The New Paper, 21 April 1998

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Total Pages: 44
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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    7 1 the new paper TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1998
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      85 1 Sad story of a iifl! jMr-prj/p p BB B| 181 881 ID \l M H BB BB VI BHH BH BM BB B B B B B B il B B B B Billy's just three. Z?wf /ze has B B B B Bto play with. His Bjß B B
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
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      Lock icon No water, can die
      368 2  -  0 She lugs heavy She wears the Q She stores 20 pails pails of mater up same clothes for of water all over 4 floors daily up to 3 days her flat REPORT AND PICTURES/ PHILIP LIM IN KUALA LUMPUR FOR the past month, Madam Matar
      PICTURES/ PHILIP LIM IN KUALA LUMPUR  -  368 words
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      DON'T MISS
      9 2 TOMORROW: Rood of ideas to beat drought.
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Starvation scare
      191 3 aiJi V IT is a frightening thought. According to the United Nations (UN), seven million Indonesians are going to starve if food aid does not reach them soon. The absence of rain has dried up crops. Many are without jobs and the cost of food has gone up.
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      Penalties for helping illegals
      93 3 THE government plans to take some harsh measures. Not only will the penalties for illegal immigrants be raised but those helping them will also be punished. This was announced by Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng in Parliament yesterday. He said the number of illegal immigrants
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      Lock icon AM LATEST Killed in air crash
      88 3 Wire services. A BOEING 727 aircraft crashed into mountains overlooking Bogota, Colombia, shortly after takeoff yesterday. All 61 people aboard were believed killed. "Most of the passengers were foreigners," a Civil Aviation spokesman said. The plane belonged to Ecuador's TAME airline but was leased
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      DOW JONES
      26 3 The Dow Jones industrial average was down 25.66 points to 9,141.84 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 599 million shares.
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      WHAT'S SUP
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
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        Lock icon For a shoe that fits
        41 3 HE is no ordinary man. And no ordinary shoe fits him. So Alexander Sizonenko, the world's tallest man had to travel to Vreden in Germany from his native Russia to find one. He succeeded. Picture/ Afp
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      • Article
        Death for Ice
        57 3 ANYONE caught with more than 250g of the drug "Ice" (methamphetamine) could be hanged under proposed changes. Those with between 167 g and 250 g: At least 20 years' jail and 15 strokes. More than 25 g: At least five years'jail, five strokes. Anyone with lOg of
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        Doc no more
        59 3 A DOCTOR, Lee Gek Hui, has been stopped from practising. He prescribed to several patients too much of the sedative, Dormicum. The Singapore Medical Council rapped two others: Dr Michael Yong Kim Yew, who sold a liver formula that had poison without licence. Dr Ng Guat Hua,
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        Least risky
        53 3 CONFIDENCE in 12 Asian economies has gone down, but Singapore is still rated the least risky economy. So says a report by Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (Perc). Singapore, China, Hongkong and Taiwan are the economies "which have weathered the economic crisis fairly well and will probably continue
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        New Net help
        56 3 UNDERGRADUATES now have a new way to interact while at university. The Social Development Unit's I-Pal is to be launched formally today. I-Pal is an Internet service for singles who prefer getting in touch electronically. A survey of graduate couples has found that 34 per cent of
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        SMA supported
        52 3 THE Health Ministry has backed the Singapore Medical Association's warning to doctors about profit guarantees. Doctors must remain professionally independent to do what best for patients. In February, four doctors made a deal with a company, guaranteeing it a share of profits in return for a stake in
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        The right way
        56 3 SINGAPORE is beefing up copyright protection for its own good and not as a reaction to US trade policy, said the director of trade at the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Mr Pang Kin Keong said more will be done this year. Expect agreements on intellectual property
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      HEADLINERS
      89 3 The Straits Time*: Tougher penalties for maid abuse The Business Times: USs3b of S'pore's IMF pledge for Indon trade guarantees Uanhe Zaobao: Stiffer penalties for maid abuse with maximum punishment up IV* times Berlta Harlan: Wider powers for Muis, Syariah ore nuo morning IMWK Parliament: Details of S'pore trade
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    Lock icon CHILD'S PLAY?
    489 4 How some kids behave in public places THENEWSTODAY There was a flood of calls to The Straits Times after it reported that a misbehaving kid had been slapped in a bookstore. Many callers deplored both the slapping and the kid's antics. CHELSEA PHUAand TAN XEAUWEI went around town
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      She's So scared of the LADIES
      510 5 Malaysian businessman Ho Wee Fah tried to rape a 27-year-old, foreign woman in a five-star hotel last year. Yesterday, he was sentenced to nine years'jail and 16 strokes. But she may have to live a lifetime with a strange phobia. RIANA ZAKIR reports FOR
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      JAIL, CANE
      26 5 Yesterday, Ho was sentenced to nine years'jail and 16 strokes of the cane. He faced a maximum sentence of 10 years and 24 strokes.
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      Wife 'in pain' stays away
      217 5 HO'S wife was pregnant with their third child when he was arrested for attempted rape. She has since forgiven him, although she has to raise her three young daughters single-handedly. She didn't turn up in court. "She is in too much pain to come," said
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      'More jobs may be lost'
      302 7 LIM BOON HENG WARNS WORKERS EXPECT more workers to be laid off, the labour chief Mr Lim Boon Heng warns workers. The pace of retrenchment has gone up in the last three months of last year and is continuing into the first three months of
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      NTUC PLANS
      87 7 SOME key action programmes Train and certify 20,000 workers in the next 12 months Embark on joint projects with management to strengthen company competitiveness and deepen labour-management relations Launch a Productivity Push Programme developed jointly with the Productivity and Standards Board. It allows union leaders and management personnel
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      359 7 h|°M yisfefel ydiM*l r 1 g; i" mii '«r" ir MSFZ LsWN 'llsM f l:°ll r Hi l Create as many words as you can from the red letters in the front page of irajHH between 20-25 April '98. And you could well be $2,000* richer this week! This weekly
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      3-YEAR-OLD'S LONELY BATTLE AGAINST AIDS
      742 9  -  By Fong Foong Mei BILLY is just three. But unlike other children of his age, Billy has no one to play with. No one to hug. No one to touch. No one other than his father, John. Billy (not his real name) is a "touch
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      No easy answers
      374 9  -  COMMENT/ Fong Foong Mei LAST year, five children here were diagnosed with the Aids virus. One of the two still-healthy children is attending school right now a kindergarten where nobody knows of the child's condition. Not even she herself. Her parents decided to keep her condition secret.
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      If we had known...
      255 9 six-year marriage. "We didn't think of Aids. At that time, we didn't know it was so serious." Billy's mother only found out about her condition when she went for a blood test last year after she started losing her hair in clumps. All three members of
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      3 would be nice
      307 10  -  STOP AT TWO? NAH... BY Teo Yun Yun THE Tans own two cars a Mercedes and a Nissan March, but they wouldn't mind having another. Said businessman Tan Hock Lee, 44: "The Nissan is small and used by my wife to run errands like pick up
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      Cheers? What cheer?
      72 10 mul'mul' You are told, you pack up and you find yourself pub with your colleagues at three in the afternoon. You've never even seen a pub at that hqur before. Only the next day does it hit you that hundreds of people are going to work in
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      WALK, MAN
      100 10 WHEN: Sunday. May 24. WHERE: Starts from National Stadium, 7.30 am. yg DISTANCE: 10 km REGISTRATION: 1. Counters will be set up at various locations, including Takashimaya Square (B2), Jurong Point, North poinU<XJB Centre, Tampines Mall.ftews Centre and Singapore Amateur Athletic Association at Hougang Avenue 4. Competitive walkers
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      33 9 improve voursec'slife iP"' IL WIy I Secretaries' W k< LOOKS MAKEOVER TO BE WON ofgwe-ways'* '**"< Ha Free movie ticket with 2 order o f'FourDayslnSepte mber'cocktail* Sinqciporp t l*» German Thfmf ilr«(auranl And Mlcrobrewcry
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      442 9 1 □mnED <k"<\ DhtHtrUuhtißf PROFESSIONAL n" B Singapore Sales VllHlllr 1998 INTAKE V Commencing 26 August 1998 f Closing date for applications: Jointly brought to you by 17 July 1998 MIS Sales Academy COURSE PREVIEW (A division of the Marketing Institute of Singapore) Datenrime: 29 Aprilll99B (7 pm to 9
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      181 10 IMe an appointment for your Secretary, j 20-26 APRIL 1998 O Aju It's time to express your appreciation and there's no ORCHARD better way than to shower her with good food, lively CA 7 e/ Secretaries' Week Buffet Lunch entertainment and great prizes too. $32 person Pick up that pen
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      36 11 I SERIOUS LOOKING PHONES ARE GREAT. I I FOR SERIOUS LOOKING PEOPLE. I I I y *M' i IZ~. I I I •&W& jSjSfife& I am i»sst I I mf*' ISItovII (mm I mteft lfi\| I
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  • PARLIAMENTTODAY
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      The face that launched a BILL
      550 12 A landmark new Bill proposes to give the Syariah and civil courts equal powers in Muslim divorce cases. YVONNE LIM looks at the woman who sparked it all off Remember her? Madam Salijah Abdul Latef, 49, created headlines for nearly three years as the
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      Making it tougher to default
      157 12 DEFAULTING spouses used to laugh at him when he threatened to have them thrown in jail. But the law, and matrimonial lawyers such as Mr A L Hussien, will get the last laugh, if the new bill becomes law. Said Mr Hussien, a lawyer for
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      SOME PROPOSED CHANGES
      138 12 Syariah Court and High Court to have equal jurisdiction in civil proceedings involving child custody, property division, or wife or child maintenance. Anyone who is divorced, or has started divorce proceedings in the Syariah Court, and wants to start civil proceedings must get leave to do so.
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      12 MONTHS' JAIL
      367 13 PHQH lIP WIFE IF a man bashes up his wife, he gets one year's jail. If he bashes up his maid, he gets one-and-a-half years. Is this right, asked Nominated MP Claire Chiang (above). "It would appear that the drafters of this Bill are more sympathetic to
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      18 MONTHS' JAIL THE NEW LAW
      187 13 BOSH UP MAID Are WIVES getting LESS protection? Maid abusers now stand to get sentences one-and-a-half times harsher than ordinary offenders. YVONNE LIM reports IT targets employers and household members who abuse their maids. They would face maximum sentences one-and-a-half times harsher than others
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      190 13 f j W 1 1 This Secretaries' Week, show your appreciation to your secretary and 11*7 fl brine her to the Melting Pot Cafe for a Secretaries Week f sumptuous me ai Show A Little Act Pr °9 rammt Buffet Lunch y Thrill her with a scrumptious spread of A
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      240 14 il^^f Iff, > v t^Z3^F J<P| I ViP a ttle more me r i I t #r\« i f V \wam M m m V y l/U believe you're a winner and got the looks to go with it. Aged between K 15 and 25, you possess a radiant face
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Winds of change
      47 15 mul'mul' The only thing that can really make political and business leaders in Jakarta come to grips with the problem is if the haze comes to Jakarta. Indonesia's outspoken Environment MioMer Jwwmh twlnn—lwtbeencrttfcdaflitt L 00*111/1 lack of will to fight the haw. He My*
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      Lock icon You are fired Mr Minister
      256 15 CORRUPTION IN INDIA Wire Services. INDIAN premier Atal Behari Vajpayee sacked his communications minister yesterday after he refused to step down. Mr Buta Singh is facing charges of bribing MPs to save a minority Congress government during a 1993 confidence vote. Mr Singh, now an
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      Lock icon why PM is backing bosses
      448 16  -  BITTER DOCK DISPUTE DIVIDES AUSTRALIANS BY Heather McKinnon REPORTING FROM SYDNEY HE backs the employer in a war on the docks that is dividing Australia. To the extent that his government has drawn up a $250 million ($262 million) fund to help the bankrupt employer
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      TOUGH WORDS ON THREE FRONTS
      124 16 A Supreme Court yesterday banned any member of the public joining dock workers' picket lines in the state of Victoria. This has angered civil rights groups, who say it breaches the basic right of Australians to protest. Farmers are threatening to drive their trucks through
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    Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot. Happy? No
    265 17 MALAYSIAN POLICE: MALAYSIATODAY Says Raja Aziz, president of the National Human Rights Society: Police officers had acted at "Judge Jury and executioner" in combating crime. There had been an "alarming increase" in the number of criminal suspects who had died in police hands.
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      377 17 j fer jp r J?S W I i. v 4 3f>- 1 >% <*»V* PIBMMUI iJm—<r3Bi^M—Sß a jßr HDnlHlifcX To celebrate our 30th anniversary, our renowned Swiss ?./■lf >.— t Restaurant offers sizzling fondue in unlimited servings during p > (Secretaries Week at special price of $19.68.) (usual price is
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    Burglary suspect takes baby hostage
    404 18 WORLDTODAY High-speed car chase ends at border O Folic* turn up at Prices borne In Lot Angeles. Mo grate baby, Jumps Into a car. 0 Prtca, accosted by polka, steps out of car carrying baby and holding a knifa to Ms own throat Poflca distract
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      240 18 Jy MRS SINGAPORE PAGEANT 1998 pr*a«nfs l.CatarSta 2 MirtoAt OTMn V Siti Tbaaqnaa 4. Artracka* 5 AngrU I.» 6 Apnl lu 7. Kana Ym IMcKack Kkatfjh kadcr II Ariaaa CWa» nnnnnnnnnn 11. Joanaa law 12. Rahatoi Sala r). Criiat Yaa 14. khoar hd fai IS. Kmc Maa It. Bri|lllt Ow
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  • Showtime
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      When Leo's Plum turned sour...
      214 19 AS AS Hollywood deals go, it couldn't get any simpler. No haggling over raillon-dollar fees. No paperwork. Just a two-sentence deal memo signed by Leonardo DiCaprio. That was in 1995. Though Titanic had yet to make him the hottest Hollywood actor, DiCaprio was a star
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      $10 MILLION LAWSUIT
      61 19 PRODUCER David Stutman is suing Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire for $10 million. His breach-of-contract lawsuit alleges that the actors deliberately blocked the release of Don's Plum for "their own egomaniacal purposes". DiCaprio has denied putting pressure on the studios to stop the film's release. He said
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      Lock icon Knee-rly champions
      389 20  -  By 1 Yong Siew Fern IT takes two to Lindy Hop. But it was only one bad knee that cost a Singapore couple first prize in the sth Annual American Swing Dance Championships. Instead, Andrew Vassiliou, a Singapore permanent resident, and his girlfriend Lim Sing Yuen, came second,
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      Only 7 then, but I can't forget
      278 21  -  By Lee Yin Luen Nostalgic chilis are multiplyin', but not in the old turntable way. Now that cyber, not grease, is the word, the greatest movie-musical ever is coming back in a new medium. The soundtrack of Grease was re-released here yesterday, in
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    Lock icon Will Godzilla come to town?
    632 22 come to town? Smc* Saturday, wt'% been telling you the story of Japan's Godzilla of economic ttoes. Left this can wreak havoc on the economies of at its destructive best, trampling and setting that lay in its path. Ailite %'tfre collapse of the Bubble iCßny
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    So who's brooding?
    380 23  -  SHOWTIME By Avis Wong DARK and brooding... Auguste Kwan? The Malaysian singer, better known as Guan Dehui, is hardly like that at all, judging from his behaviour at a press conference here last Thursday to promote his latest album, Perpetual Dream. He was cheerful and chatty. So
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      843 24 tvpage r Q (•liirijua Innocent CHAMNEL O CHANNEL Q (Premiere 12,10 pm) NOON News 5 Today NOON Comedy Night (Variety/r) During the height of the Cold 1? IK pm h<mtm> shoiiiHnk' 100 pm Middav News War, a CIA operative goes to 12 05 pm Home shopping i.uu pm Midday News
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    It's not the tax that's so taxing
    508 25  -  eT CETERA WITH PRADEEP PAUL Let me tell you how it will be There's one for you, Nineteen forme 'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman... REMEMBER that song by The Beatles? I do. Every April. Every time I look at the
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      142 25 COMICRELIEF Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson OLMIK ttMCES UP STAR\N& SEEING CAttflN MHZ, TWI CMN\H "fitlES TO FIGHT. BUT k fOO SOUND IHTO TWE P<ES OF A BIG FROG SCRAMBLES DCMN WU> T\€ SUWEW/WWIOAM I W*M ANFVIL. WVE v v FPOG. __—> FORCES OF*N CASK'S r IHSTAKTU SLIDES \N WD IS
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  • SCHOOLSPORTS '98
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      542 34 Eight of Singapore's brightest young bowling talents will represent the Republic at the First Asian Schools Bowling Championships this week. Ironically, two of them are from schools that don't feature bowling as an ECA. GERARD WONG meets the two ■rookies' —Camilla Chua and Dominic Lim
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      354 34 DOMINIC Lim Zhong is so excited about competing in this week's Asian Schools Bowling Championship, it's as if he's making up for lost time. For despite being one of Singapore's top youth bowlers, Dominic has never represented his school in bowling.
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      284 35  -  MORE ON THE ASIAN SCHOOLS BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIPS By Gerard Wong HOW is it that some students who have never competed in the National Schools Championships are representing Singapore at the Asian Schools event? When the Asian meet was announced by the STBC last December, it
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      320 35 TEAM A: FACTTILES Nmm: Dominic Lim Zhong Act: 16 School: Ping Vi Secondary Height 1.74 m Weight 80kg Average: 190 I Achievements: 1997 2nd in Landmark Youth Challenge; 2nd in Singapore Open (Youth Division); 2nd in Hongkong Open (Youth Division); Ist in Singapore Nationals (U-17
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  • WORLD CUP '98 UPDATE
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      221 37 WARM-UP: GERMANY v NIGERIA All tomorrow (Thursday morning, Singapore) Chile v Colombia Sweden v France Denmark v Norway Italy v Paraguay Belgium v Romania Scotland v Finland Austria v USA Germany v Nigeria Croatia v Bulgaria England v Portugal Slovenia v Czech Rep Ireland v Argentina Russia v
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      457 37 WARM-UP; ENGLAND v PORTUGAL ENGLAND Bv RUSSIA: Matthew Le Tissier is one of five full internationals today. the others are Nick Barmby, Les Ferdinand, Darren Andertonand lan Walker. It's their last chance to impress England manager Glenn Hodle. The squad: Walker (Tottenham); Watson (Newcastle), Serrant
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      267 38 BERNARD LAMA E WARM-UP: SWEDEN v FRANCE: STOCKHOLM. TOMORROW AFP. ABOUT ZIDANE Zinedine Zidane, 28, is in his second season with Italian champion Juventus after signing from French club Bordeaux The midfielder was linked to a possible move
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      456 38 WARM-UP: ITALY v PARAGUAY: TOMORROW Reuters. ITALIANS are ready to watch their national side take on Paraguay knowing it will be like watching "Hamlet" without the Prince of Denmark. For the prince, better known as the former pony-tailed Roberto Baggio, has been dropped from the
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  • TIGER BEER S-LEAGUE '98
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      85 42 THRILLER IN JUBONtt FAST The Tiger Beer S-League Jurong thriller between western rivals Jurong FC and SAF Warriors drew an overwhelming crowd. Hundreds of fans were locked out as tickets were sold out. But they used every possible method to get a view
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      499 43  -  RFArTION TO SATURDAY'S FRACAS AT lIIRONG EAST STAPH IM By Ernest Luis SINGAPORE SPORTS COUNCIL DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JOHN KOH: Like the other 10 stadiums, the Jurong East Stadium wasn't built for S-League soccer. It is a multi-sports complex built for residents under the Sports for
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      240 43  -  By S Guum JURONG FC team manager K Suppiah blasted Fifa referee N Santhan for Saturday's soccer fracas. "If anyone spoiled the match, it was the referee," he said; "We spend so much money on training and buying of foreign players and coaches, but everything gets
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