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I found very interesting reads while trawling thru the net and tabloids, and would like to share with you good people. First up, this from http://www.soccernet.com/ about Milan Baros, one of my former favorite ex-Pool players. He received a 3 match ban for doing this.

Baros gets three-match ban for nose pinching
PARIS, May 3 (Reuters) - Olympique Lyon's Czech striker Milan Baros was handed a three-match ban by the French professional football league (LFP) on Thursday for pinching his nose in front of an opponent.

Former Liverpool and Aston Villa player Baros pinched his nose in front of Stade Rennes's Cameroon-born midfielder Stephane M'Bia and waved his hand as if he were repelling an offensive odour during the French champions' 0-0 draw at Stade Rennes on April 18.
The LFP's disciplinary committee said in its ruling that it came to the conclusion the gesture was not racist.

Baros is suspended until the end of the season and the sanction will take effect on Monday, the LFP said in a statement. That means the player will miss his side's last three Ligue 1 matches.
Lyon have already made sure of winning a sixth consecutive title.

Baros has said there was nothing racist in his gesture and that he had only wanted to signify to M'Bia that he should move back and let him breathe. Baros, 25, joined Lyon from Aston Villa in January. ( from http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=427332&cc=4716 )

Wahahaha. I was laughing my head off reading this. Im pretty sure Baros had no racial connotation, his actions implying that M'Bia was so close that he could smell his BO. Who smells like roses on the pitch anyway. In S'pore, if Baros did that, people will imply that M'Bia IS a 'smelly' player, or what we call main busok. What does main busok mean? Literal meaning is play smelly. But it also implies that you are cheating. Maybe you were diving, or a tackle from the back, or doing an andy cole (curi ayam). Still, Im quite convinced that Baros was not being rascist.

Another article I saw yesterday in our favorite afternoon daily tabloid, The New Paper (with its much hyped Think articles wahahahaha). This from the new paper online http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/

FAKE DISNEY
This isn't HAPPIEST place on EARTH
US to file suit over 'rampant' piracy in China
May 06, 2007
DISNEYLAND is too far, reads the China theme park's slogan.
Counterfeit Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck wave to patrons. (Below) The park's version of Disneyland's trademark Cinderella's Castle. -- Pictures: AFP

Their solution was to build a counterfeit Disneyland from scratch - complete with Cinderella's Castle, and everything else you see at Disney theme park's all over the world. In this Beijing attraction, Shijingshan Amusement Park, you'll be able to find actors dressed in Mickey, Donald, Snow White and many other copyrighted characters.

And none of this is authorised by Disney. This state-owned 'Magic Kingdom' has got the US fuming. It announced that it would file a case at the World Trade Organisation over 'rampant' copyright piracy in China, a practice which US companies say deprives them of billions of dollars each year.

'WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?'
But 31-year-old housewife Zhang Li betrays a typical Chinese attitude on the issue while chasing her young son around the park.

'I don't understand why that is such a big problem. Shouldn't others be able to use those characters besides (Disney)?' she asks.

Her view is common in a country where lax societal and law enforcement attitudes toward copyright protection has seen the counterfeit goods industry become a key part of the national economy.

A US Congressional panel says China's own data suggests such goods account for 15 to 20 percent of goods made in the country.

Such numbers seem hard to dispute in Beijing, where one can spend a morning at an imitation Disney amusement park, have lunch at a KFC knock-off, shop for fake foreign-brand fashions in the afternoon and relax at night with a DVD of a Hollywood film that is still in the theatres in the US.

'Its part of living in China,' said Canadian businessman Brian Dugood while he was looking at fake Armani jackets at the Yashow Clothing Market.

'Why buy the original when you can get a pretty good copy at one-tenth the price?'

The US case could result in retaliatory trade measures on China but those may be easier to overcome than the task China faces in changing attitudes in a country where most consumers have little hope of affording legitimate DVDs.

Mr Lei Danni, who runs a small shop selling fake DVD and compact discs, brushes off accusations by US companies that his business hurts sales of legitimately-produced software.
'We aren't stealing from anyone. Most of my customers say they wouldn't buy the real thing anyway because its too expensive. So there is no connection.' - AFP.
Taken from http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,129549,00.html?

Hehehe. I still cant stop laughing. Other people cant use Donald Duck meh?

Akan datang, review on Spiderman 3.