The New Paper, 1 June 2008

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  • 27 1 the new paper Sunday 1 JUNE 2008 JIM Singapore Prom Holding* MICA (P) 113/12/2007 80 CENTS lIIIHIII 8 11 *****1 ir *****9 ll > tne new I paper
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    • 46 1 UL A 1 JUNE 2008 V5 ONE SAYS: I have been crying a lot' HILDREN MUM DYING Siblings prevent brother from taking cancer-stricken mum to his home, fearing he might influence will Brother says it was mums wisn. Durina quarrel, mum's condition worsens she dies later
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 1220 2  -  75-year-old turns critically ill during squabble at her home, then dies soon after Now, her 4 children slug it out in court with eldest son (right] over will that gives him Digger share Karen Wong karcn@sph.com.sg EVEN as their cancer-stricken mother faced
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    • 454 3 Officers ask for cards after miscommunication with KL HQ Massive jam Cards not necessary, they say later CONFUSION and chaos reigned at the Causeway during the past two days. All because of a communications breakdown between the JB immigration and the headquarters in Kuala
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  • sun news
    • 991 5  -  Here on work attachment, foreign students claim they put up with unhygienic conditions at nostel REPORTS AND PICTURES Hedy Khoo hedykhoo@sph.com.sg THEY came to Singapore thinking that they would get challenging jobs as part of their university work attachment programmes. The students had
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    • 178 5 FOREIGN students undergoing industrial attachment in a company as part of their academic programme are required to get a training work permit, a Manpower Ministry spokesman said. The prospective employer has to submit the application tor the foreign student and furnish a security deposit
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    • 293 5 EVEN the international students studying at tertiary institutes here are unhappy with their accommodation at Katong Hostel. The hostel was a finalist for the category of Best Host for International Students Studying in Singapore, at the Singapore Education Awards 2008 held in March, the Singapore
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    • 713 6  -  EX-BAD BOY NOW HELPING AT-RISK YOUTHS Crystal Chan crystalc@sph.com.sg WHEN he was a teenager, he played truant, hooked up with bad company and got into gang fights and other illegal activities. Today, Mr Adrian Ong is 26 and shows no traces of his former self. In a
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 989 8  -  On fuel ban for foreign registered cars, JB petrol station operators say: Shree Ann Mathavan shreeann <Qsph.com.sg THIS picture shows what it will probably be like for Johor petrol stations come 9 Jun. It was taken on Friday before most Singaporeans knew
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    • 146 8 APART from petrol, there are other items that Singaporeans may have to cross out on their shopping lists when they go across the causeway. In February, food items like cooking oil, sugar, wheat flour and chicken were banned from being taken out of the country without a
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    • 1200 9  -  Woman (right) changes maids twice in 2 months, alleging one maid molested son But agency denies giving her bad maids REPORT AND PICTURES Tay Shi'an shian @sph.com.sg SHE blames her maid problems on the agency. But the agency claims she is just a fussy employer.
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    • Article, Illustration
      993 11 ASK Nanyang Technological University student Tansey Tang (above) how she did for her A levels, and she'll tell you she didn't take the exam. Quiz her about her O-level results, and she will tell you the same thing. So how exactly did this second-year English literature student make it
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    • 154 12 There is a lot of sacrifice involved and parents have to be patient, Dut with the right environment any child can excel. A 49-year-old mother on home-schooling three of her four sons. She took her second son out of primary school because he had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
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    • 43 12 The partnerships that (mainstream) schools offer, especially in terms of interaction, is vital for the social ana emotional development of children and will help them move forward in me 21st century. Mr Martin Tan, principal of Anderson Primary School
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    • 177 12 THERE are many home-schooling systems used worldwide and in Singapore. A Beka Academy, Bob Jones University Press, and Advance Training Institute are among these options. Parents have to undergo a training course or read manuals before starting. For the first child, it costs about $1,200 a
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    • 81 12 TE Got a view on a current issue? We want to know. E-mail us at tnptalk@sph.com.sg om 9 Come visit our roadshow, sign up 8c get a FREE Sing Tel hilcard* on top of your subscription gift. What's more! Ist 100 subscribers get a free Eng Wah Movie Gift Card.
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  • 639 13  -  Months aqo, Lydia Sum's funeral drew hundreds. Today, only family members pay respects OUR SUNDAY REPORTING FROM VANCOUVER Maureen Koh maurecnk@5ph.com.sg THE contrast could not be greater. Three months ago in Canada, on 27 Feb, the funeral for famous Hong Kong comedienne Lydia Sum
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 622 14  -  Shree Ann Mathavan shrecann@sph.com.sg WITH the recent spike in food prices, you would be lucky if your favourite hawkers do not raise their prices. But one hawker is making an unconventional move. He has not only slashed his prices, but is also
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    • 445 15 College student (right) strangled after tfying to break up with boyfriend over new love SHE had met someone new and fallen in love. And she was preparing to break the bad news to her boyfriend. Was this love triangle the reason why Nora Jumaat was killed?
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    • 441 15 BODY PARTS ON RAILWAY ABDUCTED MAN n was a gruesome murder straight out of a crime novel. Earlier last week, Selangor police found the severed right leg of a man by die railway tracks near Padang Jawa in Klang. Then a few hours later, they found other body parts scattered
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    • 548 16 Mahathir's website gets million hits in first month HIS quotable quotes are not just limited to his fiery speeches. Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed is now drawing eyeballs to his new blog www.chedet.com In just one month, the former Malaysian premier has chalked
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    • 184 16 THEY managed to rack up six charges under Malaysia's Protection Of Wildlife Act. And the oddest crime they are accused of? Taping up the mouths of 70 pythons and keeping them in a sack. Exotic animal traders Khor Lian Hup, 38, and Tan
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    • 460 17 INDIAN INSTITUTE'S RADICAL PROPOSAL: THEY know he's no doctor, but they line up any way. Mr Abdul Matin runs a clinic in a central Delhi slum. Outside his room, there hangs a sign that says "Dr A Matin, 8.1 AM. (Kolr. And even though this
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    • 539 17 JAPANESE GANG BOSS BARRED FROM UNITED STATES ONE of Los Angeles' top liver surgeons performed a liver transplant on a powerful Japanese gang boss. In return, Mr Tadamasa Goto donated US$lOO,OOO ($136,000) to the UCLA Medical Centre in the affluent district of
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    • 454 18 IRREVERENT awards and sexy, leggy babes. That's what happens when the guys call the shots. At the second annual Spike TV awards on Friday night, Spike TV channel put on its honour roll a sexy Angel, a Playboy tycoon and a snake-loving rocker. Hosted
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  • SUN NEWS
    • SNAPSHOT
      • 48 20 The country (US) is finished. If s all over. But you know, with a new republic like this, if you missed being here at the beginning, the next best thing is to be here at the end. Author Gore Vidal, in an interview with The Guardian
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      • 91 20 THE police have arrested a former Singaporean for the offence of "threatening, abusing or insulting a public servant". Gopalan Pallichadath Nair, who is now a US citizen, was detained yesterday at Broadway Hotel on Serangoon Road A warrant of arrest without bail was granted by the
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      • 77 20 EXTENSIVE investigations are carried out before tunnelling work begins anywhere in Singapore. The Land Transport Authority gave this assurance to those who expressed concern after a recent road cave-in at Cornwall Gardens in the Holland area, where there is tunnelling work for the Circle Line MRT. The
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      • 106 20 NO matter who clinches the US presidency, Washington will remain committed to Asia, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told regional decision makers yesterday. Mr Gates' message at a conference of Asian security and defence officials in Singapore seemed intended to reassure US allies and serve as a
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      • 168 20 conlrws AT the Shangri-La Dialogue yesterday, defence ministers «pninr from the Asia-Pacific and beyond agreed on gukfing principles on how countries should offer help to disaster-bit states. One, it is the responsibility of disaster-hit countries to quickly and effectively bring humanitarian aid to people in
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      • 213 20 Reuters. CHINA has evacuated more than 197,000 people from an area that risks flooding by landslide-blocked rivers near the epicentre of the earthquake in Sichuan province. Police with loudspeakers fanned through Youxian on the outskirts of Mianyang city. The area was almost deserted, but
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      • 78 20 A TAXI driver in China unwittingly became the getaway driver for a thief who had just burgled his home. He picked up the passenger at a bus stop in Huainan city around 3am, with a lot of home appliances, and even noticed that some of them looked like his
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous

  • OUR Sunday
    • 776 21 Academy award winner Faye Dunaway Bai Ling are in this Soorean's film HE was rejected by one of our polys, went to the US to continue his studies and now, his first film has been sold to 25 territories worldwide (excluding Singapore
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    • 363 21  -  siong Wee IJm been called a publicity whore with no (l«r «c(7emiic behaviour she was recently astetedfor shoplifting two magazines and some batteries at the Los Angeles International AirpQft-~Jbas made headlines. is often slammed for wearing wacky outfit&o red carpet
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    • 502 22  -  WHERE: Al Qasr 1 46 Lorong 1 Mambong, 1 Holland Village Tel: 6467 7793 I WHO WENT: (From left) Hong JunJie, 20 ballroom dancer Emi Mizushima, 19, ballroom dancer ■Joshua Lim, 19, national swimmer Yeoh Wee Teck wecteck@sph.com.sg THEY are some of Singapore's
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  • 519 24 OUR SUNDAY Bryan Adams aims to raise awareness about hearing loss with celeb portrait exhibition CANADIAN rocker Bryan Adams makes a living standing in between a wall of guitar amplifiers and thousands of fans screaming their lungs off at him while
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  • OUR SUNDAY
    • 821 26 Winner of web portal lucky draw gets date mIi beaufojqueen but there*! a catch M WAY before the appointed time of 6.30pm, staff at restaurant and bar Mezza9 at the Grand Hyatt were already busy at work, setting up the place so it would be
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    • 702 27  - Needs wants -start 'em young Santokh Singh santokh @sph. com.sg THE school holidays are here again. And it is that time of the year for some replenishments in our home. To replenish, at least, in terms of the children's physical needs (since, mentally, they are still being taxed a fair
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    • 484 27  -  By SM Ong smong @sph. eom.sg IT was a defining moment in my brief movie-reviewing career. The film was a now-forgotten 1993 Bruce Willis thriller called Striking Distance. Panning it on live television on a now-forgotten variety show called Live On 5, hosted by
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 237 28 Debbie Travis Facelift Olympic Golden Moments GP Stoiy The Beijing Dream Lite's Funniest Moments Sunday Afternoon Movie Home Alone 4 Just For Variety I Propose Fashion Police Journeyman Traveler Gilmore Girls Sunday Prime Movie Princess Diaries 2 News 5 Tonight Rouge Love You To Death The Apprentice The Knights Of
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    • 140 28 Closed Note Celestial Movies (StarHub Ch 61), 9pm A college student discovers the diary of a former tenant at his new residence. He becomes addicted to her entries as she bares her soul describing her experiences as a teacher. Starring Erika Sawajiri, Yuko Takeuchi. The Hoax Star Movies (StarHub Ch
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    • 73 28 TView Super Size Me Arts Central, 10pm This documentary feature written, directed and starring Morgan Spurlock takes an irreverent look at obesity in the US and one of its sources fast food corporations. Rouge Channel 5,10pm Join feisty Patricia Mok, Ivy-Singh Lim and Michelle Chong for rip-roaring fun as they
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  • Article, Illustration
    239 29 Getting married? Had a baby? Or just having a crush? Maybe you want to tnank someone? Whatever it is, we want to know. Send your pictures and messages t0... tnpforum@sph.com.sg To my beloved LaoPo Cheryl, Life was black and white before I met you. Thank you for adding
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  • SUN RACING
    • 631 31  -  $151 outsider Pnenom resumes from bleeding attack to capture $500,000 Patrons' Bowl Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg PHENOM defied a big rise in grade and a bleeding attack at his last start to score an upset win in the $500,000 Patrons' Bowl to give trainer
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    • 2059 31 GOING: YIELDING Double: The trainer Desmond Koh-Hydrocarbon Stable combination completed etikxible with Conquer Time (Oscar Chavez) in Race 6. Race 1 MS (LC) 1400m 6 Lam kMEITME 56 c 55 (12-7) Mi Ads (3) 3 2 1 < !494) 8 MSSIO PLWmUS 54.5 (48-11)
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    • 1725 32 RACE 1 REMY and WEALTH SECTOR, who broke through the barriers, were examined and passed fit to race. WEALTH SECTOR was slow. Shortly after the start, SNARING TIGER checked after shifting in abruptly on the heels of DRAGON SWORD. LIM'S ADVENTURE was difficult to settle
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      188 33 (Race 6 No. 8) BEST BET LOST no marks when he went down to fellow debutant Killa last month in a similar Restricted Maiden event over 1,200m. With the benefit of that rim, this John Meagher-trained three-year-old by Towkay should be able to go one better. He starts
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    • 100 33 GOING: YIELDING Due to adverse weather conditions, yesterday's Perth Races 2 to 8 were abandoned. All bets on Races 2 to 8 will be refunded. Race 1 1000M 3 NOLLAMARA 55.0 (21-7) 5 MINEOURS LUCK 55.0 (23-9) 8 OUTSIDE INFLUENCE 53.5 (13-6) A Kennedy
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    • 1915 34 GOING FORECAST: YIELDING RACE 1 Mo. Last 8 n m worn Wt tatiia Jockay •arte v (Aga/iriila/sai, tralaar imm) 1 Tobias 58 (55) VMvaa 1 (4nzg S Burridge-Toblas) 2 00-89 Qakfc Fti 55 (49) H too 4 (4nzg Desmond Koh-Century City) 3
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    • 49 34 RACE S: Manuka, Golden Flame, Ready To Go, Eternal Luck; Sporting Chance, Daring Commander. RACE 9: Zibellino, King Of Honour, Guerilla, Silent Force, Golden Jet, Kakurei, Silent Account, On My Marque, Blueberry Power. RACE 10: Big Valour, Raul, Graduate Boy, Starbeel, Smart Conqueror. RACE 11: Ready To Dash.
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    • 1995 35 LARRY FOLEY'S COMMENTS FOR TODAY'S KRANJI RACES RACE 1 (1,200 m) 1 Tobias Former Kiwi galloper who has been placed three times from 11 starts but might need this run with market best guide tor all newcomers. 2 Quick Fix Hasn't shorn anything. 3 Mountain
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    • 1084 36 Preview by Phillip Woo, courtesy of The Hong Kong Jockey Club RACE 1 (1,200 m) Big Winner Again (No. 4) has made nice progress on each of his two outings to date, the latest a fast second behind Flying Colours over this course
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    • 1033 36 GOING FORECAST: GOOD TO YIELDING I |M 3 1 1 Cf MOuPimto 129 129 129 1 (20 120 120 s 2 J. 1 YOW OOotUZB J 4 5 YrPfY ATM HWLai YTChwo rr-"I" "i CSS 6 Mom 6 17' 1 I i CF B
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 33 33 Rfl' Saturday, 31 May 2008 First Second Third 2886 4566 0281 Starters 7606 1360 7123 1061 6581 5984 2891 8633 4252 3581 Consolation 1021 6510 8736 3851 5936 8499 9853 6623 2544 6398
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  • Sunday SPORTS Mad about golf
    • 723 37 Mad about golf SERGIO Garcia's win at last month's Players Championship was, I imagine, warmly welcomed by most golf fans out there...except maybe my dad! Lured by generous odds of as much as 50-1, my dad had habitually backed Sergio to win literally every week he
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    • 583 38 Perry Goggin joint top Wire Services. BOTH took differing paths, but now find themselves in the joint lead. In the second round of the Memorial on Friday, first round leader Mathew Goggin maintained his lead over the pack, but was joined by two time winner Kenny Perry at the top.
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    • 345 38 AMERICAN teen Michelle Wie remained in the hunt for the Ladies German Open in Munich after she added a three-under-par 69 to her opening 68. Wie reached the halfway point on Friday on seven under par for a share of sixth place, three behind England's
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    • 606 39  -  National bowler picks perfect moment to win maiden title By Lenny Lim npsports@sph.com.sg THE long wait is finally over. After several false dawns, national bowler Cherie Tan finally won her maiden bowling tide yesterday. And she could not have chosen a better occasion to break
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    • Article, Illustration
      664 40 TENNIS: FRENCH OPEN No Henin. And now, no Williams sisters... Wire Services. WITH the exit of the Williams sisters on Friday, die stage is now set for a first-time women's winner at the French Open. Will Maria Sharapova add die French Open to complete a career Grand Slam?
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    • 912 41  -  Calling all sporty bosses! Do you have an active sporting lifestyle away from the office? Do you play one or more non-traditional sports? Or do you know of such a boss? Please email details to npsports@sph.com.sg Lim Han Ming npsports<B)sph.com.sg Badminton was his first love. So when the
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    • 341 42 Healthy body healthy mind WALK the walk, talk the talk. British insurer Aviva believes in promoting an active healthy lifestyle for people of all ages. That is why they have invested heavily in sports sponsorship prgrammes around die world. In Singapore, they sponsor the Aviva Singapore Open and the Aviva
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    • 126 42 THE Aviva Singapore Open will be held at the Singapore Indoor stadium from 10 to 15 June. The US$2OO,OOO ($273,000) tournament is the fifth stop on the Badminton World Federation's 12-leg Super Series. Top stars such as Malaysia's world No. 2 Lee Chong Wei and Denmark's
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      901 43 Every Sunday in the Singapore at Large series, The New Paper profiles the Singapore sports scene with a national or grassroots perspective* Today, ERNEST LUIS looks at how a new Singaporean world recora holder uses her disablities to inspire herself AFTER Joscelin Yeo in the *****, Singapore's been
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    • 418 43 FOR the past four years, Theresa Goh has played "big sister" to Yip PinXiu. Now 21, Goh recalled: "It's amazing how Pin Xiu has come of age suddenly but nicely. "She used to be so small, and tiny. "But she's developed physically and that has really
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    • Article, Illustration
      811 44 Tao Li was recently named the Sportswoman of the Year for the second time in a row. JOYCE UM catches up with the Beijing-bound Olympian to find out her daily and dietary nabits... TIME is one thing this Singapore swimming golden girl does not have. Because
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    • 279 45 AT five, Tao Li, was already swimming. At 10, she became a national champion. And when she reached 12, she was ranked among the top eight in China. Tao was born in Hubei and both her parents are national swimmers. Her father, Tao Ran, 45, works as
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    • EURO 2008 WARM-UPS
      • 401 46 -AP. HOLLAND coach Marco van Basten will seek to plug the last holes in his Euro 2008 line-up during today's warm-up game against Wales. Blessed with an abundance of creative players but suffering from a dearth of solid defenders, the Dutch are already set to
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      • 524 46 Wire Services. FEW ITALIAN CLUES WORLD champion Italy head to Euro 2008 in confident mood after their 3-1 win over Belgium on Friday. But they learnt little too, during the game. Italy coach Roberto Donadoni has organised just one friendly in the run-up to
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    • TRANSFER TRAIL
      • 332 47 The transfer season is on, and the speculation mounts. GEOFFREY LIP wraps up the latest news. Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard, and now maybe Franck Ribery? It would be an attacking triumvirate that would send shivers down the spines of Premiership defences, and cause any
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      • 233 47 THERE might be a transfer wrangle now for Manchester City centre-back Richard Dunne. After breaking the news that Dunne had all but signed for Tottenham Hotspur yesterday, master wheeler deeler himself Harry Redknapp has thrown his hat into the race for the Republic of Ireland
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      • 363 47 THE TOON maybe facing a clearout in the summer. With Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley keen to trim their massive wage bill, there could be several departures from Tyneside in the coming months. As it is, Turkish giants Fenerbahce have already announced that they have
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    • 1060 48 How well do you know the Lions? Ahead of the first of Singapore's must-win World Cup qualifiers against Uzbekistan, with their first dash tomorrow night, BERTONLIMg ives you the lowcfown on 16 Lions who could feature in the Uzbek double-header BAIHAKKI KHAIZAN Who inspires you most? My
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    • 132 48 2010 Fifa World Cup Asian World Cup Qualifiers WHEN: Monday, 2 Jun, 7.30pm WHERE: National Stadium EARLY BIRD TICKET DETAILS: (until Sunday) Grandstand $15, Gallery Adult $6, Gallery Student (Secondary, ITE and Junior College students only) $2 SALES: All S-League clubs (office hours) and FAS Office (Mon-Fri,
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    • 952 49  -  Steve Bates Special Correspondent S IR Alex Ferguson escalated Manchester United's war with Real Madrid by amazingly insisting the club would dump Cristiano Ronaldo in the stands for four years, rather than sell him to the Spanish club. In an astonishing display
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    • 251 50 Wire Services. REAL Madrid sporting director Predrag Mijatovic insists they have no agreement with Cristiano Ronaldo about a possible move from Manchester United. Real's pursuit of Ronaldo has been making headlines for the last few weeks, with barely a day going by without some media speculation regarding the
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    • 314 50 Wire services SPANISH newspaper Marca is now claiming that Meuichester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo is heading for Real Madrid after all. They base their claim on an interview with the Portuguese star's godfather. According to his godfather, Real Madrid represents an offer that Cristiano
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    • 136 50 CRISTIANO Ronaldo's Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has revealed he has advised him on his future. Ronaldo is now with the national squad preparing for Euro 2008. Scolari, speaking at a press conference ahead of Portugal's friendly with Georgia yesterday, says he will
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    • 181 40 day left to catch the Lions in action as they seek to make history by being the first Singapore team to reach the final stages of FIFA World Cup™ qualification. Come down and support the Lions tomorrow. 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Qualifier of the Asian Zone (3rd Round)
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