The New Paper, 26 February 1998

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    7 1 the new paper THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1998
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  • THENEWSTODY
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      FOR SALE
      517 2 Will Malaysia allow the country's non-Malays to bail out ailing Malay companies? Yes, but... A NEW guessing game has started in Malaysia. Will Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad adjust an economic policy much cherished by the Malays in order to help troubled local companies and boost
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      PRIZE
      115 2 Name this ship and win a IF Singapore were a sMp, what would she be called? Our special ship sets sal on Saturday to bring you our coverage of Budget 1998, which Finance Minister Richard Hu will unveil tomorrow. You can name the ship. Tell us your suggestions. If
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      ELTON WINS GRAMMY
      106 2 ELTON John's tribute to the late Princess Diana, Candle In the Wind, won a Grammy for him this morning. Other early Grammys went to producer and artist Kenneth Babyfface Edmonds, who was named producer of the year. Sarah McLachlan won for best female pop vocal performance for
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      Lock icon If sunglasses fail, try.... THIS... OR THSI.. OR THIS
      463 3  -  I AT THE ASIAN AEROSPACE *98 SIGNS TO LOOKOUT FOR Some signs of heat exhaustion are feeling dizzy, clammy, weak and having blurred vision. You should immediately go to the shade or a cool place, loosen your clothing and have a
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      73 2 Leisure Showtime: Pages: 28,29,32 33 TV: Page 34 Comics: Pages 35 36 The Prevention Of Dengue Fever Grand Draw Result Congratulations to Tan Joo Khiang, K *****93J for winning the Grand Lucky Draw prize of an Acer Tl Extensa 610 CD laptop. Al winners of the Weekly Lucky Draw have
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      $96 million
      142 4 THE HAZE Last year, we lost i HOT kSTORIESi THE haze from forest fires in Indonesia cost Singapore US$6O million ($96 million) in tourist revenue last year, said the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). And Singapore and Malaysia together spent US$l2 million on additional health care because
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      Be ready for the worst
      148 4 This year, we must THE fires in East Kalimantan have reached a serious level, so Singaporeans must be prepared for the worst. So said Environment Minister Yeo Cheow Tong at the end of the Asean environment ministers' meeting on the haze. "Singapore lacks manpower, but
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      WHAT'S HUP
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
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        Laws reconsidered
        54 4 SHOULD laws on offences such as insider trading be changed to allow more cooperation with foreign authorities? The Monetary Authority here (MAS) is studying this after a Hongkong Securities and Futures Commission report on an alleged insider trading case. The MAS could not act against Singapore suspects because
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        Tourist numbers down
        61 4 TOURIST numbers for Singapore slid for the fourth month because of regional currency and economic problems. Only 509,752 tourists came in January, a 16.7 per cent drop compared to that month last year, said the Singapore Tourism Board. The numbers first dropped in October. In November, they
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        Pay? I'd rather wait
        52 4 But we have found that many lorry operators do not mind waiting five or six hours in a jam, rather than pay a toll. Malaysia's Works Minister Samy Vellu, announcing that toll charges at the new second link to Singapore will be "much lower that those
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        Crash pilot Down Under
        70 4 WHERE is the Australian pilot who abandoned his plane after it crash-landed on an industrial site in Pahang last Thursday? In Australia. And it was from there that Mr Barry Hampal sent a fax to Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation to explain the incident, Malay daily
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      How to make a world-class workforce?
      119 4 THAT will be the question facing the new Ministry of Manpower. Labour Minister Lee Boon Yang, who will be the new Minister for Manpower, said work on an action plan to build a world-class workforce for the 21st century will start soon after his
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      HEADLINERS
      82 4 The Straits Timet: Growth forecast for 1998 cut to 2.5-4.5% The Business Timet: S'pore growth forecast trimmed to 2.54.5% Lianhe Zaobao: Government lowers growth forecast for 1998 to 2.54.5% Berita Harlan: Economic growth likely to be 2.54.5% RCS morning news: The soon to be renamed labour ministry spells out
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      DOW JONES
      26 4 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 87.68 points to close at 8,457.78 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 608 million shares.
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      9 4 Hotel Royal Daily 9et Lunch at Trishaw LCoKee^w^^ *****1
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      124 5 "Plug in to a whale new lifestyle." When ijljii get gour hingTel Perianal ine gou ran nurf the net. e-mail anil and clo sume reallg root ntuFf. And now we've even made it easier tnr in gel t gonr personal line with utters. Uu it man. Van gatta ge>t your
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    Lock icon PEACE AMONG JUMABHOYS?
    730 6 O such thing' O what's going on? SINGAPORETOuAY Mrßafiq Jumabhoy has withdrawn the appeal for his share option. RAHUL PATHAKand MICHELLE ANG find out if the feud is over Mr Rafiq, 46, was the apple of his grandfather Rajabali's eye. He ran Scotts Holdings, along with father
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Psst, your parents
      547 8 r; g I —i v ■He one First nude photos, then the shock Rightly or not, some parents are hiring private investigators (Pis) to spy on their teens. Each of the five private investigation agencies we spoke to said they get about three such requests every month,
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      SHOULD PARENTS SPY ON THEIR KIDS?
      209 8 MORE and more parents are paying money to snoop on their children, especially during the school holidays. Ms Janice Quek, of Kokusai Special Investigation Branch, said such requests have gone up in the last six years. There can be up to 10 cases during
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    • are spying on you
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        326 9 two Playing hide-and-seek KOK Wei knows what it's like to be spied on. And he felt his parents were wrong in getting a private eye to spy on him. The 18-year-old junior college student, an only son, had been living outside home for a few months. His parents hired Pis
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      Minesweeper and sampan collide
      275 10 Sampan breaks in two, 81-year-old man missing AN old fisherman went missing after a Royal Singapore Navy ship collided with his sampan on Tuesday morning. Mr Talib Latif, 81, is believed to have been thrown overboard after the collision at about 9.30 am. His sampan broke
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      Taxi=$2 TAXI+$20
      346 12  -  BY NgWan Ching ONE wears a jacket and tie and charges you $20 for a ride in the Merc he drives. The other's in a Kancil and charges $2. Why not? As long as taxis take you places, why not let them decide how much you should pay?
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      Cabbies; take note
      124 12 THE Government will: Consider lowering ERP (Electronic Road Pricing) charges for taxis initially. This is because taxi drivers make many trips into the Central Business District. When ERP starts on the ECP on April 1, motorists will have to pay the toll every time they enter an
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      WHO'S PAYING?
      63 12 YOU RAY IRP CHARGES Rightly, the cost should be borne by those who use taxis. This is not different from them paying ERP charges should they choose to drive through ERP gantries in private cars. TAXI DRIVERS PAY ERP CHARGES But if taxi operators choose to enter the
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      41 12 raw 27 February Zouk showtime 10pm BSCfe A JUICY MARDI GRAS SPACE DONUT launch party DJ NICKY HOLLOWAY (London) BDJ Q (Glasgow) r f,' l r FTfel M MpgH| THURSDAYS PHUTURE MM?*! SPACE DONUT i QUIET STORM c. l un J
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      149 13 i -i .1 1 J'i: )i VJ i 'I 11 i .1,, I v 1T? I: i, r y'.--) .'i v. ;'j |j '"••'v'' ,y< SPECIFICATIONS V HP Pavilion 8201 technology 32M8 SDRAM-. 3.2G8 Huid Drive 32 mux. speed CD ROM cir fv\? Hp w j Intel 2GnMH/Pentium II MMX
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      15 MURDERS IN FIRST TWO MONTHS 'NOT UNUSUAL'
      119 14 The public need not be alarmed by the recent cases of murders reported prominently in the media. Senior Assistant Commissioner Chua Chin Kiat, director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The 15 murders in the 13 cases since the start of this
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      That 'if' was a dead giveaway
      184 14  -  BY J Rajendran IF only. If only the forgers hadn't got that "or wrong, it wouldn't have been such a dead giveaway. The fake ICs showed "Date if issue". (See graphic above.) The three blue Singapore Permanent Resident ICs surfaced after three Chinese nationals
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      PENALTY
      25 14 Anyone found guilty of having or intending to use a fake IC will face a maximum of seven years in jail and a fine.
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      186 14 SBp m Mm PI '^HNIRfIPIH DJ Marsarat Um, on ttM lov« ttmM fraM tin movie Titanic, My Heart WH Go On: It's an overkill! The first couple of hundred times you hear it, it's still palatable. It's like eating cheesecake the first few bites are nice, but after that, you
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      333 15 .1.... i r takes to problem. why we The CNB needs intelligent people who refuse to tolerate the immorality, suffering and death caused by drug abuse. People with commitment, and a sense of duty and honour, whose to totally forms of drug abuse. you can face you'll become an group
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    Trained to handle disputes
    293 17 SPEAK B P YOUR FORUM g pmp' John Chang Head II It It-I.al n— mecia netauofis Singapore Police Force I refer to the feedback of your readers to the story "Could shooting have been avoided" (TNP, Feb 12). Melvin Sim asked whether cops are trained to
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon WOULD YOU HIT HIT?
      692 19 PAMELA ANDERSON SUFFERS INJURIES IN ALLEGED ATTACK BY HUSBAND TOMMY LEE Reuters, AFP Reuters. TOMMY Lee is married to every man's dream babe... Pamela Anderson. But, instead of feeling lucky, he is accused of having hit her! The American heavy metal drummer was arrested on Tuesday
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      HER HUBBY DID...
      25 19 SHE SAYS and he has to pay $1.6 million bail to get out of jail Not M COS)f MR Lee and Anderson.
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon OOPS...
      285 21 Israeli secret service the Mossad slips up again Wire services. IT used to be considered one of the world's best secret services. Now many spy networks in the world are probably laughing at the Mossad, Israel's agency again because it has botched yet another mission. This time, it happened
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      OTHER BUNGLES
      67 21 In December, Yehuda Gil, a former star of Israel's premier secret service, was arrested for falsifying intelligence reports attributing hostile intentions to Syria. He is on trial. In September, the Mossad was involved in a botched attempt to assassinate the leader of militant Islamic group Hamas, Khaled Meshal,
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      Lock icon Myanmar general disowns son of S'porean wife'
      192 22 Source: Reuters. DISOWNED: A son of a powerful leader of the ruling Myanmar military regime. Possible reason: The son had married a Singaporean girl. Under Myanmar's constitution, anyone who marries a foreigner cannot run for office in elections. State Peace and Development Council
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      Lock icon How did HE get Saddam to say yes?
      549 22 Source: Wire services. HE has been the United Nations boss for the past 13 months. But until Sunday, when he told the world "We've got a deal", the name and face of Kofi Annan was not as familiar to many of us
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      WHO'S ANNAN
      114 22 OUT OF AFRICA: He is a member of a merchant family of paramount chiefs from the Fante ethnic group in Ghana. He has a twin and is the third of five children. CAREER: He has spent much of his career working for the United Nations. As UN manager,
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      128 23 1 I I SHOOT STORE SHOW ■■■■■■I UUIfIU^^BwHBMH Pi pp Ml BnHHVHS|H HUP |HV r* V -L.H i- j is photos are recorded directly into 3.5" TFT floppy disk, you will only need to nsert it to your PC. is photos are saved in JPEG format, no special software is
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    Lock icon Worst is OVER for Asia
    277 24 EXCEPT FOR INDONESIA... Source: Wires, IHT. EXCEPT Indonesia, the rest of Asia is out of the currency crisis. That's the word from two experts from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The two experts World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz and the
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      581 24 D© Niro doesn t need to psy US actor Robert De Mro was recaatly q«*«tftoatd atawftiiess by B r, ~(L I„||, I»| I. ill. .1 M M_ rrewen mwro wvemgaot; an wiiianuwai cm gin rtwg. Ho l 9 Mai aaylavofvwMat. Hh lawyer, Mr Qntvm lOajMa, mM: |^JH|^HK\^HL It astonishes me
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      181 25 H Things happen fast in the Navy. Join as a Naval Systems Specialist (NSS) and you'll rise through the ranks quicker than you think. With an attractive salary and benefits to match. If you want to further your studies, you can apply for our SAF-ITE Sponsorship Scheme or our Joint
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      Lock icon 'If I meet him I'll glass the *****
      366 26  -  BY Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY THE bad boys of British rock made no apologies in Perth yesterday for the rowdy behaviour of their party on their 7 Vi -hour flight to Australia from Hongkong on Monday. Lead singer Liam Gallagher, the
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      'Lock 'em up'
      173 26 IN BRITAIN BRITAIN'S tabloid newspapers made it very clear yesterday what they thought of Oasis' recent bad behaviour. "Lock This Prat Up" howled the front page of The Daily Star, referring to the British group's front man, Liam Gallagher. Its editorial went on to say that "Cathay
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      Same sh* #, different day
      182 26 Same sh* different day IT was the usual day out for Oasis yesterday. Lead singer Liam had his shirt off when Oasis was taken on a motor cruiser off the port of Fremantle. When a tourist ferry passed by, some members of the band dropped their beach shorts, waggled their
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      215 27 The SAF-ITE Sponsorship Scheme (SISS) ■■■nMffIHMRHH[|jjHI If you're thinking of joining the ITE or are already in ITE, we'd like to put you OK| ANT Mv Hiadstartl Ru h Ml MO N O(M ATION ahead of your peers. Besides complete sponsorship of your ITE course, you'll I Name also get
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    Lock icon NO more nice Guy
    306 28 I# If a watched The Replacement Killers, you would know this man can fire six guns at the same time. Offscreen, he "couldn't shake his hands for two days" after that But the point is, he endured. So, don't mess with him. Recently, the San Francisco
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  • SHOWTIME
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      Chow's wife drove him to Hollywood
      328 29 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE THERE is only one driving force behind Chow Yun Fat. We all know it is his Singaporean wife, Jasmine Tan. It was she who drove him to Hollywood. "Jasmine, she tried to convince me. She told me I had Abetter make
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      449 30  - By Lee Yin Luen IN YOUR dreams, there are no rules. Sheep come in colours of red, blue, purple and green. The past, present and future meet. And so they did in Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on Tuesday night. In the beginning, it was just about a dozen
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      Show info
      59 30 WHAT: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat WHERE: Kallang Theatre WHEN: Today until April 12 TIME: 8 pm on Tuesdays to Sundays, with additional 3 pm shows on wppkpnHc TICKETS: $40, $60, $80 and $105 (Tuesdays to Thursdays); $45, $75, $99 and $120 (Fridays to Sundays); $40, $60,
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      Lock icon 'Colourful and campy'
      218 30 MrTanSooKhoon (Speaker of Parliament) "The music is good, Theperformance is outstanding. It's quite different fron the other Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals. The treatment is different. It's very light-hearted, the music is very modern. The costume seems a bit incongruous with the music, yet it all turned out
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      by romance
      660 31 Bands NO DOUBT (Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young) The couple: Stefani (vocals) and Kanal (bass). How if started: "It was 1987 and Tony had just joined the group," said Stefani. "We played this party. Me and Tony were walking home and I said 'Kiss
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    A lady's finger tips on etiquette
    522 33  -  eT CETERA WITH HEATHER MCKINNON OKAY. Dear women readers, you have read in this paper recently a consultant's tips on how to be a lady. I have noticed, however, there are some of us on Planet Modern Girl that could do with a few
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      372 49 FRANCE 3 Blanc 24, Zidane 28, Desailly 90 NORWAY 3 Strandll 13 penalty, Ro 68, Heggen 89 Reuters. Fgffig Fabien Barthez; Uiian Thuram, Laurent Blanc, Marcel Desailly; Robert Pires, Didier Deschamps, Alain Boghossian, Zinedine Zidane (Claude Makelele 62), Bernard DiQmede; Youri Djorkaeff, Stephane Guivarc'h (David Trezeguet 63).
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      197 49 Reuters. USA 0 BELGIUM 2 Nico Van Kerckhoven 24,60 USA: De Wilde; Deflandre, Staelens, Vidovic, Leonard (Borkelmans 68); Van der Elst (Karagiannis 55), Wilmots (Johan Walem 46), Boffin, Van Kerckhoven; Nilis (Peeters 85), Mpenza BELGIUM: Keller; Balboa, Harkes, Bums, Reyna, Wynalda (Mcßrtde 64), Agoos,
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      503 50 Our school sports heroine this week is Nordiana Abdul Rahman. Despite a mild intellectual disability, this plucky l&year-old is still determined to fulfil her dream of sprinting for Singapore at world levels. GERARD WONG reports... FACTFILE Name: Nordiana Abdul Rahman Age: 16 Date of birth: Dec
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      174 50 THE PROGRAMME: It's an international programme of year-round sports training and competition for children and adults with mental retardation. ITS MISSION: To provide year-round sports training and competition for them. This is to allow the people to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience the joy
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        54 51 FASTFACTS Nordiana won two golds (200 m sprint and softball throwing). She also finished sixth in a basketball skills event Singapore sent eight athletes to the Hongkong event. They won a total of 15 medals seven golds, five silvers and three bronzes. 13 cities from around the world and 18
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      165 51 KHAIRNA MOHD, 35 Icoack): To be honest, Nordiana isn't a naturally talented runner. But she makes up for It with her sense of determination. If she works hard and is given a lot of encouragement and guidance along the way, she can improve very quickly.
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      559 52  -  THE NEW PAPER PAYS TRIBUTE TO DAVID LEE TESTIMONIAL MATCH: NATIONAL STADIUM, SUNDAY, 7pm DAVID'S DEBUT Stories/ Brian Miller HE came on the scene at a time when soccer was the main dish on the local menu. The year was 1977. The Lions were
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      328 53 'Nothing beats spending time with family' ALTHOUGH soccer was his main love, the national goalkeeper didn't allow it to cloud his personal life. In 1990, he married the girl he courted for five years. Nettie was and still is, his soul-mate, best friend and the
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      124 53 -1077: Joins intermediate squad as reserve goalkeeper under coach Jita Singh. Keeps goal for Singapore In King's Cup tournament in Bangkok. Singapore finishes as runner-up. Called into the national squad but as reserve goalkeeper. "&80: Takes over from Edmund Wee in the pre Olympics Asia Group 3 playoffs.
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      185 53 AS sports stars go, David has never been one to demand the spotlight. He was, instead, the quiet achiever. However, there were times when he was "thrust" into the spotlight. Like when he had to testify in court during the 1993 corruption triad involving former national player
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      161 54 Reuters. THE man who is worshipped for his divine football skills is to appear as Jesus Christ on a provocative new billboard poster. The poster, unveiled by Italian tyre company Pirelli PIRI.MI yesterday, showed Brazilian superstar Ronaldo with arms outstretched, gazing
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      145 54 NO. SAYS SPONSOR. CERTAINLY NOT. SAYS RQNALDO SPONSOR PIRELLI: "It gives a very positive image," company president Marco Tronchetti Provera said of the advertising campaign. "It's not a profane image. I like the idea of Ronaldo embracing his home city." RONALDO: Ronaldo, who was born
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      558 56  -  United's treble chase over: Premiership and European Cup left FA CUP FIFTH-WOUND REPLAY: BARNSLEY 3 MAN UNITED 2 By Lan Brown REPORTING FROM ENGLAND FA CUP FIFTH-ROUND REPLAYS BARNSLEY 3 John Hendrie 9, Scott Jones 45, 70 MANCHESTER UNITED 2 Teddy Sheringham 56, Andy Cole 81 Half-time:
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      121 56 ABSOLUTELY no doubt about it. The starting line-up featured seven internationals and it constantly changed the shape of the side in pursuit of victory. Manager Alex Ferguson started with Michael Clegg at right-back, Gary Neville at left-back, and David Beckham in central midfield. At
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      380 57 MORE ON THE FA CUP FIFTH-ROUND REPLAYS Reuters. West Ham 1 Blackburn 1 (West Ham wins 5-4 on penalties} WEST Ham captain Steve Lomas smashed home the penalty shootout clincher that put his team into the FA Cup quarter-finals. In a tense and exciting fifth-round
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      192 57  -  S-LEAGUE UPDATE BY Ernest Luis THE Van Der Horst-Concorde Hotel Quadrangular is no friendly tournament. So said Balestier Centred chairman S Thavaneson, whose team and Tiong Bahru United will be facing Malaysian League supremos Selangor and Negri Sembilan from next Monday to Saturday. "It will be a
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      193 57 AFP. Reuters. JOHN GREGORY ASTON Villa moved quickly to appoint former player and coach John Gregory as successor to Brian Little who resigned as manner on Tuesday. Gregory left Villa Park 16 months ago to take over as manager of Second Division Wycombe Wanderers. But within
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