The New Paper, 20 March 1998

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1 66 The New Paper
  • 15 1 the new paper FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1998 j Ano,her quaH,y pub,ica,ion %F Singapore Press Holdings
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 311 2 CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN HONGKONG Source: Wire services. THAIS living along Bangkok's celebrated floating market are angry. They don't see why their area should be blamed for a suspected cholera outbreak in Hongkong. Hongkong authorities said about 20 people with signs of cholera had contracted
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    • 23 2 A serious, often fatal disease that affects one's digestive organs. It is caused by drinking infected water or by eating infected food.
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    • 132 2 A HONGKONG woman who went to Thailand on her own is believed to be the latest cholera victim. "She did not take part in any tour group," said a health department official. The total number of confirmed cholera cases in Hongkong is now 45. Of
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    • 85 2 Then suddenly they began to stumble, totter, shrink visibly and then collapse within a month, the tigers of South-east Asia were reduced to whimpering, bedraggled kittens, ingloriously begging for help. Gone were the pride and the ambition of becoming developed, about Asian domination and
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    • 428 3  -  By Yvonne Lim POOR Bill Gates. The world's richest man has smashed high-tech barriers, battled the US Justice Department, and most recently, survived cream pies to the face. Yet he met his match in the Shy Singapore Kid. For 10 minutes yesterday, the chief executive
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    • 127 2 Leisure Showtime: Pages 32,33, 36, 37 38 TV: Page 39 Comics: Pages 40 &41 (hnnaruman 5000 SP jf"^**"' ML 2 available TITUS JFjy Titanium Wood 111 Titanium STUFF! The Titus X-1 Iron >\as developed from Hot Forged YjdfiT Pure Titanium and the unique concept of Ultra Light Weight with Ultra
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    • 27 2 Jj ■m i 11 I WIN WITH THE OSCARS/ Page 33 Predict the Academy Award winners and win prizes top prize is a Sharp viewcam VL-H9SE AAAAAXXXJU
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    • 46 3 Cfc Cancer,, W lv<* effect is on sufferers iheir loved ones Ftom Monday «ve bung \oo \heii s\oties Then emoiiotnl ind fininchl \oll Then ingmsh of seeing lovea one slipping i* Above ill ihen suengih aignivy ina hope In <;hoiv «?\oties \hi; will bieik he n\
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 214 4 HOT STORIES DID you know the roof over your head comes at a sky-high price? Well, cable, cellphone and paging firms certainly do. In the last one year, these companies have been bidding intensely to get good spots on rooftops to place their signal-relaying equipment, reported
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    • 131 4 SINGAPORE Cable Vision (SCV) will announce next week a new instalment plan for residents of landed properties to help them pay for cabling up their homes. The move is partly in response to complaints that SCV is charging landed residents much more about $1,000 a home compared
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    • 60 4 Hello, world: Dick Tracy fans, take heart. This wrist-watch that doubles as a mobile phone was unveiled by the maker of the popular Swatch watches yesterday. With just a twist of the dial, users can ring friends, speaking into the watch face just like the
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 69 4 SINGAPORE and Microsoft will tie up in a big way to realise the Singapore One vision. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced yesterday that the company will be cooperating in five areas, with Sing Tel, Singapore Cable Vision, Television 12, Times Publishing and the Education Ministry. Singapore One
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      • 71 4 HOAXES and non-emergency calls are tying up ambulances. The Singapore Civil Defence Force said yesterday two in five calls last year were non-emergency cases or false alarms. The figures came to light after the case of a boy knocked unconscious by a motorcycle who had to wait
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      • 79 4 THE flesh trade in the eastern Java province capital of Surabaya has sagged. Surabaya is Indonesia's second-biggest city and its industrial centre is a renowned prostitution district. But Indonesia's economic crisis has put thousands of "working girls" out of business. Trade there has gone so soft
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      • 86 4 AUCKLAND'S power firm has offered businesses and customers up to NZ$7O million (5565.4 million) in compensation. The city was hit by weeks of blackouts when all four of Mercury Energy's main power cables failed on Feb 20. By March 10, more than 90 per cent of normal
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    • 86 4 The Straits Times: School workload to be cut by 10 to 30 per cent from next year The Business Times: S'pore bourse soars as property stocks surge 10 per cent iianhe Zaobao: Workload to be cut by 10 to 30 per cent for most schools next year Berita Harlan:
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    • 26 4 The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 27.65 points to close at 8,803.05 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 591 million shares.
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  • attitude You talk, your peers answer, we listen
    • 379 7 We can handle if Puppy love hit a chord with many readers. Teenagers and parents wrote in to have their say on whether teens can handle a relationship and studies. We run a letter from a girl who had a nasty break up and other letters
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    • 188 7 I HAVE a daughter who is now 13. At 12, she was already in love. I objected because I find that she is just too young to have a relationship. I thought she couldn't possibly concentrate on two things at a time. And I was right.
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    • 361 8 'I'M RESPONSIBLE I'm 17 and I have a boyfriend. My mum knows about him and has seen him. She is very happy that I trust her. Although my relationship with my mum isn't that good, I still respect her. I don't want her to worry
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    • 310 8 I 1 I! IVI AVil lITST^— WRITE EMAIL The Attitude Page attitude@postl.com The New Paper i 390 Kim Seng Road Singapore *****5 i CALL 1900-913-0001 and leave your questions for 1 our counsellors. You can also listen to a feature on the topic: Practice makes perfect. Calls cost 30 cents
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    • 116 9 I Go where you want, do what you want for FREE. *medm That's CyberWay's "Dream Getaway" Promotion. From now till 15 March 1998, visit us at http://www.cyberway.com.sg, and tell us where you'd like to go, and what a you'd like to do when you get there. If you've always wanted
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 40 10 Pay Kiaw Keng was ordered to pay a fine of $16,000 or face eight months'jail for transmitting information, which he knew was false. He could have been fined up to $50,000 or jailed up to seven years, or both.
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    • 277 10  -  By Hazel Tan IF he wanted to tell stories, he picked the wrong number. He called the police. They got him for lying on 999. Pay Kiaw Keng, 38, repeatedly dialled 999 using a public telephone near his house in Hougang and told police different lies.
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    • 211 11 Radiophone. The First Car Radio That Lets You Make Telephone Calls. i >■. v. ,11*1 i i ■M————- Mi i '>■' j^ i 1? Xj& j^ilPli9!fppppiW^WWFt ,JI ,J^'l lMl J Blaupunkt's Radiophone is the first Car Radio that lets you make telephone calls. A worldwide mp first, the Radiophone integrates
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  • PARLIAMENTTODAY
    • 450 12 Yes, a more extensive syllabus is not always better, agree education experts. Andfor starters, the Ministry is cutting the load by 10 to 30 per cent for creative learning. More will be done. Yeah, students tell RACHEL TAN THIS snip of the syllabus translates to one
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    • 60 12 I used to worry how hard I'd have to slog over these books just to pass. Now that I have less to read and study, I'm using the time to understand it better. My seniors used to get B3 only for tests, but last week I actually
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    • 43 12 Creative and critical thinking cannot occur in a vacuum, they can only be learnt and applied in the context of some content knowledge. In our case, teaching less allows us to teach better. Education Minister Rear-Admiral (NS) Teo CheeHean
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    • 115 13 OUR Legal Library offers quick access to topics you are interested in. Just call 1900-914-0014 and enter the codes: What are the grounds on which you can petition for a divorce? (*****1) When will the court make an order for division of assets acquired during the marriage?
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    • 307 13 I- 1 Toddler Carnival j j I- at Liang Court 3 I) 20 to 22 March 1118 J 1 u Join in the fun at our Carnival where B IB your kids can explore the caterpillar IB tunnel, jump with all their might on the sand castle or have a
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 587 14  -  This Dutch lady has The first woman in Singapore to have soya bean oil implants makes a clean breast of things to our reporter REPORTS KING FOONG Mei EXPAT housewife Lida Innemee has no problems letting people know she has breast implants. Or letting me feel her
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    • 349 15 ITS fairly new here but already about 20 per cent of his patients are opting for soya bean breast implants. So says Dr Woffles Wu of SGH. About 40 per cent of his patients ask for silicone implants while the rest go for saline implants.
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  • 219 17  -  \ID: 41 HELD SINGAPORETODAY By Danny Lim ONE of them had a parang in his hand with a blade about 50 cm long. He was among 41 suspected illegal immigrants found in forested area in Gambas off Woodlands early this morning. The operation was conducted between 6.40
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    • 231 18 r t hi# i FVM. W &1 AT TIOMG |«NH PLAZA! J m mi ff J jf ~~JB I Can yOU pull it off? How fast are you the I ■j You'll play your favourite game pieces of a jigsaw puzzle? Find B in teams. And when the emcee KPBfPWWBfWWTWWH|PWffW
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 265 19  -  Robbers didn't want him chasing after them By Hazel Tan THEY wanted his money not his clothes. But ordered him to strip anyway. Just to make sure that Mr Dewan Pinchen could not chase after them. Naughty, naughty and, even worse, they pretended to
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    • 55 19 Zainudin Ahmad and Arani Mohd Ali each received 30 months and six strokes of the cane for robbery. The minimum penalty for robbery is two years. The maximum is 10 years, with less than six strokes of the cane.The maximum penalty for impersonating a public servant is two
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    • 46 20 Ex-national footballer D Devaraj was sentenced yesterday to four months in jail. This is in addition to the fine he was appealing against. In September he had been sentenced to pay a $40,000 fine and a penalty of $11,400. the amount he took as bribes.
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    • 107 20 TOGETHER with Maran A Jagannathan, the three fixed S League matches involving Woodlands Wellington. Maran and Devaraj were then playing for the team. On May 8, 1996, Pal paid Maran $3§,000 to lose to Sembawang Rangers, which Woodlands did. Devaraj received $10,000. Three months later, Pal paid Maran
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    • 457 20 Former national footballer Devaraj Doraisamy didn't just have his appeal against an earlier conviction for football corruption thrown out..he was jailed after the prosecution appealed that the earlier sentence was too mild. MELVIN SINGH reports THE Greedy, the Corrupt and the Weak. That was how lawyer
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    • 118 21 TNP'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY ONE of you will walk away with this incredibly light and small Philips Genie handphone. Because five of them, courtesy of Philips Consumer Communications, are up for grabs in our 10th anniversary contest tomorrow. How to take part and win? It's easy. Our artists
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    • 172 21 FRIDAY WEEKLY IT is not done in phone booths, but the transformation from prim and proper student to cool mall teen is a common sight for shoppers taking a toilet break. Many shed their uniforms not just to project a more trendy image, but to stay on the
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    • 85 21 In Weekender THE Full Monty, a hit comedy now showing in Singapore, is more than blue-collar flesh striving to strip-tease for money. It has a serious message about the desperation of the unemployed, a situation some Singaporeans may be familiar with in these times of economic
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 207 22 INDONESIA'S NO 2 CHIEF TELLS JAPAN: SEND US ADVISERS: Indonesia's Vice-President B J Habibie has asked Japan to send economic advisers. He needs them to help "formulate financial and fiscal policies," the Daily Yomiuri (Internet edition in English) reported. Dr Habibie is in Japan for
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    • 293 23 BISHWANT SINHA NAMED INDIA'S *FINANCnvi7NISTER AGfluT Reuters. FOREIGN investors in India heaved a sigh of relief yesterday. They had been waiting to see who would be the country's new finance minister. The crucial job has gone to Mr Yashwant Sinha. He held the plum post for
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    • 367 24 Princess Diana's former butler appointed chief fund-raiser, gives insight into her life PRINCESS Diana often wore a disguise and roller-bladed in public parks. This revelation came from her former butler, Mr Paul Burrell, in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation. "It's amazing
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    • 48 25 mufmui< Outface televised debate auMMfseve* recently,tlce pwM—l mitewnrwarts Idel Joseph Eili ads dictoids request that bsgbe three reeeons why House Speaker Jose de Venecia, should Ml bscone pmideib My upbringing is such that, when I cannot say anything good to somebody, Fd rather not say anything.
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      259 27 This man hacked into Pentagon Source: Reuters. THIS is Israeli master hacker Ehud Tenebaum, 18. When armed with a computer, he's dangerous. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this yesterday, describing the man who is alleged to have hacked into the Pentagon's computers. Known as Analyzer, he has scanned tens
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    • 1064 28 Wife of ex-Estrada aide said to have cheated investors That is the question many investors in the Philippines are now asking Mrs Josephine German, wife of a former top aide of Vice-President Joseph Estrada. She is now on the run amid claims that she has
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    • 957 29 Nanyang I\l L Polytechnic Nanyang Polytechnic is committed to providing quality education and training to prepare our graduates for life and work, equipping them to contribute to the technological, economic and social development of Singapore. Our new campus is conveniently located at Ang Mo Kio and easily accessible by bus
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 313 30  - Teacher has sex with boy, 15, but not jailed By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY A HIGH school teacher walked free even though a jury found her guilty of having sex with a 15-year-old boy. The judge suspended her sentence for two years yesterday. His reason: the boy had arrived
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    • 36 30 Teachers having sex with their teen students. Shocking? Or just a sign of the times? Readers, what do you think? Share your views with us. HotNnePlus: 1800-733-4455 Fax: 737-5375 E-mail: tnp@asial.com. sg
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    • 60 30 FORMER Seattle teacher Mary Kay Letourneau, 36, had sex with a student, 13, was convicted of rape last year, and given a 7 Vi-year jail sentence. She had his baby. She was let off provided she did not see him. But they met again. She is
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    • 175 30 The Straits Times Classified 1 Where Wmg 7'i r iff Find 1 wfK>c CO jwHlir l^t I CATS II We bought huge quantity to sell as low as $9.90 I Unbelievably low price, while stocks last 111 j 2 days only I Venue: Singapore International Convention I Exhibition Centre j
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  • Showtime
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    • 81 31 (aka Best Picture) At Good as it Gets The Full Monty Good Will Hunting LA. Confidential Titanic AiCl In a nutshell, you get twice the screentime for just $7. But not just that. This movie had everything mega sets, lavish costumes, a poignant love
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    • 91 31 (aka Best Original Song) Go The Distance (Hercules) How Do I Live (Con Air) Journey to the Past (Anastasia) Mtss Misery (Good Will Hunting) My Heart Will Go On (Titanic) AND the winner is: My Heart Will Go On. Because Celine
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    • 99 32 Win with the Oscars HERE'S your chance to predict the Academy Award winners and win prizes. Just pick the winners of the Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director categories. Top prize is a Sharp viewcam VL-H9SE, worth about $1,500. Twenty others will
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    • 86 32 (aka Best Actor) Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting) Robert Duvatl (The Apostle) Peter Fonda (Ulee's Gold) Dustin Hoffman (Wag the Dog) Jack Nicholson (As Good as it Gets) AND the winner is: Jack Nicholson. You can always count on
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    • 73 32 (aka Best Actress) Helena Bonham Carter (Wings of the Dove) Jnfle Christie (Afterglow) Judi Dench (Mrs Brown) Helen Hunt (As Good as it Gets) Kate Winsiet (Tttank) AND the winner is: Helen Hunt. Because the others are not so
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    • 67 32 (aka Best Cinematography) Amistad Kundun L A Confidential Titanic Wings of the Dove AND the winner is: Titanic. Because a ship's sinking and a nude sketching scene probably don't need that much dialogue. The swirling water and James Cameron's drawings speak
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    • 74 32 (aka Best Screenplay) As Good as it Gets Boogie Nights Deconstructing Harry The Full Monty Good Will Hunting AND the winner is: Boogie Nights. Because you probably won't get to see it here. The movie will find it difficult to
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    • 45 32 (aka Best Original Dramatic Score) Amistad Good Will Hunting Kundun LJL Confidential Titanic AND the winner is: Titanic. Because you get to hear only one of the songs on radio. This way, you get to hear the others.
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  • 360 33 spotlight i What do you need to scale the world's highest peak? Loads. The first 11-man Singapore Everest team set off for the Everest Base Camp last week. Their supplies? 4.3 tonnes of food and equipment. That is about the average weight 0f2,600 telephone books. PAT
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 467 34  -  98 DEGREES 98 Degrees was formed in November 1995 when four guys from Ohio met in Los Angeles. The guys will be in Singapore this weekend and will perform at the Culture Club at 10pm on Saturday. By Avis Wong THESE guys are touted as the
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    • 352 35  -  By Edwin Yeo MAGIC moments, that's what you get in the Oscar-nominated movie As Good As It Gets. Such as when Jack Nicholson, as the neurotic but famous writer Melvin, tells waitress Carol (Helen Hunt) that she makes him want to be a better man. It's
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    • 600 36 Why, Sammi, why? After wowing audiences with racy outfits on stage, pop singer Sammi Cheng has a more conservative approach in mind for her concerts here. She tells YONG SIEW FERN why SHOW INFO What: Sammi Cheng in concert When: Tonight and tomorrow, at Bpm
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    • 119 35 Title: As Good as it Gets Acting: Oscars Star*: Jack Nicholson, Helen Direction A cinematography: Hunt, Greg Kinnear Yucks Scenario: A neurotic writer helps Plot: What plot? his gay neighbour who is Pacing: Turtle speed robbed and beaten up badly. He Stunts, design A special effects: also pursues a lovely
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
    • 810 37 tvpage. r Q MM* CHANNEL Q— (Channel 5, 8 pm) NOON News 5 Today NOON Let's be Friends (Variety/r) Mel Gibson (left) plays William 12.10 PM Home Shopping 1.00 PM Midday News WalUce a Scottish rebel warrior u. mwho led his people in a war with 1.10 Showbua (Entertainment newa/r)
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  • 459 38  -  ET CETERA WITH TEO HWEE NAK PRADA wallet. Sonia Rykiel bag. Pink Polo Ralph Lauren blouse. White Dolce Gabbana jeans. The girl sitting beside me on the MRT was making me look like a hopeless cheapskate. And she looked barely 15. How shameful, I thought, that
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  • YOUR WEEKEND MOVIE GUIDE
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  • WORLD CUP '98 UPDATE
    • 380 54 We bring you a fortnightly round-up of the five World Cup qualifiers from South America —Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Paraguay. Along with Brazil, these four nations will attempt to steal the show on European soil, playing the kind of inventive football that only 1 South Americans know how.
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    • 883 55 COLOMBIA Take "BoIMIo", for example. It means "artist of the ball', the nickname of coach Hernan Dario Gomez, whose duty is to erase the nightmare of USA '94. Fresh in people's minds is the merciless killing of defender Andres Escobar, whose own goal
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  • SPORTS
    • 321 57  -  SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS: TILL SUNDAY (TENNIS CENTRE HOW THEY FARED Boys singles: Jurgen Melzer (Aut) bt Evan Folwer (SA) 6-4,2-6,6-1 Jeroen Masson (SA) bt Ivo Lagzdins (Lat) 64,6-1 S Zaman (India) bt P Vishal (India) 6-1,7-5 Raimons Sproga (Lat) bt Peng Wu Chin
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    • 148 57 JAIME Wong might end up with a cash windfall if she keeps up her good performances. Singapore Lawn Tennis Association president S Uthrapathy is considering giving the talented teenager a cash reward should she lift the singles crown on Sunday. He said: "This is
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  • ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP '98
    • 178 58 Reuters. ENGLISH First Division club Middlesbrough yesterday agreed a £3 million (s7.Bm) transfer fee for Glasgow Rangers' England midfielder Paul Gascoigne. "We have agreed a fee with Rangers and are close to a deal with Gazza (Gascoigne)," said Boro manager Bryan Robson. "Rangers gave me
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    • 464 58 MAN IPS EUROPEAN EXIT; THE AFTERMATH Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards admits it may be too late to strengthen its injury-hit squad before next Thursday's transfer deadline. Gary and Phil Neville, plus Paul Scholes joined the casualty list at Old TrafTord following their Champions' League
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  • CUP-WINNERS' CUP '98
    • 470 59 CHELSEA 3 REAL BETIS 1: (CHELSEA WINS 5-2 ON AGGREGATE) CUP-WINNERS'CUP Quarter-final, second leg: CHELSEA 3 Frank Sinclair 30, Roberto Di Matteo 50, Gianfranco Zola 90) REALBETISI (Finidi George 21) Half-time: 1-1 Crowd: 32,300 Chelsea qualifies for semi-finals 5-2 on aggregate VICENZA 5 (Pasquale Luiso 5,
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    • 196 59 Reuters Vfß STUTTGART 2 SLAVIA PRAGUE 0 Two masterful free-kicks from set piece expert Krasimir Balakov allowed Vfß Stuttgart to tame Slavia Prague 2-0 and reach the Cup-Winners' Cup semi-finals. Balakov slotted the ball to the left of goalkeeper Radek Cerny after Yugoslav striker Sreto Ristic
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  • ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP '98
    • 494 60 GLORY. GLORY MAN UNITED Clubcall Tel: 089-*****1 Hayters Sports Agency. PETER Schmeichel, a self-confessed bad loser, forms an awesome last line of defence for Manchester United. Fortunately for his team-mates, this loud, most vocal of goalkeepers has rarely experienced the bitter taste of defeat since
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    • 228 60 GARY BAILEY: Made his United debut in 1978 and held the jersey until injury forced him to retire in 1987. Played in three FA Cup finals finishing on the winning side twice. Was an ever-present in the England squad but made just two appearances because Peter Shilton
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  • PREMIER (9- PASSION
    • 286 61 HOT What's hot, what's not, who's in, who's out..NIGEL WHITEFIELD'S weekly roundup of what's going on in the English league NO MATCHES There are no English Premier League matches this weekend because of England's World Cup warm-up against Switzerland next Wednesday LAN Wright has branded fellow
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    • 618 61 STIFFEN IVERSEN: The Tottenham striker has launched a scathing attack on English doctors, blasting: "They are idiots!" Iversen, the £2.75-million (s7.lm) Norwegian striker, has blamed "botched" knee surgery for ruining his season. "I am never going
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  • S-LEAGUE '98
    • 509 62 LEADERS RULES RESPECT ENERGY SPIRIT Rightly or wrongly, Sembawang Rangers has been labelled as this year's "no-hoper", despite former national coach Jita Singh taking over. But, as ERNEST LUIS discovers, Jita is slowly peeling off that label A GRAPHIC of 11 players on a football field
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    • 265 62 RESULTS OTPHEStOPtrS CUP Sembawang Rangers lost to Hongkong Rangers 0-1 Beat Royal Thai Airforce 1-0 Beat Philippines Selection &0 Lost to Woodlands Wellington (semi-finals) 2-4 Beat Philippines (for third placing) 3-1 STALLIONS FANS Sembawang's local and foreign stars will be at the Yishun and Khatib MRT stations
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    • 94 62 In Jita's team the experienced foreign players are the ones who stabilise the team. They are the ones the youngsters look to when they create attacking chances. So far, the Brazilian midfield playmaker Lito seems to be the one who pulls the strings. There's also a change
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    • 458 63 Yesterday, you met SAFFC's new Croatian signing, Damir Madiyasevic. Today, GERARD WONG introduces you to Paponja Veselko FACTFILE Name: Paponja Veselko Age: 32 Height 1.86 m Weight 79kg Hometown: Dalmacia, Croatia Marital status: Married with four children (two sons and two daughters) Previous clubs: 1994-95 Kopar
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    • 153 63 PAPONJA Veselko would never have been discovered if SAFFC hadn't sent its players for a medical test last month. For the Warriors had planned to sign only four foreigners this year. Said coach Vincent Subramaniam: "The X-ray reports showed that five players have minor leg injuries which could
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  • SPORTS
    • 11 PAGES OF SPORT TODAY
      • 290 64 AFP. A LIVERPOOL football fan who suffered brain damage during the 1989 Hillsborough disaster was awarded damages of £1 million ($2.5 m) yesterday. Robert Graham, now 25, was crushed against fencing on the terraces during Liverpool's FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest, during which 96 people died.
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      • 152 64 BOXER LOSES LIFE YESTERDAY'S THE NEW PAPER HEADLINE AFP. UKRAINE may soon ban knuckle boxing. The state sport's committee said this after an American fighter was battered to death in the ring. Douglas Dedge, a 31-year-old martial arts instructor from Alabama, died on Wednesday of head usuries
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      • 389 65 AFP. MANCHESTER United midfielder Paul Scholes could miss the World Cup Finals. Scholes limped out of Man United's Champions League defeat by Monaco on Wednesday. And everybody's worst fears were confirmed yesterday with the announcement that the 23-year-old could be forced out of action
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      • 97 65 Paul Scholes' injury is more bad news for England coach Glenn Hoddle. He now has several question marks over the selection of his attack for the World Cup Finals starting in France in June. Injured Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler has already been ruled out of the tournament, while
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      • 198 65 W-CUP WARM-UP RUSSIA* FRANCE ARSENAL'S Emmanuel Petit has been recalled by France for its friendly with Russia in Moscow later this month. But the 27-year-old midfielder's Highbury team-mate, Patrick Vieira, has been left out of the squad despite being on the bench for its last match
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