The latter has dug his team out of many a hole over the past couple of years, and the team management might be inclined to judge his current poor form leniently, but Ponting definitely needs a good series to keep his Test career alive.

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Muhyiddin, who is Education Minister, said the Government planned to identify much earlier students who were more hands-on and less academically-inclined to join the vocational stream before they entered Form Three.

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In that event, White said, the House and Senate contests would revert to form, with House and Senate candidates inclined to "pose a very narrow question " about themselves and their immediate opponents.

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