The New Paper, 9 August 2008

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  • SAT NEWS
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      Lock icon Pushers return even after residents tell them off
      789 2  -  PASIR RIS SALES PITCH: YOU WANT? CONTRABAND f CIGARETTES? T W 'POWER' PILLS? Special Correspondent tnp@sph.com.sg THE two youths look like typical bored teenagers waiting for friends at the void deck of Block 429, Pasir Ris Drive 6. Their trendy sling bags
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      Lock icon If only I had read this report
      693 3  -  Two Honda Super 4 motorbikes stolen in space of two weeks S'PORE VICTIM OF ANOTHER JB BIKE THEFT LAMENTS: Hedy Khoo hedykhoo@sph.com.sg I might not have lost my motorcycle if I had known of the earlier theft. "I would have been more careful,"
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      76 2 SORRY TV NstMgs (TNP, 8 Aug): We apologise for giving the wrong telecast time for the Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony yesterday. It should have been Bpm. HEY S'PORE! H From getal to ghosts, from being and about money to mad about football... We pick the highlights from local films
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  • SAT NEWSWATCHER S'PORE
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      Lock icon S'pore revises growth forecast to 4-5%
      220 5 SINGAPORE has revised its full-year growth forecast, narrowing the range to between 4 and 5 per cent. The Government's earlier projection was 4 to 6 per cent. The change was announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in his National Day message, when he
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      Lock icon Dolphin left to die at Labrador Park
      111 5 A man takes a photo of a corpse of what looks Uke a dolphin along the beach at Labrador Park in Pasir Paniang. Another man, a Mr Fung, had discovered the dead body around lpm yesterday. He told Shin Min Dauy News that
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      Lock icon Raising kids worth it: Minister
      107 5 ACTING Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong yesterday lamented that some Singaporeans now have a different attitude towards having children. In a dialogue with Sembawang residents, he said that although raising children was tough, it was well worth the effort Mr Gan, who has two daughters,
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      Lock icon Old Commonwealth Drive flats to go
      96 5 RESIDENTS of Blocks 74 to 80 on Commonwealth Drive will soon be offered new flats as part of the latest redevelopment exercise by the Housing Board (HDB). Under the Selective En-bloc Redevelopment Scheme (Sers), 669 households in the 44-year-old precinct near Tanglin Halt will
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      Lock icon More cases of chikungunya fever
      100 5 THERE are eight more cases of chikungunya fever involving six foreign workers and two locals working at Kranji Way. Five of the foreign workers work and reside in Kranji Way, the Health Ministry said, while the last foreign worker commutes daily from Malaysia. This brings
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      Lock icon 30,000 students united in pledge
      95 5 MORE than 30,000 students from 53 schools attempted to join hands to form an unbroken human chain across Central Singapore yesterday past noon, to mark Singapore's 43rd birthday. President S R Nathan stepped in to complete the link, before everyone recited the national pledge, their
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      Lock icon STB starts online racing game
      106 5 THE Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has launched the Uniquely Singapore Racer a 3D interactive flash application that allows online players to race in downtown Singapore in the shortest time. There is also a Facebook application for the game, which allows players to post scores on
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  • SAT NEWSWATCHER WORLD
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      Lock icon New losses unveiled at US mortgage giant
      212 7 US mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae reported a much larger-than-expected loss in the second quarter and slashed its dividend yesterday. It was another sign that the problems in housing and financial markets are not over reported CNN. The firm reported a net loss
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      Lock icon 08.08.08 baby fever hits China
      64 7 Chinese babies born on the auspicious 08.08.08-also the opening date of the Beijing Olympics at a hospital in Hefei, Anhui province. Thousands of these babies have been named by their patriotic parents dter the five mascots of the games Beibei the Fish, Jingling the Panda,
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      Lock icon Russian tanks enter Georgia
      80 7 TENSIONS flared as Russian tanks rolled into the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, reported the BBC yesterday. At least 15 civilians were reported dead, while Moscow's defence ministry said more than 10 of its peacekeeping troops were killed, with 30 wounded. Georgian President
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      Lock icon World's largest ecstasy bust
      80 7 AUSTRALIAN Federal Police busted an international drug ring and seized nearly 5 tons of ecstasy in what they say is the world's single largest seizure of. the pills. The joint operation with the Australian Customs Service led to yesterday's arrests of 16 people allegedly involved in
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    • Article
      Lock icon Protest in front of S'pore school
      101 7 SOME 100 students and environmental activists staged a rally in front of the Singapore International School in Bandung in Indonesia yesterday, accusing it of violating conservation laws. "Thanks to the damage in this conservation area, Bandung is more barren and hotter today. More people
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      Lock icon KL wants to monitor bloggers
      103 7 Bernama. MALAYSIAN Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Rais Yatim has called for the creation of a mechanism to monitor bloggers. Though the Sedition Act was sufficient, he was worried about enforcement. He said the setting up of a council would help in enforcement. He was commenting
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      Lock icon Haze delays flights at Pekanbaru
      110 7 Reuters. CHOKING smoke from forest fires hung over parts of Sumatra yesterday, forcing a delay in flights, and prompting fears that conditions could worsen because of a lack of rain. About 450 hot spots have been detected across Indonesia, and forestry officials have warned that
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  • SAT NEWS
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      Lock icon Owners not convinced cars were towed
      783 9  -  They insist immobiliser faulty, rally other CRV owners to sign petition. Distributor answers their doubts 1 How did thief make off with 5 Honda CRVs? Elysa Chen elysac@sph.comsg FOR the last five years, every time he filled his petrol tank, Mr Weng y Liew
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      Lock icon They're pleased to have cars back in just one week
      605 9 IT was like a National Day present for him from the police. Last week, his 11/2-year-oldl 1 /2-year-old Honda CRV was stolen, along with four other similar cars. But barely a week later, he got his car back thanks to
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      Lock icon AND IT'S ON Uo.Uo.
      444 10 But it's just a coincidence, says family 3 women married to 3 brothers share the same birthday... Businessman un zhonghua is not likely to forget his wife's birthday. Nor are his two brothers. That's because all three birthdays fall on the same day 8 Aug. This
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  • SAT NEWS
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      Lock icon Now, she's giving back to community
      583 12  -  Egyptian woman is RC volunteer and S'pore citizen Community centre helped foreigner in trouble Ho Lian-Yi nanyi@sph.com.sg SHE is a grassroots volunteer here, but ask her about her hometown and she will tell you she is from Egypt. Meet Madam Azza Tageldin Ahmed Fatin,
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      Lock icon Sudan-born woman is grassroots helper and an 'integration champion'
      317 12 THE title is a long and unwieldy one Integration Naturalisation Champion (INC) but it fits. There are about 700 of them in Singapore. Madam Elham Hassan Mahmud Birkia, 47, is one of them. The former Sudanese, who received Singapore citizenship in
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    Lock icon She finds her own coach
    539 14 The New Paper-Guinness contest winner wins trip to see 9-bali finals in Jakarta Poly student (right), 18, is so serious about p001... SAT NEWS SHE wanted to hone her skills as a pool player by watching first-hand how the professionals do it. Her earnest plea
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    Lock icon Serial burglar claims he was FRAMED
    633 16  -  Judge calls his lies 'bizarre', sentences him to 7 years' jail Caught red-handed climbing out of window after break-in yet.. SAT NEWS Hedy Khoo hedykhoo@sph.com.sg HE was a slippery burglar, but his last attempt to slip away failed miserably. That was because the cat
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  • SAT NEWS
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      Lock icon He lost work from being Anwar's lawyer
      825 18  -  Sankara Nair says he's 'politically neutral', but is defending former DPM for human rights' sake Seto Nu-Wen setoQsph.comsg IT'S an uphill task. Impossible, even, some say. Yet, as one of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's lawyers, Mr N Sankara Nair isn't feeling the heat.
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      Lock icon Former PKR No 2: Anwar's political tactics will tarnish government
      448 18 HE is using the "back door" to gain power. That's what former Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) deputy president Chandra Muzaffar said of Mr Anwar Ibrahim's attempt to become the prime minister. He said instigating massive crossovers from Barisan Nasional to
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    • Mc Cain's Mr Bullet vs Obama's Mr Shy
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        Lock icon He's known for gunning down opponents
        264 19  -  A Gallup daily tracking poll Obama 46% McCain 43% Elgin Toh elgintoh@sph.com.sg THEY call him "The Bullet". Partly because his bald head is shaped like one and partly because he has a tendency of, well, "gunning" down his political opponents. Last month, Mr Steve
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        Lock icon DIRTY SALVOS
        273 19 BUSH'S 2004 RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN He was a member of Mr Bush's election "war team", led by guru Karl Rove. The team's job? To sink opponent John Kerry's campaign using negative advertisements. One of the dirty salvos fired at Mr Kerry was a slew of allegations that he had
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        Lock icon He has 'precise mind' & 'steady temper'
        334 19 He has 'precise mind' 'steady temper' HE is no household name in the US. And yet, you will struggle to find an American who hasn't heard of the work he has done over the last two years. Mr David Plouffe (pronounced "pluff), 41, has been the campaign i manager for
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        Lock icon LOW-KEY STYLE
        157 19 PLAYS UP HIS CANDIDATE Mr Plouffe is extremely media-shy and rarely accedes to media interviews, v "He would rather have a pen stabbed in his eye than pose for a photo," one Obama staffer told Newsweek jokingly. That explains why media reports often use phrases like "unseen hand"
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      Lock icon New movie 'an inconvenient truth' for US economy?
      657 20 Documentary 1.0.U.5.A. warns Americans of being 'held hostage by foreign lenders' AMERICA, you are in big financial trouble. That's what a private-equity billionaire, a former government accountant and a newsletter editor are trying to explain to Americans. And what better way to
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      Lock icon Flabby women in UK want to STRIP FOR HIM
      627 21  -  GOK'S TOP TIPS Look at yourself in the mirror Build up a relationship with your body and the way you look Focus on your three best assets This is important because so often we focus on our bad bits. Love your
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      Lock icon Armed with bacheler's, master's degre But... WHERE ARE THE JOBS?
      592 22 JOB MARKET TANKS IN US HE has a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's in public policy. With qualifications like these, Mr Thomas Rumeau thought he would find easily find a job. But three months after graduating from the
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      Lock icon Was fairer Beyonce white washed?
      484 23 UPROAR OVER SINGER'S L'OREAL AD MICHAEL Jackson used to sing: "It doesn't matter if you're black or white." But for some readers in the US and the UK, it does. At least, over a new advertisement by L'Oreal featuring American singer Beyonce Knowies. In the
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      Lock icon UK PROPERTY CRISIS Demand and home prices plunge
      289 23 BRITAIN is seeing its worst property crisis since the '80s. Home prices plunged by more than 10 per cent last month, die biggest fall since 1983. And business groups and analysts say huge cuts are needed in the cost of borrowing to
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  • YOU
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      Lock icon No such thing as licences for downloaded games
      494 24  -  On software 'upgrades' for the Sony PSP: Fro* Muhd Khalry Fadhly 1 REFER to the report, "Woman pays $2,600 for upgraded PSP" (The New Paper 5 Aug). It was reported that the extra cost was used to pay for the licence for
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      Lock icon What is your birthday wish for Singaporeans?
      84 24  -  speak Frew raadtf Mark Yaong, 38, salesman 1I would like to see Slngaporeens playing a bigger role In saving the environment, and also creating a more fun and less stressful learning environment for future generations." Want to have your views heard on a
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      Lock icon CLICK
      72 24  -  From reader Adam Tauzer SEEN anything newsy or interesting? Snap a photo of it and e-mail it to tnpclick@sph. com. sg with "Click" as your subject title. Tell us a little about your snapshot. Who knows? Your picture might win a prize. \o wonder our roads arc always grass-free.
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      28 24 YOUR letter or photo could be picked to get a $50 Borders voucher. Entries must include your full name, age, occupation and contact number.
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      65 24 E-mail tnptalk@sph.com.sg or write to: The New Paper, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Level 6, Annexe Block, Singapore *****4 For verification, we need the writer's full name and contact number (preferably of a handphone). We reserve the right to edit letters. By your submission, it is deemed that you
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      Lock icon In her current post,
      101 25 Postwoman Chang May Choon writes about Fann Wong's Singapore-produced movie Dance Of The Dragon, which also stars Jason Scott Lee and Jang Hyuk. It was panned here by local film critics and bombed at the box office, but swept 10 awards at the inaugural West Hollywood
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  • HER Saturday
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      Lock icon MAD ABOUT SINGAPORE FILMS
      940 26 This is for you, Singapore! That's what our local filmmakers seem to be saying with a bumper crop of homegrown movies this month. SETO NU-WEN tells you why they would appeal to the Singaporean in you... 12 LOTUS (opens 15 Aug) Starring: Mindee Ong, Qi Yuwu,
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      Lock icon Make sure it doesn't turn into nightmare
      402 27  -  Found your dream home? Suze Orman tnp@sph.com.sg FOR most people, the decision to buy a home hits like love at first sight: After endless rounds of dating, you finally find that special one. You walk in the front door and swoon over the
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
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      358 28 HERSHT National Day Parade 2008 Channel 8, 5.45pm This yep's live telecast of the nation's 43rd birthday will be held on a floating performance stage at Marina Bay for the second time and is themed "Celebrating The Singapore Spirit!". Calefare Channel 5, 8.20pm This new local comedy series revolves around
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      53 28 Bullet Brain Star Chinese Movies (StarHub Ch 62), 9pm It's been two years since the fastest gunslinger in the city and a gadget expert known for his ingenious plots swore off violence and went under the radar, but an old debt draws them back for one last mission. Starring Anthony
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      57 28 Banged Up Abroad 2 Nat Geo Adventure (StarHub Ch 73), 730pm The second season of the documentary series continues to feature stories of travellers who through naivety, stupidity or plain bad luck find themselves behind bars after falling afoul of local laws or who strayed too far off the beaten
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      142 40 BEST BET THIS Made Of Gold mare is currently in sparkling form. She bounced back to the winning list two starts back by leading all the way over the Penang 1,200m on a soft track on 10 May. I he eight-year-old showed that her
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      368 40 KUALA LUMPUR TRACK NST EASTERN Fighter yesterday looked fit as a fiddle as he wrapped up preparations for a back-to-back success when he lines up in Race 6 tomorrow. Taken out by a track rider, the seven-year-old Australian-bred cantered one round on the sand track
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      82 40 THE Orchid Trophy on 21 Nov will replace the Juvenile Championship which was cancelled last month. The Juvenile Championship scheduled for 25 Jul was not run due to the low number of two-year-old horses being registered then as a result of the outbreak of Equine Influenza in Australia.
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      121 40 JOCKEY Henry Barnabas (above) was yesterday handed a two-month suspension by the Penang Turf Club. It was for failing to ride to the satisfaction of the Stewards while astride Many Many in Rac£ 6 on 5 Jul. The particulars of the charge were that between the
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      1668 41 GOING FORECAST: GOOD No. last I ram HORSE Wt Rating Jackay Baniar (Afa/arigia/sax, tralaar awar) 1 *****- UltiaHta DacMar 55 (40) RBaraattc2* 7 (3amc M Sukri-Mdm AS Lea) 2 97 Irataaa Ratara 55 |-J IFaiz!ai*c3* I (3amg BT Lim-Osman) 3 0 Laitf Ttoaaty-Oaa 50.5 39)
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      64 41 ■ACE 3z Summer Red, Best Wrestler, Bright Prince, Han Venture. ■AGE 4: Bao Bao. ■ACE 53 Wealth, Royal Jade, Common's lade. ■ACE 6s Leading Witness, Thunder On, D'Mighty Star, Mandiri, City Vision, Signature Spirit, Wings Of Honor. ■ACE 7x Tiger On The Hill. ■ACE 8: Laugh Heartily, Zhu Chen,
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      1035 42 WES CAMERON MAT NOWLAND PREVIEW TODAY'S BELMONT RACES RACE 1 Now Red (3): Aiming for a hat-trick. Went forward from a wide draw, raced outside the leader and too good when defeating Key Biscuit last Saturday. Shiney Row (8): Racing consistently. Runner-up to
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  • Saturday SPORTS
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        464 43 90TH PGA CHAMPIONSHIP AP. THERE was a little bit of everything in the first round of the season's last Major, played loosely speaking on Thursday at Oakland Hills. Bright sunshine and dry winds baked three greens, which required emergency watering. A little earlier, a siren warned
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        342 43 AFP. JEEV Milkha Singh, the son of one of India's greatest runners, > shrugged off an injury to make a flying start at die PGA Championship on Thursday. f; Jeev, playing with an inflamed tendon in his right ankle, finished strongly with two late btfdies
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        68 43 68: Jeev Milkha Singh, Robert Karlsson. 69: Billy Mayfair, Ken Duke, Sean O'Hair, Sergio Garcia. 70: Ryan Moore, Rod Pampling, Phil Mickelson, Anthony Kim, Michael Allan, Brian Gay, Charlie Wi, Angel Cabrera. 71: Briny Baird, Carl Pettersson, Steve Strieker, Peter Hanson, Richard Green, Jim Furyk, Aaron Baddeley, Frank Esposito,
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      317 44 Reuters. ENGLAND'S Lee Westwood lambasted organisers for an unfair course set-up after sliding to a seven-over 77 in the US PGA Championship opening round on Thursday. Westwood said the lush rough at Oakland Hills Country Club was too long and penalised players who narrowly missed die fairway.
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      593 44 WORLDWIDE SELAHGOR MASTERS THAI star Thongchai Jaidee stayed on track for his first tide in almost two years after holding onto a slender one-shot lead over an inspired Ben Leong of Malaysia at the Worldwide Selangor Masters in Petaling Jaya yesterday. The two-time
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        425 45 Wire Services. IT WAS a miracle, but one with strings attached. And for Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez, the unexpected "Miracle of Istanbul" raised expectations on his team to an unattainable level. The 2005 Champions League win was followed by a penalty
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        275 45 AS WE count down to the new Premiership season, we would love to hear from all you diehard fens on how deep is your support for your favourite club. If you think you fit into the following categories, feel free to write
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      616 46 Reuters. YOU ARE a billionaire with a fortune to spend and can purchase anything your heart desires, so what do you buy? A luxury yacht? A fast car? Perhaps die ultimate plaything for the megarich now is your very own soccer club.
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      248 47 Reuters. ROMAN ABRAMOVICH English Premier League side Chelsea in 2003. His personal wealth is put at $24.3 billion. assets to become the world's top aluminium producer now called United Company RusaL ALISHER USMANOV Part owns Red and White Holdings, which holds
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      348 47 Reuters. LOVE them or hate them, the billionaires are here to stay. Rising commodities prices will further boost the ranks of those who are keen to invest in football or other sports. For some, such purchases may stem simply from a desire for success and
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        871 48 COMMUNITY SHIELD: MANCHESTER UNITED v PORTSMOUTH, TOMORROW, 9.55PM PA Sport. PETER Crouch, of course, comes to you with a variety of useful descriptions towering, gangly, lanky, stick-insect, beanpole, even, apparently, coat-hanger. And at 2m and 80kg wringing wet, it is no surprise that some are still
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        481 48 PA Sport Manchester United face Portsmouth in the Community Shield and the Premier League champions will be aiming to claim the tide for the 17ih time in their history. Here we take a closer look at the key players involved in the traditional curtain-raiser to the Premier League
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        673 49 PA Sport. SIR ALEX Ferguson has reacted with scorn to claims Chelsea will win the title this year thanks to the experience of new manager Luiz Felipe Scolari. Ferguson normally pays scant attention to such opinions but the Scot has been
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        593 50 BASKETBALL AFP. SIXTEEN years after Michael Jordan sparked the American "Dream Team" to Olympic gold, players inspired to follow him into die National Basketball Association are leading rivals of the US in Beijing. Argentina own the Olympic crown and Spain won the world tide two years
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        103 50 I expect to be electrified. It's probably going to be the most watched game in the history of the world. It's going to send a lot of chills through my body just to be there and be part of it. US basketball star Leßron James on his
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        130 51 7,000,000 Tickets sold for the Games 91,000 Seating capacity of the National Stadium (Bird's Nest) 00,000 Square metres covered by the National Aquatics Centre (Water Cube) 21,000 Accredited journalists 17,000 Seating capacity of the National Aquatics Centre 10,094 Estimated number of athletes 2,924 Number of judges
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        569 51 Reuters. IT promises to be the best 100 metres final in 20 years. And yet, the fears that it will be tainted by the scourge of doping is very, very real. When American Justin Gatlin won a classic 100 m final at the 2004 Athens Olympics,
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        191 51 BEN JOHNSON Johnson provided the biggest Olympic drugs scandal in the 1988 Seoul Olympics when he tested positive for steroids after his astonishing 9.79 victory run He and Justin Gatlin are the only two to be banned while racing, but he tried to
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        727 52 THE 2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS Whose star will burn the brightest at BeijingoB? UM HAN MING, our man in Beijing, singles out five athletes who could set the 2008 Olympic Games alight UUXIAMG (ATHLETICS) HE CARRIES the hopes of a billion Chinese. Apart from NBA star Yao
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        763 53  -  exciusivc REPORTING FROM BEIJING Lim Han Ming npsport5@sph.com.sg COMPETING in one Olympic Games is a rare feat for any athlete. To chalk up five consecutive Olympic Games appearances would take something extra special. Just ask Slovakia's 2000 Olympic Games double silver-medallist Martina Moravcova, who will join the
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        585 54 THE 2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS The Olympic swimming competition begins today at die National Aquatic Centre. UM. HAN MING sizes up the likely contenders in the opening six events MEN'S 400 M INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY THE FAVOURITE: MICHAEL Phelps begins his quest for an unprecedented eight Olympic gold medals in
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        454 55  -  THE 2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS Teh Jen Lee npsportsQsph.comsg CHINA wowed the world 1 yesterday with a spectacularly uplifting opening ceremony to the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing. Beginning at B.oBpm in the National Stadium which is also known as the Bird's Nest, there was first a
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        147 55 WHAT'S ON TODAY CYCLING 11.00am Men's road race (Gold medal match) FENCING 8.00pm Women's individual sabre (Gold medal match) FOOTBALL 5pm Women's first round Group G: US v Japan Group F: Nigeria v Germany Group E: Sweden v Argentina 7.45pm Group G: New Zealand v Norway Group F
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