The New Paper, 12 August 1998

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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Dow falls World markets tremble
      196 2 Yen weakens Asian markets react Source: Wire services WORLD stock markets had an earthshattering day yesterday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which measures stock market activity in the US, lost 112 points to close at 8,462.85. It had dropped up to 255 points during trading
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      Asia shaken
      207 2 South-east Asia Markets from Thailand to Indonesia hit by bad news. Thailand expects a plan to restructure its banks. Some may I have to close. Indonesia said K yesterday it had not met the K principle payment on its debts. Malaysia lost 18 points to close at a
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      Singapore Sling for $10
      136 2 WE have lined up 10 exclusive offers for you as part of The New Paper's 10th anniversary and Raffles Singapore's 111 th anniversary celebrations. We missed out the seventh offer in the series last Saturday. So here it is: Enjoy a Singapore Sling cocktail for only
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      Daddy, why do some white people hate black people?
      376 3 Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun didn't know how to answer this question. So, he wrote a book titled Racism, as Explained to My Daughter. It went on to become a bestseller Ten-year-old Merieme wanted to know if she could give blood
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      SOME CALL IT NAIVE
      189 3 MR Ben Jelloun won France's prestigious Goncourt Prize for literature in 1987. Yet, he's baffled that he's now a celebrity invited to appear on TV and speak to schools on race relations. But there's an openness about race in France today. Nearly 58 per cent of
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      11 2 Leisure Showtime: Pages 20-23 Comics: Pages 26 28 TV: Page 47
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon SCREAM!
      474 4 No lights, then A single crossbow shot killed two Indian siblings in Brisbane last year. The suspect? Singaporean student Rajesh Subramaniam, 26, the housemate of the dead. Remember the case? Well, the trial started yesterday in a Brisbane court, where startling allegations tumbled out Source: Brisbane Courier Mail. THE
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      Accused needed a place to stay
      244 5  -  By Melvin Singh RAJESH Subramaniam had moved in with the siblings early last year. A friend who declined to be named said Subramaniam had moved out of his apartment and needed a place to stay. So, the siblings invited him to share their townhouse
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Stocks at 10-year low
      153 6 DOWN m THE Singapore stock market hit its lowest level in 10 years yesterday amid global fears of a meltdown in North Asian currencies. The Straits Times Industrials Index fell beneath the 1,000-point level yesterday to an intra-day low 0f998.41. But it recovered a little to
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      COEs Prices down again
      108 6 PRICES of certificates of entitlement (COEs) have fallen again. COEs for mid-sized cars, the most popular, fell by nearly $5,000 to $29,100, or $12,500 less than what they cost two months ago. And buyers are particularly cautious about big and luxury cars. Their COEs are lower
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      Lock icon Victim of the downturn
      61 6 w UNWANTED ROLLS: You could buy this Rolls Silver Spur 11, for just $300,000, although not long ago, when it was new, it cost more than $1 million. There are about 200 Rolls registered in Singapore, but because of the economic downturn, some, like this one,
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      world Head liners
      48 6 South China Morning Post Yen worries drag down world stocks New Straits Times: 2 held under ISA over rumours CNN Interactive: Arkansas schoolboys guilty: Both sentenced to juvenile custody BBC news: Share prices have tumbled in markets around the world. Commodity prices also fell sharply
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    • News Break
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        2000 Big Bang
        64 6 TOURISM* THE task: Make Singapore the Asian top spot for tourists in the year 2000. The method: Get a Government-led committee to plan events for all of next year to lead up to a worldwide TV countdown to usher in the millennium, say tourism industry sources. The
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        Bank boss sued
        72 6 Jir THE boss of Standard Chartered Bank and her sister are being sued by their brother for $350,000. Mrs Theresa Foo, 54, and Madam Agnes Yo Mie Sia, 49, are being sued as executors and trustees of their mother's will. Mr Andrew Yeo Cheng Hay, 46, is
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        President's trip
        53 6 MEDICAL H PRESIDENT Ong Teng Cheong has accompanied his wife to the US for medical consultations. They left last night for New York. The First Couple will return on Wednesday next week. During the President's absence, Mr Lim Kim San, chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisers, will
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        Cheques stolen
        52 6 COURT A FORMER American Express clerk who took cash cheques customers sent in for payments was jailed five months yesterday. Jayakala Chandiras, 24, pocketed three cheques totalling more than $15,000. Her sister, Maheswary Chandiras, 27, was fined $6,000 for abetting her. Amex said it discouraged cardmembers from mailing
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        Short reprieve
        58 7 MALAYSIA SOME Indonesian workers in Malaysia have been given a one-month reprieve. About 216,000 Indonesian workers originally had to leave Malaysia on Saturday because their visas had expired. But Datuk Tajol Rosli Ghazali, Deputy Home Minister, said the workers who could not leave as planned due to a
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        Not outside job
        60 7 MALAYSIA^ RUMOURS of disturbances in Malaysia's Chow Kit area did not start from outside the country, said Malaysia's Inspector-General of Police. "So far our investigations did not show any indications that the rumours originated from outside and it is proper that I make this denial so as
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        'He loves me'
        62 7 COURT^M A MAN told a judge that another male judge was in love with him, the Malaysian High Court was told. Sessions Court Judge Tarmizi Abdul Rahman, said the alleged victim told him Sessions Court Judge Rungit Singh had fallen in love with him." Rungit Singh, 42,
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        2 held
        55 7 TWO people suspected of spreading rumours of disturbances through the Internet have been detained by Malaysian Police. Malaysia's Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Noor said a man and a woman, both Malaysians in their 20s, were detained under the Internal Security Act, and that several other
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      Lock icon Teletubbies
      150 7 News makers AFP. BRITAIN'S most lovable, or annoying, exports, the Teletubbies, characters in a children's television show, have become the centre of a heated academic and media debate in Hongkong. An unnamed New Zealand educator was quoted in a local newspaper as saying the four bouncy, colourful BBC characters
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      Tongue in Cheek
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      local Head liners
      54 7 The Straits Times: 2nd quarter grew 1.6%; slide continues The Business Times: World markets gripped by fears of worse to come Uanhe Zaobao: Index in all sectors indicate further economic slowdown Berita Harian: Economy expected to continue to be weak RCS morning news: Financial markets around the
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      USE OUR OWN
      41 7 Quote worthy Some Thai and half-Thai dogs may have a similar sniffing capability as foreign dogs. Thai police chief Gen Pracha Promnok, ordering the force to use local dogs instead of foreign breeds as sniffers to detect drugs.
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  • HEALTHTODAY
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      Lock icon You may be allergic to... ...milk, egg, soya and wheat, among other foods
      688 8  -  Feeling ill? By Carol Leong WHEN Nigel Lee, nine, eats grapefruit, his face swells. But that's not all. In fact, the list of foods he reacts badly to is almost as long as the list of food
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      Lock icon Help for asthma sufferers
      290 9 DO you have health Problem or queiy? We've arranged for a panel o* doctors from the Parkway group (which runs Gleneagles, Mount Elizabeth and East Shore Hospitals) to answer your questions. And feel free to share any health experiences which you think would interest others. MR
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      Food allergies — 10 common causes
      41 9 Food allergies 10 common causes THESE foods contain naturally occurring substances that may cause reactions in allergy sufferers: Wheat Cow's milk Eggs Beans, like soya beans and kidney beans Shellfish Tomatoes Citrus fruit Nuts, like peanuts, cashews and almonds Oats Yeast
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      DESIGNER WEDDING
      551 10  -  WINES FROM ISRAEL H BLOWTORCHED OVENS 600 GUESTS AT RITZ-CARLTON WllNtarKV On National Day, Singapore's tiny Jewish community celebrated the marriage of millionaire retailer FJ Benjamin's only daughter to a member of one of Singapore's most distinguished Jewish families. We report on the Jewish wedding of the decade
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      'NOW, EVEN THE RICH ONE IS TAKEN'
      214 10 AT Sunday's wedding, a good-looking Jewish bachelor moaned, half-jokingly: "There're only four unmarried girls in my community. One's too fat, one's too weird, one's too young and the other's too rich. "Now, even the rich one is taken." Said in jest, his complaint
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      He manipulated officers for durians
      407 11  -  Byl Teo Hwee Nak THE alleged mastermind in the murder of a Bulgarian student was yesterday described as manipulative by his close army buddy. Shaiful Edham Adam, 22, could even manipulate the army officers although he was only a driver, Norishyam Mohamed Ali said in
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      'LIAR', YOU
      154 11 SHAIFUL's wife, Madam Hezlinda A Rahman, was called a liar twice yesterday morning. The first time was by lawyer Mr Peter Fernando and the second, DPP Mr Francis Tseng. Madam Hezlinda had said earlier that she heard Miss Apostolova telling Shaiful to "do it", meaning to kill her
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      Win cool stuff
      154 11 FLIP to the front of the paper. See the masthead? Cut it out and keep it. Do the same tomorrow and the day after. Because any three TNP mastheads from today to Friday, plus a redemption coupon in Saturday's paper, will get you a free Adidas product
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      Lock icon WOMAN STABBED TO DEATH
      205 12 A WOMAN was stabbed and killed at a flatted factory last night. The police said the woman, Madam Ooi Ang Yen, 43, was stabbed in the throat, legs and chest. This happened at Block 1002, Jalan Bukit Merah. The police got a call about the stabbing
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      Touch-me-not ring
      58 13 MINIMUM I* While other women wear a ring on the wedding finger at a reminder of love's commitment, British backpacker Uz Brown, 31, wears a ring as protection: I wear a wedding ring so that I can say, 'Excuse me, keep your hands off.' You know, the kind
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      CJ: Even judges get prank calls
      496 13 Fed-up by the spate of nuisance calls, a couple took the law into their own hands by "arresting" the alleged female prankster. RIANA ZAKlRfinds out why their case touched a raw nerve with the Chief Justice SO you think judges are safe from nuisance
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      Seminar starts at 2.30 pm
      73 13 THE New Paper's O-level seminar is on this Friday at the World Trade Centre Auditorium. And to make sure that no one misses anything, the starting time has been moved from 2 pm to 2.30 pm. This is in response to several requests. Experienced speakers
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  • WORLD TO DAY
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      Lock icon 'What nonsense'
      217 14 Taking money to repair presidential yacht is not wrong, says Philippine President Bernama Philippine President Joseph Estrada wants to take his presidency closer to his people. He says it was one of his election promises. But when these people are living in coastal villages, the best way to
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      Lock icon BAD BOYS?
      352 15 Boys, aged 7 and 8, accused of killing girl for bicycle Source: Wires services. ONE is so small, he had to stand on a chair to let the witness get a good look at him. The other, when told he couldn't go home with his mother, burst into
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      Lock icon Victims' families weep as schoolyard killers are found guilty
      347 15 BAD BOYS II Reuters. ON March 24, they gunned down four girls and a teacher at their Arkansas (US) school. Yesterday, as dozens of the victims' relatives wept openly in court, they were found guilty on five capital murder charges. Yet,
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      Death in 30 mins
      453 16 "They were there, alive, giggling, and now they're gone." THE five little girls were playing when they accidently locked themselves in a car boot. The sun was blazing overhead, with the thermometer reaching 35.5 C. Soon, the temperature in the car boot probably hit a sizzling
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      To be buried together
      127 16 A COMMON funeral service will be held tomorrow morning for the girls who died together in the car boot. "All five caskets will be together," said Ms Chelsea Welling, spokesman for Valley View Funeral Home. An autopsy confirmed the girls died of heat stroke.. The deaths
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      Life for Cosby killer
      217 16 THE teenager who killed comedian Bill Crosby's son was jailed for life with no parole yesterday. Ukrainian- born Mikhail Markhasev, 19, (right) was stony-faced when sentenced for the Jan 16,1997, murder of Ennis Cosby, 27. Defence lawyers vowed to appeal the verdict and sentencing. As he
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      Lock icon Who
      347 17 WHO is behind the deadly attacks on the US embassies in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, and Tanzania's capital, Dares Salaam? The authorities in the United States aren't sure. But political analysts there believe they have enough clues to view Iran, Iraq and even the terrorist group behind the 1993 World
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      WHAT HAPPENED
      42 17 A bomb aimed at the US embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday morning killed 224 people. Minutes later, a bomb at the US embassy in Dares Salaam, Tanzania, killed 10 people. More than 5,000 people were injured in the blasts.
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      14 held
      82 17 TANZANIA: TANZANIAN police have arrested 14 foreigners in their search for the bombers. Assistant Police Commissioner Aden Mwamunyange said the unnamed men six Iraqis, six Sudanese, a Somali and a Turk —were "unable to explain their presence in the country." The Iraqis are a civil servant, two engineers,
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      Hopes fading
      95 17 KENYA: AFTER four days of digging with cranes, picks and their bare hands, exhausted rescuers in Nairobi are losing hope of finding any more survivors. Responses from Ms Rose Wanjiku, who was heard calling out from deep in the wreckage, have faded away. She has had no food
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      No footage
      84 17 US: HOPES that a security camera on the roof of the US embassy in Dares Salaam would provide clues have been dashed. US investigators have found the camera was linked only to a viewing monitor and did not record the events leading up to the blast. US investigators
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      Lock icon It's not the stain on the dress. It's the stain on our country.
      480 18  -  —Poster outside the US district courthouse by YVONNE LIM CONSPIRACY theorists will love this one. In the movie Wag the Dog, a movie producer and an image consultant bail the US President out of a sex scandal
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      No time for men
      35 18 mui*m id* 1 1 i, who patted Atchu Int butkMd t Clyde Klatz, the tkmf% mhtlit art director, 18 months ago, says: I'm going to forget about men ifor a while.
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  • Showtime
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      Lock icon We want to party
      411 19  -  By Chan Seet Fun THE Birthday Bash was such a hit, it almost involved some door bashing. Radio stations Perfect 10, Yes 93.3 FM and Class 95 teamed up with magazine 8 Days to organise a dance party at Suntec City. It was free and it
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      THE PARTY
      90 19 THE Birthday Bash a Non-Stop Dance Party, was organised by radio stations Perfect 10, Yes 93.3 FM, Class 95 as well as 8 Days magazine. RCS DJs Ivan Rantung, Glen Ong, Jean Danker, Dasmond Koh, Foong Wai See, Vernon A and Christopher Goh were on hand to keep
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      Lock icon ALL WET, but we want to party, too
      314 20  -  BY Avis Wong DESPITE the presence of artistes such as Ultra, Peach, Ning Baizura, Echoßoys and Harlem Yu, the Power 98 FM National Day Countdown was no big party. You didn't want to be in the open-air Sentosa Fountain Gardens on a
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      Lock icon It's a thik-thik, choy-choy world
      390 21 Who needs sense? A Indian Bhangra-rap artist Baba Sehgal performed here I last weekend. i RAHUL PATHAK J caught-caught caught-caught j, caught the act JW I DO NT know whether Baba Sehgal wants more "Baby" Sehgals. But if he does, they'll probably pop out five
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      Rock Candy is sweet and hot
      359 22  -  By Hazel Tan THEY call themselves Candy. And are self-confessed "very shy girls". But Malaysia's first all-girl band is not at all sweet, or shy when on stage. The four-piece band plays hard music. Heavy metal stuff, hardly something you would expect from four
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    Asteroid war zone
    571 23 showtime Both movies are about impending doom by asteroid impact. But Armageddon and Deep Impact are as different as can be. Which one is better? EDWIN YEO pits one movie against the other. ROUND 1: SIZE DOES MATTER Armageddon The asteroid here is the size of Texas
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    We're going public
    506 24  -  WITH NG WAN CHING TO buy or not to buy? Lately, that has been the question revolving around our household. I'm not talking about taking advantage of falling property prices, although I wish it were the case. It involves something a lot more practical and something that
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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      128 24 Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson 77 X- I ZOOS LET PEOPLE SEE HEl,tfiOfc. V4\AT 7MT MOHKL^ A-rh Ufa UXX? TWVS AND FEET TO CUWB? WOW WU) ANWNS REMI3 WNG? R\GW IH PUBUC.IO&.' Adam/Brian Basset "WE wffww I j. B».PACTer Foxtrot/Bill Amend WHAT Do "TOO SAY LARA AMO EE6AO' MY "No SWEETHEART,
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      8 26 Tlm Straits Tinas CLASSIFIED Vftm >iyw Ml you«
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      35 26 MY. I'\wsuy ah a\rtjßreir flf I v •*>■ M It's easy. I'll just find it in The Straits Times Classified. Dad does it all the time. He has been flying even before I started walking. |cat.&
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      459 37 FIO WORLD YOUTH TENPIN BOWLING: INCHON CITY, SOUTH KORFA BOYS SINGLES: 1 Shawn Evans (US) 1,385 pintails 2Tamman Sharif (Saudi Arabia) 1,310 3 R J Batista (Philippines) 1,280 GIRLS SINGLES: 1 Shalin Zulkifli (Malaysia) 1,365 2 Kim Yeau Jin (South Korea) 1,266 3 Paloa Gomez (Colombia) and
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      108 37 WHILE Remy finished 15th, team-mates Mervyn Foo and Henry Lim were 37th and 38th respectively. Foo, 23, scored a total of 1,180 pinfalls (197). SIX-CAME TALLY Lim, also 23, rolled a six-game tally of 1172 (average 195). Shaun Ng is currently 75th with his
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      152 37 MALAYSIAN Shalin Zulkifli's list of bowling achievements just keeps growing and growing. The 20-year-old added yet another prestigious feather to her cap when she captured the girls' singles crown yesterday. She hit a six-game total of 1,365 pinfalls (average 228) for the win 99 pinfalls more than
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      197 37 ■I PRINCE PESTA SUKAN OPEN TENNIS MEET: KALLANG TENNIS CENTRE UNTIL SUNDAY THEY say that big things come in small packages. Pint-sized qualifier Andrew Kam certainly breathed new life into the old idiom when he played against Singapore No 1 Chen
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      SECOND ROUND RESULTS
      97 37 MEN'S SINGLES: Alex Chew bt Gary Tan 60, 6-4; Hassan Bohari btCheam HengJien (walkover); Eric Thorel bt Yiu Leng Kar 6-4,7-5; Chen Chee Yen bt Andrew Kam 6-2,60. John Seol bt Wahiduzzaman Saini 60, 6-2; Kevin Ong Jun bt S Najib 6-1,6-1; Stephen Koon bt Philip Brophy
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    499 39 NEW BRAZIL COACH WHO INSPIRES GIFTED PLAYFRS fm91.3 The New Paper Sportsfile on NTUC Radio Heart FM 91.3. From Monday to Friday at 8.30am. Check it out Reuters. IF the football purists had been allowed to choose the Brazil coach then Vanderley Luxemburgo is the one they would
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    132 39 Born: 1952 in Rio de Janeiro Coaching career 1989: Leads Bragantino, a minor provincial side into the first division of the Paulista (Sao Paulo state) championship for the first time. 1990: Wins Paulista championship with Bragantino. 1991: Joins club Flamengo 1992: Joins Palmeiras, a Sao Paulo team who have
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  • ENGLISHPREMIERSHIP'98
    • the big kickoff: august 15
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        294 40 LAN BROWN continues the countdown to the Premiership kickoffon Saturday. Today: The Villans and the Blue and Whites BLACKBURN ROVERS WHO'S NEW: Kevin Davies £7.25 m (s2o.3million) from Southampton; Sebastian Perez £3m from Bastia; Jim Corbett £525,000 from Gillingham; Darren Peacock free from Newcastle. NOTABLE LOSSES:
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        183 40 ASTON VILLA WHO'S NEW: Alan Thompson £4.smillion (sl2.6million). Former Bolton; David Unsworth £3m ex-West Ham. NOTABLE LOSSES: Savo Milosevic, Fernando Nelson, Steve Staunton. PRE SEASON: Stan Collymore got off the mark in Villa's 3-0 win at Wycombe. Villa hopes to unearth a new star in 30-year-old Trinidadian Russell
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      262 41 UEFACUP: Second preliminary round (First-leg) HIGH-SPENDING Glasgow Rangers saw off 10-man PAOK Salonika 2-0 in a hard-fought match yesterday thanks to a man who cost it a bomb and another who came free. Ukrainian winger Andrei Kanchelskis, who came over in a Scottish transfer record
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      283 41 Reuters. CELTIC chairman Fergus McCann took £50,000 ($130,000) from his players and gave it to a hospital charity. It came after a row over bonuses threatened to engulf the club ahead of its Champions League qualifying tie against Croatia Zagreb. McCann accused his players of holding
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      215 41 MANCHESTER UNITED v LKS LODZ (PoUnd) AFP. MANCHESTER United must win today. It meets Polish champion LKS Lodz in the Champions League preliminary round first-leg clash at its ground, Old Trafford. United manager Alex Ferguson said: "It is new territory for us in the sense that we
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      78 42  -  S GULAM The third and concluding part of the interview with the S-League's top man following the decision of the League to cut salaries of players and officials by 20 per cent The salary cut had to be made to ensure the
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      SO YOU EXPECTED AMILLION DOLLARS FROM THE FOOTBALL POOLS?
      441 42 BUT here's the bad news: You won't get even half-a-million dollars. The Football Pools, to be introduced next year, won't be a windfall for the S-League clubs as widely anticipated. Certainly not in 1999. Instead, the S-League has agreed with Singapore
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      179 42 Well, I had planned to leave at the end of the second year. Because I was brought in to launch the league. So the league was launched in 1996 and having made sure it's still around in the second year, I considered that as
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      190 42 I took it up as a job. To me, a job is a job. For me, the S-League is not here just for three years. It's a continuous process. If this is the end of the S-League and if there is no S-League tomorrow,
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      176 43 Don't give up. The S-League is here to stay. It may not be the best. But this is the only league we have. Let's give it our best shot to make it a success. Take me. I can also spend my time elsewhere. But the S-League
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      OH THE FANS
      128 43 We need the fans' support, we need general support from Singaporeans, we need the moral support, we need the financial support from our sponsors. Up to now, I regret to say, we don't have it yet. There are still people out there who are pouring cold water,
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      281 43 GOMBAK United may be the "new kid on the block". But it can give the big guns a run for their money where management is concerned. "I think this club has great potential," said Mr Kwek. "They have exercised some important initiatives without anybody telling them
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      Cut down on foreigners
      227 43 THE foreign player quota is almost certain to be cut from five to four next year. It may even be reduced to three in the year 2000 or 2001. Said Mr Kwek: "We have looked at this issue carefully. 'To give you a straight answer, the
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    431 44 ENGLAND COACH MAKES SHOCKING REVELATION SPORTSTODAY 'HE WAS LIKE A MAN POSSESSED -1 HAD MY ARM READY IN CASE HE HIT MF ENRAGED and drunk, Paul Gascoigne threatened England soccer coach Glenn Hoddle. He then smashed up his hotel room after being told he had
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