The New Paper, 31 August 1996

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1 65 The New Paper
  • 14 1 the new paper SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1996 MTTA CP) 061/U96 60 CENTS weekend edition
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    • 38 1 P After watching Malaysian for two days, SGulamsays: |WI H'[U HJ A 4i] 1 A I ;£vJ 4^11! I•] Jik Wiln N■mUJ I 111 *oj Ii 11 i "fil r* MW WK//^^W/K[ Another quality publication of Singapore Press
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 398 2 MUDSLIDE IN PERAK Sources: Utusan Malaysia, Bernama. DURIAN trees saved the life of at least two victims of yesterday's mudslide at an Orang Asli settlement near Kampar, Perak. Mr Baten Ba'ahk said he escaped by clinging to a durian fruit tree for l'/fe-half hours. But nine
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    • 165 2 Bernama. AT least 15 people were killed and 40 others are missing in a massive mudslide in Perak. The mudslide took place at 6.30 pm on Thursday after heavy rain and floods swept away the Pos Dipang Orang Asli (aborigine) settlement near Kampar. Police said the dead 14
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    • 464 3 Now she regrets not having house transferred to her name The wife of former Minister ofStatefor Labour Wee Toon Boon withdrew her claim to a share of their Bukit Timah bungalow on Wednesday, after a High Court judge told her that she had no
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    • 155 3 MEMORIES came flooding as Madam Koh looked around the bungalow. "Our five young children had a lot of space to run around, to study. My husband was rising to state minister. 1 started a jewellery business." But the good times passed. Her eldest son died at
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    • 102 3 MR WEE Toon Boon was a director of Winds Cruises, which ran a ship as an offshore casino. In 1993, he signed an agreement with International Factors Leasing (IFL) to back the company's borrowings. The company closed in September 1994. In October 1994, IFL sued Mr Wee and
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 142 4 AMCOL SAGA k HOT I L STORIES i AMCOL Holdings'judicial managers went into action yesterday as soon as their appointments were confirmed. They got a landmark High Court order giving them wide powers to look into what went wrong with Am col, bring to book any
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    • 72 4 AMCOL Holdings' multi-million-dollar project to build a casino, racecourse and homes in Mauritius has been called off. The deal lapsed automatically because Amcol's partner in Mauritius, businessman Roland Maurel, decided not to buy 41 per cent of the shares owned by government-run State Investments Corporation. Amcol judicial
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    • 27 4 The Dow Jones industrial average fell 31.44 points to close at 5,616.21 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 259 million shares.
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    • 170 4 BOYS in a mixed school got much better grades after being put in separate classes, said London's Sunday Times newspaper. In a study at the Cotswold School, 34 per cent got GCSE (equivalent to O level) grades of A to C in English this year four
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    • 64 4 The Straits Times: Sex scandal mars Clinton's big day The Business Times: Managers empowered to probe Amcol affairs Uanhe Zaobao: Bangkok Correspondent says China and Vietnam want Thailand to stop the US from setting up radio station in Bangkok Berita Harlan: Philippines, Moro seal peace deal RCS morning news:
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 54 4 TYCOON Ng Teng Fong is planning the northern Chinese port city of Dalian's biggest development, worth $1.55 billion. He will build a 600-room five-star hotel, a 60-storey luxury commercial and office tower, a hydrofoil quay and a 100,000 square metres shopping centre. The deal will be through
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      • 57 4 JAPAN'S defence agency has drafted a 4.96 trillion yen (5564.4 billion) budget for the next fiscal year. Much of the money is for buying tanks, planes and submarines under Japan's five-year defence build-up plan. The draft budget represents a 2.9 per cent increase over the budget for the
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      • 55 4 BRITAIN'S High Court has dashed the hopes of hundreds of British prisoners for an early release. It backed a move by Interior Minister Michael Howard to halt a flood of releases from jails under new guidelines adopted by the Prison Service. More than 500 inmates have been
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      • 56 4 EIGHTEEN of the 70 people rounded up from three nightspots early on Thursday have tested positive for Ecstasy. All 18 were picked up from Sparks Discotheque. A 21-year-old suspected drug vendor was also arrested there. In the crackdown on the drug since March, 370 of the 700
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      • 62 4 THE US has held talks with Singapore, New Zealand, Taiwan and Malaysia about "open skies" agreements. Such deals could let American and Asian airlines fly their choice of routes between the US and Asia and set fares that would not be under government rules. Any such pacts
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      • 62 4 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has called on all Malaysians to be more cultured as the country sought to be a developed nation by 2020. "On the 39th independence anniversary day, let us show our determination to revive our morale and set up a nation
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      • 63 4 FORMER South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan plans to appeal against his death sentence for mutiny, treason and corruption. Lawyer Lee Yang Woo said after meeting his client that Chun had decided to appeal on his lawyers' advice. His successor, Roh Tae Woo, will appeal against his
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • Article, Illustration
      605 5 Snakes alive! Some 2,ooosnakes, frogs, lizards and turtles are now on show at the Reptile Adventure Fair. A head above the rest are two unusual pairs of twins. YVONNE LIM "eavesdrops"on what four heads sharing two bodies might be talking about SHOW INFO What: Reptile Adventure When: Yesterday
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    • 195 5 IF you smell rotting bananas at the reptile fair, that's Mr Frank Yuwono trying to breed fruit flies. Mr Yuwono, 38, who 1 normally breeds snakes, lizards, frogs and turtles, feeds the flies to his frogs. He said ruefully: "I left some bananas in the store room, but
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    576 6 SINGAPORETODAY Want to fight rising costs? Then shop smart, the Cost Review Committee was recently told by the Consumers Association of Singapore. BERNARD PEREIRA speaks to a woman who swears by house brands MRS Adelene Leicester is a mother-of-two who doesn't believe in spending lavishly anymore. She was
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    • 399 8 EX A HIGH Court judge asked a former beauty queen to his chambers yesterday because he wanted to take a closer look at her facial scars. Justice M P H Rubin said the court room lighting made it difficult for him to see
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    • 96 8 THE accident took place at Dover Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue West junction in front of Singapore Polytechnic. The cab that Ms Leong was in was heading towards Clementi when it collided with Mr Gnanasekaran's taxi coming from the opposite direction. Ms Leong blamed Mr Gnanasekaran for the accident.
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    • 200 9 STARS DIVE FOR CHARITY LOTS of stars will be on show today as Underwater World Singapore celebrates its fifth anniversary. And you can catch them at half-price. Look out for the TCS stars who will dive into the waters and two "star" fish. They include
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    • 181 9 TWENTY-ONE hotels and restaurants are using plastic boxes to collect money for the Children's Cancer Foundation. The boxes carry the hopes of 200 families helped by the Foundation. The Food and Beverage Managers' Association (F&BMA), organising this donation drive, hopes each box will have $5,000
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 344 11  -  By Ivy Ong FOR months, the police had been trying to locate a robber operating in Tampines. He left so few clues. But one lucky pounce by a member of the public broke the case. Yesterday, Mr Low Teck Siah, 44, a kiosk operator,
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    • 279 12  -  By Ivy Ong Twenty-three Myanmar nationals had their own little "embassy" in an apartment off River Valley Road. But unlike the real embassy, this one did not require any security checks to enter. Early yesterday morning, police raided the apartment and seized: 26 Myanmar passports with
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  • 503 14 'BUBBLY CHARACTER' SGH sources said Dr Hoon was supposed to return home in September, but had decided to prolong her stay with a six-month clinical attachment to a London hospital. Mr Lawrence Lim, the SGH chief executive officer, said that Dr Hoon's
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    • 146 16 INVITING ALL A' LEVEL HOLDERS, POLYTECHNIC DIPLOMA HOLDERS, GRADUATES, HONOURS STUDENTS AND FINAL-YEAR POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS OR UNDERGRADUATES TO APPLY. TRAINED TEACHERS ARE ALSO INVITED TO APPLY. APPLICATION FORMS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES. APPLY NOW. Ministry of Education National Institute of Education Singapore Polytechnic Temasek Polytechnic Ngoo Ann Polytachnic
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 316 17  -  TRIAL OF ACUPUNCTURIST By Chan Seet Fun ZENG Guoyuan, 42, an acupuncturist accused of molest, had tried to have his police statements excluded from his trial. But yesterday, after a six-day trial-within-a-trial, all five statements were admitted as evidence. However, when recording officer Sergeant Jagir Singh
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    • 172 17 POLICE prosecutor Kulip Singh lifted his leg and stamped his foot on the top corner of his table to drive home a point in court. He wanted to show that Zeng's alleged foot injury, which he claimed had been caused when a police officer stepped on
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    • 83 17 The jungle was silent. My eyes strained for a hint of the massive leopard nearby. He could only be a few feet away through the glass window. Then CRACK! A twig snapped behind me. It was just my kid eating a prawn cracker. A world first. Just next to the
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  • 426 18 DIALOGUE WITH MALAY COMMUNITY THENEWSTODAY WE must take a rational, long-term view of the re-merger idea, said grassroots leader Jaffar Sidin, 44. "We should not be excited about the idea of re-merger, nor should we move to the other extreme to close our minds
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    • 308 19 31 August to 8 September only Usual Now 533-539 4. DONNA BY RENO WKmWjIZBmR Centre to jj/ tsetan Scotts Isetan Ochard Isetan Parkway Isetan Tampines Sogo(RC) Takashimaya CONGRATULATIONS! TO THE FOLLOWING WINNERS: Abdullah Bin Alwec Lim Bor Liu 1C: 5H*****2 1 IC: *****642-E Abu IChairul Hifiet Lim En Sheng Bin
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    • 203 19 BOOKFAIR SPECIAL INTEREST EVENTS PROGRAMME FOR pm MANDARIN SPEAKERS Getting to Know ike Internet Lye Sum 3.00 5.00 pm Venue: Coostoi Suites, Adjacent to Hall 2 learn a Rhyme, Paint a Picture e 6.30 8.30 pm by Mr Patrick Yee V«n*te: Coastol Suites, Adjacent to Hall 2 CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMES SEIHMPROVEMENT
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  • 343 20 Four people were hanged in Changi Prison yesterday. Three were murderers and one, a drug trafficker. IVY ONG looks into the crimes that led to their hanging SINGAPORETODAY Zainal AbkJin Abdul MaHk, 29. Crime: Murdering a police officer. Facts: While doing his
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    • 262 20 To celebrate our 3rd Anniversary in style, we've lined up a fun-packed M\ I x programme from Aug 31 Oct 13, 1996. Join us in our Anniversary celebrations and you could be on your way to a super holiday. Grand Draw j Aug 31- Oct /3 Jr /stTVize: (~*%n(J True
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 124 21 FROM today until Sept 8, you can sign up to join the New Faces Upclose club at the Book Fair. We will be at booths 123 and 124 from 11 am to 9 pm at the World Trade Centre Hall 1. For $15, you get: Free CyberWay
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    • 362 21 NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY AFP. INDIA offered a nuclear olive branch yesterday, indicating how it could co-operate for a global test ban treaty. Foreign Minister Inder Kumar Gujral said India would drop its opposition to a treaty if a controversial clause forcing it to
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    • 129 21 THIS copy of The New Paper entitles you to a bottle of Oasis, a new natural-flavoured drink from Australia. Just present it at any of the following locations between 2 and 4 pm. Parkway Parade (main mall) Bugis Junction (fountain area) Orchard MRT station There are 1,000
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 382 22 FALL OF CLINTON'S TOP CAMPAIGN MAN Source: Time, USA Today, Times of London. HE was once President Bill Clinton's secret agent, known only as "Charlie". For several months in 1995, Mr Dick Morris, the top campaign aide who resigned after a scandal
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    • 104 22 MR Morris and Mr Clinton have had a stormy politician-adviser relationship for nearly 20 years. Mr Clinton did not quite trust Mr Morris. When the President was on top, he Would ditch Mr Morris, such as after winning tRe 1978 race for governor in Arkansas and the presidency
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  • 406 24 WORLDTODAY Reuter. PRESIDENT Bill Clinton may be 23 years younger than his Republic rival, Mr Bob Dole. But the fight to keep his key to the White House is beginning to wear him down. Looking very tired, the 50-year-old warned yesterday against over-confidence and said the fight
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    • 284 24 m I As we celebrate our Ist birthday at Prime 12 and Premiere 12, here's a birthday puzzle contest for you! For 12 days starting 1 September 1996, loak out for 12 clues on Prime 12 and Premiere 12 while you are enjoying our programmes. Each clue will be revealed
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    • 62 25 creg iT/TTt r?g y,' 1 '/> iWl'i 1 t -v.. II IhA l!ll 111 :< 4 h|Hk fc?™™ ij if I I 4 I I Chicken rice and fishball noodles can be found in practically euery hawker centre. But satau babat (tripe) I I JILL LIM goes in search of
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    • COVERSTORY
      • 499 26  -  REPORTS JILL LIM SO you have a craving for fire-roasted intestines. Or your tongue itches to taste stomach again. And you long to sink your teeth into, mmm, liver. Unfortunately, most satay sellers sell only chicken, beef and mutton satay. You have to count on
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      • 477 27 YOU will be forgiven if you think lo kai yik is a person. For the savoury and slightly sweet dish (stewed chicken wings, in Cantonese) is very rare. How often have you seen the dish which is a combination of chicken intestines, tau pok
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      • 366 27 MR Chong Chiow Yen, 42, was a yong tau foo seller for more than 10 years, until it struck him that there was something missing from the Singapore food scene lo kai yik. "I remember I used to eat it when I was younger, but I
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    • COVERSTORY
      • 464 29 AT RAUDHATUL Iman Cafe at Far East Plaza, don't be surprised if some customers are called "Pattaya face". They are just regular customers who eat only the house special: nasi Pattaya and nasi paprik. Nasi paprik is white rice, topped with chicken, vegetables and small prawns
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      • 55 29 I couldn't find it in Singapore, not even in Thai restaurants. I kept asking about it and finally someone told me about this place which sells it. Mr Craig Shim, nasi Pattaya "addict" WHAT: Nasi Pattaya and nasi paprik WHERE: Raudhatul Iman Cafe, #05-65/66, Far East Plaza WHEN:
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      • 243 29 NASI PAPRIK NASI PATTAYA NASI paprik is white rice, topped with chicken, cauliflower, broccoli, sliced baby com, green peppers and small prawns in a spicy sauce. Nasi goreng paprik is rice fried in the sauce with the food. Nasi Pattaya is the spicy rice and food folded up in an
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    • COVERSTORY
      • 530 31 Kitchen queens: Two cookbook writers remember their favourite dishes from those good old days when food was "disgustingly rich and disgustingly sweet" VIOLET OON MS VIOLET Oon (lea), 47, cook, cookbook writer, food critic and restaurant owner said: "I really miss satay perut (stomach). You can't get
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      • 713 32  -  KEN JALLEH JR YOU may find this ridiculous but, cross my heart and hope to die (which means sumpah), never in all my 35 months of adulthood have I ever entertained the thought of standing for election. There are two good reasons for this:
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    • 134 32 Visit us at the Singapore International Book Fair Worid Trade Centre. Stand 91-96, 31 Aug to Sep 199© Latest comics and books on Chinese philosophy, history, art and literature, language kits by Lin Shan; Chinese nursery rhymes for children. Spec/a/ Event: Learn A Rhyme, Paint. A Picture by Patrick Yee.
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  • SPOTLIGHT
    • 940 33 No romance,please CUPID CAN WAIT: Two President's Scholars tell CAROL LEONG why boyfriends and girlfriends have to wait Guys? I can't afford such emotional ties PRETTY, poised and sociable. But Lee Chen Ee, 19, the only woman among the four newly named President's Scholars, does not have a boyfriend. "I
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    • 278 33 BEHIND a great scholar, is a woman. Ask Kelvin Lim who his greatest role model was and a sheen of tears appears in his eyes. His grandmother died this April of heart and kidney problems. "She used to sell newspapers to support my father,"
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    • 208 33 NOW that he's going to Harvard University to study economics, Davin Chor had to reluctantly go shopping. "I'm a frugal, simple-living sort of person," said the ex-Raffles Junior College student. "My only extravagance is Chinese CDs. No particular singer anything that catches my ear." Davin, 18,
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  • Brian Miller
    • 170 34 ANOTHER joint has gone country but who's counting? For the last month, a duo has been churning out country music in the East Coast area. The place is called Uncle Tom's Cabin. It's at 138, East Coast Road and the two who play
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    • 290 34 THE first question popped by visitors to Off Quay is: "Who's playing tonight?" It's only natural. You see, no two nights are the same at this pub along Boat Quay. One evening you might be entertained by the owner, Tony Goh, on his acoustic guitar.
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    • 139 34 YOU don't need to be a soccer fan to have a ball of a time at the National Stadium tomorrow evening. You see, if you're there for the opening ceremony of the Tiger Beer Cup soccer tournament, youH be treated to some first-class entertainment. This
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    • 115 35 Visit; us at the Singapore International Book Fair World Trade Centre. Stand 91-96, 31 Aug to 6 Sep 1996 Latest comics and books on Chinese philosophy, history, art and literature; language kits by Lin Shan; Chinese nursery rhymes for children. \—Special Event-: Learn /A Rhyme, Paint. A Picture by Patrick
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    • 53 56 Reuter. Top seed Pete Sampras survived a second-round fright after being pushed to the limit by young Czech, Jiri Novak. Sampras had to summon all his championship fortitude against the 21-year-old before pulling off a 6-3, 1-6,6-4,4-6,6-4 victory that, by the end, had the fans on the edge of
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    • 275 56 AFP. GABRIELA Sabatini's hopes of brightening up a bleak year with a good performance in the year's last Grand Slam were dashed yesterday. She was knocked out in the third round of the US Open tennis championships. Sweden's Asa Carlsson, ranked 59th in the world, beat
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    • 251 56 Reuter. AUSTRALIAN teenager Mark Philippousis is unleashing a lot more than just fireball serves to power his charge into the US Open third round. "I don't want people to think I've just got a serve and if that's not working then I
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    • 414 59 JEFFREY THAILAND THAILAND'S outspoken association vice-president Thavatchai Scyakul hit town last night and immediately launched himself into a series of why-nots. Named officially as the Thai national coach for the first time, the regular team manager appeared surprised at Doubting Thomases when his entourage of
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    • 213 59 SINGAPORE IT will be especially significant to Singapore's fans just where the Lions stand, for their doubts have been manifested in fast-declining S-League attendances. To them, quality matters, never mind about winning. And to them, Singapore should have dealt the big blow to Thailand in the
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    • 359 61 Reuter. OLYMPIC silver-medallist Frankie Fredericks defeated double Olympic champion Michael Johnson to clinch one of the most lucrative and satisfying 200 metres victories of his career yesterday. The Namibian, who finished second behind Johnson when the American ran a remarkable world record of 19.325 ec at the
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    • 488 62 the team Singapore's national junior netball team is No 1 in Asia after an eventful World Youth Netball Championships in Toronto Canada. CALVIN LOW finds out how the girls defied the odds to stay on top Tl IKY prepared as best as they could for the World
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    • 320 62 AGAINST ENGLAND, NEW ZEALAND SINGAPORE faced mighty England and New Zealand in its opening matches. Said Catherine Lee, 21: "We knew that certain teams were impossible to beat. So when we were thrashed 23-93 by England and 6-112 by New Zealand, we were not discouraged. AGAINST BERMUDA
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    • 523 63 ENGLAND'S OPPONENT Glenn Hoddle's first assignment as England manager is a trip to Moldova, the former Soviet Republic. The World Cup qualifier tomorrow is the country's biggest match since independence, reports Britain's The Mail on Sunday...
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