The New Paper, 20 August 1998

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 572 2 SHOCK: RAPES TOOK PLACE BUT.. YOU may have seen some of the grisly rape photographs on the Internet. Vivid visuals said to be of women being raped during the May riots in Indonesia. Gory pictures that shocked the world and helped stoke global anger
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    • 208 2 1 An Asian pornographic web site. Two widely circulated pictures of a woman apparently being raped by two men are believed to have come from a subscription-based pornographic web site called Sexy Asian Schoolgirls. The picture files are dated December last year, making it unlikely that they
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      297 3 Chelsea acts as referee as family leaves for vacation. She stands between Clinton and Hillary. Hillary lags behind as Chelsea and Clinton walk ahead to jet. I Clinton stops to wave to onlookers. Hillary brushes past and enters plane. Source: New York Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times (Internet). FIRST Lady
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    • 134 2 J a 'jflflHdll There's a new place in town. Somewhere you can m X rj A B B ■»<«»■ jl ROBERTSON J savour pasta, French wines and gourmet At obertson Wa t ncxt lo Square), things are done Mediterranean-style. 1/ y There are restaurants, shops and wine bars, so you
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 443 4  -  MURDER OF NUS PROFESSOR By Riana Zakir IT looked like a feast ready to be served. Two big bowls of yong tau foo and chicken curry lay uncovered in Associate Professor Lee Kok Cheong's kitchen. After all, the 54-year-old chubby bachelor had been expecting guests on
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    • 367 5 You have heard about the generation gap, right? A group of researchers show just how big that gap is. TEO YUN YUN reports SO what is important in life? Depends on how old you are. Should women stay at home and look after, children? Er, the answer
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 195 6 ifflr A SPURT in the strength of the Japanese yen against the US dollar provided a welcome boost to currencies and stockmarkets across Asia yesterday. After months of sliding fortunes, all regional bourses recorded a rise yesterday except Singapore, which was hit by bad news on the local
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    • 99 6 AS with all other regional barometers, the Straits Times Industrials Index did rise on the strength of the yen yesterday, reaching a high of 948.93 late in the afternoon. But it fell 25 points in the last hour of trading after bad news on the local
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      43 6 HANG ON: The driver and passenger were lucky to escape unhurt when this lorry laden with timber planks tipped overonJalan Sungai Buloh in Selangor on Tuesday, leaving the cabin--and the duo inside —perched high above the road. Picture/ New Straits Times
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    • News Break
      • 61 6 CRIME A MANAGER who drives a Mercedes-Benz has been charged with speeding, causing the death of a boy and failing to stop and help. Lim Hock Ann, 53, allegedly knocked down schoolboy Goh Mohammad Salim Abdul Malik, 11, at a signalised crossing in front of Buona Vista MKT
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        63 6 TRIAL POLICE corporal Tan Kok Ann (left), 29, is on trial for hurting a suspect. He is alleged to have punched and kicked Selvam Natisan on June 5 last year. At the time, Natisan was suspected of indecent exposure. He was later sentenced to three weeks' jail. Tan
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      • 58 6 trTal A DISTRICT court has thrown out two statements by former crime-buster Glenn Knight, 53. Both were made to the Corrupt Practices Invest igation Bureau last year. Yesterday, District Judge See Kee Oon ruled that the statements were not voluntary, and therfore could not be admitted in the
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      • 58 6 I MURDERS A SINGAPOREAN student was sentenced to life in jail in Australia yesterday. Rhaajesh Subramaniam, 27, shot his flatmates, Priya D'Souza, 22, and her brother Ajay, 21, through the heart with a crossbow. The victims were from India. The judge in the Brisbane court said greed
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    • 57 6 South China Morning Post Tapes probe for clues in attack on Albert Cheng New Straits Times: Pilot error in Yahaya's fatal crash CNN Interactive: Clinton 'hostile' under explicit questioning BBC news: Indonesian forces begin the first phase of troop withdrawals from Aceh, North Sumatra today, where they
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    • 171 7 in F€KSus SOME recent comments about the Singapore property market have implied that buyers are greedy, says The Straits Times columnist Koh Buck Song. Yet, the motivation for many home buyers is not status or quick profit, but fear of the future, he argues. Why? With
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    • 78 7 I DEFAMATION I PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong says he will waive the $100,000 in damages he won. from Workers' Party chief J B Jeyaretnam if he apologises for defaming him. Mr Jeyaretnam has yet to accept the Aug 11 offer. But in a statement last night,
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    • 64 7 THAILAND ANTI-IMPOTENCE pill Viagra will go on over-the-counter sale in Thailand next week. Officially approved after being available on Thailand's black market for months, the 50 mg tablets are set to be sold for 370 baht ($l5) each. Thai officials said approval had been given "to end
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    • 57 7 INDONESIA INDONESIAN officials took 20 per cent of World Bank money sent for special projects, said the Asian Wall Street Journal. It said an internal Bank report blamed "entrenched corruption" in Indonesia. Last year, a bank official in Indonesia said independent audits protected bank projects but said
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    • 58 7 MALAYSIA KUALA Lumpur has not received any signs from Singapore to settle differences, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said. Singapore has also not replied to the request that West Malaysians who have stopped working here be allowed to withdraw their CPF savings immediately, he
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    • 52 7 The Straits Times: Yen lifts regional bourses The Business Times: M'sian shares soar 8.8% on buying by local funds Uanhe Zaobao: JBJ agrees to apologise to PM Goh Berita Harian: Halal products starting to flood markets RCS morning news: Asian stock markets enjoy a break from slipping
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    • 56 7 Quote Eventually, Singapore will have an intelligent land transport system that is capable of advising motorists and public transport commuters on the best routes and modes of transport based on real time information. Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Communications, in a speech at the
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    • 26 7 The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 21.37 points to close at 8,693.28 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 635 million shares.
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  • SPEAKUP
    • 189 8 In our article, \No diapers? No problem, mum!' (TNP, Aug 14), we reported that five-year-old Gan Ser Woon, who suffers from cancer, is helping her single mother to cut costs, now that her mother is jobless. A reader responds... Joann Yeo (e-mail) Your article about little
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    • 101 8 Martin Othman: Kudos to Edwin Yeo. That's what I have to say about his reports that caused irate readers to criticise his comments on VR Man and Triple Nine. I totally agreed with him. The reports weren't rude. In fact, I felt they were objective and
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    • 47 9 TEACH. YOU CAN COUNT ON THE CHALLENGES. YOU MAY LOSE COUNT OF THE REWARDS. i Application packages are available at the seminar, the Ministry of Education lobby or through the 24-hour hotline. Office hours enquiries: 1800 474 5655. 24-hour hotline: 1 800 840 8585. Internet address: http://www.moe.edu.sg/teach
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  • ON WHERE TO LOOK THE WHAT TO ASK FOR JOB HOW TO COPE
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      378 10 Your company is cutting costs. How do you survive being laid off? Answer: Multitask make yourself even more useful, by picking up new skills and responsibilities. TOH U UN reports HE flashed his biggest smile. But his only audience the wall. And colleagues, who gave him confused stares.
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    • 87 10 PART-TIMERS: When the occupancy rate is low, the hotel does not employ new staff. Instead, it taps on part-timers. TRAINING: The hotel takes this time to train staff for instance, moving a waitress from the Japanese restaurant to the front desk. "This way, when the business
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    • 549 11 Our guest counsellor is Ms LynneNg, divisional manager ofAdecco Personnel PteUd Q: I AM 23 and in the computer line. I was wondering if there are any part-time jobs related to computers. I would most prefer one that allows me to work at home. Brian A:
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  • 286 12  -  SINGAPORETODAY 1 By Irene Kew A POSBANK branch at the Nanyang Polytechnic looks no different from other POSBank branches. Except it's manned almost entirely by polytechnic students. The second-year banking and financial management students man the bank as part of their six-month attachment. Under
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
    • 284 13 A SPATE of defamation lawsuits against a Malaysian lawyer working for the United Nations has upset the world body. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said lawyer Param Cumaraswamy, a UN human rights monitor, should be able to do his job as a
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    • 143 13 THE latest recipe for a happy marriage: Sing lullabies to your husband at bedtime. That tip comes from Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat, reported Utusan Malaysia. He said that a wife could lull her husband into a good night's
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    68 14 m u i<m u K SINGAPORETODAY waahs pnpmk. Fathtr4n-be Koh lom Pla, actor aad The Straits Timet Journalist, nM: I'm still at a loss for words, as I was when she showed me the first ultrasound scan of our child. But I try to tell the kid a
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 201 16 WORKERS throughout the Chinese industrial city of Wuhan battled against time yesterday to prepare for Yangtze floodwaters. This year's sixth Yangtze flood crest has joined the Dongting Lake, the Xinhua News Agency said. Levels of the lake and of the Yangtze from Lianhuatang, at the mouth
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    • 116 16 HONGKONG'S most popular Bharp-tongued radio chat show host, Albert Cheng, lying on the ground after being attacked by two men with choppers and seriously wounded last night. Outrage is sweeping through Hongkong over the cowardly chopper attack on Albert Cheng King-hon, host of the controversial
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 204 19 INDIAN LANDSLIDE AFP. A LANDSLIDE wiped out a remote village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh yesterday. At least 178 people died, including a group of sixty pilgrims, said a police official speaking from the nearby city of Bareilly. He said the number was
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      55 19 mu»mug Cuban President Fidel Castro believes that the CIA (the US spy agency) aad the Cuban-American National Foundation have tried for decades to brine him down. Before embarking on a tour of the Caribbean, he quipped: I'll be in Jamaica on the 29th. I'm giving advance notice to
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    • 200 20 AFP. PRESIDENT Bill Clinton has given a DNA sample to independent prosecutor Mr Kenneth Starr. This was reported by US television networks yesterday. NBC television said it was not clear when Mr Clinton had given the sample or
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    • 390 20 NIXON Mr Richard Nixon (1968-1974) was rumoured to have had an affair with Marianna Uu, a Chinese cocktail waitress he met in Hongkong while vice-president. In 1969, she moved to Nixon's hometown in California. Miss Liu denies any affair. SEX scandals involving their presidents are nothing
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    • 281 21  -  Photographer wants $20,000 in dispute over rights to pieture of Sydney actress Kate Fischer By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY A PHOTOGRAPH of voluptuous Sydney celebrity Kate Fischer is worth far more than a thousand words. It's worth a copyright dispute in the Federal
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    • 131 21 CLEO editor Deborah Thomas said the amount demanded by Mr Grant was too much. She said that sums like that were paid only to US celebrity photographers for something special. But she agreed with Mr Matthews' lawyer that a photographer could be
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      461 22 These are the typical faces of a unique group of child beggars in Pakistan. Deformed, deranged, often deaf and mute but almost no one refuses to give them money. What is horrifying is that they may not be born to look like rats RATS, they are called. And
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    • 327 22 THE rat children are not born but made, says Dr Qasim Mehdi, Pakistan's top genetic expert. It can't be a genetic disorder, adds the man who has been looking into the mystery for 12 years. He thinks it's the cruel work of the underworld
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  • 517 23  -  ET CETERA WITH J RAJENDRAN THIS isn't a good idea, Raj, I said to myself as I bundled the newly adopted ball of white fur into the car. Not that I had anything against dogs. On the contrary, I've always had a soft spot
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 190 23 COMICRELIEF Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson tX) RXJHO UIM A ICGWNG I POUQWED ANOTHER lADI, NEXT TIME *0 V" |OHIM NEXT TIME,WERE WNT If tuawkqqdohks.'Utm: tuinwng \r nas mom. and swcxadaska/ >0u... > a next time, because we're WERE MS HE?yMIGEBS. THEN WHEN I REALIZED I /ttSW TOR. TVIAT HENER JUST
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  • 98 24 As the floods that have devastated the Yangtze basin in China for close to two months show no sign of receding, this watchman at the Jiujiang Economic Development Zone in Hubei province can only look on helplessly. On his anguished face mirrors the toll on a nation.
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  • River of sorrow
    • 801 25 THE Yangtze has been the lifeblood of millions of Chinese for centuries. Its basin is fertile crop land. And China's economic boom has seen thousands of factories mushroom in the area. Which in turn draws more people. Which means more homes, more roads, more factories. Therein
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    • 361 26 WOULD the impending Three Gorges dam have tamed the mighty Yangtze and lessened the devastation of the floods? The man behind the project thinks so. "If the Three Gorges project had already been completed, the problems of flood control would have already been solved," Mr Lu
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 192 27 COMICRELIEF The Concrete Jungle/Colin Goh IMS (mens AM KFTHI I r— I THMMtT emit! I; («w*nmtcAi yewiW) f THE MCIIST HAS KEN W I 1 MmSSSffMB I JuaoaiDWKT r jC\ a, [mii6mwo)Ttir/*i j WNLINBAKKIPER. LcJma£w»S j Raafjr, —sr \Si M wi.uKMMTDiacr \O/ 1 7 -uh Brnrs fwal BiaobV '(C\ y
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  • Showtime
    • 627 28  -  Norleena says: Sometimes she flees when fans approach By Hazel Tan ITS no fun and not funny being a celebrity, says funny woman Norleena Salim. While the Under One Roof actress loves the attention she gets when telling jokes on stage, she hates
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    • 208 28 NORLEENA got the attention she craved playing Rosnah, Dolly Tan's neighbour, in the sitcom, Under One Roof. Before that, she was working in Haw Par Villa for a year after her Pre-U studies. Then, she went to sing in clubs in Jakarta for a few
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    • 197 29  -  BY Avis Wong AFTER a year's rest, Heavenly King Emil Chau is back. His new album, Story Teller, released early this month, has topped the Singapore Phonogram and Videogram Association (SPVA) album sales charts for the past two weeks. His concert in Taipei
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    • 108 29 THIS Sunday, you can ogle your favourite stars and catch the bright lights of Hongkong at the same time. The Hongkong Tourist Association is holding a musical extravaganza, Hongkong City Of Life Stars Spectacular. Performing artistes include Andy Lau, Leon Lai, Jacky Cheung, Emil Chau, Ekin Cheng, Mana
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  • 199 31  -  SHOWTIME By Hazel Tan IMAGINE this. Pop idol Andy Lau walking into rocker Wu Bai and China Blue's gig. Or Mr Family Man, Emil Chau, singing a duet with Japanese singer Aska (of Chage and Aska). Or what about Taiwanese rock group Powerstation jamming
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    • 243 31 <% \j&/ <1 <&'<3?& SINGAPORE FOOD FARE *98 0 The Singapore Food Fare will march on in August 1998 to celebrate Singapore's birthday. Topping up the wide buffet spread. the ever popular GRILLED SAMBAL STINGRAY IN BANANA LEAF (Offi will be done ala minute to satisfy your tastebuds! \To make
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    299 32  -  By Goh Chin Lian HE looks like hell make the perfect house husband. Hell fix your broken shoe. Hell even cook an egg exactly the way you like it for breakfast. All these things with a smile. No complaints. Mr Rostam Abdul Alim, 29, is one of three
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  • 424 34 FROM PAGE 35 CAREER CHOICE What Job experience did you have before you became a butler? I worked as a Senior Captain at Raffles Grill for 4Vi years. Then, I worked as a guest service agent (receptionist) at Conrad International. After five months, I was
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  • SCHOOLSPORTS'98
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    • 204 41 SINCE both the C Division rugby crown, and the honour of becoming Singapore's top boys' sports school is up for grabs, one would expect the players to feel extra pressure. But both the Raffles Institution and Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) teams told The New Paper that they were
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    • 188 41 IT won't be just a clash of the titans on the Grange Road field tomorrow. It will also be a massive cheering battle between supporters of both schools. According to ACS (I)'s head of physical education Chan Chee Wei, more than 1,200 ACSians will
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • 437 42 He is a real hotshot. He is England's most celebrated teenage footballer ever since his heroic World Cup France '98 performance. But Liverpool's Michael Owen is wary of the praises that come with his
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    • 370 42 FORMER England striker John Barnes knows Owen almost like the back of his hand since he closely followed Owen's fast-rising progress at Liverpool. And Barnes, who played for Newcastle in the second half against Charlton on Saturday and could face Owen on Sunday, knows what the
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    • 284 42 HE shot to world stardom at France '98. England got booted out after the second-round defeat to Argentina. But Owen boosted his international image with a five-star performance in that match. Even Diego Maradona, the former Argentina skipper, hailed Owen alongside Holland's Dennis Bergkamp and Brazil's
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    • 265 42 HE'S got a big heart when it comes to the less fortunate. A Radio Merseyside reporter recently asked Owen for a special favour. Rory, a victim of Saturday's bomb atrocity in Omagh (Northern Ireland), had regained consciousness. For the record, Northern Ireland suffered its worst atrocity
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    • 461 43 ERICSSON SINGAPORE OPEN GOLF: SAFRA CLUB (TODAY-SUNDAY) MY AN MAR'S Zaw Moe is determined to make amends for his final round collapse in Malaysia last weekend. And he has the perfect opportunity to do just that when he defends his Ericsson Singapore Open title at Safra
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    • 250 43 Reuters. BRAZILIAN striker Romario has been ordered to remove a huge caricature of former coach Mario Zagallo from a toilet door in a bar he owns. His lawyer said that a civil court had banned the caricature, which depicts Zagallo sitting on a toilet with his
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    • 183 43 AFP. ENGLAND coach Glenn Hoddle insists he will not profit from his business involvement with faith healer Eileen Drewery. Hoddle, who employs Drewery to work with the England squad, has been accused of a possible conflict of interests as he is a director of her
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    • 343 44  -  SINGAPORE v THAI FARMERS BANK; BANGKOK. TODAY By! S Gulam BARRY Whitbread is likely to revert to his favourite 5-3-2 formation for today's friendly against the Thai Farmers Bank in Bangkok. This came about with the return to fitness of key midfielder Nazri
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      477 44  -  A tale of desperation S-LEAGUE: JURONG'S WOES COMMENT S gulam JURONG FC points the finger at Jurong Reptile Park. The sponsor points the finger at the S-League club. The actual finger-pointing, I think, should be directed at whoever negotiated the deal. After talking to both parties, I realise
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    • 318 45 AFP. AUSTRIA 2 FRANCE 2 Midfielder Alain Boghossian scored with seven minutes remaining as World Cup champion France salvaged a draw in the first friendly match under new coach Roger Lemerre. Austria outplayed the lacklustre French team playing for the first time since the stunning 3-0 win
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      29 45 HERO: But Michael Owen keeps his cool Pages 46&47 SHOWDOWN: Big battle of the schools rugby giants Pages 44&45 S-LEAGUE: Deal that went wrong for Jurong Page 49
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    • 83 45 ROGER LEMERRE, France coach: I'm very happy. It was an engaging match. The Austrians were in good form and gave us a really tough time. I wanted to test some new players and they played exactly as I wanted them to. HERBERT PROHASKA, Austria coach: I can
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    • 128 45 TACKLING BECKHAM 800-BOYS AFP. BRITISH police is preparing a massive security operation to protect Manchester United star David Beckham. The authorities fear that angry fans may be out to take a crack at him during Saturday's Premiership match when United plays West Ham at Upton Park (West
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