The New Paper, 17 December 1996

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1 47 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1996 MfTA (P) 061/4/96 60 CENTS
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    • 45 1 Take it off? OK lor! King Leon Lai is ready to bare his chest /Page 20 H -M* HORROR FRID x ft •f 'VRHk IN MALAYSIA M t Singapore Pre„ Holding, gJJBH.W/webi.asiaLcom.sg/tnp 7^ 4 Wfc 7 T r Wv, T T V«' 4A%AA*«-A*AA»«A s 4
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • Article, Illustration
      162 2 COLD NATO: France and the US disagree over who will head Nato's southern command, based in Naples. UN: France favoured re-election of outgoing Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, but the United States disagreed. MIDDLE EAST: The US and France disagree on Europe's role in the Middle East peace process.
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    • 336 2 Source: Wire Services THE French are at it again. After poking a big hole in US-French ties, they are now trying to mend fences. The hole in the fence began when the French bickered with the US over Europe's role in the Middle East.
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    • 108 2 1m for a queue spot IF you thought people who queued up for property launches here and sold off their place in the queue were bad, think again. Someone in Hongkong paid HK$6 million ($l.l million) to be the first in line to buy a luxury villa, reported the South
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    • 302 3  - Nomination Day: Dec 23 Polling Day: Text/ RACHEL TAN IT'S out at last next Monday is Nomination Day. That's when you'll know who will be fighting for your vote in your ward. Or, if you have to cast your vote at all on Polling Day. And when is Polling Day?
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    • 43 2 Back By Popular Demand Savour Our Signature Dishes at only $8.88 v ?3pr Satisfying lip-smacking goodness with a complimentary sweet dessert to complete this m For reservations, please call 250 3322 ext 1304 214 DUNEARN ROAD SINGAPORE *****6. A MEMBER OF CDL HOTELS
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    • 19 2 Leisure Showtime: Pages 20,21, 23& 26 TV: Page 28 Comics: Pages 30 31 ft Callus. Hotline pip 1'****** SS
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    • 66 2 Clarification These men msy ninforNSP (TNP, Dec 14): We reported that NSP member Steve Chia is single. This was based on NSP's manifesto which has not been updated. Mr Chia got married just last month. Sorry Errr, sorry, wrong number (TNP, Dec 13): The crown did not fall off the
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 23 4 HOT The Straits Times Industrials Index fell 5.71 points to 2,177.55 points at 9.15 this morning from yesterday's close of 2,183.26.
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    • 23 4 The Business Times Singapore Regional Index fell 6.07 points to 1,086.64 points at 9.15 this morning from yesterday's close of 1,092.71.
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    • Article, Illustration
      198 4 SHOPPERS'DREAM THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board wants to turn Orchard Road into a mall similar to New York's Fifth Avenue or the Champs Elysees in Paris. It will soon appoint a consultant to develop the plan. The project, called the "Mall of Singapore" was proposed in the 'Tourism
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    • 52 4 The Straits Timet: Dec 23 is Nomination Day The Business Times: Mall of S'pore planned for Orchard Rd Uanhe Zaobao: Nomination on Dec 23 Bertta Harlan: Nomination Day is Dec 23 RCS morning news: Parliament dissolved; nomination day next Monday BBC news: President Clinton complains to Israel over its
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    • 74 4 RETAILER'S IN a downsizing attempt, Japanese retailer Yaohan announced its plan to close its flagship Plaza Singapura outlet next June. Its move reflects both poor retail conditions here plus the group's own financial problems, industry observers say. Yaohan incurred losses before tax of $4.8 million for
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    • 26 4 The Dow Jones industrial average was down 36.52 points at 6,268.35 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 452 million shares
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 52 4 ALMOST all town councils had budget surpluses in the last financial year ending March 31. Only the three managed by the Singapore Democratic Party Bukit Gombak, Nee Soon Central and Potong Pasir were in the red. But all councils were still ahead as they had accrued surpluses over
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      • 54 4 TOWN councils will have more residents to look after when the Group Representation Constituencys were enlarged, said Dr Ong Chit Chung, MP for Bukit Batok. This was in addition to an already expanded role, with councils active in improving the living environment for residents and not just the
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      • 54 4 HONGKONG and Singapore have the most liberalised economies in the world, according to an American think tank. They were top in a survey which checked trade and tax policies, foreign investment, regulation and the size of the black market. The Heritage Foundation think tank and the Wall Street
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      • 59 4 DR Yeo Ning Hong, 53, MP for Kampong Glam GRC, will not run for a seat in the next general election. Dr Yeo, who entered politics in 1980, is among about 20 incumbent People's Action Party MPs who are stepping down. He was made the Defence Minister
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      • 42 4 AUSTRALIA'S government has been asked to provide more protection for Malaysian students there following several incidents of racial abuse and threats. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday said students may be recalled from Australia if the attacks increase.
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      • 51 4 THAI Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh will review the budget of state agencies for ways to cut spending. The Thai government invests about 700 billion baht (about $38 billion) in state agencies each year. finance Minister Amnuay Viravan said "the current account deficit has shown that wfe are
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 46 4 WHAT'S HUP Our bus f Not this f~ Here's f Eh, I thought the Yes. but I want the is herel one I another 11 n 0 no t number of our bus AIR-CON one! vr it 'I n J this one has always been 32.
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 419 5  -  But not this one By Rachel Tan SUDS up! Here come the bathroom singers of Tampines Mall to battle for the throne the karaoke throne, that is. Armed with toothbrushes, shower caps, mops and microphones, eight of them belted out their songs in the first semi-final
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    • 47 5 Mr Liu, Mr Koh, Mr Wong and Ms Nur Harnita will join another four finalists who will be picked on Sunday for the final on Dec 29. They stand to win home entertainment systems and gift vouchers from Pioneer worth between $500 to $5,000 each.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 502 6 Parliament was dissolved last night. What are the candidates doing to gear up for the election IRENE NG and YVONNE UM report PAP 8.30 pm, PAP branch office at Block 143, Potong Pasir Avenue 1: About 10 party workers are busily stapling campaign posters to
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    • 216 6 OPPOSITION: NSP 9.10 pm, National Solidarity Party (NSP) headquarters: 11 committee members and would-be candidates huddle on tjie cramped tipper floor of a Serangoon shop-house. What was to-be a briefing for candidates to meet the press tomorrow, has turned into a campaign pow-wow. THINGS TO DO: The
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    • 301 7  -  By Vivian Lim THE next time you order a cup of coffee, you can ask to take home the grounds, too. Not for making more coffee at home, but as fertiliser for your plants. American company Starbucks Coffee, which opened its first Singapore store in
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    • 374 8  -  if you don't claim it What: Public auction of unclaimed lost-and-found items. Where: Level four, LTA 10, Sin Ming Drive When: Tomorrow. From 9.30am. For queries, call auctioneer Victor Morris at 334 4266. By Chua Chin Hon MR Ho Wai Chiew is a bargain
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    • Article, Illustration
      185 9 Today, we start a short series looking back at the WTO. RAHUL PATHAK reports THIS policeman (left) at the recent World Trade Organisation (WTO) meet would not have seen much light on the horizon when it started on Dec 9. As 2,000 delegates from 127 countries gathered
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    • 415 10  -  By Jill Lim FIRST, the stranger peeped at Mr Queh's sis-ter-in-law. Then, he saw the man peeping at his neighbour. Outraged, Mr Queh kept watch on the corridor for hours and caught him. Mr Queh, 27, a sales assistant,
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    • 359 11  -  25 minutes of Liverpool match not shown By Gerard Wong FANS of English football were upset on Saturday night over Premiere 12's "live" telecast of the Liver- pool-Middlesbrough match. Reason: They had to sit through 25 minutes of watersports video clips before they were
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      395 12 HORROR FIND IN MALAYSIA: GIRL'S BODY DUG UP FROM SHALLOW GRAVE Source: Nanyang Siang Pau and NST. SHE was beaten with a wooden rod until she became unconscious. But the 10-year-old girl wasn't dead yet. Then she was thrown into a shallow grave buried alive! On Sunday, the
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    • 143 12 THE girl's mother told the police that she didn't even know her daughter was dead. Early investigations showed that the rest of the family was out when the beating allegedly took place at 4 pm. The mentally-ill victim was the 10th of 14 children.
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    • 151 12 ft INSTRUCTIONS W FOR EATING WELL IN SINGAPORE Choose from an abundant selection of ingredients at the buffet Fill your bowl to browning, jy the sauces are essential, add them in quantity. V Give your bowl to our master chef to cook over an open-top grill CI =i Enjoy your
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  • 436 13  -  SINGAPORETODAY Beginner swims alone Seen at bottom of the pool They think she was doing breathing exercises By Michelle Ang SHE was a beginner. She had taken only eight lessons. But she went to the pool alone on Sunday morning. Madam Verinder Kaur, 24, a
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 222 14 Bank trader hid $1.5 blosses Reuter. A FORMER New York bond trader who schemed to hide losses of US$l.l billion ($1.5 billion) in unauthorised trades was jailed for four years yesterday. Japanese-born bond trader Toshihide Iguchi, who worked in Daiwa Bank's New York office, was also fined US$2 million.
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    • 82 14 Despite all the fun, it is really time for me to go off and do something new, try something new in my life like be in love, write a book, enjoy things a little bit. —Ms Syivana Foa, the popular wise-cracking chief UN spokesman who is leaving her
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
    • 359 16 A retired teacher was bitten to death by a tiger in Indonesia after posing for photos with it. Her long-time friend, who was also on the trip, tells IVY ONG he regretted not helping her HE froze while the
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    • 98 16 MR Foo and Madam Ngai had been friends for more than 40 years. Mr Foo said they became friends in 1954 when Madam Ngai went to teach Chinese at Pei Fong Secondary School in Malacca. He was also teaching there. He remembers Madam Ngai as a
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  • 275 19 Miami too dangerous for his daughter WORLDTODAY AFP. RAMBO is moving to London soon to give his daughter a better education in safer surroundings. US actor Sylvester Stallone told The Sun newspaper yesterday that he had gone "as soft as a cream puff," following last month's
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  • Showtime
    • 433 20  -  By Hazel Tan HONGKONG Heavenly King Leon Lai says he is yearning to shoot more intimate scenes. 'The more intimate the scenes the better, since I am not dating anyone at the moment," the singer-actor said jokingly. And he has no qualms about taking
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    • 160 20 LEON Lai insists that he got along fine with co-star Maggie Cheung (left). "Working with Maggie has been a happy process. We had no arguments," he said. Recent Hongkong reports had said the two headstrong actors, acting in their first movie together, did not get along.
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    • Article, Illustration
      383 21 HAZEL TAN meets TVs new face DARREN Ng's no Teo Ah Guan, the timid schoolboy he played in the Channel 5 serial Growing Up. For one, he doesn't stutter. And he's definitely more adventurous. "Ah Guan's reserved, and he looks up to his best friend David (played by
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    • 115 21 DARREN Ng didn't expect to winat the Asian Television Awards '96. "I was talking to colleague Irin Gan when I heard my name announced as the winner. I was stunned," he said. He had been told not to leave his original seat beside Wong Li-lin. But he wanted
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  • 435 23  -  SHOWTIME By Jessica Leow THEY were bored with their routine jobs as clerks. So Naoko Yamano and her friend Michie Nakatani quit and formed a band. They picked up guitars and microphones, and roped in Naoko's younger sister Atsuko to play drums. So began Japanese punk band
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  • spotlight
    • 522 24 Source: NYT IT was her first solo news conference. She may have been nervous. But Japan's Crown Princess Masako touched only briefly on her personal feelings and on her life. She spoke vaguely about finding a balance between her own identity and the traditional role
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    • 136 24 Wire services. JAPANESE Crown Princess Masako (above) criticised what she called "exaggerated" and "sensational" media accounts of her married life. "Parts of these articles sometimes have content which may be thought-provoking." She said this in response to a Japanese reporter's question about reports in an Italian newspaper
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    • 73 24 THE Imperial Household Agency has more than 1,000 bureaucrats, clerks, and assistants It manages the public relations of the imperial family. The agency is also fiercely traditional and conservative. The press conference was not broadcast in full. But brief television clips showed that the princess in person was
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  • 335 25  -  SHOWTIME By Dave Ang IT'S retro, it's buoyant and it's so catchy it's swimming in many a local music fan's head. Yes, That Thing You Do!, the title song from the Tom Hanks movie of the same name which is currently showing here, is
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    • 912 27 tvpage,™ r Q hUMi SJBHHHHBI 9 He,, Dolly! CHANNEL Q Barbra Streisand (left) is a matchmaker hired to arrange NOON News 5 Today city Beat (Lifestyle/r) romantic intrigues for Walter 12.10 PM Home Shopping x 00 PM Mid Day News Matthau. However, she ends up 1.10 DMbW Rush (Comedy): Johnny
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  • 545 29  -  ET WITH IRENE NG ON Sunday, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's first stop in his three-hour Potong Pasir visit was to a hall packed with students, parents and teachers at St Andrew's Secondary School. There, he gave away Edusave scholarships and merit bursaries to students. In
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 270 41 FORMULA ONE MOTOR RACING Reuter. FORMULA One team chief Frank Williams and five other people will go on trial in Italy in February, charged with manslaughter over the death of driver Ayrton Senna. Williams' Italian lawyer Roberto Causo said the trial was scheduled
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    • 114 41 ROWING AFP. FOUR-TIME Olympic champion Steve Redgrave made up for missing out on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award by picking up the Sportsman of the Year Award. The award was made by the British Sports Writers' Association yesterday. Veteran rower Redgrave, beaten for the BBC
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    • 128 42 LIVERPOOL'S European opponent, Brann Bergen, will mount a 10,000 km expedition, going as far as South Africa, to prepare for its Cup Winners' Cup showdown next March. The Norwegians are leaving nothing to chance in their bid to shake off the cobwebs of their long
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    • 284 42 PREMIERSHIP UPDATE Roberto Baggio: Tottenham Hotspur is busy preparing a £5 million ($llm) offer for the disenchanted AC Milan striker. The arrival at AC Milan of coach Arrigo Sacchi, the man who axed him from the national team in the wake of the 1994 World
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    • 117 42 CELTIC has been told Liverpool's out-of-favour midfield star, Jamie Redknapp, is not available. Tommy Burns had told Anfield boss Roy Evans to name "your price", reports the Carling Internet. The Reds' star, who has been plagued by injury, has been the subject of much transfer speculation after
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    • 322 43 ASIANCUP^ Q-fINAL RESULTS S Arabia 4 China 3 S Korea 2 Iran 6 SEMI-FINAL UNEUP (Tomorrow) UAEv Kuwait S Arabia v Iran Reuter. SAUDI Arabia came back from two goals down to beat China 4-3 yesterday in Abu Dhabi and clinch an Asian Cup semi-final berth. And
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    • 213 43 IRAN LINEUP Nima Nakisa Naeim Sadavi Karim Bagheri Mohammad Peiravang All Reza Mansourian Hamid Rezaestili All Daei Khodad Azizi Mohammad Khakpour Farshad Falahatzade Mehrdad Minrdad Reuter. IRANIAN striker Ali Daei scored four goals in 22 minutes to send Asian soccer powerhouse South Korea crashing out
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      317 44 BAN EXTENDED TO SIX GAMES Weahwfr? miss Mian's next ffve matcJMfgf Uefa competition. GEORGE Weah may have won the Fifa Fair Play award last year. He was also 1995's World, European and African Player of the Year. But that doesn't mean he gets off lightly for head-butting Portuguese
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    • 234 44 AFP. GERMAN captain Juergen Klinsmann (right) is moving ever closer to a break with Bayern Munich and a return to the English Premiership. According to the media in Munich, he is unhappy with Bayern, whose boss Franz Beckenbauer even told a newspaper that "everything Juergen is
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    • 559 45 WHO PLAYS WHO TODAY Coventry v Newcastle Liverpool v Forest TOMORROW Sheffield W v Man United SATURDAY Forest v Arsenal Blackburn v Middlesbrough Chelsea v West Ham Everton v Leeds Leicester v Coventry Saints v Derby Man U v Sunderland Spurs v Sheff Wed SUNDAY
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    • 251 45 PREMIERSHIP leader Arsenal will be without two key players for its next match against second-from-bottom Nottingham Forest on Saturday. Manager Arsene Wenger will enter the Christmas period in a strong league position but without two of his most influential figures, skipper Tony Adams and midfield revelation
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    • 90 45 Reuter. WIMBLEDON captain Vinnie Jones was fined a week's wages for writing a newspaper article in which he mocked his team-mates. He also rated their beer-drinking stamina and praised their qualities in a brawl. Jones has been ordered by the Premiership club to pay £2,000 ($4,400) for his
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    • 416 46 The S-League held an emergency meeting with the chairmen of the 10 clubs yesterday to determine a salary scale for players. Most of all, it was called to restore order in the transfer market. JEFFREY LOW reports. A COUPLE of established local players could be out
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    • 140 46 A big sign that the 10 chairmen are standing united in the wage war against ego-driven players came after yesterday's meeting. In a rare show of solidarity, all declined to make individual comments about the salary scale (see chart above left). They all said that S-League
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    • 228 46 WORLD SOCCER UPDATE Reuter. ITALY'S new coach Cesare Maldini has promised to restore team spirit and stability to the national side in a shift away from the tactics of his unpopular predecessor. Maldini, addressing a news conference a day after his appointment, steered clear of open dissent from
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    • 104 46 AFP. SIX players got marching orders in two bad-tempered Scottish Cup first-round replays yesterday. Albion Rovers, beaten 4-0 at Forfar, finished with just eight men after Paul Martin, David Burn and Colin McFarlane were all guilty of second yellow-card offences. John Allison, Ben Honeyman, lain
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