The New Paper, 24 February 1997

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1 43 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1997 MfTA (P) 061/4/96 60 CENTS
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    • 60 1 i.iiL'iiiiimiJMWffii.iAaßmßiii Man who saved H pfhrived Y\ -7 y H 2' FEB 1997 f<J the Lions again again again. J, Remember this face -TTtnr|!i m V 'JHN| \y M J P* fJP^IP |\M jPL Q— Is China an evil empire? Can Jiang fill Deng's shoes? US answer /Page 2 /Page
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 334 2 US TOP DIPLOMAT LOOKS INTO THE FUTURE AND SAYS: Source: AFP. AMERICA'S No 1 diplomat says she will not mince words when talking to China. But there arc two words that she will never use to describe China "evil empire". Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said
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    • 183 2 TAIPEI has coined a new term for the China-Taiwan relationship. It has stopped using its customary term, "One China". Instead, it referred to "One China under separate governance" in a media statement issued on Saturday under a directive from the President's Office. It is not clear
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    • 367 3 puts mother in a spin The Isle of Wight is a few kilometres off the coast of England, near Portsmouth and Southampton "MUM, bad news. Alex is stuck in the washing machine," four-year-old Edward Green casually reported to his mum, Sam. Mrs Green rushed into the
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    • 170 2 Leisure Showtime: Pages 18,19, 20 24 TV: Page 25 Comics: Pages 26 27 I GIVE YOUR HAIR A NEW LEASE OF LIFE I With Hay's Formula, you need no longer worry about hair problems like balding, hair loss, damaged hair, premature greying. Hay' S Formula dandruff, brittle hair and so
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 108 4 SINGAPORE is now the 13th largest exporter of merchandise trade in the world. A high-level Committee on International Trade, formed by the Trade Development Board (TI)B), said Singapore hit this mark last year. We were 20th in 1986. The committee was formed in January
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    • 113 4 HOT STORY EXPORT RANKING Singapore will face rising competition from our neighbours. Ihese export rankings from 1986 and 1995 periods tell the story THE Committee on International Trade said that we would face increasing competition from our neighbours. The 23-member committee, led by Mr Robert Chua,
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 51 4 THREE sites have been declared as possible replacements for the Tanjong Pagar railway station: Along Scotts Road, where it would be linked with Newton MRT station. Near Suntec City where it would be linked to Bugis MRT. In Marina South. No date or time-frame has been set for
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      • 53 4 DR CHEE Soon Juan and Mr Ling How Doong remain the secretary-general and chairman of the Singapore Democratic Party. They were returned unopposed at the SDP biennial cadre conference on Saturday. Mr Wong Hong Toy became assistant secretary-general and Mr Gandhi Ambalam, an SDP candidate for Jalan
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      • 58 4 SINGAPORE Bus Services and Trans-Island Bus Services have been asked to join in a estimated $70 million monorail project. The original proposal from the owners of Suntec City, Millenia and Bugis Junction, was for a two-way track with up to six stations, including Bugis Junction, Beach Road and
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      • 58 4 A NEW paging device allows direct sending of text messages to alphanumeric pagers. Senders do not have to go through the operator or a computer. They just plug Telescribe into a phone link and type a message. Telescribe, developed in Singapore by Satcom Technology and Research, will go
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      • 58 4 THE National University of Singapore's Engineering Faculty is to make sweeping changes to its study courses. They will become more project-oriented. The major changes aim to encourage more rounded and creative students, and make courses more relevant to Singapore's needs. Up to a third of the syllabus might
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      • 51 4 OVER the next five years Brunei will spend $7.2 billion on diversifying into other areas besides oil production. Sultan Ilassanal Bolkiah announced the budget for the next five-year plan yesterday on Brunei's 13th National Day. He emphasised the need for Brunei to focus on international trade to create
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    • 59 4 A NEW unmanned American spy plane, the Global Hawk, can stay aloft for 42 hours while sending images of the ground below. It has not been flown yet. The Pentagon showed off the US$14 million ($19. 6 million) high-altitude plane, developed by Teldeyne Ryan Aeronautical, last week. A
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    • 74 4 The Straits Times: Singapore moves up export ranking list The Business Times: Price war erupts in wafer fab business Uanhe Zaobao: Singapore is top business location after US, Canada Berita Harlan: CDC: More councils expected to be formed RCS morning news: Singapore ranked as the second most competitive place
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    • 17 4 The Straits Times Industrials Index remain the same as at Friday's close of 2241.28 points.
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    • 23 4 The Business Times Singapore Regional Index fell 7.13 points to 1100.63 points at 9.15 this morning from Friday's close of 1107.76.
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  • Article, Illustration
    344 5 THENEWSTODAY A SWARM of bees buzzed their way to a block of flats in Bedok North to the alarm of residents there. The bees, which first showed up on Feb 15, were attracted by the fluorescent tubes along the corridors of Blk 202. Some residents in the 20-year-old
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 398 6  -  $2,000 TO SOLVE TOA PAYOH MURDER By Rachel Tan SHE is a divorcee with two children. She earns barely $1,000 a month. But for Madam Devike Maniam, 35, justice and the search for her brother's killer means more than money or hardship. To find her brother's
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    • 239 6 THE restaurant had closed for the night and the owner was taking a break when he saw two men break into a scuffle. One man, later identified as Mr Maniam, was kicked in the stomach and face before being pushed into the water. The other man,
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    • 550 7 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION MOE invites all Degree holders, 'A' level holders, Polytechnic Diploma holders and trained teachers seeking appointment/reappointment to the Education Service to apply now for teaching positions. V I MINIMUM ENTRY For Graduates A degree in preferably I J. T T QUALIFICATIONS 1 teaching subject from an acceptable
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 377 9 Home Affairs Minister's vision for tomorrow HOW do we make Singapore Our Best Home, one of the finest places in the world? By having a world-class Home Team the best in Asia, says Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng. The Home Team is the eight departments
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    • 131 9 THE eight Ministry of Home Affairs departments are working more closely as a team. A project to develop a new state-of-the-art command, control and communications system, which began in the police, was extended to Civil Defence and now involves almost all Home Team departments. The
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    • 449 10  -  By Rachel Tan STUDIES show oral sex is widely practised in Singapore. And such statistics helped the Appeal Court decide whether it is natural. Citing such statistics, Appeal Court judge M Karthigesu said: "We cannot close our mind to that." The court was
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    • 169 10 A 19-year-old receptionist accused handyman Kwan Kwong Weng, 47, of duping her into performing oral sex on him. The girl met him at her temporary job in March last year. She was then waiting to do an engineering course at a polytechnic. Kwan offered her a lift home
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    • 398 10 When is oral sex not a crime? The question came up when a man, cleared of oral sex charges last year, had his acquittal overturned by the Appeal Court recently. But the judges said they would look at such cases individually WHEN
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    • 48 10 "Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animals, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine."
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    • 423 11  -  BY Teo Yun Yun THAT'S the kind of response an Internet consultancy company is getting in its efforts to help small local companies solve problems with the Bug, or the Year 2000 Problem. Mr Dexter Liou, 33, set up Infosoft with three friends two months ago.
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    • 119 11 THIS happens when the computer software can only read the last two digits of any given year for example, "96" for 1996. Unless this is changed, come 2000, the system will think it is the year 1900 instead. Any programme billing, accounting or record-keeping involving calculations
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    • 347 12 Up, up and away on a kite A few children with Down's Syndrome were given the chance to "fly" at Marina South yesterday. The occasion: The Down Syndrome Association's launch of its new logo. CHAN SEET FUN spoke to Benjamin Lee about his short flight HE hopped and he bounced
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    • 176 12 THE Down Syndrome Association's (DSA) new logo (right) has a kite in it. The logo's designer is Ms Pamphylia Poh, who teaches visual communication at the school of design in Temasek Polytechnic. She said the kite is "up and flying", signifying that the
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 493 13 THE STORY SO FAR Source: Wire services. Jan 10: Jerusalem lawyer Roni Bar-On is nominated by PM Netanyahu for the post of Attorney-General. Jan 12: Mr Bar On takes office but resigns within 12 hours. Legal experts and politicians say he lacks experience to become
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    • 254 14 A GUNMAN opened fire with an automatic weapon on the 86th floor observation deck of New York's famed Empire State Building, killing one and injuring seven, police said yesterday. Witnesses said the gunman went crazy and began shooting at people.-He then turned the gun on himself. "All
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    • 403 14 Man convicted on Voice ID' alone A BRITISH store-owner was convinced that he knew the voice of the masked armed man who robbed his general store. So Mr Brian Whiting asked the police for a voice parade, reports the Internet edition of The
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    • 30 14 Ian Hersey, 22, uwmpfayd, was Jafed seven years after alary at rui uvnuuuv Crown Court unanimously -1 r.a a .I LI(«| jy| COVWvCtCti IWH Ofl tka voice fvWfMirf 1
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    • 185 14 Reuter. FERGIE and ex-husband Prince Andrew made a picture of family togetherness with their children on the Swiss ski slopes at the weekend. British newspapers on Sunday splashed pictures of family over their pages. They said the Duchess of York (known as Fergie because of
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    • 80 14 We will tie stones on our stomachs but will get rid of debts. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (above), calling on Pakistanis at home and abroad to make donations or deposit savings in Pakistan to help rebuild the country and pay off its debts. In his
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    • 260 15 FIRE IN INDIA Reuter. A LARGE gathering of Hindu devotees in eastern India's Orissa state was burnt alive in a fire that broke out there yesterday. The group was napping after lunch in little thatched huts built to house them in the camp, reports said. At
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    • 275 15 FIRE IN THAILAND Three people die as a fire rages through a new 36-storey office block in central Bangkok. Dozens of others are injured. The fire, which started yesterday, is under control but not completely extinguished as yet. The cause is thought to be an explosion on Ihe
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    • 655 16 When China's Chairman Mao Zedong died in 1976, his handpicked successor, MrHua Guofeng, lasted just two years. Will Mr Deng Xiaoping's heir apparent, President Jiang Zemin, have better luck? Sources: South China Morning Post, wire services. YES PRESIDENT Jiang Zemin had seven years to prepare
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    • 109 16 Age: 70 Education: Trained as electrical engineer Political career I: Shanghai mayor and, later, party boss in 1980s. Political career II: Picked by Mr Deng to be Chinese Communist Party chief in 1989, several months after army crushed pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in June 1988.
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    • 149 16 Reuter. A NEW YORK businessman was arrested yesterday and charged with beating, raping and sodomising a woman he met on the Internet, police said. A police spokeswoman said Paul Krath, 46, met the victim, a 41-year-old woman from Syracuse, New York, through an Internet chat
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  • DEARWIJEY
    • 219 17 QI am a Secondary 4 student in the normal stream. Most of my peers are heading for the Institute of Technical Education or Shatec. Only a handful are thinking of sitting for the O levels next year. I was determined to try the
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      49 17 Do you have any questions regarding education? Write or fax your questions to The New Paper 390 Kim Seng Road Singapore *****5. Fax: 737-5375 Give us your name, address and telephone number. Call The New Paper Infoline, 1900-*****03. (Calls are charged at 30 cents a minute.)
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    • 48 17 CALL 1900-*****03 and leave your questions for Mr Wijey. You can listen to his earlier advice, too. Calls cost 30 cents a minute (an additional surcharge of 10 cents a minute for cardphone calls). This week'sQ&A: Engineering to Mass Media Combining 0 levels Is ECA important?
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    • 139 17 QI STOPPED schooling last year with an aggregate score of nine for my N levels. My school turned me down because of my poor attendance and performance. I am now 17 and working as a full-time dental nurse. Can I take my O levels
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    • 93 17 QI AM a normal stream student taking my O levels this year and want to be a commercial airline pilot. I need a minimum of five GCE O-level credits. What is the minimum marks to obtain these credits? Gemini A The GCE O-level grades range from
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    • 73 17 QI ONLY have three credits and a D7 in English for O levels. Should I spend a year doing a diploma in marketing and another chasing an associate diploma before further study overseas? Karen A You should first seek a job in sales-related work and
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  • Showtime
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      423 18 Singapore singer Kit Chan is venturing into Cantonese music. And she's being helped hy Hongkong legend Sam Hui. YONG SIEW FERN reports S\M > I i' YOU are cutting your first Cantonese album. Who do you turn to for help? For Singapore singer Kit Chan, it's Hongkong's best
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    • 99 18 KIT Chan's production company here, Ocean Butterflies, and her distribution company, Pony Canyon Entertainment, have yet to settle their contract problems. The two have been tangled in a legal tussle involving the distribution of Kit's albums here. As a result, Kit's latest Mandarin album, Don't Make Me Hate
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    • 377 19 THE year's most unlikely Grammy triple threat recalls the moment when he first heard he'd be competing against the Fugees and Celine Dion, among others, on this Wednesday's telecast. "Nobody called, because everyone assumed I knew," singer-songwriter Beck told US magazine Entertainment Weekly recently.
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    • 49 19 He's known as Beck but he's Beck Hanson from Los Angeles. He comes up with the hippest sounds in rock. His debut album Mellow Gold rocketed him to success in 1994. His latest, Oldelay, is a bigger critical success even if it is not charting as well.
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    • 422 20 Director John Singleton (right) who directed Boyz N the Hood. He's just completed Rosewood, yet another reality-based gritty film. DIRECTOR John Singleton hopes to take a break from real life. He next plans to do a remake of Shaft, about a fictitious suave
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    • 162 21 STAR CRUISE S The Leading a p earing on 28 Feb Cruise Live Entertainment '97 yv 7j* VST* NEXT WEEK iH. In a relatively short but stunning musical career, this Taiwanese star has rocketed Tong An Ge Sfci to the top of the charts in Taiwan and Singapore with a
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  • LOOK
    • 303 22 Why are more men joining the well-nailed set? WOON WUITEK reports MANICURES for men are, in many people's eyes, a sissy-boy's game. Yet many businessmen, television personalities and even some footballers are said to seek professional nail care. So, it seemed time for
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    • 233 22 HIS hands do the cooking, but his fingernails help serve up the final flourish. "When I take food to the tables, people naturally look at my hands and my nails,", said chef Angelo Sanelli, 43, of Michelangelo's, a restaurant in Holland Village. Dirty or
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    • 137 22 MANICURISTS say they are gradually seeing more male clients. The new nail set are mostly expatriates or Chinese Singaporeans, aged 25 and 65 years old. They are businessmen or professionals, who want to look their best for presentations or meetings. Some of the men seek
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    • 106 22 HOW can you keep your nails looking nice? Manicurists give this advice: Eat more calcium. Milk is a good source of calcium. I Wash hands and feet thoroughly and often. Apply moisturising cream to keep nails from becoming too dry. And if you need the professional touch, here
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    • 80 22 PEDICURES cost more than manicures. But foot-care fans such as sales manager Robert Lye don't mind. "An $18 manicure may be a bit on the high side, but a $28 pedicure is okay," said Mr Lye, 37. "I have difficulty reaching down to clean my toenails. "Besides taking care
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  • 391 23 He's been nominated for a best actor Oscar... SHOWTIME Billy Bob who? That was the reaction two weeks ago when Billy Bob Thornton was nominated for best actor in this year's Academy Awards. Now moviegoers are learning that Thornton may be a force to reckon
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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  • 505 25  -  ET CETERA WITH P N BALJI THIS is an SOS, a distress call to Save Our Sundram. It is also a wake-up call to save him from his officials. Yes, the officials of the soccer club he plays for, Woodlands Wellington. V Sundramoorthy has spent more than
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 235 37  -  DAVIS CUP ASIA-OCEANIA ZONE GROUP TWO AFTER5-0 LOSS TO CHINESE TAIPEI. WHAT NEXT FOR SINGAPORE? Stories/^ Gerard Wong SINGAPORE'S continued survival in the Davis Cup hangs in the balance with a make-or-break match against Pakistan. This comes after a 0-5 drubbing by Chinese Taipei over the weekend. Pakistan
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    • 185 37 Singapore'* Dam Cup team was promoted to Group Two of the Asia/Oceania Zone last year after vie tones over Malaysia (3-0) and Oman (2-1). Singapore can now stay in Group Two by beating Pakistan. SINGAPORE 0 CHINESE TAIPEI 5 (Singapore first) Chen Chee Yen lost Lien Yu-Hui
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      206 37 ASIA CUP BADMINTON Taiwan beat South Korea 2-1 to take third place. Indonesia received US$BO,OOO for the victory. Malaysia got US$4O,OOO. Taiwan and South Korea received US$2O,OOO and US$lO,OOO rpspfcbvpfy. The ether COUnulfl WW9CH lost in the praindnary rounds India, lapan and Thailand. AFP. INDONESIA outplayed Malaysia
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    • 284 37 EUROPE KICKOFF: ITALY, SPAIN HOLLAND Wire services. ITALY: Milan's nightmare season continued after going down 1-0 to lowly Perugia yesterday. Further gloom came after key players, skipper Paolo Maldini and French international Christophe Dugarry were sent off for rough play. Holland international Edgar Davids was also carried
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    • 50 37 Stretchered out: Bordeaux's star striker Jean-Pierre Papin is seriously hurt after he was hit on the head by Marseille's Xavier Gravelaine in the French Division One match on Saturday. Bordeaux won 4-0. Papin, for the record, was a former Marseille player. Picture/ Afp
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    • 207 37 Wire services. Results of Europe's top soccer matches: SOCCER Div One Belgium: Harelbeke 2 Mouscron 2, Ghent 1 Anderlecht 2, Club Brugge 8 Lokeren 2. France: Metz 2 Monaco 0, Bastia 2 Nancy 0, Paris SG 1 Guingamp 1, Bordeaux 4 Marseille 0, Lille 2 Strasbourg 4, Nice 1
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    • 603 38  -  SINGAPORE 0 MALAYSIA 0 MAN OF THE MOMENT; COACH BARRY WHITBREAD National coach Barry Whitbread has been blowing hot and cold over the Lions'form during the past week in the run-up to the Dunhill Cup date in Kuala Lumpur: Barry after the unimpressive 1-0 win in
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    • 195 38 TOMORROW'S MATCH: FIXTURES TODAY: Zimbabwe v Bosnia (7.30pm) Vietnam v Indonesia (9.30pm) TOMORROW: Singapore v Finland (7.30pm) Malaysia v China (9.30pm) BARRY Whitbread is confident of a victory in the final preliminary round match against Finland tomorrow (kickoff: 7.30pm). But he isn't sure if it will be enough
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    • 209 38  -  By Gerard Wong S-LEAGUE club Tiong Bahru United has decided not to sign Jan Blahusiak as its fifth foreign player. Reason: It felt that the 33-year-old Slovakian defender did not fulfill its requirements. Said Tiong Bahru's technical director P N Sivaji: "Jan is a strong defender and
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    • MALAYSIA O SINGAPORE O
      • 269 39 Bernama. MALAYSIA started the game in a sluggish manner. It had to put extra efforts in the defence in the early stages of the match following attempts by Singapore. The home team could have taken the lead in the 17th minute if Azman Adnan's attempt to connect
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      • 47 39 Shots: Malaysia 12, Singapore 3 Corners: Malaysia 9, Singapore 0 Freckkks: Malaysia 14, Singapore 12 Offsides: Malaysia 0, Singapore 1 Yellow card: Nazri Nasir, Aide Iskandar, Rafi Ali, Steven Tan (all Singaporeans) Referee: Lim Young Joo( South Korea) Man of the Match: Rezal Hassan (Singapore)
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    • 71 39 Now they know MAN OF THE MOMENT: 'KEEPER REZAL HASSAN MALAYSIAN FANS ASKED WHEN REZAL ARRIVED IN KL FACTFILE Name: Mohd Rezal Hassan Age: 22 Date of birth: Feb 14,1975 Height: 1.83 m Weight: 75kg Club: SAFFC Occupation: National serviceman International experience: Joined national squad in 1994
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    • 686 40  -  ...MORE ON MALAYSIA V SINGAPORE While walking around the former Shah of Iran's palace during a Lions Iran tour in 1995, Rezal told S GULAM that he would be Singapore's No 1 'keeper in two years. Yesterday, he proved he was ready to take on that
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      95 41 CHELSEA 1 (Zola 2nd) MANCHESTER UNITED 1 (Beckham 68th) Half-time: 10 Attendance: 28.336 COVENTRY 0 EVERT0N 0 Attendance: 19.497 LEICESTER 4 (Marshall 7th, 24th. 27th. Clandge 59th) DERBY 2 (Sturridge 2nd. 47th) Half-time: 3 1 Attendance: .>0.323 LIVERPOOL 0 BLACKBURN 0 Attendance: 40.747 MIDDLESBROUGH 0 NEWCASTLE 1
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    • 91 41 FAST FACTS Neither side could afford to lose this game. United remains at the top of the table. If Chelsea had held on to its lead, it would have cut the deficit to nine points with two games in hand. With the draw. United has stretched
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    • 109 41 Man U manager Alex Ferguson: I am glad Chelsea did not win that one because it could go close. But we were excellent in the second half and by attacking all the time we pinned them in. With the number of chances we had we were unlucky
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    • 232 41 CHAMPIONSHIP CHASE: CHELSEA 1 (Zo\a 2nd) MAN U 1 (Beckham 68th Gianfranco Zola and David Beckham were hailed as world class after their goals shared the honours in Saturday's top-of-the-table clash. Chelsea boss Ruud Gullit led the tributes saying: "The Premiership now has so many world class
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    • 370 41 INTRIGUING GAME OF NUMBERS DAVID Beckham has become the most exciting player to watch in England. He gave another of his stunning volleys which screamed into the Chelsea net for a deserved 68th-minute equaliser at Chelsea. Allied to his extraordinary technique, minimal backlift and perfect timing, is
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    • 140 41 FAST FACTS Gianfranco Zola's goal (2nd min): Chelsea switches play from left to right and Dan Petrescu's low pass is played inside Denis Irwin for Zola to make a blind run from outside. Irwin lunges in but Zola feints to cross and cuts inside beyond Gary Pallister -and
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    • 71 41 CHELSEA (3-5-2): Kevin Hitchcock (Frode Grodas 50th). Dan Petrescu (Ruud Gullit 75th). Frank Leboeuf. Steve Clarke. Frank Sinclair, Scott Minto (Erland Johnsen 71st), Roberto Di Matteo, Eddie Newton, Dennis Wise, Gianfranco Zola. Mark Hughes. MAN UTD (4-4-2): Peter Schmeichel, Gary Neville. Ronny Johnsen (David May 92nd), Gary Pallister.
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    • 19 42 ARSENAL 0 WIMBLEDON 1 (Jones 21st) Attendance: 37,854 MIDDLESBROUGH 0 NEWCASTLE 1 (Ferdinand Bth) HdMfne:ol Attendance: 30,063
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    • 265 42 LIVERPOOL 0 BLACKBURN 0 UVCTPOOt David James Jason McAteer Bjom Kvarme Mart* Wright Dominic Matteo Sttg BJomebye Steve McManaman John Barnes Jamie Redknapp Stan Collymore Robbie Fowler Subs Subs not used: Warner, Ruddock, Berger. Thomas, Kennedy Tim Rowers Jeff Henna Tim Sherwood Colin Hendry
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      118 42 BORO 0 NEWCASTLE 1 Reuter. BRITISH bookmakers breathed a huge sigh of relief yesterday. Especially after Newcastle striker Alan Shearer failed to score during the match against Middlesbrough on Saturday. His blank sheet meant that he had missed out on a clean sweep of a goal against
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    • 342 42 THE Magpies are back in the hunt. Newcastle's first away win in the league since October saw it move into third place. It gained ground on Manchester United and Liverpool. The Magpies are now six points behind United with a game in hand. The 1-0 win over Boro
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    • 300 42 SUNDAY PREMIER ARSENAL 0 WIMBLEDON 1 (Vinnie Jones, 21st) INFOLINE West Ham meets Tottenham tonight. Call The IJauj i»n» r a|if r Infoline on 1900-*****13 after 6.30 am tomorrow for the mult Cads cost 30 cents a minute. Reuter. A THUMPING volley from captain Vinnie Jones gave
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