Today, 10 July 2001

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    8 1 TODAY I Tuesday July 10, 2001 MiTA(P) 138/*****0
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  • Article
    A maverick GRC again?
    588 1  -  Ng Boon Yian Advantage PAP, but remember those close contests by boonyian@newstoday.com.sg ONCE again the opposition has announced its intention of trying to wrest a Group Representation Constituency in the coming election, and once again it seems an impossible dream, at least on the face of
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    Lock icon 90,000 to lose jobs
    99 1 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR While the prospects for Singaporean workers are not bright, the real pain is being felt in the neighbourhood. Some 90,000 workers in Malaysia's electrical and electronics industry could lose their jobs by the end of this year if falling global demand persists, said
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      103 1 J 2-^ J v —J v J Xi. J «IV M ri m km m M mf li m m f KJ ra 21 IT'tHI 1 mm mm yauBUUBU Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) membership is a great honour only achieved by 6% of j^S^iwS^. life insurance agents worldwide. In
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Trains, buses, taxis
      529 2  -  Chan Chao Peh SMRT-Tibs confirm merger 'to provide a combination of operations' by. chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg AFTER a failed attempt in 1999, transport operators SMRT Corporation and Tibs Holdings have finally confirmed market speculation that they will merge. The merger, which will create a land transport network comprising trains,
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      Descent rate shows deliberate action
      212 2  -  Joy Frances by joy@newstoday.com.sg THE Silk Air crash case continued yesterday with air safety consultant McArthur Job saying that the rate of descent indicated intentional pilot action. Pilots are taught how to combat sudden rapid depressurisation but evidence was found to show this had not
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      Kicked his way to jail
      168 2 RASHID Maidin, 28, had two wives and alternated his nights between the two women. Everything went smoothly until the day two of his children told him about his first wife's infidelity. Rashid has five children, aged between two and eight years old, with the first
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      Apple recalls adapters
      64 2 APPLE is voluntarily replacing about 570,000 AC adapters that could overheat and pose a fire hazard. These were either sold separately or came with Apple Macintosh Powerßooks G3s sold worldwide from May 1998 till March last year. The model number is M 4402. You can contact Apple
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      All on his own terms
      259 3  -  Shazalina Salim Ah Long San surrenders after eluding the police for almost two weeks by shazalina@newstoday.com.sg HE defied Chief Justice Yong Pung How and refused to show up in court despite a warrant of arrest. He then gave a journalist an exclusive interview on why
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      Lock icon Cathay makes another offer
      241 3 AFP HONG KONG With no sign of the pilots ending their industrial action, Cathay Pacific Airways yesterday sacked 49 of them, and offered the disgruntled crew a new pay package. The unionised pilots started a work to rule protest last week after talks on wages and
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      NDP 01 tickets to be won each week
      205 3 THE National Day Parade promises to be a grand affair. Energising the audience this year will be six familiar faces Irene Ang, Joe Augustin, Jean Danker, Khairudin Saharom, Lina Ng and Jeremy Ratnam. Together with the cheerleaders, the six MCs will also
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      40 3 B MAJOR KILLERS IN SINGAPORE in mi What are the symptoms, complications and various treatment of heart disease? Let "THE MEDICAL ALPHABET" spell it out for you in a 2-episode series on heart disease. TOMORROW, 7.30PM 18 JUL, WEDNESDAY, 7.30PM
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  • LETTERS
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      More bite ...
      284 4  - More bite Matthew Rafat And a whole menu for the press I REFER to the Commentary "Don't laugh if I say this..." (Today, July 6). The writer defends Singaporean newspapers, saying "there is still some integrity to the process". I often tell my US friends that Singapore is wonderful, as
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      LTA must not dither on bollards
      167 4  -  See Leong Kit IN 1998, a car ploughed into a bus stop, killing one student and injuring two others. Last year, another car smashed into another bus stop, injuring two students and two women. Concerned members of the public had then suggested putting some
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      What about love is colour blind'?
      106 4  -  Dick Sudweeks I REFER to the letter "Foreign knot" (Today, July 7). It has to be a joke, right? Grave consequence to our national security, social cohesion and demographics? What about people marrying those whom they love? My wife is Italian, I am English.
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  • SPECIAL FEATURE
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      When family beats money
      724 6  -  Elaine Quek Life is great! A series celebrating Singaporeans living life to the fullest High-achiever on a roll decides to take a step back for more important task ■pK CHAN is a workaholic. For the Xvpast eight years, he has been working 16 hours a day,
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      80 7 «j^Df) Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) membership is a great honour only achieved by 6% of (^irP^t y^SS^S^ life insurance agents worldwide. In Singapore, Great Eastern gained the highest number C^| p- Vbb of MDRT members this year. So congratulations to all our 304 members. Especially to the »VV\« LCi
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Credit recall
      520 8  -  Ivay Tan Merger of banks will put squeeze on SMEs by ivay@newstoday.com.sg COMMERCIAL loans for smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may be recalled at shorter notice with the merger of local banks. This worry was expressed by Dr Diana Young, president for the Association of Small and Medium Size
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      Patrick Yeoh appointed OCBC director
      191 8 OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corporation has appointed Mr Patrick Yeoh Khwai Hoh as a nonexecutive director. Mr Yeoh, 63, brings with him nearly three decades of experience in the banking and financial sector. This includes more than 25 years with DBS, where he was president and director,
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    • Market Watch
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        Lum Chang expects loss
        103 8 CONSTRUCTION and real estate company Lum Chang Holdings said it expects a net loss for the year ended June 30 after the sale of its shares in two prime-property companies. It expects a loss of about $25.24 million from the sale of stakes in two companies
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        Taiwan chip makers deny takeover talks
        79 8 TAIWAN Semiconductor Manufacturing and United Microelectronics Corp have denied they are in talks to acquire Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing. "We deny it. There's nothing to this," J H Tzeng, a TSMC spokesman told Bloomberg News. UMC spokesman Alex Hinnawi said rumours that the second largest
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        Stats opens Europe office
        114 8 ST Assembly Test Services (Stats), a semiconductor test- and advanced-packaging service provider, has opened an office in France to expand its support for customers in Europe. The European market contributed about 15 per cent of its 2000 revenues and is expected to be one of the
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        KS Tech sells property
        71 8 KS TECH Ltd is selling its leasehold property at 59 Joo Koon Circle for $2.79 million. It will realise a net gain of about $565,000 from the sale. It intends to use the proceeds of the sale for the group's working capital. US$ 0.5468 Rupiah luK£
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      Lock icon Monetary policy shift?
      553 10 Channel News Asia Analysts divided over MAS' likely stance WITH the worsening of the economy and a technical recession in sight, it seems timely for the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to shift to a more neutral position when it announces its monetary policy review tomorrow. But
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      CGU Insurance in Raffles Place for sale
      158 10 THE CGU Insurance Centre in Raffles Place has been put up for sale by tender. The 35,000 square foot building was valued at $44.5 million at the end of last year. C B Richard Ellis, the property agent handling the sale, said the
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    • Market news
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        Singapore
        322 10 THE bears returned in force aided by ailing corporate profits and deteriorating macroeconomic data. Singapore stocks fell for the sixth day amid talks of a recession and concerns that the government may confirm the worst fears when it releases the June trade figures today. The STI recovered off its
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        Malaysia
        163 10 THE KLSE finished on a mixed note yesterday as caution descended on the market in response to gloomy news flow from the US. At the close, the KLCI was up 0.9 points at 627.7 lifted by modest advances in selected blue-chip issues. The broader market finished lower, with a
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      271 11 JEET SINGH H JOSEPH CLEMENTS H JOSEPH TAV KAW MAN FA! KARIKALAN I KEE POH SAN I KEH THtAM GEE I I ANOREW KOH I KOH HOCK GHEE I &OMANGAL SINGH LESLIE CHRISTIAN Dtp SCI [UFE) BpS'-. I SO PALANIAPPAN I I ,1 v LIFu IUTCF. Dip SCI (LIFE} miHILKtVJH
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      S'porean among Asia's most influential women
      202 12 HONG KONG A Singaporean businesswoman who shaves her head at the start of each year has been named one of the region's most influential women by Asiaweek. Ms Rameshwari Ramachandra, 35, is the founder of Technowledge Asia, a retail Internet consultancy and one of
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      The haze returns
      277 12 Southern Thailand affected by smog, Singapore will experience slight haze BANGKOK Southern Thailand was affected by smog from forest fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island yesterday, and weather officials said the situation was expected to last at least a few more days, Reuters reported. "According to pictures taken
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      Lock icon Gus Dur: Back off by July 20 or...
      265 12 Reuters BOGOR The Indonesian President yesterday tried to add greater weight to his oft-repeated threat to declare a state of emergency by giving his political enemies a deadline July 20. Mr Abdurrahman Wahid said his enemies had until then to back off
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      Lock icon Stepping on the rising sun
      68 12 AFP photo A South Korean activist staining the Japanese national flag with blue paint during an anti-Japanese demonstration in Seoul yesterday. She was among the hundreds of South Koreans who were protesting against the refusal of Japan to revise its controversial history textbooks. Japan earlier
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      Lock icon 10,000 protesters stop trains
      155 12 AFP BEIJING A major railway line in northern China was blocked yesterday by thousands of miners and their families demanding up to 30 months back pay, a rights group and local officials said. About 10,000 protesters converged on the train station at Jishu village in Jilin
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      Lock icon Top Abu Sayyaf man caught
      128 12 Reuters MANILA Philippine police arrested a ranking officer of the Abu Sayyaf, the Muslim rebel group that is notorious for its kidnapping activities, officials said yesterday. Police chief General Leandro Mendoza said Nadzmi Sabdulla, alias Commander Global, was arrested on Sunday with three other Abu
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon The class system in S'pore
      508 14  -  Siva Anantham Education and nationality determine whether one is an Alpha, Beta 0r... by_ IN Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we find a society that is characterised by a social and economic hierarchical structure similar in some ways to the Indian caste system. The "Alphas"
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      365 14 Send your package to practically anywhere on earth with Speedpost Worldwide and win a pair of air tickets to your delivery destination. Just use Speedpost for international door-to-door deliveries from 25 June 2001 to 11 August 2001 and your consignment note will automatically be entered in our weekly lucky draws
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  • INFOTECH
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      Looks good
      546 16 Research group is optimistic over Bluetooth's future BLUETOOTH devices will be a runaway success, set to slowly revolutionise communications despite the delayed debut of such products. International consulting company, Frost Sullivan is confident that the Bluetooth anticipation sweeping the global PC and cellular phone industry will help push
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      New centre
      71 16 WORLDCOM opened its eighth Asia-Pacific International Data Centre in Singapore recently. The centre offers business customers co-location services as well as access to WorldCom's IP backbone network. The 34,000 square foot facility is equipped with sophisticated security, fire and earthquake protection, and back-up power generation systems. Worldcom's other
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      XML for c-commerce
      137 16 MAKER of collaborative commerce (c-commerce) software, Finesse Alliance, will embed Software AG's Tamino XML (extensible markup language) Database on its Finesse Syndicator for Unix and NT customers. Finesse Syndicator automates and streamlines a "built-to-order" business model that uses dialogues to enable businesses to interact with customers and
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      Gamma for payment
      127 16 WIRELESS and Internet communications facilitator Buzz City has announced a delivery and payment collection platform for wireless content and service providers. Called Gamma, it has been described by the company as the first such initiative to let providers rapidly create, deploy and collect payment for new feebased
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      Mobile publishing for the small office
      194 16 ADOBE Systems has launched PageMaker version 7.0. This latest version of the vendor's business publishing software is aimed at small office/home office (SOHO) users. It provides tighter integration with popular business applications for enhanced productivity. The software is designed to provide better integration for
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  • SEEFOOD
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      Blind menu
      484 17  -  Karman Tse There are five new offerings at Rossi every day by karman@newstoday.com.sg «TTTe change our menu everyday." This VV intriguing revelation by Rossi Restaurant's Chef Roberto Galetti made me sit up at once, turning our casual chat into an interview. Every night, Roberto would think up five
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      Grand Hyatt appoints new director of catering
      178 17 DEVOTING 15 years of his career to the "hospi tality industry, in particular F&B" has proven to be worth the while for Mr Andrew Tay (picture) Andrew, a Shatec graduate awarded a higher diploma in Hotel Management in 1986, has been appointed Grand
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      Downtown Lemongrass
      493 18  -  Pauline D Loh Thai restaurant keeps the crowds coming... Lemongrass at Downtown East in Pasir Ris has an ambience all its own. It's different from its sister outlet at The Heeren and different again from its other siblings at Buona Vista and the East Coast. At Downtown East,
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      117 19 JJGSIw WI will f^^^^^ 3WPh The Biggeal? Names and Hotteat Stars -at? tshe Music Evpnt of the Yapri Date: 14th July 2001 CSat), 7 9 30pm Venue: Suntec City Convention Hall 60S All Tickets to Radio Music Awards 2001 have been Sold Out! Stay tuned to find out how you
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Lock icon Two days...
      365 20  -  David Ngiau That's the countdown for Final Fantasy by david@newstoday.com.sg WHAT could be worse than a film adapted from a comic book? Why, one adapted from a video game! While comics have resulted in films like Superman, Spawn and X-Men, video games have given us dubious movies like
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      The problems US movie-goers face
      192 20 LOCAL film buffs might like to know the problems that movie-goers in the US face. According to Studio Briefings, Entertainment Tonight film critic Leonard Maltin has taken a critical look at the behind-the-scenes operations of movie theatres. Writing in the August issue of Playboy, Maltin
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      Lock icon Ambiguity Intentional?
      794 21 Reuters Or is A.I. Artificial Intelligence just Advertised Inconsistently? HOLLYWOOD Even before its release, marketing efforts on behalf of A.I. Artificial Intelligence seemed at best scattershot. One major critic who'd been invited to see the Steven Spielberg film alone had to talk to three separate press agents from
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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      1477 22 /A=DJj\CORP /A=DIACORP Primetime Tuesday Organ Farm A"y Mcßea' Moulin Rouge channel newsasia Channel News Asia, 8.02pm Channel 5,10pm Arts Central, 10.30pm m^MH«^ fO- <»# A Nell asks John to help her m* H T&ELM M* ~**VE* IT \lmaginea world where t father, who is fired from A v WWn)W v
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      986 23 O_ f I j GIDX (Glowing-in-the-Dark): I Lost Border (Below) SBA National EV6ntv(ll6n(lQr Angel of Hope f H^^^HMBjg^H Scriptwriting The concert aims to help the less for- I Competition Jl\ God We Trust tunate to realise their innate qualities I I The Singapore Robert is going to hell because of
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  • RELAX
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      Lock icon Chow kicks!
      411 24  -  Jenny Kong Today photo by 1 No World Cup tips in Shaolin Soccer but its a laugh by jenny@newstoday.com.sg IF you think gongfu is an ancient martial art form which has little to do with modern life, think again. Hong Kong's King of Comedy Stephen Chow has managed
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    • Article
      Ah Girl debuts
      201 24 TV Works' Ah Girl, which the station's executives compare to Phua Chu Kang, airs tonight at 9.30. The time slot avoids a clash with MediaCorp TV Channel s's national hit at 8.30pm. Ah Girl is 21-year-old Maggie, a retail assistant at a mobile phone shop. Her Singapore
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      This cute babe wants to go beyond her looks
      483 24  -  Jenny Kong I jenny@newstoday.com.sg IF you are not familiar with rising local singer Stella Ng, it might be easier for you to remember the cute lass in the carrot-juice advertisement, which starred Malaysian singer Ah Niu, two years ago. Stella, 21,
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      Lock icon Hoch wins but it's still about Woods
      523 25 Reuters Western Open LEMONT No one said golf isn't a strange game. It is less than two weeks to the British Open and it seems that the result of Sunday's Western Open would have no influence on the pundits. Scott Hoch (right), who
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      Lock icon Samaranch's swansong may coincide with Beijing winning 2008 Olympics
      607 25 Reuters MOSCOW Juan Antonio Samaranch is poised to finish his 21-year reign at the top of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with a final act of history-making. As octogenarian Samaranch prepared to begin his last meeting as lOC president, Olympic leaders
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Shyam deserves to break my record, says Kunalan
      602 26  -  Jose Raymond by josewnewstoaay.coin.sg IN OCTOBER last year, U.K. Shyam (below) contemplated hanging up his running spikes after a serious run-in with the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association. He ceased training, stayed away from the track and gave up a dream he had
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      Bodybuilding coach Fatholomein calls it quits
      324 26  -  Kelvin Phang by kelvin@newstoday.cora.sg NATIONAL coach Fatholomein Ali has resigned from the Singapore Bodybuilders Federation over "bread and butter issues". In a press statement issued yesterday, SBBF said that it "lacked the finance to keep him" and described his exit "as a blow to
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      Lock icon Coach Poulsen thinks Singapore will lose
      357 27  -  Kelvin Phang Today photo by Singapore v Saudi Arabia by] kelvin@newstoday.com.sg WHAT are Singapore's chances against Saudi Arabia in the Lycos Challenge Cup tonight at Bpm? Here is what coach Jan Poulsen thinks: "Hopefully, we can get a draw, but my brain says we
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    • Article
      Disappointed Amir bids farewell to Home United and the S-League
      446 27  -  Stanley Ho I stanley@newstoday.com.sg HE HAD no problems with his team-mates, or with his club management. His only problem? The team bench. Why? He was sitting on it for too long. And with a one-way ticket to Iran, Home United
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      Joy and pain of the '80s
      621 28  -  Razali Abdullah Dominance marred by Heysel and Hillsborough tragedies by razali@newstoday.com.sg THE '80s would be remembered as much for the tragedies that befell Liverpool as its continued dominance of the English and the European scene. Following Bob Paisleys departure, stepping out of the shadows
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      Former Red McManaman wants to stay in Spain
      339 28 MADRID Steve McManaman has dismissed the threat of a second summer of turmoil over his Real Madrid future. And the England star told the Mirror that he can't wait to be part of what is shaping up to become the most awesome
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      Berger finally makes his mark
      321 29 WITH his glorious floppy mane and gooc looks, Patrik Berger is undoubtedly a favourite among many of Liverpool's female fans. But, it's his silky skills that endear him to the hearts of the Kopites, fairweathered or otherwise. The Czech Republic international joined Liverpool in a
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      Gary McAllister demonstrates his value on the field
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