The New Paper, 20 January 1998

Microfilm: NL21078
Total Pages: 38
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Rafidah: Use Asean currencies
      223 2 Source: Bernama LET us use more of the Singapore dollar, the ringgit, the rupiah and other Asean currencies when doing trade among ourselves. That is the thinking behind a plan now being considered by Bank Negara, Malaysia's central bank. "This (use of Asean currencies) is something
      Source: Bernama  -  223 words
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      Prof Waller Wow on the House
      350 2 Former Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) Walter Woon will begin his new role as Singapore's ambassador to Germany next month. The law professor created a big impact in the short time that he served as NMPfrotft 199% to 1996. He became known as the
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      Lock icon And OUR winners are...
      543 3 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS As a rule, award shows can send your toes to sleep. After watching yesterday's Golden Globe Awards, JESSICA LEOW picks her own winners THE FLUSH ME OUT AWARD Wl—er Chicago Hope star Christine Lahti Wins it for Original vanishing act When her name
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      105 2 Leisure mdex g»h nurfrim r vißiwwnßi Pages 17,18, 19&22 TV: Page 23 Comics: Pages 24 25 Where in the world can you find Jacuzzi, Karaoke and be pampered till you're fully relaxed... all within the same room? At The Chancellor Hotel All rooms equipped with Karaoke Systems. Jacuzzi available in
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      9 in 10 CPF investors lost money last year
      180 4 HOT .STORY L J MOST CPF investors would have made more money if they had left the funds in their CPF accounts to earn interest. For the year ended September 1997, about 74,000 CPF investors lost money. Another 310,000 made money,
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      PROFIT BUT LOSS
      68 4 You have $100,000 in your CPF account for investments. If you did not touch the money, it would have earned 3.48 per cent interest last year. So you would have made $3*503. But if you invested that money, your investment profits would have to be at least
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      HEADLINERS
      69 4 The Straits Times: Asian stock markets chalk up hefty gains The Badness Times: Asian markets surge by up to 10 as gloom lifts Uanhe Zaohao: S pore Management University approved Berita Harian: Silk Air crash victims finally laid to rest RCS morning news: SIM set to become full-fledged university
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      DOW JONES
      16 4 The New York Stock Exchange was closed yesterday for the Martin Luther King holiday.
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      WHAT’S HUP
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      Laws questioned
      79 4 AG Chan wants to know Whether Section 37 of the Act b enacted unconstitutionetty as i result of ranuHiieiii excwaing its power* UiLailu. IMb nit.- 1— t »_a wneuier mis secnon is inconsmeni wtth Article 12(1) of the CwkHMlm, wntcn mm our wwyoooy is befove the INK Attorney-General
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
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        SIA hots up airfare war
        74 4 IT is the kind of war travellers love. Singapore Airlines takes on Qantas and British Airways to see which airline can offer the cheapest return economy tickets to Australian cities and London. Examples of SlA's fares: $490 to Perth; $570 to Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney;
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        Fish scare in HK
        89 4 IN Hongkong, 19 people suffered ciguatera poisoning on the weekend after eating tiger garoupas. Symptoms include nausea, fatigue and paralysis. It is caused by neurotoxins not affected by cooking. Larger fish pick up the toxins from eating smaller fish which eat poisoned algae. The Health Department
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        Miri’s shopping boom
        82 4 TRADERS in Miri, at least, appear to be reaping benefits from the economic downturn in Malaysia. The Sarawak border town is a shojrtng haven for thousands of Brunei nationals now enjojfring the favourable exchange rate between the Brunei dollar and the weaker Malaysian ringgit. A check with
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        Cathay cuts 760 jobs
        85 4 FOUR Cathay Pacific workers in Singapore were among 760 staff whom the Hongkong flag carrier laid off yesterday. The loss of the four jobs leaves 126 Cathay Pacific workers operating here. Of all those laid off, 460 were based in Hongkong. Most of the lost jobs
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        Locals who carry drugs
        78 4 SINGAPOREANS are being used by international trafficking syndicates to ferry drugs. These syndicates also use Singapore as a transit point for their smuggling runs. Last year, 51 Singaporeans were caught smuggling drugs, said Mr Sim Poh Heng, director of the Central Narcotics Bureau. In 1996,62 were
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      97 4 ToHn mmus Calls are cnvged al X c«nts pgr m«iuK gga IW-ump \mt\ma DaP* I IM-nm i nvakiab*6 lessons i*fi~ wmm WUi aagaaa LBQ* w&k* ■iffijns WAREHOUSE SALE UPTO 50 -80 OFF RETAIL PRICES!!! Children's Garments from Newborn to 14 years for both boys and girls Ladies' Garments toe!! All
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Tell me about the new U
      621 5 Yesterday, more details of Singapore's new private university, the Singapore Management University, were revealed. So how will SMU be different from the two local universities? SANDRA DAVIE gets Temasek Polytechnic business student Chan Yen San, 20, to pose the questions and get the answers
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      Lock icon Secret grief for secret ‘fiancee’
      831 6  -  Yesterday, aboutsoo relatives and friends gathered in Palembangfor the mass burial of those who died in the Silk Air crash on Dec 19. One man stood alone in the crowd. Why? REPORTS MELVIN SINGH j in Palembang THEY came in groups to mourn their loved
      PICTURES CHOO CHWEE HUA  -  831 words
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      GOOD JOURNALIST, CARING MOTHER
      260 6 MS Elly was cheerful and outgoing. She loved fashion and travelled a lot. And she was to be sent to Japan by her newspaper, Business Indonesia, for a three-month course. She had even told colleagues that she would "go far", reported Kompas newspaper. All those dreams
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Why?
      413 7 PRESENTS... PUUUI HUlMli, TOOK 8 loan* to Nutans* companies supported by ME STORY SO FAR: Adtark Wktang is a new nation. Its a ftnks lend money freely. wPrices soar but coconut pitxports (the main money*amer) drop. Reporter Carol points at economic peril and is jailed for a while. Foreign
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      Vote and win
      124 8 WHO'S the best person to run Pulau Hutang? The Hutang dollar fell, shares were hit, people are hoarding sugar, oil and rice, a movie on a rogue trader is being filmed on the island. Things couldn't be worse. Who can lead Hutang out of this mess? Listen
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      Contest winner
      38 8 The owner of IC No: *****67 wins $500 in last Friday's contest. We asked you to identify the Finance Minister of Pulau Hutang. The answer is the man on the left. Money crisis guide on Internet:
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      Stress distress
      30 8 *****1******1' The single most important cause of stress is when people tell themselves that they can take care of things beyond their control. Hiiwpirt —mi MUhtfi «hn»lnwyf ■Agrtlhn
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      Lock icon Flattened on PIE
      197 9  -  Fatal crash #1 Time: 4.43 am Place: Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) By Bernard Pereira THE lorry was parked on the Pan-Island Expressway. But Mr Azahar bin Ali didn't see the stationary vehicle. The 26-year-old motorist was killed early this morning when his car slammed into the stationary lorry.
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      AA WARNING
      175 9 BE alert when driving in the wee hours of the morning. And stay within the speed limit. This advice comes from Mr Gerard Ee, President of the Automobile Association this morning. Said Mr Ee: "People tend to blame the vehicle parked on the road when they meet with
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      Lock icon Crushed on TPE
      169 9 Fatal crash #2 Time: 2.45 am Place: Tampines Expressway (TPE) YET another driver was killed in an early-morning crash on an expressway. Mr Ang Thian Leong's Mercedes-Benz was so badly smashed that "it looked like a crumpled piece of paper". The 44-year-old private-bus driver was killed on
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      She was killed in this flat
      341 12  -  MURDER OF BULGARIAN WOMAN By Teo Hwee Nak THIS is where the brutal murder of the Bulgarian student took place. Several newspapers lay outside the flat, tucked inside the grilles. Ironically, the picture of Miss lordanka Apostolova stared out from the front page of
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      MURDER CHARGE
      115 12 SHAFUL Edham Adam, 22, was charged in court yesterday with the murder of Miss Apostolova. His case will be mentioned again on Jan 26. He could face the death penalty if found guilty. His accomplice is still at large. Miss Apostolova's body was found in a canal at
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Suharto bargained with IMF on two projects And saved national car, airplane
      342 13 THE world's biggest moneylender wanted Indonesia to scrap its national car and aircraft programmes before it could get billions of dollars in cheap loans. But Indonesia was allowed to retain these programmes after President Suharto explained to the
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      No pressure of that sort
      33 13 The president said there was absolutely no pressure that could be considered colonialism in the economy by the IMF towards Indonesia. Indonesia's Sports and Youth Minister Hayono Isman
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      Coly God knows
      29 14 muignruig Tlity did a pnm^SmjMDt morning? |Xjpwpr I doat Iraow. You'll have to ask God. [Please, please, let him say 'it's nice to see you again'...
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      Lock icon Boy buried in the sand
      348 14 In critical condition after 2 m deep hole he dug on beach caves in Source: Wire services. A SURF lifesaver warned the 12-year-old and his brother to stop digging the hole in the beach sand. At two metres deep enough to contain the average NBA
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      Lock icon 23 coal miners in death trap
      206 15 Reuters. TWENTY-THREE coal miners are trapped underground in the Russian Arctic. Rescue workers don't know if they are still alive. But there is a fire raging in the mine too. And rescuers are considering flooding the mine to put it out. It's a no-win
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      ONLY THIS
      437 15 or it's death for allergy boy FOUR- YEAR-OLD Blake Clay can eat only broccoli, cauliflower, chips, bread and bananas. If he were to taste anything else, he would be dead in minutes. English newspaper The Times (Internet) reports that doctors carried out hundreds of tests at England's Nottingham
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      254 13 our holiday package f|l Mi hark! ]W W-i will have you singing gl \'co F for joy! The Legenqf-Hgtel. The-fe«f»shotf«'TQ JPowrfamily will lx> ecstatic when they hear what you have in |jJv) aoc QXf.V/U-fpo lv store for them i The y ear-end Breakaway at The Xegend WW n !££>•• espail<9ll
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      224 14 ?Dj"cut%^o^^mss§Sv Thursday| 79 Zou/c^^j^Bjj^C "So nvhon Bentley Rhythm Ac* run on-stage amuhb explosion of '/g/>f and loony tunes...there's only one way It's going to 90. Absolut* mayhem... 1997 Is the year BRA stepped into the big ■MHfflpB|MlH beat big league, winning the affections of Indie kids and trip hop heads
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      107 15 n conjunction v. i'h Smqapo'c Airlines Qantas British Anv.j\> A r Ne Zealand. For A Very Limited Period Only. Offer Valid Till 23/1/98 You Cannot Afford To Miss It! Air TirU^fc!■"*"3SE3B Check out our Free Easy Packages which offers flexi-departures with a wide selection of coach tours, DIY holiday itineraries,
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  • Showtime
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      JACKIE CHAN II?
      405 16 **an m i. *'P^?s»^' l ,v>, GsegteHe's our national wushu champion, also known US our local Jet Li. He also won two gold modal* from the SEA Games last year, to he's fit to be called our action hero. Now TCS looks set to tap his wushu
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      More Singapore choices for JACKIE II
      493 17 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE JAMES LYE Gongfu: James (above) played tough cop Inspector Mike Chin in Triple Nine and his latest role in the sci-fi series, VR Man, is that of a super hero. His real gongfu abilities have so far been overshadowed by his
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      Better than Zoe, Fann? Yes
      255 18 Say 8 Ann, Ang Mo Kio: Mfe KUDOS to Friday Weekly for conducting a poll that reflects the preferences of its readers. Perhaps other publications should learn from FW and restrict votes in such popularity polls to one per reader to ensure that fanatics do
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      Good morning, Ravi Sahi
      139 18 "GOOD morning RaviSahi, welcome to the studios," said AM Singapore presenter Daphne Teo yesterday. Thus began a brand new AM Singapore. Well, almost Daphne is still there and we're not sure if she's been left on the programme to amuse or irritate viewers. Ravi, thankfully, was
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      77 18 WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HAD SO MUCH FUN WITH A LURE ONLY THREE INCHES LONG? mm. L. 5 *<■-. -ni > A in i' ii§- r fi-- Yj- innaim -iti HH^n' Sl I M I I S r I I II I) <> I < >i > >11
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    Lock icon Gestures of pain and love
    423 19  -  SILKAIR Ml 185 THE LAST GOODBYE By. Melvin Singh REPORTING FROM PALEMBANG AS the sun's rays lit up the last resting place for the victims of Silk Air MI 186, darkness descended in the hearts of relatives and friends who had come to say a
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    Brit superstars hit S'pore
    418 20  -  SHOWTIME AN ADULTS CUBE TO UK TfLETUMB Po(red): Female, the smallest. Zips all over on her "snooter" and —get this— she speaks Cantonese. Dip* (green): Male, the cool and stylish one. I limy vvtiiKy (purple): The biggest. Male but strangely loves his fire-engine red handbag. LaaLaa
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      145 20 The Leonardo da Vinci show ends Feb Ist '98. 50,000 people have already welcomed Leonardo da Vinci's blockbuster show at the Singapore Art Museum. Sadly, it's almost time to bid this once-in-a-lifetime show, goodbye. So don't delay. Come see the original masterpieces of this legendary ARTIST, the detailed drawings of
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
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      724 21 tvDage f Q JJMJhljl Being Human HHm (Premiere 12,10 pm) Robin Williams (left) plays five H different men, through five v periods of time, and they are comically related. All of them are -v struggling and striving, without J M much success, to find happiness. 3.10 AftaraooaattheMovtoe— 20) I litis*
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    Humanity or huwomanity?
    479 22  -  eT CETERA WITH NORENSHAH SAHARI HEAVEN-O! Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it. Well, some people think we should greet each other without bringing up the fire and brimstone place. Now, if we start chopping up words and deciding they should be changed simply because they happen to be guilty
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      17 22 The Straits Times CLASSIFIED Where buyers and sellers meet Find someone to fix your T.V. f^t [CATS.)
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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      163 22 COMICRELIEF Calvin and Hobbes/Bil! Watterson UX*ATTWS.' irs NOT EVEN AN \KO\ (WELL. tT$ NOBOW B/ERQOSO) K tOO CALL THIS HIGW! WHAT GOOP IS U2SS V PRE™ 9CHOQL ON ACCOUNT OF W^oFSN^ff —X Adam/Brian Basset now*. He's off oas#E-na*a I y&i po.iw*t#usT ym/rr o»,McnuE«— J Vila's flrweß? JUNKET IN Tuesarrw e&v<AߣXGErrr
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      135 23 COMICRELIEF The Concrete Jungle/Colin Goh ■•issues! |«3SLC?| WW® I IBS? M n Big Nate/Lincoln Peirce HEY. Hf?r LOOK OUT. I I WAIT A SECOND... YOU I |YPUD I CHUMP-FACE' r'M WOULDHT STREAD &UTTER ON JT W OUR "TRASH W] COMIM* THROUGH! SUTTER ON SOHETHIHG THE ROLLrf HUM... A♦ H TALWH&
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      262 26 INNEF&EACE The Life enhancing store requires: ASST. SALES SUPERVISORS Minimum 'O 1 level or Diploma holders 2 years retail experience Age 21-29 yrs. Pleasant, motivated sales oriented Salary upto $1300 Vacancies at: Qreatworld City 6 Ngee Ann City Tel: 289-3230 Mrs 8m —H SALES MANAGER Required for MNC Male/ Female
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      511 31 WILLIAMS SISTERS GET READY TO DO BATTLE THE Williams sisters spent their childhood arguing about the hair colour of their friends and minor things like that. But tomorrow, in the second round of the Australian Open, sibling rivalry will become more serious, reports the Melbourne Age
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      141 31 ASIAN CHALLENGE AFP. THAILAND'S No 1 Tamarine Tanasugarn has moved into the second round of the Australian Open. Yesterday she recorded a convincing win over Venezuela's Maria Alejandra Vento. Tanasugarn, ranked 44 in the world, took out Vento, ranked five places above her, 6-1, 6-3 in just
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      220 31 WHAT'S (g)N Today's matches MEN 5 Greg Rusedski (Britain) v David Witt (US) Kenneth Carisen (Denmark) v 3 Michael Chang (US) Jason Stoltenberg (Aust) v Galo Blanco (Spa) JeffTarango (US) v Patrick Rafter (Aust) 8 Thomas Muster (Aus) v Jan Appell (Swe) Jason Stoltenberg (Australia) v Galo Blanco (Spain) WOMEN
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      507 33 A DANISH DELIGHT WITH INTELLIGENCE AND VISION MEET THE S-LEAGUE'S NEW KID ON THE BLOCK EAS2HLE N—m: Christian Skafte Bone Hobro, Denmark DateofHrtte Sept 18,1975 %*22 Height 1.84 m Weight: 74kg Clubs: Skelund (youth ranks; 1994-'96) Aalborg Chang (Ist Div; 1996-'97) Hob Was: "Used
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      340 34 Reuters. ASTON Villa manager Brian Little is coming under increasing pressure to discipline Yugoslav international Savo Milosevic. This comes after Milosevic allegedly spat at his own club s fens at Blackburn on Saturday. Dave Woodhead, editor of the club's Fanzine "Heroes and Villains" said Milosevic
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      46 34 SAVO Milosevic landed in trouble late last year when he criticised Villa team-mate Stan Collymore, who had been signed from Liverpool. Milosevic told a Yugoslav sports magazine that Collvmore had not justified the £7 million ($18 m) that manager Brian Little had paid .for him.
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      390 34 INFOUNE Liverpool meets Newcastle today. Call The New Paper Infoline on 1900-*****13 after 6.30 am tomorrow for the result. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. AFP. Wire services. OUT of form Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler is upset by accusations that he was being greedy in contract negotiations
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      623 35 SECOND-PLACED BLACKBURN IS FIVE POINTS BEHIND WHO CAN STOP MAN UNITED? SOUTHAMPTON 1 (Kevin Davies 3rd min) MAN UNITED 0 Crowd: 15,240 Reuter. SOUTHAMPTON: Paul Jones, Jason Dodd, Claus Lundekvam, Ken Monkou, Francis Benali, Cadton Palmer, Kevin Richardson (Duncan Spedding, 87), Matt Oakley, Matt Le Tissier
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      429 36 POINTERS FOR THE PRESIDENT. Reuters. YOUNG golfing sensation Tiger Woods had a busy day in Manila last Sunday. The half-Thai (his mother is Thai), half-African American gave Philippine President Fidel Ramos some golfing tips, trounced three Asian pros in an exhibition match and said he was
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      74 36 Tiger Woods won four tournaments last year—including the US Masters by a record margin He topped the 1997 money list on the US Professional Golf Association (PGA) Tour, winning over US$2 million ($3.4 m) just in prize money It is estimated that he earned double that amount in
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      65 36 1 Tiger Woods (US) 11.00 pts 2 Greg Norman (Aus) 10.74 3 Ernie Els (SA) 10.07 4 Nick Price (Zim) 9.91 S Phil Mickelson (US) 9-69 6 Davis Love 111 (US) 9.44 7 Colin Montgomerie(Sco) 9.33 Mark O'Meara (US) 8.06 Jumbo Ozaki(Jpn) 8.05 10Tom Lehman (US) 7.85
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      36 36 (so far this year) 1 Fred Couples (US) U*****,000 ($745,200) 2 Phil Mickelson (US) U*****,000 3 Bruce Uetzke (US) U*****,400 4 Mark O'Meara (US) U*****,525 5 David Duval (US) U*****,663 < Andrew Magee (US) U5J156.400
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      276 37  -  Stories/ S Gulam THE Lions will no longer be attired by Puma. Hwa Kay Thai, the agent for Puma sportswear, has ended its five-year sponsorship of the Football Association of Singapore. This was confirmed yesterday by Jeffrey Bose, the company's managing director. "We have already informed
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      160 37 BARCELONA 3 VALENCIA 4 Reuters. BARCELONA threw away a comfortable lead in the closing minutes of a game for the third time in as many weeks as Valencia fought bade for an extraordinary 4-3 win, Barcelona had gone 3-0 up, including a goal from top striker Josep Guardiola, after
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      98 37 Puma may have ended its relationship with the Lions. But it will continue its liaison with the Jaguars. The Tiong Bahru Jaguars, that is. Puma boss Jeffrey Bose confirmed his company will honour its two-year contract with Tiong Bahru. He said: Though Tiong Bahru didn't win
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      99 37 Singapore's loss may be England's gain. Boee revealed yesterday that his company has proposed a multi-million-pound sponsorship deal to attire Glenn Hoddle's men. But even if Puma's offer is accepted, the English footballers will start wearing Puma only after the World Cup in France. For Umbro has a
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