Today, 8 January 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    13 1 TODAY /A=diaCofip MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Tuesday January 8, 2008 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon Chemoil chief dies in helicopter crash
      193 1 -AGENCIES THE chief executive officer of Chemoil Energy Ltd, Mr Robert Chandran (picture), died in a helicopter crash in Indonesia yesterday, the company said. The crash took place in the Riau province. Mr Terence Gidlow, the company's vice-president of business development, was injured in
      -AGENCIES; CHEMOIL ENERGY LTD  -  193 words
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      Lock icon Means testing: Devil's in the details
      973 1  -  ALICIA WONG Income, household type could be bases: Minister Khaw alicia@mediacorp.com.sg YOU might be a retiree living in a terrace house you bought 30 years ago, living off your pension. Or, you might be a housewife still living in a four-room flat, though your
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      47 1 IPS "DAMXvriiS.... ta_^ its crowning glory is Glenn Close, K§H« as the passive-aggressive ifi )$i WM 'A head of a high-stakes 0 I fl I wKwrn -The Wall Street Journal M EVERY TUE rSEE IT FIRST |A^CML 1 NOMINATED FOR 4 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS 2008 ».J^;rr£!KsS££s£ www.axn-asia.com*
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  • hot news
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      Match-fixing taint again
      256 2  -  LEONG WEE KEAT S-Leagueclub manager arrested weekeat@media corp.com.sg A MONTH before the 2008 NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League season kicks off, the spectre of match-fixing has reared its ugly head again. The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) said yesterday it had arrested Wang Kin, manager of S-League club Liaoning
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      For NUS accountancy grads, jubilation
      658 3  -  LOHCHEEKONG EXCLUSIVE NUS accountancy programme receives Acra accreditation cheekong@media corp. com. sg THE wait might have been long but, for undergraduates and faculty staff of the National University of Singapore's Bachelor of Business Administration (Accountancy) degree programme, it was worth the while. Today has learnt
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      337 2 Acer recommends Windows Vista® Business. I '■T^jl m Mmti a\\\ V f B. 1 Bfr *|jk J^^S^J l)F^L==;s=g| Applicable for purchase ofVeriton™ PC featured iJl.' ~9^M- y BUSINESS DESKTOP BUSINESS NOTEBOOK VeritOll™ M 460 (45M2258) I flL^^M Extensa 4620-3A2GI6Mn Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor E4500 Wf£*W\ SS?^*!^;^' M~& (2 2GHZ
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon WHY NGIAM THE CRITIC IS TOLERATED
      1001 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp. com. sg TWO reference points have been burnt into Singaporeans' consciousness when it comes to critical analysis of government policies: Author Catherine Lim's article suggesting that then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong was living in the shadows of his predecessor,
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      Lock icon 9 S'poreans get perfect IB score
      255 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE first batch of Singapore students who sat for the International Baccalaureate (IB) exam last November received their results yesterday and of the 357 Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) Integrated Programme students, nine achieved a perfect score of 45. Less than 1 per cent
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      Lock icon Rosy outlook for S'pore
      632 6  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI MM Lee predicts another 10 years of prosperity nazry@mediacorp.com.sg MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, gazing into the future, sees continued prosperity in Singapore over the next five to 10 years, even if there is a slowdown in the United States and Europe. Predicting that China
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      Lock icon No healthcare crisis, but profitability down: Study
      292 6 NAZRYBAHRAWI FIGURES released yesterday by the Singapore Department of Statistics confirm Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan's assertion on Sunday that the Republic's healthcare sector is not in crisis. The industry registered a surplus of $918 million in 2006, an increase of 5.1 per
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      Lock icon MEANS TESTING A GUIDE, NOT CURE-ALL
      1271 8  -  DRPHUAKAIHONG Its aim is to make medical care fair, accessible to all PAST attempts had met with strong public objections but a means test for subsidised public hospital care will finally be implemented this year. As early as 1983, the Blue Paper on the
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      Lock icon NTU appoints its fourth pro-chancellor
      398 10  -  NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg BY HIS own admission, Mr S Chandra Das has "no duties on paper" in his new role as prochancellor of the Nanyang Technological University. But the 68-year-old is not about to sit idle. After all, he has kept busy since retiring as chairman
      NEOCHAI CHIN  -  398 words
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      Singapore retirees' $100 dilemma
      372 10  -  JINNY KOH jinnyk@media corp.com.sg SINGAPOREANS may be ahead of the pack in taking the most personal responsibility for their retirement, but a recent AXA survey showed that, on average, retirees are left with only $100 in disposable income each month after paying for all household expenses.
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      33 4 Be The y<^ Main Campus HSHM J-ww tourism I R, t H„«iw«h I 341 River Valley Road, #01-01ERC Campus, Singapore *****2 Y=r Issd City Campus: 61 Robinson Road, Robinson Centre, #17-03, Singapore *****3
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      121 5 MDIS: A Great Chapter in My Life I ignite a new level of confidence m\ *am\ M 'm glad to have enrolled with 1 i Management Development Institute \\\\wfl of Singapore (MDIS). The quality programmes |i#r^ taught by the lecturers truly impress me. ■F* "Vl PSP--- I also appreciate the
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      382 10 Get Certified with us Today! SAP Courses Project Management Courses Mile 2 Security Training It is no secret that small businesses and midsize companies Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is globally Mile 2 professional training standards cover pertinent industry (SMEs) have unique needs. That is why SAP offers solutions acknowledged
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      81 11 Visible Result in just n K^vk hk KwaMaiSan M S<L Yap Shu Yin 40 years old m 35 years old Engineer m Civil Servant Pigmentation I Clogged Pores P I am more beautiful now. Thanks to the caring jfl professional at New York n.diuwdiuuiiiuuuut.c W treating me, who was it
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  • world news
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      MCA gears up for M'sia polls
      358 12 TANGKAK (Johor) The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) has told its workers in three states to get ready for elections. MCA vice-president Fong Chan Onn said the party's poll workforce in Negri Sembilan, Malacca and Johor were being activated, reported The Star. The MCA is
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      Lock icon Hindraf plans a Valentine's Day gift for Abdullah
      335 12 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Ethnic Indians in Malaysia have come up with a softer approach than street protests to highlight their economic and social plight They plan to present Valentine's Day roses from 10,000 people to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi next month
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      Singaporean? You can't buy palm oil in Malaysia
      294 12 JOHOR BARU Supermarket cashiers in Johor will have to learn to spot a Singaporean shopper at first glance, because the authorities there have banned Singaporeans from buying palm oil-based cooking oil in the southern Malaysian state. In addition, officers from the Domestic
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      Lock icon CAN SURIN LEAD ASEAN INTO A NEW ERA?
      769 14  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@media corp.com.sg SOME laud him as a charismatic leader who gets things done. Critics say he is more talk than action. On the one hand, Dr Surin Pitsuwan (picture) strikes some observers as a man who would make a vocal, refreshingly-in-dependent-minded
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      Lock icon I will keep Asean dream alive: Surin
      341 15 AFP -AFP Sec-gen accepts Spore ratification of Asean Charter JAKARTA Former Thai Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan has officially taken over as the sec-retary-general for the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean). Dr Surin, a Muslim former academic and eight-time member of Parliament in
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      Lock icon Suharto case will continue even if he dies: Indon AG
      218 15 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia will not drop a civil case against ailing former dictator Suharto even if he dies, the AttorneyGeneral has said. "Suharto's case cannot be dropped as such a move can only betaken in the public interest," Attorney-General Hendarman
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      Lock icon Thaksin's wife to return today: Police
      233 16 -AFP BANGKOK The wife of deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to return to Thailand today, where she and her husband face criminal charges of corruption, the national police chief said. The police plan to meet Pojaman Shinawatra at the airport and escort
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      Lock icon SHE'S SO YESTERDAY...
      409 16 AFP Softer style, new gambits fail to dent Obama's popularity MANCHESTER (New Hampshire) She trudged slushsluiced streets in a hunt for votes, answered questions until her voice cracked, signed books, hugged children and even spoke to the press. But still, Ms Hillary Clinton (picture) groped in vain
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      Lock icon Bhutto's death forces open ethnic divide
      287 16 -AFP GHAEI KHUDA BAKSH (Pakistan) At Ms Benazir Bhutto's tomb, the women wail, "Wake up, Sindhi!" but the country could add ethnic strife to its woes if the people of Pakistan's southern province heed their call. Sindh, the heartland of Ms Bhutto's opposition party,
      -AFP; AFP  -  287 words
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      Lock icon Iranian boats threaten US navy vessels
      122 16 -AGENCIES WASHINGTON In what is being called a serious provocation, five Iranian speedboats swarmed three United States navy ships as they transited the strategic Strait of Hormuz, sending a threat to blow them up, Pentagon officials said yesterday. "I'm coming at you and you
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      A costly commitment
      374 18  -  CHAN HAN JUN High price of DBSS flats mean buyers may have to spend a significant portion of their lives paying off loans Letter from THE recent launch of City View Boon Keng and the identification by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) of three more sites
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    • Article
      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      226 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY THE SIGN COLLECTION For about 25 years, I've had an unusual collection. Other people accumulate stamps or coins. I collect signs. Signs are interesting because they tell you something about the people who write them. Here are some of my favourites: There's
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      Also remember the plight of the sandwiched class
      118 18  -  ARTHUR LIM Letter from I REFER to the report, "Means testing will be fair" (Jan 7). We have been reassured many times that the lower-income group will get higher subsidies. However, I would like to ask Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan to
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      Nothing wrong with making children read in the morning
      239 18  -  WONG SU MAY Letter from I REFER to the article, "For kids of steel, let them play hard" (Dec 5-6). Though I very much want to agree with the writer that school children are not given more time to enjoy their
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      Lock icon Teachers' wages market-driven
      273 19  -  SUMCHEEWAH LEE KIM KUA Govt not responsible for pay of preschool educators, but has given grants, aid Letter from Director, Educational programme Ministry of Education (MOE) and Director, Family Services Division Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) WE REFER to the recent letters, "Preschool teachers
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      Tourists don't keep office hours
      145 19  -  RONALD BOON Letter from OVER the past few days, visitors who had bought the recentlylaunched Singapore Tourist Pass (STP) and showed up at the Changi Airport MRT station to claim their refund prior to departure have been left feeling exasperated because the ticketing counter is
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      Don't turn sporting arena into an ugly battlefield
      156 19  -  ACE KINDRED CHEONG Letter from I READ with sadness about the death of South Korean boxer Choi Yo Sam last week from injuries sustained during a bout which he won. I wish to state that the sporting arena must never be turned
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      187 19 -4^ mm v 3m' I'slK' s®^ The Year of the Rat It's the beginning of a prosperous and bountiful year! Be part of the Snrin B Chinese New Year celebrations at h» ing Prosperity D china Sciuare Centra| and reve| in tne S3S3SE 1 prt2es' "IT Joyous ocrasion with your
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  • Business
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      Lock icon CapitaLand to buy all of Ascott
      434 20 It offers 43% premium for remaining unowned shares CAPITALAND, South-east Asia's largest property firm by market value, is offering to buy the shares it doesn't already own in its unit, The Ascott Group, in a deal that values the luxury serviced residences operator at
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      S'pore office costs escalate
      285 20  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@media corp.com.sg A DEARTH of supply and high demand from businesses expanding in the region drove up prices so much that Singapore recorded the second highest annual growth in office occupancy costs in the world last year. Annual office occupancy costs here rose 93
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      Lock icon Asian markets fall on US fears
      357 20 -AGENCIES STOCK markets across most of Asia fell yesterday following the plunge on Wall Street on Friday amid rising fears the US economy will sink into recession. The Straits Times Index (STI) fell 2.5 per cent, or 84.73 points, to a three-week low of
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          RECORD VOLUME FOR DERIVATIVES
          48 22 The Singapore Exchange said its derivatives volume jumped 21 per cent to a new record of more than 44 million contracts last year, driven by strong growth in key contracts such as the Nikkei 225, the MSCI Taiwan and the MSCI Singapore Index Futures.
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          TUAS POWER SALE: SIX COMPANIES SHORTLISTED
          103 22 Temasek Holdings has shortlisted six companies as potential buyers of its utility firm Tuas Power, Dow Jones Newswires quoted unnamed sources familiar with the deal as saying. The firms selected for the deal, estimated by industry analysts at US$2 billion ($2.9 billion), include Japan's
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        Lock icon You can fly to XL for free
        120 22 -ESTHER FUNG TO LAUNCH its new route between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur (XL), budget carrier Tiger Airways is giving away 15,000 free seats. Anticipating strong demand for the route, Tiger Airways advises passengers to "book early for travel around festive, national and school
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        Good time to buy SIA shares
        477 22  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg AS SINGAPORE Airlines' (SIA) plan to buy a stake in China Eastern Airlines (CEA) lost traction ahead of a key vote today, some analysts see an opportunity to buy into the Singapore carrier. Yesterday, SIA shares plummeted 44 cents, or 2.6
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        Lock icon Motorola to buy S'pore's Soundbuzz
        239 22 ESTHER FUNG UNITED States mobile phone maker Motorola is acquiring Sin-gapore-based digital music provider, Soundbuzz, to enhance its music offerings in Asia. Mobile phone users are increasingly looking out for music offerings on the handset platform, said Mr lan Chapman-Banks, Motorola's vice-president of Asia-Pa-cific marketing
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      88 22 DAILY GOLD UPDATE Last Business Day: Jan 7, 2008 SPOT GOLD OPEN (9am): US$ 862.00/oz SPOT GOLD CLOSE (spm): US$ 858.50/oz CHANGE: 0.41% Gold is considered the ultimate asset by some pundits. Not only does gold have an intrinsic commodity value, it k also a monetary asset in times of
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        IT'S WAR ON THIS WEBSITE
        120 23 "Guests" at the Sheraton Hotels and Resorts' new interactive website Sheratonplay.com can ruffle a few feathers by starting a virtual pillow fight while making a reservation or searching for travel options. Apart from picking up a pillow and bashing others in cyberspace, visitors to the
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        Lock icon NEW TALENT FOR OGILVYONE
        106 23 JOSEPH YADAO OgilvyOne Singapore has appointed Ms Lucy McCabe as the agency's lead consultant. She replaces Mr Mervyn Badiali. In her new role, Ms McCabe will head a team of 10 consultants and analysts to work with the agency's portfolio of clients that includes DHL, Nokia,
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      Pressing all the right buttons
      466 23  -  JOSEPH YADAO PR firm Edelman to launch innovative communication channel here this year joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg THE mobile phone's immediacy and personal nature is ideal for clients to get in touch with their target audiences, said Mr Bob Grove, managing director for Southeast Asia of public
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      Lock icon Fabulous at 40
      1452 24  -  Christopher Toh But Zoe Tay jokes that she's 'old already' and doesn't mind christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg THERE'S something about Zoe Tay that makes her a bit of an enigma. On the one hand, she carries herself with the regal grace of a true superstar in public. Apportion it to
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      Lock icon Naomi Campbell plays political analyst
      471 26 ■AFP Supermodel calls Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a'rebel angel'after interviewing him for GO. BRITISH supermodel Naomi Campbell, who interviewed Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez recently, described him as a "rebel angel" who is unafraid to speak his mind but poses no threat to democracy. Campbell was
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        PURELY FOR CHARITY
        99 26 In the name of charity, 20 local celebrities have stripped to bare their emotions for the coffee table book Pure. The book-which features photographs of personalities such as former MTV VJs May and Choy Wan (picture), actress Michelle Chia and model Charmaine Harnis the brainchild of photographer
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      Lock icon Ayumi deaf in left ear
      362 27 -AFP Japanese pop superstar reveals on blog she suffers from the condition tinnitus JAPANESE pop princess Ayumi Hamasaki has revealed she has gone deaf in her left ear, but has vowed to continue her career and go ahead with an upcoming tour of Asia. The
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      628 28  -  JOANNEYAP Mums-to-be can prevent preeclempsia during pregnancy by maintaining a healthy weight joanne@media corp.com.sg PREGNANT women who develop high blood pressure during pregnancy not only increase their chances of getting preeclampsia, they also raise their risk of cardiovascular disease later in life. A condition characterised by abnormally
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      365 28 Earlier this year, I accidentally infected my already-wounded finger with turpentine while cleaning a dirty bicycle chain. Initially, I felt only slight irritation but three days later, there was pain and considerable swelling. I consulted a doctor at the polyclinic and was prescribed antibiotics, which reduced the
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      647 29 THE GUARDIAN Drinking alcohol before a workout will worsen your performance THINK you can make up for a drinking binge with a workout? Think again. Even a little alcohol impairs your athletic performance. Contrary to Homer Simpson's protestations, alcohol is not one of the major food groups,
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      274 31 -AFP BOLTON (England) English Premier League side Bolton announced yesterday (early today, Singapore time) that they had rejected a bid from Chelsea for their French striker Nicolas Anelka (picture). Chelsea confirmed that they had made a move for the 28-year-old, who signed
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      204 31 -AFP TAMPA, Florida Eli Manning threw three touchdown passes to lead the New York Giants past Tampa Bay 24-14 on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) and into a sec-ond-round National Football League (NFL)playoff match-up next week at Dallas. The playoff triumph was the first in
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      589 31  -  Henry Winter THE DAILY TELEGRAPH sports@newstoday.com.sg FABIO Capello (the Italian started work yesterday) will quickly realise that England really have only five genuine stellar international talents: Ashley Cole, Owen Hargreaves, Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen. The Italian's main hope will be keeping everyone fit
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      336 32 -AGENCIES LEAGUE CUP, SEMI-FINAL IST LEG Chelsea v Everton LONDON The importance of Everton's League Cup semi-final first leg today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) was clear to see when David Moyes rested several first-team players on Saturday, in their shock FA Cup third-round defeat at
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      152 32 -DPA LONDON Didier Drogba (picture) reiterated his desire to leave Chelsea yesterday. The Ivory Coast forward said in October he had become disillusioned after the departure of Jose Mourinho as manager, and he repeated that sentiment in an interview on Eurosport. "It comes from me, I said
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      595 33 -AGENCIES Indians will decide today if tour Down Under will go ahead, as furore with Aussies escalate NEW DELHI The Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI) are set to hold a meeting this morning to decide what they will do next after suspending their tour
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      225 34 -TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE'S Lam Chih Bing (picture) is on track to win the inaugural OAAG Golf Tour 2008. In a field of 75 local pros, Lam shot an opening round 6-under-par 66 to top the leaderboard at the $50,000 PGA Championship the first stop of the
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      170 34 -AFP LONDON Non-leaguers Havant and Waterlooville might have a trip to Anfield against Liverpool should both win their FA Cup third round replays, following the fourth round draw yesterday. Havant are the lowestranked team left in the competition and held League One leaders Swansea 1-1 at the
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      483 34  -  KENNETH GOH With Saudis primed for action, Avramovic's big task is to get his men fit kenneth@media corp.com.sg EVER since Radojko Avramovic took over the reins of Singapore's national team in June 2003, the Lions have enjoyed some of their most fruitful years on the football
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      152 34 IN A boost for the Singapore national team, defender Faizal Hamid (picture) has rejoined Radojko Avramovic's team. The opportunity to represent the Lions in the third round of the World Cup Asian Zone qualifiers proved too good to turn down for the defender, who has decided to continue
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      741 35  -  TANYO-HINN TODAY FILE PHOTO Independent body of arbitrators set up to help athletes settle disputes yohinn@media corp.com.sg OVER the last year, a number of disputes between individual athletes and their respective national sports associations (NSA) made the headlines. Shot put throwers Zhang Guirong and Dv
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      457 35  -  LOWUNFHOONG linfhoong@media corp.com.sg ISSUES like athlete selection for overseas competitions, disciplinary matters and contractual disputes are within the scope of the new Alternative Dispute Resolution for Sports (ADR Sports). In the event of a dispute-when a matter cannot be resolved within the
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      176 33 MediaCorp Press Limited, the publisher of TODAY, the second most read English newspaper, invites tenders for: The Provision Of Newspaper Distribution Services To MRT Stations Malls COLLECTION OF TENDER DOCUMENTS Tender documents can be obtained from 10 January 2008 onwards during office hours between 9.30 am to 5.00pm (Mondays to
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