The New Paper, 17 December 2008

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    • 1359 2  -  S'pore biker killed on North-South Highway, motorists stop to take photos REPORT: AMANDA YONG ayong@sph.com .sg HE was fighting for his life as he lay on the road shoulder of the North-South Highway in Malaysia Blood streamed down his face as he struggled desperately to
      PICTURES: COURTESY OF AZARI AMIN; PICTURE: SIN CHEW DAILY  -  1,359 words
    • 756 4  -  QUEUEING OVERNIGHT FOR CHILDREN'S TUITION REPORT: LIEW HANQING hanqing@sph.com.sg YES, it is that time of year again. The time of year when people in Singapore queue. But it isn't to buy new condominium units, iPhones or Hello Kitty toys.
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    • 188 4 Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) Needy students can get tuition at affordable rates from the CDAC Education Programme for Chinese language, science, mathematics and English. The council gives priority to students from families with a monthly household income of less than $2,000 or those with
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    • 1121 5  -  TEENS' SALES PITCH AT MKT STATION THE REALITY: MONEY GOES TO THEM COMPANY REPORTS ARUL JOHN anathan@sph.com .sg BUY a pen or mechanical pencil for $2 to help a needy or low-income family. That was the pitch that four teenagers made to passers-by
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    • 111 6 1 Ask for a Collector's Certificate of Authority (CCA). The CCA bears the organisation's stamp, details of the event and particulars of the collector. Each collector must produce the CCA upon request. 2 Check that the CCA states
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    • 586 7  -  $500,000worth of diamonds pearls in 'sugar'dress REPORT: MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg WANT to be seen in sugar and spice and all things nice? Slip into this bustier, a dress so sweet you can eat what you wear if you want to be what you eat (sweet, that
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    • 502 8 Technology available for people to create personalised content LIGHTS, camera and... action! In 3D, no less. Budding directors or even YouTube contributors can now play Spielberg and create 3D films without having extensive technical knowledge and training. Temasek Polytechnic (TP) and 3D software firm
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    • 190 8  -  REPORT: GENEVIEVE JIANG geneviev@sph.com .sg SPOT the errors because in this banner, there may be one too many to be funny. The banner, promising a five-year warrenty, sport rims, and free camara, was seen outside an automobile shop along Commonwealth Avenue. It may prove that Singaporeans
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    • 483 9  -  Tsunami waves would be only 50cm tall if they reach S'pore: study REPORT AND GRAPHICS: CHNG CHOON HIONG chngch@sph.com.sg FOR Singaporeans who are worried that a tsunami may strike our shores, here's good news: We are safe from killer waves. A new two-year study
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    • 47 3 SORRY JB-bound motorists fume over $21 toll card (TNP, 14 Dec): Foreign registered cars driving into Singapore have to pay the toll using an Autopass card and notaCashCard. Only Singapore registered vehicles can pay toll charges using CashCard. The stored value of an Autopass card is $4.
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      58 10 Motorists faced massive traffic jams going towards the Sultan Iskandar Complex in Johor Baru Malaysia's new customs, immigration and quarantine facility at the Causeway after it opened at midnight, Monday. It took one to two hours to reach the checkpoint from Singapore's Woodlands checkpoint. I _i .hi. l'.i-kt
      PICTURE: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS  -  58 words
    • 263 10 ECONOMY TO SLOW DOWN NEXT YEAR THE National Wages Council (NWC) has taken the unusual move of reconvening next month to revise a set of wage guidelines it issued in May, as the global economy weakens. In a statement released yesterday, the NWC
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    • News watch
      • 102 10 TRADE minister Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday that Singapore's economic growth this year could be weaker than forecast. "We believe the growth for this year will come slightly below our earlier projections of 2.5 (per cent)," Mr Lim told reporters on
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      • 93 10 BUDDING video-game creators can now get a headstart with Microsoft's recently launched Xbox Live indie game marketplace. Microsoft began accepting applications yesterday from Singapore game developers looking to publish their games on its Xbox Live system, which can be accessed by Xbox 360 consoles
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      • 121 10 SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) will begin flying to Kuwait four times a week from 15 Mar next year. The addition of Kuwait to the SIA network follows last month's signing of a broad Open Skies Agreement between Singapore and Kuwait. The service stops
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    • 528 11 Women mostly from China target lone diners as early as 7am AHarian Metro reporter went undercover for two days and unearthed a hive of vice activities going on in a cafe along Kuala Lumpur's Jalan Pudu. Young women in tight jeans or revealing dresses were
      PICTURE: HARIAN METRO  -  528 words
    • 320 11 AP. IN A bid to encourage whistle-blowers to come forward, the Malaysian government has proposed a witness protection programme. This is the latest effort to stamp out graft and dangerous crime. Yesterday, Law Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz presented a bill in Parliament
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    • 501 12 M'sian needed more than 100 stitches; robber is hospitalised HE was so badly hurt after a robbery that he needed more than 100 stitches on his face. But Mr Zheng Hengsheng didn't let the robber get off lightly either. Using his bike helmet,
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    • 430 12 AFTER MUMBJU BLASTS... AN E-MAIL circulating online has a cryptic warning that blasts in Lucknow and Goa could follow the Mumbai attacks. The e-mail has a map of India attached, with lines connecting locations of recent blasts. These lines form a pattern
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    • 618 13 MISS ASIA SCANDAL 1 HER 89cm bustiine had hogged the limelight during the Miss Asia pageant Ten days after the contest, Bonnie Yuen, the hot favourite who ended up fourth, still finds herself the talk of the town. Apple Daily reported that
      PICTURE: APPLE DAILY  -  618 words
    • 676 14 MISS ASIA SCANDAL 2 ONE Miss Asia contestant's votes swelled by 100,000 within an hour. Not surprisingly, the organisers decided to disregard her sudden surge of votes, reported Ming Pao. This, however, failed to prevent one of the biggest scandals to hit the Hong Kong beauty
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      755 15 Indonesia's ■Mud erupts during drilling in Indonesian town in 2006 Continues flowing to this day Engulfed villages, roads, railway line and factories Toxic fumes make 46,000 people sick HER children insist, so every week or two Ms Lilik Kamina takes them back to their abandoned village in Renokenongo
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    • 581 16 IS THIS FEMBOT FOR REAL? SHE is quite amazing, if her inventor is to be believed. Standing at a little under 1.5 m tall and weighing a mere 32kg, brown-eyed Fembot Aifco has a human-like silicon skin, realistic hair and a moving mouth that
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    • 124 16 IN one You Tube video, Mr Le demonstrates Aiko's ability to feed patients. The inventor asks the robot to feed him and it responds by grasping a biscuit and aiming for his mouth. Mr Le then starts bobbing his head from left to right while Aiko's
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    • 285 16 IS YOUR COMPUTER PART OF ABOTNET? AFP. HIJACKED computers are flooding the world with spam as hackers devise slicker ways to take over unwitting people's machines, according to a Cisco report released Monday. Virus-infected computers are woven into "botnets" used to attack more
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  • Global
    • 42 17 Kuala Lumpur police patrols on horseback have met with objection from an opposition MP who questioned the RM26.500 ($11,000) monthly maintenance cost. That's excluding the salary of 147 workers employed to take care of the horses. PICTURE: GUANG MING DAILY
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    • 259 17 Man offers 14m for journalist's shoe ATTACK ON GEORGE BUSH CALLING someone the "son of a shoe" is one of the worst insults in Iraq. But the lowly shoe and the Iraqi who threw both of his at President George W. Bush were embraced around the Arab world. In Saudi
      PICTURE: AP  -  259 words
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      • 95 17 CHINA appears to have banned a number of foreign websites, including the BBC's Chinese language news site and Voice of America in Chinese. The sites had been unblocked after journalists attending the Beijing Olympics complained that the government was censoring sites deemed sensitive, the
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      • 97 17 AFP. FRENCH police discovered five sticks of dynamite yesterday in a Paris department store. This came about after AFP received a letter from an unknown group threatening attacks unless France pulls its troops out of Afghanistan. Police cordoned off the Printemps Haussmann store. Anti-terrorism
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      • 110 17 Reuters. US military operations, including the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, have cost US$9O4 billion ($1.3 trillion) since 2001. It could top US$l.7 trillion by 2018, even with big cuts in overseas troop deploy- ments, a report said. A new study released
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      44 18  -  FROM READER! SITI HAJAR MOHD RADZELEE TOP SPOT: It looks like a bright festive hat but a closer look shows that the woman has put her handbag on her head as she goes through her shopping bags. i.-nbtil ii)in /</< lines in tn/x lich">/<//.
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    • 156 18 1 The Manpower Ministry's report shows 3,178 people were laid off or had their contracts ended prematurely in the third quarter. This is a 70 percent spike compared to 1,884 in the-second quarter, and marks the highest number of job losses since the last
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    • 230 18  -  Sister stands outside class to take notes for sibling with muscular dystrophy FROM READER LI FUZHANG I READ the report, "Sister stands outside classes daily to take notes for sick girl" (The New Paper, 15 Dec). It does seem somewhat heartless
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    • 401 18  -  FROM READER SEAH KAH CHENG, KELVIN I REFER to Larry Haverkamp's article, "5 Myths Banks Want You to Believe" (The New Paper, 15 •Dec). One thing that strikes me from the article is that certain banks
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      35 19 dfdd think Singaporeans would be receptive as everyone's using the Internet and applications like Facebook to interact. It's a much easier and accessible way to communicate." Ms Nora Md Rashidi. 31. customer service representative
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    • 94 19 Comments on cyber bullies: "Cyber bullies are cowards, who use the Internet to unleash their viciousness on victims, whom they would never dare to face in person. There are loads of imposters, stalkers...who pollute the various forum threads with their drivel." Eagle2004 "Do not really understand why
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    • 1004 20  -  The first movie took $2.5 m atM'sian box office, can the superhero sequel conquer the rest of the world? REPORT: JULIANA JUNE RASUL julrasuJOsph.com.sg WHATEVER you may have to say about a common housepest being the basis for a superhero, the numbers don't lie.
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    • 599 22  -  Party Animal PICTURE: HENG ddf SO I've been in Dubai for two weeks now, and the past fortnight's local magazines have lavished upon us pictures of the Atlantis opening, complete with Kylie Minogue's private concert pictures to boot and the most expensive fireworks display
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      • 574 23  -  LEW HARLING d THE title of R&B crooner John Legend's latest album is apt Evolver is probably the best description of this 29-year-old music chameleon's continually changing musical style. In his latest offering, Legend departs from the familiar neo-soul of his first two albums, Get
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        65 23 CURRENT POST: Postwoman Jeanmarie T;in writes about the blockbuster vampire romance Twilight, starring Robert Pattinson and Knsten Stewart. Are you a fan of the hook series which the movie is based on? Do you think the film will live up to the hype and expectations? Post your comments on
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    • 233 24  -  Scene With REPORT: i GERMAINE LIM gerlim@sph.com.sg IT was a Friday night and all seemed quiet on the Forbidden City front. At the terrace, the mostly white-collar crowd was leisurely tucking into tempting finger food and tantalising cocktails. But once you go behind the
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  • Sports
    • Racing
      • 330 37 STEWARDS' Cup contender Jolie's Shinju (right) underlined her chances in the $200,000 Group 3 race over 1,400 m on Sunday with an eye-catching gallop at Kranji yesterday. With Mark Gallagher up, the Japanese-bred filly strode out impressively in 34.65 ec over 600 m in the
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      • 149 37 Trial l(test): 1 Gentlemen's Honour (A Ng) 2 Bel's Ringer (J Powell) 3 Pacific King Prawn (M Koh) 4 King Arrive (A John) 5 Ara Kara (D Beasley) 5 Noble Knight (M Gallagher) 6 Spinning Star (M Au). Margins and time: 3, l l2,VU, l /2,*l4 (Imin 02.48).
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      • 372 37 CLASS 3 1,600m: Blue Angel* (J Powell) 39.3. Guru Glee*** (HKCheng) 37.7. Happiness Come canter/40.7. Deefour 39.9. Ace Amadeus* canter/36.7. Monday: Wind Chaser 39.4. Black Jambhala (S John) canter/36.8. Schmeichel* (B Vorster) 35.8. GRADUATION 1,200m: Invader* 39.1. King's Weapon 37.8. Speaknoevil 38.3. Crown Horse
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      • 172 37 day. They are: ntgnnrighty, a four-year-old Ausgelding trained by Mohd Trigger Soccew, a four-year-old Australian-bred gelding trained by Burridge for Funds Stable Super Fighter, a three-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding trained by Sam Chua for Rich Stable. Test The limit, a three-year-old Australian-bred gelding trained by Brian Dean for
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      • 484 38 NST COLOURLAND WORLD geared up for another win in the Class 4 race over 1,400 m on Sunday with a sizzling workout yesterday. Taken out by apprentice Sandana Kumar, the New Zea-land-bred five-year-old gelding by Cape Cross cantered one lap and
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      • 592 38 j; RACE 1 (1,000 m) Mule (No. 2) needed his last two runs after a short rest and can go one better today. Albatross (3) was second in his last three starts and will win arace soon. Speed Warp (15) can improve for a bang-in
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      • 556 38 i going forecast: good 650 Rare 1 NATKm. GROOM SCHOOL Maiden PWeIOOOM 1 M006SM EXPRESS COrfter (2) 58 2 HBP (9) 58 3 ALBATROSS J Samuel (8) 58 4 BOUJAmJCATW* MVeni (11) 58 5 MVLOHDCAMMML A Forbes (15) 58 6 NVEMMEZ) KAOUSI LAfnca 0)
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      • 727 39 RACE 1 (1,200 m) Mr Floodlight (No. 6) is drawn wide but has threatened to erase his maiden status with seconds at two of his past three starts sprinting over this course. Fast Winner (11) has yet to threaten in four previous
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      • 712 39 ioasfja Tips and comments by Phillip Woo, courtesy of The Hong Kong Jockey Club n£U, ML MMBENMC TRAINER JOCKEY WT0B) MR I KMCHEOLE KWL DWhyte 133 9 2 SPY WW BKN CKTcrg(-5) 133 12 3 GAMMRIA MeT YTCh9ng(-2) 132 1 4 SUP® SPECUU.
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    • Mad About Golf
      • 664 40 Wire Services. TIGER Woods' caddie Steve Williams said that he regrets making disparaging comments about Phil Mickelson at a New Zealand charity dinner. The New Zealander clarified that he was making light of the Ryder Cup and his dislike for him. "I don't deny
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      • 250 40 THE BIG guns came out firing on the first day of the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC) Junior Invitational Golf Championship yesterday. The national team trio of Jonathan Woo, Joshua Shou and Johnson Poh tamed the challenging par-71 Bukit Course at SICC to take the
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    • Va-va vroom
      • 661 41  -  This week, we recount the experiences of the volunteers at the Singapore Grand Prix AISHAH HAMZA npsports@sph.com.sg ALL HE wanted was to become a volunteer at the inaugural 2008 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix. Never did Daniel Yong expect to be sent to Australia not once, but
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      • 637 42  -  ARUN RAJ npBportsOsph.com.sg HERE'S your chance to wave a flag at Lewis Hamilton as he zips past you in his cool, silvery McLaren. The Singapore Sports Council has opened registration for volunteer officials for the 2009 Singapore Grand Prix since 8 Dec.
        TNP READER'S PICTURES: DANIEL YONG, HENRY FUNG  -  637 words
      • Article, Illustration
        456 42  -  Readers, we want your say LIM SAY HENG npsportsOsph.com.sg DECEMBER is a time where we take stock of what's happened in the year the good, the bad and the ugly. In the past year, we have covered numerous grassroots and community sporting issues in our Singapore at
        TOP PICTURE: JONATHAN CHOO  -  456 words
    • Singapore At Large
      • 772 43 ERNEST LUIS puts the final touches to The New Paper's suggestion to STB and the Singapore GP organisers for next year's race THE NEW Paper firmly believes that the SingTel Singapore Grand Prix can look better next year. If television images broadcast to Singaporeans and around
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      • 54 43 ONLY some office lights in the buildings are on, and not all owners, managers or tenants did so. Why not get around it by setting up strong external spotlights on the ground level to shine at the buildings and show off
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      • 47 43 IAI I-RNAL spotlights shine up against tlu' building and also placed on each floor to showcase the classic colonial structure. Internal office lights don't even need to he on. The building contrasts beautifully with the extremely bright street circuit.
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      • 194 43 ON LIGHTING UP THE SINGAPORE SKYLINE WITH regards to the lighting up of the Singapore skyline, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) worked to additionally light up six key buildings and landmarks around the race track that would be featured prominently by the Formula One Management cameras Anderson Bridge,
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    • AFF Suzuki Cup
      • 220 44 GARY MM assesses Vietnam's possible 11 Duong Hong San (goalkeeper): An excellent shot-stopper but not the most reliable. Gave away a goal to Thailand in the first group game when Vietnam lost 2-0. Nguyen Minh Due (left-back): Should come face-to-face with Singapore right-back Noh Rahman. Loves
        SPH FILE PICTURE  -  220 words
      • 612 44  -  REPORTING FROM HANOI GARIV LIM HOW QUICKLY things change in football. Just a year ago, the Vietnamese football team was the toast of the country, after making it to the last eight of the Asian Cup. But as Vietnam prepare to take on Singapore
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      • 516 45 Here are some red-hot areas to watch out for in the semi-Onal fixture between Singapore and Vietnam in Hanoi tonight m VIETNAM'S LONG-RANGE SHOTS: SO FAR, Vietnam's most potent threats have come from outside the penalty box. Pham Thanh Luong has been a real live-wire for
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      • 196 45 Reuters. THREE-TIME champions Thailand maintained their perfect record in the AFF Suzuki Cup when they beat Indonesia 1-0 in their semi-final, first-leg match last night in Jakarta. Thailand, who have been reinvigorated since die arrival of English coach Peter Reid in July, attacked from the start
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      • 469 45 BETTING WITH a languid stride, Singapore placed their foot into the semi-finals. Morale is high in the Lions' camp ahead of their away leg of the Suzuki Cup semi-fi-nal with Vietnam and they have every reason to be. In three games, they notched up 10 goals,
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    • EPL
      • 778 46  -  Punters in coma as big boys mess it all up Betting BRIAN MILLER npBportsOsph.com.sg THERE'S this TV show which I quite enjoy. It's about a "Special Victims Unit" and the cases they handle. It's mainly sex-related police work and it's not pleasant. There's nasty business
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      • 371 47  -  JOE dd I MADE a half-hearted attempt at Christmas shopping this week but I just don't know what to buy for people. In fact, I believe Christmas is a sham anyway. We spend money that we don't have, increase our debt eat more food
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      • 318 47 PA Sport. RIO FERDINAND has dismissed Arsenal's chances of landing the Premier League title, claiming eight points is too big a gap to bridge. Instead, Ferdinand (right) is convinced United, Liverpool and Chelsea will surge clear before one of the trio drops away, leaving just two
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    • Fifa Club World Cup
      • 526 48 Wire Services. IN SIR Alex Ferguson's books, it is okay to travel halfway around the world for a trophy. Travelling to the furthest reaches of the earth for three points in the Premier League on the other hand is another matter
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      • 347 48 Wire Services. WHILE Sir Alex Ferguson has stated his claim to win the World Club Cup, it appears midfield veteran Paul Scholes would rather be home. While Scholes did say that they wanted to win the competition, he let slip that for
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  • Page 49 Miscellaneous
    • 3 49 BLURBS/EVENTS GOLF FOOTBALL
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    • 302 49 TV UEFACUP Tomorrow: SAMPDORIA v SEViLLA Ch 27,3.45am WillAntonia Cassano (right) inspire Sampdoria to a victory overSevilla tomorrow morning? RTF SUZUKI CUP SEMI-FINAL (1st leg) Today: VIETNAM v SINGAPORE Ch 5 Ch 24,7.55pm FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP SEMI-FINALS Today: PACHUCAvLDU QUITO Ch 24,11 pm (Same day delayed) Tomorrow: M GAMBA
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    • 321 49 'All telecasts live unless stated otherwise. For latest, please check www. starhub. com/cabletv mimmmm ft** I w 5^ f :V S •v -KJ Paul Ince factfile: 1967: Born in Ilford, 21 Oct. 1985: Joins West Ham as trainee. 1989: After 93 appearances for West Ham, joins Man Utd in a
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  • Article, Illustration
    537 50 Wire Services. < PAUL Ince's short-lived career as Blackburn manager ended yesterday when he was fired after a run of 11 Premier League matches without a win left the club in the relegation zone. Although Ince started with three wins in his first six league games, Rovers are
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    • 32 50 52 Sports SUZUKI CUP: It will be a miracle if we win, says Vietnam's coach Henrique Calisto. PAGE 46 A FERGIE: Yes to Club World Cup, no to EPL '39th round', pageso
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