Today, 7 August 2003, Afternoon Edition

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  • 13 1 TODAY SHARE YOUR FREE COPY Thursday > August 7, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002 www.todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 428 1  -  Chan Chao Peh Sing Post listing, Yellow Pages sale help Sing Tel to $1.2b net profit By chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg SINGTEL this morning announced its highest ever profit for a quarter, helped by huge one-off gains from the sale of stakes in two of its subsidiaries. Net profit for the
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    • Article, Illustration
      42 1 P Sydney surprises always, not least with a winter wonderland right at its doorsteps. I Turn to Page 38 tor !our special Traveller series on the undiscovered charms in I town and country of I Australia's first city. I Traveller
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    • 88 1 Reuters BALI A Muslim militant dubbed the laughing bomber arrived at court earlier today for the verdict in his trial for the Bali bombings, the first judgment to be handed down in connection with the strikes. "Allahu akbar (God is Greatest)," came a shout outside the courtroom
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    • 156 1 ■AFP NEW YORK Stocks closed mixed yesterday as the Dow Jones industrials took heart from rising demand for government bonds, but concerns about high technology giant Cisco's sales dragged down the Nasdaq. Equity investors turned to the bond market for direction amid a relatively quiet
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    • 78 1 -AFP LOS ANGELES It's official. After weeks of "will-he, wont-he" reports, Terminator movie star I Arnold Schwarzenegger has finally announced his I candidature for governor of the cash-strapped US I state of California in elections in October. I "It was a very difficult decision to make,
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 62 2 FROM 6pm yesterday, users of unauthorised TV decoders began seeing wavy and distorted images on their TV screens, as Star Hub Cable Vision (SCV) moved to render the units useless. Having invested $600 million in cabling the entire island, SCV warned that such pay-TV pirates can expect
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    • 560 2  -  Lee Ching Wern Analysts optimistic of regional growth despite effects of blast by chingwern@newst o day, com. sg AS the smoke cleared after the blast at the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta on Tuesday, many in the region braced for another tidal wave of bad news for
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    • 314 2 NINE victims of the bomb blast at the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta arrived here yesterday morning for treatment Eight of the victims were sent to the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and one was sent to the National University Hospital. Most are suffering from
      CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  314 words
    • 942 3 News Comment/P N Balji The silent struggle of Today and why you must help this underdog succeed CRAMPED in a backyard-kind of operation in Tech Point in Ang Mo Kio, a small group of eager, earnest and earthy people were plotting a strategy three years ago.
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    • 271 4  -  Madeleine Chong WHAT should have been a regular flag day for Apex Day Care Centre for the Elderly (ADCC) is turning out to be a nightmare. The centre's flag day on Saturday aims to raise funds for the elderly. But because it is
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    • 355 4  -  Joy Frances Ng brothers' trial marked by many interruptions by j oy@newstoday. com.sg IT WAS a long day in the High Court yesterday for Senior Counsel Davinder Singh (picture) as he cross-examined one of the two brothers embroiled in a fight over some $30 million. At
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 161 6  -  Ng Shing Vi FOR the first time in the history of education in Singapore, the National University of Singapore (NUS) is offering a Master of Nursing programme for experienced nurses at its Faculty of Medicine. The two-year full-time programme has 15 members in its inaugural
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      236 6  -  Tor Ching Li Mindef, DSTAto create computer training program with US Army by chingli@newstoday.com.sg FALL in, listen up and don't faint! Mindef wants to make military training fun for soldiers. Like real, you say? Exactly. Modelling and Simulation's (M&S) the name, and Full Spectrum Command's (FSC) the war
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    • IN THE NEWS
      • 40 6 NANYANG Technological University (NTU) students will soon have the option to take subjects in bioinformatics and life sciences through the Web. NTU is partnering UK e-Universities Worldwide, a British consortium, to deliver these courses online.
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      • 86 6 A 21 -year-old maid, Purwanti Parji, who called the police on Monday morning to report her employer's death, has been charged with murder. The Indonesian maid is alleged to have killed Mdm Har Chit Heang, 57. Mdm Har was found dead in her locked bedroom in
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  • LETTERS
    • 170 8  -  Quek Tai Yong Augustine I WAS surprised to read Mr Eddie Teo's letter, "Woes of employer trying to recruit admin assistants" (Today, August 5). Let us look at the big picture. In March, the ratio of job vacancies to unemployed persons stood at 0.24.
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    • 257 8  - The long wait Lim Boon Hee Why not improve connections to MRT stations with minibus service? I HEARD Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong on the radio assuring us that "no Singaporean will be deprived of public transportation". I am afraid Mr Yeo may have missed the nub of the unhappiness
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    • 325 8 I I I Your letter can also appear on this page. Give your full name and address and write to: Today, 24, Raffles Place, #28-01/06, Clifford Centre, Singapore *****1 Fax: 65-*****217 E-mail: news@newstoday.com.sg Thrice as many reasons to plan your seminars with us Im Q r W—»■— "'^iMr vfftlH Hurry,
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 158 10 Bloomberg CATHAY Pacific Airways, Asia's sixthlargest carrier by sales, posted a record loss for the first half after it slashed almost 50 per cent of its flights at the height of the Sars outbreak and then discounted airfares to lure back travellers. The net
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    • 520 10  -  Val Chua Profitable Creative weaned off PC sound cards by val@newstoday.com.sg CREATIVE Technology may have returned to the black with fullyear net profit of U5523.4 million ($41.2 million), reversing a US$l9.7 million loss but it warns against expectations of a strong post-Sars recovery in the months
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    • 178 10 AFP SOUTH Korea's largest car maker, Hyundai Motor Co, has agreed on wage rises and improved working conditions in a deal that ends weeks of labour strikes. The settlement includes an 8.63 per cent wage increase and a five-day working week from September. South Korea's
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    • 127 10 AFX-Asia ADVANCED Systems Automation (ASA) is confident it will secure further financial support from its creditors, which is crucial to the company's continued existence as a going concern, ASA auditors Ernst Young said. Ernst Young said it did not qualify the accounts of ASA in
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    • 579 12  -  Chan Chao Peh Operators target high-spending customers by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg COMPETITION for customers among the mobile operators has never been limited to pricing. Not content with trying to outdo one another by offering lower costs and "better deals", the operators are also leveraging on a slew of "extras" to
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    • 209 12  -  Lee Yew Meng MAINBOARD-listed Tat Seng Packaging Group has invested about US$4 million ($7 million) to expand the production capacity of its Suzhou plant in China by 400 per cent The investment comes at a time when the packaging industry is under
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    • Market Watch
      • 61 12 Im Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp Value 9,323.91 9,987.54 3,118.60 5,225.83 707.88 Change Pis -58.67 -189.84 -4.80 -33.62 -13.96 -0.63 -1.87 -0.15 -0.64 -1.93 KLCI 718.91 -3.32 -0.46 SET Index 489.77 -0.22 -0.04 Jakarta Comp 494.436 +5.907 +1.21 Phils Comp Shenzhen B
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      • 48 12 By volume Aug 6 Close Change '000 Singpu L&M Sunningdale AsiaFoodP DMXTeth Ipco MultiVis Chartered JurTech Interra 0.540 0.015 0.405 0.285 0.565 0.145 0.310 0.960 0.630 0.290 +0.040 -0.015 +0.025 +0.010 +7.6 -1.5 +4.1 +3.6 204,205 62,106 35,652 31,347 30,628 28,538 28,291 25,971 19,339 18,187
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      • 80 12 Aug 6 Close Change Seaview 7.000 +0.850 OCBC 10.600 +0.200 HLAsia 1.580 +0.130 DBS Bk 6% NCPS10 107.000 +0.100 SIA 10.700 +0.100 SIA 200 10.800 +0.100 SPH 100 18.700 +0.100 UOB 12.600 +0.100 UOI 3.180 +0.080 CSA 1.400 +0.070 Aug 6 Strike W*****5 Close Change 0.015 +50.0
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      • 81 12 By$ Aug 6 Close Change Creative 50 13.800 -0.200 OCBC 4.5MPS 100 101.700 -0.200 Robinson 6.200 -0.200 Venture 17.500 -0.200 DBS 10.800 -0.100 GrealEasI 10.300 -0.100 STIETF100 15.310 -0.090 Clipsal 2.530 -0.070 NatSteel 2.750 -0.070 Haw Par 4.180 -0.060 By percentage Aug 6 Close Change GMG USS
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      • 66 12 Agencies SHARES rose slightly yesterday on bargain hunting after Tuesday's sharp losses, as investors shrugged off the overnight decline on Wall Street The ST Index gained 1.49 points, or 0.1 per cent to close at 1,510.18. Volume was 959.365 million shares worth $619,486 million, compared to 860.27 million shares
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      • 36 12 USS 0.5672 UK£ 0.3513 Yen 68.04 HK$ 4.424 RM 2.155 Euro 0.4982 Rupiah 4,876 Baht 23.87 Peso 31.13 A$ 0.8747 Indian Rs 26.13 Won 672.1 C$ 0.7943 Yuan 4.696 NZ$ 0.9779 NTS 19.54
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      • 23 12 SGX Bloomberg Gold _ss/oz 352.00 Silver uss/oz 4.92 Platinum uss/.z 678.10 Rubber cents/kg 181 Palm oil RM/tonne 1394 Brent crude _ss/b„rrel 30.79
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    • 386 14 War, peace and shares Bloomberg Peace talks in Sri Lanka inspire moves to list stocks here SRI Lanka's stock exchange plans to tie up with Singapore Exchange to allow companies that are listed in Colombo to trade here. Mr Hiran Mendis, director-general of the Colombo Stock Exchange, left for Singapore
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    • 194 14 AFP MANILA US President George W Bush is to step up Washington's initiative to forge bilateral free trade agreements during his visit to South-east Asia in October, officials yesterday. Mr Bush is expected to launch negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) between
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    • 168 16  -  Lee Yew Meng Three sites merge for condo project by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg A 999-year leasehold condominium project with 240 units will get underway after adjoining sites occupied by the King's, Queen's and Princess flats in Tiong Bahru are combined. This follows the latest collective sale of the 24 units
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    • Corporate Briefs
      • 39 16 said its first-halt profit rose 1 8 per cent as it set aside less money for bad loans in Hong Kong. Net income climbed to US$4B9 million ($862 million) from US$4l6 million in the year-earlier period. Bloomberg
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      • 77 16 Bloomberg raised HK$9O6 million ($204 million) selling shares in its property trust after pricing them at HK54. 75 each, at the top end of the range, and increasing the size of the sale. Mr Li Ka-shing's developer sold 190.8 million shares after increasing the sale by 47.3
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      • 49 16 long-term rating was upgraded yesterday by Fitch Ratings to AA- from A+. The outlook has been changed to stable from positive. The agency noted UOB's strong balance sheet and superior performance relative to its peers, the bank's large size and its importance to the local economy.
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    • 3482 16 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS I The data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services, r acq 0079 LL(\(\ periodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Although carefully verified, data on tlKjUiriSSlLOll OJL-Lll J-OOUU I compilations is not guaranteed by Lipper A Reuters Company and may be
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    • 184 18 Reuters WASHINGTON In a bid to stop the deteriorating situation in Iraq, the US Army will deploy a new security force comprising elite special forces, infantry, military police and civil affairs troops, a general said. Such troops normally operate separately,
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    • Article, Illustration
      340 18 Agencies Episcopal church okays homosexual bishop MINNEAPOLIS The Episcopal Church USA made history on Tuesday by electing its first openly gay bishop in a 62-45 vote. The House of Bishops ratified the appointment of Reverend Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire after an llth-hour delay prompted
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    • 105 18 AFP photo Japan's consumer loan firm, Aiful Corp, released its credit card with a picture of Quechan a big-eyed chihuahua made famous by the company's TV commercial. Japan has gone barking mad over Que-chan after it appeared in a television commercial last August. Que-chan
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    • AROUND THE WORLD
      • 95 18 Reuters A SOUTH Korean man, whose suicide attempt sparked a fire on a subway that killed 1 98 people last February, was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday. Kirn Dae-han, 56, a former taxi driver with a history of mental illness, was spared the death penalty because
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      • 89 18 -AFP A CANADIAN tourist, mugged on her first visit to New York, received invita- tions from five-star hotel and top restaurant owners, asking her to give the city a second chance after she vowed never to return. Property developer Donald Trump invited Ms Lili Sun to
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      • 72 18 Reuters A Rome newspaper, Messaggero, published a survey that said as many as three million Italians fake their vacations. Telling their friends and relatives they are going away they then stock up on food, lies and videotapes and stay locked up at home. According to the
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      • 98 18 AFP SEX in the sunshine is not for the weak of heart, an Austrian doctor warned on Tuesday. He said overexertion in the scorching summer heat could be risky for people with heart problems. But hot weather increases sexual desire for 28 per cent
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 906 20  -  Dr Ooi Giok Ling There are common spaces for the different races to mix so why aren't they mixing? by news@newstoday.com.sg NEIGHBOURHOOD school children are not mak ing friends across ethnic groups. The tendency is for many of these children to pick friends who speak a similar
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  • WATZUP?
    • 535 22  -  Serene Foo in Hong Kong E) SfflaM/lliL 31 fife//! 13 1. get/io| by serene@newstoday.com.sg HONG Kong is making a bid for a nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the next Oscars with Infernal Affairs. The gangland, cops-and-robbers film was expected to propel the
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    • 147 22 HEAD down to Funan The IT Mall for the Acer road show which is on till Sunday. Among the items on sale is Acer's latest Travelmate 290, priced from $2,088. This model, which has a battery life of up to five hours, comes with a Centrino mobile
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    • 354 22  -  Elisa Chia PLEASANTRIES exchanged, the news anchors from Channel News Asia decide it's high time to give this reporter some forewarning. "Earlier, we ate durian," volunteers Timothy Go and Suzanne Jung chimes in: "We tried durian desserts on our programme durian cakes, durian
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    • 490 24 Stress or trauma can lead to ring-shaped hair loss, but it's treatable STRESS can cause havoc on our health and mental well-being. It is responsible for many ailments and illnesses. Hair loss is a good example of what stress can lead to. While you may lose as
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    • 49 24 A recent survey revealed that people believe Yun Nam Hair Care, established since 1985, is the"most effective hair care centre". In an April 2003 AC Nielsen survey, eight times more interviewees voted Yun Nam more popular than its competitors. APRIL 2003 SURVEY RESULTS
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    • Article, Illustration
      569 26  -  Teo Yuan Ching Photos of my little one add joy to my life by news@newstoday.com.sg I HAVEN 1 had a peaceful and uninterrupted six-hour J sleep in the last 14 months or so. Nope, I'm not having bouts of insomnia. Neither am I bothered by my
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    • FOOD FORUM
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        659 28  -  Justine Moss The colour of health can be tasty, too by eatout.@newstoday.com.sg THERE is a bewildering variety of goods on our supermarket shelves. Today and NTUC Fair Price supermarkets bring you a consumer column that will help you read the labels, assess the products and make the best
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      • 135 28 CUCUMBER, PRAWN AND GREEN MANGO SALAD Ingredients (serves 4): 500g cooked tiger prawns 3 Japanese or Lebanese cucumbers, thinly sliced 3 spring onions, finely chopped 250g fresh rocket and spinach leaves Y2 cup fresh lime juice 1 tbs fish sauce 2 tbs brown sugar 1 cup finely
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      • Article, Illustration
        481 28  -  Soon Fee Moi True Spore style African Sky Cumulus 2002 Country of Origin: South Africa Region: Western Cape Winelands District: Not known (possibly all over the Western Cape) Grapes: 100% Chenin Blanc (Steen) Vintage: 2002 Alcohol content: 12.5% by volume Price: $20.50 (including GST) Place of Purchase:
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    • CITY STYLE
      • 404 30  -  Low Shi Ping Enjoy salon treatment at home with L'Oreal Elseve by IF you've been having hair-raising days lately, it's time you realise that they're not worth it.Who needs lack-lustre hair which breaks at every flick of a brush? The people at L'Oreal Elseve recognise that many
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      • 371 32  -  Cathken Tung DOES the mention of electrotherapy send shivers down your spine? If that's the case, you don't know what you're missing. In recent years, elec-tro-stimulation is the buzzword in body and skincare. It has also become prevalent in slimming programmes. Electro-stimulation is used in slimming
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      • 125 32 IT MAKES sense to go fresh and floral when choosing a fragrance for yourself or a friend. You can wear it anywhere to the office, on a date or for a night out with the girls. And it makes even more sense now that Ralph Lauren
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      • Article, Illustration
        399 32  -  Cathleen Tung From T-shirts to bracelets, Mickey is all the rage by cathleen.tung@newst.oday.com.sg WHO'S the coolest Disney character now? Ask any kid and the answer is "Nemo!". But for fashionistas, the answer would be "Good ol' Mickey!". Yes, the famous mouse is back and he's now cooler and
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    • IN CINEMAS
      • 496 35 Reuters Ex-Hollywood Madam' tells court she was abused for disliking Black Hawk Down LOS ANGELES Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss sobbed on the witness stand on Tuesday as she testified that actor Tom Sizemore stubbed a cigarette out on her for preferring Bambi to Black
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      • 230 36 AFP LOS ANGELES Walt Disney's summer blockbusters Finding Nemo (picture) and Pirates of the Caribbean have helped make the Hollywood studio the first in the industry to hit the US$l billion ($1.7 billion) mark at the North American box office for
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    • 166 42  -  Tan Yo-Hinn THE Toa Payoh Sports Hall will surely see some excitement today when the two arch- rivals Malaysia and Singapore clash in the final of the inaugural Asean Schools Netball under-18 championships. In the semi-finals yesterday, Singapore defeated Thailand 73--30 and Malaysia overran Brunei 117-8.
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    • 497 43 -Agencies United lets Argentine go despite Ferguson's protests last week MANCHESTER Manchester United has accepted a £15 million ($42.6 million) bid from Chelsea for Argentina midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron, the club said yesterday. Provided he passes a medical and can agree personal terms, Veron will move to
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        626 46 Reuters Veron was surplus to requirements, says Ferguson LONDON Juan Sebastian Veron's sale to big-spending Chelsea was a footballing decision, as well as a financial one, says Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson. "It's always difficult letting good players go but we are very, very well off in
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      • 199 46 AFP LISBON Manchester United started life without Argentinian playmaker Juan Sebastian Veron with a 3-1 humbling at the hands of Portuguese giant Sporting Lisbon to celebrate the opening of the stadium that will feature at next year's Euro 2004 finals. Two goals from Portuguese veteran Joao
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