The New Paper, 28 April 2001

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  • 7 1 the new paper SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2001
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    • 540 1 LOST IN S'PORE Mum: She can't defend herself, she talk m ||F 7 -MP*Singapore Press Holdings Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg MITA (P) 106/03/2001 60 CENTS HH 8 *****1 *****1 m iui l jMKMMMMMMMMIMMMMI|k JRMMMMMMMMMMMMMk jpMMMMWMMMMMIMM% jMMMMMMMHMMMMMMk jMMMMNMMMMMMMMMIk A nr! r a r MwonitA
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  • NEWS
    • 343 2 THE three robbers were masked. Two of them were armed with a pistol each. They stormed the Maybank branch to stage a lightning robbery. But they risked their lives all for nothing! The branch did not have any money in the tellers' drawers.
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    • 288 2 Bernama. DATUK Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad says he is not aware why his son decided to leave the corporate world. "I only heard this (the decision to opt out). I am in the dark, so I cannot comment." Dr Mahathir, who is
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 567 3  -  Former Miss Universe to host S'pore TV show By Yong Siew Fern THIS international celebrity will be in your living room every week. No, not Anita Sarawak from Las Vegas. Nor Ann Kok from Hongkong. She is Miss Universe 1997 Ms Brook
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    • 474 4 The woman who danced topless at Venom disco last November was fined in court yesterday. ANDRE YEO, who witnessed her steamy performance that night, reports ALL eyes were glued on her. Just like that night at Venom disco on Nov 18 last year when
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    • 159 4 KHAIRANI Abdul Khalik pleaded guilty to one charge of baring her chest and was fined $1,000. In her mitigation, her lawyer, Mr Yahya Syed, said Khairani was a first-time offender and that she was to be paid $80 for the performance. He said Khairani accepted the assignment as she
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 178 6 I SUPERMARKET chain NTUC Fair Price is ready to cut the prices of some essential goods, if the slowing economy takes a turn for the worse, reported The Straits Times. Its chairman Mr S Chandra Das said that unlike competitors driven by profits, the co-operative
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    • 63 6 "Don't compete against Fair Price. You cannot. You buy five cartons, we buy five containers. Work with us and we will help you." "The Government stopped giving sites for Fair Price outlets in 1980. Since then, we have been fending on our own, putting in
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    • 85 6 Quote Wworthy When I started, the nation was in a sad condition. Even if this nation had 100presidential changes, nobody could mend the econoi3§. I took several steps to redress these problems. But don't judge me so fast... If I have made mistakes, please forgive me. Indonesian
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    • News Break
      • 54 6 I MALAYSIA MALAYSIA has passed a law for the manufacture of "copy" Aids drugs. The government hopes to bring down the treatment cost for HIV and Aids. But Western pharmaceutical companies are unhappy with the new law. They say the government is stealing its patent rights. Malaysia has
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      • 54 6 SINGTEL THE Government announced yesterday it will give up its right to override commercial decisions at Singapore Telecom by surrendering a special or "golden" share. This will help rid the perception that it interferes in SingTel's operations. This will boost SingTel's chances of success in regional
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      • 55 6 MEDIA M Singapore's shareholders' rights champion David Gerald will appear on the cover of Forbes magazine. His role in fighting for shareholders whose shares in Malaysian companies were frozen by the Malaysian government from 1998 was cited. He's recognised as a pioneer in a movement to protect the
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      • 55 6 I AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA has increased its quota for immigrants, but for skilled workers only. It will grant an extra 9,000 visas a year, upping the number from 76,000 to 85,000. There would be no increase in the number of refugees allowed to stay per year. This will stay
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      • 69 7 B STABBING I A MOTHER here who stabbed her three children was yesterday fined $2,000 for attempted manslaughter. Kee Hwee Lun, a customer services officer, took the two boys and a girl, aged between three and six, to an office just before Christmas. She stabbed them, cut her
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      • 51 7 I FALUNGONG FOUR Falungong members, all Chinese nationals, have been asked to leave Singapore. The four were among the group's supporters who held an illegal assembly at Macßitchie Park last December. Eight others, also Chinese nationals, can stay but must behave themselves, said Singapore Immigration and Registration
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      • 63 7 MAY DAY AWARD M PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong (right) will be conferred the highest May Day award to be given out this year by the National Trades Union Congress. He will receive the Distinguished Comrade of Labour award. Mr Goh is regarded by trade-union leaders as
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    • 43 6 New Straits Times: Jakarta braces for violence International Herald Tribune: US growth jumps, undercutting fears about a recession BBC news: Final preparation for the Russian rocket launch for the first space tourist to be taken to the International Space Station
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    • 163 7 Fbcus PRIVATE RESALE HOMES FINDING it hard to sell your condo? Well, there's more bad news. Even if there's a buyer, you are not likely to get a good offer as private home prices have fallen 9.2 per cent since the recent peak in the second quarter
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    • Article, Illustration
      27 7 v A visitor to Frankfurt's 13th Arts Fair sitting on a "mother and child" bench designed by French artist Niki de Saint Phalle. Picture/ Afp
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    • 74 7 The Straits Times: We need to cool down, says Gus Dur Hie Business Times: Home prices down 9.2% from recent peak in Q2 2000 Lianhe Zaobao: Chen Shui-bian may meet congressmen while in transit in the US Berita Harian: Special liaison unit for Mendaki and institutional members
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    • 83 7 $!SS* k The Dow Jones industrial average bolted up 117.70 points, or 1.10 per cent, to close at 10,810.05. The Nasdaq composite index climbed 40.82 points, or 2.01 per cent, to end at 2,075.70. Volume of shares traded on the New
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    • 59 6 Dilbert /Scott Adams U 00 YOU IT DEPENDS IF YOU CONSIDER s HEY, MY BOSS HAVE A WHAT YOU 5 THE DECLINE OF fAY 1 LOOK THINKS I GOOD WEAN BY I STOCK OPTIONS, I I AT THE WORK EIGHTY JOB? GOOD. 1 WORK SIXTY HOURS I TIPVE. HOURS. HEE
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 695 8  -  By Joycelyn Wong SHE can't hear. She can't speak. And now she can't be found. Shahadah Akram, 16, has been missing since Tuesday morning. Her mother, Madam Rahmah Mahropi, has been searching high and low and made a police report. But her anxiety is increasing with
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    • Article, Illustration
      324 9 Added Shahadah's elder sister, Nafsiah: "At most, she'll just go to the shops nearby. We always tell her not to go too far away. "We take her to Ang Mo Kio Central to shop now and then. But there's always someone with her. "When we go out,
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    • 69 9 THE 16-year-old girl left her Ang Mo Kio home on Tuesday wearing green sandals, a yellow T-shirt and black pants. She is slim, about 1.6 m tall and usually wears her hair in a ponytail. Shahadah can't speak or hear. She uses hand signals only her
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    • 397 10  -  By Arul John HE became she. And gave up the battle against cancer. But nothing could make an honest woman out of her. Transsexual Rahimah Abdul Rahim, 38, was in the dock on Tuesday. For taking one more wrong turn in her chequered life.
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    • 49 10 muMui* Mr UnSwee Say, Acting Minister for tke J Minister fur Communication and lnforroation|facbil§llp: J; A Japanese executive commented that buildingfll Singapore were just too cold. I jokingly said thatl! this was because we wanted two seasons in jm Singapore. Summer outdoors, and winter IndooH
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 738 12  -  BECOMING A PERFECT SCORE SOCIETY? By{ Santokh Singh and Teng Pei Yun Scholarship fever is spreading. And not just among students. Organisations offering scholarships are just as caught up in competing for the best and the brightest in the land. A check with
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    • 512 13 GOOD may no longer be good enough. Scoring three As and a B in the A levels may not be enough to win a scholarship. Not even if you have a decent Co-Curricular Activities (CCA) certificate. Tan Huiying (left), 19, from Raffles Junior College (RJC), learnt
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    • 108 12 Defence Science Technology Agency Last yean About 250 applications This year: Over 500 applications (More than 100 per cent increase) Scholarships awarded last year: More than 20 Singapore Airlines Last year. Over 500 This year: Over 700 (About 40 per cent increase) Singapore Press Holdings Last
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    • 332 13 HERE'S a look at the numbers. The Defence Science Technology Agency (DSTA) says it has seen applications more than double. This year, it received more than 500 applications. The DSTA says this sharp rise could be partly due to greater awareness of the DSTA scholarship,
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    • 210 13 YOU win some, you lose some. That was the case with the Anglican High School's (AHS) badminton teams yesterday. In the morning, its C-Division girls swept aside the challenge of Paya Lebar Methodist Girls 4-1, to be crowned the under-14 national champions at the Toa Payoh
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    • 208 13 THREE out of a possible four schools' national hockey titles. No mean feat, but that's what Northland Secondary achieved at the Delta Sports Complex yesterday. After both its C and B-Division girls had captured championship gold medals last week, its B-Division boys
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    • 425 14  -  BY Jason Tan DON'T these zebras feel like fish out of water? After all, by nature, they are supposed to be a shiny silver with black stripes. And here they are, a vivid red and even glowing green. Associate-Professor Gong Zhiyuan (above)
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  • MALAYSIA
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      361 18  -  A piece of his scalp was found in the next station By Azhar Ghani HE was going home to see his family, taking advantage of a break in his job in Singapore. Mr Liow Cheak Foo, 20, was supposed to give his father a call from the station. He
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    • 445 19 His haversack was found atTriangtrain station... not near his body There was no Malaysian currency in his wallet, only a few Singapore bills... Siong, told The New Paper that a "piece of Mr Liow's scalp" was found in the next station in Mentakab, about 50km away. The dead man's
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  • WORLD
    • 425 20 Wire Services. A TOUR bus carrying sleeping music students skidded off a highway exit in Canada and flipped on its side early yesterday morning. Four teenagers were killed and more than 30 others were injured. The bus was carrying 40 children aged 12 and
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    • 279 21 New software gives e-mail virtual faces which will wink and blow kisses SMILE! Instead of seeing rows of text on your e-mail messages, your e-mail could have a face grinning back at you soon. A new programme called Facemail allows users to have the text of their
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    • 280 21 Reuters. IF President George Bush seems boring, it's because that's the way he likes it. Americans have seen and heard less of this president in his first hundred days than the last chief executive. "People are beginning to realize I'm a straightforward person and
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    • 217 22 Wire services. TWO quick-thinking little girls probably saved the life of a four-year-old boy who fell out of a fourth-floor window. They caught him in their picnic tablecloth. "It's amazing," said Constable Dave McClymont of the Barrie police. "I'm shaking my head thinking
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    • 359 23 14 school baseball players kicked off team Coach quits after he was suspended Wire services. Perhaps they had watched too many of those college-teen road flicks. Or maybe boys will be boys. But the high jinks of some American high-school baseball players with a couple
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    • 81 23 Software piracy is a crime. Make no mistake about Piracy is wrong. Let's stop it together, that, it is as good as stealing, pilfering and robbing. So, if you know of any company or organisation that c r. Business Software Alliance is using, manufacturing or selling pirated software, call our
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  • WORLD
    • 94 25 PLANE MISTAKE: This is the Cessna that was shot down by a Peruvian air force jet on April 20. In it were US missionary Veronica Bowers, her husband (who was flying the plane) as well as their six-year-old son and 7-month-old
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    • 357 25 Hongkong has had to cut four Hollywood stars from its film script. Plans to have Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Anthony Hopkins and Drew Barrymore liven up tomorrow's Hongkong Film Awards have been scrapped because organisers cannot afford to foot the bill, reports the South
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    • 369 26 New Zealand pays big bucks for artificial skin from the US DUE to a sudden surge of victims with serious burns, New Zealand has exhausted its donor skin supplies. Hospitals are forced to import skin at a high cost from the
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    • 88 26 NO more inhibitions. Italian soccer's new rules say players can jubilate freely after scoring. And this picture is part of a new advertising campaign that encourages such jubilation. In the campaign, Italian footballer Gianluca Vialli, former coach of English Premiership team
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 516 27 Parents die in road accident Grandmother dies three days after parents' funeral 10-year-old has to fend for himself HIS days of sleeping out in the streets of Malacca are over. After fending for himself for almost a year, 11-year-old
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    • 233 27 THE next time a female celebrity or any woman, for that matter reaches for her breast, look out! She could be going for her gun. An American inventor has designed the world's first and so far only combined brassiere and gun holster. The underwear is designed to
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  • Hey!
    • 603 28 Showtime Lifestyle What a dream assignment—date two gorgeous actors in a day! One, a suave stage actor from India, the other, a cute TV idol from the Philippines. CHANG MAY CHOONflirts with one over lunch and holds hands with the other over dinner THE DATE: Rehaan Engineer, 25, a rising
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    • 463 28 THE DATE: Romnick Sarmenta, 28, an award-winning actor from the Philippines. He plays the lead role of an island boy in Paradise, the new TV Works drama co-starring Nadya Hutagalung and Lum May Yee, which is to be telecast by the end of
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    • 89 29 Thick-skinned, I somewhat blushtngly asked for a kiss. But I neper expected him to react with such enthusiasm! "Sure! Don't be embarrassed. Hike you!" he said, laughing, and leaned over with outstretched arms... The moment his arms went around me, I got soflustered that J
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    • 660 30  -  By Chang May Choon IF this is what idol worship is, I've changed my mind about hoping that I could have fans... There I was, minding my place in a taxi queue well, yes, I was waiting for one of Taiwan's sweetest jewels, Ruby
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    • 503 32 THE world is hot on the heels of Japanese soccer star Hidetoshi Nakata. He has top European soccer clubs after his kicking skills, advertisers after his celebrity endorsements and reporters treating him like a king. Screaming pubescent girls and older working women alike fall
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    • 349 33  -  SURVIVOR 2: THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK By Yeoh Wee Teck Kucha is over. Ogakor's Colby Donaldson chalked up yet another Immunity Challenge win. With that victory, he sealed headgear-wearing Elisabeth Filarski's fate and packed her off to the jury to spend more quality
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    • 472 34 Brushing hard Nice smile Last week, the Singapore Dental Association introduced new guidelines on dental charges which could lead to costlier dental treatment. But prevention is better than cure, beginning with regular teeth-brushing. LIM LEE CHING gets to the root of the matter Brushing helps. But some brushes can harm
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    • 179 34 STEP OUT; TIPS STEPOUT asked Dr Loke Loo Pin, a dentist who is also a TV and stage actress, to give us tips on picking a suitable toothbrush: gSoft bettor than hard Get a toothbrush with really soft bristles that will not scratch your gums. "Soft
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    • 1009 36  -  SIMPLE JOANNA HUGNES CHECKED your e-mail lately? If you're like most of us, you have to dig out from under a virtual pile of junk mail each day. We've been spammed and flamed (bombarded and abused). There are get-rich quick schemes
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  • 438 37 On the rack HAVING gone through eight prime ministers in the past decade and suffered near-zero economic growth—Japan finally decided to try something different when choosing government leader No 9... By the usually boring standards of the dominant Liberal Democratic Party, Mr Junichiro Koizumi
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
    • 83 37 COMICS The Concrete Jungle/ Colin Goh f on€ tooufat'J l #<r StoAL 1 "IT s® Calvin and Hobbes /Bill Watterson ImTJCE W\mEN6»SED I WHCU OF US IS SQIN& TO BWWSWKBIWII Wi\Wi¥ WQg6UH DWN6 OUT IN lIN CONTEST GWE UP FIRST? RHKPHE l!Pli 4 l Vuil I IfflHlf JUST QOUIWT IB
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    • 298 44  -  Horse of the Year2ooo(Malaysia): Ballistic National Stud Farm Graduate of the Year 2000: Summertime Blues Top owner: Hydrocarbon Stable Top trainer: John Sargent Top jockey: Apprentice Richard Urn By Lionel Lee IN ANOTHER of his signature run, Ballistic charged down the centre of the
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    • 239 44 AP FEARS of foot-and-mouth disease prompted Japan to ban entry by a champion Hongkong racehorse, according to local racing figures who complained on Thursday of double standards. Trainer Ivan Allan said it was "disgusting" that Fairy King Prawn is barred from defending
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    • 342 45  -  By Michael Lee JOCKEY Mick Dittman's post-race comments adequately summed up Kim Angel's stylish win in last night's $180,000 Group 3 The Jumbo Jet. "She's a good tough mare. She wasn't right when she lost to Silvano in the Singapore Cup, but she was
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    • 1630 46 RACE 1: TRULY BOLD and CITY BROKER were scratched by the vet when they were found to be lame off-fore and lame near-fore respectively. In terms of MRA Regulation 17.2, they must be presented to an official vet before being declared to
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    • 231 57 Tamil Movie Song Dance WOODLANDS 1 (Ivica Raguz, 20th) JURONG FC 1(A Sivakumar, 31) When Woodlands Wellington took on Jurong FC last night, it was like a Tamil movie, except that the box office stars were V Sundramoorthy and R Vengadasalam. ERNEST LUIS and photographer DREW FRITZ capture The Dance
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    • 61 57 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS j Woodlands 1 Jurong FCI I Marine Castle 2 Balestier 3 TONIGHT 1 Clementi Khalsa v SAFFC I (Clementi Stadium) I Tampines Rovers v Home United (Tampines Stadium) All matches start at 7.30pm CALL INFOLINE j Call 1900-*****13 after I 8.30pm for half-time scores and I
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    • 111 57 V Odds as at 8.30 am CLEMENTIvSAFFC Ix 2: (1) Clementi: $6.50 (x) Draw: $4.65 (2) SAFFC: $1.30 1/2 GOAL: Clementi:(+ll/2):51.85 SAFFC: (-11/2): $1.80 TOTAL GOALS: 0 Goal: $19.00 1 Goal: $8.60 2 Goals: $4.70 3 Goals: $4.40 4 Goals: $4.40 5 Goals: $5.20 6 Goals: $7.50 7
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    • 472 58  -  S-LEAGUE 2001: THE TAMIL MOVIE SONG AND DANCE By Ernest Luis GOOD friends they may be, but they both are always keen to outdo each other when their teams meet. That's V Sundramoorthy, player-coach of Jurong FC, and R Vengadasalam, team manager of
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    • 119 58 AFTER losing three matches in a row, Woodlands was expected to lose to Jurong last night But Woodlands coach Ivan Raznevich's tactics to soak and strike worked out right, and his team managed a 1-1 draw. In the 20th minute, Woodlands' scored one when Ivica Raguz
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    • 137 59 Singapore Armed Forces FC defender Tan Kim Leng had his hole-in-the-heart closed by doctors successfully on Monday. Yesterday, he was discharged and sent home. But in the last five days, he had a number of visitors, including his club-mates, and lots of flowers and
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    • 480 60 DONT be surprised if you see Tan Kim Leng back in the S-League by August. The 23-year-old Singapore Armed Forces FC defender had the hole in his heart repaired on Monday. Yesterday, he was discharged from the National University Hospital, a week ahead
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    • 568 61  -  Chelsea Jersey No 9 Player to SingTel By Edwin Yeo FOR one million dollars, who was the big name signing for Chelsea this season who was supposed to help the Londoners win the Premiership? Is it: A) Mark Bosnich, who left Man U because he didn't want
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    • 623 62  - Leeds' flair style will drown Chelsea M LEEDS v CHELSEA (Live on FC 22, today, from 6.55pm) ~fil The Big SingTe^ By Edwin Yeo ON paper, Chelsea is a far stronger team than Leeds. After all, how many Leeds players were involved in the recent round of international games midweek?
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    • 285 63  -  Firing blanks won't do Now that Manchester United has officially won the Premiership, as opposed to it having won it unofficially since the New Year, it is time to take a serious look at the teams vying for what's left. The most important of all is the
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    • 210 63 IPSWICH Current position: 3 Points to date: 62 Goal difference: Plus 15 Remaining fixtures: Chariton (A) Man City (H) Deity (A) To end season with: 71 pts TRACTOR Boys for the Champions League. Tractor Boys for the Champions League. Tractor Boys for the Champions League. Can you
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      217 63 LEEDS Current position: 4 Points to date: 59 Goal difference: Plus 13 Remaining fixtures: Chelsea (H) Arsenal (A) Bradford (H) Leicester (H) To end season with: 71pts LEEDS is the best team in England right now. It is playing the best football I have seen an English club
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    • 211 64 MORE ON THE RACE FOR CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PLACES By EDWIN YEO Flop of the season CHELSEA Current position: 6 Points to date: 54 Goal difference: Plus 23 Remaining fixtures: Leeds (A) Everton(H) Liverpool (A) Man City (A) To end season with: 58 pts THE flop of the season, if you
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    • 178 64 LIVERPOOL Current position: 5 Pointstodate:s6 Goal difference: Plus 21 Remaining fixtures: CowiitijiUU Bradford (A) Mm„r wfin ftil iwwCtfSTO (iff Charlton (A) To end season with: 67 pts I HAD said that Liverpool would make the Champions League, but looking at its congested fixture ahead, I'm
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    • 703 64 PREMIERSHIP UPDATE AP. Reuters. MAN U captain Roy Keane has come under fire after being sent off for the second time this season and eighth time in eight seasons for a vicious tackle on Manchester City's Alfie Haaland. Former Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough criticised Sir
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    • 101 64 AP. Les Ferdinand (above) is staying with Tottenham after agreeing on a new two-year contract. Ferdinand is one of three key Spurs players out of contract next season, but the 34-year-old striker was persuaded by new manager Glenn Hoddle to sign a new deal.
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    • 57 58 INCOME STLET^GLIE < SATURDAY NIGHT II I income S.League presents II I Clementi Khalsa FC II I SAFFC II The smell of blood is in the air. Expect the wounded Warriors from SAFFC to go all out to avenge their defeat last week. Catch the excitement at Clementi Stadium tonight.
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    • 111 65 I fcu JeF MM* U' 9MB iMr M'llbMMK^mm. HB 1 J Ito cu the <l ueue f° r tickets to the j ®b*S® Iw&fw I Manchester United game. THftU jjjgj K KExclusively for Citibank MasterCard members, OHHHB you your tickets for the Courts Cup-Singapore HT Invitation XI vs Manchester United
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    379 66 ITALIAN SERIE A DOPING SCANDAL SPORTS LAZIO defender Fernando Couto was suspended by the Italian football league yesterday. He had tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone. A spokeswoman for the league said the Portuguese international's ban had "immediate effect". This means he will miss tomorrow's Rome derby
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  • 74 66 ITALY TODAY: Vicenza v Parma Reggina v Napoli TOMORRROW: Atalanta v Bologna Bari v Perugia Brescia v Inter Milan Fiorentina v Udinese Juventus v Lecce AC Milan v Verona AS Roma v Lazio SPAIN TODAY: Real Madrid vOsasuna Valencia v Valladolid TOMORRROW: Ath Bilbao v Alaves Barcelona v Celta
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  • 363 66 MARK VIDUKA'S SPECULATED MOVES TO AC MILAN, REAL MADRID AFP LEEDS United manager David O'Leary played a calming role yesterday as the rumour mills worked overtime about the transfer of striker Mark Viduka. Said O'Leary: "Let's put all this nonsense about Mark into
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      727 68 Can salvage the season? Out of Europe, languishing in the League, losing tamely to weaker teams, the Spanish giant is in a deep hole. What is left for it this season ?In England, Man U had the Premiership to make up for its European disappointment. Can caretaker coach Carles
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    • 557 69 SIR ALEX ON $49 MILLION STRIKER RUUD VAN NISTELROOY Wire Services. MAN United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said he cost the club a fortune by failing to buy Ruud van Nistelrooy three years ago. Ferguson said he had the opportunity to sign
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