The New Paper, 23 June 2004

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  • 34 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2004 Ifv I Website: newpaper.asial.com.se Singapore Press Holdings I Emailtnp@s p hc0msg JC g E I.TJ mita (P) 025/03/2004 I 70 cents 8 88 7 18i 40C001 fl
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 840 2  -  Matchmaking agency's new gimmick could mean quickie marriages for $12,000 By Tan Mae Lynn maelynn @sph com sg SINGAPORE men can now meet and marry Vietnamese woman here. All it takes is a few minutes and $12,000. A local matchmaking agency, specialising in
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    • 128 2 IT may take minutes to get a Vietnamese bride, as matchmaker Mark Lin claims, but the big question remains: how long will she be able to stay in Singapore after the marriage? Immigration and citizenship could be spanners in the way
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    • 159 2 OF the three Vietnamese girls at Mr Lin's matchmaking agency yesterday, one was already on her way to being a bride. The two others remained hopeful. Miss Thi Nhi, 22, said in Mandarin: "I'm confident I'll be able to find a husband within the next
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    • 239 2 MR WEI has been married for three months to a Vietnamese girl he met through Mr Lin's agency. He said: "I waited for many years to find a wife, but couldn't find a suitable one. "Singapore women are quite pretty, but
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    • 882 3  -  Divorces in S'pore at all-time high of 6.561 Marriages in S'pore at a low off 21.962 Seven-vear itch? Latest study shows marriages most likelv to be rockv sooner BY Tan May Ping mayping@sph. com. sg THEY were teenage sweethearts and dated for a decade. Then they
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    • 578 3 STANDING at the altar, gazing into each other's eyes, a bride and groom may feel like they're setting sail on a sparkling sea. But couples don't really board the boat alone. Their baggage, packed with expectations, comes too. Then, for some, there are the stowaways: children
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    • 737 4  -  Married 15 years with one son but husband was hardly ever around BY Genevieve Jiang geneviev@sph.com.sg HE was the career-minded expatriate husband. And she was the dedicated wife who quit her job to care for their only son. Throughout their 15-year marriage, the longest
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    • 556 5  -  More young Muslim couples calling it quits early Forty-three per cent of Muslims cited personality differences. 16 per cent, infidelity as reasons for divorce. The divorce rate for non-Muslims rose from 29 percent in 1993 to 49 per cent in 2003. By Celine Lim
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    • 159 5 More couples are breaking up than ever before, with 6,561 divorces last year. This is up from just 2,313 a decade ago. Marriages are at a low, with a total of 21,962 marriages registered last year, about 5 per cent lower than the 23,198 registered in 2002. An
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    • 285 5 SHE gave her husband an ultimatum his job or her. The middle-aged wife was so fed-up that her husband was not spending time at home that she threatened divorce after four years of marriage. This was a case described by Mr David Kan, a
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous


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  • NEWS IQ
    • 242 6 EXPECT "slightly hazy" conditions over the next few days, but the situation is under control. The haze was noticeable in parts of Singapore yesterday, especially in the north and in parts of the city, reported The Straits Times. But the PSI, which measures air
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    • 43 6 The outlook is very good, especially for the routes on the peninsula Datuk Ahmad Fuaad Dahlan, managing director of Malaysia Airlines, on wanting to take back its domestic flights which it let the government take over five years ago
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    • 55 6 PAKISTAN should make its planned free trade agreement with Singapore as comprehensive as possible to signal investors it was serious about reforming its economy, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Mr Goh said it would be easier to secure a deal from Singapore's perspective as unlike Pakistan, Singapore's
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    • 54 6 MUSLIM Singaporeans wishing to study Islamic studies at universities abroad should seek out those which will prepare them for life in the modern world, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. They should not head for brand-name schools in the Middle East which may not teach secular knowledge needed
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    • 57 6 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore is setting aside $2.5 million over the next two years to retrain people in the financial sector, such as private banking and settlement operations, which face talent shortages. The scheme will pay up to 70 per cent of course fees for these programmes
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    • 60 6 PRIME office rentals in the Central Business District area have gone up to $4.65 per square foot foot. This is the first rise since 2000, thanks to growing business confidence. Islandwide, monthly rent for small spaces has remained unchanged at $3.25 per square foot, but it is
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    • 56 6 MALAYSIAN soldiers will patrol some islands in the Malacca Straits to beef up security against potential pirate and terror attacks on ships. Some have already been deployed on Pulau Perak off Kedah, as well as to some areas along the eastern Sabah coast. The Malaysian navy will
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    • 95 6 S'PORE COMPANIES onnaspaq (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 9.52/+0.09 Creative Technology 9.93/+0.03 Flextronics 15.28/+0.33 Phartprpd qpmirnnHurtnr 7 70/-0 04 Stats 7.59/-0.16 IT was a Q uiet do y at the Singapore Stock Exchange as investors and speculators remain wary of taking significant positions. Singapore shares traded marginally lower,
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 53 6 Dilbert /Scott Adams .J i|i ACCORDING TO YOUR i TECHNICALLY. IF THEY 8 AND YOU BURIED A RESUME YOU LEFT YOUR CATCH YOU IN THE GERPVAN TOURIST IN LAST JOB BECAUSE YOU I PARKING LOT, AND YOU 3 YOUR CELLAR. ALLEGEDLY STOLE LOTS I THATS OF GREAT STUFF." NOT STEALIN
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 682 8  -  Like what Amara Hotel did By Desmond Ng desmondn@sph.com.sg IT'S inevitable that there will be more and more tall buildings in land-scarce Singapore. And not all of them have to be new. It is possible to add floors to existing buildings, making them taller.
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    • 152 8 HAVE you ever wondered how HDB does its upgrading of old flats by creating more space and new lift shafts without compromising on safety? For a start, the additional structures such as lift shafts are supported separately on their own foundations beside the flats. And the
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    • 190 9 Method 1 (left) Micropiles are driven into the ground under the building. New foundations are also laid before extra columns are erected within the building. This in effect, creates a new building within an existing one. Pros: This method
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    • 176 9 TO add new floors to old buildings, existing foundations and columns need to be strengthened so that they can carry higher loads, said Assoc Prof Tan. Ways of doing this include: Micropiles (structural supports made of steel and cement grout) are placed
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    • 505 10  -  By Tan Thean Loon and Alvin Chiang tnp@sph.com.sg TWO men claimed to be policemen from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to get into the stables at the Singapore Turf Club on Monday. And they used a civil service card to do it.
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    • Article, Illustration
      567 11 with bodridden mum but.... Housing agent waives $2,000 fee Flat buyers offer to pay off $2,000 in unpaid utility bills Resident's Committee helps to appeal for two-room HDB rental flat HE was deep in debt. But the compassion of complete strangers and government agencies has made him owe
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  • EURO BUZZ
    • 303 12 Singaporean fan (right) talks about experience chasing Euro 2004 matches OUR EURO MASCOT SAYS... WHAT better way to enjoy Euro 2004 then to try and watch it live! This die-hard football fan made a detour after his business trip to Paris on the off chance that
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    • 150 12 AFP WHO says tennis and football don't mix? I spoke to Wimbledon champion Serena Williams (left) who turned her attention to Euro 2004 after winning her opener on centre-court. See! Even tennis stars can't get away from the biggest tournament of the year! But it was
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  • WORLD
    • 463 14 THIS sounds like good news for the Penang property market. The Star reported that the popular Malaysian holiday resort is abuzz with speculation that the island is be lapped by huge waves of Hong Kong and Taiwanese personalities. They are said to
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    • 583 15 Beheading of Korean hostage (inset) too much for them Wire services. SLUMPED in their spartan living room, the parents of South Korean hostage Kim Sun-il were lost in a grief probably only parents could understand. They were seemingly oblivious as relatives and neighbours sought to
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    • 370 16 JEMIMA IMRAN KHAN SPLIT JUST two weeks ago, actor Hugh Grant was pictured leaving a high-society London club with the ex-Mrs Jemima Khan. The two, who insist they are just good friends, went to extraordinary lengths to avoid being photographed together. Ironically, their choice of venue
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    • 257 16 THE jilted 17-year-old handed his ex-girlfriend a shovel and said: "Get out, start digging." On that hot Saturday afternoon on Feb 7, he supervised as she dug what he told her would be her grave. It was not the first
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    • 385 17 Mother and uncle help videotape liaisons JUAN Carlos Forero was only 15 but looked older and had a string of admirers. The Bogota teenager was not only good-looking, his height and green eyes made him stand out in a crowd. He attracted the prettiest
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  • 406 19 Navratilova makes Wimbledon comeback, plans to open tennis academy WORLD Wire services. Martina Navratilova, 47, proved at Wimbledon on Monday that she could still play with passion. And she said she is ready to pass on the secrets of her fierce competitiveness to another
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  • Tech
    • 607 20  -  TECH MAD IAN TAN tanytv@jph.com.sg IF Microsoft has its way, in just two years, you will hardly see spam mail in your inbox. That vision seems rather ambitious, especially since spam is now so widespread it has actually turned many people off
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    • 479 21 Wire services. YOU may have seen a similar scene in movies such as Deep Impact astronauts becoming proud parents while they are in space on a mission. But as far as officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) can remember, last
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  • TECH
    • 489 25 Wire services. WHO can say for sure that a great work of art is the real deal? So far, sophisticated techniques like spectrometry, DNA testing and pigment analysis have failed to replace expert opinion on art. Now, researchers at the University
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    • 182 25 THIS is not the first time artificial intelligence has been used in authentication. In Germany in 1998, a team at the University of Bremen's Center for Computing Technologies trained its computer to identify the drawings of Delacroix, which it managed to do with 87 per cent
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  • TECH
    • 426 28 It's right for those who just want to pass time Wire services WITH new game consoles like Xbox Live, gamers can virtually take on other players even though they may be on different parts of the globe. Tliey may play the game in their home,
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    • 162 28 LARGER game publishers see the handphone market's potential. Firms like Square Enix and THQ Inc offer ftill-fledged wireless businesses that include everything from games to ring tones. But part of the challenge for smaller firms, analysts said, is that various phones sold by wireless carriers often run
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  • TECH
    • 190 31 You can be Bush's campaign manager at least in play Wire services. A FRENCH computer game company, Übi Soft, is about to stir the US electoral pot in the next few weeks when it launches a simulation game, based on the coming presidential showdown between Mr George Bush and Mr
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    • 380 32 Suspects from several countries' involved Wire services. ITS one of the most highly anticipated sequel to the game which has taken the gaming world by storm. But some people apparently can't wait for the game to hit the stores. US authorities have arrested
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  • Hey!
    • 835 35  -  Showtime&Lifestyle By, Jeanmarie Tan jeanm @sph. com.sg LINKIN Park may know how to rock. But judging from its first-ever concert in Singapore last night, their fans probably don't. Then again, maybe it's because the more hardcore ones were not inside the venue, but were listening
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    • 418 35 BY the time you read this, the six guys from Linkin Park will finally be heading home to southern California. As part of their East Asia tour, they had performed in the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Thailand for the past month. Singapore was their last stop,
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    • 955 36 Which of the 16 high-fliers will get the job with Donald Tramp in America's latest reality TV show? JEANMARIE TAN Ueanm@sph.com.sg) goes headhunting for the "dirtiest" women on The Apprentice EREKA VETRINI CUTE chick Vetrini (left), 27, graduated with honours from Boston College. She has worked
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    • 132 37 ...but you'll still see him on the silver screen UNLIKE his Bollywood predecessors, Sunil Dutt and Shatrughan Sinha, actor Govinda will not be dumping acting for politics. "I shall continue with my film career with full enthusiasm", Govinda, 45, told Indian reporters. His next film Sukh
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    • 77 37 COULD Bollywood hottie, Hrithik Roshan (above with actress Preity Zinta) be in Shekhar Kapur's new film, Paani (Water)? The Indo-Asian News Service reported that Hrithik, 28, was holed up with the 59-year-old director for four hours discussing the script. Shekhar has yet to announce his cast line-up
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    • 113 37 -*4 VE IT is probably not a usual occurrence in Bollywood. That's why The Hindustan Times deemed it important enough to report it. Yash Chopra's latest project has finished filming one month ahead of schedule. The film, currently entitled Samjauhta Express, stars
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    • 171 37 'MODEL-turned-actress Lisa Ray said she will not sign for any Bollywood films until they shape up. The 31-year-old star of the Bollywood/Hollywood, Indo-Asian News Service: "I keep getting offers now and then but Bollywood needs to be more organised. r Then I'm willing to
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    • 169 37 REALITY bites too hard for Bollywood fans. They want to feel good, reported Business Line. That's why they are going in droves to see the Saif Ali Khan-Rani Mukherjee (above) romantic comedy Hum Turn (You, Us). The film is leading the box-office pack in Mumbai,
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    • 708 48 WORKOUTS, on a track rated good, by horses engaged on Friday night: THREE-YEAR-OLD CHALLENGE (SECOND LEG) 1,400 m: Connery (J Taylor), Royal Captain (L Beasley) and Yaakeen (B Vorster) canter/36.4 for the final 600 m on the fibresand track. The Laurie Laxon-trained trio
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      360 49 MAKING DAD PROUD FATHER'S DAY came a day earlier for Western Australia-based stallion Bletchley Park. Last Saturday, the sire of former Kranji sprint sensation Superb Effect was toasted thrice by his progeny racing at Kuala Lumpur. Black Pepper saluted in the opening event of the 10-race card. Raftaar
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    • 531 49 NST. MONEY MARKET geared up for the inaugural running of the RM250,000 ($112,500) Sports Toto Trophy for Class 1 sprinters over 1,400 m on Saturday with a smashing hit-out yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the five-year-old South African-bred gelding by Goldmark sprinted smartly
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    • 101 49 ONLY three unraced newcomers have been entered for Friday night's Kranji meeting on turf. The trio, all entered for the Maiden 1,200 m event, are: Infinity, a three-year-old New Zealand-bred by Maltese Century out of Charming Asset. The bay gelding arrived last January for trainer and owner Stephen
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    • 218 49 AP. BETTING on Hong Kong horse races fell by nine per cent to a seven-year low of HK$65 billion ($l4 billion) in the season just ended, officials said last Monday. The Hong Kong Jockey Club blamed the decline largely on a sluggish economy and
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    • 439 50 TENNIS: WIMBLEDON Wire Services. VOLATILE Russian Marat Safin said he had had enough of Wimbledon after he was knocked out in the first round by compatriot Dmitry Tursunov yesterday. Said the former world No 1 after his 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 defeat: "I give up on
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    • 143 50 Reuters. Australia's Mark Philippoussis found the perfect cure for his tennis ills yesterday. The 11th seed and last year's losing finalist notched his first win since January by demolishing Christophe Rochus 6-3,6-4,6-2. Philippoussis had gone seven tournaments without a victory, including a first round defeat at Queen's
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    • 167 50 Dfl Jll I*3l 2ND WOUND: LIVE, Ch 24, 7pm, tonight WHATS GONE (Selected results): Men's (Rd 1): Dmitry Tursunov(Rus) bt Marat Safin (Rus) 4-6, 7-5,6-3,7-6 (7/1); Mark Philippoussis (Aus) bt Christophe Rochus (Bel) 6-3,6-4,6-2; Wayne Ferreira (SA) bt Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) 5-7,7-6 (7/5), 7-5,6-2; Carlos Moya (Spa) bt Olivier Patience
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    • 309 51 E NEW PAPER/Wednesday, June 23,2004 SPORTS Pa e 59 I I I Ijf ERNEST LUIS, who is in Portugal this week to cover Euro 2004, I mj Vfl I I m ,v joined by the Kopi-O Klan for a unique soccer experience. ...with Ernest Luis and the Kopi-0 Klan They
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        • 466 52 T all started with a I photograph of a Portuguese fort-like structure at the Estoril train station, 45 minutes from Lisbon. Two England fans were standing nearby, licking their lips, m holding cans of beer Br (what else?), in anticipation of the
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        • 155 52 UNLIKE last week's France-England game, the England-Croatia game offered English fans a chance to really show their support for their team. Said Toone: "In the whole stadium, there were like 50,000 English fans and only 5,000 French fans. "So you know, it wasn't really much of
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        • 223 52 ZSZ ABOUT 15 minutes jjjjg later, it hit me as we fjl neared Rossio Square and EE heard sounds of cheering from 400 metres away. tURD There were thousands of |f| English fans, littering the HI square's streets. Br Most had beer mugs, I
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        • 328 52 AT 5.30pm, I met former S-League and Tanjong Pagar player Erza Aripin and his Singaporean friend. They are studying for an electronics degree in Aberdeen, Scotland, and had tickets to the England-Croatia game. We headed for Baixa station on Lisbon's underground Metro system to
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        • 192 52 f THE going rate for a 11 blackmarket ticket for the England-Croatia game fl was 70-90 euros (SX47-$198). U But the rate for Friday's II quarter-final showdown between Portugal and <a England should exceed 500 euros ($1,000). R Since I didn't have a ticket for
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        • 660 53 Wire Services. A YEAR ago, English clubs were involved in a scramble to sign teenage Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo. On Friday morning, England defenders could find themselves chasing the shadow of a player who seems to take pleasure in tormenting his markers. Ronaldo's trickery has given
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        • 382 53 Wire Services. ENGLAND coach Sven-Goran Eriksson expects jfcs Portugal to play like the Brazil side who knocked them out of the 2002 World Cup. England went 1-0 up before losing 2-1 in the quarter-final to a Brazil team coached by current Portugal manager Luiz Felipe Scolari.
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        • 320 53 Reuters. PORTUGAL'S teenage striker Cristiano Ronaldo has matured greatly in the last year So said coach Luiz Felipe Scolari. "One year at Manchester United and another 30 days here have made a big difference," said the man they call 'Big Phil'. "He has really matured,"
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        • 546 54  -  GERMANY V CZECH REPUBLIC By Brian Miller npsports@sph.com.sg TELL me honestly. With the benefit of having watched both teams in action twice already, who are the better side? Germany or the Czech Republic? Many will say it's a no-brainer. The Czechs are laughing with the likes
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        • 411 56 UK TIPSTER: JONATHAN TURNER GERMANY v CZECH REPUBLIC PA Sport. ITS hard to believe but Germany are odds-on to sneak through to the quarter-finals of Euro 2004 despite only managing a goal-less draw with Latvia at the weekend. The way the fixtures have panned out, though, appears
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        • 349 56 PA Sport. I HOLLAND are in the unenviable position of not having their destiny in their own hands when they play Latvia in their final Group D match tonight. And it's difficult not to feel a little bit of sympathy for them. They
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        • 325 57 IT was bad enough that a group of Dutch fans supporting their team here in Portugal had a collection to raise money to pay for manager Dick Advocaat's early plane ticket home. It was worse when they collected the amount needed in under 10 minutes. And
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        • 214 57 HERE'S the crystal ball to all your soccer predictions for Euro 2004. EA Sports have come up with the Uefa Euro 2004 Portugal PC Game which plays the game right on your PC. Actual players troop down to the field and
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        • 740 58 MATCH 0823: HOLLAND v LATVIA BRIM EDWUM TZESma p £T£ MYSTmX 1X2 HOLLAND DRAW LATVIA n 4.80 7.20 m 4.80 7.20 n 1/2 GOAL HOLLAND (-11/2) LATVIA (+1 1/2) cT9*y> Cx&> 1.75 m TOTAL GOAL 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 H-H H-D H-A D-H
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        • 80 58 ITALY v BULGARIA Brian: IX2 (Italy) Brian: 1/2 (Bulgaria) Edwin: IX2 (Italy) Edwin: TG (3) Tze Siong: IX2 (Italy) Tze Siong: TG (3) Pete: IX2 (Italy) Pete: TG (3) Mystery: IX2 (Italy) Mystery: 1/2 (Bulgaria) Mystery: TG (3) DENMARK v SWEDEN Edwin: 1/2 (Denmark)
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      • MATCH PREVIEWS
        • 397 59 HOLLAND v LATVIA Wire Services. IF one previously little known player has made a big impression at Euro 2004, it is Latvia's high-speed striker Maris Verpakovskis. Scorer of the Baltic team's goal in their opening 2-1 defeat by the Czech Republic, he was only prevented from snatching a
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        • 513 60 HOLLAND v LATVIA PA Sport, Reuters. #f| H N 77 II optimistic J J ~*f§ Latvia side are ready to face their biggest challenge in Euro J 2004 against Holland tonight. A victory for the IMB Baltic side against the Dutch would see them through for
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        • 429 60 PA Sport. DICK Advocaat (right) insisted that the Dutch players are still behind him as Holland faced their Euro 2004 D-Day. The Dutch will be out of the European Championships if they do not beat Latvia and strike lucky with the other group result.
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        • 560 61 GERMANY v CZECH REPUBLIC AP. FORGET two strikers. They can't score anyway. Germany coach Rudi Voeller said he would return to the one-striker system for the decisive match against the Czech Republic in Lisbon. After being held to a 0-0 draw by outsider Latvia on
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        • 646 62 GERMANY v CZECH REPUBLIC Reuters. CZECH Republic coach Karel Bruckner insisted the players in the second-string team he will field against Germany would have no problem motivating themselves. The Czechs roared into the quarter-finals as Group D winners after a thrilling 3-2 win over Holland.
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        • 159 62 PA Sport. TORSTEN Frings (right) has dismissed fears that Germany could miss out on a quarter-finals place. Midfielder Frings, who got his country's campaign off to the perfect start with a 22nd-minute strike against Holland, is convinced there will be no slip-up.
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        729 64 ITALY 2 BULGARIA 1 With their 2-1 win over Bulgaria, Italy coach Giovanni Trapattoni says his team are leaving with their heads held high even though they didn't make it to the quarter-finals. But not everyone thinks the same. Arrows targeted at the beleaguered coach were shot as soon
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        97 65 Adios, Azzurri. Just like in the last World Cup, the Italian team cannot believe that they are not good enough to progress further, preferring to put the blame on others intead of their own lack of ability LOSER.' Italy's Antonio Cassano, famed for his whining when things do
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      • 804 66 ITALY 2 BULGARIA 1 TWO years is a long time for tomatoes to rot. And 24 months after the Italian national team returned home hailed as the victims of a Korean conspiracy theory at the World Cup, the hour has cometh for the decomposing veggies to
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      • 267 67 DENMARK 2 SWEDEN 2 Reuters. SWEDISH star striker Henrik Larsson said reaching the quarter-finals was "fantastic" after they grabbed a late goal to clinch a 2-2 draw with Denmark this morning to put both teams through to the last eight. "Fantastic, fantastic!" he exclaimed. "It's a feeling of
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      • 212 67 Reuters. DANISH striker Jon Dahl Tomasson said he was sad to see the Italians out and declared them better than the Swedes, who topped Group C. "Swedish people won't like me for this but I think Denmark and Italy were the two best teams in the
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      • 947 68  -  By Sebastian Loy npsports@sph.com.sg PACK your bags, your miserable excuses, your pathetic grand conspiracy theories and your disgraceful attempts to stir up pre-match suspicions of skullduggery between two Nordic nations. Just shut up, Italy, and go home. Yes, amazingly, just as the Azzurri had feared,
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      • 259 69 DENMARK 2 SWEDEN 2 THE betting odds on a 2-2 draw between Denmark and Sweden, at just 7-2, were the shortest ever quoted by William Hill for that outcome in a competitive match, the British bookmakers said. Here in Singapore it was $2.30 for a draw
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      • 700 70 JUDGED: FAIR SQUARE And Italy are REF: TENSE FINISH EVEN Germany's experienced referee Markus Merk sensed the drama in the closing stages of this match. His quick spurt in the vicinity of the penalty-area as Sweden substitute Christian Wilhelmsson took on Thomas Helveg showed that he was expecting a tense
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        721 71 No way, say all, except Italians The unthinkable happened a 2-2 draw. Now, the Italians are screaming for blood, but the Scandinavians and Uefa won't budge. Too bad, they say, you should have won your own matches instead of crying conspiracy PA Sport, Wire Services. THE scoreline that everyone
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      • 386 72  -  WAS IT FIXED? UEFA EURO 2004 Demark 2 Sweden 2 By Brian Miller npsports@sph. com.sg THE boot of Europe had been given the boot from Euro 2004 and from Sicily in the south to Como up north,
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    • 136 71 QSbm EURO 2004 HOLLAND v LATVIA Ch 22,2.35 am, tomorrow (Repeat, Ch 21,6.30pm, tomorrow) The Czech Republic are already th rough and the fight for that last spot is between Germany, Holland and Latvia. Unless you have tu>o TVsets at home, it's a toss-up as to which match to catch.
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