Today, 1 August 2006, Afternoon Edition

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    27 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp share your free newspaper Tuesday August 1, 2006 todayonline.com I MICA(P) 192/07/2006 TODAY Frew share your free newspaper Tuesday August 1, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 192/07/2006
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon Israeli Cabinet 'yes' to expand ground offensive
      442 1 -AFP Premier vows there will be no imminent ceasefire JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's security Cabinet approved early today the expansion of the Israeli army's ground operation in southern Lebanon, a government official said. "The Cabinet gave the green light for expanding
      -AFP  -  442 words
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      Lock icon Shares lower as traders debate Fed move
      162 1 -AFP NEW YORK Wall Street shares showed little momentum yesterday, trading slightly lower for much of the day, as traders mulled whether the Federal Reserve will hike US interest rates next week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 34.02 points at 11,185.68,
      -AFP  -  162 words
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      Harrah's back for a Sentossa hurrah
      548 1  -  VAL CHUA DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR va l@newstoday.com.sg MOST had expected it to throw in the towel, after losing millions in the first round of Singapore's great casino race and keeping silent on its Sentosa ambitions so far. But Harrah's Entertainment together with its partner
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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      35 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 8 voices 12 business 16 impact 18 infotech 20 plus 24 healthtoday 28 tv radio listings 31 classad 32 sports 33 we set you thinking 8 "*****6"*****9"
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      Lock icon More job opportunities
      283 2 -AGENCIES Record number of jobs created across all sectors, especially service industry A RECORD number of jobs was created in the first six months of this year. The 81,500 jobs is about two-thirds more than the 49,500 jobs added to the economy in the same period last
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      Lock icon MORETOHELPOLDERWORKERS
      172 2 -938UVE Another 61 companies have pledged to help workers stay employed beyond the age of 62. This brings the total number of companies to 84, up from 23 since February when the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) kickstarted efforts to get companies to hire or rehire older workers. The
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      LET'S BE LOCAL COMPANY-FRIENDLY TOO
      791 3  -  VINCENT CHIA Continue to woo MNCs, but local companies need to be supported as well SINGAPORE is probably the friendliest city in the world in every sense, from the range of cuisines to being clean. In fact, it is fair to say that Singapore is
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  • singapore news
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        SUSPICIOUS BOX CAUSES DIVERSION OF TRAFFIC
        101 4  -  TORCHING LI A suspicious-looking white box spotted on the pavement in front of Orchard Towers yesterday afternoon led to the diversion of one lane of traffic during peak hours. Police received a call at 4pm and traffic was diverted between spm and 7pm, adding
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        Lock icon N KOREA'S PAEK TO VISIT
        62 4 938 LIVE North Korea's Foreign Minister Pack Nam Sun will visit Singapore at the end of this month. He will call on President S R Nathan, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Senior Minister Goh ChokTong and Foreign Minister George Yeo. Mr Pack will also visit
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        NEW SCHOLARSHIP FOR TOP NP STUDENTS
        96 4  -  TAN HWEE HWEE Ngee Ann Polytechnic has launched a new scholarship for its top 10 first-year students. More than 140 students with aggregates of 10 points or less applied for the new scholarship, which provides $2,000 annually for each student's fees. These scholars will
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      Heroes in a half shell
      495 4  -  SHERALYN TAY Underwater World turtles released into ocean so scientists can gather data sheralyn@newstoday.com.sg AS YOU read this, 12 sea turtles are getting their first taste of freedom but they probably don't know that their every move is being tracked. The turtles, which have spent
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      'He said he wouldn't hurt me'
      337 4  -  ANSLEYNG a nsley@newstoday.com.sg BARELY an hour after she arrived at her new employer's flat a 37-year-old maid was asked to sleep with him in the master bedroom, so she claimed. The Indian maid refused. But former engineer Sudarsanan Margasagayam, 48, hugged her and carried
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      Gap opens its first SEA outlet here
      197 4  -  —TORCHING LI AMERICAN fashion label Gap will open the doors of its first South-east Asian flagship store in Wisma Atria this December, right on time for Christmas. Taking over a portion of what is currently Indochine's restaurant and bar space on the ground
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      Lock icon Nursing that second chance
      616 6  -  TAN HUI LENG Reading love letters to a patient is part of President's Award winner's personal touch huileng@newstoday.com. sg AS THE director of nursing administration, the Institute of Mental Health's (IMH) Pauline Tan can simply delegate most tasks to her subordinates. But every day without fail
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      Lock icon Action Asia race back next month
      255 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA GOOD news for adrenalin junkies: Singapore's biggest adventure race, the Action Asia Challenge, will be back. The extreme sports race, last held in 2004, will return on Sept 3, if all goes according to plan. The Action Asia Challenge introduced groundbreaking elements,
      – CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  255 words
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Johor super hub to rival Singapore?
      256 8 BLOOMBERG JOHOR BARU Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has plans to compete with Singapore by making Johor a major growth engine for his country. According to The New Straits Times (NST), he told residents that the SuperCorridor project, when fully developed, could surpass
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      Lock icon 90 quarantined in Thailand
      400 8 —AGENCIES Teen's death from bird flu prompts culling of poultry BANGKOK Thailand, which has the world's third-highest death toll from bird flu, quarantined 90 people showing symptoms of the disease after a fresh outbreak was reported in poultry on Sunday. Results of tests on the patients
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        HE'S NOT 'WAITING TO USE THE TOILET'
        75 8 A councillor in Selangor has an unusual name. In Cantonese Tang See Hang can sound like "waiting to use the toilet", according to The New Straits Times. However, Mr Tang, 54, brushed aside the unpleasant translation saying, "see" or "sze" in Mandarin meant
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        THONGS BANNED ON PARIS BEACH
        49 8 From now on women who sunbathe topless or in thongs on the famous Paris Plage, a summer beach on the banks of the Seine, will be fined 38 euros ($76) for behaviour not conforming to "good morals, tranquillity, safety and public order", newspapers said.
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        Lock icon A FOOTBALL TACKLE AND THE BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT
        68 8 -AP Bolivian President Evo Morales broke his nose on Sunday when he was fouled by a goalkeeper during an indoor soccer match, his office said. Mr Morales, a passionate soccer player, was injured during a game between his presidential team and a local
        -AP  -  68 words
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      Lock icon 67 dead in Sri Lanka attacks
      332 10 -AFP LTTE accuses govt of virtually declaring war with latest offensive COLOMBO Nineteen soldiers died late yesterday in the bloodiest attack on Sri Lankan troops since a 2002 truce, taking the toll to 67 on a brutal day which also saw the deadliest ground
      -AFP; AP  -  332 words
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      Lock icon M'sia to probe bus crash after 11 pilgrims killed
      243 10 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Transport Minister Chan Kong Choy has ordered an investigation into a highway accident that killed 11 Catholic pilgrims in the country's worst road accident this year, reports said yesterday. Forty-seven pilgrims, all ethnic Indians, were en route
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        Lock icon AUSTRALIA ON ALERT FEARING RACIAL TENSIONS
        59 10 -AFP Australian police said yesterday they had stepped up patrols of Jewish and Islamic sites, fearing racial tensions over the conflict in the Middle East had triggered attacks on a synagogue and a mosque. The attack came a day after protests over the government
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        Lock icon BUSH, BLAIR TO GIVE WTO TALKS ONE LAST TRY
        63 10 -AFP United States President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have agreed to "make one final effort" to kick start the stalled World Trade Organization talks. The Doha round of trade talks was suspended last Monday because of
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        Lock icon MYSTERY ILLNESS STRIKES NEW ZEALAND FM
        45 10 -AFP New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters is in an Australian hospital suffering from a mystery illness which he believes came from an insect bite in Malaysia, Prime Minister Helen Clark said. Mr Peters was described as "extremely unwell".-
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      Lock icon Mexicans want vote recount
      262 10 —AFP MEXICO CITY Supporters of a defeated Mexican leftist presidential candidate blocked major arteries in the heart of Mexico City and vowed to hold their ground until the electoral court orders a vote recount Hours earlier, Mr Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rallied more than one million
      —AFP  -  262 words
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      Lock icon Aussie PM eyes 5th term
      484 11 -BLOOMBERG Howard's rival and deputy Costello to stay on as treasurer CANBERRA Australian Prime Minister John Howard intends to remain in the job to fight the next election, dashing Treasurer Peter Costello's hopes of taking over the leadership. Mr Howard who turned 67 last week
      -BLOOMBERG; AFP  -  484 words
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        Lock icon VILLAGERS COURT DANGER AT SIMMERING VOLCANO
        43 11 -AFP Thousands of villagers living around the slopes of Indonesia's Mount Karangetang courted danger yesterday as they tended their fields while the volcano spewed lava, officials said. About 1,500 families were evacuated to safe shelters last Thursday.—
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        Lock icon 50,000 DOGS SLAUGHTERED IN ANTI-RABIES CAMPAIGN
        118 11 -AFP A county in south-west China has ordered all 50,546 dogs to be killed in an effort to fight a rabies outbreakthat has caused the deaths of three people, state media said. Owners were ordered to kill their pets or face local police and
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      A ride away from the problem
      509 12  -  RAMACHANDRAN ANAND Create taxi hubsatMßT stations just outside CBD and Orchard areas Letter from MOST solutions to the taxi problem suggested seem focused on micro analysis of the economics of surcharges and incentives, when clearly, most observers point out that it does not lead
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      Protect the rights of homeowners who did not agree to en-bloc sales
      353 12  -  VALERIE ONG EDDY TAN Letter from I AGREE with Lucy Huang ("En-bloc sale make it a rule only resident owners can vote", July 29), in the light of the many estates heading for en-bloc sales, that we should
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      286 14  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I FINDING FULFILLMENT IN OUR WORK A Russian novelist once wrote, "If you want to utterly crush a man, just give him work that's of a completely senseless, irrational nature." It's true. In a concentration camp outside Hungary during World War 11,
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      isay S'POREAN FAMILIARITY JUST BREEDS CONTEMPT
      805 14  -  DERRICK HO WHAT do you do when you see someone looking lost? You offer directions, right? When you accidentally elbow someone in the bus, you apologise, right? Wrong. Instead, you walk away, looking lost yourself. Instead, you glare at me as though my soft
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      343 14 CATHERINE LIM ...AMUSES Churchill, meeting a guy named Bossom Just had to whisper: 'Oh, brother! I've never heard a stranger name Neither the one thing nor the other!' MUSES Naked, frightened, starving children In a land that continues to bleed This is the sad face of Africa The continent in
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      Lock icon Sale for sale but not other units
      332 16 -AGENCIES SIA looks to sell leasing unit stake but not Sats, SIAEC SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) said yesterday that it did not have immediate plans to sell two of its units, Singapore Airport Terminal Services and SIA Engineering Co, in which it owns stakes
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      Gifts with NTUC Income plans
      123 16 UNTIL Oct 15, NTUC Income's new Ideal Plans and Flexi-Link policyholders who invest using cash have a choice of receiving very attractive travel and lifestyle gifts. They can choose from 10 destinations on Jetstar Airways, including Bangkok, Hong Kong and Siem Reap. Alternatively, they can
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        Singapore
        51 16 SHARE prices ended higher, led by property stocks on optimism over interest rates and strong sector fundamentals. The ST Index rose 16.0 points, or 0.7 per cent, to 2,445.4. Advancers led decliners by 308 to 244 as 1 billion snares worth $1.45 billion were traded. Looking ahead, market participants
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        Lock icon ST Index — 2,445.4 +16.0
        44 16 ST Index 2,445.4 +16.0 DOW JONES focused on external events, said brokers. "The bias of the market is still mildly bullish," a broker said, "but there is still fear in the back of people's minds that things will blow up in the Middle East."
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        Your S$1 buys
        32 16 UK£ 0.3400 fen 72.644 HK$ 4.9224 RM 2.3232 Euro 0.4965 Rupiah 5747.1 Baht 24.002 Peso 32.638 0.8255 Indian Rs 29.581 i/Von 604.38 0.7170 fuan 5.0504 NZ$ 1.0261 NT$ 20.772
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        World markets
        50 16 Nikkei 225 *****.81 +113.94 +0.74 Hang Seng ASX *****.34 4986.00 +16.30 +27.70 +0.10 +0.56 Taiwan Wtd 6454.58 -25.49 -0.39 Korea Comp 1297.82 +0.75 +0.06 KLCI 935.85 +1.13 +0.12 SET Index 691.49 +0.06 +0.01 Jakarta Comp 1351.64 +14.23 +1.06 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2390.84 285.31 +61.27 -4.26 +2.63 -1.47
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        Commodities
        26 16 Gold US$/oz 647.80 Silver US$/oz 11.37 Platinum US$/ozl,233.70 Rubbar cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne Brent US$/barrel 367.00 1,540.50 73.38 Information provided by SGX, Dow Jones, Bloomberg
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        SGX most active
        53 16 SingTel Envi ra-Hub China Sun Chartered Celestial THBEV STATSChP Gallant Xpress Capitaland 2.590 0.365 0.045 1.000 1.610 0.200 0.095 0.530 0.155 4.100 +0.030 -0.010 +0.010 +0.010 +0.110 +0.030 +0.015 +0.010 -0.000 +1.2 -2.7 +1.2 +0.9 +7.3 +3.5 +2.9 +6.9 -1.9 43,300 42,245 30,507 29,403 26,000 21,736 10,941
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        SGX top rises
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        SGX top falls
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      Lock icon CORPORATEBRIEFS
      311 17 AGENCY SGX FILINGS Yellow Pages said that fiscal 2007 advertising sales contracts for the Singapore phone directory rose slightly to $51.04 million for its first increase since 1998. The company said that while it was only marginally higher than the advertising revenue in fiscal 2006 of $50.67 million, the
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      Lock icon Noble in Aussie vanadium deal potentially worth $3b
      238 17 DOW JONES SINGAPORE-listed, Hong Kongbased commodities trader Noble Group signed an agreement with Precious Metals Australia (PMA) to buy the total vanadium output of the Windimurra mine in Western Australia for between 10 and 20 years. Noble will have exclusive rights to
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      Lock icon Temasek enters India mutual fund joint venture
      195 17 BLOOMBERG TEMASEK Holdings and Sabre Capital Worldwide aim to raise 250 billion rupees ($8.36 billion) through a joint venture mutual fund that will invest in Indian equities and bonds. Lotus India Mutual Fund has received approval from the Securities Exchange Board of India
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      My Wally flies over the ocean
      133 18 THE Public Utility Board's (PUB) Water Wally campaign proves that a lone water droplet is enough to cause ripples worldwide in raising conservation awareness. Fronted by a blue water droplet mascot, Water Wally (picture), the campaign won the International Water Association (IWA) Marketing and
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      Johnnie be good
      303 18  -  JANE CHIAPOCO Drink responsibly, urges whisky label in F1 -linked campaign ja nec@newstoday.com.sg PREMIUM Scotch whisky brand Johnnie Walker continues to target a new generation of consumers and plans to spread the responsible drinking message in Asia through its Formula One (Fl) McLaren Mercedes sponsorship. "We aim
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      Lock icon IAS' place of pride for creative directors
      175 18 JANE CHIAPOCO THE Institute of Advertising Singapore (lAS) yesterday announced the addition of the Creative Director of the Year category to its annual Singapore Advertising Hall of Fame Awards. In conjunction with its four-year sponsorship of the award, SMRT Media placed group poster-photographs
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      793 24  -  Zul Othman Rifts in the band, the m^dia glare and harsh criticism can Las Vegas WHEN band mates tangle, things can get very messy indeed. Take Las-Vegas based rockers Panic! at the Disco, for example. "Our ex-bass player Brent Wilson is having a hard time grappling with
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      484 26  -  ZULOTHMAN Sometimes in April director uses Rwanda genocide to look at evils of human nature zul@newstoday.com.sg THE Oscar-nominated 2004 film Hotel Rwanda may be the highest-profile treatment of the Rwandan genocide but as far as film-maker Raoul Peck is concerned, it was little more than Hollywood gloss. "Any
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      558 33 -AP Veteran holds off local hero to bag his second US Banktitleand end a winless streak GOLF US Bank Championship MILWAUKEE Corey Pavin's putting prowess carried him to his first US PGA Tour victory in 10 years at the US Bank Championship on Sunday (yesterday
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      274 33 —AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene yesterday hailed Muttiah Muralitharan (picture) as the greatestever spinner after another match-winning performance in the first Test against South Africa. The 34-year-old spin wizard picked up a match haul of 10-172 as South Africa were thrashed by an
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      387 34 —AGENCIES MANCHESTER After months of discontent, Ruud van Nistelrooy is finally a happy man again. It is not so much because he has signed for Real Madrid a club he now claims is the "biggest in the world". It is because he has
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      371 34 -AFP Manchester United's new signing will wear Keane's No 16 shirt MANCHESTER England midfielder Michael Carrick completed his £18.6 million ($55 million) transfer from Spurs to Premiership rivals Manchester United yesterday after passing his medical. The 25-year-old has also been handed the onerous responsibility of wearing the
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      114 34 -AFP MADRID Brazil's World Cup finals goal-scoring record holder Ronaldo completed his first training session since undergoing an operation on his left tibia and declared himself delighted at how he felt The 29-year-old Real Madrid striker trained for an hour primarily to see how
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      529 35 -THE GUARDIAN Terryfeelsnewsigningscan land Chelsea the big prize LOS ANGELES John Terry believes a summer of superstar acquisitions will finally realise Chelsea's Champions League ambitions. The arrival of Michael Ballack on a free transfer from Bayern Munich and Andriy Shevchenko's British-record equalling £30 million ($89
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      231 35 —AGENCIES MADRID Roberto Carlos has finally decided to stay at Real Madrid. According to sports paper AS yesterday, the Brazilian veteran told coach Fabio Capello the man who originally brought him to Real in 1996 that he does not want to
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      557 36 LONDON Michael Johnson has rubbished claims from Justin Gatlin's coach Trevor Graham that the sprinter's failed drugs test was a case of deliberate sabotage. Graham said an aggrieved masseur rubbed testosterone cream into Gatlin's legs believing the sprinter had him sacked. But Johnson said Graham could
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      103 37 IF THINGS go according to plan, cricket fans here are in for a treat Singapore could be hosting the likes of world champions Australia, India and the West Indies in a limited-overs tri-series next month. The tri-series a prelude to the Champions Trophy tournament in India in Oc-tober-November
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