The New Paper, 18 August 2004

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  • 34 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2004 mm Singapore Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asial.com.se Email:tnp@sphcom$g Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 M,TA (P) 025/03/2004 70 CENTS i I 8 ***** 11 £0000 1 flar
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    • 46 1 He spars against three at a time in S'pore (below). Can he beat big three in Athens for Olympic gold 22 gj r 8 im m WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2< j mm r. .,;k I f£r2*3 sS ■Kw i P>TAv He can < <•« says Err What sa
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    877 2  -  The Olympic Games: ATHENS CHEER HIM ON! Come on, Singapore. Don't be shy. Help us cheer Ronald Susilo to our first Olympic gold. Send your words of encouragement and support to him by e-mailing us at tnp@sph.com.sg. Or you can call our hotline at 1800-*****55 or
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    • 206 2 Our backs are complex structures which are involved in virtually every move we make so it's I hardly surprising that back pain is so common. In fact, doctors see more patients for back I pain than any other ailment. For years, Edinburgh's Sleep Sets have been satisfying the needs I
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  • 257 3 HE wanted to show off the gold medal to cabinet ministers. But now, the Thai Deputy Prime Minister has come under fire, reported The Nation. Mr Suwat Liptapanlop returned from Athens yesterday with the first Olympic gold medal won by a female Thai athlete.
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  • 747 4  -  SINGAPORE Tan May Ping mayping@sph.com.sg A LOCAL shop is selling incense sticks with bold labels screaming "Cannabis" and "Opium". They are being sold openly along with other scents such as jasmine, ylang ylang and lavender. But, wait a minute, aren't cannabis and opium banned
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  • NEWS
    • 585 6  -  SINGAPORE YUPPIES By Desmond Ng desmondn@sph.com.sg A SWANKY private condo pad to call your own. That's possibly the ultimate dream of many young, working singles here. And some are already bypassing HDB flats and setting up their first homes in private condos instead. The reason? More
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    • 170 6 City Development Limited's The Pier At Robertson was launched in April last year. This 10-storey freehold along Singapore River comprises 201 one-bedroom studios, two- and three-bedroom loft apartments and penthouses. Under the first two phases, over 85 per cent of the units have been sold
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    • 266 6 YOUNG Thais are willing to pay almost half of their monthly salaries to secure their dream homes. The draw? A luxurious, exclusive lifestyle in hip, trendy neighbourhoods. The New Paper spoke to two young singles who had recently bought two-bedroom units at Noble Ora development
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    • 478 6  -  THAI YUPPIES By Seto Nu-Wen seto@sph.com.sg BANGKOK condominiums were once only reserved for the rich who could put down hefty sums of cash. Or speculators who could afford to snap up more than five units at one go. But now with low bank interest rates and
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 304 7 Why? Current scheme does not give enough coverage But: New rates will be kept affordable MEDISHIELD premiums will go up, but so will its benefits. This is what Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan has assured. Also, all effort will be made to ensure that the
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    • 44 7 BIG LAUGHS: An appreciative crowd is kept in stitches during a performance by veteran host-singer Liu Ling Ling dressed in a "bikini" dress during agetaishow at a field near ÜbiAve 1 on Monday night. Picture/ Shin Min Daily News
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    • 50 7 s'pqre companies (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 6.10/-0.01 Creative Technology 9.97/+0.02 Flextronics 10.94/+0.29 Chartered Semiconductor 6.10/-0.01 Stats 6/unch Yesterday's Percentage rin«iP action change Dow Nasdaq S+P 500 STI Up 0.18% (18.28 pts) Up 0.7% (12.41 pts) Up 0.22% (2.37 pts) Up 0.16% (2.92 pts) 9.972.83 1,795.25 1,081.71 1,880.52
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    • 69 7 PUTTING the National Anti-Terrorism Strategy to work, passing on more autonomy to the universities here and grooming local talent for research and development sector. Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan, who is also Coordinating Minister for Security and Defence, says these are his three main tasks before he
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    • 71 7 THE United States is back as our No. 1 non-oil domestic exports market. Exports there rose 18.4 per cent last month the biggest year-on-year rise in 20 months. In January, exports to the European Union overtook the US as Singapore's biggest non-oil export market. On the
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    • 75 7 FOR the first time, foreigners have been invited to buy land here, at the upmarket residential development Sentosa Cove. Eleven bungalow and two terrace plots, as well as a condominium site, are up for sale. This is part of the drive to attract successful, high net-worth foreigners
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    • 73 7 SWISS pharmaceutical giant Novartis is building a US$lBO million ($3lO million) drug plant here. When it is fully operational by 2008, it will create more than 150 jobs. Novartis is the world's fifth-largest seller of prescription drugs and this announcement is the latest boost to Singapore's drive
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    • 73 7 SINGAPORE and Vietnam are teaming up on a new initiative to bring investments from third countries into their two economies. Both countries have already snared four logistics projects from Japanese investors. They now plan to expand the initiative to target European and American investments. Two local companies, Keppel
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    • 79 7 THE Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) is converting The 3rd Battalion, Singapore Infantry Regiment (3 SIR) into an experimental fighting force to test new weapons and tactics for urban warfare. All infantry units are trained in urban warfare but having a unit dedicated to this area marks a
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 443 8 New Trade and Industry Minister sees his first plant opening as a good omen towards improving birth rate Joycelyn Wong THE manufacturing and services sector have long been the twin pillars of Singapore's economic growth. More than 430,000 workers are employed in
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    • 679 9  -  By Tan Hsien Chong thchong@sph. com.sg IT'S a teenager's biggest nightmare to be taunted by friends. "You're a loser." "You're stupid, fat and ugly." "You aren't cool but you try to act cool." That's what his classmates were telling him. Luckily for Ng Yong Bin,
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    • 226 10 Increasingly, our students need to learn more about themselves, gain awatisfiess of the way they think, the way they manage their emotions, and thm way they motivate themselves in adverse situations, from fatting an exam to various social difficulties. Resilience training is an aspect
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    • 202 10 PROFESSOR Andrew Shatte thinks that "more than any other factor, resilience determines who succeeds and who fails". And the assistant professor in the University of Pennslyvania's psychology department feels that resilience training should become a part of mainstream education. He said: "If we
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    • 674 11  -  By Melvin Singh and Genevieve Jiang tnp@sph.com.sg THE law here allows the caning of children but there are guidelines to be followed, as in the caning of a 7-year-old boy at a school in Jurong last week. The United Nations, however, is against corporal punishment
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    • 176 11 THE CRC is an international treaty that recognises the rights of children, defined as persons aged below 18 years. The convention is essentially a comprehensive charter of child rights, setting standards that governments should meet in providing healthcare, education,
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    • 218 11 CORPORAL punishment is used in schools only as a last resort. And it only be meted out to male students, by the principal or an authorised teacher. Under no circumstances are female students subjected to corporal punishment. The Ministry of Education specifies that corporal punishment should
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  • WORLD
    • 504 12 Bush team e-mails Indian Americans who number 2 million THE basic essence of the e-mail message sent to Indian American voters is simple: Dubya loves you. In a 1,200-word e-mail appeal, Mr Marc Racicot, chairman of the Bush-Cheney campaign, writes: "Throughout his first term
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    • 296 12 Senate candidate takes out TV ad against Bruce Springsteen for Bush bashing AP. SOMETIMES you pay the cost to be the Boss. After Bruce Springsteen, known as the Boss, announced plans to participate in the anti-Bush concert tour, Vote For Change, a New York candidate for the
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    • 316 13 Two teens arrested had customers all over the world, including Singapore Bernama. THE two Penang students thought they'd found a unique way of making extra pocket money by selling pirated DVDs over the Internet. And their scam was succesful for a month, at
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    • 288 13 AP. FOR 12-year-old Anju Sharma, hope for a better life arrives on a bicycle rickshaw. The pedicab carries a computer with a high-speed, wireless Internet connection. The brightly painted rickshaw rolls into her poor Indian farming village in Bithoor, Uttar Pradesh, three days
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    • 346 14 POWER PRICES SOAR IN AUSTRALIA Rising cost of power has increased the misery for low-income families in south Australia. In fact, some families have to skimp on essentials like food, health care and housing to cope with the rising power prices, according to a
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    • 486 15 NZ man needed money to pay kids' fees at private school, fund floundering businesses ON the surface, David Shaida appeared to be a well-do-do businessman. His three children attended one of Auckland's top private schools, King's School, and he sat on the school board.
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    • 254 15 TALK show queen Oprah Winfrey (above) showed up for court duty on Monday in her home city of Chicago, and was selected to sit on a jury in a murder case. She will hear the trial of Deon Coleman, 27, who is charged with fatally
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    • 411 16 Shenzhen govt gets more than 41,000 petitions in 6 months THE number of migrant workers lodging complaints about not being paid are rising sharply in Shenzhen, China. The bustling city in China's Guangdong province has long been a popular destination for
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    • 531 17 FAMILY OF 8 HACKED TO DEATH IN CHINA HER father, brother and sister were dead. They were found at her home, their necks slashed open with an axe. She was at her high school in downtown Zhashui on Friday night when the
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    • 82 17 No 1... for the wrong reasons s Local sister act 2R recently topped an infamous Hong Kong tabloid poll f r businessmen who were asked which stars they would spend HK$lO million ($2.2 m) to have "dinner" with. Singers-actresses Race and Rosanne Wong was ranked first in the poll, which
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    • 367 27  -  By Oo Gin Lee tnp@sph.com.sg Bluetooth headsets are really cool, especially when you are driving. They give you the freedom to talk with your hands free, without the clunky wires that tangle and curl every which way. The Jabra FS2SB is one of
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    • 716 30  -  Showtime& Lifestyle REAL SHARKS IN OPEN SEA TERRIFY ACTRESS. BUT OPEN WATER DIRECTOR SAYS: By Adeline Chia chiahta@sph.com.sg A QUICK, sudden swipe on the bobbing ocean surface. Wait a minute was that a dorsal fin or a wave crest? It's hard to keep your
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    • 335 30 THERE'S a rare cute scene in the nerve-racking shark flick Open Water. Floating around in shark-infested seas, Susan forgives her husband Daniel for watching Shark Week on Discovery, because he provided some handy tips and trivia about the man-eaters. (Though it might have come a
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    • 112 30 IN conjunction with Discovery Channel and Shaw Organisation, The New Paper is giving away 25 pairs of tickets to a preview screening of the new shark thriller, Open Water. It will be held on Friday at 7pm at Shaw Preview Theatre, Shaw Centre 13th Level,
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    • 624 31  -  Singapore sisters top Hong Kong tabloid's naughty poll By Adeline Chia ch iah ta@sph. com.sg THIS is one chart sister act 2R would rather not be in. The Singapore-born, Malaysia-bred duo topped a Hong Kong tabloid poll of rich businessmen who were asked which stars
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      130 32 Prices herself out of X-men 3 role CATWOMAN star Hal Berry (right) will not be reprising her role as Storm in X-Men 3 because she has reportedly "priced herself out". She apparently demanded a more important role, more screen time and a bigger pay cheque, all of which
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    • 128 32 IRISH playboy Colin Farrell (right, with Angelina Jolie) doesn't always seem to control his impulses. This time, his Oedipal overtures need to be reined in. He reportedly behaved "like a baby towards his mother" when he first met co-star Angelina Jolie on the set of Alexander, according
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    • 107 32 BAYWATCH babe Pamela Anderson (left) is reportedly furious that her ex-hubby, Tommy Lee, is stealing her thunder by releasing his autobiography at the same time as her new book. Lee's Tommyland is due out in the UK on Nov 1 the same day Anderson's Star hits
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    • 519 33 IT was a film that enjoyed critical success in the UK. It was nominated for three Baftas (the British Oscars) and won several awards on the film festival circuit. The Warrior, directed by British-Asian director Asif Kapadia (right, inset), impressed Hollywood powerhouse studio Miramax
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    • 303 34 SUPERSTAR Kamal Hassan, 50 (right), will be in Singapore soon, but not for celluloid pursuits. He will be presenting a paper at a two-day conference, Tamil In An International Arena, organised by The Centre For The Arts at NUS. It will be held at
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    • 505 33 Making Warrior was an uphill battle ffl T was a film that enjoyed critical I success in the UK. I It was nominated for three Baftas (the British Oscars) and won several awards on the film festival The Warrior, directed by British-Asian director Asif Kapadia Lt 1(right, inset), impressed Hollywood
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  • 300 35 THAT it has been able to survive for almost 12 years in the quick-changing world of Indian television says a lot for musical game show Antakshari. In fact, it is the third longest-running TV show in the world, with 600-odd episodes. The longest-running is
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    • 82 35 PRIME-TIME TV The Concrete Jungle/ Col inGoh.com /WP NOW, WE RETURN TO ATHENS FOR UVE COVERA&E OF THE OLYMPICS... Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson mi tiger, itseems, is running 'Round nude. ms FUR GOAT must HME MADE HIM PERSP\R£ \T LIES ON YUE ROOR- SMCWLD TU\S BE CONSTRUED *S A PERMANENT
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    • 173 35 Highlights Perfect Women Channel U, 8pm Xiaodong arranges for Xia Lin to meet up with Chunlian and Qiufeng to settle their differences. Ultimately, the four friends are on good terms again and work together for their food stall. Charmed VI Channel 5,8.30pm In the sixth season opener, Piper undergoes a
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  • RACING
    • 268 49  -  FOCUS ON KRANJI NEWCOMER SAINT ARC By Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com. sg SAINT ARC, the only newcomer entered for Friday's turf and fibresand track meeting, is a winner of two races from 16 starts. A five-year-old Australian-bred by Hennessy out of Oriental Jewel, the former
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      • 154 49 AT only his first season in Macau, Singaporean trainer Malcolm Thwaites has wasted no time in making his big-race reputation shine through. Rock N Roll Kid, undoubtedly his best Taipa advertisement to date, notched up his third feature race in five months, when he took out
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      • 110 49 A FEW months ago, he was looked down as a pacer to a multiple Group winner. On the training tracks prior to last May's Singapore Airlines International Cup, Baccarat could have been mistaken for the more-decorated Surveyor's shadow. Well, the Brazilian-bred has now put his
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      • 128 49 A TRACKWATCHER was nearly made to eat humble pie on Sunday. Japanese trainer Hideyuki Takaoka is the one who would have gladly put on his baker's apron. From Monday to Thursday, his horse Speedy Hero caused an uproar among morning regulars at Kranji with fast workouts...on each
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      • 202 49 WHILE most horses his age would have been put out to pasture, former Kranji galloper El Duce is attempting to win the biggest race of his career. The nine-year-old New Zealand galloper, who failed to win a race at Kranji when trained by Patrick Busuttin, is
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    • 783 49 GOING: YIELDING NST GOLD ARROW geared up for his third success with a sizzling trial in Ipoh yesterday. Taken out by jockey Danny Chee, the five-year-old Australian-bred easily held stablemate Joker Shanhou (Class 3 Div 2 1,100m straight) and Mr Majestic (Class 3 Div 1 1,600m) in a
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    • 501 50 GOING: GOOD RESULTS of two trials over I,ooom on the fibresand track at Kranji yesterday. The going was good. TRIAL 1:1 Saint Arc 2 Mac Ilraith (J Waddell) 3 Ocean Raven (L Beasley) 4 Blue Ribbon Girl (J Gatt) 5 Biskit (E
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  • SPORTS
    • The Olympic Games: ATHENS
      • 589 51 The first Olympics was held to stop the Greeks from fighting among themselves. Infographics journalist CEL GULAPA takes you on a journey to the ancient games GREECE in the Bth century was at war, not with other countries but with itself. Although the Greeks believed in the
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      • 154 51 DAY I Boys' events, which included running, wrestling and boxing were held in the afternoon of the first day. Occassionally, it was decided that a boy was big enough and was forced to compete with the men instead. DAY 2 All equestrian events including horse races. The
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        503 52 Wire Services. MICHAEL Phelps claimed gold medal No 3 and his fifth in all as the US dethroned Australia in the 4x200m freestyle relay final this morning (Singapore time). It was Phelps' second gold medal of the day. He had earlier won the 200 m butterfly. The young
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        95 52 LAN THORPE 400 m freestyle: Gold 4xloom free relay: Sixth (Australia) 200 m freestyle: Gold 4x200m free relay: Silver REMAINING EVENTS 100 m freestyle: Ranked 4th, Van den Hoogenband favourite 4xloom medley relay: US have never lost at Olympics MICHAEL PHELPS 400 m individual medley: Gold (world record 4:08.26)
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        • 403 53 Wire Services. Alexander Popov, twice a double sprint freestyle gold medallist in the Olympics, failed to qualify for the men's 100 m final yesterday. Popov finished fourth in 49.235 ec in the semi-finals and missed the cut. The Russian sprint great completed 50m and 100 m
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          199 53 coo G S B T China 10 6 2 18 United States 6 7 6 19 Australia 6 3 5 14 Japan 6 2 1 9 Ukraine 3 11 5 Russia 2 5 5 12 Italy 2 i 2 7 France 2 2 4 8 Greece 2 0
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        • 215 53 AFP. WORLD No 1 Roger Federer (right) of Switzerland crashed out of the Olympic tennis tournament in the second round yesterday. He lost to unseeded Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic. Berdych, 18, ranked 74 in the world, beat the Australian Open and Wimbledon champion 4-6,
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      • 92 54 OLYMPIC SOCCER K e (1) Paraguay 3 38 (X) Draw 3.16 (2) Italy 1.08 1 1 2 OOAL Paraguay 1/2) 1 SO Italy M 1/2) 3.OS 1 TOTAL OOALl 1 MT F T II O 9 SO HH 7.00 1 a 30 HD 13.00
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      • 313 54 AFP. Australia jousted with gold-medal favourites Argentina to play their way into the quarter-finals of the Olympic football competition at Karaiskaki Stadium yesterday. The Olyroos went down 1-0, but still clinched a place in the last eight for a second time through superior goal difference to
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      • 126 54 Wire Services. MEXICO won a fight of honour when they defeated Greece 3-2 in Volos. Rafael Marquez and Omar Bravo put the Mexicans 2-0 ahead after 70 minutes, before loannis Taralidis brought the home fans to their feet with a 82nd-minute penalty. But
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      • 220 54 Wire Services. OMNY 2 MFXWO 0: Germany Striker Blrgit Prinz proved to be a super star with her late goal lor a 2-0 victory over Mexico. ft placed Germany on the top of Group F« f the 2003 world champion Germany opened the scoring 20
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    • 295 55 TUNISIA 3 SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO 2 Wire Services Tunisia rounded off their Olympic Games football campaign in bizarre fashion yesterday when they were forced to take the same penalty six times in their 3-2 win over Serbia and Montenegro. With the Group C
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    • 175 55 Xinhua. AN unrelenting second-half endeavor sent the South Korean men's soccer team to the quarter-finals after a 3-3 draw with Mali in a group A game in Thessaloniki yesterday. The match was virtually dominated by Mali, whose striker Tenema Ndiaye produced a hat-trick in the first 55
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    • 437 56 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLIES PA Sport. SWEDEN v HOLLAND HOLLAND coach Marco van Basten (left) will be hoping for a winning start when he takes charge of his first match against Sweden in Stockholm tomorrow morning. It is the start of a new era for the
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    • 350 56 PA Sport. SPAIN v VENEZUELA NEW Spain coach Luis Aragones (left) may give Arsenal striker Jose Antonio Reyes a permanent place in the national side. Reyes just missed out on a place in this summer's European Championships despite scoring twice in Spain's last qualifying
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    • 222 56 AFP. ICELAND v ITALY ITALY coach Marcello Lippi (left) will take his side to Iceland for a friendly tomorrow hoping to lay the first foundations of a team that will win the World Cup in 2006. Former Juventus coach Lippi, who replaced Giovanni
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    • 454 57 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLIES AFP. JURGEN Klinsmann (above) will make his debut as coach of the German national team in Vienna tomorrow hoping victory over Austria can be a stepping stone towards success in the 2006 World Cup. A dismal 2004 European championships in Portugal saw Rudi
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    • 383 57 PA Sport. FRANCE coach Raymond Domenech (right) believes his side's international friendly with Bosnia-Herzegovina tomorrow will be a great opportunity to test his newcomers ahead of the 2006 World Cup Qualifiers. Domenech, who replaced Jacques Santini after Euro 2004, is now leading a side that
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    • 84 57 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDUES K 15 1.2 (1) Jap ■n 3.33 (X) Draw 3.25 (2) Argentina 1 92 1 M2 COAL Japan (♦1 1/2) 1.28 Argentina (-1 1«) 3.15 TOTAL GOALS HT.'I FT 0 8 50 HH 880 1 4 80 HD 1300 2 3.00 HA 1400
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    • 78 57 1 1- 1 (1) England 1.47 (X) Draw 3.75 (2) Ukralno 5 50 r 1/2 OOAL 1 England (-1 1«) 2.20 Ukraln* (♦1 1/2) 1.55 r TOTAL GOALS HT/» 0 9.50 HH 2.15 1 4 90 HD 13 00 2 3.80 HA 20 00 3
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    • 76 57 1 '-a 1 (1) Sweden 2 35 (X) Draw 3.05 (2) Holland 2.67 12 GOAL c (-1 1/2) 4.20 Holland (♦1 1/2) 1.16 TOTAL GOALS HT'FT J 0 7.00 HH 4.30 1 4 80 HO 11.00 2 3 60 HA 16.00 3 3 90 DH
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    • 992 58 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY: ENGLAND v UKRAINE TOMORROW PA Sport. THE GAME: The friendly international at Newcastle is England's first match since their Euro 2004 quarter-final elimination by Portugal. With a World Cup qualifying campaign starting next month, England need to put the mistakes of that disappointing tournament behind
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    • 571 60 With Rooney out injured, England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson gives striker Alan Smith his England chance INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY: ENGLAND v UKRAINE PA Sport MANCHESTER United striker Alan Smith is in England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson's starting XI against Ukraine. And it's because the Swede believes that, in just
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    • 236 60 PA Sport. WHILE Ledley King and John Terry will start in defence, Defoe is set to be joined in the second half by Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jermaine Jenas and Kieron Dyer, as well as possibly Glen Johnson. Eriksson will revert to Nicky Butt as his replacement for Paul
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    • 337 61 i LIVE, Ch 24,2.30 am, tomorrow Reuters. ENGLAND defender Ashley Cole says curbing his natural attacking instincts helped him come of age as an international at Euro 2004. Cole, 23, was one of England's most accomplished performers in Portugal and will add to his 30
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      603 61  -  The Olympic Games:^ ByI Brian Miller npsports@sph.com.sg I AM not there. But you don't need to be there to' "feel" the action. It's infectious. It builds up. It's draws you in. Just like it has drawn me in. So, I asked myself. If I were in Athens
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    • 545 62 WHO'S BETTER? PA Sport. HERE'S something guaranteed to bring smiles to all Arsenal fans. As for the rest, well, we don't know. But listen up. Ashley Cole believes Arsenal would beat England if Sven-Goran Eriksson's side ever faced the Premiership champions. Whoa! But that's the beef. Cole
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  • Page 52 Miscellaneous
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    • 141 61 ncture//*rr jwm OLYMPICS: See TV timings on Pg 58 INT'L FRIENDLIES SWEDEN v HOLLAND Ch 21,2.10 am, tomorrow AUSTRIA v GERMANY Delayed, Ch 21,4.15 am, tomorrow CZECH REPUBLIC v GREECE Ch 22,2.10 am, tomorrow ICELAND v ITALY Delayed, Ch 22,4.15 am, tomorrow ENGLAND v UKRAINE Ch 24,2.30 am, tomorrow Repeat,
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