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Title Section13 2008-05-27 1 TODAY /V\=£JJJ\CORP we set you thinking MICA(P) 132/10/2007 Tuesday May 27, 2008 todayonline.com13 words
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AFTERNOONEDITION
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881 2008-05-27 1 DERRICK A PAULO - Affidavits rejected, objections raised then PM faces Chee DERRICK A PAULO ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR derrick@media corp. com. sg MIGHT it have been an election ploy or was it to demolish the Opposition? Perhaps dislike or hatred led to the defamation lawsuit against the Singapore Democratic Party and its two most881 words
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Article, Illustration832 2008-05-27 1 LOH CHEE KONG - LOH CHEE KONG ISD Command Director relieved of charge of WRDC, superintendent sacked cheekong@media corp. com. sg SINGAPORE'S most-wanted man, Mas Selamat Kastari, is still nowhere to be found but one chapter to the long-running saga was closed yesterday. As a result of separate disciplinaryODAY HLhPHOIC - 832 words
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Miscellaneous38 2008-05-27 1 AGM SETS RECORD STANDING ROOM ONLY AT STORE SWIMMING CLUB NEWS PAGE 3 IT'S A WRAP! TODAY SUMS UP THE CANNES FILM FEST PLUS PAGE 26 MARK THESE WORDS HUGHES TO TAKE OVER AT CHELSEA? SPORTS PAGE 3938 words
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hot news
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Article215 2008-05-27 2 DERRICK A PAULO - DERRICK A PAULO It was not his turn to take the stand yet, but Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew made an appearance at 4pm yesterday in Court 4B and prompted strenuous objections by Dr Chee Soon Juan. The latter objected to MM Lee's five215 words
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410 2008-05-27 3 TEO XUAN WEI - TEO XUAN WEI xuanwei@media corp. com. sg WITH food and oil prices seemingly spiralling out of control, will this have any bearing on the Government's earlier projection that inflation will ease later this year? Responding to this question from Nominated Member of Parliament (MP)410 words
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Article, Illustration366 2008-05-27 3 CONRAD RAJ - CONRAD RAJ Club members turn up in force to elect new committee EDITOR-AT-LARGE conrad@mediacorp.com.sg MORE than 2,000 members, a record for any social club here, turned up for Sunday's annual general meeting of the Singapore Swimming Club to vote in a new management committee. "You often have366 words
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Advertisement452 2008-05-27 2 "We could be facing a recession which is longer, deeper and wider than any recession that we have encountered in the last 30 years." Dr Tony Tan, Deputy Chairman of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp SPH The Straits Times, 22 April 2008 MAKE LOTS OF MONEY IN A DOWNTURN452 words
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Article, Illustration561 2008-05-27 4 TEO XUAN WEI - TEO XUAN WEI MPs seek assurances that cyclone Nargis victims being helped xuanwei@media corp. com. sg EVEN as the Myanmar junta has opened its doors to foreign aid workers and countries pledged some US$5O million ($6B million) more in aid, parliamentarians here were concerned whether001 BOON KEONG - 561 words
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Article226 2008-05-27 4 - TANHUILENG - -TANHUILENG Come next month, Singapore will be home to a gush of water-related events-from a high-level World Health Organisation (WHO) meet to two international awards, to contests for the young. And that is just on the sidelines of the main event, the Singapore International Water week from226 words
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379 2008-05-27 6 LIN VAN QIN - LIN VAN QIN yanqin@media corp. com. sg THE question of how the compulsory seatbelt ruling for new mini-buses will affect existing buses has yet to be answered, but some MPs are asking for interim measures while the authorities decide. Ms Cynthia Phua (MP for379 words
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Article, Illustration383 2008-05-27 6 JINNY KOH - JINNY KOH River sludge cleared, and PUB will continue to monitor the situation jinny@media corp. com. sg THE air along Robertson Quay has finally been cleared. And the source of the offending stench a lm-thick layer of sludge lining the bed of the Singapore River hasJINNY KOh - 383 words
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PARLIAMENTBRIEFS
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Article93 2008-05-27 6 A "zero-error" Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) payment system would be "impossible to achieve", said Senior Minister of State for Transport Lim Hwee Hwa in response to an MP's question. The Land Transport Authority's system availability standard of 99.7 percent was acceptable, she added. The number of93 words
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Article95 2008-05-27 6 The Government will work with the Family Court to explore how to strengthen the enforcement of maintenance orders against errant ex-spouses, said Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan. However, he felt there was no need to set up a government agency just to enforce95 words
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Article510 2008-05-27 8 ALICIA WONG - ALICIA WONG Top graduates from Nanyang, NUS business schools rake in more than $4,000 monthly alicia@mediacorp.com.sg ONE business school says its graduates command a higher starting salary, while another's track record shows its graduates secure a job faster. Both the National University of Singapore510 words
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105 2008-05-27 8 FOREIGN cars will not be allowed to buy fuel at pump stations at Malaysia's borders, effective Friday. According to Bernama, the ban covers several districts in Johor, including Kulai and Johor Bahru, as well as Perlis, Kedah, North Perak and Kelantan along105 words
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SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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77 2008-05-27 8 There was no evidence any Singapore company had been involved in exports of North Korean rocket launchers to Myanmar, or that such a transaction had occurred at all, said Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo when asked about such allegations. He77 words
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101 2008-05-27 8 About 30 per cent of the cases handled by the Bail Court, since its inception last May, have seen theirterms reduced or varied, according to Law Minister KShanmugam. Responding to Non-Constituency MP Sylvia Lim's question on whether the Bail Court has met101 words
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Miscellaneous6 2008-05-27 4 MYANMAR'S LITMUS TEST WORLD «PAGE 106 words
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Miscellaneous8 2008-05-27 8 STOPPING FRAUD Malaysia ponders mass voter re-registration 128 words
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world news
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Article, Illustration421 2008-05-27 10 -AGENCIES Will junta let foreign-aid agencies into cyclone-hit areas to help survivors? YANGON—lnternational aid agencies prepared yesterday to test promises by Myanmar's ruling junta to allow workers access to some 2.4 million victims of a cyclone that devastated the country more than three weeks ago. Aid organisations-AGENCIES; AP - 421 words
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285 2008-05-27 10 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia may let foreign law firms operate here for the first time to strengthen international confidence in its legal process, the Law Minister said yesterday. Domestic-law firms have long enjoyed protection from overseas competition, but liberalisation will be-AP - 285 words
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Article, Illustration95 2008-05-27 12 AP An American-owned Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed as it took off from a Brussels airport on Sunday and broke apart, but the five-strong crew escaped without injury, AFP quoted airport officials as saying. The jumbo jet came to rest at the end of the runwayAP - 95 words
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268 2008-05-27 12 -AP BANDAR SERIBEGAWAN Brunei's government has lashed out at citizens who waste energy resources after the cost of public subsidies to keep the sultanate's fuel prices extraordinarily low quadrupled between 2004 and last year. Brunei's Prime Minister's Office revealed on-AP - 268 words
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Article325 2008-05-27 12 -AFP M'sia ponders mass voter re-registration KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian electoral authorities have proposed re-registering all 10.9 million voters in a huge exercise aimed at silencing allegations of fraud and vote-rigging. Election Commission chairman Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman said the project would take about two years, in time for-AFP - 325 words
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Article423 2008-05-27 13 -AFP Fuel-price hike needed to avoid 1997-style economic crash, says Indon President JAKARTA Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday defended his unpopular fuel-price hike as being necessary to avoid an economic meltdown similar to the 1997 financial crisis. Workers and student groups have attacked the-AFP - 423 words
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223 2008-05-27 14 JOHOR BARU Police are looking for surrogate mothers who allegedly sold their infants to a baby-for-sale racket, reported The New Straits Times (NST). This comes as police picked up another staff member an assistant nurse of a medical centre involved in the syndicate,223 words
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Article, Illustration246 2008-05-27 14 Malaysian politicians upset over ICJ ruling KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian politicians have stepped up their "republic-bashing" as the Malaysian media puts it- following the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) decision on Pedra Branca last Friday. In Parliament yesterday, there was no support for the official positionAFP - 246 words
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Article232 2008-05-27 14 -AFP SYDNEY Two tourists who drifted in shark-infested waters off Australia for 19 hours when a diving trip went awry have been asked to pay for their rescue after selling their story. Briton Richard Neely, 38, and his American partner Allyson Dalton, 40, were diving-AFP - 232 words
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GLOBALROUNDUP
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122 2008-05-27 16 AFP A Japanese court yesterday sentenced a gangster to death by hanging for gunning down the popular mayor of Nagasaki in a rare assassination that led the country to tighten controls on guns. Tetsuya Shiroo, 60, who was associated with Japan's largest— AFP - 122 words
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130 2008-05-27 16 Deputy Health Minister Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad became the target of several Opposition MPs yesterday when he let slip that doctors were "licensed to kill", reported The Star. Dr Abdul Latiff had wanted to use the famous James Bond movie title Licensed to /(///when130 words
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Article255 2008-05-27 16 -AGENCIES BEIJING The head of Taiwan's ruling party arrived in China yesterday for the highest-level contact with the communist mainland's leadership in 60 years. Kuomintang (KMT) chairman Wu Pohhsiung landed in Nanjing, with promises of seeking peace and economic engagement on a trip that includes-AGENCIES - 255 words
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Article, Illustration479 2008-05-27 16 -AFP Heavy rains will increase risk of floods: Vice-Minister MIANZHU (China) Soldiers raced yesterday to blast clear a river dammed by landslides after China's deadly earthquake two weeks ago, amid fears that more than a million people could be at risk from flooding.-AFP - 479 words
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Letter, Illustration581 2008-05-27 18 WONGWENGKEET - WONGWENGKEET Proposed flat application system gives ownership of choice and saves on effort Letter from I APPLAUD the Housing and Development Board's (HDB) recent initiative regarding balloting under the build-to-order (BTO) scheme, which aims to deter people from throwing their names into the flat-balloting hat frivolously._■______■■■ __ri TODAY FILE PHOTO - 581 words
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Article263 2008-05-27 20 DR JAMES DOBSON - DR JAMES DOBSON BY LOVE OF THE HAND LOTION My friend, Mimi Wilson, tells of a simple experience she once shared with her daughter Kendra. Kendra was in university at the time, and having a great deal of trouble in her studies. She was preparing for263 words
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Letter294 2008-05-27 20 LEE CHIN CHUAN - LEE CHIN CHUAN LTA officers made us feel at ease and assisted us even after working hours: Reader Letter from ON MAY 15, my wife and I went to the Survey and Lands Division (Land Transport Authority) at Hampshire Road to make arrangements for294 words
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166 2008-05-27 20 DAVID HONG - DAVID HONG Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Smaller bins should suffice" (May 13 by Rona Tan and would like to add the following observations and suggestions. Besides providing smaller bins for the daily collection of rubbish, the relevant authority should166 words
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Letter, Illustration162 2008-05-27 20 JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG - JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from THE producers and artistes of MediaCorp must be commended for staging Sunday night's Sichuan Earthquake Charity Show, for it moved both the audience and those watching the show at home. Although singing is not the forte of most ofWEETECK HIAK - 162 words
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163 2008-05-27 22 -DOW JONES SINGAPORE-listed Del Monte Pacific is facing a lawsuit from Fresh Del Monte Produce, which is claiming US$lOO million ($136 million) in damages in a New York court for alleged violations of a licensing agreement Fresh Del Monte Produce, which has a licence-DOW JONES - 163 words
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Article, Illustration443 2008-05-27 22 BARRY PORTER - BARRY PORTER With new motor insurance framework, drivers may lose no-claims discount BUSINESS EDITOR ba rryporter@media corp.com.sg FROM June 1, a new insurance framework, which could lead to drivers losing their no-claims discounts even if they don't make a claim, will kick in. Insurers wantTODAY FILE PHOTO - 443 words
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Article, Illustration452 2008-05-27 23 BLOOMBERG Biggest fall in 10 months portends bigger problems SINGAPORE'S industrial production unexpectedly declined last month, suffering its biggest fall in 10 months, as pharmaceutical companies and electronic manufacturers reduced output Manufacturing, which accounts for a quarter of Singapore's economy, fell 5.7 per cent from a— BLOOMBERG; BLOOMBERG - 452 words
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210 2008-05-27 23 CHEOWXINYI - CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp. com. sg DESPITE the economic slowdown, Singapore's manpower shortages are here to stay particularly in the tourism sector. Some 20,000 new jobs will be created over the next couple of years with the opening of Singapore's two integrated resorts. If210 words
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BUSINESSBRIEFS
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Article93 2008-05-27 24 Courts (Singapore) has reported a loss of $19.5 million for the year to end-March despite better local sales. This comes after it shut its Thai retail operations after a strategic review by external consultants following significant losses there. Overall, group sales rose 14 per cent year-on-year93 words
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Article101 2008-05-27 24 Daiwa Asset Management will launch Singapore's first S/jar/a-compliant Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) on the Singapore Exchange today. The Daiwa FTSE Sharia Japan 100 fund will offer Islamic investors instant access to the top 100 S/jar/a-compliant companies in Japan by market capitalisation. Sharia is the Islamic law that101 words
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76 2008-05-27 24 Mainboard-listed Raffles Education is buying China's Shaan Xi Ruizhi Education Investment for 44 million yuan ($8.7 million). Shaan Xi Ruizhi is the business of secondary and higher education investment, providing consulting services in relation to vocational and technical education, training and76 words
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61 2008-05-27 24 Singapore Co-operation Enterprise has signed a collaboration agreement to help Libya develop small and medium enterprises by sharing the Singapore experience. This follows Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong's visit to Libya earlier this month with other Singapore Ministers. Singapore Co-operation Enterprise will61 words
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86 2008-05-27 24 Mapletree Investments says its newlyestablished private real estate fund will jointly develop a nine-hectare mixed-use project in Nanhai District of Foshan City in China's Guangdong province. Mapletree India-China Fund (MIC Fund) will have an 80-per-cent stake in the joint venture with Guangzhou Southern-Donald86 words
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Article, Illustration516 2008-05-27 24 AFP Temasek ruling shakes investor confidence INDONESIA is seeking billions of dollars in foreign direct investment to stimulate employment and growth, amid doubts over the country's investment climate. The Indonesian Regional Investment Forum kicked off yesterday in Jakarta, offering opportunities in a reported 200 projects scattered— AFP; ARTIST IMPRESSION COURTESY FRASERS HOSPITALITY - 516 words
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Article, Illustration521 2008-05-27 25 JOSEPH YADAO - JOSEPH YADAO NUS team, The Pinnacle, will represent Singapore at the L'Oreal finals in Paris joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg LYDIA Tay, Jenalyn Liv and Avril Tan could possibly look forward to an exciting career at beauty giant, L'Oreal, when they graduate from the National University of Singapore.521 words
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Article, Illustration192 2008-05-27 25 — JOSEPH YADAO - JOSEPH YADAO When Sex and The City makes its movie premiere here later this month, its star Sarah Jessica Parker will also be seen enjoying a Coke Light in a series of advertisements. The actress was recently appointed as the cola's global ambassador in all markets outside192 words
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Article, Illustration1268 2008-05-27 26 Mayo Martin - Mayo Martin DIRECT FROM CANNES Celebrity sightings, the business of movies and a moving family affair Today sums up this year's Cannes Film Festival SHlA?lsthatShia Leßeouf? Shia?! Shia!! Oh, shi... Merde. Pardon my French, but my first certified celebrity sighting had just walked by as I was=>HOTOS AFB MAYO MARTIK - 1,268 words
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Article, Illustration638 2008-05-27 28 KARMAN TSE - KARMAN TSE Teary-eyed stars raise $9.5 m for quake victims karma n@media corp. com. sg AS THE lights dimmed, every one from celebrities and YIPs to the audience bowed their heads to observe one minute of silence and perhaps, to say a little prayer. And then,WEETECKHIAN - 638 words
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Article270 2008-05-27 28 — KARMAN TSE - KARMAN TSE It's the thought that counts. That was the standard reply Today got when we asked the stars how big a personal donation they made. We know it's terribly invasive of us to ask such a sensitive question, but it is nice to know that270 words
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Article203 2008-05-27 32 SUN AND SKIN Experts from the National Skin Centre will be holding a forum on skin-related topics, such as common skin cancers and pigmentation problems. In addition, pick up practical tips on how you can protect your skin from harmful UV rays. The talks will be conducted in Mandarin.203 words
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Article, Illustration760 2008-05-27 32 EVELINE GAN - EVELINE GAN p33 m\j co m esio jrf aynrgtnjraaOTsrDne can> egrjfol with the rr~ dUkiren f _veline@media corp. com. sg WITHOUT thinking twice, you pack your kids off to the beach during the school holidays sans sun protection. A little sun won't hurt, youJASON HO - 760 words
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Article478 2008-05-27 33 I GET flatulent very often and I notice that this becomes worse when I drink alcohol, although I am not sure if that is the cause. Sometimes, it gets so bad that I end up with constipation. What causes flatulence and are there foods that I should478 words
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209 2008-05-27 33 THE NEW YORK TIMES RESEARCHERS havefound thatpeople with a common variant of a gene that helps the body handle sugar are more likely to crave foods like cake and sodas. Sucrose, fructose or glucose if it is sugar, they like it Writing inTHE NEW YORK TIMES - 209 words
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Miscellaneous1120 2008-05-27 34 SAMANTHA WHO THE SUITE LIFE OF ZACK CODY I LIFESTYLE BIG DADDY TV Premiere Fairest Of Them All Bare Beauty-Ambassadors'Wives Edition Channel News Asia, 8.32pm Channel 5, 9pm Kids Central, 6pm Arts Central, 9.30pm Wracked with amnesia after an accident and with no Cody sneaks HSIH^Pf^H Turkey is a historical1,120 words
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Article, Illustration575 2008-05-27 35 TANYO- HINN - TANYO-HINN After the Olympics, world's best coaches will be here to help Youth Olympic hosts yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SWIMMING powerhouses the United States and Australia are expected to battle it out to see who rules the pool at the Olympic Games, which will be held inTANYO-HINN - 575 words
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Article, Illustration516 2008-05-27 35 PAUL GREEN - PAUL GREEN NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2008 Balestier v Sengkang Toa Payoh Stadium, 7.45pm paul@media corp. com. sg LAST season, after finishing ninth in the 12-team NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League, Balestier Khalsa decided to focus on youth. Faced with a tight budget, the Tigers retained justTREVOR TAN - 516 words
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Article, Illustration534 2008-05-27 36 SHAMIR OSMAN - SHAMIR OSMAN Avramovic works on Singapore strategy, as Uzbekistan date looms sham ir@media corp. com. sg THERE are six days to go before Singapore play their crucial third round, Asian Zone Group 4 World Cup qualifier against Uzbekistan at the National Stadium. After next=>HOTOS ERNEST CHUA - 534 words
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Article, Illustration309 2008-05-27 36 — SHAMIR OSMAN - SHAMIR OSMAN THE three new faces in Radojko Avramovic's Singapore squad for the team's World Cup qualifiers next month are all adjusting well, according to their new team-mates. As soon as Shaiful Esah (SAFFC), Afiq Yunos (Young Lions) and Qiu Li (Tampines Rovers) strike up309 words
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Article, Illustration270 2008-05-27 36 AFP BAGHDAD Iraq's suspension from international football by world governing body Fifa sparked howls of dismay among both sportsmen and politicians here yesterday and there were loud calls for the government to reverse the decision that triggered it. Vice President Hashemi Tareq Hashemi demanded that theAFP; GETTY IMAGES - 270 words
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Article, Illustration384 2008-05-27 37 AGENCIES NBA PLAYOFFS San Antonio 103 LA Lakers 84 SAN ANTONIO Manu Ginobili broke out of his scoring slump with 30 points as the San Antonio Spurs beat the Los Angeles Lakers 103-84 in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore— AGENCIES; AF - 384 words
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Article, Illustration603 2008-05-27 37 AGENCIES Liverpool boss Benitez says title may be out of reach, as Chelsea eye Torres LONDON Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez has said that winning the Premier League next season is just "an option". That is unlikely to please the club's owners, Tom Hicks and— AGENCIES; GETTY IMAGES - 603 words
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Article, Illustration536 2008-05-27 38 -AGENCIES Mourinho snubs Chelsea as he prepares to replace Mancini DESPITE receiving a £2-million ($5.4--million) Ferrari as a gift from Roman Abramovich, Jose Mourinho is set to disappoint the Chelsea owner by becoming the new manager of Serie A giants Inter Milan. Former Blues manager Mourinho-AGENCIES; GETTY IMAGES - 536 words
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Article, Illustration288 2008-05-27 38 AFP J m BERLIN German captain Michael Ballack (picture) has shrugged off his disappointment at losing out to Manchester United in last Wednesday's Champions League. Now, he just cannot wait for Euro 2008 to begin. The 31-year-old Chelsea playmaker had— AFP J m; GETTY IMAGES - 288 words
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Article97 2008-05-27 38 PAUL GREEN THE Super Reds outclassed the Young Lions 3-1 in last night's NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 match atYishun Stadium. The win took the Koreans to 35 points from 14 matches, level on points with leaders SAFFC but trailing them on goal difference. Super Reds midfielder Oh Ddog— PAUL GREEN - 97 words
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162 2008-05-27 38 -AFP STOCKHOLM Tobias Linderoth's first goal in more than seven years for Sweden saw the Euro 2008 finalists beat Slovenia 1-0 in a warm-up match for the finals yesterday. Star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic sat out the match with his knee bandaged, but Linderoth, who-AFP - 162 words
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Article, Illustration817 2008-05-27 39 Henry Winter - Henry Winter THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Former Wales manager and Chelsea old boy Hughes is ideal choice to take over at Stamford Bridge LONDON Chelsea's new manager must possess the five qualities most prized by Roman Abramovich: A disciplinarian streak, tactical nous, motivational powers, a good record inTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH - 817 words
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Article, Illustration336 2008-05-27 39 — THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - THE DAILY TELEGRAPH On Friday night, Avram Grant's (picture) father attended a prestigious ceremony organised by Israel's Ma'ariv newspaper at which his son was honoured with the title "Sports Personality of the Year". Meir Grant told journalists of his pride at hisGETTY IMAGES - 336 words
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