The New Paper, 26 May 2001

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1 75 The New Paper
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    7 1 the new paper SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2001
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      50 1 Up 5 cents? SMRT Tibs want to raise fares /Page 2 One school's 2001 English paper similar to another's 1997 paper. Who's the copycat? And there's even a twist... /Page 12 Singapore Press Holdings Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpaper.asiaI .com.sg MITA (P) 106/03/2001 60 CENTS 8"*****1"*****1
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    15 1 England 4 Mexico 0 /Page 78 I Picture/ REUTERS I
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      Lock icon MRT, bus fares may go up by 5 cents
      248 2 AMID the gloomy economic picture, news has surfaced that two public transport operators want to raise fares. Both the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit and bus company Tibs have submitted proposals for fare revisions to the Public Transport Council (PTC). They are
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      Lock icon SMRT gains rise
      186 2 RAIL operator SMRT Corp posted a 5.2 per cent increase in net profit to $104million for the year ending March 31,2001. However, its performance would have been better if not for the $3.5m loss made by its associate the Today newspaper. This was its share of losses
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      Lock icon Would you pay $84,000 for this?
      132 2 Reuters. BUT LEVI Strauss Co did because this pair of ripped blue jeans date to the 1880s. The company's historian says these may be the oldest pair ever. The firm snapped up the old jeans on an eBay auction on Thursday. The price had
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      7 2 Leisure Hey! Pages 36-39,42-46 Comics: Page 35
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      Lock icon Cupid shies away from this petite lady because...
      794 4  -  By Irene Kew MISS Ng is by no means unattractive. Soft-spoken and gentle, the petite lady sports a pleasant smile. Yet, men still stay clear. And it has happened so many times that the hotel waitress has lost count. It's been so
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      Lock icon They need a new ‘home’
      297 5 NOW both brothers attend a Minds (Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore) workshop during the day. And a stubborn Michael insists on helping out at the Bendemeer hawker centre every night. Even when he doesn't bring home a cent. Said Miss Ng, shaking her
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      83 5 THEIR dreams-are simple. To have a new door for the flat. For Ah Xiang's decaying teeth to be extracted. And money for the brothers' transport to and from the Minds workshops. Come June, watch this family's dreams come true on Channel Us new game show, Dream Challengers. Hosted
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Lock icon Soon, 9 world-class varsities here
      219 6 HOT STORY EDUCATION "V SINGAPORE already has seven world-class universities here. By December, there will be nine. The eighth will be a university from the United States, and the ninth, from Germany. And there is a tenth univeristy in the works, from Europe. That's what
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      180 6 in pmus SINGLISH is not the only lingo cropping up in schoolwork. Now comes the problem of SMS-speak. Students are so used to text messaging on their handphones that the short forms they use is now making an appearance, in school essays as well, say teachers. Instead
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      43 6 International Herald Tribune: Megawati declines to share power with Wahid New Straits Times: Still in government hands: Pos Malaysia will continue to uphold social obligations following sale BBC news: Slobodan Milosevic is accused by his own countrymen of war crimes
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        Lock icon Jailed 26 years
        60 6 COURT SERIAL robber Lim Lye Kim, 24, has been involved in at least seven heists of expensive cars since November 1998. Yesterday, he pleaded guilty to being with an accomplice who carried a gun unlawfully, robbery with hurt and attempted armed robbery with hurt. He was jailed
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        Lock icon Maths needed
        51 6 WATER SIMPLE maths could solve Singapore's long-term water needs. v Acting Environment Minister Lim Swee Say said that both adding to and multiplying Singapore's water capacity would help sustain adequate water supply in the long term. This includes expanding catchment areas, setting up desalination plants and exploring more
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        Lock icon No gifts please
        56 6 PETROL FORGET the freebies; give us cheaper petrol. This was the response The Straits Times got in a poll conducted on whether motorists preferred loyalty programmes or lower petrol prices. Nearly all of the respondents said they preferred cheaper petrol to gifts. Only five of the 360
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        Lock icon Ideas can pay
        51 6 MINDEF SMALL ideas can mean big savings. Work-improvement projects and individual suggestions saved the Ministry of Defence and taxpayers $223 million last year. The ministry handed out 180 awards to various units and teams for their contributions to productivity at its 14th Mindef Pride Day at Suntec
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        Lock icon Family fair
        62 7 BOOKS THE World Book Fair, said to be the "biggest book fair in South-east Asia", will be brought forward since many families may go away later in the school holidays. Now scheduled from June 2 to 10, and held from 11am to 10pm daily in the Singapore International
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        64 7 BANKING CITIBANK may offer loans to pay the fixed $10,000 deposit for a Certificate of Entitlement bid under the new open-bidding system for cars. The deposit will form part of the 70 per cent loan offered to successful bidders. There are arguments that the deposit is unaffordable for
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        Lock icon Virus contained
        60 7 HONGKONG HONGKONG'S health chief said that the authorities had acted "swiftly and decisively" to contain the territory's latest bird-flu outbreak, after the last virus in 1997 killed at least six people. He also said the virus was different from the last strain and should not affect humans, and
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        Lock icon Missing cents
        70 7 CURRENCY THE coins are missing. One cent coins, that is. About 50 million are minted every year, yet more than 95 per cent disappears from circulation, reports Streats. This means more coins must be minted each year. And it costs 1.7 cents make each coin. So the Singapore
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      69 7 The Straits Times: Megawati rejects deal tied to Gus Dur rescue The Business Times: OUB and NPB merger talks are off LianheZaobao: Indonesian presidential guards and Jakarta police on high alert Berita Harian: $20 million fund for scheme to manage illnesses NewsRadio 93.8FM: Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid's
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      56 7 That's what Japanese mountaineer Ken Noguchi has collected from his latest climb. Here, he is showing Just a part of the 1,600kg of garbage he gathered from the Tibetan side of Mount Everest. The mountaineer and his team plan to take the trash back to Japan to generate
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    450 8 SINGAPORE Do you consider family life important? But are you too busy building a career to think of marriage? IF you answered yes to both questions, you are a typical Singaporean. You require little motivation to pursue your career. But you need encouragement to be reminded of the
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon AGHT PARKS
      186 10 ROACH REPELLENT Vampires aren't the only nasties allergic to garlic; roaches are too. SHEELA NARAYANAN discovered this and more useful stuff at the Primary Science Fair yesterday THIS could be called the creepy crawly experiment.^ Cockroaches were the guinea pigs for Thomas Tan and Ho Chiak Ming. The
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      Lock icon BAD COMPANY
      121 10 V DOES a bad apple really spoil the barrel? Okay, that's an old proverb. But it got 11-year-olds Lin Yee Yan, Sheryl Teo and Ng Nge Hwee from Jurong Primary (above) curious enough to try it for real. They, set out to see if "bad" company turns you
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      Lock icon Need household tips? ASK THESE KIDS
      262 11 PLANT TASTES FOR the Ang Mo Kio Primary team, their experiment started out as an argument. While discussing his project over recess, Kegan Chang, nine, threw his unfinished iced lemon tea into a plant. Which enraged his three teammates. "We thought the plant would
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      Lock icon Copycat Sec 1 paper set for Sec 2
      703 12  -  Can you spot any differences between these two exam papers? Well, SANTOKH SINGH finds out thatZhenghua Secondary School's mid-year English paper this year is quite similar to Hong Kah i Secondary School's 1997 exam 3 paper. A case of copycat exam '|j
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      Lock icon MOE SPOKESMAN SAYS
      85 13 SCHOOLS set their exam papers according to their own test specifications based on their students' needs and abilities, said a Ministry of Education spokesman. Each school also has its internal procedures to ensure that these test specifications are met and the tests papers are suitable for its
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      Lock icon WHAT INVESTIGATION REVEALED
      91 13 LAST night, Zhenghua Secondary released the findings of its investigation. It found that some changes were made to the Hong Kah Secondary School paper. Certain sections were omitted, some new comprehension questions had been included while several other questions had been modified. And Zhenghua's exam paper retained
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      386 15 summer THE HEART OF THE GREAT SINGAPORE SALE GO TO BOOT CAMP THIS SUMMER WITH MILITARY I FASHION. WE'VE EXCITING EVENTS LINED UP FOR YOU. UOB CREDIT CARDMEMBERS WILL RECEIVE SOO KEE BLUE TOPAZ PENDANTS, 'PEARL HARBOR' MOVIE TICKETS AND PREMIUMS WHEN THEY SHOP AT WISMA ATRIA. PLUS, YOU COULD
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    43 17 mutfmui* SINGAPORE The Straits Times forum writer ChlaQueeKhee on the quaMy of service provided by the CMI Service: Whoever introduced voice-mail in the government service obviously assumed that all (or most) government servants would observe the basic courtesyuf returning calls.
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      Lock icon the new paper MAID OF THE YEAR 2001 WESTERN MONEY UNION TRANSFER
      207 19 WHO'S THE BEST? YOU have read each of the Maid of the Year finalists' story. Now is your chance to vote for the winner. The winner of The New Paper-Western Union Maid of the Year 2001 crown will
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      Lock icon INCOME closes fitness centre Five larger ones to open next year
      780 20  -  Teng Pei Yun ADMINISTRATIVE assistant Ho Kum Lum, 61, exercises at the Leng Kee Community Centre several times a week. But from next month, Mr Ho, who lives nearby, will no longer be able to use the NTUC Income
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      Lock icon This shower stall is a theatre
      401 22 HE does not care if you think it looks like a walking shower curtain. All he cares is that you will be entertained by his puppets. But when puppeteer Jonathan Acorn first invented his "theatre", he thought the idea was original. "I came up
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    Lock icon Kill our chief and we will kill 100 students
    333 24 WORLD THIS threat was made by a Chinese triad after its leader was sentenced to death last week. According to reports in Nanchong, four students have already been killed showing the growing power of underworld gangs in China, reported The Scotsman.
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      102 24 fun games with great prizes to be won. Try your hand at traditional games Lots of giveaways prizes to be won Get a "SHOCK" of a lifetime.. Find out more about past traditions Create your own postal stamps L$te of informative demonstrations Rediscover vanishing trades Educational fun for the entire
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon London fears Irish bomb blitz
      268 26 BRITONS will have their general election on June 7. In the 1992 and 1997 polls, Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorists increased their bombs attacks. That is why the British authorities have put London on a terror bomb alert. A massive security operation is being mounted
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      Lock icon Sleeping amid crisis
      129 26 Wire services. JAKARTA could have exploded amid a state of emergency. But Indonesia's capital was quiet last night. And President Abdurrahman Wahid reportedly slept through what many said was a midnight deadline for his ultimatum. It's believed he gave his political foes a "do-it-or-else" choice: Drop efforts
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      Lock icon Racist but not extremist?
      379 28 IN AUSTRALIA ITS contradictory but it's true. Ms Pauline Hanson is planning a fresh attack on Asian immigrants. But at the same time, she has also pledged to purge her party of right-wing extremists. Ms Hanson has asked Ms Robyn Spencer, who ironically has links with
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      Lock icon Caterpillars blamed for foal deaths
      178 29 Wire Services THE bizarre deaths of foals in Kentucky have been blamed on caterpillars. Scientists have said that the unusually high levels of naturally-occurring cyanide in black cherry trees was somehow transferred to the mares possibly through faeces from Eastern tent caterpillars and killed the
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      Lock icon ‘Nude shots are not mine’
      160 29 Reuters. TWO German publications face a lawsuit for trying to portray a former beauty queen. Ms Shawne Fielding, also wife of Switzerland's ambassador to Germany, caused an uproar in the media this month over some photographs of her. One was of her in a tight
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      Lock icon Hello, dad? Please save me from this tiger!
      200 30 SAVED by the phone. That's what Malaysian teen Mohd Fauzi Ismail, 18, will remember all his life. Because his handphone saved him from being attacked by a tiger. The boy, from the Terengganu village of Kampung Tok Dor, was walking back to
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      421 33 SHAREHOLDERS of Richard Li's Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW) company had two good reasons to be angry. They saw their assets plunging over 80 per cent in value, while PCCW gave out large pay packages to directors last year. Yesterday, Mr Li, the chairman of
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      568 36  -  By Yeoh Wee Teck IN KUALA LUMPUR SHAGGY looked bored. On a couch in the Presidential Suite of the Sunway Lagoon Resort Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, the singer sat with an expressionless look on his face, absent-mindedly pulling on a lock of his wiry hair.
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      343 36 I WANT to party with Malaysians. They are so ready for a good time. At Shaggy's 45-minute showcase at Sunway Lagoon Amphitheatre last Friday, they did what every good concert crowd should do they danced with wild abandon, they sang along with gusto, they
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      818 39  -  First, it's Pearl Harbor the movie. Then, it's Pearl Harbor the TV documentary. ARUL JOHN met the expert who found the Titanic and knows everything about the Pearl Harbour attack REPORTS ARUL JOHN Blockbuster Titanic (1997) made him famous. Dr Robert Ballard, 59, oceanographer, explorer
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      283 40 NOT yet 9 am but the popiah makers are already busy kneading the egg dough. An automated dough mixer is also going at full speed. Said Mr Ker Cheng Lye of the famous Kway Guan Huat popiah skin business: "My father used to knead all
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      405 41 JAPAN'S Glay is at it again breaking records. In 1999, the J-pop band was the first to organise the biggest concert in Japan. That concert was attended by about 200,000 people. Now, it is out to break another record. That of the longest concert.
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      416 43 PRIME-TIME TV Love Me, Love Me Not. This Mandarin drama is a fluffy comedy which has eye candy like gorgeous actresses Li Lin and Jacelyn Tay. And acting flair, courtesy of seasoned actors Xie Shaoguang and Chen Hanwei. Li Lin and Jacelyn
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    1176 51 YESTERDAY’S KRANJI (FIBRESAND) RACE RESULTS Going: Good the new paper RACING DOUBLE DELIGHT: Jockey Mark du Plessis returning to scale aboard first-up winner Lady Festal, who is trained by Stephen Gray, in Race 2 at Kranji last night The jockey-trainer combination had also bagged Race 1 with Ingenious Star. Picture/
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      419 52  -  By Michael Lee ITS a week Zimbabwean jockey Mark du Plessis will never forget. Barely three days after his wife Barbie gave birth to a baby girl in New Zealand, the proud new father scored a double at Kranji last night. The much-awaited
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      1160 53 RACE 1: TITAN DRAGON was scratched when found to have spasmodic colic. MISTER SOMETHING and RED TAURUS were difficult to be boxed and caused some delay. After being loaded into the barriers, MISTER SOMETHING was restless, jumped awkwardly and was slow to
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      364 54 Laxon-trained galloper set for well-deserved victory today ON THE KRANJI TRACK with DANNY KHOO A WELL-DESERVED win looks on the cards for the Laurie Laxon-trained Les Alpes in Race 2 today. For at Kranji yesterday morning, the three-year-old by Danehill looked in great shape
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      307 54 NST. TOPWEIGHT Conviction wrapped up his preparations for the Class 5 Div 2 event over 1,200m in Race 4 tomorrow with a stylish workout in Penang yesterday. Taken out by jockey Oh Seng Hong, the five-year-old New Zealand-bred strode out fluently over the final 600m
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      1670 55 TODAY’S KRANJI (LONG COURSE, A) RACE CARD —Going forecast: Good No. Last 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 42-31- RED HOT 59 (61) SScriven 6 (4eg Thwaites-Eres Tu) 2 221 DRAGON TYPHOON 58.5 (60) ADelpech 3 (3nzg Muscutt-Dragon Typhoon) 3 -640-0 SECRET SUCCESS 58.5 (60) LDittman
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      249 56 MARC TAN Hanks (Race 6 No. 12) Knocking on the door again. His last two runs third over 1,400m, then second over 1,600m were pleasing efforts. His three wins so far have been over tonight's 1,600m trip. Looks a treat on his feather-light load with star rookie Terry
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      735 56  -  $250,000 PATRONS' BOWL (Race 7, 7.45pm) By Danny Khoo Bocelli for the Patrons' Bowl, with the rest for the minor placings. That is how this evening's Group 2 $250,000 feature at Kranji is shaping up to be. With a record that is second
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      15598 57 DOWN TO DELIVER: Jockey Sam Subian can drive home Please Don't Ask in Race 3 to end the five-year-old's lean spell. n COINCIDENCE 57(53) SH Oh (3) (3nzg V Nathan-Confidence) By Varikos-Desperate Lass; chestnut; landed 16.10.00; lr O-O-l. 15.04.01 MR Zaidi 57 (53) (5) 3 2
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      891 66 THE BWORD Appearance fees. Two bad words? Yes and no. Depending on who you ask and who is talking. Ask World No 1 Tiger Woods and he will shrug and point you in the direction of his management team. "Ask them," he'd say. Ask the
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      309 66 AP. BACK home in Australia, he's a teen idol. Out on the PGA Tour, Aaron Baddeley is just another struggling young professional. Though he has made only one cut in five starts on the Tour this season and earned just $7,400, Baddeley is considered
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      150 67 YESTERDAY'S OTHER RESULT: Home United 2 (Yazkl Sawal, 73rd min; Peres de Otiveira, 86) Gombak United 0 TONIGHT: Tampines Stags v Clementi Elephants (Tampines) Balestier Tigers v Tanjong Pagar Jaguars (Toa Payoh) Afl matches start at 7.30pm WANNA BET? 7 I Odds as at &3Qam TAMPINES v CLEMENTI
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      Lock icon Cobras feel this Nigerian has the heart of a Lion
      463 67  -  JURONG 3 Goh Tat Chuan 24. Itimi Dickson 32. Park Tae Won 52 GEYLANG 2 Mohd Noor Ali 31, 81 By Ernest Luis ITIMI Dickson to play for Singapore one day? Don't rule out that possibility as the Jurong Cobras
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      94 67 Daun Mathew, 19 -Born in India (Balestier Tigers) Daniel Bennett, 23 born in England (Tanjong Pagar Jaguars) SritMbNair f 23 born in Malaysia (Clementi Elephants) Raymond Williamson, 28 born in Nigeria (Marine Castle Dolphins) Joqj Steinebru nner, 29 born in Germany (Gombak Bulls) Mirko Grabovac, 29 born
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      320 68 MORE ON JURONG COBRAS 3 GEYLANG EAGLES 2 HOW THE MATCH WENT COBRAS STRIKE FIRST... 24th min: A Sivakumar's free-kick is flicked on by Bojan Hodak to an unmarked Goh Tat Chuan, who chests the ball down and whacks it through the legs of Eagles' 'keejter Shahril Jantan. EAGLES ANSWER
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      345 68  -  By Ernest Luis WHO will lead the Geylang Eagles from now on? That was the lingering question yesterday after it was noted that the Eagles had changed their captain for last night's game against the Jurong Cobras. When the Eagles took to the field at the Jurong East
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      97 68 Jurong wanted to charge $8 for an adult's ticket (normal price $5) for its match against Geylang last night. S-League said 'no.' From next week, clubs will be allowed to raise only adult ticket prices for quality matches, if advance notice is given. But is $8
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      99 69  -  SPORT Compiled by: ZAINI MOHAMED A high tension football game requires <i high degree of concentration. German club Hansa Rostock s goalkeeper Martin Picckenhagen iiefti keeps his thoughts focused on the proceedings by chewing gum. He nearly lost his bearings last weekend during the Bundesliga match against Werder
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      77 69 HE usually drives topless beauties wild. Speedy Scot David Coulthard can also be a gallant observer of decorum when he wants to be. He had his kilt in order and his eyes firmly screwed on the job at hand when he helped top model Heidi Klum alight. The
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      86 69 Naughty fellow, very bad fellow. How could he drop his shorts before the referee? Even though Manchester United's Phil Neville was only changing his shorts on the field, it angered the official. The referee flashes the yellow card at the player for holding up play. There
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      723 70  -  FORMULA ONE RACING Move over Hakkinen By BRIAN MILLER WHEN the five lights go out and the cars burn rubber at tomorrow's Monte Carlo F1 Grand Prix, will we see a change in the McLaren hierarchy or will David Coulthard still be driving in team-mate
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      430 71 Things aren't very pleasant at Old Trafford at the moment and some expect Sir Alex Ferguson, the man who made Manchester United the footballing monster it is today, not to see out his last season at the club. This has caused much speculation: Who
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      596 72  -  WORLD CUP WARM-UP: ENGLAND 4 MEXICO 0 Paul Scholes 3rd min Robbie Fowler 14 David Beckham 29 Teddy Sherringham 74 COMMENT VK SANTOSH KUMAR against Greece. IDEALLY, it shouldn't matter. Who prevails when you pull your England shirt on. Red or Red Devil goals from
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      87 72 The stance is the same. The motion is the same. The jersey colour is the same. Only the numbers etched on it are dissimilar. At first glance most would think it was David Beckham poised to strike both times. But wonder o' wonder, Teddy Sheringham proved tie can
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      609 73 WORLD CUP WARM-UP: ENGLAND 4 MEXICO 0 Paul Scholes 3rd min Robbie Fowler 14 David Beckham 29 Teddy Sherringham 74 Reuters. England produced a scintillating first-half performance to beat Mexico 4-0 in an entertaining friendly this morning (Singapore time). It was new manager Sven Goran
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      93 73 ENGLAND: Nigel Martyn (David James 46), Phil Neville, Rio Ferdinand (Jamie Carragher46), Martin Keown (Gareth Southgate 46), Ashley Cole (Chris Powell 46), David Beckham (Joe Cole 46), Steven Gerrard (Michael Carrick 46), Emile Heskey (Danny Mills 67), Paul Scholes (Nicky Butt 46), Michael Owen (Alan Smith 46), Robbie Fowler
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      406 74 Scholes: Greece won't be scared Eriksson's start as England boss is unmatched since England's immediate post-war manager Walter Winterbottom Sporting Life. PAUL Scholes does not believe Greece will be scared by England's 4-0 win over Mexico this morning. Scholes led the rout with a brilliant third-minute strike, firing
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      Lock icon Excellent first half, says Eriksson
      252 74 Sporting Life. ENGLAND manager Sven Goran Eriksson was pleased after the 4-0 win over Mexico. Said Eriksson: "I have learned a lot. "We were excellent in the first-half and did well in the second when I brought in a few new players. "We moved the
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