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  • 26 1 TODAY /A=ryJj-\COFlP we set you thinking MICA(P) 132/10/2007 Wednesday April 9, 2008 todayonline.com TODAY /A=DIACORP we set you thinking Wednesday April 9, 2008 todayonline.com MICA(P) 132/10/2007
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  • 667 1 AGENCIES, WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY LIN YANQIN AND NAZRYBAHRAWI KUALA LUMPUR After being spared from the worst effects of the haze last year, Singapore and its neighbours are bracing themselves for the days when smoke will once again get into their eyes. Last year,
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  • 585 1  -  NGJINGYNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg THEY had been dating for a month before she found out that her love interest whom the matchmaking agency had touted as a divorcee was still married. By then, she had paid the agency close to $900. Another victim,
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    • 37 1 CONRAD RAJ SAYS... SGX AND CARATS: MORE LIGHT, PLEASE BUSINESS PAGE 29 MAN IN THE MIRROR LIMKAYTONGON LOCAL FILM SCENE PLUS PAGE 34 YOG TEST RUN STORE COULD HOST ASIAN YOUTH GAMES NEXT YEAR SPORTS PAGE 41
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  • hot news
    • 350 2 A COUPLE of big changes at the apex of Singapore's legal system are expected in the days ahead. According to sources, Attorney-Gen-eral (AG) Chao Hick Tin, 65, is poised to leave the Attorney-General's Chambers and move to serve as a judge in the
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    • 469 2  -  LINYANQIN Nafa to focus on fundraising and starting its own degree yanqin@media corp.com.sg IT HAS been offering degrees in conjunction with overseas universities for a decade, and now the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa) feels it's ready to begin awarding its own
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    • 676 3  -  SHERALYNTAY Simulated Hospital part of new centre for clinical research sheralyn@media corp. com. sg TALK about the perfect patient Mr Ang has had at least three heart attacks in the last hour, but does not complain as student doctors and nurses resuscitate him yet again. Best
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    • 245 3  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp. com. sg IT JUST broke ground last Wednesday, but the developer of Biopolis Phase 111 is already in talks with four interested tenants. The biomedical companies two of which are foreign firms may take up
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    • 399 4  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN as rice importers are encouraged to import more, the problem lies in the high costs and lack of storage space, not the supply availability so say importers who met with International Enterprise (IE) Singapore yesterday.
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    • 624 4 AGENCIES Serious risk of poverty as food costs rise AS RICE futures climbed to their highest ever for a fourth day, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said high food prices are likely to persist for several years yet. More immediately, say observers echoing an earlier
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    • 333 6  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@media corp.com.sg A WOMAN has written herself into the annals of one of Singapore's oldest and some say, patriarchal social clubs. On Monday evening, entrepreneur Shanta Sundarason, 40, became not just the youngest, but also the first female member to be elected as
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    • 659 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT No plans to allow its use on flights out of Singapore weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg YOU may soon be able to chat and send SMS on your mobile phone as you zoom from one European city to another. But, if you want to
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    • 221 8 A DAY after the Royalville site off Sixth Avenue was relaunched at a much lower price, another en bloc site has been put back on the market at a significant discount from the heady prices its sellers were asking for less
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    • 620 8  -  NEO CHAI CHIN ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY JINNY KOH Analysts point to bad timing for developer in 3 en bloc attempts chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg ONE construction and property development firm, troubled by the cooling property market and credit crisis, has left three en bloc sellers' hopes of a cash
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    • 303 10  -  CHERYL LIM CHANNEL NEWSASIA cheryllim@media corp.com.sg LIM Chu Kang looks all set for a change if the Singapore Land Authority's plans work out for its first "agri-tainment" resort Developers of the farm resort hope to offer visitors a more unconventional experience when it opens its
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    • 270 10 IT IS meant to be a model of economic sustainability and green living and yesterday, the draft masterplan for the Tianjin Eco-city, a project by Singapore and China, was endorsed. The Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city Joint Working Committee met for the second time yesterday
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 138 10 The number of cases of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease reported to the Ministry of Health (MOH) has increased by 27 per cent to 892 cases in the week ending April 5 up from 702 in the previous week. The increase is
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      • 133 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan will be in Hong Kong from Wednesday to Friday, where he will deliver a keynote address at the International Housing Conference organised by the Hong Kong Housing Society, in celebration of its 60th anniversary.
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    • 295 10 SINGAPOREANS may sometimes grumble about their train rides, but transport operator SMRT has been rated as one of the best in the world. The transport service provider clinched the "Best Passenger Experience" award at the inaugural Metro Awards in Denmark earlier this month, beating out
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  • world news
    • 383 12 AGENCIES He hints at progress although no agreement was reached THE United States and North Korea held "a good discussion" yesterday over the communist state's nuclear disarmament, a top US envoy said, hinting at progress in resolving an impasse. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill
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    • 337 12 —AFP KUALALUMPUR- Malaysians have outgrown race-based politics and overwhelmingly want the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition to merge into a multi-racial party, according to a survey released yesterday. The Merdeka Centre research firm said that Muslim Malays, who dominate the population, as well as ethnic Chinese and
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    • 416 13 AGENCIES Following protests, London says it will scrap Olympic torch relay in 2012 BEIJING Senior Olympic officials yesterday raised the prospect for the first time of abandoning the international legs of the Beijing Games torch relay, amid a wave of protests targeting the flame overseas.
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    • 215 13 AGENCIES BANGKOK A low-cost Bangladeshi airliner made an emergency landing yesterday here after a man pulled out a knife during the flight and caused panic among passengers, police and airport officials said. Police and airport officials gave different accounts of what happened inside the plane.
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    • 225 14 AP TOKYO —Japan is mounting a US$7 million ($9.6 million) coral transplanting operation in the Pacific, aimed at bolstering its side of a territorial dispute with China and cementing Tokyo's right to exploit a wide expanse of ocean. Over the next year, scientists
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    • 335 14 —AFP Radioactive Iridium 192 in sealed container stolen from warehouse in Japan TOKYO A radioactive substance that can be used to make a dirty bomb has been stolen in Japan, police and officials said yesterday, warning the public not to go near it A
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    • 374 14 AFP URUMQI (China) Mystery continues to surround official reports of a deadly raid in Urumqi that saved the Beijing Olympics from a terrorist attack. As China tells it, police burst into the Happiness Garden apartments (picture) in this northwestern city and stormed
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    • 734 15  -  MARIA SIOW Detractors unlikely to change their minds over Tibet despite Beijing's media campaign EAST ASIA BUREAU CHIEF mariasiow@media corp.com.sg THE authorities and groups in China have launched a series of counter-offensives against what they felt were biased Western coverage of the recent disturbances in Tibet While
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    • 232 16 AFP PARIS A 24-year old man in China probably infected his father with the HSNI strain of bird flu before dying, renewing concerns that the disease could one day spread easily among humans, according to a study released yesterday. The case is
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    • 376 16 AP Wrong diagnosis of teenager's illness leads to transplant horror NEW YORK Alex Koehne had a love for life and always wanted to help people. So when his parents (picture) were told that their 15-year-old son was dying of bacterial meningitis, the couple did not hesitate
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    • 160 16 -AP SYDNEY A gang of teenagers who were arrested after injuring 19 people in a rampage through an Australian high school with baseball bats and machetes have treated the attack as a joke while in custody, police said. Five boys, aged between 14 and 16,
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    • 238 18 AGENCIES SYDNEY A shark killed a 16--year-old boy yesterday morning while he and a friend were bodyboarding off Australia's eastern coast, officials said. Peter Edmonds was about 50 metres from shore when the shark attacked, lifeguard spokesman Stephen Leahy said. Edmonds suffered
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    • 392 18 AP Interest in Africa not prompted by rivalry with China: Minister NEW DELHI India pledged yesterday to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in development projects in Africa in an attempt to bolster its presence on the continent, where economic rival China has already
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    • 429 19 AGENCIES Sect's followers were cut off from 'evil world' ELDORADO (Texas) Until the raid on their compound last week, the women and girls of the Yearning for Zion ranch spent their days caring for its many children, tilling gardens and quilting, attired in pio-neer-style dresses
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    • 288 19 A crucial 45 days AGENCIES WASHINGTON The United States war commander in Iraq told a Senate hearing yesterday that he recommends a 45-day "period of consolidation and evaluation" in July before deciding when to resume US troop reductions. General David Petraeus described the security situation in Iraq as improved since
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    • 211 20 AP BEIJING The simple life of monks at China's famed Shaolin Temple got an upgrade with the installation of luxury restrooms worth 3 million yuan ($591,400), state media reported yesterday. The official Xinhua News Agency said the most lavish of the new restrooms
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    • 532 20  -  JASON LEE Lee Mung Bak needs strong backing for his economic vision jason@media corp.com.sg LESS than four months after he clinched the presidency with a landslide victory, South Korean president Lee Myung Bak faces another stern test as his Grand National Party (GNP) attempts
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    • 180 21 President Lee Myung Bak: While his economic vision and promise to donate his entire salary to underprivileged people would boost his popularity ratings, his intention to trim the civil service leading to likely job cuts as well as his working style, which resulted in longer working
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 120 21 AFP East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta gave assurances yesterday that he would return to lead his country, after a newspaper quoted him as saying he may step down. Mr Ramos-Horta, 58, was flown to Australia for emergency treatment in February after he
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      • 110 21 —AFP Plans by New York authorities to introduce a congestion charge for motorists entering Manhattan ground to a halt on Monday when state legislators blocked the proposed levy. The plan would have involved an US$B ($11) charge for cars, and US$2l for trucks entering
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  • Voices
    • 392 24  -  KEELAY CHENG HDB is studying refinements to weed out non-serious applicants Letter frorr Deputy Director (Marketing and Projects) for Director (Estate Administration and Property) Housing and Development Board I REFER to the letters from Samuel Lee, "Oh, that elusive HDB flat" (March 28), and from
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    • 260 24  -  MICKEY CHIANG Letter from I THANK the Director of the Hawkers Department (National Environment Agency) for his reply, "Adam Road food centre is open again" (April 4) to my letter "Why weren't hawker centre closures better planned?" (March 21). Unfortunately,
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    • 154 24  -  FOOYOONFATT Letter from THE Media Development Authority (MDA) has commented that a free-market approach is the way to go and that it encourages competition. However, exclusive pay-TV content kills competition and consumers end up the big losers. Pay-TV operators pay huge sums
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    • 159 26  -  DR BILL MAIER BY GENEROSITY INCREASES LONGEVITY Looking for the secret to a long and happy life? Here's one formula you may not have considered. Begin by mowing your neighbour's yard and then make out a cheque to a good cause. After that, try taking some
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    • 448 26  - Why S'poreans need not worry LIU ZHEN ZHOU They are lucky in having all the basic comforts Letter from TO MANY Singaporeans, the Government's plans to spend an additional $10 billion to promote the research and development sector in Singapore does not seem to be something that is buzzworthy. But
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    • 730 27  -  EUGENE CHEAH I REFER to "Lawyers in Singapore: Time for market forces to decide" by Conrad Raj (April 7). Having a good legal system and sufficient pool of lawyers is the quintessence of a key financial hub in Asia a problem that Singapore now faces.
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  • Business
    • 367 28  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@media corp. com. sg INVESTORS itching to short-sell shares of Jade Technologies Holdings can do so now. The Singapore Exchange last evening removed trading curbs imposed on Jade Tech shares on Sunday, revoking its "designated security" status. Having monitored trading in the
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    • 388 28 CHEOWXINYI THE Singapore economy probably rebounded in the first quarter, escaping a technical recession. A Today strawpoll of seven private sector economists shows all those surveyed expect the Government to announce positive GDP growth, when it unveils flash GDP estimates for the first quarter
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    • 240 29 DOW JONES New owners may expand stores into Mid East and Africa DUBAI-BASED Al-Futtaim Group plans to increase its stake in Sin-gapore-based retailer Robinson to 95 per cent and may delist the company from the Singapore bourse. "We plan to buy the minority shares and delist
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    • 610 29  -  CONRAD RAJ EDITOR-AT-LARGE conrad@media corp.com.sg IT'S notvery often that the Singapore Exchange take the drastic measure of delisting a company. So when it does so, it must be for very good reasons. So it would be good for the Exchange to elaborate a little
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    • business news
      • 242 30 BLOOMBERG FORMER US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the drop in American home prices will probably end "well before" early next year as the number of houses on the market diminishes, aiding an economic rebound. "It will not be until early
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      • 308 30 BLOOMBERG Philippines plan to buy 1m tonnes amid warning to hoarders THE price of rice climbed to a record high for a fourth day as the Philippines, its biggest importer, announced plans to buy 1 million tonnes and some of the world's largest exporters cut sales to
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      • 673 32  -  KEITH BRADSHER NEWYORK TIMES Asian inflation and a weaker greenback are driving up US consumer prices THE free ride for American consumers is ending. For two generations, Americans have imported cheap goods from low-wage countries first Japan and Korea, then China and
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      • 711 33  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE BLOOMBERG RAGHURAM Rajan could not have found a more inopportune time to present his blueprint for financial-sector development In August last year that the Indian government asked Mr Rajan, formerly chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, and now a finance professor at the
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      • BUSINESSBRIEFS
        • 69 33 FremantleMedia has said it will invest in Singaporean shows as part of the nation's entertainment promotion plan. London-based Fremantle and Singapore's Media Development Authority will invest US$l2 million ($16.5 million) over two years in shows created by Singapore-based producers. Fremantle will hold the distribution rights. Fremantle, Singapore-based producer
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        • 63 33 Mainboard-listed construction company Low Keng Huat (Singapore) has been awarded a $340 million contract to build a Hard Rock Hotel as part of the Sentosa integrated resort. It will be one of the six hotels at Resorts World at Sentosa when it opens in 2010. The Hard
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    • 29 34 Lim Kay Tong on the local film scene, his photography skills and why this 53-year-old man seems to get all the middle-age roles ■M
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      1424 35  -  GHG mayo@mediacorp.com.sg I IN PERSON, Lim Kay I Tong looks like a man I who needs to lighten up I a little. But we're afraid I to say that to his face. Maybe it's how he I looked at us with that I intense, penetrating Bgaze framed by
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    • 395 36  -  FELIX CHEONG Rene Liv tells how co-star made her cry plus@newstoday.com.sg THE misunderstanding over a packet of lunch that reduced Rene Liv to tears sums up the strange chemistry between the Taiwanese actress and Hong Kong star Louis Koo. The pair star in Run Papa
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    • 277 38  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by I The Other Boleyn Girl RARELY has such talent been so ill-used on so little. In The Other Boleyn Girl, the dream pairing of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson is wasted on a Tudor romp revolving around the sexual
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    • 303 38  -  Mayo Martin This well acted chickflick has something for everyone FILMREVIEW by I Definitely, Maybe DEFINITELY a chick flick, was my date's confident verdict Maybe, I retorted, but it's got a soundtrack of Nirvana and Belle and Sebastian tunes, a Bill Clinton "cameo" and Rachel Weisz in it
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    • 523 41  -  TANYO-HINN Singapore likely to host Asian Youth Games in mid-2009 as test event for 2010 Youth Olympics yohinn@media corp.com.sg THERE are 856 days to go before Singapore hosts the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in August 2010. But another countdown has also started. In slightly over
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      • 83 43 World ranking 2, age 37 It's been an erratic year so far for the big left-hander. An early season win at the Northern Trust Open was followed by a run of mediocre finishes. But he knows how to win at Augusta, having done so impressively in 2004
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      • 85 43 World ranking 3, age 38 To general surprise, the South African missed the cut last year as he struggled with his game following knee surgery. But an outstanding record in the Masters prior to that shows two runner-up finishes and three othertop sixes in 15 campaigns. Pulled
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      • 65 43 World ranking 5, age 30 The 2006 US Open winner ended Tiger Woods' seventournament winning streak at Miami two weeks ago, leading from wire to wire. He followed up with a tie for second at Houston last week. In top form and insists that Woods can be
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      • 74 43 World ranking 8, age 27 The Australian is firmly established in the top 10 and has been touted as a potential Masters winner since a ninth-place finish in his debut in 2002. Surprisingly he has yet to improve on that, and last year he ended up in
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      • 89 43 World ranking 9, age 27 Won the European Order of Merit title lastyear as he stormed into the world top 10 on the back of his prowess in the four Majors where his record was second only to Tiger's. That included a stellar performance at last year's
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      • 60 43 World ranking 10, age 44 Solid start to the season for the veteran Fijian after a disappointing 2007 including a third-placed finish at Bay Hill and joint runner-up in Miami two weeks ago. Was a surprise winner of the Masters in 2000 and has been a regular
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    • 204 44 BLOOMBERG PARIS David Beckham (picture) overtook Ronaldinho to regain the title of football's highest-paid player, according to France Football magazine. In the report published yesterday, the magazine claimed Beckham's earnings from salary and endorsements soared 82 per cent to 31 million euros
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    • 68 44 1 David Beckham (LA Galaxy): 31 million* 2 Ronaldinho (Barcelona): 24.1 million 3 Lionel Messi (Barcelona): 23 million 4 Cristiano Ronaldo (Man Utd): 19.5 million 5 Thierry Henry (Barcelona): 16.8 million 6 John Terry (Chelsea): 13.9 million 7 Michael Ballack (Chelsea): 13.8 million 8 Ronaldo (AC
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    • 324 44 —THE GUARDIAN LONDON For Petr Cech, the timing was almost as sickening as the injury itself. The Chelsea goalkeeper had proven his fitness in Sunday's training session and even surprised his team-mates with the sharpness of his reflexes, having not played a first-team match since
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