The New Paper, 14 October 1997

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  • 10 1 the new paper TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1997 the new paper
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  • THENEWSTODAy
    • 362 2 SALON Hair Beauty Shortness of Hair WHATS the latest in hair fashion? In one word, it is "short". From fashion reports, it seems that practical mid-lengths are the most i popular and trendy. There is virtually no long hair, s*y some iI I stylists ii London. Not one- of the
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      437 2 GST checks YOU have to tank up before you cross the Causeway. That's to make sure you don't buy cheaper petrol in Johor Baru and escape paying petrol duties in Singapore. The Government had to introduce first the half-tank rule in 1989, and then, the three-quarter-tank rule in
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    • 224 2 It's a farce. No matter how much then buy they cant spend their entitlement ($200). Unless you get a lorry. Fish. Chicken. Milk. You don't even buy imported stuff, Just small items, like dishwashing liquid. Mrs S Arokiasamy, 38 I don't go now. We used to go every
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      23 3 Artist DANTE PEREZ takes a peek at what might happen if things get worse at the Causeway Jj Illustration/ DAMTE PEREZ
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    • 31 2 PSI readings for today: 6 am: 70 7 an: 68 9 me 70 9 me 80 ,i i If I LntUREMMEX Pages 19 to 23 Comics: Pages 24&25 TV: Page 28k»
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    • 149 2 Sorry CPF owes us $40m says Labour action should be taken to recover Ministry (TNP, Oct 13) the levy arrears. This cannot be construed as the The Ministry of Labour (MOL) has Ministry blaming CPF Board for pointed out that it is incorrect to the levy arrears. infer from the
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 153 4 National Development Minister Lim HngKiang yesterday gave three main reasons for the Government's efforts to bring more foreigners into the workforce HOT STORIES Attract new investments When new niche markets are introduced, it takes years to train locals in the neccessary skills. Investors do not like
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    • 76 4 If demand stays low and the sad truth is, most Singaporeans now have problems forking out the 20 per cent cash downpaymentfor property purchases —it is likely that some developers will soon be compelled to openly advertise their discounts. When that happens, others would have no
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    • 97 4 GOODBYE, blue skies. Hello again, hazo. The haze has returned again after about one week's break. The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) went back into the unhealthy range yesterday, with a 24-hour reading of 108, Meteorologists said this was due to a change in wind direction and a flare-up
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    • 25 4 The Dow Jones industrial average r05e27.01 points to close at 8,072.22 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 354 million shares.
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 63 4 SINGAPORE has entered into an open-skiet pact with New Zealand. Restrictions on air travel between the two nations are now lifted. The agreement announced yesterday was welcomed by Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand, which have a commercial alliance. Open-skies pacts do away with restrictions on routes,
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      • 66 4 SINGAPORE developers are building smaller units. This allowed 24 per cent more to be built on land sale sites than planned, said Edmund Tie executive director Heng Hua Tong. Unit sizes came down from an average of 1,500 sq ft for condominiums to about 1,300. sq ft for
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      • 67 4 ,lii THE president of Bre-X Minerals of Canada, David Walsh, has apologised to investors who lost money in the Busang gold scam. A Bre-X chief geologist "salted" samples to make it seem there was gold at the Indonesian site. Bre-X's share price collapsed when the fraud was
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      • 69 4 SOUTH Korean President Kim Young Sam's second son has been jailed for three years and fined 1.44 billion won ($2.43 million) for tax evasion and bribery. Kim Hyun Chul, 38, was charged with: evading taxes on 3.39 billion won in gifts and taking bribes of 3.22 billion won
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      • 62 4 ASIAN nations should use internal fluids to fight their poverty, not foreign aid, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said. He said it was the first step for such nations toward self-reliance and dignity, against the indifference of rich Western countries. Malaysia would not
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    • 75 4 Hm Straits Timet: Lower debt ratings hit the rupiah The Bminett Timet: China Telecom launches biggest Hongkong IPO Uanhe 7tftfrnr Singapore and New Zealand sign air service pact It. |i ■■—t oema rtanan. BG Lee: GST checks same as petrol ruling ROS nHH ninK newt: Johor Customs said Causeway
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  • 411 5 THENEWSTODAY S'pore actress falls while filming with Andy Lau's stand-in Heavenly King steps in to do rescue scene himself COMES the moment, comes the man. And the man who came to the rescue of Singaporean beauty Paulyn Sun was Heavenly King Andy
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 424 6 Two mothers, jailedfor abusing their children, had a morbid fear of dirt and were constantly cleaning things. Is there a link between such obsessive behaviour and child abuse? NG WAN CHING reports on one case where the obsession led a mother to
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    • 75 6 Cindy Chandra, 29, insisted that the toilet in her flat be cleaned repeatedly. She beat her daughter Winny Ho, five, so badly that the girl is retarded. For that, Chandra started serving a six-year sentence in February this year. Lk* Peck Hoon, 37, bathed her four-month-old son
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    • 227 6 PEOPLE suffering from obsessions may end up abusing others. There are no studies to to prove a link between the two. But psychiatrists say the line separating the two can be easily crossed. Obsessive impulses can trigger aggressive or sexual behaviour such as stabbing one's spouse or
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 485 8  -  Foreign workers thought they were going to another work site, but By Melvin Singh WHEN their boss told a group of foreign workers to get on a bus, they thought they were moving to another work site. They didn't know that the 10 Cisco guards
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    • 101 8 THE Labour Commissioner (Ministry of Labour) has ordered Mr David Lee to pay more than $40,000 to the 17 workers. To enforce the order, the workers will have to file their case with the Subordinate Court. A bailiff officer will then seize property belonging to Mr
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    • 158 8 HANDCUFFS to go to the loo? Cisco says its officers were right in handcuffing the eight workers who wanted to get off the bus to go to the toilet. Reason? The workers were "aggressive, rowdy and emotional". They looked as though they might escape being sent
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 316 10  -  Footballers accused of match-fixing say: By Melvin Singh YES, they are guilty. Yes, they fixed matches and took money. But, please show compassion. That was the plea from the lawyer of two former national footballers, Manap Hamat and Abdul Malek Mohammad. Both pleaded guilty to
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    • 49 10 MANAP HAMAT: Played for national teams between 1983 and 1987. Also played for Balestier FC, Farrer Park FC, Geylang FC and South Avenue FC. ABDUL MALEK: Played for Singapore between 1981 and 1993. Also played for Kaki Bukit FC, Farrer Park FC, Police, Sembawang FC and Balestier Central.
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    • 36 10 THE players are expected to be sentenced tomorrow. They could be jailed up to 10 years and fined up to $100,000. They would also have to pay a penalty equal to the amount they took.
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    • 247 11 She wants to cook soup on charcoal stove Starts fire with spirit and suffers fatal burns WHEN she came to visit her Singapore-based son, the Malaysian mother would often use a charcoal stove to make soup for her family. On Oct 3, Madam Tham
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    • 110 12 A VISITOR tried to slither into the Great World Shopping Centre early this morning. All it wanted was to have a peek at the spanking, new centre before the soft launch opening on Thursday. However, the python was stopped in its tracks
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      235 13 Country Roads' singer killed in plane crash Body so mangled, fingerprints used to identify body Wire services. FOLK singer and songwriter John Denver died in a small plane crash near San Francisco yesterday. He was 63. Denver's body was so badly mangled that police needed a fingerprint check
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    • 179 13 Wire services. WITH his boyish good looks, disarming grin and granny glasses, John Denver became one of the world's best selling singers. He made more than 30 albums. Nearly two dozen of them became gold and platinum albums. He was in sharp contrast to the angrier music of
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    • 164 13  -  By' T Jeyathesan I CAN still hear the crackling wood. And feel the warmth of the campfire as the sparks flickered towards the stars. John Denver filled up my teenage senses, as he put it in Annie's Song, like a night in the forest. Hearing him
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      262 14 Saturn will have to wait Reuters. T'HE controversial US probe launch to Saturn was postponed yesterday because of technical glitches and safety concerns. During the final hours of the countdown at Cape Canaveral in Florida, ground controllers found problems with launch-pad equipment that tests batteries on the rocket.
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    • 247 15 HISTORIC MEETING BETWEEN BRITISH PM BLAIR AND SINN FEIN PRESIDENT Reuters. BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair was a "traitor" and "contaminated" because he had "shaken hands with a murderer". Protestants did all the name-calling yesterday in Belfast, Northern Ireland. They yelled "traitor" and jeered Mr Blair
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    • 75 15 PRIME Minister David Lloyd George was the last British leader to shake hands with an Irish republican leader, when he met activists Eamon de Valera and Michael Collins for talks with Sinn Fein in 1921 that led to the partition of Ireland. Mainly Protestant Northern Ireland reverted to British
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    • 321 16 Reuters CHINA has offered to hold political negotiations with Taiwan to end a conflict almost five decades old. The offer comes just weeks before China's Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin visits the United States. It will be the first state visit by a Chinese
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    • 246 16 Protecting Society and Changing Lives. are our y Priorities Opening Ceremony L)c Guest-of-Honour Mr Won 9 Kan Seng Minister for Home Affairs w Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza Orchard Road 18-13 Oct 97 10.00 am 9.30 pm daily HIGHLIGHTS Tactical Displays Rappelling Techniques Food Stalls Games Stalls Singapore Prison Service
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  • 241 17 Wire services. AND the jet-powered British car became the first ever to break the sound barrier on land. Fighter pilot Andy Green (right) roared across the Nevada desert at 1,222 kmh or 1.007 per cent above the speed of sound. The record was set just
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  • 51 17 Take pride in the fact that our country has shed its Poor Man of Asia title. Take pride in the fact foreign companies and governments want to invest in our country because of the inherent skills that are there. Philippine President Fidel Ramos, addressing Filipino workers in
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      529 18 Ghosts? The set of Immortal Love, TVS'first drama serial on vampires, seemed to have been "jinxed". Channel 5 actress Michelle Goh contracted dengue fever while filming at a banana plantation, Chew Chor Meng hurt his back while rehearsing a scene, andXiang Yun, Shirley Ho, Pan Linglingand Star Search winner
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    • 344 19  -  By Avis Wong PANUNGUNG SHE plays an out-and-out evil Thai bomoh. This might have prompted the 27-year-old beauty to join in prayers during the filming of the serial, even though she is a free-thinker. "We always pray to the gods first, before the first camera rolls,"
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 394 21  -  By Avis Wong RISING Expectations for a rising star? Yes, Taiwan's Chang Huei Mei has been handpicked by the Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) to croon the theme song for the Channel 8 blockbuster production, Rising Expectations. "I'm really honoured and I feel
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    • 452 22  -  BY Lee Yin Luen THEY can't get enough of each other, even though they've been together five years, as partners in music. The four members of Caught In The Act, who performed at Sparks Disco last Friday, are prime examples of togetherness. "When we
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    • 104 21 We're right behind the Lions tonight! ameS Singapore vs Thailand Tonight, 7.15pm All of Singapore will be running with the Lions tonight as they take on their fiercest opponent and defending champion, Thailand. Can the Lions go for gold? PREMIERE 12 takes you closer to the action -.V Also Tonight!
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    • 64 22 PUB DISCO JAZZ KTV WORLD 10TH ANNIVERSARY ON THE CATWALK THE SINGAPORE MODEL AWARDS' 97 r Catch thi' (iOKCI.OI S hcanties and tlie 111 NkY men in the quest lor the finest on the catwalk. Make a (late with them at Sparks showtime iopm [no extra charge;] SPARKS I eve!
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  • 467 23  -  ET CETERA WITH TRUDY LIM SOME mothers were exchanging notes. As we discussed our kids' behaviour, we realised that little boys had changed. In the old days, mothers who had older daughters were considered lucky, as the girls could help raise their younger siblings. These days,
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    • 831 26 5 H Immortal Love (Channel 8, 9 pm) An exciting vampire serial where romance materialises only after 100 years between Chew Chor Meng and Star Search winner Florence Tan (left). Also stars Huang Yiliang, Pan Lingling, Michelle Goh, Xiang Xun and Edmund Chen. and Kabir Bedi. 2.30 The Golden Girls
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  • SPORTS
    • 281 39  -  He may be the S-League's first manager-cum-coach By S Gulam GEYLANG United appears to have lured Douglas Moore as manager-cum-coach. Sources say the former national coach turned S-League chief executive officer had already signed for the Eagles. "Moore returned from the US about two weeks
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    • 214 39 STAR striker Les Ferdinand's stomach operation may cost the English Football Association £240,000 ($600,000). That's the compensation Tottenham Hotspur intends to seek after preliminary medical tests showed that Ferdinand could be out for 10 weeks. He aggravated the injury he first sustained training with England
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    • 215 39 TODAY: Arsenal v Birmingham Bamsleyv Southampton Bolton v Wimbledon Grimsby v Leicester Ipswich v Manchester Utd Oxford Utd vTranmere Reading v Wolves Walsall v Sheffield United TOMORROW: Chelsea v Blackburn Coventry vEverton Middlesbrough v Sunderland Newcastle v Hull
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    • 103 39 TOTTENHAM Hotspur's injury crisis has claimed another victim manager Gerry Francis. He injured his back in a freak accident while playing with his children, reports Soccernet. Francis was unable to put pressure on his leg yesterday after hurting his lower back. He later went to hospital for
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    • 249 40 FINAL EUROPEAN PLAYOFFS FOR WORLD CUP '98 IN FRANCE Reuters. WHO PLAYS WHO Republic of Ireland v Belgium Croatia v Ukraine Hungary v Yugoslavia Russia v Italy Matches to be played Oct 29 and Nov 15 If ties are level on aggregate after two legs, golden
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    • 308 40 The Independent THE price Italy must pay for failing to beat England in Rome is a two-leg playoff against Russia. That is for the right to be at the World Cup Finals in France next year. "Russia, along with Croatia and Yugoslavia, were
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      96 40 CESARE MALMNI (Italy'scoach, pictured left)): This is a really good draw, even though I realise that Russian football is at a high level. BORIS IGNATIEV (Russia's coach): Sure Italy is a difficult opponent but I remember Oct 12,1991 when the old USSR beat Italy and eliminated it
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  • JAKARTA JAM ‘97
    • 872 41  -  By Brian Miller CHRISTEL Bouvron's parents must have warned their little girl about talking to strange men. Which is probably why the 13-year-old student of Raffles Girls Secondary takes a long while to warm up. Like yesterday, beside the training pool at Senayan, Christel eyed me
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    • 337 42 lade SORRY! IDONT KNOW: I think the unofficial tag-line of the SEA Games has to be "Maaf! Saya tidak tahu." (Sorry! I don't know). When we arrived last week looking for the press centre, it was still being completed. A
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    • 508 42 Gerald Ine Ho it ibo known m fijCi Iter song, Wy Special Angel, is only the i i 11 rotirni tocai act to ever scale the peak of the Perfect 10 gnrt She knocked Ton! Braxton off the No 1 spot in Singapore four She is
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    • 119 42 Bernama. FAVOURITE Malaysia gave sound notice of its intention to retain the SEA Games men's hockey gold medal with a 11-0 thrashing of Brunei yesterday. Malaysia is using the Jakarta Games as part of its build-up for the World Cup finals next year. There was
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    • 632 43  -  SHAUN ZUUOfU (BOWLING) MALAYSIA THE GOLD MEDAL CONTENDERS GOLD CLASSIC I By Brian Miller IF someone tells you that sports doesn't pay, tell that someone to speak to Shalin Zulkifli. Okay, so she's just 19 years old and she's been bowling "seriously" for only
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  • 72 44  -  factfile Name: Tommy Ong Age: 35 Height 1.78 m Weight 62kg Bad weight: 11.6 pounds Bowling style: Right-handed spinner If Family: Married with three children Previous SEA Games: Gold in 5-man team event at Chiangmai, 1995 REPORTS BRIAN MILLER PICTURES JONATHAN CHOO FINAL SCORES 1 Ricky
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  • 399 45 TOMMY Ong didn't figure prominently in Singapore's plans for a bowling gold medal in the men's singles. For that matter, he wasn't really considered a medal prospect in this event, at least. But Tommy had plans of his own. He wanted to rewrite the script which
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  • 263 45 TOMMY Ong bowled like a man possessed, yesterday. His spider-like stance drew and plenty of giggles from the capacity crowd. But he wasn't put off Bang, bang, bang...he shot down the pins. 225,205, 209 and a 249 saw him charge to the top of the pack
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  • 405 45 HOW GOLD WAS WON FACTF1LE Name: Catherine Kang Age: 31 Marital status: Married with one son Occupation: Full-time bowler Hobbies: Shopping, swimming Best SEA Games performance: 1995 Trios gold medal CATHERINE Kang went fishing yesterday just an hour after getting a free lesson on the
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  • 222 45 Catherine Kang started on a high note, shooting a 224 in the opening game. But others were shooting better. 24 pins away: Josephine Canare of the Philippines had the lead with a 248 while Thailand's Pompen Thanormbong put together a 235. Catherine held sixth spot—24 pins away
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  • JAKARTA JAM ‘97
    • 836 46 THE CRUNCH MATCH: SINGAPORE v THAILAND, 7.15pm (SINGAPORE TIME) TODAY, PREMIERE 12 ERNEST LUIS ASKS THE LIONS: When Singapore struggled to beat Brunei 1-0 on Sunday, some Thai players thought it was hilarious. In the grandstands they laughed, pointed excitedly and stomped their feet.
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    • 430 47  -  VtSSANU WATSON SOPHANICH NYAMBEK (ThdM): (Malaysia): 10.4 Imc 10.52 TIMES BASED ON HOW THEY FINISHED IN THE HEATS KONGDCCH YUSOf ALIAS AGUSTINUS TNIEN LOUNG THANH THAN GANESHWARAN NATENEE (Singapore): NGAMEL Tlch XUAN (Vietnam): (Malaysia): (Thaland): 10.68 (Indomrta); (Vietnam): 10.78 10.79 1032 10.73 10.76 SEA GAMES
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    • 179 47 NURULAINI Ariffin was in a world of her own yesterday. The 18-year-old finished last and did not qualify for the women's 100 m final. But die did set a personal best of 12.265ec. While that is close to Prema Govindan's national record of 12.23,
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    • 402 49 yesterday's action STAR Search finalist Ng Cheng Hye won Singapore's sixth gold medal yesterday by winning the men's changquan in the wushu competition. The 22-year-old Ng had to wait an hour before taking his medal, after his urine test for drugs was passed. He beat Malaysia's
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    • 280 49 CtttWWUHt 1900-*****12 Hammer Can James Wong deliver Singapore's first track and field gold? Call after 11am for the result. MMe>c« Who will be the fastest man and woman of the 19th Sea Games? Results of the 100 metres sprint event after 7.15pm. Soccer: Can the Lions
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  • 215 50 1 SILVER The women's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay team of Joscelin Yeo, Phua Shu Yan, Cheryl Chong and Christel Bouvron claimed the silver medal yesterday 2 BRONZES Christel, after winning silver in the relay, also won bronze in the 400 m freestyle. Joscelin also
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