The New Paper, 28 July 2004

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  • 32 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2004 if*Singapore Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2004 70 CENTS 8 *****1''400jjl the paper
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 381 2  -  HOLIDAY TRAGEDY IN KARIMUN By Azhar Ghani REPORTING FROM KARIMUN azhar@sph. com.sg ITS not how he wants to remember her. But Mr Saiful Bahari can't forget how his air stewardess fiancee, Ms Nor Wati Abu, was killed in a motorcycle accident on
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    • 207 3 HE was wearing a helmet and she was not. The bike they rented came with only one helmet. They had been out to buy some crackers and kuehs (Malay cakes) at the local market when the accident happened just two days after they went to
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    • 474 3 Around company, Mr Saiful was able to coax beautiful memories of his fiancee from under the weighty cloak of his grief. He even managed a smile when he recalled the nicknames the two lovebirds had for each other. He was her "kambing kemek" ("squashed goat" in Malay,
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    • 733 4  -  FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Bv Teh Jen Lee jenlee@sph.eom.sg SHE had a welcome-home present all prepared for her stylish air stewardess sister. Nur Atika, 12, bought three colourful plastic bangles at her primary school fair last week for her only sibling, Miss Nor Wati Abu. The 25-year-old
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    • 45 3 Sorry MahBowTan on the HDB fee hike: 'A Reasonable Amount' (TNP, Jul 26): The report said service and conservancy fees are collected by the HDB. The fees are collected by the Town Councils. News IQ: Page 8 Hey!: Pages 36 41 TV: Pages 42 43
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  • SINGAPORE
    • Article, Illustration
      660 6  -  S S By Tay Shi'an shian@sph. com.sg HE'S fast superfast. Lieutenant He Ruimin, 23, finished both his basic degree and PhD in just four years. He's possibly the first to do so at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The top US university said so itself though officially it
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    • 137 7 LT He Ruimin is probably the first student to achieve both a basic degree and PhD within four years in MIT, said the university. Professor Peter Temin, chairman of the MIT Economics department committee on graduate students, said: "No other student has earned a BS (Bachelor
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 323 8 Labour chief wants to reclaim domestic services jobs for S'poreans LABOUR chief Lim Boon Heng has noted that some employers here still prefer foreigner workers ii} the domestic services sector. They appear to be driven by the bottomline and think foreign workers are cheaper. There
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    • 71 8 A RRE broke out along an 8th-floor corridor of Blk 229, Bukit BatokEast Avenue 3 yesterday. It was the third such fire In this block according to reports. There were no casualties, but the fire destroyed several cables and telephone lines and at least
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    • 51 8 STORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) < Pacific Internet 7.19/+0.31 Creative Technology 9.53/-0.12 Flextronics 12.17/-0.02 Chartered Semiconductor 6.05/+0.05 Stats 6.3/Unchd ehiii* mnmrnmsmmarncmmmmmmmmmmmm Yesterday's Percentage action change Dow Up 1.24% (123.22 pts) 10,085.14 Nasdaq Up 1.64* poos**)"* S+P 500 Up 0.99% (10.76 pts) 1,094.83 STI Up 0.71% <13.10
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    • 83 8 SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew said that he will stay in the Cabinet as "a consultant, a counsellor, an adviser" and that he would remain engaged in Singapore's future "as long as I am alive". In an interview with Reuters on Monday, he also said
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    • 75 8 THE number of dengue cases has risen, with 222 people falling ill last week alone, compared with an average of 68 a week earlier in the year. Close to 3,000 people have been infected and one died this year as a worrying trend has emerged more mosquitoes
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    • 66 8 LABOUR movement National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) returned more than $58 million to workers through rebates last year. It also disbursed more than $8.8 million to woikers and their families through study grants and food vouchers. NTUC secretary-general Lim Boon Heng said yesterday: "Last year was an
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    • 66 8 THE Trade and Industry Ministry will not expand the scope of the proposed anti-competition law. Despite calls by Temasek Holdings and major companies, it has refused to include 10 key sectors, such as telecommunications, media and public transport, in the legislation. They already have their own rules on
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    • 64 8 MALAYSIA and Singapore have agreed to work closely to enhance maritime security and fight terrorism. Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan, on a three-day visit to Malaysia, indicated that stepped-up cooperation in the Malacca and Singapore straits was likely to go beyond the coordinated three-nation patrols that were
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    • 67 8 LEADING global ratings agency Moody's Investor Services has given Singapore the highest possible credit rating of Aaa, in its annual report. They were based on our diversified economy, lack of external debt, sizeable current-account surpluses and stable political configuration. The report said Singapore's diversified economy was
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    • 50 8 Whata WE DUG UP THE FOUNDER 8 THEN WE REPLACED HIS t WITH ANY LUCK. OUR I fillllh 0F OUR COMPANY AND |S«6CTONE UmK A I BUSINESS PRACTICES ■idUMII URAPPED HlfA IN hUGE MAGNET i WILL MAKE Hltt SPIN COPPER WIRE. UOt MAuNET I IN HIS GRAVE AND GENERATE ELECTRICITY
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  • 407 9  -  JHMMQnA CMBUSSfIfMB DCnXflßr' tt lltail WIN jifWUHwi 9VBHKMRMHNNRNHHI tSvMMKT SINGAPORE By Celine Lim cellsf@sph.com.sg In Singapore, carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas emitted. And greenhouse gases cause global warming. But don't hold your breath for the carbon dioxide to go away it won't as long as
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    • 98 9 11> ml 3 BjB; Who sang the perfect song? Viewers had their eye on 14-year-old Rashidah Jalil, who created a stir during an earlier round of Anugerah when her singing coach also one of the judges WStt. stood up and clapped after she was d° ne But the secondary three
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  • NEWS
    • 793 10  -  Polytectur's JB land ■He pays another# $400,000f0r 6,000 sq ft house Facilities include swimming pool, Gurkha guards, v equestrian country clubs By Desmond Ng desmondn@sph. com. sg HOME for him is a rambling one-storey bungalow bigger than five five-room HDB flats,
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    • 364 10 ONE could be forgiven into thinking this was a property launch here. When The New Paper was at the launch of Leisure Farm's RM$5 million ($2.2 m) visitor centre and a re-launch of their Pinggiran Bayou townhouse site earlier this month,
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    • 187 10 IT all sounds very tempting but do your homework first before buying that overseas property, said Mr Nicholas Mak. This is what he advises: Is the place for your own use? If you're working in that country, it has to be near the
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  • 674 11  -  SINGAPORE By Mohamed Falio faliq@sph.com.sg GOH Yu Jie, 14, struck gold, but not in a goldmine. Instead, it was dug out from her nostril where it's been for more than a decade. A gold bell was found wedged in her right nostril when she
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  • 792 12 Masters student allegedly killed by jealous ex-boyfriend MALAYSIA IT was a desperate plea for help. She threw a scribbled note containing her friend's phone number out of the window. But it was not enough to save the life of Malaysian Health Ministry research assistant and master's
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  • WORLD
    • 476 13 US Presidential hopeful John Kerry in a strange suit starts a phcfto war of insults between Democrats &£fcpublicans DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WHEN: Jul 26 29 WHAT: Democratic delegates to formally nominate Senator John Kerry as their candidate for president WHERE: Boston, Massachusetts KEY SPEAKERS: Former president
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    • 222 13 AFP. THEY pumped gas and watched how long it would take for political prisoners to die agonising deaths. It was all part of research, alleged a former North Korean research scientist who defected. The research he alleged was to prepare for
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    • 587 14 LOVER BULLY 16-YEAR-OLD KILLER Had a succession of girlfriends, including a 12-year-old Frightened many schoolmates and had been warned by police for punching a fellow pupil Stabs fellow student, 14, in school. He was jealous of his sporting prowess A BRITISH court sentenced a 16-year-old boy to life imprisonment yesterday
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  • WORLD
    • 313 16 Rooney's fiancee fumes after hearing about his fling with prostitute She chucks $80,000 ring into squirrel reserve Officials warn treasure hunters from trampling the forest Wire services. RED-FACED Rooney, red squirrels and a raging red fiancee. And it is red-hot news
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    • 195 17 I PERTH CAR CRASH THE driver in the Perth car crash that killed two Singaporeans has been arrested in Hongkong. Ronald Wong Ting Pan reportedly fled there a week after he was discharged, reported the South China Morning Post. In October,
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    • 239 17 FLY out the pilgrim and bring back the tourist. This is the new motto of Malaysia's tourism authorities. During the Haj season, 25,000 pilgrims from Malaysia leave for Saudi Arabia. The planes carrying these pilgrims return empty as the pilgrims take a
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    • 46 17 m t J# v, I r -j > V, V *s X <L f its '< J f Guitar legend Steve Vai, who performs tomorrow at Suntec City, is a cool Dad who brings his kids on tour. JILL ALPHONSO speaks to him. Iii Life! tomorrow T1 icS(milsTimcs
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    • 95 17 Montessori World Edacation Institite MWEJ Australia ,nc WWEI otters a Montessori Diploma course Montessori Assistants Certificate course by external study. First-time in Singapore! Don't miss it Ml! MONTESSORI WORKSHOP for all aspiring Montessori teachers and personnel Key Concepts of Montessori. Reading and Language t Lots More. Data: 7 9 August
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  • 630 19  -  At 24 hours, Creative's latest Zen player has twice the battery life of the iPod Tech REPORT AND PICTURE By lan Tan Ian Tan tanyhi@sph.com.sg I HAVE an affectionate nickname for my old Creative MP3 player. When people ask for the model
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  • TECH
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    • 410 25 AFP. AUSTRALIA has scored a victory against spammers. Its tough laws which punish businesses responsible for unsolicited "spam" e-mail with hefty fines appear to be working. The Australian Communications Authority (ACA), a government watchdog, said the laws introduced in April had proved
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  • TECH
    • 294 29 (That's It times the population of S'pore!) Wire services. MORE Americans are now working from home. A survey showed that some 44 million US workers will be telecommuting, or working from home at least on a part-time basis this year. (Singapore has a
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    • 389 30 British telco's fight against Internet access to undesirable websites Wire services. EVERY day, at least 23,000 people in Britain alone try to gain access to child pornography websites. And British telco BT Group is trying hard to block them from the websites. Spokesman
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    • 572 31 COMPUTER science used to be an A-list course. There used to be waiting lists for such classes as students packed 200-seat auditoriums to scribble down bits of code once thought to unlock a life of riches. These days, lectures on systems programming at the
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    • 561 33 Wire services. Doctors are well-known for their bad handwriting because they often scribble their prescriptions and expect nurses or pharmacists to be able to read them. But in the US, indecipherable prescriptions may soon be a thing of the past. Medical records,
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    • 668 35 m m In MediaCorp's Anugerah talent contest last night, one contestant risked singing a tough song and won. Another singer, who's only 14, sang a less difficult song and was disappointed. ERIAKBAR (eri@sph.com.sg) reports THEY both sang well. But his brave decision made all the difference
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    • 170 36 ANUGERAH never fails to create controversies. First, hot favourite Rezalludin was said to have been unfairly kicked out of the competition. Then, strange happenings were reported during the rehearsals. Ousted contestant Rin Wahab suddenly felt ill anti finalist Far ah Wahidah f went
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    • 737 37  -  Korean fans screamed as loudly for stars from Taiwan as homegrown celebs MTV BUZZ ASIA CONCERT TAIWAN'S VANNESS WU AND MACHI KOREA'S SHINHWA REPORT TAN MAE LYNN Reporting from SEOUL C AN the Taiwanese beat the Koreans at their own game? Vanness Wu and
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    • 337 39 IT has been a rocky weekend for Mumbai's film industry. An aspiring actress, Preeti Jain, has accused director Madhur Bhandarkar of rape and criminal intimidation. Madhur directed the award-winning film Chandni Bar starring Tabu. The 24-year-old model apparently had small roles in Chandni Bar and
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    • 230 39 ACTOR Om Puri will be made an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire The award is for his contribution to the UK film industry.. The OBfUfrpart of the ancient of 1 Om can't caU himself Sir Om Puri because he is not
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    • 285 39  -  By Adeline Chia ckiahta@sph. com.sg HE'S a huge Steve Vai fan. With his Vai-lookalike soul patch and trademark big hair, it's not hard to believe Hairudin Mamijod when he says that. «iscoot shades, however, do more than imitate the guitar legeftd. They are to
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  • 385 41 WHILE food shows have flooded Chinese TV stations, it's still refreshing enough on English TV not to give us deja vu. The latest is Channel i's Chef On Call. Hosted by MediaWorks actress Cynthia Lee and chef Devagi Shanmugam (above), this takes the format
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  • Page 41 Miscellaneous
    • 171 41 Highlights 4 Li < The Mothman Prophecies Channel i, I Opm K> :> A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of, bizarre entities. Stars Richard Gere, David Eigenberg. Room In My Heart Channel 8,9pm
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    • 658 42 THE NEW PAPER/Wednesday, July 28,2004 PRIME TIME TV Page 43 6.00: Yu-Gi-Oh 6.00: Iron Chef 6.30: News 6 JO: Singapore 6.00: Beyblade 6.00: Aroma 6.02: Asia 6.00: Ranma 6.00: The 6 Duel Monsters (Variety) Today (News) (Children) (Cooking) Beyond (Episode 113 Simpsons (Kids Animation) 6.30: Above And 6.3o:Garam 6.32: Peace
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    • 592 51  -  FOCUS ON FRIDAY'S KI&NJI NEWCOMERS By Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg WELL-PERFORMED Indian-bred Classical Act will make his debut in The New Paper Trophy at Kranji on Friday. The five-year-old son of Placerville and Stunning r > raced nine times back home for
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    • 228 51 A TOTAL of six unraced newcomers will also be reeking their debuts on Friday. Both ttwiowg Naga and San Juan are running in the $100,000 juvenile Championship over 1,200 m on turf. Gunong Naga is a two-year-old New Zeaiand-bred by Kashani out of Rose Tremain. The bay gelding
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      • 128 51 EVERYONE knows the more popular Mercedes Benz luxury sedans come in three classes S, E and C. One race-goer playfully pointed out that The New Paper's preview on last Sunday's $800,000 Emirates Singapore Derby zoomed in on the C-class factor referring to eventual runner-up Superior Star's rider
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      • 126 51 OVERHEARD in a lift after Laurie Laxon hit his hat-trick with Dragon Master on Derby Day. "This Laurie is on fire!" said fellow-trainer Charles Leek, who had just felt the heat when his Imperial Lad (eighth) was shot down in flames by Laxon's dragon. "And there may
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      • 136 51 TRUST those fair-dinkum Aussies to move on from Exceed And Excel's flop in UK and turn the racebook page to their next overseas hope Super Elegant. Fresh from his seventh weight-for-age win in the Asloo,ooo ($122,400) Sir John Monash Stakes last Saturday, the Tony Vasil-trained star
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      • 185 51 WHEN the redevelopment of Ascot Racecourse in England is completed, they might as well go ahead and rename it Dettori Downs, reports AP. Frankie Dettori, the star Italian jockey, rode his 2,000 th winner in Britain in the first race there last Saturday, then capped the performance
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    • 515 52 GOING: GOOD WORKOtJTS by horses handicapped on Friday (racing on turf unless stated): JUVENILE CHAMPIONSHIP 1,200 m: Newcomer Gunong Naga (D Azis) worked well over 600 m in 36.8 sec. Master Tee (T Ong) canter/43.2. Lim's Falcon pulled away from San
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    • 603 52 GOING: SOFT NST LAST-START winner Sunmi geared up for a back-to-back success on Sunday with a smart workout in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-old Australian-bred cantered one round and then shaped well over 600 m in 42.75ec. The going
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    • The Olympic Challenge: SINGAPORE
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        519 53 LEE WUNG YEW He has long been one of the more well-known faces in the local sports scene. Shooter Lee Wung Yew will be participating in his second Olympic Games in a fortnight. Before he jets off to Athens, ERWIN WONG talks to him about his previous Olympic
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      • 335 53 THE highlight of his first Olympic experience in 1996 was not at the dusty shooting range, but at the tartan track in front of millions of viewers. Lee said: "I was the flag bearer for the Singapore contingent, and for that one minute, when 1 was
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      • 220 53 WITH the competition pool a rather open one, does Lee, who is participating in the trap event, fancy his chances among the world's top shooters? He said: There will be 30 shooters in the competition. My aim would be to make it
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    • 370 54 GROUP D: OMAN v THAILAND OMAN'S first trip to the Asian Cup Finals could sadly end tonight. They take on Thailand in their final Group D game. Milan Macala's side may be novices at this level, yet they have acquitted themselves very well so far.
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    • 89 54 GROUP B: UAE 0 JORDAN 0 AFP. IT was hardly a feast of football fit for a king. But Jordan left their biggest fan beaming with delight last night after clinching a place in the quarter-finals. Watched by their football-mad monarch King Abdullah 11, Jordan reached the
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    • 164 54 GROUP B: KOREA REP 4 KUWAIT 0 Reuters. STRIKER Lee Dong-gook scored twice in the first half as South Korea crushed Kuwait 4-0 to reach the quarter-finals last night. South Korea finished on top of Group B with seven points and will next play the runners-up of
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    • EXCLUSIVE STAR
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        567 55  -  By GARY SPEED .dfkd LETS just say that it was no great surprise to me that Nicky Butt has been signed as my replacement at Newcastle. I knew that three weeks ago.' He's a good player and he's at an age now where he needs to play
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      • 336 55  -  By SHOLA AMEOBI NEWCASTLE ITS been a great summer for Newcastle in the transfer market, with Patrick Kluivert and James Milner already on board and Nicky Butt's arrival around the corner. Those three players should improve our squad dramatically. The signing of Patrick Kluivert is
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      • 235 55  -  w DE BOER AUWWW MY Al-Rayyan team-mates will be in Holland from Aug 9 for three weeks of pre-season training. The ankle injury I picked up at Euro 2004 is still sore, but I hope to be back training by the time we leave for Qatar.
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    • 1362 56  -  CHAMPIONS WORLD SERIES CELTIC 1 LIVERPOOL 5 Liverpool thumped Celtic 5-1 yesterday in their first friendly in the Champions World Series in the US. The promising new-look Liverpool attack force were in top form as they prepare for the new English Premiership season starting
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    • 264 56 PA Sport. LIVERPOOL coach Rafael Benitez is a tough man. He has warned his players they could be shown the door if they cannot adjust to different styles of play throughout the season. Previous manager Gerard Houllier was criticised for his negative formations. Benitez
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    • 218 56 PA Sport. CELTIC'S Neil Lennon has written off the chances of Chelsea and Liverpool in this season's Premiership title race. Big-spending Chelsea showed just why they are many's favourites to take the title with a comfortable 4-2 win against Celtic in Seattle on Saturday. And
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      138 57 PRE-SEASON FRIENPLIES PA Sport. JAMES Beattie and Kevin Phillips were on the score sheet as Southampton drew 2-2 with IF Elfsborg on the final game of their tour of Sweden. Phillips was looking lively and had two shots on target before Beattie converted a simple header a metre
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    • 67 57 PA Sport. ASTON Villa finished off their pre-season tour of Sweden .with a hard-fought 0-0 draw with Orgryte in Gothenburg. Nolberto Solano almost broke the deadlock with a curling right-foot free kick but the 25-metre effort flew just past the post. In the final minute Luke Moore
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    • 62 57 VJJltfHB CHAMPIONS ,1 l ,V A m WORLD SERIES 1 1 1 1 J r.OAL 1 1 TOTAL OOALS 1 MT«ri 0 SM*< MR MO 1 5.JO HD 12.00 2 MA 3 4.10 DH 4. BO 4 **t> OD BM> 8 7.40 DA
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    • 348 57 PA Sport. JIMMY-FLOYD Hasselbaink opened his Middlesbrough account with a typically predatory double as Forest were brushed aside at the City Ground. The Dutchman helped himself to a goal in each half while further strikes from Franck Queudrue and Joseph-Desire Job ensured the scoreline
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    • 135 57 PA Sport. NEW signing Gary Speed (right) made his first appearance for Bolton as his new club beat Oldham 1-0. Sam Allardyce fielded a strong team for the friendly and included captain Jay-Jay Okocha and striker Michael Bridges. Tunisia international Raidi Jadhi was also given a starting
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    • 207 57 PA Sport. NORWICH beat Cambridge 3-1 in a pre-season friendly at the Abbey Stadium after two goals in the first five minutes set them on their way. The Canaries got the perfect start when Paul McVeigh was allowed to cut inside from the right to meet a
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    • 290 58 TRANSFER TRAIL SIR Alex Ferguson believes Newcastle have got a bargain should they complete the signing of Nicky Butt. The 29-year-old midfielder is expected on Tyneside tomorrow to finalise personal terms and take a medical for the transfer, reportedly worth £2.smillion (sBm). He is
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      80 58 i > "Boston United and Paul Gascoigne are pleased to announce that they have 'm ■?< agreed in principle to Paul Gascoigne joining Boston United in a player-coaching capacity," a club statement said. Boston are planning a press conference to officially unveil Gascoigne -on Friday. Gascoigne,
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    • 182 58 AFP. SENEGALESE midfielder Pape Bouba Diop, who famously scored his country's winner against France at the 2002 World Cup, joined Fulham from Lens on a four-year contract for an undisclosed fee yesterday. Fulham had switched their search for a midfielder to Diop, 26, after Portsmouth's Senegal midfielder
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    • 144 58 AFP. BRAZIL'S World Cup-winning midfielder Edmilson (right) will play for Barcelona next season after an agreement was reached with French club Lyon, a source close to the Spanish club said yesterday. Barcelona president Joan Laporta, who offered 8 million euros ($16.7 m) compared to Lyon's asking price
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    • 146 58 PA Sport. MARSEILLE have confirmed the signing ofßixente Lizarazu (right) after the former Bayern Munich full-back put pen to paper on a two-year contract with the Mediterranean giants. The 34-year-old was a free agent after leaving Bayern at the end of last season and will be a
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    • 462 58 PA Sport, AFP. MALAGA WANT DIOUF: Malaga director of sport Manuel Ruiz Hierro has travelled to Liverpool to try and seal the loan capture of Senegal international El Hadji Diouf. The La Liga outfit are keen to land a high-profile striker to spearhead their front-line this term and
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      751 59 ...sealed...soon to be delivered Wire services. CHELSEA yesterday completed the signing of Portuguese I defender Ricardo Carvalho. He signed a three-year contract at a fee of £19.85 million ($62.9 m) from European champions Porto. 1 The 26-year-old (right) will fly outj with Chelsea chief executive Peter E} Kenyon to
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      870 60 ...but not signed or delivered yet Wire Services. PA Sport. REAL Madrid believe they are a step closer to getting Arsenal midfielder Patrick Vieira. According to Spanish newspaper, a Marca, the French international has agreed terms with the Madrid giants and all that remains is for the two clubs
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