The New Paper, 26 November 1998

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1 49 The New Paper
  • 7 1 the new paper THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1998
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    • 93 1 X?" Ist Copy > j|ll^Mjlj^l Smoking body found Bomb squad called /Page mi^^^HLSHHHiiHiIHI. 1 i |r f4 jfl 1 i I üBTr. 2BL t Picture/JONATHAN CHOO This bloody and blackened body was found at a Jurong East bus stop at 1 am today i_ i i i" ££l£-. >-' 3jljiigfj£2|:',
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 589 2 At about 1 am this morning, residents of Jurong East St 21 were jolted out of their sleep by a loud blast Some of them rushed down to find a body lying at the bus stop. CRISPINA ROBERT also rushed
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    • 207 2 SCRAPPED China, Japan deal to bury old hatred THIS morning's The Straits Times had an upbeat, story that China and Japan were going to kiss and make up. At 8 am, news wires flashed a bombshell: The agreement to patch up these two historical enemies is off. "Beijing is unhappy
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    • 585 3 WHO WILL BE MISS WORLD? MISS SINGAPORE SAYS: Ambitious Miss South Africa? Mystifying Miss Venezuela? Well-proportioned Miss Trinidad and Tobago? Or confident Miss India? Who will win Miss World this evening? JILL UM asked Miss Singapore, Grace Chay, to pick her top contenders for the title
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    • 43 2 Sorry 1,2,3... Pull!, TOP, Nov 25: Our report on the Government's cost-cutting package said the package was $500,000 more than was recommended. It should have been $500 million more. Leisure index Showtime: Pages 22, 25, 28, 29 Comics: Page 30 TV: Page 51
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 575 4 Part of the Government's $10.5-billion cost-cutting package is targeted at helping the i average Singaporean. CRISPIN A ROBERT finds out how it will benefit one family IF the cost-cutting measures can help her save just $10 which is about the amount she
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    • 96 4 TRANSPORT: 50 cents for every top-up of $10 on farecards. $1.35 less for her son's concession card (5 per cent discount). SERVICE AND CONSERVANCY CHARGE: The rebate of $5.50 a month introduced earlier this year stays. ELECTRICITY: 4 per cent savings on electricity bills. So
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    • 53 4 DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Tuesday announced a package that cuts costs for businesses and individuals. Apart from transport, electricity and hospital discounts, there were cuts in corporate income tax, foreign worker levies and JTC rentals. Most of the cuts will come into effect on Jan
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    • 420 5 ADVERTISEMENT Movie Star Shares Weight-loss Secrets! At an overwhelmingly popular slimming seminar I THE SLIMMING held in Singapore recently, Hong Kong movie star Jll DPftCCCCIftM AI C and new mother Christy Chung and weight-loss KvwIWUMWw consultant Amy Quek shared the secrets of successful V #-V Asked about her successfu| weight-ioss.
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 201 6 m GOOD NEWS FOR SOME THE AWARDS The Enterprise 50 awards are given annually to Singapore's top 50 privately-held firms. It is organised by The Business Times and Anderson Consulting with support from the Economic Development Board. YOUR take-home pay is safe for now, if you work
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    • 63 6 •ii* SAVED: Rescuers attending to scooterist Goh Meow Chaow, 21, after she and her pillion-rider plunged headlong into the Stamford Canal near Specialists Centre on Tuesday. On the left, the scooter lies in the canal. Ms Goh is in stable condition in hospital. The pillion rider,
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    • News. Break
      • 50 6 I BUSINESS 1 THE hunt is on for technopreneurs. The Government has set up a high-powered ministerial committee to give high-tech entrepreneurship a boost. The Technopreneur 21 Ministerial Committee is chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan. Second Trade and Industry Minister George Yeo is deputy chairman.
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      • 62 6 BANKING m SINGAPORE'S most famous woman banker, Mrs Elizabeth Sam, is retiring from the management of OCBC Bank on Jan 1. But she will remain on its board as a non-executive director, OCBC said. Mrs Sam, 59, wanted to retire so that she may have more time for
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      • 66 6 U crTme m THEIR fake Singapore work permits cost $50 to $100 and look very much like the real thing. The sign they're fake is the way they snap when bent. Stacks of forged work permits, identity cards, student passes and employment passes were seized in a raid
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      • 61 6 OPER SINGAPORE'S first all-in-one bus and rail complex with homes, shops and offices is up for tender. It's the way of the future a massive development to be built at Sengkang. Everything will be integrated with the Sengkang MRT Station now being built and the Light Rapid
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    • 106 6 South China Morning Post: Spare HK convicts, mainland urged New Straits Times: Nalla trial takes a twist Berita Harian Malaysia: Anwar was afraid accusations would be made public: Witness TV2: For the first time, the techniques of turning over and neutralising apply to a case criminal in
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    • 207 7  -  F®Sus By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY AUSTRALIA has declared war on the powerful US-based hedge funds. Its Reserve Bank governor has called for tougher rules for the rogues of the international money scene. Mr lan Macfarlane said they were "the privileged children of the international financial
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    • 65 7 WILDLIFE m THE number of turtles going ashore in Malaysia to nest has dropped by about half since 1991. There were about 5,500 landings of Green Turtles on Malaysian shores in 1991. This year, about 2,900 landings have been recorded. One of the main reasons for this was
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    • 48 7 U TURKEY U YESTERDAY, Turkey's government was toppled by a no-confidence vote in Parliament over Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz's alleged links with organised crime. The People's Republican Party, on whose outside support Mr Yilmaz's minority coalition depended, voted with the opposition to bring down the government.
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    • 65 7 Quote Wworthy (she New Paper is) bouncy and never boring, often written through the eyes of the readers themselves... The ingenuity is constant, and so, thinly disguised, is the educative purpose. The New Paper is a friend, taking your hand in a difficult world and helping you to
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    • 27 7 The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 13.13 points to close at 9,314.28 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 582 million shares.
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    • Article, Illustration
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    • 62 7 The Straits Times: Wanted: Technopreneurs The Business Times: Top E5O firms sayCPFcut enough for them Lianhe Zaobao: George Yeo: Singapore needs to attract talent for knowledge-based competition in 21st century Berita Harian: Parliament passes Singapore's competitiveness report RCS morning news: More funds have been earmarked for a
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 471 8  -  This doctor gave fake MCs. Now, he By Riana Zakir THIS doctor just gave and gave. Many people knew him for giving fake medical certificates. He was suspended three times for going against medical ethics. Far fewer knew that he also gave help to needy children in
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    • 175 8 SOME wags dubbed him "Fake MC King' 1 Here's what happened: In 1973, Dr Ramaswami was suspended for a year for selling an MC for $2 to an undercover officer, without examining him. In 1986, he was suspended for three months for allowing
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  • PARLIAMENTTODAY
    • 642 10 In three days and 45 speeches, many issues were aired by MPs about Singapore's money problems and how it can get ahead. The chairman of the Committee on Singapore's Competitiveness (CSC), Mr Lee Yock Suan, also Trade and Industry Minister, gave his replies yesterday. NG WAN
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    • 106 10 LIM BOON HENG MINISTER without Portfolio Lim Boon Heng was surprised to hear that a 30 per cent wage cut was still being mentioned in Parliament. The key players had earlier debated the cut and agreed on 15 per cent. Mr
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 203 11 RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: SPEAK B P YOUR FORUM Dr Koh Wei Howe, President. Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (Singapore) I REFER to "You never know when arthritis may strike" (TNP, Oct 21). There are many established treatments for various forms of arthritis. However, one, a ginger extract, that
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    • 159 11 THE National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Education Grant is available from today to Jan 31 next year. To be eligible for the one-off grant of $100 per school-going child, union members must have been: Retrenched with no retrenchment benefits and out of a job Retrenched with benefits
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    • 243 12  -  By Fong Foong Mei GOOD golly Miss Dolly! Actress Koh Chieng Mun (right), now 38, was once a "wild child." In her own words, she swanned around in six-inch platforms (they didn't use metric in those days) and huge bell-bottoms. A far cry from Dolly Tan,
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    • 95 12 THE Singapore Story takes to the road again beginning today. Started in July at Suntec City, the show was a hit, attracting over 60,000 visitors. Its success prompted organisers to go for the travelling exhibition, which will be shown at these community centres: Bishan (today-Nov 30),
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    • 54 12 THE first 1,000 readers who present any masthead (front page logo) from this week's editions of The New Paper at the Bishan exhibition (Nov 26-30) will receive two passes each to the all-new Singapore Story 3D show which opens on Jan 22 next year at
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    • 63 12 miu<mui< Ufa! cohnnirist David Kraal thinks h Mndnaastawavtfs aanlar cMsana ahanld Ml raqnfca n spndnl campaign. Emm Mtnrn%. M fcMnasa It a hard net to to* by: Can you imagine everyone you meet being considerate, thoughtful, attentive, generous, genial/benign, tender, affectionate, compassionate, empathetic, gentle, humane,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 430 14 Three men are on trial for allegedly gang-raping a 22-year-old widow in a hotel room last year. The widow's boyfriend testified yesterday. JASON TAN reports THEY were watching television after having sex in a Geylang Hotel. Then Ann (not her real name) became upset because
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      • 126 14 Defence lawyer Sahul Hameed: Ann told you she had consented to have sex with Saari Kator and Shahrom Sabar on that night. Marie She did not say that. Mr Sahul: You did not like the fact that she had sex with other people. Marie She did
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      • 146 14 MARK told the court that he had told Ann's aunt he would marry Ann next April. He said a female friend had introduced him to Ann in mid-September last year. He knew that she had liked him from the start. They had sex that very
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    • 61 14 Saari Kator, 30, a despatch rider. He faces two charges of rape, two charges of helping with rape and three charges of criminal intimidation. Shahrom Sabar, 27, a courier clerk. He faces one charge of rape and two charges of helping with rape. Ahmad Mahamood, 27, unemployed. He faces
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    • 54 14 Those guilty of rape can be jailed up to 20 years and fined or caned. 'Those guilty of criminal intimidation can be jailed up to two years or fined or both. For threatening to kill or cause grievous hurt, one can be jailed up to seven vears or more,
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  • Article, Illustration
    423 16 Just 30 minutes into the job and she is... ON THE JOB WHERE TO LOOK WHAT TO ASK FOR HOW TO COPE Remember Madam Ang, the housewife who quit her receptionist/clerk job after just three days? One reader, Madam Lim BH, 29, wrote about her own experience
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  • Anwar on trial
    • 403 19  -  BY Brian Miller TWO Special Branch officers believed that the two "targets" they had interrogated were telling the truth. But they still proceeded to "turn them over" and "neutralise" them. Why, asked the prosecution lawyers. Why did they go through all that when they were satisfied that
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    • 76 19 TO make their targets tell the truth. That is normally the aim of the Special Branch in "turning over" operations, its outgoing Deputy Director, Datuk Amir Junus testified. But in the case of the two detainees who had made allegations against Anwar Ibrahim, they did not follow
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    • 169 19 ANWAR Ibrahim never wanted a police report to be made when he found out that a poison-pen letter was being widely circulated in Kuala Lumpur in August last year. The letter, which gave vivid details of his alleged sexual misconduct, was not signed, but carried the
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    • 27 19 The Anwar Ibrahim trial continues today. The New Paper Infoline, 1900-914-0002, will bring you updates of the trial from 1 pm. Calls cost 30 cents a minute.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 362 20 BRITAIN'S highest court has decided to send former Chilean ruler Augusto Pinochet to Spain to face charges of murder, torture and terrorism. Pinochet (left) has been at the centre of a diplomatic storm after he was arrested in Britain in October on a Spanish judge's
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    • 42 20 muifmui' Superstar Janet Jackson says she Had an unforgettable experience during her visit to South Africa recently where she met President Nelson Mandela. He told hen Always remember you've a grandfather in South Africa that you can come and visit.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 582 22 'Parkinson's disease: A disorder of the nerve system which causes shaking, rigidity and harms muscle coordination. Former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali suffers from it. Named after surgeon James Parkinson Source: AFP, internet. IT started with a twitch in his left pinkie finger
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    • 324 22 Dr Death gets his wish in court —for the fifth time Wire services. DR Death, they call him, and he again dared the US authorities to charge him. Which they did in the state of Michigan yesterday, after his videotaped mercy-killing of a terminally ill patient was broadcast by a
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    • 198 23 The global economic crisis that hit Asia badly has brought about a slower demand for oil. In this part of the world, Indonesia is a major oil producer. Much of the refinery work for its crude oil is done in Singapore. Source: Wire Services. WORLD oil prices
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    • 290 23 zouk presents direct Irom Brighton h 1 r T T V j|fe jm j|§%. m 1 L 11/ W" INKMM I IMu jL. i'.i r*- i—— l» cr v- n v <l D J tiORMAfV COOK aka FATBOY SLIM Friday 27 November Zouk (3 hour set) Warm up by DJs:
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  • Showtime
    • 559 24  -  By Yong Siew Fern REPORTING FROM HONGKONG FAILED relationships, career rivals, loneliness and a personal manager who got too personal. This is what the late Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng supposedly had to face. Singapore singer Kit Chan, who played her in a Hongkong
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    • 91 24 THE musical hinted at a lesbian relationship between Teresa and her manager. Kit explained: "It was a sensitive issue.... We don't know what really happened although there were rumours, so we hint at it but it is never clearly illustrated. To me, it was a cold dependency
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    • 58 24 If Kit had a choice, she would want her own cook, doctor and masseuse to travel with her all the time. "An assistant is very important and I am very lucky to have one wherever I go, because when we are under a lot of stress, we
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    • 66 24 Did Kit Chan ever have any rival who was hard to beat? Said Kit: "I wouldn't think so because although the media always tried to create this competition between me and Mavis (Hee), I don't think there was ever any. "I suppose they wanted to do that
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    • 81 24 In The Legend and her previous Hongkong musical Snow.Wolf. Lake, Kit played sweet girl roles and in secondary school, she played the princess in Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. Does she ever get sick of being typecast? "I always wondered why I was chosen to play the
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    • 303 25 HONGKONG TV STATION'S BIRTHDAY PARTY At the Television Broadcast (TVB) Anniversary Show last week, games, stunts and endless lucky draws were the order of the night. Since viewers here will see it only next year on cable or video, here is a glimpse of
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    • 344 26  -  By Chan Seet Fun ITS a band that attracts all sorts of people, despite its name. "We have whole families coming to our shows," guitarist Ed Robertson, of Barenaked Ladies, said recently. But why stick his band with such a label? because Black Sabbath was taken,"
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    • 446 27  -  (And Sonia, well, she...) By Yong Siew Fern RICKY Martin's hips and Sonia Couling's bra. It was a treat for both men and women at Ricky Martin's concert at the Harbour Pavilion last night. First on stage were MTV VJs Mike Kasem and Sonia Couling, to introduce
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  • Snappy session it isn't
    • 444 28  - H WITH IVAN LIM I LIKE pictures. They get your attention, whether you like it or not. Take this page, for instance. The first thing you notice is the wonderful caricature of me, done by my kind colleague. I look better than that, of course, but there's only so much
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 182 28 COMICRELIEF The Concrete Jungle/Colin Goh lamrntfc UfclTflN I LOOK.« IDNGAS [nEUfcMTToI HoC*r [50... f ruAflrt/i<v», MtK IoUttNOTASLIrt, .M SffWHTT AI6HT, WHJC (jNMENWKM 7WKK THE WTBWM tf seTSfOU/tfWT WNIE' t,c *(T WIW j surr,.. /WT 60i)6 TD MY I I Time TD —bum!'.! 6tt*T rrrwTiOfsl A cFOTHasurrs kV, Calvin and Hobbes/Bill
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  • 359 29  -  CAREER CHOICE By Jason Lee HE'S all of 72. But judging from the way Mr John Wee bustles about at McDonald's flagship store at King Albert Park, you could be forgiven for thinking he's in his 30s. He splits his time to man the
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    • 59 29 JOB ADS inside m Hot In the dty Work at one of the hottest 1 entertainment venues in Singapore. Check out Page 33. Sudsy work This is one frothy and foamy job. Find out more on Page 34. Challenge < yourself j If you desire a challenging career, you may
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  • 396 31 FROM PAGE 31 CAREER CHOICE At 72, do you ever have trouble keeping up with the fast-paced working environment at McDonald's? Yes, it's fast-paced, but you get used to it pretty quickly. I don't have much of a problem keeping up. Anyway, we're like
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    • 13 32 Don't miss the next issue of Career Choice on Thursday, 3 Dec 1998
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    • 189 43 Reuters. GROUP F: A goal by Juergen Rische in injury time proved more than a consolation for Kaiserslautern in its 2-1 defeat at Benfica. That goal gave the German side a superior head-to-head record over the Portuguese side and guaranteed its quarter-final berth. In the other
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  • 321 44 Liverpool's Robbie Fowler is back. And Man U's Peter Schmeichel has sunk to a new low, saidJEFFREY LOW in Near Post. usual, we have a mixed bag of responses from the fans... FIRST and foremost, I am a staunch Liverpool supporter. I always have been and always will
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    666 44 I WAS very pleased to see Liverpool finally win again after three consecutive home defeats. The best part was that Fowler finally regained his form to score his first hat-trick in more than a year. I've been a Fowler fan from his first full season and I must
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  • 198 44 ROBBIE Fowler's form is back. He has certainly shrugged off worries of his recent injuries to come back with a vengeance. We can see this from the number of goals he scored after coming back. But I feel that form is one thing and service
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  • 526 44 I am an ardent follower of the English Premier League, and although I do not support any particular club, I am a big fan of Manchester United and Danish keeper Peter Schmeichel. To fry the Great Dane for a rare uncharacteristic error does not seem to do
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    • 236 46  -  ASIAN GAMES: THAILAND (DEC 6-20! By Gerard Wong THERE will be big financial incentives for Singapore's participants in Thailand to go for gold. Singapore Pools and Asia Pacific Breweries have put up hefty cash rewards for medal winners. Gold medal winners will earn $250,000
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    • 493 46  -  S-LEAGUE AWARDS NIGHT: TOMORROW. ORCHARD HOTEL By S GuLAM ITS going to be a great night for S-League football tomorrow. The Awards Night brings down the curtain on an uneventful, but inspiring, third year of Singapore's professional football. Unfortunately, it could also throw up a
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      458 47 Barcelona champions Manchester Utd Sonny Anderson 49sec, Dwight Y0rke32,68; Riva1d057,73 league Andy Cole 53 INTER-MILAN 3 REAL MADRID 1 AFP. Reuters. Yorke, Cole the heroes D WIGHT Yorke scored a goal in each half as Manchester United held on for a thrilling 3-3 draw at the Nou Camp
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