The New Paper, 8 February 1999

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    Masthead
    22 1 the new paper MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1999 MITA (P) 151/04/98 60 CENTS http://newpaper.asial .com.sg Another quality publication of f Singapore Press Holdings
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    Lock icon The mourning after at RJC
    361 1  -  PULAU ÜBINU DROWNING*? By Crispina Robert HEADS bowed, eyes red, voices cracking... Raffles Junior College students and teachers this morning mourned the drowning of two girls. A teary-eyed principal, Mr Lee Fong Seng, told the school assembly: "Sometimes, despite the best planning, things can go
    Picture/JOYCE UM  -  361 words
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Hussein dies, leaders fly in
      530 2 Death of j aKing INFOUNE Former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim is expected to take the stand today when he makes his defence against four corruption charges in Kuala Lumpur. Call The New Paper Infoline on 1900-914-0002 after 1 pm for updates on today's
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      Lock icon King starts on right foot
      599 2  -  #By YVONNE LIM OH how big your shoes are, Papa. For 46 years, Jordanians called his father King. But when King Hussein died yesterday, his eldest son and heir, Prince Abdullah, was left to fill his vast shoes. THE FATHER THE shoes of a man
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      PM Goh sends condolences
      128 2 StslMMBt front ttw Office of Print Minister GohChokTong, issued yesterday: THE Prime Minister is deeply saddened to learn of the deatii of His Majesty King Hussein of Jordan. King Hussein was a man of rare and enormous courage. He worked tirelessly for a lasting peace in
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      11 2 Leisure vnywuiiiv Pages 18 21 Comics: Page 24 TV: Page 43
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  • PULAU UBIN DROWNING
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      IF ONLY... she had stuck to dancing
      504 3 Two Raffles Junior College girls drowned when their makeshift raft crashed into a water-gate in Pulau Übin yesterday morning. Both girls were with a group of students taking part in the JCs Outdoor Activities Club programme. FONG FOONG MElprofiles the two girls THATS
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      She 'joined club as she heard it was fun'
      318 3 LEE Ying Ying (left), 17, loved story books and Chinese pop music. Like Rachel, she didn't have much experience with the rough outdoors. But that didn't stop her from wanting to join the ODAC. Ying Ying had set her heart on
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      Lock icon What happened?
      150 4 (D Using makeshift rsfts made from tyre tubes and poles, 17 students float down Sungei Jelutong (above) about eight to a raft. Strong currents cause Rachel and Ying Ying's raft to hit a water-gate (right). Teacher in canoe tries in vain to prevent a collision. The gate is
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      100 4 Prosperity begins at the Rivet Palace (15 M 2 Mar 1999) Prosperity Set Menus with 'tju Sheng $88 nett or 4 persons Si3B nett or 6 persons $248 nett, $368 nett (or 8-10* persons. *One soft toy rabbit will be given for cac A tabic. (While stocks last) LUNAR NEW
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      WE COULD SEE... Higher growth
      258 5 m SINGAPORE could see economic growth on the higher side of the official forecast of minus 1 to plus 1 per cent this year. If, that is, the American economy grows by 2 per cent, said Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan. And if there is
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      Lock icon Samsui power
      48 5 Picture This WE BUILT THIS CITY: Former Samsui women, Madam Wong Sou Ying, 86, (left) and Madam Chan Kin Soong, 87, helping Marine Parade GRC MP Goh Choon Kang launch the Housing Board Interim Upgrading Programme yesterday at Serangoon A venue 2. Picture/ The Straits Times
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    • News Break
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        Smokers worst
        59 5 UTTERING I SMOKERS are becoming more careless about discarding their butts. More are being caught dropping their butts on the street. They made up 96 per cent of Singapore's litterbugs last year, when a record 8,652 offenders were nabbed. Penalties may be increased. Litterbugs are now either fined
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        No growth
        60 5 BUSINESS EARNINGS growth will be going against the trend among Singapore listed companies for financial year 1998 (FY98). Instead, firms are expected to report profit declines of up to 40 per cent. "Growth? There won't be any," said an analyst, referring to companies that will soon reveal their
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        Help for jobless
        61 5 [COMMUNITY! RETRENCHED Geylang Serai residents will get help while they look for alternative jobs apart from job placement schemes and training courses. They will be given $200 every month to tide them over for the time being. Under the scheme, each household whose sole breadwinner has lost
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        Tickets to ride
        65 5 I TRANSPORT| IN two years' time, automatic farecard top-up machines at MRT stations will be replaced by new ones with extended facilities, the Land Transport Authority has said. Commuters will be able to top up in more ways with cash, bank ATM cards and CashCards. They will
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        Woman burnt
        67 6 HORROR 1 A MAN poured petrol on a woman and set her alight, and then himself as well, in Geylang last night. The woman, Kua Sooi Lean, 30, was found in front of the Tang Sein Restaurant. Witnesses said they saw "fireballs running" and the woman screaming in
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        Dogs get rich
        65 6 NEW ZEALAND TWO dogs in New Zealand have been left NZ$1 million ($922,000) by their owner. But the farmer left his two sons nothing, giving the rest of his NZ$4 million estate to family friends. His third wife was left NZ$200,000. She and the sons, from his
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        Pushers next
        55 6 I THE PHILIPPINES CONVICTED drug pushers in the Philippines should be executed next. President Joseph Estrada wants to target the drug trade because most crimes are drug-related, he said. About two million Filipinos 2.8 per cent use drugs, police say. Mr Estrada also defended the execution of child
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        Title stripped
        64 6 MALAYSIA MISS Malaysia Chinatown 1997/98 has been stripped of her title after it was said she posed semi-nude for foreign magazines. Actress Joey Tan Eng Li was also said to have starred in an adults-only movie with explicit sex scenes, reported The Sunday Star. Ms Tan has said
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      world Head liners
      54 5 International Hefald Tribune: Abdullah sworn in as Jordan mourns Asian Wall Street Journal: Foreign banks are pulling back China exposure New Straits Times: 17 killed in Sandakan landslide BBC news: As Jordanians mourn the death of King Hussein, the reigns of power have passed over to his
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    • Article
      Battleground to playground
      159 6 ftSRSus A HULKING grey aircraft carrier at a small port in China is not being refurbished for battle. Instead, it is being turned into a playground. The Minsk, bought in 1995 from the Russian navy, will soon be decked out with battle-simulation video games, a helicopter ride
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      local Head liners
      55 6 The Straits Times: King Hussein dies of cancer The Business Times: Foreign banks count on MAS nod for shared ATM network Uanhe Zaobao: Lee Boon Yang: Industries must reset productivity assessing criteria Berita Harian: King Hussein dies RCS morning news: World leaders converge on Amman for the
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      Quote worthy
      83 6 NO COMEBACK ijkt possible that Pak H&tfo wiU have the heart to destroy whatever he and the people have built with great difficulty? So, (fit is said that the unrest were caused by Father, that would be irrational. It will be even more irrational to say that all
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Forget him NOT
      395 7  -  Just a glimpse but she remembers the flasher By Riana Zakir THIS little girl has an elephant's memory. And everything else it takes to help track down and nab a sexual pervert. The nine-year-old only had a glimpse of the man as he unzipped his pants near
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      TOO SCARED TO LOOK
      209 7 THE girl was waiting alone for a lift when the flasher first appeared at the Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 HDB block. She said softly with downcast eyes: "He unzipped his pants. I was too scared to look. I looked everywhere else for three minutes until
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      'Don't level off after levels'
      333 8 Did you miss the Beyond O-level seminar? Don't fret. TOH LI LIN brings you some highlights in this first of a three-part report DONT be in a rush to get a job. At least not with just secondary school qualifications. That's the clear message from
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      Jumbos take flight
      42 8 mulfmutf TlwiwwS-Uague team, Cfamnti Khaha Foatfcal Club, choM an elephant, with its lumbering gaK, as Nslogo. SaM club president Jagjtt Singh: Nowadays, elephants can fly, too. Hava gfegueen the DHL in which the jumbo flies on itft delivery r/;
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      Not guilty
      132 9 Three friends were accused of gang raping a 22-year-old widow. The 22-day trial ended on Saturday with an acquittal We review the case She said: They raped me. r Saarisaid: No, she agreed to have sex. Mr Shahrom said: She consented. Mr Ahmad said: I did not have
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      'A rotten fruit fell'
      562 10 It was a tense scene in court. Several family members of the accused were there. The judge heard the final comments from lawyers at 9.30 am and then, announced: "I'll pass judgment at noon. "JASON TAN, who covered the trial from Day One, reports THE case
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      Hard to believe
      200 10 THIS case was simply bizarre. The three accused, two other men, the complainant and her best friend all gathered in a hotel room one evening. The complainant's best friend said she was having noisy sex in the toilet, while the others were in the hotel room. One
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      Low blow
      82 11 mui<mu|t Australia's top newspaper columnist, Padriac McGuinness reportedly earning A$250,000 ($258,000) a year—angered WUflttrfl vWUmiilSES WIU1 lllS views on There are many columnists in newspapers who try to be funny, Few succeed... female columnists seem unable to stop talking about either their knickers or their cats, or their
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      192 7 Cupid did his job, nouj let us do ours. 14 FEBRUARY 1999 Strengthen your bond of love at the Orchard. The air will be filled with romance and aroma from feasts prepared by Executive Chef Michael. On Valentine's Day, you can concentrate on romancing your sweetheart. We will take care
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      251 10 Don't be handicapped by your English! Arc you content with the written, easy-to-understand way you speak and write? lessons. How to avoid errors. Are you sure that you are How to express your ideas not making mistakes that fluently. cause people to underrate sludy ircs only your- You are judged
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      496 11 F?l SINGAPORE PaYTECHNIC K, ess I I DEPARTMENT OF BUSIESSADMIISTIWnON I Established since 1954 Tfi iJL invites applications for admission to the IMdke The BBUHBffIT Advanced Diploma in Advanced Diploma in Business J I Strategic Marketing Information Systems AIMS AIMS J» Our course is designed to equip participants with the
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
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      Lock icon Arch-rival PAS to contest Sabah elections
      407 12 More headache for Dr M as Islamic party announces it will contest 12 seats AFP. THE stakes are high. The elections for 48 seats in the East Malaysian state of Sabah is coming soon. And, it will be the testing ground for Malaysian Prime
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      THE FIGHT
      101 12 UMNO Sabah has been an Anwar strong-hold since 1993. But, reports The Straits Times, a key issue that is likely to emerge is the question of state rights versus federal interference. The perception among Sabahans is that the state gave away its oil rights and Labuan too cheaply.
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      THE BIG GUNS
      235 12 IN CHARGE: Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi NATIONAL FRONT IT comprises Umno, Parti Demokratik Sabah, Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP), Akar, Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah, Liberal Democratic Party and Malaysian Chinese Association. SUengths: New electoral boundaries favour the ruling coalition. Has the resources to develop infrastructure. Deputy Prime
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    Lock icon 'We may not let East Timor vote'
    367 13 INDONESIAN ELECTIONS IN JUNE WORLbTODAY EAST Timorese may not vote in the June 7 elections in Indonesia. This is because Jakarta is thinking of cancelling local elections there. The reason: To avoid provoking the conflict between groups who want independence and those who
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      47 14 p«w G-s M llft Date: 3 April Saturday II R Venue: Singapore Indoor Stadium II llHricket Prices: $35 S5O $70 $85 II llfflEbooking Hotline: SISTIC 348 5555 II Tickets on sale at all SISTIC outlets l||||Enquiries Hotline: LEGEND 472 8821 II l|§ A LEGEND Entertainment Event II
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  • DEAR WIJEY
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      I'm creative with words
      385 15 QI AM keen on writing but my teachers often reject my style of writing. Fd like to do some courses to improve my writing while awaiting my O-level results. During my secondary school years, I wrote many compositions, especially during exams, when I took a "daredevil"
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      Need I tell the principal?
      161 15 QI AM in Secondary 5 normal and I am taking English, maths, science (combined physics and chemistry), Chinese, technical and history. However, I am most certain that I am not going to pass my history as I have no interest in it. I intend to
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      I can do better
      213 15 QI FEEL I did badly in my O levels last year. I know I could do a thousand times better as I only started my revision at the last minute. Still, I am more studious now and determined to make it to a junior college. I
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      Library or law, please
      165 16 QI AM in Secondary 3 and I wish to become a lawyer or a librarian. So I am taking the double pure science combination, with geography and literature. Should I take arts in junior college. What subject combination would I need? Also, when I go to
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      I wanted to teach
      238 16 QI AM 18.1 did my A levels last year. I took physics, maths C and E maths. I chose junior college because I wanted to teach. My A-level subjects were chosen on the basis that I wanted to teach maths. Little did I know that I
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      How do I become a doctor?
      136 16 QI WOULD like to know what it takes to become a doctor. I'll be in Secondary 3 next year. I'm in a sub-science stream, but the course does not offer biology. How can I take up biology? Beck A TO be eligible to apply
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      49 16 CALL **********3 and leave your questions for Mr Wijey. You can listen to his earlier advice, too. This week's Q&A: Second try, but what if I fail? I would like to work in a hospital I've quit Pre-U, which poly will take me? Calls cost 30 cents a minute.
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      54 16 Do you have any questions regarding education? Write or fax your questions to Dear Mr Wijey The New Paper WT J 390 Kim Seng Road Singapore *****5. Fax: 737-5375 l Give us your name, address and K *Wk telephone number. Call The New Paper Infoline, 1900-*****03. (Calls are charged at
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  • Showtime
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      'Want to be my man?'
      450 17 TRUST ME, I CAN DO DRAMA JACKIE CHAN TALKS ABOUT HIS PUNS FOR THE FUTURE (NEXT PAGE) Hold on, guys... there's a catch. You'll have to be at least 10 years older than her! So, how old is she? JASON TAN finds out... and rues
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      SHU QI'S BARE PAST
      165 17 DONT be fooled by Shu Qi's "little baby" attitude. Beneath those killer looks lies a brain so quick she can second-guess all your hidden meanings spot on. Like when I told her I loved her award-winning performance in Viva Erotica to death. Shu Qi responded with
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      Lock icon THE JACKIE CHAN-SHU QI COMBINATION
      331 17 SHU QI admitted she was upset when Jackie Chan initially said he did not want her to play the female lead in the film Gorgeous. She said: "I thought that he did not like me. And yes, there was some tension between us in the
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      Lock icon 'Trust me... I can do drama'
      454 18  -  By. Jason Tan FANS of Jackie Chan, get ready for a shock: The action hero is going soft, and serious. In this latest film, Gorgeous, he plays a Hongkong billionaire playboy who is more interested in chasing women than thugs. So instead of dare-devi]
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      CHOW YUN FAT LOOK-ALIKE CONTEST
      125 18 HONGKONG superstar Chow Yun Fat's second Hollywood movie, The Corrupter, will shoot it out against homegrown Liang Po Po The Movie and Jackie Chan's Gorgeous in the Chinese New Year season box-office battle. And the man himself will launch the action-thriller at a gala premiere
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      Slashing actually happened...
      450 19 The cold blade plunged towards her. Her arm went up to block the knife. But it sliced her right thumb, leaving a 4-mm gash. This happened during the filming of the telemovie Net Tribulation. Except that the AND the victim, actress Eileen Wee, told AVIS WONG that
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      'KNIFE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BLUNT'
      170 19 THE knife that sliced Eileen Wee's thumb was supposed to be blunt. Said Net Tribulation director Daniel Yeo: "My camera assistant had sawn the edge of the knife on the floor 'till it was blunt. "But the tip of the blade must still have
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      55 18 Teen Flying Off The Handle? Are your teenagers IMPOSSIBLE? Do you have problems talking to them? Then H Jordon Melic and Tan Yiwen tßp as they shed light jgMK JPon the workings of an ac^°^escent m n<^* jafcymere Premiere 12 is a channel of Singapore Television Twelve More information on
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    Love of Roses
    421 20  -  By Carol Leong ROSE addicts talk strangely. They flail their arms. They gush about inner hearts. "They make me feel 100 per cent female," confesses writer Liang Hei Mun, 34. It takes 30 roses to produce a drop of rose oil or five tonnes of roses to
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    THE ROSE... BY ANY OTHER NAME
    144 20 Common Name; Rose. Dotaakil Name: Two main varieties of rose used for oil production are rosa damascena and rosa centifolia. Romantic Origin: Rose oil is said to have been discovered in Persia at the wedding feast of Princess Nour-Djihan and the Emperor Djihanguyr. Rose
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    Lessons in life backstage
    519 21  -  Etcetera WITH MARY LEE I'M proud to say that I have had a tiny role to play in part of Singapore's history. The historic event is Singapore's longest-running stage production, Chang Eng The Musical. My role? Backstage as a drama mama. My nine-year-old, Frances, has two
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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    Garden variety
    282 23  -  By Joyce Lim IT combines colonial atmosphere of Alkaff Mansion, and the fine dining experience of Compass Rose. And though you don't get a view like that from the 72nd storey of Westin Stamford, the greenery at the Singapore Botanic Gardens is almost as breathtaking. The newly opened
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      374 34  - ACS wins trophy finally I SCC SCHOOLS SEVENS UNDER-17 FINAL (JOHN CLARK TROPHY): ACS INDEPENDENT 33 uwc 0 ACS-I Group stage: bt Overseas Family School 46-0 and Ping Yi Secondary 27-5; Semis: bt St Andrew's Secondary 28-0 UWC Group stage: bt ACS (Barker Road) 27-0 and Springfield Secondary 39-0; Semis:
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      284 34 COLLEGE FINAL (SITHAWALLA TROPHY): uwc 26 ACJC 7 UWC: Group stage—bt Catholic JC 43-0 and Temasek JC 58-0; Semis bt Australian International School 29-7 ACJC: Group stage bt St Andrew's JC 22-7 and ISS International 45-0; Semis bt Raffles JC 17-0 Third and fourth RJC bt Australian
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      517 35 ITALY: SPAIN: SCOTLAND BATISTUTA INJURED ARGENTINE striker Gabriel Batistuta has a long, tense wait ahead of him. It will be 48 hours before he knows the full extent of the knee injury he suffered in Fiorentina's serie A clash with AC Milan yesterday. Doctors
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      135 35 IN SPAIN A GOAL in the dying minutes from Dutch international Patrick Kluivert kept Barcelona three points clear at the top of the Spanish first division yesterday, when they scored a 2-1 win at Extremadura. The Catalan giants lead with 40 points, three points clear
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      124 35 IN SCOTLAND AFP A SUPERB Andrei Kanchelskis volley and two goals from Finn Jonatan Johansson gave Rangers a 3-0 victory at the Scottish Premier League's bottom club Dunfermline yesterday and a 12-point lead. Russian Kanchelskis volleyed in a Rod Wallace cross to open the scoring after 56
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      255 36 ARSENAL'S French striker Nicolas Anelka has launched another scathing attack on Dutch winger Marc Overmars. Anelka re-opened the feud after accusing both Overmars and his other Dutch team-mate Dennis Bergkamp of being too greedy earlier in the season, reports Carlingnet. The News of the
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      301 36 THE ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP TITLE CHALLENGE West Ham 0 Arsenal 4 WEST Ham manager Hany Redknapp watched his new-look side get thumped by Arsenal on Saturday. And then confirmed the Gunners' (Arsenal's nickname) title credentials. The Hammers (West Ham's nickname) were given a footballing lesson by Arsene
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      198 36 Chelsea 1 Southampton 0 CHELSEA coach Graham Rix is counting the days until Tore Andre Flo returns from injury. This comes after the Blues (Chelsea's nickname) struggled to subdue a battling Southampton, reports Carlingnet. The 34,000 inside Stamford Bridge on Saturday expected the floodgates
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      444 37 Sing out loud, sing out clear, it's Ole Gunnar Solksjaer, the supersub with the mega-touch who stole the Premiership limelight over the weekend. Four goals in 13 minutes 80th, 88th, 90th and 93rd (injury time). Of course, JEFFREY LOW runs wild... WELL, well, well...if the massacre of
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      333 38 ...MORE ON THE MAN THEY CALL THE BABY-FACED ASSASSIN Substitute ole Gunnar Solskjaer strolled on to the City Ground pitch in the 71st minute and set about rewriting the scoreline again...and again...and again...and again. The Norwegian striker scored four times in 13 minutes to ensure
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      156 38 MANCHESTER United manager Alex Ferguson watched supersub Ole Gunnar Solksjaer destroy Nottingham Forest in 13 awesome minutes. And then confirmed he would soon be in the starting line-up, reports Sky Sports. Solksjaer's first-team opportunities have been limited by the prolific partnership struck up by
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      BUT THAT'S WHAT ALEX FERGUSON SAID EARLIER:
      61 38 Fve watched Solskjaer's goal (in the 2-1 FA Cup win over Liverpool) on TV and he meant to do what he did. Ole looked at the far corner, the goalkeeper bought it and he put the ball in at the near post. It
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      DERBY 2 (Deon Burton 51st minute, 85th) EVERTON 1 (Nick Barmby 38th) Crowd: 27,603
      259 38 LAST NIGHT'S ACTION INFOUNE Charlton meets Wimbledon in a Premier League match today. Call The New Paper Infoline on 1900-*****13 after 6.30 am tomorrow for the result. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. Reuters. JAMAICAN international
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      302 39 Beckenbauer tells German national team USA 3 GERMANY 0 Wire Services. FOOTBALL legend Franz Beckenbauer yesterday blasted the German national team as a "bunch of journeymen" after its 3-0 defeat by the United States. Beckenbauer, who skippered West Germany to World Cup victory on home soil in
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      193 36 HOW THEY STAND P W D L F A Pts 1 Man United 25 14 8 3 59 -27 50 2 Chelsea 24 12 10 2 35 19 46 3 Arsenal 24 12 9 3 28 11 45 4 Aston Villa 24 12 7 5 36 25 43 5 Liverpool
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      109 37 I BL JEFFREY LOW gets close to English soccer action. Every Monday, he discusses the major issues of the weekend's Premiership programme. Today: The Man United United goal-machine. y 1 XimiMilinn Fans, do you agree with Jeffrey Low's views? And what are yours? E-mail us at TNPsports@sph .com.sg or fax
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      350 38 15: Dwight Yorke (Manchester United) 14: Michael Owen (Liverpool) 12: Dion Dublin (Aston Villa, 3 for Coventry), Andy Cole (Man U) 10: Hamilton Ricard (Middlesbrough), Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (Leeds), Gianfranco Zola (Chelsea), Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (Man U) 9: Robbie Fowler (Liverpool), Julian Joachim (Aston Villa) 8; Marcus Gayle (Wimbledon), Gustavo
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