The New Paper, 2 December 1999

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  • 7 1 the new paper THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1999
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 183 3 MANILA NEWSBREAK Reuters. SHOTS were fired and a grenade thrown when gunmen attacked the main office of Pilipinaa Shell Petroleum Corp in Manila i early today. A Shell spokesman said there were no casualties. One security guard, however, was injured by shattering glass. "Sometime around 4.30
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    • 252 3 Utusan Malaysia IT looked innocent enough. A metal drum filled with cement at a construction site. But the drum hid a dark, dark secret. A human body. The drum was found at the Taman Murni construction site, Subang 2 yesterday. Firemen had to use a chainsaw
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  • 660 4 LECTURER WANTED FOR MOLEST Senior NUS psychology lecturer Chan Cheng is on the run after jumping bail of $20,000. He faces 12 charges of molesting nine boys. CHUA WEI YNG reports SIHGAPORETODA Y ON campus he was a quiet man, going about his lectures
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 182 6 m SINGAPORE'S capital markets have been given a boost. There will be new measures to keep them competitive, said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Among the new initiatives: The freeing of brokerage commissions will be sped up. Foreign brokers will get open access to our
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    • 64 6 •n* HANDY DEVICEI This will be the latest way to control a computer mouse. Small light-weight wire sensors attached to the fingers send every little movement of the hand to the computer. The device could also be used for typing sign language and for role-playing games.
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    • News Break
      • 72 6 I Ncrs YOUR ATM card will not melt down, on Jan 1. And it won't be eaten up by the machine either. That is the assurance being given by the Network for Electronic Transfers (Nets). Nets, which has been Y2K-ready since June, is confident that the bug will
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      • 68 6 EDUCATION THEY may attend Radin Mae Primary School in Singapore, but they will work on projects with students in Hongkong, the US and other countries. Next year, 360 Primary 5 pupils from the school will be linked up to schools in other countries through a web-based engine called
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      • 60 6 INTERNET I THE name is simple business.com But the price is not. The rights to that Internet domain name have been sold for US$7.5 million ($12.6 million). The seller ofbusiness.com, Houston entrepreneur Marc Ostrofsky, bought the name in 1997 for US$l6O,OOO. The new buyer is Ecompanies which will
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      • 57 6 COURT A BUSINESSMAN has won his suit against developer LH Realty for shoddy workmanship and defects which plagued his Bedok house. The High Court has awarded Mr Davey Khoo $148,000 in damages. The suit was over the state of Mr Khoo's $1.3-million three-storey terraced house in Bedok's Eastwood
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      • 72 7 NEVIfYEAR I YOU don't just have to worry about the millennium bug. In the New Year, there could be phone jams too. Telephone companies around the world expect New Year calling volumes to rise by 15 per cent to 50 per cent above normal levels. All eyes will
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      • 58 7 COMPUTERS ALERT: There is a new computer virus that imitates the Worm.ExploreZip virus that infected computers worldwide in June. The new menace, known as a "worm", is spreading rapidly through e-mail messages. This "worm" is compressed, using a program that escapes detection by some anti-virus software, said an
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      • Article, Illustration
        64 7 CONQUEROR ONE of the conquerors of the world's highest mountain has become a citizen. Former Malaysian Edwin Siew Cheok Wai, 30, (right) recited the pledge with 130 others and received his citizenship certificate in a ceremony at the Grassroots' Club yesterday. Mr Siew, from Sabah, was one of
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      • 60 7 CAMBODIA UP to 80,000 of the 200,000 Cambodians infected with the Aids virus are under 24. That's why the country with the highest infection rate of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome virus in Asia targeted its youths on World Aids Day yesterday. Health workers took the safe-sex message
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    • 27 6 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 120.58 points to close at 10,998.39 yesterday. About 868 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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    • 62 6 International Herald Tribune: Riots cast dark cloud over WTO talks Asian Wall Street Journal: WTO negotiators get back to business as Seattle street protests quiet down New Straits Times: Opposition break-up imminent BBC news: President Clinton has told the World Ministerial meeting in Seattle that the protestors
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    • 146 7 in F®@us IT will be called Goh, Vickers Ltd. And it will be Singapore's largest stockbroking firm. Listed companies Vickers Ballas and GK Goh have announced that they will be merging. The new firm will have a combined market capitalisation of $1.5 billion. The merger is subject to
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    • 53 7 The Straits Timet: Major moves to boost capital markets The Business Times: Sweeping changes for securities industry Uanhe Zaobao: MAS adopts major measures to beef up competitiveness of capital markets Berita Harian: Move to introduce KBE concept expanded RCS morning news: London's direct control of Northern Ireland
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    • 40 7 Quote Wworthy When I travel, I take three shoes with me. This gives me two different combinations, without having to carry along a fourth shoe. Hongkong jewellery designer KaiYinLo (right) on why she wears mismatched shoes.
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    • 199 7 Y As 1L xJBiw «U /jr THIS NEW MILLENNIUM EVE. A FESTIVE FEAST AT A MERE $45! I EBld farewell to the oW Millennium and ring in the new one with elegant, festive feasting at the Merttus Negara Singapore on 31 December 1999. New MMeimlum Eve luffct The Ctayote Cale.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 32 7 Tongue CK«I WHAT'S HUP People always say If® not fair. I look down on them. r «a"y hel P itWhy can't you stop? 0/ R I'm seven feet tall O MJJ PU
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  • 614 8  -  SINGAPORETODAY By' Toh Li Lin GOING to the doctor's has never been such fun for the old folk. Especially when they aren't going to get painful injections or bitter medicines. What most of them will get is a certificate that they are fit
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  • SINGAPORETODYA
    • 282 10  -  ACID ATTACK MAN BY Lingam Ponnampalam MR Almas Hashan Abdul Barik Mollah is one step closer to his dreams. After 14 years of bearing horrific scars from an acid attack back in his native Bangladesh, treatment is almost at hand. Yesterday, Mr Almas, 31,
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    • 47 10 THOSE interested in donating blood can call the SGH Social Services Department at 326-6672. Money can be sent to The Singapore General Hospital (Almas Hash an), SGH Medical Social Services, Outram Road, Singapore *****8. Please include your return address if you need a receipt.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 640 12  -  THE BEASTS: 1111 IK AIM: 2 separate attacks. 1 dead dog. 2 people hurt By Eugene Wee MtSTTS STORY MISTY was the baby of the Chan family. "She was very manja (affectionate). Even people who don't like dogs thought she was cute," said Ms Jeann Chan,
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    • 316 13 WHAT ATTACKERS' OWNER SAYS i a THE automatic gate (hat kept her two dogs indoors had opened. The owner of the attacking dogs said that she has no idea how this could have happened. My gate is always cloeed," said the 42-year-old owner. It's an
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    • 190 13  -  By Ian Tan DOG attacks are on the rise. This year, 58 dog bite incidents have been reported to the Primary Production Department (PPD). The victims were both people and dogs. There were 50 cases last year and 35 in 1997. Nobody has died from
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    • 43 14 National swimmer Chrtstel Bouvron, 15, who holds the national record for the 400 m freestyle: Sounds like a deprived life, huh? But I wouldn't know what to do if I don't swim, even though it takes up half my life.
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  • SPEAKUP
    • SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM
      • 180 16 Mr Peter Tan, Hotline Plus call I WAS at Somerset MRT station at 5.30 pm on Nov 17. A boy, who looked like he was about 14, was harassing a girl and the MRT station master was trying to stop him from doing
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      • 282 16 WE take this opportunity to highlight some facts which may not have been apparent to Mr Tan. First, we would like to point out that the "boy" was actually a 21-year-old. Two girls had reported to our station master that he was harassing a girl. As the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 527 18  -  China's Mr Charisma is in the neighbourhood! By ToH Li Lin LITTLE Beverly NgLi Ting, seven, will have a great story to tell when school reopens. Guess who came to visit her three-room flat in Toa Payoh? Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, that's who. Mr Zhu
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    • 136 18 SPLENDID. A great success. That was how Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji described his three-day visit to Singapore. In farewell remarks at Changi Airport, the 71-year-old leader also pledged to consider incentives to get Singapore and other foreign firms to invest in the less-developed western part of
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    • 238 19 THE families who hosted Mr Zhu Rongji and his wife found the couple very interested in Singapore's public housing. As they chatted, Mr Zhu asked some questions. Here are some of them: To Madam Tang Hwa May and her husband, Mr Ng Meng
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    • 312 20  -  BY Toh Li Lin IMAGINE having to turn down invitations to Christmas celebrations just because you have no new clothes to wear. Ann (not her real name) can't afford new clothes. The Sec 2 Delta Secondary student doesn't expect any gifts, let alone new clothes
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    • 109 20 DO a good deed and get rewarded. This weekend you can buy Lego sets at half price. You have more than 10 models to choose from, including Submarine with camera, Aquanaut Crystal Detector, Large UFO, Aquashark Sea Wolf and Supersonic Space Cruiser. All proceeds from the
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    • 175 20 I Weekend Valentine t|J I at an "undying" offer of S& I Entice her.\ instead of sweet nothings /TBI I but a bottle of red wine with the taste that ihtgers... I and a stalk of rose in the most perfect ambience 1 II for a romantic get-away. 1 I
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 364 21 AN angry crowd tried to lynch the drug-crazed killer of a two-year-old girl in the Klong San area of Bangkok last Monday. Drug addict Sawai Palaphol, 26, had slashed the toddler's throat in a panic when police rushed him in an attempt to save
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    • 243 21 WHAT are the chances of these numbers being drawn in a lottery? One in a million, say the probability experts. And yet it did. Not once, but TWICE in Thailand's National Lottery last week. According to The Nation, Thais were ecstatic over this phenomenon which, as they see it,
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  • 545 22 MALAYSIATODAY Malaysia's 10th general election is a watershed, in more ways than one. For the first time, Parti Islam (PAS) is now in control of two Malay heartland states, Kelantan and Terengganu. This may threaten Umno's dominance among the Malays. And the Chinese-based Democratic Action Party (DAP)
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  • INDONESIATODAY
    • 820 24 ACEH EXCLUSIVE It took a late night meeting, and secret codewords uttered over the phone. Finally, The New Paper's correspondent MELVIN SINGH and photographer ZAIHANMOHD YUSOF, made it to the guerilla stronghold in Pidie. There, they met the commander of the Free Aceh
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    • 217 24 A PRESS statement yesterday was attributed to the office of the Indonesian President, but his name is misspelt as "Abd urrachm an Wahid. It was distributed by the office of General Wiranto, coordinating minister for political affairs and security, reported the Jakarta Post. It called on the
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 532 25 A world without trade borders which will result in more jobs, business opportunities, cheaper prices, etc, for you, me and our fellow men on Earth. That was the dream of the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) founding fathers. But today, some five years after its creation, few seem
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    • 99 25 MANY workers in the US are worried about potential job losses or job dislocation. "There is substantial worker anxiety in the US, even among the collegeeducated," said US trade representative Charlene Barshefsky. She said four in five job dislocations in the US that is, factories and
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    • 99 25 AFP. ZERO tolerance. That's the policy that Seattle's officials have adopted to handle the protesters. The police acknowledged their hands-off approach had failed to contain the protests, so they'll act forcefully. "We will circle them, we will arrest them," said one senior police officer. Police chief Norm Stamper, under
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    • 236 26 POSH Spice has lashed back at allegations that she has an eating disorder. Victoria Beckham, 25, admits she has lost weight, but says it happened after the birth of her baby. The singer said her family and her husband, soccer star David Beckham, were distressed at
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  • Article, Illustration
    523 27  -  mim CETERA WITH NORHAYATI ABDUL AZIZ My married sister is two years older than me but aunties, uncles, strangers and sometimes even friends, have always mistaken us for twins. I don't know why. I don't think we look alike at all. Before we went to school, size was the
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  • sports
    • 359 29 PRIZE-WINNING LETTER PASSION runs high once again at the Far Post, the forum for football fans. If you have something to say, write to: Far Post The New Paper Times House Kim Seng Road Singapore *****5 Fax: *****75 E-mail: npsports@sph.com.sg IN the Premiership's mediocrity, foreign players have
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    • 56 29 England men fo»]£uro 2000: Goalkeepers: Seaman (Arsenal), Martyn (Leeds), Walker (Tottenham). Defenders: Phil, Gary Neville (Man U), Campbell (Spurs), Adams, Keown (Arsenal), Saux (Chelsea), Southgate (Villa). Midfielders: Guppy (Leicester), Incfetßtfo), Scholes, Beckham (Man U), Redknapp (Liverpool), Parlour (Arsenal), Wise (Chelsea), McManaman (Real Madrid). Strikers: Owen, Fowler (Liverpool), Shearer
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    • 231 29 HOPEFULLY by next week, Roy Keane will decide to stay at Old Trafford. It will be the greatest millennium gift for all English Premiership fans, definitely all Man U fans. As a player of his class, how many can you find nowadays? Truly a
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    • 138 29 THINGS are certainly hotting up, aren't they? You can bet on your last penny that it's going to be yet another dramatic English Premiership season. With Leeds peaking so early in the season, one can't help but wonder whether this can be sustained all the
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    • 167 29 Write stuff: After reading the Far Post on Nov 16,1 realised that certain people do not know how to analyse a simple soccer match. Take for example, Mr Zhuo Zhengjie, an old block of the Far Post. He said England played a flat back-four, but actually it was
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    • 278 29 JV There' 8 nothing quite like dine for free, just by using your card. getting new stuff. Be it get a uob visa electron clothes, tickets, roller blades even food. capo ano cet a chance However, there's nothing worse than getting to win holiday packages a bill at the end
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  • 595 30  -  Utters Hokkien vulgarity at concert Finds out its meaning only after the show By Irene Kew IN TAIPEI HIS jaw dropped. His eyes opened wide in disbelief. His face turned beetroot-red. Jacky Cheung had found out lie had unwittingly uttered a Hokkien vulgarity before 50,000 fans at
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  • 182 31 JACKY Cheung isn't letting rumours about Harlem Yu and he being a couple bother him. In the past weeks, it has been a hot topic among Internet users in Taiwan. But the singer, who is married to actress May Lo, isn't a bit upset or angry. He
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  • 372 32  -  BY Hazel Tan CELEBRATE the turn of the century in space. Well, almost. Singaporeans will get a chance to celebrate the new millennium by witnessing the world's only one-man rocket propulsion system, Rockbelt, at The Millennium 2000 countdown party at the National Stadium on Dec
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  • 544 34  -  SHOW! I ME By Yong Siew Fern HER boyfriend Gao Feng is one of China's national soccer players. But her feet have never touched a football. Na Ying one of China's reigning pop divas and good friend of singer Faye Wong said she prefers sports like
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  • 414 35  -  mm igffligg By Florence Tan PIECES of fabric speak to her. Communicating their need to become evening bags or part of a piece of clothing. Beautiful items which catch her eye become part of the design on the bags and clothes she makes. "I look at
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    • 197 36 Caree/Choice _z. We are a World-class electronic contract manufauturer Involved In PCBA's& Box Build Assemblies with factory in Johor Bahru. Due to our expansion programme, we are lookinq for applicants to fill the following positions: Those with past experience in a contract manufacturing environment preferred. Fresh Diploma or Degree graduates
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    • 238 47  -  By Danny Khoo ITS all systems go for trainer Malcolm Thwaites' duo of El Caballero and Our Prince. Both gallopers have travelled well to Perth and, more importantly, are primed for their assault in the Group Two Asloo,ooo ($110,000) Lee Steere Stakes at Ascot
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    • 533 47 DANNY KHOO'S GUIDE TO YESTERDAY'S KRANJI TRACKWORK m JHARVELLOUS IwIGENERAL, who is I VI unbeaten in his last two starts, continued to show further progress at Kranji yesterday. Taken out by trainer Charles Leek, the four-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding drew notice to his chances
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    • 68 47 Name: Michael Fenton. Age: 27. Nationality: Irish. Career wins: over 500. Riding weight: 52.5 kg. Status: Freelance. Tenure of permit: Three months. Name: Edwin Wilkinson. Ace: 28. Nationality: Kiwi. Career wins: over 570. Riding weight: 50kg. Status: Sponsored by Don Baertschiger. Tenure of permit: Current meeting. Name: Lee
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    • 150 47  -  By Danny Khoo NARCISSUS, a creditable fourth in the Orchid Trophy, bears watching in the Class 3 1,400 m race on Saturday. The Mascay four-year-old gelding looked in good shape when taken out for two rounds of canter by Australian jockey Ernest Marchant at Kranji this
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    • 254 47 NST. SUPER MAGNETO Gate Gimme Room) is the only Class 3 newcomer entered for the Singapore Turf Club's December meeting starting at Krai\)i on Saturday. The four-year-old bay New Zealand-bred gelding by Fiesta Star out of Chums Honey raced four times at three for a win over 1,200m in
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    • 161 49  -  WORLD SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT (ASIAN quAums) At Kallang until Sunday By Suresh Nair ASIA'S top three flag-bearers to next year's world softball championship in South Africa will be decided in Kallang this week. Seven leading bat-and-ball countries are in the hunt for
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    • 275 49 UNVEILED: 2002 MASCOTS ET, call home urgently, please. We just don't know what manner of monsters are these... They were "released" on Planet Football yesterday as mascots for soccer's 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan. Not surprisingly, the outer-space aliens stunned the medfa
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    • 249 50 ENGLISH LEAGUE CUP Reuters. FULHAM 3 SPURS 1 TOTTENHAM Hotspur suffered a big blow early this morning. It went down 3-1 to First Division Fulham in the fourth round of the English League Cup. Geoff Horsefield's stunning second-half strike settled matte re as George Graham's stars were humbled
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    • 132 50 DARLINGTON is a lucky loser. The Third Division club was knocked out of the English FA Cup last month. But it is now back in the competition after being drawn as a "lucky loser" to play Aston Villa in the third round. Darlington got the second chance because
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    • 697 50 New design not fit to host Olympic Games, says government WHAT a setting. But the picture on the right is only an artist's view of the proposed new Wembley Stadium. In it you see the stands full. Its designers had planned to fill the stadium with 90,000
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    • 309 50 INJURY WOES THE good news is that Ronaldo's knee operation was a success. The bad news is, that at best, he will return to the football field only in early April. An Inter-Milan spokesman said that the 23-year-old passed a comfortable night and tests carried
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    • 225 52  -  TIGER 5s FUTSAL TOURNAMENT AT KALLANG By Adam Hashidy BRAZIL 11 FRANCE 1 FRANCE was clearly no match for the futsal world champion. A half-paced, half-samba Brazil still managed a comfortable 11-1 win. But one player stood out: Manoel Tobias. Power, aggression and sublime skill. In the
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