The New Paper, 24 August 2004

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1 56 The New Paper
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    15 1 the new paper Tuesday, August 24, 2004 Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 the !$r
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      55 1 WSL mm ■a A terror called oy Woodlands thug, 25, preys on victims as young as 11 n 6AM LATEST: OLYMPIAN RETURNS 8 y f i >gjs: t .>.2 i,* *k M fsi i* i SS-ta® L -s L (Hokkien for coming) Ministers and 100 fans, including schoolgirls in uniform,
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon You are our S’pore Idol
      799 2  -  Olympian returns: Schoolgirls in uniform among 100 fans and officials at airport to greet him By Kor Kian Beng kianbeng@sph.com. sg WELCOME home, Ronald Susilo. And you know your life won't be quite the same again when schoolgirls willingly forsake their sleep and turn up
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      Lock icon His voice hoarse from rooting for Jiawei
      228 2 THE first thing Ronald Susilo said in a hoarse voice when he appeared before the welcoming crowd was: "Sorry for my voice. I was rooting for Jiawei." And he said that they managed to spend an average of one horn- mostly during mealtimes
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      Lock icon He stares, then strikes
      813 3  -  HOW HE WORKS A TERROR CALLED 'AH BOY' By Faith Teo wcnli@sph. com.sg HE was called "Ah Boy", but Christopher Teo Wee Hong was no kid. However, his victims were. The 25-year-old Woodlands thug preyed on children as young as 11, robbing them of their handphones
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      Lock icon I was scared when I saw the knife, says young victim
      375 3 SINGAPORE "AH BOY" and Ang approached their 11-year-old victim, whom we are not naming, on Jan 20. The Primary 6 student had just finished school and was walking to his home in Woodlands when he saw two men approaching
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      Lock icon Her personal favourite? Two days childcare leave
      752 4  -  NEW SOUTH WEST CDC MAYOR AMY KHOR ON BABY PACKAGE By Dawn Chia dawnchia@sph.com.sg SHE is a wife, mother, mayor and politician all rolled into one. Besides juggling work and family, newly-appointed mayor of South West CDC Amy Khor has had to help
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      Lock icon Academics take on policy reversals
      394 4 SACRED cows have been slaughtered. Policies reversed. Academics say these are significant changes which will leave their mark on economic, social and cultural life in Singapore as a whole. Dr Lai Ah Eng, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, said: "Some
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      Lock icon SLAUGHTERING OF THE SACRED COWS
      310 4 NO-no No 1 In June 2003, despite a Remaking Singapore Committee proposal for a five-day working week, then Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong rejected it, saying that it was not time. Signs that the Government was considering the move surfaced during a Parliamentary debate
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      141 2 News IQ: Page 8 Hey!: Pages 28-39 TV: Pages 40-41 I ilflVppSfl LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Master of Landscape Architecture Hachelor of Landscape Architecture Awarded by Lincoln University, ranked 2 nd in NZ for PBRF World renown in landscape studies Professionally recognized in Singapore. Malaysia, IFLA, New Zealand, United State UK Full-Time
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      93 3 No more barbie girl in a barbie world That's right, cutie-pie Taiwanese singer-actress Vivian Hsu (below) has sworn off everything pink. She had immersed herself in a Barbie phase for her TV drama and pop album, but now, she's back to being her "rebellious" self. In fact, most of her
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  • NEWS IQ
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      Lock icon Chinese language teaching to go modular
      306 5 EDUCATION MINISTER THARMAN: CHINESE language students now know that they can soon say goodbye to rote-learning. The new approach to the learning of the language will be customised. And Minister for Education Tharman Shanmugaratnam shed a little more light on the announcement by Prime
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      Lock icon Viking artefacts turn up as golden earrings
      55 5 THIS pair of golden earrings, on display at Denmark's National Museum, are believed to have been made from Iron Age Viking artefacts. Ms Kirsten Dalum, a Dane who donated them, said they were bought by her ancestors from a debt-ridden goldsmith who admitted
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      52 5 SPORE COMPANIES ONNASPAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 6.55/+0.23 Creative Technology 10.01/-0.14 Flextronics 11.53/+0.05 Chartered Semiconductor 6.61/+0.15 Stats 6.43/+0.03 Yesterday's Percentage rincp action change Dow Nasdaq S+P 500 STI Down 0.37% (37.09 pts) Up 0.04% (0.68 pts) Up Down 0.24% (2.67 pts) Up 0.33% (6.30 pts) 10,073.05 1,838.7
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      Lock icon More HDB loans owed
      76 5 THE number of defaulters on HDB loans in the first half of this year rose to 25,574 or 5.1 per cent of all households with outstanding loans from HDB. The increase in defaults is despite a decline in the number of households with such loans. Analysts
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      Lock icon Egg prices up again
      83 5 THE price of eggs has gone up again. This time by five cents an egg. It's the second price rise since a ban on Malaysian poultry products was imposed last Wednesday. Eggs may soon cost $4 a carton, compared to about $2.50 now and $1.50 before
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      Lock icon Banks hiring again
      69 5 THERE are job openings in the financial services sector again. Banks have been placing more job ads, while sign-on bonuses for strong candidates have become more common. The vacancies are concentrated in areas such as asset management, private banking, risk management and middleoffice operations, say recruitment firms.
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      Lock icon PSA — PTP port deal?
      79 5 PSA PTP port deal? SINGAPORE investment company Temasek Holdings wants its subsidiary PSA Corporation to decide whether to take a stake in the second phase of rival Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) in Malaysia. Rumours of an alliance resurfaced in the press this week and Malaysian newspaper the Star quoted
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      Lock icon Super-cheap airfare
      72 5 FROM next month, second budget carrier Tiger Airways will start flying to Bangkok three times a day. And its average fare will be about 40 per cent less than the average lowest fare of full-service airlines, said its chief executive Patrick Gan. After Bangkok, the airline will fly
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      Lock icon M’sians, come home
      69 5 MALAYSIAN professionals who have given up their citizenship to live overseas are being urged to return to Malaysia to contribute "towards the technological advancement of the country". The government wants them to make Malaysia their second home and is ofTereing those, with no criminal records and with
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      61 5 -What a RETURN OF TOPPER I§ 111 fAY ROCK JUST 191 Hill T crti iMr\ a. 9 I HAVE A ROCK J HATCHED! ITS LdUMII THAT'S SHAPED s A FULLY CLOTHED ROCK THATS 3 LIKE NICK LACHEV ALIEN FROfA A !k. A c P 5? LIKE THAT'S AND JESSICA j
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    Lock icon Youngest getai organiser
    619 6  -  He says he's in it not for the money but to keep tradition alive SINGAPORE Heartland spirit KOR KIAN BENG kianbeng@sph com sg TRENDY and smartly dressed, Mr Aaron Tan looks like one of those flashy guys who hang around swanky nightspots. But his idea of a
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  • ASK DR MONEY
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      Lock icon $$$ tips from 5 millionaires
      692 7  - tips from 5 millionaires How do the rich make money? Do they have advantages not available to the rest of us? Five millionaires from Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and the US gave me five tips about money and investing. All but one chose to remain anonymous. DR MONEY LARRY HAVERKAMP
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      Lock icon WHY DO THE RICH WORK?
      105 7 I ASKED the millionaires why they continue to work. My oldest interviewee, Mr Ricardo Silverio, 74, offered the best answer. He owns the largest Tilapia fish farm in the Philippines with 10 million fishes. He said: "I need something to do every day. It isn't
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon My school has MechWarrior
      604 8  -  Shuqun Secondaiy School has own video arcade which opens three times a week By Grace Chua tnp@sph.com.sg AT this school, students play video games three times a week. Their teachers and parents are pleased, too. The secret is that the arcade is right in the middle
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      Lock icon WHAT PM LEE SAID
      150 8 SHUQUN Secondary School was just one of the schools singled out by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in his first National Day Rally speech. "In Shuqun Secondary School, the students frequented a video games centre in a nearby shopping centre, where they could be subject to
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Bomb blasts spark riots
      501 9  -  BANGLADESH Grenades explode at a rally where Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina is speaking. She escapes death, but 19 others are killed By Seto Nu-Wen seto@sph.com.sg STAY home. That's what students have been told by the authorities. Shops have pulled down their shutters and policemen are
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      Lock icon PREVIOUS BLASTS
      91 9 THE bomb attacks are the latest in a series of blasts in Bangladesh this year, reported Reuters: In early August, a bomb exploded in the town of Sylhet, killing one person and injuring 30. The intended target, the Awami League mayor of the town, escaped unhurt In June,
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      Lock icon Credit card debt in the US rises
      270 10 ;St£f' 745 $5,075 in 1990 YOU could call it the charge of the consumer brigade. Credit card debt has been growing steadily for the average American family. The numbers tell the story. Last year, the average credit-card debt off US households with at
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      Lock icon Credit card debt in S’pore falls
      150 10 IN Singapore, there has been concern over credit card debt as card issuers battle for the consumer's dollar. However, credit card debt has fallen here. There are about 3.5 million credit cards in Singapore, or about 3.4 credit cards for every household, according to
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      Lock icon Did treatment make him a killer?
      616 11 Boy says depression drug made him kill grandparents CHRISTOPHER Pittman says he remembered everything about the night he killed his grandparents. The blood, the shotgun blasts, the voices urging him on, even the smoke detectors that screamed as he drove away from their rural
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      183 12 STORM HITS PENANG VILLAGE IT was the biggest storm in 20 years. And it caught a fishing village in Penang by surprise, turning 168 people homeless yesterday, reported Guang Ming Daily News. Within five minutes, the storm which hit the village in the early hours of yesterday, blew away the
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      Lock icon Bush: Stop bashing my rival
      277 12 Wire services. Experienced political hands know that negative campaigning often works, at least in the short term. Ten weeks before polling day, the US presidential election is gripped by an increasingly impassioned debate, not about present-day Iraq but a conflict 35 years ago. Mr John
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  • Tech
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      Lock icon Digital radio sounds good, if it catches on
      698 13  -  Hefty price aside, the crystal clear sound and lack of interference are impressive TECH MAD IAN TAN tanvtnotsphcom.se I STOPPED listening to public radio some time in 1998. Increasing amounts of inane deejay chatter and the rise of portable digital music players
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      Lock icon Woof! Is it my lucky day?
      222 14 LAT-WP. IT HAS often been said that every dog has his day. Not only that, every dog can also have his fortune told daily. A group of dog lovers in the US has actually created a horoscope website, www.doghoroscopes.com, for men's best friends because
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    Lock icon E-mail tracking program raises privacy concerns
    364 16 TECH SOFTWARE designer Alex Rampell is getting a lesson in the loss of privacy. The cause is a stealth e-mail tracking program created by the Harvard graduate's company, Rampell Software, reported the New York Times. The launch of DidTheyReadlt? earlier this summer has put
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    Lock icon iPod walks all over Sony on home turf
    520 20 TECH Wire services. JAPAN, home of the Walkman, is being invaded. And the enemy in this case is none other than the American iPod which appears to be winning the hearts of Japanese consumers themselves. The iPod is proving to be a
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      149 22 lUMIHI Hand' IWB|I aretH many students AjHEfjH have on yellow highlighter pens to emphasise significant passages a new handheld scanners the venerable highlighter way the These new portables, sometimes called pen scanners or wand scanners, scanners convey a As effective as those L W scanners have been H B W
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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      602 22 40 PRIME TIME TV ™E NEW PAPER/Tuesda y- August 24,2004 Ha n d x-Files, «J MANY My Heart Jf J Wenhui recovers his sight but on yellow JkIS <■ IWi pretends to be blind for fear highlighter '1 'V that Kaixin will leave him, but pens to she stumbles upon
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  • Hey! Showtime&Lifestyle
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      Lock icon Goodbye pink Barbie, hello punk look
      921 23  -  By Chang May Choon changmc@sph.com.sg AFTER a year of donning all sorts of cutie-pie outfits in varying shades of saccharine pink in the name of work, Taiwanese fashion icon Vivian Hsu has decided that enough is enough. Her Barbie phase which she attributes to
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      Lock icon ‘They called me black widow’
      126 23 HAILED as a fashion icon in Taiwan, Vivian Hsu has had her share of fashion disasters too. "I like to experiment a lot," she said. "Fashion can be very extreme and alternative, and different people have different views. t "Sometimes you succeed, sometimes you fail."
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      Lock icon She‘s not just hanging around
      176 23 SHE has not been in the limelight recently, but Vivian Hsu has been busy filming commercials and writing songs. She has just been to a farm in the southern part of Taiwan to shoot the autumn series ad campaign for Hang Ten, which is the
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  • HEY!
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      Lock icon Pretty powerful now
      183 24 Charlize Theron gets her way thanks to her Oscar CHARLIZE Theron's Oscar win has given her Monster power in Hollywood. The blond actress (right, with Penelope Cruz in their new movie, Head In The Clouds) doesn't mind baring all in movies, but now she can veto naked
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      Lock icon Those bad habits J.Lo just can’t kick
      103 24 JENNIFER Lopez (left) hasn't kicked the bad habit of starring with her fiances and husbands on screen. She and third spouse Marc Anthony are planning to appear in a weekly husband-and-wife variety TV show after her production company signed a deal with Fox
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      Lock icon Winter wedding for Diaz, Timberlake
      103 24 ACTRESS Cameron Diaz (above) has single-handedly planned a big white Christmas wedding. She will exchange vows with singer Justin Timberlake at a lavish winter showbiz bash at a secret location. Diaz will wear a Cinderella-style dress. She also wants to bring in a snow machine
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      56 26 THE JSH Bf ll* ■W A «im £L Mfl Vf 1 •><§ 9mm she declares. Cheng Ling's awfully honest from her jj^B a n x^ p favourite .J^^ftj*' by Yew Wei Chortg my J AW HUH business strategy". (T --%JjE& MfKf 1 41- j».,-«*" ,Jf The New Paper New Face
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      326 27 P*"*" 'The white sleeveless top with lace VlB Jm trimmings and brown cropped pants '.'J from Hang Ten fits Cheng Ling to a T. W/ She says: "I feel very girly in it, yet it's not too formal and not too casual/' 1/ M v During this photo shoot, Cheng
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  • HEY!
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      Lock icon She makes ‘em nervous
      111 28 ANGELINA Jolie's mesmerising effect on the opposite sex means she now has \VS to find a new flying instructor. Her last one was too starstruck teaching her. The actress is currently trying to earn her wings as a pilot at Los Angeles's Santa Monica airport. She
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      Lock icon A dress for once
      218 29 COOL CAT: Olinda Cho, 24 SINGAPORE IDOL: GROUP 1 THE clowns and wannabes are gone. On Thursday, Channel 5 will unveil the first 10 of Singapore Idol's 30 semi finalists. YEOH WEE TECK meets the starry-eyed young crooners and picks out three of his favourites Her
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      Lock icon BLONDIE: Calvin Zhang, 23
      206 30 His song: Get Here THIS fashion design student stood out during Episode 3. He was the wispy one with the blond fringe, a frail member of a muscled majority. And he is happy to be different from the others. "I'm very comfortable and not afraid to
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      Lock icon BAD BOY: David de Cruz, 19
      236 30 His song: Karma Chameleon IT IS so easy to hate him. Throughout Episode 3, viewers were frequently reminded that he was an arrogant jerk. "It's a misunderstanding," David began his plea. "My friends and family know I'm not like that at all. I'm a
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      Lock icon Bourne takes you for a run
      504 31  -  By Sylvia Toh Paik Choo tn SsHffin RUN Jason Run. Coincidentally, Potent® (as Marie, the love interest character here) was the star of hit German film Run Lola Run. In Hie Bourne Supremacy, she doesn't gefrvery far and he (Damon) doesn't stop hotfooting it.
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      Lock icon Open Water simply sinks
      286 31 Open Water Starring: Btanchard Ryan Daniel-Travis Director/Writer: Chris Kentis Rating: ITO been hyped to be Jaws-meets-The Blair Witch Project. Instead, the low-budget thriller doesn't live up to the exaggerated advance buzz, drifting along its ebbing narrative and drowning about halfway from shore. It is based on
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      Lock icon Goofy Garner lifts girlish flick
      318 31 13 Going On 30 Starring: Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer, Andy Serkis Director: Gary Winick Rating: < JUST when you think there is nothing left to mine of body-swopping, time-travelling comedies, 13 Going On 30 is an unexpected goofy pleasure. Think of it as
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        783 44  -  LAST WEEKEND'S BETTING REVIEW By Brian Miller n psports@sph. com.sg Believe it or not, someone told me that there was betting on the table tennis semi-final between Li Jiawei and North Korea's Kim Hyang Mi. And, if you were a sucker for punishment, you could
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        313 45 THE last two weeks of the English Premier League has seen some tense and exciting moments. Mighty comebacks by Arsenal against Middlesbrough, Liverpool and Southampton, the seemingly never-ending saga of whether there will be live telecasts of the EPL on our screens, and of
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        420 45  -  By GEORGE BOATENG MIDDLESBROUGH WE'RE stunned after that defeat to Arsenal. They deserved to win because they played some good football, but after going 3-1 up we thought we had a good chance. They came right back at us and there was nothing we could
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        331 45 Wire Services. EVERTON officials have rejected a £20million ($64m) offer from Premiership rivals Newcastle for teenage striker Wayne Rooney (right). The England striker has been linked with a number of clubs, including Manchester United and Chelsea in recent months. But Newcastle on Monday became
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        302 46  -  QMhUMBOmmff mama »*i ißy DEAN KIELY CHARLTON PATRIK Berger's shot is being talked about as a potential goal of the season and rightly so. It was a great effort, and you have to take your hat off to someone when they produce something like that. It
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        177 46 PA Sport. REFEREE Andy D'Urso has been charged by the FA after failing to send off Blackburn's Barry Ferguson for two bookings. The official is accused of "less than proficiently applying the laws of the game". D'Urso cautioned the Rovers midfielder twice in seven minutes late in Saturday's
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        133 46 RACE FOR ANELKA: Manchester City's insistence on a straight sale of Nicolas Anelka rather than a year's loan proved the rock on which a bid by Monaco foundered, but an injury to Lyon's Brazilian hitman Giovane Elberhas prompted Les Gones to consider a swoop. Juventus, who face a
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        325 47 UK TIPSTER: PETER MAY CRYSTAL PALACE v CHELSEA THIS London derby is very much an unknown quantity. Not one of the players on show in the last meeting, a 6-2 home win at Stamford Bridge in 1998, remain in situ and too little is known about too
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        242 47 BIRMINGHAM v MAN CITY BIRMINGHAM City have the best excuse for failing to register a win so far after drawing away at Portsmouth on the opening day before suffering an undeserved reverse at home to Chelsea. Mikael Forssell missed the clash against his employers on Saturday
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        369 48 CRYSTAL PALACE v CHELSEA Reuters. CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho has hit out at the reaction to his team's style of play by questioning English soccer's success. Mourinho has been criticised for Chelsea's uninspiring performances despite 1-0 victories over Manchester United and Birmingham in his first
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        161 48 PA Sport. CRYSTAL Palace manager Iain Dowie (left) will be resorting to a siege mentality against Chelsea, who had closed out wins against Man United and Birmingham with military precision. Dowie's men will bunker down and rely on strength in numbers. The Eagles boss said: "How
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        268 48 BIRMINGHAM v NUN CITY PA Sport. AFTER his good England show, Man City winger Shaun Wright-Phillips (right) now has to come to terms with more attention on and off the pitch. The 22-year-old received special attention from Liverpool on Saturday in Man City's 2-1 defeat and
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      154 49  -  LEAGUE ti STAR By JOSE REYES ARSENAL THIS year, Premiership fans are going to see some of the most powerful Spanish players in the world. Take Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas. He is only 17 years old, but he has had a great start to the
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      314 49 INTER-MILAN v BASEL PA Sport ROBERTO Mancini (right) insists his Inter side will attack in the return leg of their Champions League tie against Basel. The Italian side entertain the Swiss giants at the San Siro today following their 1-1 draw in the first encounter. Said
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      92 49 PA Sport. RAFAEL Benitez's first game in charge of the Reds yielded a 2-0 win in eastern Austria and the Liverpool coach has indicated he will experiment with his side in the return leg. But the introduction of unfamiliar faces will not necessarily sound the
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      714 50 Kf CHAMPIONS LIVERPOOL I Lf LEAGUE (3rd Qualifying Rd, 2nd Leg) V GRAZ I PA Sport. THE challenge has been thrown down to Liverpool's players: Prove you can be part of Rafael Benitez's revolution by restoring the Anfield club to a place among Europe's elite.
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      439 50  -  U.l J—. I I By RAFAEL BENITEZ LIVERPOOL STEVEN Gerrard is, and will be, the most important player for Liverpool this season. Michael Owen was an important player for Liverpool but over the last few months I have seen with my own eyes that Steven Gerrard is
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    • The Olympic Games: ATHENS AUG 13-29
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        882 51  -  FOOTBALL (SEMI-FINALS): IRAQ v PARAGUAY By Wang Meng Meng npsports@sph.com.sg DUTCH coaching guru Rinus Michels once said that "football is war". No one will agree more than the Iraqi people and their football team. After all, these people who were savaged under the rule of
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        102 51 ITALY v ARGENTINA (Semi-final) Wire Services. ARGENTINA'S soccer coach Marcelo Biesla said yesterday that his team would "overcome the obstacle of Italy" He said: "If we keep concentrated, we will win." Bielsa added that his team have different styles of playing but that "Italy has a good
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        296 52 TABLE TENNIS Wire Services. THEY came saying they wanted all the golds. But South Korea's Ryu Seung-min (right) prevented a Chinese sweep in table tennis when he beat Wang Hao to win the men's singles final yesterday. In a feat South Korean media described as 'conquering
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        286 52 BASKETBALL Wire Services. YAO Ming (left) scored 27 points and pulled down 13 rebounds to lead China past world champion Serbia and Montenegro 67-66 yesterday. The win put China into the Olympic men's basketball quarter-finals. China will join unbeaten Spain, Argentina and Italy from Group A
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        557 53  -  By VK Swamy Special Correspondent in Athens PHELPS WANTS TO SEE SEXIEST FEMALE ATHLETE Michael Phelps wants to see a few disciplines after he finishes his own events. The man, who has won eight swimming medals, raised a laugh and some eyebrows, too, when
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        301 54 Wire Services. FRANCOISE Mbango Etone (right) i became the first Cameroon woman ever I to win an Olympic Games gold medal 9 when she claimed an African record of 15.30 I metres in the triple jump. Mbango Etone showed little sign of emotion throughout
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        201 54 Wire Services. THE United States women footballers are just one match away from an Olympic gold medal after scoring a dramatic semi-final win over world champions Germany. Standing in their way will be Brazil, who beat Sweden 1-0 thanks to a Pretinha goal
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        140 54 Wire Services. GREECE'S Athanasia Tsoumeleka (right) gave the hosts their first track gold medal in the women's 20km walk yesterday. Tsoumeleka surged ahead with three kilometres to go and never relinquished her position to clock one hour 29 minutes and 12 seconds. Russia's Olimpiada Ivanova took the silver
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        Lock icon Women shine
        511 55  -  DAY 11s AT A GLANCE By Brian Miller npsports@sph.com. sg 01 N a day when the men I wevebooed—okay, I the jndges had te take the flak—and when weiy We else happened In Athens, yon had to hand H to the women for withal the light worn. Back
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        133 55  -  By Ernest Luis npsports@sph.com. sg ONCE again, live English Premier League telecasts will go on in mid-week but only till Friday. StarHub CableTV confirmed this to The New Paper last night. Said Caitlin Fua, Assistant Corporate Communications Manager, StarHub: "Soccer fans will get to enjoy the
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