The New Paper, 27 August 1998

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  • 7 1 the new paper THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1998
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      491 2 Asiaweek magazine has Malaysia as tts cover story in its latest edition. Under the headline, Can Anyone Save Malaysia?, it examines the country's ailing economy. It also carries an interview with Special Functions Minister, Tun Daim Zainuddin, 60. Among other things, Tun Daim, a very close friend
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    • 224 2 MANY foreigners have a wrong impression of Malaysia's economic crisis, said Tun Daim Zainuddin. In an interview with today's The Business Times, he listed three perceptions relating to the crisis that need to be addressed and corrected: Investors think that Malaysia is very similar
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    • 121 3 With his BRITISH cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick (above) has had many doors opened for him since he implanted this silicon chip in his forearm. That's because it's programmed to open doors at Reading University as he approaches them and switch on his computer. He claims to
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    • 18 2 Leisure index CI, n«nf vnOWIIIIIC Pages 24,25, 28 and 30 Comics: Pages 31 and 32 TV: Page 51
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 721 4 The hostel debate in a S'pore home In March, we wrote about how NTlfs hostelites were flouting hall rules by gambling in or inviting boyfriends and girlfriends to their rooms. This has sparked debates in many homes about whether girls should join the hostel. IRENE KEW reports TO 19-year-old Jessica,
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    • 325 4 THE girls are trickling in. According to the Student Affairs Office of NTU, the number of female applicants for the hostels this year has dipped. But the drop actually started two years ago. In 1996, there were 1,644 applicants. Last year, it dropped to 1,414 applicants, a
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    • 115 4 IN the past two years, at least seven couples have been caught sharing hostel rooms at the two universities here. Five couples were caught at the National University of Singapore, and two at NTU. But many more are getting away with it, said residents at both campuses. In
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 264 5 $1 COEs next year say industry sources m ARE Certificate of Entitlement premiums headed for a crash? Yes, say some industry sources. Their basis: figures from the last recession. Tm serious, I think COEs will all be $1 next year," a director of one of the Big Four
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    • Article, Illustration
      52 5 FORSAKEN: This newborn baby boy was found abandoned at the foot of 810ck225, Ang Mo Klo Avenue 1 on Monday morning. He was draped only in a blood-soaked towel. The 3.4 kg baby, only hours old when he was found, was taken to KK Women 'a and Children
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    • News Break
      • 66 5 LIGHTNING HUMAN resource manager Tommy Goh, 53, is in critical condition after being struck by lightning while (Maying golf yesterday under dear skies at Laguna National Golf and Country Club. "Lightning can strike some distance away from where the storm clouds are. It is best to stay away
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      • 61 5 SUIT WORKERS' Party chief JB Jeyaretnam said he had offered, in a letter sent before the deadline expired, to apologise for defaming Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in the manner framed by Mr Goh's lawyers. Mr Goh's lawyers have said that the offer to waive $100,000 in defamatory
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      • 61 5 COURT A YOUNG mother of four was jailed for a year yesterday for burning her eight-year-old son with a heated knife. The court heard that in January last year, the woman, 24, became angry when her son came home late from school. She heated a kitchen knife
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      • 61 5 2ND LINK THE Second Link ruling for lorries has been deferred until the end of the year. Under the rule, which was supposed to take effect from Sept 1, lorries carrying construction materials into Singapore would have to use the Second Link. Johor Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani
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      • 42 6 |INDONESIfI| LIEUTENANT-GENERAL Prabowo Subianto could still face a military court over abductions of political dissidents, Indonesian Justice Minister Muladi said yesterday. Lt-Gen Prabowo, who was dismissed from the Indonesian army this week, is married to former President Suharto's second daughter.
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      • 61 6 HOUSING A $60,000 loan subsidy offer has drawn only two buyers for DBS Land's Melrose Park development in Zion Road, reports The Business Times. The month-long offer which ended on Sunday, was made for the 38 remaining units in the first phase. Response to a similar offer for
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      • 54 6 LOCKERBIE THE two Libyans suspected of the 1988 Pan-Am Lockerbie bombing may be tried in the Netherlands under Scottish law. Libya agreed to the US-British proposal, as long as it attached no conditions. It also wants an end to sanctions imposed on it since 1992, for refusing to
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      • 54 6 EDUCATION THE Nanyang Technological University campus will grow by a third in two years. Four new halls of residence, two blocks of staff housing, nine lecture theatres and tutorial rooms will be built. And NTU will also have its own multi-purpose auditorium so that students can have
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    • 48 5 South China Morning Post: Raids hit family of' Big Spender' New Straits Times: TanjungTuan sanctuary stays CNN International: Bonnie makes landfall BBC news: As the Russian economic crisis deepens, Acting PM Viktor Chernomyrdin has held unexpected talks with IMF head Michel Camdessus in neighbouring Ukraine
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    • 76 6 News makers HE meets many people every day. But remembering their names has become a problem. And so Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, (right) has consulted a specialist on memory 1088, reports The Sun. "During his official engagements, he is introduced to a wide range
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    • 54 6 The Straits Times: New jobs: 20,000 in the pipeline The Business Times: Corporate bond yields hit 70% as prices plummet Uanhe Zaobao: EDB creates 20,000 new jobs Berita Harian: 20,000 new jobs this year RCS morning news: Despite regional crisis, 20,000 new jobs are to be created
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    • 60 6 Ouote Wworthy There are many foreign books, magazine articles and movies which hare shown the country in a bcutught and were untrue at the same time. Let's just ignore them. Malaysia's Foreign Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi, urging Malaysians not to watch the film, Return To Paradise,
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    • 26 6 The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 79.30 points to close at 8,523.35 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 671 million shares.
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  • 283 7  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Irene Kew WHAT can bright orange ribbons and do-it-yourself friendship band kits do? Raise a whopping $42,000 for the Bone Marrow Donor Programme, Daniel Prior, 13, would say. Daniel, a Secondary 1 student at the Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) helped to raise this
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      52 9 BLOOD DONATION CENTRE m ui<m in* Regular blood-donor Madam Siriporn Y antra kul, 47, an insurance agent, dispelling a misconception about donations: A lot of v^Wnl believe that giving blood will make you fat, but know that I have always been big, and did not become fat after
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    • SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM
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        58 9 MrSKTan: To our Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong (above): We, the citizens of Singapore, wish to thank you for your super National Day Rally address. We are very proud of you for being able to enlighten us on all points concerning our future. We hope that you will
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      • 110 9 AHaneChia (e-mail): Recently, I took a taxi but did not have enough money. On reaching my destination, I asked the taxi driver, Mr Ong Yit Siang, to wait while I drew money from the POSB ATM. The machines were under maintenance, and there were no other ATMs near
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  • 250 11 Traffic lights won't hold up this bus too long —for it can turn on the green light! SINGAPORETODAY STOPPED by the red light? Don't fret. This bus will soon change the light to green. It is fitted with a special electronu device that can
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    • 212 11 I Pr f ambersk Y is the managing director of Corsmit Consulting Engineers in the Netherlands, member I of FIP commission on Prefabrication, Chairman of Dutch precast concrete association and author of many I books and publications on precast concrete technology. I I Th s 5 da y hands-on workshop
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  • ON WHERE TO LOOK THE WHAT TO ASK FOR JOB HOW TO COPE
    • Job hopping on rainy days
      • 365 12 It's a bad time to be switching jobs. But in spite of this, there are still many people with jobs who are out lookingfor new ones. YVONNE UM finds out why SHE heard it through the grapevine. There was going to be a massive
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      • 237 12  -  By Ng Wan Ching THATS the message from the Economic Development Board more jobs will be coming on line for Singaporeans and the only hurdle will be qualifications, NOT age. For the rest of this year, there will be 20,000 new jobs on offer 15,000 in the
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      • 283 12 THE seven CEOs estimate that their companies would need to employ over 1,000 people in the next one to two years. We highlight three of them today. The other four will be in tomorrow's paper. Wacker Siltronic Singapore a German-based MNC manufacturing silicon wafers for the
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      • 38 12 Contact us If you need idvkc, and our counsellor wffi answer your riuerthms awry Thurwiay. CALL 1800-733-4455 FAX: 737-5375 WRITE TO: 390 Kim Song Rood, Singapore *****5 E-MAIL npops@sph.com. sg (Please marie "On Tlie Job")
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      • 84 12 Want to know about getting a fob during this economic crunch? Check out the Choice Careen Seminar on Monday from 12.30 pm to 6.30 pm. The place: World Trade Centre Auditorium. You can atoo submit your CV a._ >l. f« M |i-||, io UK? Singapore national jjuptojei
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      • 175 12 SHE isn't about to lose her job. And her timing in searching for a new job couldn't be worse. But Miss K Tan, 24, still insists on changing her accounts job for a marketing one. After more than two years with her present company, she started job-searching six
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      • 170 12 LET'S get off this boat before things get worse. This is what more people are thinking nowadays, says our guest counsellor, Adecco Personnel's Lynne Ng (left). "A lot of people think the economy may get worse, and that their company is not stable or may close down
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 1077 13  -  DIARY OF HER FOUR DAYS IN HELL BY Carol Leong THIS is a page (see picture at right) from a Singaporean holidaymaker's diary. Her train trip on the Trans-Siberian Express turned into a holiday in hell in Russia. Miss Ng Kwee Lim, 31, and
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    • 236 13 THREE other Singaporeans, said to be in their 50s, may be missing. They were also holidaying on the Trans-Siberian railway. A group of 12 tourists taking the same package holiday left Bering on Aug 19. But the two men and a woman were missing when
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    • 429 14  -  TAMPINES MURDER By, Jason Tan THE trail of blood-stained shoe-prints ran down eight flights of stairs. It starts from the kitchen of the flat all the way through the living room and out the door. Drops of blood were also seen on the
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 315 16 MONEY RUSH IN RUSSIA Source: Wire Services. THE money crisis in Russia is beginning to look like the Indonesian story earlier this year. The value of the currency drops. People panic and rush to the banks to quickly take out their money. Hundreds of commercial banks closed after
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    • 246 16 Reuters. Q. What has caused the crisis in the Russian economy? A. Russia's government and its banks are short of cash, so they can't pay wages or meet debt payments. Russia is a great oil producer but oil prices are down. In 1997, about half
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    • 262 17 CHINESE CITY TAKES ACTION CIGARETTE ads have been banned in Guangzhou since Tuesday. Well, almost. Exempt from the ad ban are main streets, bus stations, squares, cafe umbrellas and buses, TTie China Daily quotes an official, Mr Yi Zhenhua, as saying. The reason for the exemptions: The
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    • 142 17 AFP. A MYSTERIOUS diet drink in plastic bottles (left) was sent to several Tokyo homes yesterday. Now one boy is in hospital after drinking the liquid, police said. The bottles came with a letter which said: "You may become slim by drinking this." They
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    • 277 18 PLANET HOLLYWOOD BOMBING VIDEO footage from surveillance cameras in Cape Town's Planet Hollywood restaurant is playing a crucial role in pin-pointing a suspect in Tuesday night's bomb blast. Two people were killed and 37 others injured. The investigation team has spotted at least one person behaving
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    • 106 18 Reuters THE US embassy in Pretoria says it is too early to link the Cape Town bomb to the US missile raids on Sudan and Afghanistan South Africa's Minister for Safety and Security added that domestic factors could also be behind the blast. Mr Sydney Mufamadi noted
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  • Showtime
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      390 19  -  By Lee Yin Luen A SOULFUL female voice swept through the trees singing Goodbye as a young woman in a slinky brown dress strolled through Dragon's Trail, the rainforest preserve at Sentosa. Smack! Jessica Folcker's graceful movement came to an abrupt halt when she suddenly bent down and
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    • 254 20 WHAT makes a pop star? Mr Paul Paouello, marketing director ofZomba Records, which is promoting Jessica Folcker in the Asia-Pacific region, sizes up the new singer and her potential. Voice. Her voice has a touch of soul in it. It's a very powerful pop
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  • 784 21 spotlight They are Singapore banks' best-kept secrets their hidden reserves. But not for long. Major changes are on the way to make the banks more transparent. YVONNE LIM explains Lv sV Some S'pore banks believed to have extensive secret reserves QPmI -'iiMDL&wK. a&P?' feHZSRa 4" ;v
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    175 22 HELPING CANCER KIDS SHOWTIME JEFF CHANG (above right) wants you to show your love to the Children's Cancer Foundation. He has just released his Cantonese album Leaving Love Everywhere (CD cover, right) and will be here as the foundation's ambassador to help raise $500,000 this year. To help
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    • 178 22 CATTY CHAT EVEN though they are all Eric Khoo's proteges, Michelle Goh (above, middle), Lum May Yee (left) and Corlnne Ng (right) don't seem to get along. Adam magazine ran an article on the local director's babes in its September/October issue in which editor Jason Ong said: "Michelle has a
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 265 24  -  By Chan Seet Fun GROWING Up... winning an Emmy? The Television Corporation of Singapore has sent an episode from the show's second season for consideration in the Foreign Drama category. It has sent Jailhouse Rock, directed by Emida Natalaray, executive producer of the third season, which
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    • 87 24 IN Jailhouse Rock, Gary gets into trouble because of a case of mistaken identity. He and his friends are joy-riding in a car when they're involved in an accident. A young girl goes into a coma, and Gary is jailed because the police think he's responsible. The Emmys? That
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    • 60 24 THE series was "Highly Commended" at the Asian TV Awards in 1996. It was a finalist at the New York Festivals 1997 40th TV Programming and Promotions contest. In 1996 and last year, the Asian TV Awards recognised Lim Kay Tong, Andrew Seow, Irin Gan, Darren Ng, Wee Soon
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  • 479 25  -  ET CETERA WITH IVAN FERNANDEZ NANO nano. ST-2X calling from Earth. Unable to head home for Mars as planned due to a close brush with an unidentified floating object. I got excited when I saw ST-1 written on its bod. But it ignored all mating radio
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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  • Article, Illustration
    331 27  -  By Goh Chin Lian CLEAN toilets, cool office rooms. Many workers take these for granted. Mr Sahbudin bin Sah Hudin, 40, doesn't. He's a higher technician at the People's Association (PA) headquarters in Kallang. He supervises 14 caretakers who clean toilets and the office grounds. It's his responsibility
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  • 361 29 FROM PAGE 33 CAREER CHOICE Your work philosophy? Do the job. Whatever assignment I'm told to do, if I don't do it, who else will want to do it? I always try my best to do it. If I can't do it now, 111
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    • 331 39  -  WHO IS ASIA'S PLAYER OF THE CENTURY? Stories/ Suresh Nair LEGENDARY Singapore strikers Majid Ariff and Fandi Ahmad have joined the ranks of Asia's greatest footballers. They are the only two Singaporeans nominated for Asia's Footballer of the Century award. A total of 116 leading Asian
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    • 218 39 SINGAPORE soccer referees have been on the move. The 10 Fifa referees and assistant referees have been on overseas assignments during the five-week break between the Tiger Beer S-League and the Singapore Cup. This is a rare achievement, compared to recent years. It is a good
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    • 242 39 LKGUE CUP SECOND-ROUND WWW: Bournemouth v Wolves Blackpool vTranmere Brentford v Tottenham Bristol C v Crewe Bury v Palace Sheff Wed v Cambridge Sunderland v Chester Leicester v Chesterfield Fulham v Saints Sheff Utd v Grimsby Halifax v Bradford Huddersfield v Everton Bolton v Hull Leyton v Forest
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    • 193 40 BIG BUCKS ...AND THIS: Spartak Moscow (Rus) 6 (Andrei Tikhonov 7,30, Yegor Titov 34, Itya Tsymbalar 49, Robson 54,90) Utex Lovech (Bui) 2 (Oimcho Beljakov 28, Alban Bushi 71) Spartak Moscow 11-2 on Betar Jerusalem (brad) 4 (Istvan Hamar 25, Stefan Salloi 27, Nir Shitret 51, Yossi
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    • 184 40 Reuters. LOOZ 0 MAN UNfTED 0 (UNrTEt) 2-0 on aggregate) MANCHESTER United eased into the European Champions' League after holding Polish champion LKS Lodz last night. The Polish club, playing before a 10,000-capacity home crowd, never seriously threatened Peter Schmeichel's goal. Rarely stretched, the Red Devils
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    • 193 40 DAVID Beckham's questionable temperament tainted a near-perfect game of patience by Manchester United, reports Soccernet. Beckham once again found himself clashing with authority. The blond-haired midfielder embarked on a pointlessly fierce challenge on Tomasz Kos near United's penalty area and was immediately cautioned by Italian
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    • 347 41 MORE ON THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUALIFIERS PSV EINDHOVEN 4 MARIBOR TEATANICI (PSV 5-3 on aggregate) Reuters. Reuters. Reuters. PSV EINDHOVEN escaped an early flight against Maribor Teatanic. It survived that to reach the Champions League with a 4-1 second leg win alter extra time. The
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    • 287 41 NEWSFLASH RUUD Gullit is to take over at Newcastle. He flies in today and will take over from Kenny Dalglish as manager, reports The Daily Mirror. The Dutch star has been offered a £1 million ($2.6m)-a-season deal that would make him the highest-paid club boss in the
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    • 191 41 THE excessive pressures and expectancy levels among the big clubs, especially in view of the emergence of a European Super League, is probably why the decision to axe Dalglish was taken. Dalglish is an icon, and only someone with a similar reputation would be tolerated as a successor,
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      441 42  -  TIGER CUP TOURNAMENT IN VIETNAM: BIG WIN FOR LIONS SINGAPORE 2 RafiAlill Latif Kamaruddin 35 MALAYSIA 0 Half-time: 2-0 OTHER RESULT: VIETNAM 4 LAOS 1 TODAY'S MATCHES: Indonesia v Philippines (6.30pm) (Delayed telecast, SCV, 9.30pm) Thailand v Myanmar (8.45pm) (Delayed telecast, SCV, 11.30pm) TV view by S
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    • 265 42 FORMER national coach Jita Singh was spot-on with his prediction of a 2-0 win for the Lions. The Sembawang Rangers coach felt the Lions could have scored a bigger win over a poor Malaysian team but for tactical reasons. He said the Lions probably held
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    • 172 42 "MALAYSIA tamed at Tiger Cup". This was the headline in Malaysia's leading English newspaper The New Straits Times this morning. The report said that the Lions (Singapore's nickname) handed "Malaysia a beating in the opening match". Malaysia coach Hatem Soussi expressed disappointment at the
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    • 364 43 Late night shock: Vietnam fans jeer the Lions outside hotel MORE ON THE TIGER CUP IN VIETNAM THE battle only begins tomorrow. But the war .of words started last night. Thousands of Vietnamese fans gathered outside the Singapore team hotel taunting the Lions. "Thousands of fans
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    • 263 43  -  GUSTA'S BAP DAYS Gustawent through hard times the past few years. He was first dropped from the Olympic Games squad for indiscipline. He was then arrested for drug abuse. He has had a number of family problems too. But he has overcome all these setbacks to fight his
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      298 44 AFP. 90. AND IN THE WORLD Cricket legend Sir Donald Bradman turns 90 today. Bradman's birthday will be celebrated at a gala dinner in his home-city Adelaide today by 1,300 people but he won't be there, he will be at home with his family having long retreated from
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