Streats, 15 October 2002

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    12 1 Streats TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • BALI BLAST
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      Lock icon Their plan, your pocket YOUR PAIN
      613 1  -  WHO’S NEXT? By Calvin Low THE blast may have occurred in Bali, but the aftershock from the terrorist attack will be felt in your pocket. It is not inconceivable that you could be terrorism’s next target. That your job and your livelihood, along with
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      Lock icon THE USUAL SUSPECTS
      251 2 Wire services KUALA LUMPUR Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir continues to live openly in Indonesia after the Bali attacks. The alleged leader of the A 1 Qaedalinked Islamic militant group, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), has been named by Australia as a suspect. Less than a week ago, Australian
      – Wire services  -  251 words
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      Lock icon In the hot seat Megawati
      544 2 Wire services JAKARTA For President Megawati Sukarnoputri the pretense is well and truly over. The events in Bali will force her to accept the fact that there are Islamic terrorists operating in Indonesia. Sadly, the wake-up call came after nearly 200 innocent lives were lost
      – Wire services; Reuters  -  544 words
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      Lock icon THE UNUSUAL SUSPECT
      266 3 OSAMA bin Laden’s brother-in-law is behind the Bali blast, according to a report by DEBKAfile. Mr Mohammed Khalifa allegedly engineered the brutal massacre in Bali on Saturday that killed close to 200 people and injured hundreds, said the Jerusalem-based Internet publication that reports on issues such as
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      Lock icon In the hot seat Ong Keng Yong
      262 3  -  By Sarah Ng ASEAN’S tarnished image as the place to invest and visit after the bombings in Bali on Saturday must be repaired, said the regional grouping’s incoming secretary-general Ong Keng Yong yesterday. “Obviously, such a terrorist act will affect people’s image of
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      Lock icon 18 TREATED IN S'PORE
      231 4 EIGHTEEN casualties of the Bali bomb blast are now being treated for bums at two hospitals here. None of them are Singaporeans, and a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman clarified yesterday that no Singapore citizen was among the victims. The 18 comprise three Britons, two Japanese,
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      Lock icon Tears in the scrum
      554 4  -  By Adam Hashidy Gary Lim THE Bali bomb blast has knocked the stuffing out of rugby in the region. More than 30 players from Singapore (see box), Australia and Hongkong are either dead, missing or injured. They had met in Bali for the annual 10-a-side mgby
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      Lock icon Terror moving closer: PM
      185 4 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday that the Bali bomb blasts confirmed the Government’s warning that terrorists are shifting their theatre of operations to Southeast Asia. He said: “Terrorism is not a faraway problem. It is here at our doorstep.” Speaking to community leaders at
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      Lock icon Next target could be Hongkong: report
      100 4 HONGKONG Be on the alert, Hongkong, an editorial in the territory’s Sing Tao Daily News warned yesterday. Muslim terrorists are not only attacking political targets, but are also out to destroy symbols of Western values and lifestyle. The presence of many Western multi-national companies
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      Lock icon CENTRAL BANK DEFENDS RUPIAH
      125 6 Reuters JAKARTA Bank Indonesia yesterday moved to defend the rupiah as the currency plunged after the Bali blasts. It sank to 9,350 against the US dollar in Jakarta during the day, but closed at 9,300 after the central bank intervened. It had closed at 9,005 on
      – Reuters  -  125 words
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      Lock icon Roadblock to recovery Shattered confidence
      502 6 Reuters SINGAPORE The bombers who killed nearly 200 people in Bali could take a heavy toll on that most elusive ingredient of global economic growth confidence. The impact will obviously be felt most keenly in South-east Asia. The entire region, and not just Indonesia alone,
      – Reuters; AFP  -  502 words
    • Investors jittery about Indon, travel stocks
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        128 6 Wire services SYDNEY Asia’s airlines yesterday braced themselves for shockwaves from the Bali blasts, fearing that tourists will steer clear of the region. Singapore Airlines and Australia’s Qantas Airways are likely to bear the brunt, but the contagion is likely to spread as far as Europe and the US.
        – Wire services  -  128 words
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        121 6 -Bloomberg SINGAPORE Six Continents, Hotel Properties (HPL) and other regional hotel operators will face a drop in sales because of the Bali terror attacks, investors said yesterday. Six Continents runs the Bali InterContinental Resort at Jimbaran, and Singapore’s HPL owns the Hard Rock Hotel in Kuta, near where Saturday’s
        -Bloomberg  -  121 words
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        131 6 Cycle Carriage SINGAPORE Cycle Carriage shares fell 3.1 per cent to $3.78 yesterday on fears that the value of its 32 per cent stake in Indonesian carmaker PT Astra would be hurt by a weakening rupiah. The Bali blasts are threatening to also derail Astra’s plans for a US$l5O million
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      Lock icon OIL MEET MOVED TO S'PORE
      109 6 Bloomberg SINGAPORE A two-day oil conference scheduled to be held in Bali from next Friday will be moved to Singapore because of security concerns. More than 100 traders and oil refiners are expected to attend the Condensate Forum, said Ms Vimla Mulchand, managing director of
      – Bloomberg  -  109 words
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  • STREATS financial
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      24 8 US$: 551.798 552.808 EURO: 551.777 Ss: 68.97 YEN Ss: RM2.113 Ss: HK54.338 Ss: 24.46 BAHT Ss: 5,147 RUPIAH *AS AT OCTOBER 14
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      Lock icon Banks contain Bali fallout
      436 8 STI: 1,378.44 4.75 Reuters SHARES closed mixed yesterday as the deadly blasts in Bali hurt stocks such as SIA and Cycle Carriage, neutralising a firm trend in banks. “In terms of the sentiment for the region, it’s definitely negative. It’s going to make the (economic) recovery
      – Reuters  -  436 words
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      Lock icon Ml to give investors half of annual profit Dividend lure
      347 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Ml plans to pay at least half of its annual profit in dividends to lure investors to its initial share offer, sources familiar with the sale said. The higher dividend may be needed to overcome investor concern about
      – Bloomberg  -  347 words
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      Lock icon Don’t leave it too late
      608 9  -  Will Matters brought to you by Trust One Re Ltd By Chua Kong Ho EVEN as the plane plummeted, the perfectly coiffeured air stewardess, the very picture of calm, poise and efficiency, was handing out sheets of blank paper to terrified passengers. “Ladies and gentlemen,
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  • STREATS local
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      Lock icon Help hard to find
      495 11  -  Will you step up to help a blind person in need? Reporter Gary Lim and photographer Francis Leefind out by trailing two blind men, MrNg Tion Gaum, 42, and Mr Leong Chee Choy, 38, from ToaPayoh to Orchard Road By Gary Lim SCENE 1: The MRT
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      Lock icon Don’t just turn a blind eye
      204 11  -  Ga ry Lim TODAY is White Cane Day, a day to be aware of the blind people in our midst. Will you walk past someone with a cane, like so many people I saw do last Friday, or will you step up to help?
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      Lock icon Ez-link error rate declines
      100 11 FEWER people are complaining and fewer errors are being logged on the ezlink system. The Land Transport Authority last month achieved its target of just under 1 per cent error rate for the system. However, “fewer” still translates into 1.04 million transactions out of 107.5 million
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      Lock icon Govt panel to oversee services sector
      188 11  -  By ChuaKongHo THERE will be no super agency to champion the interests of the services industries here. Instead, a high-level ministerial committee will be set up to do the job. Explaining this decision yesterday, Senior Minister of State (Transport and Information, Communication the Arts)
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      Lock icon Maid jumped to escape beatings
      98 11 AN Indonesian maid who jumped from the window of a seventh-floor flat to escape her employer’s beatings cheated death and injured only her jaw, lower lip and gums. Ms Siti Nurkhasanah Muhidin, 20, jumped from the flat at Block 405, Pasir Drive 6 on Feb
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  • STREATS vocal
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      Lock icon Security before liberty
      263 13 SATURDAY’S Bali bombing has shocked the world and put the region on terror alert again. Because of our close proximity to the attack, it will have a greater impact on our economy than 9/11, even though the scale of the horror is much smaller. The global perception
      Reuters  -  263 words
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      Lock icon Oops
      46 13 IN our report “New plans for granny flats” (Streats, Oct 14), we said that National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan was speaking at the Singapore General Hospital’s charity walkathon. The walkathon was organised by the Public Free Clinic Society. We are sorry for the error.
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      240 13 Have Your Say E-mail us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, 1000 ToaPayoh North, Singapore*****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. We reserve the right to edit your letters for brevity and clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be deemed that you have
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  • STREATS global
    • IRAQ UPDATE
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        Lock icon Worse than 9/11
        613 14 Confused and confined: Sniper siege in seat of the world’s most powerful nation -AFP WASHINGTON These days Mr Arnold Salinas, a member of a community group, in Alexandria, Virginia, known as the Guardian Angels, pumps petrol for people afraid to get out of their cars. This is
        -AFP  -  613 words
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        Lock icon Plans to break up Saudi, Sudan
        111 14 TEHERAN The US and UK are working on plans to break up Saudi Arabia and Sudan, a British Labour MP alleged on Sunday. “American and British leaders... (also want to) expand Jordan’s borders to areas in central Iraq,” Mr George Galloway said in a
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        Lock icon Who’s on Bush’s side
        111 14 AP WASHINGTON President George W Bush’s “vast coalition” against Iraq is gathering steam. Bulgaria has offered an airport. Romania guaranteed airbases and airspace rights to US fighter jets. Qatar is upgrading its A 1 Udeid airbase and letting the Pentagon set up a command centre there.
        – AP  -  111 words
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        Lock icon Osama tape soon, says aide
        132 14 -AP DUBAI Osama bin Laden is alive and will appear on a videotape soon, a man who identified himself as a senior A 1 Qaeda member has told an Arabic weekly. “Sheikh Osama is alive and in good health. He has gained more weight due
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        Lock icon Rapist took off his Islamic pendant
        192 14 SYDNEY A man took off his Islamic pendant as he raped a girl, saying that to keep it on would be “disrespectful”, police alleged in court on Saturday, a newspaper here reported yesterday. The Sun-Herald said that Sydney youth Farhad Qaumi, 19, appeared in
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon It's open. Now what?
      813 16  -  Comment El JAIME EE The crowds at the Esplanade opening on Saturday were very much the common folk on the outside looking in. But the watchers may well he the theatre-goers of tomorrow THE Esplanade Theatres on the Bay was a scene of tired tranquility early
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        Lock icon DESPERATE HOURS
        38 18 10pm, Channel i A prisoner escapes with the help of his lovesick lawyer and takes a suburban family hostage. The family’s internal troubles are highlighted as the criminal and his clan play mind games with them.
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        Lock icon THE BERNIE MAC SHOW
        75 18 7pm, Channel 5 If you haven’t caught or taped this heart-warming Emmy winner yet, do so. Bemie Mac lives the good life with his beautiful wife Wandae... until his sister can no longer take care of her three kids and leaves them in his care. Of
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        Lock icon THE MARK OF LOVE
        46 18 5.30 pm, Channel U Yinshuang pledges to die at the same time Haozhen is executed. But Haozhen is spared at the last minute by the emperor, pressured by Lan Xin. Can Haozhen save Yinshuang in time and be with her? Last episode.
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        Lock icon Who did it?
        111 18 WHAT would you do with a pair of dark blue glasses that’s 2.5 m long, a yellow metre-long door key, a metrelong golf tee and a blue golf ball 2m in diameter and weighing more than 90kg? These were part of U 5555,000 (5598,904) worth of props
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      Lock icon Chill out
      119 18 SOUL CIRCLE R&B-FUNK group Soul Circle has released their first single a two-track CD. The two songs include Mosaic, which was originally written for the Channel News Asia current affairs programme of the same name but has been re-written to a four-minute song. The second track is called
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      129 20 RECENT PSI readings have been in the high half of moderate 70 on Sunday and 69 yesterday. But they are unlikely to get worse, the National Environment Agency said yesterday, thanks to rain, which is expected to continue over the next few days. However, as it
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    • Just a minute
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        69 20 Tampines Stadium will be closed for about four months for the resurfacing of its running track and other upgrading works. During the closure, you can use the nearest stadium, which is Bedok Stadium (1 Bedok North Street 2, tel: 6443-4846). Call Mr Francis Yip, manager of Stadia-East at
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        40 20 The menopausal years may be a time of anxiety for many women. Find out how to deal with menopause confidently at a free talk by Ms Cheryl Chia, a physiotherapist at TherapyWorks. Tomorrow, 7pm-8pm, library@orchard, tel: 6838-5188).
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    • Happenin’
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        Lock icon PERFORMANCE
        97 20 THE SPIDER AND THE TIGER Thursday at concourse, Block 711, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8 Friday at Bishan Town Centre Amphitheatre, Block 510, Bishan Street 11 Saturday at Chinatown Complex Pavilion Stage, Block 335, Smith Street First performance 7-30pm-Bpm, second performance 8.30pm-9pm A retrenched man decides to perform on
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        Lock icon EXHIBITION
        50 20 XIAO SHU AND ZHAO LEI Friday till Oct 21,10am-7pm Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Middle Gallery (111 Middle Road) Beijing artists Xiao Shu and Zhao Lei have been invited by NAFA to display their works in Singapore. This joint exhibition showcases some of their Chinese brush paintings and calligraphy.
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        Lock icon THEATRE
        72 20 A SOUL FOR A SOUL Till Oct 25, 7pm Igor’s The Main Event (#Ol-02A Oasis, 50 Stadium Boulevard) Tickets at $6l and $76 from Sistic Lady Vampira (Norleena Salim, below), the Grand Dame of Igor’s, plays matchmaker and becomes obsessed with finding a perfect mate for her favourite ugly
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        65 20 SO YOU WANNA BE A WRITER? Saturday, 3pm-4pm Kinokuniya Ngee Ann City Free Felix Cheong, a published poet in Singapore and the recipient of National Arts Council’s Young Artist of the Year for Literature Award 2000, talks about the myths and realities of writers, what it takes to be
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        75 20 FASCINATING RHYTHM Friday, Bpm Victoria Theatre Tickets at $2l from Sistic Thomson Jazz Club’s annual gala of jazz music concert will showcase the ensembles of Thomson Jazz Club (now in its 10th year) with Thomson Swing Band and special guests Jitterßugs Swingapore. The second half will feature Singapore’s premier
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      472 18 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 You’re at the centre of a crowd eyen as you lead it to the edge. Kindred spirits and soul mates are aware of one another, even if they choose not to merge. Aquarius likes high places and the broad vision
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  • STREATS sports
    • 14th Asian Games BUSAN 2002
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        738 22  - Ups Downs A Remy Ong A Kosuke Kitajima A Yung Ka Yan A Thai sprint team (4xlOC Nobuharu Asahara Sunita Rani LIMIIAN MING reports from South Korea For the past fortnight, aboutlo,ooo athletes from 44 countries have locked horns in the 2002 Asian Games. As expected, China was the only
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        Lock icon SOUTH KOREANS STUN CHINESE MEN
        130 23 -AFP A DETERMINED South Korea squad snapped a 20-year winning drought against China with a stunning 102-100 overtime triumph to capture the men’s basketball gold yesterday. China’s 2.26 m giant Yao Ming (right) failed to stop the smaller Korean sharpshooters from ending China’s reign as
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        Lock icon SOUTH KOREAN WINS MEN’S MARATHON
        139 25 Reuters SOUTH Korea’s Lee Bong Ju won the men’s marathon title yesterday to give the host its fourth consecutive marathon gold. Lee, who was among the favourites, held off the challenge of Japan’s Koji Shimizu and Ryuji Takei to win in 2:14.035ec and give Seoul
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        Lock icon FINAL TALLY
        192 25 G S B Tot China 150 84 74 308 South Korea 96 80 84 260 Japan 44 73 72 189 Kazakhstan 20 26 30 76 Uzbekistan 15 12 24 51 Thailand 14 19 10 43 India 11 12 13 36 Taiwan 10 17 25 52 North Korea 9
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        Lock icon No mood to celebrate
        390 25  -  Taufik dedicates singles gold to Bali blast victims By. Lim Han Ming BUSAN Indonesian shuttler Taufik Hidayat (right) yesterday won the men’s singles gold and dedicated it to the dead in the Bali bomb blast. The 21-year-old was deeply saddened by the attack on a nightclub
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        Lock icon UAE poised to recruit foreign talent
        344 25 -AFP BUSAN The United Arab Emirates could be the next nation to invest in a foreign legion of athletes following a miserable Asian Games. The Arabian Gulf state is to examine granting nationality to foreign sportsmen so that they can compete under the UAE
        -AFP  -  344 words
    • SPORTS SCAN
      • SOCCER
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          Lock icon KEANE HEARING
          116 27 Reuters LONDON Manchester United captain Roy Keane goes before the Football Association today to fight two disrepute charges relating to his controversial autobiography. The 31-year-old Irishman, who is currently recovering from hip surgery, could face a lengthy ban and heavy fine over comments he made in his book
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          Lock icon TRAPATTONI STAYS
          63 27 Reuters ROME Italy coach Giovanni Trapattoni has rejected calls for his resignation ahead of his side’s European Championship qualifier against Wales tomorrow. Italy’s lacklustre 1-1 draw with Yugoslavia on Saturday provoked a storm of criticism. “The truth is that you journalists would like to change the coach every
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          Lock icon McCARTHY’S JOB
          82 27 Reuters LONDON Ireland manager Mick McCarthy says he will walk away from the job after the 2004 European Championship, whether or not it qualifies. Ireland lost its opening qualifier 2-4 in Russia. It faces a home clash with Switzerland tomorrow which it cannot afford to lose. In an
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      Lock icon England fit to play
      357 27 Eriksson has selection headache ahead of Macedonia game Wire services EURO 2004 QUALIFIERS England v Macedonia SOUTHAMPTON For once, England coach Sven Goran Eriksson has a fully fit squad to chose from ahead of tomorrow’s Euro 2004 qualifying match against Macedonia. But that’s doesn’t mean selecting
      – Wire services  -  357 words
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      Lock icon Coach wants to focus on work
      294 27 Reuters LONDON Sven Goran Eriksson hopes football rather than his private life will now set England’s agenda after admitting to one of his toughest weeks as a manager. An affair with television presenter Ulrika Jonsson which ended earlier this year was back in the
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