The New Paper, 28 December 1999

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  • 7 1 the new paper TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1999
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 74 2 INDIAN AIRLINES HIJACK Indian officials in Kandahar, using radio, start negotiating with hijackers. At press time, Afghan official said there was no breakthrough in talks India says there are six hijackers, not five, as earlier reported—four Pakistanis, a Nepali and an Afghan Two hostages have had their hands and
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    • 218 2 Source: Wire services, BBC. SOME passengers aboard the hijacked Indian Airlines plane have reportedly fallen ill. "The situation for the passengers is getting worse," said Mr Rehmatullah Aga, a Taleban spokesman at the airport in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan. The plane, with about 155 on board, has
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    • 464 2  -  Four men with same name boarded plane By Shanoo Maharaj IN CALCUTTA POOR security at Nepal's international airport. An alleged failure on Indian Airlines' part to record basic passenger information. Such lapses are believed to have enabled the hijackers to smuggle weapons on board Flight IC 814 on
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    • 975 4 Caretaker falls for old trick and loses $8,000 Two mosques were hit by two conmen last week. One was caught. The other was not. EUGENE WEE reports EVIL. It comes in many forms. Sometimes it comes looking like a good deed. The 100-year-old mosque was in need
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    • 479 4 EVIL This time it came in the guise of a "religious teacher". The man said he was collecting donations to build a madrasah (religious school) in Myanmar. The Bangladeshi, 38, even had a photocopied letter from the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis)
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    • 320 4 1LLENNIUM PARTY AT COPTHORNE ORCHID join us in a fun-filled night of activities while welcoming the new Millennium. At $16, the Millennium party at the hotel lobby includes a beer, soft drink or house pours and party novelties. There will be a tattoo station, music by our resident band and
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 135 5 tor THERE has been only a few deaths caused by medical errors in the last 20 years, the Health Ministry said yesterday. While no figures were given checks into medical errors are kept confidential the ministry said it may make public some findings of its
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    • 58 5 NINE years ago, Dr Seow Li Jin (right) left a piece ofgauze in a patient's windpipe during an operation. She died soon after. Dr Seow was found negligent after a coroner's inquiry in 1992. The case came up again in 1997. He was censured by the Singapore Medical
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    • 31 5 •it- DORMANT: This Bcm-long Japanese dormouse, weighing Just 25g, hibernates every year from mid-November. School teacher Shusaku Minato has researched the protected animal for 26 years. Picture/ Reuters
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    • News Break
      • 59 5 ASSAULT ALL lawyer Gerald Khor, 29, wanted was some quiet to watch the movie. So, he ticked off the youth sitting behind him for talking loudly on a handphone on Sunday. For that, Mr Khor was beaten up. The youth pounced on Mr Khor outside the cinema with
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      • 53 5 I NEWSMAKERS THE Pokemon has been voted one of Asia's top five newsmakers of the year by Asiaweek magazine. The other top newsmakers included former Indonesian President B J Habibie Pokemon, founder of the Falungong sect, Mr Li Hongzhi and president of Malaysia's Parti Keadilan Nasional Datin Seri Wan
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      • 56 5 CLOB LOCAL company Collective Custodial Services came forward with a proposal to break the Clob impasse yesterday. The company said it has the in-principle approval of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Its proposal: To migrate the shares to the KLSE within 60 days, and then release them for
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      • 68 5 CHEQUES IF you're writing cheques anytime soon, don't forget to pen the year "2000" in mil. The Association of Banks in Singapore handed out this advice yesterday, following queries from customers. But don't worry cheques will be processed even if you wrote it as "00". For those
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      • 68 6 TAXES AFTER a 15-month lean spell, the taxman's pocket is jingling once again. The total revenue collected by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) for the third quarter this year rose by 1.5 per cent to $4.78 billion, compared to a year ago. The increase, the first
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      • 68 6 NTUC I LOCAL supermarket giant NTUC Fair Price is planning to expand its operations in the Indonesian city of Surabaya. It is reviewing an option to take a stake in the Nina Fair Price supermarket chain there. This is part of a shift in its strategy it now
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      • 57 6 MALAYSIA MALAYSIA'S Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Sen Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has been appointed as Umno's (United Malays National Organisation) chief in Terengganu. This is the first step in Umno's attempt to retake the state lost to Parti Islam (PAS) in last month's general election. The DPM replaces former
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      • 64 6 INDONESIA AT least 38 people died yesterday after Christians and Muslims clashed in the city of Ambon. It broke out in the centre of the port city, which is the biggest in Maluku province. Rival mobs used guns, slingshots and homemade bombs in the clash. The incident erupted
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    • 60 5 International Herald Tribune: Indian officials begin talks on hijacking in Afghanistan New Straits Times: 21 die in road crashes Asian Wall Street Journal: Surge of US tech stocks prods skeptics in buying BBC news: A team of Indian negotiators is continuing talks with the hijackers of an
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    • 121 6 News makers THE Geylang businessman in the centre of a series of police corruption trials was jailed 18 months yesterday for bribing a cop. Chua Tiong Tiong (right), better known as "Ah Long San", was found guilty of bribing former acting inspector Lim Poh Tee, 33,
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    • 53 6 The Straits Times: Hijack drama: Indian team arrives for talks The Business Times: Singapore firm steps in with 'friendlier' Clob offer Lianhe Zaobao: Deadly windstorm strikes Europe Berita Harian: New clashes in Ambon claim 38 lives RCS morning news: Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong calls for
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    • 73 6 Quote worthy In the past few days, the delivery rooms have been packed with (about 30per cent) more than usual... Anyone who had turned on the radio or television heard that, if they 'did Won April 9, they had as good chance of giving birth on the eve
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    • 27 6 The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 14.68 points to close at 11,391.08 yesterday. About 724 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 739 7  -  STABBED BY Azhar Ghani HOW much can you remember of your life when you were three? For little Risdarina, one prays that it won't be much. The three-year-old girl was said to have witnessed a terrible scene in a Jurong West flat on Friday.
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    • 96 7 Ramprakash Ramkirpal has been charged with killing his girlfriend Risa Rais in a flat in Jurong West Avenue 5 where they had rented a room. He allegedly stabbed her in her chest and back during a domestic quarrel between 1 pm and 4 pm on Christmas eve. After the
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    • 39 9 mur'mur' Randall Tan, who played tht heartthrob In The Teenage Textbook Movie and stare In the ICS 5 drama trowing Up as Tammy Ta/s Eurasian boyfriend. Every time Fm on TV, I'm taking my shirt off
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    • 476 9 At 43, he is one of the country's most eligible bachelors. But Singapore's Bill Gates views marriage with a cold eye. Mr Sim Wong Hoo,founder of Creative Technology, says all in a book he has just written. LIEWHUI LI takes a peek at some pages
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    • 136 9 THE book, Mr Sim's first, was thrashed out in just 17 days, says the publisher. It hits bookstores this Friday. Chaotic Thoughts from the Old Millennium is a collection of Btories from his life, with some random thoughts and home-spun philosophy thrown in. He won't be revealing
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    • 456 11 MORE BLASTS FROM MR SIM WONG HOO... DOG poo is a subject close to Mr Sim Wong Hoo's heart. Especially when it's picked up and safely put into garbage cans. He says in his forthcoming book: "Recently, while I was strolling down a busy
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    • 206 11 MR Sim Wong Hoo grew up in the farmland. One thing he remembers about those days in the farm was his father busy manufacturing day and night on a "panacea". One he concocted himself. Known as "Sungambo", it was a cure for common illnesses. By
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    • 61 12 SINGAPORETODAY CARANdjCHE l^K/M W I «B jf TV star Pierre Png's Millennium Word: *LOVE> I think there is a lot of hatred around. The ironic thing is that there is hatred among religious groups as well. I think it is the root of all problems. And if there was more
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      151 13  -  By Tanya Fong ITS going to be the party of a thousand years. And it won't be in just one place. There will be: The Millennium Swing Singapore on Orchard Road Countdown 2000 at Suntec City/Marina Square and Millennia Walk Millennium 2000 at the National Stadium Millennium Countdown
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    • 229 13 HERE are some dos and don'ts for party-goers: Follow instructions given by police and event marshals. Leave your vehicles at home. Use public transport to avoid congestion around roads closed to traffic. Stay clear of MRT station entrances so that it's easier for commuters to enter and leave
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    • 94 13 KEEP closely tuned to the radio and TV for any Y2K glitches. But that need not ruin your millennium celebrations. The police are ready to deploy additional officers at major road junctions and roads leading to hospitals. They will ensure smooth traffic flow if the traffic lights
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  • 305 15  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Lingam Ponnampalam MAN: Hello? Woman: Hi, Lilian here. You know, Auntie? Man: Oh. Woman: Tonight, my place? Your usual girl will be there. Normal price. Man: Ok. That was probably one of the many phone conversations Cheang Foong Peng, 55,
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    • 91 17 FOUR days left to the new millennium. Is it a time for new hopes, dreams and wishes? Share with us your millennium wish. It can be positive, bizarre, funny or outrageous. (But no rude or offensive stuff please!) And tell us, when Jan 1, 2000 arrives:
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    • 474 17  -  By Ian Tan SERGEANT Goh Siok Ha's ears pricked up when she heard the words "A red helmet with a black visor". Sitting in front of her was a 17-year-old girl, who was looking very upset as she gave her statement in a private
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    • 116 17 lALLSON llfltl, THE 2IST MITIIY i i New Year 's Eve I 31 December 1999 H International Buffet Dinner 8c H Roast on the Silver Wagon Corner Price: $45.00 Adult $22.50 Child (Prices include novelties) H Teochew Porridge J Price: $19.80 Adult $10.80 Child A Time: 11.00 pm to 4.00
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    • 64 19 YOU may have seen 1 people successfully 1 1 raising dogs and cats, even cats and mice, together. But how about crocodiles and (yum, yum) ducks? Well, a zoo on the outskirts of Bangkok Is trying to do just that by putting the two species together
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    • 302 19 Swedish ruling 'will jolt industry' Wire services. THEY said the Swedish teen had copied their music illegally over the Internet. And they brought a big music piracy case against the 17-year-old. At first, they won the case. But the boy won in the end,
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    • 471 20  -  Baby's penis surgeiy bungled Grows up, studies medicine, learns of cure 26 years later, he sues and wins By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY HE grew up thinking he was deformed. He avoided girls and he avoided sport where he might be seen naked by other boys. "John", as
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    • 233 20 Source: AFP. THE 11-year-old girl's jather believed she was possessed by evil spirits, f To get rid of them, her 'ather, stepmother and teen sister allegedly beat her. But she died, and the three have been charged krith beating the girl to leath, Swedish
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    • 196 20 rV r renren.com Jmmm— Count to ten, backwards New Year's Eve Buffet AL Capture your last meal for 1999 on film for keepsake. Buffet Dinner $200.00 per couple plus novelties and half a bottle of champagne. Live entertainment. Cafe Georges, to 11 00 pm 4E& Cool Future V High voltage
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    • 70 22 Y2K DRAGON: a giant golden dragon in Thailand awaiting the new millennium. This 44 metre-long dragon is made from thousands of aluminium bottle caps. Y2K CHESS ANYONE?: University students dressed as chess pieces waiting for the command of chess players, during an exhibition game outside
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    • 224 22 AFP ONE boy's message of peace will travel round the world at the turn of the millennium. The message is a poem written by a 12-year-old Northern Irish schoolboy Shaun McLaughlin who was killed in a 1998 bomb explosion in Omagh, Northern Ireland. It has been
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  • 49 24 I rmrJivnrjf Language in Indonesia was comiplsd hi firmer president Suharto's am. Said Mr BamfcMgNarymrti, editor-in-chief of Tempo weekly: We played with words. We didn't call it poverty, it was "pre-prosperity". If a minister was caught mis-using funds, it wasn't corruption, it was a "procedural error".
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  • 372 24 Wire services. IT was a day at the races after Christmas. But not all the races were run. Instead, 20,000 horse racing fans were evacuated from the Kempton Park racecourse in southern England yesterday after police received a bomb threat from an Irish Republican splinter
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 455 25 Jennifer Lopez and Puff Daddy arrested fleeing shootout Wire services. THEY were fleeing a shoot-out in a New York nightclub. But when they were pulled over for speeding 10 minutes later, police found more than just two frightened pop stars in their car. Weapons and
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    • 136 25 MILLIONAIRE rapper and record producer Sean "Puffy" Combs, also known as Puff Daddy, is one of the biggest names in pop music today. But the chief Executive of the rap label Bad Boy Entertainment, who topped the charts himself recently with IH Be Missing You,
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    • 117 25 FORMER dancer Jennifer Lopez found fame as an actress in Selena in 1997. She has since starred in Out of Sight with George Clooney, Money Train and Anaconda. This year, she released a Latin pop album, On the 6, which has topped charts around
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    • 78 26 Worry?) Are you I A[ J jf^*^ry ready? Q Bank account Q Credit cafds D Stocks 11 I w < f V Q Electf onlc apy*"** —4 Over the next three pages, the Tan family will show why worries about the Millennium Bug are likely to prove unfounded. Singapore IS
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    • 355 27 I n( fIHI I I I I 1 TIP: Cabbies with problem meters can also go to Comfort's four service centres in Sin Ming Drive, Loyang Drive and Pandan Road, where teams of technicians will be on standby 24 hours from the eve of Dec 31. If you are unable
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 184 27 Y v Worry? j pernor I Ready or not, here we go... This is a complete Why? What if there's no I Singapore PowerGas has spent millions waste of money! water because of the Y2K bug 7 ma^e sure we w have water, gas and pzZZIZlL Or gas to cook
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    956 28  -  YOUR BANK ACCOUNT Y2k Worry? We can bank on a smooth crossover. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) says more than 99 per cent of the 638 banks and financial institutions are Y2K compliant. But in case you're still feeling jittery about your dollars and cents, here's why
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  • ShowTime
    • 559 30  -  Singapore veteran actors, Lim Kay Siu and Neo Swee Lin, hope for more breaks in US after the success of Anna and The King By; Seto Nu-wen LIM Kay Siu and Neo Swee Lin are getting stars in their eyes. Hollywood stars. In an
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    • 214 31 ATTENDING the premiere of Anna and The King was a great chance to rub shoulders with the rich and famous. But so far, Kay Siu and Swee Lin have been slightly overwhelmed by their first taste of foreign media attention. Said Swee Lin of the premiere:
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    • 220 32 BABE OF THE YEAR 1. Sonia Couling 2. Sharon Au 3. Zoe Tay 4. Fann Wong 5. Kym Ng DUDE OF THE YEAR 1. Mark Lee 2. Gurmit Singh 3. Thomas Ong 4. Lim Kay Tong 5. James Lye HOT FLAME OF THE'9OS 1. Kit Chan 2. Jack
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    • 573 32 What do you think makes a woman a babe? She must have persona and looks. You need to have this feminine flair about you. Do you think you have these qualities? No, I don't. That's why when I was an air stewardess, I had to
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  • 665 34 BABE OF THE YEAR OMINEE: Comper SHOWTIME What do you think makes a woman a babe? She must look like a pig?! Just kidding. She must be confident, humorous, must have big eyes and a good voice. Because if it's someone you
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    • 218 34 You don't have to pay through your bom to celebrate the New Millennium millennium eve millennium M* **********231 f C3S2ZS32Z3 Millennium Eve Candle Light Millennium New Year Brunch 6-Course Gala Set Dinner Time: 11,30 am 2.30pm 555.00 per person 525.00 per adult $18.00 per child Inclusive of novelties, hats, lucky
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    • 106 35 The Party you've waited all century fori VJ| Countdown 2000 Kick-start the new Millennium with Radio's hard rocking street dance party at Suntec City! Featuring your favourite RCS DJs Perfect 10's Glenn Ong, Jean Danker, Howie, Jade Chong, Daniel Ong, y.e.e. 93.3's Dasmond Koh, Foong Wai See, Tan Li Yi,
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  • 176 36 WANT to enjoy an evening of music, dance, and splendour on New Year's day? Ten lucky readers can win tickets to the millennium day celebrations at Sentosa. The package, worth about $100, includes aircon coach transfer to Sentosa, a buffet dinner, a Samba parade, and a
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  • 525 36  -  Et cetera WITH JANICE WONG DON'T you get irritated when you get one of those happy-sounding, "inspiring" chain e-mail messages? Mail that has sappy pictures urging you to love what you do or do what you love, or telling how someone in Wisconsin in
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
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  • the new paper RACING
    • 467 44  -  By Danny Khoo WHEN the curtains came down at Penang last Sunday to mark the end of another eventful racing season, the person who stood taller than most was Oo Khuang Liang. Not among the biggest of jockeys, Oo must surely earn the Malayan Racing Association
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    • 102 46 THE Singapore Turf Club will be discontinuing the weekly lucky draw on 4*talisator tickets from Saturday. In a press statement, the club said that feedback from race-goers showed that interest in the weekly draw had declined considerably in the past few years. It noted that there
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    • 394 46 NYT. GARY STEVENS, the Hall of Fame jockey who rode three Kentucky Derby champions and just missed winning the Triple Crown with Silver Charm in 1997, is retiring. Stevens said on Sunday, after failing to win in four races at Santa Anita, that degenerative arthritis
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • 159 47 NATIONWIDE ENGLISH DIVISION ONE LEAGUE MANCHESTER United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has a very big heart. He turned into the soccer version of Santa Claus during the Christmas weekend. He gave away two Manchester United players to his closest soccer friends, reports Sky Sports. The big-hearted
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    • 595 47 WEEKEND RESULTS Birmingham 0 Sheff Unite£2 Blackburn 2 Notts Forest 1 Fulham 0 Ipswich 0 Grimsby 0 Barnsley 3 Norwich 2 QPRI Stockport 3 Wolves 2 Swindon 1 Portsmouth 1 Walsall lTranmere 2 TODAY: Barnsley v Port Vale Bolton v West Brom Crystal Palace v Walsall
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    • 103 47 Reuters. CHARLTON 2 PALACE 1 TWO goals in two minutes helped Charlton Athletic run out the winner in a ding-dong battle at The Valley. Teenager Andy Martin put Crystal Palace ahead early in the south London derby. He scored off a free-kick from
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    • 562 48 BIG MATCH I: ARSENAL v LEEDS i PREMIERSHIP FIXTURES TODAY: i Arsenal v Leeds Bradford v Everton Leicester v Newcastle Liverpool v Wimbledon J2 Sunderland v Man Utd Watford v Southampton j West Ham v Derby THURSDAY (Singapore time): Aston Villa v Tottenham Chelsea
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    • 434 48 BIG MATCH II: SUNDERLAND v MAN UNITED Wire services. SUNDERLAND manager Peter Reid promises not to take any risks with injury victim Kevin Phillips despite the desperate need for the striker to play against Manchester United. Reid will protect his young star despite the fitness of
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    • 548 49  -  TEAM OF THE WEEK: EVERTON EVERTON 5 SUNDERLAND 0 Everton: Gerard, Weir, Unsworth, Gough, Dunne, Barmby (Moore 74), Hutchison, Pembridge, Collins, Campbell, Jeffers (Cleland 74). Subs not used: Simonsen (gk), Cadamarteri, Watson. Yellow card: Weir (52nd). Red: None. Goals: 1-0 Hutchison
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      357 49 PLAYER OF THE WEEK: DAVID GINOL4 YOU don't really need David Ginola to beat Watford and you certainly don't count on his league goals these days. Monday's was his first goal in 16 league games this season, an individual effort of supreme quality as Tottenham won 4-0. The
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    • 520 50  -  DUBAI TOUR: Today: v Malaysia Friday: vAI Shahbab Jan 2: v UAE Olympic squad By S Gulam IN DUBAI A LONG and hard season which included the Dunhill Cup in Vietnam, the SEA Games in Brunei, the training tour to Japan and the S-League
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    • 167 50 JUST two days ago, LatifT Kamaruddin (above, centre) and Azahar Baksin were doubtful for the trip to Dubai because of iiyuries. But here's the latest news: Both have recovered. Both trained last night. And both came off without any problem despite a solid one-hour workout. Surprised?
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    • 177 50 IT might have been one of their longest flights ever (almost 10 hours). And they may have fasted the whole day. But the Lions went about their usual business with a solid one-hour workout last night. The Lions boarded the plane at 12.10
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    • 274 50  -  By] Peter Siow MOST young players would give an arm and a leg to don national colours. So why did Sembawang Rangers' Ibrahim Noh pass up the opportunity to travel with the Lions, who left for the United Arab
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    • 294 51  -  GAZZA TO PLAY FOR WOODLANDS? BY Adam Hashidy THIS time of the year, everybody's making their festive wishes. But to wish for England international midfielder Paul Gascoigne? One S-League team manager has enquired about Gazza's availability. Woodlands Wellington's R Vengadasalam said: M I was on holiday last
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    • 242 51  -  By Suresh Nair IT was thumbs-up for Team Singapore in its first overseas soccer assignment in Hongkong. The Singapore Under 18s which will take part in next year's Prime League finished runner-up in the recent four-team Hongkong Kagoshima international youth tournament. "We did reasonably well,
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    • 202 51 NBA CONTEST WANT to watch your favourite NBA stars live? Here's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to catch all the top stars at one game: The NBA All-Star Game in Oakland. One lucky reader will be there on Feb 11 -13. Simply read the question
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    • 184 52 THAIS BEATEN AT THEIR OWN SPORT AFP. A YOUNG Irish teacher has become the first foreign woman to beat the Thais at their national sport kickboxing. Niam Griffon, 22, from Cork, knocked out her Thai opponent Satanfa Mormuangchum, 16, with a powerful knee to the
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    • 169 52 AFP. YES, that is the amount Italian Serie A leader Lazio is prepared to pay for European Footballer of the Year Rivaldo. Lazio is determined to sign the Brazilian midfield genius from Spanish club Barcelona. And the Rome-based club is prepared to break the bank for him,
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    • 177 52 AP. WORLD No 1 tennis doubles player Leander Paes and No 4 Sebastien Lareau of Canada will play together in next month's Australian Open. Paes and fellow countryman Mahesh Bhupathy had won the Australian Open and French Open and played together at Wimbledon
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