Today, 5 December 2007, Afternoon Edition

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    27 1 TODAY /A=£J]j-\CORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Wednesday December 5, 2007 todayonline.com I TODAY /A=£yJj-\CORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Wednesday December 5, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Insuring against drink driving
      485 1  -  ANSLEYNG >DAYEXCLUSIVE Insurance firms plan to get tough with repeat offenders ansley@mediacorp.com.sg MOTORISTS with repeat convictions for drink driving could soon find it a lot more difficult, or expensive, to own a set of wheels. Today understands that the General Insurance Association of Singapore (GIA), together
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      Lock icon Schools debated CaseTrust in 2004, meeting notes show
      951 1  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg SOME saw the lawsuit he launched against the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) as a tit-for-tat move after his school was suspended from an accreditation scheme last year. But others in the industry empathised, saying it was necessary that Stansfield
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      30 1 TOUTING LAWYERS CAUGHT ON CAMERA SUSPENDED AFTER STING OPERATION LOCAL PAGE 4 MALAYSIA MARCH PROTESTERS CHARGED WITH MURDER WORLD PAGE 12 $87M FRAUD DEMOCRATIC PARTY DONOR CHARGED WORLD PAGE 20
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      66 1 tßpl *****8 l MBBv" y mmmJwwm^^^ w\ BW p Br II m± —-<_ T£V. -,^1 IBi'^p.'*^ i^Bt J—- Bv^ j E^B CHAMPIONS LEAGUE a T~"*~y" Celtic qualify for T >^c V V%^ next round with > ji 1 help from Benfica/46 Scott McDonald of Celtic being challenged during the J?*'
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      Lock icon WARM TIES AND CLEAR LINES
      747 2  -  LOHCHEEKONG S'pore-M'sia meet agrees business, politics don't mix cheekong@media corp.com.sg WITH banter and mutual tributes flowing, the personal connection between Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam and his Malaysian counterpart Hishammuddin Hussein was apparent at the Malaysia-Singapore Business Forum yesterday. Mr Shanmugaratnam who was recently promoted as
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      Lock icon Myanmar monks set to battle junta again
      317 3 —AFP WASHINGTON Myanmar's Buddhist monks are prepared to face another bloody confrontation with the ruling military junta if the international community fails to force the generals to accept democratic reforms, an exiled monk who has links inside the country said on Monday. United
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      A YEAR IN JAIL FOR HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER
      402 3  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@media corp.com.sg BEING disqualified from driving should be enough reason to keep Charles Lee Cheow Loong from getting behind the wheel. But the 30-year-old former pub owner defied the order and caused the death of an elderly pedestrian in a hit-and-run accident.
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      Touting lawyers caught on camera
      339 4  -  TEOXUANWEI Trio suspended for offering fees to a 'property agent' xuanwei@media corp.com.sg THREE lawyers have been suspended from practice after they were found guilty of touting. In the Court of Three Judges yesterday, Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong handed lawyers Phyllis Tan Guat Neo, Lilian
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      Lock icon Boat tragedy inquiry panel announced
      195 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Singapore Sports Council (SSC) has revealed the names of the members who are sitting on the panel of inquiry, which is looking into last month's dragon boat tragedy in Cambodia, in which five Singaporeans died after their boat capsized. The panel is
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      Lock icon S'pore chosen as test site to give diesel fuel mix a greener name
      165 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A PROJECT, led by German engineering firm Bosch, hopes to change the negative image of diesel-powered vehicles and promote bio-diesel as an alternative environ-mentally-friendly fuel. The cars in the project are powered by a fuel
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      Lock icon Tap the sun and plug in
      415 6  -  LINYANQIN Bright minds invent table that stores solar power for gadgets, no cords attached yanqin@media corp.com.sg USING solar power at home could now be as simple as buying a new table for the garden. With the solar table developed by local start-up Grenergy, one
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      Gambling and addiction woes? Let the experts help
      265 6 AS SINGAPORE gets ready for the casinos, an international advisory panel has been set up to help the authorities deal with issues such as problem gambling and addiction. The panel will hold a three-day meeting from today to look into issues such
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      Discard all food from PrimaDeli: AVA, MOH
      230 8 FIRST it was just the bakery's chocolate cakes. Now, the public has been advised to discard all food items bought from PrimaDeli after 109 people suffered food poisoning from its chocolate cakes. Giving an update yesterday, the the Ministry of Health and the
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      Lock icon Faith, hope and clarity
      403 8  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@media corp.com.sg MUSLIM scholars need to learn more about Christianity if relations between the two faiths are to improve further. That is the view of Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury (picture). As head of the Church of England, he is also the symbolic
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      Boss fined for illegally deploying foreign workers
      143 8 VINCENT Goh Seng How, the director of CXM General Contractor and a partner at 2001 Image Enterprise, was fined $202,800 after he was convicted on 36 charges of abetting the illegal employment and deployment of foreign workers and for obstructing investigations, the Ministry
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      AIR FAIR
      803 10  -  LIANG DINGZI It is time airlines be held accountable for reneging on their contractual obligations IN A recent court case heard in India, Go Air was ordered to compensate every passenger booked on a New Delhi-Mumbai flight that was cancelled at the last minute. The consumer court's ruling
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      Lock icon M'sia won't remove crosses from schools
      192 12 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will continue to allow Christian missionary schools to display crosses, after calls to have them removed triggered a furore. Deputy Education Minister Noh Omar told Parliament that there was no reason to take down the religious symbols in Muslimmajority Malaysia
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      Lock icon KL bans scratch-and-win contests
      197 12 —AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has banned scratch-and-win contests after thousands of people complained that they were duped and did not receive the promised prizes. The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry has made it illegal to hold such contests, said the ministry's enforcement deputy director Iskandar
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      'Shocking' accusation
      310 12  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Indian protesters in M'sia charged with attempted murder nazry@mediacorp.com.sg FRESH and far more serious charges were yesterday levelled against a group of ethnic Indians in Malaysia, who had marched in an anti-discrimination rally organised by Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) last month. Twenty-six Hindraf supporters were charged
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      LAWYERS' MARCH CALLED OFF
      138 12  -  NAZRY BAHRAWI Malaysia's Bar Council yesterday called off plans for a march on Sunday as part of its International Human Rights Day celebration, saying it had become too controversial after government crackdowns on street protests. "This event ought not to be embroiled in controversy it should
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      Minimum $100k fine for illegal downloads: Report
      241 13 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysians who download materials illegally from the Internet could face a minimum fine of RM250,000 ($108,000), the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry warned yesterday, according to The Star newspaper. While the penalty for those who illegally download materials such as
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      Lock icon 'ALL-TIME LOW
      471 13 -AGENCIES Suu Kyi's party chides Myanmar junta for lowering nation's prestige YANGON The opposition party of detained pro-democ-racy leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked Myanmar's National Day yesterday by criticising the military government for lowering the nation's prestige. The statement by the National League for Democracy (NLD) marking
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      No Indon dances on M'sia ads
      196 13 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will drop two dances, which originated in Indonesia, from its overseas tourism campaigns following protests from its neighbour. Activists demonstrated outside the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta last week, slamming Kuala Lumpur for promoting Indonesia's traditional Barongan masked dance as part of
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon BETTER CONTROLS FOR CHINA'S FIRECRACKER INDUSTRY
        105 13 -AFP China has ordered better controls of its sprawling firecracker industry after a spike in deadly accidents as workshops speed up production before Chinese New Year, state media said yesterday. From Oct 21 until Tuesday, 86 people have died in 12 major explosions at
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        Lock icon BRIT TEDDY' TEACHER 'RELIEVED'
        107 13 A British teacher jailed in Sudan for insulting Islam by letting her students name a teddy bear Mohammed voiced relief at her release yesterday, as she arrived home after a presidential pardon. Ms Gillian Gibbons (picture), 54, said she was horrified at the furore she had
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        Lock icon SEC-GEN PROPOSES ETHICS OFFICES AT UN AGENCIES
        74 13 -AFP -AFP United Nations Secretary-General Ban Xi Moon has decided to create ethics offices at UN agencies to ensure ethical criteria have a high priority throughout the UN. So far, only the UN secretariat has an ethics office. The offices planned by Mr
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      Lock icon Five-year-old chimps make chumps of college kids
      199 14 -BLOOMBERG KYOTO Young chimps have beaten college students in a contest requiring both groups of primates to recall a series of numbers. Researchers at Kyoto University pitted five-year-old chimpanzees (picture) against their mothers and college students in a com-puter-based exercise that tested their
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      Lock icon Mickey Shanghai-bound?
      239 14 -AP New Disneyland maybe built on Yangtze River SHANGHAI-Shanghai is awaiting approval for the first Disneyland on mainland China. The theme park could be built on an island in the Yangtze River, according to reports in the mainland and Hong Kong media. Walt Disney, which has setup office
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      Lock icon Thai king's birthday wish
      502 17 —AFP Monarch calls for unity ahead of polls, and encourages military to buy arms BANGKOK King Bhumibol Adulyadej has called on Thailand's 65 million people to heal the nation's deep political rifts as the country heads into a divisive election meant to restore democracy after last
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      97 17 -AFP NATURE'S FURY: A man dragging his children in a toboggan down a snow-covered street during a snowstorm in Montreal. Major storms have pounded North America's Atlantic and Pacific coasts, with up to 35cm of snowfalling in parts of Canada's eastern provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The storms have grounded
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      Lock icon Nuclear bombshell for Bush
      474 19 —AGENCIES WASHINGTON Iran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003 and it has not restarted it since, according to a stunning new assessment released by the intelligence agencies in the United States. The new report, a National Intelligence Estimate which represents the consensus view of all
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      Lock icon Tehran expels Canadian envoy
      236 19 -AGENCIES Iran has ordered Canada's ambassador to leave the country, a move which the Canadian foreign minister said was"entirely unjustifiable". Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier also suggested that the expulsion of Ambassador John Mundy was a tit-for-tat move by the Tehran government. Canada and Iran have
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      Lock icon TOKYO GETS MISSILE SHIELD
      320 20 -AP Defence Ministry plans missile drills in capital TOKYO Japan has deployed two missile defence detachments near Tokyo and plans major drills around its capital and its first sea-based interceptor test off Hawaii this month, underscoring its missile arms race with neighbouring North Korea and China.
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      96 20 AFP SUICIDE ATTACK IN KABUL AS US DEFENCE SECRETARY VISITS: Afghan police inspecting the charred remains of a Taliban suicide car bomber who blew himself up near where Nato troops in Kabul yesterday, wounding 22 Afghan civilians, as United States Defence Secretary Robert Gates visited to assess the rising violence.
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      Lock icon Democratic Party donor charged over $87m fraud
      194 20 -AFP NEW YORK New York prosecutors yesterday unveiled a 15-count criminal indictment against a Chinese-American businessman whose huge donations caused a major embarrassment to the Democratic Party in August Norman Hsu, believed to be one of the top donors to Democratic presidential hopefuls
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      Lock icon EU offers steeper greenhouse gas cuts
      264 23 —AFP NUSA DUA (Indonesia) The European Union again dangled yesterday the prospect of even steeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions across Europe to fight global warming but only if the rest of the world follows suit Trying to spur nations like the United States
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      Lock icon POWER RULES
      362 23 -AGENCIES China drafts energy law to up reserves, boost controls SHANGHAI China has released a draft of a long-awaited energy law that calls for the country to keep larger reserves of key resources such as oil and uranium, and to set up a new government department But the
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      Marathon road closures not well run
      170 24  -  WENDYNG Letter from I WOULD like to compliment the organisers of Sunday's Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon for the signs put up along the East Coast Parkway and Nicoll Highway and the newspaper advertisements advising motorists of the road closures. However, I believe more could
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      Sensitive approach to Mandai revamp
      370 24  -  MUHAMAD ROSTAM UMAR STB-NParks'wildlife studies to feature in plans Letter from Director, Communications Singapore Tourism Board I REFER to the letter, "Beware the wildlife trade-off" (Nov 22). I thank Ms Marianne Macs for her comments. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) shares her concerns about the
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      144 26  -  BILL MAIER BYDR KIDS AND PRESCRIPTION DRUGS If your kids are on some form of medication, how certain are you that they're getting the right treatment? These days, more kids are being treated with strong drugs, such as Ritalin and anti-depressants. The majority of these drugs
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      Lock icon isay YULETIDE GREENING STARTS WITH YOU
      463 26  -  LIANG DINGZI SOME PEOPLE dream of a White Christmas. The late Elvis Presley once sang about the dread of a Blue Christmas. But all of us can have a Green Christmas this year. In the flurry to send out Christmas greetings, you can pick
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    • Letter
      Shopping to lewd lyrics is inappropriate for children
      137 26  -  LUCILLE BELLUGUE Letter from SHOPS here should have a more stringent policy when it comes to selecting the type of music they play. They may not be aware that it could be offensive to some customers. Yesterday, I was shocked to hear
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      SINGAPORESEEN
      98 29 CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore. Giveyourfull name, age, occupation, address and phone number and send a 300 dpi, <3M jpg file to: seen@newstoday.com.sg. Include a 50-word caption. TO HUBBY WITH LOVE Today photographer Koh Mvi Fong captured this photo at the
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    • Letter
      Costs of solar power still high
      360 29  -  LIM BEE KHIM But Govt doing research on how to better harness clean energy Letter from Director, Corporate Communications for Permanent Secretary Ministry of Trade and Industry LAWRENCE Ong and Theresa Ng ('Solar energy costs too hot to handle?', Nov 29) were concerned that
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      Befrienders of seniors and friends of the environment
      227 29  -  JENNIFER YEE Letter from Executive Director Lion Befrienders Service Association WE REFER to Huang Hancheng's letter "Activities for senior citizens great but keep parks clean" (Nov 29). Lions Befrienders Service Association (Singapore) organised the Befriending Walk event on Nov 4 at Bishan
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      277 30  -  CHEOWXINYI Govt plans to develop corridor to link Bugis to the Marina Bay area cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN as it officially handed over a prime Beach Road site for development to an international consortium, the Government said it intends to further develop the nearby Ophir Road-Rochor
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      307 30  -  -CHEOWXINYI THE manufacturing industry may have experienced its sixth consecutive expansion last month signalling a positive growth path towards year-end but it's not time to pop the champagne yet given worries about the health of the United States' economy. The Purchasing Managers' Index
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        263 32  -  JOSEPH YADAO joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE Telecommunications (Sing Tel) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) signed an agreement yesterday that will allow financial institutions in Singapore and abroad to access SGX derivatives and data platforms directly via SingTel's eXchange36o service. Traders will be able to retrieve
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          43 32  -  JOSEPH YADAO Osim Korea, an affiliate of healthy-lifestyle product manufacturer Osim International, will enter a sales-and-distribu-tion agreement tomorrow with LG International to jointly market and sell a range of Osim's products in South Korea.
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          63 32  -  -JOSEPH YADAO Datacraft, an information technology (IT) solutions and services company, has won a US$l.5-million ($2.2-million) contract to design and implement a Korea-wide Internet Protocol network for the Industrial Bank of Korea. This network will go online in June and will connect the bank's headquarters
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          99 32 Gloucester Coal chief executive Rob Lord said the firm is unaware of Noble Group's intentions after Noble increased its stake in the Australian company late on Monday to 19.7 per cent from 14.8 per cent. Under Australian law, a company cannot increase
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          65 32 -AGENCIES VP Bank Group, the first Liechtenstein-based company to list shares on the Swiss exchange, said it has opened an asset management company in Singapore and expects to get a full banking licence for the business. The Vaduz, Liechtenstein-based bank anticipates that
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        355 33 -AGENCIES No big positions ahead of US non-farm payrolls data SINGAPORE share prices closed flat in thin, uninspired trading, with market participants expecting the market to remain range-bound until next week. They said that investors were not taking big positions ahead of the release
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        665 34  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE THE commodity that poses the biggest threat to long-term prosperity in Asia isn't oil, it's water. It isn't the likelihood of Asian cities running out of fresh water that should bother the region's policymakers as much as the bigger danger of being overwhelmed by
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        212 35 -BLOOMBERG UNITED States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson expects there will be "something to announce before the end of the week" on a programme to assist struggling subprime mortgage holders. Mr Paulson, in an interview with Bloomberg Television that followed a speech to the Office
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      728 36 —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH She has never done any acting before, but 13-year-old Dakota Blue Richards beat out 10,000 other kids to get the part of Lyra Belacqua her favourite character in The Golden Compass DAKOTA Blue Richards is just like any other 13-year-old. She likes sending
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      523 36 -THE DAILY TELEGRAPH TO THE charge that he has set out to destroy Christianity, Philip Pullman has a devilishly smart stock answer. "Nonsense," he will reply. "God died a long time ago." In the eyes of the American Catholic League, the 61-year-old author, a humanist
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      256 38 TALES FROM THE CRYPT: The deserted former CID headquarters at Eu Tong Sen Street came to life on Monday as the cast and crew of local film f/ntoW fleau/y gathered for a pre-filming prayer ceremony. Written and directed by Roy Lim, the film is a supernatural love stoiy that
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      425 40  -  Phin Wong Religion is not the focus of The Golden Compass- making box office profit is FILMREVIEW by The Golden Compass IS IT too anti-Christian? Is it not atheist enough? Let's get it out of the way, shall we? Religious groups in the United States, Canada
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        254 42  -  Asif Ansar FILMREVIEW by.............. Nanking OVER 200,000 people massacred and 20,000 raped and nobody seemed to be able to do anything about it Nanking is a chilling look at Imperial Japan's infamous conquest of what was the Chinese capital during World War 11,
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      664 46 -AFP Scottish side in next stage although they lose to Italian giants CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Qualifier AC Milan 1 Celtic 0 MILAN (Italy) Filippo Inzaghi broke the European goalscoring record as AC Milan defeated Celtic 1-0, though defeat was sweetened for the Scottish side as
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      573 47 -THE DAILY TELEGRAPH With respect, United star questions Styles' yellow card, Fergie's angry ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man United 2 Fulham 0 MANCHESTER Cristiano Ronaldo said he respected referee Rob Styles' decision to show him a yellow card in their Premiership contest with Fulham on Monday
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      603 47 -THE GUARDIAN ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Newcastle v Arsenal NEWCASTLE Sam Allardyce conceded that he is very much under pressure at Newcastle United. In a candid briefing before tonight's (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) home game against Arsenal, Newcastle's manager also admitted to
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