The New Paper, 24 January 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/80 50 CENTS
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    • 274 1 fir$10,000 W KICK0FF First Md for Ball With A Cause 2!| K« MkU comes from Tibs. It's $10,000 to *1. benefit soccer. Organisers hope the S 1 ball signed by 1DPM Goh Chok Tong and the National Team will *|l bring $100,000 in auction. Page 2 Jji WWBBi Te rich
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 443 2 The Ball With A Cause Cest of ball without VIP signatures: THE New Paper received the first bid for the Ball With A Cause at 3 pm yesterday: $10,000 from Trans-Is-land Bus Services Ltd. Making the bid for Tibs, Mr Ng Ser Miang said:
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    • 54 2 Flee: When the shooting began, this group of Argentine army conscripts took to its heels. They ran for cover when government forces opened fire on rebels that had seized an army base near Buenos Aires. About 20 rebels were killed in yesterday's battle to regain control of
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    • 191 2 THE cause of the cholera outbreak at Woodbridge Hospital is still officially unknown. Already, one patient has died from the disease and thirty others are believed to be infected. A hospital attendant revealed that numbers 35 and 49 were the affected wards. "The person
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    • 172 2 CHOLERA is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium called comma bacillus. You can get it if you eat food or drink water that has been contaminated by the faeces of a person who has or who has had cholera. You can become
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 29 2 the weather THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over a few areas areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset: 7.19 pm.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 434 3  -  By Loh Tuan Lee IT'S the Lunar New Year season: Time for "space" war. Shops are bursting with festival goodies waxed duck, melon seeds, snacks, oranges. These are spilling out of shops and onto sidewalks and grass verges. "There isn't enough room inside," said Ms Ang
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    • 305 3 SOME "dealers" are cashing in on the demand for the Year of the Snake commemorative coins. They resell them at a profit to those unable to get any. The Singapore Mint started selling the coins at their Coin Centre in the STC Building in
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    • 369 4  -  By Chitra Rajaram THE Singapore Medical Council (SMC) is looking into a complaint against two doctors who testified at the trial of cult killer Adrian Lim. The complaint was made to the SMC against Dr Yeo Peng Ngee and Dr Ang Yian Hua.
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    • 294 4 WHAT THE DOCTORS TOLD THE COURT THIS is a summary of what the two doctors said at the Adrian Lim murder trial on April 13 and 14, 1983. Dr Yeo said he drew out blood from 10 young women on different occasions at the
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    • 175 4 THE ADRIAN LIM BOOK A BOOK on the bizarre case of Adrian Lim went on sale last week. Titled "Unholy Trinity", it is written by Alan John, a journalist with The Straits Times political desk. The book covers the ritual murder of two children in
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    • 145 4 IT is important for managers to treat Work Improvement Teams (WITs) as part of their responsibility, Telecoms general manager and chief executive officer Mr Wong Hung Khim said yesterday. They should support and encourage their staff to be involved. He said Telecoms' management would
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    • 49 4 THE Singapore Society of Accountants (SSA) will start a professional course on management accountancy in April. Right now, managers have to study the skills by correspondence. The course will qualify them for associate membership at the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) in London.
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    • 131 4 Bernama. A THREE-DAY official visit to Malaysia begins on Thursday with Singapore First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong leading the 13-man delegation. In Mr Goh's schedule are meetings with Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba on Thursday and with Malaysian Defence Minister Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 572 6  -  Cult or just A healthy meditation? Some Singaporeans are turning to transcendental meditation to relieve stress. It is called the Spiritual Regeneration Movement here. An Australian cult-buster insists that TM is a cult Stories/ Irene Ng TRANSCENDENTAL meditation lists itself as non-religious, but Australian cult-buster
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    • 617 6 HE is 36. He was into transcendental meditation for 10 years. When he wanted to come out, he found he was in a battlefield within himself. This is his story: I started it in 1975 when I was in my second year in the University of Singapore.
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    • 241 6 A SPOKESMAN for the Spiritual Regeneration Movement Foundation said TM is not a cult Nor is it religious. "It is a simple effortless mental technique to release tension and stress. It improves the health and even lowers blood pressure," she said. It also has no philosophy. "How can
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    • 186 7 BEFORE she left for Moscow, Jasmine Ng, Miss Singapore/Chinatown, told The New Paper that she hoped "to do well" in the Miss Charm International 89 Contest, which was held in Moscow on Sunday. Do well she certainly did! She managed to come in third,
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    • 390 8 AT LEAST two campuses are clamping down on illegal parking. The culprits are mostly odd job contractors, suppliers and people working in the neighbourhood who drop by for a cheap meal in the canteens. The maintenance and estate coordinator of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Mr Mui
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    • 255 8 ROBBERS "looking for a little fortune" took the watch and wallet of a Singaporean shopper in Johor Baru last night, the Lianhe Wanbao daily reported yesterday. Wanbao photographer, Mr Li Zhinam, suffered minor cuts on his finger and neck. Mr Li said he was waiting
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    • 118 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. cmwMt: Fruit pie. decrepit: Old and in bad condition. dttUlaU: A person with no money or possessions. exasperated: Annoyed and frustrated. gourmet dinner A dinner fit for someone who
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    • 182 8 "THIS is definitely not right!" said Mr Asif Amin, 24, a production executive. That was his reaction to the latest guideline from the Singapore Medical Council that a doctor does not need an Aids patient's consent to tell the patient's spouse,
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    • 105 8 THE gang-rape three years ago of a then 16-year-old girl in a deserted granite quarry at Bukit Timah Hill was recalled yesterday in the Court of Criminal Appeal. One of the four men sentenced for the crime, Sim Ik Ping, 26, a lorry
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    • 227 9 SOME Singapore doctors are calling for an education programme and support network to deal with the problem of suicide among the elderly. One in four Singaporeans who took their own lives in 1987 was more than 60 years old. There were 368
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    • 331 9 WHEN disposables were first used by hawkers, there were price increases of up to 50 cents in many centres, says Case. If these hawkers switched to conventional crockery, then they must bring down the prices too BRING back the old prices if you want to do
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    • 30 9 Do you think hawkers should reduce prices when they switch from disposable to conventional utensils? Call us on Hotline Plus and give us your views. 734-7711
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 592 10 Wire services. APRE-DAWN earthquake in Soviet Central Asia unleashed a 15 m wall of dirt and mud that buried a mountain village and swept through at least two others. Officials said at least 1,000 people were killed. Yesterday's devastating temblor in the republic of
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    • 154 10 Wire services. DEFEATED in polls in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's party seems headed towards victory in two northeastern states. Early returns this morning showed the Congress (I) narrowly leading in Mizoram and Nagaland legislative polls.
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    • 152 10 Wire services. OFFICIALS from Singapore and three other "Asian Tigers" arrive in Paris today for their first talks with the OECD club of developed nations. Diplomats said two-day talks between the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan
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    • 446 10  -  By Ravindra Kumar MR M G Ramachandran died 13 months ago. His legacy was buried on Sunday. The film star-turned-politician, who was Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in south India, had left his party in disarray. Two women, his constant companion,
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    • 185 11 Shin Min Daily News I *TALIAN sex siren Sabrina wants to insure her breasts for a phenomenal $700,000. That's $350,000 per breast. Or more 'than $7,368 per magnificent centimetre of her 95-cm chest. Sabrina, who has been compared to sexy Samantha Fox for reasons other
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    • 273 11 Wire services. THE highest-ranking woman in the Kremlin has blamed a chronic shortage of contraceptives for the rising abortion rate in her country. "It is not normal when the number of abortions is about equal to the number of births," Ms Alexandra Biryukova told a news
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    • 30 11 Celebrate: Decked out in colourful costumes, these elephants stroll past the President's House in New Delhi during a rehearsal for Thursday's Republic Day parade. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 113 11 Wire services. THE Soviet Union and South Korea plan to exchange trade offices in March, officials in Moscow and Seoul said yesterday. The countries do not presently have diplomatic relations. Moscow remains a major backer of North Korea. The Soviet Union will be the fifth
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    • 95 11 Wire services. PRESIDENT George Bush's first foreign visitor will be Japan's Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. The White House announced yesterday that their meeting will take place on Feb 2. President Bush, who travels to Japan in late February for the funeral of Emperor
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    • 242 12 Wire services. EUROPEAN foreign ministers have delayed imposing new duties on US imports to give both sides time to settle a trade dispute. Spain's Foreign Minister, Mr Francisco Fernandez Ordonez, warned that the 12-na-tion European Economic Community will levy the tariffs if
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    • 334 12 Malay Mail. MALAYSIAN police believe they have nabbed the "Strip-Strip Gang". The gang is so-called because members force victims to undress after stripping them of their valuables. Police in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, have so far arrested six suspects, aged between 19 and 21. Three
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    • 136 12 Wire services. FOOTBALL fans in Hamburg, West Germany, are being asked to calm down in the name of ecology. Mr Carsten Warnholtz, chairman of the local sporting federation has called on supporters of the city's two Bundesliga clubs SV Hamburg and St
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      282 12 Wire services. ON the London Stock Exchange share prices closed higher yesterday but sharply below their best levels as the market succumbed to an afternoon bout of profit-taking sparked by a downturn on Wall Street. The Financial Times 30share index was up 6.2 points at 1,569.5 at the close.
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    • 92 12 Reuter. SHARE prices opened higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after US oil prices fell more than a dollar a barrel yesterday and the yen/dollar rate remained relatively stable, brokers said. The Nikkei index gained 119.25 points, or 0.38 percent, to 31,452.13 in 10 minutes, near a record traded
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    • 53 12 FT Industrials Mon 1,569.50 (1,563.30) Dow Jones Average Mon 2,218.39 (2,235.36) ST Industrial Mon 1,096.00 (1,095.31) NST Industrial Mon 1,888.63 (1,892.05) Hongkong Hang Seng Mon 2,897.53 (2,897.91) o Australian All Ordinaries Mon 1,522.90 (1,517.30) n Nikkei Stock Average Mon 31,332.88 (31,170.38) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the
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      272 12 Wire services. SHARE prices see-sawed wildly on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday with the Dow Jones industrial average surging toward the 2,250-point barrier in early trading only to end the day on the downside. The Dow eventually succumbed to a wave of profittaking to close at 2,218.39
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 422 13  -  Stories/ Lim Swee Hong YOU can rarely get a Briton to talk straight about food. I found this out in a bid to find out just what British food is what with three hotels promoting the fare but each offering quite different food. The
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    • Article, Illustration
      115 13 Brannigan's at Hyatt Hotel Ends Jan 31 11 am to 2 pm Steak and kidney pie $8.50 nett Mushroom and salmon pie $12.50 nett Vegetable and chicken pie $8.50 nett THE pies are tasty enough to make even Britons cry! Steak and kidney is the pick of the
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    • 103 13 Cafe Palm, Oriental Hotel 12 noon to 2.30 pm $25+ Ends Jan 28 IF you want true-blue, British grub, head straight for the main courses. Roast, shepherd's pie, bangers, beans and mash, and Lancashire Hot Pot are as British as the Buckingham Palace. Those whose taste buds have
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    • 165 13  -  Harbour Grill at Hilton International Ends Jan 29 New-style British cooking from England's The Castle at Taunton restaurant. Five-course gourmet dinner at $75 per person. By David Brazil BRITISH cooking is no longer just pies and puddings. There is a new style that's light on the stomach
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    • 397 13 MICROWAVECOOK THE microwave is excellent for home-made soups as they not only cook well but also very quickly. It is easy to reheat soups or make packet soups. Moreover, individual portions of soup in mugs heat best in the microwave oven. A word of
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  • 463 14  -  Showtime By Vivien Chiong AWARDS to Anita Mui are as mandatory as the i year-end bonus. On Sunday night, she swept four music awards at the 1988 Jade Solid Gold Awards, organised annually by Hongkong's Television Broadcast. She was named Most Popular Female Artist for the
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1865 15 Television 1 m Tuesday Premiere I'm Dancing Mexico City Heaven or Hell? Pop Club Duran Duran SCREEN M as Fast as I Can f? 0 19 (8.00pm, SBC 5) ™S engrossing drama Sedtjfi LLfoTTik in Rio Emmy Award-winning resources. Traffic congestion, scarce A JE jH^K documentary producer Barbara water and
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  • soccer
    • 81 16 The new Malaysia Cup Semi-Pro League kicks off on June 30. Singapore, experiencing its first tentative steps into pro soccer with the current Premier League, is also one of the nine teams in Malaysia's Semi-Pro League. On Friday, we presented former Malaysian goalkeeper Chow Chee Keong's
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    • 671 16 I MIDDLEMEN NST. FAM is Stf'M* hiving soccer agents involved in tsansfir deals with States and pigpen in the Semi-Pro League. Can thif ovoid U? English soccer agent Erie Hall teits of the world of soccer agents. DON'T talk to Wimbledon boss Bobby Gould about
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    • 699 16 INSURANCE NST. MALAYSIAN soccer has gone professional, with the relationship between players and clubs or State FAs one of employee-employer. As employees in a shortlived, risky career, footballers will need insurance. TO grow into a thriving, lucrative industry, professional soccer will need security, a sort of
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    • 691 16 TAXES aflMfcjfk#: CifIKSM NST. tks mri tax man and it b+ comes axm a Vl': That is what MaLntian footboUtn who WW W 99 pror HE wnt» hit cnt of th« pro cake. By now the amateur thinkiiy of turning pro must be rubbinp his palms
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 379 18  -  By Wong Sing Yeong A REVIVED local film industry in the near future is unlikely, said participants at a seminar last Sunday on Promoting a Singapore Film Industry. However, the Economic Development Board which can provide official support, and the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation which has
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    • Article, Illustration
      189 18 STARRY IS THE NIGHT (Shaw cinemas) THIS love-triangle story has been Ann Hui's long-cherished project. It is played out between Lin Ching Hsia and married professor George Lam, and 20 years later with rebel youth David Wu. MOON OVER PARADOR (Capitol and Woodlands) WELCOME to Parador, where the dictator
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    • 223 18 IF you gave actor-director-com-poser-singer-writer P Ramlee a screwdriver, he could have fixed your toilet. The talents of this film legend were not limited to showbiz. Such details were revealed in Saturday's Film Festival seminar on P Ramlee. Speakers included friends who have worked closely with
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    • 321 18  -  By Sonja Tan THE immigrant community in Australia seems to occupy the mind of former Singaporean film-maker Tan Chor Teck, 26. Now director, producer and writer in his newly-adopted home, Australia, his latest short film, Silk Dreams, is about Vietnamese refugee
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    • 425 19  -  By Wong Sing Yeong I "S this the sex kitten who glides into Pu Yi's chamber and purrs: "Could I please sleep with you? I'm so afraid"? Nobody at the arrival lounge last night recognised the flower-chewing Empress from Bertolucci's The Last Emperor. With closely
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    • 213 19 IN the world of short-lived pop groups, the Eurythmics has managed to stay popular for seven years. This is partly because of the members' willingness to experiment with new sounds. The group is the pioneer in syn-thesizer-based, dance-oriented pop that was a successor to
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    • 358 20 I 'N SBC's first major epic The Awakening, the TV station had to build an entire street of early Singapore. That was 'in 1984. Today, SBC is thinking of building a whole fish market along the lines of old fish markets such as the
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    • 360 20 Wire Services. SALVADOR Dali, the flamboyant Spanish surrealist painter who loved to shock, was a man of many masks. Even before his death yesterday at the age of 84, critics were arguing how great an artist this showman really was. One of the pioneers of
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    • 170 20  -  r SEENLASTNIGHT By Adeline Woon IMITATION is the sincerest form of flattery, so they say. The phrase was probably coined by a tout. If you and Little Eva didn't like Kylie Minogue's remake of Locomotion, you could burst a blood vessel at hearing
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    • 32 20 SHOWING UP IN THI ap« F3®lfc As the decade of style draws to an end, SUMIKO TAN recounts the highs and lows of life the 80s. K^njHv GO January On Sal* Now
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 304 21 T I HERE'S a half-a-million dollar sapphire and diamond necklace about to leave Singapore. It will never be seen here again if its owners, Larry Jewelry, sells it in Japan at the Singapore Jewellery Show. This necklace with its centre stone from Sri Lanka, called
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    • 185 21 ONE hassle-free way to shop for gifts is to buy a hamper. But most hampers are pre-packed. So how do you make sure you get your money's worth? The Consumers Association of Singapore has a few tips. Check the quality of the goods if
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      399 21 PEWTER FOR EVERY SEASON FLORAL symbols of the four seasons now bloom on pewter. The flowers are intricately carved on Selangor Pewter ware. Spring is the Tree Peony, the lotus represents summer; autumn is represented by a chrysanthemum and winter by the plum blossom. The Four Seasons Collection include
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 106 22 1 STYLE WITH SUBSTANCE! rTfKI Forecast Eighty-Nine V i Up-and-coming trends for the next 12 months Whafsln, What's Out A Working Girl's guide to what's hot and what's not Bft Run Everything you've always wanted to know about nightcrawlers too sleepy to Growing Up In The 80s A stylish decade
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  • SPORTS
    • 173 25 AFP, Reuter. MANCHESTER United romped into the fourth round of the FA Cup yesterday by crushing a 10-man Queen's Park Rangers side 3-0. Rangers' hopes in the third round second replay all but vanished when Alan McDonald was dismissed for elbowing United striker Mark Hughes in
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    • 70 25 Reuter. PENAROL qualified for the Libertadores Cup, the South American club championship which starts next month, when it finished top of the Uruguayan qualifying tournament Penaroi, five-time South American champion, stayed unbeaten after routing Huracan Buceo 5-0 on Sunday. Defensor, which finished second in the tournament, and
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    • 110 25 AFP. BRAZILIAN striker Mirandinha, who joined the ailing English First Division club Newcastle United 17 months ago, is definitely up for sale. "We've had talks and he's asked about the possibility of returning to Brazil," explained Newcastle manager Jim Smith. "I'm not surprised. The odds are against playero
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    • 169 25 Wire services. QUEEN'S Park Rangers is poised for further disappointment in its bid to strengthen an injury-plagued side. With offers for Aston Villa midfielder Andy Gray and Charlton full back John Humphrey rejected last week, the London club now looks likely to lose out in the chase for
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    • 139 26 HEALTH &Fitms Watch your back; get your exercises right to prevent injury. Continuing our series on commonly-done exercises which can cause injury, Health and Fitness today brings you the experts' advice on the right way to do Sit-ups and the Standing Toe-Touch Sit-Up with hands behind (see
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    • 226 26 Plants be on the lookout for them SIMPLY SNOOKER By PETER WATSON A PLANT, in snooker, is when two balls are touching each other in line with a pocket and you pot the far ball by striking the near ball. The first of the four figures shows the simplest version.
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    • 132 27  -  By R Jegathesan FOREIGNERS will be allowed to play in the Singapore Hockey Association's Premier League from this season. This was decided unanimously at a meeting of the SHA tournament committee and club representatives last night Each team will be allowed to register five foreigners.
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    • 270 27  -  By Alfonso Chan THE world of Peter Hill, Singapore's professional squash player, is forever changing. One day it's uphill going, the next its smooth slalom. Till yesterday, it was uphill. Peter had failed to land a sponsor for his European trip. But Jebsen and Jessen, a
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    • 266 27  -  RACING By Malcolm Bastians AFFLUENT, who had a free run over 1,200 m last week ia shaping up to strike over 1,850 m this Sunday. The Skyliner five-year-old Irish gelding looked superbly fit, matching strides with stablemate Asterix over 600 m on a yielding grass
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    • 241 27  -  By Alfonso Chan THE absence of India's Prakash Padukone from the Konica Cup Asian Badminton invitation championships next month will rob the event of some glitter. The nine-time Indian champion announced his retirement two days ago after competing in the Indian nationals. His
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    • 195 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Boston 112 Detroit 99, New York 120 Portland 116. SNOOKER Benson and Hedges Masters Ist rd: Terry Griffiths (Wales) bt Silvino Fransisco (SA) 5-1. a SOCCER English FA 3rd rd replav: Man Utd 3 QPR 0. TENNIS Australian Open
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    • 384 28  -  By Tony Mariadass MALAY MAIL. FANDI AHMAD'S flirt with European soccer is over, and it looks like Kuala Lumpur will be his team until he retires. Having failed twice with Holland's FC Groningen, he was hoping to be third time lucky in trials with Austrian First Division
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    • 477 28 SAHArT]] THE villain is inefficiency. Simple as that. The FAS, in deciding to have professional soccer, still could afford to have its staff act unprofessionally. So you get stories like this below. TYRWHITT Soccerites are taking the FAS Premier League tournament committee to task for
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    • 87 28 GEYLANG International co-manager Thomas Zilliacus said he was happy with the tournament committee's decision. "It's the right one because the rules are very clear about this," he said. "I am a bit sorry for Tyrwhitt, especially the play- ers, who played well against us. "But they
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    • 215 28 TYRWHITT Soccerites registered the two Thais, Numchoke Chaichaereong and Likit Sanothong, on Jan 7. This meant that the cards were supposed to be ready by Jan 13, a Friday. But when Tyrwhitt team manager Charlie Chan went to collect the cards at the Football
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    • 481 29  -  Jeffrey Low NOW, tell me, who's gonna buy that ball? Who's crazy enough to throw away $100,000 for a mere football? It must be one of the craziest ideas ever to penetrate soccer. Yet it is one of oldest tricks in the trade of fundraising. And
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    • 157 29 JEBSEN and J essen has joined the call to raise money for the soccer. It has pledged to sell 5,0Q0 tickets for the FAS Donation Draw launched on Saturday by First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. This brings to 16 the number of firms
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