The New Paper, 13 May 1998

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  • 7 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1998
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 185 4 HOT STORY OVER 20,000 X-rated sites will be blocked ■p with a new service from Sing Net. In its Family On-Line service, these sites will ijow l?e blocked by the semce provider and Qtit at the user's end. But concerned parents should also help. "As
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      3 4  -  Cel Gulapa
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      66 4 Make your face disappear from their pictures with Mr Woe Kesnick's invention. I How ft works: The Paparazzi Stopper detects the light of a camera flash and sends a flash back at the camera. The result: An overexposed photograph. The gadget can fit into a baseball cap or
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 64 4 THE unrest in Indonesia saw early selling of the rupiah here yesterday. It quickly fell by 2 per cent in the first flurry of trading on the stock market. The currency stabilised later, but the selling sparked share price falls, which continued. It resulted in the sixth consecutive
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      • 65 4 THE man who murdered his wife and later ate her brain has been sentenced to death. Bandang Anak Langu, 37, showed no remorse when the verdict was passed. The plantation worker murdered Ulat Anak Antas, 36, on Sept 11 last year in j Saratok, Sarawak. He had
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      • 60 4 THEY must pass a test to prove they have basic construction skills. j Hiie is the new requirement from Aug 1 for at least one out of five foreign construction workers brought in by contractors. The percentage will increase over time to cover all foreign workers. The
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      • Article, Illustration
        70 4 IF not for the finance minister, Singapore's economy could be in ai big mesa today. jjj j' For his work in shielding Singapore from the Asian crisis, Dr Richard Hu (right), was named Finance Minister of the Year jby Asiamoney. In its May edition, it ailso paid
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    • 77 4 The Straits Times: Violence flares in Jakarta: 4 killed The Business Times: Nat Steel writes down $115 m in regional assets Uanhe Zaobao: Jakarta police open fire, kills six demonstration students Berfta Harlan: India's nuclear tests condemned RCS morning news: Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas urged protesters rioting in
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    • 27 4 The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 70.25 points to close at 9,161.76 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 605 million shares.
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    • 152 5 IMOKIA Connecting Inside the latest Nokia mobile phone, you'll find winning designs of Nokia's Cover Design Contest. a string of smart features. Outside it, you'll find In addition, you'll be treated to a spectacular k7» your favourite TCS stars. performance by dancers, who will be showcasing On May 15, Fann
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 20 6 111 111<I****** Singdpore's Hit ovi udmf bears mare relevance to us than COE prices.
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    • 23 6 Heading for the Whirl Cup: Mr Nunit (left) and Mr Low will represent 'Jamaica'. Picture/ Joyce Lim
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    • 308 6  -  WHAT: The New Paper Whirl Cup '98 WHEN: Saturday, 9.30 am to 2 pm WHERE: Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza By, Jill Lim WHO wants to be Jamaica in football? Not exactly a notable team. In the last World Cup, they didn't even qualify. i
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    • 69 6 ItispartofTNP'slOth anniversary celebrations It will be played on a knock-out system There are 31 teams from 23 advertising agencies, like McCann Erikson (Austria and Bulgaria) and Dentsu Young Rubicam (Spain) and one team from TNP itself (representing Belgium) The "countries" will be grouped as in the coming
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    • 491 7  -  BY Woon Wui Tek HIS lifelong mission has been to help people stand on their own (artificial) feet. But he'll soon be putting up his own. Come July, Mr S Rajaratnam who has made thousands of arms and legs in Singapore for over 45 years is retiring.
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    • 141 7 MR Raja's greatest trial came in 1987. A fire broke out in his new workshop in Tanjong Katong. He rushed in to try and save a deaf-and-dumb boy who was inside. But the boy had escaped on his own. Instead, Mr Raja was badly burned. "Doctors said
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    • WALK woMEN
      • 171 8 More women are making it through the tough selection tests for Raleigh International Expeditions. CHELSEA PHUA speaks to an all-girl team who will also be taking part in the Big Walk With our 20 kg backpacks, it was tough." With only six hours of sleep in all, they were exhausted
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    • 216 9 SHE is perhaps the toughest of them all, in her own way. Miss Jessica Loo is hearing-impaired. And during the selection process, she fainted. But her determination so impressed the judges that they selected her for the expedition. Said the chairman of the judging team, Miss Kee
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    • 49 9 RALEIGH International (Singapore) was formed in 1985 in support of Raleigh International, a charity trust registered in Britain. It has organised expeditions to countries like Chile, Belize, Uganda, Namibia, and Malaysia. Singapore Venturers join Venturers from all over the world to work on environmental and community projects.
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    • 173 9 ARE you man (or woman) enough to pit yourself against these garang women? Just put on your sports gear, and troop down to the National Stadium on Sunday, 24 May, for The New Paper Big Walk and walk with them. This Raleigh team will also be selling
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    • 74 10 Tan was sentenced to six weeks'jail on Friday. On Dec 6, Tan and his five friends were playing billiards at Parklane Shopping Centre when a man asked them to join him in attacking a rival group. They claimed that the man and six of his friends all with hair
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    • 372 10  -  By Riana Zakir HE was in school sweating over his mid-year exam in Principle of Accounts last Friday. Less than an hour later, the Secondary 4 student was in court, sobbing. Tan Kok Soon, 18, had done something much worse than failing his exam.
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    • 500 11 I couldn't walk. I kept vomiting. MONTHS of chemotherapy had robbed her of her strength and made her almost a vegetable at times. Jennifer (not her real name) decided enough was enough. She refused to have further treatment. She didn't want to go through
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    • 102 11 The remarkable thing about this story was that Jennifer was given up for dead, she was deemed to have incurable cancer. She herself had given up. But when she Jtnally decided to accept treatment, she was literally savedfrom the Jaws of death. DrAng Peng Thiam, Jennifer's
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  • BUS-STOP CRASH
    • 72 12 When: 12.50 pm, yesterday Dead: Ms Kasiminah Mohamad Amin, 26 IlljlirOClZ Huan S J un Hao, 14 Ms Rahimah Mohamad Amin, 30 Yue A n Bm 3 t Ms Ho Hsiao Yeng, 18 A mah Bulat 42 Mr Chan Soo Kay, 44 I don't know
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    • 581 12  -  BY/J Fong Foong Mei and Teo Hwee Nak THE words caused a mother's heart to skip a beat: "Aunty, I've waited so long. Where's Hsiao Yeng? How come so long never come?" It was about 1 pm. An hour after Temasek Poly
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    • 181 12 LIKE any teenager, Hsiao Yeng had squabbles with her siblings. Besides Tze Wee, she had a younger sister, seven, and another brother, 20. Said Tze Wee with regret: "We used to say sarcastic things to one another. I don't know why. Maybe we just drifted into the habit.
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      59 13 Honda Prelude crashes into crowded bus stop, killing three people and injuring four others. The three dead: Ho Hsiao Yeng (far right), and sisters Rahimah Mohamad Amin and Kasiminah Mohamad Amin. (Suddenly there was a loud bang. The car just scooped them up and made them fly through
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    • 230 13 I THE DRIVER IF you saw the accident, please call Traffic Police at 222-2233. HIS car rammed through a crowd of helpless people at a bus stop. But he escaped without a scratch. Within sight of his smashed maroon Honda Prelude lay the bodies of three
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    • 214 13 THEY were from a close-knit, loving family. So close that the "baby" of the family, Kasiminah, 26, who worked in Kuala Lumpur, came back at least once a month to attend the functions her large family of seven siblings frequently held. The freelance film producer came
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    • 316 14  -  I have no father, only mother By Fong Foong Mki THE eldest son of crash survivor Asmah Bulat is very glad his mother is safe. "I have no father, only mother," whispered Mohd Rusdyi, 13, a Secondary 2 student. His parents are divorced. Deeply
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    • 190 14  -  BY Teo Hwee Nak WHEN Huang Jun Hao's mother heard that three people had died in the accident, she broke into tears tears of relief and shock. Relief because her Victoria School son had survived. Shock because the three who died had probably saved her son. Jun
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    • 137 14 the summit with your They say a kind word can go a long way. Well, this time it can travel all the way to Mt.Everest. Send your encouraging messages to the Ist Singapore Mt.Everest Team. Let them know how proud you are of their efforts. Send in your messages with
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 99 15 So far, all poll counting in the Philippine elections point to a big victory for former actor and Philippines Vice-President Joseph Estrada. But not everyone agrees The lead is irreversible. I think victory is in the bag. I hope they will be gentlemen enough to see
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    • 145 15 A Bantay Halalan '98 Quick Count, by Mr Estrada's Laban (Fight) Party, showed him with 563,333 votes, or 36.2 percent of the 1,482,071 votes tallied so far. Then came Mr Jose de Venecia Jr of the Lakas-NUCD, with 213,255 votes (14.4 per cent), and Raul Roco
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    • 286 16 SHE ruled her trendsetting roost for 22 years and was known as the "Queen of Green" for her high-profile campaigns on animal rights and Third World aid. But yesterday was a black day for Anita Roddick. Investors in London forced the outspoken entrepreneur
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    • 197 16 MRS Anita Roddick (right) turned her pro-wildlife ideas into a moneyspinner. But market observers said her unusual style made enemies of those who marked her out as someone who has kicked the traditions of the corporate world. Mrs Roddick, who wears long skirts and hippie sandals
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      185 16 AMERICAN soul legend Ray Charles clearly enjoyed the occasion when he received the Polar Music Prize from Sweden's King Carl Gustaf (left) yesterday in Stockholm. Fellow award-winner Ravi Shankar was undoubtedly glad, too, to get what is considered the music industry equivalent of the Nobel prize. The Swedish
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    • 224 17 Wife: Stop watching soccer or I'll kill myself Husband: I can, too He jumps 15 floors Later, she jumps 4 floors Reuters. WORLD Cup fever has started, but it was already one game too many for a Parisian woman. But the Indian woman's outburst over
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  • 265 18 10,000 gatecrash singer Ziana Zain's wedding MALAYSIATODAY Source: Malaysian newspapers. THEY jostled with photographers and television crew, beat a traffic jam and caused a half-a-football-field-long tent to collapse. All that just to catch a glimpse of their pop princess Ziana Zain. So when the singer eventually
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 337 19  -  In December 1996, an SIA plane flying from Singapore to Sydney suddenly plunged 100 m over central Australia, injuring several passengers. An official inquiry established that the plunge was caused during the transfer of fuel between tanks. This week, the incident came to court
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    • 29 19 Tokyo mu*mui< Mr Rudiger Dornbusch, economics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on the Japanese economy: Tokyo is bad news like finding out your mother-in-law has a twin sister.
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    • 230 20 Clinton says: STOP IT or else INDIAN NUCLEAR SHOCKER 1 Source: Wire services. HIS grim face says it all. US President Bill Clinton (right) is clearly disturbed by the nuclear test blasts in India on Monday. He says it spoils all US plans to try to make the world a
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    • 80 20 CHINA finally broke its silence yesterday saying it was "gravely concerned" about the nuclear tests in India. That's a calculated response, observers said. "China's reaction was milder than that of the Americans," an Asian diplomat said. "But it's a fairly strong reaction by Chinese standards,' the diplomat added.
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    • 81 20 THERE are now fears that Pakistan may match the Indian nuclear blasts. Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub lOian said Islamabad had the right to take "all appropriate measures". Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif refused to say if his country was planning an experimental nuclear blast of its own. The
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    • 198 20 Source: AFP. IT was a 8 if the earth shook with a violent quake, villagers in the desert {own of Pokhran in northwest India. 40 Tjjpyliad experienced what it was like to 6e near the site in Pokhran where India conducted its three underground
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    • 393 21  -  INDIAN NUCLEAR SHOCKER II by YVONNE LIM IT wasn't just a desert to her. Sunrise and sunset had turned the cities of sand, scattered across the wild and splendid desert, into gold. For three days, my colleague, Riana Zakir, had trekked that landscape
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  • 458 22  -  Showtime BY Avis Wong SORRY, this superhero can't rush to your help. Don't know how Clark Kent changes into Superman in a flash, but James Lye takes at least 10 minutes to squeeze into the VR Man costume. And he thinks that's fast. Don't get him
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  • 245 23 VR Man debuts on Sunday at 8.30 pm over Channel 5. The series is about Alex Foo, who falls over a railing, survives and gains the power to project holographic images. He sets about tracking down terrorists who contaminate our waters, foiling the plans of
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  • 798 24 Michael Jordan is 35. Not exactly the best age for high-intensity combat in the NBA. But he's still playing like a dream. And opponents still consider him a nightmare. But he's said he'll stop if his coach is sacked. What should he do? PRADEEP PAUL asks
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 465 25  -  By Hazel Tan FANS, Malaysia's Spice Girls Elite will continue to spice up your life. Never mind if one of its members, Abby, recently left the group to go into acting. Elite's leader Sasha, 22, says the group will go on. "Elite will go
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    • The spirit is willing...
      • 36 26 WHAT: The Spirits Play (Singapore Festival of Arts 98) WHEN: June 10 and 11,8pm WHERE: Victoria Theatre TICKETS: $16, $26 and $36. Call Sistic at 348-5555. Call the Festival Hotline on 371-7884 for other festival information.
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    • 87 26 THE Spirits Play, a Mandarin production, is written by Kuo Pao Kun and set in the Japanese Cemetery at Yio Chu Kang. It is a recollection by the souls of the dead that lie there of their memories of World War II. Director Stan Lai is a
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 981 28 tvpage^ i Q My Brother, My Mum CHANNEL 2 CHANNEL Q (Channel 8, 5.30 pm) NOON News 5 Today NOON and "SS^lSf 12.05 PM Home Shopping 1-0® PM Midday News/Body Wis« father at a young age, and were 1.00 News 5 Today 2.00 Smart Kids/Home in 168 Q-JX brought up
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  • 468 29  -  E t cetera WITH CHENG PUAY KOON TUK,tuk,tuk...CHIANG!!! TUK CHIANG, TUK CHIANG!!! Remember when the Chinese opera came to your street? Though the noise put off some people, I loved street opera. With a passion. Although I could barely understand a word of what they sang.
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 147 29 COMICRELIEF Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson PWOW, I GOT Itr STARVE TM\S STVJfF \S \TS UN® 10 A KX) HAVE TO X I WQPC MOM L H^ MY WttfiLW. NOKSEWM BEUBIEIHfi HtCCWU? K TW-IW*M HKKOS. BUTWBUT MQZZAfi&IA MODELS RA YWAT A, JUST D KAO WEM3WER -r—-< «KS«N»W mess. y WMMVHSJHEKC** i
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    • 82 30 Result of Lucky Draw for IMM Bridal Centre (Draw Date/Time: 2.30pm on 10 May 1998) Top 3 Prizes Name I/C No. Ticket No. 1. Andeline Chong *****87J ***** 2.Lua Gim Eng *****99E ***** 3. Ow Ngar Whay *****13E ***** 4 5 Consolation Prizes Name I/C No. Ticket No, 1. Leong
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
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  • 362 32  -  TRAVEL WITH A TWIST By Goh Teng Teng FOR a glimpse of the world's most impressive sandcastles, hop on down to the Cooloola National Park in Australia. Sculptured by winds and moulded by rains, huge cliffs of sand stand tall above a 48-km stretch of beach.
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  • WORLD CUP '98 UPDATE
    • 328 40 ENGLAND David Seaman lan Walker Nigel Martyn Tim Rowers; Gary Neville Phil Neville Gareth Southgate Tony Adams Martin Keown Sol Campbell Graeme Le Saux Andy Hinchcliffe Rio Ferdinand; David Beckham Paul Ince Rob Lee Paul Gascoigne David Batty Nicky Butt Jamie Redknapp Paul Scholes Darren Anderton
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    • 130 40 Reuters. THE English Football Association (FA) announced a "not proven" verdict on England captain Alan Shearer yesterday following an incident when he kicked an opponent in the face. Shearer faced misconduct charges at an FA hearing yesterday after TV pictures showed his boot making contact with
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    • 104 40 RAY PARLOUR Ray basically plays in one position while Darren is equally as adept in two or three. I have spoken to Ray and told him he is approaching his peak and he should look forward to the European Championships. Glenn
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    • 113 40 AFP. ENGLAND'S and Scotland's football teams will be given a free flight on the supersonic passenger plane Concorde if one of them manages to win the World Cup this summer. British Airways chief, Bob Ayling, said yesterday: "We want to show our lads that we are 100 per
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  • NBA '98
    • 231 41 Nandonet. HARD work in practice and for about 25 minutes of total commitment in a NBA match. That's the philosophy of Larry Bird, whose approach to coaching has turned around the Indiana Pacers. "If a guy can't give that, he doesn't belong in the NBA,"
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    • 394 41  -  By Pradeep Paul EVERYONE wants to be The Man. Right now, Michael Jordan's The Man in the NBA. But that doesn't stop the wannabes from hoping. Shaquille O'Neal wants to be The Man. He knows he's got the credentials: 2.16 m and 136 kg of
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    • 321 42 Nandonet. HE just can't get away from it. The question about his possible retirement. Was this Michael Jordan's last tongue-wagging game in his home state of North Carolina? The question asked in virtually every NBA city this season didn't escape Jordan again over the weekend as
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    • 228 42 FAST FACTS Sevatheda Fynes of the Bahamas came in second in the race at 11.06 sec with compatriot Chandra Sturrup third in 11.09. AFP. WHAT'S the formula behind being the fastest woman in the world? "I've been blessed to have a group of men who surround
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    • 381 44 CHELSEA (probable): Ed de Goey, Steve Clarke, Frank Leboeuf, Michael Duberry, Graeme Le Saux (or Eddie Newton), Dan Petrescu, Roberto Di Matteo, Dennis Wise, Gustavo Poyet, Gianfranco Zola, Gianluca Vialli STUTTGART (probable): Franz Wohlfahrt, Thomas Schneider, MuratYakin, Thomas Berthold, Marco Haber, Svonomir Soldo, Gerhard Poschner, Matthias Hagner,
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  • SPORTS
    • 459 45 DAVID BECKHAM LAUNCHES HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY ABOUTTHE gOK This is the only official account of David Beckham's journey from Leytonstone to tfcdTrafford and his rise to international glory, as told by the Boy Wonder himself. ""he book was written by Neil Harman, who has written for England's
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    • 249 45 POSH Spice Victoria Adams loves her soccer star fiance David Beckham's new blond hairdo, the player said. The England and Manchester United midfielder was at the launch of his new book in London and said blonds had more fun but only "with their girlfriends", reports
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    • 660 46 BARRY WHITBREAD NAMES HIS SQUAD OF 30 FOR THE TIGER CUP. S GULAM ASKS: SQUAD Goalkeepers: Rezal Hassan, Bashir Khan, Yazid Yasin Defenders: Lim Tong Hai, S Subramani, R Sasi Kumar, Lim Soon Seng, Aide Iskandar, Hairi Suap, Hafizat Jauharmi, Zulkamaen Zainal, Kadir Yahaya, Hasrin Jailani, Imran
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    • 156 46  -  BY Suresh Nair SINGAPORE is going for a higher profile in Asian soccer. The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) will make a bid to get one of the nine seats in the executive committee of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) the decision-making body of Asian soccer. Twenty
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    • 118 46 Last month, we asked you to predict the English Premier League champion and the three teams to be relegated to Division One. They played their final matches last weekend and the champion is Arsenal. The relegated teams are: Bolton, Barnsley and Crystal Palace. From the 19 all-correct entries
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