The New Paper, 30 December 1999

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  • 7 1 the new paper THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1999
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 490 2  -  BRIEFCASE BOMBER SHOT DEAD GOLD COAST Nearly 100,000 Singaporeans visit the Gold Coast in Queensland each year. By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY FOR four hours, the man held off heavily armed police. He carried a gun and a briefcase, which he said had
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    • 346 3 <§> OON R\S\^° Mr Henry Urn THE freak floods that hit several coastal areas here and those in the vicinity of rivers or canals have raised an important issue about our readiness for natural disaster. In countries often hit by bad weather, such as Hongkong, where typhoons
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    • 634 4  -  M'sian press plays up issue BY Tanya Fong YOUTH claims abuse by Singapore narcotics officers, rang the headlines of the Malaysian newspaper, The Sun. "Worker wants justice", blared the Malaysian Chinese daily, Sin Chew Jit Poh. "Assaulted at Woodlands", said another Malaysian Chinese
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    • 279 4 CNB's first reply, sent to Malaysian media Soh Chin Sheng was picked up during a random check on travellers at Woodlands Checkpoint on Dec 7. He was tested positive for amphetamine consumption. In his statement to CNB, he admitted that he had abused Ecstasy in Johor. Thus, according
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 210 6 hst NEW YEAR PARTIES CELEBRATE without your car tomorrow. The roads at three millennium parties will be closed. That could cause traffic jams and problems So switch to public transport instead Rail and bus operators will be operating round the clock. The Singapore MRT will put
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    • News Break
      • 64 6 I INTERNET SURF the Net at breakneck speeds You can do just that with Singapore Cable Vision's new cable-modem service. Priced at $96 per month, the broadband service rides on SCVs island-wide cable network and promises speeds of up to 30 times faster than what you would get
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      • 61 6 ANTARCTICA THE four polar trekkers in the Antarctica 2000 team are less than 40 km from the South Pole. They are likely to reach the South Pole at the turn of the new millennium. But the team of mountaineers are not likely to scale the 4,897-m-high Mount Vinson
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      • 59 6 TRAVEL 1 YOUR blue Singapore Restricted Passport (SRP) will not be valid after tomorrow, even if it shows the validity period beyond this date. So if you travel to Malaysia on your SRP, you must re-enter Singapore by tomorrow. From Saturday, the Singapore International Passport will be the
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      • 64 6 M EDUCATION LOG on to a computer at childcare. That's what toddlers and pre-schoolers at NTUC Childcare centres will be able to do as the cooperative is spending more than $250,000 to equip all its childcare centres with computers. It is part of a plan, starting next year,
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    • 48 6 International Herald Tribune: Hijackers back off ransom demand New Straits Times: Penang Gerakan shake-up Asian Wall Street Journal: Japan to delay cut in insurance for deposits BBC news: The Taleban leadership in Afghanistan has demanded a quick end to the hijacking of the Indian airliner
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    • 141 7 in FSR§us MILLENNIUM problems have struck already. IN SEATTLE: The grand millennium bash below its landmark Space Needle, has been cancelled. All because of fears of terrorist attacks. Seattle feels particularly vulnerable after the Dec 14 arrest of suspected Algerian terrorist Ahmed Ressam, who had a reservation at
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    • 56 7 I clob THE firm behind the latest Clob offer is being investigated by the Commercial Affairs Department. And investors should stay clear of the offer by Collective Custodial Services (Asia) said the Monetary Authority of Singapore. MAS said the Collective's offer was different from the terms it gave
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    • 68 7 THE*I)S HE heads a US$5OO-million-a-year ($836-million) company, yet he and his wife allegedly left their son, 10, at a Delaware hospital with a note to say they could no longer care for him. PQ Corp's Richard Kelso, 62, and wife Dawn, 45, were charged with abandonment of
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    • 64 7 ACUPUNCTURE ABOUT two in every three of the 1,100 acupuncturists practising in Singapore need not sit for qualifying exams when the Ministry of Health starts registering traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners from the middle of next year. The rest will have to pass the common test
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    • 56 7 MYANMAR ENGINEERING students in Myanmar resumed studies this week, three years after the military regime closed all universities to quell political protests. The authorities set up new centres away from the usual campuses. Third- and fourth-year engineering students from Yangon began studies at the new Yangon Technology
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    • 27 7 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 29 points to close at 11,506 yesterday. Only 446 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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    • 56 7 The Straits Times: High-speed surfing with SCV modem The Business Times: SCV puts the heat on broadband Net service providers Lianhe Zaobao: Association of Banks assures customers their accounts are safe Berita Harian: Hijackers drop two demands RCS morning news: Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid says he won't
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    • 59 7 Quote worthy We have to look at the whole thing in context. The ultimate objective must be to benefit the community and not for the sake of maintaining the madrasahs. Mr Abdullah Tarmugi, Minister-in-Charge of Muslim Affairs, on what should be the main priority of the committee formed
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • 127 8 SINGAPORETODAY SO cute and plush! Twelve sets of these limited edition Hello Kitty and Dear Daniel soft toys are up for auction on-line for charity till Jan 27. Togged in wedding outfits, each set has six pairs of these groovy cats. Each week, two sets will
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    • 147 8 fA[ezu year Eve Dinner Fresh Prawns Cocktail Salad I Soup 1 y crabmeat A Qhoice pf Main Course S A Roast Turkey Honey Baked Ham With Cranberry sauce 5 i \y4jrHled Fillet Steak with Pepper sauce il if with Black Mushroom V* V Fillet Fish with King Prawn ij'< or
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 376 10  -  His victims have Down's Syndrome By' Tanya Fong WHAT kind of creep would do this? A creep called Chew Siow Weng, 48, a mini-bus driver then employed by the Metta Welfare Association, a Buddhist welfare organisation that runs a school for children
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    • 156 11 The Party Never Ends at the 24-hour Sentosa Countdown! J&i O 1 T 'JitM 1 I l' 1 1 r Vr-11T; ,fr. Kj Get ready for a splashin good time at Slloso Beach with the biggest and wettest foam parties! rs. Millennium Rock-Chinese bands Vinyl and Dream Journey perform >
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      489 12  -  By Ian Tan THE big and burly inmate came stomping into class and started shouting at everyone. Arms adorned with tattoos, he started to throw tables around in fury. Stunned, the other inmates just looked on. But Mr Errol Oh, 50, had seen such behaviour before. Having taught
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    • 122 12 THE new prison school will begin on Jan 3 next year. It will have 260 students. The new medium-security Prison School at Kaki Bukit Centre was renovated at a cost of $600,000. The school will bring together inmates doing their N, O and A levels under one
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    • 51 13 f Wisdom 9 I think wisdom will help you understand whatever happens in the new millennium. There is a lot that we cannot fathom, and wisdom will help us understand. And wisdom comes with the benefit of experience. Koh Chieng Mun's (Dolly from Under One Roof) Millennium
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    • 59 15 FANCY a leap into the new -millennium? One Family of four will be the first winners of our first contest in the new millennium: An adventure in the land which will experience the first sunrise of the millennium. Find out more this Sunday in
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    • 533 16 A survey commissioned by the five major local banks showed that Singaporeans are confident their bank accounts are immune from the Y2K bug But it appears some heartlanders still have strange ideas about this dreaded creature. IRENE KEWreports Y2K bug Some teMthe vear
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    • 201 16 NO worries about the bug eating away their dollars and cents in the banks. So say most of the 300 Singaporeans in a survey commissioned by DBS Bank, Overseas Union Bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, United Overseas Bank and Keppel Tat Lee Bank. Compared with a similar survey
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    • 123 17 Bank MfiS® H• H You don't have to carry a thick wad of notes while painting the town red your usual transactions using NETS. Cash Cards and our self-service banking Y2K ready. And wed like to assure you that you'll enjoy a smooth transition, on New Year's Eve. Because even
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    • 337 18  -  SHOW INFO WHAT: Countdown 2000. Millennium Celebration WHERE: Suntec City and Marina Square WHEN: Tomorrow, from 7 pm ADMISSION: Free By Ho At Li YES 93.3FM Deejay Foong Wai Sze (left) will be hosting no fewer than three parties come the new millennium.
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    • Article, Illustration
      48 18 nuiiMmii* Samson Chiu, director of the upcoming movie, When I Fall in Love... with Both, where ICS star Fann Wong cheats on her lovers: It's the new millennium. Men and women are more equal than ever. If men can cheat, why not women? It's only fair.
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    • 312 18 Change Alley Christmas: A World Celebration 6 to 23 December 1999 suits of .Lucky £Vqvv Name: IC Number: 1 st Ms Boey Wai Sim *****95 F 2 nd Ms Ho Foong Meng *****80 H 3 rd Ms Pearlyn See *****27 D 4 th Ms Lim Kim Lan *****16 A 5
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    • 74 18 NewiYear fcs et. D i nnejfcjp I jjp I I SOUP: Italian Vegetable Soup with Garlic Bread I MAIN COURSE: Tenderloin Steak with Garlic Prawns I <?A I Salmon BBQ Pork Ribs Combo I DESSERT: Mango Gateau I Coffee or Tea I Complimentary glass of Tropical Delight (non-alcoholic) I RCSCRVRTIONS
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 184 19 Source: AFP of British retailers are I beginning to feel like they have been I bitten already. By the Y2K Bug, in a i premature arrival. They have resorted to putting card transactions through on paper slips because of the problem in the swipe machines
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    • 265 20 NO water phone electricity France's unhappy New Year AFP. MILLIONS of French men and women will greet the 21st century without water and electricity following an unprecedented series of storms in recent days. The government has announced a state of natural disaster in 69 out of 96 administrative regions, and
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    • 408 21 COME CEIEBRATEIDM DAWN OF THtEg fiMILLENNIUM® sa-r|-p ipro 10pm ®7,35§ I■ I Tpuarp 3 IILJL 1 1 m ■>i^ NTUC invites all families to a day of fun, laughter and 1 joy at our Millennium Countdown Party 1 Simply because til Countdown r weh^ cuidi L Party L Celebrity Cookout
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    • 291 22 I Where Hari Raya wishes lead to "ketupat" surprised I lift. t! 4B|9EB3^^He^B99&^^9^^^^^l i' wmnniH < '*&>»& *>■! ''fflffiflSH?' isMr > $£«9BeI trl rv v\. mK«I9HraH H*'-1 I *fc. ilii it hi i i 28 December 1999 7 January 2CXX) I Come to Causeway Point this Hari Raya to see
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 289 23 Reuters. I DID not do these horrible things! That was what Shlomo Nour, 43, shouted to reporters last year. He was being tried for raping Miss World 1998, Linor Abargil, then 19 years old. Now he could only mutter as the
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    • 52 23 muifmu* Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who recently survived an assassination attempt, said she Nad stopped worrying about security: If I did, I wouldn't do anything else. I'd be shivering in my boots... As a Buddhist, I believe one dies when the time comes, nothing can
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    • 109 23 GOURMET SEVEN "Uk $2.50 only BUY One GET One I^.^— M| dish from Hb' below! This holiday season, enjoy big savings and gourmet dishes from famous restaurants under one r00f... G7, Singapore Expo. 23 December to 15 February Singapore Fare Hirotei Jru«p«n««> Malay/Indonesian Cafe Roma (Western) Samarkand <Noith indun) rfrrfiiti?
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    • 122 24 I I The Party you've waited all century for! iw &w MW I 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.s. 93.3's Dasmond Koh, Foong
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    • 246 25 Saved by his new shoes Lightning struck, but this teenager was lucky FIFTEEN-year-old Alex Derrick received the best Christmas present ever from his mother. They weren't merely the trainers he was hoping for. A few hours after tearing the Christmas wrapping off them, they actually saved his life. Alex was
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    • 466 26  -  INDIAN AIRLINES HIJACK By Shanoo Maharaj REPORTING FROM CALCUTTA FAR away in Kandahar, more than 155 hostages on board Flight 814 prepared to spend a sixth night in captivity yesterday. Around the same time, Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh, 61, braced himself for another
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    • 100 26 THE Taleban regime in Afghanistan is running out of patience with both the Indian government and the hijackers "Our demand for both sides is not to waste time and find a political solution," Afghan Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil said "If the Indian government doesn't peacefully solve the problem,
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      518 29  -  (\$fc *i111 mm By Hazel Tan A BABE after all these years? This girl's all grown up. Sure, she could be the once and future babe. After all, we're talking of Zoe Tay. Still in the running for this year's Flame Awards as Babe of the Year, and Hot
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    • 214 30 BABE OF THE YEAR 1. SoniaCouling 2. Sharon Au 3. ZoeTay 4. Fann Wong 5. Kym Ng DUOEOFTHEYEAR 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 Neo 3. Gurmit Singh 4.
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      301 31  -  By Seto Nu-wen YOU know the saying: Don't judge a book by its cover. But a group of people did, and became $800 richer. The book: Clarence Plays the Numbers. Its cover shows a piece of paper with a four-digit number 5458. Those numbers caught the eye of
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    • 458 32  -  Countdown band Fishtank's ready to reggae By Seto Nu-wen LOCAL group Fish tank claims "a reputation for bringing in a mosh pit". At a recent gig at the Youth Park, over-eager fans were told to sit. At The Substation last month, it said
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    • 126 32 STRIKING out for something different this New Year's Eve? Then skip the usual TCS-stars-at-Orchard-Road countdown and join a partying mass of young, hyper Singaporeans at Far East Square for the Subc2ooo Millennium Concert Party. Local bands such as Fishtank, Plain Sunset and Sherene's Closet will work the
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    419 33  -  Etcetera WITH DAVE ANG WITH only days to go to the new millennium, I was going to write a last-minute piece about how to make your washing machine Y2K-compliant. But I had a fever. And there was something bugging me about the new Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, what
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    • 112 33 COMICREUEF The Concrete Jungle/Colin Goh iffiwrrV wat, Mb I mi. sfr Er-l" M Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson HI DAD. I'M MAKING |HELL,*JU TIS BUCTiH LOR tW CAM SO (H THE KEXT HEE WEE.' HEWSPAPEft TO REPORT THE TAKE 100R P\CK. BE THE SVfcJECT >*s. WMEI. DOPET DAD lOOK. HON EVENTS
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    • 94 34 BUY<* SELL* FIND, Classified ads can get you stereo Classified ads are purr...feet for equipment for a song. finding lost little kittens. Classified ads make vacation Classified ads can speed up hunting relaxing. your search for the right car. Classified ads put home-seekers Classified ads make just about on solid
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  • 354 35  -  CAREER CHOICE BY Joyce Lim LIKE to see the world without paying a cent? Work in a travel agency, as Miss Verna Wong does. Miss Wong, 35, assistant branch manager of a travel firm, has been to Australia, New Zealand, central Europe, the US and most
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    • 50 35 JOB .j ADS Inside Daddy's Ml caning A Pub at Clark T Quay is A urgently looking for service staff. Logon to this If you have experience in trading timber logs, here's an opportunity. Zoom in Join an optical shop at J Orchard Road I ifyouarea 1 qualified optometrist. A
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    • 449 36 CareerChoice aaUK? The miracles of science Grow With Us Into The Next Millennium. DuPont Is The Choice. TECHNICIANS (Shift Work Required) If you would like to work in a team environment, and have good interpersonal and effective communication skills, we would like to talk to you. Relevant working experience is
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  • 257 37 FROM PAGE 36 CAREER CHOICE What do you mean by "outbound" and "inbound"? Outbound means taking passengers to other countries. It's not compulsory to know a foreign language if you're working as an outbound tour guide, but it's a bonus if you do. Inbound
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    • 284 37 1) SALES EXECUTIVES Male/Female Min. 1 year, experience Possess own vehicle 2) CUSTOMER SERVICE OFFICERS With/without experience Requirements for both positions: Speaks English Mandarin Able to start immediately We offer very attractive salary, transport commission for both posts (above $2K p/mth) 3) DATA ENTRY CLERKS 4) CUSTOMER SERVICE OFFICERS $6
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    • 523 38 Career Choice URGENT! URGENT! URGENT! I DADDY J'S Pub (Clarke Quay) requires: Graceful cheerful. Stock inventory knowledge. If you have all the above, we love to see you. (Attractive salary benefits awaits.) Walk in interview 3pm.-7pm. 29th-30th Dec. Daddy J'S Pub. 3E River Valley Road. (Above Coffee Connections) #02-01 Clarke
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  • 1209 45 RACING IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM DatfcDay Venus Class FsatureRscs 1 Jan (Sat) Singapore All classes Singapore New Ipoh 2,4, 5, Maiden Year Cup (SNY) 2 Jan (Sun) Ipoh 2,4,5, Maiden 5 Jan (Wed) Singapore 3.4.5 8 Jan (Sat) Singapore 1.2.3.4, 5. Maiden Ipoh 2.4.5. Maiden 9 Jan
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    • 325 46 DANNY KHOO'S GUIDE TO KRANiI TRACKWORK THE nice-looking Cybervain showed a delightful turn of foot at Kraryi yesterday morning. Taken out by Australian jockey Ernest Marchant, the four-year-old Kenvain gelding shaped like a winner when he disposed of 600 m in 37.68 ec impressively on the sand track.
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      166 46 TOP TRAINER (SINGAPORE): Charles Leek (56 wins). OTHER TOP FINISHERS: Don Baertschiger (43), Malcolm Thwaites (33), John Brink (31), Michael Kent (29), Bernard Ang (21), Patrick Busuttin (17), Michael Clements (17), Dr Yeoh Kheng Chye (13). TOP TRAINER (MALAYSIA): Francis Nathan (32 wins). OTHER TOP FINISHERS: Leong Poh
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    • 242 46  -  By Danny Khoo ITS OFFICIAL. Kuala Lumpur-based Francis Nathan is the champion trainer in Malaysia for 1999. His 32-winner tally is matched by Ipoh rival Leong Poh Keong but he earned the verdict by virtue of his superior number of second placings. He had 36 seconds to
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    • 304 46 TRAINER John Meagher will be introducing a smart Class 1 newcomer in Showing Aces at Kranji on Saturday. The four-year-old bay Australian-bred gelding by Umatilla out of Proud Draw arrived with a good record over sprints. From two starts at two, Showing Aces was a winner over 1,200 m
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    • 392 47 GUIDE TO IPOH TRACKWORK NST. LAST-START winner Princess Xena wrapped up her preparations for the Class 4 Div 1 1,400 m event on Sunday with a stylish workout in Ipoh yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, she cantered one round and then reeled off
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    • 168 47 NST. SEVEN Class 4 newcomers have been entered for the Perak Turf Club's first meeting of the new year this weekend. Air Bank (late Vanitoso), a four-year-old bay NZ gelding by Varikos out of La Baraka. Fast Lane Charlie, a three-year-old chestnut NZ gelding by Colonel Collins-Arctic
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    • 402 48 INTERNATIONAL TENNIS UPDATE: AFP. IT was so complicated that most fans didn't know how Andre Agassi regained the men's No 1 spot. Now, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has simplified the system for the 2000 season and everybody is relieved, even the players. The year-long
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    • 186 48 AP BEN Johnson says his life in Libya training leader Moammar Gadhafi's son is pretty simple go to work with armed guards, come back to the hotel. The former world sprint champion, who was stripped of his records because of positive doping tests, told the Toronto Sun
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    • 277 48 AFP. SHE may be the sexiest player on the women's tennis circuit, but Russian star Anna Kournikova would just like to win a tournament. Kournikova is followed by an army of drooling men who love her flowing blonde hair
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      74 49 THE forum for football fans, only in The New Paper THE letter on the right by Yang Shiisi wins our top prize of a Manchester United Treble Celebration Pack (above) worth $169.90. These worldwide limited edition sets, hand-signed by United's JaapStam, features the 18 players (plus manager Alex
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    • 326 49 WOMEN'S RIGHTS I UNDERSTAND that the Far Post serves as an outlet for rapturous soccer fans to express themselves. However, I hope you guys will make an exception. I believe that I represent a silent minority who spend their Saturday nights watching their boyfriends watching soccer
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    • 111 49 LOOKS like footballers nowadays don't really know what their mouths are used for. What is it about the Arsenal "spitting duo" of Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit that they have so much saliva to spare? Why spit when they can speak? Something seriously wrong with their throats?
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    • 208 49 THERE was bound to be trouble when skipper Roy Keane's $50,000-a-week salary was recently announced by Manchester United. Now jealous Posh Spice is threatening the United management to give her husband, David Beckham, a pay raise. Or he may leave Old TrafTord. I believe it was wrong for
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    • 187 49 I'VE been following Liverpool since I was four. From the club's highs and lows and through the passage of legends like lan Rush, John Barnes, Stan Collymore, Steve McManaman, Robbie Fowler and now Michael Owen. I've come up with seven factors that I believe can spoil the game
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    • 355 50  -  By Peter Siow IF our S-League club chairmen were preoccupied with money in their sleep last night, they could be forgiven. Today, the big bosses will meet officials of the Football Association of Singapore to discuss the grants to be given to them for next
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    • 449 50  -  THE MARDANI DOPING CASE BY Adam Hashidy "I TRUST you completely." With those words, Noorizan Isa became his pillar of strength, a rock of certainty when everything else in Mohamed Mardani's life seemed uncertain and bleak. "I knew he was innocent. He is not
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      428 51 HOW fitting it seems that the final Premiership match of the century at Stamford Bridge celebrated so many other landmark hundreds. Chelsea overcame an initial fright to beat bottom-of-the-table Sheffield Wednesday 3-0 to move up to No 7 spot in the table early this morning, reports Sky Sports. This
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      495 51 FINAL TWO MATCHES OF THE i CENTURY IN PREMIERSHIP M 100 th league meeting between Chelsea and Sheffield Wednesday B 100 th goal for Chelsea under Italian manager Gianluca Vialli M Barely 100 Owls fans turn up for very cold match at Stamford Bridge AN evenly-matched mid-table game
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    • 180 51 Reuters. HOW can you forget former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel (above)? The Denmark No 1 created headlines last night when he announced that he was buying the ailing Danish First Division club Hvidovre, where he began his career. Schmeichel, who plays for
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    • PREMIERSHIP UPDATES
      • 121 51 AFP I WILL still go in very hard on the field. Arsenal's French midfielder Patrick Vieira vowed last night not to change his combative style despite just returning from a seven-match ban. He believes that taking the aggression out of his game would rob him of his greatest
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        98 51 AFP. ASTON Villa's troubled striker Stan Collymore will not be joining French club Montpellier. Montpellier coach Michel Mezy said he turned down Collymore after he refused to play in a practice match. The 28-year-old striker had flown to France to discuss a potential move to the struggling First
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      • 69 51 AFP. FRENCH World Cup winner Robert Pires is thinking twice over moving to Arsenal. He admits he is worried that a move to the Gunners might hinder his chance of playing for France in Euro 2000. Marseille playmaker Pires is one of several players wrestling with
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    • 809 52  - TRAITORS no more REPORTS S GULAM OUR MAN IN DUBAI IT may be early days. As they may yet return to their old ways. But, as of now, the Malaysians are on a high. Ready mentally, physically and tactically to regain their pride and position in Asian football. It was
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    • 36 51 ON TV: Sheff Wednesday v Arsenal (LIVE, SCV 22,10.55pm, Mon) Everton v Leicester (LIVE, SCV 22,1.25 am, Tues) Wimbledon v Sunderland (DELAYED, SCV 22, 3.30 am, Tues) Coventry v Chelsea (LIVE, SCV 22, 3.55 am, Wed)
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    • 38 52 TV SPOUTS TODAY: (Selected ptogemmei) 10pm: Rugby: World Cup final 1999 France v Australia (STAR Sports Channel 24) Match of the 90's: 1997/98 Premiership Champion Arsenal (Football Channel 22) 11pm: Chelsea v Sheffield Wednesday (Repeat, Football Channel 22)
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