The New Paper, 2 April 1998

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 373 2 CLIMTOH SEX CASE THROWN OUT Wire services. IN a stunning victory for US President Bill Clinton, a federal judge has thrown out all the charges in Paula Jones' sexual harassment case. In her decision to dismiss the case, US District Judge Susan Webber Wright
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    • 202 2 Source: Reuters. THE Clinton sex saga may not be over yet. Legal experts say Ms Jones' lawyers are likely to appeal. That means the whole thing could be back in court in a few months. Also, Independent Prosecutor Kenneth Starr has said he will continue
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    • 227 2 Wire Services. ITS a shame and now the truth will never be known, Ms Paula Jones' lawyers said this morning. There will be an appeal, they added. Ms Jones alleged that Mr Clinton sent his guard to escort her to his hotel room
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    • 218 3 AT LEAST 14 women have been linked sexually to Mr Clinton. And rumours persist there are more whose names have yet to surface. Those named in court documents in the Jones trial include: I Former While House intent TOLD friend Linda Trippwho taped their talks that she
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 218 4 HOT STORY Average prices of private homes are slipping. During January to March, these prices fell 8 per cent against October to November figures. Apartment and condominium prices fell 5.9 per cent. This represents the biggest quarterly declines since
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    • 88 4 THIS advertisement showed a condominium in a Sydney suburb that looked close to the Harbour Bridge, with views of the harbour and Opera House. It was carried on March 7 in The Straits Times. And at least 20 Singapore buyers had reportedly paid deposits for
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    • 27 4 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 68.51 points to close at 8,868.32 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 677 million shares.
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 60 4 THE next time you go to the bank, beware of snatch thieves. Police said such snatch thefts had been on the rise. Thirty-one people lost $1.2 million last year, with 24 robbed after leaving banks and the rest after leaving money changers. Banks in Shenton Way were the
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      • 67 4 IF electronic road pricing cuts car usage by 10 to 20 per cent, extra COEs may be released, said Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan. He said the ERP aims to get more cars off the road and a smoother traffic flow. Yesterday, on the first day of
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      • 55 4 THE opposition MP for Kota Melaka has been sentenced to 18 months'jail for sedition. The Kuala Lumpur Court of Appeal set aside a M515,000(556,700) fine imposed last year on Democratic Action Party MP Lim Guan Eng, 38, by the High Court for publishing a pamphlet containing false information
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      • 57 4 MALAYSIA has widened the definition of insider trading. Now, anyone with information not generally available cannot pass it on or use it to trade in securities. This means insider traders are no longer defined as those with trustee duties, such as directors. It can now also be
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      • 58 4 THE US House of Representatives is stalling President Bill Clinton's aim to move quickly over funding for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He wants the House to decide now on topping up IMF funds by US$lB billion ($29 billion). But House leader Dick Armey will not schedule a
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    • 68 4 The Straits Timet: Good start for ERP The Business Times: Asian stocks seen drifting after Q1 rally Lien he Zaobao: Successful ERP operation moves Singapore's traffic management into new era Berita Harlan: ERP went smoothly on the first day The ERP management system kicks off to a smooth start
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • Article, Illustration
      929 5  -  So, did you fall for our April Fool jokes? C'mon, be honest. Some readers did, and they thoroughly enjoyed H Here's the kmdown on the entire escapade. Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did WINNERS Christmas Island three-day holiday for two persons (including airfare and resort accommodation):
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    • 208 5 Yesterday afternoon, my phone rang and the caNer Just before slamming down the phone. I dont Mama her. No Bat, I must say, writing fee spool on Eritas was a great wny to get away from the mundane. K was meant to be a faa
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 577 6  -  C K Tang's daughter 'downgrades' because of court battle over ex-hubby's will FROM THIS... ...TO THIS By Riana Zahr and Crispina Robert SHE once lived in Eu Villa, one of the costliest mansions in Singapore. The Mount Sophia house which looked like a palace made headlines in
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    • 57 6 The Tang famiy Itself was ■'1 i mronrea wv 8 fan Jy dispute in 1994. The in-fighting resulted hi gMqt brother Tang Wee Cheng seMngoothis mtht Ttrftr in the company that owned the former DynAsty Hotel (now M i lii i* w IfiafTKm rwiefj to Ms younger ft wwiiffi,
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    • 189 6 HE left a multi-million-dollar estate when he died at 64, in 1993. He also left a will, in which he gave younger son Edmund half the spacious Chatsworth Court apartment, now worth $2.8 million. But Mr Eu's third wife, Madam Christina Luk, said the will
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    • 494 6  -  By Riana Zakir IT was the wedding of the year when Madam Katherine Tang married Mr Fred Eu at a Manila church in 1962. Two of Singapore's richest families were joining hands in marriage. It was Mr Eu's second marriage. His first wife had died, leaving
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    • 1051 7 Continuing our series on cancer, a woman tells MICHELLE ANG what she went through and how she came to terms with the dreaded disease after her brushes with death "LIFE expectancy months. "Condition deteriorating." Mrs Lisa Ng
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    • 299 7 DENIAL. Anger. Depression. Bargaining. Acceptance. These are the five classic reactions to bad news, and the common emotions in people with cancer, though not in that order and not permanently. A patient may feel both anger and depression, or accept his situation
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    • 324 8  -  FROM PREVIOUS PAGE By. Jill Lim DENIAL and depression. Mr Abdul Rahman Dagang never got out of that in the eight or so months he was sick with liver cancer. It made it so much harder for his family. Mr Abdul Rahman, 56, had been diagnosed
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  • 499 10 SINGAPORETODAY For the sixth time since 1989, a Trans-Island Bus Services worker has won the National Productivity Award. This year's winner seems too good to be true. YVONNE UM digs deeper CLEANEST bus. Safest driver. Most courteous service. An icon of productivity. It makes you wonder
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  • SPEAKUP SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM
    • 236 12 Ee Boon Lee NTUC Corporate rnnimiinkitiftftt Unit On March 13, Mr Lim Boon Heng, Minister without Portfolio and NTUC Secretary-General, delivered a speech where he referred to our values. Among other things, he said he has been told that when A-level students write essays
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    • 167 12 Assoc Professor Bernard Tan Director, Office of Student Affairs, NUS I refer to the recent articles on the conduct of residents in university hostels which appeared in The New Paper from March 25 to 27. The National University of Singapore takes a very
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  • 418 14 SINGAPORETODAY For the first time in NTWs history, the president of the Students' Union was sacked in an Extraordinary General Meeting on March 25. TEO HWEE NAK reports on what turned out to be a dramatic fire-spitting meeting Accusations flew and planes too. So what if
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  • 69 16 JJJIX& i J J I 4 SINGAPORETODAY keep the fires burning iftw marrUgo. Blit unw whfM disagree. Family and marriage counsellor Winnie Phoon, 60, mitW vrith two grown-up children, shares the secret of her long marri age to 60-year-old businessman CLPhoon: What we lacked in romantic gestures, we
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 195 18 Reuters. THE offer came from Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji in London yesterday. He said that China might provide financial assistance to Indonesia if that country requested for help. "If Indonesia asks for help and we are able, we will be willing," he said
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    • 40 18 We are a nation of fighters who do not bow in the face of challenges... We must not lose hope. Indonesian President Suharto admitting that his government's policies might have increased hardships for millions of Indonesians.
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    • 233 18 Source: Reuters. ACTOR Robert Downey, Jr, was released from jail on Tuesday a day earlier than expected to avoid the media glare. He had spent about four months in the Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles for violating probation on drug and alcohol-related
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 75 20 Miraculous escape: A fisherman was stranded on a rock near Port Waikato, New Zealand. And just when the helicopter rescue team was within metres away he was swept off his rocky perch. Luckily, for him, the rescue team managed to pluck him from the stormy
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    • Article, Illustration
      377 20  -  By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY HE couldn't keep his mind entirely on the game of chess. His pretty young Australian Chinese opponent was wearing a skimpy, tight low-cut top. And at times during the hours of play, it seemed to slip even lower to reveal even more olive-toned
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    • 28 21 nj u rfrri u Actn» F«r> IDimy, 57 When you are 20 and pretty, they say you are like beautiful but dull.
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    • 228 21 Photographer hurt at Yates' function. Guard charged. HE was standing on a wall taking pictures at the christening function of Paula Yates' daughter, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily. But a security guard came along and pushed him off. The photographer, Mr Brendan Esposito, fell, and hit his
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    • 324 22 EAT your heart out, Naomi and Kate. Former British Prime Minister John Major can make twice as much as you in a TV commercial. The MP for Huntingdon recently turned down a £100,000 ($270,000) to appear in a commercial, reported
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    • 222 23 Reuters. INDONESIA'S President Suharto will meet today with a top UN official to discuss ways to control raging forest fires. Mr Klaus Topfer, head of the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep), said: "These forest fires may turn out to be one of the greatest ecological
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    • 182 23 Reuters. A CANADIAN man is suing his surgeon for advising him to use tape and Vi kg weights to stretch his penis after an operation to enlarge the organ went wrong. The 30-year-old man, identified only as ST, claimed his penis is deformed and scarred
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  • Showtime
    • 517 24  -  [report JILL LIM In Los Angeles THERE'S another family photo being re-taken in Hollywood. Just as with the casts of The Beverly Hillbillies, The Addams Family, The Brady Bunch, and Mission: Impossible, yet another black 'n' white TV show from
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    • 311 25  -  By Avis Wong WHAT do you get when Eric Moo and Charlie Young come together? Diane Hong. Yupi that singer from Ipoh who sings the Mandarin version of the Titanic hit, My Heart Will Go On. She is Eric's find and, partly now, Charlie's
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    • 119 25 DIANE is clearly a showbiz novice. She often gave brief answers at the press conference and her music company staff sometimes had to answer on her behalf. The singer spoke softly and appeared timid. She was aware of it and apologised. "I will have to improve
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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  • spotlight
    • 482 26 They might be called eccentric if they weren't so successful at what they do. At the recent National Achievers' Congress, YVONNE LIM meets the founder of the world's only Humourversity and JILL LJM chats with the world's greatest salesman I They might be
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    • DREW ATTENTION TO HIMSELF
      • 84 26 dropped out of society. He learnt that as long as people laughed, it didn't matter if "it was with you or at you." This is what he calls his "humour attitude". In 1973, Mr Crofts started his Humourversity. He travels round giving lectures and has amassed nearly 40,000 books on
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    • 412 26 Q O how would the world's greatest salesman sell ice to Eskimos? The answer from Mr Joe Girard whose books include one called How to Sell Anything to Anybody was surprising: Never. Rather than take the chance to display his super selling skills, he decided to
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    • 186 26 HIS father's words spurred him to success. Mr Girard, who was "born in a ghetto in Detroit and never finished high school", said his father always called him "a bum, a zero". "So I worked smart to show my father Fm not a bum." It
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 160 27 HERE'S a new game for girls aged 13 and under: Watch Titanic with your friends, go home together and listen to the soundtrack (left) and see who cries first. A survey by Sony (the soundtrack s label) has found that the largest group buying
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    • Article, Illustration
      93 27 Oh God, It's so hard for me and my father to understand each other. I mean, his favourite female artiste Is Celine Dion. Madonna (right) When you think about what In her parenting has allowed me to achieve excellence, If winning an Oscar Is about excellence, It
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    • 38 27 When people ask 'Is Alec going to run?', I say'lf Alec runs, I'm going to run, too. In the other direction.' Kim Basinger (left, with Alec Baldwin), responding to a suggestion that husband Baldwin will
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  • 372 29  -  SHOWTIME By Lee Yin Luen DO us a favour. Read the notice on the left. It was taken recently from the official website of hot local band Livonia. What do you think it meant? The New Paper thinks it meant the band
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 835 31 tvpaee f igiaaßL S(K 1 Stand by Me CHAMMEI O Hanmin (Xie Shaoguang), a top NOON News sTodav noon fwto-ith cardiologist, is well-known for his oaay NOON Right Frequency/A Date with lack arrogance. He reproaches a 12.05 pm Home Shopirinf UJO PM Midday Ntwi/CJty But 7 V9F houseman during surgery.
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  • 518 32  -  E T CETERA WITH IVY ONG OKAY, so I'm no James Cameron. I can't direct my own life, what more a US$2OO-million movie. And my Mum still doesn't trust me with her 20-year-old car. And they're still asking me for my IC at R(A) movies.
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
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  • Article, Illustration
    363 34  -  CAREER CHOICE By Danny Lim THE warning of "Don't play with your food" is sound advice, but not to Mr Paul Goh, 38. He squeezes his food as if it were Plasticine and teases it with his fingers before placing several pieces on a wooden tray. No, he's
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  • CAREER CHOICE
    • 365 36 FROM PAGE 37 Do you eat sushi? I am not crazy about it. My two kids love it, though. About once a month, I make some to bring home and eat with them and my wife. (His daughter is 14 and son, 12.) What
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    • 76 36 AFTER his Secondary 2 in 1973, he helped his sister at her laksa stall. After two years, he worked at a shipyard and a construction company, went into sales after a year and then did his NS. When he came out, he decided to work with a
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    • 494 37 Career Choice We are a professional recruitment firm that is currently looking for individuals who are able to assist the company to attain its objective. The job involves dealing with people at all levels, making placements and selling our company's services. As such, we would like to invite applications from
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  • SCHOOLSPORTS '98
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      417 45 Football, rugby, athletics and badminton. Indonesian twins Dwi Mulia and Dwi Jaya don't just know how to play these games, the Primary Five students are so good at them that they're winning trophies for Swiss Cottage Primary in almost all the four sports. GERARD WONG reports... AT the
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    • 211 45 START with the hair. Dwi Jaya parts his hair in the centre while Dwi Mulia parts his from the left. But as classmate Stanislav Mitew revealed, the twins are also different in their own ways. Stanislav, 12, who also represents Swiss Cottage in football
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    • 494 46 ...MORE ON TWINS MAKING THEIR MARK ON THE SCHOOLSCENE w FftCTFILE Name: Dwi Mulia Age: 12 Birthday: April 28,1985 1.62 m, 44kg WrtphMifeatiirr. Parts his hair from the left EGAs: Football, rugby, athletics and badminton Hobbies: Watching movies; cycling and playing computer games
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    • 192 46 THEY are the engines behind Junyuan Primary's recent capture of the Changi District Junior Division title. The two 11-year-old Primary Five students both Manchester United fans command the midfield for their school. Muhamad Danial, the captain, plays on the left while Muhamad Hanafl is a central midfielder.
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    • 14 46 MEET MUHAMAD DANIAL (top) AND MUHAMAD HANAFI Picture/ Kenneth Koh
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    • 161 47 CUP-WINNERS'CUP semi-finals. first leg TODAY: VICENZA v CHELSEA Vfß Stuttgart v Lokomotfv INFOUNE: Call 1900-*****13 after 6.30 am tomorrow for the results. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. GIANFRANCO Zola will be walking a tightrope if he plays against Vicenza in the Cup-Winners' Cup
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    • 236 47 Reuters. VICENZA has declared itself an alcohol-free town for the English soccer invasion this week. Local authorities said alcohol would be banned in all bars and restaurants for the whole of today, when Vicenza plays Chelsea in the Cup-Winners' Cup semi-final, first leg. "We've also set
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  • SPORTS
    • 349 48  -  SUPER CLASSIC '98: CATHAY BOWL EASTSIDE (TILL SATI IRDAY By Gerard Wong SO cloBe...yet so far away. That '80s hit song by American duo Darryl Hall and John Oates summed up national bowler Jack Wong's outing last night. For the 46-year-old South-East Asia Games triple gold medallist
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    • 147 48 While Jack Wong was singing the blues last night, former national bowler Rick Tan soared to the top of the Super Classic chart with a masterful performance. The 1995 SEA Games gold medallist hit a 10-game total of 2,217 pinfalls (average 222) to lead the first day's standings.
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    • 158 48 SPORTS ASIA/SWIFT '98 KING OF THE MOUNTAIN RUN: SUNDAY. BAM. WORLD TRADE CENTRE FAST FACTS What The King of the Mountain Run Where: World Trade Centre, Sunday, Bam Route: 5.5 km (for and women only) 11km (for Men's Open) THE King of the
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  • EUROPEAN CUP '98
    • 249 49 EUROPEAN CUP StWI-fIWAL, lit LEG: REAL MADRID 2 (Fernando Morientes 24, Christian Karembeu 68) BORUSSIA DORTMUND 0 Hjtf-Ume: 1-0 Crowd: 100,000 Reuters. THE start of the European Cup semi-final between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund was delayed for 75 minutes. One of
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    • 317 49 REAL MADRID; Bodo lltgner; Roberto Carlos, Fernando Sanz, Manuel Sanchis, Christian Panucci; Fernando Redondo, Christian Karembeu; Raul Gonzalez, Clarence Seedorf; Fernando Morientes (Jaime Sanchez 88), Predrag Mijatovic (Davor Suker 51) BORUSSIA DORTMUND:
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    • 150 50 Reuters. An Inspired Alessandro Del Plero scored a set-piece hat-trick as Juventus crushed Monaco 4-1. The Italy striker put Juventus ahead after 33 minutes with a breath-taking free-kick from 25 metres. When Monaco equalised, Juve responded immediately. Italian international Filippo Inzaghi sent Zidane clear in the penalty area,
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    • 602 50  -  EUROPEAN CUP SEMI-FINALS, Ist LEG: JUVENTUS 4 (Alessandro Del Piero 33,45 penalty, 62; Zinedine Zldane 88) MONACO 1 (Francisco Da Costa 45) Half-time: 2-1 Crowd: 56,550 GIANLUCA PESSOTTO, JWm Mtfcadc I think the turning point of the match was the end of the first half. They pulled
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    • 118 51 EUROPEAN CUP SEMI-FINAL, Ist LEG: JUVENTUS 4 MONACO 1 Inspiring is the word for Alessandro del Piero's performance this morning. And his two finest moments are captured here in graphics. REPORTS: Page S3 33rd MINUTE, SCORER: The graphic below: It puts him in the same rank
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    • 123 52 CURTAIN-RAISER TIGER BEER KALLANG BATTLE: SINGAPORE ARMED FORCES FCv. CHINA ARMY FC Saturday, 7.30pm, National Stadium TICKET DETAILS Grandstand: $8 Gallery: $5 Gallery (school children): $2 Where: From 9am to spm, today until tomorrow S-League office (Under National Stadium's South Entrance, opposite Kallang Theatre); Bedok
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    • 309 52  -  The organisers are hoping to draw about 20,000 fans for Saturday's which is the appetiser for the Tiger Beer By Ernest Luis SATURDAY'S S-League curtain-raiser may see an influx of Chinese nationals working here. There has been more interest from the foreigners working here rather than Singapore fans.
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    • 192 52 MALAYSIA LEAGUE CATCH the M-League soccer matches "live" over the national RTM channels this season. Dunhill, which secured exclusive television rights from the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM), signed a deal with RTM yesterday. Out of the scene, after a monopoly of seven years, will be the
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    • 80 52 Student Benny Tay, 22: We've now waited for almost three months after the FA Cup. I've had enough of the pre-season friendlies. I want some real stuff and I want some competitive S-League matches. This match should be a good way to start off the season. Au.o—U
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