Streats, 6 January 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita (p> 240/03/2002
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  • 532 1  -  RSS Courageous victim Goh Hui Ling was ‘well-liked’ and ‘helpful’ Lim Han Ming Julie Sim IN TELOK Blangah, a family grieved yesterday over the death of a young woman who followed her love of the sea and joined the Republic of Singapore Navy. In Bintan,
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  • Morning Rush
    • 237 2 LONDON “The other woman” has just discovered the real wages of sin. She has been ordered to pay the costs of the private detective. An Austrian divorce hearing last month ordered a woman who had an affair with a married man to pay
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    • 572 2  -  B v t Gary Lim PRIMARY 6 pupil Wang Lu missed the buzz of returning to school last Thursday. The Anderson Primary schoolgirl was run over by a bus near the Ang Mo Kio school on Nov 8, which left her with severe
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    • 514 3  -  Businessman won’t get refund for rejected application B y I C-hoong Choon Yee THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) says there is no question of refunding $1,236 to a businessman whose application to convert a shophouse into a cafe fell through. The reason, it told
      Clarence Chan  -  514 words
    • 574 4  -  Meeting that was 50 years in the making By I Amanda Lu A 66-YEAR-OLD British woman finally met the Singapore boy she corresponded with more than 50 years ago after previous attempts to contact him over the years failed. There was joy all
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    • 168 6 BUZZSTOP Reuters MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who turned 77 last month, said catnaps and moderate food helped him stay healthy, the New Sunday Times reported yesterday. “It’s made up of a lot of little things. It is moderation in whatever I do. I
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    • Article, Illustration
      40 6 A rescue worker leading a group of people from the site of an avalanche in Azumi village, 180 km north-west of Tokyo, yesterday. At least 16 cars were buried as snow blocked a road in central Japan AP
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    • 138 6 Pedra Branca issue FOREIGN Minister S Jayakumar said Singapore will sign an agreement on the Pedra Branca issue “anywhere in the world”. “Sign in Singapore, sign in Malaysia, sign anywhere in the world, it doesn’t make any difference,” he said in response to Malaysia’s rejection,
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    • 140 6 KL slams British author MALAYSIA, would not be provoked by an author’s contention that it could fall to Singapore in hours if the two countries went to war, The New Sunday Times reported yesterday. It quoted Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar as saying that the
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    • 140 6 $99,000 in study awards PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday gave away more than $99,000 worth of bursaries and scholarships to bright but needy students. Himself a bursary recipient, he told the more than 200 students at Tao Nan School in Marine Crescent: Treasure the
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    • 102 6 POPULAR Chinese New Year foodstuff abalone and fish maw will be about 10 to 20 per cent more expensive this festive season than they were last season. Suppliers of abalone are blaming a combination of tighter supply from New Zealand and Australia, and higher demand, in
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    • 89 6 Bemama THERE will be no more development at the JB Waterfront City, a RM6 billion, (552.75 billion) 28ha floating-city project in the Johor Straits. Mentri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman said yesterday that the existing development will be maintained, but the as-yet-unconstructed Bha portion, which includes a
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    • 101 6 GOVERNMENT revenue plummeted by $4.3 billion in the first nine months of last year when compared to the same period of 2001 as a result of the slowing economy. The $19.7 billion collected by the state from Jan 1 to Sept 30 last year represented a
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    • 96 6 THE control of India’s nuclear forces will be in the hands of a political council chaired by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. A union Cabinet announcement on Saturday also said that the Nuclear Command Authority would consist of two bodies: an executive council to coordinate administrative work,
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    • 292 4 AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES OPEN DAY 2003 Date Sat 11 Sun 12 Jan 2003 Time 11am spm Venue: Orchard Grand Ballroom Level 3, Orchard Hotel 442 Orchard Road Singapore *****9 The "Australian Universities Open Day" is organised to provide admission advice to students completing their GCE ‘o’ Levels, GCE ‘A’ Levels, Polytechnic
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    • 205 7 V-» Gold Award Winner of Singapore Gourmet Hunt Hi Most Poplar Chinese Cuisine Restaurant Best Dish Competition ES rs. Voted Singapore Top Restaurants' Mostpnovative Menu bv wine Dine /M 4 IK Vi SHE a» N £5« Divine Lunches At Imperium Dining af Imperium is a delightful affair wi th th
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  • Financial
    • 267 8  -  Differences over strategy, liquidity needs may have caused break-up, say sources By_ ChuaKongHo DIFFERENCES in liquidity requirements and views on strategy may be behind the decision by shareholders of private equity firm Aberdeen Goh Private Equity Pts Ltd to wind up the joint venture. The privately-held
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    • 374 8 -AFP TOKYO The world’s retail giants, including Wal-Mart of the US and France’s Carrefour, have been setting up bases in China to procure products at low costs there, a report in Japan said yesterday. “The international mass marketing of inexpensive products is seen likely
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    • 102 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE ST Engineering will probably report its first profit drop in six years because of lower earnings from its US aerospace business. Net income in 2002 probably fell to $335.4 million from $342.3 million from the previous year, according to the average estimate of six analysts
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    • 79 8 Reuters LONDON Cellphone giant Vodafone Group plans to sell its US$2O billion (5534.8 billion) stake in US joint venture Verizon Wireless so it can fund a bid for complete control of a rival US mobile operator, the Independent on Sunday said. The newspaper cited US sources as saying
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    • 91 8 Bloomberg WASHINGTON -The International Monetary Fund has enough money and doesn’t need an infusion of fresh cash, Under-secretary of Treasury for International Affairs John Taylor said. The IMF reviews the subscriptions or quotas its 184 members pay every five years, a process that’s scheduled to be completed
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    • 769 10 Companies look for new business models as 90s plans fail to yield results Washington Post WASHINGTON For the airlines, it’s the “hub and spoke” system. For automobile dealers and fastfood joints, it’s interest-free financing and dollar menus. All across the US economy, companies are concluding that the strategies
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    • 371 11 Ex-Merrill Lynch analyst faces fraud charges Bloomberg NEW YORK Mr Henry Blodget, the former Merrill Lynch analyst who fuelled demand for Internet shares that later plunged, may be charged with fraud by NASD for public recommendations of stocks that he disparaged in e-mails to colleagues,
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    • 192 11 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Promet Bhd and 15 other stocks with a combined market value of RMBOO million (***** million) will be dropped from the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange as regulators get tough with ailing companies. Malaysia has been prodding debtridden companies to resolve
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    • 597 12 US automakers pin hopes on new models to lift flagging sales Bloomberg DETROIT General Motors (GM) vice-chairman Bob Lutz, hired in 2001 to revamp the styling of the company’s cars and trucks, will unveil five prototype vehicles as it tries to build on last year’s
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    • 490 12 The stock recommendation is the average of ali the recommendations submitted by analysts following the stock. There is a total of 29 brokers submitting recommendations but not every stock is followed by all the 29 brokers. Their recommendations are placed on a 1 to 5 points scale and
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    • 24 12 **s at JANUARY 3 US$: 551.744 552.778 EURO: 551.807 Ss: 68.80 YEN Ss: RM2.179 Ss: HK54.472 Ss: 24.67 BAHT Ss: 5,106 RUPIAH
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  • Comment
    • 839 13  -  By > CONRAD RAJ A STREATS reader who complained last week about the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) refusal to refund an application fee of $1,236 after his plan to convert a shophouse into an eating place fell through was not alone. Someone I know
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    • 27 13 Red-letter day? F.C. 0* r n anc 2>J he iter (Situ prolona A l/1/l lAsi IA n u/erpool i wuieru Find out in today’s edition LIVEE FOOTBiA
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  • Vocal
    • 489 14 I HOPE most readers will be as appreciative as I am of the informative articles in Streats by senior correspondents from The Business Times. I recently read that “investors can borrow shares from SGX for an indefinite period”. This is no doubt welcome news
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    • 342 14 AS Mr Philip Lee’s brother-in-law said of cross-strait ties (“What’s a Causeway row among friends?”, Streats, Jan 3), we will probably be forever feuding like brothers or cousins even in the best of times and definitely in the worst of times. What caught my attention was that
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    • 191 14 THE decision is final on not establishing a fourth university, but how about more part-time degree programmes from the National Univeristy of Singapore (NUS), the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Singapore Management University? Will there be more part-time degree programmes for working adults in
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    • 175 14 IN the report “Law firm opens at HDB Hub” (Streats, Jan 3), we reported: “For each $lOO of loan amount, HDB charges a conveyancing fee of $13.50 for the first $30,000, $lO.BO for the next $30,000 and 9 cents thereafter.” This is incorrect. It should be 13.5 cents instead
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    • 74 14 HAVE YOUR SAY E-maii us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. We reserve the right tc edit your letters for brevity and clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be
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  • Medical
    • 322 15 LONDON Experts are increasingly worried about “wonder cures” for arthritis, and have warned sufferers against fad diets that claim to “cure” the crippling condition, said a recent BBC News online report. Said Mr Fergus Logan, chief executive at the UK’s Arthritis Research Campaign: “People with
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    • 170 15 QWhat is meant by exercising regularly? A There are two relevant recommendations for physical activity provided by the American College of Sports Medicine that has provided the lead on this issue intema-tionally. To maintain cardio-respiratory fitness, it is necessary to exercise three times a week at a vigorous
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  • Global
    • 246 16 AFP SEOUL South Korea is to ask the US to give ground in its nuclear stand-off with North Korea under a compromise plan to be unveiled shortly by Presidentelect Roh Moo Hyun. According to a report in Saturday’s edition of The Australian, Mr
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    • 114 16 HOUSTON, Texas A businessman who was brutally shot in the abdomen after handing over his money to a robber may owe his life to the callous thug who left him for dead. Mr Bill Davis was shot from about 2m away as he locked up his
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    • 423 16 Sri Lanka and Tamil Tigers to discuss peace i u iki H JlulliiP Reuters NAKORN PATHOM, Thailand In this comer, the Oxford-trained constitutional expert, Mr G L Peiris (left), author of an arm-snapping load of legal textbooks. And in the other comer for talks to end two decades
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    • 243 16 Reuters BEIJING China’s Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has urged the party’s 65 million members to lead a simple life and avoid the temptation of money, power and sex. Analysts said Mr Hu’s speech, splashed on the front pages of major
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    • 110 16 LONDON Ms Lesley-Ann and Mr Mike Rebello were married in Mauritius in 1996. In 1997, the couple walked down the aisle in Mont Blanc, France. A year later, they exchanged vows at the top of the South Tower of New York’s World Trade Centre. Their
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    • 444 18 Yemen gunman targeted ‘white skin’, says survivor ADELAIDE An Australian doctor who escaped an attack on a missionary hospital in Yemen last Monday has told how he survived the shooting in which three of his American colleagues were killed. Bums surgeon Ken Clezy, 73, told Australia’s
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    • 121 19 LONDON Since Raja went on guard duty six months ago, there has been no burglary at her home and the crime wave in her village of Selisten Dol, 40km west of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, has ended. Raja is a 90kg one-year-old Bengal tiger cub. Her
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    • 270 19 Scientist tried to sell cloning story new York- Many news organisations were a lready familiar with Clonaid, even before the se cfs announcement on Dec 27 that it had Produced the first human clone. Several months before the announcement, Dr Michael A Guillen, a former
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    • 817 18 Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Ask About Your Mobile Phone Battery Why does your battery get weaker after just a year? Slags (waste matter) are stored inside a used battery due to the repetition of charging and discharging. The slags will hinder the proper ion-flow and decrease the charging capacity
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 30 20 iSfeifcs.,. 7M SSsfjSsfi m mm fill in MSI w ,1 fiSii s Amazing Grace MM Mg» 2W i* S'pore’s "Chicken Soup for the Soul" 'vr* remieres 18 Dec Wednesdays 8:30p
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  • EasyStreats
    • 117 21 Reuters ROMAN Polanski’s Holocaust film The Pianist won four awards, including best picture and best director, from the National Society of Critics on Saturday, as the movie industry gears up for the Oscars in March. The influential critics group named the film’s star Adrien Brody (picture),
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    • 119 21 George ciooney blames his hectic movie schedule for his relationship problems, saying that his Workload wrecked his three-year romance with French model Celine Balitran, Ananova.com reported yesterday. The actor, 41, told the Sunday Mirror Magazine: “I suppose I have decided to prioritise my life
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    • 77 21 Catherine Zeta Jones, who is e xpecting her second child in March, been craving the traditional British s Pread Marmite. Hut, Ananova.com reported on Saturday, her husband Michael Douglas ls having a hard time finding it in Los Angeles, so the makers are sending the Stress
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    • 750 21 Don’t look to German film The Experiment for the true story beh ind the Stan ford Prison Experiment on which it is based BEATINGS. Torture f ipe Mimic No wofidei »ne German ilir Ud.\ \penim T r he Experiment), wi it;: Ms been showing
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    • 469 22  -  By Gregory Leow THE Yamaha Asian Beat competition is the place for new amateur music bands of all genres to highlight their original songs. And representing Singapore at this year’s finals in Kuala Lumpur in March in which bands from around Asia will compete for the
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    • 301 22  -  Foodie two-shoes «>• WILEEN CHANG BAK kut teh lovers know that the best one can be found in Klang, Malaysia, which is where the dish is thought to have originated. You can find more than 200 shops and hawker stalls there selling the dish in
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    • 107 23 GOOD news at last for the dry continent. Widespread rains in Australia have raised hopes that the worst drought on record may be starting to be washed away. Over Christmas, almost all areas of New South Wales state received some rain and over the New Year
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        49 23 10pm, Channel i Stoney and Dave find a caveman trapped in ice, thaw him out, and show him around town. Link may be 3,000 years old hut he has no trouble impressing all the girls and helping Stoney and Dave find the coolness they’ve been searching for.
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      • 50 23 7.30 pm, Channel 5 Eddie Kasalivich works as a technician for a scientific team that discovers an alternative, low-cost, pollution-free fuel source. When one of the chief scientists is murdered and the invention stolen, Eddie and physicist Lily Sinclair are framed and have to flee for their lives.
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    • Happenin'
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        62 23 PARADISE REVISTED Thursday till Jan 19; 11.30am-Bpm, Monday to Saturday and 12pm-5.30pm on Sunday Utterly Art Exhibition Space (208 South Bridge Road #O2-01) Free Paradise Revisited seeks to reclaim a lost vision of blissful innocence. Painter Martin Loh is best known for his paintings of Peranakan women and children
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      • 80 23 LE BOSSU Tomorrow, 9pm AGF Theatre, Alliance Francaise (1, Sarkies Road) Tickets at s7for non-members and ssfor members from Sistic This famous novel has been adapted many times for both stage and screen. This version makes full use of the advantages offered by colour and wide screen. There are
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      • 110 23 SLEEPING BEAUTY Thursday to Sunday; 7-30 pm on Thursday and Friday, 2pm and 6.30 pm on Saturday and Sunday Victoria Theatre Tickets at $3l, $26, $l6 for Thursday and Sunday; $36, $3l, $2l for Friday, Saturday and Sunday from Sistic The Stage Club’s annual pantomime gives a new twist
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      • 68 23 COFFEE MORNING Today, 10.30am-11.30am Recital Studio, Esplanade Tickets at $lO from Sistic The festive season is over and it’s back to a full work week. Music in the morning might be a good way to start. TCR Music Station will entertain with evergreens from the 60s to the 80s
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      • Article, Illustration
        63 23 TAIJI CLASSES Monday and Wednesday, 7-30pm~9pm, starting today Hardcourt, Block 240, Jurong East Street 21 $lBO for 24 lessons Ms Tan Mui Buay (below), 1994 Asian Games bronze medallist and 1993 Sea Games gold medallist, will conduct a course in 42 Steps Taiji Sword Recruitment which starts tonight. Register
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 452 23 by Kelli Fox at Antrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 So many attractive offers are coming your way that you feel like you’re 3 target. On this magic mood, you always seem to do the right thing, even when clueless. The question isn’t whether you’ll win it’s about which prize you
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  • Sports
    • 563 24  -  National U-23 coach may be stop-gap arrangement By I Adam Hashidy PN SIVAJI, widely tipped to be caretaker coach of the national team, is likely to be tasked with the Asian Cup qualifiers in March. The 51 -year-old (right), currently coach of the national under-23 squad, will
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    • 202 24 Reuters FA CUP (3RD ROUND) Man City O Liverpool 1 MANCHESTER A secondhalf penalty from England midfielder Danny Murphy booked Liverpool into the FA Cup fourth round yesterday after a scrappy 1 -0 victory over Manchester City at Maine Road. Murphy calmly
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    • 557 25 Marion leads Suns to eighth straight home win Wire services NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Phoenix 107 LA Lakers 93 PHOENIX As the Phoenix Suns continue to rise, the Los Angeles Lakers continue to sink. Shawn Marion scored 23 points to Lad a balanced attack as the Suns turned back a
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    • 367 25 AFP NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Washington 107 Indiana 104 (OT) WASHINGTON Michael Jordan made the most of Ron Artest’s absence to register season highs of 41 points and 12 rebounds against Indiana Pacers. His contribution helped Washington win 107-104 in double overtime on Saturday. It was
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    • 162 26 (Selected) Arsenal 2 (Bergkamp 15, McNiven 67-og) Oxford Utd 0 Aston Villa 1 (Angel 41) Blackburn 4 (Jansen 17,60, Yorke 52,71) Blackpool 1 (Popovic 10-og) Crystal Palace 2 (Black 56, 64) Bolton 1 (Ricketts 18) Sunderland 1 (Phillips 63) Charlton 3 (Johansson 25, 61, Euell 72-pen) Exeter
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    • 531 26 Wenger hopes Bergkamp will prolong career at Arsenal Wire services LONDON Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is confident Dennis Bergkamp will be a menace to English defences for at least one more season. The Dutch striker has yet to make up his mind about whether he will extend
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    • 261 26 Wire services LONDON Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger says the biggest Premiership sides may help form a breakaway European league if Fifa persists with summer tournaments which leave his players exhausted. Wenger is angry that Arsenal’s French stars face having to play in the Confederations Cup next
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    • 500 27 West Ham registers first home win of season against Forest Wire services LONDONWest Ham manager Glenn Roeder believes a dramatic FA Cup win over Nottingham Forest can be the spark that ignites the Hammers’ season. Sparkling performances from young stars Jermaine Defoe (right), Joe Cole and Michael
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    • 324 27 Wire services LONDON Delighted Shrewsbury boss Kevin Ratcliffe said his side deserved to beat Everton after the Shrews dumped the Premiership side out of the FA Cup on Saturday. The Third Division outfit beat Everton 2-1 thanks to a brace from captain Nigel
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    • SOCCER
      • 107 27 -AFP MANCHESTER Manchester United’s 4-1 FA Cup win over Portsmouth was marred by a fresh injury to captain Roy Keane. The Irish midfielder had to go off in the first half with a hamstring injury that was clearly a cause for concern for United’s management. United boss
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      • 114 27 Wire services MUNICH Bayern Munich defender Sammy Kuffour lost his 15-month-old daughter Godiva after she drowned in the Ghanaian capital Accra on Friday. Said the club’s general manager Uli Hoenes: “We’re not aware of the exact circumstances, but the child apparently drowned at the swimming baths.” Hoenes’ private
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    • 120 27 GYMNASTICS -AP TOKYO Three former Romanian gymnasts who have been criticised for appearing nude in a DVD and photographs in Japan bared all again in a Japanese news magazine. The photos, published in the latest issue of the Shukan Gendai, show Lavinia Milosovici, 26, Claudia Presecan, 23,
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