The New Paper, 5 August 1995

Microfilm: NL20025
Total Pages: 58
1 58 The New Paper
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    11 1 the new paper SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1995 MITA(P) 024/04/95 60 CENTS
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • Article, Illustration
      PUB deputy CEO faces graft probe
      279 2 ATOP Public Utilities Board officer, Mr Choy Hon Tim, faces an investigation by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB). Mr Choy, the deputy chief executive officer (operations) and director of the electricity department, has been suspended by the PUB pending the probe. A PUB
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      Lock icon Murder of HK businessman: Man charged
      229 2 Source: Reuter. A FORMER Hongkong customs officer is allegedly involved in the murder of a businessman in Singapore last year. The officer, Henfrey Tin, was charged in a Hongkong court yesterday in connection with businessman Tommy Chui's murder, government radio reported. Mr Chui was
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      DANGER
      160 4 from 'out of the blue' Damages won by SM Lee, PM Goh and DPM BG Lee in their recent defamation suit against the IHT would go to charity. IHT will not fight the court's decision to pay damages assessed at $950,000. SINGAPORE'S problems can come from 'out of the
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      China upset
      106 4 WITH US MAGAZINE It reveals a plot to 'contain' and even 'subvert' the legal Chinese government The official People's Daily in a commentary on the July 31, US edition of Time, which said that undermining China 'begins with unwavering support of such dissidents as Harry Wu' WITH TAIWANg
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      DOW JONES
      14 4 The Dow Jones industrial average lost 17.96 points to close at 4,683.46.
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      HEADLINERS
      62 4 The Straits Times: UN seat for Taiwan? China 'may use force' Business Times: Residential property cool Lianhe Zaobao: Raffles Girls' tops ranking Berita Harian: US denies two officers were spying RCS morning news: Deputy Prime Minister says for Singapore to do well, support of people, even those in opposition
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
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        Fast court judgment
        77 4 A DYING widow whose late husband had transferred ownership of her Paterson Road flat to his name, won her case in the High Court yesterday in record time. Madam Chen Chun Yun, 78, filed her suit on July 21. The judgment is said to be the fastest
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        I'm 'uncomfortable'
        66 4 TAMPINES GRC MP Chng Hee Kok is "uncomfortable" with a recent change to Pr 1 registration rules. He said the 50-percent cap on number of places going to parents Willi links lu a school wookens vali]/*s Mr Chng, a former Anglo Chinese School boy is related to four
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        Japan defence hike
        60 4 JAPAN'S ruling coalition has agreed to a 2.9 per cent increase in the country's defence budget. The budget, which works out to $2.13 billion, will be used mostly to cover payments on previously contracted military hardware and higher manpower costs. Coalition partners want the Defence Agency to
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        New Gandhi politics?
        49 4 MR Rahul Gandhi, 25, the son of slain former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, seems ready for politics. Speculations about another Gandhi getting into politics were fired up when Petroleum Minister Satish Sharma announced he was willing to give up his Parliament seat for Mr Gandhi.
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        Late ambulance
        49 4 On the road, they are delayed because other drivers do not let them pass. Dr V Anantharaman, president of the Soctdyjofr Efnetgmj hfntiiim in on why there is still a delay in ambulance time. He said the Accident and Emergency Departments at hospitals were still being misused
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        Party protest
        79 4 THE opposition Democratic Action Party has shut its offices and service centres in the Federal Territory for a week to protest against a Malaysian High Court decision barring its Member of Parliament for Bukit Bintang, Mr Wee Choo Keong. The ruling National Front's losing candidate, Dr Lee Chong
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      49 4 WHAT'S HUP A report claims that electronic Instead, it leaves your head with P I did Insect repellents, like the ones a ringing sound even after it's I n(h we have, don't repel insects switched off. We should just 1 monin» ag -y throw It away. j U MhiM
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    Lock icon Afterlife: Claim to flame
    404 5 THENEWSTODAY By Bernard Pereira TONIGHT, at the stroke of midnight, a casino, a massage-and sauna centre, a beer garden and an opium-smoking room will go up in smoke. Before you run around yelling for fire engines just remember it is that time of the year again.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon From M to J
      423 6 How do you make top students even better? The Chinese High has done it, and placed among the top value-added schools in The Straits Times' latest annual secondary school rankings. SANDRA DAVIE finds out how one class, the lowest ranked, improved LAST year, the 33 boys
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      RGS TOPS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOLS AGAIN
      214 6 RAFFLES Girls' has emerged tops among the secondary schools in Singapore for the third year running. The school, which went independent two years ago, headed the list of Top 50 schools for Special/Express stream students. Other independent schools in the top 10: The Chinese
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      Lock icon 40 min ticket mania
      293 7  -  TNP O-LEVEL SEMINAR THE half-day seminar will be held at the Singapore Conference Hall on Aug 19. It will be open to 1,000 ticket-holders. North View Secondary School has been given 250 tickets because The New Paper has adopted it for the annual TNP School Friends
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      WATCH IT ON VIDEO
      138 7 MORE than 500 people had to leave in disappointment. All because they arrived at AIA Towers too late for the lucky draw for tickets to The New Paper O-level Seminar. But here's good news for them: American International Assurance, our co-host, will videotape the seminar and
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      Ex-monk jailed for molest
      321 8  -  Convicted 7 times for molest since 1973. In 1989, he decides a to become monk. Leaves the order, then molests again By Khor Su Min THE flesh is nastier than the spirit. A 45-year-old molester found that out after trying, unsuccessfully, to turn over a new
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      'Sons cause nothing but pain'
      428 11 A 24-year-old former ITE student got 20 years' jail and 15 strokes of the cane for a drug offence in court yesterday. His brother is already in jail and it is his mother who is suffering for her sons' crimes, as BERNARD PEREIRA finds out
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      THE SON
      125 11 MOHAMED Readwan, who was arrested on Jan 11, was lucky to have got away with just the minimum sentence. It would have been the gallows for him if he had been convicted on the original charge .of trafficking 153.12 g of drugs. Fortunately for him, the charge was
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Being a developed nation is not easy says NTUC
      427 16  -  By Irene Ng SINGAPORE may be a developed nation, but that does not mean we have arrived. The harsh realities small area, small population, lack of natural resources that threatened the nation 30 years ago still threaten us today. In an
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      Raising the retirement age — how workers and bosses see it
      238 16 Raising the retirement age how workers and bosses see it SOME workers prefer to opt out of work before 60, instead of the proposed retirement age of 67. Since most workers are on the Central Provident Fund, "there is nothing to stop them from calling it quits at whatever age
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      Sign your name and get phone card free
      146 17 AlirtCwrt Hotel and Mall, ISO Albert Street (200 phone cards to be given away) Clarke Quay, Atrium, The Cannery (200 cards) Courts Buklt Merah, Blk 201, #01-07, Henderson Road (400 cards) AT noon today, 800 commemorative National Day phone cards will be
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      Educate the parents
      238 17 Juvenile delinquency, and how to deal with it, will be the main focus of the speech scheduled to be given today by Acting Minister for Community Development Mr Abdullah Tarmugi at Bedok View Secondary School's 16th Annual Speech and Prize-giving Day. Here are some of the points
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    Why him?
    585 19 A 14-year-old boy's life has been cut short senselessly. He was brutally attacked last Sunday and died in hospital yesterday. CRISPIN A ROBERT reports Boy, 14, beaten to death Family, friends and school say he is a good boy Mum in shock, brother asks: SINGAPORE!ODAY Police have arrested
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  • Article
    Lock icon He's angry over food stamps. He pours petrol on his seven kids and holds them hostage
    323 21 WORLDTOCAY Reuter. A LEBANESE man in Germany yesterday held his seven children hostage by dousing them in petrol and threatening to set them on fire. He was angry that his cash allowance for groceries
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      275 21 1 MURAYAMA'S MMk HEADACHE/ J This and more world BtW M stories from page 3<> Vw #BHP BHP Steel Building Products is engaged in the manufacture, supply snd installation of steel building products. Established in Singapore since 1965, the company is a business unit of The Broken Hill Proprietary Co.
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      70 22 Their world in one room i .8 i»4 Their world opens into a dark and gloomy corricior. Some see only bleakness and despair; for others, there is light and hope RACHEL TAN meets the folks who dwell in one-room lIDB flats and the people who venture there to lend a
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    • COVERSTORY
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        Lock icon They live from day to day
        491 23 IT'S HOME: Latest figures show there are 26,000 one-room HDB flats. These are often a statistic forgotten by most. RACHEL TAN walks through the dark corridors to meet the folks who call these flats home FOR two decades, retired tailor Yeo Koon Tai, 80,
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        LITTLE SLEEP. LITTLE FOOD
        252 23 TIME means little to Mr Yeo. He dozes off and on the entire day but hardly sleeps. Either his heart hurts or his bladder gives. On still, windless nights the mosquitoes swarm in and keep him awake. But when it's cool and pleasant, the bed bugs
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        Lock icon They hope for better days
        625 24 MR Hwang Hui Ji, 62, has spent all his life in cramped attap houses and one-room flats. He hopes one day to move his wife, three grown-up children and the dog to a bigger two-room apartment. Speaking in Hokkien and a smattering of Mandarin, the
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        A DOG FOR COMPANY
        85 24 AS for the expensive-looking pomeranian scrabbling under the kitchen table Mr Hwang was looking after it for a shopkeeper across the road (at $4 a week) before the latter abandoned the dog and moved away. Ruffling the pommie's fur, Mr Hwang said: "We thought of letting
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      62 25 J% \OS GET THESE COOL S^S7 BfiTMRN POREVEF^ ACCESSORIES ONLY $4.95 EACH WITH B ANY GREAT DEAL MEAL Collect a different accessory each week. Exclusively at Burger King, while stocks last. f M Watch Batman Forever at a theatre near you. ColtG~~ ii k Batman ond oil related elements are
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    • COVERSTORY
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        Lock icon They light up lonely lives
        360 26 YOUNG FRIENDS: It is easy to give hongbao to help the needy but some people choose to spend time with them instead like these students from the Institute of Technical Education "THEY have really brought light into my home with their company," said Madam Tijah
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        CALL FOR HELP
        49 26 Befrienders Service (Lions Club): 375-8600 Care Corner Mandarin Counselling Centre: 1800-353-5800 Counselling and Care Centre: 536-6366 Sage Counselling Centre for the Elderly: 1800-353-8633 SOS: 1800-221-4444 Senior Citizens and Social Services Branch Information and Referral (Ministry of Community Development): 1800-258-7262 Public Assistance (Ministry of Community Development): 1800-258-7619
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        When 2 worlds collide
        423 27 DOSE OF REALITY: Never having lived in anything smaller than an HUDC apartment, RACHEL TAN pays an eye-opening visit to the claustrophobic one-room flats in Tiong Bahru. She tries to understand how their entire existence is packed into an area the size of her living room
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        COMMUNITY NET FOR ONE-ROOMERS
        200 27 THE Government has set up a fairly extensive community net to support low-income families, said Minister for National Development Lim Hng Kiang (left) in response to The New Paper's queries about one-roomers. But there is a need to recruit more volunteers to make sure the community
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        THE AGED
        81 27 There are 11,000 aged people either living without their children's support, or without children. Many are still working. HDB is refurbishing selected one-room blocks to help them, including an alarm system with panic buttons to alert a "warden" in the block. "We involve voluntary organisations in each block,
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        ONE-PARENT HOUSEHOLDS
        77 27 The Small Families Incentive Scheme is an attempt to help keep these families small to minimise their problems and enable them to own flats. Members of Parliament identify such families and offer financial help through bursaries, free textbooks, and subsidised enrolment in PAP Community Foundation kindergartens. Some MPs
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        THE SICK OR HANDICAPPED
        31 27 There are 2,700 families with chronically-sick or handicapped members. The minister has suggested that more volunteers from welfare groups be recruited to provide more services for them.
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      149 27 HAREM'S NITE M°^( The guy who brings the most/ HOUSE PARTY number of girls will win a $50\ f\C\ I zno/ cc 11 F&B voucher. The person who MKJ /o ott registers the most girls (luring house-pouring the 3-month period will win a brands and beer trip to Bangkok. Thursday
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  • SHOWTIME
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      It's a jungle out there
      617 29 SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST: Back-stabbing, passing the buck, sucking up to the boss. All this is grist to Action Theatre's new musical, Corporate Animals. CAROL LEONG interviews some of the animals and seeks management advice on how to survive feeding time THE plot is simple.
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      VERONICA THE VIPER
      241 29 WHAT: Corporate Animals WHEN: Aug 17-31 (tickets for Aug 31 sold out). Daily at 8 pm. Matinees at 3 pm on Sat and Sun WHERE: Jubilee Hall. Raffles Hotel TICKETS: Monday to Thursday, 8 pm $25, $45, $65. Fri and Sat, 8 pm $30, $50, $70. Matinees
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      MAX THE MONKEY
      128 29 "I cant help it if they don't know how to avoid my banana thine." Max The Monkey, played by Gani, 25, freelance artist and choreographer He's not really a bad guy. Just self-serving. He's very observant. He's popular because he's so friendly. He'll make you feel so
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      LUCKY DRAW
      135 29 THE lucky draw prizes are One unit HP DeskJet 660 C, Hewlett Packard's latest colour printer (above) 20 CDs of the musical worth $20 each 30 Corporate Animals T-shirts worth $20 each Send your name, address, telephone, IC number and three front-page logos of The New Paper (dated
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  • Brian Miller
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      Cross Colours' a good mix
      272 30 YOU'VE probably seen them at one time or another performing in pubs and lounges all over the city. After all, each has been active on the entertainment circuit for umpteen years. But, you have probably never seen them performing together until now, that is. So
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      254 30 IN 1988, Robin Anthony teamed up with his brother, Frank, to win the then-SBC Talentime. Later, they took their act to pubs and lounges where they soon earned a name for themselves by doing a mainly country repertoire. Today, Robin has gone solo and
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    531 35 THENEWSTODAY TCS actress Wang Wei was dragged for several metres along a busy Johor Baru road when she tried to stop robbers from making off with her new MercedesBenz. Her ordeal happened between 2 and 3 pm on Thursday near the popular Sentosa
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      285 36 A REPEAT shoplifter became a prisoner in his own home when he was sentenced to wear a electronic tag that would stop him going out during his "curfew" hours. Clive Barratt's tag will alert private security guards if he leaves home between 8 am and 8
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      185 37 Source: Wire services. A YOUNG man had his arm blown off after he allegedly set off a home-made bomb outside the crowded main train station in Guangzhou, southern China. Two passers-by were also injured in the morning rush hour blast. A second
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      330 37 Reuter IN the middle of the French nuclear test row has come the US Senate's vote allowing low yield nuclear tests. Opponents say this will show the world that the US is not willing to end all nuclear testing. They had been trying to remove
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      703 38 OS mmm. NOON Empty Nwt Roots (Comedy/last episode) 12.30 Saved by tho Boll: The New Class Squash It (Comedy): The gang aims to sell the most number of tickets for the school carnival in order to get the grand prize. 1.00 Boy Moots World Career Day (Comedy): At Career Day
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      218 39 TVTREATS MONDAY, AUGUST 7 Murphy Brown (Channel 5/11.15pm): To everyone's surprise, former FYI reporter and big-time loser, Stuart Best, becomes a congressman. TUESDAY, AUGUST 8 TC 2000 (Channel 5/11.00pm): futuristic thriller about a security officer who fights against enemy forces with the help of a martial arts expert. Stars Bolo
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      888 39 THE NEW PAPER/Saturday, Atfgust 8, 1995 y Pay 4 -rkm&Qr 9.00 The Tick (Cartoon) I A 6.00 AM Eastern Magazine (Variety) 9.30 Biker Mice from Mart (Cartoon) 6.30 Healthy Living (Documentary) 10.00 Creepy Crawlers (Cartoon/Animation) V 7.00 Wonders in China (Documentary) 10.30 Phantom 2040 (Cartoon/Animation) 8.00 Do Re Mi (Variety)
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    478 40  -  ET CETERA WITH RAHUL PATHAK I MUST have been very young and impressionable when someone sat me down and convinced me that nothing was more important than Reason. If you thought about things hard enough, and honestly enough, you usually saw the way.
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      245 40 COMICRELIEF Calvin and Hobbes/Bin waterson WHEN A PERSON PAUSES IN ITS L\¥£ AN \NTERCEPT\ON THE MORE SEHTENCES YOO CONVERSATIONS X<X A. MIDSEUTENCE TO CHOOSE IH POOTBML.' *>Vj GRAB COMPLETE, THE HIGHER AREHT CONTESTS.' j POINT FOR WORD, THAT'S TWE BEST THE OTHER GWS \OEK AMD IOUR SCORE.' THE IDEA, \S
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      372 44 2366 Vehicloc 2366 Vehicles 2366 2366 ON A 'VIEW AND OFFER 1 BASIS Date 6th August 1995 (Sunday) dSIIII* f Venue 600 HougangAve3 camp (Mobil Petrol Station) Hougang Ave 3 Auto Business Re Ltd (A member of Tan Chong Motor Group) viewing from loaoam to ii-oosm Offers from 11.00 am
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      251 45 2748 Technical 2740 Tsohwicsl Positions Positions An Established Automation Company Requires: i 1 Diploma/ ITCI NTC in Mechanical Engineerina Involve in Automation, jig fixture design for the last 3 years 1 Site experience in Supervising assembly 1 j installation of automation machinery i > Able to negotiate with customer suppliers
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      280 49 "TOjank §9ou" We appreciate what you had gone through with us. GILBRALTAR CRESCENT FOOTBALL CLUB WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO FIGHT ON! COME AND SUPPORT GILBRALTAR CRESCENT THE PREMIER LEAGUE CLUB FROM THE NORTH, IN THE 2nd ROUND OF THE TIGER BEER F.A.S. PREMIER LEAGUE TTa&waffdls EDM ROCKERS GILBRALTAR CRESCENT
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      140 50 FACTFILE Name: Yolanda Chen Age: 34 Date of birth: 26 July, 1961 Height: 1.69 m Weight: 55kg Country: Russia Event Triple, jump, long jump The women's triple Cnp final will held on Tuesday Triple jumper Yolanda Chen (above doing stretching exercises on a
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      415 50 RACE FOR THE FASTEST MAN THE 100 m: QUICK FACTS Carl Lewis and world record-holder Leroy Burrell failed to qualify for the 100 m at the US trials. Linford Christie has won every major title since the Barcelona Olympics. British bookmaker Ladbrokes rated Christie even
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      416 51 LINFORD Christie was asked recently: What keeps you inching ahead of the pack after all these years? "I'm a lot stronger up here than others. I've learned to be," the world and Olympic champion said, tapping the side of his head. You can
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    531 52  -  JWif^TRACiNG PREVIEW/ By The Three Musketeers BILLIONS Success, a good thing beaten when second to Moo La Lah in the Magic Millions race last month, will come in for inspired betting in Race 4 at Kuala Lumpur this afternoon. He'll most likely start at short odds
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      282 53 Reuter. Wire services. CUBAN long-jumper Ivan Pedroso was told yesterday that he could keep his US$l3O,OOO ($182,000) Ferrari sports car. The car was one of his prizes for his world record leap, now the subject of controversy. Organisers of the meeting in the Italian Alpine resort of
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      102 53 AFP. CARL Lewis is likely to miss the long jump competition because of a nagging hamstring injury. "I had a workout this morning (yesterday) and I don't feel my leg will come around for me to compete. If I had to make a decision right now I would
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      279 53 Wire services. No rocking: A disco in the athletes' village pounding out rock music until midnight will be shut down. This follows complaints made by the British, Spanish and Canadian delegations. Cuban Alberto Juantorena, the chairman of the lAAF's Athlete's Commission, said: "We know about the problem, and it
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      23 54 Rugby is a sport other. This game is dj teamwork, not ind&Ktual put your for the team. WmKhow the Khoo (left)
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      796 55 factfile Nairn: Terence Khoo Chi Siang Age: 24 Date of birth: 2 Feb, 1971 Height: 1.79 m Weight 80kg Marital Status: Single Schools: Anglo-Chinese, Ri
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      246 55 Wire services. David Speedie: Scottish international David Speedie is having talks with his local pub team because no professional club wants to sign him. Speedie put himself on the list of available players in the Endsleigh League after doctors cleared him of a knee injury which threatened to end
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      204 56 AFP. LAST season's managerial upheavals in the English Premiership will continue. This is according to odds released by top bookmaker William Hill. Twelve bosses parted company with Premiership clubs last season. Seven top-flight managers are rated at odds-on to lose their jobs with new
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      293 56 Reuter. Middlesbrough manager Bryan Robson's latest bid to land striker Nick Barmby has been rejected by Tottenham chairman Alan Sugar. Robson reportedly increased his offer to more than £5 million ($ll million). But Sugar said: "We have bent over backwards to try to convince Nicky to stay
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      125 56 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: SOCCER Div One Belgium: Aalst 3 Anderlccht 1. France: Nantes 1 Paris St Germain 2. U-17 World Youth Cup: Spain 2 Australia 2, Brazil 3 Germany 0, Qatar 1 Nigeria 1, Oman 2 Canada 1. TENNIS Czech Open q-flnals: Nicklas Kulti (Swe)
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    400 57  -  LIONS 3 TAMPINES ROVERS 0 By Jeffrey Low LOOKS like the blues just won't go away for the Lions. Against lowly opposition which they were supposed to eat for breakfast, the Lions showed little appetite for good football last night. Here was a chance for them to restore
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    250 57 St Gabriel Secondary's victory in the C Division soccer tournament brings great joy to the team, but it is also tinged with sadness. CALVIN LOW finds out why... ONE man more than others would have basked in the success of St Gabriel Secondary's C Division soccer victory.
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    172 57  -  FACTFILE Name: Mohd Jaslee Hat ta (nickname: Jay Jay) Date of Mrtii: July 11, 1987 Height 1.68 m Weight 46kg Favourite player: Alan Davidson (Pahang) By Calvin Low WATCH out Rafi Ali, Mohd Jaslee Hatta, 14. The captain of the victorious St Gabriel's Secondary School
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