The New Paper, 16 August 1997

Microfilm: NL20899
Total Pages: 53
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      DOW
      418 2 WALL STREET STOCKS TAKE SECOND-BIGGEST TUMBLE EVER EEE1 The biggest tumble was on Oct 19 y 1987 called Black Monday: 508 points HOW WILL 1 AFFECT ASIA? INVESTORS, including those in Singapore, look to the Dow for possible stock market trends. A big rise or fall in US stocks'
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      M$ drops, HK$ nervous
      157 2 RINGGIT: THE Malaysian ringgit took a dive against the US dollar yesterday. Offshore players pushed the ringgit to a 24-year low of 2.8225 against the greenback. The drop was the lowest since it was floated in 1973. Usually the Malaysian central bank would move in to
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      Flying high? Then aim higher
      382 3 Buck up or get booted out of the global competition, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew told Singaporeans at the Tanjong Pagar National Day dinner last night. Singapore Airlines and local banks were given a stern ticking off. The reason: Their complacency with current success. RACHEL
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      Where's the bar buzz here?
      364 3 SINGAPOREANS missed the buzz when the baht and peso were raided. Why? Because they missed the talk at the bars. But the Hongkong financial market got its buzz from the drinking and dining network. This, an international banker told the Senior Minister, put the Hongkongers
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      112 2 Losure Index TV; Pages 31 32 Comics: Pages 36 37 Sorry Prima Dsm (TNP, Aug9): We reported that Dana Koh would be leading the 50-strong choir of kids in the finale during the National Day Parade. This information was given to us in an earlier press release. The finale was
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Local vs foreign
      139 4 HOT A RUMOUR that the Government is going to combine the local and foreign shares of some firms sent the Straits Times Industrials Index jumping to its biggest single-day gain this year. llie index gained 62.03 points or 3.2 per cent to close at 1,953.8 yesterday. Index
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      WHAT'S HUP
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      HEADLINERS
      80 4 The Straits Times: SM tells how to keep SIA, finance sector abuzz The Business Times: Switch to Local shares gives STII 62-pt boost UanheZaobao: SM Lee: S'pore dollar will resume rise after crisis Bavfta Marian: SM Lee: SIA must strive to improve itself lb RCS morning news: S'poreans urged
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      CREATIVITY
      84 4 DrHongHai, President and CEO of Haw Par, was at the NTU convocation ceremony yesterday. Here are excerpts from his speech l t >. t '-Aft To bring out creativity in Singaporeans relax the constraints and reward those who dare to create, Wur culture must tolerate the eccentric, \ksfalt the
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      CHARACTER
      69 4 The British have mused that the Battle of Britain was won on the playing fields of Eton. They meant that it was the development of character in schools like Eton that gave the British defenders the grit, the discipline and the resourcefulness to win the day. On the importance
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
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        Population hits 3.6m
        67 4 THE population of Singapore jumped to 3.6 million last year, more than half a million recorded in the 1990 census. It is expected to reach four million in another decade. Of the present figures, 560,000 are foreigners. Chief Statistician Paul Cheung said Singapore needed foreign workers in
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        New DPMs for Thailand
        58 4 THAI Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh has appointed two respected business leaders as deputy premiers to try to boost his government's image. Dr Thaksin Shinawatra, 48, is a telecommunications tycoon and Dr Virabongse Ramangkura, 54, is a financial expert. The move is to prepare for a rescue
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        Pop goes die alcopop!
        76 4 CLEAR out the alcopops. The Malaysian government wants to move these mild alcoholic beverages from supermarket shelves and convenience stores which are being sold as soft drinks. No grace period will be given and it warned retailers and suppliers will face legal action for not keeping
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        Hongkong COE system
        78 4 HONGKONG has a COE system, too not for cars, as is the case here, but for people. Fifteen children from Guangdong province in China crossed into Hongkong yesterday, armed with "certificates of entitlement". This version of COE allows mainland-born children to rejoin their parents in Hongkong. The
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Little Fann? Eye see!
      384 5  -  IMAGINE Fann in a fight. That's what she did in her new telemovie, LiuMangYing Xiong (The Gangster Hero). Fann, who plays a special agent, had to use her arms to block blows. Bruised. That's how her forearms were after the fight scenes, she said. ••I didn't
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      'CLEAR' WINNER
      127 5 HAPPY winner Michelle Kwok, a 19-year-old student at the Singapore Institute of Management, recreated Pann's much-talked-about look at the last Star Awards. "Even more translucent than mine/' was Fann's comment on Michelle's clothes (picture left.) Michelle said Fann told her that "I looked very much like her". ir7
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    stillslingle
    1080 6  -  LADIES' NIGHT LADIES' MIGHT SINGAPORETODAY Over the last five days, you have read the private portraits of single women. They are a growing force. What are the implications for the future? IRENE NG, still single and yikes turning 34, tries to sketch a picture INTERVIEWS FONG FOONG MEI I
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Husband gets a day's jail
      437 8  -  'Dead' wife who returned as 'mum' Anyone who gives a false statement on oath to a public servant or a person authorised to administer an oath can be jailed up to three years and also fined. Anyone who obtains or tries to obtain an entry
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      SM Lee book for charity
      209 9 BUY an autographed copy of a new book on Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew and help raise $2 million for charity. SM Lee will autograph 200 specially bound copies of a special edition of the book, Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas. They
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      Get skin-care sets, free
      114 9 ANOTHER two hundred sets of Sisley skin-care products worth $80 each are up for grabs at Sogo Department Store at Raffles City today and tomorrow. To get one, just bring along a masthead (front page logo) of The New Paper (yesterday's or today's) to the Sisley
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Frog-catcher flees his home
      560 11  -  One child hopped away to catch frogs, and then was afraid to come home. Another buzzed off after her sister refused to let her buy an electronic pet. They sent their families into a panic Boy, 8, scared to go home late because 4 mummy would
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      Fright for young runaway's family
      181 11 WHILE Calvin was on the run, his family was wild with panic. They thought he had been kidnapped or knocked unconscious by a fall. A family friend searched the ground floor of People's Park, but missed Calvin who was wandering on the upper floors. The
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      No pet — so she's peeved
      265 12 No pet so she's peeved SHE wanted an electronic pet, but her sister said no. So a 10-year-old girl ran away from home for two days while about 100 relatives combed the island for her. All the while, Chen Wanling was staying with a classmate nearby, Lianhe Wanbao reported. Wanling
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      Lock icon SCHOOL RANKING Thanks Sir, I've made it
      486 13 For the first time, Bukit Batok Secondary has made it to the top 10 value-added schools in Singapore. TEO YUN YUNspeaks to a 4 weak' student whose success there was kick-started by her teachers Value-added schools These are schools which have helped their
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      Raffles Institution is tops
      163 13 THIS year's ranking, released yesterday, was done using the average grades for LI (English or Higher Mother Tongue) and the best five subjects. In previous years, it was based on the average of grades for all subjects taken. "We want to encourage students to take subjects
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      298 14 SUNPRGE SUNPRGE SUNPRGE SUNPRGE SUNPRGE SUNPRGE SUNPRGE SUNPRGE SUNPRGE SUNPRGE SUNPRGE SUNPRGE SUNPflGE SUNPRGE SUNPRGE JL I I NDP$97 i Mtnajaff Special Edition [f I i g PAGERS jmr IV If——C^"\—■u» ui j "ITi i Jf w <^^Br i >ip«OP' |N TO SELECTED WORLD OF SPORTS STOllgs I TODAY AND
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon 'Five minutes ago they were alive. Now they are dead'
      281 15 IIFERR^ISASTE^^ANIL^^ A AFP. Hongkong tourists trapped under a capsized ferry on Manila Bay hammered on the wooden hull in a desperate plea for help. And then, the sounds slowly died away as the shadows lengthened. "Five minutes ago they were
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      THE RESPONSE
      68 15 DESPITE the accident happening near the navy headquarters, response was slow in coming, witnesses said. The first to respond were volunteer divers but they had no diving gear. About 20 divers from the Special Forces arrived about four hours after the accident half without oxygen tanks and masks.
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      Lock icon Granny flies copter around world
      211 16 I JUNE: SHE WAS IN SINGAPORE Reuter. BRITON Jennifer Murray is the first woman to fly a helicopter around the world. The 57-vear-old nicknamed the Flying Grandma landed safely back in England yesterday. Mrs Murray, an artist, took almost 100 days to complete the 48,200
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      COPTER FACTS
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      TRIP FACTS
      51 16 To raise money for Save The Children, Britain's largest international children's charity. Target: £500,000 ($l.lB million) Landed at Singapore's SeJetar Airport in the first week of June. Left for Kuching, East Malaysia The small helicopter meant no creature comforts. In-flight meals were water and a few packets of
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      BRIDE ON THE RUN
      264 18 South African woman flees to avoid being sold to a middle-aged farmer A BRIGHT young South African trainee computer programmer has gone into hiding in Johannesburg. The reason: Her father traded her for six cows, four goats, two horses and an old sofa. She fled to
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      THE SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBAL TRADITION OF LOBOLA
      107 18 CHIEF Phathekile Holomisa, president of the Congress of Traditional Healers, said lobolq was important. He said it is a 200-year-old custom meant to "cement links between fataiilieswhen they become related by marriage. "It is an institution that bonds two families. We are using
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      Murdered by the mob?
      306 19  -  INDIA'S MUSIC MAN SHOT DEAD By Special Correspondent REPORTING FROM NEW DELHI HIS was a rags-to-riches story of epic proportions. From a fruitjuice seller, he became a top businessman. But it all ended for Indian music mogul Gulshan Kumar on Tuesday in New Delhi when he
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      An 'offer' refused?
      80 19 INDIAN police believe that Mr Kumar was asked to pay 2.5 million rupees weekly as protection money. It is the most recent case where the underworld has been linked to Bollywood. Bomb blast in Bombay in March 1993: Two video producers were arrested, giving enough clue to
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      169 18 Hoping to catch a glimpse of DAMAGE when they hit town? So will the rest of the mob. WE WANT YOU TO INTERVIEW THEM INSTEAD. You heard right! *4 >1 autograph session at HMV ALTIRID magazine is on 24th August. We are also picking 2 lucky giving away 50 limited
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  • weekender
    • COVERSTORY
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        Life in a fish bowl
        263 21  -  REPORTS CALVIN LOW AT THE end of every working day, Star Search '97 winner Florence Tan peels the mask off her screen make-up and puts on another mask. For her, the drama's not over. Moving from that imaginary world on screen, she readies herself to
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        It's strange,
        105 21 "Whenever I'm out, people point and stare at me. Sometimes they say things like: This guy looks so tall on TV but in person he looks so ugly'. I ignore them. People would sometimes ask: 'Are you the guy from Star Search?' I sometimes tell them: 'No. You're
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      Untitled
      399 22 Channel 5 artistes like Growing Up's Quek Sue-Shan and Steven Lim are not spared. Said Sue-Shan, 17, a JC I student at Anglo-Chinese Junior College: "Being recognised in public is quite an uncomfortable feeling. I've never before attracted so many stares and comments. I just smile back." Steven, 23, said:
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      it's awkward, it's embarrassing, but it's okay
      285 22 "I was shopping with my mother when some girls started peeping at us and smiling. After that, another group followed us around the shop, giggling. Outside the shop, along the busy passageway between Takashimaya and Wisma Atria, they stopped me for autographs. That
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    • COVERSTORY
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        Their daily lives
        494 24 FANS: The stars can't live with them—and they can't live without them. How much has fame changed the lives of TVs new faces? MOVING AROUND Audi Um: "I still take a bus to work. I do get stares but so far no one has come up to
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        The darker side of fame
        282 24 ACTOR Andrew Seow, 27, was stalked by a woman fan for about 10 months last year, soon after he first appeared in the Growing Up series as Gary Tay. She would call Andrew (right) at home, wait for him at TCS and even sneak into
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      Lock icon Take a cue, pool is cool
      446 26  -  at nigl^P BRIAN MILLER Singapore's pub-goers are a healthy lot. They don't just drink hard. They play hard and seriously, too. Right now, nine pubs are battling it out for honours in the first Singapore Inter-Pub 8-Ball Pool championships and, judging from the "drama"
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      In memory of the King
      160 26 IT was 20 years ago today that Elvis Presley died. Tonight, some pubs will be taking the opportunity to salute The King. In fact, many outlets are going to play Elvis music throughout the night. They feel this is the best way to remember the
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  • SPOTLIGHT
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      Lock icon Who's minding the baby?
      865 27 Last Sunday, three-year-old Dominic Lim was left to babysit his two-month-old sister while his mother went grocery shopping. Baby sis was fine but Dominic got his head stuck in the grille gate at the entrance to his flat. Civil Defence officers had to saw off the
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      If your child is cheking...
      158 27 HE wilt be clutching his throat. His face will turn blue and he will not be able to speak or breathe. Encourage him to cough. If the blockage doesn't clear: 1. Bend him over your knees with his head well down. Give five sharp slaps
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    FLEX THAT MUSCLE
    306 33 WORLDTODAY Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has called on Malaysian fund managers to flex their muscles. He wants them to dominate the Kuala Lumpur stock market to avoid the roller coaster effect. "Unless they (local investors) cushion the effect of the foreign funds investments,
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    Salute to single women
    459 34  -  ET WITH FONG FOONG MEI PETITE Mani, the maid, is shy, quiet and has never been kissed. Towering Michelle is stunning and has an active sex life. Dateless Kwan advertised in the Classifieds, hoping to meet Mr Right, while Joanne has had plenty of dates with
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    388 44  -  COUNTDOWN TO SEA GAMES: JAKARTA. OCT 11-19 SPORTS H£TURDAj3 By( Gerard Wong IT'S time to get wet. The annual Water-ski and Wakeboarding Open will be held at the Kallang Riverside Park tomorrow. Apart from Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia will also be using the Open to prepare
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    521 45  -  SPORTS! RACING Preview By The Three Musketeers GRAND Abjar can do his connections proud by taking the Smart Abjar Trophy in Race 6 at Penang tomorrow. The five-year-old Australian-bred gelding by Zabaleta, sire of the useful Vibrant Virgo, has been working hard in
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      358 46 At halfway stage 136: Lee Janzen (US) 69, 67 137: Davis Love (US) 66, 71 138: Costantino Rocca(lta)69, 69; Jeff Maggert(US) 69, 69; Phil Blackmar(US) 70,68; Shigeki Maruyama (Jpn)68, 70; Phil Mickelson (US) 69.69; Fred Couples (US) 71,67; Justin Leonard (US) 68,70 139: Greg Norman (Aus)
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      242 46 AFP. WORLD heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield found himself in a somewhat different arena yesterday. He turned out with a host of others to cheer on Tiger Woods. j Holyfield was introduced to Woods before the 21-year-old Masters champion started his second round at the PGA
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      482 48  -  SINGTEL ERICSSON SINGAPORE OPEN GOLF: JURONG COUNTRY CLUB (Until tomorrow Stories/] Brian Miller EDWARD Fiyatt's your regular kind of guy. He's midway between magical 21 and the big three-O. He's also in-between characters. The goatee, the moustache and the unkempt hair, that he tries to hide
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      238 48 fm91.3 the New Paper SportsfHe oh NTUC Radio Heart 91.3. Fronr) Monday to Friday at 8.15 am. Check it out. STOP Edward Fryatt. That's the battle-cry that will be echoing across the fairways during the crucial final two rounds in this US$5OO,OOO ($700,000)
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      80 48 At halfway mark 134: Edward Fryatt (UK) 69.65 136: Zaw Moe (Myn) 67,69 137: Rodney Pampling (Aus) 69, 68; Mike Tschetter (US) 68,69; Kasiadi (Indo) 68,69; Ali Kadir (Mai) 68,69 138: Robert Huxtable (US) 68, 70; Grant Dodd (Aus) 68,70; Scott Laycock (Aus) 68,70 139: Pafael Ponce (Ecu) 71,68;
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      36 48 Today's third round: 11.48 am: Mardan Mamat (Sin)/S Preecha (Thai) 12.12pm: Samson Gimson (Sin)/Soe Kyaw Naing (Myn) 12.44pm: Rodney Pampling (Aus)/Ali Kadir(Mal) 12.52pm: Kasiadi (lndo)/Mike Tschetter (US) l.OOpm: Zaw Moe (Myn)/Edward Fryatt (UK)
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      275 49 jiQI What's hot, what's not, who's in, who's out..NIGEL WHITEF1 ELD'S weekly roundup of whafs going on in the English league RUSH SIGNS Former Liverpool striker lan Rush has teamed up with his old Anfield team-mate and manager, Kenny Dalglish, by signing a one-year deal
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      904 49 FABRIZIO RAVANELLI: The Middlesbrough striker fears the axe from Italy's World Cup squad alter reports of an ugly punch-up with team-mate Curtis Fleming. The two clashed in a nasty incident during training this week but the Juventus star was quick
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      759 50 Source: RONALDO'S WEB PAGE THE DEAL: Ronaldo was reported to have paid Spanish club Barcelona US$27 million (s37m) to buy himself out of his contract so that the move to Inter-Milan could go ahead. Barcelona has insisted that Inter pays an actual transfer fee for
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      349 50 RONALDO'S mother, Sonia, raised her son almost alone. Her husband Nelio, employee of a telephone company and an alcoholic, abandoned home and family when Ronaldo was a young boy. "I worked for the ice merchant, from three in the afternoon up to three at night, 12 hours non-stop."
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      409 51  -  By S Gulam VINCENT Subramaniam is back with the national soccer team after a five-year absence. The SAFFC coach has been appointed as assistant national coach to Barry Whitbread. The offer was made to him by national team manager Omar Ibrahim. Vincent, 41, accepted it
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      218 51  -  By Ernest Luis MARINE Castle made a mistake and paid the price. But now, it's hoping to be back. And with a new look committee too, as it asks for another shot in next year's S-League. Last December, Landmark Marine Castle, as it was known, was
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      139 51 NEXT year's S-League will have 10 teams and will run from April 11 to Aug 8. With eight of the present nine teams as automatic qualifiers, the remaining two places will be contested by four clubs. They are new applicants Marine Castle FC, Redhill Rangers FC and
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      382 52  -  SAF WARRIORS v TAMPINES STAGS (Jurone Stadium. 7.3Qpm. todav) Crucial element for tonight By Jeffrey Low NEW father Fandi Ahmad may be given a well-deserved rest from Warriors home duty tonight. On the other hand, his services may be so vital to the team that, professionally speaking, he would
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      399 52  -  TIONC BAHRU JAGUARS vGEYLANG EAGLES (Queenstown Stadium, 7.30pm, tomorrow By S Gulam SAFFC or Geylang United? The choice was clear, said Tiong Bahru. And the Jaguars "chose" to face Geylang by settling for a draw with Sembawang Rangers in their final group match. But is
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