The New Paper, 21 December 1999

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1 57 The New Paper
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  • Title Section
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    7 1 the new paper TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1999
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    Lock icon Bad hair or hands?
    87 1 JtS: k I) l m-. I# a.-, tc Bad hair or hands? Picture/Joyce Um IP The lunch did it SlA's chief wasn't enjoying his meal till he got a scrappy note from Virgin's boss. The result: A $1.6 billion deal 0 wakes < e z* -a
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      Lock icon Er, who's buying lunch?
      827 2 Dr CheongChoong Kong and Mr Richard Branson. Singapore Airlines and Virgin Atlantic. Two interesting characters and a marriage of airlines. At a press conference in London, SLA chief executive Cheong talks about hou?he found his Virgin bride. The Business Times carried this transcript FAST FACTS sia
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      Lock icon VIRGIN BRIDE
      124 2 THE DEAL: SLA is paying $1.6 billion for a 49 per cent stake in Virgin Atlantic. FOR SM PASSENGERS: You are likely to benefit from an enhanced frequent flyer programme which combines mileage on both airlines, say wire reports. You will likely have shared access to passenger lounges.
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      Lock icon THE CLUB
      509 3  -  There are 150 members (from teens to the oldest 86-year-old V G Kamath) in the Singapore Contract Bridge Association which was started in 1962. Subscription fee is $50 per year. Report and picture Florence Tan NAME me some card players. Well, there's Mel Gibson in Maverick. The sweet-talking,
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    Lock icon Customer: How much? Cashier: No charge
    378 4  -  Both end up paying hefty fine SINGAPORETODAY By Leong May Ling THE plump, Chinese cashier with heavily drawn eye-brows looked up and saw the familiar face of a stranger. It was the Malay stall assistant from the nearby hawker centre, wheeling a trolley of
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      113 4 You're not drunk, your vodka is really black Sunday Times black. the colour >f vodka n the new nillennium. It's the only vodka you'll need this Christmas New Year. Welcome the new millennium with Blavod. The only party survival kit you'll need is here. No need to look further, Blavod
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Lock icon Workers getting more perks now
      218 6 war WANTED: Good workers who will stay with the company. BENEFITS: Paternity leave, compassionate leave, dub memberships, stock options, loans and subsidies. Yes, companies are offering a wider range of perks to attract and keep workers. Most companies offer extra perks, on top of the
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      Lock icon Hotel room becomes gambling den
      157 6 ,'irw?- «/v* Vtifly; l 'wrw* tzr*,* < I MORNING LATEST CAUGHT' Early thla morning, police m jtim rj MSmlm mi* n f iim m ftl—w wl ill <t 1 n ratooo mis room at ino oirana noun m Ten men and eight woman, Including odd-Job
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        61 6 TRADE SINGAPORE-MADE goods are being sold overseas at a record rate. Exports last month shot up 24.5 per cent from a year ago to hit a record $9.4 billion. This surge in non-oil domestic exports is the eighth straight month of rising shipments, and means the economy is
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        58 6 TRANSPORT IF you live in Sengkang and Punggol, travel will soon be easier. The new Buangkok Green and Buangkok Drive roads have already cut travelling times by about four minutes. Other road extension work is also being planned. The work, including the two ready roads, costs $27 million
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        59 6 TOURISM I SEE Singapore on $100 a day. Your travel planners three 16-year-old girls. Evelyn Tee, Melissa Chong and Sabrina Choo of Singapore Chinese Girls' School are behind an award-winning package that allows visitors to see most of Singapore on as little as $100 a day. The package
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        49 6 MALAYSIA SEVERAL Malaysia Airlines employees, believed to be part of a luggage-stealing syndicate, have been arrested by Malaysian police. Six suspects were taken into custody after police found three pieces of luggage reported missing by tourists. The gang is believed to have stolen clothing, jewellery and cash.
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        59 6 PHILIPPINES ABUSED children could soon "divorce" their parents. That's because of a new Bill that is likely to be passed by the Philippine House of Representatives. Mr Joaquin Chipeco, chairman of the House justice committee, said committee members were "now considering" passing the proposed law that will allow
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        59 6 1 RUSSIA RUSSIAN Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has reason to be happy. Two big parties, which support his bid for the presidency, have won in last weekend's parliamentary polls. Mr Putin did not contest in the polls but has made it clear that he wants to be president.
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        64 6 PROPERTY HOME prices saw a rebound this year, with prices in certain sectors surging by 40 per cent. So said property consultancy CB Richard Ellis. Average prices of 99-year suburban condominiums went up by 40 per cent from $410 per sq ft (psf) a year ago to $570
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        61 6 COURT STAFF Sergeant Kelvin Fong Chee Soon (right), 32, was fined $400 yesterday. He's guilty of accepting a treat from Geylang loan shark Chua Tiong THong, 43, also known as Ah Long San, at a nightclub in 1997. Fong has been suspended from duty. A decision on whether
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      45 6 International Herald Tribune: Kremlin hails vote as 'colossal' boost Asian Wall Street Journal: SIA and Virgin to be partners in airline deal New Straits Times: Opposition MPs walk out BBC news: In Russia, pro-Putin parties celebrate the results of the parliamentary election
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      60 6 The Straits Times: SIA buys into Virgin for $1.6b The Business Times: SIA sweeps Virgin off her feet with purchase of 49% stake Uanhe Zaobao: SIA buys 49-percent stake in Virgin Atlantic for $1.6b Berita Harian: Uproar in KL parliament RCS morning news: Singapore Airlines is to
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      3 6 £Kok
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      27 6 The Dow Jones industrial average fell 113.16 points to close at 11,144.27 yesterday. About 902 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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    682 7 SINGAPORETODAY They change jobs every few years. Their skills are in demand, so if the job's not right, they simply move on. YVONNE LlMspeaks to one of these new breed of workers THE view outside his office window changes every two to four years. At 30, Bryan
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      Lock icon He'll light the way to your millennium party
      283 9  -  BY Ho Ai Li AT the dawn of the new year, he will be at the spotlight. No, this is no grammatical error we mean at the spotlight and not in the spotlight. Mr Arif Mohammad, 21, has to make sure the
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      20 9 Wkat Countdown 2000: Millennium Celebration WOE: Manna Square and Suntec City WHEN: From 7pm, Dec 31 AMISSION: Free
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      Lock icon Little China Boy sleeps through all this
      623 11  -  BY Ian Tan ON Sunday night as six-year-old Luo Zhen Yu closed his eyes to sleep, little did he know that his world was about to change forever. That during the night his parents would die violent deaths, and he would wake up
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      Lock icon Leave the past behind
      32 12 in 11 i<m 111* mmmmn EMtaMNx,16,aMK(M«KSpMd-tlM iImmI«mI illldriflMi n >a NPHMN v<8^VW*w^M adirtatiowforW^ Leave it to our grannies to hate the Japanese. It's 1qv9 *nd peace now, man.
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      Lock icon Crack your brain to crack the code
      109 12 CALCULATE, analyze, overwork your brains. It may all be worth your while. Just look out for the Prudential Number Challenge in The New Paper on Sunday which started on Nov 7, and solve the mathematical puzzles. Each week, ene winner who can crack
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    Lock icon Poly's no handicap
    374 14  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Toh Li Lin WHAT would you do if you scored a string of distinctions in your O levels? Apply to the best junior colleges? That's what Leo Chen Hong, 20, did. But by a strange twist of fate, he landed up in Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
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      Lock icon I don't owe money. But loan sharks don't believe me. And it's hurting my marriage
      723 16  -  By Irene Kew OKAY, this is a loan shark story. Yes, there is the usual writing on the wall and paint splashed on the door. But there is smother side to this story. The loan
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      Lock icon PAST CASE
      92 17 IN May this year, a gang of five used flexicuffs strong, plastic-like strips to tie the door knobs of the debtors' front doors to their metal gates, so that they could not open their doors. The trapped residents ended up naving to dial 999 to be rescued by
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      Lock icon A 'piece' of Shaoguang
      176 19 LAST Sunday night, Xie Shaoguang (left), cut a debonair figure at the TCS Star Search Awards. Now, here's your chance to own a "piece" of him. He bought 16 items for charity from shops at Bishan Junction 8 shopping centre two weeks ago, and signed them
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      175 19 Mm BIIBK Princess cut white gold diamond earrings and chain with pendant from Lee Hwa Jewellery ($1500) Mm B2 Year 2000 Special wreath from Raffles Florist ($300) Mm B3 Recreation Spectacles from Nanyang Optical ($220) Mm B4 Hugo Boss sunglasses from Nanyang Optical ($300) Mm BS
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      Lock icon Amex has no opt-out scheme
      260 20 SPEAK B P YOUR FORUM I REFER to your write-up "Amex deal: Reward or Punishment?" (TNP, Dec 8). I would like to address a misunderstanding regarding the way we administer our Membership Rewards (MR) scheme. Contrary to reports, American Express has not Introduced any "opt-out"
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      Lock icon WORLDTODAY Daring bank hold-up
      216 21 A man, said to have explosives strapped to his body, is holding 3 people hostage inside this building Wire services. First, the gunman went to an armoured courier company office in the western German town of Wuerselen. He then forced two men and a woman to
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      Lock icon Want to live 10 years longer?
      320 22 Keep cholesterol, blood pressure low, don't smoke THERE'S a secret to longevity, it seems. A 10-year secret, that is. At least that's what two large studies of more than 366,000 people have found, reported Sky News. They found that people who maintain a low
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      57 24 WorCd o, I m§ I I f ,.J\ I X I I V j^^I The Spirit of Christmas fills the air I at Suntec City Mall. StmliM t y M.tll i loin.iM-lt I'. i m 11 < v .1111 > i r u i j m > 11 O '.J'.VJ!
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      Lock icon Nightmare of a wired Chrismas
      325 25 IT'S a breeze shopping this e-Christmas. Forget the old chap and his sleigh, forget the shops and just click away on the mouse through your list. Then wait for the presents to be gift-wrapped and delivered through the Internet. But someone could be snooping on
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      Lock icon I PRAISED: Matt Damon In Tha could scoop Oscars, too
      376 26 GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINEES ONE of the following stars is likely to win the Best Actor Oscar in three months. That's because Russell Crowe, Matt Damon, Kevin Spacey and Denzel Washington were nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor (Drama)
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      366 26 AMERICAN Beauty leads the field wtth six nominations for the 57th annual Golden Globe awards, followed by The Insider and The Talented Mr Ripley with five apiece. American Beauty is vying for best drama, and its stars, Kevin Spaoey and Annette Bening. for best actor and
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    466 27 MALAYSIATODAY He turned 74 yesterday. But for Malaysia's Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, it was not a happy occasion. He and opposition MPs 'hashed' each other up verbally in Parikuneuf s first sitting.... Source: Malaysian newspapers. WHEN the Prime Minister was about to be sworn in,
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    584 28  -  By Eugene Wee THE locals in the Chilean town of Punta Arenas laughed when they they heard that four Singaporeans were planning to fly out to the Antarctic yesterday. Did they know, they asked the Singaporeans, that the winds were so strong that a man
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    215 28 FROM the sky, they resemble frozen waves on a choppy sea during a thunderstorm. On the ground, the mere sight of them causes the most hardened of poUr trekkers to hang tneir heads and sigh in frustration. The reason trekkers hate these jagged ridges, or east rug I,
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      Lock icon Will this win her more votes?
      561 29 Will Saturday's bomb attack provide a surge of sympathy votes for President Chandrika Kumaratunga, as Sri Lankans go to the polls today to elect their next leader? SURESH KUMAR reports THEY had tried to kill the President 12 times. But every such attempt was
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      Lock icon 'All my systems are working perfect'
      256 29 HER face bandaged from an assassination attempt, Sri I«ankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga vowed to wipe out terrorism aa she addressed her nation on television yesterday. Her emotional and sometimes tearful address came on the eve of presidential elections, with security forces on red alert
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      Lock icon OUT: Is it the hair? Or the hands?
      601 31  -  By Hazel Tan HE was next in line to the King of Caldecott, Li Nanxing. So, why didn't Christopher Lee (left), make it to the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes list on Sunday night's Star Awards? What went wrong for the
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      240 32 LOW-CUT, near bum-rsvealing it might hsvo been, but at no point was Zoe Tay (right) in danger of OXpOUOS MrMIL So Hi] Johnny Khoo, th. man behind Zoe's bare-back Voruce number on Sunday. Ha said: If s mads of mesh and crystal. Therefore it's not flimsy.
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      474 33  -  By Seto Nu-wen WHERE'S your flute? That's what someone in the audience asked Mark Chan the last time he did a book reading at the National Library. "It got me thinking," he said. "Book reading doesn't just have to be book reading. It can be fused with
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      386 49  -  THE lEARING MALAYSIAN BASED MUSKFTEERS' By Tan Thean Loon TWO days. That's all they have. For title-chasers trainers Francis Nathan and Leong Poh Keong, this weekend's races at Penang are very crucial. They only have this Saturday and Sunday the final two race
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      229 49  -  BY Tan Thean Loon THE tense tussle between trainers Francis Nathan and Leong Poh Keong is the closest since American John Brink beat three-time champion Malcolm Thwaites by three winners in 1996. The score then was 59 winners to 56 winners, with Australian Don Baertschiger
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      294 50 AFP Hongkong windsurfing champion Lee Lai-shan is throwing herself headlong into Sydney Harbour. For the next 10 months, she will concentrate solely on training in her bid to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals. Two thingß have prompted Lee, who is affectionately known as
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      128 50 NBA UPDATE Reuters. LOS Angeles Lakers star Shaquille O'Neal was slapped with a US$lO,OOO ($16,730) fine yesterday. This follows an outburst after the Lakers' 95-88 win over the Atlanta Hawks last Thursday. O'Neal hit just 4-of-15 shots from the field and was l-of-5 from the free
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      92 50 Reuters. PHOENIX Suns guard Jason Kidd was named NBA Player of the Week yesterday. He recorded a pair of triple-doubles during Phoenix's unbeaten week. Kidd led the Suns to a 3-0 record averaging 25.7 points, 11.7 rebounds and 11.7 assists. 9 He had 32 points,
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      342 51 TEAM OF THE WEEK: MAN UNITED ONCE again, David Beckham's parents will play second fiddle to his wife's. They, in turn, will doubtlessly be entertained by grandson Brooklyn's attempts to play his new drum kit. Beckham's wife Victoria Adams, more famously known as Posh Spice, plans to
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      267 51 U— sp! van der Gouw, G Neville, Stam, Sllvestre. Irwin (P Neville 46), Beckham (Butt 75), Scholes, Keane. Giggs, Sheringham, Yorke. fate Mt «w* Taibi, Berg, Solskjaer. BsoMsVKNone. l«i htari Nonp Mk Yorke (8,62), Giggs S2.19). Shots: WH16 MU17; Corners: WH 6 MU 10;
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      444 51  -  f PLAYER OF THE WEEK: PAVEL SRNICEK i Report*/] Ian Brown ITS not a case of Pavel (Srnicek) or Kevin (Pressman) having to justify anything to B me, if s just playing people who are fall of confidence and we just thought at this moment
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      494 52 NATIONWIDE ENGLISH DIVISION ONE LEAGUE AFP. HUDDERSFIELD 3 GRIMSBY 1 NO star player likes sitting on the bench. Not least of all if you have a nickname like Zico. The "Zico of Thailand" continues to be a spectator as Huddersfield Town maintainß its impressive march at
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      179 52 WEEKEND RESULTS Sheff United 2 Blackburn 1 BamsJey3Walsall 2 Bolton 0 Stockport 1 Crystal Palace 0 Fulham 0 H udders field 3 Gnmsby 1 Ipswich 3 West Bromwich 1 Man City 3 Swindon 0 Forest 1 Crewe 0 Portsmouth 0 Port Vale 0 QPR 0 Charlton 0 Tranmerel
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      291 52 Three superb, strikes three goals Reuters. MRNWIWiISAU.2 THREE strike* from striker Craig Hignett salvaged three valuable points fbrhigh-flyingßarnsley. The former Aberdeen star hit a spectacular match-winner in injury time to get the Tykes (Barnsley's nickname) out of jail in a match where Walsall dominated. Barnsley manager Dave Bassett said: It
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      461 53  -  Latest lion stands out in more ways than one By Peter Siow THEY call him "Mike Tyson". Not so much because Adi Salleh has bitten ears or kicked butts, but more because of his massive shoulders and thick neck. The Singapore Armed Forces FC goalkeeper stood
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      135 53 M S Arasu will assist national coach Vincent Subramaniam for next February's Asian Cup qualifying soccer tournament in Macau. The 39-year-old was at Vincent's side for yesterday's first national squad training session since the South-east Asia Games in August. He will be the national team's assistant coach
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      143 53 WANG MENG MENG THE Football Association of Singapore (FAS) has agreed to pay the full salary of two youth coaches at every club from next year. Previously, it paid half. FAS project director Jan Poulsen said clubs will be required to hire two coaches to
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      268 54  -  i By! Suresh Nair HEY, did you really watch thegaaie, Mr Nair? How can you report the score wrong, lah? You better wake up and watch the repeat telecast of the match... I had five irate messages on my
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      341 54 AFP. FRANCK Leboeuf has apologised to his team-mates for his moment of madness that looks to have put paid to Chelsea's English Premiership hopes. But his apology may cut little ice with manager Gianluca Vialli as he contemplates a Christmas central defensive crisis that threatens even
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      208 54 TOMORROW (tlwCTinri tttw) Everton v Exeter Gillinghamv Walsall Luton vFulham Oxford v Nottm Forest Plymouth v Reading Rushden v Sheff Utd Torquay vQPR THURSDAY Leicester v Hereford Blackburn v West Brom Newcastle v Tottenham CALLMFOUNE Call 1900-*****13 after 6.30 am tomorrow for the results. Calls
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      315 54 Wire services. DION MIBUN: Aston Villa's top scorer is likely to be out of action for up to three months after undergoing surgery on a neck injury. The 30-year-old England striker fractured a vertebrae during Villa's 2-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday in Saturday's Premier League game at Villa
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      635 55 EUROPEAN FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR 1999 VITO BARBOSA FERREIRA: RIVALDO bhbh Mmr Vttoßarbosa Ferrelra 1972: Bom April 19 1999: Signs for Santa Cruz at 16 1991: Signs for Mogi-Mirim 19M: Signs for Corinthians. International debut 199* Regular international appearances during early part of the year but
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