
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    • 754 5  -  BY Jovcelyn Wong tnp@sph.com. sg THE meter shows the petrol pump has just pumped out 25 litres of petrol. But what you see may not be what you get. In fact, you may get a little more. Inspectors from the Weights and Measures Office (WMO)
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    • 224 5 CONSUMERS may not always be getting the better end of the deal. Sometimes, the scales could tilt the other way too. In May 2001, a supermarket was fined $400 after it was found to have overcharged its customers who bought its pre-packed poultry. Instead of weighing
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 302 6 V Increase in number of complaints made Problem threatens S'pore's drive to be education hub SO far this year, 101 complaints have been made to the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case). In 2002, there were 460 complaints. Last year, Case received 486, reported The
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    • 162 6 OFF Sentosa, a fleet of 4,191 new Hyundai cars worth $100 million are lying at the bottom of the sea. They met their watery death when their ship, MV Hyundai, collided with an oil tanker four times its weight off the Straits of Singapore, just
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    • 146 6 LAST WEEK: It was a wild week. The Straits Times Index fell 54 points on Monday and rose 42 points on Wednesday. It ended the week slightly higher. Concerns are high oil prices, a slowing China economy, rising US interest rates and Iraq uncertainties. In the US, NY
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    • 73 6 THE Health Promotion Board will conduct a survey on sexual behaviour and practices. This survey is to help in a review of its acquired immune deficiency (Aids) prevention programme early next year. The review hopes to tackle the gap between knowledge about Aids and how it
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    • 88 6 THE number of private homes approved for sale in uncompleted projects as of early this year has dropped 16.2 per cent from a year ago to 13,378 units. This is the lowest supply figure in nearly five years, Urban Redevelopment Authority. However, analysts do not expect prices
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    • 70 6 THE telecommunications industry is aiming for 100 per cent mobile phone penetration rate here, meaning more than one line for every man, woman and child. Currently, almost nine in 10 people in Singapore own a mobile phone line, a new record. This is ahead of countries like
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    • 75 6 NISHIMATSU-LUM Chang, the construction joint venture involved in the Nicoll Highway collapse is the lowest bidder for a new tender on the MRT Circle Line yet again. The contract involves construction of the Holland, Buona Vista and National University Hospital stations and tunnels. The lowest bid
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    • 71 6 THE Singapore Zoo, Night Safari and Jurong Birdpark are re-hiring, just two months after retrenching 103 staff. Public relations executives, service staff, tram and train drivers, show presenters, hourly-rated guest relations officers and bird trainers are needed. Last year, the group's net profit fell 12 per cent
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    • 68 6 HOSPITALS here, especially those in the private sector, should take the lead in investing in medical technology, says Minister of State (Health and Transport) Balaji Sadasivan. This is to boost Singapore's competitive edge, especially as foreign hospitals offer cheaper rates. The Singapore Nurses Association also says that
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 426 7  -  By Dawn Chia dawnchia@sph. com.sg IT was, forgive the pun, a study in still life. Yesterday, children put crayon to paper in a "I love Bukit Panjang LRT" art contest. And this time, the LRT behaved itself. It moved. But it has had a
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    • 166 7 ABOUT 100 passengers were stuck on the LRT on Thursday morning due to a power trip. For eight minutes, they were stranded between Phoenix and Bukit Panjang LRT stations. This happened after the system was given the green light to resume full operations after operating
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  • 31 8 FUN FITNESS FAMILY FASHION Headturners: JUNGLE BOOK: Participants sporting fun over-the-top headgear and makeup. WHEN THE BALLOON GOES UP: Madam Asmah Aziz decked out in lighter-than-air accessories.
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    529 9  -  69,000 people Big Walked... some who read The New Paper on Sunday along the way REPORTERS: Jamaliah Othman, Lob Wan Yun, Melissa Tan, Rachel Cheng and Andre Yeo WHO said you can't kill two birds with one stone? Just ask these Big Walkers who worked up a sweat
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  • 114 9 THERE was added fanfare at the Big Walk, with the introduction of the open-air stage outside the stadium for the first time. It was moved for greater convenience, so walkers could enjoy the stage programme while at the sponsors' booths. But it drew a mixed response. Mr Don
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  • FUN FITNESS FAMILY FASHION
    • 376 10 Families tuck into hearty meals before their healthy walk Hot weather? No sweat. Big Walkers find ways to keep themselves cool THE New Paper Big Walk is now an annual family event for them. The four Sim sisters, together with their husbands and children, have been
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    • 104 11 Big on babes... babies You're never too young or too cute to take part in the Big Walk LADIES IN RED: (Right) Ms Joanne Lim, 27, who works for Rentokil Initial and (far right) relief teacher Lorraine Lai, 19, raise temperatures of appreciative male Big Walkers. GET INTO SHAPE: Ms
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    • 288 11 IT seemed like a good idea at the time. After all, many others were also taking the short cut by climbing over the metal railings. But 13-year-old Kuah Jingwen (right) slipped, cutting her forehead between the eyebrows and tearing part of her right nostril,
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    • 221 11 THAT'S it? That was the reaction of some fun walkers as they turned the final bend only to be greeted by the finish line. For some, it was too short a Walk, reduced to just 5.6 km. The original walk had been planned to
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      297 12 Engineer has dad to thank for the brand new car he won in the Big Walk lucky draw HE wanted to go home at 10am to check up on his sick wife. But his father said, "Wait for the lucky draw." And words of wisdom those turned out
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    • 164 12 WALK on, and you might walk away a winner. Like Mr Ngan Bahadur Gurung. The 34-year-old was on his sixth Big Walk. "But this is the first time I won," said the new Men's Open (Individual) champion. "I came in second last year," he added. The
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    • 237 12 TEAMS Men's Open Team Champion: Police Sports Association "A" 1 st Runners-Up: Police Sports Association "C" 2nd Runners-Up: Multi International Women's Open Team Champion: Police Team 1 st Runners-Up: Tanglin-Moulmein CSC-Red Hawk 2nd Runners-Up: (only two teams qualified) Men's Junior Team Champion: Race Walkers Association Malaysia 1
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  • 94 13 I If you're pictured here, you've won a prize HOW TO COLLECT YOUR PRIZE CONGRATULATIONS! If you're one of the 17 Big Walkers randomly chosen by us with your photograph featured here, you've each won a prize. If your photograph is outlined in blue, you
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  • WORLD
    • 484 14 Robbed while walking home from bus stop 4 times in 15 years On 4th attack, she hangs on to handbag, but dies in struggle THE fourth time Malaysian clerk Chin Wai Fun (right) was targeted by snatch thieves, she fought back. The 38-year-old had had
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    • 145 14 CANADA has joined in the US and Australia in warning its citizens of a "credible terrorist threat" to western interests in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province. It advised its citizens to avoid the area yesterday. The Canadian Foreign Ministry said in a travel advisory:
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    • 518 15 India markets to get a boost with P Chidambaram charting the way OTHER CABINET MINISTERS Home: Shivraj Patil External Affairs: Natwar Singh Commerce and Industry: Kamal Nath Defence: Pranab Mukherjee Health: Dr Anbumani Ramadoss Environment A Raja Agriculture: Sharad Pawar Tribal Affairs: P R Kyndiah
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    • 198 15 DOES your spouse nag? Well, don't just dismiss all that grousing. Resolving his or her gripe could be worth millions. That's what US techie Sunil Paul found out. In 1997, Mr Paul's wife, Michelle, began complaining about spam mail in her America Online e-mail account,
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      390 16 CANNES GET enough Michael Moore won the Palme d'Or for Farenheit 9/11, otherwise this year in Cannes, it was an... JUST when it looked like Asia would make a clean sweep of the 57th International Cannes Film Festival awards, politics bushwhacked the top prize of the Palmed' Or.
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  • WORLD
    • 866 18 UK woman super cop $306m heist she foiled A profile of top cop Kerr in Daily Mail on May 18 had the headline, Female boss of the macho men. WHO IS SHE? First woman boss off olite Scotland Yard unit Acop with 27 yoars off oxperionco A mothor of two
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      166 18 1■ On May 17, eight robbers show documents at front gate of warehouse in Heathrow. Their white van is allowed in. Their target: £40 million in gold bullion and £60 million in foreign currency. 2b But police officers are waiting for them. When van bursts through shutters of
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    • 104 32 WHO says you can't learn anything from animals? The idea for the bootleg-busting software came to inventor John Hale four years ago, as he watched a television show that borrowed from the 101 Dalmatians' story line. He said: "In the show, there were 101 Dalmatians and
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    • 953 33 9doi. sk^mmmknt 77ie hush-hush identities of the judges for Singapore Idol will be revealed only next week. In the meantime, JEANMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph. com.sg) snoops around and discovers that the three front-runners are not who you think they are THE execs behind MediaCorp's Singapore Idol
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    • 158 33 AS expected, MediaCorp has remained tight-lipped on the identity of the Singapore Idol judges. They provided us with too-succinct responses to our questions. How did the producers come up with the code names Pinocchio, Smurf and Bambi? And do they reflect certain characteristics of the judges?
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    • 433 34 You see them everywhere in Cannes, Vladivostok, Taipei and even right next door, in Bintan CELEBRITIES from Japan and Korea are going places. From as near as Bintan, Hong Kong and Taiwan, to as far as France and Russia, many of them have beem making their
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      177 35 Dear NHhara, I am crazy omt Japanese dramas. Sadly, Tomoye Nagase from the band Tokio was not hi Tlm New Paper's Top 10 Favourite J-pop/K-pop Idol ranking. Fraoldy, bo to oneof the most versatte singer/adore in Japan. I hope yon can toM me move about Tomoya and his career.
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      111 35 Oh! Brothers (VCD) Starring Lee Jung Jae and Lee Bum Soo. Directed by Kim Yong Hwa LEE BUM SOO may look like an average Joe, but his wacky antics and rubber-faced expressions are no less side-splitting than Jim Carrey's. Playing a wayward 12-year-old who suffers from a rapid
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      44 35 LEE Byung Hun's latest gift to his girlfriend, Song Hye Kyo (right) is a teddy bear. He took care to deny rumours that they are drifting apart, though he did admit that they have not been dating much, as both are busy filming.
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    • 571 36  -  Media Works actress Steph Song leaves for Canada for role in horror flick By Yeoh Wee Teck weeteck@sph.com.sg MEDIAWORKS actress Steph Song has managed to get her foot into Hollywood, by way of Canada. "I'm so excited," she proclaimed, on getting her
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    • 417 36 WHEN Fly Entertainment throws a birthday bash, quiet is not on the agenda. The talent agency fronted by Irene Ang celebrated its fifth birthday at Centro on Friday, and the party was, as expected, boisterous. Perhaps the thumping music and loud, happy squealing enhanced by the
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    347 37 Show's original cleverness now buried under the mundane SIX Feet Under is beginning to dig its own grave. The Emmy-nominated drama about the dysfunctional Fisher family that runs a funeral home continues to be far too pleased with its own eccentricity, too willing to substitute faux quirkiness for
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  • SPORTS
    • 516 48 TENNIS: FRENCH OPEN 2004 AFP. EN ROUTE to the French Open, Serena Williams paid a visit to the Cannes Film Festival. She enjoyed the glamour of it all, saw some movies, and even chatted with Tom Hanks about acting. Heady stuff for a woman with a
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    • 357 48 Reuters. THE world's best tennis player, Roger Federer, faces a credibility test this week when he launches his bid to win the French Open for the first time. Beaten in the first round on his last two visits to Roland Garros, the 22-year-old
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    • F1 2004
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        430 49 CRASH #1: MICHAEL SCHUMACHER AND JUAN PABLO MONTOYA 'It was a bit stupid of (Montoya)' For a change, the Monaco Grand Prix yielded some excitement and drama not only did someone other than you-know-who won the Formula One race, both Schumacher brothers were involved in separate controversial
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      • 440 49  -  By Erwin Wong npsports@sph. com.sg THE crash of his helmet hurled against the Ferrari garage door was heard around the world. It was an angry Michael Schumacher we saw after his race with a crash in the tunnel during lap 46. There was no question who
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    • 345 50 U CRASH #2: RALF SCHUMACHER AND FERNANDO ALONSO Reuters. SPANIARD Fernando Alonso criticised German rival Ralf Schumacher (right) yesterday for a crash that cost Renault a one-two finish. The 22-year-old Renault driver slammed into the tunnel guardrail 30 laps from the end while
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    • 135 50 1. Jarno Tnil (Italy) Renault 1:45:46.601 (average speed 145.880 kph) 2. Jenson Button (Brit) BAR 1:45:47.098 3. Rubens Barrichdlo (Bra) Ferrari 1:47:02.367 4. Juan PaMo Montoya (Col) Williams 1 lap behind 5. Feflpe Hawa (Bra) Sauber 1 lap 6. Criitlaiw Da Matta (Bra) Toyota 1 lap 7. Nick lleldfald
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    • 321 50 Reuters. JARNO Trulli ended his long wait for Formula One success and silenced the doom-mongers who feared Michael Schumacher might win everything this year. Said the 29-year-old Renault driver, who won at his 117 th attempt: "It's always interesting to see different people on top... because otherwise
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    • 328 51  -  MAN U PREMIER CUP: MALAYSIA By Adrian Chan npsports@sph. com.sg THE stage is set and the players are raring to go. The regional finals of the Manchester United Premier Cup a regional Under-15 tournament aimed at providing young footballers with competitive international exposure kicks off today in Kuala
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    • 759 52 EURO KICKOFF: FRANCE Reuters. LYON joined Marseille and St Etienne in the record books yesterday when they clinched their third consecutive French league title. Lyon humbled Lille 3-0 at home to finish with 79 points, three ahead of Paris St Germain, with Champions League finalists Monaco another
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      1154 53 MAN UNITED 3 MILLWALL 0 MONDAY Wire Services. RUUD van Nistelrooy insists Sir Alex Ferguson must rebuild Manchester United around a new breed of talent led by FA Cup final match-winner Cristiano Ronaldo. The 19-year-old lit up the Millennium Stadium with a sparkling array of tricks, and scored
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    • 1074 54 EURO KICKOFF: SPAIN Reuters. Barcelona took runners-up spot behind Primera Liga champions Valencia despite a 2-1 defeat at Real Zaragoza after Real Madrid continued their late season meltdown with a 4-1 defeat at home to Real Sociedad. With Deportivo Coruna winning 1-0 at Racing Santander on the
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    • 833 55 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS AFP. Highlights of this season's Spanish title race, which finished this morning (Singapore time): AUGUST: Deportivo La Coruna are surprisingly the only team with a perfect record after two matches. Valencia get off to a solid start with a 1-1 draw
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    • 952 56 EURO KICKOFF (SPAIN): REAL MADRID 1 REAL SOCIEDAD 4 REAL MADRIDI REAL SOCIEDAD 4 Luis Figo 39th min penalty Darko Kovacevic 14, Xabi Prieto 29,60 penalty, Oscar de Paula 32 Three early simple goals and Real Madrid's woeful end to the season slumped to new depths
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    • 53 56 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY 5tr^ke 1 1.2 (1) Australia 3.15 (X) Draw 3.50 (2) Turkey 1.80 1/2 GOAL Australia (+1 1/2) 1.25 Turfcsy (-1 1/2) 3.35 Hi TOTAL GOALS 0 7.50 9 8.80 1 4 60 6 19.00 2 3.70 7 38.00 3 380 8 80.00 4
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    • 349 57 Collectively, their stars earn £450,000 ($1.38 million) a week and they were brought to Madrid for an unbelievable £128.7 million. This morning, those numbers when translated into substance made Real Madrid Europe's most expensive losers this season. If there were doubts, all were cancelled when
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