The New Paper, 8 December 2004

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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon 'You've got the wrong mummy'
      742 2  -  A woman shouts this warning to 2-year-old son. She claims a stranger holding on to his hand was tiying to abduct him By Josephine Chew jochew@sph.com.sg YOU may have got an e-mail that has been going around, quoting a mother recounting a near abduction at
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      Lock icon Mum gets creepy phone calls
      537 3  -  BY Genevieve Jiang geneviev@sph. com.sg SHE posted her warning to parents, complete with her own details, on a members-only website last week. Since then, others have copied and circulated it by e-mail. Mary's phone has been ringing off the hook, and her e-mail account bombarded
      Graphics/ CEL GULAPA  -  537 words
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      Lock icon WHAT POLICE SAY
      92 3 The police are aware of the e-mail and are looking into the matter. A police spokesman said: "We have also interviewed the originator off the e-mail. As of now, we have not obtained any evidence to suggest the offence of an abduction. "Police have always been working
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      Lock icon E-mail a reminder to watch kids
      165 3 FOR parents like Mrs Tan Li Leng, the e-mail was a sobering reminder. The mother of two boys, aged 2 and 5, forwarded it to many friends. The 37-year-old housewife told The New Paper: "It worried me that something like that could happen in
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      Lock icon I went to see a lawyer because...
      698 4  -  SLY'S MUM JAILED: VICTIM WHO LENT HER MONEY SAYS... By Alvin Chiang alchiang@sph. com.sg SHE went to see a woman about her advertisement on childcare services on behalf of a friend and ended up lending $5,000 to her. What Madam Chay See Soon
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      Lock icon Our own Gold Coast
      723 6  -  That's what the revamped Siloso beach looks like By Desmond Ng desmondn@sph. com.sg IT'S not just sun, sea and sand at Sentosa's Siloso beach. You can now wine and dine alfresco by the waterfront, learn to trapeze and even do a bit of shopping in your
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      Lock icon Siloso attractions
      108 7 THESE are some of the new offerings at Siloso beach: A new and bigger Sunset Bay beach bar, from the guys who introduced foam parties here. The first Delifrance cafe by the beach here. Shangri-La Rasa Sentosa Resort's Trapizza, which marries a pizzeria with Singapore's first trapeze school.
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      323 7 Why are you contradicting yourselves? AT the Singapore Idol finals, they were Thatwas what readers who flooded gushing with praise for Sylvester Sim. The New Paper with e-mail and phone But in a New Paper report yesterday, calls yesterday wanted to know. judge Douglas 0 (right) had called Sly And
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  • NEWS IQ
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      Lock icon Response = Reputation
      299 8 Response Reputation CAO SAGA, MINISTER SAYS: THERE will be "complete investigation" into the beleagured China Aviation Oil (CAO) company. Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Vivian Balakrishnan says that this will be done "as expeditiously as possible". "Our reputation will depend on how we respond," Streats reported him
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      53 8 S'PORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 7.28/-0.41 Creative Technology 14.30/-0.44 Flextronics 13.88/-0.37 Chartered Semiconductor 6.27/-0.27 Stats 6.01/-0.24 Yesterday's Percentage Close action change ose Dow Nasdaq S+P 500 STI Down 1.01% (106.48 pts) Down 1.7% (36.6 pts) Down 1.11% (13.18 pts) Down 0.79% (16.12 pts) 10,440.58
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      Lock icon Rare sale: 2 prime Orchard Road plots
      245 8 Source /THE BUSINESS TIMES THE plan to remake Orchard Road is taking shape, with two prime plots of land in the heart of shopping strip to be released for commercial development next year. One is at the junction of Orchard Road and Paterson
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      Lock icon S'pore, Viet tourism link
      83 8 SINGAPORE and Vietnam could soon be marketed to tourists as a package deal, potentially increasing tourism between the two countries to more than 100,000 visits a year, says Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. He said that cooperation between tourism agencies and an increase in air links
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      Lock icon IT firms must go regional
      84 8 SINGAPORE information technology (IT) and telecommunications firms need to venture into the region to be able to survive and grow, says research house Gartner. Its latest forecast showed that corporate expenditure on IT and telecoms here will be $10.9 billion next year, representing fairly weak
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      Lock icon Pickpocket cases up
      89 8 THERE has been a 20 per cent rise in the number of pickpocket cases here. Between January and September this year, there were 683 such incidents, compared to 571 for the same period last year. The latest incident involved two women whose bags were slit and wallets
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      Lock icon Think tank: Drop peg now
      93 8 PRIVATE think tank Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (Mier) has urged Malaysia to end its six-year currency peg with the US dollar. It says that the ringgit peg of 3.80 to the dollar has helped to stabilise the economy but at the cost of undervaluing
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      Lock icon Underground shopping
      86 8 BY 2010, underground mall City Link will be joined up with a new corridor of stores at the upcoming Convention Centre MRT station. This will make it possible to shop from one underground MRT station to the next without having to step out into the sun. The Convention
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      Lock icon M'sian PM's friend charged
      87 8 A SENIOR Umno official, said to be a friend of Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, has been charged after a corruption investigation, reported Reuters. In an interview on Monday, Mr Abdullah did not name the man but stressed that no one was immune to the
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      Lock icon Hugs, tears & future plans
      1126 10  - Hugs, tears future plans MEDIA MERGER HITS STARS By Wendy Teo and Yeoh Wee Teck teowyw@sph.com.sg, weeteck@sph.com.sg THE size of the envelope separated those who got retrenched and those who crossed over to Media Corp. As each Media Works person walked out of the office of their head-of-department, others waiting
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      Lock icon EXIT STARS: WHAT THEY'LL DO NOW
      146 10 I had a good run mucnofa showcase, it is okay. I'm going to take a break to figure what I'm going to do next. David Leong (right) ma mhis yWm° wl canoe a fiill-time housewife! Chen Hui Hui (laughing, right) Now, my priority is
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      Lock icon Other artistes out of work
      47 10 Cherie Lim Liu Qiulidn Wang Liuyan Adrian Lim Bernard Tan Benjamin Heng Darren Seah Dick Su Johnson Low Li Wenhai Shaun Chen Peter Yu XavierTeo Wymen Yong Artistes on retainer who w®r6 not offered a transfer* Catherine Tan Pamela Oei Steph Song
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      Lock icon CROSSING OVER TO MEDIACORP TV
      45 10 Adam Chen Michelle Chia Celest Chong Quan Yifeng Guo Liang Apple Hong. Hu Bing Eelyn Kok Ann Kok Ezann Lee Darren Lim Kym Ng OngAi Leng Adrian Pang Lynn Poh Ix Shen Constance Song Bryan Wong Ben Yeo Helen Cheung
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    Lock icon Give me back my old Joo Chiat
    545 11 SPEAKUP Colin Chee, resident off Joo Chiat THE New Paper's story about pub violence in Joo Chiat on Aug 5, 2004, and its subsequent reports on Nov 7 and Dec 5, are stark reminders of how far Joo Chiat Road (above) is descending
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    Lock icon 'We will chop off your head'
    588 12 NEW TWIST TO COURT BATTLE BETWEEN M'SIAN DIVAS MALAYSIA MAN IN CASE GETS SMS DEATH THREATS THE SMS above is one of four death threats received by Mr Zaienal Abidin Omar (right), chairman of the national artistes' welfare association in Malaysia. He is one
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      Lock icon Wings of (false) hope
      553 13 Thai Muslim girl finds paper crane with Prime Minister's signature on it It promises a job or scholarship for the finder. But it's a fake d THE paper cranes were dropped in the Thai Muslim south as symbols of peace. But for one 12-year-old girl, they
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      Lock icon Asked US police for help with flat tyre. Now she may be deported
      380 13 SHE has lived in the US for 12 years. She owns a home, pays taxes, works and has two children both US citizens. And, till now, her not having proper documents to stay in the US did
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      Lock icon Bad English costs US companies $5b annually
      491 14 NYT. PROF Higgins famously said in the 1964 movie, My Fair Lady, that in Ameiica, they haven't used English for years. Neither are some of them very good at writing English, it seems. A recent US study by the National Commission on Writing
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      Lock icon 'Oops, we lost the bomb'
      431 16 French policemen hide bomb in passenger's bag at airport during dog-training exercise, but lose track of bag TRAVEL authorities worldwide are searching for explosives planted inside a passenger's bag. And the explosives were planted there by policemen. Sounds "ridiculous" or even "scandalous" as French newspapers
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      Lock icon Were comments scripted?
      1138 17  -  No way, says Ken Lim. 'It's not like I'm going to listen to them (MediaCorp) anyway' DEC 1 (IDOL FINALS): THUMBS UP FOR SLY YESTERDAY: Sly's performance on that night was disastrous —Douglas Oliveiro Irate readers ask judges: By Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg ONE day it was "lungs
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      Lock icon TAUFIK'S TRIUMPH
      73 17 IDOL winner Taufik Batisah will perform at Suria's annual charity show, Ikhlas at the MediaCorpTV Theatre on Friday. The show will also be shown live on Suria at 8.30pm. Taufik will sing Belaian Jiwa the song he sang at the Asian Pop Spectacular. Prepare to watch him on
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      Lock icon Cool roles may spawn hot idols
      1045 18  -  NEW'HIP' M TV SHOW EC W A DEPARTURE FROMM USUAL SURIA FARE By Eri Akbar eri@sph.com.sg YOU might be looking at the next big things on local Malay television. These are the four local cast members Fairuz Jalil, Rozzalina Ramli, Rima Adams and Nadirah
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      Lock icon Potter rejected
      220 20 MIRA Nair will not be weaving her cinematic magic on the next Harry Potter film. The director has turned down the offer to direct the fifth instalment, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix. Mira, 47, had told Rediff.com she was too busy with her other project,
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      Lock icon April film for Hassan
      93 20 TAMIL cinema fans can look forward to a new Kamal Hassan (right) film next April. The bilingual Tamil-Hindi Mumbai Xpress is his new film, which is currently being shot in Mumbai. The 50-year-old Tamil cinema superstar has done his usual with this movie: He has written,
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      Lock icon Panned by critics, praised by fans
      143 20 MOVIE audiences can sure make fools out of critics. Critics trashed Yash Chopra's romantic teaijerker Veer-Zaara, saying that it was a rehash of his old hits. The movie was heavy on the Bollywood A-list cast like Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukheijee and
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      Lock icon Top honours for Subash Ghai in Dubai
      105 21 BOLLYWOOD'S top director Subhash Ghai (left) will be honoured at Dubai's first international film festival. The festival, which started this week, was inaugurated by Prince Albert of Monaco. Subhash, who is in his 50s, will be honoured with a Middle Eastern director as
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    382 32 AFP. THE long wait is over for Japanese video game fans as the Nintendo DS hit the markets in the first salvo of a holiday-season battle between Nintendo and Sony for the hand-held machine market. In a first for a Japanese video-game maker, Nintendo initially
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      612 45 WORKOUTS, on a fast track, by horses handicapped on Friday: CLASS 1 1,400 m: Lim's Classic was not extended when clocking 43.75 ec over 600 m. He cantered a lap first. Last-start winner Tom Higgs canter/39.3, keeping form. Lead
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      508 45 NST LEADING ACE drew attention to his chances in the Melbourne Racing Club Stakes for Class 3 horses over 1,600 m on Sunday with a smart hit-out in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the six-year-old Australian-bred sprinted smartly over
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      299 46  -  TOP MELBOURNE ROOKIE NICHOLAS RYAN SAYS: IN MAURITIUS By Michael Lee manyan@sph. com.sg THE Singapore racing scene may not be familiar with Nicholas Ryan, but certainly not the other way round. The Melbourne champion apprentice stayed here from 1995 to 1996 when his bloodstock agent stepfather
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      455 46 RACE 1: It's possible that one of the best bets on tonight's card arrives early in the form of MR GENKI (No. 3). He missed the break badly last time but still finished off well and is best suited to this Class Division (C&D).
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      233 46 NEW NAME BRINGS LUCK A CHANGE of name often brings better fortune and it worked yet again at Kranji last Friday. Grande Cham, who raced 16 times for seven seconds and two thirds as Mister Sunshine, finally shed his maiden status in the opening race. Ridden by bang-in-form
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      349 46  -  BY Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com. sg ARTERIAL, the only raced newcomer entered for this Friday's Kranji meeting, is a well-performed galloper in India. From 19 starts, the six-year-old son of Green Forest and Fiddlin Fanny scored twice, his second win in
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      288 49 SINGAPORE bowlers Remy Ong and Valerie Teo climbed up the leaders' charts after raising their game a notch. Remy shrugged aside Monday's sluggish performance to score 1,417 pins and a 236.16 average at the second day of the annual BWC. With a total of 2,759 pins and
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      1275 50  -  IN HO CHI MINH CITY REPORTS ERNEST LUIS npsportsQipbcom.tg THEY expected Vietnam to beat Singapore but they were "burnt". In punting lingo, that means they lost money. Indeed, many Singaporean football punters had backed Vietnam, such that the odds for Singapore kept rising
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      703 51 Wm CHAMPIONS AS ROMA v LEAGUE (Group B) REAL MADRID FOR all the superstars at Recil Madrid, I still only rate their chances of qualifying for the knock-out phases of the Champions League at 50 per cent. It's all touch and go for
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        189 52 GROUP* Olympiakos only need a draw at Liverpool to advance, while Monaco need to beat Deportivo La Coruna in Spain to go through. If Liverpool win, they will advance, even if Monaco draw. CMNJFB: Real Madrid will ensure their place in the next round with a win over
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        419 52 PA Sport. STEVEN Gerrard insists he will not accept "second best" by crashing out of the Champions League and into the Uefa Gup. The importance of tonight's crucial Champions League showdown with Olympiakos to Liverpool and captain Gerrard has been underlined. A win will give
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      352 53 PA Sport. FENERBAHCE v MAN U: Sir Alex Ferguson bundled Cristiano Ronaldo aboard Manchester United's flight to Turkey. With qualification for the knock-out phase already assured, Ferguson had previously declared his intention to spare the senior members of his squad the eight-hour round trip to Istanbul. Among the
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      121 54  -  By RYAN GIGGS MAN UNITED WE'RE pretty relieved that we don't have to face Fenerbahce with qualification riding on the game because it's a difficult place to go to. Turkish sides are hard to beat on home soil. But we're still going for
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      946 55 Page 58 SPORTS THE NEW PAPER/Wednesday, December 8,2' UEFA Champions LEAGUE group Match**m. December2m fflPta ES2E9HIB 5-1 4- 1 swawnwHii Shots On target 4 T W D L F AGDPts 7 Shots On target h t I Arsenal *****6 5 10 J 7 o,f lar 9 el Blocked shots 2
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    • CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (Group H) PORTO 2 CHELSEA 1
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        598 56 McCarthy's last-gasp goal saves Porto Reuters. PORTO squeezed through to the second round of the Champions League this morning (Singapore time), thanks to a late goal by South African international Benni McCarthy. The reigning champions beat Chelsea 2-1 in their Group H clash as McCarthy's goal ensured that
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        359 56 GROUP H: PARIS ST GERMAIN ICSKA MOSCOW 3 Wire Services. PSG'S Champions League hopes ended in humiliation this morning when 10-man CSKA Moscow dumped them out of the competition with a Sergei Semak (right) hat-trick. Semak scored for the visitors just before the half-hour mark
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    • CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (Group G) VALENCIA O WERDER BREMEN 2
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        443 57 Bremen strike in last seven minutes Reuters. WERDER Bremen gave Valencia a knockout blow with two late goals in the final seven minutes. Two late winners from substitute Nelson Valdez secured the 2-0 victory and earmed them a place in the last 16 of the Champions League. The
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        183 57 INTER-MILAN 3 ANDERLECHTO Reuters. TWO-GOAL Nigerian striker Obafemi Martins was Inter-Milan's hero early this morning. The Italian side came into the match having already qualified, but needed three points to ensure first place and an easier draw in the knockout stages. Anderlecht, who were already eliminated from
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    • CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (Group F) CELTIC O AC MIAN O
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        591 58 Poor Celtic moan Europe knockout Reuters. CELTIC 0 AC MILAN 0 CELTIC crashed out of European competition for another season with a goalless draw at home to AC Milan leaving them bottom of Group F in the Champions League. Martin O'Neill's side had plenty of possession in the
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        209 58 DONETSK 2 BARCELONA 0 Reuters. CHEERS to a first-half double by Shakhtar Donetsk's Nigerian striker Julius Aghahowa. The well-taken brace allowed the Ukrainian club to leapfrog Celtic into third place with six points to secure a Uefa Cup spot. Barcelona, who had already qualified
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    • CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (Group E) ARSENAL 5 ROSENBORG 1
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        865 59 AFTER what seemed like the longest time, Arsenal have finally cleared the jam and got their cannons firing again. As the annals of Highbury history would record it, t'was the nightmare before Christmas as Arsene Wenger's Invincibles clocked up a string of performances so dismal, that even the
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        455 60 Reuters, PA Sport. YES, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was a relieved man after his side's big win over Rosenborg this morning (Singapore time), but the Frenchman warned that it was but a small step forward in what is turning out to be a very important week
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        181 60 THIERRY HENRY: PA Sport. Arsenal striker Thierry Henry praised the club's younger players after their comfortable 5-1 win over Rosenborg. "We still had our destiny in our hands and if we won we could still finish top and that is what happened," said Henry. "The youngsters showed
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      208 61 Arsenal finally produce the five-star performance in the Champions League that everyone has been waiting for. And what an explosive offensive show it was! Led by their superb youngster, Francesc Fabregas, here's what happened... Kfl CHAMPIONS ARSENAL 5 I I V LEAGUE (Group E) ROSENBORG 1 Flamini's tackle
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        515 62 Wenger won't say for sure Reuters. WILL he or won't he? That is, pick Manuel Almunia as keeper for Sunday's match against EPL leader Chelsea. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is facing a huge selection dilemma even after Arsenal topped their Champions League group. He has admitted
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        663 63 The YOUNG §r RESTLESS A D C p M A I R 0 ose Antonio Reyes 3rd min, Thierry Henry 24, Francesc '*r\OL.I N/~\l_ sJ fabregas 29, Robert Pires 4 lpen, Robin van Persie 84 ROSENBORG 1 (Erik Hoftun 38) PA Sport. ARSENAL saved their best for last. They recovered
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      131 64 GROUP E ARSENAL 5 Jose Antonio Reyes 3, Thierry Henry 24, Francesc Fabregas 29, Robert Pires 4ipen, Robin van Persie 84 ROSENBORG 1 Erik Ho/tun 38 PANATHINAIKOS 4 Dimitris Papadopoulos 30, Markus Munch 45pen, 57, Lucian Sanmartean 81 PSV EINDHOVEN 1 Da Marcus Beasley 38 QUALIFY: Arsenal, PSV
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      404 64  -  By Martyn Ziegler PA Sport PA Sport. ARSENE Wenger bore the relieved but victorious look of a man who has won a game of Spanish roulette something like Russian but one of the bullets was a dud. The misfiring Spaniard in Arsenal's magazine was the goalkeeper Manuel Almunia.
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      170 58 League Home Team Away Team I alch Kick Off I I (Singapore date/time) UE Champions Roma Real Madrid Thu. 09/12/04 3.45 am UE Champions Liverpool Olympiakos Thu, 09/12/04 3.45 am UE Champions Deportivo Monaco Thu, 09/12/04 3.45 am UE Champions Fenerbahce Manchester Utd Thu, 09/12/04 3.45 am UE Champions M
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      58 63 DH TIGER CUP 2004 VIETNAM v CAMBODIA Ch 24, 5.55pm, tomorrow INDONESIA v SINGAPORE Ch 24,8.25pm, tomorrow Delayed, Ch 5,11pm, tomorrow CHAMPIONS LEAGUE ROMA v REAL MADRID Ch 23 Ch 5, 3.30am, tomorrow LIVERPOOL v OLYMPIAKOS Ch 24, 3.30am, tomorrow FENERBAHCE v MAN UTD Delayed, Ch 23, 6am, tomorrow *All
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