The New Paper, 18 February 1995

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  • 12 1 the new paper SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1995 MITA (P) 233/04/94 6( rw?
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 220 2 Wire services. ASEAN will clear the way for Indian companies wanting to set up joint ventures in this region. "Non-tariff barriers" will be lifted, making their entry easier, Asean secretary-general Ajit Singh said n Delhi yesterday. He said this in a meeting with
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    • 94 2 SINGAPORE is playing a key role in drawing India closer to Asean. India has traditionally had closer business links to the Gulf and the West. Now it wants to share the economic success of the Asia-Pacific region. So it is wants closer links with Asean. Prime Minister
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    • 63 2 Head lines: US photographer James Nachtwey of Magnum Photos won the World Press Photo of the Year award for this photograph showing a Hutu man whose face was slashed by a death squad in Rwanda. Ethnic bloodletting against minority Tutsis by the majority Hutus and the
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    • 135 2 AP. YANKS abroad should watch their fanny packs. And Brits Stateside: Please don't knock anyone up. The money belts Americans call "fanny packs" are "bumbags" in Britain and Australia harmless enough. But it doesn't work both ways. "Fanny" is considered extremely offensive to women among the
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    • 477 3 One hundred and eighty litterbugs will serve out their Corrective Work Orders (CWO) cleaning 18 housing estates today and over the next two Sundays. Welder Neo Soon Hua, 30, was in one of the first CWO batches in 1993. He tells IVY ONG about his
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    • 107 3 CORRECTIVE Work Orders were introduced in November 1993 when it was found that existing measures had failed to stop people from littering. Under the Environment Public Health (Amendment) Bill passed in 1992, repeat offenders and those who commit serious littering offences are required to clean up public places
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    • 241 2 Saturday Special TNP readers stand to win three top prizes consisting of a Pioneer laser disc player and the Star Wars trilogy laser disc collector's set each. Coupon on page 57. ■HBHnBBniDDDIBBBBnnDBB A MORE BEAUTIFUL YOU IS ONLY 4 STEPS AWAY |I Expressions Wellness Body line Every Beautiful Body's Secret.
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    • 86 2 SORRY Let me help you fill your tax form (TNP, Feb 16): We gave the wrong telephone number for the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore's 24-hour hotline. The correct number is 1800 538-8033. The number is manned from 8 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday, and 8 am to
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 260 4 L HOT kSTORY I IF you are one of the 1.45 million credit card holders here, you should know this: $705.3 million piled up in debts by December last year, up 4 per cent from $678 million in September. In 1986, the amount was a mere $69.2
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    • 31 4 THE Dow Jones industrial average closed 33.98 points lower at 3,953.54 on the New York Stock Exchange. Financial markets will be closed on Monday for the Presidents' Day holiday.
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    • 87 4 The Straits Times: US risks losing $2.9b Boeing deal, warns China Business Times: Death of Malaysia's Mr Honda sparks takeover talk Lianhe Zaobao: MAS issues new guidelines: Housing renovation loans limited to maximum of six months of borrower's salary Berita Harian: Renovation loans exempted RCS morning news: The MAS
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 52 4 THE Hongkong government yesterday rejected a legislator's demand to enact laws against men who keep mistresses in China. Such an offence could not be defined precisely, "would be difficult to enforce and, if enforced, would increase the hardship and distress of the affected family", it said in
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      • 55 4 LAUNDRY bamboo poles will no longer stick out from new-generation Housing Board flats. All new flats to be built from April will have outdoor recessed laundry areas for drying clothes, said Mr Lim Hng Kiang, Acting Minister for National Development. He praised the strengths of HDB architects
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      • 71 4 DOMESTIC and most overseas mail charges will be increased from April 1. Costs for the first 20 g of domestic mail will rise from 20 cents to 22 cents. Costs will go up from 30 cents to 35 cents for the first 20 g for letters
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      • 54 4 PROMINENT gynaecologist Professor SS Ratnam, 66, was charged last night with drunk driving at a road junction last September. No plea was recorded. His $5,000 bail has been extended until next Saturday. He faces fines of between $1,000 and $5,000 or jail up to six months if it
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      • 62 4 SOME dealers are backdating car-booking agreements to before MAS' Feb 6 deadline which would help customers qualify for easy loans under the old terms. These are customers who prefer, or can afford only, a smaller downpayment and a longer loan repayment period, and who missed the deadline. But
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      • 52 4 MISUNDERSTANDING between Singapore and Malaysia over a recent tanker pollution incident has been cleared. Officials from both sides, who met here yesterday, also agreed to improve coordination. Both sides blamed each other for not being able to locate two ships which had been detained by Malaysia earlier for
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    • 63 4 V I »7iVI W W break fast 1 1 THE NEW PAPER-IRAS If you have any problems related to Income Tax, write to: The New Paper/Iras 390 Kim Seng Road Singapore 0923 An officer from The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore will answer your queries every Friday. Or call The
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    • 16 4 MMtjU speakßp YOUR FORUM DEAR MANO SHARES ADVICE Calls are charged at 30 cents a minute.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 45 4 WHAT'S HUP Wow, your family is really on I Not reallyTj 1 1 think his ®ct' n 9 was think he s better top of news on OJ Simpson I y good in "Naked Gun' I in Naked Gun 33^ m ><-71 X in Wmi
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 602 5 For 15 months, 14-year-old Heng Juan lay in a coma brought on by a brain virus. An outstanding student of Anglo-Chinese Secondary, he died a week ago the day before his 15th birthday surrounded by family, schoolmates and a teacher who always stayed by his
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    • 115 5 FEVER racked Heng Juan for five days after the November 1993 school holidays began. On Nov 17, he fell unconscious. He was warded at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, and later at the National University Hospital. In July 1994, he was discharged, still in a coma. His condition improved gradually.
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    • 412 6 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE HENG Juan's secondary one class teacher became a virtual guardian angel to the Hengs during the traumatic 15 months. Madam Lim Siow Eng visited her student almost every day to talk to him. More often, she spent hours encouraging his distressed parents
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    • 47 6 Mr Heng readily agreed to The New Paper reproducing excerpts from Heng Juan's journal for his English class. "I want other students out there to know how he was stressing himself out. Tell them don't do it to themselves," said Mr Heng.
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  • Article, Illustration
    219 8 Singapore's concert blitz continues SINGAPORETODAY WHAT: Yanni Live WHERE: Singapore Indoor Stadium WHEN: April 1. 8 pm TICKETS: $75, $55. $40, $25. At all Sistic outlets (te1:348-5555) British Airways face commercial, has sold more than 10,000 copies. Although he's sold millions of records, critics have derided his sound
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 173 10 KEEN to host a show where your family and friends have the whole theatre to themselves? You'll get your second chance on Monday, when we run our second Spot the Star and Be a Star contest. A movie star and a journalist from The New Paper will
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    • 354 10  -  By Yaw Yan Chong A SUITCASE abandoned in Changi Airport for about two yearn wan filled with drugs worth millions. The discovery was made after the clothes inside the suitcase were auctioned off on Thursday. A source told The New Paper: "After the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 71 12 THE New Paper is adopting the Alzheimer's Disease Association for its charity drive this year. The paper will organise promotions, projects and events to raise funds for the group's activities and awareness of the disease. The adoption of a charity each year marks the paper's commitment
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    • 246 12  -  rnmm Alzheimer's disease is an incurable brain disorder. The brain shrinks, causing confusion, memory loss and personality changes. It usually strikes people over 65, and may be passed down in the family. One person who fell victim to it recently is former US president Ronald Reagan.
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    • 147 12 MR George's daughter, Anna, said the only news the family has had came from a hawker at Newton Hawker Centre who said her father was there last Tuesday. "A relative went to Newton Hawker Centre and chatted with a hawker. The hawker told her that
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    • 18 12 Didn't you know? r I read it in eoti-yum. Catch Cats' Mews in Sunday Classified this weekend, jcAtkj
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  • 206 14 The Subordinate Courts will be launching two hi-tech systems to make court procedures more efficient. SEOW SU KIAN explains how they work SINGAPORETODAY REMAIN Interpreter in Haveiock Square uses Remain to interpret for a witness in a case heard in Apollo Centre. 1. The Remote Interpretation
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    • 215 14 Tele-Games Mrs Wizard's Crystal/^W\ 'Baa VjjjjCl Mrs Wizard is a demon at trivia. Answer her right, and you'll get to (jlitzyLand" where she keeps her pot of Peacock Diamonds. Goof up and you'll be sent on an endless journey of a thousand mind-boggling questions. Con: 30 cents a minute i
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  • 200 16 The Republic of Singapore Navy is scheduled to launch a new hi-tech patrol vessel, the RSS Fearless, this morning. Deputy Prime Minister BG (NS) Lee Hsien Loong explains why the ship, and the Navy, are so important. 'The launching of RSS Fearless marks a milestone in the maturing of
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  • Article, Illustration
    364 19 CAROL LEONG meets the 'elephant' in the musical, Phantom of the Opera, which opens here on Feb 28 SINGAPORETODAY IMAGINE this. You're a respectable 230 kg. You're worth a ponderous $60,000, you're hand-painted to boot and you only get two minutes on stage. Yup, two minutes. Such is
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
    • 494 21 Malaysia's "Mr Honda'', tycoon Loh Boon Siew, was found dead in a rocking chair at his bungalow in Penang yesterday. He was 78 TYCOON Loh Boon Siew's death has led to speculation that his flagship company, Oriental Holdings, may change hands. The company's stock
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    • 111 21 A HOLIDAY in Osaka, Japan, in 1958 was the turning point in tycoon Loh Boon Siew's life. While he was in a taxi, Mr Loh saw, for the first time, a Honda 50 cc motorcycle. He asked the cab driver to follow it, the New
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    • 107 22 /-v>ncert 'ii pearl jam e I T/ic Latest Album from Pearl Jam. 15 pairs of tickets to be given away flDCTTED il A Kin simply by purchasing any Pearl Jam Dk I I fcK fVIAIN Compact Disc or Cassette with sticker Hffr at participating stores. Send the sticker with your
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    • 50 23 r"\ -v jjjj >^" >> Housing loans. Shopping on credit. Hire? purchase. You could chalk up a big hill without oven realising it. Reporter Jf MNIf I R FAN, footloose.' and mortgage free, goes on a cashless shopping spree. Her verdict? "I nm horrified."/ Pages V4 I i. j r
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    • COVERSTORY
      • 364 24 RUDE AWAKENING: JENNIFER TAN tries getting a loan for a flat, furnishing it completely on hire purchase, and indulges in some designer gear with plastic money. She discovers some home truths about borrowing money HELP! YOU'RE CONFUSING ME. MS CREDIT CARD IF you can't pay
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      • 536 24 FIRST TO THE BANK ARMED with only the thought of my District 15 dream apartment, I went shopping for a housing loan at three banks. First stop, Citibank. The officer whipped out a pen, paper and calculator and began asking for details like the
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      • 345 24 AND THEN TO THE FURNITURE SHOP SOBERING FACTS I buy: $6 f 133 Interest for three years at 20% a year: $3,679.80 In the end I'm actually paying: $9,812.80 IT was an offer I couldn't resist home furnishings at what seemed to be unbelievable prices.
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      • 358 25  -  Comment Jennifer Tan THE bottom line is: It is up to you. Choose the loan that most suits your needs. But ask questions. Don't be intimidated by blank stares that say, "Huh? You mean you don't understand something this basic?". Of course, it would
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      • 379 26 OVERSPENDING PERILS: What do too much borrowing and overspending mean to a country? Dr Francisco Nadal de Simone, lecturer at the National University of Singapore's Economics and Statistics department, shares his view 2 BANKS If banks give more unsecured loans, the chances of them getting into financial
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      • 356 26 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore recently put the brakes on overspending with several measures: Move #1: Car loan It must be paid in no more than seven years. The loan amount is up to 70 per cent of the purchase price of the car, including the
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      • 216 26 PUT it simply and plainly, that's what the Consumer Association of Singapore (Case) wants banks and finance companies to do when it comes to quoting interest rates. Case felt that not only is credit readily available, it is available to people who do not know the real
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  • 207 27 tn^woncurwlview the issue TEMPERS flared this week between two of six suitors for the oil-rich Spratlys islands in th South China Sea. The island is being claimed partly or wholly by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, th< Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia. China sent nine warships to a coral reef on
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  • 419 27 RUSSIA: PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin gave his first major speech on Thursday since he sent troops to war-torn Chechnya two months ago. He blamed military leaders for the losses in the war in the southern republic which has cost many lives and wonried the West.
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    • SCENE&HEARD
      • 362 28 MOST actresses would jump at the chance of starring opposite Robert De Niro and A 1 Pacino. Not Gong Li. But then again, the China-born actress is not "most actresses". Since 1988, Gong Li has starred in virtually every recent Chinese film to
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      • 158 28 BEIJING censors didn't like To Live, which tracks the sorrows and struggles of a family through the upheavals that followed the 1949 Communist revolution. They were furious it was shown at Cannes without their permission. As punishment, Zhang was told future films must be
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      • 563 29 UPI. GARTH Brooks has gunned down the rappers and rockers again. From the vop of the pop charts, that is. The easy-going honcho of country music has a new release of old hits called, not surprisingly, The Hits. It went straight to Number One and looks
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    • 372 30  -  MYWORD By Rosnah Ahmad THE cash register at McDonalds read: $5.44. "Hi, I've got four cents," I said excitedly as I rummaged through my purse for the tiny coins. It took 60 seconds an eternity to the customer behind me before I found them. Still, the
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  • SPOTLIGHT
    • 493 31 LURE OF THE LAND: It is one of the last farm-lands in Singapore, now being cleared for use by the Ministry of Defence. The farmers of Lorong Gambas, near Sembawang, have long since moved to urban homes. But every day, they return to tend the still-flourishing land. YVONNE
      PICTURES BY SAM YEO  -  493 words
    • 258 31 THE constant boom of military helicopters above is, somehow, out of place among the bird calls. Beyond the wild forest, aflame with the red blooms of African Tulip trees, a stretch of recently-cleared land stands out like an orange scar. Like Mr Ang Yee
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  • 22 32 What's the talk of the town? Who's doing what And with whom? Our man about town 1 tunes you in
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  • 268 32 SO, Tuesday was Valentine's Day. And, I reckon, many of you spent the evening with the love of your life sipping champagne beneath the stars or dining by candlelight. Lucky you. At least you had someone to share that special day with. So what if it
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  • 348 32 MOE Alkaff was at his zany best. Brian Richmond was his usual suave self. Mike Mahendran played the cool dude, while Jimmy Tan kept it together with some civilised banter behind the console. The occasion was Studio M's Deejay Reunion a one-off bash held on Wednesday
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous

  • Article, Illustration
    47 35 AN EVERGREEN THAT SAW RED: I knew something was wrong with the traffic light at this corner in Seremban, Negri Sembilan, when it stayed red for seven months. Now look at me. It isn't easy being green. Especially when you're a car. PICTURE BY MOHD ISHAK
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    • 146 37 Family Carnival With I A Blast! I From 18 to 26 February our admission prices to the Science C entre will be reduced to $5.50 per adult and $-4.50 per child! lake a ride on our new VIRTRFk SIMULATOR lor only $1.00 and you'll have the ride of your life!
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      51 38 Ragged life: His face says it all. This elderly Hongkong man looks through an iron security door of a run-down apartment, which houses 20 people. A prestigious Hongkong charity has denied operating the old people's home, where residents live in caged beds, described as worse than a prison. Picture/
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    • 222 38 Source: Reuter. IN a move likely to upset Russia, the US says it is ready to sell advanced US weapons, such as F-16 fighters, to Poland and other former Soviet bloc countries. The US, mindful of Russia's sensitivities, has so far limited itself
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    • 104 38 TIMES are changing for Russia. Used to being the boss for decades of what was called the Soviet bloc, Russia has been very upset with recent plans by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) to include Moscow's former allies under its wings. Under the US-inspired Partnership for
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  • 589 55  -  SPORTS/RACING PREVIEW/ By The Three Musketeers YANGTZE Kiang V is gearing up for another victory again and he can do it in Race Seven at Penang today. Already a winner of three races on the local circuit, the Gold Ivory gelding gave a sparkling
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      434 56 CHINESE POLE-VAULTER SETS FIVE WORLD RECORDS IN 19 DAYS QUICK FACTS Sun has already notched up 14 world marks in four years, not counting unofficial records. Eleven of her records have been set indoors. Her indoor record currently stands two centimetres higher than the outdoor 4.11 metres. In
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    • 147 56 Wire services. AUSTRALIAN Open champion Mary Pierce swept past Austrian Judith Wiesner in the quarter-fi-nals of the Paris Open yesterday. She then immediately looked ahead to a final against Steffi Graf. Said Pierce after her 6-2, 6-4 win: "I shouldn't start thinking about meeting Steffi
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    • 188 56 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: GOLF South African PGA 2nd rd (South African unless stated): 135 Nic Henning 69, 66; 136 Ernie Els 65, 71; 137 Van Phillips (Eng) 66, 71, Trevor Dodds (Nam) 66, 71, Wayne Westner 62, 75; 138 Tony Johnstone (Zim) 68, 70, Alexander
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    • 714 57  -  FA CUP (sth round!: MANCHESTER UNITED v LEEDS UNITED LIVE ON 12 Horn SPURS SAINTS By Chris Matyszczyk THIS is the first time I can remember that knowledgeable folk are predicting that United will lose at home in the Cup. A visit from the hated rival of
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    • 838 58 For New Zealand striker Darren Fellows, one thing is still out of reach. BERNARD PEREIRA reports from New Zealand SATURDAY SPOTLIGHT KIWI striker Darren Fellows has two wishes in life success as a professional footballer and happiness with his wife. The second wish he can get, but
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    • 233 59  -  For New Zealand striker Darren Fellows, one thing is still out of reach. BERNARD PEREIRA reports from New Zealand ON TOUR WITH THE LIONS DEFENDER Kadir Yahaya ended yesterday's 90-minute workout at Park Island in Napier with a swollen right ankle. He is the latest in
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    • 360 59 LIONS coach Douglas Moore concedes that their opponent tomorrow is no pushover. The Lions beat Central FC 3-1 in their first match last Wednesday. Napier City Rovers, the team they meet tomorrow, has been a League title winner in the past. Last season, it finished third.
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    • 217 60  -  By S Gulam FORMER national soccer trainer C A Balan is hack on the sportscene after a 15-month layoff. But instead of soothing the muscles of Fandi Ahmad and Company, he will be handling national runners. The Singapore Amateur Athletic Association has added Balan, 39, to
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    • 215 60 Reuter. Up in arms: Dutch coach Guus Hiddink yesterday named a revised squad for Wednesday's friendly against Portugal in Eindhoven. This followed the decision by eight Ajax players to boycott the match. The rebels have exiled themselves from the national team in protest against an overcrowded fixture list. The
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    • 163 61 David Spurdens captured the right moment to click. That's what made it a winning picture, says The New Paper photographer David Tan (left). Spurdens freezes the ball in the most eye-catching position just as the goalkeeper's hand is about to grab it. The goalkeeper's face open
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