The New Paper, 8 October 1997

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1 47 The New Paper
  • 7 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, OCTOBERS 8, 1997
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    • 64 1 2UM Mumdrives with dead baby Tragic trip for 4-month-old twins brother, 5 /p ag eiB mff*Singapore Press Homings http://web3.asial .com.sg/tnp bringing et Cyberway furnishings created by master craftsmen from Renaissance Man! ®»invit« you to our per^to® privilcQM* of l I iM^tiM Partners who havo contributed to Rknalssancß^^ [dyne] wm ®22~~"
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • Money moves
      • 242 2 Singdollar falls to 3 Vz year low Ringgit rises Strikes as peso falls THE Singapore dollar hit a 3 Vi -year low against the US dollar yesterday. It hit the low of $1.5655 to US$l but recovered to close at 1.5560. Traders were reacting to Finance Minister Richard Hu's
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      • 126 2 Bernama. THE Malaysian ringgit, which has been taking a beating recently, recovered slightly yesterday. The ringgit corrected 2.5 per cent to close at 3.28 to the US dollar. Against the Singapore dollar, it gained more than one cent to 47.80 Singapore cents and ended at 47.45 cents. On Monday
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      • Article, Illustration
        131 2 STRIKES hit the the Philippines yesterday as the price of fuel rose. The price increases were said to be caused by the weakening peso which sank to 35.54 to the US dollar, nearly matching last i Wednesday's historic low of 35.61. The strike crippled mass transport which stranded thousands
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    • Article, Illustration
      394 3  -  5 females 5 generations Same family Same age gap By Fong Foong Mei ABY Monique's birth last week ■C was the latest link in an unusual family "tradition". She's the first child, born to a 19-year-old mother. So was her mother, Veronique (ialistan. So was her grandmother, Jacqueline Galistan.
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    • 101 2 PSI readings for today; 6 am: 60 7 am: 61 8 am: 63 9 Mi 66 Leisure index oOOWuVVVB* Pages 20 to 23 Comics: Pages 27 28 TV: Page 26 Callus. Hotline pifw "*****55 This is 1997 upgrade to the state-of-the-art. IL|A|2j I Say NO to validation, posting, updation, month
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 228 4 What do the following three situations have in common? The answer: The Government acted before they could become crises CURRENCY PLUNGE Some regional currencies have fallen by up to 30 per cent. But the Singapore dollar remains stable and dipped only 8 per cent. This was because the Government
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    • 82 4 The Straits Times: Dr Hu assures House on currency turmoil The Business Times: Spore unscathed by currency crisis: DrHu Uanhe Zsobao: DPM Lee: Govt's far-sighted policy helped S'pore avoid currency crisis Bertta Marian: Dr Hu: Little impact from currency crisis news: Rnance Minister says turmoil in South-east Asian markets
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    • 109 4 k HOT J CARS have been known to go up in flames, but who has ever heard of a car's dashboard becoming a molten heap? Executive Cheong Ping Ching has it happened to the grey dashboard of his 1.6-litre silver Mazda Astina yesterday. He parked
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 59 4 RAFFLES Institution (RI) and Raffles Girls' School (RGS) may offer scholarships to foreign students. RI may even send teachers to talent scout in countries like China. But Raffles Junior College has no plans to increase its intake of foreigners. Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's suggested last Saturday that one
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      • 59 4 MORE than 200 foreign workers' passports held by the Federal Territory Immigration Department in Malaysia have "vanished". No one has explained why they cannot be traced. The department was hit by a flood late last year and had transferred passports of foreign workers to its Damansara head office.
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      • 56 4 SINGAPORE yesterday launched a centre to deal with Internet security. Sing Cert, the Singapore Computer Emergency i>, n Response Team, will help boost electronic commerce. Minister for Trade and Industry Lee Yock Suan said yesterday: "By the end of this month, some 2,000 t households and businesses would
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      • 64 4 IF* you have a problem with your neighbour, you can now turn to community leaders to solve the dispute. A new Community Mediation Centres Act was passed by Parliament yesterday. Minister of State (Law) Ho Peng Kee says a pool of trained mediators will be a key to
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      • 56 4 BRITAIN may soon introduce a new elderly-care scheme, modelled partially on Singapore's social plan. Rather than depend on welfare, Prime Minister Tony Blair wants families to use their own money to look after their elderly, in return for tax breaks. The move, if successful, would slash Britain's annual
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      • 51 4 IN free-wheeling China, ordinary people have found that stamp-collecting has become very profitable. Last month, a 1953 army stamp, known as "Blue Military Stamp", was > .auctioned in Shanghai for .385,000 yuan ($72,765). StatnpB issnedby the pre-1?49 commimipt- w liberated areas.aitf during the Cultural Revolution have made people
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    • 26 4 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 78.09 points to close at 8,178.31 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 555 million shares.
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 561 6  -  Some made to do it more than once. Why? I JfliN f f I t By Bernard Pereira THE teacher told all 21 girls in Thanabalan Ramiah's class to slap him hard. If any slap was gentle, the teacher would glare at the girls and
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    • 184 6 TWO days after the incident, Thanabalan returned to school and to maths classes taught by the same teacher. He is talking to his classmates, but they don't discuss the incident, the boy said. All the same, his family is worried that the scars may last a
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 280 7  -  JAILED Jamaliya Surili pleaded guilty yesterday to giving false information to the police. She was sentenced to two weeks' jail. She could have been jailed for up to six months, and fined up to $1,000. By. John Low TWENTY-FIVE dollars. That was what
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    • 89 7 MOBILE service provider Ml will be welcoming its 100,000 th customer with a diamond-studded handphone any time this week. The $5,000 phone has the Ml logo recreated in an intricate 18k white and yellow gold design. It is adorned with 23 sparkling 0.16 carat diamonds and the
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    • 424 8  -  FIRST Customers cry foul NOW Ex-staff angry By Fong Foong Mei FIRST, they had unhappy customers crying foul. Now, it's their former staff members who are angry. Yesterday, more than 30 people who used to work for East West Gold Club Pte Ltd a blacklisted
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    • 123 8 FOUR companies, St Honorine World Letstire, East West Gold Club, Premier Holiday and Holiday Marketing International, were blacklisted by Case on Sept 25 after it had received 104 complaints against them since May this year. Most complaints said that these timeshare companies had misled consumers by misrepresentation and
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    • 161 8 AMERICAN pop group No Doubt will be performing here on Oct 15 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. The group's latest release, Tragic Kingdom, has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide. How about meeting it before the concert? Simply call 1900-*****01 before midnight on Friday
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    • 101 8 WHAT KIND OF CHILD ARE YOU BRINGING UP? A public lecture by psychologist, Kerry Frost j I <§> Gain new skills and confidence in flv bringing up nSS!t*y, well-adjusted children Become more aware of the parenting styles you use <§> Acquire stress management techniques to reduce the negative effects of
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 418 10  -  By Riana Zakir THEY are the kind of girls who stand out in a crowd loud, brassy and yakking in Singlish and Hokkien. One has a GI Jane crew cut while another has dyed her hair blonde with black roots showing. The four girls flip-flop
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    • 364 11 Ecstasy in rare liquid form. Central Narcotics Bureau officers find, their biggest haul of the drug in a set of vials. RIANA ZAKIR reports on the hardly-known lethal liquid PENALTY I Anyone who consumes Ecstasy, a controlled drug, can be jailed up to
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  • PARLIAMENTODAY
    • 390 12 Poor old PSI. It's taken a beating from Singaporeans who complain: "Why does it look hazier outside than the PSI says it is?" Health and Environment Minister Yeo Cheotv Tongyesterday cleared the air on the PSI, and other haze issues, reports YVONNE LIM TV PSI reading
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    • 207 12 HOW to prevent a haze this bad from striking again? Let's meet and talk about it. Mr Yeo has suggested to his Indonesian counterpart, Environment Minister Sarwono Kusumaatmadja, to meet at the end of this year or early next year. He said they had both kept in touch
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    • 117 12 TALK about a burning issue. MPs raised 18 questions on the haze in Parliament yesterday. They were satisfied with Mr Yeo's answers. Opposition MP Low Thia Khiang said: "He gave quite a good overview on what Singapore and the Indonesians have done." MPs said they were reflecting
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 274 13  - Man bites cops The law bites back By. John Low HIS bite was just as bad as his bark. But he bit off more than he could chew. First, Koh Lee Siang, 20, shouted Hokkien vulgarities at a policeman. Then he ran away. When cornered by two policemen, he bit
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    • 420 14  -  The duo will be leaving for the SEA games in Jakarta today. They will be heading for Italy on Oct 31 for the World Wushu Championships. By Avis Wong THEY are Singapore's top martial artistes but some movie stunts are too dangerous for them. Right
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    • 161 14 ACCIDENTAL HERO In this telemovie, Ix Shen plays Huang Feihong's disciple, Liang Kuan, who is witty and skilled in martial arts, but who likes to gamble and womanise. Ix joins a performance troupe and travels to Nanyang but gets into trouble with an evil martial arts
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    • 271 13 N I T E D EDUCATION if TT I:: W INFORMATION iinrmTiiiigc enter December, 1997 TOurs JflMIvy League Los Angeles San Francisco k Verbal and Math Classes Peterson's Education Center 71-77 Stamford Road. Level 4 MPH Singapore *****5 Tel: 334-7678 Mon Sal: loooam s:oopm The Straits Times Classified I Where
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    • 152 14 ALL YOU CAN EAT? EAT ALL YOU CAN CAN YOU EAT? YOU CAN EAT CAN EAT? CAN EAT! 1; Lat All You Can a la carte Buffet to, ahead. Believe it. Hai Xiang Restaurant is serving up 70 of its best Cantonese dishes, including Braised Shatks Fin Soup, Fresh Scallops.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 350 15 Top honours degree after watching all 73 episodes BRITISH student Nicola Marsh, 25, got a top honours degree after watching all 73 episodes of the TV series five times over. Her 6,000-word essay, How Do You Define Normal Representations Of Gender In The X-Files?, studied the way men
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    • 314 16 AFP. THE chief minister of Malaysia's only opposition-led state has voiced his support for prime minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Kelantan Menteri Besar and senior Parti Islam leader Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat called on the public to trust Dr Mahathir to resolve
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    • 350 17 In fact, she spoke to the BBC for more than 40 hours for the now famous one-hour Panorama programme in which she confessed about an affair. There's more explosive stuff in what was edited out WHAT we didn't hear Her
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    • 133 17 THE man who spoke against the paparazzi for "hunting" Princess Diana is seeing his own skeletons tumble out. 'Faxes and letters have been released which show that Earl Charles Spencer, the Princess' brother, had tried to sell exclusive stories to Hello magazine in 1992 and 1994. He had
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    • 332 18  -  By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY FOR two weeks, the mother drove on and on not realising that one of her twin babies was dead in her car. Strapped in a safety capsule in the rear of the station wagon was her
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    • 103 18 THE New South Wales is investigating why welfare officials didn't look into the tragic case after receiving at least two reports. People at the Woolgoolga caravan park called welfare officials for help. None came. Mr Stan Coultas went to the police and told them: "Unless someone helps her,
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    • 397 18 IT was a journey of woe. On Aug 22, while the mother was breastfeeding the twins when a man tried to break into her car. He demanded sex. She drove off and the police later arrested the man. The sex attack disturbed her so much that
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    • 144 18 For about a month, a tragedy was waiting to happen Is he dead, Mummy? My baby brother is dead yr A I fl\ The woman finds the babies' father I J v IU but discovers he is not interested I J aimlessly, ■tU the woman seeks help at a tti
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  • DEARAGGIE
    • 391 19 Dear Aggie I AM an 18-year-old girl and my weight is only 34 kg. People say I am extremely thin and look like a bamboo stick. Whenever I go out, there's always someone pointing at me, saying that I am thin. Worse still,
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    • 257 19 I AM a 17-year-old girl and I have a mother who doesn't trust me. I got into a lot of trouble last year, and started smoking and drinking. My mother would scold and beat me. This made me depressed and I turned from bad to worse.
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    • 122 19 FROM AGGIE HOTLINE MY boyfriend is extroverted and people are attracted to his character. There were times when he wants to play mal\jong, a game I don't like. He can play the whole night. When he does, he forgets everything else. Maz COUNSELLOR SAYS YOU
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    • 180 19 I FELL in love with my classmate two years ago. I told her of my feelings at a friend's birthday when in Secondary 4. She took it as a joke but I am serious. When she needs my help, I do my
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    • 29 19 MS WONG SING CHEE, counsellor, Singapore Polytechnic If you need advice, write to: Dear Aggie, The New Paper Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road. Singapore *****5 Or fax: 737-5375
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  • 100 20 I Now, THEY Showtime Cynthia Koh Simple, normal and elegant Seow Bee Leng J Zoo Ts jye// regardless of her clothes.^ 9f —Nazjailanny Best outfit. She looked like she was attending f jpfte Grammy awards. —ZJGroup C Dressed simply but looked more like a star than
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  • 353 21 AIYOH, you call this stylo? Praises there are but readers made it clear that they are turned off by how some celebrities were dressed at the Star Awards. First, applause for the ones who turned up in simpler, more elegant outfits. In particular, Zoe Tay,
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  • 132 21 Phyllis Quek (left) "She is beautiful by nature, but she looks like she just came from the kampung. Why can't she be styled normally instead of being made to look like a country bumpkin?" Disappointed Gki Christopher Lee "Looks like he bought his suit from the market."
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 416 22  -  BY Avis Wong SOME were bold and brash. Others were shy and nervous. Some looked like pin-up stars, while othere were just downright sloppy. But all of them would like to be on TV. They were the 80 young aspiring actors and actresses who were
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    • 74 22 A PIECE of Sky is a Mandarin serial portraying the lives and problems of teenagers of the '90s. The executive producer for the serial, Mr Yeo Saik Pin, said TCS is looking for five teenagers to fill the lead roles of delinquent and well-behaved youngsters. The selected ones
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    • 150 23 DAVID Duchovny wants The X-Files to move because he can't stand being away from his wife, reports People Magazine. The star who plays pin-up FBI agent Fox Mulder married actress Tea Leoni five months ago but work seems to have come between them. Leoni's sitcom, The
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    • 128 23 WOODY Allen says he is still very happy with his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn. Soon-Yi, 27, is the adopted daughter of Allen's ex-lover Mia Farrow. Allen told the Daily News in a rare interview: "My relationship with Soon-Yi is the best relationship of my life. "We have
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    • 115 23 SHERYL Crow seems to have joined the ranks of the prima donnas. The singer was expected to do a television interview in London recently but bolted at the last minute, reported E! Online. The crew had spent 13 hours setting up everything for the
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    • 684 24 zes for guessing right but at ir\ k peek into what went on I the Star Awards. Now, meet 1483*' kwgskotekm.. t.«m .pMI mßaam EEEK just look at the two thin feathers so cockroach-like sticking out from her eyelashes. But that didn't bug
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      224 24 Overheard in the toilet during a commercial break, one of the guest Btars invited to give out awards saying: The people, all I don't know..." Veteran actress Huang Biren needed some pushing before she flaunted her cleavage, said stylist Johni Khoo. He kept assuring her she wouldn't look vulgar.
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 804 25 tvpa 5 P Desperately Seeking Susan (Channel 5,1.10 am) Things get out of hand when a woman loses her memory after taking on the identity of another Z7„naCu"irdalQuinn and Mark Blum. 4.30 Bra In storm/In Generation 3.10 Afternoon at the Movies—ChiMy Scenes of Winter A man falls 5.30 The Coma
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  • 463 26  -  Etcetera WITH I MIKE CHUA I USUALLY come away from lunchbreaks with more food for thought than the stuff I eat. Here's why, as dished out on the next table at Funan Centre last week: Wonc Eh, Milton, today, I want to have a
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  • 430 28 The nostalgia of old Singapore beckons on an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. In the first of four stories on Christmas Island, YONG SHUHOONG goes back in time GOING to Christmas Island is like stepping back in time. The Kampong, a Malay neighbourhood
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    • 361 35 An established company in the heavy industry invites applications for. I* NTC 3 in Precision/Metal Machining 2 years' experience in lathe machining Trainee positions are also available I Physically fit On-the-job training will be provided Applicants must be willing to work overtime. Benefits: AWS profit sharing scheme Free medical I
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  • SPORTS
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      111 37 GROUP 2 ITALY y ENGLAND ENGLAND: The group leader by one point. England only needs a draw in Rome to qualify for the Finals in France next year. ITALY: Must win at the Olympic Stadium to be sure of a place. A draw or defeat means Italy would
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    • 179 37 Reuters. TOTTENHAM striker Les Ferdinand has pulled out of the squad for England's key World Cup qualifier against Italy on Saturday. He is suffering from a stomach muscle strain. 'The unfortunate news is that Les Ferdinand will be excluded from the squad," manager Glenn Hoddle
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    • 172 37 ENGLAND has not beaten Italy at home since 1961, when Johnny Haynes was the visiting captain. JOHNNY HAYNES: I certainly wouldn't advise England's captain on Saturday to follow my example. We won 3-2 in Rome and I led the team on a victory lap after the match,
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      205 37 Reuters. FORMER Scotland international Graeme Soilness has been removed as coach of Italian Serie B side Torino. This follows a poor start to the season with the team languishing in 15th position with just seven points from six games. Edoardo Reja was named as the new coach and
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    • 201 37 Reuters. THE Chicago Bulls will begin defence of its NBA title without Scottie Pippen. The All-Star forward underwent surgery on his ailing left foot that will keep him out of action for two to three months. Bulls general manager Jerry Ifrause said that Pippen flew to New York
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    • 29 38 i the f' 1? STATION jji with the most 1 sporting L action V Sports On Update 70 f SPORTS Power9BFM Official Radio Station for Heineken Open 1997 Singapore.
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    • 667 39 The Times (Internet Edition). ANGELO PERUZZI Does he have the head for the big occasion? England may take heart from the three goals that the Juventus goalkeeper conceded at Old TVafford in the Champions League, plus his poor performance in last season's European Cup
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      50 40 Here's the winning smile of the fan (pictured above) who made the creative use of bandannas in 1 1 f\«M the Heineken Bandanna uaj yesterday. Please collect your bag of Heineken goodies from The New Paper at Times House, wearing the same outfit to identify youself.
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    • 65 40 Any Changs, Samprases, Giggs, Cantonas or Jordans around? Today is the Star Sports Lookalike Day. Anyone who looks and dresses up like any sports personality stands a chance to win a prize at the Indoor Stadium. What's more, photographer Mohd Ishak will snap the best lookalike for the
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    • 660 40 JEFFREY LOW reports on the big blow to the heart of the tournament. And with top seed Michael Chang out, will the crowds still come? AND so, what will happen to the Heineken Open now? Will the crowds still come back after Michael Chang is gone? It
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    • 141 40 WHAT'S GONE How the main matches went leeedhgs h befclh MEN(lstitf): Jonathan Stark (US) bt 1 Michael Chang (US) 7-6 (7/1). 7-6 (8/6) 2 Marcel Rios (Chile) bt Justin Gimelstob (US) 6-2, 6-4 Chris Wilkinson (Eng) bt Kenneth Carl sen (Den) 3-6, 6-3,6-2 Vincent Spadea (US) bt Alex Radulescu (Ger)
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  • SEA GAMES '97
    • 514 41 swiMMiNG:THSaljagBnE!iflBgjHE JOSCEIJN Yeo says her training is right on track and Sng Ju Wei believes he is in Nfood form. Thum Ping Tjin is certain that the results will come. Gerald Koh is, well, confident, while May Ooi's ready to race. "The future is now," May
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    • 227 41 JOSCEUN YEO (50m free, 100 m free, 200 m free, 100 m breast, 100 m fly, 200 m IM, 4 x 100 m medley relay, 4x 100 m relay, 4x 200 m relay): I'm not thinking about results. My training is right on track and I'm
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    • 243 42 WHAT SWIMMING COACH SAYS (tnb«t swim team to the SKA Games is ready to pj t1 a wallop. So said swim coach Ang Peng Siong yesterday. "We have an enthusiastic group of swimmers. We had one week of centralised training without the foreign-based swimmers and team
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    • 316 42 MEN: Ernest Tee (50m free, 100 m free, 4 x 100 m relay, 4 x 100 m medley relay); Leslie Ktvok (50m free, 4 x 100 m medley relay); FenEm Knek (100 m free, 4 x 100 m medley relay); Sag Jn Wei (200 m free,
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    • 144 42  -  REPORTS BRIAN MILLER A career journalist for 22 years, Brian Miller has covered the SEA taws, the Asian Games and the ne nas aiw ruDoeo snoutaers wttn sporting superstars Mm BJom Borg, Diego Maradona, Tiger Woods, Marti Spitz, Letter Plggott, Kevin Keegan and M,
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    • 204 44 GLAMOUR AT THE GAMES NG HSING-YU II Hp: I Height Weight Occupation: Assistant accountant Hobbies: Travelling, swimming fS^FamHy: j| One elder brother and one V younger sister {■Sporting ambition: If To compete in the next Asian H Games 111 Personal ambition: To become a
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    • 511 44 WORE ON THE SINGAPORE v MYANMAR MATCH Bernama. itt: stoat Luis IF* ~ui only his third gaiw ihis yeah N< I ah ideal situation esp< aUty Witatt yoift* J j talk ifc.about a tough! J regional tournament like 11 the SEA Games. Yet,
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      335 45  -  'I cannot believe it man. Four minutes, you know? This is really teruk' Fandi SINGAPORE 2 (V Selvarai 52nd min; Zulkarnaen Zainal 75th) MY AN MAR 2 (Mvo Hlaing Win 25th. 60th He's been plagued by injuries this season, but Singapore's veteran star player, Fandi Ahmad, was hoping to
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    • 52 45 Right and left shoulder dislocation (both have been operated on) Left wrist fracture Left middle finger fracture Left and right sole tendon (operated on left sole tendon) Left and right ankle injuries (both operated on) Left eye tear (twice) Torn knee ligament Latest injury (yesterday): Quadricep injury
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    • 275 45 BARRY WHITBREAD (Singapore's national coach): It's a gamble I took to bring Fandl here, but it looks like I lost. He's been resting for the last one month and working hard to recover from the problems with I.is hght thigh muscles. With his stiff calf, it seems
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    • 567 46 A big thank you from Selvaraj ...MORE OW THE SIMUPOBE-MYaMMM MATCH NE instantly went on his knees and I brought his hands to his face in thankful prayer. The other instantly raised both his arms up, fingers pointing straight up. For V Selvarcg and
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    • 94 46 BEFORE THE MATCH: No9isthedangerman, said Barry Whitbread. He's fast and skilful and could pose a problem for us if we gave him time and space i Hlaing Win is the man behind the show, said Lim Tong Hai. We'll have to take him
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