The New Paper, 30 March 2005

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  • Title Section
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    32 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2005 Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MICA (P) 094/03/2005 70 CENTS 8 ullfl tie j new
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      47 1 t 0 LEVELS WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS M New JC entry Uruguay warn Ronaldo: 1*. J scheme postponed Better wear BBr 1 for a year your shin pads... EH mrwwri ■M WHIW Rival threatens and pushes blind busker(above) and manager. Court fines him for using criminal force B
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  • SINGAPORE
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon He's blind, but jealous rival didn't care
      805 2  -  BUSKING TURF WAR By Karen Wong karen@sph.com.sg YOU could almost call the blind brothers a regular fixture at the underpass leading to Orchard MRT station. They have been there almost daily for the past 12 years, taking turns to earn money by busking.
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      Lock icon Also lost money to snatch thief
      195 3 THIS is not the first time that someone has targeted the two blind brothers. In 1998, The New Paper reported that someone was caught stealing from Mr Lim Peng Hor's money bag. One day in February that year, the thief is said to have
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      Lock icon O-level prelims may still count
      620 4  -  MOE delays plans for single intake into JCs By Santokh Singh santokh@sph. com.sg THE plan was to have iust one intake for Junior Colleges but there could be a delay. The Education Ministry is now believed to have postponed the plan by at least a
      Picture/ The Straits Times  -  620 words
    • Article
      Lock icon WHAT THEY HAD SAID THEN
      119 4 Mrs Goh Hwee Choo Principal, Tampines JC With only one admission, there will be more focus on studies so the pace of work can be quickened. Implementing the academic programme can be more efficient and I think this is beneficial to the students as they
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  • SINGAPORE
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Few takers
      690 6  -  Only 25% of needy take up welfare groups' offer of free meal By Tan Mae Lynn maelynn@sph.com.sg Singaporeans have apparently taken to heart the Government's repeated warning that there's no free lunch. So much so that even when free lunch is available, there have been few takers. One
      Picture/ Kelvin Chng  -  690 words
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      Lock icon Only half full
      560 6 40 students enrol at care centre where fees are low T HE fee to use this student care centre is as low as $20 a month. For that, primary school pupils get one full meal and snacks, sports and shower facilities and tuition services. Compare this to
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      Lock icon Teen search
      112 6 CHARMING in their cheongsams, (front tell) Siti Rohana, 14, Jamie Lee Frankland, 16, and Anna Baker, 16, strike a pose before taking to the stage in the South East Teen Search 2005. They were among the 20 finalists at the South East Community Development Council pageant held at
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  • The news watcher
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      Lock icon Reasons for CAO flop
      179 7  -  COMMENT GLORIA CHANDY SLOPPY accounting, financial recklessness and incompetent management. That potent mix led to the China Aviation Oil (CAO) debacle, according to a much-anticipated auditors report. The PricewaterhouseCooper report detailed CAO's series of disastrous moves that led to that staggering US$55O million (s9o9m) loss last
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      Lock icon Nair angered at reopening of UN probe
      117 7 SINGAPOREAN Dileep Nair, outgoing head of the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services is understandably angry. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, recently the subject of a UN inquiry himself (see Page 21), has reopened an investigation into allegations involving Mr Nair, who was
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      Lock icon Glitzy Orchard Rd, bigger buzz
      121 7 THE plan on the drawing board for the Orchard Road makeover is to have connecting malls, pop-out facades, wall-to-wall retail the dream ircm which a shopaholic never wakes. A 218m-tall, 40-storey iconic Jbuilding will tower over that atop Orchsr4 MRT station. But the even better
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      Lock icon JI as big a menace as before
      123 7 STAY ahead of their game. V» in essence, is what Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng never ceases to tell us about the terrorist threat. At the Global Security Asia exhibition and conference yesterday, he the necessity for constant viguaxlce against the menace
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      Lock icon CRASH LANDING
      45 7 SIXTEEN people aboard this Russian-made Cubana airlines 11-18 turboprop plane were Injured when it crashed beside the Simon Bolivar's Airport track just outisde Caracas, Venezuela on Monday. Airport officials said the pilot aborted takeoff when the plane veered off the runway. Picture/ Ap
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      Lock icon Stock watch
      18 7 Yesterday's action change Close aq Down 0.76® Down 0.94^ Dn 0.78% i 10,405 i 1,973 2,127
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      Lock icon Water tunnel for Malaysia
      181 7 A MUCH-DELAYED mega-project to improve the water supply of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor looks set to go ahead, thanks to a RM3.B billion ($1.65 billion) loan deal. Revised terms and of the the Malaysian government Bank of (JBIC) should soon be agreed on and formalised, reported
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    Lock icon Controversy over award to Li Jiawei
    738 9  -  Ivy Singh-Lim feels table tennis star does not deserve Her World Young Woman Achiever award SINGAPORE By Tan May Ping mayping@sph. com.sg SHE may have stepped down from her perch as Netball Singapore's chief bat Mrs Ivy Singh-Lim is not fading away just yet.
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon The new face of an Indian 'expat'
      939 11  -  They are the typical Indian foreign workers in S'pore, but that's changing By Amit Jain amitjain@sph.com.sg THERE was a time when a typical Indian expat in Singapore was a construction worker or a cook. Now he or she is more likely to be
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      Lock icon India-S'pore ties growing
      124 12 SINGAPORE companies are eyeing India much like Indian workers have regarded Singapore all these years as a place to make some money. Logistics company Gateway Distriparks this month became the first Singapore-owned company to make its initial public offer on an Indian stock exchange. It was oversubscribed
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      Lock icon LATEST DEALS
      117 12 Asia Pacific Breweries in talks with India's Mount Shivalik Group to launch Heineken and Tiger Beer in India. Stansfield Group to set up business schools across key cities in India. Tata Steel to buy Natsteel of Singapore, which will give it access to the neighbouring markets and increase
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      Lock icon They were the worst
      727 13  -  Toa Payoh residents on recent tremors By Tay Shi'an shian@sph.com.sg SHE's experienced four tremors. Another Toa Payoh resident, no less than three. 'The swaying was very very strong. The last few times, there was shaking, but we didn't really feel it that much," said Ms Noor
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      361 14 I I Dear reader, Singapore's first 'blue chick' came out of its shell on 26 July 1988. No genetic wonder jjR (like Dolly the cloned sheep), this virtual chick's colour stood for the brand DNA of The P New Paper what makes us unique. Even our name, coined by a
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    Lock icon 'What will I tell my children?'
    593 15 GROUND ZERO: NIAS One heartbroken man who lost wife weeps and says: NEWS Wire services. HE had been weeping the whole of yesterday. His eyes puffed up, Mr Datot Mendra prepared to spend last night lying next to his dead wife. Today, he will
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    Lock icon Villagers move to high ground after astrologers' warning
    263 16 SRI LANKA ONE town in Sri Lanka did not wait for the tsunami alerts. They had already moved to higher ground and were prepared. Local astrologers in the town of Galle, which was badly battered by the 26 Dec tsunami, had predicted
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    Lock icon She threw chair for me to get out of hole
    590 17 But ground swallows living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, porch, car > l. scr< MALAYSIA Bernama. SHE'S barely in her teens. But instead of being stunned into inaction by the shock of her living room sinking into the ground, the 13-year-old
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    Lock icon Gangsterism in schools
    436 18 KL identifies 30% of secondary schools as 'high-risk' breeding grounds MALAYSIA GANGSTERISM in schools is on the rise in Malaysia. The government is worried by the trend and is making efforts to curb it. So far it has identified 30 per cent of the secondary schools as
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Not flashy, he's one of the boys
      586 19 HP GETS NEW BOSS HEWLETT-PACKARD has confirmed what was already being talked about: That it had chosen Mr Mark Hurd, CEO of NCR Corp, as its new chief. Mr Hurd, who is known for his hands-on operating style, replaces Ms Carly Fiorina who
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      Lock icon Is Yao Ming worthy of Model Worker title? .
      289 19 Is Yao Ming worthy of Model Worker title? HOUSTON Rockets centre Yao Ming (right) is known as one of the hardest-working men in basketball. Now, his hometown of Shanghai has nominated him for Model Worker honours, reported the China Daily. The honour is given to those who inspire the masses
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      Lock icon 'Hell no, I'm not quitting'
      533 20 UN CHIEF HITS BACK AT OIL-FOR-FOOD CHARGES I UNITED Nations SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan says he is not quitting in the wake of the the oil-for-food scandal in Iraq. "Hell, no!" he told a news conference when asked if he would resign. He was speaking after
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      Lock icon Tennis sisters net own TV show
      220 20 Wire services. MOVE over, Paris Hilton. Tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams are set to serve up their own brand of reality TV. The champion sisters have signed up with the ABC Family network to develop a show about their real lives. The as-yet-unnamed
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    Lock icon Hey! Showtime&Lifestyle 40 and fabulous
    1106 21  -  BY Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg I. ORTY. For some of Hollywood's I top-earning actresses Halle Berry, 38; Julia Roberts, 37; Nicole Kidman, 37, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, 35 that number looms like a bright red stop sign. Sandra Bullock (right), 40, who is back with her first
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    Lock icon Dutch courage for nude Knightley
    211 22 BRIT stunner Keira Knightley will appear in her first nude scene opposite Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody in their new movie, The Jacket. But the anxious 19-year-old arranged with director John Maybury to make sure only two other crew members were on set. Knightley was also
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    Lock icon 'Show as much ballet as football'
    670 24  -  By Jill Lim jilllim@sph.com.sg THERE'S The Apprentice and The Contender, the business person and the boxer. Now, imagine a reality TV show on dancers, following them from their first steps: How they are picked out from a thousand hopefuls, their training, and finally, a
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    61 24 WHAT: Ballet classes and workshops by Irek Mukhamedov WHEN: 12 sessions from today until 10 Apr WHERE: LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts, 90 Goodman Road Any four classes cost $200; a single class costs $55; the observation fee is $20. For more information, call Tay Pei Chin at
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      Lock icon Software engineer who was lured by music
      425 26 Last weekend singers Shankar Mahadevan, Hariharan and Unnikrishnan treated fans to their favourite film hits. We speak to the three superstars WHEN does a song score a real hit? When it shows up as a ringtone. And Shankar Mahadevan's (left) tunes have been
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      Lock icon Accidental singer
      117 26 HE has close to 1,000 songs under his belt. Yet, South Indian playback singer P Unnikrishnan (left) insists his popularity was an accident. It was musician A R Rahman who introduced the 38-year-old classical singer to the world of playback. "He asked me to sing my first playback
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      Lock icon 'Bollywood is not Indian culture'
      226 27 HARIHARAN is irritated. He feels Bollywood's popularity is sending out the wrong message to the rest of the world. "To the world, Bollywood is Indian culture, which it is not. But people are totally sold on this super Bollywood culture," said the 55-year-old singer. Ironic,
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      535 28 1,30 PRIME-TIME TV THE NEW PAPER/Wednesday, 30 Mar 200: fNnt Highlights UW J|k The Amazing Race VII A rjT In this two-hour special, a 1 f jjTr S Racer suffers from a wound 1% 1 afejK that could impact the status of 1 Wiip their team. Tearns also get i£*i
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      Lock icon BIG ON QUALITY AS OTHER 8-MEGAPIXEL BIG BOYS
      785 30  -  NEW SMALL CAMERA IS AS T£CMAD IAN TAN tanyhi@sph.com sg IT all started with a camera called the Rebel G. I began learning photography in 1998 when I bought a Canon single-lens reflex (SLR) camera called the EOS 500n, otherwise known as
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      Lock icon Sony He fired up to meet red-hot demand
      376 32 PLAYSTATION PORTABLE: Reuters. WITH the North American launch of the Play Station Portable (PSP) last Thursday, the new management of Sony faces probably the least troubling problem on its plate: whether it can make enough to meet demand. The world's No 2
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    Lock icon Fight US culture, Europe
    458 34 French President reacts to Google's planned online access to millions of US books: TECH AFP. IN real life, it's unthinkable for France to declare war on its American ally. But in cyberspace, it's a different ball game altogether. French President Jacques Chirac has just laifnched a
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    197 36 It's signed, sexy sold for charity TECH FANCY owning a limited edition and sexy red Samsung phone that has been autographed by a celebrity? You can try to get one by bidding for them online at eßay. It's all for a good cause too as the proceeds will go to
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      143 47 DANNY KHOO'S GUIDE TO KRANJITRACKWORK TOP-RATED gallopers Mayo's Music (Mark Zahra) and Raul (Jason Waddell) drew notice to their chances in the Chairman's Trophy with an impressive trial at Kranji yesterday morning. Engaged in the second of four trials over I,ooom, the pair finished 1-2, with
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      179 47 RESULTS of four trials conducted over I,ooom on the flbresand track at Kranji yesterday. The going was good. TRIAL 1 (fast): 1 Reck A Fire (B Vorster) 2 Golden Mark (A Ng) 3 Classic Dragon (D Azis) 4 Climb Max (M Walker) 5 PMI Good (T Jackman). Unofficial
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      437 47 KRANJI SPRINT l v 200m: Always Good (E Wilkinson) and Nozomi Zoom (M Kellady) covered 600 m in 37.3 after cantering one lap. The latter is handicapped in the Class 4 Div 1 race over 1,200 m. North Flight sizzled
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      333 47 CHAIRMAN'S TROPHY 1,800 m: Exaggerate (T Jackman) canter/43.7. Lead To Victory (J Saimee) canter/35.2, smartly. Superior Warrior canter/bolted. He clocked 39.1. Slow work: Moon Shadow, Light Of Success, Diamond Dust. CLASS 2 1,200 m: Saint Arc (WK Yan) canter/35.7. Final Offer canter/37. Slow work:
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      143 47 WHIP HAND IT MAY still be early days yet but young handlers Stephen Gray and Desmond Koh can look back on their achievements in the past three months with much satisfaction. Both have surprised with their current high standing in the 21-strong trainers' log. Second-season handler Koh
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        260 48 THEY were supposed to be the stars of the evening. But the golfers competing in the Thailand Ladies Open found themselves upstaged by a 22-year-old Thai undergraduate at the welcome party held at the Nai Lert Park last night. But she was no ordinary Jane. She
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        532 48  -  REPORTS UM HAN MING nptports@sph.com.sg IN BANGKOK THE heat is unbearable. That was the grouse of the majority of players taking part in the U*****,000 ($545,000) Thailand Ladies Open starting tomorrow at the Alpine Golf
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        578 49 Funk —boost for oldies Flunk —US junior golf Reuters FRED FUNK'S victory at the prestigious Players' Championship in Florida on Monday struck a timely blow for golfs "forty-somethings" but also underlined the dearth of quality emerging in the American game. Funk (right), at 48, became the oldest winner of the
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        517 49 AP THE 17th hole of the Stadium Course at the Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass lived up to its fearsome reputation on Monday during the final two rounds of The Players' Championship. And no one felt its sting
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        635 52 FREDI KANOUTE MALI y I MUST admit I am very relieved to be back in London. The reaction of Mali's fans to our World Cup defeat against Togo was a very scary experience, and definitely the worst I have had to deal with in
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        257 52 PHILLIP COCU HOLLAND WE are looking forward to our home tie against Armenia, and it would be good to get another three points to consolidate our position at the top of the table. Marco van Basten has done a good job since he took charge, and
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        342 52 G VAN BRONCKHORST HOLLAND THERE is a lot of confidence in the Dutch team after our away win in Romania and that will definitely help us in the game against Armenia. With the Czechs also winning it was important for us to get the
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        626 53 RAUL SPAIN Qualification for the Worid Cup Mi h not certain for Spain. How confident are you that yon wM win the group and why? RAUL: I'm very confident that Spain will win our World Cup qualifying group because I believe in our players. Not only
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        425 54 ARGENTINA v COLOMBIA Reuters. HERNAN Crespo was so unhappy he almost quit soccer last year before a renaissance at AC Milan helped him win back his place as Argentina's top striker in the World Cup qualifiers. Crespo, talking to reporters as Argentina prepared to meet Colombia in
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        150 54 AP. HERNAN Crespo, Roman Riquelme and Javier Saviola will return to the starting A-team line-up when Argentina face Colombia today. The trio will spearhead a squad brimming with confidence after the B-team's 2-1 win over Bolivia on Saturday Argentina's first win in La Paz in 32
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        396 55 URUGUAY v BRAZIL Uruguay warn Ronaldo Wire Services. URUGUAY, once called "animals" by Pele during the 1966 World Cup, intend to live up to their bad reputation for violent football. They have warned Brazil's most-prized gem, Ronaldo, the two-time World Player of the Year, to use
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        100 55 BOLIVIA 3 VENEZUELA 1 AP. BOLIVIA beat Venezuela 3-1 in an academic qualifier in La Paz yesterday. The two bottom teams went through the motions as Bolivia scored their first win in four qualifiers, taking a second-minute lead with an own goal by Alejandro Cichero. Jose Alfredo Castillo
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        268 56 SPAIN: PA Sport. RAUL may be the darling of Spanish football. But his dreadful form in front of goal has handed national team coach Luis Aragones a major dilemma ahead of the World Cup qualifying clash with Serbia Montenegro. For so many years, the Real Madrid
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        380 56 ISRAELvFRANCE PA Sport. FRANCE coach Raymond Domenech is on a high. He claims his players are still brimming with confidence even though their World Cup qualifying campaign has so far failed to fuel the imagination. Les Bleus will face Israel looking to put some daylight between themselves and
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        239 56 GREECE: PA Sport. RESURGENT Greece are hoping for a fourth consecutive win as well as trouble-free celebrations from their World Cup European Zone Group Two qualifier against a depleted Albania. After a sluggish start with a defeat and two draws, Greece have made up ground and
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        198 57 POLAND: PA Sport. STAR goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek (right) says Poland will fight until the end to claim top spot in Group Six and a place in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. The Poles find themselves off the top following a home loss
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        410 57 HOLLAND v ARMENIA PA Sport. HOLLAND coach Marco van Basten believes Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (left) will add a new dimension before the Armenia match tonight. The PSV Eindhoven striker has been drafted in as a replacement for winger Aijen Robben, who has been ruled out after
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        246 57 SERBIA MONTENEGRO: LESSON FROM CHELSEA PA Sport. SERBIA Montenegro should take a leaf out of Chelsea's book and go for all-out attack in their World Cup Qualifier against Spain, according to striker Mateja Kezman. Group Seven leaders Serbia Montenegro can pull five points clear of Spain with a victory. They
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        533 58 ENGLAND v AZERBAIJAN PA Sport. JOHN Terry would like to be England's captain but he is in no great hurry. "To lead my country out would mean an awful lot to me," he said. "I think about it. I know I can do it. But at the moment we have
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        293 58 PA Sport. SVEN-GORAN Eriksson has warned England supporters not to expect an avalanche of goals against Azerbaijan tonight This, after declaring that the current squad to be the most confident he has worked with. Eriksson is worried that Azerbaijan's 8-0 weekend defeat by Poland could raise expectations
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        583 59 THE FRANK MALLEY COLUMN ENGLAND v AZERBAIJAN PA Sport. FOR the best part of five years, we have been hearing great things about Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard (above). A future England captain. The new Duncan Edwards. The man to lead England to their first major prize since
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        165 59 PA Sport. 1 Azerbaijan had a hand in England's most famous triumph when linesman Tofi Bakhramov i allowed Geoff Hurst's goal to stand in the World Cup Final win over West Germany in 1966. 2 The country regained their independence in 1991. 3 Former world chess
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        628 60 ENGLAND v AZERBAIJAN PA Sport. MICHAEL Owen believes Wayne Rooney holds the key to him rewriting England's goalscoring record books as he looks to set another landmark against Azerbaijan. Owen, who has once again stressed his commitment to Real Madrid, struck his 29th England goal
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        459 60 PA Sport. ALAN Shearer is backing Michael Owen to overtake him and go on to become England's greatest goalscorer. Owen has 29 international goals but Shearer believes it is only a matter of time before Owen beats the 49-goal record of another Geordie,
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        662 61  -  REPORT WANG MENG MENG npsports@sph.com. sg IN ENGLAND WHAT is it they said about counting chickens? Try telling that to the people of England, where the general sentiment is that Sven-Goran Eriksson's men would not only qualify for next year's World Cup, but actually lift the golden trophy
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        629 62 ENGLAND v AZERBAIJAN Wire Services. THERE was a time when Wayne Rooney wanted to be Michael Owen. Just 12, he used to tear through the streets of his native Liverpool, pretending he was Owen. Now, just seven years on, he will stand alongside his boyhood hero as
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