The New Paper, 28 August 1998

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  • 21 1 the new paper FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1998 MITA (P) 151/04/98 60 CENTS http://web3.asiai.com.sg/tnp Ano,her qua,i,y P ub,ica,ion of Singapore Press Holdings
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    • 49 1 ERP test problems Motorists complain OashCards deducted this morning /Page 22 Chit-chat with MTV girl Her I Ith-storey scare on Triple Nine /Page 36 E JJ9 Ht J C; rl W J m I m^BBM# http7/web3 astaTcom^sg/tr| S Another Quality publication of SftigspOtß Press Holdings ||||j|j||||j||||||j|| I 8 *****1^*****
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      383 2 Dow falls 357.36 points, sending... CANADA The Canadian dollar fell more than three-quarters of a cent against the US dollar. The Bank of Canada bought Canadian dollars in a vain attempt to stop its descent, eventually helping the dollar recover to 63.34 cents, down more than half a cent.
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      383 2 Source: Wire services. THE Straits Times Industrials Index at 9.20 am was 890.10, down from yesterday's close of 910.88. AS the Russian economy crumbles rapidly, the big question that many are asking is: Will it set off another wave of money woes around the globe? For many investors, from
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    • 495 3 Lieutenant Samantha Loke is the first woman to receive the Golden Axe Award for topping the Singapore Civil Defence Force's Basic Officers' Course. The only woman in her class of 16 received the honours last week. And, as DANNY UM reports, her father was a
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    • 147 3 THE other man in Lt Loke's life is just as proud of her achievement as her father. He is her husband of 10 years, Mr James Lee, 31, an executive officer in an insurance company. Said Mr Lee: "I am glad she fulfilled her dream of becoming
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    • 21 2 Leisure index Attitude: Pages 14 and 15 Showtime: Pages 34,35, 38,39 and 40 Comics: Pages 42 and 43 TV: Page 71
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 501 4 PASSERS-BY thought they were fooling around at void decks. But the teenage girls were sparring with each other punching, kicking, slapping and pulling hair. The free-for-all ended when one fell to the ground. This was how an all-girl gang taught its members how to fight and
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    • 420 4 SALBIAH is one of 153 girls who have to make their home inside a barbed-wired institution in an almost deserted area in Toa Payoh. A place where you need to ring the bell for the huge metal door to slide open slowly. Where you are
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 188 5 m TAXI fares will not go up yet. The operators want to see how the extension of Electronic Road Pricing will affect cabbies and commuters first. Taxi companies will be free to set their own fares from Tuesday. But also from Tuesday, ERP will be
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    • 55 5 w Qure FIREBALL: This Boeing-built Delta 3 rocket explodes into flames just 80 seconds after blasting off from Cape Canaveral in the US. The 12-storey rocket was carrying a US communications satellite when it exploded on Wednesday. The mission, including the launch, satellite and insurance, cost US$225
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    • News Break
      • 46 5 NEXT month's Five Power Defence Arrangements' military exercise has been cancelled after Malaysia decided to pull out. Malaysian Defence Minister Datuk Syed Hamid Albar gave economic considerations and tension with Singapore as reasons for Malaysia's decision. FPDA's other members are Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
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      • 62 5 MR J B Jeyaretnam's statement on his offer to apologise to Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong is inaccurate, Mr Goh's lawyers said yesterday. The Workers' Party chief said he had offered to accept the terms set by Mr Goh's lawyers. But they said Mr Jeyaretnam kept trying to change
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      • 70 5 I JOBS SOME workers have been taking pay cuts of up to 40 per cent in recent months. The National Trades Union Congress said that about 11,310 workers in 23 firms on shorter work weeks have had their wages cut by up to 40 per cent. TTiis
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      • 71 5 I COURT THE wife of lawyer Tang Liang Hong failed for the second time in her application to admit a Queen's Counsel to act for her over the issue of ownership of a bungalow in Hua Guan Avenue. Chief Justice Yong Pung How told Madam Teo Siew Har's
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      • 52 6 I AUSTRALIA B AUSTRALIA will have tougher migration selection criteria, including higher English standards, for about half of the immigrants it is expected to allow into the country from July 1. Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock denied the new regulations were a response to Pauline Hanson's anti-Asian immigration One
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      • 52 6 he" us US Vice-President A 1 Gore's faces a fresh probe into his fund-raising activities. US Attorney-General Janet Reno has decided to open a 90-day inquiry to determine if an independent counsel was needed. Gore spokesman Chris Lehane said they had not been told of any decision by
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      • 59 6 I INTERNATIONAL I A UNITED Nations weapons inspector has quit after blasting the UN Security Council for being too soft on Iraq. In his resignation letter, American Scott Ritter, 37, said the council's recent downplaying of an Iraqi decision to stop cooperating with the inspection team showed
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      • 65 6 I MEDicAL AT least 69 Americans who took the anti-impotence drug, Viagra, have died since its release in March. Eighteen died during or immediately after sexual intercourse, the US Food and Drug Administration said in a report on Wednesday. However, it added that the deaths were not necessarily
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    • 58 5 South China Morning Post: HKslBb spent on peg defence New Straits Times: Minus 6.8% growth in 2nd quarter CNN International: Russian crisis pummels Wall Street BBC news: As the political and economic crisis continues in Russia, Acting PM Viktor Chernomyrdin has promised firm action to halt a
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    • 229 6 Pmus THE curry dinner could have gotten even hotter. It was a carefully organised top-level dinner designed to help avoid a nuclear war. As scores of Tomahawk cruise missiles streamed over Pakistan last week on their way to Afghanistan, two generals had dinner. The Sydney Morning
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    • 53 6 The Straits Times: Malaysia hit by first recession in 13 years The Business Times: Malaysia slips into recession as Q2 GDP shrinks 6.8% Lianhe Zaobao: Four pirated VCD syndicates smashed Berita Harian: Malaysia's economy shrinks 6.8 per cent RCS morning news: Russia's economic and political existence goes
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    • 86 6 News makers KEIKO, celebrated killer whale star of the movie Free Willy, will soon take flight. In a major first step towards returning him to the open ocean, the US Air Force will fly the 4,500-kg Keiko (left) by a C-17 military cargo plane non-stop
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      69 7 muKmui* Mr Wong Yip Yan, 54, popularly known as Mr Wywy, does not entertain altar dark. Nb reason: Who's going to make an important business decision over $500 worth of entertainment? You will decide based on a warm relationship, exchange of ideas, how knowledgeable and useful a person is
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    • 34 7 FRIDAY WEEKLY WORRY about your coming examinations? Friday Weekly presents the English and Chinese mock examination papers, specially for 0 level students. Get your copy at newsstands and convenience stores.
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    • 95 7 Alamaaak!!! I haven't got my ticket for the AMP Charity Dinner! A Charity Night of a Thousand Laughs HOSTED BY m Presenting a comedy skit... "The Untold Tales of Hang Tuah" |H^ by Roger Jenkins Friends vy' Lucky Draw Fashion Display ofHejab I Monteau Collection I Date: Saturday, 12 S«pt
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 281 9  -  SINGAPOREAN TOURISTS IAILED IN RUSSIA By Carol Leong THREE Singaporean tourists who were detained in a Russian jail have been freed. They were stopped while taking the Trans-Siberian railway from China to Russia. The Singaporeans, said to be in their 50s, had been missing since crossing the
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    • 135 9 TAKE this one simple step to prevent trouble when you go overseas. Sign on to wMrw.gov.Bg/mfa, the homepage of the Foreign Affairs Ministry. You can type in details of your travel plans, destinations, dates, travelling companions and telephone numbers. Or you can fax them the details at 338-6276.
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    • 224 9 This is a translation of the letter in Russian that Miss Carole Lim Nguan Noi, 32, signed before being released after four days in jail, along with three other Singaporeans and a Malaysian, on Aug 16: THE passport which is produced for fulfilling frontier control does not
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    • 340 10  -  Off-duty cop dies after brutal attack outside pub By Melvin Singh HE was not a regular at the Lalpari (which means Red Angel in Hindi) pub, along King George's Avenue. But the owners and patrons there knew he was a cop. That appeared to have meant little
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    • 302 11 DEATH OF SOLDIER The trial of a former platoon commander for allegedly causing the death of a soldier through a negligent act continues today. DANNYLIM provides a summary Did the victim also cause another's death? Bryan Loke Yek Chai, 21, then a second lieutenant and full-time
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    • 224 9 NAC-ESSO Concert In The Park p>e»ni< i America 3 patina Festa! W JLm. Catch dii these! Mere n q Antonio CafDero Uance y su Sanaa Buonogiorno and Buonasera,.you'tl discover the Fantastico Perfecto Momento where you will kill 4 birds with 1 stone! Those who missed our last Merengue Dance session,
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    • 17 9 Lunch Guide Your weekly guide to good food -The New Paper Fastads, every Monday. 1 fast&ast 5
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    • 182 10 (Cameron Diaz) is something special and she has left a trail of iPttrTTiiixfl IkY captivated hearts. There's Healy (Matt Dillon) who spies on her and Ted (Ben Stiller) who is head over heels in love with Mary right down to her doting dog. a Follow the trail and be among
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  • attitude You talk, your pears answer, we listen
    • 291 13 Hanging out with the wrong group can change your life. But how do you choose your friends and how do you choose between them if they don't get on? Here, one 14-year-old describes her dilemma: I'm a Secondary 2 student. During the June holidays, I
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    • 247 14 FROM FACING PAGE Our counsellor Patricia Liu, 15, replies to Sad Friend's letter: I HAD a good friend for six years but as we grew older, our personalities changed. We have realised we have to move on, to make new friends that we are more
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    • 206 14 NEW: LETTER BOX YOUR SAY: This is a new box for your letters, either airing an opinion or responding to an earlier letter. It is kicked off by a boy finding the economic crisis hitting too close to home: I'm one of the unlucky ones being
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    • 86 14 DO you have something to say about issues that affect you? Or do you have a problem you want to air? Then write, email or call us. You can use a pseudonym, but please include your name and age. <WRITE CALL (4T* E-MAIL The Attitude Page 1900-91S0001 and npops@sph.com.sg The
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 206 15 If you're jobless and feel hopeless, read this: YOU guessed it, the missing letters above are "s" and "g". On the Net, "sg" stands for Singapore. But, do you know something is missing in Singapore? Skills among certain groups of workers. New jobs are not missing. About
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    • 55 15  -  By Ng Wan Ching An American-based multi-national with operations in more than 60 countries. It needs 63 more workers raising its workforce here to 255. Positions available: Systems specialists, IT coordinators, process engineers, technologists, security officers and receptionist. Contact person: Mr Tan Song Meng, Human Resource Manager, 9, Tagore
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    • 69 15 An American-based company which is one of the world's largest engineering and construction firms. It employs 450 people here. It has 50 vacancies for: Senior local managers with 10 to 15 years' supervisory experience for engineering, procurement, construction, IT and finance, mechanical, electrical, plant, instrument and control
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    • 51 15 It is one of the world's biggest suppliers of drive system technology and products. It has 48 vacancies for: Skilled operators, unskilled operators, technical staff and engineers, and supervisory positions in production and quality assurance. Contact person: Ms Shirley Leong, Human Resource Manager, tel: 546-1111, fax: 546-1155, email:
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    • 55 15 MCT is starting the first organic substrates plant here. It starts production next April. There are 60 positions for engineers, skilled technicians and semi-skilled workers. Seventy per cent are expected to be experienced, and the rest newcomers. Contact person: Ms Tan Chwee Lin, Finance Manager, 39, Tuas Basin
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    • 49 15 NTUC's Skills Redevelopment Programme (SRP): Helps older workers learn new skills and find new jobs. $220 million from the Government for this programme. During slowdown, bosses can send workers for training: SRP will pay 70 per cent of their wages. Companies can thus cut costs.
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    • 472 16 The verdict in the trial of Too Yin Sheong, charged with murdering an English professor, is expected today. ABHIJITNAG looks back at the case 0PPOSITES attract, it's said. Why else should an Englishlanguage professor try to make friends with a lounge manager half his age
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    • 117 17 OUR Legal Library offers quick access to various topics. Call 1900-914-0014 and enter the topic codes below: What categories of employees are covered under the Employment Act? (*****1) What are the provisions in the Employment Act that cover maximum hours of work and overtime pay? (*****2)
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    • 470 18 Ex-national boardsailor, Kelly Chan, was killed after a road accident while away on military exercise in Indonesia. The news of the popular sportsman stunned people who knew him. MELVIN SINGH and TEO YUN YUN report THESE emotions filled the corridor outside Ward 33 at Tan Tock Seng hospital
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    • 105 18 MR Chan and two other servicemen were returning to Pekanbaru Air Base from Siabu Air Weapons Range in a car driven by an Indonesian civilian when the accident happened at 1 pm (Singapore time). The Indonesian driver died on the spot. The three servicemen arrived in Singapore on
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    • 303 18  -  BY Gerard Wong IT was exactly a year and a day ago. It was just a five-minute conversation on the phone. But, somehow, I came away feeling I had learnt more about Kelly Chan than I did when I grew up reading about
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    • 85 16 WAR BREAKS OUT IN CINEMAS SEPT 3 I KIP KILLIGAN Assassin HEAP: Totally psycho! (Pefence chip is not defective) -jj*. I Obviously a man I who loves his job!—r- v.rr. I <■ I LEGS' LEGo: Standard v f ,< r omba f >V; J Sv standard stomping J f W
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    • 37 16 The verdict in the trial off Too Yin Sheong, 26, charged with murdering NUS Professor Lee Kok Cheong, 54, will be out today. Call **********2 after 1 pm for the outcome. Calls cost 30 cents a minute.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 467 20  -  By Michelle Ang A PROBLEM developed during testing of the ERP system this morning. It sparked calls from some motorists, who said their Cash Cards were deducted when they drove under the ERP gantries into the Restricted Zone (RZ). The Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system was
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    • Article, Illustration
      35 20 SORRY, no saris! So says the National Kidney Foundation, causing quite a stir among women who believe in the sari. Functional and fashionable or cumbersome and impractical? The verdict on saris in tomorrow.
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  • WROLDTODAY
    • 298 22 Source: The Business Times. VILLAGERS in Aceh, a province in Sumatra, call it Skull Hill. For, it is said, many of the rebels of the Free Aceh movement are buried there. Police have dug up skeletons with bullet holes from other sites in the area believed to
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    • 115 22 Source: AFP. THE Aceh Merdeka (Free Aceh) movement has been fighting for an independent and Islamic state in the province since the 70s. Its activities surged in the late 80s. In 1991, Aceh was declared a military operational area. Human rights groups say that since then, abuses by
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    • 178 23 CRISIS WORSENS WHAT was at first a simple precaution is now an urgent health safety warning. Levels of the dangerous Cryptosporidium bug are now 10 times as high as previously in Sydney's water 12,000 per 100 litres. So officials have extended the "boil water"
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    • 264 23  -  By Peier Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY THE "bug from hell" is really bugging Sydney residents. The second water crisis in two months is an embarrassment for the Olympic City. An independent contamination inquiry is under way, but newspaper reports reveal that for a long time, there
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      52 24 muiTnm* albano His wife drowned in a tourist-boat tragedy in Manila last year. But Mr Ho Yan of Hongkong recently received a letter from the taxman, warning of legal action over her unpaid tax. He said: If they are so keen, they can pursue it with her in
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    • 367 25 BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY REVEALS: AFP THE QUEEN of England visits hamburger bars because of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, Buckingham Palace acknowledged yesterday. Her death, and the public grief that followed, had prompted Royal Family members to rethink the way they dealt with the
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    • 73 25 DIANA, Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash in Paris, along with her companion Dodi Fayed, on Aug 31 last year. There is a renewed outpouring of the public grief that greeted the news, particularly in Britain, as the first anniversary of her death approaches on
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
    • 224 27 Wire services. ITS now official: Malaysia is in its first recession in 13 years. And now was the time to act, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday. He was speaking at a public rally in Sarawak. In other Asian countries he said,
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    • 144 27 MALAYSIA'S central bank says the economy shrank by 7 per cent in April, May and June the second quarter from a year earlier. And in the first quarter (January to March), it shrank by 1.8 per cent. Two quarters in a row of negative economic growth is the
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 357 28 Source: Wire services WATCH out, you're in the line of fire. That was the urgent message the US sent its citizens in South Korea yesterday after its embassy in Seoul got information about a possible terrorist attack on Americans. The US State Department advised
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    • 259 28 Source: Electronic Telegraph, Reuters. SOME of US President Bill-Clinton's partymen don't want to be seen with him. They are worried about their votes. There is a mid-term election to the US Congress coming up in November. Normally, having the President by the candidate's side is considered
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    • 103 29 AFP HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Leonardo DiCaprio (left) is hobbling around on crutches after an operation to cure a long-standing knee problem. The 23-year-old Titanic star was spotted walking with some difficulty at a shopping centre in Hollywood Hills, the British tabloid, The Mirror, reported yesterday.
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    • 119 30 Fund loses $3.4 billion AFP. THE hedge funds run by US financier George Soros have lost US$2 billion ($3.4 billion) over the past year because of the financial crisis in Russia. The losses are from a group of eight funds that manage US$2l5 billion in assets,
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    • 243 30 AFP. HEDGE funds are often accused of destabilising international financial markets because of their speculative nature. But they can also lose big as demonstrated in Russia's financial meltdown. (See report above.) Hedge funds reduce the risk of falling prices for stocks, currency or commodities. Operators
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    • 33 61 WHAT'S ON TOMORROW: Arsenal v Charlton Athletic Blackburn v Leicester Coventry v West Ham Everton v Tottenham Middlesbrov Derby Sheffield Wv Aston Villa Southampton v Forest Wimbledon v Leeds SUNDAY: Newcastle v Liverpool
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    • 340 63  -  TIGER CUP IN VIETNAM: SINGAPORE v VIETNAM (TODAY) LIONS SEEK TO AVOID THAILAND IN SEMI-FINALS RESULTS GROUP B: Thailand 1 Myanmar 1 Indonesia 3 Philippines 0 By S Gulam CAN the Lions follow up their great win over Malaysia on Wednesday with a victory over host Vietnam today.
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    • 161 63 EUROPEAN SUPER CUP; CHELSEA v REAL MADRID UVE ON PREMIERE 12 (2.350 m tomorrow) AFP. DANISH international Brian Laudrup is poised to make his Chelsea debut. Laudrup, who missed the start of the English Premiership season due to a back injury, is anxious to start the
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    • 104 63 ITALIAN SUPER CUP JUVEKTUS v LAZK) (SCV Channel 22,2.45 am Sunday): TWO proven foreign World Cup strikers versus two home flops of France '98. This is what will be at stake in this traditional season opener Italy's version of England's Charity Shield. Alessandro del Piero and Filipo
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    • 193 63 Bernama. THE Malaysian football authorities have been taken to task after the humiliating 2-0 loss to Singapore. And the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) should do some soul searching as the national team was not producing results, said Youth and Sports Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. This
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    • 179 63 Reuters. ENGLAND coach has omitted Spurs striker Les Ferdinand from his squad to face Sweden in a European Championship qualifier on Sept 5. Also missing from the 25-man squad will be injured Manchester United defender Gary Neville and his team-mate David Beckham, who is suspended after being sent
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    • 399 64 S-League club Geylang United said it had cut its coach Douglas Moore's contract by a year. ERNEST LUIS finds out if he is really getting the 20 per cent chop in salary, like everyone else WHEN Douglas Moore signed for Geylang United this year, he
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    • 122 64 SEAK POH LEONG, Geylang's director of football: The 20 per cent cut is chicken feed compared to us having to pay Moore compensation for the remaining 16 months of his two-year contract. He was willing to have his contract cut and go on mutual terms. What's
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    • 216 64 CHRIS CHAN, S-League chief executive officer The situation is unique because Douglas (Moore) had a two-year contract. By cutting it by a year, Geylang would have had to pay Moore till December. If it paid him his normal salary till December, then there would have been
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    • 515 64  -  COMMENT s GULAM FIRST, the Eagles (Geylang's nickname) call for a one-year ban on foreigners who don't accept the 20 per cent pay-cut. Now, they say they have worked out a deal with coach Douglas Moore that will see him get the same pay but
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