Today, 8 June 2010

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    26 1 TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Tuesday June 8, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking JUNE 8, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF
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    Group walked through casino without paying
    600 1  -  Incident raises question: Should law on levy be tweaked? TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The letter of the law is clear: No local residents save for casino employees and authorities carrying out their duties are exempt from paying the levy to enter the casinos. Even
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    Lock icon Asian stocks hammered
    523 1 STI down 1.9%, weak sentiment ahead AGENCIES SINGAPORE Asian stock markets were swimming in a sea of red yesterday as investors dumped shares on heightened risk aversion in the wake of Wall Street’s slump on Friday, while the euro hit multi-year lows against the United States dollar
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      74 1 iTODAY on BlackBerry For the latest news updates on the go. o Exclusively for BlackBerry® subscribers from StarHub COMMENT ANALYSIS 14 THE WAGE GENIE EMERGES CHINA’S EXPORT MACHINE IN TROUBLE? COMMENT&ANALYSIS SIMON HEFFER ARTS FUNDING: MIXING CULTURE, BUSINESS 15 SIMON TAY EXPO: A SHOWCASE OF CHINA’S RISE AND REACH 16
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  • NEWS
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      Though under stress, families must remain ‘crucial social pillars’
      454 3  -  JOANNE CHAN joannechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As an institution, the family is still valued by Singaporeans, but some worrying trends such as low birth rates, marriages at a later age, and a rising number of divorces have persisted. While the state recognises the
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      Lock icon Warrant of arrest issued for Briton
      242 3 Swiss national released on $100k bail; embassy says it won't interfere SINGAPORE Police have confirmed they are looking for a second man in connection with the MRT vandalism and trespassing case. Lloyd Dane Alexander, a British National, left Singapore before the incident in mid-May
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      Lock icon Guilty, 25 years after Bhopal gas disaster
      552 4 Two-year jail term for seven former employees angers survivors AGENCIES BHOPAL More than 25 years after the world’s worst industrial disaster, and days after the marking of World Environment Day, an Indian court has convicted eight former senior employees of Union Carbide’s Indian
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      Lock icon More tourists arriving after opening of IRs, despite the hiccups
      428 6  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Never mind that they are only partially open, the two integrated resorts (IR) are not to be missed as far as tourists are concerned. And in-bound tour agencies have statistics to prove it more visitors are
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      Elections Department gears up
      127 6 SINGAPORE The Elections Department is looking at some 1,400 premises around the island for use as polling and counting centres for the next general election and presidential election. Responding to MediaCorp, the department’s spokesman says it will use mainly community centres, HDB void decks and schools
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      Singapore Medical Association's guidelines on fees thrown out
      404 8 The Government says fees at public hospitals, clinics are already transparent SINGAPORE The Singapore Medical Association’s Guidelines on Fees have been officially thrown out. After consulting the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Trade and Industry has determined that the guidelines could
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      Lock icon Four Palestinian militants killed near Gaza coast by Israeli navy
      338 8 AGENCIES JERUSALEM Israeli naval forces killed four Palestinian “commandos” wearing wetsuits in waters off Gaza yesterday over suspicions that they were planning an attack by sea, but a militant group said they were members of its marine unit who were
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      Lock icon BLUE ONTHE DANUBE
      74 8 The Danube River on the Pest side of Budapest yesterday reached its highest level. The embankment had to be closed to traffic and several parts of the city’s public transport network had to be closed as well. The flood so far has caused an estimated €300 million
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      Lock icon ¢ MAN CHARGED FOR RAPE OF 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL
      113 10 MAN CHARGED FOR RAPE OF 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL ZUL OTHMAN A 45-year-old surveyor was charged in a district court yesterday for the rape of a 13-year-old girl some eight years ago. He is accused of raping her on four occasions in a flat in 2002. He also faces another charge of
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      Lock icon MECHANIC FINED FOR STEALING CASINO CHIPS
      144 10 ZUL OTHMAN Car mechanic Lai Boon Ngee was fined $1,500 after pleading guilty in a district court yesterday to three counts of stealing casino chips from two gamblers at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) last month. On May 22 and 23, Lai a Malaysian stole
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      Lock icon ¢ WOMAN SLASHED HUSBAND AFTER QUARREL
      137 10 WOMAN SLASHED HUSBAND AFTER QUARREL ZUL OTHMAN A woman who did not want to go on a cruise with her husband slashed him with a kitchen knife after a quarrel. Alexandra Chan, 28, a part time yoga instructor, attacked Mr Tang Sin Tong, 39, at their Linear Condominium in Upper
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      Lock icon $10,000 fine, a day’s jail for slicing off thumb
      213 10  -  ‘Exception case’ where victim was the aggressor: ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A hawker who sliced off a customer’s thumb during an argument last year has been sentenced to one day’s jail and fined $10,000. A district court convicted fishball noodle seller
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      Lock icon LOOK MA, NO SHOES!
      121 10 Walk barefoot for 5km on the scorching grounds of East Coast Park? This is what 2,500 people did last Saturday morning. They took off their shoes and bared their feet for the Habitat-Barclays Bare Your Sole 2010 charity walk. Organised by Habitat for Humanity (HFH) in
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      Lock icon Reaching out with blogs
      165 10 Walkabouts still best way to gain electoral support: MP Inderjit Singh SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL SINGAPORE When it comes to reaching out to youths, blogs seem the way to go. One was launched yesterday ahead of Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong’s visit to Kebun Baru Division in Ang
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      124 3 The guru says: The sun sets in the West but fun rises in the East. Bangkok Returns Airfares on Jetstar, THAI Singapore Airlines fr $203 3D2N Packages incl. flight hotel taxes fr $256 Hotels Choice of 135 Bangkok Hotels up to 50% off Holidays Below $380 3D2N SilkAir Packages incl.
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  • VOICES
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      Not just a numbers game
      417 12  -  A nation shouldn’t just look to GDP figures as a gauge of true progress Letter from Sanjay Perera I REFER to the insightful commentary, “Hatoyama, a victim of iPad shock” (June 4). The need for new ideas by many countries to make it through the
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      252 14  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON WHEN ADOLESCENTS FEEL INFERIOR Imagine being depressed and miserable over the shape of your nose, or the texture of your skin or the colour of your hair. Dissatisfaction with one's body is an experience that most adolescents live with every day. If
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      What interns are entitled to, under the law
      289 14  -  Letter from Farah Abdul Rahim Director, Corporate Communications, Ministry Of Manpower WE THANK Mr Melvin Toh and Ms Devi Maradan for their letters, “Are Interns being taken advantage of?” (May 26) and “Employers shouldn’t exploit ‘cheap’ labour”, (May 27). The Employment Act
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      When the driving instructor is a danger on the road
      302 14  -  Letter from Gilbert Lim LAST Wednesday, I had a motorcycle practical training lesson at the ComfortDelGro Driving Centre at Ubi. This lesson involved me riding out of the centre’s compound and onto public roads. As the lesson progressed, my instructor’s
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon The wage genie is edging out of the bottle
      902 16  -  Honda strikes, Foxconn suicides throw spanner into the works of China’s export machine WILLIAM PESEK The writer is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG The moment that corporate executives from New York to Tokyo have dreaded
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      Lock icon Arts funding: A blend of culture and business
      1112 17  -  The Stradivari Trust has come up with a clever scheme that combines philanthropy and hard-headed commerce SIMON HEFFER THE DAILY TELEGRAPH The case for state funding of the arts is one of the few subjects upon which one can have an interesting
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      Lock icon A showcase of China’s rise and reach
      784 18  -  After a long day of crowds and queues under the sun, the World Expo’s theme ‘Better City, Better Life’ may seem ironic SIMON TAY The writer is chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs and author of Asia Alone. China has the
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      Lock icon After a tumour, the world looks more huggable
      814 19  -  NICHOLAS D KRISTOF The writer is a two-time Pulitzer Prize THE NEW YORK TIMES My doctor’s call came early last month just as I was completing a column noting that 41 per cent of Americans come down with cancer. That statistic felt
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Kim promotes brother-in-law
      330 20 AGENCIES SEOUL North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s brother-in-law was promoted yesterday during a rare parliamentary session, in a move seen as paving the way for Mr Kim’s youngest son to take power. The Parliament also sacked a Premier who had apologised for a currency debacle in
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      Lock icon Former PKR MPs form Independent Consensus
      227 20 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Five lawmakers who previously quit the opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) to become independent announced yesterday they were to form an Independent Consensus (Konsensus Bebas) in Parliament. The move could benefit the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) because of the
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      Lock icon Malaysia's Finance Ministry denies issuing sports betting licence
      374 21 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s Finance Ministry yesterday denied awarding a sports betting licence to Ascot Sports, a company linked to business tycoon Vincent Tan, despite earlier reports that the company would offer betting services for football and other international sports
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      Lock icon FORMER SRI LANKAN ARMY CHIEF'COULD BE HANGED FOR TREASON'
      112 21 AFP Sri Lanka’s top defence official has threatened to hang the country’s former army chief Sarath Fonseka if he cooperates with any investigation into war crimes during the civil warthat ended a year ago. Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse told the BBC
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      Lock icon COPYCAT THAI STUDENT SETS SCHOOL ON FIRE
      117 21 AP A high school student in Thailand, stressed out by pressure to excel, burned down part of his prestigious boarding school in what may have been behaviour copying the widespread arson during recent protests in Bangkok, the authorities said yesterday. “I just copied
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      Lock icon ISRAEL APOLOGISES FOR GIVING MEDIA SPOOF VIDEO
      141 21 THE GUARDIAN The Israeli government has been forced to apologise for circulating a spoof video mocking activists aboard the Gaza flotilla, nine of whom were shot dead by Israeli forces last week. The video clip, set to the tune of the 1985 charity
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      Lock icon SIX RESCUED AFTER 3 DAYS IN MINE
      90 22 AFP Six Chinese miners have been pulled out alive and in good health from a mine three days after it flooded, state media reported yesterday. Two people died and three others are still missing after the flood in the coal-pro-ducing heartland of northern
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      Lock icon INMATES FLEE USING BED SHEETS
      91 22 AP Indonesian police were hunting yesterday for 26 inmates who escaped from jail in Papua province, the second such breakout in less than a month. The inmates tied together bed sheets and clothing to scale the fence surrounding the prison in Jayapura over the weekend.
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      Lock icon Tight security for China’s college entrance exams
      294 22 Patrols to prevent attacks and confiscate devices used for cheating AGENCIES BEIJING Nearly 9.6 million high school students began sitting for China’s make-or-break college entrance exams yesterday under tight security following a spate of school attacks and concerns over cheating. This year’s exam
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      Lock icon Li diary details Tiananmen orders
      228 22 AFP BEIJING Former Chinese Premier Li Peng acted on orders from late leader Deng Xiaoping to “shed some blood” when he sent troops to end the Tiananmen protests, the publisher of Mr Li’s purported diary said yesterday. Excerpts from the diary of the former Premier,
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      Lock icon Expect ‘painful’ cuts to tackle debt: Cameron
      293 23 AGENCIES LONDON British Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday the state of Britain's finances was “even worse than we thought” as he warned of “painful” and unavoidable cuts to tackle the record deficit. Mr Cameron lambasted the Labour administrations of Premiers Tony Blair
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      Lock icon Unesco in hot water over prize named after dictator
      179 23 AFP PARIS Human rights groups and scientists including two Nobel laureates are waging a fiesty campaign against the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (Unesco) plan to award a new prize named after one of Africa's most brutal dictators. President
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      Lock icon AUSTRALIAN PUNCHES SHARK, SURFS TO SAFETY
      114 23 AFP An Australian surfer has told how he fought off an attack by a large shark, believed to be a great white, before riding a wave to safety. Mr Michael Bedford was knocked off his board by the shark while surfing in waters off
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      Lock icon SLEEPING BABY TWINS MAULED BY FOX
      101 23 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Two British twin sisters were injured and sent to hospital after being attacked by a fox at their home in east London. The two nine-month-olds, Isabella and Lola Koupparis, were understood to have been mauled by the animal as they slept.
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      Lock icon Doctors ‘who helped refine torture techniques violated international law'
      278 24 AGENCIES WASHINGTON A prominent group of doctors is charging that medical professionals involved in the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) interrogations of terror suspects engaged in human experimentation in violation of international law. Doctors, psychologists and other professionals were used to test
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      Lock icon TORNADO HAVOC
      65 24 A tornado unleashed a path of destruction in Ohio, killing at least seven people, injuring more than 30 and destroying or severely damaging about 100 homes and six commercial buildings. It also ripped the siding off a building at a Michigan nuclear plant, forcing a shutdown. The tornado
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      Lock icon Yes, Young Boozer is my real name
      171 24 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WASHINGTON A Republican candidate called Young Boozer (picture) has won his party’s primary and is on the verge of claiming the position of state treasurer in Alabama. He wisely has a section on his website to explain his name. “Yes,
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      142 23 Where to find $6,000 in Singapore <1 i <1 i 3 8 3 <1 Get an ezyCash loan at over 25 Singpost offices islandwide. To apply, visit ezyCash officers at selected GE Money Savings illustrations are based on: i) an Effective Interest Rate range from 15.54% p.a. to 22.4% p.a.;
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Ferguson in tne poor house
      676 25 Manchester United boss faces crunch with American owners snowed under $2 billion of debt AGENCIES LONDON The Glazer family’s spiralling debts are likely to leave Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson with little money to dabble with in the transfer market this year. An investigative report
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    • Article
      Even FAS chief is behind u-23 team's Asiad bid
      371 25  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Support for the national under23 football team to be included in Singapore’s 2010 Asian Games contingent is growing, with Football Association of Singapore (FAS) president Zainudin Nordin joining a Facebook site that fans set up to lobby
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      Lock icon Celtic's one-man wrecking machine
      534 26 Allen turns on magic in a shooting display AFP NBA FINAL, GAME 2 LA Lakers 94 Boston Celtics 103 (Best-of-seven series tied 1-1) LOS ANGELES Ray Allen buried a record eight three-pointers and scored a postseason high 32 points as the Boston Celtics beat the Los
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      Lock icon Rose gets it right, at last
      397 26 THE NEW YORK TIMES DUBLIN (Ohio) At a golf club named after an ancient Scottish original, on a blustery, almost British-style day, Englishman Justin Rose (picture) closed the deal on his first victory in the United States on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Rose,
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      Lock icon Ready to roll out the red carpet
      514 27  -  Youth Olympic Village opens to athletes and officials from Aug 10 LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, 100m sprinter Canagasabai Kunalan was Singapore’s sole track and field representative, and limbering up on the practice track without
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      Lock icon SIX-GOLD HAUL BY SINGAPORE'S YOUTH PADDLERS
      161 27 LOW LIN FHOONG Buoyed by the women’s team triumph at the 2010 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Moscow on May 30, Singapore’s youth paddlers enjoyed a field day at the 16th South-east Asian Table Tennis Championships in Cambodia. Up against 86 competitors from
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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  • IMPACT
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      Lock icon Young in heart and mind
      379 32  -  Gone are the days of ‘Buy and Throw Away’ for Bata PETER YEO peteryeo@mediacorp.com.sg THE slogan, “First to Bata, then to school”, has accompanied most of us through our school days and we cannot think of the brand as anything but local. But Bata, which
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      Lock icon ION Orchard leads shoppers by their noses
      307 32 PETER YEO WHILE other malls are catching your eyes with billboards and flashing multi-coloured LEDs, one shopping centre decided to let browsers sniff out its offers literally. In a bid to provide a holistic multisensory lifestyle and shopping experience, ION Orchard has concocted
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  • BUSINESS
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      Lock icon Pru defends AIA bid amid investor fury
      247 28 AGENCIES LONDON Prudential chairman Harvey McGrath defended the British insurer’s failed US$35.5 billion ($50.3 billion) takeover of AIA Group after irate shareholders demanded that he and chief executive Tidjane Thiam quit at a raucous annual general meeting yesterday. One Mr Watts, a Pru
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      Lock icon CHINESE MARKET COULD STABILISE NEXTYEAR: NOMURA
      145 28 DESMOND WONG The property bubble in China is raising some red flags in the country, but financial services firm Nomura said the Chinese residential market could stabilise by the first quarter of next year, as more supply becomes available. Currently, property prices in the
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      368 28 RYAN HUANG SINGAPORE The Fifa World Cup kicks off on Friday and analysts said investors may be able to score some bargains in the stock market during this period. Observers said while goals, fancy footwork and big name players may captivate football fans the
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      175 29 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Britain’s biggest household insurer Aviva fears a surge in claims for broken glass during the 2010 World Cup starting Friday, after it experienced a 25 jump in such claims for such damage caused by football fans during the last World Cup.
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      376 29 AGENCIES SAN FRANCISCO Apple chief executive Steve Jobs was poised to unveil yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) the fourth version of the company’s hugely-popular iPhone including a screen with up to four times more detail, a camera flash, noise cancellation and longer battery life. The
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      636 33 LOOKOUT FORTHE LATEST ONTHEWORLDCUP IN OURAFTERNOON EDITION afternoon edition Monday June 7, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking MiCa (P) 160/10/2009 a PubliCation of neWS Hotline 6822 2268 World CuP PaGe W10 StaMPede in SoutH afriCa Safety ConCernS raiSed after at leaSt 15 inJured durinG friendly fifa diSavoWS reSPonSibility, blaMeS
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      236 33 AFP JOHANNESBURG Germany were the latest football giants to touch down in South Africa yesterday for the first World Cup staged on the continent. And they had glamorous company on their flight from Frankfurt in the shape of Shakira, the Colombian megastar who will
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      390 33 3-0 win over local club side flatters Capello’s AFP WORLD CUP WARM-UP Platinum Stars 0 England 3 MORULENG (South Africa) England’s stuttering build-up to their World Cup opener against the United States continued as Fabio Capello’s men laboured to a 3-0 win over South African club
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      361 33 AFP GENEVA Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba rejoined his team-mates at their training camp in the Swiss Alps yesterday following surgery on his broken forearm, the Ivorian football federation said. Doctors operated on the fracture at a hospital in the
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      61 34 Out: Brad Jones (Australia), Rio Ferdinand (England), Michael Ballack (Germany), Heiko Westermann (Germany), Michael Essien (Ghana), John Obi-Mikel (Nigeria), Jose Bosingwa (Portugal) On the treatment table: Diego Milito (Argentina), Julio Cesar (Brazil), Humberto Suazo (Chile), Arjen Robben (Holland), Wilson Palacios (Honduras), Andrea Pirlo (Italy), Didier Drogba
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      589 34 Beckham spies on US as Americans think about how to stop England’s No 10 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH JOHANNESBURG David Beckham will have returned to England’s training camp with one message from his scouting mission to watch the United States: Australia were so poor that it is
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      287 37 AP KNYSNA (South Africa) Nicolas Anelka is too isolated in France’s attack and needs greater support if coach Raymond Domenech’s misfiring 4-3-3 system is to click at the World Cup, according to teammate Yoann Gourcuff. Anelka was preferred ahead of Thierry Henry
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      296 37 AFP PARIS All of France must cheer on its World Cup football team, the government spokesman said yesterday, in remarks aimed at the sports minister for criticising the team’s choice of a posh hotel. Junior sports minister Rama Yade caused a stir
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      1110 37 France have been in a rut since that 2006 headbutt, and Malouda hopes to lead them back to glory THE GUARDIAN KNYSNA (South Africa) As far as most people on the planet with an interest in football are concerned, one image crystallises the last World
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      506 38 AGENCIES PRETORIA About 5,000 fans created a party atmosphere on Sunday when Diego Maradona and Argentina’s national team made their first public appearance since arriving in South Africa for the World Cup. “Maradooo, Maradooo,” the supporters chanted as the Argentina
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      280 39 THE GUARDIAN DAR ES SALAAM (Tanzania) For the first time since he joined the Brazil team, questions are being asked about Kaka. “Will he be ready?” has been heard frequently in Brazil in recent months, not only because of the nagging injuries
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      266 40 AGENCIES PRETORIA (South Africa) He has been accused of saving his best performances for his club. Yet, Argentina star Lionel Messi is confident of leading his country to glory in South Africa by playing like he does for Barcelona. Messi scored 47
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      1086 41  -  COMMENTARY Transformed by Euro 2008, Spain have real faith in their team this time out SID LOWE The writer is a columnist for the Guardian THE GUARDIAN From dark horse to fiery steed, Spain were changed forever by Euro 2008. Thanks to Fernando Torres’ goal
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      735 42 A super-sub in 2006, Everton midfielder is now Australia’s talisman THE GUARDIAN JOHANNESBURG (South Africa) “A won-der-strike from the wonderboy of Australian football.” The Australian TV commentary that heralded Tim Cahill’s World Cup debut sounded overblown in 2006; he was a substitute when scoring
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      385 42 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH JOHANNESBURG (South Africa) Portugal manager Carlos Queiroz has labelled Cristiano Ronaldo as his side’s “Superman” and believes the winger can inspire his teammates to World Cup success. Ronaldo has failed to transfer his superb club performances into the international arena in
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      563 43  -  COMMENTARY Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium was the venue of unforgettable World Cup moments TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is a senior reporter at MediaCorp NewsHub. From the Santiago Bernabeu to the Monumental, the Maracana and the Azteca, football fans remember these stadia not just as architectural marvels of
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      339 43  -  TAN YO-HINN AFP The World Cup will take place in 10 venues in nine cities across South Africa. Here are three stand-out stadia to look out for. SOCCER CITY, JOHANNESBURG Capacity: 94,000 Hosting eight matches, including the opening and final, Soccer City in Johannesburg is set to become
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      592 44 Danes outdone by Group E rivals in popularity stakes as locals take to Blue Samurai people.” AFP GEORGE (South Africa) Japan have already beaten Group E rivals Denmark in the local support stakes in the sun-kissed South African resort of George, even before the World Cup
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      231 44 AGENCIES LONDON Ghana manager Milovan Rajevac (picture) insists none of his World Cup-bound players are guaranteed a place in his starting XI ahead of their opening match against Serbia on Sunday. Ghana’s regular No 1 goalkeeper Richard Kingson has been battling a shoulder
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      220 44 AP JOHANNESBURG The Nigeria football federation said it had no choice over the venue for its World Cup warm-up match against North Korea, at which a stampede left 15 people injured, because Fifa controlled the other available stadiums. One policeman was seriously
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