The New Paper, 22 April 1997

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  • 12 1 the new paper TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1997 MfTA (P) 064/M/97 60 CENTS
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 217 2 Parliament emplies ns French MPs prepare for May 25 polls v. mm wm Wire services. yesterday called for a snap parliamentary election 10 months ahead of schedule* The election for the 577-seat National Assembly j a set for May 25 wjths second round to HesaMhe needs a
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    • 77 2 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: 577 seats i nunc paimoe 464 SOCIALIST PARTY: 63 COMMUNIST PARTY: 24 OTHERS: 25 1 Pro-Chirac parties are Gaul list Rally for the Republic (RFR) and Union for French Democracy. They support public spending cuts. Socialist Party wants more public spending to create jobs. Elections
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    • 210 2 Wire services. FIVE teens from rich and well-known Brazilian families beat and burned to death a sleeping man. Mr Galdino Jesus dos Santos, a native Indian chief, was set on fire while sleeping at a bus stop in the capital city of Brasilia.
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    • 272 2 HE was used to dtafting big plans for electrical and plumbing works. Now he is busy crafting professional hairdos for people. Mr Joseph Tehv$l t i hairdresser with Kimage Salon at Mttna has been in the hairdressing industry for more than three years now. Befcjfc that the National TYade Certificate
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    • 23 2 Call iw. nonme piiiv 1'"733 44 55 I Leisure hoex C larkUj^<aMA' 5nuWunV€. Pages 18,19, 21,24 Comics: Pages 28& 29 TV: Page 26
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  • 628 3  -  Want to get something off your chest? Write to the Attitude page dedicated to teens. We'll have five teens to give you their views. Today, meet our second young counsellor, Venga BY Crispina Robert THERE was a time when he was a typical terror: Rebellious and
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      222 4 HOT STORY The discount, which is also given to card holders, is believed to be one of the fare revisions SMRT has proposed to the Public Transport Council (PTC). Other revisions expected to be put to the PTC, which meets today, include getting single-tnp ticket holders to pay
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    • 8 4 THE 7.30 AM DISCOUNT TO TAKE MRT EARLY
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    • 27 4 The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 43.34 points at 6,660. 21 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 397 million shares.
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    • 75 4 The Straits Time*: Advance Chinese troops arrive in Hongkong The Business Times: Jakarta ups ante with Tokyo on car project Uanhe Zaobao: DPM Lee Hsien Loong: Knowing our heritage helps us appreciate better the meaning of being Singaporean Berfta Harlan: Singapore, Brunei strengthen ties RCS morning news: The US
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    • 84 4 You can almost hear a pin drop in Trafalgar Square. Everything is deathly calm. A BBC reporter. This won y t break our spirit. It'sjust given us the morning off. Mr lan Harvey of East London. Police closed train stations and streets in Central London yesterday after
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    • 18 4 Three leading ladles in finance: (from left) Mn Sam, Mrs Foo and Mn Lee
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    • 106 4 THESE three Singaporeans have made it to Euromoney's list of the world's top 50 women in finance. Top of the list is Mrs Elizabeth Sam, 57, deputy president of OCBC Bank. She was chosen as one of 10 most outstanding women, alongside luminaries
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    • 50 4 FORTY soldiers from China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) moved to Hongkong yesterday to prepare the way for the rest of the troops to be stationed there from July 1, A large media contingent recorded the event, the first time the PLA has stationed troops in Hongkong.
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    • 64 4 AGENTS in Manila are allegedly recruiting Filipina maids for Singapore and helping them get in without proper papers for a fee of up to 60,000 pesos (553,400). It was reported that the agents, working outside of Manila International Airport, instructed the workers on how to
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    • 66 4 SINGAPORE'S non-oil domestic exports did not drop last month by as much as economists had predicted. Most had expected a 4 per cent drop but it was only 2.1 per cent. Analysts said the lower drop reinforced the view that recovery was in sight. Further improvement was
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    • 56 4 THE Sultan of Selangor has not given his consent to the appointment of his state's new Mentri Besar. It was expected to be announced yesterday. He said that Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad was expected to submit a new list of candidates
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    • 39 4 WHAT'S HUP pI'm to stressed. I'm so bored listening I have piano lessons, f to you grumbling computer classes, I'm so bored But why? about your stress swimming lessons, J V_—__ J and maths tuition If? I f l[
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    • 130 5 I Pump up your POWER v better to show off your new DKNY than on a romantic boat cruise down the Chao Phraya River at sunset? In an eccentric Moschino then perhaps, a slap-up meal of sizzlin' spicy seafood for starters and dancing till dawn for seconds. Of course, with
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 194 6  -  He's sued for not... posing like this ORGANISER SAYS By Riana Zakir HIS rippling muscles won him the Manhunt 1995 title. But when he refused to flex them and pose topless before a camera, it cost him the title. Yesterday it landed him in court.
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    • 219 6 EX-MANHUNT WINNER SAYS THE ex-Manhunt winner has a different story to tell. He claims that Metromedia's chairman, Mr Alex Liu, stroked him and got him to parade in the nude. He also alleges that Mr Liu wanted him to be his "boyfriend and lover".
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    • 139 6 April 1995: Mr Poh signs contract with Metromedia and agrees to terms in Manhunt contest. June 23: He wins Manhunt title and subsidiary titles, Mr Physique, Mr Fitness and Most Sporty Look. Jme 26: He meets Mr Liu with Senior Manhunt winner Ismail Mohd Tahirto sign agreement.
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    • 274 7  -  New smoke system will confuse intruder By. John Low NOW you can hide your valuables in a cloud of smoke literally. All you need to do is to link up the smoke security system with your burglar alarm. Not only will the alarm go
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    • 79 7 THE system is a rectangular box, no bigger than a small hi-fi speaker. Inside the box are electronic circuit boards, a pump and heater system and a bottle of fluid. When triggered, the fluid is pumped into the heater and vaporises. This produces the
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    • 451 8 And that's because of passengers underpaying for their bus trips, says Singapore Bus Service (SBS). JOHN LOW gets on the bus to check out the problem HE was young, casually dressed and confident. Looking completely relaxed, he got on the air-con-ditioned bus at Jalan Bahagia in Whampoa
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    • 169 8 A WHOPPING $4 million. This was what SBS lost in earnings last year to those who paid less than what they were supposed to for their bus trips. Daily checks by SBS ticket inspectors showed that about 770 passengers, or 2.1 per cent of the 36,600 checked,
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    • 242 8 THEIR usual excuse: "I don't know the correct fare." But Mr Lam Hui Chin, 40, an SBS ticket inspector, is used to hearing such excuses from passengers when he checks their tickets and finds they have underpaid for their bus rides. Other excuses: "I lost my
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    • 295 9  -  BY Alethea Lim A MAN who wanted to change money, tricked three hotel cashiers into giving him almost $4,000 in Singapore dollars. What they got in return were useless French notes which have not been in use since the 60's. The Caucasian man approached hotel cashiers
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    • 17 9 The penalty for cheating is a jail term of up to seven years and a fine.
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    • 59 9 Most of the hotels have already been alerted of the case and they have been taking precautions. Said a Carlton Hotel spokesman: "Our cashiers have been informed to be careful. "It is also hotel policy not to exchange money with non-hotel guests." Carlton Hotel cashiers are also given
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    • 357 10  -  By Michelle Ang AN undergrad ran after her molester, grabbed his bag and screamed. But she could not make her cries for help understood because she could not speak Mandarin. Two motorcyclists stopped. But they could not understand what
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    • 35 10 Ang was jailed nine months for the molest. He could have been jailed for up to two years, or fined, or caned. He could also have been punished with two of the three penalties.
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    • 436 11 On Saturday, we wrote about a Malaysian woman racked by pain and disease. Her leg had swollen so much that it was wider than a chair. Many people called with offers of help. BERNARD PEREIRA talks to some of them IT was the picture that
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    • 85 11 YOU can send cheques, money order, cashier's order or bank drafts. But bank drafts are the best because, unlike the rest, they don't need clearance from any bank. A bank draft costs about $5 or one-eighth of the donation, whichever is higher. Send your donation
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    • 144 11 PICK up a pack of Fujifilm floppy disks (above) and help children with Down Syndrome. It's on offer at $8.50 per box (usual price: $9.90). For every box sold, $2 will be donated to the Down Syndrome Association, the adopted charity of The New Paper. You can
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    • 132 11 SO far, more than 40 workers have told us their views on working life. Do you want to add to them? As a special package to celebrate May Day, The New Paper offers you an attitude board to sound off your thoughts
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    • 137 11 Singapore's Best You no longer need to queue up at stuffy hawker centres or crowded food courts in the middle of lunch hour or after a hard day's work for that delicious bowl of bak kut teh or spicy chicken curry. For a limited time only and throughout Secretaries' Week,
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 375 13 Man accidentally locked in stairwell AMERICAN tourist Hollis Lee, 86, had travelled about 15,000 km last week to attend his granddaughter's wedding in Sydney over the weekend. Instead, he spent the time futilely yelling out and banging on doors because he had somehow found
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    • 229 14 No 10 Downing Street is where the British Prime Minister lives. Will John Major stay on? Or will there be a new resident? We'll find out on May 2, the day after the British election. BEN BARCLAY reports According to the polls, the pundits and the
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    • 170 14 BIG issues of the election are: Trust and Europe. Mr Major scores high personally on both, but his colleagues are letting him down badly. Amazingly, for a party trying to be re-elected, a third of his candidates have bucked his sensible line of "wait-and-see" and declared
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      108 14 MR JOHN MAJOR, 54, is the under-educated son of an American acrobat. He was raised in the seedy London suburb of Brixton. He is a typical self-made man, with nice, modest Norma by his side. A traditionalist. Except for vigorously promoting enterprise and growth, he wants to leave
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    • 260 15 22 die in two separate collisions on one road in Northern Thailand Wire services. TWO accidents, along the same highway, claimed 22 lives in one day in northern Thailand yesterday. In the first accident, 18 people were killed and 90 injured when two buses and a truck
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    • 320 16 Source: AFP. THE ashes of 24 stargazers, including Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, entered space, the final frontier, yesterday. Sharing the epic journey were the remains of controversial psychology professor Timothy Leary, a 1960s counter-culture icon, and 22 others who had all dreamt of going boldly
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    • 90 16 THE satellite, 1 m in diameter and weighing 200 kg, will orbit the Earth for two years at a distance of 600 km. It will carry out a battery of experiments studies of ultra-violet radiation in interstellar space and the behavior of liquids in weightlessness and will also
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    • 353 17  -  I tt> Hazel Tan CHANNEL 8 compere Yvonne Yak has a strange pet in her home these days It's a dinosaur. Nat of the Jurassic Park kind. thank goodness, hers is I a jMy pet, a tamagotch. Iw name is Poka. Yvonne, 24, a
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    • 81 17 THE tamagotch, the-popular Japanese electronic "Virtual Pet toy, is a pocket-pager-sized electronic toy. You raise a "digital pet", which appears in a small liquid-ciystal display, from infancy to maturity. It beajmes an adult in about five days and dies in a week or 10 days. It may
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      222 17 Andy Lau, 36, singer-actor Colour: Yellow, chick How he got It His friends boughl it for him in Japan. ANDY takes it with him everywhere he goes, and plays with it whenever he has the time. He's part of the tamagotch craze because he wants to be "in", and
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    • 45 17 Julian Cheung Chi Lam, 25, singer-actor "ITS too time-consuming and troublesome. It needs constant care. I don't have time for it." Edmund So, 31, member of pop group The Grasshoppers "I CAN't even take care of myself, how to take care of a chick?".
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    • 327 18  -  By Avis Wong A SCANDALOUS consummation of passion seemed to be brewing in the final episode of Courting Trouble. But in the end, the characters stayed out of trouble. Courting Trouble, which ended its run last Wednesday, had Fang Shuqi (Ann Kok) caught
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    • 64 19 VAN aAMM I RODMAN ROURKE "Director Tsui Hark shows off all the hallmarks of the Hong Kong Maestro" -Janet Maslin NY Times ir- T r, -9K m -W j+'-w T-- u4 Jf m^mmF S«|.; P WWF ;ojfc ">' r-\£y x 1 I 'JL*:"-'" \A < k 9 1 it M
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  • 335 20  -  CLASS 95 FM DEEJAYS... SHOWTIME BY Jessica Leow WHO needs Boney M when you have the best act hidden right behind the consoles of Class 95 FM? Seven deejays from the radio station totally upstaged the special guests at its seventh anniversary bash. They did it in
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    391 22 MR BEAN MOVIE TO BE MADE IN THE US SHOWTIME MR Bean, the silent hero from the hit TV comedy of the same name, will be more of a talker in his debut movie Bean. The movie's writer Richard Curtis, of Four Weddings and a Funeral fame, revealed
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    • 750 24 tvpage y O MMMA Poltergeist 111 5q CHANNEL D A couple and their children are NOON News 5 Today NOON CKyaoot(Ufe.tyle) 1.. lis terrorised and abducted by evil forces which appear as spirit 12.10 mmrnUmlm 1.00 reflections in mbrors. StSrs 1.10 Minor Adjustments The Model Wife 1.30 Tuesday Report (Documentary)
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    564 26  -  CETLRfI IM WITH IRENE NG THE idea seemed simple: Round up the family. Bundle them into a photo studio. Smile. Presto, a family portrait for posterity. It never ceases to amaze me how much delusion one is capable of. Just how deluded? Let me put it this way.
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    • 198 35 2666 Security Positions 2666 Socurity Positions PROSEC SERVICES PTE LTD^-H raquiret 1 SENIOR SECURITY OFFICER MALE/FEMALE CROSS PAY 11 DAILY RATED I I H.4QO -S2.QSO 156 563 ASSIGNMENT: Tampines, Anq Mo Kio, Slme Rd, Orchard, Alexandra Rd, Jin Bukit Merah, jurong, Tuas Central Areas. Please bring along 4 photos. WALK
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    • 766 36 rHE CHAMPIONSHIP CHASE LAST NIGHT'S RESULT: COVENTRY 1 ARSENAL 1 1 COVENTRY: Steve Ogrizovic PaulTelfer Paul Williams Richard Shaw Brian Borrows Dave Burrows Gordon Strachan (Richardson, 77) Gary McAllister Noel Whelan Dion Dublin (Huckerby, 36) Peter Ndlovu ARSENAL- Dave Seaman Lee Dixon (Parlour,
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    • 358 36 AFP. Wire services. CHELSEA boss Ruud Gullit has shelled out £2.25 million ($5.01 million) to sign Nigerian prodigy Celastine Babayaro from Belgium's Anderlecht. It came in the face of stiff competition from Juventus, Inter-Milan and Deportivo. Babayaro, 18, will stay with Anderlecht for the rest
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    • 83 36 PREMIER LEAGUE TODAY: Blackburn vSheff Wed Leeds v Villa Sunderland v Southampton Wimbledon v Chelsea TOMORROW: Derby v Forest Leicester v West Ham THURSDAY: Tottenham vMiddlesbro FA CUP SEMI-FINAL REPLAY: TODAY: Middlesbro v Chesterfield UEFACUP Semi-final second-leg: TODAY: Schalke v Tenerife (first leg 0-1) Monaco v Inter-Milan
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    • 359 37 TABLE-TENNIS: COMMONWEALTH CHAMPIONSHIPS She went to Scotland as a virtual unknown, but Singapore's homegrown table-tennis player Tan Paey Fern exceeded all expectations by bagging a gold and two silver medals at the Commonwealth Championships. GERARD WONG spoke to her on the telephone this morning... IDONT
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    • 131 37 Name: Tan Paey Fern Age: 23 Height 1.60 m Weight 43kg Former school: Fowlie Primary School Hobble*; Swimming, cycling and going to the movies Disflkes: None IB Sporting hi story* Picked up the sport at iO. Was spotted by then national coach Foo Peng at Geylang East Community Centre.
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    • 171 37 m PATRICIA KIM: The ex-national champion said what struck her about Tan Paey Fem when she first knew her in 1989 was her total concentration during training. Kim, who retired from the sport in 1991 after winning a gold medal at the 1985 SEA
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    • 34 37 At this week's World Championships in Manchester, England. "The standards are very high. I don't expect anything. "But there's nothing to lose. Just go all out and try my best," she said.
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    • 108 37 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: SOCCER Div One Spain: Valencia 1 Real Madrid 1. Sweden: AIK 0 Gothenburg 0, Orgryte 2 Vasteras 1, Elfsborg 3 Halmstad 1, Malmo 2 Degerfore 0, Ljungskile 0 Helsingborg 1, Oster 3 Trelleborg 3, Orebro 2 Norrkoping 3. TENNIS ATP Tournament in
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    • 323 38 national schools west zone a division football final; ite bukit merah 3 hwa chong junior college o OURMAN Gerard Wong is covering the schools scene. If you feel someone deserves highlighting a talented or promising player, an up-and-coming school team,
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    • 209 38 FROM NERVOUS TEENAGER T0... ITE BUKIT Merah's striker Eyammie Sahamin played like a seasoned footballer during the final at Jurong Junior College. He struck his hat-trick with precision and confidence. Yet, before the tournament, Eyammie had never played in any National Schools football competition. The 19-year-old Electrical and
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    • 112 38 First goal (15tfa mlm): ITE Bukit Merah goalkeeper Muhd Facer's gigantic goaikick sends the bail to Hwa Chong's comer-fine in two bounces. Team-mate Mohd Fadzuhasny back-heads the ball to an unmarked Eyammie who slots it past Hwa Chong goalkeeper Jensen Koh. Second goal (66tfc nbi): Fadzulhasny receives
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    • 340 39  -  ...MORE ON THE SCHOOLS' WEST ZONE A DIVISION FIHAL Stories/ Gerard Wong HWA Chong may have crashed to a 3-0 defeat in the final. But its 250 students, who turned up to support their college's football team against ITE Bukit Merah, ended up winners. They brought
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    • 145 39 ROUTE TO FINAL: fTE BUKIT MERAM: drew 3-3 with Jurong JC 3-3 bt Shuqun Sec 5-0 btITE Jurong 4-0 bt Hwa Chong 1-0 bt Chua Chu Kang Sec 5-0 bt Raffles JC 5-2 HWA CHONG: bt Chua Chu Kang 5-0 bt ITE Jurong 2-0 lost to ITE Bukit
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    • 353 40 Spice is nice. If you've got your doubts, ask Robbie Fowler (jersey No 9), Beckham (No 10) ondßonaldo (No 9). k The two English footballeft an dating Spice Girls while I Ronaldo is hoping to score with a top Brazilian fashion I model. LAN BROWN has
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    • 427 41  -  PRE-WORLD CUP QUALIFIER: SINGAPORE v KUWAIT (National Stadium, Saturday, Bpm Stories/1 Ernest Luis HE zipped first to the left. Then to the right. Arms swaying, legs pumping, he muscled past opposing players cutting them down to impotence. The fact that he was eryoying himself added
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    • 242 41 BANG! One Lion down. Bang! Another one bites the dust. Just 10 days after the national soccer team's gutsy 1-1 draw against Lebanon in Beirut, the Lions are starting to groan. Injuries have hit seven players just five days before Saturday's match against Kuwait. Worse rftill, most
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    • 81 41 GOALKEEPERS: Rezal Hassan (SAFFC), Shahri Rahim (Home Utd), Effendy Sabtu (SAFFC) DEFENDERS: Hairi Su'ap (SAFFC), Robin Chitrakar (SAFFC), Steven Chan (SAFFC), Urn Tong Hai (Tiong Bahru), S Subramani (Tiong Bahruj, Kadir Yahaya (Geylang), R Sasikumar (Geylang), Borhan Abu Samah (Home Utd), Aide lskandar(Home Utd) MIDFIELDERS: Rudy Khairon (Sembawang),
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    • 263 41 EUROPE KICKOFF: SPAIN Reuter. BOBBY Robson is reported to be close to leaving Barcelona and joining English side Everton. The Spanish club, currently second in the table, has announced that Ajax coach Louis van Gaal vCould be joining it next season. The sports daily Marca said
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