The New Paper, 1 March 1997

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 542 2  -  CRUISE SHIP CATCHES FIRE By Woon Woon Wui Tek and Riana Zakir OTOTOMY, 9.30 PM: Cruise ship Superstar Gemini sets sail from World Trade Centre for Malacca on a three-day journey. She is carrying 689 passengers and 472 crew members. ©JUST AFTER lIP*. Somewhere near
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    • 118 2 MONDAY: My money was taken Tmdiy! Names called Vhdmtitr- My uniform torn TharMbqr: My body pouring with blood Fitabqr. It's ended Satanfay: Freedom This is Vyay Singh's "secret diary of despair". In it, Vijay, 13, of Firswood, Manchester, described the effects of repeated bullying. He wrote it
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    • 712 3 And you can get more, if you pay more, says Business Times' Washington correspondent LEON HADAR IN my neighbourhood Starbucks coffee shop, a cup of Double Expresso costs a little more than US$2 (552.84). A Grand Latte comes to about
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 180 4 Outdoor activities here may be reason ll'l'lill!! I lII' lll'ill M 1993: 11 cases of BCC (a type of skin cancer) out of every 10,000 skin centre patients 1994: 28 cases 1995: 30 cases. kHOT i STORIESJ SKIN cancer is hitting more Singaporeans. And if you think
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    • 84 4 THE stock market's trading volume hit its highest level in three years, last month. Shares traded on the mainboard, Clob International and Sesdaq totalled 7.3 billion units last month, almost double the 3.7 billion units done in February last year. The total value of
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    • 26 4 The Dow Jones industrial average was down 47.33 points at 6,877.74 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 511 million shares
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 63 4 SINGAPORE is to study whether a planned new $6.8 billion deep tunnel sewerage system could free up 290 hectares of land for residential and other uses. The study will cost $70 million in its five phases. The deep tunnels would provide first-rate sewerage facilities to meet
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      • 60 4 AN omnibus union is being formed for employees of statutory boards. t Initially, it will have 2,000 members. The trend to corporatisation has shrunk public sector unions, giving them problems of numbers, funding and leadership. Employees left in the non-corporatised parts can gain a bigger collective
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      • 56 4 WORKERS in the Singapore-developed Suzhou Industrial Park in China's Jiangsu province will soon have access to affordable housing. This will get a compulsory savings scheme modelled on Singapore's Central frovident Fund next month. The scheme is the latest adapating of Singapore management expertise to China, which has
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      • 61 4 DEVELOPER Pontiac Marina has won the court fight to stop CDL Hotels International (CDL) from using "Millennium" as the name for its hotels here. Justice Chao Hick Tin issued a court order to restrain CDL from operating any hotel here under "Millennium" or a similar name. Pontiac
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      • 60 4 THE Government has made two more appointments to the Education Ministry. Senior civil servant Lim Siong Guan has been appointed concurrent permanent secretary and Mr Chiang Chie Foo will become Second Permanent Secretary (Education). The Public Service Division in the Prime Minister's Office yesterday said
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      • 52 4 EIXTEND the Trans-Asian railway network into an economic superhighway, scud Thai Prime Minister General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh yesterday. And export-orientated companies can be based along it, he said. Thailand, Malaysia, Indochina and southern China could develop facilities together, he added. The railway will begin in Singapore and end in
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    • 75 4 The Strait* Times: New $6.8b sewerage system being studied 11m Bntaets Times: Next Media says its HK listing is being blocked LMm Ziofcar Singapore prepared to spend more than $6.7b to build deep-tunnel sewerage system Berita Marian: $6.8b sewerage system being studied RCS meinhn mm: PM says it's essential
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    • 20 4 Oho«Uitorte«l9o£2lMooe Thia Crlmaa 1900^12-QflOQ Spoif R—Ult» 1900-912-0012 Fandi Ahmad TMk Una 1900-912-0013 Oils at 30 canto a mtnuto. miioe in
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    • 148 5 To Get The Full Picture, Charge On Down To The Army Booth! At Career' 9 7, World Trade Centre, Hall 1, Booth 1250, 6-9 March. And Be Where The Action Really Is. To find out what this picture is part of, visit us at the Army booth! It's a piece
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • Article, Illustration
      368 6 A 50-year-old man was jailed yesterday for rubbing himself against schoolgirls on 10 separate occasions. CHAN SEET FUN speaks to two girls who helped to trap him Schoolgirls skipped lunch, stayed late to get this man THE man was old enough to be their father. And when he rubbed
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    • 171 6 ON Oct 3, the day after they had reported the molest, the two girls agreed to take another ride on bus service 180. With a plainclothes police officer. Toh Soon Lai had molested both of them in the same bus on Sept 24 and Sept 26.
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    • 208 6 TOH Soon Lai, 50, a driver, faced a total of 10 molest charges. Three of these were proceeded with and he was jailed a year for his offences. He escaped caning because of his age. Apart from molesting the two schoolgirls, Toh also preyed on two other
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    • 452 7  -  A stranger, claiming to be a government employee, approaches her He accuses her of carrying a gun in her paper bag He tears off her blouse and tries to molest her The maid flees topless and seeks safety from a passer-by PENALTY The penalty for
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  • 420 9  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Khor Su Min ALL her life, Madam Tay Pek Hiok had listened to music. So on her funeral yesterday, her family decided to arrange a swan song. Many songs. They hired a music troupe. And for two hours, the 200 or so mourners
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 339 11  -  Coming hot on the heels of Foodßunners is an international firm called Dining In. The monthold food delivery company offers menus from 15 restaurants from Boat Quay and delivers to the business district. It also offers party planning service*. BY Rachel Tan DON'T want to go,
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    • 174 11 RESTAURANTS are generally careful when engaging a third party to deliver their food much as they would ei\joy the sales. One restaurant in Shenton Way had a short-lived contract with a small delivery company which offered to send food for it. But there was a dispute. Said the
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    • 476 12 The O-level results were announced yesterday. Chee Wei Liat was one of the six top normal stream students. He plans to go to a polytechnic although he has made the grade for junior college. The New Paper set him up with a Nanyang Polytechnic
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    • 145 12 ow that you have received your 'O' level results, Nanyang Polytechnic is a w- j JjS here t0 he| P y° u make a choice in your next phase of studies. We invite \/jnfY&j Ml you to our special counselling sessions at our Yishun Campus -t A- vl y today
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 156 14 FROM PAGE 12 34,194 students sat for the exams. 25,041 or 73.2 per cent passed with five or more credits, and 31,045 or 90.8 per cent passed with three or more credits. All students at Dunman High, Methodist Girls', Nanyang Girls', Raffles Institution and the
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    • 196 14 TODAY is D-Day decision-day and many of you will be trying to choose the right path to further your education. For expert advice in making your decision, call The New Paper O-level Hotline on 1900-*****03. Mr Eugene Wijeysingha, former headmaster of Raffles Institution and columnist for The New
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    • 857 15 Nanyang Polytechnic Is committed to providing quality education and training to prepare our graduates for Nfe and work, equipping them to contribute to the technological, economic and social development of Singapore. s •> y In 15MW. Polytechnic wW enter Its nut phut of AwiiopiMßt when the naw cnnpui at Anf
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 400 16 A Perfect 10 DJ climbed 61 gruelling storeys of the OUB Centre in Raffles Place in a run-up to the Third Annual Timex Vertical Marathon to 6e held tomorrow. EDWIN YEOgives a level-by-level account of his progress IVAN Rantung, 25, a Perfect 10
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    • 99 16 THE 3rd Annual Timex Vertical Marathon will be held tomorrow at OUB Centre at 8.45 am. The competitive categories are open only to students from tertiary institutions and junior colleges. Members of the public wishing to take part in the event may do so
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  • 381 19  -  SINGAPORETODAY By. Jill Lim THESE kids are lovely to be with," said Indian model Aditi Govithrikar. She meant the fearsome lions in the picture. When 29 glamorous models from all over Asia came to their home, the children turned lions. These intellectually disabled children in
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  • weekender
    • COVERSTORY
      • 636 22  -  REPORTS CALVIN LOW YOU can't deny it: Good looks do help careers, and that includes sporting |j&■■■ ones, too. V| Indeed, in one sport at least, looks are anV unwritten law in the selection of athletes. But do you think it's possible to smile and sashay
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      • 23 22 WEE KIMCHYE Top-scoring basketballer UM TONGHAI Singapore footballer ABBAS SAAD Former Singapore footballer
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      • Article, Illustration
        467 23 SO STRIKING: He's more than good-looking. He's Gavin van Rooyen, arguably the deadliest striker in the national hockey team IF Gavin van Rooyen played soccer, Abbas Saad might have had to play second fiddle at least to the women in the stands. Both possess the flair for making
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      • 240 23 GAVIN Van Rooyen is not just another pin-up boy. Not to Charmaine Marian, anyway. Said the self-employed designer, Gavin's girlfriend of five months: "We met at Hard Rock Cafe. The first thing that struck me was his looks, but Gavin soon showed me
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      • 168 23 JOCKS IN GENERAL There are guys who look good and I think they're lucky. If he's got brains as well, he's got it made. But there are also disadvantages. Others may be jealous of him." ABBAS AND FANM: I don't think they're fantastic looking. I'd rate them seven
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    • 135 22 Asian Model Search *97 A prestigious female and mate categories. glamorous contestants from the participating countries. You too can take female contestant with the "Best National Costume" the Preview Shopping Centre, Level I Atrium on Sunday, 2 March at 2pm and you could win fabulous prizes. Simply write down your
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 182 24 Thinking of starting your career after your GCE O' Levels? Of course, you do not just want any job without proper H HI training. If you want a scheme which enables you to learn while you earn, do consider joining an pHHIH H APPRENTICESHIP course with the Institute of Technical
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  • 842 26  -  at larfi^P weefcmder KEN JALLEH JR ALL this talk about cloning (Glossory definition: Sheep imitation) raises a number of sensitive and disturbing questions, chief of which is: WILL SEX NO LONGER BE NECESSARY? The news that Dr lan Wilmut and his team at Edinburgh's
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    • 150 26 BEIJING, BE| J |N here I come! I to to Beijing I TJLZ2**J£JJ uuraiMouxj I J'Qu*«n I It's tea and lunch at 'TUNCH' tme ltd For a meal at leisure, our 'TUNCH' is the perfect choice. .(jflvfl I From 12 noon till 5.30 pm. you can have lunch and tea
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    • 310 28 Judy's at The Boiler JUDY Teng? Remember her? You probably will if you were one of those who used to frequent Suzie Wong at Clarke Quay many months back. In her glittering cheongsams, she was the club's draw when she did the Happy Hour set. Now,
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    • 204 28 SINGAPORE'S pubs and entertainment outlets have rallied behind a group of bikers who plan to ride across the United States on their Harley Davidsons. This group hopes to raise $100,000 for St Andrew's Community Hospital. Much of this will come from sponsorship, but the group
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    • 213 28 HIS name's Kumarino. And he's a one-man band. Just him and his guitar. He's also a bluesman and balladeer rolled into one. He sits on a high stool and it's from that perch that he does his thing every night at Pepper's Restaurant and Bar. His
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  • 363 29 SPOTLIGHT Models from 16 Asian countries are taking part in the final of the Carrie Asian Model Search on Friday. JILL LlMgives you a sneak preview of the contestants from the Philippines, Indonesia and Hongkong MARISSA CHUA MARISSA Chua likes her legs. If they look
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  • 487 30  -  gloso's? ireekwider MIKE CHUA Text MIKE CHUA battle box (fort canning war bunkers, mechanical mannequins come alive) (n): a moving experience. beautician-surgeons I (v): black-marked, beautician-surgeons 2 (v): to lose face. MM gates (richest man ever) (n): a blue chip. coffee at the White House (with donors) (v):
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 165 32  -  BY Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY AUSTRALIAN shoppers can buy Arnott's biscuits again. Police said a threat to poison the biscuits has been withdrawn. Biscuit production started in Sydney and Brisbane on Tuesday night and trucks began supermarket deliveries on Wednesday. In Sydney yesterday, when
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    • 351 32 Housing blues Poverty Problems of a greying society Sources: Cable News Network, AFP. HONGKONG'S 0.5 million people are worried about many things, said its soon-to-be boss. s But their concerns are more over bread-and-butter issues rather than political freedoms, said chief executive-designate Tung Chee
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  • 319 34 FOR THE FIRST TIME WORLDTODAY .i THE United States seems to be turning back the Aids tide. For the first time since 1981, there was a drop in the number of people dying of Aids. The disease was discovered in the US in 1981.
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    • 158 34 Every Saturday, >^^j| Scvintouecvi 74HBBij^B| Enjoy a delicious High -Tea spread with an exciting Swim wear Fashion Show I" and the latest friendly fun watches performed by local top models from Jeffrey I Chung Modeie Also stand to win prizes in our Lucky Draw after the show. I I M
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    • 713 35 I I The National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) are organising a series of course and career 9 1 K information talks to advise prospective applicants on their choice of courses of study and their future careers. They have also arranged an 9 I I
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 368 36 Source: AFP. WHEN it comes to buying cigarettes in the US, you're still a child if you're under 27 years of age. New rules came into effect yesterday forcing those below 27 to show their identication (normally driving licences) before buying cigarettes. Rules already
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    • 106 36 AFP. TIRED of your brown or black eyes? Try a Finnish optician's creation. Mr Freddie Bensky has designed contact lenses featuring yellow happy faces, pink flower petals, red hearts and even dollar signs against a green background. Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet said he introduced his corrective
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 438 39 2 suspects killed, 8 cops hurt in LA bank holdup captured on TV Reuter. THE wild shootout looked like something out of a Hollywood action movie, but the drama was unfolding for real as TV viewers watched. Two bank robbers were killed by the police yesterday in
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    • 276 39 100 killed in northern mountains AFP. AN earthquake in north-west Iran killed at least 100 people and injured 250 others yesterday. The quake registered 5.5 on the Richter scale. It was the second deadly tremor to hit the north of Iran in less than a month. On
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    • 201 39 AFP. THE Beatles remains evergreen and Oasis is a desert in comparison. Yes, THE band of the '60s is better. So said some of the keenest young brains in Britain yesterday in Oxford, England. The declaration came after a debate over an issue that
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    • 839 41 safurdayt vpage^ p Q (•lllrliiy!* CHANNEL 5 CHANNEL a_ A story of conflict and friendship J A K W set against a vast interplanetary NOON Uttraman Towards the Future NOON Entertainment News Express backdrop 100 years in the future. Rama) 1.00 PM SaHor Mooa (Cartoon) Starring Dennis Quaid (left) and
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  • 465 43  -  Etcetera WITH IVAN FERNANDEZ "LIFE is miserable because we are ugly." Under this headline ran two plaintive letters in this week's Dear Aggie column. The first was from a 18-year-old girl who felt inferior in the company of her classmates. "I have a lot of acne,
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    • 252 47 2600 ProfmloMV EmcuUm Positions Dnn/iiiA AAE Kescue yys Needs Extraordinary IK 1 Tsssmb 1 I' 5M.V5jaiiz vs«f >» .< <4tMbk t'- J• 4 *«Cf•• ptf Uj.,', Individuals As Paramedics. How Do You Measure Up? W© are looking for extraordinary individuals to be part of our new Paramedics Team. Some of
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    • 726 51  -  PreviewBy" The Three Musketeers VISITING jockey Pat Eddery could get his campaign off to a flying start with Jumeirah in the day's opening event. Then, for good measure, he should make it a double when he partners Lion Horse in Race 6. Jumeirah, a
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    • 393 51 DUBAI DESERT CLASSIC: SECOND ROUND ACTION LEADING SCORES 134 Domingo Hospital (Spa) 136 Bernhard Langer (Ger), lan Woosnam (Wales) 137 Colin Montgomerie (Scot), Raymond Burns (Eng) 138 Padraig Harrington (Ire), Richard Green (Aust) 139 Constantino Rocca (Ita), Andrew Oldcom (Eng), Miquel Martin (Spa), Prayad Marksaeng
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    • 362 52 FED CUP (GROUP B): SLOVAKIA v SWITZERLAND WHO PLAYS WHO SINGLES: Martina Hingis v Katarina Studenikova Patty Schnyder v Karina Habsudova Reuter. MARTINA Hingis returned to her birthplace yesterday to play Federation Cup tennis. But spent much of her time fending off questions about her private
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    • 326 52 Reuter. BORIS Becker's manager declined to comment on a report that the tennis star was so upset about an investigation into his tax affairs that he planned to leave Germany for good. A German newspaper, quoting close friends of the tennis star, said a
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    • 89 52 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: SOCCER Div One Belgian: Anderlecht 3 Harelbeke 2. German Arminia Bielefeld 3 Bochum 1, FC Schalke 0 Sankt Pauli 0. Dunhill Cup Semifinals: China 3 Zimbabwe 1. French Cup Troyes 1 Auxerre 0. TENNIS Italian Indoor Championships Qtr-finals: Nicolas Kiefer (Ger) bt
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    • 332 53  -  Referees see red over new rule KfcHJtfctS' SHORTLIST Ismail Surdi NSanthan Zainalßamli MShamsul RazakAnuar KManoharan Salikin Sarkawi Vlsvanathan TayTzeSlong MGanesan AliSamad Ragavachari Lai Boon Teck Muthuveeran R Rajendran SdKisan Rahim Wahab SK Kennedy KokKokPin RVijay C Maniam CH Chang Nazeer Hussain RSapan Nordin Samad HanizamAris By Suresh
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    • 175 53 THE "no watch" rule is in the best interests of the referees, says the refereeing boss. "We want them (the referees) to give their best in the various tests and not to strictly go by the watch," said ex-Fifa referee M Maniam, who is Chairman
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    • 260 53 DUNHILL CUP SEMI-FINAL: MALAYSIA 0 BOSNIA 1 FINAL: China v Bosnia OTHER RESULT: CHINA 3 ZIMBABWE 1 Bernama. MALAYSIA had only itself to blame for going down 0-1 to Bosnia-Herzegovina in the second semi-final of the Dunhill Cup soccer tournament at Stadium Merdeka last night. The
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    • 327 53  -  By! S Gulam WOODLANDS Wellington's talented midfielder Zakaria Awang could be forced out of the game for the rest of the year. He has been told that he would need to undergo a major operation on his right knee if he wants to remain in
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      83 54 laturdam Besides some exciting football, the Dunhill Cup at Kuala Lumpur's Merdeka Stadium was a showcase of some interesting coiffures —from long hair, short crops, slickbacks to permanent waves. JONATHAN CHOO shares with you his hair-raising experience Bo Derek braids: Indonesia's Rocky Putiray is great at weaving not
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    • 550 54 It. jj n, ,n n r resident or uw international Association of Professional Footballers, Maradona, offering to open a dialogue with Fifa president Joao Havelange and his secretary general Sepp Blatter Until now, Blatter, a mere functionary, and Havelange, who once played waterpolo,
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    • 472 55 EUROPE KICKOFF: ITALY Vkenxaled the KaMan Serle A In and again briefly in December. The dub roichad the KaNan Cup final for the first time in Its 95-year H-4 iftsuKj mis week* This could prow an important morale boost. I Juvenilis is five points dear at
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    • 250 55 EUROPE KICKOFF: SPAIN FRANCE Wire services. THERE will be a lot at stake in this weekend's Basque derby between Spain's Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao. Both clubs have emerged from the doldrums and with a chance to fight it out for a place
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    • 180 55 ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP ASTON Villa's in-form Caribbean striker Dwight Yorke is set to stamp his mark at Villa Park. He looks set to be the club's highest League marksman in 16 years if he continues his scoring streak in tomorrow's top-of-the-table match against Liverpool, reports Car
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    • 130 55 Stare Coppeil: Following Dave Bassett's sudden departure to Nottingham Forest, the former England striker returns to Crystal Palace as caretaker manager. Coppeil, 41, quit Manchester City after only 33 days in charge at Maine Road last November. He will now guide Palace until the end of the season.
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      203 57 What's hat, whafsnat, who's in, who's out...Nigel WNtefleld's weekly roundup of whififoifli on in the r„,ji.L i,, Lfigitsn league England PREMIER LEAGUE Today: Blackburn v Sunderland Derby v Chelsea Everton v Arsenal Leeds v West Ham Man United v Coventry Newcastle v Southampton SheffWed vßoro Tottenham v
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    • 942 57 HOT Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson has branded fiery Frenchman Eric Cantona "lazy" and threatened to axe him from the team. It comes as the title race with arch-rival Liverpool hots up. Ferguson has been unhappy with the workrate of United's gifted playmaker. He has warned him
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