The New Paper, 6 July 1996

Microfilm: NL20624
Total Pages: 71
1 71 The New Paper
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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    14 1 the new paper SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1996 MTTA (P) 061/4/96 60 CENTS Weekend edition
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      43 1 NATIONAL UKtAT.Y StKCAPORB He's the BH i^^H /Page 12Ml Get your 16-page special on Bishan f| and Upper Thomson Fast or foul? Michael Johnson beaten in 200 m sprint /Page 57 2Rt 7 WM Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings http://web3.asia! .com.sg/tnp
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      47 1 3-year jail for S'porean Romeo who sweet-talks and cheats Asian women in Australia I j A i Wt i ■pvf t'.iSJ M i,\ H ii 36it i v ft iKP} i V t I Jtv. m f >» V -i-Aj V Ouch, not another BIG joke /Page 5
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Plans to turn Johor Straits into a waterway
      346 2 PR MAHATHIR SAYS: BRIDGE MAY REPLACE CAUSEWAY FERRIES, rather than commercial ships, are likely to ply the Johor Straits if it is used as a waterway. This is because the waters in some parts of the Straits are too shallow for big
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      Lock icon CAUSEWAY FACTS
      94 2 Source: New Straits Times Officially opened on June 28, 1924. It connects Johor Baru and Woodlands In Singapore. Now acts as only road and rail link between Singapore and Malaysia. Cost: S$17 million Length: 1.2 km Width: 18 m. In 1976, it was widened to 23.5 m at
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      Call Infoline
      167 2 PHASE One of the Primary 1 registration exercise ended on Thursday. More than half the total number of places are still available, even in popular schools such as St Andrew's Junior, Rosyth and Henry Park. The next phase, Phase 2A, begins on July 10 and is for children
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      21 2 Leisure index You feel Weekender. Pages 21-35 someone TV: Pages 43 deserves &44 highlighting Comics: Pages 45&46 Call us. Hotline "*****551
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Buying exec condos
      172 4 HOT kSTORY THOSE WHO CAN IF your private property has been bought over by the Government for public development, you can apply for an executive condominium straightaway. The Ministry of National Development (MND) said yesterday that affected owners do not have to wait the usual 30 months
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      High expectations
      93 4 In many countries, a three-room flat is more than si{fflcient..Also it is unrealistic to expect half of our young people having their own cars. So if you look at the overall trend, our youths are on the right track, but if you look at the details, then you
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
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        It costs to jump queue
        78 4 PSST! Want to jump Singapore's Great Ardmore Park Luxury Condo Queue? You can but it will cost up to $60,000, particularly if you want to be up front. Already someone has shelled out big bucks for a spot, although the property agent who sold it
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        Ecstasy arrests
        76 4 POLICE detained two Singaporeans and an Irishman after they were found with 20,000 Ecstasy pills strapped to their bodies as they entered Indonesia. Jakarta airport's custons chief said the pills were tied around the waists of the trio, identified as CKF, 27, EGK, 20, and LB, 20. Antara
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        Helping the aged
        55 4 THE Japanese Cabinet yesterday endorsed a 10-year outline on coping with the increasing number of pensioners. Steps included: Lifting the retirement age from 60 to 65 More employment opportunities for those older than 60 Introducing public nursing-care insurance for the aged Systems for managing the assets of
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        Costly gun violence
        74 4 GUNSHOT violence now costs the United States over US$2O billion ($2B billion) a year nearly killing as many as car smashes. Taxpayers pick up the big tab for medical expenses, which works out at US$2OO a household each year because four out of five gunshot victims are
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      HEADLINERS
      69 4 The Straits Timet: Malaysia 'may replace Causeway with bridge' The Butlnett Timet: Surprise KL bid to replace causeway with bridge Umhe Zaobao: Deng Kaiping in JB: Dr Mahathir proposes replacing the Causeway with a bridge Berita Harlan: Campaign to encourage mass exercise to continue RCS morning newt: US stock
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      DOW JONES
      28 4 The Dow Jones industrial average was down 114.88 points to end at 5,588.14 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 181 million shares.
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      353 4 Now you can get the skills and qualifications V you need for career success with an ICS Home Study Course. With ICS, learn in the comfort of your own home at the pace and times that suit you. ICS is the world's largest, most experienced home E study school. Over
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      When laughter is no fun
      349 5 The cast of the Channel 5 sitcom, Under One Roof, are starring iniheirfirst TV musical this Sunday—a show to launch this month's National Courtesy Campaign. They tell YONG SIEWFERN about meeting rude Singaporeans LET me tell you a story: Moses Lim (below) may look hap-py-go-lucky,
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      THE CAST SAYS
      174 5 People pass remarks about my baldness and think I don 'tfeel a thing. I did a commercial... a football bounced off my head people say to me, 'Eh, your head like batu (rock), can I hit it or not? 9 —Zaibo, 44, who plays the neighbour, Yusof
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      THE SHOW
      70 5 THIS Sunday, Moses and the rest of the Under One Roof cast will address the importance of being courteous in a musical, Bishan Goes Broadway. The only member missing will be Andrew Lim, who is too tied up with work. The one-hour musical is part of the 1996
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    Lock icon Shopping smart with $200
    606 6 Three lucky shoppers were each given $200 to shop. How did they stretch their dollar at the Great Singapore Sale? USA MARIE TAN rushes around with them to find out SINGAPORETODAY GIVING away money was never more difficult. The New Paper wanted to give three people
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      101 6 Watch the Best Professional and Amateur room (^ancers P.! Shanghai Hong Kong Taipei France Japan Malaysia Competing to be the I I 4 Appearing for the first time m Singapore Singapore esKSs: II and Malaysia (ballroom (dancing rif]i 9 Tickets at $10 each are championships People's Association A Tel: *****62
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      153 8 FT* (Tin UtJ v jf r^ffl iTlMiilMßMi'iii 111 IMMTOfflrtratll tay;e, r J ■P' H iU JMk Just as water shapes its flow in accordance with the terrain, the hkT th7/w~~l I I Send me more information Q Arrange for a career chat with soldier must be able to adapt to
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Youth groups play with space
      169 9 WHAT: Launch of PAYM Playspace Explosion and Other Happenin' WHERE: Hong Kah Remote Control Car Playspace, in the precinct park between Blocks 550 and 556, Jurong West Street 42. WHEN: Tomorrow 10 am. By Yvonne Lim A PIECE of sidewalk turned life-sized board game. A
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      I've asthma, molester tells cops
      427 10 A 14-year-old boy was sentenced to 18 months' probation for molesting six primary school girls. When caught, he did not run. RIANAZAKIR finds out why FOR four months, the 14-year-old staked out void decks near a primary school, watching schoolgirls pass by. Hiding behind the
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      117 10 Iresultsl SWISS HIGHLIGHTS Swiss Puzzle/Takashimaya SMART Cardholders/ Swiss Food Promotion at Cold Storage Contests Held From June 21 30,1996 Major Prize Winners: Ist KorKheeHong *****90J 2nd SeowTeckGuan *****40J 3rd Miranda Diosdado *****04 4th Margaret Hoe *****46H sth Oh Lay Keng *****60F 6th GohPhuiChoo *****98H 7th Aw Yong Hong *****20 D
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      S'porean Romeo Sweet-talks 'em, dates 'em, cheats 'em
      580 12 Many women in Australia had fallen prey to sweet-talking Singaporean Romeo, Jeffrey Chia Keong Weng. The cruel Casanova kept a telephone book with about2oo names of women. Yesterday, the conman was jailed three years. AUGUSTINE PANG reports Of Chia's eight victims, six
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      Judge: You're cruel
      197 12 A CRUEL conman. This jvas what the magistrate called Jeffrey Chia yesterday. "You've cruelly cheated these girls to satisfy your gambling habit. "You've caused them considerable burden, embarrassment, loss of confidence and trust in people and psychological trauma. "You're someone without assets but so are your victims
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      OTHER PROBES
      59 12 JEFFREY Chia is also being investigated in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia. Two years ago, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation probed the complaints made by many women in its current affairs program, 7.30 Report. Chia was filmed dating different women at different times. When the TV reporter
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      HOW CHIA IS ARRESTED
      209 12 April 2,1996: Chia befriends a Japanese tourist, Yumi Ishiyama, at her hostel. The next day, Chla asks Ms Ishiyama for A 52,000 to pay for his rented Toyota Corolla. He writes on lOU note to her and promises to return the money the next day. Ms
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      ONE VICTIM TELLS HER STORY
      395 12 MISS X thought Jeffrey Chia "was there to fill a vacuum in my life". Little did she expect that in five days, he would have cheated her of 90 per cent of the money she had in Australia. Miss X, 21, a business management student,
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      JEFF PRETENDED TO CUT WRIST WHEN I WANTED BREAK-UP
      159 12 On Feb 19, Jeff and I moved out of Enterprise Hotel to an apartment in South Yarra. Jeff told me that he still needed about A 515,000 or A 516,000 to pay off his bank loan. On Feb 25,1 contacted my
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Not men only — women also ... maybe
      607 14  - Not men only women also maybe ROTARY CLUB The first organisation of Rotary Clubs was created in 1910. Its motto is service above self. Itisa voluntary international organisation made up of business and professional persons. The aim is to promote fellowship and goodwill through fund raising and other community projects.
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      She joined in 1989
      132 14 MRS Angelia Leong, 50, (left) was one of the first women invited to join a Rotary Club.. She became a member of Serangoon Gardens Rotary Club in 1989. Though the club is mostly male, the general manager of A A Toyota Rental said she isn't treated
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      LONGEST SATAY
      103 16 LAST Sunday's sale of the world's longest satay raised $7,162 for the Children's Cancer Foundation. The 38 m-long satay, a joint effort between Clarke Quay and the Clarke Quay Satay Club, required 50 men to grill 300 kg of chicken meat. In all, 50 portable grills and 50
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      Come eat this record
      241 16  -  By Gerard Wong FIRST, there was the world's longest satay. Now, get ready for the world's tallest sandwich. After last Sunday's successful grilling of a 38 m-long chicken satay in Clarke Quay, the management has decided to fill another tall order for charity. This time, together
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Police NS and the old days
      412 18 Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng gave out awards to NSmen last night for their contribution to the Police Association for National Servicemen. The occasion was a ceremony honouring the pioneers of the Police National Service. IVYONG profiles two pioneers and an award winner
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      HE HELPS WITH LAYOUTS
      160 18 MOST people would panic if they got calls from the police almost every week. But not Mr Ong Ek Koon, 39, an architect. Mr Ong, a police NSman, is a consulting architect for the Singapore Police Association for National Servicemen (Spans). Said Mr Ong: "They call
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      All must be equal before law
      124 19 The law, to be respected and effective, must apply to all equally. That being the case, it is (vital) that the law be made easily accessible to everyone f whatever his circumstances. Even a little knowledge of the law gives a person some degree
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      Girls gang up on victim in toilet
      406 19  -  By Chan Seet Fun A 15-YEAR-old girl was dragged by a group of girls from one toilet in a bowling alley to another at a theme park, then slapped and kicked by two of them. But after she cried and begged them to
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      41 18 I W| A 1 4i 111 I ■fill II Ivj p J ft The Consumers Association of Singapore celebrates its 25th Rnniversaiy in 1996. One of our fund raising activities is the release of our 4-piece limited-edition Transit Link Card Set.
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      69 19 tP pokka r</ Co^ ee KIASU CLOCK OFFER Milk Coffee 240 ml Mi With every purchase of 1 any 6 cans of Pokka Coffee! I I GET THIS NOW FOR I I $9.90 OHLY f Milk Coffee 315 ml W Offer valid at any 7-Eleven outlets P from 1 June
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      54 20 A -k k v* JL <k«v•.«#► vv "*h "vlk v iW »0 l v i &> Jt> Joanna Wan (above), 11, is tired ol the applause and the back-breaking routines. Hers is a weird and \vearv world. I*or the I*ram is children, however, ii is a magical and lien world.
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    • COVERSTORY
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        Lock icon Wan-der kids' world of tricks
        579 21  -  weary REPORTS RIANA ZAKIR DONT peep into Mr Patrick Wan's Bukit Batok maisonette when he is exercising with his four children, aged three to 11. You may just call the police. He splits their legs 180 degrees apart, pins them facedown with his 70-kg frame
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        TRICKS, NO TREATS
        335 21 SAY June and December holidays, and Joanna and Aaron pull a long face. While their classmates and friends go to the movies or travel, they have to perform almost every day, up to four shows a day. On some days, they even work past their 10 pm
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        PUTTING THE SHOW ON THE ROAD
        235 21 GETTING ready for a show is a swift affair for the Wans. In just 45 minutes, they can reach the venue by car from home, set the stage and begin stretching. All 12 kg of props, like a drum, a flower-stand and a bar
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        Lock icon Fiery magic — from Francis family
        614 22 Fiery magic from Francis family BEHIND shut doors and drawn curtains, a man tries to chop off his son's head with a home-made guillotine. The stainless steel blade swooshes down and slices two cucumbers laid beside the boy's neck on the block. But no blood is spilled and nobody is
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        Talk about bad breath and hot lips
        545 22 AUNDREY Francis, 19, will not kiss his girlfriend for three hours after every fire eating performance. Why? His mouth stinks like a petrol station after gargling spirits and spraying them out to light a 5 m fire torch. "I will take mint or
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      43 23 BL^y I Far East Plaza Wisma Atria Lucky Plaza Forum The Shopping Mall Tanglin Mall Raffles City Shopping Centre Millenia Walk BM I Chinatown Point Jurong Point Lot One Shopping Centre Northpoint Tampines Mall Toa Payoh Central White Sands MCL jkfeNi *ss i
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    Taking the wind out of the Great S'pore Sale
    921 24  -  weekender KEN JALLEH JR THERE has never been any urge to join the shopping stampede on Orchard Road, except perhaps to patronise the excellent lavatory facility at the Paragon. Thus, with due respect to the tourist promotion people and sympathy to
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  • SPOTLIGHT
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      Lock icon The richest girl in the world
      657 25 SHE rides in bullet-proof limousines and has armed guards constantly by her side. Her home is an 18-room villa in the Swiss village of Gingins (population: 500), equipped with surveillance cameras in every room, electronic detectors and anti-kid-napping gadgets, reports the British newspaper, Daily
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      The mum she forgot
      377 25 ARISTOTLE Onassis did not want a second child. He tried to prevent his wife, Tina Livanos, from giving birth to Christina. He already had a son and heir, Alexander, and claimed that more than one child "only clouds the issue". It was only after Alexander died
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  • Brian Miller
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      Mogan on CD
      314 26 WANT a dose of the folk rock? At any other time, you would have had to head down to Sunset Jive at the Paramount Shopping Centre to listen to a local lad go folk. Not anymore. You can now do your listening at home. You see, V
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      Shanique sings the blues
      112 26 SHE has performed at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. She's had top billing at jazz festivals. She has appeared on the same stage with Chaka Khan and El Deßarge. She's now in Singapore. Shanique is just 19 and rhythm and blues is what she delivers.
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  • SPOTLIGHT
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      Lock icon The richest girl in the world
      673 29 SHE rides in bullet-proof limousines and has armed guards constantly by her side. Her home is an 18-room villa in the Swiss Tillage of Gingins (population: 500), equipped with surveillance cameras in every room, electronic detectors and anti-kid-napping gadgets, reports the British newspaper, Daily
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      The mum she forgot
      377 29 ARISTOTLE Onassis did not want a second child. He tried to prevent his wife, Tina Livanos, from giving birth to Christina. He already had a son and heir, Alexander, and claimed that more than one child "only clouds the issue". It was only after Alexander died
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    June over
    377 30 weekender GLOS SORRY abacus popularity (n): upbead. ardmore park (proxies sleep-in queue) (n): a get-rich-OVERNIGHT scheme, (see also queue) bakun dam (v): to contain undercurrent. chicken prices up (v): chicken rise hard to swallow. cost of living wagging the INDEX finger. donor priority at university (n): money talks,
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      77 34 AFP. THE barges and tugboats shown in the photo (right) were among 110 vessels that blocked traffic in Hongkong's Victoria harbour yesterday in an eight-hour protest. Tugboat masters and cargo operators were protesting against government plans to change the operation of public cargo working areas. The
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      74 36 THE Secretary-General is appointed by the 185-mem-ber General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council, the UN's governing body. The Council has 15 members, but only the US, Britain, France, Russia and China are permanent. The five permanent members can block any decision made by the
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    553 50  -  SPORTS/RACING Preview By The Three Musketeers DREAM PARTNER is heading for the top class. The three-year-old has already won twice in three starts and we see him getting his hat-trick at Penang this afternoon. Although he cruised to victory in January this year, we were most
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      131 50 FOOD PROMOTION fl I 6THJULYTOI4TH JULY 1996 IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SINGAPORE FOOD FESTIVAL The IHalacca Food Promotion is back by popular demand, as part of this year's celebrations for Singapore's International Food Festival at Luna Coffee House. Apollo Hotel teams up once again with the Malacca State Development Corporation
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      339 51 AFP. FABRIZIO Ravanelli vented his bitterness at being sold by Juventus to English Premiership side Middlesbrough in one of the biggest transfer deals in English football. Ravanelli moved for £7 million ($15.4 million) to the Premiership club and is expected to earn £750,000 ($1.65 m)
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      93 51 AFP. SPANISH giant Barcelona signed Portuguese national goalkeeper Vitor Baia instead of German national Tceeper Andreas Koepke. Barcelona, coached by former England boss Bobby Robson, paid Portuguese champion Porto US$7.5 million ($10.5 m) for the goalkeeper. Baia, 26, agreed to an eight-year contract with Robson, his
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      527 52 South-east Asia Games champion trap shooter Lee Wung Yew is one of 15 Singaporeans vying for Olympic glory at Atlanta. He tells CALVIN LOW about his inspiration WHEN he first heard that he was going to the Atlanta Olympics, Lee Wung Yew's first reaction was: "Pau Si (sure
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      188 52 IN trap shooting, a machine throws out discs, the size of ash-trays, at speeds of between 65 and 70kmh and at random heights and angles for the shooters to gun down. Each hit scores one point. The machine throws out 25 discs in each of the
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      312 53 FAST FACTS The Bislett Games is the first Golden Four meeting of the season followed by Zurich, Brussels and Berlin after the Atlanta Olympics this month. Reuter. TD Frtukie Fredericks beat I m the ffm in yesterday's 200 W0 metres showdown in Oslo? Johnsonflp won 21
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      206 53 Reuter. IN the other shock of the Bislett Games, women's 100 m world champion, American Gwen Torrence, lost to her Jamaican arch-rival Merlene Ottey who clocked 10.955 ec in the 100 m. Despite Olympic 200 champion Torrence firing off the blocks, the statuesque world 200 m champion
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      77 53 The Bislett Games at Oslo, Norway Triptojump 1. Jonathan Edwards (Gbr) 17.68m 2. Francis Agyepong (Gbr) 17.18 3. Markov Gennadiy (Rus) 16.85 100m hurdles (wind 3. lm/s) 1. Ludmila Enquist (Swe) 12.48sec 2. Brigitta Bukovec (Slo) 12.67 3. Aliuska Lopez (Cub) 12.75 Men's 800m 1. Wilson Kipketer (Den)
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      118 54 How the main matches went (seeding* in hold): Singles: MEN (s-finals) 13Todd Martin (US) tied with MaliVai Washington (US) 7-5, 4-6, 7-6, 3-6 (match halted because of rain) Women (s-final) 1 Steffi Graf (Ger) bt 12 Kimiko Date (Jap) 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 Domm,, Men (s-flnal) 3 Byron Black
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      33 54 Today's main matches: Men It-final) 13 Todd Martin (US)v MaliVai Washington (US) Richard Krajicek (Hoi) v Jason Stoltenberg (Aus) Women (final) 1 Steffi Graf (Ger) v 4 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (Spa)
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      488 54  -  By Norman Stevens PERHAPS Shakespeare was not wrong when he wrote "Frailty, thy name is woman." It's just that the Bard of Avon never had a chance to meet Steffi Graf or Aranxta Sanchez-Vicario. Maybe Hamlet himself wouldn't have taken a different course. But, surely, Graf and
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      Rain drops, play stops
      119 54 RAIN is threatening to extend this year's contest into a third week unless the weather relents to allow the men's semi-finals to be completed today. Yesterday's programme was ruined, with less than three hours possible on Centre Court in the first semi-final between Americans Todd Martin
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      483 55  -  ASIAN CUP QUALIFIERS (Group 31: Thailand v Mvanmar (6pm. tomorrow). Singapore v Maldives (8pm. tomorrow) What can Thailand show the Kallangfans after Singapore's flop against Myanmar? And what can the laborious Lions do to the Maldives that the Thais couldn't? JEFFREY LOW previews tomorrow night's matches. CALL
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      313 55 WHAT has Singapore to offer after the two main strikers of the the past three years, Fandi Ahmad and V Selvaraj, are now hospital cases? Luckily for the Lions, it's the Maldives they're up against an opposition easy enough for the reserves to steel themselves
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    Upper Thomson Treats
    634 58 DIM Sum with a difference that's what you will get at Pau Palace at 185, Upper Thomson. For a start, proprietor Wong Ying Tung says that all his items are freshly prepared every day. "Our char siew paus, for instance, are made only in the morning based
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    A culinary move in the right direction
    499 60  -  Rupert Ong Compass Grill Restaurant a cosy restaurant with an unassuming frontage at 207 Upper Thomson Road is one of the better reasons to leave Shenton Way for a 20 minute drive (via the CTE) to the Thomson area for lunch. The restaurant's
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    All that glitters...
    603 65 NOWADAYS, it is not the chunky gold jewellery which our mothers used to stow away in their safe deposit box which brings a glint to every girl's eyes. Until recently, the modern career woman has eschewed fine jewellery in favour of costume jewellery. The former is perceived
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    A Feast of Choices at Bishan
    561 68 SHOPPING and eating the two great passions of Singaporeans are within easy reach at Bishan. From the moment you step out from Bishan MRT station. you'll be gripped by the Great Singapore Sale fever which has "invaded" this bustling housing estate. This is thanks
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    HAPPY DAYS are here again!
    286 70 Check out the innovative, under-one-roof concept ofNTUC Club's Bishan branch. REMEMBER the popular serial Happy Days, about the care-free days of teenagers in the sixties? Now, you can relive the nostalgia at Happy Days, the sixth branch of NTUC Club and the first to be
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