The New Paper, 9 October 2000

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  • 31 1 the new paper MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2000 Singapore Press Holdings Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg MITA (P) 058/04/2000 60 CENTS cjfr: the 4/ newt, paper
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    • 57 1 R h g 16 y o MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2000 1' Jp I t c 0 2,000 frozen Workers refuse Qantas: meals served to load another Nothing wrong last week: Union 1,000 meals with food Singapore Press Holdings Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpaperasia I.com.sg MITA (P)
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 327 2 DIVORCE #1 A BUNGALOW in Australia was part of the property in one divorce case. Both husband and wife were in their 40s, and the husband owned a private house in Singapore worth about $13 million, and a bungalow in Australia worth about
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    • 167 2 THERE'S going to be no Roman holiday for multimillionaire playboy Hutomo Mandala Putra, popularly known as Tommy. Last month, the Indonesian Supreme Court sentenced him to prison for 18 months for his involvement in a corrupt deal with state-owned National Logistics Agency. But Hutomo, former
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    • 452 3  -  New education HQ's computercontrolled lift, system directs all going to same floor to one lift. Result: Fewer stops along the way By Dawn Chia THEY used to conduct mini meetings at the lift lobby because the lifts took so long to arrive. But Ministry of
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 855 4  -  SINGAPOREAN'S STATELESS SON, 7: REPORTS IRENE KEW LITTLE Sri Suthan Rajandran, 7, watches wistfully as children in his neighbourhood rush to catch the school bus. Tears well up when he sees them pat down their uniforms and sling on their schoolbags. For months, Sri
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    • 239 5 MR Rajandran can heave a sigh of relief. And Sri Suthan should soon be in school. What needs to be done is quite simple. An application form must be filled and taken, with some documents, to the Citizen Services Centre at the SIR building.
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    • 256 5 Sri Suthan already owns four schoolbags. Not to mention countless pens and pencils. Sighed Mr Rajandran (above): "When we go out, hell make me buy a schoolbag for him. "I don't want to make him sad so 111 buy it for him." When
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 275 6 HOT STORY MEDICAL NEWS SOME patients will soon be able to do just that. It's part of a major revamp of polyclinic operations in the National Health-care Group (NHG). Under the scheme, patients of the Choa Chu Kang, Woodlands and Hougang polyclinics who need
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    • 64 6 Picture This Mr Basgaran Dorairaju, 39, and his wife Saraswathy Retnam, 35, hinging their five-year-old son after he was found. Little Deevnutfa was sleeping in the back of his parents' parked car when a stranger drove it away in Seiangor on Thursday night The boy was found
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    • News Break
      • 55 6 I EDUCATION FOR the second year running, the NUS business school topped MBA institutes in Asia and Australia. Nanyang Technological University's business school came in eighth (11th last year) in regional business magazine Asia Inc's Top 10 list. Melbourne Business School came second and Sydney's Australian Graduate
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      • 54 6 M HONGKONG M FIRST, it issued duplicate certificates to shareholders of the just-listed Mass Transit Railway Corporation. Then, trying to correct the mix-up, the Central Registration, responsible for printing share certificates, made another boo-boo. It listed a wrong batch of share certificate numbers in newspaper advertisements, telling shareholders
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      • 54 6 M INDONESIA M INDONESIA and Singapore need to modify their programme designs in order to jump-start Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong s $1.2-billion investment package. Indonesia's chief economics minister Rizal Ramli said yesterday that investments were held back because of a problem of matching the profile of Indonesian
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      • 66 6 I MALAYSIA SINGAPORE children entering Malaysia will not be screened for hand, foot and mouth disease as this will be bad for tourism, said Deputy Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Suleiman Mohamed. He said there was no need for screening as Singapore, which has been hit by
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      • 65 7 LABOUR WATCH what you do in the office. It is legal, in Singapore, for your boss to scan your e-mail and tap your phone, reports Project Eyeball. In Britain, a law has been tabled that allows bosses there to tap into phones in the office and scan
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      • 52 7 THAILAND CHILDREN from a Thai village in Kanchanaburi could be suffering from lead poisoning, with doctors blaming a nearby lead processing plant as being the cause. Five children, all below two years of age, in Lower Klity Village, required immediate hospitalisation. There were 20 more that needed close
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      • 64 7 INTERNET THE top search word for Singaporeans surfing the Net u f> is sex That's according to Internet portal Lycos Asia, reports Streats. Lycos started compiling the list from Sept 24. Ranked second is "chat". Next come "games", "travel" and w mp3". Mr Bernard Chan of Lycos
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      • 61 7 BRITAIN MORE families want "designer test-tube babies" to help save older siblings. A British reports says 19 families are seeking help. This follows the US case of a boy born so his stem cells could replace his sister's failing bone marrow. Six couples contacted the Chicago genetics institute
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    • 57 6 New Straits Times: Action against profiteers International Herald Tribune: Arabs ignore Barak's ultimatum; Lebanese troops are put on alert Asian Wall Street Journal: Falungong members sue Chinese leaders BBC news: Kofi Annan is travelling to the Middle East in an urgent attempt to halt the spiral of
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    • 157 7 tkSSfs nSHJfer WHEN former Social Affairs Minister Othman Wok (right) opened his gift from Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, he got a second present. The autographed copy of the second volume of Mr Lee's memoirs, From Third World To First, carried a special dedication. It reads:
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    • 51 7 The Straits Times: Specialist health care goes to neighbourhoods Hie Business Times: Foreign buying of Asian equities slows sharply Uanhe Zaobao: US abstains, UN Security Council condemns Israeli violence Berita Harlan: Divorce cases now involve property claims of millions of dollars RCS morning news: Tensions continue in
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    • 54 7 DON'T 'NET' YOUR HOMEWORK Information technology has its advantages and dtsadvan tages, but students should not copy blindly and submit assignments without understanding their subject. Malaysia's Deputy Education Minister Datuk Hon Choon Kim commenting on Malaysian students who download information from the Internet, at times word for word,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 382 8  -  It's not just plastic yellow ducks that are a hit. Roast duck scores with Singaporeans as well. And who would know better than Mr Johnson Lock, who made the switch from selling chickens to selling roast duck... REPORT PICTURES JOYCE LIM WHAT, Johnson Lock
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    • 82 8 MR Lock will be forking out $1,000 to buy 100 ducks in The Straits Times Million Dollar Duck Race. At first, he wanted to give $1,000 for just one duck. But the rules are clear: The cost of adopting one duck is just $10. So Mr
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    • 199 8 ADOPT a duck for $10 and stand a chance to win $1 million dollars! The first duck race in the world the Great Arizona Duck Race was run in Scottsdale, USA, in Oct 1988. Singapore's first duck race the first in Asia was held in 1990,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 271 10 WATER-SKIING ACCIDENT: A man swimming in the Kallang River died when a ski boat hit him on Saturday afternoon. This part of the river is for water-skiing only, and swimming is prohibited. AMRIT KA UR speaks to the skiing site supervisor who witnessed the accident 11
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    • 480 10 INCIDENTS involving ski boats and swimmers have happened before. Mr Paul Fong, 35, president of the Asian Water-skiing Federation and the site supervisor of the Singapore Water-skiing Federation's Kallang course, said there have been near misses in the past,
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    • 456 11  -  ft>u can maie millions, too: 9 By Michelle Choh HOW would you like to be given $2 million to trade for free? One catch though. It's in Popnova (PN) currency. You trade online, but you don't buy and sell shares of companies. Instead,
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    • 205 11 HE turned PN$2 million into PN$BO million in just two months. And Mr Stree Naidu, country manager for Art Technological Group, is not even into celebrities. But he gets just as excited trading with Popnova as he would in a real
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      40 12 mui*mui< The Straits Times' Forum writer James PurvesqiMfposttie validity of Singaporeans' fascination with the compaaychop: SiwHatii lwynnp can have a stamp m*le ja* any company, what is Why do people for it to be stamped on doraments?
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    • 108 12 Voon Kim Seah was sentenced to three years in jail and six strokes of the cane for robbery, three months each on two counts of theft in dwelling, and six months for possession of an obscene film for the purpose of distribution. For robbery, he could have been jailed
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    • 541 12  -  By Teo Kuan Yee HE walked out of the shop wearing the clothes he had tried on. He hadn't paid for them, though. When an employee tried to stop him, he tore off some of what he was wearing, attacked her and
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    • 430 13  -  SHOPPER OF THE YEAR CONTEST By Fraemone Wee SHE walked away with $8,000 in cash, $2,000 worth of shopping vouchers and a hat worthy of Carmen Miranda. Ms Li Wei Wei (in hat, above), 26, hadn't a clue about what to
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    • 595 14 HAND, FOOT MOUTH DISEASE The jury is still out on the highly contagious hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). Though usually mild, it may have killed four children and it caused the temporary closure of child care centres and kindergartens across the nation.
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  • 258 15 WORLDTODAY British schoolgirl Charlotte Bailey has beaten Hollywood to it. She has become the first actor to portray Harry Potter in public. Charlotte, 17, will play Harry in the five staged performances of Harry Potter And The
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
    • 286 16 Sources: Bernama, The Sun. THE battle to win the hearts of the Malays in Malaysia is now sharper than ever for the United Malays National Organisation (Umno). The party of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has appointed 20 Islamic intellectuals into its ranks,
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    • 215 16 Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad spoke to the Financial Times recently on his much-criticised mega airport project and the lack of support among Malays for his party, Umno. Excerpts: WHY MFGA PROJECTS? ON RAGE RELATIONS ,0 Ifyoubuild an airport that will last
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    • 98 16 UMNO is proposing two major changes to its constitution. One is to allow members and not delegates to vote for party leaders. 4< With the change, we are now making it more difficult for anyone to use money to buy votes," said Mr Zulkifli, Umno Youth's assistant secretary.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 277 17 British opposition in disarray as leaders admit they once took drugs Source: AFP CALL them the not-so-magnificent seven. The big-time politicians smoked marijuana in their youth. Now what they did then may well hurt their futures and their party. Of course, Britain's opposition Conservative party meant
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    • 84 17 mui*mui* Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster is to produce and star in a movie on the life of 97-year-old Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favourite film-maker. Explaining Mr decision to cany on with the fHm in spite of protests by the outraged Jewish community, Foster said:
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    • 38 18 OXONA SPIT: two Serb men toast behind a grilled ox In celebration ofthe election victory of new Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunicain Belgrade after 13 years under the ousted President Milosevic. Picture/ Reuters
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    • 318 18 GOOD grief they wanted to serve beef cooked a year ago! Yes, "that's what Australian airline Qantas wanted to serve on its domestic flights. But airline workers refused to load the meals on board, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The airline wasn't happy about
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    • 74 18 A Qantas spokesperson said the airline stood by the decision to serve the frozen meals. "The meals weren't used in the end but there was certainly nothing wrong with the food," she said. Just because the 'best before' date has passed, it doesn't mean the food is
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    • 336 19 THIS is the second such shocking case in Thailand, and it happened on the holiday island of Phuket. The body of a 22-year-old British tourist was found dumped in a graveyard last Tuesday. The woman, from Lanarkshire, had been stripped, beaten and raped, according
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    • 179 19 Wire Services. LORENA Bobbitt, who cut offher husband's penis in 1993, seems to have a follower in France. The example set by her was apparently repeated by a Frenchwoman, who tried to do the same thing. But this woman couldn't quite complete
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  • 466 20  -  J^tcetera WITH MELVIN SINGH THE government initiative to encourage the production of babies worked! To be honest, a bottle of wine helped. The alcohol numbed the feeling of anxiety while in the wide-eyed act of procreation. It certainly wasn't recreation. There's a big difference.
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  • DEARWIJEY
    • 223 22 MY son is in Primary 5. He appears to open his books to study, mm+i but when the results come, he usually scores on the low side. I have tried to put him in tuition classes but there does not appear to be
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    • 113 22 I AM taking my O i levels this year, bfca** I'm confused whether to go to JC or Poly, as I would like to be a Singapore Airlines pilot in future. Moreover, I do not take Pure Science subjects. Is there any
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    • 297 22 JF I OBTAINED five credits in the 1988 GCE O levels, scoring B3s in Geography and Home Economics, B4 in Science, C 5 in English, C 6 in Mother Tongue, and an E8 in Maths. I cannot apply to enter a local
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    • 232 23 I HAVE been working with the Housing and Development Board (HDB) for about a year now. After some consideration, I have decided to take up a degree in Real Estate Management, on a part-time basis. I have a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Singapore Polytechnic.
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    • 250 23 I AM < a Sec 4 Express student who is taking Double Maths, Pure Chemistry, Pure Physics and Geography, in addition to English and Chinese. I am quite confident of obtaining As in all subjects except Chinese in the O levels. The thing is, I
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  • 709 25 FIVE marriage proposals came in. But none of them was accepted. Who's this hot babe, you ask. Ernest Seah was a babe all right, when he cross-dressed to appear as the character Lola in the movie version of the 1994 musical Bugis Street. So convincing
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  • 228 25 Mr Hot Babe —not easy HE'S in drag for most of his roles. And Ernest finds it a drag. "It's so difficult being a woman!" he exclaimed. So what kind of research did'he do as preparation? "What research?" he quipped. "Come on, when you are in six-inch heels, you don't
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 333 27  -  They like to sing... By Chang May Choon THEY could easily have been high-flying executives working in posh offices. But they chose to earn a pittance singing in pubs. That's pop duo Yu Quan from China. Aren't they wasting their years of education in business management?
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    • 637 28  -  toy EDWIN YEO LAST Monday, I was greeted by a television camera crew and bouquets of flowers when I arrived at my office at 9.30 am. By greeted, I mean that the photographer pushed me out of the way and the
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  • the new paper RACING
    • 1405 41 YESTERDAY'S IPOH RACE RESULTS —Going: Good 7 ALFRED'S PRINCESS 53.5 (32-9) ......TAtOflan (9) 8 7 1 (431) 1 GEORGE'S WONDER 57c 54 (28-10) *YAHy (8) 3 3 2 (402) 5 BIONIC LADY 55.5 c 53 (62-18) .WKYan (6) 2 2 3 (468) 2 YOUNG TEEN HERO 57 (37-10) SHLee (3)
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    • 1072 42 EXCERPTS OF PERAK TURF CLUB STIPENDIARY STEWARDS' REPORT Australian jockey David O'Heare was disqualified for a year for a no-merit ride on BABY GENIUS, who finished third to BED WINE in Race 6, at Ipoh yesterday. He was found guilty of contravening Rule 144 (2) which
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    • 372 43  -  By Danny Khoo THE current season has not been jockey T Asogan's better ones. Not by a long shot. But the Malaysian had a lot to be pleased with himself following his double at Ipoh yesterday. He had two rides Alfred's Princess and Great Machine
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    • 214 43 Reuters ASCOT racecourse, west of London, was closed on Saturday and thousands of racegoers evacuated after a bomb warning. Nineteen horses about to start the second race of the afternoon were brought back to their stables. A relaxed-looking crowd made their way on to the
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • 594 44 F-l RACING: SUZUKA GRAND PRIX RESULTS 1 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Ferrari, lh 29min 53.4355 ec 2Mika Hakkinen (Fin) McLarenMercedes, lh 29min 55.2725 ec 3 David Coulthard (Gbr) McLarenMercedes, 1:09.914 4 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Ferrari, 1:19.190 5 Jenson Button (Gbr) Williams-BMW, 1:25.694 DRIVERS 9 STANDINGS 1 Michael
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    • 234 44 ICC KNOCKOUT CRICKET TOURNAMENT I rrsA FOUR: Yousuf Youhana drives on his waytoa quick-fire 42 Reuters. SAEED Anwar hit an unbeaten century as Pakistan thrashed Sri Lanka by nine wickets in their ICC Knockout Trophy quarter-final in Nairobi, Kenya, yesterday. Pakistan made
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    • 421 45  -  ENGLAND'S 1-0 DEFEAT COMMENT EDWIN YEO I LIKE former England manager Kevin Keegan. Even though I've called for his head to roll after England's exit at Euro 2000, a nicer guy you couldn't find in the world of football. So it is
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    • 12 45 T T HH?I PICTURES/AP, AFP REUTERS
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    • 376 46 WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS: SOUTH AMERICA Argentina 2 Uruguay 1 BOLIVIA 1 PERU 0 AP. HE missed the last few World Cup qualifiers due to a niggling leg injury. But Argentina's super striker Gabriel Batistuta known as 'Batigol' to his adoring fans at home and in
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    • 213 46 CONCACAF AP. Mexico 7 Trinidad Tobago 0 DEBUTANTE Jared Borgetti slammed home a fine hat-trick to lead Mexico to a 7-0 thrashing of Trinidad Tobago. The Concacaf group World Cup qualifier was also the official debut of Mexico's new head coach Enrique Meza, who took
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    • 263 46 I ITiTIETiTOiIIHIHK'I AFP. ECUADOR boosted its chances of a first-ever World Cup Finals appearance when it beat Chile 1-0 with a late goal in a pulsating encounter. Striker Agustin Delgado headed the winner in the 76th minute of a game in which both teams produced
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  • 124 47 WORLD CUP QUALIFIER SOUTH AMERICAN GROUP: Euller 21st min Juninho Paulista 29 Romario 31,36,39 penalty, 64 HALF-TIME: 0-5 CROWD; 20,000 Rogerio Ceni; Cafu, Antonio Cados, CJeber, Silvinho; Donizete, Vampfta,Junjnho(Ze Roberto, 66), Juninho PauMsta {Rfcardinho, 81); Euller (Marques, 70), Romario. h°a?e-°in JLe his point yet again —four
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  • 859 48  -  COMMENT EDWIN YEO Reuters. VETERAN striker Romario added to his last month's hat-trick against Bolivia by scoring four goals as Brazil hammered Venezuela 6-0 in a World Cup qualifier this morning. The 34-year-old, whose tally included a first-half hat-trick in only eight minutes, has
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • 363 49  -  TIGER CUP BUILD-UP: HONGKONG 1 (Cheung Sai Ho 12th min pen) SINGAPORE 0 By Lim Han Ming A SOUTH Korean had a hand in Singapore's 1-0 loss to Hongkong in an international "A" friendly in Hongkong yesterday. Referee Park Sang Gu awarded the home team a dubious
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    • 64 49 THE Lions continue their Tiger Cup preparations with a friendly match against Taiwan on Oct 13 in Singapore. After that, the squad jets out to Australia on a nine-day training tour. The Lions then travel to meet Sri Lanka in Colombo on Oct 28, before
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    • 27 49 GROUP B: Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia Nov 5: v Cambodia Nov 9: v Laos Nov 11: v Vietnam Nov 13: v Malaysia
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    • 28 49 vs Hongkong: Rezal Hassan, S Subramani, Robin Chitrakar, Rafi Ali, Basri Halis, Nazri Nasir, Steven Tan, ZulkarnaenZainal, Mohd Noor Ali, Indra Sahdan Daud, V Selvaraj
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    • 331 49 NATIONWIDE LEAGUE DIVISION ONE IN ENGLAND Skysports. Sheffield Wed 1 West Brom 2 ONE of England's traditional giants was relegated from the Premiership last season. And now it looks like Sheffield Wednesday is going to struggle to stay in the First Division. It dropped to bottom
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    • 439 49 Skysports. Crewe 0 Birmingham 2: Brazilian Marcelo made the most of his controversial entry into the fray by slotting home the winner. The victory puts high-flying Birmingham back on the winning trail and up to fourth on the table. Substitute Marcelo added the Blues' decisive second
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  • 442 51 $10.5 MILLION-A-YEAR MAN THREATENS TO GIVE IT ALL UP AND RETURN HOME Wire services. Barcelona star Rivaldo (above) has threatened to quit the Spanish soccer giant. "If the fans and directors are not happy with me, I will go back to Brazil
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