The New Paper, 26 January 1990

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  • 12 1 the new paper FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1990 MCI (P) 36/4/89 SO CENTS
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    • 137 1 v-v;* %<»" '■?,,.> «> •w-yj a iT'js ,v «m*M" <stj v <•&",'* '.'<$ ESCALATOR ALERT Security guard Joseph Sim, 51, has an unusual job this festive season. He has to make sure that the escalator Park Complex overcrowded. "If the escalator gets ov&toaded, it stop and even goes down. So
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  • 93 1 Kilter storm rages through Britain. Hurricane blows a jumbo jet off runway, rips off roofs, topples trees, overturns lorries and cuts phone links and electricity. Some roads, bridges and railways are closed. At least 29 people die. "The wind was picking up lorries like toys and throwing them
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 396 2 Wire services. AT least 29 people were killed in Britain yesterday in one of the country's worst storms in 300 years. The storm left a trail of havoc across the country. It ripped off roofs, toppled trees and blew a jumbo jet off
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    • 260 2 Wire services. THE storm blowing in from the Atlantic caused extensive damage in France yesterday. At least one person was killed and several were injured. Many people were reported missing after a small fishing boat, The Revolution, capsized in Granville off the Normandy coast. In
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    • 110 2 A MAN drowned when he slipped into a pond while washing his hands. Police said Mr Tee Ah Koye, 46, had just finished chatting with friends who were working at a construction site. He told them he wanted to wash his hands and
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    • 102 2 Reuter. EAST Germany yesterday opened the floodgates to Western businessmen and investors. The government issued a decree that allows joint ventures, and announced that it was lifting trading restrictions on private firms, and cutting punitive corporate taxes. It also said Western investors were negotiating to
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    • 67 2 IT'S fresh, so prices are same (TNP, Jan 22): A spokesman for the 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores has clarified that the price of fresh milk is not reduced nearer the expiry date. The one-litre carton milk which we reported as marked down from $3.30 to $2.80 was actually
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    • 26 2 KIDS down with gastro virus (TNP, Jan 25): The food samples were taken away by officials from the Environment Ministry, not the Community Development Ministry.
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    • 373 3  -  By Loh Tuan Lee MR Chan Yen Teng can finally sit back with a sigh of relief because the Lunar New Year rush is over for him. No, he wasn't shopping at the last minute for pussy willow or sweetmeats. Mr Chan, 53, had
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    • 85 3 THE theme for the contest is a joyful celebration of the Lunar New Year. "The judges look for decorations which are able to combine the theme of this traditional festive season with Singapore's 25th anniversary," said Mr Chan. The other criterion is design. -'An example of creativity is
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    • 119 3 I CULTURE BITS Traditional families may take a line from a poem. Members of one generation will take the first character of that line as part of their names. The next generation will use the next character and
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 293 4  -  By Thusitha De Silva s ECURITY guards at People's Park Complex have become traffic wardens guiding human traffic across a pedestrian bridge. 1 They have taken on this job in these hectic shopping dayß before the Lunar New Year on orders of the building's management corporation.
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    • 335 4 IF you did not know any better, you would think that Singaporeans were preparing to give out hongbao in Malaysian ringgit. Malaysian currency notes were among the hot items that Lunar New Year crowds were queueing up to buy in Chinatown last night. Other
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    • 349 5  -  By Trudy Lim ONCE a year, sales executive David Choong and his wife do their marketing at midnight. They stroll to their neighbourhood market in Ang Mo Kio Central to buy seafood, cabbages, oranges and leeks, a ""traditional must at the reunion dinner. Said Mr
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    • 211 5 THE annual police crackdown on firecrackers has begun in anticipation of the Lunar New Year holidays. Police warn that they are taking tough action and will spare no effort in bringing to book those who break the fireworks' laws. People caught selling, using or simply
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    • 492 6 Last week, Kim Eng Holdings made history when its share offer was 783 times oversubscribed. One reason was the easy availability of loans to the shares. Previously, small investors could not be sure of shares when applying for popular issues. TRUDY LIM reports SHARE
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    • 201 6 BANKS now offer attractive share financing packages for those interested in applying for shares in Sime Singapore. The packages are similar to those offered for the well-received Kim Eng Holdings share issue. But the terms for these two share issues may vary. The Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, for
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    • 235 6 A WEST German firm is soliciting for customers in Singapore to enter a state lottery there. The company, Naumann, from Hanover, runs the Nordwestdeutsche Klassenlotterie or the West German State Class Lottery. It offers three tickets at US$2O5 ($391) and a total prize money
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    • 413 7  -  Stories/ Lim Phay-ling IMAGINE getting discovered while you're shopping. And then being signed on as the corporate model to launch a new collection. Sounds like every aspiring model's dream? It happened last month to Alan Chan. Only this tanned 1.76 m tall 20-year-old is not
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    • 203 7 IXIZ has been in Singapore for about four and a half years. There are corners in seven department stores and the flagship boutique is at Wisma Atria. At least two more new stores will open this year. Stationery pens, notebooks and files and other accessories form
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 313 8 Singapore Polytechnic and Ngee Ann Polytechnic will raise their fees in stages over the next three academic years from June. The new fees will also apply to the new Temasek Polytechnic when it takes in its first students in August this year. The New Paper
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    • 116 8 FROM June, the fees for each semester will go up from $840 to $960. For the academic year 1991/1992, students will have to pay $1,080 and this will increase to $1,200 by 1992/1993. There are two semesters in each academic year which begins in June. It now costs
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    • 144 8 THE Government will set aside $50 million for a revolving loan fund for full-time polytechnic students, said the statement. Students can get a loan of up to 50 per cent of the tuition fees. The interest rate will be the average of the prime rates charged by four
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    • 99 8 On January 28 2nd day of Chinese New Year We'll be the only English-language newspaper on sale Pw^^l We'll bring you the freshest in news, entertainment and sports K" B| L mg In addition to our exclusive racing coverage, we'll bring you even more! B» MMMIHIIM b Free Energizer batteries
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 375 10  -  By Angeline Song GOING around in circles is Jimmy Castano's idea of fun. He does it at 100 km per hour on a Yamaha 125 motorbike, inside a 9m steel globe. Sounds dangerous? The 29-year-old circus daredevil doesn't think so. He will perform
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    • 63 10 MR Jimmy Castano will perform at the Fountain Gardens in Sentoea from Monday to Feb 11. There will be two shows daily at 5 pm and 8 pm. Besides the Globe of Defiance stunt, he will also perform on a bicycle and unicycle. Each show lasts about
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    • 265 10  -  NEWBEAT Esther Tan This column tells you about the activities of the People's Association. It is written by the PA's director (youth). Newßeat appears every Friday. YOU may have admired someone else's impeccable pronunciation and wished you could speak English as clearly and correctly.
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    • 124 10 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. accrue: If money or interest accrues, it gradually increases in amount over a period of time. daredevil: A person who enjoys doing dangerous things. effusive: Expressing pleasure, gratitude, or
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    • 298 11 I I SMALL SCREEN I I TELEVISIONS ARE I I MIND 6-INCH HIGH I HOWEVER FOR THOSE I H THAT ENJOY A CLEARER, I I MORE ENGROSSING 1 I PICTURE AND PURER I sound, we have I HA WIDE RANGE OF I I STARING YOU IN I With screens ranging
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 311 12 AP. P EOPLE in China may not celebrate the Lunar New Year with a bang. Authorities in Beijing have cut the capital's firecracker supply for the third consecutive year. Similar measures are being adopted in other cities. Traditionally, the Chinese greet the Lunar New Year with
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    • 114 12 Reuter. ALBANIAN leader Ramiz Alia has proposed limited reforms of the country's Stalinist system. Addressing a plenary sear sion of the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee, he proposed some decentralisation in decision-making. He also proposed bonuses for key workers and pricing changes, and held out the prospect
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    • 232 12 Reuter. AVA Gardner, once described as "the world's most beautiful animal" because of a series of sexy roles in Hollywood movies during the *****. has died of pneumonia at her home in London. She was 67. Gardner, best known for her roles in Barefoot Contes--Ba,
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    • 47 12 We didn't, Givenchy did: This Givenchy wedding drees, which could well tie most grooms into knots, was shown yesterday in Paris. The organza dress with multi-coloured flowers and a scarf, was on view at the 1990 spring/summer haute-couture fashion shows. Picture/ Afp
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    • 340 13 Reuter. ARMENIAN and Azerbaijani nationalist movements agreed to a ceasefire yesterday along part of the border of the two feuding Soviet republics. The official Tass news agency said the ceasefire went into effect at 9 pm. But violence continued in the Azeri capital,
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    • 293 13 Reuter. THE American Senate has sustained President George Bush's veto of a bill to protect Chinese students in the United States. The bill would have allowed up to 40,000 Chinese students to remain in the United States instead of returning home where they
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    • 218 13 Wire services. POLICE arrested eight Nigerians and seized a total 16.3 kg of heroin in raids on two hotels in Bangkok yesterday. The army-run television said the eight were allegedly members of a gang engaged in smuggling heroin out of the country. There
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 396 14 N EGLECTED wives in Japan are turning to "ladies only" bars for some expensive comfort These women, mostly wives past their prime or successful women such as owners of beauty parlours or gambling clubs, pay thousands of dollars a night to be pampered
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    • 152 14 TOP hosts wear the rewards of their success. Club Love's top host, Mr Testu Chiba, sports a Piaget gold watch, diamond-studded gold bracelet and diamond tie-pin. He works just three hours a night and earns $90,000 a month. "My customers do get very attached
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    • 219 14 Reuter. AN Israeli court jailed for life a Palestinian who claimed he murdered seven people to prove he was not a collaborator with the Jewish state. The Palestinian, dubbed as the "Tel Aviv strangler", killed four Jews and three Arabs. They were mostly prostitutes, drug addicts
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    • 176 14 PRESIDENT George Bush has announced a two-billion-dollar US aid package for Panama. It is aimed at reviving the country's ailing economy which is still reeling from last month's American invasion. He said the plan includes $1 billion in humanitarian assistance for housing, emergency public works,
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      165 14 AP. SHARE prices rose modestly in dull trading at the London Stock Exchange. Shares raced higher at the outset on scattered bargainhunting and mild optimism over performances on international stock markets. The Financial Times 30share index rose 6.9 points to close at 1,835.5. Volume came to a moderate 462.2
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    • 53 14 FT Industrials Thur 1,835.60 (1.82&60) Dow J ohm Average Thur 2,561.04 (2,604.50) ST Industrial Thur 1,496.55 (1,495.25) NST Industrial Thur 2,859.54 (2,850.81) Hongkong Hang Seng Thur 2,768.86 (2,756.39) Australian All Ordinaries Thur 1,674.10 (1,659.30) Nikkei Stock Average Thur 36,969.11 (36,778.98) Figure* in bracket* refer to thoee of the
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      175 14 Reuter. WALL Street share prices ended sharply lower as a flurry of late-session futures selling toppled the market. Sentiment had already been shaky, however, with investors in no hurry to commit funds amid more signs of poor corporate results. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down about 44
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  • 178 15  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Adeline Woon I SWITCHED on the TV last night during a commercial break and for a bewildering moment, thought I had tuned in to a new local drama serial. Those familiar faces that we saw during dinner time, extolling family togetherness and such
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    • 102 15 MY DAUGHTERS THREE iflHB Ye Sumei: Another episode in this ■R PRE-HOLIDAY MOVIE GOLDENEYE l&yfl (SBC 5,10.90 pm) HIS name is iiui Fleming he is the man who created the legend of the spy to end all spies. Jamee Bond 007 was perhaps the most deadly secret agent ever with
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    • 914 15 (SBCS, 7.50pm) I Dad of course: Clash with mum. 4$ KTf IclerisK >11 7.50 AM Programme summary 1.50 PHI Programme summary 3.00 PM Opening and Programme Highlights, followed 5.55 PM Opening and Programme Highlights, followed 7.30 PM Opening sad Programme Highlights, followed 755 Quran reading 1 SS Quran readme Tea
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  • spotlight
    • 320 16 Dragons and crocodiles, exotic cats and handsome wild birds. The Singapore zoo is successful because it is constantly bringing in new and unusual creatures, and upgrading its facilities. The Minister for National Development, Mr S Dhanabalan, said last year that repeat
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    • 133 16 THE Komodo dragons in this enclosure u well as another pair, are a gift from President Suharto of Indonesia to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and the people of Singapore. The Komodo dragon, the largest living reptile, is actually a huge lizard. The creatures are
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    • 85 16 THE wreathed hornbills are a pair of giant fruiteating birds. When The New Paper photographer came knocking on their door, they waved their heavy beaks in- a most unfriendly manner. They do not welcome uninivited visitors. Under the zoo's open concept, the hornbills are not
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    • 98 16 THIS handsome fellow k the caracal. It hes pointed tufts at ths tip of each ear. The ooat ie reddish grey end white on Hi belly. Nocturnal by nature, the caracal prey* on wild sheep, gazelles and hares. In the zoo, it is fed on chickens, ducks
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  • 178 17  -  SEENIASTNIGHT By Adeline Woon I SWITCHED on the TV last night during a commercial break and for a bewildering moment, thought I had tuned in to a new local drama serial. Those familiar faces that we saw during dinner time, extolling family togetherness and such
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    • 100 17 MY DAUGHTERS THREE Ye SumeJ: Another episode in this PRE-HOLIDAY MOVIE GOLDENEYE iBBn (SBC 5,10.90 pm) HIS name is Ian Fleming he is the man who created the legend of the spy to end all spies. James Bond 007 was perhaps the most deadly secret agent ever with the "licence
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    • 913 17 m Tele+feion 7.50 AM Programme summary 1.50 PM Programme summary 3.00 PM Opening and Programme Highlights, followed 5.55 PM Opening and Programme Highlights, followed 7.30 PM Opening and PregraaaM Highlights, feUewed 755 Ouran reading 1 SS Ouran readme h Tea break Special Shades Of Love Indigo by Little Memole (Cartoon/debut):
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  • Showtime
    • 443 18  -  StorW Lo Tien Yin A TRULY English serial is in the offing. "Truly" means it will at least have 15 episodes and will have an original English script and not be dubbed-over. Ms Loong May Lin, SBC's director for TV programmes, said they planned to
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    • 291 18 THERE will be at least two scenes in Against The Wind which will have perfect lipeynch. The 16-episode serial has a Chinese script But in two scenes Jazreel Low and Sean Chen will be mouthing English because the
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    • 213 19 USA Today. B ROADWAY is shaking loose of its current lull, heading into spring's traditional rush: March and April promise a deluge of new fthows. The crunch is so tight some much-anticipated productions can't find suitable theatres. Kathleen Turner's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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    • 145 19 FOLLOWING her best-selling explorations into pre-rock standards and the mariachi folk music of Mexico, Linda makes a triumphant return to the modern pop mainstream with her new album, Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind which features the legendary voice
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    • 210 20 B ODY Talk Sensation is an apt name for the dance group performing at River View Hotel's Charmer's Lounge and at The Warehouse Disco. All body and minimal costumes, the five girls from England burst in to Bon Jovi's You Give Love a Bad Name.
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    • 249 20  -  TOPSPINS By Adeline Woon IT TAKES TWO SOULSISTER < EMI > YOU might have heard about Soulsister before. Their single, The Way to Your Heart, went straight to number one in the European charts when it was released in November 1988, and soared up the
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 391 21 w V Then Japanese companies approach us, we remember little details such as the fact that their favourite types of tea are Fortnum Mason and Fauchon. Mt SJiaroa Kong, Dai nam's advertising and praMHni MMMfIVa I T'S the Lunar New Year season again, and one
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    • 331 21 EYETOEYE THERE is a major difference between eye drops suitable for contact lens users and eye drops which do not specify that they are suitable for contact lenses. NORMAL EYE DROPS Contact lenses, especially soft contact lenses, absorb solutions and the chemicals in them.
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    • 211 23 FRIDAYRADIO 0235EQEZH |22!!]lBHHi NOON News In Brief NOON News In Brief UM 12.03 Ptpolar Classics 1.00 News and Weather Report 1.00 News and Weather Forecast 1.15 Lunchdate (cont'd) jjo Currency Exchange Rates 2.00 News In Brief I.IS Popular Classics (cont'd) 2.05 Words And Musk 1.45 Midday Market Report 3.00 News
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    • 299 24 COMICRELIEF FRIDAYRADKO Orchard Road/coim Goh EIIISfIHHH nmm*sm\ EBT&n U» I SEErKiSSeS* I Rung »"g-jfc*. SPH'KvhT HMI i-MSHIm.- I.» ,3?*» OF WW 1 J?" —2.00 Pop Aroood 1.40 W«rtfs Of Fattk fi&lt PS^/r Z nWMSKKMF**m *4. 3.30 Kaaatof Track 145 Tko WorM Today ffif 1 HatoMlarrka C d) 2JO Mrtdto? STST
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  • UPDATE
    • 1618 25 Centrest&e OPEN'Am OPERA SHOW. Excerpts from Love is Mightier than the Sword, Futile Interrogation and Duel at the Border are presented by the Chinese Theatre Circle. Cast includes See Too Hoi Siang. Ker Ban Hing and Chung Sok Lin. Artists such as Joanna Wong and
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    • 18 25 NIGHTLIGHTS: ERNEST GREG ►OUT AND ABOUT: MINIATURE HORSESl FOOD: LUCKY TOSS > COMING UP: WHEELS AID 90
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    • 102 25 Excerpts of two popular Cantonese operas are presented by the Chinese Theatre Circle. The first show, Duel at the Border, is about a soldier of the Sung kingdom who is captured by his enemy and later rescued by general Yang Bajie who is a woman in disguise.
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS
    • 195 27 AP. BENFICA soccer star Vitor Paneira may soon exchange the red shirt of his Lisbon club for a striped prison suit A military court yesterday found him guilty of deserting his army post during compulsory military service. The court handed the stylish Benfica and Portugal
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    • 386 27 EUROPE KICKOFF: ENGLAND Reuter. E VERTON striker Mike Newell hopes to end his goal-famine on Sunday. That's when his team, last year's beaten FA Cup finalist, travels to Sheffield Wednesday for a fourthround tie. Signed for £1 million (s3.lm) from Leicester in the close season, Newell has
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    • 76 27 Reuter. ROMA enjoyed the luck of the draw yesterday. It was drawn ahead of Inter-Milan in an Italian Cup soccer lottery and earned a semi-final meeting with Juventus. Roma and Inter had finished the third round level on points and goal difference. As a result, the semi-final
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    • 383 27 EUROPE KICKOFF: SPAIN, ITALY, HOLLAND Reuter. REAL Madrid will be anxious to return to winning form in the Spanish League at the weekend. The leader drew 1-1 at Sporting Gijon and lost 1-0 at Valladolid in the Spanish Cup, although it qualified for the semi-finals on
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    • 334 28 AUSTRALIAN OPEN TENNIS I will have to play aggressively...! can't let her (Graf) dictate the points. If she dictates she usually wins. Fernandez AP. M OST women have the usual two chances of beating Steffi Graf slim and none. But American teenager Mary Joe Fernandez gives herself a
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    • 334 28 AFP, Reuter. YANNICK Noah is playing some of his best tennis in years as he goes into his semi-final against top-seeded Ivan Lendl today. Lendl hopes to add his second Australian Open trophy to his bag of Grand Slain titles after winning here for the
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    • 460 29 Sebastian Coe, widely regarded as one of the best middle-distance runners of all time, retires from competition this year. The Commonwealth Games will be the end of his illustrious running career. The world will see the last of Coe in a major competition when he lines up
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    • 180 29 COMONWEALTH GAMES: LATEST AFP. CZECH emigre Marcel Gery sounded an early warning of a Canadian comeback in the Games swimming events today. The 24-year-old, who defected from Eastern Europe four years ago, posted the fastest qualifying time for the men's 100 m butterfly. The
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    • 241 30  -  By S Gulam SINGAPORE Malays' group matches in the Sultans' Gold Cup soccer competition will be played at Kota Baru, from Feb 17-19 Singapore was the original choice as host for Group B matches. But it had to be dropped due to problems over sponsorship rights.
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    • 275 30  -  By Alfonso Chan THE saga of long-distance runner Toh So Liang continues. She has now pulled out of the Bob Hassan Paradise 10km Run in Borobodur, Indonesia on Feb 11. So Liang cited the injury to her ankle as the reason for not being able
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    • 204 30 RACING... vsith DENNIS CHIA COLONIAL Chief, who failed to defend the Hongkong Invitation Cup race at the British Colony last month, can salvage some pride in the annual Ritz Club Horse of the Year award. The Vice Regal gelding, winner of the Singapore Gold Cup last
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    • 169 28 9^C?I Opening Sunday 28 January M—l its a whole new ball game at UieJUHHH/ ice-skatmg V-X. From Jan 28, the former rink will roll with the sounds of a different game A billiards. You see, it's been renovated tO P to x>noni w 34 of the best x\ tables and
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