The New Paper, 26 October 1996

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 341 2 DR 'M' ON MALAYSIA'S 1997 BUDGET Bernama. THE Malaysian budget for next year may not seem very attractive, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad admitted yesterday. Why not? That's because it is actually a continuation of this year's budget. The Prime Minister said this
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    • 144 2 M$100,000 (S$56,600) levy on property purchases by foreigners to remain. M$1 billion National Housing Company to be set up to build low and medium-cost housing. Corporate tax rate unchanged at 30%. New M$50 charge per year for every credit card. Foreign shareholding of local brokerages up from
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    • 168 2 MISS WORLD BEAUTY CONTEST Source: AFP. THE show will go on. Organisers of the Miss World beauty contest say they will go ahead as planned in the southern Indian city of Bangalore next month. This is despite furious protests and threats of killings and self-burning from Hindu
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    • 201 3 What do you daydream about? A recent lifestyle survey done by Visa International found that Singaporeans do not daydream only about being rich. TEO HWEE NAK pieces together a profile of the day dreamers and their dreams. Living in different parts of th« world (16%) Slightly
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    • 114 3 FAMILY 75 per cent agreed that their lives revolved around their family. 64 per cent of women believed that life was incomplete without marriage and children compared to 57 percent of men. 68 percent did not feel it was right to cohabitate before marriage. TECHNOLOGY 56 per cent
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    • Article, Illustration
      138 3 fnlliMMLni Beirjilch 49% Singaporeans are shopaholics and live on credit. This may not be the true picture, as the Visa Lifestyle Survey shows. Only 22 per cent of the respondents admitted that they "shopped as a ritual" and more than half said they prefer paying in cash. The
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 85 4 HOT STORY LAND for 7,000 private homes will be released next year, said yesterday. The number is up from this year's 6,000 units. In addition, enough land will be sold to the private sector for 4,000 executive condominiums next year. The move is in
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    • 68 4 PRICES down: Since mid-May's anti-speculation curbs, private homes prices have fallen 5 to 8 per cent. Further slide of 10 to 15 per cent expected next year. Low demand for 99-year landed houses: About 20 per cent of the 7,000 units expected to be landed properties down
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    • 82 4 Tltt Straits TImm: KL boosts finance, high-tech sectors The Business Time*: Anwar unveils budget to boost services Lianhe Ziehi»: Singapore hopes to reach agreement on open air pact with the US soon Berita Harlan: Budget to slow down Malaysia's economy RCS morning news: The United Nations' chief calls for
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 61 4 LAWYER Low Seow Juan will not be allowed to practise for two years. This is because a court found he had behaved improperly. He signed his wife's name on six documents for property deals. The former partner of Drew Napier was ordered to pay the costs. Mr Low,
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      • 50 4 FRENCH President Jacques Chirac said yesterday the next United Nations secretary-general must be a fluent French speaker. He warned he would veto a non-French speaker, if current Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali failed to win re-election. The US has insisted it would block a second term for Dr Boutros-Ghali, 73.
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      • 57 4 CHOREOGRAPHER Guruh Soekarnoputra has dealt a big blow to sister Megawati and the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) she once led. He is quitting politics to concentrate on cultural and artistic activities. In pursuing these interests, Mr Guruh, a PDI MP, said he was linking up with Kosgoro
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      • 46 4 INDONESIA and Australia have agreed to develop a growth zone to boost bilateral economic cooperation. Named Aida, AustraliaIndonesia Development Area, it will cover Indonesia's eastern region, including Bali, and all of Australia. This was launched at the 3rd Indonesia-Australia Ministerial Forum which ended yesterday.
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      • 61 4 THE New York Times ran a letter from Singapore's Ambassador to the US, Professor Chan Heng Chee, responding to its Oct 21 column by William Satire. Prof Chan pointed out that Singapore is a parliamentary democracy where ministers are elected MPs. It had high ratings in several
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      • 56 4 MALAYSIA'S low and medium-cost housing programme will get a boost. A National Housing Company with a M$1 billion (S$565.6 million) fund will be set up, said Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim in his budget speech. It is believed the company may be fashioned after Singapore's Housing and Development Board
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    • 24 4 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 14.54 points to 6,007.02 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 365 million shares.
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 373 5  -  By Crispina Robert THEY were there for just one week and yesterday they were gone. Paintings of Indian deity Lord Krishna, which graced two ends of a decorative arch at Serangoon Road, have been removed after many Hindus claimed they didn't look anything like him.
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    • 173 5 WE work closely with all relevant religious organisations when we plan for light-ups during festivals said the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB). "In this case, we worked closely with the Hindu Endowment Board (HEB) and the sketches of the entire design were shown to them," said Mr Michael
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    • 284 6  -  By. John Low THE man looked like a serious buyer. He was a familiar face, having been in the pawnshop the day before. He even returned the next day to strike a deal. Then he really struck gold this time when he fled
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    • 14 6 The maximum penalty for theft is three years jail, a fine or both.
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    • 93 6 THIS is not the first time that a thief has taken off with valuables under the nose of a pawnbroker at the shop. In February, a man ran off with a gold bracelet worth about $4,000. After Thursday's theft, the shop's owner, Mr Ho Jun Kway (unrelated
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 358 9 Thirty-three Singapore Police Force and Singapore Civil Defence Force National Service officers were promoted in the first such joint exercise held last night. ALETHEA UM speaks to one of them Police National Service officer Zack Zainal will be making his acting debut soon. But his
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    • 277 10 A Central Narcotics Bureau study released yesterday showed that most glue-sniffers were poorly-educated Chinese men below 20 years old. IVY ONG profiles a typical case from the CNB files MATTHEW was tfj&ng to give up glue sniffing. But a packet of glue that another abuser
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    • 28 10 FIRST time inhalant abusers are put under one year's supervision. Repeat offenders are put in the Inhalant Treatment Centre. Inhalant abusers normally use rubber-based glue or thinner.
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    • 189 10 TO curb the rise in the number of gluesniffers, CNB will make it harder for them to get supplies. In the first half of this year, 241 were arrested. This is about 85 per cent of the total number of abusers caught all of last year. Of
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 299 12  -  He touches victim's breast She punches his arm, grabs his hand and shouts for help Another woman comes to her help The two women give chase BY Jill Lim A WOMAN who was molested on a bus refused to take it sitting down. Instead, she fought
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    • 44 12 Ong Bock Chuan (right) was sentenced to six months' Jail and three strokes of the COM. Those found guilty of using criminal force to outrage modesty can be Jailed for up to two years. He or she can also be caned or fined.
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    • 64 12 THE molest may cost Ong more than a court sentence. His lawyer, Mr Thomas Tan, told the court that Ong has had to shelve his wedding plans. Dug's fiancee has not forgiven him for the ofThe lawyer added that Ong was under "tremenmitted theoffencein july^ he had ttf
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  • 727 14  -  SINGAPORETODAY 30% discount That's was how much one ticket prepared to slash the price for the $160 tickets to Jackson's show. Its advertisement for the cheaper tickets appeMed in The Now Paper. (See fax at left) Ticket sales were reported to be slow, with nearly
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 503 16  - 'Don't visit me at home ever' —Grandfather Rajabali to grandson Rafiq Jumabhoy By Brian Miller IT was in 1994 and early 1995 that the cracks began to appear on the seemingly-solid Jumabhoy family facade. However, at that time, few outside the inner circle knew of the feuding and fighting and
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    • 214 17 Son Ameerali to father Rajabali Jumabhoy EXCHANGE OF THE DAY LAWYER K Shanmugam questioned Mr Rajabali Jumabhoy on the pledges which Mr Rafiq and his brother Mr Iqbal had approved. Mr Shanmugam: "Is it your complaint that YR (Yusuf) and MR (Mustafa) were not
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    • 74 17 Mr Rajabali Jumabhoy, patriarch of the Jumabhoy family, is suing his eldest son, Mr Ameerali, and two of his grandsons, Mr Rafiq and Mr Iqbal. This is to enforce his 1957 settlement which, upon his death, equally divides his assets among all members of his family. He has
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    • 37 17 THE feud started simmering even more when eldest son Ameerali, in a bitter exchange in Scotts office, called his father, Mr Rajabali Jumabhoy (left) a liar and accusd him of bullying him and his family.
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    • 377 18 What happens when the electricity gets cut off suddenly in a hospital during an operation? ALETHEA UMfinds out how a team of Singapore doctors and nurses coped during their mission trip in Cambodia Cleft lip and palate THIS is a birth defect which causes deformity of
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 326 21 A MAN wanted over the ambush murder of a school teacher shot himself dead as he drove his car down a busy highway during a police chase in Sydney. Rqj Dhillon, 53, killed himself and his car slammed off a police car into a power pole
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    • 144 21 Sydney bureau. RAJ Dhillon terrorised the Valeran family for nearly eight months, Mr Frank Valeran said yesterday. "My mother met him at the Mount Pritchard Club about a year ago," he said. "But within two weeks she didn't want anything to do with him. "He threatened to kill
      Sydney bureau.  -  144 words
    • 519 22  -  Unless there's an alien attack, says joke BY Rosnah Ahmad REPORTING FROM NEW YORK REPUBLICAN candidate Bob Dole may just be able to win the presidential election if any or all of these things happen on Nov 5: An earthquake in California, a
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  • weekender
    • COVERSTORY
      • 204 24  -  REPORTS IRENE NG COST of living cropped up as a big concern for many HDB residents, according to a straw poll by The New Paper. Living costs was cited as an issue by about 80 out of 100 of the HDB residents interviewed over
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      • 336 24 THE BARE NECESSITIES: Many of those interviewed, especially the lower-income and the elderly, worry about the cost of basic necessities going up HOW much you spend depends a lot on what kind of food you buy today, compared to 10 years ago.
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      • 407 25 KEEPING UP: Some Singaporeans, especially the lower-skilled and the ambitious yuppies, fear that their salaries can't catch up with the increase in the cost of living 7 have a flat, a car, a wife. I think these are all basic needs,"
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      • 158 25 YOUR salary does go up each year when the economy does well. But, in dollar terms, it will not be as much as those in the higher-income group. You can narrow the gap by going for re-training to upgrade your skills. This will help you
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    • COVERSTORY
      • 267 27 IN SICKNESS: The elderly, and couples with elderly parents, worry about medical costs. This concern is most marked among those who live in smaller flats NO matter how poor you are, you will get treated in Government hospitals and get your medicine. That's
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      • 99 27 THE elderly without Medisave would need the help of the family and community for their bills. About one in five of those aged 55 and above has no Medisave account. These 80,400 elderly Singaporeans have to rely on other sources for their medical bills. Among those
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      • 137 27 "Let us use our Medisave for outpatient hospital costs. I had to delay my X-ray because I did not have enough money with me to pay for it" Ms R Asha, 30, a secretary, who lives in a three-room flat in Hougang Yes, your concern is
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      • 139 27 "Hospital costs are rising. My wife was admitted into a Class B2 ward. B2 is more expensive but provides better medical treatment than Class C. I want to ask: Why not provide Class C with medical treatment that is just as good as Class B?"
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      • 328 28 "It is much cheaper to cook at home. If I eat out, it would cost about $10 to $15 for rice and drinks for two persons," said Madam Nooraini Siraj Nor (right), 32, a divorcee. A domestic helper who lives in a
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      • 283 28 YOUNGER Singaporeans, in their early 20s, worry if they can afford a flat when they marry, especially for those who aim for a five-room flat. Yes, housing prices have risen in recent years. But, no, the rise is not so sharp that HDB flats are
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      • 326 29 HOUSING FEARS: Some young Singaporeans worry if they can afford a bigger flat or private property while older Singaporeans worry about their children and grandchildren's lot Many of his contemporaries want to own condos, said MrS Sundarapandiyan (right), 30, an
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      • 76 29 "My elder grandchild, a polytechnic graduate, is planning to get married, but we have no money to give to him for the downpayment We see that his friends and cousins have an 'advantage' because their parents can afford to help them buy a flat" Madam
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      • 192 29 DON'T worry about your children or grandchildren not being able to afford a flat. They can buy a three-room flat as long as they earn more than $800 a month. This is a guarantee from the Government. It has promised that: 90
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  • 314 30  - Calculating profit loss Discounted Singapore Telecom shares By Chen Jingwen, SPH The CPF Board is using the weighted average cost method to calculate profits and losses for holders of discounted Singapore Telecom (ST) shares. Commonly used by fund managers, this method is also adopted by CPF's agent banks when preparing
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  • 258 30 If you have made profits from investments under the Basic Investment Scheme (BIS) or Enhanced Investment Scheme (EIS) in the last accounting year which ended on 30 Sep 96, .you can withdraw your profits from end of Oct 96 till 30 Sep 97. Only sale proceeds received
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  • 223 30 The CPF Investment Schemes were offered to members who wished to enhance their CPF savings for old age. However, before profits from these investments can be withdrawn, members must restore the CPF savings and the interest which they would have earned had they not used their
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  • 235 30  -  Second Pre-Medisave Top-Up from Government Br Chan Yin Yin, CPF Board About 120,000 Singaporeans aged 62 and above on 1 April this year have qualified for the second Pre-Medisave TopUp from the Government. Almost 80 per cent of these members qualified by making a
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  • 368 30 Annuity Murine A seminar on the benefits of annuity will be held on 23 Nov. This is organised by the CPF Board and the Ufe Insurance Association to promote annuities which can be bought using the CPF Minimum Sum. Held from 8.30 am to 1 pm at
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    • 75 30 CPF Newsline Internet, http://www.ncb.,gov.sg/cpf yvui uuvu. uu*j uiwjv iia t taiucu iorwaru category but have noi yci lion to more tnan i/o,uuu memfor this year's profit and Those who wish to with- not taken out their profits to the current accounting made a co-payment, please bere. loss calculation. draw their
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    • 210 30 j&-A j ®ssr ver 1.9 million CPF memI will receive $200 from the Government unI der the CPF Medisave Top-Up I Scheme on Saturday, 26 Oct 96. All Singaporeans aged 21 and I above on 1 Oct 96 and who I have a CPF Account will have the $200 credited
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  • weekender
    • 902 31  -  BERTHA HENSON THIS slot is usually taken by my colleague, Ken Jalleh Jr. He is on leave. I have asked to take it over in the hope that I can get a word in before Parliament sits on Monday. Why am I so anxious? Because the
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    • 389 32  -  PUBTALK By Yong Siew Fern BY day, he is a vegetable seller at Eunos. By night, a pub entertainment manager at Kallang. And just less than a year ago, Saharuddin Jalil, or Sahar, was the drummer for local band now in hiatus. When news
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 220 35 THIS YEAR AFP. THE Duchess of York is taking a holiday on the cheap. Sarah Ferguson spent Thursday night in a humble Bed and Breakfast guest house with her two daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. Then yesterday she took the girls to an amusement park in
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    • 79 35 You know, all Thai people, they spend too much, more than they can earn. Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister, General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh (right), who is among those who want to be the country's next leader after elections due next month. A mong other things, Gen Chavalit is said
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    • 60 36 Can display: A child marvelling at artist Maria Bonomi's "people" made of soft-drink cans. The display of 13 child and 15 adult figures, titled Metempsicose, is part of an exhibition in the Botanical Gardens of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Thirty artists, architects and designers were invited
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    • 299 36 Man on fraud charge for posing as woman to penpals Reuter. SHE sounded like Mr Lonelyheart's dream girl. Marysia, the attractive, kindly but poor doctor, aged 25, answered more than 3,000 men who advertised in newspapers for a Polish wife. Her mostly German suitors sent
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    • 207 38 Miss Canada charged with punching woman Source: Reuter. SHE has looks. Everyone in Canada knew. But what they did not know was that the reigning Miss Canada also had muscle power. The 20-year-old brunette, with dazzling green eyes, has been charged with using her brawn
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    • 399 39 DOCTORS SAY: PARENTS SAY: JUDGES SAY: The 18-month-old baby needs liver transplant to live No, it will cause him too much pain and may not work We support the parents' right to choose how they treat their son LEAVE my sick baby as he
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    • 515 53  -  FA CUP: JURONG TOWN v BALESTIER CENTRAL (Jurong Stadium: Tomorrow. 7.30pm) GUESS THE WINNERS The curtain has drawn on the S-League. It's now time for the awards. Not the Oscar-kind. But our own S-League awards. So who do you think deserves them? Simply call
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    • 217 53 THE FA Cup goes into the last eight this weekend. Two NFL clubs Jurong Town FC and Trikipp South Avenue will try to pull off giant-killing feats against S-League clubs. Can they? Will they make it to the last four? Call us and let us know which
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    • 294 54  -  By S Gulam JURONG Town FC received a $300,000 boost for its S-League bid. The National Football League Division One club signed the sponsorship deal yesterday with Gooday Impex Pte Ltd. The sponsorship will be seen through only if Jurong is accepted for the S-League. Jurong
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    • 91 54 JURONG Town FC is also negotiating with a top marketing man in England. Said secretary K Suppiah: "We have realised that the most important person is the man who's in charge of the day-to-day affairs. "He must have experience, knowledge and the ability to take
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    • 112 54 Gooday Impex Re Ltd is owned by, R S Rajoo who was a keen sportsman during his younger days. He was confident of making it as a top-class boxer. But his family's needs forced him to give up sports. Gooday hit the limelight for the first time
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    • 63 54 It gave another $25,000 when Jurong signed two more Australian footballers for the FA Cup. Jurong will face S-League club Balestier Central in the FA Cup quarter-final tomorrow. Gooday is also sponsoring the S-League's Most Outstanding Manager award worth $5,000. Besides sports sponsorships, Gooday also donated $100,000 to the
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      256 55  -  SATURDAY, SPOTLIGHT By. Jeffrey Low p& TO' r r >r 4 -'V FANtH Ahmad U truly •remarkable footballer for having lasted 00 long at the Um. As a striker, his career should have been over by now. And it is really a testimony of his gifted talent that
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    • 1468 56 *40 WHO PLAYS WHO Today: Arsenal v Leeds Chelsea v Tottenham Coventry v Sheffield Wednesday Leicester v Newcastle Middlesbrough v Wimbledon Southampton v Man United Sunderland v Aston Villa West Ham v Blackburn Tomorrow. Liverpool v Derby Monday: Notts Forest v Everton Call
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    • 373 57 But where's he going? To Leeds in a swap with Lee Sharpe? To Blackburn in exchange for Tim Rowers? Reuter. Middlesbrough is ready to sell England striker Nick Barmby. Manager Bryan Robson confirmed this yesterday just 14 months after signing him for £5.25 million ($11.55 million). Speculation
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    • 91 57 Reuter. Bryan Robson is also prepared to listen to offers for Norwegian international JarvAage Fjortoft, who has not played in the Premier League this season. Fjortoft said: "This has been a frustrating season for me, especially as I have lost my international place. "I cannot complain about
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    • 180 57 BLACKBURN MANAGER QUITS AFP. TERRY Venables, Howard Kendall and Bruce Rioch emerged as favourites to take over as manager of Blackburn Rovers following the dramatic resignation of manager Ray Harford yesterday. Harford, 51, stepped down after a dismal start to the season that has left Blackburn, the
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    • 292 57 ways woes Ray Harford was promoted from coach to succeed Kenny Dalglish 16 months ago. Blackburn, which won the Championship last year, is bottom of the table without a win this season. Blackburn under Harford was ridiculed when Grahame Le Saux and team-mate David Batty fought each other
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    • 196 57 Hawaiian Holiday for two PREMIER LEAGUE COWTEST Guess the number of goals scored in all the English Premiership matches tonight. If you get it right, you'll earn the number of points that coincide with the total number of goals. For example, if 12 goals
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    • 431 58 M World No 1 Sampras crushes Agassi SEMI-FINAL UNE-UP Pete Sampras (US) vJan Siemerink (Hoi) Boris Becker (Ger) v Michael Chang (US) Reuter. WORLD No 1 Pete Sampras enjoyed what he described as a "dream day" yesterday. He took just under an hour to
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    • 23 58 CoolNg iff: American Agassi, whose world ranking has slipped to No 9, took a hammering from Sampras Picture/ Reuter
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    • 180 58 WHAT: Sports for Life Walk test WHEN: Tomorrow, 8.30am WHERE: Clementi and Woodlands RSFCs RECtSntATNNt Free DETML& Call Goh Cheng Chuan (Clementi) at 872-9180 or KPSShan (Woodlands) at 362-9103 THE 2.4 kilometre run. These words are enough to send shudders down anyone whose only form of exercise
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    • 279 58 Wire services. iUaaSkearen Newcastle's star striker might not be out of action for as long as first feared after his groin operation was hailed "a complete success". Shearer had the operation at London's exclusive Princess Grace Hospital on Thursday and, after staying in overnight, he returned home to rest.
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