The New Paper, 23 January 1997

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  • 13 1 the new paper THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1997 MTA (P| 061/VB6 10 CENTS A
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  • Article, Illustration
    29 1 No, James: James Lye tries a joke Sylvester Stallone tries to restrain him. Part of the friendly competition at opening of Planet Hollywood yesterday Picture/ JONATHAN CHOO
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 286 2 William Cohen is new US Defence Secretary Source: Reuter. THE US new defence boss plans to give the Asia-Pacific region his special attention. Retired senator William Cohen was yesterday confirmed by the Senate as the new Defence Secretary. It also okayed Ms Madeleine Albright, former US envoy to the
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    • 36 2 As the centre ofgravity of the world economy has shifted to the Pacific, our increasing economic integration with Asia 1 s dynamic economies has created enormous opportunities for American businessmen and workers.
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    • 277 2 AT seven this morning, Nandakuraar Devan (above) was going to have 108 hooks pierced into his body...plus a big one through his tongue. He's looking forward to the "upgrading". The 18-year-old from St Thomas Secondary School has been celebrating Thaipusam since he was three. But
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    • 526 3  -  By, Jill Lim A TRAILER-CONTAINER wreaked havoc in a carpark on Tuesday evening. It dragged a car, then smashed into the parking attendants' booth and finally reversed to smash the booth all over again. The stage for the drama was set
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    • 113 2 Something's wrong. And you think we can help. Call us. Hotline PtiUFV "***** S5 I §MWet fiA I Eg In The Heart of Orchard Road j§S Mmjn at only EH I hj#B IDD Voice-mail message system Personal in-room safe jffiS Full amenities Use of hotel's recreation facilities pSfl Available to
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    • 19 2 Leisure Showtime: Pages 28,29, 32,35 Comics: Pages 36 37 TV: Page 38 Day 14 reak fast time 7.19 pm
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    • 102 2 Sorry Ske wants to ■met Hitler (TUP, lan 22): Altitude is a local Premiere 12 arts programme, not Prime 12, as reported. Clamfication In the Photofinish page on Jan 11, we carried a picture of two women looking at a model of a shark's jaws at a shop called Shark
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 267 4 LATEST ON TANG LIANG HONG L hot k LstoryJ DEFEATED Workers' Party candidate Tang Liang I long is in London to consult with his Queen's Counsel, reports the Chinese newspaper Lianhe Zao Bao. He intends to discuss how best to go about tackling his legal
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    • 107 4 The Straits Times: South Korean President Kim Young Sam's offer to reopen debate on labour law rejected The Business Times: CSH closes first trading day at 7 7% premium Uanhe Zaobao: Tang Liang Hong in London "to stay away from trouble". He entrusts agents to sell estate properties in
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    • 26 4 The Dow Jones industrial average was down 33.87 points at 6,850.03 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 588 million shares
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    • 22 4 The Straits Times Industrials Index rose 1.83 points to 2241.84 points at 9.15 this morning from yesterday's close of 2240.01.
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    • 23 4 The Business Times Singapore Regional Index fell 1.26 points to 1121.16 points at 9.15 this morning from yesterday's close of 1122.42.
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 59 4 A NEW three-day test in a military environment for those enlisting for national service will be introduced during basic military training. The aim: To pick those with officer potential in the Singapore Armed Forces. The test will be implemented by the first quarter of this year. Each
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      • 75 4 VALUATIONS on Housing Board flats remained flat in the last quarter of the year. But in comparison with 1995, they showed a 20.9 per cent rise. The number of applications to resell flats in the last quarter of the year was down 2 per cent to 9,933, compared
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      • 52 4 GUIDELINES for Chinese physicians practising traditional Chinese medicine have been submitted to the Health Ministry. They cover ethical behaviour, training, advertising and the doctor/patient relationship. The committee of physicians which laid down the new regulations said they were an extension of the ethical code of the Singapore Chinese
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      • 72 4 INDONESIAN workers in Jakarta and West Java will get a new minimum wage of 172,000 rupiah ($100) a month from April 1. Minimum pay across the nation is up an average 10.07 per cent. Top rate is paid in the key industrial centre of Batam island 235,000
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  • 384 6  -  LAST MONTH: Wedding day LAST NIGHT: Nur Sarah says: SINGAPORETODAY By S Gulam EVERYONE knew the man was fast. But this fast? Just over a month after their grand wedding on Dec 8, Fandi Ahmad's wife, Nur Sarah Abdullah (the former Wendy Jacobs), announced on
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  • 393 8  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Chan Seet Fun WHEN contractor Tan Kim Khor went to meet a friend on Tuesday, he took his handphone along. But when a call was made over that handphone a little while later, it wasn't Mr Tan calling. In fact, Mr Tan, 52, had
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    • 146 8 First Annual Canadian Bdncation Fair Friday, January 24th 1997 2 K)0 pm 8:00 pm Saturday, January 25th 1997 11 KK) am 5 KM) pm Hyatt Regency Singapore, Scotts Road, Level 3 0 '■••a Tou are invited! Is A s %y< rf For an overseas education to last a consider Canada.
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    • 208 9 si' F Movie opens 1 Feb 97. BUY THESE CARTONS: mmmwmm and you could meet Jackie Chan in person on his next film set! Complete the Lucky Draw coupon found in every 330 ml can carton of with your personal particulars on the back of an envelope to: PEPSI "MEET
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  • 280 10 SINGAPORETODAY A DENTAL surgeon was so angry at seeing his "customary wife" in a car with another man that he rammed into the car. Yesterday, Loh Hong Sai, 49, former dean of the National University of Singapore's Dental Faculty and former head of the National
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    • 148 11 Electrifying. liat was I low <at**liiii«i a crowded bus I home In mi sch< >ol was like 20 yea is < i u< >. I' i rst. I here \vn> i he suspense... x'ou xx'ereiit >iire wliei her ihe l>us xx'as reallx coiniim. I lien I here were lhe st
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 406 12 The Singapore Democratic Party has complained about irregularities in the recent election. RACHEL TAN walks you through the voting process to show the checks done by the Election Department THE minute the voter collects his ballot paper, his name is struck off the electoral register
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    • 105 13 MORE than $15,000 in cash and kind was raised in the Marina Mandarin Singapore's Tree of Hope charity drive over the festive season. The donations will go to the Children's Cancer Foundation and the Breadline Group, a community service body. In the five-week drive, which ended on Jan
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    • 59 13 /iria/iu, oe or toe aoaf i Hundred J of doc* are abandoned at tki« time of tke year. Like the poor fellow akove. Pleaae ke contiderate and don t akandon your dog tki* coming Ckineie New Year. KSgj SCXHITYK* THI ftfVIMTIONOf CtUfITT TO ANIMAiS II MOUNT VftNON ROAD 1440 M
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    • 292 13 ATTENTION 'N', 'O', 'A' UVIL CTUDINTS OBTAIN YOUR IT THIS HOLIDAY l EH I tMM^ DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER STUDIES, validated r RUR Univfrstty »f Cambridge and certified by University of Cambndge Local Examination. Syndk»« Examinations Syndicate NCC INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMA IN COMPUTCR STUDIES awarded by National Computing Centre. UK. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS;
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  • SPEAKUP
    • 155 14 NAMES Want to get something off yourchest? Write to us, and do include your name sr.d contact number. Otherwise, the letter will not be published. AndyUiu NEWSPAPERS are fiUed with news of S-League clubs fighting over transfer fees and the signatures of a handful of national
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    • 96 14 Peter Low (e-mail) AS a road user, I'm sick of the constant traffic jams that could have been avoided. I refer to those who feel they own the roads and park at their convenience. These drivers think there are certain "double-yellow lined" roads where it's okay
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    • 114 14 Mr Saminar, Marriott Hotel I took SBS Service 171 to the zoo on Jan 13 at about 9 am from Orchard Road near Marriott hotel. I accidentally left my wallet with a large amount of money and all my identification in the bus. I realised this
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    • 2 14 YOUR FORUM
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  • 283 16  -  SINGAPORETODAY The National Library Board will give more details about its debt-collecting drive in a press conference today. By^ Woon Wui Tek A COOL half a million bucks. That's how much the National Library Board is owed in unpaid fines for overdue books. So no
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  • 298 18  -  IF YOU'RE A STUDENT... SINGAPORETODAY BY Teo Yun Yun WANTED: More Singaporeans to study in Canada. The North American country is all set to woo students from secondary school level up at its education fair tomorrow and on Saturday. Said Ms Heather Barker, director of the
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    • 132 19 Need to send New Year greetings across the "Causeway? With rates cut by up to 43%, pick up the phone instead! Conveying Gong Xi Fa Cai to family and friends? Wherever they may be in Malaysia, your sentiments of the CJ j n qc% no TP season is only a
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 332 20 Hollywood stars. The red carpet. Black designer gowns. International paparazzi. It was like Oscar night at Planet Hollywood's opening yesterday. RIANA ZAKIR finds even some stars star-struck THEY are usually mobbed by the hundreds, but the local stars were practically nobodies last night. After all, Cindy
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    • 64 20 TCS stars lean see anytime. But Hollywood stars > only see this time. Student Dawn Yeo, 18 Overshadowed?No! We are equally famous! Comedian Moses Lim I feel overwhelmed! Now I know what it feels like to be afan! Actress Michelle Goh
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    • 292 21  -  BY Teo Yun Yun NEW year a time to start anew by throwing out old belongings. A good thing except that more rubbish will be piling at Singapore's sole garbage dump. The garbage pile at the Lorong Halus Dumping Ground always increases about 30 per
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 278 22 Sources: AFP, Electronic Telegraph. AT least 30 children's homes in North Wales were allegedly turned into "horror houses" for its occupants during the 1970s and 1980s. Many of the children were subjected to physical and sexual abuse "on an almost unimaginable scale", a public inquiry in Ewloe,
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    • 96 22 (After the boys went to bed), a male member of the staff would come to the door and call out one of the boys who would get up and leave. They were normally gone for half an hour to an hour. When they returned, they went back
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    • 107 22 AFP. A SCOTTISH dentist who made over a million pounds ($2.3 million) in four years by doing expensive dental work on his patients that they didn't need, was struck off on Monday. William Duff had two surgeries in the Scottish city of Glasgow. The General Dental
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    • 327 23 MYSTERY OF MISSING ETHIOPIAN SOCCER PLAYERS SOLVED Reuter. Members of Ethiopia's national soccer squad last night told how friendly hotel staff in Rome gave them the long-awaited chance to seek political asylum in Italy. A receptionist handed over their passports and the 16 went to Rome police
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    • 301 24 Reuters. EPISODE 1 Actor confesses to murder of screen lover in 1992, wife divorces him EPISODE 2 He then says ex-wife killed actress in fit of jealousy. EPISODE 3 Both spend five years in prison before case comes to trial and MILLIONS of Brazilians are
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    • 268 25 Investigative crew guilty of fraud, trespassing AFP AN American television network, ABC News, has been ordered to pay US$5.5 million (557.7 million) to a supermarket group for fraud and trespassing. The reason: The network aired a secretly taped news report showing unsanitary practices at some supermarkets belonging
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    • 23 25 Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just stand there. —American humourist Mark Twain.
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    • 42 25 This case was not just about money. It was about right and wrong, and the jury's first verdict was just as important to us as this decision is. Mr Tom Smith, chairman, chief executive and president of Food Lion.
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    • 50 25 Food Lion never challenged the accuracy of the report... but there has been a tendency for lawyers to go qfter how media gathered the ii\formation rather than the accuracy of the information. Mr Paul McMasters, an ombudsman at the Freedom Forum, a group advocating press freedom.
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    • 393 26  -  He was TV commentator in OJ Simpson case SIA MURDER CASE IN LOS ANGELES By. Jane Saw REPORTING FROM LOS ANGELES THE family of former Singapore Airlines steward Zaini Jeloni has hired a well-known United States lawyer to defend him. Zaini, 27, is charged with
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    • 117 26 ZAINI Jeloni will no longer face death if he is found guilty of murder. District attorney Steven Barshop has proposed to the court that a maximum sentence in the case be life in prison without parole, rather than death. Mr Barshop said this was common
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    • Article, Illustration
      49 26 SIA stewardess Chang Yu (right), 23, a Taiwan national, was found strangled in the closet of her Los Angeles hotel room on Oct 24, 1995. Her colleague Zaini Jeloni, 27, is charged with first-degree murder and forcible rape with the special circumstance of murder during the rape.
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    • 315 26  -  By Edwin Yeo MR Jeloni Omar is devoting his family's life savings to defending his son. The services of Todd Melnik will cost the family about US$9O,OOO (*****,000). "My parents have withdrawn their CPF. Together with their life savings, it just about covers the cost,"
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    • 264 27 AFP. FRESH blizzards have lashed the north-west-ern Chinese province of Xinjiang, stopping rescue work in the region where 36 have already died. No new casualties have been reported but the delay in relief work raises concerns for the 320,000 people still cut off by the
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    • 196 22 1 http: //www.sec.com.sg y IF YOUR CHILD 15 SITTING FDR PSLE IN 1997! SEC-Multimedia has eleased a CD-ROM called "Willy Wabbit Math Adventure" with on-line tuition through internet support that will revolutionalise the teaching of mathematics at PSLE level. Specifically, this CD-ROM addresses the most difficult area in Primary 6
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    • 148 27 Make new friends at the CARRIAGE RAR. Dudley Friends, one of Singapore's most impressive and versatile hands, will he taking centrestage at the York Hotel's Carriage Bar from 16 January 1997. Best known for their extensive repertoire of hits from the 60's, 70s right up to the 90s, from sentimental
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  • Showtime
    • 467 28  -  BY Yong Siew Fern AFTER two years in the army, Taiwanese singer Jimmy Lin still looks and behaves like a teenage idol. His baby-face is as fair and powdered as ever. His dimpled smile is as sweet, and his eyes as bright. And his father still
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    • 324 29 HORROR master Wes Craven wants to escape from the house of horrors he built. But that's not easy for the man* who created Freddy Krueger and Nightmare on Elm Street. Now making his 19th horror film, the 57-year-old director feels he's a victim of Hollywood typecasting.
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    • 123 29 AT 11, Craven was terrified by a man. He later turned that man into Freddy Krueger, the janitor who murdered children in their dreams. Craven was half asleep in his family's second-floor apartment. There was a sound from the street below. When he looked out of the
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  • 171 30 spotlight Stars fell onto our Planet last night outside Liat Towers. And more than 8,000 fans scrambled, pushed and screamed till they were hoarse as Hollywood superstars flashed by. The fans were at the opening of Planet Hollywood hoping to be touched by a bit of
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 50 31 DR Dre was the first to market gangsta-rap to the top of radio playlists. In 1992, he and former music publisher Marion Knight launched the Death Row label. They then turned it into a thriving rap enterprise making more than US$lOO million ($l4O million) a year.
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    • 328 31 Rap star turns to showbiz DR Dre is hoping the headline on his life story will one day read something like this: Gangsta rap star turns entertainment mogul. He formed his own company, Aftermath Entertainment, last year to get into the film and television business,
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    • 282 32 I tj^ AUDIO VIDEO FESTI^DRAWS ,>4 -j 28 November 96 5 February 97 Mm CHRISTMAS DRAW NEW YEAR DRAW y M W J) DRAW DATE: 3 JAN 97 DRAW DATE: 17 FEB 97 i Jj|* J M W P'y oe /> will be snowballed to the New Year Draw. VPI
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    • 574 33 1 —j j iuu ivill i vw m i MINISTRY OF EDUCATION MOE invites all Degree holders, 'A' level holders, Polytechnic Diploma holders trained teachers seeking appointment!reappointment to the Education Service to apply now for teaching positions. I I MINIMUM ENTRY For Graduates: A degree in preferably I J— Y
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 139 34 SALLY Yeh badly wants to have a baby this year. The Hongkong singer, who was bom in the Year of the Ox, said she wants a "calf'. She also wants her baby to be born in September, like herself. This is to ensure their
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    • 103 34 TAIWANESE heartthrob Nicky Wu was evasive when Taiwanese reporters asked him about his rumoured model girlfriend, Li Weiwei, 20. "Huh? Weiwei? You mean I've a model girlfriend? Are you sure?" asked Nicky, 26. When pressed if he knows her, he said: "Hmm, not too sure. Maybe.
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    • 130 34 TO cut or not to cut. That's the question on Chen Hanwei's (left) mind these days. "I don't know whether to cut my hair or keep it," the Channel 8 actor told Shin Min Daily last week. Hanwei, 27, has been sporting the bohemian long-haired
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  • 471 35  -  Etcetera WITH DAVE ANG CALL it the pride of an indulgent father, but I had a lump in my throat when I sent my son Dylan to nursery school a few weeks ago. It is a strange feeling to see your child don a school
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    • 298 35 COMICRELIEF Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson CALWt, I WOPEIOUTO* I OFGNRSE.I WO? tl) faJR ***** OFF BETOCE DONT NB> TO "TBI VIE XOO V<AIKE> />CJOSTMt FICQR All "WE TIME <. '.1 i r 1 l p V «t Adam/Brian Basset ToC* y IAUKi. X BSWJ26 YOU'ISE I I x" "X I
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    • 46 36 real- time stock information, call Quickstock on 1900-913-0003 at 30 cents a minute. Stock numbers are available in the stock pages of The Business Times and Lianhe Zaobao. [•mJbfJI IT'S A MAN'S WORLD! BW* i. rfr Who s this CLASSICAL GAS link win |i Shanghainese Restaurant!
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    • 76 36 m WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE SALE hi, Jaa 24 Sua, Jan 21 (18aa Spa) n 17 U Seng Drive, Yew Lee Building 400 mzm |TURBULENCE| i j movie tickets m I await you! A high flying action thriller starring Ray Liotta. Lauren Holly and s* Hector Eltzondo. Simply collect three Lianhe Zaobao
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    • 888 37 tvpage,™ r Q tolllrlilhl!* SHHHHHHI N gM CHANNEL Q Shaotang (Thomas Ong, left) NOON News 5 Today NOON Focus (Topical issues/r) realises that Ziyun knows about 12.10 PM Homo Shopping 1.00 PM Mid-day News his relationship with Suxin. 1.10 Taxi Bobby's Roommate (Gomedy): 1.30 All In The Family (English subtitles):
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    • 83 38 ■She makes people beautiful trading firm. After six •.%~--Ia5is|| years, she felt she needed v T^^^hhhh the business of making r Wft v v£y<^*■ It r-r people beautiful. "When people leave a "M K I beauty salon, they feel Kk*. N I m happy and good about See Page f
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  • 437 39  -  CAREERCHOICE BY T Ranganayaki SHE'S in the business of making people beautiful. Meet the beauty therapist who has been in the industry for more than a decade, and still enjoys every minute of it. "When people leave a beauty salon, they feel happy and good about
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    • 37 52 FA CUP THIRD-ROUND REPLAY: Aston Villa 3 Notts County 0 (Villa away to Derby County in the fourth round) LEAGUE CUP QUARTER FINAL: Stockport 2 Southampton 2 (Eventual winner meets Middlesbrough in two-leg semi-finals)
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      232 52 FA CUP THIRD ROUND: Saturday: Brentford v Man City Coventry v Woking FA CUP THIRD-ROUND REPLAYS: West Ham v Wrexham Leeds v Palace Palace: The London club completed the signing of defender Andy Linighan from Arsenal for an undisclosed fee following talks with the player yesterday. But
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    • 249 52 FA CUP THIRD-ROUND REPLAY Wire services. ASTON VILLA 3 NOTTS COUNTY 0 D WIGHT Yorke was twice on target. And Aston Villa thrashed Notts County 3-0 at Villa Park. The win put the Premier League team into the fourth round of the FA Cup. Unsettled Serbian
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    • 257 52 t FA6UE CUP QUARTER FINAL Wire services. w A mm SECOND Division Stockport County was only Ave minutes away from another giant-kitting act. It has already knocked out Premier League sides Blackburn and West Ham from the League Cup this season. And yesterday, only a last-minute goal
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    • 129 53 Wire services. STUART Pearce will continue as player-manager of Nottingham Forest. "Stuart will carry on in his current position until the end of the season and then we will talk again, or maybe even sooner," Forest chairman Irving Korn said. Pearce, 34, who has
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    • 546 55 ITALY 2 (Zola 10, Del Piero 90) NORTHERN IRELAND o Half-time: 1-0 Attendance: 38,000 ITALY: Angelo Peruzzi, Ciro Ferrara. Alessandro Costacurta (Fabio Cannavaro), Paolo Maldini, Angelo Di Livio (Stefano Eranio), Amedeo Carboni, Roberto Baggio, Demetrio Albertini, Roberto Di Matteo (Diego Fuser), Gianfranco Zola (Alessandro Del Peiro), Pierluigi
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    • 185 55 PORTUGAL 0 FRANCE 2 Didier Deschamps 10, Ibrahima Ba 60 Wire services. A SUPERB solo effort by Bordeaux's Ibrahima Ba crowned an impressive 2-0 win for France over Portugal in a friendly international in Braga. Ba, making his debut for France, beat Barcelona central defender Fernando Couto
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    • 345 56  -  ™91.3 The New Paper Sportsfile on NTUC Radio Heart 91.3. From Monday to Friday at 8.15 am. Check it out. Stories/ S Gulam WOODLANDS Wellington's midfield dynamo D Devaraj has switched to Jurong Town FC for this season's S-League. He ended his one-year stint recently after negotiations
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      103 56 Two other Woodlands players have also joined Jurong Town. They are former international ARJ Maran and G Balasubramaniam. Maran could not command a regular place last year. He lost out to national players Borhan Abu Samah and Zakaria Awang for the left back and left-midfield roles. Bala, a
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    • 227 56  -  By Calvin Low FOR those who've dreamed of being a star like Kiwi Jonah Lomu, but are afraid of the big knocks, touch rugby may be the answer. And this Saturday, those dreams may become reality. Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and the Singapore
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    • 158 56 Wire services. Cash boost for Rangers GLASGOW RANGERS: The Scottish champion received a huge boost in its bid to become a major force in European football. A single investor has pumped a record £40 million ($88 m) into the club. Bahamas-based Joe Lewis has bought a 25 per cent
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      60 57 How tli* main matches went (seeding* in bold): MEN: 1 Pete Sampras (US) bt 10 Albert Costa (Spa) 6-3, 6-7 (5/7), 6-1, 3-6,6-2 5 Thomas Muster (Aut) bt 3 Goran Ivanisevic (Cro) 6-4, 6-2,6-3 WOMEN 4 Martina Hingis (Swi) bt 8 Irina Spirlea (Rom) 7-5,6-2 14 Mary Joe
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    • 33 57 Today's main matches: MEN 2 Michael Chang (US) v Carlos Moya (Spa) WOMEN 4 Martina Hingis (Swi) v 14 Mary Joe Fernandez (US) 12 Amanda Coetzer (SA) v Mary Pierce (Fra)
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    • 199 57 Martina Hingis (Swi) v Maty Joe Fernandez (US) Martina Hingis: The most exciting prospect in women's tennis since Monica Seles. She has hardly put a foot wrong in Melbourne and hasn't dropped a set in five matches. Seeding: 4; Age: 16; Plays: right-handed; Weight: 52kg; Height: 1.67 m;
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    • 647 57  -  By Norman Stevens REPORTING FROM MELBOURNE IF a player like Thomas Muster did not exist, it would take a Michael Crichton, the world's top science fiction writer, to invent someone like the Austrian and weave a story around him. And maybe just maybe Steven Spielberg would
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    • 130 57 DPA. MARTINA Hingis of Switzerland put her solid 7-5, 6-2 win over Irina Spirlea of Romania yesterday down to a tumble off a horse. The 16-year-old Swiss, who is now through to the Australian Open semi-finals, was riding on Tuesday when she had a fall. "Maybe
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    • 167 57 DPA. Dominique Van Roost The Belgian failed in her bid to become the first player from her small country to reach a Grand Slam semi-final when she lost to Mary Joe Fernandez 7-5,4-0 (retired) yesterday. But the 23-year-old still sported a beaming smile at her post-match press conference.
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    • 273 58 LAN WOOSNAM (Wales): Woosnam, 38, is the defending champion and is currently ranked 18th on the European Order of Merit. An exciting player to watch, Woosnam won his first Major in 1991 when he captured the US Masters. To date he has 35 career victories,
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    • 102 58 American Fred Couples commanded a large gallery of fans when he teed off in the first round of the Journey Walker Classic this morning. However, he failed to excite the crowds and was one-under par after five holes. Three golfers shared the early lead. They were the Australian
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