The New Paper, 23 July 1998

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  • 21 1 the new paper THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1998 MITA (P) 151/04/98 60 CENTS http://web3.asla1 .com.sg/tnp Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings
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    • 53 1 jj J Chinese gymnast, 17, breaks bcick page 45 Rejected A wmrlWy I by J Hongkong I student in Hwa Chong: tears AT HAIR ■passerby PUNCHES ■teacher /Page 18 MITA (P) 151/04/98 60 CENTS JMi II I III I Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings http://web3.asia1 .com.sg/tnp VB IJJ
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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    • 111 2 Job WOES /Pages 12 13 Leisure index Showtime: Pages 27 to 30 Comics: Pages 31 32 TV: Page 47 HAt Big Ideas. we specialise in big clothings with sizes ranging from 14 to 24, imported all the way from Australia. You have great choices with our collection that reflects the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 473 3  -  BY Teo Yun Yun GUTEN Tag. Or it might well be Assalamualaikum. Or Namaste. Or even G'day Mate! You can hear so many languages spoken in Singapore these days even at a neighbourhood school like Ghim Moh Primary. There are at least 50 foreign students there.
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    • 429 4  -  By, Jason Tan SHE loves kids and dotes on her six grandchildren. Take four-year-old granddaughter Shi Pei for instance. When 65-year-old Madam Tan Kim Eng plays with Shi Pei, the granny
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    • 171 4 MADAM Tan Kim Eng was going to a bank at Serangoon Garden Way to cash a $800 cheque her youngest daughter had given her. She left her Serangoon North Avenue 4 flat around 10 am on Tuesday. At the void deck of the next block she
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  • THENEWSTDAY
    • 357 5 He breaks into computer systems and gets paid for it. Now, he's in town to tell others how it's done. GOH CHINLLAN meets the man MEET Mr Stephen James, a professional hacker. He is hired by government agencies and private companies to break into computer systems.
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    • 133 5 HACKERS are bad. Crackers are worse. But beware of the cybercrooks. They are the worst of the lot. Meet the creatures that roam the cyber-underground: HACKERS break into computer systems, but they do not harm the system. CRACKERS break into computer systems, and they are malicious.
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 260 6 M On Friday, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said a research report was correct to say the Government "can ease the pain as the economy contracts but it cannot stop the contraction in any meaningful way". We look at the report THE Government cannot do much
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    • 56 6 Sinking another hole: Indonesian farmers digging up the Cimacan Golf Course in West Java to plant crops on Tuesday. Indonesian troops injured at least 12 people that day when dispersing hundreds of peasants who had occupied the luxury golf course in West Java, a
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    • News Break
      • 55 6 CPF GOVERNMENT leaders have taken a consistent stand on the issue of CPF cuts. NTUC chief Lim Boon Heng said that suggestions that he and Manpower Minister Lee Boon Yang had different opinions on this were wrong. CPF contribution rates would be cut if necessary, but only as
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      • 60 6 CRIME ON Tuesday, there were 38 thefts from vehicles. Among the items stolen were 15 handphones. In one case, a 21-year-old Malaysian man was been arrested after about $1,500 worth of electrical tools, was stolen from three lorries at the Lengkok Bahru Block 55 carpark. The police have
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      • 67 6 PROPERTY| PRIVATE buyers are now likely to need more than the usual 20 per cent cash to purchase property. Banks still lend 80 per cent but based on valuation, reports The Business Times. The weaker property market means the property might be valued, for instance, 10 per
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      • 61 6 MONEY PEOPLE are using their credit cards less as the recession looms. However, at $1.09 billion, the amount of debt left unpaid by cardholders at the end of June was a fifth more than a year ago, reports The Business Times. A record $14.7 million in bad debt
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    • 60 6 South China Morning Post Gag threat to critics of new airport The Electronic Telegraph: Britain seeks to reward Nigerian democracy The Washington Post Alan Shepard, first American in space, dies The New Straits Times: More than 300 projects revived BBC news: Chinese President Jiang Zemin has ordered
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    • Article, Illustration
      123 7 POLICE are looking for Mr Mohd Nasir Sali (right), an Islamic religious teacher, to help them in an outrage of modesty investigation. The case allegedly took place in April or May last year, reports Berita Harian. Mr Mohd Nasir was known for his work among young people. Aside
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    • 57 7 CARS MORE cars are being de-registered years before their 10-year lifespan, reports The Business Times. Reason: Car owners want their rebates. For example, rebates for a Mercedes-Benz E220 bought when COEs were about $100,000 at the end of 1994 could total $140,000, depending on the vehicle's open market
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    • 66 7 RETAIL TAKINGS have dropped by up to 20 per cent in this year's Great Singapore Sale, compared with those in the sale last year. They're the first falls since the sale was launched in 1994. Upmarket brands were the worst hit, with sales of such goods down between
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    • 72 7 COURT A DIVORCED man ordered by the High Court in February to pay his two "disrespectful" sons a maintenance of $54,000 must now pay more. The Court of Appeal said he has to pay the sons, 13 and 17, $1,400 a month each until they are 21.
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    • 64 7 TREASURE DIVERS have recovered uniforms, machine guns and china cups and plates among other items from the wreck of Empress of Asia. It was an armed merchant cruiser sunk in Singapore waters now near the Sultan Shoal lighthouse off Tuas by Japanese bombers on Feb 5,1942. Twelve divers
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    • 58 7 The Straits Times: Habibie assures Chinese tycoons The Business Times: It's more than 20% cash for property buyers Lianhe Zaobao: Malaysia plans to raise $7.6 billion to revive its economy Berita Harian: Indonesia gets tough on looters RCS morning news: America's top banker warns Asia's recovery is
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      4 7 Tongue CKeek
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    • 86 7 All Singaporeans should observe (Racial Harmony Day) y for we are a nation established on the premise that there shall be racial harmony. Even as our schools celebrate Racitil Harmony Day in perfect peace... our ethnic Chinese neighbours in Indonesia are buying guns, paying for protection, fleeing the
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    • 26 7 The Dow Jones Industrial average fell 61.28 points to close at 9,128.91 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 741 million shares
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 690 8 Primary 1 school registration PHASE 2B of the Primary 1 registration exercise ended yesterday. Phase 2C is from July 29 to 31. This is for all children who don't qualify for the earlier phases. Preference will be given in this order: Children who live within 1
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    • 333 9 These schools turn away While some schools clamour for parent volunteers, others have to turn them away because of limited places. TEO YUN YUNfinds out why NO, thank you. Tao Nan Primary has had to turn away at least 20 parent volunteers already this year. And it's not
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      393 10 TNP 10TH ANNIVERSARY HUNT: DAY TWO Got the bus ticket and the foreign money? The tnp ioth Anniversary Hunt goes on! The two items that we're looking for today: The identity card of anyone born on the 10th of any month and a size-10 shoe (the size must
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    • 181 10 THE NEW PAPER NDP '98 CONTEST FIRST of all: Don't worry if you didn't win. Our NDP '98 Contest, launched on July 13, offered 15 pairs of tickets to the National Day Parade at the National Stadium. The response was huge: More than P,000 entries
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  • ON THE JOB WHERE TO LOOK WHAT TO ASK FOR HOW TO COPE
    • 385 12  -  ft VICTIM? WHAT about you? Are you a victim of the economic downturn? Do you think you were unfairly treated? No where else to seek redress? Share your story with us.
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    • 177 12 December 1,1997: Andy, the general manager of sales, is re-designated senior manager of corporate sales. No reason is given. June 17,1998: Andy's manager and the human resource general manager meet him. They say his performance "has not been up to the company's expectations". In a letter, the
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    • 101 12 ANDY claims the company exploited a "loop-hole" in the employment agreement, to avoid paying retrenchment benefits. According to the terms, they can terminate his services without giving any reasons. "It's sickening. Legally, they've done no wrong." In a reply faxed to The New
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    • 89 12 HAVE you heard of stories like this? Write to us. Or if you've got questions about being on the job, or finding one, write to us. Our guest counsellors will advise you every Thursday. Free to every letter-writer: A copy of 'Best Foot Forward
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    • 665 13 Our guest counsellor: Jays Nithiyanandan, branch manager of personnel consultants Business Trends I'm a housewife and am looking for an administrative position. I searched high and low for three months. My last job was at a shipping company as an operations assistant. These days, it takes an
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  • SPEAKUP
    • SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM
      • 119 14 CABBIES THUMBS-UP AND THUMBS-DOWN Ql CFG Lugue I WOULD like to thank the Chinese driver of City Cab number 2119 for returning my brand-new clothes bought on a shopping trip. He picked us up from Parkway Parade and took us to Bedok South Avenue 3 at about
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      • 174 14 2M Ms Angela Chiung ON July 11, at 10.30 am, my family and I waited for a cab at Choa Chu Rang Avenue 2. It was drizzling. My father, in his 70s, was on the opposite side of the road and he flagged a Mercedes taxi, number
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      • 91 14 Karen Ang THE road diversion along Upper Serangoon Road, off Potong Pasir Avenue 1, is a potential accident spot. The bus stop there is located at a dangerous bend. During peak hours, buses nearly ram into the one in front. Try standing at the bus stop,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 71 15 *****1******1* Primary 1 vacancies under Phase 2B are going fast At Anglo-Chinese (Baiter Road), exactly Ave applications were received on Tuesday for the live places available. Said Madam Hg Lee Cheng, 36, a tax accountant who lives near the school: A friend of
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    • 494 16  -  By Danny Lim and Riana Zakir IGNORED by the girl he loved, a Hwa Chong Junior College student went berserk in school. He tore at the girl's hair, kicked a passerby in the groin, and assaulted two teachers before he was hauled
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    • 297 16 THE girl already had a boyfriend, but this boy from Hongkong didn't care. He would go to look her up between lessons so often that her boyfriend and classmates sometimes up to 10 of them would push him away. He would jostle with
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    • 162 16 Hongkong after completing her O Levels here last year. "I asked if he still kept in touch with her. He said no, but I could tell from his wistful tone that he missed her," he said. Shortly after that, he fell for this girl. "There were
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    • 505 16  -  COMMENT CHENG PUAY KOON TNP ARTIST WHO CAME TO SINGAPORE AS AN ASEAN SCHOLAR FROM MALAYSIA IT was seven years ago. A 17-year-old with a pony-tail was taking her first ride
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 298 17 Wife files for divorce, wants half the money IT appeared to be a friendly separation three months ago. The Murdochs split after 31 years of marriage, but still chatted weekly. Now, it seems, things between Rupert, 67, and Anna Murdoch, 53, have taken a distinctly
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    • 164 17 Bernama. FIRE broke out on the 35th floor of a 50-storey building in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. It destroyed the offices of an insurance company in the Menara Lion building. It trapped some 100 people in offices on other floors of the building in Jalan Ampang for
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      40 19 *****1******1* Tiger Woods played the British Open with a putter he borrowed from eventual champion Mar* O'Meara. Here's what OUtan said: Thafs my backup putter. I finished first, he finished one shot off. Thaf s why it's the backup.
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    • 242 19 THE images on the Internet are shocking as they are intended to be. Because the people serving up such website pictures are Chinese Indonesians who are determined to prove their claims of terrible things done* to them in the May riots in Jakarta. One such
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    • 314 20 Factories lay off workers due to lack of parts Some restaurant owners fly long distances to cany food back by hand Official estimate of cost of disruption: Half billion US dollars. Unofficial figures hint at 10-15 times
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    • 369 21  -  NET 'VIRGINS' They lied about their virginity, they lied about their age WHY? To teach us a lesson, they say By Herbert Fernandez I BET you read the story when we first reported it last Wednesday. The two 18-year-olds were going to lose their
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  • INDONESIATODAY
    • 435 22 CHINESE INDONESIAN TYCOONS MEET PRESIDEI Meeting takes place three days after Washington Post remark Two businessmen don't come to meeting Those who attend say they will help heal economy Source: Bernama. JUST three days after making a remark to the Washington Post that "others can take the
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    • 140 22 Wire Services. INDONESIAN President Habibie has said that he will set up an independent commission to investigate rape cases which took place during riots this May. More than 160 women were raped during the riots in the middle of May which helped force
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  • A FINAL LOOK
    • 445 23  -  In French, Go, go, go Stories/ Ian Brown MIDFIELDER ZINEPINE ZIDANE: DAD MY HERO ZINEDINE Zidane has the highest respect for his father. Mention the name Smail and he speaks highly of his father's influence on his soccer career. "I've always held on to what my father
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    • 113 23 Source: Internet 1 Those Cup of Life ads will end. 2 No more BBC commentator John Motson saying: "It could have been England." 3 Your spouse suddenly realises your existence. 4 Paris will once more be a city of lovers.
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  • 470 24 Confidence Is the key during these shaky times. So said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong on Saturday. He rapped critics who hit out at his $2 billion off-Budget package to stir the economy but didn't give suggestions. He said they confused the
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  • Showtime
    • 436 25  -  By Irene Kew PUT some nail-chewing, stressed-out individuals from The New Paper together in a jam band. What would you get? Some toe-tapping, hip-shaking music and a bundle of dis-Chords, it seems. No, TNP's very own five-piece band, Pepper N Spice Gang, does
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    • 403 26  -  By Lee Yin Luen MUSIC gives you happiness or sadness. Music heals your soul. So goes the title track of an album called Let The Music Heal Your Soul. And quite a few musicians believe in the healing power of beautiful sounds. Bravo All Stars is
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    • 364 27  -  WANT TO KNOW WHY? By Hazel Tan DONT be misled by her sweetie pie looks. Or her soft-spoken nature. Hongkong actress Kathy Chao Hoi Mei can be a tough cookie, when the occasion calls for it. Like when she was molested on a busy street several
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    • Article, Illustration
      283 28  -  PICK YOUR FAVOURITE MTV STAR... AND WIN By Hazel Tan THE heat is on. A Mariah Carey sound-alike is fighting a Sharon Stone wannabe. No, not over who shows off more skin. But over an MTV Video Music award, really. The contestants: Sultry Taiwanese singer Coco Lee, touted
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  • 496 29  -  wmkI WITH J RAJENDRAN THE Straits Times reported earlier this month that Jalan Woodbridge no longer exists. Residents had talked about the stigma of living along a road bearing the same name as the mental hospital that once stood there. Said one
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
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  • 373 31  -  CHREER CHOICE BY Irene Kew ONCE he gets his hands op a violin, melodious tunes fall on your ears like the harmony of a choir. Mr Yew Shan, 26, has been playing the violin since he was four. He's a professional violinist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra
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  • 360 33 FROM PAGE 33 CAREER CHOICE What do you dislike about your job? When you get very bad conductors, you still have to play under their baton. Sometimes, these conductors insist the orchestra is wrong and they are right. Even when they know nuts about
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  • TIGER BEER S-LEAGUE '98
    • 290 39  -  By Ernest Luis JURONG Reptile Park says it will not pull out as club sponsor of Jurong FC yet. Last Saturday, The New Paper reported that the football club had not received the $300,000 from the Reptile Park as part of its sponsorship
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    • 54 39 We have no financial difficulties...we have already given Jurong $200,000 anyway (for last season). Yes, we have not given the money yet (for this season), because we have run into some problems with the facilities and licences in the clubhouse. But we f re not pulling out
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    • 233 39 FOREIGN SOCCER UPDATE Reuters. STEP aside Ryan Giggs, here comes JeBper Blomqvist. The Swedish international winger completed his £4.4 million ($11.8m) move to Manchester United from Italian club Parma yesterday. And he was immediately told to take over Giggs' left wing mantle. United manager
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    • 103 39 Reuters. DINO Zoff, the most capped Italian international, is the new coach of the national team. Zoff, 56, a former goalkeeper who made 112 appearances for his country, replaces Cesare Maldini. But money and contractual details held up negotiations over Zoff s contract. As Italian club Lazio's
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    • 110 39 AFP. RANGERS of Scotland blitzed five goals in 25 second-half minutes to come back from 3-0 down and win. Rangers eventually beat Irish part-timer Shelbourne 5-3 in an extraordinary Uefa Cup qualifying tie yesterday. Just 10 days after the World Cup finished, Rangers seemed set to usher
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  • SCHOOLSPORTS '98
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      589 40  -  BLOW EVIAN NATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS TRACK AND HELD CHAMPIONSHIP: NATIONAL STADIUM Nanyang gets count right to win title for first time GERARD UIAMA WONb catches up on the drama on the final day at the National Stadium Cedar's big setback in chase for two titles REPORTS GERARD WONG FOR
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    • 412 41 MORE ON NATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS ATHI FTire C Kunalan is the former Singapore sprint champion and national sprint coach. The 55-year-old veteran sprinter Is a lecturer at the College of mysicai Education. His wife, Elizabeth, was a former national sprinter, too. THIS one's
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    • 129 41 ANGLO-Chinese School Independent's Poh Seng Song and Cedar Girls Secondary's Flora Prawira certainly have a lot in common. Hot favourites in last Monday's 200m finals, the two sprinters experienced nasty shocks instead when they lost narrowly. Seng Song, 15, led the B Boys
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    • 292 42  -  MORE FROM THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIP Stories/4 Gerard Wong B GIRLS 4x400m RELAY: THE pictures tell the story. It was a race which Cedar Secondary badly needed to win to stand a chance of retaining the B Girls crown. But
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    • 176 42 RELAY records took a huge beating yesterday as four were smashed. Three-time 400 m record-breaker Ng Boon Keng was involved in two more record-breaking feats. He anchored the Anglo-Chinese Junior College 4x400m team to a 3:25.88 win erasing the previous mark by almost two seconds. He was also
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    • 724 42 BOYS: 100 m: 1 Aaron Huang (St Andrew's Secondary) 10.84 sec (record); 2 Tan Keng Yeow (Anglo Chinese JC) 11.03; 3 Brian Chaw (Anglo Chinese JC) 11.11 1500 m: 1 Chan Chien Hsing (Victoria JC) 4:22.91; 2 Pang Wee Khai (Anderson JC) 4:29.33; 3 Jeremy Lim
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  • SPORTS
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      148 43 It started off as a simple, practice routine. It ended in disaster. Chinese gymnast Sang Lan, 17, crash-landed during a vault warm-up before the start of Tuesday night's Goodwill Games competition. What happened: Sang Lan attempted a simple front handspring but got into a tangle while landing. She
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    • 355 43 Wire services. PARALYSED Chinese gymnast Sang Lan's bravery has impressed doctors. The 17-year-old Chinese vault champion suffered a spinal cord iryury on Tuesday after landing on the back of her neck during practice. Said Dr Vincent Leone, who is treating her: "She understands she has a
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    • 135 43 Reuters. HE quit his job as lowa State University basketball coach. Now Tim Floyd is favourite to land the lucrative job as coach of the National Basketball Association (NBA) champion Chicago Bulls to replace Phil Jackson. "Obviously the job as Chicago Bulls coach is the pinnacle," said lowa
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    • 136 43 Reuters. BRITAIN'S golf prodigy Justin Rose is a money-winner just two days after turning professional. Rose, 17, who finished tied fourth as an amateur in the British Open at Royal Birkdale, earned £625 ($1,750) when his team won the Dutch Open pro-am tournament yesterday. "It feels good
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    • 387 44 The end? FASTFACTS Michael Johnson won the 400-metres race at the Goodwill Games in 43.76 seconds He was the first man to go under 44 seconds for the in 15 months It was the 12th fastest time ever LAT-WP. MICHAEL Johnson put himself on the line for
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    • 214 44 Singapore's James Wong finished sixth in the discus with his throw of 53.29m. The gold went to China's No. 1 and the Asian record-holder Li Shaojie, who hurled the disc 60.28m. The silver was won by Mongolia's Dashdendev Mahashiri (57m) and the bronze
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