The New Paper, 18 November 2000

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  • 27 1 the new paper SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 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 II
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 441 2 MALAYSIAN SUES SIA A MALAYSIAN doctor is taking SLA to court over a fish bone in his meal. The doctor allegedly fractured a tooth after biting into a fish bone during a meal served on a Singapore Airlines flight. The suit
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    • 194 2 mm HEY are armed with special ID cards, T vetted by four security guards with p§ I and have to swear an oath. f No thev aren't on their way to a wp? highly-classified security briefing... just to J Usten to America's talk show queen,
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  • 893 4  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Tanya Fong A SINGLE brutal kick. Which caused the death of Jacky, a Pomeranian who was the pride and joy of his master. And the death of his best friend has broken Mr Choong Khim Chian's heart. Mr Choong, a
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    • 145 4 Millennium Sports Fest gQpPS /O 2 .1 A spectacular sporting extravaganza ~j not to be missed! ,mT 1 Come on over to i*"** Singapore Expo Hall 4B it i_ (Changi) on 18-21 Nov 2000 Time: 11am-9pm J to the first visitors daily, j gll' J JfSjjr 0 Highlights Futsal (5-a-side
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  • 237 6 HOT STORY WORRIED about buying things on the Internet using your credit card because of fraudsters out there? Well, trust the merchants to look for ways to help you part with your money and set your mind at ease at the same time.
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  • 46 6 Picture This SEASON TO BE JOLLY: A chocolate Santarina with a low neckline and tight pants made Its appearance on shop shelves in Hamburg, Germany, yesterday. A German chocolate factory has developed the chocolate-with-sex-appeal in hopes of increasing its Christmas sales. Picture/ Afp
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 60 6 INTERNET GET ready for seven new Internet suffixes. The new dot-names .biz .info .name .pro .museum .aero and .coop joined the commonplace .com on Thursday, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted to accept them. Los Angelesbased Icann, which oversees the Net's
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      62 6 I COURTS POPULAR television actress Jacelyn Tay (left), 25, has been declared a bankrupt for owing close to $300,000 to a stockbroking company. Recently nominated one of TCS Channel B's 10 most popular female stars, she was sued by Ong and Company after she failed to settle her
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    • 55 6 I DOTCOMS DOT.COM companies are closing at a rate of more than one a day. Since January, about 130 firms closed and 8,000 lost their jobs, according to San Francisco-based Webmergers.com. Now online financial news provider The Street.com has delivered the latest bombshell. It cut 111 jobs
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    • 59 6 WHALES THE Japanese fisheries department calls it "scientific research". But, in reality, are five Japanese whaling vessels heading for the Antarctic Ocean to kill around 400 whales just doing it for culinary use? That is the question being raised by critics who say it is simply a
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    • 67 7 JAIL A TEACHER snipped off a third of her pupil's finger because the boy would not listen to her in class. For doing that to six-year-old Li Xinjiang on Aug 2, Lin Yifen, from Yuhuan county in Zhejiang province, was sentenced to 18 months'jail, reports the Shanghai
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    • 59 7 INDONESIA FIVE of eight Bank Indonesia governors announced their resignations yesterday. They said they lacked political support from the government. On Thursday, the government failed to reach a deal with Bank Indonesia over their respective shares of billions of rupiah in emergency loans given to failing banks
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    • 65 7 B BEES B A SWARM of bees buzzed onto 35 students of French school Lycee Francais de Singapour yesterday while they were playing at a field in Loewen Road, off Dempsey Road. The bees attacked after one of the players stepped accidentally on a beehive that had fallen
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    • 57 7 I SCHOOLS SPECIAL "recipes" to make partnerships involving the home, school and community better and longer-lasting, that is. To this end, all schools, from primary level to junior colleges, will each be given 50 copies of the special "cookbook", called Home, School and Community Partnerships. The 25-page document
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  • 43 6 New Straits Times: Standard tow charges International Herald Tribune: Florida court ruling gives a boost to Bush The Jakarta Post: Bl board of governors resign BBC news: Florida Supreme Court issues ruling which further delays result of US presidential election
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    • 28 6 rr" M f» l »ir^ l i Winners will be notified ty post The fudges' decisions are final and no correspondence will be entertained Terms and conditions apply
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  • 134 7 mThe News A MAN walked into a police station eight hours after his sister's decomposed body was found and said that he had killed the cancer-stricken woman to end her suffering. The body of Miss Lim Bee Tee, 49 (right), was discovered in a flat
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  • 62 7 The Straits Times: Economy on course to hit 9.5 per cent growth Tlie Business Times: ABN Amro takes on big boys with revamp Uanhe Zaobao: Economic growth for the third quarter at 10.4 percent Berita Harian: Growth forecast: 9.5 percent RCS morning news: S'pore employers called upon
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  • 64 7 Quote Wworthy Many people say that Mr Goh Chok Tong is less strict than Mr Lee Kuan Yew y but I was never refused a permit to speak when Mr Lee Kuan Yew was Prime Minister. Opposition MP Chiam See Tong, on the Public Entertainment Licensing Unit
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  • 53 7 I The Dow Jones industrial average fell 26.16 points to 10,629.87. The Nasdaq composite index slipped 4.73 points to close at 3,027.15. SINGAPORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ Close in US$/Change 1. Pacific Internet $5.7188/ +0.125 2. Creative Technology $l5/ +0.1875 3. Flextronics International $32.625/+1.1875 4. Chartered Semiconductor $38.125/ -0.875
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 39 7 Tongue WHAT'S HUP Aren't you the J Weather Girl for Streats today? I Yup] Why were you featured in a bikini when it looks like it's going to rain? tm t* That's why! A <J,AM y/v vz, if )/A
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 595 8  -  By Tanya Fong THIS was a slice of Singapore life that begged for a closer look. The newspaper headlines put it quite starkly: Boy falls mysteriously and dies later. His mother, who had been searching for him frantically in the HDB block in Toa Payoh,
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    • 457 8 THE worst part was seeing her son hurtle down four storeys onto the hard concrete below. It is a scene that replays itself in Madam Irene Boo's mind, over and over again. It all happened on the morning of Nov 13. It
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 39 10 111 II I*lll U I* Student Eileen Loo, 21, who was with her father at the Straits Times Million Dollar Duck Race on November 12: Dad's here to check out the chicks...! mean, the ducks.
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    • 127 10 MORE than 200 entries were received for the New Face readers' contest which ended yesterday. Most contestants answered the question "How many New Face finalists are there this year?" correctly. The answer is 20. The question was posted on The New Paper New Face website http://newpaper.asial.com.sg
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  • 539 12  -  By Lee Tee Jong A NEIGHBOUR said the smell I was like that of "dead rats". I Little did they know what 1 it really was. And when they found 1 out, they were horrified. 1 Madam Tan Swee Tian
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 458 13  -  By Irene Kew IT was too good to be true. When Mrs Jessie Lim, a secretary in her early 40s, withdrew money from her DBS Autosave account last Saturday, she found herself $12,000 richer. Unknown to her, $12,083.18 had been credited into her
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    • 91 13 It could be considered theft, said two lawyers. Explained one of them: "If you know the money credited into your account was not yours and you used it anyway, you would have committed theft." But what if you did it unknowingly? "How are you
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    • 138 13 In January, a woman who found more than US$7OO,OOO ($1.16 million) meant for a United Nations fund deposited mistakenly into her bank account failed to convince a judge to let her use it. A judge in New York said the Chase bank account of Ms Susan Rouse Madakor,
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  • 289 14  -  SIA CRASH By Seto Nu-wen REPORTING FROM TAIPEI THE Taoyuan Dome Stadium is usually noisy with applause for orchestral performances or whooping cheers from spectators of sport. Not so today. At 10 am, grieving relatives and friends gathered to pay their final respects
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 294 17 SCHOOL'S out! And if you still don't know what to do with the holidays, head for Sentosa. They're bringing you "40 Days and Nights", six weeks of engaging activities and pure fun! Better still, The New Paper readers can look forward to special privileges in
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    • 395 18  -  By Michelle Choh Beautiful, right? Both the car and New Face of the Year finalist Renee Lim, 21. And if she could, she would have loved to take that lovely Beetle out for a spin. Had it been driveable, the electric blue and chilli red
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    • 55 18 TO catch a glimpse of these unique handicrafts, go to Chinatown Point (Singapore Handicraft Centre). Other Thai handicrafts like soap carvings, gunnysack rope figurines, and cotton wool figurines will be exhibited and sold there till Dec 17. Watch out for our New Face of the Year special featuring
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    • 572 20 w .< «v, '>..:>••., *>. XBk^B HH 9HH the celebration, the joy at Centrepoint. aHHSB M IKB mßKms^m mm SH Celebrate this Christmas at Centrepoint and receive twice the Enjoy Doable the Gifts goodies,enjoy twice the entertainment and have twice the fun. Its all part of our year end celebration
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 91 21 A I RM yonrsetf with a pair of scissors when I yon pick 19 a copy of The Strafts Hates on Monday, because you'l want to snip, snip, snip up these goodies! s Froin Monday to Satorday, look for the special discount conpoas hi
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    • 206 21  -  By Lee Tee Jong HE was locked up in a cell at Ang Mo Kio Police Division. Chandran M, 43, then became very agitated and tore up the padding inside the cell. He pasted some of the torn padding onto the plastic window
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  • 309 23 Caller, 42, pretended to be 19 WORLDTODAY WOULD you ever lend money to somebody you have never met? Especially 90 million yen (over $1.4 million)? A 53-year-old architect from Osaka, Japan, did, reported the Mainichi Shimbun. He thought he was helping
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 369 24 Satellite dish E-mail Notebook computers Digital camera... ITS like travelling in time. The vintage motorised three-wheeler, the tuk tuk, a familiar sight on Bangkok's streets, has gone completely futuristic, reports the Nation. It's now equipped with a satellite dish and two notebook computers,
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      315 24 JIANG ZEMIN'S PR MAKEOVER PRESIDENT Jiang Zemin began to mend fences with the Hongkong media yesterday, three weeks after losing his temper and scolding them for asking "too simple, sometimes naive" questions. During his state visit to Brunei, at the last minute, he decided to field questions from
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 346 27 THE couple wanted an abortion because their son was born deaf, partially blind and with mental disabilities. The trouble was, a doctor and a medical laboratory in France had failed to realise the boy's mum had caught rubella (German measles) during her
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    • 66 27 mui<mui< A pensioner trundled 16km along Britain's busiest motorway—in his electric wheelchair. Amazed drivers called 999 as they whizzed past on the M 25. Motorist Danny Coonz said: I couldn't believe it. The wheelchair was going at about Bkph with a police car in pursuit trying to get
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 425 29 Nineteen elderly women tourists fall as London Underground escalator comes to sudden stop THE old ladies were on holiday in Britain when their trip took a bloody turn. The group from Iceland, made up of 19 women all in their 70s, were using the
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    • 212 29 h&Q 1 g-'- -'g p- > v &&sup&Jrj- j-<*■* £>; IT is all right to show skin. As much as possible, in fact But if you look, you stand the danger of being called "oiks and halfwits". Hurley
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  • ShowTime
    • 1008 30 Malaysian pop queen and new mum Ziana Zain tells YONGSIEW FERN how she whipped back into shape for work Muhammad Aiman is only six months old. Therefore, he does not know why his mother finds him both cute and naughty. Neither does he
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    • 33 31 DIET: Less rice, more white meat, veggies, fruit helpings SAUNA: Once a week with massages SKIN: Collagen pills BLOOD: Iron and vitamin pills MINDSET: You have to be disciplined
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 830 32  -  By Joanna Hughes NITA Roddick, at 57, is more radical than SIB* And the founder of Hie Body Shop looks damn good for a grandmother especially one who, since early October, has been on a global book promotion tour. She's wearing green silk pants and a black
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    • 59 32 Working on "heritage" cosmetics, advocating indigenous trades, generally adding to The Body Shop's politicallycorrect range of products IN NEPAL: (Left) Anita sourcingfor herbs for her Shop's Ayurvedic range and (right), examining recycled paper scraps from a community trade supplier. WITH THE CHEPANG PEOPLE: Trading
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    • 198 33 "WHAT'S in my bag?" (Starting to dump things out.) Oh no, it's not a Prada. "What do you take me for?" (It's actually an imitation leather Kenneth Cole bag. Cole is also known for taking political stances in its advertising campaigns.) "Okay, glasses. I'm visually
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 360 40  -  Savage Garden: By Kor Kian Beng HAS Australian pop group Savage Garden called it a day? That's the question on their fans' minds as singer Darren Hayes posted messages about the group's future plans, on a bulletin board at their official fan website Savagefan.com. According to
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    • 61 40 SAVAGE Garden want fans to stop requesting their songs on radio stations. Singer Hayes has asked fans to stop organising request campaigns for the band's single, the title track from Affirmation. 1 Fans have created special Web sites which asked surfers to request for the song on
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  • SHOWTIME
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      234 42  -  By Denise Chong H CTOR Russell Wong (left) mm seemed much older than the last time he came to Singapore. It has been only seven months since he was here to shoot a TV movie, The Monkey King, with co-stars Thomas Gibson and Bai I Ling. Maybe it's
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    • 27 42 Based on the Chinese literary classic, Journey to the West, The Monkey King will be shown on SCV Channel 36 Hallmark Entertainment Network early next year.
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  • 504 43  -  ET CETERA WITH GARY LIM SOME things just do not make sense. Take my birthday last year, for example. I was 23 years and six hours old when my mum got that phone call from my uncle in the wee hours that day, informing us
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    • 148 45 m^mmm fg" jj f Another Classified plus. This is the "magic maths" for advertisers of The Straits Times So before you say "Abracadabra!", pick up the phone and call-C.A.T.S. Classified, Sunday Classified and Lianhe Zaobao Classified. at 1800-737-1166! Just place two insertions of the same advertisement under *cooditk>ns: Employment (Classifications
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    • 495 52  -  By Tan Thean Loon SINGAPORE yesterday secured another place in the four-event Hongkong International Races at Sha Tin on Dec 17. Trainer Charles Leek's sprint czar Superb Effect has been selected for the Hong Kong Sprint following a couple of foreign withdrawals from
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    • 1308 53 TODAY'S IPOH RACE CARP —Going forecasts Soft to heavy Ho. Last 6 rum Hone W1 Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origln/»e», trainer-owner) 1 7660 DESERT CHIEF 57 (49) NMSelvan 8 (3nzg S Ho-Choong Teik Ghee)) 2 0 DESERT FIGHTER 57 (52) SAnandan 4 (3nzg S Ho-Choong Teik Ghee))) 3 0 LEGEND OF
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    • 63 54 PICK OF THE DAY Was touted as an extra good thing at his debut over the Penang 1,200 m on Oct 15 but could only finish fourth behind winner First Kingdom after suffering some interference during the running. Working well on the training track and
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    • 748 54 TODAY'S IPOH RACE CARD —Going forecast: Soft to heavy No. Last 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 *****0 TRUE PRINCE 57 (48) *M Leong c2.5 8 (3ag W Leong-True Prince) 2 *****0 CONVERGENCE 56.5 (47) *M Huzairi 1 (4ag F Nathan-Confidence) 3 98-655 ALKHAWALEEKABJAR 56 (46)
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    • 521 55 GUIDE TO IPOH TRACKWORK NST. UP-AND-COMING stayer Obi One looked solid as a rock when he came out for his final workout in Ipoh yesterday. On that note, he looks ready for his fourth straight win in the Class 1 Premier 1,600 m
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    • 995 55 NST. YELLOW BULLET looks the pick of the Class 3 newcomers entered for the Perak Turf Club's Coronation Cup/Gold Vase meeting starting in Ipoh today. The four-year-old bay Australian-bred gelding by Carry A Smile out of Velvet Habit was unplaced in two runs at two. He went
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    • 692 66  -  RESULTS LEADING second round scores: 133: Tiger Woods 68 65; 134: Rodney Pampling 68 66 135: Geoff Ogilvy 68 67, Wayne Smith 65 70 136: Paul Gow 66 70, Paul Lawrie 67 69 137: Jesper Pamevik 72 65 138: Michael Campbell 7167, Kenny Druce 70 68, Sergio Garcia
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    • 335 66 AFTER a day spent firing blanks, New Zealander Michael Campbell, Australia's Rodney Pampling, Spain's Sergio Garcia and the Swede Jesper Parnevik decided it was time to bring in the artillery and what a racket they made. They carpet-bombed the course and, when all the shells were
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      75 68  - COMPILED BY: ZAINI MOHAMED Hoping to get another shot at the heavyweight title, Mike Tyson clarified his earlier intemperate promise, pledging not to eat Lennox Lewis* children after ally hut to feature each of them in the title role of several road companies of "Annie." Bernie Lincicome of the Rocky
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    • 114 67 FORMER NBA star Dennis Rodman won't reveal how much money he's making to wrestle in Australia next month. Or maybe, he just doesn't know. "I don't really need the money," Rodman said. "I can live off a couple of thousand dollars a month. It really doesn't matter
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    • 96 67 PETER TAYLOR knows his Leicester players will maintain a trim crop of hair when he is away running the England side in Italy. For the Filbert Street manager has left them in the capable hands of Bob the kitman, who doubles up as Bob the barber.
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    • 154 67 Daily Record. GOLF superstar Tiger Woods joked that he is a 'lias-been" after fluffing the most famous trick in his bag. Woods, who has won three majors this year alone, was attempting the dazzling stunt made famous in his TV Nike ads. The
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    • 114 67 BBC Online. FULHAM'S bizarre build-up to its 3-0 thumping of Wimbledon at Selhurst Park last week proves the First Division leader is ready for anything. Manager Jean Tigana ordered his players off the bus when they were stuck in a traffic jam with less than an hour before
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    • 34 67 A giant portrait of French international Zinedine Zidane in Marseille, which was recently stained with paint. No explanation was given. Picture/ Afp
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    • 54 68 IN a bizarre accident in Cesena, Italy's top cyclist Marco Pantani, smashed into six parked cars recently while driving his Mercedes the wrong way down a one-way street Police said Pantani went the wrong way to get around a traffic jam. Nobody was injured, and Pantani was
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    • 122 68 ADORING shop girls have been banned from wolf-whistling at football star David Beckham while he visits Marks Spencer. The Manchester United ace, 25, has made several visits to M&S in Bolton to buy TV dinners while he stayed with team-mate Gary Neville. Neville, 25, recently split
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    • 138 68 AFP. TRIPLE Olympic champion lan Thorpe went swimming with sharks on Thursday and then said he was hungry for his 4am training sessions. After a couple of months out of the pool, he took a swimming lesson with the sharks at the Sydney Aquarium for a
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    • 136 68 Supergoals.com PAUL MERSON believes his club should become Aston McVilla in order to maintain its push for a Champions League spot. Merson reckons the club should follow the example of fast food giants McDonalds, which continued to splurge on promoting its products despite its
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    • 90 68 Supergoals.com KARIM BAGHERI has been forced out of a tournament for Charlton because he is too good. Fellow players threatened to boycott the annual event if the Iranian did not withdraw his name. But it's not his football prowess they're moaning about; it's his table-tennis!
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    • 105 68 AP. MANY soccer fields in Barbados don't even have nets on the goalstands. On their first day after arriving for Wednesday's crucial World Cup qualifier, the US soccer team was given a bumpy field to practice on the home of the club from the Cable Wireless telephone company.
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      71 68 So, would you really deliver your liver? —A TV reporter, trying to follow up on Patrick Ewing, who got his internal organs mixed up after an odd pledge to donate a kidney to friend Alonzo Mourning. England rugby union p layers (from left) Phil Yickerv, Phil Greening and Jason
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    • 267 69  -  S-LEAGUE UPDATE By Peter Siow JURONG FC aims to shed its image as a defensive team next season. It now believes attack is the best form of defence and will bring in two Croat strikers for trial next month. The plan
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    • 258 69 HOST never wins. The underdog has always prevailed in the Tiger Cup. If this convention continues, it can lift the prestigious soccer third round. Flashback: 1996 (Singapore host): The winner: Thailand. 1998 (Vietnam host): The champion: Singapore. 2000 (Thailand host): The victor: Indonesia? If you're not superstitious,
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    • 355 69 VINCENT Subramaniam will be Singapore's No 2 soccer coach. It's no relegation after the Tiger Cup debacle. He returns to Bangkok on Monday with the Young Lions (the Singapore Under-23 team preparing for next year's SEA Games). Hell assist Dane Flemming Nielsen, who's in charge
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    • 635 70  -  They are Asean soccer stars and they should be in the S-League BY Suresh Nair Reporting from Bangkok ARE S-League clubs really writing off the quality of regional foreign talent? If so, why are they not here to take notes at the region's biggest soccer event? Why
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  • PREMIER PASSION
    • 707 71 CHARLTON v CHELSEA It's all in the name when it comes to a football club, isn't it? Charlton is the name which belongs to England's legendary footballing brothers, Jack and Bobby, while Chelsea is the daughter of a cheating American President. What that has
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    • 91 71 Sunderland's Kevin Phillips may be the striker to lead England into future glory, like what Newcastle's Alan Shearer (above) used to do. The future versus the past then. But both strikers have been struggling of late to find any sort of consistency. Newcastle should win, as its
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    • 57 71 TV ACTION TODAY: Man CHyv Man United: LIVE on Football Channel (22); 7.25pm (LIVE) I Leeds v West Ham: LIVE on Football Channel, 10.30pm Newcastle v Sunderland: LIVE on Sportscity; 10.30pm TOMORROW: Newcastle v Sunderland: DELAYED on Football Channel; lam Tottenham v Liverpool: LIVE on Football Channel; 11.55pm TUESDAY: Coventry
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • 648 72  -  TOTTENHAM v LIVERPOOL By Edwin Yeo RECENTLY, many Tottenham Hotspur supporters have been calling for the head of manager George Graham. I would too, except that the last few times we sacked our managers, it didn't really do much for the club. Osvaldo Ardiles, Gerry Francis
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    • 156 72 Soccernet LIVERPOOL is keeping its collective fingers crossed that star striker Michael Owen will be fit when it takes on Tottenham at White Hart Lane tomorrow. Owen had earlier missed the England match against Italy because of a back problem. If Owen cannot make it,
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    • 166 72 INTER-MILAN hosts Perugia less than a week after losing on home soil to another of Serie A's less glamorous sides, Lecce. A further setback might start the clock ticking on the reign of coach Marco Tardelli who has only been in the job for five weeks. While
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    • 647 73 AFP. FABIEN Barthez has just one thing to say to Manchester United: Thank you very much! Despite the famously grey, cold skies of northern England, the first-year United French international 'keeper is just fine, and enjoying life and career. The man, whose southern
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