The New Paper, 18 July 2004

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  • 30 1 the news paper JULY 18, 2004 MITA (P) Prmss Holdings Website: newpaper.asial.com.sg on sunday Email: tnp9sph.com.sg 80 CENTS Hotline: 1800-7 33 44 55 A —BECT) SSS^^So -00 CO tenewafaper LliliUiSiJ
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    • 126 1 HANDOVER POSER After Aug 12. MPs feel PM Goh should remain in Cabinet Sylvia Toh Paik Choo on the head and shoulders PM File picture EC IA -i pn 11 vi i ii!|ii Pr f l Sadistic, sinister murder of Sabah minister: Why did killer have to stab f 'Z~'\
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  • NEWS
    • 642 2  -  Mr Goh Chok Tong through the years Jim to Prime Minister Wfc to... Senior Minister?! International goodwill and reputation would be valuable, say MPs By Eugene Wee and Joyce Lim tnp@sph.com.sg NOW that the big question on the expected handover when? has been answered, the next
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    • 265 2 Farewell without fanfare as always THE announcement was barely four lines long. "Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong will relinquish his office on 12 August 2004. He will formally advise the President to appoint Deputy Prime Minister Mr Lee Hsien Loong to succeed him. DPMLee has the unanimous support of the
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    • 449 2  -  COMMENT SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO tnpQsph-comjg IT WAS a very good year, 1990. I forget who beat who in the World Cup. Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit ruled the airwaves, Whitney Houston promised I Will Always Love You, and M C Hammer bet You Can't
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    • 932 3  -  Sinister Sabah hotel murder of Madam Minister fcfl 200 times of 2 men found on body before murder There is the masturba-tion-massage session and its impact on the case. By Arul John tnp@sph.com. sg SOON after the Noritta Samsuddin trial, another brutal murder case is seizing attention
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    • 220 4 AZMAN, 25, an Indonesian ex-convict and former waiter, is charged with murdering Datuk Noijan in Room 208 of the Shangri-La Hotel in Bandaran Beijaya between 4am and 6am on Feb 11 this year. Police later found a knife used for cleaning fish, which is believed to
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    • 963 5  -  NO PUFFING IN LA NIGHTSPOTS? NO PROBLEM REPORTS AND PICTURES JOYCE UM reporting from Los Angeles joycd@sph.com sg OUTSIDE the Whisky A Go Go club at Sunset Strip, Los Angeles, clubbers obediently surrender their pack of cigarettes before entering. That is because smokers there lost their
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    • 289 5 THIS month marks the first anniversary of a smoking ban in New York. According to a recent survey done by city administrators, the ban, coupled with a tobacco tax increase, reduced the number of adult smokers by 11 per cent. BAD FOR BUSINESS But
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    • 987 6  -  NO PUFFING IN S'PORE NIGHTSPOTS? GOT PROBLEM By J Joyce Lim joycel@sph. com.sg WITH all this talk of a smoking ban in pubs appearing in the Straits Times Forum pages recently, nightspot owners are worried. "All my members are worried sick,"
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    • 121 6 TOBACCO contributes to about seven deaths every day in Singapore. Since 1970, the National Environment Agency (NEA) has been implementing smoking bans, in an effort to promote a smoke-free lifestyle among Singaporeans. Today the ban covers 26 categories of public places, including air-conditioned restaurants,
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    • 265 6 WANT smoke-free clubs and pubs? Give those who want to operate such establishments incentives to do so. So suggests Mr Deen Shahul, president of the Association of Entertainment Organisations (Singapore), to counter the risks of clubs going cold turkey. Such incentives could be in
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    • 1189 7 AFTER spending four days shivering on a tiny rocky outcrop in rough seas with his two terrified sisters, 12-year-old Stephen Nona told them: "If we don't swim for that island we're going to die." Far in the distance, they could just make out the top of a single
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    • 312 9 14/1 Military chief Jiang vows to get back island by 2020 18,000 troops involved Show of air power Plans to beefupPLA CHINA has kicked off war games simulating an invasion of Taiwan as military chief Jiang Zemin vows to recover the island by 2020.
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    • at a glance
      • 140 9 FAMILY members and burial ground workers carry the body of Monica, a 10-year-old girl killed in a fire at a primary school in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Friday. The death toll rose to 90 yesterday with two more children dying
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      • 123 9 Snapshots of the main news to save you time A SINGAPORE Airlines pilot was found dead in a hotel room in Switzerland on Wednesday night. Colleagues of Captain Rollin Winston Beebee Navaratnarajah, 58, raised the alarm when they could not contact him. They alerted the hotel staff,
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      • 119 9 AL-QAEDA may be recruiting non-Arabs less likely to arouse suspicion to carry out attacks in the US, the FBI has warned. The terror network especially seeks operatives who are US citizens or permanent residents, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. Of special concern are people with ties to
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      • 110 9 SOME 126 Chinese officials have delayed their plans to attend two master's degree courses at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). The pullout comes in the wake of China's anger at Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's recent visit to Taiwan. NTU's Masters of Science in
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    • 45 11 Page 14 THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY July 18,2004 IN HEY! Peek into celebrity stylist David Gan's 10 handphones/ Page40 Peek into what your phone says about your character/ Page 44 Peek into actress Eelyn Kok's moblogI Page 42 SPECIAL REPORT: S'POREANS THEIR HANDPHONES 1
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  • NEWS
    • 739 12  -  Slaves to their handphones POLL What tetlM most prized possession you carry with youl B Handphone 54% B Wallet 33% BPassport/IC 13% B Watch 0% B Partner's photo 0% By Esther Au Yong estheray@sph. com. sg YOUR money or your handphone? Faced with
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    • 257 12 Elsewhere... WOULD you rather face a dentist's drill or lose your handphone? According to a recent US survey commissioned by San Jose mobile services company Fusion One, when asked how losing their phones would affect them, a majority of respondents said it was as annoying as
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    • 481 13  -  Rise in thefts prompt police dialogue with secondhand dealers, stiffer penalties expected By Esther Au Yong estheray@sph.com.sg WHEN your handphone is stolen, where is it most likely to end up? One likely place: Used phone dealers. This has prompted the police to impose stricter
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    • 168 13 Elsewhere... SINGAPORE is not the only country dealing with a rise in handphone thefts. According to the Evening Standard, more than half of all street crime in London involves a handphone being stolen, and almost one third of these involves the theft of only a
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  • NEWS
    • 616 15  -  By Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg ONE'S a top criminal lawyer, the other's often quoted in the media about the state of the economy. Both are busy men who meet scores of people in their line of work. But Mr Subhas Anandan and Mr Song Seng Wun
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    • 469 16  -  By Tay Shi'an shian@sph.com.sg ON the other side of the spectrum, having just one handphone is simply not enough for some mobile users. More young people are carrying multiple handphones in order to save money on their monthly bills. These tend to be the heavy users,
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    • 508 17 (But only when I feel like it) Meet Pager Girl. She ditched a handphone for a pager. ESTHER AU YONG finds out why TO MANY, it may seem like a lifestyle downgrade. Ms Wong Yueat Tin was recently given a Nokia 3200 handphone as a gift.
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    • 121 17 TO PAGE SOMEONE: 1. Dial the pager number. 2. Wait for the beeping tone. 3. Press if you want the number you're calling from to show up on the pager. If you would like the caller to call a different number, press followed
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    • 288 17 ALTHOUGH handphones are all the rage these days, the paging business is still surviving. But the pie is getting smaller. In 1997, the four operators here together had more than 1.12 million subscribers. But this number has plummeted by about 90 per cent since then.
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    • 1194 18  -  How have handphones changed our lives? Let us count the ways Handphones a boon or a bane? We find out how handphones have so thoroughly changed our lives, for better and for worse REPORT EUGENE WEE fnfrflifrfi nrr* l ty SPY GAMES CAMERA phones are turning some
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  • Tech
    • 690 20  -  Handphones come with everything but the kitchen sink as engineering one-upmanship churns out new models with amazing features TECH BUDDy EUGENE WEE eugenew@sph.com.sg IT could have been considered one of the Holy Grails of science the ability to combine a shampoo AND a conditioner
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    • 808 21  -  DAWN CHIA dawnchia@sph corn sg I HAVE a confession I'm terribly attached to my trusty, albeit battered, handphone. Those who know me will attest to the fact that I'm an SMS addict. So it was with much reluctance that I
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  • 356 25  -  All you need is a WAP-enabled phone to carry out your banking transactions TECH By Wee Sui Lee suilee@sph.com.sg MR Lawrence Tan has not had to join the long queues in any banking hall over the past two years. That's because he has discovered the
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  • TECH
    • 550 29 Handphone users in coastal HK often get connected to mainland networks by mistake Wire services. TALK about the perils of making a wrong move. When villagers in Hong Kong's northwest corner dial their handphones, a wrong step can be costly. If they stray too
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    • 166 30 THERE'S no free meal. That's what a man in Germany discovered recently. He thought he had struck gold when an unknown girl called him and started to flirt with him all night. Little did he know that the encounter would set him
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    • 139 30 Wire services. A CHINESE author has written a novel meant to be read in 70-word chapters transmitted by SMS. Outside The Fortress Besieged, the story of an extramarital affair, consists of 60 such chapters totaling about 4,000 words, the Xinhua News Agency said. "The plot
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    • 536 31 CHINA EXAM SCANDAL PERHAPS China should do what one school in Europe has done install military jamming equipment to stop students from using handphones to cheat in their exams. China has been rattled by news that students taking the college entrance exams last
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  • Hey! SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND
    • Article, Illustration
      418 33  - CELEB STYLIST DAVID 61 They're in touch with the rich, the beautiful and the famous. The New Paper on Sunday takes a peek into their phones By] Melissa Tan meltan@sph.com.sg Celebrity hairstylist David Gan Phone: Nokia 7610 Who's in his phone book: Celebrities, including actresses like Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li,
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    • 307 34 SOCIALITE SHABNAM MELWANI Director off Sound buzz Shabnam Metwani Phono: Nokia 6610 Who's in her phone book: Fellow socialite Audrey Tay-Ong, composer Dick Lee, model/actress Nadya Hutagalung, and ex-MTV VJ Donita Rose. Bad call: She lost her fourth phone in February last year and is
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    • 294 34 FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER GEOFF ANG Fashion Photographer Geoff Ang Phone: Three of them The Nokia 7610, a Blackßerry e-mail phone, and the Treo 600 smartphone. Who's in his phone book: Top local models including Rebecca Tan, Serena Adsit, Gerald Wong, as well as celebrities
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  • HEY!
    • 603 35  -  BLOG: Abbreviated form of weblog, which is a website that provides journal entries, commentaries and recommendations by the user; also written web log. MOBLOG: Abbreviated form of mobile phone blog, where the journal entries are mainly photos with captions. By Melissa Tan meltan@sph. com.sg A PICTURE'S
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    • Article, Illustration
      391 36 1. When: Jul 13, Tuesday, Bpm. Where: An eatery in Takashimaya. What Having dinner with best friend of 13 years, Cheryl Toh. They met in their secondary school volleyball team. Eelyn: "Hungry! There was a food festival in Takashimaya and it was just so crowded. All we wanted
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    • 791 37 ...according to Sylvia Toh Paik Choo IT is a foolish notion: That the advent of the cigarette lighter could eventually see the death of the usefulness of the matchstick. However, in the matter of the mobile phone, the fallout effect is far-reaching. For me,
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  • HEY!
    • 342 39 I am 28 years old. I've got siblings aged 23 and 26 years old. Our lives have always been controlled by my mother. My father is more on the quiet side. Since we were young, she has always ordered us to follow her
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    • 102 39 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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    • 379 39 I AM 22 years old and I've been dating Z, who is 24, for three years. He is a virgin and I also told him that I was a virgin. The truth is, I had sex twice with my previous boyfriend. Recently we
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    • 865 40 Troubled is a 15-year-oid girl who is rather stubborn and hot-tempered. Usually, she is able to control her temper, but every time her grandmother comes to stay with her family, she feels very miserable. Whenever she is in her grandmother's presence, she can feel her emotions
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  • Page 41 Miscellaneous
    • 81 41 SuperSports 10.00am: Blue T orch/Golf Hawaii 11.30: Gillette World Sports 12.00nn: Nationwide Div One Derby County vs Millwall 2.00pm: FIVB Olympic Volleyball Qualifying Round 6 Russia vs Italy/World Of Rugby 4.30: Cycling 2004 Tour de France, Stage 13 6.00: WWE Heat 7.00: Swimming—Mare Nostrum Finals, Italy, Day 2 9.00: LG
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    • 69 41 10.00 am: Baseball MLB Saturday 2004, USA Boston Red Sox vs Anaheim Angels (Live) -00pm: Ice Skating World Challenge 2.30: Tour De France 2004 Highlights Stage 13 3.00: Golf The Open C'ship 2004, Scotland, 3rd Round 4.00: Golf The Open C'ship 2004, Scotland, Final (Live) -30am: Sportscenter Weekend 1 35:
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    • 333 41 Star Sports 11.00am: ATP Tennis Mercedes-Benz Cup, USA, Semifinal 2 (Live)/World Of Rugby 1.30pm: Billiards 2004 Taiwan World Pool C'ship, Day 8, Semifinals 5.00: Asian Cup 2004, China Qatar vs Indonesia (Live) 7.00: FIM World Motorcycle C'ship On The Grid, Germany 7.30: FIM World Motorcycle C'ship 2004, Germany 250cc (Live);
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  • Page 42 Miscellaneous
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  • 584 43 THERE'S a ghost near the lift, JM told his 7-year-old son. "I saw him myself the other day. Very frightening!" "I don't believe," the boy said. "If you saw him, then I'm sure he saw you, and why didn't he suck your blood?" "Because he's
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  • Page 44 Miscellaneous
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  • RACING
    • 98 45 LEADING trainer Laurie Laxon is taking one of his young fellow-country-men under his wings. Top New Zealand apprentice Jason Waddell is transferring his apprenticeship to the Melbourne Cup-winning handler for three months. The 18-year-old, whose only overseas experience thus far has been a
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    • 1572 45 GOING FORECAST: YIELDING TO SOFT HfPfH Class 5 Div 2 130 IjHljH -1700m (home-based) Stakes; RM27.500 Wo. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex. trainer-owner) 1 7-2103 STRIVE 57 (45) YFLeong 3 (3ag D Chua-True Win) 2 *****0 BABY SUN 56 (43)SHOh 11 (3nzg
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    • 355 45 Racins Editor RACE Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee 4 Family Han 1 Strive 9 Mysticism 3 Command Conquer B Crouching Tiger 1 Strive 4 Family Man 1 Strive 3 Command Conquer 1 STRIVE* 11 Singing The Blues 3 Command Conquer 2 5
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    • 83 45 BEST BET This fella has been knocking on the door real hard. Last week, he was very unlucky to finish third, behind Tupelo and Best Partners, in a three-way dog-fight over 1,200 m. The way he was finishing his race suggests the extra 200
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    • 159 45 RACE 1: Strive, Command Conquer, Always Special, Speedy Bet, Crouching Tiger. II RACE 2: Tinker Bell, We Got It, Romantic Story. RACE 3: The Golden Mean, White Diamond, D'Connection, Happy Brothers, Relau Warrior, Koromiko, Big Smart, Fire Starter. RACE 4: Grand Premier, Citichamp, Mas Labu, Port Of Hainan, Gaya
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    • 628 46 LAST Wednesday, the stewards acceded to trainer C Read's request to clear TRIPLE WONDER for racing subject to the submission of a subsequent sample being free of any prohibited substance. The inquiry into the matter has been adjourned pending the analysis
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    • 334 47  -  By Michael Lee manyan@sph.com.sg KRANJI-BOUND jockey Gary Carter (left) saw his name come under dark clouds last Thursday. The 39-year-old Briton, who was recently granted a permit to run from October to December by the Singapore Turf Club, faces sensational charges made by the British
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    • 993 47 10 HAPPY NEWS 50 (50-12) 'A Kumar (6) 1 1 1 (453) 8 PURPLE HAKKA 50.5 (27-8) MWepner (1) 3 2 2 (440) 6 WONDERFUL STAR 52 (71-18) SH Lee (7) 4 4 3 (463) Others in finishing order: MOTION (16-8) L Sofhan, COLOURLAND STAR (20-6)
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    • 234 47  -  By Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg SMALL fields often throw up surprises. That was certainly the case in Races 2 and 5 at the Penang Turf Club yesterday afternoon. Recharge, a three-year-old gelding by Posen, was the overwhelming favourite in the second event, a 1,200 m
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    • 35 47 4-D DRAW dm* FIRST SECOND THIRD STARTERS 1224 2761 9384 8693 2601 3569 1707 3300 1050 0504 SATURDAY July 17,2004 HPi 4498 6430 8508 HON 6536 2012 8497 7435 6044 4800 5228 7486 3041 4009
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    • 829 49 OLYMPICS COUNTDOWN Five national swimmers have formed a band called the Swim Shadys. They performed at the Swatch Olympic Emotion event at Ngee Ann City yesterday. ERWIN WONG talks to Kenneth Goh and Gary Tan about how they got started THE powerful ripples generated from their muscular
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    • 282 50 ERWIN WONG NGEE Ann City became a mini sports hub yesterday as the Swatch Olympic Emotion was launched. Held over two days, the event featured a Sports Challenge which saw a thousand participants from the public take part. They engaged in football, basketball, archery, long
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    • 982 51 f%|THE NEW CHELSEA *0^ Xtfieran illustrious six at Stamford Bridge, Marcel Desailly has quit k the Blues. Chelsea Radio's JONATHAN BECK queries the French defender on the club's transformation and the role he played in making it a force to be reckoned with Marcel, it's been six years,
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    • 243 52 TRANSFER TRAIL Wire Services. OXFORD 1 CHELSEA 1 JOSE Mourinho's first game in charge of big-spending Chelsea ended in a stuttering 1-1 draw at lower league side Oxford last night. Mourinho fielded a strong side including new striker Mateja Kezman, signed from PSV Eindhoven, who equalised in the
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    • 545 52 Wire Services ARSENE WENGER will hold face-to-face crisis talks with Patrick Vieira (above) next week in a desperate bid to persuade his skipper not leave for Real Madrid. Wenger knows that he is the only man who can stop his captain turning his back
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    • 276 52 Wire Services. SAVIOLA: Liverpool and Newcastle have been put on red alert after Barcelona admitted they could sell Javier Saviola. The prolific Argentinian striker is a fans' favourite but he has fallen out with Barca president Joan Laporta who wants to reduce his massive £2.5 million-a-year salary. Speculation
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    • COPA AMERICA 2004
      • 363 53 MEXICO v BRAZIL AP. BRAZIL are done testing new players and will focus on reaching the Copa America final, coach Carlos Alberto Parreira said yesterday. "Now it's time to field the best players we have," Parreira said. "The competition gets tough from now on,
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      • 370 53 AP. Mexico, fresh from their first competitive win over Argentina, will attempt to add another prized scalp when they face Brazil in the Copa America quarter-finals tomorrow. Mexico coach Ricardo Lavolpe (right) has promised his team will take the initiative as they bid to extend an
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      • 271 54 PARAGUAY v URUGUAY AP. URUGUAY captain Paolo Montero (above) will miss tomorrow's Copa America quarter-final against Paraguay in Tacna because of a groin strain, coach Jorge Fossati said. "He's a very important player, the leader of the group, but he's not playing and we can't be
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      • 170 54 COPA TIPSTER: PETER MAY PA Sport. FINDING value in the quarter-finals is a thankless task with Paraguay and Uruguay meeting in Tacna before Mexico face Brazil in Piura. The latter match naturally boasts greater prestige but the potential for better prices has been eroded by
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    • Article, Illustration
      837 55 Forget Euro 2004 and put aside Copa America. Focus your attention on the cream of Asian soccer as they battle it out for the AFC Asian Cup. Over the next fortnight, you will catch almost all the matches "live" from China as 16 of Asia's best battle for
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    • 645 55 IRAN KEEP an eye on the newly-crowned kings of West Asia after winning the West Asian Championships last month. Iran will now be seeking to win a record fourth Asian title. In what is the largest-ever field (16 teams) in Asian Cup history, the Iranians will need to
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    • 593 56 CHINA 2 BAHRAIN 2 Wire Services. HOSTS China were held to a surprise 2-2 draw by Bahrain in the opening match of the Asian Cup 2004 after a late strike by substitute Husain Ali yesterday at the Workers' Stadium in Beijing. Just as China thought they
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    • 167 56 AFP. AFC General Secretary Peter Velappan yesterday launched an astonishing attack on China, threatening to withdraw Asian football from Beijing while suggesting the city was not up to hosting the Olympics. Velappan let rip following the 2-2 draw in an half-empty stadium for the
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    • 106 56 AFP. THE 2007 Asian Cup could be spread across South-east Asia if a groundbreaking joint bid wins approval. Asian Football Confederation President Mohammad Hammam said the region's governing body was studying a proposal from four nations Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam to stage the
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    • 109 56 AP. FUTURE winners of the Asian Cup will no longer automatically qualify for the tournament, the president of the Asian Football Confederation said yesterday. The change means that future tournament winners will have to fight through qualifying rounds to gain a berth the
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    • 261 57 GROUPC: SAUDI ARABIA v TURKMEKISTAN AFP. INJURY-HIT Saudi Arabia will kick off their quest for a fourth Asian Cup crown today against Turkmenistan. The Saudis beat Turkmenistan 3-0 in a World Cup Qualifier last month, but will face the Central-Asian side this time with five key
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    • 331 57 GROUP C: IRAQ v UZBEKISTAN AFP. IN today's other Group C match, Uzbekistan will take on a youthful Iraqi squad that is in for a long summer of football and will be representing their war-torn country at the Athens Olympics next month. Said
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    • 100 57 AP. THE quality of Asian soccer is now on a par with that played in Africa, ex-China manager Bora Milutinovic (above) said yesterday. But the region's game has a long way to go before catching up with standards in Europe and South America, he added. Said
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    • 288 57 GROUP A: QATAR V INDONESIA AFP. QATAR coach Philippe Troussier (right) believes his side's hopes of progressing in the Asian Cup hinge on them getting a flying start against Indonesia today. Troussier, who led Japan to glory at the last Asian Cup in
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      724 58 Wire Services. WORD is out that Libyan strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is keen to take over newly-promoted Premiership club Crystal Palace. Though he may not be the most desirable of characters Gaddafi's name is, after all, more often associated with state-sponsored terrorism this is one Palace coup that
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    • 715 59 GOLF: BRITISH OPEN IIROUN^^^JATIAM^resstime) Wire Services SOME of golfs biggest names surged into contention last night in the third round of the British Open. While Thomas Levet of France took the lead with two early birdies, Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els, Tiger Woods and US Open champion Retief
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