The New Paper, 3 September 2006

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  • 28 1 the new Paper Our Sunday 3 SEP 2006 Singapore Press mum Holdings MICA (P) 189/02/2006 80 CENTS mm 8"*****1"*****9 > j oc|iicmuci duuu the new paper 3 September 2006
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    • 106 1 We stake out Upper Weld Rd boarding house for 12 hours 52 m m •k n Hew l u r f T .J I f I V;. 3 SEP 2006 L 'i and find LOST IN TRANSLATION SH0PH0USE OF HORRORS S'-.i m Tearful maids talk of sleeping on floor of
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 995 2  -  Exposed OUR TEAM'S 12V2-HR STAKEOUT OVER TWO NIGHTS UNCOVERS— WHY SO EARLY? This group seen coming out of clinic at 430am WHY SO TERRIBLE? MOM officers raid clinic and find about 200 workers in 'unacceptable living conditions' WHY SO PACKED? Clinic doc his sister,
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    • 272 3 IT was fl ,20pm on a Tuesday night in Little India. From under a HDB block across the street, The New Paper on Sunday team observed the Upper Weld Road shophouse. At first glance, the area looked like any other sleepy neighbourhood.
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    • 791 3  -  Specialcoriespondents tnp@sph.com.sg WHEN The New Paper on Sunday went down to the clinic on 25 Aug, two days after our stakeout, we met Dr Khoo Yong Hak and his sister, Ms
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    • 427 3 ALL foreign domestic workers are required to pass a MOM-stipulated test and attend the Safety Awareness Course within 3 working days of their arrival in Singapore. This is before the Work Permit is issued. The medical examination must be performed by a
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    • 6 3 OUR SUNDAY
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    • 431 4  -  Racial harmony takes front seat in Scout's scheme TahJenLee TayShi'an tnp@sph.com.sg BE prepared. That's the scout motto. Now, for the more than 3,000 scouts here, being prepared will also mean knowing more about other races. The Singapore Scout Association has revised its progress
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    • 506 5  -  Man CHARGED Man charged with slapping Ah True twice on face... Dumping her top, bra, boots down chute, and... I I I I Keeping mum about what happened The New Paper front page picture, 17 Mar Crystal Chan crystalc@sph.com.sg HER fall to death caused a
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    • 616 6  -  Now, you can realise your dream of being a marksman with try-before-you-buy day memberships at the National Shooting Centre Report and pictures JonathanChoo jonathan@sph.com.sg HE had never seen a real gun in Jp her life. W Vj But when Ms Gan Sok
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    • 1109 7  -  TahJenLee jenlee@s ph.com.sg SHE could have bought a five-room HDB flat or even a high-end sports car. But Madam Wei Dong, 37, chose to use the money for piano classes for her two sons. She has spent $300,000 so far. Both William,
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    • 754 8  -  "u- K\ |THEN HUSBAND AND KIDS What's it like to integrated resort? This Keraier international employee in the Bahamas says~. Dawn Chia ML dawnchia® sph.com.sg OUR SUNDAY THE promise is jobs. More than 35,000 jobs will be created when the two integrated resorts—one in Marina Bay, and
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    • 406 9 KERZNER International is the largest employer in the Bahamas after the government. Some 99 per cent of its 6,000 employees are locals, said attorney-general Alyson Maynard Gibson. Besides its flagship Atlantis where the average cost of a night's stay is US$270 ($425) Kerzner also runs
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    • 473 10 Vicious crime 1 Girl, 8, scalded and beaten, neighbours allege DIDN'T sweep the floor: Whack. Didn't wash clothes: Whack. It is no wonder this little girl grabbed hold of her rescuer's leg and wouldn't let go. The 8-year-old Pahang girl was allegedly abused
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    • 349 10 Vicious crime 2 WHAT started out as a romantic date for this couple from Kuala Lumpur degenerated into a night of horror, ending in the 18-year-old girl being allegedly kidnapped and raped. The teenager had been canoodling with her boyfriend in a car last Wednesday. They
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    • 268 11 vicious BUT HE STILL NABS SUSPECT BEFORE FAINTING HE had been stabbed at least seven times with a pair of scissors. Yet, the Kuala Lumpur policeman still managed to wrestle and catch his assailant during an attempted robbery on Friday morning. In the 2.15 am incident,
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    • 349 12 24 YEARS AFTER SON VANISHES— AP. lOWA mum Noreen Gosch thought she had gone through the worst when her youngest child, Johnny, went missing while delivering newspapers on a Sunday morning in 1982. But now, 24 years later she's bewildered by two photographs left at her
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    • 415 12 Teen accused off killing dad TEENAGER AlvaroCastillo (left), who allegedly killed his dad before going on a shooting rampage outside his former high school, sent a video tape showing his father's bloody corpse to a newspaper. The release of the video, in which
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    • 52 2 Our Si U/Ulrtl MARRIAGES Madam Elaine Ng (above) could have married a doctor. But she chose the car mechanic instead. 24 OUR SCHOOL Siva Choy muses on how Latin makes a school motto—even simple one sound grand. 28 OUR FAVOURITE YONGTAU FOO t > KFSeetoh says that Mosque Street's pricey
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    • 2 2 OUR STAKEOUT
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    • 30 4 Sweet RELIEF Argentinian midfielder Javier Mascherano (below) says the sudden hmm m Mm IMf j transfer to west Ucum 111! II him iV9ni iTidQw mm 'happier than ever* Page 62
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 926 14  -  BE careful what you tattoo on your body. THESE CHINESE CHARACTERS MEAN— Eugene eugenew@sph.com.sg BRITNEY Spears has one. And so do basketball stars Marquis Daniels of the Indiana Pacers and Shawn Marion of the Phoenix Suns. Tattoos of Chinese
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    • 673 16 Victims SIBLINGS OR They claim that dead millionaire in yacht had kidnapped them. Now, they're charged with his murder WHEN a French brother and sister were found huddled in a dinghy off the coast of Portugal, their dramatic account of leaping to safety and losing sight of a third crewman
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    • 419 17 US man allegedly harvests body parts of cancer victims and drug users, and sells them to docs for transplant AP. HE should have been reined in three years ago, when a leaky FedEx box containing an arm and legs turned up in Missouri. Or years
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    • 91 17 It was Pocahontas meets Pirates Of The Carribean at Damai Primary School last week. Teachers Madam Sanisa (far left) and Reglna Goh (left) put their best feather forward to re-interprete the Disney cartoon, while students (right) Luqman Nurhakhn, Muhd Irfaan and Wan Giovanni Harris put
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    • 627 18 Thafs not as bird-brained as it sounds. Scheme hatched after seal attacks scare birds away and tourist trade suffers Reuters. WHEN a gang of seabird-killing seals ate their main tourist attraction, the residents of a small South African town called in a
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    • SNAPSHOT
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        63 19 There was a type of competition between Chirac and Mitterrand (former French president) to see who could have more lovers. I don't know who took the podium, but it was a dose thing. Christophe Dubois, journalist and co-author of Sexus Politicus, with coNeague Christophe Moire. The book revealed
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      • 78 19 UK police arrested 14 people in raids yesterday. They said they suspected the men had been involved in training and recruiting people for terror attacks. The police added that the arrests were not linked to last month's plot to bomb US-bound passenger jets or to
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      • 58 19 THEY were not professional models. But they sashayed and strutted their way into the Singapore Book of Records with a non-stop 3mincatwalk marathon at the Centrepotal Shopping Centre yesterday. Forty-eight participants took a crash course in eatwalking and rehearsed for eight hows. Despite some having less then
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      • 80 19 CHINESE Internet vigilantes have launched a hunt for a self-professed British bounder who has sparked outrage by blogging about his seduction of women in Shanghai. Traffic on the Sex and Shanghai blog had surged from 500 hits to more than 17,000. However, a person responding to
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      • 157 19 CAMNG FOR THE DISABLED THE Government is drawing up a masterplan on how best to care for die disabled. It has formed a steering committee to come up with an Enabling Masterplan to chart the development of programmes and services in the disability
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      • 102 19 MALAYSIA aims to reduce the number of foreign workers in the country to 1.5 million by 2010, according to the 2006/2007 Economic Report released by the Treasury on Friday. It is envisaged that by that time, only 250,000 foreign workers will remain in the manufacturing
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      • 174 19 DEPUTY Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng has warned that Singapore cannot rule out the possibility of a terrorist attack during the IMF/World Bank annual meetings here from 13 to 20 Sep. Mr Wong, who is also Minister for Home Affairs,
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      • 53 19 DELAYED rush hour commuters were told their trains had been held up because the sun was<tpo bright. Rail operator c2c said a train driver was held up at Laindon in Essex, England, because he could not see in a mirror to tf anjroije was g«? tt jng in or
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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  • OUR Sunday
    • 875 20  -  Tay Shi'an shian@sph.com sgi CHOOSE the car mechanic over the doctor. That's the advice Madam Elaine Ng's mother gave her. Most mothers want their daughters to marry well, which usually means "marrying up". But Madam Ng's mother saw greater virtue in a man's strength of character than
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    • 617 20 "MARRYING down" among women is more common than you may think. About one in five of the 22,000 marriages in 2004 involved a bride marrying a less-educated groom, according to the Statistics on Marriages and Divorces. In other words, one in five grooms were
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    • 596 21  -  Pan Lingling and Quan Yifeng married down the celebrity scale, but are happy 'T&SS* < Ib&tsf. Women marrying down TayShi'an shian@sph.com.sg WHEN couples are in the same industry, it's obvious when the wife does better than the husband especially if their jobs require them to
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  • OUR SUNDAY
    • 749 23  -  SivaChay Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg LAST week I came across my old primary school magazine with the school crest on it. Like most school badges, it was shaped like a warrior's shield, as if the hidden aim of education was to instil in children
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      583 24  -  IvyOng-Wood B Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg OUR car's Certificate of Entitlement (COE) is expiring and that is causing us a lot of arguments. The family car is mine. I bought the second-hand Suzuki Swift five years ago, long before I met Tubby Hubby (TH). TH jokes that it was my
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    • 608 25  -  DavidTurner Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg THERE is nothing more depressing than watching someone half your age leave you for dust at the start of a running race. Except someone twice your age leaving you for dust a second later. That's what happened to
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  • OUR SUNDAY
    • 242 29 bitchaboutcorner BOUNCY, Droopy, Hairy and Clean. They are my "best friends" at the gym's female shower and locker room. You'll know what I mean if you're a regular gym rat. The scene after my work-out at a popular Orchard Road gym
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    • 818 30  -  WHAT: OX Yong Tmw Foo WHERE: 33, Masqat Stroot HOURS: Bam to 3pm. CM hnlldwa nonoays. KFSeetoh tnp@s ph.com.sg WHEN I mentioned to some yong tau foo devotee friends that I would be doing a re-visit of OK Yong Teow Foo, they baulked. Their cries of
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  • OUR SUNDAY
    • 882 32  -  GotadMpdaifc phobia? Share it with us by a-mailing tnp@sphxom.sg She had dose shave with death abroad. Now she's more cautious JoyceLim joycel@sph.com.sg WOMEN driving powerful cars are sure magnets for other drivers looking for a cheap racing thrill. At least, that is Miss Stella Yeo's
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    • 598 33  -  Joseph tnp@sph.com.sg YOU know you have an allergy when you suffer from an abnormal response to a food, drug or other elements in our environment that do not usually cause symptoms in others. Substances that cause allergies are called allergens. Allergens can run the gamut from
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    • 472 34  -  Sytvia Toh Palk Choo paikchoo@sph.com.sg THE Singapore woman's twin plagues are: That her maid will leave her, and that she'll turn up at a function to find another girl in the same dress. (Her man quitting her comes in at third.) Last
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 715 35 SUNDAY f\. W I Here's a whole new way of getting heard. Getting I Xlll B#m I married? Had a baby? Or just having a crush? We |r C ffk want to know all about it. Send your pictures and ■LmmJ messages t0... tnpforum@sph.COm.sg MPM r Announcements HHH —It has
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  • SUN SPORTS
    • 181 36 RACE 1: Tinker Bell, Allocated, Han Venture, Forge Ahead, Baby Sun, True Aristocrat, Good Kid, Mykanos. RACE 2: Lucky City. RACE 3: Long Socks, Grey Cardinal, Trust N Sincere, Daylight Ahead, Reap Without, Successful Dream, Alandra, Corporate Trio, Akashi Brothers, Dynasty Vader. RACE 4: Goldfinch, Ranger Warrior, Belmoral Park,
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    • 70 36 LUCKY CITY (Race 2 No. 1) It should be one of the easiest days at the office for trainer Winson Liew when his charge Lucky City takes on only three greenhorn rivals in this Maiden affair over 1,200 m. On his last-start second to Miss Melang
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    • 93 36 SUNDAY^ TOPTIPSriH J ™Z3 ra ra ra lofll 10Gnemax SCSJH afeSH TT 1 Katfaro 2 Jeram Jade 7 Golden Ranger j 2 Matisse 2f -I *«ah»desa J A ti 'S > J 1 J 5 Gassy' Star 10 Celebration riHSi j rfPrwv^ 1 Lucky cny 12 Smote IT
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    • 676 36 1.00 RACE 1 I 8 8 401a 1 Tinker Ml *M Yusrt (10) 57 2 Allocated •MRazall 6) 56 3 Hm Venture SSalee 5) 56 4 Fertsda MAu 4) 55 5 S«cc«* StrMft* PVellaikannu 8) 55 6 Oo'lnvlnclblo 3) 54.5 7
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    • 833 37 GOING: YIELDING (RACE1), SOFT (RACES 2 ft 3), HEAVY (RACES 4-9) Auckland Racing Club Trophy 9 WO 51.5 (164-43) KT Cheng '(5) 3 2 1 10 KMW—(B 51c 49 (49-12) NLim (2) 7 4 2 1 AIMBTMiniHE57c54(16-9)....*LMH« (1) 9 6 3 Vk*| staMa: Golden Triumph. TNriaan
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    • 201 37  -  Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg THERE was no respite for race-goers still reeling from the shock results at Kranji last Friday night. The nightmare continued at Penang yesterday, when a wet track played havoc with the form book. The first three events on the nine-race card produced "unwanted"
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    • 450 37 I Race 1 Todvega Handicap 1400m 1 mom 3 KEMVK 2 NTTB ■AC 57 (8-7) PHirvey 155.5(28-10) PCwtofy mELD EHKT 56.5 (21 -13) R Stewart 0) (5) (6) i 2 3 Trainer TM Andrews. Margins: Hd, 1,3. Time: 1 min 25.75sec. Forecast $6.
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    • 1101 38 AP. TU .I K Woods IkuI everyone's attention even before he joined them on the PCiA l our, loin commissioner Tim I inchcm remembers tlu j hii// insidi 4 a clubhouse in 1W)(> during tlu 1 okl World Series ol ioll, only it wasn't about Phil M
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  • SUN SPORTS
    • 753 40 BARCLAYS SINGAPORE OPEN ANEW sponsor, a fresh injection of cash and kudos, and a top quality venue. It's a simple formula, really. And one that seldom fails, creating a magnetic force which pulls in heavyweight stars from all corners of the globe. And so
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      682 41 DEUTSCHE BANK CHAMPIONSHIP: AFP. TIGER Woods, bidding for his fifth win in as many starts, fired a five-under 66 on Friday to seize the first-round lead in the Deutsche Bank Championship. Woods posted six birdies, including one on the 18th hole, to take a one-shot lead over
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    • 390 41  -  Lim Han Ming npsports@sph.com.sg PENDING approval from the Singapore National Olympic Council, Justin Han and Vincent Khua will represent Singapore at the Asian Games in Doha in December. The duo clinched the final two qualifying spots after emerging victorious from a four-man two-day playoff
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    • 112 41 AFP. SOUTH African Anton Haig fired a three-under-par 69 yesterday to head the third-round leaderboard at the US$300,000 ($478,500) Malaysian Masters. He leads by two strokes on 18-under-par, having dominated the tournament since the opening day. India's Jyoti Randhawa, Thailand's Chapchai Nirat and Taiwanese
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    • 912 42 US OPEN TENNIS Wire Services. THE remnants of Hurricane Ernesto brought an early end to proceedings at the US Open late on Friday night but not before Hurricane Roger had swept into the third round. Top seed and two-time defending champion Roger Federer has hardly needed to break
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  • SUN SPORTS
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      628 44 OUR jumpers have suddenly gone ahead by leaps and bounds. Today, we profile four ofjumps coach ValeriObkffco's proteges. GERARD WONG reports MARIAM SHAZAMA (national women's triple jump record holder) Triple )ump: tvanaChoo 11.31 m (Open 2004), Nurul Jannah 10.89 m (U-15 March 2000). Mariam Shazana 11.30 m (Open
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    • 317 44 j —j CALVIN CHENG (national Boys' Under-17 long jump record holder) Long lump: Calvin Chang 6.29 m (Nat Jr, 2005), Ang Chang Bin 6.74 m (U-17,1982), Calvin Cheong 6.80 m (U-17,2006). HE was a school table-tennis player who picked up athletics only at
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    • 255 44 NURUL Jannah collected her first national age-group record in April when she leapt 10.89 m in the Girls' Under-15 triple jump at the National Junior Championships. But she saw her feat erased in July by team-mate Mariam Shazana, who set a new national
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    • 420 44 March 2005 Stefan Tseng equals two long-standing national Under-17 records at the Walaa meet in Perth, Australia, where he matches Ang Cheng Bin's 1982 long jump record of 6.74m and Tan Loe Ken's 1976 triple jump record of 14.31 m. April 2005 Gail Chia breaks the national
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      785 45  -  By Gerard Wong npsports@sph.com.sg HIS athletes are like raging bulls in a china shop. Such is the ease with which they seem to be breaking national records in the long and triple jumps. But there was a time when Singapore Sports School (SSS) jumps coach Valeri Obidko contemplated
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  • SUN SPORTS
    • 1222 47  -  AL R Dizon npspofts@sph.com.sg T OOKS can be deceiving. I I had arrived early for a JL_-ipress conference and scanned the room for the media officer who was supposed to be looking after the press. So I approached a petite woman, looking like she was fresh
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    • 514 48  -  Gary Lim npsports@sph .com. sg NO form. No confidence. No cohesion. Luckily, it was just a warm-up game. And Singapore coach Raddy Avramovic was quick to suggest that the Lions will be in better shape against China than last night when they defeated a Thai
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    • 569 48 Dear readers, It's been two weeks since I started my Postman's football mailbag in The New Paper. And the response, especially this week, keeps getting better. Our prize winners for last month comprise two boys and a girl. Together, they form
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    • 209 48 A PAIR of VIP tickets for the Singapore-China game will go to each of the first 50 readers (18 years old and above) who turn up at the National Stadium West Entrance from 6.30pm until the 7.30pm kick-off with a copy of The New Paper
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      758 49 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY: BRAZIL v ARGENTINA Wire Services. DESCRIBING any meeting between Brazil and Argentina as a friendly does little justice to the fervent emotions stirred up whenever these South American football superpowers clash. So when two of world football's most passionate teams go head-to-head at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium
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    • 363 50 EURO2OOB QUALIFIERS N IRELAND: Taylor; Baird, Capaidi (M Duff 76), Hughes, Craigan; Clingan, Gillespie, Elliott (Lafferty 64), Davis; Healy, Quinn (Feeney 83) ICELAND: Arason; Steinsson, Sigurdsson, Ingimarsson, Hreidarsson Gunnarsson (Gislason 75), Arnason (Danielsson 55), Gudjonsson, Gudjohnsen; Sigurdsson (Jonsson 64), Thorvaldsson NORTHERN IRELAND 0 ICELAND 3 Thorvaldsson (13th
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