Today, 15 September 2003, Afternoon Edition

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  • 8 1 TODAY todayonline.com Monday September 15,2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 953 1  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla by shobha@newstoday.com.sg WHILE the rest of the world has been pre-occupied with the unstoppable Chinese and Indian economies and their up-and-com-ing tycoons, Russia has been quietly upstaging them. Going by Fortune magazine's latest list of the richest people in the world, young Russian billionaires
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    • 198 1 Agencies STOCKHOLM Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson said late yesterday that Swedes had clearly rejected membership of the euro in his country's referendum on the European single currency. "I can now state that the result is clear, very clear," he said on public television.
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    • 42 1 NEWSX^/lEWS I starry night Donations pour in for President's Star Charity/2 bijani twins' opl Should national ethics bodyH rule in such matters?/3 killing arafat ...I is an option, says Israeli Vice-Premier/31 SCHUMI'S I First win since June for German/52 B i :a^Hi^H^^
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    • 12 1 I TOSHIBA Angry Harry Page 50 I WTO talks end in failure/22
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 245 2  -  Jeanine Tan MediaCorp raises $2.4 m for President's Star Charity by j eanine@newstoday. com.sg MEDIACORP artistes and national athletes evening helped raised $2,444,723 at the President's Star Charity Show last night The amount raised exceeded last year's total of $2.1 million. The funds will go to beneficiaries
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    • 159 2  -  Jose Raymond A MAN on death row for a drug offence is hoping to escape the gallows. On Saturday, his lawyer, Mr M Ravi, filed a criminal motion in the Supreme Court asking for an order to be granted to 23-year-old Malaysian, Vignes Mourthi, to have
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    • 738 3 News Comment Jose Raymond Less controversy if national ethics body had backed Iranian twins' surgery IT HAS been two months since the tragic operation to separate conjoined Iranian twins Laden and Laleh Bijani (picture). In the time that followed the operation, many questions
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 285 4  -  Madeline Chong EVER feel that you have walked a mile at work? Wonder no more. A device called the Stepometer can help you monitor the number of steps you take daily. And the appeal of the Stepometer, which looks like a pager and can be
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    • 535 4  -  Elisia Yeo Iras says amount is taxable by elisia^newstoday.com.sg DISCUSSIONS about the service charge in hotels and restaurants inevitably leave Singaporeans hot under the collar. After a Today report highlighting that businesses are keeping part or all of the levy as revenue, Singaporeans are asking
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    • 167 4 Channel News Asia FROM Jan 1 next year, filter pumps for fish tanks must be tested by authorised laboratories and registered with SPRING Singapore before they can be sold. This follows a recent Civil Defence warning that 26 fires have been caused
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    • 164 6  -  Madeleine Chong IT'S not every day that your chief executive washes your car. However, Ms Stephanie Yap, SingTel's director for human resources, enjoyed that privilege yesterday. Mr Lee Hsien Yang got wet and soapy to wash her Mitsubishi space wagon. Even
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    • 316 6  - Wet and wild Tor Ching Li but Cold Storage carnival was not washed out by chineli@newstoday.com.sg IT nearly became a turf V surf event at Turf City in Bukit Timah yesterday afternoon, as heavy rain and howling winds stalled the Cold Storage Group's Centenary Charity Carnival for an hour. Indeed,
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    • 124 6 THE third Asean Telecommunications and IT Ministers Meeting will be held here from Wednesday to Friday. The two previous meetings were held in Kuala Lumpur and Manila in 2001 and 2002 respectively. During the meeting which will be opened by Prime Minister Goh Chok
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    • 736 9  -  Ng Shing Vi At a time when the pub scene is changing, Colin Mac Donald sticks to good old Irish practices to stay ahead by shingyi@newstoday.com.sg HE IS a familiar face among the many patrons of Molly Malone's Irish Pub and Father Flanagan's Irish Pub. The latest
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  • LETTERS
    • 267 10  -  Jeffrey Loke Sin Hun Card company did not highlight early-payment charge I READ with concern the increasing prevalence of attractive interest-free instalment payment schemes offered by credit card companies, which let cardholders spread out the payment for big-ticket items over up to 24 months. However,
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    • 119 10  -  Goh Shih Yong I REFER to the letter "The price of loving your pet" (Today, Sept 9) by Mr Gerald Ang Joo Huat. We agree with Mr Ang that pet owners should know the consultation fees when they visit their vet Under the Animals and Birds
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    • 79 10  -  Chow Wai Ling WE REFER to the letters, "From public pools to condo pools" (Today, Sept 4) by Mr Lim Boon Hee, and "SSC, justify the entry fee hike" (Today, Sept 5) by Mr Ishwar Mahtani. The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) wishes to inform you that
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 444 12 Bloomberg M'sia to list world's largest plantation company WHEN Malaysia begins selling shares in state-run Felda by the end of this year, it will create the biggest integrated oil-palm plantation company in the world by market value, a minister said. Felda, or the Federal Land
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    • 221 12 Bloomberg THE Singapore dollar had a weekly gain on optimism the latest Sars case will not trigger an outbreak of the disease after the Health Ministry said the patient and those in contact with him are "well". A 27-year-old male patient has been isolated
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    • 497 14  -  Lee Ching Wern by chingwerncs'newstoaav.com.se AS most countries around the globe continue the trudge towards economic recovery, China remains the fastest growing economic powerhouse. And riding on the growth of this rising dragon are many China-based companies, which have seen their profits increase
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    • 747 16  -  Lim Say Boon Taking Stock ButTWC's 90% profit surge may not be justified A FEW months ago, if you had asked stockbroking industry professionals about Tiong Woon Corporation (TWC), you would have gotten a blank look. But, that was then when its share price was languishing
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    • marketWATCH
      • 76 18 SINGAPORE share prices are expected to move sideways this week after falling last week, with the latest Sars case expected to have little impact, dealers said. The ST Index closed at 1,584.27 points on Friday, down 33.64 points, or 2.07 per cent from the previous week's close of trading.
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      • 36 18 US$ 0.57 UK£ 0.36 Yen 67 HK$ 4.45 RM 2.17 Euro 0.51 Rupiah 4,823 Baht 23 Peso 31.31 A$ 0.86 Indian Rs 26 Won 668 C$ 0.78 Yuan 4.72 NZ$ 0.98 NTS 19.41
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      • 26 18 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oi 376.90 Silver uss/oz 5.217 Platinum uss/oi 696.80 Rubber centsAg 192 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,442 Brent crude uss/barrel 26.37 Information provided by
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    • market BUZZ
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      • 68 18 Calling all adventure-seeking Singaporeans. Enter the Double A "House of Fun" Challenge online at www.class9s.com.sg. It is Singapore's own live reality show. Following a two-week on-air campaign with Class 95 FM, which will run a road show from the event on Saturday, the
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      • 83 18 Actor Allan Wu joins the ranks of TAG Heuer's local ambassadors, who include MediaCorp stars Tay Ping Hui and Wong Li Lin. Ms Wong Mci Ling, brand director of TAG Heuer (Singapore and Malaysia), said: "We are very happy to have Allan on board.
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    • 384 20  -  Chan Chao Peh These men believe in giving a personal touch to their design works by chaopeh@newstoday.com.se WHEN newsmakers have their pictures taken, it's the photographers who are usually the ones directing the shoots. But when this reporter tried to photograph Mr Benedict Soh and Mr Simon
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    • 469 21 Reuters as it reports surprise slump in sales of new software licences PALO ALTO/NEW YORK Oracle, the world's second-largest software company, spooked investors when it reported on Friday an unexpected slump in quarterly sales of new software licences, despite a 28 per cent jump in profit. Shares
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • 360 22 Reuters Poor nations reject demand for new rules CANCUN (Mexico) Trade talks critical to the health of the world economy collapsed in Mexico late yesterday after poor states refused to bow to a demand from some rich countries for new rules on foreign investment Agriculture
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      • global roundup
        • 87 22 -AFP The international airport in the western German city of Duesseldorf reoped late yesterday after being evacuated following several bomb threats that affected tens of thousands of travellers. Air traffic in and out of the airport was brought to a halt around midday and all
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        • 66 22 AFX/Asia China has deployed up to 150,000 troops to its border with North Korea to deter Pyongyang's nuclear build-up and stifle mounting violence from rogue North Korean soldiers, Hong Kong's Sunday Morning Post reported. It also said troops were in the area to help stem
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        • 57 22 Reuters US laboratory tests have confirmed that a Singapore medical researcher has Sars, a Health Ministry official said on Sunday. The 27-year-old scientist, who is believed to have contracted the disease in a laboratory, has no fever and is recovering well. He is expected
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    • Article, Illustration
      257 31 It is an option, says Israel's Vice-Premier JERUSALEM Israel's VicePremier said yesterday that killing Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was an option in its threat to "remove" him as an obstacle to peace. "Killing him is definitely one of the options," Mr Ehud Olmert, a mainstream member of Prime
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    • global roundup
      • 98 31 -AFP Pakistan helped AI Qaeda members launch their operations in Afghanistan in the 1 990s and ran a major training camp used by Osama bin Laden's terror network, according to newly-released US intelligence documents. Pakistan has dismissed the report as "baseless". The documents, produced by the
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      • 118 31 AFP British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw made a last-minute plea to Prime Minister Tony Blair not to go to war in Iraq but the plea was rejected, a book claims. According to the book by political journalist John Kampfner, entitled Blair's
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      • 84 31 AFP A four-nation maritime taskforce boarded a ship carrying dummy weapons of mass destruction in the Coral Sea successfully this weekend, in an exercise seen as a show of strength to North Korea. Forces from Japan, the United States, Australia and France hunted down
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      • 58 31 AFP More than 1 00 people were reported dead or missing yesterday as South Korea counted the cost of a typhoon that pummelled the country with the strongest winds since weather records began. Emergency authorities said 84 people had been killed and 25 were missing after
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    • 816 24 MUSIC Jl jfe, performance. ensemble. In the second half BRUCKNER'S EIGHTH "WPPx Date: Sept 17 of this concert, journey SYMPHONY MICHAEL BUBLE LIVE IN *^r *^J Time: Bpm through the life of Puccini In this concert, the CONCERT -^g, Venue: Hall, University and his twelve women in a Singapore Symphony
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    • 981 25 fans and share their music. premiere of Concerto for A^^^m Singapore will be the first Accordion and Orchestra, i T >% stop of the Asian leg of their specially composed by Bn fll world tour. In this concert, award-winning Singaporean BJm 'MM X* t v fans will be treated to
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    • 904 28 *^J^blb^blbV m^oP^^ Germany through the eyes the Singapore Film Society of a young boy. Alain (SFS), the Japanese Film Resnais' Night and Fog is a Festival marks the centennial flj documentary that of the birth of one of Japan's reconstructs the horror of greatest film directors, Ozu B fc Nazi
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    • 1154 29 CHILDREN'S SCULPTURE on the 25th of each month entries will be shown on a These will provide an A PASSION EXHIBITION until December 2003. To future edition of the overview of the development 800 SFNI Witness the power of the participate, download the programme. The overall of Singapore from the
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 1061 32  -  Ooi Giok Ling j_ i Small local shops will thrive if they take pride in dressing up their premises by newsCs'newstoday.com.sß OUR city is only second-tier compared to New York and New Yorkers cast us in the shade, so we have been told. In
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  • WATZUP?
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      393 33  -  Jeanine Tan j_ i [^Taiwanese boy band impresses with dance moves by ieanineWnewstoday.com.sß IF Taiwanese boy band Energy wants to establish a firm foothold in the fickle world of Chinese pop music, they should just keep dancing and stop talking. During their debut concert at the Singapore Indoor
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    • 325 33 Reuters/Billboard NEW YORK As the news of Johnny Cash's death spread, fellow country artistes and members of the American music industry expressed deep sadness. "I have lost one of my best friends," said Marty Stuart, Cash's former son-in-law and one of his regular
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    • 343 34  -  Janice Lee Aspiring local DJs get a chance to be recognised at Heineken's talent hunt, Found@thirst by janice@newstoday.com.sg LOCAL DJs yearning for that big break will soon have their thirst quenched in a talent battle. In a continuing effort to discover talent, Heineken Music is
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    • 566 35 AFP Singapore's image of shopping and clubbing haven is drawing gays to the island SINGAPORE is slowly emerging as Asia's gay entertainment hub, with a slew of gay-friendly clubs, saunas, restaurants and fashion outlets appearing over the past three years. Better known for the Government's
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    • 309 36  -  Serene Foo Infernal Affairs II wi 11 hit screens here next month by serene@newstoday.com.sg THE much-anticipated second instalment to last year's smash hit Infernal Affairs will hit cinemas here on Oct 1. Infernal Affairs II features upstarts like Shawn Yue and Edison Chen and veterans like
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    • 207 36 HOLY hosiery! It's time to tailor those Dark Knight tights. Following in the footsteps of high-profile actors who have portrayed the Caped Crusader, relatively unsung British star Christian Bale, has been confirmed as the next Batman. The child lead in Steven Spielberg's 1987
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    • IN CINEMAS
      • 202 38  -  Serene Foo by serene@newstoday.com.sg ANIMATION fans, take note: MediaCorp Studios' Raintree Pictures is making its first foray into the world of animation, along with the Singapore Broadcasting Authority and Silicon Illusions with Sing To The Dawn. This animated feature is based on award-winning writer Minfong
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    • LIVING LEARNING
      • 507 39  -  Jason Chong by news(s>newstoday.com.sß SKIP the 0 levels and sit for the A levels at the end of a four-year programme. That is what seven schools are offering selected students. And students at the Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) will sit for the International Baccalaureate (IB) instead of
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      • 127 39 THE IB OPTION THE International Baccalaureate is a two-year, pre-university course which requires students to take six subjects including languages, the sciences and the humanities. Students must also launch a community service project and undertake an original research like a mini-thesis. The broad-based and rigorous curriculum of the IB has
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    • EAT OUT
      • 790 40  - When East and West meet Katrina Karim by eatoutWnewstoday.com.sß INNOVATIVE recipes are the mantra for this year's Chinese menu offerings. And Man Fu Yuan leads the pack with some commendable creations that incorporate quality ingredients and great cooking. What is good about Man Fu Yuan's new dishes is that they
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      • 350 42  -  Karman Tse Here's a little something to jazz up the International spread by karman(g)newstoday.com.sg IF you're reading this now, you're in for a treat at The New Otani's River Terrace Coffee House. Present this page when you dine there and you'll be entitled to
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      • 129 43 MORTON'S of Chicago The Steakhouse is offering more than its usual upscale dining these days. From Mondays to Fridays, spm to 7pm, Morton's offers its signature cocktails that include complimentary fillet mignon steak sandwiches. The Bar at Morton's is
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      • 508 43  -  Low Shi Ping Authentic Vietnamese cuisine at The Esplanade by eatout@newstoday.com.Sß RICE paper is often associated with Vietnamese cuisine. So, it is no surprise that a Vietnamese restaurant at The Esplanade has used it in its name. The Rice Paper Vietnamese Restaurant was set up by
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      • 473 46 Agencies Mosley defeats boxing great again LAS VEGAS From Shane Mosley's corner came squeals of joy. From Oscar De La Hoya's corner came squeals of protest But from the judges came only silent unanimity. In a rematch that resembled their first meeting, Mosley beat De La
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      • 126 46 RETIEF Goosen held his nerve to claim his second Lancome Trophy after a roller-coaster final day in Paris yesterday. Goosen saw a five-shot lead reduced to just one on the back nine before seeing off the challenge of Ryder Cup hero Paul McGinley to complete a wire-to-wire
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      • 327 46 Reuters LODDEKOPINGE, Sweden Europe's women golfers won back the Solheim Cup yesterday, Britain's Catriona Matthew securing the point to seal victory over the United States. Matthew hit her approach to just five feet at the 17th to complete a 3 and 1 win over
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      822 47  -  Tan Wee Boon SCC scrum-half on target with five converted penalties by weeboon@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Singapore Cricket Club (SCC) takes on the Wanderers, the contest is usually explosive. So it was perhaps apt that a 'Gunn' settled the latest clash. SCC scrum-half Lewis Gunn proved to be the hero
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    • 242 47  -  Tan Wee Boon SINGAPORE will have at least one representative in next April's Boston Marathon as Vivian Tang emerged victorious in the competitive Women's Open Category of the Sheares Bridge Run and Army Half Marathon (SBR) yesterday morning. Tang completed the 21km event in
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    • 372 47 Reuters INZAI, Japan Phil Mickelson finally broke par with a two-under-par 69, but finished 10 strokes behind winner Jyoti Randhawa after the final round of the Suntory Open yesterday. Overnight leader Randhawa became the first Indian to win on the Japanese tour, earning
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    • 224 48 SINGAPORE'S shuttlers swept all the honours in the finals of the Singapore Pools Asian Satellite 2003 yesterday. The nation's top male shuttler and world No 8 Ronald Susilo took just 35 minutes to dispatch impressive Indonesian starlet Simon Santoso 15-5, 15-3. The 20-year-old rising star
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    • 111 48 THERE was not to be another amazing run in the Panasonic China Open for Singapore's women's doubles pair of Li Jiawei and Jing Junhong on Saturday. The duo, who reached the final of the Volkswagen Korea Open last week, crashed out 3-1 to China's Li Nan and
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    • 74 48 LONDON Paula Radcliffe broke the world skm road record with a storming performance in a race in London's Hyde Park yesterday. Radcliffe, the fastest woman marathon runner of all time, outpaced a world-class field to win in 14min 51sec, taking three seconds off the previous best time set
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    • 67 48 NUSA DUA, Indonesia Second seed Elena Dementieva took an unexpected victory by making easy work of top seed Chanda Rubin 6-2, 6-1 in the singles final of the WTA tournament here yesterday. Dementieva, who was defeated by Rubin at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, played aggressively throughout the 68-minute
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    • 71 48 LONDON Sebastian Coe, a double Olympic gold medallist in the 1980s as a middle-dis-tance runner for Britain, is set to become vice-chairman of London's bid to win the 2012 Games, the Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday. Olympic rowing champions Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent were named on Friday
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    • 617 49 Primera Liga Real Madrid 7 Valladolid 2 Beckham enjoys central midfield role MADRID David Beckham rated Real Madrid's performance as its best of the season. Not for the first time, the England skipper showed his characteristic knack for stating the obvious. His side demolished Valladolid 7-2 with Raul
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    • 219 49 -AFP LONDON David Beckham (picture) has banned his family from attending next month's Euro 2004 match between Turkey and England in Istanbul, the Mail on Sunday reported yesterday. England captain Beckham has insisted that even his father, Ted, a loyal supporter of his son's exploits,
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    • 325 49 AFP ROME AC Milan and Lazio made it two Serie A wins out of two on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) after securing hard-fought 2-1 victories against Bologna and Sampdoria respectively. A late individual effort by Filippo Inzaghi gave European champion
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    • 535 51 Reuters LONDON Liverpool and England defender Jamie Carragher (picture) will be out for up to six months after breaking his leg in Saturday's match against Blackburn Rovers, the club said yesterday. Carragher sustained the injury in a terrible tackle by Blackburn's Australian defender Lucas Neill,
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