The New Paper, 10 February 2005

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    32 1 the new paper THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2005 Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asial .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MICA (P) 025/03/2004 I 70 CENTS 8:7 ill the new paper
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      47 1 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH hwie affairs minister l| I I I In On that secret terror meeting... o. axf _^i Brazilian youngster 1 <*-! picture/reuters stars i n 7- 1 HK rout w ti t'-'"' M ■■«<-■' -a sa toolptiat^me^ if.*- v< H m H H mil m m hi
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  • SINGAPORE
    • Article
      Lock icon Stun guns in mail seized
      677 2  -  X-ray scanner detects 50 stun batons, 50 stun guns, 25 stun pens, 200 pepper sprays By Celine Lim cellsfi&sph. com. sg ONE "shot" will send thousands of volts through your body and render you helpless for a few seconds. More than 6,000 law enforcement agencies
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      Lock icon TASER X26 ON TRIAL IN S'PORE
      175 2 PATROL officers from two police stations will be armed with Taser X26 stun guns in a few months. They will carry the stun guns, which costs US$999 ($1,638), on top of theirTaurus revolvers and batons. Police spokesman Victor Keong said the stun guns lower
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      Lock icon LOOK LIKE HANDPHONES, FLASHLIGHTS AND PENS
      252 3 THEY come in various shapes and sizes stun guns, stun batons, stun pens and even stun phones. The smallest stun gun is the Talon mini stun gun. It measures only 10cm long. It looks like an electric shaver but with just a 9-volt battery,
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      Lock icon Her 8-year fight to give Tasers a shot
      961 4  -  Local company finally conrinces S'pore police to tiy out stun guH!': V i* 'A V By Emil yn Ng ngemilyn@sph. com.sg MRS Tina Wong looks like your typical sharp-talking executive in a pinstripe suit. But she has subjected herself to something that
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      Lock icon Gun unsafe, claim lawsuits
      542 5  -  s S-i 2 By' Conrad Raj cmrad^^km.sg J 'ill L *m»«- THR of flie stun guns being tested Here are facing Several lawsuits in the US. Taser International, the Stun gun specialists, and its founders are facing a slew of class action suits in the US
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      Lock icon That secret terror meeting... and a lesson for S'pore
      533 6  -  EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW It may be the second day of Chinese New Year, but for for many members of the Home Team, ushering in the year with a bang has quite a different meaning. Especially so for the man at tftelop—Home Affairs
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      682 6 MR WONG Kan Seng is slated to take over from Dr Tony Tan as Deputy Prime Minister later this year. But his focus on security dominates. Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong even described him once as a no-nonsense "bulldog", ever-ready to sink his teeth into
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  • The news watcher
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      Lock icon Rove gets his reward
      166 8 FROM White House adviser, he's now deputy chief of staff. Mr Karl Rove, 54, has been given new powers by US president George Bush. The "architect" of Mr Bush's 2004 re-election is now the president's key political strategist. As deputy chief of staff, he wiH also
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      Lock icon No curbs on Indon media
      106 8 INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono promised yesterday that his new government would not try to curb the media. Speaking on Indonesia's Press Day, Dr Yudhoyono said media criticism and suggestions could improve the government's performance. But he warned the press to stick to the facts
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      Lock icon China, Japan row over lighthouse
      116 8 JAPAN said yesterday it had placed under state control and protection a lighthouse built by nationalists on an island disputed by China and Taiwan, touching off the latest row with Beijing. The 5.6-metre lighthouse was erected in 1988 by Japanese right-wing activists to mark a
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      Lock icon US bid to rein in N Korea
      114 8 US President George Bush wants North Korea to be brought to heel. He sent an emissary to impress this upon Chinese President Hu Jintao last week. Mr Bush wants China to intensify diplomatic pressure on Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons programme.
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    Lock icon Rebels bombed
    248 8 Reuters. PHILIPPINE military planes bombed Muslim rebel positions on the remote southern island of Jolo, bastion of the Abu Sayyaf militants, yesterday. Troops attacked guerrilla bunkers in pitched fighting that has killed 60 people in three days, officials said. The army began shelling rebel positions at dawn and
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      73 8 KENA A Malay term meaning "to incur", "inflict" or "bring about". In Singlish, it denotes that something has happened or will happen. The closest English approximation is "to get". EXAMPLES: 1. "He kena scolded by the teacher." (He was scolded by the teacher.) 2. "Aiyah, I forgot to do homework.
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Stronger yuan? No problem
    764 9  -  If China raises yuan value, S'pore need not worry as the Sing dollar will also go up: Economists NEWS By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph. com.sg REVALUE your yuan or else! This was the US' ultimatum to China last week. The Americans and much of the industrial world
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon 15-year wait for 'miracle' baby
      733 10  -  Her fallopian tubes are blocked and her left ovaiy has no eggs $10,000 in fertility treatments fail They stop tiying. Then she gets 'wind' in tummy... By Alvin Chiang alchiang@sph. com.sg FOR 15 years, the Ongs were asked the same awkward question by relatives every
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    • Article
      Lock icon How 'infertile' wife got pregnant
      174 11 infertile if she ttSSfb conceive after a y^upf she cannot havtftidldren at aU. Total infertility occurs only when a woman does not have a womb or both ovaries. That's when she cannot conceive naturally, Dr Ann Tan said. NOT FOREVER The gynaecologist of 15 years
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      Lock icon I can open a provision shop
      927 12  -  Last month, the widow of late jm ice-cream sellef||Diidn||aflo§l|a J coffin forhim or foodforher tads. mm m Now, she says... By Fatih Teo wenli@sph.com.sg ABY An An with her mother) sat atop a mountain of kindness and grinned. Twenty-two bags of it, to be
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      Lock icon ABOUT THE FAMILY
      82 13 EVERY day, Mr Lim Eng Ho climbed the dangerous forested slopes around Choa Chu Kang to pluck the leaves of certain wild plants. All because the ice-cream seller, who ha3t|l heart problems and severe pain in his legs,** heard that bathing An An in the boiled leaves
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  • MALAYSIA
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      554 14 FASHION MODEL SHOT IN M'SIA: JEALOUSY could have driven someone to hire killers to gun down part-time fashion model Lim Kim Soon, say Malaysian police. As he returned to his Petaling Jaya home in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, someone shot at him.
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      Lock icon Doctor escapes parang death
      307 14 HE was in tsunami-ravaged Aceh saving lives, only to have his own life hanging on the edge of a parang when he returned. The doctor, 54, declined to be identified for fear of his safety, reported The New Straits Times yesterday. He is still in shock
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      Lock icon If Jakarta sues, there could be a backlash
      399 15 Datuk Seri Abdullah responding to claims that some M'sian companies have cheated Indon citizens INDONESIAN Manpower Minister Fahmi Idris caused a stir on Monday when he said his government planned to sue Malaysian firms that have allegedly cheated Indonesian workers of their
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Carly's bad move
      505 16 HP CEO STEPS DOWN Her gamble with Compaq merger leads to her downfall Wire services. ONE of the most powerful businesswomen in the world has resigned as the chief executive and chairman of Hewlett-Packard. Ms Carly Fiorina has resigned from the US computer giant following a long-running
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      Lock icon Her skills as saleswoman made her the toast of Wall Street
      314 16 Wire services. I s Ms Garly Fiorina was made boss of BpPackard (HP)itt4999, she was the if Wall Street and the media. Mr all? she was the only woman to ne of the 30 Dow blue-chip companies. Ms Fiorina
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      Lock icon Madrid car bomb injures 43
      423 17 Blast, most probably by Basque separatist group, takes place hours before royal visit to convention centre Wire services. A CAR bomb exploded near a Madrid conference centre hours before a royal visit. Spanish police say a caller claiming to be from the Basque militant group,
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      Lock icon Palestinian leader: Peace and hope Hamas militants: No deal
      442 18 CEASEFIRE WITH ISRAEL SO what if a ceasefire ending four years of fighting has been agreed between Palestinian and Israeli leaders on Tuesday? Two militant Palestinian groups have dismissed it, saying they are not bound by it. One of them, Hamas,
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      Lock icon Dolly's 'dad' gets OK to clone human embryos
      160 18 THE scientist who created Dolly the sheep has been given permission to clone human embryos in the search for a cure for a degenerative disorder. Professor lan Wilmut will get cells from patients suffering from motor neurone disease from the Institute of
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      Lock icon Can we trust you?
      597 19 Rice woos Europe, but French papers ask: AFP. ONE French paper said she is a demon turned diplomat. Another noted that Ms Condoleezza Rice dresses just like she negotiates with suave understatement. A third insisted the fires of French-US antipathy need to be doused, not fanned.
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      Lock icon From 230g, she's grown to 2.7 kg
      232 19 AP. THE tiniest baby in the world who weighed less than a soda can has survived. She went home on Tuesday after nearly six months of care in a hospital in Maywood, Illinois in the US. Rumaisa Rahman's future "is very good," said
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  • Hey!
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      656 20  -  Showtime&Lifestyle EXCLUSIVE Private lift lobby, walk-in wardrobe, $5,000 501 a... for the first time, Sun Ho and hubby open up their posh Orchard Road condo to The New Paper By< Chang May Choon changmc@sph. com.sg FRIENDS of singer Sun Ho and her hubby, Reverend Kong Hee,
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      Lock icon We beg friends to carry $5K sofa
      480 22  -  By Chang May Choon changmc@sph. com.sg HOME to Sun Ho and Rev Kong Hee is their private sanctuary. Both profess to be quiet people who do not go out a lot. She said: "When we're at home, we'd just do our own things.
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  • HEY!
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      Lock icon Perfect matches
      369 24 Give your Valentine figure-hugging lingerie that fits her personality FORGET thestuffed bears and heart-shaped chocolates* Guys, if you want to score with Valentine's Day gifts for your daring surprise them with something intimate. Go out and get her some gorgeous undies that will impress her and tell her
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      Lock icon B.A.D boys looking for love
      431 26  -  mB.A.D's self-titled album is out in stores. ByJ Chang May Choon changmc@sph.com.sg IF girls are attracted to bad group that goes by the should be overwhelmed by attention, right? lilfel Wrong. Ironically, BAD's Ben Pai, Alex Tien and Danny HH^jp^ ->v have not had much
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      Lock icon Good boy Richie wants to be bad
      395 27  -  By Wendy Teo teouuyw@sph. com.sg RICHIE JEN wants people to stop thinking that he's a good guy. He says that his goody-two-shoes image is the result of his movie persona, and doesn't reflect his true identity. The 39-year-old Taiwanese actor was in town
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      Lock icon Rice a jumbo? Not for Tony
      181 27 TOKYO, Seoul, and Africa next? Director Jingle Mi is toying with the idea of taking his raiders to the safari continent. He laughed: "Don'&you think it will be fun to see Tony Leung (above, splashing around with Richie Jen) riding a big elephant with
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      Lock icon Model couple win Race
      125 28 AP. A TEAM of engaged models outraced the competition to win the sixth season of CBS' reality TV show, The Amazing Race, and take home the US$l million prize ($1.65 m). "It's the best feeling in the world. It's unbelievable," Kendra Bentley said after Tuesday's episode.
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      Lock icon Anderson gets all hoity-toity
      256 28 LOOKS like Stripperella star Pamela Anderson's fame has gone past her famous assets to her head. The New York Post claims the 38-year-old bombshell (left) acted like a cheapskate with boyfriend v Stephen DorfF at the m recent Sundance Film Festival. Said a source: "Pam came
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      Lock icon Eat your heart out, Mick
      118 28 TAKE that Mick Jagger. Former wife of the Rolling Stones frontman, Jerry Hall (left), will date 15 young bachelors for a new reality TV show. The show's objective is to find the 49-year-old former model the perfect partner to share her glamorous lifestyle. Her favourite
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      890 30 Page 30 PRIME-TIME TV THE NEW PAPER/Thursday, February 10,2005 Depressing, RHHh Ia in s*/ New Lease Of Life mTTrrrrrm I IU ll W M m m WW New series KJHL V. patients from the* IOAwC MW Kidney Dialysis IdCllS W ta4l |Bf Mulan Channel 5,7.45pm save father from V death
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      836 31 THE NEW PAPElVThursday, February 10,2005 Bge 12.30pm: The 12.00nn: Taiwan I2.ootm:jacky's 12.30pm: CNY I 11.00 am: 12.00: WoHd 12.00: So Close l2.Oo:Philly 12.00:1421 I Circus Princess Ah Seng Best Variety Day Specials— holiday Movie Today/Insight 2.30: The 1.00: Oprah The Year China 1 (Variety) (Drama/Episodes BabyLooney Mfedal —Gerak 1.02:20/20 Missing
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  • Tech
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      Lock icon Robot warfare
      732 32 DAVID LULIN reflects on the prospect of Swords as a major weapon LAT-WP. LAST month, the US Army unveiled what may be the future of war: lm-tall robotic "soldiers", outfitted with tank tracks, night vision and mounted automatic weapons capable of firing more than 300 rounds at a
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      433 34  -  THINK TECH GEOFFREY PEREIRA geoffp@sph.com.sg HAVE you ever wondered what people look for when they search the Internet? Several sites keep track. They include: Netscape, at http://channels.netscape.com/ ns/search/hotsearch.jsp; Lycos, at http://50.lycos.com/; Yahoo, at http://buzz.yahoo.com/overall/; Google, at http://www.google.com/ press/zeitgeist.html A quick survey of these sites suggest that Internet
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  • TECH
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      Lock icon What was that question again?
      786 36 i i i i i i#" t US bid to teach computers to read and understand like htlman brain AP. AMONG the handiest villains in science fiction are Computers That Know Too Much. Think of the dream-weaving despots of The Matrix or murderous HAL in
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      410 38 US Congress, scientists divided over telescope's fate AP. IS Hubble, the once touted human eye in space, going to be put to sleep soon? The chairman of the House Science Committee said the US Congress needs to decide whether the 14-year old telescope, renowned for its
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      917 47 DANNY KHOO'S GUIDE TO KRANJI TRACKWORK CLASSY mare Superior Star wrapped up her preparation for tomorrow's $250,000 EW Barker Trophy with a pleasing hit-out at Kranji last Tuesday morning. Sent out in the company of fellow-Trophy contender Raul (Jason Waddell), the Michael Walker-partnered WORKOUTS by
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        60 47 MALAYSIAN-BASED race-caller Walter Vijay must be a soccer buff. When the Dr Yeoh Kheng Chye-trained Rooney exhausted all patience last Friday, he announced that the wayward galloper had been shown the "yellow card" instead of the yellow flag. Really, the Mellifont three-year-old, who is named after England
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        67 47 RACEHORSE owner Lim Siah Mong might have missed the chance to watch Urn's Classic's historic win in Dubai last Thursday. But, chances are, he will be making every effort to be in the Nad Al Sheba stands the next time his stable pride lines up in
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      247 47 LAST Tuesday's workouts, on a good track, by horses engaged on Saturday: RACEI: Kryptontte(P Braem) 39.6. Debt (J Nizam) 39.5. Light Of Glory 41.6. THieaca (S Salee) 37.5. RACE 2s Pacific Express 41.2. OnS (P Vellaikannu) 36.8. Blade Of Time 42 5 RACE 3s Twinkle
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        761 48  - Same mission for Song Davies WORLD CUP TEAMS: AUSTRALIA: Karrie Webb, Rachel Hetherington AUSTRIA: Natascha Fink, Tina Schneeberger CANADA: Lorie Kane, Dawn Coe-Jones ENGLAND: Laura Davies, Karen Stupples FINLAND: Minea Blomqvist, Riikka Hakkarainen FRANCE: Steph Arricau, Patricia Meunier-Lebouc GERMANY: Martina Eberi, Elisabeth Esterl ITALY: Diana Luna, Giulia Sergas JAPAN: Ai
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        203 48 MICHELLE Wie (right) has accepted a special exemption from the Ladies' Golf Union. She will be one of five amateurs entitled to play in the Weetabix Women's British Open Championship at Royal Birkdale from July 28-31. Other world-renowned amateurs who have qualified
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        532 49 Reuters. THE addition of a fifth tournament in China on the European Tour's 2005 schedule reflects the tour's enhanced business focus and widening vision of the game. Golf is poised for a massive boom in the world's most populous nation, where 50 new courses a
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        253 49 Reuters. v< r v/. s ?v 9 >v JAPAN 2 NORTH KOREA I Substitute Masashi Oguro snatched an injury-time winnerto give Japan a lucky 2-1 victory over North Korea in Saitama, Japan, last night. Oguro stabbed home from close range after a poor
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      392 50  -  REPORT m GARY LIM np HE has long since left our shores. Nine years and seven months, to be exact. What was not clear was what went through his mind when he got involved in match-fixing. But what is clearly evident is that there has never
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      633 51 backseat. Not since he was spotted by a talent scout when he was a 13-year-old. Since then, the only time football was merely a pastime was during the six-month ban imposed by Fifa following his conviction in a Singapore court in 1995. He subsequently signed
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      546 52 PA Sport. ph&iwm GLAND manager .Sven-Goran Eriksson Efraays he is unconcerned /if reports that Chelsea made an illegal approach for Ashley Cole prove to be true. The Premier League are to investigate whether Chelsea held a secret meeting with the Arsenal defender
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      66 52 PA Sport. acting on hisi behalf, shal Me "This came after a Premier League .circumstances surrounding his transfer from Middlesbro#** to Liverpool. r Both the club and the German 11 were found guilty by an i with Liverpool Sdock Cole two weeks' wages, they are
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      203 53 What went on before the start of that crunch clash between Arsenal and Man United at Highbury on Feb 1... I EPL I,# What light appears at the end of the tunnel is I illusion as Arsenal and United players square I I up for a fracas before
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      1135 54 SAMBA WITH THE STARS PROEVENTS' Singapore managing director John Merritt and project manager Rai Low certainly had many stories to share regarding their encounters with the soccer stars. Here are some of them. LET ME TELL YOU A STORY We know him as the
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      801 56 SAMBA WITH THE STARS <£> Why did David Beckham go missing for one hour during Man U'stour of Malaysia in 2001? What request has Ronaldinho made for Brazil's current trip to Hong Kong? WANG MENG MENG gets all the answers from Pro Events' managing director JOHN MERRITT and
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      680 57 (Brazilian) AP. Brazilians seem to have trouble holding onto their official names. Sports stars, politicians and other celebrities in this vibrant, free-wheeling country are mostly known by nicknames. Legal names become practically irrelevant. Take Ronaldo de Assis Moreira and Carlos Alberto Libanio Christo. Both play
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      721 58  -  INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY: HONG KONG 1 BRAZIL 7 REPORT WANG MENG MENG npsports@sphxcm.sg IN HONG KONG TWO goals. One disallowed. Three assists. And two open goals missed. That's not too bad an output from the full debut of a boy said to be the new Pele. Not bad
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      303 58 2nd min: A sign of things to come as Robinho cuts inside the box from the right wing but he skies his shot. 3rd milt: Robinho holds up play by juggling the bail before threading it to Ronaldinho, who releases Ricardo Oliveira. The striker's grass-cutting shot goes narrowly
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      424 59 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY: HONGKONG 1 BRAZIL 7 BRAZIL Julio Cesar, Cafu (Belletti,6oth), Lucio, Juan, Roberto Carlos (Gilberto Silva Melo, 60), Emerson, Juninho Pernambucano (Elano, 69), Ronaldinho (Alex, 60), Ze Roberto (Renato, 75th), Robinho, Rlcardo Oliveira (Julio Baptista, 69) Wire services. BRAZIL soccer coach Carlos
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      412 59 AP. Martina Hingis and Sol Campbell (in picture) may not be the perfect match. But, it could happen. Hingis, the former top player on the women's tennis circuit, says she is enjoying life outside the tough world of professional sport and focusing on her private
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