The New Paper, 9 September 2007

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  • 24 1 the new Paper Satuday 9 SEPTEMBER 2007 Singapore Press Holdings MICA (P) 196/12/2006 80 CENTS 8 *****1 *****9 9 Sept 2007 the new paper
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    • 79 1 NGTZEYONG REPORTS FROM KOLKATA q n 10 SEP 2%l W±_ m— a u HE FORCES COLLEAGUE'S rim# I WIFE TO BE HIS LOVER. ■K W §HR I BUT WHEN HE FRAMES I I I *JV HER HUSBAND, q—j SHE FIGHTS BACK M ILhM Wjk V hl vy« >- s >-
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 687 2  -  Wedding dinner at Newton Food Centre Cara van Miriah caravm @sph. com.sg CHEERS of "yam seng". Words of congratulations. Hugs and smiles. A man in a crisp white shirt and tie goes from table to table to make toasts and show his
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    • 642 4  -  Ft RACING COUNTDOWN Faith Teo wcnli@sph.com.sg IS Punggol slated to host the first heartland racing extravaganza? The New Paper on Sunday has learnt that there are plans to run a series of professional go-kart racing events as curtain-raisers for next September's Formula One race, which will
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    • 75 2 Email: I tnp@sph.com.sg I Hotline: I 180^*****51 Hit- M'-:: IHr A OUR fight clubs More S'poreans are choosing to spend their leisure time, well, fighting 26 OUR new faces Three New Face V finalists get got whole new faces she 30 i hoi OUR space pet Your pictures and messages.
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 1401 6  -  10 YEARS AFTER HER DEATH, MOTHER TERESA'S CHARITIES HAVE GROWN REPORTING FROM KOLKATA Ng Tze Yong tzcyong@sph.com.sg EVERY morning, just as the nuns' soulful singing reaches its crescendo, the first dreadlocked, turban-clad volunteer taps softly on
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    • 113 6 Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, 26 Aug 1910. At 18, joins Sisters of Loreto in India. After training in Dublin, takes vows as a nun in India in 1931. Teaches at St Mary's High School in Kolkata for 17 years. In 1948, leaves
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    • 282 7 "THIS is where normal people go for vacation," a colleague told me naif in jest last week, patting a travel book on Europe. I had just returned from Kolkata. My warped sense of vacation made me go there on my own time and money to write this
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    • 632 8  -  That's what inspired S'pore's only female getai musician to play Chong Zheng Ying chongzy@sph.com.sg IT'S always the emcees and performers who have been in the spotlight of the getai circuit. Scant attention, if any, is paid to the often non-descript band in the background. Yet
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    • 994 9  -  BY THAT, I MEAN AT HOME It's getting fashioname to call your hotel home S'pore's Ritz-Carlton Residences at Cairnhill will be first in Asia 60 exclusive units to go up for sale next month Owners expected to pay $2,000 to $3,000 for monthly maintenance, which includes
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    • 920 11  -  rith job Tan Mae Lynn maclynn @sph.com.sg FIRST he pretended to be a mentor to two young girls, by advising them to listen to their family elders. He also offered them pocket money for doing simple household chores for him. But Khairulhizam Din Ahmad, 36, was
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    • 238 11 HIZAM denied restraining or molesting Aishah, claiming it was she who had insisted on going to his flat. There, he claimed only to have watched TV and slept, leaving the child to potter about In the kitchen. Hizam maintained that he did not touch Aishah,
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    • 968 12  -  Stuntmen voice concern about amateurs who fool around on Net Stunt-riding Zaihan Mohamed Yusof zaihan @sph.com.sg THEY don't know what they are doing. That's what Mr Jonathan Tan says of motorcyclists doing stunts on the road. Now Mr Tan, he
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    • 957 14 HE showed her pictures of her husband with a younger woman. Then, pretending to comfort her, the mayor of Baoji city in China's Shanxi province slipped a drug into her hot tea. Madam Zeng Qian (not her real name) woke up
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    • 354 15 AP. YOU can breathe again, Vanessa Hudgens (below) Disney isn't going to dump you. The 18-year-old star of Disney TV movie franchise High School Musical has been the centre of an uproar after at least one photograph of her nude (appeared on
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    • 261 15 AP. ITS a greeting card that has sent itself into hot waterSeeking an injunction and unspecified damages to be 'f. determined at trial, Paris Hilton is suing Hallmark Cards Inc over the use of her picture and catchphrase, "That's hot", on a greeting card.
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    • 496 16 Friendship sites for older users gaining popularity IT's the latest in online social networking sites targeting the grey-haired. Technology investors and entrepreneurs have started a host of new social networking sites with names like Eons, Rezoom, Multiply, Maya's Mom, Boomj and Boomertown, reported the International Herald
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    • Article, Illustration
      538 17 US Open tennis tournament gets extra fashionable this year JUDGING by the eye-popping outfits worn by tennis stars at this year's US Open, the fact that the competition t coincides with New York's i Fashion Week is looking less J and less like a coincidence. M Just look
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    • 1039 18 Her life as sex slave and junkie is now a bestseller YAKUZA IF you see author Shoko Tendo on the streets of Japan, you probably wouldn't take a second look at her. With her dark-brown hair, slim figure, and girlish smile, she looks just like
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    • 338 20 CHAINED DUMPED SHE SWIMS TO SHORE Hubby chains himself too, drives them off pier A MELBOURNE man allegedly chained and bound his wife inside their family car and drove it off a pier in a bizarre murder-suicide attempt, reported Australian newspaper The Mercury. Both survived the ordeal, which took place
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    • SNAPSHOT
      • Article, Illustration
        42 21 Having beckoned ordinary Americans with the lure of cheap credit and stock market gains, the invisible hand of the market has now grabbed them by the scruff erf the neck and is shaking them mercilessly. Garv Younge in The Guardian
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      • 95 21 TWO private estates Opera Estate in Siglap and East View Garden in Simei are due for a facelift under the Private Estate Upgrading Programme. This was announced at the East Coast Town Day held near the Tan ah Merah MRT station yesterday. Hundreds had turned up
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      • 74 21 rrs beach voUeybaa but it's not at the beach. It's at the shopping mall Velocity Novena Square, right in the city. It is part of the Velocity Beach Festival organised by the mall, which wiß see 66 teams, including international players, pk their skills againstotke in this
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      • 102 21 OSAMA bin Laden has appeared in a new video released ahead of the sixth anniversary of the 11 Sep attacks. He made no overt threats but lectured Americans on the Iraq war and criticised global capitalism, calling its leaders the real terrorists. There were several references
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      • 164 21 Sydney Declaration calls for boost to energy efficiency, forestation THE focus was on climate change at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit yesterday, with the 21 leaders agreeing to cut greenhouse gas emissions. However, the host, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, described it as
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      • 110 21 IN what is said to be one of the country's worst accidents in recent years, a truck carrying about 200 pilgrims plunged into a ravine in Jodhpur, India, on Friday. The truck driver had lost control on a sharp bend in a mountainous region and smashed
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      • 205 21 CHINESE military hackers have drawn up a plan to disable the United States' battle carrier fleet through a cyber attack, British newspaper The Times said on Saturday, citing a Pentagon report. The daily claimed that the blueprint is part of a plan by Beijing
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      • 74 21 Someone wrote an obscene comment about London mayor Ken Livingstone in huge letters on the top of a city bus. It was not visible from street level and the bus began service as usual on Friday. But those on higher levels of tall buildings were soon reeding It. The
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  • OUR Sunday
    • 1026 22  -  Muay thai is getting so popular that some men are thinking of going pro Sheela Narayanan shecla@sph.com.sg THE odour of medicated oil rubbed into aching sweaty limbs scents the air as the thwack of the punching bag assaults your ears. In the background, die gentle plunking
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    • 467 23 ■UNETTE Lee (left) was at her muay thai gym called Fight IjA Club on Friday morning, m busy hitting her calves WM hard with a short bunch of 15 rotans (canes). The 34-year-old, who is self-employed, explained that what seemed like "self-flagellation" was the order of
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    • 196 24 Ms Winnie Heng demonstrates basic moves of muay thai that beginners and novices cut their teeth and shins on DIY MIIAY THAI The Straight Punch This is a power punch extended directly towards the opponent, aimed at the chin or abdomen. The Elbow
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    • 539 25  -  Over 60? Round up your friends and live it up Suffer an empty nest? Sylvia Toh Paik Choo paikchoo@sph.com.sg LAST month in Seattle, visiting a younger sister, I bought a bracelet for its quirky design of linked hats. The owner of the souvenir shop asked
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    • 136 26  -  Chong Zheng Ying chongzy@sph.com.sg WHEN you're a finalist in one of the H| most high-profile modelling contests HL here The New Paper New Face V*. knowing how to stand out from the crowd is Wm essential. With a little help from our friends at MAC, W
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    • 151 26 SHARIFAH HOOD jifi Future Graphic IT'S art for the eyes literally. MAC.'s Future Graphic look straight from its fall/winter show lets you show off your graphic skills with boldly elongated eye lines, fluidly whipped and glossed into shape. It's elegance with a dark side.
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    • 132 26 ANNA LIM in Techno-Colour IF you think fall/winter is all about dark earthy tones, think again. Said Beno: "This season is seeing a lot of bright colours." For Anna, the bright red lips was a radical departure from her everyday makeup. Said the 17-year-old student:
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    • 119 26 RHADHIKA MEGANATHAN in Taylored INSPIRED by iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor, this look is for those who can't live without those sultry smoky eyes. Said Beno: "The focus is on the eyes, giving them a slightly smoky look by using eyeshadow on the top inner area of
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    • 162 26 WHEN MAC. throws a party, it's a big one. Held at hot new club Play at Tanjong Pagar Road last month, the makeup label long thought of as one of the world's trendiest brands introduced its fall/winter makeup collection. Finalists of
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    • 648 27  -  Leong Ching chingKS/sph.comsg «A H, you naughty little pixie, I'll turn I 1 you out of the house, see if I don't. I'll give you such a spanking, if you make me cross," a silvery little voice cut across the cold morning
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    • 812 28  -  Mee rebus at Parkway Parade KF Seetoh Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg HOW do you spot a good food court stall? One little trick I use is to look for some visual clues.. The place is usually a little less shiny. Note the slightly-worn serving counter that
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    • 535 29  -  Detox with yoga, part 2 Bharat Thakur Columnist tnpl&sph.comsg ISN'T it amazing? Thousands of years ago, yogis devised techniques that would help cleanse ourselves internally. They believed you had to cleanse yourself both from the inside as well as externally to stay fit and healthy
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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    • 50 30 n\ "S /> V > /> r Vj o /A FV 'v a? X V a f 'tG4tt yboi tfrt "nfyfy ftaiaMdiday* \6 Fridays. Look out for our weekly monday contests from 10 September 2007 to win attractive prizes. I i M t I i i i I i i
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
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    264 31 OUR SUNDAY Getting married? Had a baby? Or just having a crush? Maybe you want to thank someone? Whatever it is, we want to know. Send your pictures and messages to... tnpforum@sph.com.sg To: Yvonne I LOVE YOU!!-Wei Xiong ■■■■mum Charlene, Happy Birthday on 6th September!! U r 2
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  • SUN RACING
    • 121 33 SUNDAY TOPTIPS pea rzi ■Pp R5mJ --Y 9 Penang Prestige Watch The Crab 4 Man With Honour 3 Jeram Faithful 1 Really Good 4 Where Also Ken 7 Kjm Uncle r lOGokl Blade 7 Real Quick 'iV 3 Success Knight h Jri PSffiSfli Msrarj 1.Really 4 Man Good
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    • 84 33 BEST BET (Race 8 No. 4) ONE who seldom runs a bad race, this Tiang Kim Choi-trained Scenic four-year-old is knocking on the door again as suggested by his two latest runs. Last time out, he raced from off the pace to finish fourth over the Ipoh
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    • 1160 33 RACE 1 to. Lad 1 n m HORSE Wt ftatliK JtcJcsy Carrier (Aga/origlalaai. trainer-owner) 1 iMlMlM 57 (53) N Azmaa (4nzg Um Hoon Seng-Bee Bee) 2 -0 Qaatwiataa 57 (53) 1 talfwdla 1 (5n7g 0 Sidek-KK Tee) 3 9 SpMtf Hmmt 57
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    • 81 33 RACE 3: Lim's Quartz, Joker Jack, Historian, Rousing Wind, Dane Hero, My Honey. RACE 4: Stronger, Speedy Wong Choy, Dynawing, Jeram, Easy Go Lucky, Gold Blade. RACE 5: Hari Kaya, Royal Beauty, Lim's Silver, Trust N Sincere. RACE 6: Labu Labu, Shaggadelic, Winning Fighter, Greg Is Great, Balance Funds,
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    • 1509 34 RACE 1 Prior to the running of Race 1, trainer S Chua advised the Stewards that his instructions to jockey Din Azis, the rider of ZINWONN, if circumstances permit, to jump well and try to go forward and ride a front running race.
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    • 159 34 JOIN in for some family fun at the Singapore Racecourse tonight The Singapore Turf Club is celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival with melodies ranging from classical pieces to Mandarin pop classic tunes, performed by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. This is die fifth installment of SSO The Racecourse
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    • 799 35 GOING: SOFT 7 WMCHESTER WONDER 55 (7-5) *HK Ua (5) 1 1 1 (480) 6 ROYAL SJURRAfiE 55 (172-17) I MMifl (7) 2 2 2 (488) 11 2 REST FRIBB 55 (242-28) SAmta (6) 6 3 3 518 6.25 8 WOMERFUL KIR 55 (506-53) TMWu (2)
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    • 204 35  -  ROOKIE HK LIM BOUNCES FROM RACE FALL TO SNARE THREE WINNERS Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg HE fell but that wasn't going to stop him from bouncing back to complete a winning treble. Top-form apprentice Lim Hock Kheng (left) did just that in Penang yesterday. After steering
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    • 459 35 -GOING: GOOD 1 MY TIME 58 (8-5) SIM* (7) 1 2 BRAVE KMtfiHT 57 (30-6) J CMt* (6) 2 7 LABY ICONIC 56 (42-11) WPIkt (2) 3 Traiaar. DL Morton. Marfiaa: 1.75, nk, hd. Tkaa: Imin 10.14 sec. Faracatt $11. Maca Forecast: $3 (Nos. 1-2),
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    • 950 36 TIPS AND FORM COMMENTS BY PHILIP WOO, COURTESY OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB RACE 1 (1200 m) Silly Boy (No. 3) failed to greet the judge in 12 outings last season, but did place on three occasions in Class 4 and, more importantly,
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    • 929 36 GOING FORECAST: GOOD I 1 IMMMKY OJH B Prebble 133 2 2 MUtBI JM Z Purton 132 9 3 MIT NY ATM KTYeung(-7) 131 10 4 SPICY MY CF CKTong(-7) 131 8 5 FASTMFASTM OEF D Whyte 130 13 6 OEMMASTM CSS 6
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 33 34 R Saturday, 8 Sep 2007 First Second Third 2115 7583 3391 Starters 3992 2621 1157 8139 2978 3742 1793 3230 7266 9844 Consolation 1213 4779 0624 3661 4314 6817 9040 7198 5323 1954
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  • Sunday SPORTS
    • 739 37 reuters IT'S hard not to take at least a hint of twisted pleasure from the discord between the players and the PGA Tour over the FedEx Cup. I mean, a little bit of confrontation is so much more interesting. Far better than when everyone is chummy. So,
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    • 352 37 Reuters. THE biggest conundrum facing the captain of every US Ryder and Presidents Cup team has been finding the right player to partner Tiger Woods. Later this month, Jack Nickiaus will play match maker, setting up Woods with a suitable mate when the US
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    • Article, Illustration
      576 38 AFP. AARON Baddeley's six-under 65 propelled him into a tie with Jonathan Byrd for the lead at the PGA BMW Championship, with Tiger Woods sitting just one shot back. The 26-year-old Australian, who is seeking his second victory of the year, had eight birdies in the second
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    • 315 38 AFP. TAIWAN'S Teresa Lu, Australian Katherine Hull and young American Kristy McPherson defied a rain delay to share the lead in die weather disrupted LPGA NW Arkansas Championship. After waiting out a rain delay of more than four hours on Friday, all three shot
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  • sun SPORTS
    • 518 39 MALAYSIA'S Danny Chia recorded a morale-boosting victory in the US$50,000 ($76,275) International Championship, presented by Telkomsel, yesterday after overturning an overnight deficit of seven strokes. In a thrilling finish to the first event on die Asean Golf Tour, Chia lifted his first trophy
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    • 98 39 AZLAN Zainol beat a huge field of 240 golfers to win the Pharmaton Palm Resort 2007 Golf Challenge at Palm Resort Golf and Country Club yesterday. Azlan reurned a one-under 71 to finish four shots ahead of Chia Kim Sin and Mohd Fadil in the
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    • 104 39 MALAYSIA'S M Ramayah shares a four-way lead with Taiwan's Cheng Tsang Te and Tseng China Fa and Australian David Saunders after the second round of the Asian Senior Masters Malaysia 2007 at Palm Garden in Putrajaya. The four are on a two-round total of six-under 138, reported
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    • 197 39 Wire Services. DEFENDING champion Bradley Dredge of Wales and Australian Brett Rumford carried a one-shot lead into the final round of the Omega European Masters in Switzerland last night. Dedge and Rumford are on 13-under, a shot ahead of overnight leader Oliver Wilson. But Sion
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    • U.S. OPEN TENNIS
      • 595 40 AP. lUSTINE Henin has the edge in the battle for former champs. The Belgian takes on Russian Jtlana Kuznetsova in the final of the US Open this morning (Singapore time), chasing a seventh Grand Slam tide and a litde piece of history. And few
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      • 144 40 AP. SHE'S blown away both Williams sisters. Justine Henin outlasted Venus Williams, three days after knocking out Venus' sister, Serena, winning Friday's semi-final 7-6 (2), 6-4. Packing a powerful serve, wicked backhands and daring rushes to the net, Henin ended hopes of a Williams in the final
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    • RUGBY WORLD CUP 2007
      • 515 41 We belong to the elite, say victorious Argentinians AFP Argentina skipper Agustin Pichot boasted that the Pumas have proven a point with their stunning 17-12 World Cup upset of France: That they deserve to be treated as one of the world's elite teams. For a long
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      • 449 41 Wire Services THE Samoa rugby team had to be "rescued" by residents of Paris after arriving in the French capital without enough money to feed themselves ahead of the Rugby World Cup. The New Zealand Herald reported yesterday that residents of the Haute
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      • 512 42 NEW ZEALAND 76 ITALY 14 Reuters NEW Zealand showed yesterday why they are the World Cup favourites. The All Blacks sent out a warning to their rivals by destroying an awe-struck Italy side 76-14 in their Pool C opener in Marseille. Just as they did when
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      • 191 42 AFP NEW Zealand coach Graham Henry hailed his team's playmakers, after their comprehensive 76-14 rout of Italy yesterday. "We're obviously pretty pleased... very satisfied with the performance especially in the first game," said Henry, highlighting the exemplary decision-maldng shown by his team's playmakers. "They made
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      • 349 42 AUSTRALIA 91 JAPANS u' I AFP FLANKER Rocky Elsom scored a hat-trick of tries as Australia opened their World Cup campaign with a 91-3 mauling of Japan yesterday. The Australians led 23-3 at half-time with three first-half tries. They put the plucky Japanese to the sword
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    • F1 2007
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    • 99 47 SPONSORS: Is there any sponsor out there who empathises with and wants to help Low Ji Wen, Michelle Sng and others like them, who haven't made it at a certain medal-winning level yet, but need help to get to tnat level in the first place. E-mail
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    • 1051 48 NOT enough support. How many times have you read sports stories with such headlines in the press? Too many to remember? So, isn't it rather refreshing to know that Michelle Sng, Singapore's national high-jumper, has managed to secure sponsorship on her very own? Michelle, 20, who
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      • 76 49 WHEN GidaniaWong's boyfriend, Earl ■te Tan, first came across this Weekend BmMAG column, he told her she'd be BPpfftifi 11 fui (l He JoW ut, too, and added that in*. BMP®-* liimAtw't i ii li. n< 11 '.a,. a little bit It doesn't matter how much
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      • 133 51 Wire Services MOST strikers will not turn down the chance to don the No. 9 shirt. Aiyegbeni Yakubu is one who did he opted for No. 22 instead. Some of the greatest strikers in football have worn the No. 9 jersey, but Yakubu, who joined
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      • 223 53 HUNGARY 1 BOSNIA 0 AP ZOLTAN Gera converted a penalty in the 39th minute to give Hungary a 1-0 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina in a Euro 2QOB yesterday. Hungary striker Robert Feczesin was brought down by Branimir Bajic inside the box, and Gera sent Bosnia
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