The New Paper, 22 July 1998

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    7 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1998
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      51 1 Ist Copy WithouHrothtf IJ®* Picture/ BERITA HARIAN T J '5 swre 6: «HE> W(3 Singaporean will ever have <3 LCi# iJ/Pa g e w I I to write this letter/pa g e 2 MITA (P) 151/04/98 60 CENTS ill!] Mil http://web3.asial.com.sg/tnp Another quality publication of Singapore PreSS Holdings 11|| 8
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    Never in Singapore
    1141 2  -  omnipresent ana internalised in primarily on Diack DaDies trom w America's institutions, media 1956 to 1962. I and myriad entities. Here are a The researchers withheld an bt few examples: essential fatty acid from the The Voting Rights Act babies' formulas that humans ar signed by President
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Bhangrobics
      405 3  -  Dance nlus exercise I By Irene Kew THINK aerobics and your mind drifts to sexy babes in their tight lycra suits, panting away in step to the music. Or fat women whose spilling flab screams for help as they wobble like jelly. But this aerobics group will surprise you.
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      117 3 THE Singapore Sports Council (SSC) spotted the troupe at the opening of the Tampines Stadium last year. Said Mr Hardip Singh: "SSC saw our dance steps and thought some steps were similar to aerobics steps. So, they asked that we start a class." The first began two months ago at
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Top PSLE girl plays mum Brother defers NS to care for two sisters
      1170 4 Parents die of cancer So you think only parents can hold a family together? Last year's top Malay PSLE student has lost both her mum and dad, but she and her two siblings are bringing one another
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      SON, I HAVE TO TALK TO YOU
      174 4 ONE day in early 1996, his father popped into Helmie's room for a chat, as he often did. But this chat would change the boy's life. "My father told me he had a growth in his liver and explained what it was all
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • Article
      HDB to build 3-room flats again
      277 5 us* The Selective En-bloc Redevelopment Scheme, introduced in 1995, involves demolishing old HDB blocks so that the land can be used more intensively. Residents are compensated for their existing flats, and offered new flats at a discount. THE Housing Board will build new three-room
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      Lock icon Going nuts over nuts
      43 5 m- Kaca ng Putih: Mr Shanker s lo Ayavoo drew crowds of curious children at Xinmin Primary School yesterday. Stalls selling traditional foods such as kacang (nuts) were part of the school's Racial Harmony Day celebrations. Picture/ Berita Harian
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        More go home
        54 5 LABOUR PRIVATE security agencies are doing a roaring business sending home foreign workers. Contractors hire them to do this. Twenty agencies interviewed said they have sent home 1,000 foreign workers in the first six months this year. This was five times the number sent back in the
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        Exports down
        58 5 TRADE NON-OIL demostic exports to Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines plunged by more than 15 per cent in the past three months. The three economies together account for nearly a fifth of all Singapore's non-oil domestic exports. Exports to them have been falling since the beginning of the
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        Fewer visitors
        67 5 |1 TOURISM ONLY 3.05 million tourists visited Singapore in the first half of this year, a 17.2 per cent drop compared to the same period last year. Worst hit were arrivals from Japan, which slumped by almost 30 per cent. The figures for June are worse than for
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        More seek jobs
        57 5 JOBS THE number of job-seekers on the Ministry of Manpower's employment service register has risen from 1,970 in January to 3,171 in May. And the number of new registrants has more than doubled from 590 in January to 1,213 in May, reports The Business Times. Most of
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      world Head liners
      57 5 South China Morning Post: Top judge heads airport inquiry CNN Interactive: Cohen: No nerve gas used in Operation Tailwind The New Straits Times: Infrastructure projects to spur economy BBC news: The US and Britain are considering the possibility of holding the trial of 2 Libyans accused of
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      Don't be turned off by ticking off
      226 6 |5®<SUS THE ticking off the business community received for criticising the off-budget measures is a part of the consultation process. It was a way of challenging the ideas and opinions put forward. And so businessmen should not feel intimidated about suggesting constructive measures
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      Cancer vaccine
      61 6 HEALTH MELACINE, the first vaccine for skin cancer, is expected to be made available this year. Cancer vaccines work by making the body's immune system fight the disease. They are used as a treatment rather than as prevention. Six more vaccines are expected in two years. It is
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      Poor forecast
      58 6 [MALAYSIA! MALAYSIA'S economy will shrink by 2.9 per cent this year, according to the government-backed Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (Mier). Mier forecast that the country's gross domestic product would grow by 0.7 per cent next year, but added that "the worst may not be over". Mier said
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      Inflation risk
      64 6 MONEY US interest rates would have to rise if the strong economy did not slow on its own. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said this in his half-year report to US lawmakers. He did not hint that rates would rise soon. Mr Greenspan said the risk of high
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      CEO sacked
      53 6 CORPORATE SEAGATE Technology, the world's No 1 computer disk-drive maker, has sacked chairman and chief executive Alan Shugart. Mr Shugart began his career with International Business Machines (IBM) and joined Seagate in 1979. The company is the second-largest employer in Singapore's private sector. Seagate laid off 1,800 staff
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      local Head liners
      54 6 The Straits Times: HDB to build 3-room flats under Sers The Business Times: Singapore chip-makers reel from price plunge Lianhe Zaobao: Outram Park to be redeveloped Berita Harian: Japanese economy getting worse RCS morning news: Asean foreign Ministers and their dialogue partners get ready for major discussions
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      DOW JONES
      26 6 The Dow Jones Industrial average fell 105.56 points, to close at 9,190.19 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 658 million shares.
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      Tongue Cheek
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      Leo hates his feet
      75 6 Quote It's amazing really. Here's this guy who can command US$25 million ($41.5 million) a movie and who has the world at his feet. The trouble is, he can't stand the sight of them. A friend of Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio, commenting on the star's belief
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    Lock icon YOUNG GANS
    522 7 SINGAPORETODAY Two out of three of this year's President's Scholars come from families with blue-blood academic pedigree. Impeccable genes? Or a stimulating environment? FONG FOONG MEI discovers the fun family formula behind one scholar's success Lisa Gan Hwee Chun, RJC; Sim Kai. Hwa Chong Junior College; TeoTse Hsiang,
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      156 8 This bone condition is due to a loss of bone mass. That is why V this Singapore woman has J in height^^^IT CONCERNS YOU! Teens and Adults Male or Female Message from Anlene Take Calcium Everyday cap c n m Dairy products are good XnloiW hMf jWMji source of calcium.
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      Lock icon Stunning Sudha
      287 9 IRENE KEW meets Miss Singapore International 1998 SHE has a 3-cm scar on her nose. She also has a tiny opening in her neck, a medical condition known as bronchocutan&ous fistula. Sometimes, a little discharge comes through that hole. But that could not stop Miss Sudha Menon from
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      MISS SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL 1998
      109 9 ORGANISED by the Singapore Women's Association, together with the National Safety Council, the finals were held last Saturday on board Sun Vista, Sun Cruises. This is the first time in 23 years that the finals were held on board a ship. The proceeds from this fund-raising
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      488 10 The World Cup has ended. With JVC, soccer continues. aONow $329 Team woollen cap. +t, C (Worn for good luck.) Cup holder (or liquid :S;S- |I|i No W $299 ■L JH |jg Now $869 UX-T2OO Micro Component System For listening to 'live' matcnes in tfte bedroom when your eyes have
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      Drink up, and up, and up...
      96 11 mui*mui* Ta pare on soma savings, all NTOC Foodfare coffooshops art prepared to est fire cants from oach cup of coffoo. Said The Straits Thnos Forum page writer Michael Lum Yan Mong: It is beyond my comprehension how a five-cent reduction in a cuppa
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      These condo guards stop are thieves
      306 11  -  Zulkhairee Udik was sentenced to nine years'jail and 18 strokes of the cane for three charges of housebreaking and two of theft. He was also fined $3,000 for possessing three obscene video compact discs. He had previous convictions for housebreaking and theft as a
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      Lock icon Where's the ship?
      436 12  -  By Jason Tan THEY were to take the cruise to Hatyai for their honeymoon. But the Star Aquarius left an hour before the departure time they had been given, leaving them and a number of others stranded at the World Trade Centre yesterday. Mr Gary Teh, 31,
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      WHAT CRUISE OPERATOR SAYS
      196 12 A STAR CRUISES spokesman said yesterday that when it brought forward the departure time by an hour early last week, it informed all its travel agents. Ms Judy Choo, Star Cruises' public relations director, said the agents were also asked to inform their customers about the
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      No... No... You can't be dead
      781 13 HER SHOCK AND DISBELIEF My dearest Shyan No more your smiling face I see Your gentle voice I hear But in my heart you will always live In my life, you will walk me through Till we meet again in the better land. SHE
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      Join the TNP 10th anniversary hunt
      287 14  -  By Irene Kew CATCH a bus and get some foreign currency. We want these items: A bus ticket with the number 10 and foreign currency with you guessed it the number 10. Baffled? It's all part of The New Paper's Celebration Bash this Sunday
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      Our birthday song winners
      159 14 THE KIASU SINGAPOREAN Happy birthday to you, You are still as kiasu, You expect 10 people to, Eat a cake meant for two! nightmasque (e-mail) FOR TNP Happy birthday to you, You could do it, we knew. Your New Paper ain't new... But your readers ain't
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  • HEALTHTODAY
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      The painful secret behind these eyes
      548 15  -  By Carol Leong LOOK deep into the eyes of Miss Serene Lee. Just another set of ordinary eyes, you think. But what you don't know is that she has "pimples" under her eyelids. The red, inflamed bumps are called giant papillary conjunctivitis or GPC.
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      Disposables: How cheap?
      100 15 DISPOSABLES are really a better deal in terms of eye health and daily cost, said Miss Emily Low, an optician. "Most people forget that solutions are the hidden costs." I Conventional soft lens: $160 (a pair of lens) $240 (one year's supply of solutions) $1.36 a day.
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      Worried over too much sweat
      297 16 I AM 69. My problem is that I sweat a lot, even with minimum exertion. Just a little walk in my garden makes me sweat, and my clothes get drenched. I have to change clothes at least thrice a day. The other members of my
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon S'pore's 4th in robot soccer
      510 17  -  WORLD CUP WIN 1 By Jill Lim THE Singapore team went to Paris and came in fourth in the World Cup. All right, it was not the real World Cup just robot soccer (and we don't mean the German national team). Robot soccer, as played
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      Non-football-fan wins bet on soccer scores
      266 17  -  WORLD CUP WIN #2 By Rachel Tan CALL it luck or intuition. It took a non-football-mad female to win a bet on the finals of the World Cup scores. Customer service officer Ms Iris Neo, 30, beat over 5,000 participants when she predicted France's
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    MEN IN THE NEWS
    223 18 Two editors of Malaysia's leading newspapers quit within days of each other's resignation last week. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has rejected j allegations that they quit due to political I pressure. But many analysts hold a I different h view I cij I
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon 'Make me opposition leader
      329 19 or well occupy Parliament' Source: Wire services. INDONESIA'S opposition figure Megawati Sukarnoputri (right) has started flexing her muscles. She wants the government to recognise her as the rightful leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) by November. Ms Megawati was ousted as leader of the party
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      New inland port in Segamat
      221 19 A NEW inland port in Segamat, to be opened in October, will "reduce the outflow of exports from south Pahang and Johor via Singapore," Johor Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani said. It will serve as a dry port for customs checks, payment of duties, packing
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      Will he live happily ever after?
      529 20  -  by YVONNE LIM ONCE upon a time, there was a handsome young prince, the type who blushed when teenage girls shrieked at him. The prince was a thoughtful boy (a good trait in a future king) who wanted to surprise his dad on his
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      Big money: $86,000 cash Big mouths: Teens brag about it Big trouble: Robber breaks in and steals money
      313 21  -  By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY HE was to regret boasting about all the money hidden at home. He and his student friends were robbed at gunpoint of $86,000 in cash in
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      Lock icon Bike with wings
      309 21 Around the world in 120 days, on a... Reuters. HE may have missed his target by 40 days. But yesterday, Mr Brian Milton became the first person to fly around the world in a microlight "bike with wings". He landed in a southern England airfield 120 days
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      Lock icon Leave... or be evicted
      183 22 SUBIC BAY SHOWDOWN President's ultimatum to ex-chief: Reuters. A BATTLE looms over the thriving investment zone of Subic Bay free port and industrial estate in the Philippines. On one side: President Joseph Estrada's ally, ex-congressman Felicito Payumo, who was backed by police armed with rifles yesterday.
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      Talk about it
      63 22 mutfmutf Malaysia's opposition Democratic Action Parly IMF) Is now grappling with Manal squabbles. Fonner Sarawak DAP chairman, Mr Sim Hwang Yang, argesDAP secretary-general, Mr Um Kit Slang, and his three poMieal rivals to Iron out tMr differences through peace talks: If Palestinians can talk to Jews, if
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      19 20 22 10pm Premiere 12 is a channel of Singapore Television Twelve More information on Premier* 12 programmes at ttvl2.com.tg
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      132 22 (l FOR THE PRICE OF ONE\ /Sh"™* M Queen-Size Metal Bed Metal Bed @4SP Qiair Shoe Writing Table 4f Writing 4ft TV Cabinet Cabinet 2 door 4ft Kitchen Chinese/ Dining Set Wardrobe Cabinet Indian Altar mn n Modular I+l+2 I*l*3*coffee table* Cabinet Set Many more exciting offersl Don't miss itl
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      165 22 Hair Problem Detection Week During this Hair Problem Detection Week, trichologists* at SVENSON will take a few hairs from the problem areas of your scalp and send them to be professionally analysed at advanced laboratories in Europe. You can then find out more about your hair or scalp problems and
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    Lock icon It's VR, man
    293 23 eyetech Executives in Singapore need to have an urgent meeting with their clients in London and Sydney. But travelling is costly and time-consuming. The solution: Teleconferencing. JESSICA LEOW shows how a virtual meeting can take place when people from other parts of the globe "drop in"for a
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    No skeletons fit in this closet
    531 24  -  ET WITH BRIAN MILLER I BELIEVE there are two types of people in the world. No, not the good and the bad or the bold and the beautiful. I'm talking about the throwers and the keepers. Or people who can throw things out which
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      197 24 COMICRELIEF Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson CX.CALVIN, A k V NOW, NOW. THESE I f >( IMEV GIVE US LIVCE WOW WE CAKTT EXACTLt) START PACKING f.<\ FINALLY') LITTI OUTINGS YEAH? CHANCE TC> BE STAND BEING IN UP. Vfc'RE GANG V/ 7 N2E VALUABLE HOW? TOGETHER AS A SUCH CLOSE PRC*-
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      310 25 I .'Si Z. I Wk 10/91 (XX July to XI July 91) i I Be pari of the IQ puzzle-solving team and aim to be one of the top 2\ with the highest IQ. AB puzzles are provided by Mensa Singapore the society tor that top 2%. If you can't
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      81 25 COMICRELIEF The Concrete Jungle/Colin Goh gg6 nnwn PB^vASN«® F wv&ie), .j H Big Nate/Lincoln Peirce |AT THIS 1 15 KATE,ILL JUST THERE MEVER. WHAT A hake it i was ntRiT TO FIRST THINK- BADGE Dilberl/Scott Adams f I THINK ACTING CONPETEHT\ CAROL, LET *E DO E CARING. OUR THE ORG
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  • Showtime
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      Not bad, but.. What happened to James Lye?
      498 26  -  TRIPU MINE: IST EPISODE REPORT By Edwin Yeo THE third season of Triple Nine certainly started with a bang last night. It had a nice introduction: All the promised funky camera movement, sort of like NYPD Blue. And the colours were nice.
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      Meet a new Buddy or two
      387 27  -  NOMNTO IELVISM By Lee Yin Luen LVIS Presley is WL fr l passe. The Spice Girls rule! Sp American f impressionist Buddy Loren said he would rather impersonate new stars than the oldies. "Elvis is not so big now. My main concern is Michael
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      WANT TO WIN THIS?
      102 27 FANCY winning this Pioneer DVL-KBB karaoke set (right)? Action Theatre will be staging Ka-Ra-you-OK later this month and to get you in the mood, call 1900-914-0801 before midnight on Sunday and answer three simple questions. A correct entry will be picked to win this karaoke set
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      DID YOU WIN FREE CABLE?
      67 27 IN OUR Singapore Cable Vision contest last week, we asked you which channel is SCV's Star Sports channel. Almost every caller to our contest line answered correctly—Channel 24. Ten correct entries were picked to win three months of cable TV (basic package) worth almost $100,
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      Lock icon Hey, Ekin... They say we're rivals. True or not?
      521 28  -  Re porta/ Hazel Tan THEY play rivals in love in a new movie. But off screen, are they at each other's throats? Are Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng at loggerheads, as the Hongkong media claims? No, said the two superstars. And
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      Still friends and equals
      247 29 THEY are reported to have fought over their parts in the movie. But finally, each seems to have got an equally important share of the action. Both the Heavenly King and Ekin Cheng insist they are clueless about how the reports of a fallout came about.
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    007 was here...
    357 31  -  TRAVEL WITH A TWIST By Fong Foong Mei ITS easy to miss the entrance to Hotel Bela Vista. There's no imposing driveway, no sweeping front porch. Just a set of doors at the top of Penha Hill. But beyond those doors lies the most breathtaking view in
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  • SPORTS
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      245 38  -  SOCCER EVERT What Balestier Central/Umbro Mini-Cup Wlmh: Bam, Aug 9 Where: Toa Payoh Stadium f>, ,t. negisueuOfi fee: $60 H CateforieK Under-15, Under-18 Closing dete: yy27 category: Entry fee $100 By Ernest Luis FIFA referee Abdul Razak has been pulled up for his performance in last
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      103 38  -  By Suresh Nair CLASS Three referee Alex Sugumaran has been asked to appear before a disciplinary committee, convened by the FAS Referees Committee. This follows his alleged use of vulgar language at a player during a President's Cup veterans soccer match last month. Said M Maniam, Chairman FASRC
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      238 39 CHANCE TO JOIN LIVERPOOL AFP. PARAGUAYAN goalkeeper Jose Luis Chilavert is angry with his Argentine club Velez Sarsfield. It vetoed his transfer to Premiership giant Liverpool. "This shows me that the people in charge at the club are the players' enemies. They've completely messed me around. And, until they
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      GONE: CHANCETO PLAY FOR MAN UNITED
      116 39 MANCHESTER United made a surprise second attempt to sign the Cameroon international Marc-Vivien Foe. But its plans were wrecked when he failed a medical, reports the Daily Mirror (Internet edition). Foe flew in from French champion Lens to meet Alex Ferguson and hoped to
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      185 39 Reuters, Bloomberg. CESARE Maldini has quit as coach of Italy. His replacement will be named in the next few days, the national soccer federation said yesterday. Maldini's departure had been widely tipped and sports newspapers considered his replacement by Dino ZofT, former captain and hero of
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      153 39 AFP. ERIC Cantona gets to run amok in a film being shot in Lyon. It is his first leading role on the silver screen. Entitled "The children of the swamp", the angry man of football stars alongside Michel Serrault and Jacques Villeret in
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      306 40 For Jackie Joyner-Kersee, 36, the coming days will be a celebration; a time to reflect, a time to remember, a time to compete. They also will be tinged with melancholy. Today is her last day in competitive heptathlon the second day of the event in the Goodwill Games
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      HER GREATEST MOMENT
      117 40 WHEN asked what the best moment in her sporting career was, Jackie Joyner-Kersee immediately said it was the bronze medal she won at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. She had won the medal on American soil and despite continuing and painful hamstring problems. "That may have been
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      HER WORST MOMENT
      87 40 THE lack of recognition Jackie Joyner-Kersee received for a world-record performance of 7,291 points that won her Olympic gold at Seoul Olympics may have hurt her the most. "In my moment of triumph, in my moment of joy in 1988, with all the drug issues (surrounding Ben
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      GREATEST CONTRIBUTION
      116 40 JACKIE Joyner-Kersee is especially proud of the strides women have made in sport. "Women have been doing great things out there," Joyner-Kersee said. "But for some reason we were not respected. "All we wanted to do was be respected for what we tried to do. For some reason
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      THE EARLY YEARS
      127 40 FROM the time of her first memories Jackie Joyner-Kersee knew she wanted to be an athlete. "As a young girl all I wanted to do was go to one Olympics and be on television," Joyner-Kersee says. "I never thought I would set a world record and be
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      THE FINAL CURTAIN
      122 40 JACKIE Joyner-Kersee has not competed in a heptathlon since the 1996 Atlanta Games, where she was forced to withdraw through injury. She's a little rusty in some of her events, her husband and coach, Bob Kersee, said. But the urge to compete has driven her to try
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      541 41 As soon as they fire the starter's gun, she is gone. Gone like your youth. Gone like your paycheck. She's Marion Jones, the American runner who completed a Goodwill Games sprint double on Monday night. She demonstrated that she's fit to take over from Jackie Joyner-Kersee as the
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      JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE ON JONES
      53 41 Better than Jones' ability is her demeanour. To me, the way to do it is that you compete and you win and you don't have to rub it in somebody's face. You do it with style and you do it with class. And that's what I
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      ASIAN TRACK AND FIELD MEET AT FUKUOKA, JAPAN
      177 41 SINGAPORE'S C Veeramani recorded a personal best of 1:52.03 sec in the 800 m heats. It was almost a second inside his pervious best. The events of Singapore's James Wong (discus) and Wong Yew Tong (high jump) were postponed to today, the
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      298 42  -  EVIAN NATIONAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS TRACK AND HELD CHAMPIONSHIP: NATIONAL STADIUM Today's National Schools Track and Field Championship (the final day for secondary schools) will be held at the National Stadium at 2pm. Stories/ Gerard Wong ONE was making her debut. Another was marking her swan-song. But that
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      160 42 SHE was making her championship debut. But she came out a record winner twice. CHI J Toa Payoh's Priscilla Vincent bettered the D Girls shot put mark two times on her way to winning the gold medal last week. The 10-year-old Primary Four student first erased Saint
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      289 43  -  MORE ON NATIONAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS ATM Fm Stories/i Gerard Wong GONGSHANG Primary School wasn't just a super track and field force yesterday. It also had what was probably the best cheerleading team. "S-U-P-E-R. Super, that's what we are!" Decked in yellow and blue caps, the more than
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      ONE GOLD GOOD ENOUGH
      101 43 HE'S just happy to win one gold medal yesterday. Why? Because Erzalmaniq Fawzy Rawi (left) had never won a individual gold in athletics before. Even though he started competing as a Primary Four student in 1996. The 12-year-old Mayflower Primary Six student said: "It's always been
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      HOW THEY FARED
      333 43 SELECTED RESULTS A BOYS: 100 m: Richard Batara (Ghim Moh) 12.95 sec 200 m: Richard Batara (Ghim Moh) 26.10 sec 4xloom (May: Haig Boys 54.52 sec Team Championship: 1 Haig Boys (64 pts) 2 Swiss Cottage (63) 3 Qiaonan(4o) BBOYS: 100 m: Phang Xiao Feng (Woodlands) 12.84
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      336 44 AFP. STEVE Waugh is more than just a cricketer. The Australian Test batsman is famous for his work with children' 9 charities. His most recent, helping leprosy sufferers in India. Leprosy, or Hansen's Disease, is a chronic bacterial infection which damages the nerves and skin. The
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      263 44 Daily Mirror. THE battle of the grandads between George Foreman and Larry Holmes is set to plunge boxing further into disrepute, so says promoter Frank Maloney. He described the planned clash of the ageing former world champions as "a complete joke" and "a bitter
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      1101 45 TV TODAY r Turn NOON News 5 Today/Horn® Shopping ON T/«H\ Michael Richards 2.00 News 5 Today/Walker, Texas Ranger— A f 1 Seinfeld Sons of a Thunder UT 1116 aay Channel 5,11.45 pm 3.00 News s Today A This guy is funny. Just 305 HL J looking at his weird
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