The New Paper, 3 June 1998

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1 49 The New Paper
  • 19 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1998 htt P */wib3 1^aTc" C Another quali,y publication of Singapore Press Holdings
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 482 2 PRESIDENT B J HABIBIE'S FIRST INTERVIEW PRESIDENT B J Habibie wants to look ahead instead of harping on the past. That is why he is personally not in favour of any move to investigate the sources of the Suharto family's wealth, Dr
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    • FINAL MOMENTS
      • 317 2 NYT. DR Habibie received the news that he would become President only at the last moment and only from a presidential aide. In a melancholy tale, he described the sudden handover by Mr Suharto. Dr Habibie said had not communicated with him since
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      • 199 2 NYT. DR Habibie had a confrontation with Mr Suharto's son-in-law as soon as he took office. "I was facing the military problem between Prabowo and the others." Lt Gen Prabowo had been removed from his command as head of the key combat unit,
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    • 212 3 Private tutor Colin Phan SiangLoong (right), 21, found, out the Internet account of his student's sister. He used it to chat with his girlfriend in Canada, running up charges of almost $250. He also used it to download pornographic video clips. Yesterday, Phan, who is expected
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 198 4 HOT STORY WORKERS will get more help to meet the demands of a knowledge-based economy. From this year, $100 million will be available for this. Half that amount has been committed by the Government and the rest set aside by the Skills Development Fund for the
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    • 52 4 CANNED and bottled drinks in Singapore are not affected by the soft drinks scare in Britain, said Cold Storage Singapore. But, as a precaution, the company will withdraw from sale all canned and bottled carbonated drinks imported directly from the United Kingdom and which are subject to
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    • 27 4 The Dow Jones Industrial average fell 31.13 points tc close at 8,891.24 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 594 million shares.
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    • 96 4 SIX fire extinguishers placed outside shophouses in Little India have been stolen. The safety glass panels were broken and the extinguishers ripped out in Serangoon Road, Buffalo Road and Kerbau Road. (See picture on the right.) Some fire safety signs were also destroyed. The estimated loss
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    • 122 4 SINGAPORE and Hongkong are still the world's most competitive economies despite Asia's financial upheaval, the World Economic Forum said. In an annual ranking of global competitiveness, the two countries remained on top because their long-term growth potential had not been harmed by the region's crisis. "In our
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 68 4 SHARES of Sembawang Corp and Singapore Technologies Industrial Corp plunged yesterday after the announcement that the two companies would merge. SembCorp slumped 43 cents or 14 per cent to $2.65 while STIC fell 10 cents or 6 per cent to $1.56. The losses dragged down the key Straits
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      • 75 4 THE World Bank will resume lending to Indonesia. It had put on hold a multibillion-dollar package because of the unrest in the country before former president Suharto stepped down. Now it will start again with part of the package, a loan of US$225 million ($360 million) aimed
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      • 38 4 By using plain language, we send a clear message about what the government is doing, what it requires, and what services it offers. US President Bill Ginton in a memo ordering plain writing in federal documents
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      • 82 4 HOW terrible could the haze be this year? Not as bad as last year, says Singapore's chief weatherman, Mr Woon Shih Lai. "In the next few months, if the prediction that El Nino is going to end soon is proven correct, there's a great chance that the
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    • 76 4 The Strait* Times: Indonesia's GDP 'to shrink by 10%' The Business Times: I'm in fine health, says Ong Beng Seng Uanhe Zaobao: Richard Hu: All Singaporeans can be linked to Singapore One by year end Be rife Harlan: PM: Malays need to upgrade skills RCS morning news: The Asia
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  • THE VIAGRA DEBATE
    • 663 6 MR Michael Khor (picture below) is now one of Singapore's most wanted men. All because of a little blue pill. You know, the one called Viagra. The anti-impotence drug that has everyone talking and joking. Mr Khor, 34, is Singapore's very own Viagra Man.
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    • 330 7  -  BY Toh Li Lin WHEN I ask women friends about Viagra, I get responses ranging from amused laughs to rolled eye-balls. The message is clear: "What's the big deal?" It's true. Younger women don't care about Viagra. Maybe, they cannot visualise
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    • 151 7 A man who is taking Viagra meets the doctor who prescribed it to him a couple of months later in the street. "Doctor, doctor!" he says excitedly, "I've got to thank you! This drug is wonderful!" "Well, I'm glad to hear that," says the pleased physician.
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  • 463 8  -  FROM CHUBBYTO CHAMPIONS SINGAPORETODAY By Lee Hui Chieh THE Chiaks were chubby when they married five years ago. But now they've lost the flab and have become one of the most glamorous couples in town. Mrs Arlene Chiak, 27, won the Mrs Singapore Globe title last
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    • 412 9 .nto this 2000tq ft colourful mazr. here lor I a*> J^tt£RO£i^ the first time ever in Singapore. Brought to you by j V P. 30 May 7 June Galleria Dome 1 7pm (weekdays). 3pm 7pm (Sat Sun) Sea what Looney Tunes pal* Oaffy. Tweety and Sylvester have *LA up their
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 277 10  -  Comfortable, informal classes will help, say students By Fong Foong Mei FORGET structured sit-down classrooms. Have cushy, carpeted classrooms where students can sprawl on the floor and scribble on the walls. Who knows, instead of snoozing students, you could end up with a bunch of potential
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    • 367 11  -  Attacked in coffeeshop Robbed at knifepoint in staircase Paint splashed on flat door —TWICE Victim says: BY Teo Hwee Nak JUST a week after he was robbed, Mr Tan Seng Chye was in trouble again. Last Friday, the 34-year-old odd-job labourer was attacked and robbed while
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 364 13  -  By Danny Lim THIS is one thief who doesn't know his shirts. He walked off with a shirt from a shop and was arrested at his home just minutes later. He had left something at the shop, which also has a laundry service. What
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    • Article, Illustration
      43 13 *****1******1* Aft toast 14,000 motorists enjoyed a free ride on t* East Coast the ilictiorii road pricingqntawfaled Id operate. Said Mr Jason N g, 40, a manager. It was a good feeling. It's rare that we get bonuses like this.
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    • 447 14  -  Housewife attacked while taking nap in the afternoon Pitbull didn't see Neither did the maid BY Yong Siew Fern IT was no nightmare. A stranger broke into home and hit her on the head while she slept. The pitbull lying in the front porch did not see
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 41 16 Unemployment is trending upwards as retrenchments increase. While new jobs are being created, they are not the jobs which the retrenched workers can easily fit into. Many retrenched workers are finding it more difficult to secure good paying jobs.
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    • 337 16 How older workers are caught in between We are seeing the early signs of a growing gap between job supply and skills supply. We must bridge this quickly before it becomes a socioeconomic problem, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong last night THE REASON is simple: Many
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    • 33 16 Yet. at the same time, many employers in the new growth sectors are still finding It difficult to recruit enough workers to meet their expansion iix ■-M V i t/ needs.
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    • 536 17 ADDICT Harsher penalties are in store for drug addicts under a Bill passed by Parliament on Monday. Some hard-core addicts have been turning up at halfway houses in a last-ditch bid to avoid the tougher jail terms and canings. CRISPINA ROBERT speaks to one of
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    • 90 17 ICE AND ECSTASY: Before, you can't be caught for trafficking either. Now, those caught with more than 25g of Ice or lOg of Ecstasy will be charged with trafficking. Also, death penalty for anyone convicted of trafficking, manufacturing or exporting 250g of Ice. HARD CORE ADDICTS: If
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    • 156 17 HARD-CORE addicts are not victims. They are bad, they commit crimes to feed their habit and they influence the young, said Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng in Parliament on Monday. So, do they deserve the harsher penalties? Yes, say those who manage halfway homes. But more must
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 479 18 ONGBENGSENG: PROPERTY tycoon Ong Beng Seng, 52, was determined to quashed rumours that he was seriously ill. So determined that he even agreed to let his doctor of 15 years speak to the media about his health. Dr S K Tan told The Business Times
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    • 73 18 MR Ong denied that he was selling off his assets because ho wps in financial difficulties is "Fm retreating baclt to homte base. When the (regional) turmoil started, we (decided) that we should de- fend our own base." But he understood why this caused some to speculate
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 149 20 I I \wm\ just bt kub IESIHRTIB Read the ads appearing in The Straits Times between 1 and 21 June, and vote for your favourite. it could win you cash prizes! VOTE NOW FOR ROUND 4 You can cast as many votes as you like, as long as the ads
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 307 21  -  By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY MRS Wendy Kenyon has become the oldest woman in Australia to have a multiple birth. But her "happy event" after in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment has led to new debate over the method. (See report below.) She's too old, people are
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    • 77 21 THE Kenyons' good news has ignited new debate over IVF treatment. The Fertility Society of Australia is urging new policies that would lead to fewer multiple births. The society said such births put a strain on health resources. And doctors are discouraging would-be older mothers. Sydney infertility
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    • 43 21 muifmui* Patricia Edgar, director of Amtralaa CMMraa's Television Foundation, urging social as wal as laduiologlcal skills far Mdss Sooner or later the computer geek is going to have to come up for air, for human company, for sex and companionship.
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    • 177 22 GINGER Spice (Geri Halliwell) may have left the group, but life goes on for the remaining four Spice Girls. Sporty Spice, otherwise known as Mel C, has gone to the Irish capital of Dublin to start recording, a spokesman of the world's most
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    • 135 22 AFP. WHERE do troubled girls go to "get away from it all"? To Sir Elton John's luxury villa in the south of France, but only if they are the famous Spice Girls. The British rock superstar has offered the remaining four members of the band his
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    • 134 22 SUN, sea and a secret ceremony. It was seventh heaven for American supermodel Cindy Crawford and her new husband, Mr Rande Gerber. The pair were married at the Ocean Club Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas last Friday. Among the 50 guests at
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    • 416 23  -  By YVONNE LIM CALL me Tony, he grins. Grandmas, blushing like teenagers, wave back excitedly. He's charming. Debonair. Young (relatively). And trendy, or so he tries to be, hence the rock stars he invites to his parties. Like a minty breath of new life, England's Prime Minister,
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 41 22 .1 -M 20m 1 10 1 9 Voucher To Be Won Weekly! can be FUN! I I I f I I The questions and the 9 numbers, which of IV| O i fc L chanqed^n a weekly basi> the 4 operator8
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  • 688 24  -  Just the right vibes between Asia Bagus duo Showtime By Chan Seet Fun NAJIPAIi called it a "sexless marriage". And he's probably right. There's no hanky-panky. But Najip and his Asia Bagus co-host of seven years Tomoko Kadowaki are so in tune, it's uncanny. They would
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    • 78 24 vS 7 &4l(mricc ~£nccoix m as tjour htt*s'm(\s*s m I J See them all and receive a free I gift with every purchase at the fabulous Maurice Lacroix Collection and Exhibition at: jfiSjEfrp Time Club, Parco Bugis fjpi'i Junction 29 May 14 June '98 Watches of Switzerland Chew Cheong Watch
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  • 314 25  -  Womad Singapore 98 spotlight Report and pictures/, Joyce Lim HISTORIC Fort Canning Park came to life with the rhythms and voices of the world over four nights last week. The internationally celebrated World of Music, Art and Dance (Womad) was held there as
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 406 26 And other tongue-in-cheek answers FROM PAGE 25 How would you describe your relationship? Najip: Amicable. Ahahahaha. Heh heh. Tomoko: It's a very deep, unbreakable love. N: Aharhahaha. It's professional bonding. T: No matter who we go out writh in our private life, no one
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    • 353 27  -  By Lee Yin Luen LOOK at sweet, classy British singer Alex E. It is hard to imagine her spouting the sexy lyrics of Madonna's Like a Virgin. But this was what 20-year-old Alexandra Edenborough was singing when she was seven and growing up in
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 180 27 away with The New Paper A $30/000 Triumph Thunderbird Motorbike To Be Won in The New Paper/ Forever Fever Lucky Draw This is the bike that "Hock" lusted after in the local production "Forever J* JH Fever", a movie about life in the 1970'5. Remember the then popular beehive hair-do?
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 157 28 COMICRELIEF Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson IDINOSAUR TO OAJL TME X V* "V TUM'S HOT OUfTT SKELETON YiE NttUBAl HtSTOM MS&JW /TWEE MS. OOKXJ VJWAT I MEANT DISCOVERED *HD yV J MAD TtU-TVCM"WtX CM* JJM.PKOIIAR jfc« Th THINK IN_ __T U&NE fcllllON Adam/Brian Basset K6HMAM,I'M ffcUMPOACKER I tofl&tnijE&G WHAT |VW*,I,W f
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  • 585 28  -  Etcetera WITH BRIAN MILLER SO, the school holidays are upon us. So, too, the soccer World Cup and, to top it all, this has been designated National Family Week. It's a time when the little boy my son becomes the little terror, and the wife
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  • 591 39  -  NBA '98 THE NBA FINALS: The best-of-seven series will start in Salt Lake City, Utah, since the Utah Jazz has home-court advantage. That means Utah has the advantage of starting the series on home court...and ending it on home court (if it goes that far). Utah earned
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  • 388 40 SPORTS SAME UMPIRE The umpire was Frenchman Bruno Rebeuh, who ironically umpired last year's men's final which Gustavo Kuerten won. Rebeuh made headlines two years ago at Wimbledon for a row with American Jeff Tarango, during which Tarango's wife slapped Rebeuh's face. Reuters. Deposed men's champion
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  • Page 40 Miscellaneous
    • 95 40 WHAT'S G0NE HOW THEY FARED How the main matches went (seeding! in bold): MEN (Q-finals): 15 Feiix Mantilla (Spa) bt Thomas Muster (Aut) 6-4,6-2,4-6,6-3 12 Carlos Moya (Spa) bt 3 Marceio Rios (Chile) 6-1,2-6,6-2,6-4 WOMEN (Q-finals) 1 Martina Hingis (Swi) bt 8 Venus Williams (US) 6-3,6-4 2 Lindsay Davenport (US)btlOlva
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  • WORLD CUP '98 UPDATE
    • 417 41  -  All the 37 teenagers who took part in The New Paper/Nike World Cub Reporter Search knew a lot about football. But there had to be something more and Wayne Nerva had it... FACTFIIE Name: Wayne Peter Nerva Age: 16 Date of birth: July 17,1981 Height
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    • 120 41 Wayne Nerva won an all-expenses paid week (June 4 to 11) at the NikePark in Paris. He will meet famous footballing personalities and attend clinics conducted by some of the world's best coaches. Wayne, 16, has been representing St Patrick's in football
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    • 258 41  -  By Wayne Nerva I HAD always wanted to meet Brazil's Roberto Carlos. Simply because I play the same position as he does. And like everyone else, I want to find out how he bends the ball so ferociously. At the beginning of
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    • 287 42 'Romario has gone but in 1962 we lost Pele and we still won.' 1 JAPAN'S WONDERBOY DROPPED Japan did a "Gazza" on veteran striker Kazuyoshi Miura yesterday, surprisingly leaving him out of the squad for its first appearance in the World Cup Finals. The omission of "Kazu"
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    • 254 42 Reuters. BR.\ZIL axed injured striker Romario from its World Cup squad yesterday. And the temperamental player broke down and wept as he faced the Brazilian media. Romano's place was taken by inexperienced defensive midfielder Emerson Ferreira of Bayer Leverkusen in a move that caused widespread amazement. But
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    • 341 42 BRAZIL WATCHER JEFFREY LOW SAYS: GONE is Romario. Gone is the deadliest twin-attack in the world. And so, will Brazil be gone, too? As the Brazilian camp reels from yet another injury to a vital cog, that's the big question facing coach Mario Zagallo now.
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    • 79 42 We are short ofplayers who can play in front of the defence. We have made the right decision. Brazil coach Mario Zagallo Hear this: EmenorMSgoingtotneWorlcK^if^inals^ EMERSON Ferreira da Rosa is known as Emerson. But he is not the former Middlesbrough midfielder. Emerson, 22, is a defensive midfielder
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    • 277 42 Reuters. SCOTLAND coach Craig Brown is not allowing himself to relax, even though he has received good news. Brown insisted that World Cup favourite Brazil would not be weakened by the withdrawal of goalscoring star Romario. This despite the withdrawal coming just a week before
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  • 95 43 KaffQDujißxaai COUNTDOWN FuN name: Christian Karembeu Date of birth: 12 December, 1970 Club: Real Madrid Previous clubs: Nantes (France), Sampdoria (Italy) I Position: Midfielder Qualities: A potential trump-card in midfield with his combative instincts. A powerful player who is comfortable both as a ball-winner and in
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  • WORLD CUP '98 UPDATE
    • 407 44  -  S GULAM REACHES FRANCE AND ASKS... COMMENT BY S GULAM HERE I am. In the land of Just Fontaine, Michel Platini, Eric Cantona and Zinedene Zidane. All excited and ready for the kickoff of the world's biggest sporting event the World Cup. But, surprisingly, the French
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    • 215 44 THE strike by Air France pilots started on June 1. It has paralysed internal air travel. The pilots have threatened to continue their strike till the end of the World Cup. The latest news is that the rail workers might go on strike. Worse still, they
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    • 386 44 W-CUPWARM-UP: IVHj»1 j!l1 IWMi] JL-J Hil;?!!' 1 OTHER RESULT World Cup qualifWAqstria failed to Impress its Prohaska despite beMlhg 10-man Liechtenstein 6-0 yesterday. AFP. ITALY was given a nightmare send-off to the World Cup Finals when it crashed to a shock 1-0
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  • S-LEAGUE '98 UPDATE
    • 572 45  -  Nicholson sends Eagles soaring to top of table again GEYLANG UNITED 2 TANJONG PAGAR UNITED 1 GEYLANG UNITED 2 Zulkarnaen Zainal 48th min penalty Max Nicholson 60 TANJONG PAGAR UNITED 1 Abdol Marfavi 71 pen Crowd: 3,313 GEYLAND UNfTED David Lee RafiAli Richard Ward Neil Allison Warren
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    • 106 45 LAST year, the crowd favourite at Bedok Stadium narrowly missed out on the S-League's biggest prize. That is the S-League Footballer of the Year award. And instead of it going to Nicholson, it went to SAFFC's local hero Nazri Nasir. DISAPPOINTED And Nicholson did
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      537 46  -  JURONG'S MAN OF THE MATCH JURONG HAILS: WOODLANDS HAILS; JURONGFC2 Ishamudln Bharoocha 23rd min V Sundramoorthy 36 WOODLANDS WELLINGTON 2 Mohd NorZadi 12 Nicholas Peverell, 82 Crowd: 2,000 JURONCFC Mohd Keman Halim, Ishamudin Bharoocha (G Balasubramaniam 87th min), Bolan Hodak, Jason Ainsley, Tamil Marren, Damiam Henderson, Joseph Pragasam (Kamaludin
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    • 211 47 ...SO WHAT DO THEY DO? FRANCE '98 7 DAYS TO GO Posters have been printed, official photographs taken...his face is everywhere. But Angelo Peruzzi won *t be at the World Cup now that he has torn a calf muscle. What to
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    • 62 47 REPORTS ON PAGES 44,45 At the rate Romario was losing his form recently, it looks as if Brazil did not suffer a big loss. And it is compounded by the fact that he was replaced by a defender. Which means with or without Romario, Brazil
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