The New Paper, 4 February 1995

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  • 12 1 the new paper SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1995 MITA (P) 233/04/94 60 CENTS
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    • 76 1 rilary >mvnp 1 ggmi^^m H HL. B K I fc BJ Kb 1 jppnBk,' 1 KJ P^ wyHE' v K w i y4 PJ" V. Penpal cheat: Afc Geok Jin, 44, conned Mr Kim Hong Jun, a 24-year-old South Korean, into agreeing to marriage. Mr Kim even sent Ng $850
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 370 2 SATURDAY SPECIAL NEW Paper readers stand to win $9,000 worth of prizes, consisting of 20 pairs of "For Your Heart Only" Valentine's Day Swatch watches and 40 pairs of regular Swatch watches. Coupon on Page 35. Source: Wire services. A SURGE in Khmer Rouge defectors in
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    • 73 2 THE Khmer Rouge began its reign of terror in Cambodia from 1975-1978. They are believed to have killed more than a million people. Thousands were imprisoned. The Khmer Rouge were kicked out of Cambodia following the Vietnamese invasion in 1978. They became a political group, operating from
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    • 117 2 Reuter. A MAN in Britain received about $202,000 from insurance companies after claiming he lost a suitcase every time he flew. But his two-year con game ended on Thursday when he was convicted of fraud. Alak Krishnan, 43, made the claims over a two-year period for lost or
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    • 46 2 A Chechen in their kitchen: A young Chechen boy enjoying a hot meal at a soup kitchen in Nazran, capital of Chechnya's neighbour Ingushetia. Refugees are flocking into Ingushetia daily as fighting between the Russian army and Chechen rebels continues. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 208 2 Call us. Hotline ppp ******55 Leisure Index Weekender: Pages 23 to 37 TV: Pages 48 49 Comics: Pages 50 51 fy), 4 J l■. x t ||A MORE BEAUTIFUL YOU IS ONLY 4 STEPS AWAY Expressions Wellness Body line Every Beautiful Body's Secret. Four easy steps to total Wellness: STEP
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 211 4 HOT STORY THE cases brought up at the weekly meet-the-people sessions of People's Action Party MPs have undergone a "qualitative change". For example, housewives and older people were applying for hawker licences for a supplementary income. In the past, they were regarded as the main source of income.
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 69 4 TWO town councils ended up with a deficit last year the first time this has happened since town councils were set up nine years ago. They are Opposition-led Potong Pasir, and People's Action Party town council Hong Kah. Potong Pasir, which manages about 6,000 units, had an operating
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      • 72 4 OFFICIALS of the Ministry of National Development and others will meet today to discuss if railings should be fitted to bridges on Pulau Übin. This follows the death of schoolgirl Diana Rahiman, 15, four days ago. She drowned after she fell into Sungei Puaka in Pulau Übin while
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        66 4 WATCH your behaviour. This is the stern warning from the executive board of the ruling Golkar to members that they could face being recalled from the Indonesian Parliament for conduct unbecoming of an MP and for deviating from party lines. It came from vice-secretary-general Moestahid Astari as he
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      • 54 4 NO horror, sex and violent scenes on Malaysian television. Information Minister Datuk Mohamed Rahmat said yesterday all the Kuala Lumpur-based stations have agreed to stop screening such programmes with immediate effect. He also wanted them to refrain from screening films that depict a foreign culture contrary to Malaysia's.
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      • 53 4 THE Malaysian government is planning to tighten rules to check the mushrooming of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and to prevent them from tarnishing the country's image. There was concern that some NGOs might exploit the involvement of government leaders in their fund-raising activities, said Deputy Home Affairs Minister Megat
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    • 20 4 THE Dow Jones industrial average gained 57.87 points to close at 3,928.64 on the New York Stock Exchange.
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    • 71 4 The Straits Times: MAS curbs on unsecured personal credit, car loans Business Times: MAS acts to rein in car loans, unsecured personal finance Lianhe Zaobao: Financial institutions must curb unsecured personal credit and car loans Berita Harian: Terms for loans tightened RCS morning news: The Government has clamped down
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    61 5 THENEWSTOCAY Lions leap into the air, a girl zips past on skates. Just a taste of Chingay 23 Singapore, live at Orchard Road tonight. YONG SIEW FERN takes you through the highlights on /V&zl the next page jC Graceful: Cambodian folk dancers conveying love, compassion and Best of
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 241 6 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE TAKE the MRT and alight at Orchard or Somerset stations. Orchard Road will be closed to traffic from 6.30 pm to 10.30 pm. The parade starts at 8 pm, moving from Ngee Ann City to Buyong Road, near hotel Le Meridien. Spectators
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    • 308 6 THE mood is set for a flag-waving, hip-swinging, colourful night of acrobatic feats, pulsating music and tribal dances. At tonight's parade, you'll see 12 international contingents from 10 countries and 12 local contingents from the various ethnic groups in Singapore. Floats range from a
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    • 403 7  -  By June Kong ABOUT 4,000 early birds who bought tickets for the Perfect 10 Music Awards found last week that the same tickets were being sold for $10 less. A TCS spokesman admitted slow ticket sales prompted the price cut. But he said the radio
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    • 569 8  -  HE POSES AS PRETTY STEWARDESS TO CON PENPAL PENALTY Ng was jailed one year for cheating. He was also fined $4,500 for having nine uncensored video tapes. By Yaw Yan Chong NG Geok Jin is 44. He is neither young nor good-looking. And he is
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    • 38 8 Sends penpal photograph of unknown Hongkong star Writes that he is an air stewardess Declares his love in letters Tells penpal he wants to get married Asks for money to visit penpal in Seoul
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    • 81 8 THE Singapore police cracked the case after the victim complained to the Singapore Embassy in Seoul. A source said: "When the victim did not hear from him (Ng) after he had sent the money, he was heartbroken. His mother went to the embassy and complained." The
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    • 100 8 NG has behaved like a female since he was a child, said his lawyer. "His adoptive father thought that he was a curse to the family because he exhibited behaviour characteristics of a woman since he was young. "Because of his girlish behaviour, he had been teased by
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    • 125 7 I have never seen an easier pregnancy test. What did I do? All I had to do was to hold the pink tip of the stick in my urine stream for just one second, put the cap back on and in four minutes I had the result. The new Predictor
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 510 11 Lunar New Year is here again and with hongbaos also come high prices. Some people say it's no big deal it happens every year. But readers like Mrs Agnes Lim were concerned enough to call The New Paper about profiteering during the festive season,
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    • 270 12 The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) yesterday announced two important rulings to curb easy credit. The changes will be effective from Monday. SEOW SU KIAN reports on how they affect you WHAT Curbs on personal credit: You must be earning at least $30,000 a year
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    • 111 12 BANKS: The Big Four local banks will not be affected greatly as unsecured loans make up only 5 per cent of their total loans. The new measures are likely to hit more aggressive lenders 9uch as Citibank, analysts told The Straits Times. STOCKS: Analysts say i prices of
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  • 388 14  -  PARKING OFFENCES IN HDB CARPARKS SINGAPORETODAY By Jennifer Tan THE next time you park in a HDB parking lot, remember to display your parking coupon. The vigilant corps of parking attendants helped HDB collect $35 million in parking fines during the last financial year, reports the Housing
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    • 151 15 1 a 1 As if there weren't enough feet, juggling sharp knives, or trying to restaurants and bars, and soak in our reasons why Clarke Quay is the place squeeze themselves into a tiny barrel, festive atmosphere. There's even a to celebrate Chinese New Year, they're a sight to behold.
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    • 430 17 "The major problem is to teach students how to think...Just trying to make sense of what they write is a problem"...These comments on NUS undergrads, made by Associate Professor Augustine Tan in Thursday's Straits Times, caused a stir on campus. YVONNE LIM gets the reactions of
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    • 158 17 ASSOCIATE Professor Augustine Tan had criticised NUS undergrads while talking about the new Faculty Enrichment Module, in interviews with The Straits Times and NUS student-paper The Ridge. The module includes a Foundation Skills Course teaching students about writing, tutorial participation, critical and creative thinking and
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    • 271 18 WHAT DEAN SAYS FROM PREVIOUS PAGE YOU can't compare today's students with students of the past, said Associate Professor Ernest Chew carefully. He was asked to respond to Prof Tan's remark that earlier students were of "better quality". Prof Chew, Dean of the Arts
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    • 257 20 G) with courtesans. fl man °f m P ecca^e taste f or tlx finer things in life, fc m P er r n Huizong surrounded himself with artists, 1 Oct 94 —30 Apr 95 One such beauty was the famous courtesan Li Shishi. ii&j# 1 One evening, unannounced, the emperor
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 241 21 ASIAN IMMIGRANTS LOSE CASE IN BRITAIN Reuter. FOUR Asian immigrants in Britain yesterday lost a landmark case that could have freed hundreds of asylum seekers from prison. The court's ruling means hundreds of foreigners seeking asylum in Britain must stay in prison while their
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    • 145 21 THE British government says it can hold or question illegal immigrants until it has weighed their applications. Its argument: The asylum seekers might otherwise run away. Mr Claude Moraes, head of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, condemns "this quite brutal policy" u People fleeing
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    • 135 23 a l<m Wc\ w5 fti The weather is 1 f I H still hot and humid. s -*> s M M-f jB #>'• I *M a m a IB «;A I I •Jp M W '|A JT*J I But Singaporeans M n wJ| I S f ';pi.- jßKHiafflßl^B?' I are
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    • COVER STORY
      • 682 24 ORDINARY PEOPLE: It's a mall that takes you through HDB heartland. A place where you don't need an appointment to find someone to chat with A VISIT to Chong Pang City is routine for Mr Abdul Rahim bin Abdullah, 28, an auxiliary police officer with
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      • 436 25 MONEY-MAKING MALL: These people are grateful that Singaporeans are enjoying themselves outdoors. For they make a living off the streets BRITISH poet W H Davies once wrote: "What is this life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?" That's precisely
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        245 25  -  By Teo Lian Huay IF YOU think you are a he-man but have a lousy aim, avoid Clarke Quay. An innocent-looking game at a street corner there is an ego-buster. You use a sledgehammer to whack a target to send a ball up a channel that has markings on
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      • 531 26 OLD FAITHFUL: IT doesn't have any clowns or musicians. But Club Street in Chinatown doesn't need any. Its second-hand goods still draw crowds IRANIAN seaman Shahin Rafipour, 28, thinks Club Street is great. "This is the most interesting place I've been to so far," he
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      • 259 27 NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: It is a section of Albert Street that has been converted into a mall. Albert Court may seem an unlikely place for a mall, but businesses there are optimistic Mr Gregory Gomes and his partner Ms Rita Balasurian are hoping that
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      • 251 27 PEOPLE are getting tired of being indoors and having to wear shirts and ties and jackets, said Mr Danny Kwek, Resident Manager of Albert Court Hotel. He believed they would prefer to dress in T-shirts and smart casuals and have the breeze in their
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      • 308 27 NOSTALGIA is reviving Singapore's street life. Said Associate Professor Robert Powell of the National University of Singapore's School of Architecture: "Once, people used to shop along the streets, then shopping malls like the ones in Orchard Road sprung up." This attracted people to
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    308 29 telescope the world in review the issue ON Wednesday, the US Federal Reserve raised the funds rate (that banks charge one another for overnight loans) to 6.0 per cent from 5.5 per cent and the discount rate (it charges banks for overnight loans) to 5.25 per cent from
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  • 473 29 We are not orang putih (Westerners). We are Malays, we are Asians and we don't resort to rough language or use swear words in front of others. NORTH-WEST EUROPE: HEAVY rains led to floods across north-west Europe and have claimed about 30 lives in
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    • SCENE & HEARD
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        512 30 BALLY WOULD: Knock-knock. Who's there? Bally Sagoo. Bally who? Bally the man who wants to make the world groove to his smokin' Indian dance remixes. DAVE ANG gets the mercury ready BALLY Sagoo is hot. The remixer/producer, 30, of Birmingham, England, is the Jam and Lewis, Jazzie B
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      • 427 31 Source: AP NIGEL Hawthorne's performance in The Madness of King George has put him in line for an Oscar nomination. But after several disappointments in Hollywood, Hawthorne, 65, is unfazed by talk of him winning an Academy Award. "If it happens,,it will
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  • SPOTLIGHT
    • 302 32 It takes some imagination to turn 7.2 square metres of empty space smaller than two parking spaces into something functional and easy on the eye. JUNE KONG talks to a resident of the newly-upgraded Kim Keat Court who has managed both LIKE
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    • 508 32 Many beneficiaries of utility rooms at Kim Keat don't know what to do with them. An interior decorator has some ideas IT'S small, but it's better'than nothing, says interior designer Selena Tay. Ms Tay, 30, of Selective Design, has been in the business for 11 years.
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      106 32 YOU can have this instant study for $10,000. The bulk of the money will be spent building the cupboards. Depending on what material you choose, it will cost at least $6,000. Designer Selena Tay said no hacking of the walls is required, but if you want to
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      129 32 CREATE a playroom for the children for $5,000. Built-in cupboards will cost $2,000 to $3,000. You can save money by having layers of shelves instead of cupboards, with deep drawers at the bottom for toys. This second alternative will cost about $1,000. In addition to roman blinds,
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    462 33 Tvednder GLOSSORRY alistair 1 (n): a big leap into the big league, kangaroo style. alistair 2 (v): to ogle at star opponents. Eg: "What are you alistairing at?" andy cole (n): a find. Eg: "Ferguson dug for cole in Newcastle and found it 'andy'." ben tan: (see benedict
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 207 37 'RACIST REMARKS' UPI. THE head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has apologised for making statements that were seen as racial slurs against his African colleagues. WHO director-general Hiroshi Nakajima accused Africans working for the organisation of lacking presentation skills and having difficulty in adapting to
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    • 204 37 UPI. INDIA yesterday warned Washington not to link the human rights issue to trade. A government spokesman added that India was "second to none in safeguarding human rights". Earlier this week, the Clinton administration criticised India's attempts to crush a rebellion in the Muslim-dom-inated
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    • 127 39 AFP. DIAL a number in this school and you might be engaged by a teacher. Southgate School in Britain has banned handphones in the classroom. "It's a sign of the times we live in, I suppose, but it tries my patience," said headmaster Peter Hudson announcing
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    • 145 39 AFP. BRITAIN'S House of Lords yesterday rocked with allegations that members had taken large sums of money from people in return for asking ministers questions. The Evening Standard newspaper reported that peer Anthony Lester alleged this involved "substantial sums" in a document submitted to a committee
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  • 289 45 WORLDTODAY AFP. DEFENCE spending is up in Arab states despite falling oil income and the peace process with Israel. And it is hurting development, an Arab League report said yesterday. Spending on arms and pay for the army and police took up more than half
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      478 56  -  PREVIEW/ By The Three The Three Musketeers SALUTE Mahkota in Race Seven at Kuala Lumpur today. He made a stunning debut in Penang in late December when he whipped a Class One field over 1,400 m, setting a course record in the process. It was a performance worthy
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    • 450 56 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: GOLF Thailand Open 2nd rd: 134 Kim Young-il (SK) 68, 66; 135 Scott Frisch (US) 64, 71; 136 Steve Veriato (US) 70, 66, Todd Hamilton (US) 68, 68, Bob May (US) 67, 69; 137 Kevin Baker (Can) 68, 69, Kazunari Malsunaga (Jap)
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    • 252 57 AP. NATALIA Medvedeva won her quarter-final match in the Amway Classic women's tennis championship in Auckland (New Zealand) yesterday. Nothing very surprising about that. After all. the Ukrainian is the seventh seed in this tournament. That makes her 6-4, 6-1 victory over the unseeded
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    • 206 57 MARTINA WANTS TO PLAY AGAIN AP. MARTINA Navratilova may have quit competitive tennis. But she still wants to play sport. Her choice, in keeping with former basketball great Michael Jordan: Professional baseball. Her team: Colorado Silver Bullets. Navratilova's publicist, Linda Dozoretz, said: "She's interested and they're
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    • 159 58 Reuter. Defender Gary Charles, will make his full debut for Aston Villa against Manchester United today. Charles, who won two England caps when he was a Nottingham Forest player in 1991, moved to Villa from First Division Derby last month. Former national captain Stuart Pearce is doubtful for
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      524 59 SATURDAY FACTFILE Full name: Romano de Souza Faria Date of birth: 29 Jan, 1966 Height: 1.66 m Weight: 69.7 kg Position: Striker Country: Brazil Club: Flamengo Previous clubs: Olaria, Vasco da Gama (both Brazil), PSV Eindhoven (Holland), Barcelona (Spain) TALENTED but temperamental. Skilful but short-fused. Artistic but arrogant.
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      173 60 WORLD GROUP (First round) Opening singles' results Italy 1 Czech Republic 1 Andrea Guadenzi lost to Daniel Vacek 7-6(7-5), 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (7-4) Renzo Furlan bt Slava Dosedel 4 6. 7-6 (7-3). 6-4, 6-4) Denmark 2 Sweden 0 Kenneth Carlsen bt Jonas Bjorkman 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 Frederik
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    • 267 60 Reuter, AFP. DENMARK 2 SWEDEN 0 UNSUNG Dane Frederik Fetterlein was Denmark's hero yesterday. He beat former world No 1 Stefan Ed berg 1-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-3 to give his country a sensational 2-0 lead over defending champion Sweden in its Davis Cup World Group first-round match in
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    • 287 60 AFP. US 1 FRANCE 1 I AMERICAN Jim Courier's impressive victory over Guy Forget allowed the US to finish the opening day of its Davis Cup World Group match against France on even terms. Cedric Pioline had given France a flying start by defeating Tood Martin in
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    • 376 60 AP GERMANY 2 CROATIA 0 GERMANY, joint top-seed along with the US, raced to a 2-0 lead over World Group debutant, Croatia. In a battle of top 10 players on the hard court at Karlsruhe, Germany's Michael Stich beat Goran Ivanisevic 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 to
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    • 493 61  -  Werner Bickelhaupt, the man who coached Myanmar to the SEA Games silver medal here in 1993, is looking for a job in Malaysia now...even though the match-fixing scandal is making big news in his country, Germany By Jeffrey Low APPALLED, yet happy. That is the reaction of
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    • 200 61 SPORTS MAILBAG WE would like to clarify that the SSC official concerned did not, at any time, say that the sports scholarships are meant only for courses in Australian Universities. Neither did he say that SSC scholarships are given for Sports Science courses only. In fact,
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    • 179 61 AP. HE'S been suspended for the season for kicking a fan. However, Manchester United star Eric Cantona will still get a starring role this weekend, as pitchman for Bic razors. Bic's advertising agency, Euro-RSCG, said yesterday that the company had decided to go ahead with the new advertising
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    • 239 61 Wire services. SUTTER SETBACK: Bayern Munich's Swiss international Alain Sutter has been forced to go into hospital. Feeling very weak during Bayern's training camp in Portugal this week, he has returned to Germany for tests. He is likely to miss the Feb 18 restart of the Bundesliga after the
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    • 880 62  -  A question mark hangs over the Lions' participation in the M-League. So what does the future hold for Singapore soccer? Ken Jalleh Jr STRIP away the kulit and the Football Association of Malaysia's ultimatum to its Singapore counterparts can be summed up in the language of
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