The New Paper, 11 December 1996

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  • 11 1 the new Paper WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1996 MTA(P) 061/4*6 60 CENTS
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 384 2 CHINA: Arms sale hurts reunification with Taiwan SELLING arms to Taiwan is hurting our sovereignity, China warned France. "France has made a clear commitment in its Jan 12, 1994 joint communique that it would not sell weapons to Taiwan," a Chinese spokesman said. "Taiwan
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    • 103 2 Reuter. CHINESE Defence Minister Chi Haotian said China will not give up the use of forcc in getting Taiwan back. General Chi said his government would "not sit idly by" and let Taiwan's leaders split China. "We hope to see a peaceful
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    • 332 3 CHAINED TORTURED TWENTY-FOUR BOYS POLICE have rescued 24 boys who said that their teachers in a religious school had chained and tortured them. Hie children, all below the age of 14, were found chained and tied to heavy iron bars in Chittagong, southern Bangladesh. Eight more escaped earlier, the police
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 132 4 TOP for flats in Marine Parade, Bishan HOT STORY MARINE Parade and Bishan Housing Board flats took the highest value on the resale market this year. For example, an upgraded three-room flat in Marine Parade was sold for $340,000, while a five-room unit fetched $668,000. And in Bishan, a four-room
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    • 70 4 ELECTRONICS stocks surged yesterday for the second day running helped by increased year-end consumer demand from the US and an improvement in semiconductor orders. The SES Electronic Index rose 3.2 points to 90.09, led by Creative Technology, Datacrafl and Flextech Holdings. Creative shares rose $1.60 to end at
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 55 4 FROM next month all those booking flights out of Changi Airport will pay the $15 departure tax when they buy their ticket. This is expected to speed up checking-in times. The tax coupons will still be sold at Changi until May 31, to cater for those who
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      • 45 4 THE Telecommunications Authority of Singapore said there is no plan to end Singapore Telecom's monopoly sooner than March 31,2000. Singapore is one of four countries which improved its offer to further liberalise telecommunications services at a meeting called on Mm iiy hy theUS.
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      • 44 4 THE litdonmitm Irry US$lOO ($140) a month on all foreign workers next year. Hie money will be used to train and improve skills of Indonesian workers. About US$5O million will be raised a year from the 57,000 foreigners working in Indonesia.
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      • 41 4 MOBILE phone fraud in Thailand is costing its Communications Authority up to 10 million baht ($536,850) a year. One mqjor problem is that unauthorised dealers are helping users avoid expensive registration charges by tuning new handsets to stolen numbers.
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      • 58 4 THE new Kuala Lumpur International Airport will open on time in January 1998 and should be ready for the Commonwealth Games. Also on schedule will be the rail link from the city to the airport. But it is unlikely that the new high way from Kuala Lumpur
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      • 47 4 MALAYSIA was still exporting geeds through the port rf Sifynre becaqee rf historical ties, Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Ali Rastam has said. Replying to a question in parliament the minister said it was mainly Singaporean companies investing in Malaysia's manufacturing sector that used the port.
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    • 22 4 The Straits Times Industrials Index rose 1.42 points to 2210.92 points at 9.15 this morning from yesterday's close of 2209.50.
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    • 23 4 The Business Times Singapore Regional Index rose 1.58 points to 1104.03 points at 9.15 this morning from yesterday's close of 1102.45.
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    • 16 4 ThaOow Joocs indMftritf 6,473.25 the New Yotfc Stock Exchange wti about 451 mWion shares.
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    • 72 4 The Straits Tines: China approves US warship visits to HK The Business Times: US, EU in frenetic lobbying for it accord Uanhe liotie; China and US agree on high-level military exchanges Berita Harlan: WTO seeks to achieve compromise RCS morning news: Fair progress at WTO talks on labour issue
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 466 5 Chicken rice chefLoh Sang Ling has helped turn the simple meal into a million-dollar business. We take an interactive journey into his mind as part of a new series launched by our electronic edition. It is called Journey of a Lifetime. W HO makes a
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    • 95 5 JOURNEY of a Lifetime is a new web site providing travel stories with a difference. Besides a journey into Chef Loh's innermost thoughts, the site is also an around-the-world exploration of the darndest things: Such as a journey into a birdcage, a Chinese medical hall
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 491 6  -  By Teo Hwee Nak But the pain got so bad they rushed him from the McDonald's at Bras Basah Road to the Singapore General Hospital. Said Mr Jeron Lee, 20: "He couldn't even walk at that time because of the pain. The doctor gave
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    • 137 6 IT rarely happens only to about one in 100,000. But when it does, it strikes suddenly and death comes quickly, said two doctors. Mr Siow had a congenital mesenteric defect. He was born with an opening in the tissue holding his intestines. Said a doctor in private
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 222 8  -  BY Teo Hwee Nak HIS blue Honda Civic was getting scratched once or twice a month for the past one year in the carpark of Block 7 Jalan Bukit Merah. And that made Mr Tan Kian Siong, 31, see red. "Initially I thought my car was scratched because
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    • Article, Illustration
      302 8 WHAT Mr Tan Kian Siong saw on his video tape shocked him. It was a woman who was scratching his car the same woman he buys newspapers and other items from at the provision shop nearby. "I was shocked to see the provision shop lady in the video. I
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    • 53 8 Tngwas fined $4, OCX) and has to pay $1,500 for the repair of the car. Whoever commits mischief and thereby causes loss or damage to the amount of $25 and upwards, shall be punished with Imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with a fine,
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  • 380 11 SINGAPORETODAY PARALLEL IMPORTER A parallel importer can bring down cars here without going through the authorised distributor. The authorised distributor for Mercs would be Cycle Carriage (C&C). But the importer will have to first meet the criterion laid down by the Land Transport Authority. He has
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    • 106 11 Winner »>!' the 19HH Tourism Awards tor 'Leisure Attraction of the Year*. I The darling* little cat I I wandered along* the water's B I edge, looking at its sweet H I reflection. Then suddenly it I I I rammed its paw into the creek, B I plucked out a
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  • 306 14 Up to 80 spouses of WTO conference delegates are scheduled to tour Toa Payoh estate this morning. Two families at Block 81 will play hosts for 20 minutes. We asked them last night: What do they stand for as Singaporeans? SINGAPORETODAY REPRESENTING: The new generation". Singapore's littlest ambassador,
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    • 321 15 A kapes, JjSN: and you'll miss out .fjg. jfii| on great cttscountf, Ma Time is running out to get your hands on special packages which will give you great discounts on Sentosa Choose from eight great value packages, but they're only available till 31 Dec, See below for details.* /2\•
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    • 105 16 ®j| FUJI FILM For the BEST HefHaif VUkM* rush to your Fujifilm dealer now! Bjj| Wherever you're going this holiday a SUPER M season, take Fujifilm with you. Now for §pgci*l i• i a m tec t' me only, you can buy 3 rolls of Fujicoior Super hgv 2 36
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 457 17 A goldsmith in Block 1002, Toa Payoh Industrial Park, was robbed of more than $200,000 on Monday evening by two armed men. The owner tried to resist the robbery and was cut on the palm. JOHN LOW reports A GOLDSMITH tried to fight
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    • 54 17 The two robbers were described as in their 40s. The man with the chopper was plump. He was wearing a brown jacket and a white motorcycle helmet. The other man was slim, and wore a white long-sleeved shirt. Those who saw anyone matching the descriptions should call the Organised
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    • 22 17 The penalty for armed robbery is three to 14 years'jail. Offenders may also get up to 12 strokes of the cane.
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  • 121 19 COE« FOKiAMUAHY SINGAPORETODAY COE prices for next month have risen in all categories except motocycles. The figures for January 1997 were released by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) yesterday .They included: Small cars (1,000 cc and below): $26,298 (up $1,466) Medium cars (1,001 to 1,600
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    460 21 P!T$oN^^iyH?F$uvi^ WORLDTODAY He tores in a tjmi barroom iMHilf WVOI UW UW •falMMcaraMl ftv% resid#ivti&i COT WOffcf» looking after Mm. Th« gang* of the house hn been turned into a games room, with weight-training I He receives £5 pocket money a week with an additional £10 for Heis
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  • 78 23 WORLDTODAY In the Sri Lankan fishing village ofNegomobo, this man and his spanking new ice-cream cart are something of a rare find. They are about the only "modem "things one can see in this old village, which is about an hour's drive from Colombo.
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  • 854 24 showtime We all know her as Dolly, the dedicated mother in Under One Roof whose life is centred around her family. But what does the real Dolly do when she takes time out for herself? HAZEL TAN asks Koh ChiengMun, who recently won an
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 302 25 Source: Wire services. A CELEBRATION turned into a tragedy in India's eastern state of Bihar. Friends had packed into a lorry carrying boulders on its maiden ride to the temple town of Deogarh. At least 70 of them never returned home alive. They were pinned down
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    • 278 26  -  NOW: By Rahul Pathak THE raids on the various properties of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha Jayaram are still continuing. Apart from finding 40 kg of gold, the police have also seized 750 pairs of shoes and slippers from Ms Jayalalitha's home
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    • 28 26 Ms Jayalalitha Jayaram is dubbed the "Imelda Marcos" of India for her flamboyant lifestyle. Former Philippine First Lady Imelda is famous for her vast collection of shoes.
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    • 113 25 NAC ESSO .ceft The /> co <yC X/I /ACCQ' v <?;C< ffi\vk)< h'4r lM?\ WiT Singapore Youth Choir singing Christmas carols, Asian folk songs and African American spirituals 14th December 1996 Saturday 5.30pm 6.30pm Shaw Foundation Symphony Stage, Palm Valley, Singapore Botanic Gardens Admission IS Free For enquiries, call *****22
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    • 63 26 DAVIS POWERBEAM The Future in Display Technology jj Digital Light Processing (DLP) 500 ANSI Lumen, high brightness 150 :1 high contrast 800 x 600 high 1^^^^ resolution (SVGA) Motorised zoom and focus I Universal auto IJ power I User replaceable lamp case 1 REPIFFUSION 6 Harper Road #04-01 #04-08 Leong
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  • DEARAGGIE
    • 388 27 This week's topics: Mum-in-law blues Torn between two lovers Dad's mad! Loving a cheat Can't keep up Dear Aggie I'VE been with this married man for half a year. His marriage is not happy as his wife is having an affair with another
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    • 188 27 MY in-laws are always saying that my husband is very stingy towards them. They do not tell him this, only me. Both of them work. My husband is the sole breadwinner of our family to feed five mouths at home. His monthly income is
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    • 237 27 I AM 21 years old. My husband is romantic and very loving towards me. He is the eldest in his family. His parents think that I am not suitable to be his wife. They say things like, "Oh you should know my son
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    • 195 27 WE'VE known each other for three years and we plan to get married soon. But my mum saw my girlfriend with another guy and told me about it. Then I actually saw them and I was shocked. What should I do? Should I
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    • 30 27 THIS WEEK'S COUNSELLOR f MR DANNY NG, qualified psychologist If you need advice, write to: Dear Aggie,The New Paper Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road. Singapore *****5 Or fax: 737-5375
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  • 477 28  -  ET CETERA WITH BRIAN MILLER MAYBE it's that time of the year. You know, bonus is on the way. Holidays are upon us and, well, another year's coming to an end. Maybe it's all of these that make people more charitable. In the last week
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 270 28 COMICRELIEF Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson SJS\E, VWERL'S CALVIH? 1 DON'T KNOW. MAX BE Mr 7 ViES ON IN Y £\NE TIME TO GET H KE GOES ONSTAGE J MiSSWOttWOCD WENT TbTO TWO MINTS', STVKX \N MV CQSWJME J R\GhT XFTER YOUUEWA&UE2E BOWS' BOOM. FINE TIME TO L STVWD Z\PPER! ,-4
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    • 83 29 COMICRELiEF The Concrete Jungle/Colin Goh V Huit rr rtOH twAT 1 too WILL next BE VJIilTtbJ IOHNM^ Tian-PI/Komics Kreations ACCORDINC TO CHINESE LEGENDS 1 THE HEAVENIY 00« EATS UP THE FOR THE 006 TO EAT UP THE SUN IT MUST BE CAUED THE HOT Mil MOON. I WONDER IF THERE'S
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  • Showtime
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      280 30 If Michael Jordan can team up with Bugs Bunny in Space Jam to make us part with our money, so can our very own Michelle Goh Jamie Lee, Moses Lim and James Lye. EDWIN YEO plays the greedy casting agent out to cash in on the latest
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    • 279 31 Starring: James Lye and Tweety Bird Something in common... Tweety likes to state the obvious (as in "I thought I thaw a putty tat") and has a remarkable ability to ignore glaring clues. Doesn't that remind you of Inspector Mike Chin, James' character? The itoryMwe Tweety
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    • 165 32 WONG Li-lin (left) thinks Zoe Tay deserves the Babe of the Year title more than she does. Zoe, with 998 votes as of Monday, is leading the race, ahead of Li-lin, Fann Wong, Michelle Goh and Ann Kok. Said Li-lin, 24: "I have
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    • 238 32  -  By Hazel Tan SHHH. Shut up. And go wash out your mouth. Michelle Goh (left) says only quiet and sensible men turn her on. U I dislike men who talk rubbish loud-mouth and crude," proclaims the Channel 5 actress, who plays a nurse in the sitcom
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    • 137 33 IN the coming comedy Jingle All The Way, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a desperate father who is determined to find his son a scarce, must-have Christmas toy. In real life, the muscleman said he knows exactly what that feels like. His mission? To buy a Barbie doll.
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      67 33 MICHELLE Pfeiffer has dismissed actor Robert Redford's claim that Michelle Pfeiffer wasn't actually her real name. "That's just Bob stirring things up," Pfeiffer said of Redford, who co-starred with her in the recent Up Close Personal. "It's my real name; it's my real nose; it's my real everything,"
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    • 107 33 BABE OF THE YEAR: Michelle Goh ZoeTay Fann Wong AnnKok WongLMin DUDE OF THE YEAR: XieShaoguang ChewChorMeng James Lye Moses Urn LimYußeng NEW FLAME OF THE YEAR: HossanLeong Andrew Seow IrinGan LisaAng Susan Quah TURN-OFF OF THE YEAR: Lauretta Alabons Benedict Goh Wendy Jacobs Mark Richmond
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    • 103 33 Tell us who you think should win each of the seven awards. Call The New Paper Infoline on 1900-*****02. A voice will tell you how to vote. The winners of the awards will be determined by the highest number of votes received. If your selection coincides with the winners
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    • 53 31 HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY LEISURE WORLD To celebrate her birthday, she will be giving away 20 pairs of tickets to Malacca. To participate, answer the following two questions and send your answer to: MacPherson Road Post Office P.O. Box 20H S( *****7), together with 5 The New Paper mastheads (valid dates
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    • 323 32 Optimise Your CPF Funds With the Government's further liberalisation 08. Do you know which are the banks that provide of the use of CPF funds for investment on higher mlcrcst ralcs if wcrc 10 invcst y 001 1st January 1997, many potential investors CPF with them? will probably be noie-diving
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 956 34 tvpage r Q a—i Prince of M Mr CHANNEL 5 CHANNEL 8_ (Channel 5, 3.10 pm) When he is not cleaning the pool, NOON News 5 Today NOON Entertainment Beat (Entertainment Robin Prince spends his days 12.10 m Home Shopping news/r) hanging out with the gang and 110 Munief She
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  • SPORTS
    • 596 41 ASIAN CUP Reuter. Football powerhouse South Korea faced an early exit from the Asian Cup after a 2-0 defeat by Kuwait in a Group A match in Abu Dhabi yesterday. A goal by striker Bashar Abdulaziz three minutes from time put Kuwait into second place in the
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    • 180 41 Reuter. THE United Arab Emirates, host of this year's Asian Cup, advanced to the quarter-finals with a 2-0 victory over Indonesia in a Group A match yesterday. Indonesia's second defeat in three matches eliminated it from the 12-nation tournament. The UAE grabbed the lead in the 14th minute
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    • 330 42 HOCKEY: CHAMPIONS TROPHY Reuter. HOST India, reduced to 10 men for half the match, managed to hold Olympic champion Holland to a 1-1 draw. Spanish umpire Santiago Deo sent off Indian midfielder Mohammmad Riaz in the first minute of the ill-tempered encounter for hitting Marten
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    • 163 42 Reuter. FORMER Portuguese soccer international Paulo Futre is to retire because of a recurring knee problem. The West Ham winger was capped 40 times by his country. Futre, 30, began his career at Sporting before moving to Porto where he helped the club win
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    • 368 43  -  SOUTH-EAST ASIAN BODYBUILDING CHAMPIONSHIPS Stories/ Calvin Low THE alarm bells at the Singapore Bodybuilders Federation are ringing. This is because Singapore's muscleboys returned with just one gold and two bronze medals from the second South-east Asian Bodybuilding Championships held in Myanmar from Dec 5-9. Being
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    • 277 43 THREE of Singapore's medal winners in Myanmar are confident that they can win golds at next year's SEA Games in Jakarta. Perhaps the surest is Nazarudin Seladin who won the welterweight crown in Myanmar with a perfect score of 10 points. His rivals, Michael Tio Tio of
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    • 352 45 Portuguese full-back Nelson hits out at foreign 'moaners' WHO PLAYS WHO SATURDAY Leeds v Tottenham Liverpool v Middlesbrough Wimbledon v Blackburn SUNDAY Sunderland v Chelsea MONDAY Derby v Everton LIVE ON TV The match between Liverpool and Middlesbrough will be shown live on Premiere 12
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    • 180 45 fm91.3 The New Paper Sportsfile on NTUC Radio Heart 91.3. From Monday to Friday at 8.15 am. Check it out. A TOTAL of 19 goals were scored in the eight English Premier League matches last Saturday. But only 136 out of 1,151 entries predicted that correctly. These callers
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    • 300 45 GOOD TIME: KAREL POBORSKY KAREL Poborsky says he is still enjoying life at Manchester United. This, despite being the odd-man out since his £3.5 million ($7.7 m) transfer in the off-season, said a report on the Carling Internet. The Czech Republic star has only completed
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    • 95 45 BAD TIME: EMERSON Wire services. UNSETTLED Emerson left Middlesbrough three times in the last month. The £4 million (sB.Bm) signing said his wife Andrea was homesick and ill in the north-east of England. The 24-year-old midfielder has been fined £50,000 so far for his disappearing acts. But he
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    • 147 45 Reuter. NEWCASTLE'S David Ginola wants to take up motor racing and could quit the English League at the end of the season. The Frenchman, who features in a new television advertisement for Renault entitled "Ginola Stays", said: "You should not read too
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    • 351 46  -  Stories/ Ernest Luis National midfielder Dalis Supait is in the centre of a bargaining battle between two S-League clubs. On the one hand, his previous club and S-League debutant Landmark Marine Castle wants to buy him back for its S-League challenge. But his present
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    • 164 46 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: RUGBY Rugby Union Western Samoa bt Richmond 32-12, Queensland bt Scotland Development XV 63-31, England A bt Argentina 22-17. Cambridge University bt Oxford University 23-7. SOCCER French League Cup 2nd rd: Lyon 2 Paris Saint-Germain 1, Marseille 3 Auxerre 2. Northern Irish
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