The New Paper, 20 January 1994

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 364 2 Wire services. CHINA hopes to tame the inflation beast this year by keeping general price increases below 10 per cent. The inflation rate hit an annual 13 per cent last year. To keep the lid on inflation, the Government will continue to impose strict limits
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    • 122 2 AP. A .JAPANESE man allegedly forged his own death certificate to collect insurance money. Hitoshi Oshiro was arrested in Bangkok yesterday. Thai police planned to send him back to Japan. A Japanese insurance company had paid out $1.4 million to Oshiro's younger brother after receiving
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    • 41 2 Golf anyone?: Vietnamese ride MSf ri Iwiie board advertising a golf and country club in Ho Chi Minh City. There are alhnit six golf course projects under construction in Viet num. most joint ventures with foreign investments.
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    • Article, Illustration
      353 3  -  Aquariums at void deck fenced to keep out thieves By Kenneth Koh THE senior citizens who gather at the void deck of Block 231 in Hougang have a guild or should that be "gill" of sorts. They keep more than 100 freshwater fish of various kinds. The fish
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 62 4 HOT STORY LABOUR MPs, whose low-profile work is largely unappreciated by the public, deserve due recognition, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said in Parliament yesterday. "Their task is not a simple one: They have to persuade workers that policies are correct, and at the same
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    • 158 4 NTUC leaders and employees will get an average 8.1 per cent increase in pay from Jan 1, higher than civil servants' average pay hike of 7.1 per cent. The Staff Union of NTUC's (SUN) members and labour MPs will also keep the special monthly variable
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    • 95 4 The Straits Times: US: Show concrete progress Business Times: Sarawak plans takeover of high flying Ekran Lianhe Zaobao: Zhu Rongji tells financial sector to control strictly amount of loans Berita Harian: China's special status in US under threat SBC morning news: Reformer Boris Fyodorov has retained the post of
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      56 4 w are open to suggestions to adjust procedures which would pave the way for greater co-operation between the private sectors. The excellent relations between the two countries should be continued. Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (left), looking for more Singapore private sector investments in Malaysia.
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 58 4 SINGAPOREANS should be allowed to invest their Central Provident Fund savings in neighbouring countries. This would help build up an external "second wing" to the economy, said Associate Professor Toh Thian Ser. He is the vice-dean of the Accountancy and Business School at the Nanyang Technological University. The
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      • 69 4 CHINA plans to develop Shenzhen into the largest duty-free zone in the country after 1997, said a newspaper in Taiwan on Monday. The United Daily News' sources said Shenzhen would adopt Hongkong's free-port policy in line with the move. The special economic zone is also expected to
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      • 68 4 A GROUP of 15 international investors plans to set up a $715-million theme park here. Ultrapolis will have over 60 attractions sprawled over 14 ha of land (about 18 football fields). It will also feature state-of-the-art robots which can be touched and smelled. "Disneyland's attractions such as
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      • 65 4 MUSTAPHA Harun, 73, Sabah's flamboyant politician, resigned yesterday from the Malaysian Cabinet and the ruling United Malays National Organisation party. An analyst said his departure cripples Umno's plans to wrest control of the state led by the opposition Parti Bersatu Sabah in the February elections: "Whatever hopes Umno
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      • 67 4 INDONESIAN Research and Technology Minister B J Habibie said that the government would resort to nuclear power only as a last resort in efforts to ensure there was sufficient electricity to meet needs into the next century. His remarks indicated a change in thinking The government said
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      • 76 4 THE Singapore Democratic Party has been told to vacate its Upper Thomson Road headquarters by the end of next month. Its landlord, businessman Ong Tiam Teng, wants it to quit the office located in a shophouse and to pay up two months' rent totalling $3,360. He yesterday
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 284 6  -  By Cheok Soh Hui NEARLY 300 people who booked a fiveday cruise to Phuket this and next month have had to make quick changes to their plans. The cruise operator, Star Cruise, has decided to cancel these trips and replace them with shorter, more
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    • 205 6 HOTLINEPLUS caller Annie Tan complained that she was offered a four-day cruise to Medan next week at $439, the same rate as the original five-day cruise. The 32-year-old structural designer said: "It is more expensive as it is one day less. But my husband and I
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    • 189 6 IS there any recourse for people who are still not satisfied? A lawyer in private practice, Ms Ellen Lee, 37, said: "Consumers may sue for breach of contract, but they would have to quantify the loss they have suffered as a result of the cancellation. "They
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    • 147 7 A TACTC Lombardy, the region surrounding Italy's II L famous city of Milan, boasts of culinary pvr inventions such as Minestrone Soup and Osso Bucco. LOMBARDIA From 3 31 January, Pete's Place brings r v n you other specialities such as Crayfish ihmK Rissoto with Forest Mushrooms, Spit Roasted Quail
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 182 8  -  By Sandra Pearce TWO babies have been found dead in their beds by their parents this week. Early yesterday, a one-year-old boy who was born with a heart disorder was found dead about two hours after being breast-fed. Police said Kenneth Chia was found
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    • 321 8  -  By Yap Ji Lian TORO the lost cat has been found by Mr X the hero who has declined the $1,000 reward offered by Toro's owner. Toro's mistress, Miss Evelyn Toh, 32, a sales manager at a trading company, spent nine days and
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    • 184 8 "My old antique table, handed down for four generations, looked like she needed a burial. In desperation, I took the advice of a granduncle and sent her to those guys who said they could restore her to her former glory. They stripped her parts down, then sanded them before reossembling.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 430 10  -  By Augustine Pang YOU and I may never understand Josephine John (above), 60. Why is her spirit and her life so troubled? We certainly will not get a chance to ask her for the next 10 years. Josephine John, who was in court yet again
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    • 331 11 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE JOSEPHINE John was found guilty of being a public nuisance between January 1991 and September last year at the church compound. She slept at the church every day without permission, littered the premises, used the toilet to shower and rummaged through old clothes
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    • 119 11 JOSEPHINE was sent for psychiatrist assessment, said Mr Chng Ah Seng, an assistant director of the Ministry of Community Development's Residential Institutions and Destitute Persons Service. She does not have any psychiatric problem, doctors said. "But she does have a behavioural and personality disorder. She
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    • 194 11 ALL those who have come into contact with Josephine said she never wanted to talk about her family. But The New Paper learnt that Josephine was born in Malaysia and came to Singapore in 1951. She studied up to Standard 5, which is equivalent to Primary 5. She
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  • 377 12 MARKETTODAY THE Straits Times Industrials Index fell 10.27 points to stand at 2293.03 at 9.12 this morning. THE Dow Jones industrial average rose 14.08 points to 3,884.37, beating Monday's record closing high of 3,870.29. BROKERS made an estimated $1.3 billion in last year's "super
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 128 13  -  By Grace Chan THOUSANDS of yellow "snowflakes" dropped on Clementi yesterday. Actually, they were small yellow butterflies. They covered a 2-km stretch of Commonwealth Avenue West near Singapore Polytechnic. The butterflies were perched on plants and trees or flying around. They were first spotted on Tuesday. Residents said
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      412 14 The CPF minimum sum will be raised gradually over 10 years to $80,000. The current sum is $34,600. PM Goh Chok Tong, in his speech to Parliament on Tuesday, gave two reasons for the move: To ensure future retirees have a better life. To ensure the elderly would
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    • Article, Illustration
      43 15 Deep trouble: A Mercedes-Benz plunged into the sea next to this jetty in Lim Chu Kang. It landed at a spot next to where the dog is, early this morning. Its driver was unhurt. See Next Page. picture/ Jonathan Choo
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    • 387 16  -  FROM PREVIOUS PAGE By Augustine Pang A MERCEDES-BENZ plunged into the Straits of Johor, early this morning. It happened near a wooden jetty in Lim Chu Kang. Its driver, businessman Yap Kim Lee, '28, escaped unhurt. Mr Yap was the only person in the
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    • 112 16 Dec 22, 1993: A man drowned after his car plunged into the Singapore River at high tide. Mr Teo Hua Lam, 22, who was alone, was believed to have lost control of his Ford Laser and driven it into the river at about 5 am near the junction
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    • 192 14 Nasi Pa<hirtQ may be commonly available around town but bow many of these offerMl mi ings are comparable to the IndonestanChinese variety that Pagi Sore Nasi serve,*? Specialties of the bouse include Ikan ftakar (Grilled Fisb), Ayam Panggang (Barbecued Chicken), Terung Tau Ciu (Brinials with preserved beans) and j£. Cumi
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    • 187 16 LIANHI WANBAO SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS LUCKY FRIDAY DRAW FOUR 810 SHOTS TO ESCORT OUR REAPERS HOME Yes, four Nikon TW 10S Zoom cameras worth $598 each must be won in our Lucky Friday Draw. Win one to capture your Lunar New Year celebrations. Details in Lianhe Wanbao or Shin
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 339 17 ATTACK ON SKATER Reuter. THE ex-husband of US champion figure skater Tonya Harding turned himself in yesterday after a judge ordered his arrest on charges of plotting an assault on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan. No charges were pressed against Harding. But an affidavit accompanying Jeff Oillooly's
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    • 94 17 TONYA Harding announced she was separating from her ex-husband in a bid to clear her name. "Please believe in me," she appealed to fans. She and Gillooly were married in 1990. divorced last August but reconciled in September. They had been living together since and still called each
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    • 275 18 A PIECE of paper stands in the way of student Jing Lin's (right) dream of becoming a doctor in Australia. Jing Lin, 17, came to Australia two years ago from China on a temporary visa. She knew little English but was determined to pursue her dream of
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    • 180 18 Reuter. ISRAEL is willing to wait for months if necessary to get an agreement on Palestinian self-rule that the Jews can live with. Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) officials are now meeting in the Egyptian resort of Taba for their latest round of talks.
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    • 263 19 Wire services. THE United States has dropped its threat to punish Japan alter Tokyo agreed to open up its $32-billion construction market to foreign firms. "The Government of Japan has addressed all the major US concerns in the Japanese public works sector," US Trade
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    • 78 19 'JAPAN will open up public works projects to foreign bidders by April and make the entire system of awarding jobs more fair. In the past, Japan has been ac- j i cused of awarding contracts to fa- voured Japanese contractors. The plan will cover government construction projects
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  • 279 21 WORLDTOCAY Reuter. A BRITISH opposition Member of Parliament has angered his country by appearing on Iraqi television with the "Butcher of Baghdad". Labour MP George Galloway also publicly praised and flattered Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Mr Galloway was quoted as telling Mr Saddam: "Sir, allow
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 291 23 Reuter. PRESIDENT Bill Clinton's nominee to be Secretary of Defence may have revealed sensitive information about a US-Israeli dispute when he explained why he was withdrawing yesterday. Experts on Israeli-US relations said that during his press conference, Mr Bobby Ray Inman disclosed previously unknown details
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    • 123 23 'I'm pregnant' letter arrives when baby is six Reuter. MRS Antonia Hatzakis sent a message to her fiance in June 1987 telling him she was expecting a baby. The letter finally reached him this week, and it;.was opened by the little boy with whom been pregnant. In the six years
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    • 198 23 MR Bobby Ray Inman disclosed that when he was deputy director of the CIA in 1981, he banned Israel from receiving some satellite pictures. This was because the Jewish state had used such photos in bombing an Iraqi nuclear plant and he wanted to stop it from
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  • 292 25 LA QUAKE DAMAGE ESTIMATE: Wire services. THAT'S how much damage Monday's earthquake inflicted on Los Angeles. California Governor Pete Wilson gave this estimate to President Bill Clinton when he arrived from Washington to get a first-hand look. If the $48 billion figure is correct, the Northridge earthquake
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  • spotlight
    • 116 26 With two waiting in the wings From the end of World War II to the late 80s, two actors ruled the world stage the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet communist empire is long gone but the US still cannot have the limelight
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    • MAIN ACTORS
      • 92 26 PLUSES: Richest and strongest of the four. Apart from an awesome nuclear arsenal, it also has some of the world's best satellites and computers which can track ordinary non-nuclear weapons with precision. It has a government capable of taking clear-cut decisions, most of the time. MINUSES: President Bill
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      • 69 26 PLUSES: Russia, the world's sec-ond-largest nuclear power, still has the power to make its neighbours nervous. MINUSES: Its economy is in a shambles, its armed forces totally demoralised. While most Russians do not want a return to communism, they have yet to agree on what should come next. Some
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      • 100 26 PIUSES: Last November, the Maastricht Treaty, which aims to bring the EC's 12 members into closer political and economic union, came into effect. With its 345 million people, the EC is one of the world's largest single markets. MINUSES: Most EC members from France to Germany have weak
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      • 95 26 PLUSES: China's successful reforms have turned this country of 1.2 billion into the world's latest economic darling. Before long, China will he able to add a modern army, navy and air force to its existing nuclear arsenal. China's economic success has also given it the confidence to play a
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    • SUPPORTING ACTORS
      • 58 26 WEALTHY Japan remains reluctant to get entangled in world affairs or rearm extensively. Japan's neighbours, which suffered during the Japanese Occupation of South-east Asia in the early *****, also prefer Japan to remain as the US' loyal sidekick in military affairs. With its fat purse, Japan will be a
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      • 50 26 THE emergence of an Islamic power in the Middle East Syria and Iran are possible candidates cannot be ruled out. It can threaten its enemies by cutting off oil supplies. With its petrodollars, such a power can also arm itself to the teeth with nuclear and conventional weapons.
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    • 98 27 CARTOONIST Colin Goh once poked his drawing pen into the kooky nooks of Orchard Road in The New Paper's Comicßelief pages each weekday. Now he takes you into the wilds of The Concrete Jungle (see page 28). Here Colin introduces you to some of its wildlife. tHt (oNOEtE Jm6l Terscnae
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
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  • Showtime
    • 444 30 THERE is a scene in the movie Joy Luck Club where Russell Wong intent on seducing a young woman splits open a watermelon, grabs a dripping slab of fruit with his bare hand and licks it. The scene reportedly got women drooling with
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    • 324 31 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE THE late martial arts superstar Bruce Lee for all his strength and physical presence could not change the Asian man's sexless image. In a telling scene in Enter the Dragon, Lee (left), refuses an offer of a girl as a reward for
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    • 114 31 HOLLYWOOD director Rob Cohen said Russell Wong, Chow Yun Fatt and Jason Scott Lee make an impact on screen because of their sexual presence. He said: "I'm more drawn to characters who are more sharply defined. Like Jason Scott Lee, who's a real man. Or Russell, who's a
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    • Article, Illustration
      96 32 SHERILYN Fenn (left), of Boxing Helena and Twin Peaks fame, chose to welcome her first baby the hard way. She was determined to give birth at home. And, in a special way, too. Right in the heart of her bedroom in the bathtub. Fenn wanted her delivery, supervised
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    • 108 32 BAD girl Shannen Doherty (right) may have been expelled from Beverly Hills *****, but don't be surprised if she winds up playing another high school student. When the 22-year-old actress heard a rumour that the popular comic strip Archie may be made into a feature film, she
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    • 66 32 CINDY Crawford (left) was trying out a new massage chair in an upmarket catalogue store in Los Angeles. She closed her eyes for a moment, apparently enjoying the sensation. But within minutes, scores of fans literally crawled through an open window to have a peek at her.
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      120 32 ROGER Moore is an angry man. Not just furious but equally nervous that his personal diaries were brazenly stolen at the airport in Geneva while he and his wile were waiting for their luggage. Now the 66-year-old star of the James Bond series is worried that the sneaky
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    • 82 33 H()N(JKON(i singer Faye Wong's dress sense has always been a talking point. This see-through outfit that she wore at a recent public performance made heads turn. But Faye remains oblivious tc criticisms. She said: "No big deal. I was wearing crocheted underwear, not panties. It's cute. Anyway,
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    • 87 33 IT Is reported that Hongkong actor-singer Alan Tarn's fortune is about $120 million. He is not denying it either. "No matter how I spend, it's always the top stack of notes out of the whole bundle," he told Hongkong's Metropolitan Weekly. "With this, what else
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    • 108 33 HONGKONG actor Hugo Ng is challenging Tony "The Lover" Leung Kar-fai in his latest yet-to-be-titled film. While Tony bared his behind, Hugo will take the stripping act one step further by exposing his front. Hugo said: "It's all right to strip totally if the act
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    • 96 33 SINCE when do you spell sky as Shi-kai? Since singer Tracy Huang christened Taiwanese singer-composer VVu Shi-kai with the unique or is it peculiar? English name. Sky. What's in a name? Well, Tracy must have felt that Sky rhymes better with his Chinese name, Shi-kai. But,
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    • 114 33 ACTORS and actresses in Hongkong are making a beeline for the recording studios. Carina Lau is taking the same direction as boyfriend Tony Leung Chiu Wai who had a fruitful singing season last year. Others jumping onto the bandwagon include Rosamund Kwan, Tony Leung Kar-fai and
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
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    • 391 45 AP LUKE and Murphy Jensen wear sunglasses and baggy clothing on court and claim to be from a long line of Lithuanian generals. They may, in fact, be from another planet. What they're surely doing is turning the tennis establishment on
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    • 327 45 WHAT'S G(SNE How the seeded players fared yesterday (seedings in bold): MEN: 1 Pete Sampras (US) bt Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Rus) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3, 1-6, 9-7; 3 Jim Courier (US) bt Marcos Ondruska (SA) 6-1,6-4,6-4; 5 Goran Ivanisevic (Cro) bt JasonStoltenherg (Aust) 3-6, 6-3,6-4,6-3; 10 Magnus Gustafsson (Swe)
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    • 640 46 Once he was king of the tennis circuit. But an unloved one. Now he's struggling to stay in the fray. But everybody loves him. Ivan Lendl must be a confused man. NORMAN STEVENS reports... THE crowds worship him. The media loves to listen to
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    • 53 46 Some guys have all the luck! Boris Becker isn't even playing at this year's Australian Open, but he still dominates the banners being waved by fans. But that's the reward for being an exciting player who speaks his mind. Will marriage and a son rejuvenate the
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    • 453 47 THIRD ROUND Bristol C 1 Liverpool 1 THIRD ROUND REPLAYS Chelsea 4 Barnet 0 Everton 2 Bolton 3 (after extra time) Middlesbro 1 Cardiff 2 (after extra time) Forest 0 Sheff Wed 2 Portsmouth 1 Blackburn 3 Tottenham 1 Peterboro 1 (after extra time; Tottenham 5-4 on
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    • 193 47 Wire services. ISRAELI international Ronny Rosenthal has seen his hopes of an English Premiership move from Liverpool to Tottenham dashed. Liverpool rejected Spurs' £250,000 ($590,000) bid for the 30-year-old striker. He is also being trailed by Japanese side Yokohama. Anfield boss Graeme Soilness called the offer "unacceptable". Tottenham boss
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    • 782 48  -  Four minutes after fax about Michal Vana's inclusion arrives, the FAS office phone is not answered A minute after fax announcing Ken Worden's "trials" arrives, the FAS office phone is not answered The press release regarding Vana's signing with the national team is a three-liner The
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    • 48 49 He may be 51 years old. But Ken Worden is still joining his charges on the field. What will he be like after the gruelling fitness routine charted out by him for the Lions...and himself? We take a humorous look
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    • 373 50  -  ...And that includes coach Ken Worden Stories/ Ganesh Rajaram National coach Ken Worden wants a fighting fit squad. Yesterday, he handed out a fitness programme to all his 29 trainees. And when they report for their first official training session on Jan 31, Worden hopes to see
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    • 93 50 NATIONAL coach Ken Worden could not say which of his players had made the final cut. "Well, I've already named the players and have submitted the list to the Football Association of Singapore. "They will release the list of names to the press," said
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    • 183 50 KEN Worden has devised a programme for players who will be out of town as well as those who will be in Singapore. "A number of players will be out of town. Geylang International players will leave for the US on Friday. (Reward for their
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    • 216 50  -  Stories/ S Gulam THE Football Association of Malaysia is ready to consider Singapore for its Reserve League and Amateur League. But the Football Association of Singapore must make the move.. "We will consider any application from the FAS favourably," assured Datuk Paul Mony, the FAM
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    • 121 50 TWO of Singapore's top referees are likely to officiate in this year's Malaysian Premier League. They are T Rajamanickam and S Kennedy Singapore's only Fifa referees. They have been, invited for a fitness test in Johor Baru on Feb 2. Said George Joseph, the Football Association
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