The New Paper, 15 November 2004

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  • 34 1 the new paper MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2004 Singapore Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800-7 33 44 55 MICA (P) 025/03/2004 70 CENTS 8 tie pnew paper H i fe
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    • 28 1 trainer nets $80,000 ~*m*. in one day 0 CPU'S secret projects Project El Dorado: Gathering intelligence on jobs prone to corruption Project Deep Snow: Cracking difficult cases (2)
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    • 43 1 5 When they turned 40, a group of 10 women dropped everything for an unusual, tailor-made holiday •r 3T* x m r» «<» w '■V K H* "S -> U h--m a* 5? s? 7r> r !yf i r S ""••'"T- E32 V'T Hfcr* /i!
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  • NEWS
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      589 2  -  ANTI-CORRUPTION TALES CPIB gears up by undertaking two secret projects codenamed El Dorado Deep Snow By Tan Ooi Boon tnp@sph.com.sg IT'S work is cloaked in secrecy. It has to be to catch those who turn corrupt. But the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) departed from the usual to talk
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    • 183 2 World anti-corruption chart: SINGAPORE has been rated as the least corrupt country in Asia by a global corruption watchdog. Worldwide, Singapore is placed fifth, with a score of 9.3, behind Finland (9.7), New Zealand (9.6), Denmark and Iceland (both 9.5). In Asia, the second least corrupt
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      460 3  -  allegedly taken by police officers from clubs By Zaihan Mohd Yusor tnp@sph.com.sg THE Indian nightclub scene has been rattled after several club owners were interviewed by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB). A probe is underway to investigate whether three police officers accepted bribes from Indian club operators. Said
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    • 284 3 THE CPIB has bite because it is backed by tough laws that appear to cover all the loop-holes. For example, a civil servant who accepts a Rolex watch can claim that the giver is a friend with ehom he often exchanges expensive presents.
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  • SINGAPORE
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      564 4  -  Serial robber preys on sex workers, but is nabbed by passers-by outside hotel GEY LANG TALES By, Joycelyn Wong tnp@sph.com.sg THEY had finished their supper and were walking along Lorong 12 Geylang when they heard a woman scream. It came from one of the rooms in the nearby Hotel
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    • Article, Illustration
      885 5 They run from cops but can't hide from street low life THEY usually give the cops a wide berth. And when they run into trouble they may not be able to shout "Help, police!" Women who come here on social visit passes and walk the streets run many risks.
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    • 205 6 ITS not quite meals on wheels but this busker (right) might just serve you a cup of teh tarik as part of his act. He's one of the 22 international acts which have been brought in to perform at the Singapore Buskers' Festival, which has the theme
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 276 8 Region is S'pore's sixth-largest trading partner Potential boom in telecom, IT sectors IT'S booming in the Middle East. By 2008, spending on telecom and IT services in the region, as well as North Africa, is expected to grow from about US$25 billion ($4l billion) to between US$55
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    • 122 8 LAST WEEK: All markets rose again last week. US markets are now at a three-year high. Singapore is at a four-year high. Oil prices fell to $47.30 in New York. Fears of a cold winter in the US and Europe were offset by higher stocks of crude oil.
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    • 65 8 JOHOR Sultan Mahmood Iskandar (seated, in white) and his wife Sultanah Zanariah welcomed National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan (seated, centre) at a Hari Raya Puasa lunch at Istana Bukit Serene in Johor Bahru yesterday. Accompanying Mr Mah for a meal ofmee rebus,
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    • 72 8 FORMER Indonesian intelligence chief Abdullah Hendropriyono has revealed that the telephones of Australian political and military figures were bugged by Indonesia during the diplomatic crisis over East independence ballot in 1999. Although the spying has stopped, he said Jakarta also unsuccessfully tried to infiltrate the Australian Secret
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    • 96 8 UNITED States' relations with China are the best they've been in more than 30 years, says US Secretary of State Colin Powell. He said that Beijing has played a key role in North Korea and in Indo-Pakistani relations, describing Chinese leadership over the last three
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    • 87 8 TO fight an obesity crisis, the British government plans to ban junk food advertisements on television before 9pm. Viewership figures show that 70 per cent of children's TV viewing takes place between 6pm and 9pm. The proposal for the ban is in a Public
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    • 70 8 INDONESIA'S new Coordinating Minister for the Economy Aburizal Bakrie has declared 1.19 trillion rupiah ($219 million) in assets, making him perhaps the richest serving state official. This was revealed when the Corruption Eradication Commission published the wealth reports of Mr Aburizal and four fellow ministers, out of
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    • 84 8 IN a few year's time, Hong Kong will have a new cultural hub. The West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) waterfront project, costing HK$24 billion ($5.1 billion), will be at the southern tip of the West Kowloon Land Reclamation. The 40-hectare hub will include three theatres,
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    • 82 8 A 16-YEAR-OLD girl was abducted in Genting Highlands and taken for a 300 km terror ride. She was freed only after her family paid a RM25,000 ($10,800) ransom. The teenager, who had been holidaying at the resort with her family, had left the hotel on Saturday
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  • 485 9 He pretends to be Singapore businessman preys on masseuses WORLD HE'S 43, wan-looking and has a pot belly that sticks out from beneath a thick jacket. But that hasn't stopped conman Liang Chaotian from being dubbed Hong Kong's 'Devil Casanova'. He used his charms to dupe
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  • 621 10  -  NEWS REPORTS PICTURES DESMOND NG IN SHANGHAI HE'S the man behind Jolly Pig, Buddy Dog and Jazzy Monkey. And like them, this former NUS economics senior lecturer has gone places. Dr Tan Hock, who was born in Malaysia and is a
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  • 251 11 10-year-old left to sleep in parked car Vehicle bursts into flames, possibly from stray firecracker MALAYSIA SHE was feeling feverish and didn't want to follow her mother on an errand. So 10-year-old Lee Kit Chin rested alone in the parked car,
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  • NEWS
    • 811 12  -  10 S'pore women spend 10 days in Umbria, the green heart of Italy REPORTS NG WAN CHING wancNngOtpkanug By Ng Wan Cheng wanching@sph. com.sg WE were a strange sight in sleepy Umbria, the green heart of Italy. It's an area
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    • 451 13 She breaks tooth gets 4 stitches on lip THE route we took from Spello to Assisi was challenging. Assisi is a huge draw for Catholics, being the hometown of Saint Francis, one of Italy's best-loved saints. It is also an oasis of art and architecture, boasting the Basilica of St
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  • 1088 14 Suha wanted $20m t0... Arafat's wife named a price before she let Palestinian officials shut off machines keeping him alive INSIDER TELLS SUNDAY TIMES OF LONDON: WORLD Hooked up to life-support machines, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat lay in a coma last week. Switch off the machines and he would be
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  • NEWS
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      489 15 Mum had affair with both, 50... DNA testing can only reveal if one of the twins fathered the child Identical twins have same DNA makeup so it's hard to tell who is dad A MONTREAL paternity suit has taken an unusual turn. The mother of the child had
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    • 100 15 THE shutterbugs were out by the thousands this weekend as the Orchard Road light-up transformed Singapore's shopping hub into a magical Christmas garden. With buskers and baubles galore, many found it hard to resist striking up a pose for a pretty picture (left). This year's light-up is
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  • Hey! Showtime&Lifestyle
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      373 17 It's Hari Raya Puasa, and time to deck out in your best threads. What are our Malay celebrities wearing? ERIAKBAR (eri@sph.com.sg) finds trad-modern, nuovo-vintage combos Mastura Ahmad, actress (left) DONT they look just like a bride and her flower girl? Pesta Perdana's one-time Best Actress Mastura Ahmad sounded
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    • 232 18 Nura J, host WHAT'S a little discomfort if you look glorious? Nura J, host of children's programme, Krayon, has made a kebaya out of the songket fabric, even though the fabric can be warm to wear in this humid weather. She said with a
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    • 276 18 Rilla Melati Actress/host The currently-single Rilla, who co-owns children's educational drama company Stage Handz, will be revelling in the festivities at her mum's place with her 3 V 2 -year-old son, Nadim. Rilla normally makes only one Hari Raya outfit every year, as
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    • 252 18 Suhaila Salam, actress/host MTV Boom host Suhaila Salam in a kebaya? That's not something one sees very often. Suhaila, 27, admitted to feeling "stiff' in the traditional ensemble during the photo shoot. The single girl said: "It's not as comfortable as T-shirt and jeans. A lot
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    • 574 19  -  By Chang May Choon changmc@sph. com.sg IF you've been wondering what sexy Taiwanese babe Landy Wen has been up to in the past year, she has been busy working her butt off. Literally. She calls it the "electric bum dance". After a year of relentless
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    • 168 20 IT was her first screen kiss. And Landy thought it was merely a peck on the cheek. But she ended up locking lips with Taiwanese model-actor Mike He Jun-xiang (left, with Landy) for eight long hours while shooting her music video, Wish Me
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    • 661 21 Breaking into Hollywood is not an Easy Breezy task. Japanese singing sensation Hikaru Utada should know, for her highly-anticipated English debut album released in the US last month has received just a lukewarm response to date. So what if the 21-year-old New York-born songbird, who
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  • 285 22 SENTIMENTAL fans of The Practice will already know this this is it, the final season. For less enamoured viewers, it has outlasted itself. The last episodes of Season 7 saw major cast members being ditched, including Lara Flynn Boyle and Dylan McDermott. In
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 31 22 PRIME-TIME TV The Concrete Jungle/ ColinGoh.com ARNIE, LOOK! IT'S A COf>i Of COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE! Mm V Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson CALVIN, 1'Kt TELUH<sr t*JRPAS©nS A8CWT MOVI IET WE IH/ a if
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    • 216 22 The Odd Couple II Channel i, 9pm Oscar and Felix meet 17 years later and take a road trip to their son and daughter's wedding. Stars Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau. Gone In 60 Seconds Channel 5,7.15pm A retired master car thief must return to the industry and steal 50 cars
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    • 119 23 KATE Beckinsale (left) has the unflattering honour of having the ugliest set of boobs in Hollywood. This is according to a plastic surgery website. Elsewhere, reports allege that the Van Helsing star has W had breast implants, evidenced by an infamous picture of her in a
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    • 71 23 KYLIE Minogue's (above) man troubles just never end. Her ex-boyfriend James Gooding is set to appear on the British reality W show, I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, later this month. The show's producers are coaxing him to spill the beans on the pop princess.
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    • 77 23 JUSTIN Timberlake (right) has landed a recurring role in the second series of hit teen drama The OC. The 23-year-old, who will soon make his movie debut in the thriller, Edison, is in talks with producers to play a bad boy, who visits the rich community of
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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  • Tech
    • 826 25  -  By Tan Ooi Boon tnp@sph.com.sg IT HAS a strong story line that has been translated into a movie script that is 170 pages long. It boasts rich animation which is backed by state-of-the-art computer graphics that will rival any Pixar-produced movies. On its opening night
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    • 665 26  -  Xbox game gj V es a twist to the original LOTR story line By Ian Tan tanyhi@sph.com.sg IF YOU are a serious Tolkien fan, I must warn you this Xbox game borders on heresy. Called The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, it is
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  • TECH
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  • TECH
    • 692 31 Singers get a high-tech digital hand NYT. THANKS to relatively recent advances in digital processing, using pre-recorded tracks is merely one of many tricks that artistes from Britney Spears and Aerosmith to U2 rely on to give live performances the same slick
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    • 283 32 New Internet browser allows developers to suggest ways it can improve AP. YOU have read about the alternative Internet browser that is known as Firefox. Here's an easy guide to it. How much does it cost? Nothing. Firefox is the collective product of volunteer programmers
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  • 258 34 ...the one that fell off bronze statue in Baghdad TECH AFP SADDAM Hussein's left leg is back in the market. More precisely, it's the left leg from his now legendary bronze statue. It was put up for auction on the Net recently but the sale
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      542 41  -  By] Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph. com. sg VISITING Zimbabwean jockey Mark du Plessis completed a grand back-to-back win in the $1.25 million Singapore Gold Cup with a brilliant front-running ride on Raul at Kranji yesterday. The Perfectum Stable-owned winner overcame barrier No. 15 to edge out Mayo's Music (Mark
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    • 219 42 "He's an old horse and ran third. Can't complain." Shane Baertschiger, assistant trainer off Moon Shadow "I had a good position throughout the race, and he ran well up to his best to stick on for third." Craig Carmody, jockey of Moon Shadow "He moved
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    • 1901 44 RACE 1: GOLD ZEST, KING ARCHER and AUSSIE EDGE (capacity field) were withdrawn. THEDRAGON was presented to the pre-race holding area with steel training plates that exceeded the permitted weight and did not conform to the rules. As such, THE DRAGON was reshod
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    • 730 45  -  GOLF: KEPPEL CLUB CENTENARY By Brian Miller npsports@sph.com. sg WITH a mighty swing, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong drove the little white ball down the first fairway. For the 18-handicapper that he is, SM Goh would have done this umpteen times. But this drive was special.
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    • 297 45 AFP. DARREN Clarke of Northern Ireland completed a start-to-finish victory at the Taiheiyo Masters in Gotemba, Japan, yesterday, smashing the tournament record in the process. The 36-year-old, who lost a playoff at his last appearance five years ago, hit a four-under-par 68 for a four-round total
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      409 46  -  AQUABIKES WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Report And Picture By Dominic Ying domying@sph. com. sg SPEED demons and dare devils tore apart the waters of Sentosa yesterday. The rousing event: For the first time, the UIM Aquabikes World Championships came to town and enthralled crowds got a spectacle of sheer speed
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    • 1028 47 S-LEAGUE: WHY SO MANY CLUBS ARE PULLING OUT In the last few weeks, some S-League fans have voiced concern about the direction of the S-League. Last week, Tanjong Pagar became the fifth local club to pull out of the league because of financial difficulties.
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      607 48 EURO KICKOFF: ITALY YESTERDAY'S RESULTS: Atalanta 0 Brescia 0 Cagliari 3 Inter 3 Fiorentinal Livorno 1 Lazio 2 Bologna 1 LecceO Juventus 1 AC Milan 2 Siena 1 Palermo 2 Sampdoria 0 Parma 2 Verona 2 Regginal RomaO Udinesel Messina 1 LEADING SCORERS: 9:Adriano (Inter), And riy Shevchenko
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    • 289 48 Colourful Di Canio: Lazio's hero villain Reuters. LAZIO 2 BOLOGNA 1 WHEN he was playing in England, Paolo Di Canio was controversial. Now in the Italian Serie A with Lazio, he has not changed. He turned in a typically mixed performance at the Stadio Olimpico, scoring the winner to defeat
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    • 667 49 EURO KICKOFF: SPAIN PLAYED ON SATURDAY PA Sport. VALENCIA 0 REAL ZARAZOGA 0 CLAUDIO Ranieri's miserable run as Valencia coach continued as his side failed to win for the 10th time in succession. Valencia were held to a goalless draw at the Mestalla by
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    • 156 49 PA Sport. DEPORTIVO 1 LEV ANTEO DEPORTIVO La Coruna were forced to battle all the way to a narrow victory at the expense of surprise package Levante. The minnows from Valencia had their chances at the Riazor stadium against a team with a far greater history but
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    • 112 49 PA Sport. NUMANCIA 2 SEVILLA 1 NUMANCIA pulled off a late smash-and-grab raid to snatch a 2-1 victory from the jaws of defeat against Sevilla. The high-flying Andalusian club have been in excellent form this season. And they must have thought they had done enough to snatch the
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    • 476 50 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY: SPAIN v ENGLAND ENGLAND SQUAD GOALKEEPERS: Paul Robinson (Tottenham), David James (Man City), Chris Kirkland (Liverpool) DEFENDERS: Gary Neville (Man U), Phil Neville (Man U), Ashley Cole (Arsenal), Jamie Carragher (Liverpool), Wayne Bridge (Chelsea), Rio Ferdinand (Man U), John Terry (Chelsea), Matthew Upson (Birmingham) MIDFIELDERS:
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    • 514 50 PA Sport. SVEN-Gorari Eriksson has handed Matthew Upson a recall to the England squad for Wednesday's friendly in Spain. Eriksson is without not only Sol Campbell, who has a calf injury, but also Ledley King, who pulled out of contention for a call-up with a knee problem
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      • 304 51 PA Sport. ENGLAND captain David Beckham has revealed how he intends to bow out of international football after the 2006 World Cup Finals. The Real Madrid midfielder, 29, is eager to play on at club level for several more years, and he is set to follow
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    • 314 51 Wire Services. Prso seals win STRIKER Dado Prso netted a second-half penalty as Rangers battled to a 1-0 Scottish Premier League win at Hibernian last night. Prso converted after 65 minutes after Hibs' Scotland defender Gary Caldwell was red-carded for fouling Hamed Namouchi as
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        852 52 SPURS TO SANTINI: YOU'RE PA Sport. JACQUES Santini (left) was embroiled in a furious war of words with Tottenham yesterday as the club responded angrily to the Frenchman's claims that he left because of a dispute over transfer policy. Santini controversially walked out of White Hart Lane last week,
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      • 376 53 PA Sport. THE future career of Ryan Giggs at Manchester United is hanging in the balance. The hot news: He has turned down a one-year contract with the Red Devils. The British press reported yesterday that this news will set several leading clubs to be on
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      • 104 53 PA Sport. TOP on the list of leading clubs waiting to sign Ryan Giggs is Bolton Wanderers. Reebok, Bolton's main sponsor, are reported to be ready to finance the deal for Giggs, who lives in the Bolton area. It is learnt Newcastle United and Middlesbrough are also keen
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      • 195 53  -  THE STAR \By RYAN GIGGS MAN UNITED IT was reported in the British press last weekend that I was "fuming" at a one-year contract extension offer made to me by Manchester United. Let me make it clear: There's no truth in this. But it's true I
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      • 198 53 PA Sport. ITS not going to be easy, Sir Alex Ferguson (left). Manchester United chief executive David Gill has told the manager he will have to sell before he can buy next summer. United have already spent next year's budget
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        174 54 Bryan RobsoiTs reign as West Brom's new boss against the side he managed for almost seven years got off to a bad start last night. An own goal, Bora's second goal and a miss by his striker Kanu at the close nwttin flunflat the club where Robson made his
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      • 503 55 WEST BROM 1 MIDDLESBROUGH 2 PA Sport. BOLO Zenden spoiled Bryan Robson's big day as Middlesbrough grabbed all three points at The Hawthorns last night. Robson's return to the club where he started his career turned sour when Zenden looped a winning header past Russell Hoult in
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      • 393 55 NEWCASTLE 1 MAN U 3 PA Sport. GOALS from Wayne Rooney (below) and Ruud van Nistelrooy gave Manchester United the win at Newcastle. Alan Shearer briefly levelled matters for the Magpies but United managed to scrape through. Rooney needed just seven minutes to fire United
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