The New Paper, 17 July 2004

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  • 28 1 the new paper SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2004 Singapore Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asial.com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2004 70 CENTS 8 III the
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    • 81 1 UNKNOWN GOLFER LEADS BRITISH OPEN He cut off finger once in breakfast accident E9 SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2004 m- new lC; t v m -f i ki i I i ivi I vniti causes 10-vehide pile-up [0 Picture/ SIN CHEW DAILY 87 KILLED IN INDIAN SCHOOL FIRE Were r Teachers
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  • 705 2 Kids ordered to stay put as teachers flee Indian school flm ,1 tragfedy NEWS MOST students did not attempt to flee as one of the teachers ordered: "Do not get panicky... remain in your place." The children, many as young as 6, obeyed their teachers. Then, as the
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  • 846 4  -  SINGAPORE By Tan Hsien Chong thchong@sph. com. sg BE careful of the flooring around Tekka Mall it can floor you. One woman recently broke her wrist and fractured her thumb after falling in the mall, which is at the junction of Sungei Road and Serangoon
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 717 6  -  FOOD POISONING ON RISE By Desmond Wong and Stephanie Yap tnp@sph.com.sg THERE are some places in competitive Singapore where a C grade is still good enough: Hawker centres. For many patrons, taste is more important than hygiene, it seems. So, despite the
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    • 194 7 THE National Environment Agency (NEA) issues the ratings for eating places, based on standards of housekeeping, cleanliness and hygiene. "This is intended to motivate licensees to improve their food hygiene standards," said an NEA spokesman. "As a result, past results will also be taken into
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    • 300 7 THESE popular stalls have B or C health ratings. Allauddin's Briyani, 01-297 Tekka Market, Little India, 10am to 3pm. The food is served on disposable plates, with plastic utensils. The mutton is thick and rich, the meat coming off the bones
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 311 8 DPM LEE RESPONDS TO CHINA'S PROTESTS TO TAIWAN TRIP: DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loonghas denied speculation that Singapore has offered to mediate between Taiwan and China. He was responding to Beijing's criticism of his recent visit to Taiwan. In a written reply
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    • 60 8 UNDER FIRE: A Respect party poster during a recent by-election in Leicester South, central England. In another sign of his weakening position, Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour party lost a "safe" seat to an anti-Iraq war candidate. An earlier report exposed flaws in
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    • 51 8 S'PORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 7/-0.04 Creative Technology 9.80/unch Flextronics 14.10/+0.20 Chartered Semiconductor 7.13/-0.14 Stats 7.49/+0.03 Yesterday's Percentage ose action change Dow Nasdaq S+P 500 STI Down 0.23% (23.38 pts) Down 1.55% (29.56 pts) Down 0.48% (5.3 pts) Up 0.2% (3.91pts) 10.139.78 1,883.15 1,101.39
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    • 77 8 LOCAL shoppers have overtaken big-spending tourists in Orchard Road. The ratio of locals to tourist shoppers is now 80:20, say retailers. In the 80's, locals made up only half of Orchard Road shoppers In particular, Japanese tourists have cut their spending by more than half to $320
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    • 79 8 SINGAPORE'S trade forecast for this year has gone up a full 7 percentage points to between 15 and 17 per cent. This was after a strong trade performance in the first six months of this year where external trade went up by 21.9 per cent to $274
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    • 90 8 UNDER a new deal with their management, Silk Air pilots will now get more pay and rest. Captains will get a $55 allowance for every hour in the air, and first officers $40, up from $29 and $24 an hour respectively. Pilots' basic salaries will also
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    • 87 8 UP to 40 per cent of Central's 227 home-office units above Clarke Key MRT station have been sold since they went on sale four months ago. This is despite a lack of advertising and a price of $1,300 per sq ft, which is the highest price now
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    • 72 8 ALL 230 buildings near the MRT Circle Line excavation sites, except two, are structurally safe, says the Building and Construction Authority (BCA). BCA also found 700 other buildings within about 100 m from several other MRT excavation sites, including places in Old Airport Road and Tanjong Katong,
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    • 73 8 THE Government has proposed giving the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) power to direct telcos to install telecommunications services at any building within a set timeframe. It also proposed giving IDA the authority to direct building developers or owners to provide space for telecoms equipment.
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 778 10 Take a walk with SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO, and let her show you S'pore her way THE grandfather is the mutton, Mr Tony Wong said. "And the chicken feet is the father?" I prompted. Tony and his wife Miss Jessie Ng are a 30-something
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    • 976 12  -  WE TRAVEL SO MUCH... Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out They leave the West behind And Moscow girls make me sing and shout That Georgia's always on my mind. By Celine Lim tnp@sph.com.sg SO sang the Beatles in Back in the USSR.
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    • 475 13 From Russia with love, they have made Singapore their home and are making a splash in the arts and culture scene. SETONU-WEN (seto@sph.com.sg) reports STEP into Ms Olga Iserlis' home and you will instantly recognise her Russian roots. Her luxurious double-storey Cairnhill Road apartment boasts paintings
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    • 120 13 THERE are some 400 Russians registered with the Russian embassy in Singapore, many of whom have been living here for 10 or more years. An embassy official said most of them are from central and eastern Russia. "The most typical work they do here is trading.
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    • 431 14  -  SCHOOL FEES HIKE HEXT YEAR Miscellaneous fees go up Primary school up 50 cents to $5.50 Secondary students up $1 to $8 Pre-university students up $2 to $11 By Tessa Wong tnp@sph.com.sg SINGAPOREAN parents seem divided over the recent hike in school fees. The Education Ministry
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    • 193 11 LESBIAN FILM: NOT IN SINGAPORE Hindi film Girlfriend won't be coming to Singapore. The Media Development Authority has rejected the film distributor's application for a video release with a Parental Guidance classification. It seems the lesbian theme isn't suitable for this classification. Director Karan Razdan said he was "shocked" when
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 443 15 River near highway overflows Rising water sweeps cars off road and piles them up Chaos and traffic jams in city Remember the bumper sticker that says "If you can read this, you are too close'? Several hapless drivers understood this only too well when raging
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  • 422 16 WORLD Boy brought back to life after 'UK's longest successful resuscitation' HE had no heartbeat. He wasn't breathing. His pupils were dilated and not responding to light. Found floating face down in a Birmingham pond, little Joe Towey, 2, appeared dead. But in what is
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  • WORLD
    • 546 18 LIFESTYLE GURU TO APPEAL AGAINST 5 MONTHS' JAIL SENTENCE DIVA OF DECOR Martha Stewart built a billion-dollar empire from scratch. Bom Martha Kostyra in 1941, she was the daughter of New Jersey salesman Edward Kostyra and his Polish wife. Her
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    • 258 19 to stop him from binge drinking AP. THE doctor told a court that he wanted to stop his alcoholic brother from binge drinking. The 60-year-old retired US physician from Michigan apparently chained his brother in his home. The brother was found in his basement with a
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    • 183 19 HE claimed to be a sex-starved female flight attendant and duped one man out of thousands of yen. Unemployed Kohei Shibata, 24, of Setagaya-ku, often mimicked a woman's voice when speaking to his alleged target over the phone, reported
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    • 192 20 THE last wedding was a bit of a nightmare. It took place in a Las Vegas wedding chapel and Britney Spear's marriage to pal Jason Alexander lasted only 55 hours. The singer swears it will be different this time around, reported The
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    • 241 20 ECONOMY GROWING BUT... IN spite of a rosier economy, petitions for bankruptcy are rising in Hong Kong, reported the South China Morning Post. The economic growth forecast was revised last month to 6.5 per cent from 5 per cent following the territory's strong first-half
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  • 381 21 MALAYSIA M'sian police stop priest's attempted feat in 3-m hole Bernama. HE was about to climb down into the hole, where he intended to stay for three days "covered by earth". But at the last minute, the Malaysian police stopped Hindu priest K Maniam
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    • 184 24 Wire services THIS has to be one of the weirdest things that has ever been auctioned on the Internet. A banana half-eaten by a British television presenter has been sold for £1,650 ($5,200) in an Internet auction. Ms Kate Garraway, a presenter for
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  • 331 28 Democrats suing Republicans over jamming phone lines that take supporters' calls in 2002 state and federal elections TECH Wire services HOW do you stop your political opponents from getting more support from the ground? Here's one high-tech way to do this jam their phone lines. The US
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  • TECH
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      278 32 FOR most of Americans, the World Wide Web is worldwide in name only. The vast majority of websites they visit are in the US. Occasionally, they might happen to go to a website in Canada or England, or perhaps an English-language newspaper in some other country. So
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    • 212 33 LAT-WP. But by one estimate, it has only 17 million Internet users. Like China, India also has a rapidly developing economy that will accelerate the growth of its Internet sector. But unlike China, the Indian government does not impose tough restrictions on what its population can see
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    • 208 34 AFP THIS could be both bad or good news, depending on how you see it. First the bad news according to Microsoft boss and founder Bill Gates (left), DVDs could well be obsolete in 10 years at the latest. So those with huge collections better
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  • 227 36 Hackers in China blamed; Seoul tightens security in cyberspace TECH Wire services. THE Chinese has apparently launched an attack against the Koreans in cyberspace. Hackers based in China have attacked the South Korean government computers via two types of viruses, prompting the country to tighten security
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    • 1053 38  -  Showtime LESBIAN HINDI FLICK 'GIRLFRIEND' By Sheela Narayanan sheela@sph.com.sg IT has shots of tantalising chocolate-coloured female bodies writhing beneath black silk sheets. As this is coupled with scenes of sensuous touchy-feely, it's no surprise that Hindi film Girlfriend has set Indian cineplexes on
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    • 232 38 OTHER CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECTS: GIRLFRIEND is the second Indian language film to be banned in Singapore. The first was director Mani Ratnam's Tamil film, Bombay (1995), which depicted the communal violence between Hindus and Muslims. •It was banned in Singapore for religious sensitivities. But one Indian
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    • 543 39  -  AUSSIE BOY BAND SINGER ASKS OUR REPORTER: By Adeline Chia chiahta@sph.com.sg HE spoke softly and politely over the phone from Melbourne. Thanh Bui is 21, talented and achingly handsome. The Australian of Vietnamese-Chinese descent belongs to North, a new boy band from the
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      123 40 AVRIL Lavigne is getting pretty good at the dissing game. After calling Hilary Duff "goody-goody", she has now blown off Prince Charles. The 19-year-old was scheduled to sit next to the future British king after her performance at the Prince's Trust charity concert in Hyde Park recently. But
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    • 128 40 JULIA Roberts has been up to some mayor diva ways. Apparently, she single-handedly sent the movie, Ocean's Twelve's US$B5 million ($144.79 m) budget A skyrocketing. /I The 36-year-old demanded reshoots Fa because she didn't like the way she Jfj looked in the movie. flfl Co-stars including Brad
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      131 40 JENNIFER Gamer (left) and her on-off screen lover Michael Vartan, 35, may be heading for splitsville, according to Star People. It seems Vartan, was hanging out last month at the LA hotspot, Joseph's, where he was seen flirting with some women. An acquaintance of the French-born actor,
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    • 293 41 PICK OFTHE WEEK Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand THE premise of this album is simple enough. Franz Ferdinand (FF) says it is a band that wants "to make records that girls can dance to and cut through the postured crap*. Well, that mission certainly works out
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    • 128 41 Various artistes I AMAZED myself, when I realised just how naturally the lyrics of these 1980s TV theme songs flowed off my tongue. Those were the good old days, when school recess talk centred on plot developments of Channel 8 dramas and their
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      112 42 ZChen HIS Korean-inspired perm is really a bad idea, but his songs four new tracks and 15 best hits are not too bad. R&B is what Z Chen does best, though he also tries his hands at rap-rock in the angst-ridden I'll Decide. Worth praising, yes, but he
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    • 101 42 Gary Moore MORE than a decade after telling you he's still got the blues for you, Gary Moore reminds you yet again on this album. Okay, no doubt about it. This guy definitely has the blues and if you're a pure blues rock fan, you'll be
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    • 106 42 Various REALLY, what's there not to like on this album? Like the soundtrack from the first movie, this one, too, brings together some of the most hip and popular modern rock groups of today (Jet, Hoobastank, Maroon 5) like a gathering of music's who's who. The album
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  • 386 43 CONSIDER yourself warned: The Happy Prince is not a happy story at all. How can it be, when it is based on the heartbreaking Oscar Wilde fairytale about a self-sacrificing gold statue of a prince who gives away his valuable coating? The opening scene
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  • Page 43 Miscellaneous
    • 182 43 The Next Big Thing Channel U, 9pm This week, celebrity wannabes face challenges posed by Malaysian R&B pop singer Z Cheng and Eric Moo's brother Allen Wu. Free Willy 3 Channel 5,7.45pm Willy the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers who are planning to turn him into
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    • 190 51 SOUTH AFRICAN Barend Vorster last night emerged as a genuine contender for the jockeys' crown with a brilliant hat-trick. The 27-year-old's success on Fairy Tale (right), Star Spur and Baccarat took his tally to 29 winners and moved him up to within one of Malaysian
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    • 501 51 RACE 1: AJAX STAR and EXTRA (respiratory disease) were scratched. SMART BABE (transferred to another stable) was scratched. SAPPHIRE RACER jumped awkwardly in and was slow. LEAD TO GLORY jumped awkwardly out. ROCKSTEADY was difficult to settle in the backstraight and approaching the first bend,
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    • 680 52 The vet reported that EARL returned with cuts on his off-hind. RACE 4: MOON SHADOW and RAUL bumped on jumping. STEAL ASCENE was difficult to settle in the backstraight. HIDDEN SURPRISE hung out from the 800 m. Near the 400 m, RAUL rolled out away from the heels
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    • 1547 52 Going: Yielding 9 FAIRY TALE 50 (36-11) BVorster (3) 5 4 1 (466) 1 CORPORATE TRIO 57 (73-18) JPatton (1) 7 8 2 (538) 1.75L 11 SAPPHIRE RACER 50 c 51 (216-45) AWhelan (8) 9 9 3 (503) ns 7 BIG EASY
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    • 102 53 (Race 5 No. 1) BEST BET Fared very well at his first test over 1,700 m last week. Would have scored a distinction if not for the talented Babe Classic's blistering turn of foot in the home straight. Trainer Sennett Ho throws the son of Umatilla back into
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    • 824 53 1.30 RACE 1 C5D2 1700m (home-based) 1 Strive YFLeong 3) 57 2 Baby Sun SHOh (11) 56 3 Command Conquer *S Kumar (10) 54 4 Family Man C Williams 2) 54 5 Royale Arena *YAify 7) 54 6 Always Special VSivan 9) 51.5 7 Speedy Bet
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    • 1161 54 MfJMH Maiden Div 2 2.00 -1700m Stakes: RM27.500 Wo. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer owner) 1 3-7025 PRESENT DAY 57 (35) NAzman 3 (4agCampbell-KLTan) 2 -4-3-4 COLOURLAND STAR 56.5 (34) *S Kumar c2.5 S (3nzg Robert-Colourland)
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    • 44 54 RACE 5: Minnale Magic, Enemy Fire, Supreme Happiness, Club Loui, Golden Ranger. RACE 6: Goldfinch, Pacific Success, Russian Rose, Dewan Suria, Rainbow Sapphire, Lion Mountain. RACE 7: Reimer, Nachum, Tableland, Dinho, Chongqing Express, Yellow Jambhala, Han Venture, Perfect Emperor, Big Woody, Mr Gagah.
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    • 294 54 GOING: GOOD NST. WORKOUTS by horses engaged tomorrow: RACE 1: Command Conquer canter/pace wofrk. Slow work: Strive (YF Leong), Always Special, Crouching Tiger, Private Equity, Singing The Blues, fit. RACE 2: Romantic Story (J Chuah) pace work. Slow work: Aberdonian, Tinker BeM, looking well, Olympic Style
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      736 56 ATHENS OLYMPICS Aug 13 29 AP. WITH her fourth-place finish in the 100 m freestyle, Maritza Correia became last Monday, the first black woman and second black person to qualify for the US Olympic swim team. "I'm amazed, I'm shocked, I'm happy," said Correia, who now has a
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    • 403 58 EURO KICKOFF: SPAIN SEASON STARTS AUG 28 PA Sport. DAVID Beckham may have hogged the headlines for the wrong reasons recently especially in the aftermath of England's dismal performance at Euro 2004. But when he came to Spain to prepare for the start to the
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    • 225 58 Reuters. VALENCIA will begin the defence of their Primera Liga title with a home game against regional rivals Villarreal on the weekend of Aug 28-29. "They are going to be very difficult opponents," Valencia's former Chelsea coach Claudio Ranieri said. "These sorts of games
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    • 281 59 AP. CONFIDENCE is rising on home ground. The pressure may be on for China as the hosts prepare to kick off the 13th edition of the Asian Cup. But coach Arie Haan is optimistic that his team will rise to the occasion when they meet Bahrain
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    • 139 59 BAHRAIN'S playmaker Mohamad Salmeen knows an intense battle is on the cards today. "It will be a tough game for sure. We are looking to get the three points and China are looking for that too," said Salmeen, who emerged as the best player during the Gulf
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    • 67 59 AS,A CUP |(1) China 1.67 IX) Draw 3.88 <2) Bahrain 4.00 U GOAL 1 China (-1 1/2) 2.48 Bahrain (♦I 1/2) 1.48 TOTAL GOALS MTll 1 too HH 2.86 1 4.70 HO 9.80 2 3.BO HA 17.00 3 3.80 DH 600 4 4.00 DO 7-20
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    • 105 59 Reuters. CHINA coach Arie Haan dropped bad-boy striker Zhang Yuning on the eve of the Asian Cup, accusing him of having a poor attitude. Li Yi is now likely to start alongside talisman Hao Haidong in attack. i "In four or five weeks Zhang has done three or four
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      344 60 GROUP A Asia's equivalent of Euro 2004 or the Copa America kicks off today in China. Several big-name foreign-based players, who have starred in the European and Asian professional leagues, will star for 16 of Asia's top countries in a fortnight-long tournament, viewed by pundits as one of the
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    • 198 60 AFTER the disappointments of World Cup 2002 and more recently, the Olympic qualifiers, it is more important than ever that China performs at the Asian Cup. The expectations on the host country is huge, and Holland coach Arie Haan has the tough task of guiding the world's most populous
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    • 194 60 ONE of Asean's two flag-bearers the other team being Thailand. Indonesia have modest expectations and they know that they are not expected to make waves in China. And despite finishing second in their Asian Cup qualification group behind Saudi Arabia, they are considered by many to be the weakest
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    • 176 60 WHEN you talk about Qatari football these days, one thing springs to mind the super-rich Qatari League. But despite the perceived strength of the multi-million-dollar league, thanks to the dozen or so world-class players now plying their trade in the deserts of Doha, the national team has not been
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    • 166 60 GROUP B THE newest emerging force in West Asian football. Jordan showed that they are a team not to be trifled with after a run of impressive results this year, which included a tremendous 1-0 win against Iran in a World Cup Qualifier in Tehran. Coached by wily Egyptian
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    • 189 60 EVER since the high of 2002, South Korea has been struggling to recapture that same form which thrilled their fans and the world over. Shocking results like the 1-0 loss to Vietnam during the tournament's qualification rounds, as well as the not-so-distant 0-0 draw with Maldives in a
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    • 168 60 IT has not been a very good year for Kuwait. The team might be a little short on confidence after a bad outing in the Gulf Cup earlier this year. They are also trailing China in their pre-World Cup qualifying group, and its looks highly unlikely that they will
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    • 150 60 FOR United Arab Emirates coach Aad de Mos, the opening match of Asian Cup 2004 will be his first competitive game in charge. And the Dutchman has already played down his team's chances, in an apparent bid to eadM&he pressure on both hft players and himself. "We will always
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    • 873 61 PA Sport. IT is hard to believe that, a little more than three yeras ago, Leeds United stood on the brink of a place in the Champions League final. It's true. In the words of former chairman Peter Ridsdale, on May 2 and 8,
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      330 64 GOLF: BRITISH OPEN _B_ROUN^? Reuters. Defending champion Ben Curtis and former winners Nick Faldo and Greg Norman missed the British Open cut early this morning as gusting sea breezes claimed some notable victims at Royal Troon. Jim Furyk, the 2003 US Open champion, Spaniard Sergio Garcia and Ireland's
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    • 145 64 Reuters. ERNIE Els, the 2002 champion at Muirfield, took advantage of calmer afternoon conditions to maintain hia challenge. South African Els, the pre-toumament favourite, fired a second successive 69 to finish the second round at four-under-par 138, three strokes off American Skip Kendall's lead. It was
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    • 151 64 Reuters. PHIL Mickelson stood on the first tee, seven shots back and in real danger of missing the cut. Arnold Palmer is his role model, and now Mickelson needed a Palmer-like charge and fast. The day before he had hit three-wood and missed the fairway badly.
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    • 817 65 .but the lead may not be for long GOLF: BRITISH OPEN ROUND^ The man who has never won a US PGA Tour event once chopped off most of the top of his left index finger while cutting a hagel. He had it stitched back on and,
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    • 669 65 THE CHASING PACK (clockwise from top) Weir. Mickelson. Woods. Els. Goosen. Leonard. Singh Wire services. A BRITISH Open leaderboard containing most of the biggest names in golf was topped yesterday by a little-known PGA tour pro. j And his main claim to fame was I that he chopped
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