The New Paper, 16 November 1998

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    20 1 the new paper MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1998 MITA(P) 151/04/98 60 CENTS http://newpaper.asia1 .com.sg Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings
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      131 1 1st Copy Floor collapses: I dead, 9 hurt /Page i h r eceweo Lj W'toj. hj A swjapo* m V-x /y Get I then BANG! tt was panic stations for these j Tft V j two undercover policemen, jg% j posing as press photographers, r? >■! exposed by protesters in
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Battle of the superwomen
      608 2  -  By' Teo Hwee Nak REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR PUT two powerful women together, plant a controversial man between them, and you get a taste of their venom at the most poisonous. US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry Rafidah
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      Lock icon ALBRIGHT MEETS ANWAR'S WIFE
      142 2 Reuters. US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright met former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim's wife yesterday. Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and her eldest daughter Nurul Izzah were driven to a KL hotel in a US embassy vehicle. Describing the meeting, in a room used
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      APEC NEWS...
      218 2 DELAYED AGREEMENT: The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (Apec) summit starts tomorrow in Kuala Lumpur. But before that senior officials of Apec nations met for two days in the Malaysian capital. They tried to reach an agreement on the Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalisation (EVSL) yesterday. EVSL, is a scheme
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      Lock icon First shots fired
      417 3 Source: The Straits Times, Wire Services. HE was dressed like a press photographer. He sported a multi-pocketed vest that many in the profession put on while on assignment. He was also carrying a camera as he mingled with a group of about 50 anti-government protesters in Kampung
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      'Invite foreigners and lose freedom'
      159 3 MALAYSIAN PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad is worried about a handful of Malaysians who keep exposing the country's internal problems to foreigners. He told Bernama TV that these Malaysians then invite the foreigners to interfere in Malaysia's affairs. Dr Mahathir warned that if these people continued
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      Mind their bodies
      418 4 A pec on the face and aH is right GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY: As the host, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad stands and sits in the centre. The other positions depend on the leaders' status. US Vice-President A 1 Gore is expected to stand near Dr
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      For spectators, the Apec story is in the hands, where they stand, the stance, how they look...
      394 4 NEVER mind the summit, watch the smiles. And the faces. And the handshakes. And where they stand... When Dr Mahathir welcomes his fellow leaders from the Asia-Pacific region tomorrow afternoon at the Palace
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      ALL ABOUT APEC
      139 4 WHAT: Founded in 1989, Apec promotes free trade and economic cooperation in Asia-Pacific. It wants free and open trade and investment by 2010 for industrialised economies, and 2020 for developing economies. Apec member-countries are home to 2.2 billion people, about half the world's population. With a combined
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      MAIN AGENDA
      30 4 Restore financial stability and market confidence to Asia. Liberalise trade. Explore new ways to broaden Apec activities, for small and medium enterprises. Push to speed up electronic commerce.
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      SIDE SHOW
      98 4 AUSTRALIA: Prime Minister John Howard plans to press for a free and fair trial for Datuk Anwar.. PHILIPPINES: President Joseph Estrada plans to visit Datuk Anwar in prison if Dr Mahathir gives the green light. INDONESIA: President B J Habibie will arrive on the morning of Nov 17
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Lower interest rates
      213 5 m HELP FOR HDB OWNERS WILL the CPF cut affect your HDB flat loan repayments? Yes? Then here's some good news. If you have a subsidised loan, monthly repayments will go up slightly in the new year, but are likely to fall sharply from July. And if
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      WHY?
      89 5 THE mortgage rate for subsidised loans is pegged to the CPF interest rate which is a simple average of the 12-month fixed deposit and savings rates of the Big Four local banks over six months. It is revised in January and July each year. So recent bank rate cuts
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      Lock icon Picture This
      39 5 STAY BACK, OR ELSE: Eduardo Topino threatening to kill a baby at a slumdweller's community near Manila's financial district yesterday. The man, who has a criminal case pending, surrendered to the police after three hours. Picture/ Reuters
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    • News. Break
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        More teachers
        59 5 educa^^^H MORE people are signing up to be teachers. From July to October about 5,500 people applied. This works out to 45 applications a day, compared to about 20 a day between July last year and June this year. To cope with more trainees, the National Institute of
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        Floods ahead
        65 5 EATH IF you live in a low-lying area, you can expect as many as 32 days of floods between December and March. This is because of above normal high tides combined with heavy rain due to the north-east monsoon, which will set in by the second half of
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        On track again
        64 5 Atior RELATIONS between Malaysia and Singapore are back on track, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said. But relations were "not quite as close as before", he said, adding that the Straits of Tebrau "is still separating us still the same width". He added some
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        ATM sharing
        52 5 BANKS FROM today, DBS Bank customers can withdraw cash or check account balances from any POSBank ATM, as well as transfer funds from their DBS accounts to any POSBank savings account at those ATMs. And POSBank cardholders can use DBS Bank ATMs to transfer funds to any DBS
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      Quote worthy
      60 5 Picture this scene: sections of the crowd start gyrating to the pounding beat... Water is sprayed... The energised rockers get wet and mad, or possibly... more demonstrative. The seated... are madder still. Commotion. An editorial in The Sunday Times arguing against a Singapore Indoor Stadium proposal that sprays
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      Floor collapses; one killed
      119 6  -  pU(H\IVm\TES^^^ BY Michelle Ang PART of a building under construction in Canberra Road collapsed early this morning, killing one worker and injuring at least nine others. At about 7.17 am, the Singapore Civil Defence Force received a call that there had been an accident at the
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      Oil seized
      62 6 1 CAUSEWAY M A TOTAL of 80 kg of cooking oil was seized from 16 Singaporeans during a recent one-week period. Domestic Trade and Consumers Affairs Ministry Johor enforcement chief Alias Mohamed Noh said the Singaporeans had tried to smuggle the oil through the Causeway in their cars.
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      Aids news
      58 6 HEALTH MOST Aids victims here are illiterate. More than half those infected with the Aids virus are Mandarin or dialect speaking. And to reach out to these people, this year's annual Aids education programme will stage getai shows in HDB estates to get the message across. To date,
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      Focus on aged
      65 6 COMMUNITY A NEW unit has been set up in the The Ministry of Community Development to focus on developing social care programmes for the aged. The focus will be on improving the quality of life and seeing how the elderly can contribute to society. For example, the
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      Cold place 'hot'
      66 6 I TOURISM ANTARCTICA is proving to be a hot tourist spot. A decade ago, about 500 tourists visited the icy place. In the tourist season that has started there, about 15,000 are expected. Despite the economic crisis, tourists from New Zealand, Germany, Britain and North America are
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      local Head liners
      67 6 The Straits Times: Iraq keeps Clinton in US The Business Times: Asian markets set for recovery, poll suggests Lianhe Zaobao: BG Lee: National unity to enhance competitiveness gives us an edge Berita Harian: Apec ministers agree to increase co-operation RCS morning news: Apec ministers meeting in KL
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      APEC AHEAI
      10 6 Chffk Something happens when Bill drives to work.
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      world Head liners
      66 6 South China Morning Post: Iraq backed down but must do more: Clinton Berita Harian Malaysia: Don't interfere with Malaysia's efforts: PM TV3: Japan's Trade and Industry Minister, Kaoru Yossano, has repeated his agreement to bring the Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalisation plan to the World Trade Organisation BBC
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      More wives cheating
      403 7 More married women are having extra-marital affairs, says an informal survey of private investigators. The increase is both in absolute terms and in relation to the number of unfaithful husbands. WOONWUITEK reports MORE wives are having affairs. That is what a recent survey of nine private detectives
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      Hubby's nice but she can't give up her lover
      269 7 MARRIED to a "nice husband", she is the mother of two "adorable" children. Yet for the last seven months or so, Anne (not her real name) has been sleeping with another man. Though racked with remorse, the secretary cannot bring herself
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      WARNING SIGNS
      102 7 HOW might you know if an innocent friendship has deepened dangerously? Three clues from American affairs expert Hara Estroff Marano taken from the July/August issue of Psychology Today: SECRECY: For example, two people meet every evening after work without telling their spouses or partners. EMOTIONAL INTIMACY: "When someone
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Laughter, the best medicine
      78 9 mui<mui< Life! columnist David Kraal watts Viagra manufacturer Pfizer to lighten up. It had found two recent Viagra-related advertisements in The Straits Times "not funny". Mr Kraal said: Chortle, chuckle, guffaw and roar... because the world has greeted your pill with countless mentions of Viagra on
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      Lock icon Tips for anxious parents
      525 9 Parents are usually the ones with problems when the little ones take their first steps into Primary 1. They need a little help. That's exactly what more than 200parents got expert advice from three guest speakers at The New Paper's annual Primary 1 Seminar in the
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      Lock icon TRAVELLING? RELAX...
      440 10 Three Singaporeans were arrested by Johor Customs officers after they allegedly tried to smuggle about RMIII,OOO ($47,000) across the Causeway on Nov 7. Another was stranded in Johor late last month after a tour bus left without him. DANNYLIM spoke to the president of the Registered Tourist Guides
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      Win World Cards
      165 10 IF you didn't win any SingTel Christmas WorldCards last week, don't despair. This week may be your lucky week. You may be one of 15 winners of a SingTel's Christmas WorldCards set. Just check our World Today pages and tell us how many countries are mentioned. Is
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Their looks could get them killed
      1013 11 FOR Madam Yang and her teenage son, their skin colour can prove fatal in Jakarta. In fact, they fear that their looks could get them killed. Madam Yang's son, Ling Shi Wei, 16, has learnt to look "native" to hide his ethnic identity. He
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      Marines bring calm
      121 12 THE rain wiped away the tears. At least that's what it seemed like in Jakarta yesterday. Like a cooling presence, the rain seemed to lower temperatures after the Saturday's heated rage of tear gas, mobs and student protestors. But a more important presence knots of Marines kept
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      Alarms sound as deaf-mute Korean 'tourists' fly into Australia
      241 13  -  By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY GROUPS of deaf mute tourists arriving in Australia are begging for trouble. And they're being sent straight back home on the next plane to South Korea. The giveaway is their luggage filled with keyrings and
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      President Hulk Hogan?
      584 13  -  (We take a peek into the future) Brian Miller is taking a short break after covering the Anwar Ibrahim trial. He will be back with his spin on world affairs next week. by YVONNE LIM NOV 16,2000 WASHINGTON: IT'S OFFICIAL: "Hulk" Hogan is now the 43rd President
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      Lock icon Mr Bluff does it again
      352 14 Saddam's last-minute letter stops attacks on Iraq Wire services. PRESIDENT Saddam Hussein, the master of bluff, has done it again. His expertly timed diplomatic move turned back a huge US attack aimed at his core security forces. His letter split the UN Security Council just
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      Waiting for walk tall call Hi! Reeve!
      73 14 muifmui* Rmtc nm paralysed front the neck town in a fall from a horse three years ago. But ha vows to be waBring again wthki ftvc years. It's like waiting for the telephony repair man. The cables are broken, there's no colour coding
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  • DEARWIJEY
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      Science stream for me
      306 15 QI'LL be taking my O-level exams this year. For my preliminary results, I got A1 for physics, A2 for chemistry and E maths, B3 for English and A maths and B4 for history. I would like to know the entry or cut-off points 1 must get
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      Spare me from English lit
      195 15 QI'M a Secondary Two student. I'm having problems deciding which subjects to take next year. Actually, I have decided to take three science subjects and two humanities. It's which humanities subjects I should take that's troubling me. I'm weakest in English literature. But I think
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      I should be a legal exec, not legal secretary
      207 16 QI'M 20 and I graduated from Temasek Polytechnic recently with a diploma in legal studies. I'm working as a legal secretary in a law firm. But I'm disappointed that my work doesn't relate to what I learnt in school. I was
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      Love maths? You could try teaching
      185 16 QI HAVE a diploma in quality assurance engineering. I would like to study maths at a university here. But my diploma doesn't allow me to do so because it is applicable only to mechanical engineering and business administration. My result was B+ (on average).
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      I want to be a lecturer
      115 16 QI'M sitting for the A levels in a junior college (science course). I want to be a computing lecturer in a polytechnic. I'm very interested in computer programing and I would like to take this interest into teaching. What do I do from here?
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      Put me in a pre-school
      89 16 QI'M keen to be a pre-school teacher. What are the requirements, and whom shall I approach, to reach this goal? Eileen A THE Singapore Institute of Management offers a diploma course in early childhood studies. The admission criteria are three O-level passes, including one in
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      From law dept to law degree
      180 16 QI'M 33 and I have been a corporate support officer in the Ministry of Law for three years. My department does legal work. Since I started working there, I have been helping members of the public with legal matters regarding their application. I have
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      241 15 Are you proficient in English? Are you content with the way How to express your ideas you speak and write? Arc you fluently sure that you are not making The study requires only a little mistakes that cause people to time, and very moderate fees underrate you? You arc judged
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      41 15 Call 1900-*****03 and leave your questions for Mr Wijey. You can listen to his earlier advice, too. This week's Q&A: Worth nursing your ambitions Stay in your line and upgrade Getting into multimedia system engineering Calls cost 30 cents a minute.
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      53 15 Do you have any questions regarding education? Write or fax your questions to Dear Mr Wijey BP Kkl 390 Kim Seng Road v.Hjf 1 Singapore *****5. Fax: 737-5375 lT llj Give us your name, address and telephone number. 1H Call The New Paper Infoline, 1900-*****03. (Calls are charged at 30
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      Movies No Enough
      382 17  -  By Hazel Tan WELL, that certainly won't be the case in 1999. We're in for a wave of local movies at least nine in the latest update. The recipe seems obvious. Story type: Mostly comedies or soppy love stories. Language used: Mostly Mandarin, with a touch of
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      COMING SOON
      254 17 Liang PoPo The Movie Story: Liang Po Po escapes from the old folks' home but gets into bad company. Cast: Jack Neo, Mark Lee, Henry Thia and company Lucky Number (Bai Liu Li Bai) Story: Two buddies survive the economic crash by selling Viagra and pirated VCDs. Cast
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      Bewitching sight
      393 19  -  By Sharon Lee NOT too long ago, twins Keavy and Edele Lynch had only one claim to fame. And that was that their elder brother, Shane, was in British boyband Boyzone. Today, together with Lindsay Armaou and Sinead O'Carroll, Irish lasses Keavy and Edele can say they, too,
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      Buzz on the stars
      95 19 LISTEN to our celebrity buzz on 1900-*****04. Where does Val Kilmer (right) make a trip to every year? What sort of livestock does he own? How did he prepare for his role as Doc Holiday in Tombstone (1993), which co-starred Kurt Russell, plus Michael Biehn and
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      The dream workers
      494 20  -  By Jason Lee ENOUGH talk about Dreamworks SKG still having no genuine hit four years after its start-up. Jeffrey Katzenberg, one of the three chiefs of the entertainment company fellow industry heavyweights Steven Spielberg and David Geffen are the partners has heard it all. And he has
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      CEO approves charity show
      129 20 THE Prince of Egypt will be screened here next month in aid of the Singapore Sports Council for the Disabled (SSCD). And the charity screening has Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg's endorsement. 'It's for a good, humanistic cause," he said. "I'm all for it." The charity premiere
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    How bad will crisis be?
    503 22  -  Etcetera WITH AMBIGA RAJU SO, Singapore is in a recession. I am trying to breathe normally, even as I digest this information. I have only vague memories of the 1974 oil crisis. It was too long ago and at a time when I did not
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    Lock icon Dresses & Decisions
    472 23  - Dresses Decisions A MODELS: New Face 1998 winner Gabrielle Dai and finalist Madhu Peswani MAKEUP; Lisa Yong, using RVB cosmetics, call 9765-1938 STYLIST: Tina Chong, Rev'eal Salon, Pacific Plaza CLOTHES: Metro and Tangs LOCATION: Goodwood Park Hotel By Teo Yun Yun SO, exams are over and you're a bundle of
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    Hot wok in trendy setting
    310 25  -  FOOD WITH A VIEW Story and picture/] Kenneth Koh IT is touted as Singapore's first Chinese bistro but looks like a trendy Western eatery. The Imperial Hot Wok restaurant in Far East Square is actually a Chinese restaurant serving some traditional Chinese food which our
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      306 37 AFP. Steffi Graf will enter the Chase Championships on a roll after beating world number one Lindsay Davenport in the final of the WTA Tour event yesterday. The German veteran notched her second straight tournament win by outlasting the top-seeded American 4-6, 6-3,6-4. Graf broke Davenport
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      190 37 SQUASH Reuters. Australia won a record-equalling fourth successive women's world team squash title yesterday by defeating England 3-0 in the final. The match hinged on the ability of world number one Michelle Martin to raise herself for one more victory at the end of a long year in
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      222 37 WORLD WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIPS Reuters. TANG Gonghong increased China's women gold medal haul at the world weighlifting championships to 13 out of a total of 14 won by her country. Tang's golds in the 75 kg-plus clean and jerk as well as the total lift
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      284 38 EQK3MEIZS ITALY; FRANCE; SPAIN Reuters. THE good news is that Fiorentina is still top of Italy's Serie A. The bad news is that it got badly beaten by lowly Piacenza yesterday and its appeal against being thrown out of the Uefa was rejected. European soccer's governing
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      504 38 AFP. CALL it a day of upsets in Italian football yesterday. While league leader Fiorentina was crashing to a 4-2 defeat at Piacenza, Roma was surging to a 2-0 triumph against 10-man Juventus in their grudge match. It was their first encounter since Roma coach Zdenek
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      168 38 AFP. FRENCH league leader Marseille snatched a 1-0 home win over reigning champion Lens on Saturday. Christophe Dugarry was the hero, scoring in the 31st minute. It was Marseille's eighth win on the trot, and helped the team widen the gap to four points at the top of
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      121 38 Reuters. MALLORCA missed the chance to regain the lead in the Spanish first division yesterday, losing 1-0 at Valladolid. An 18th-minute header from Valladolid's Croatian striker Alen Peternec went straight through the hands of the normally secure Carlos Roa to shatter the visitors' hopes. Celta Vigo leads the
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      94 40 Whether you agree or disagree, we'd like to hear from you, the fans. For, ultimately, what is football without the opinions of fans? E-mail us at TNPsports@sph.com.sg or fax us at 737-5375 by midnight tomorrow. Make sure to leave us your name and contact number. If anything, it
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      262 41 SOUTHAMPTON 1 (Le Tissier 53rd) ASTON VILLA 4 (Dublin 3rd, 56 and 85, Merson 77) ASTON VILLA manager John Gregory saluted his £5.75 million ($15.5 m) million England striker Dion Dublin after his hat-trick had helped his side create history at The Dell. Villa's 4-1 win over bottom-of-the-table
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      210 41 LIVERPOOL 1 LEEDS 3 GERARD Houllier watched his Liverpool team crumble to a 3-1 defeat at home to Leeds and claimed his Anfield men are "too frail mentally" and had "all their nightmares reawakened." The new Liverpool chief also blasted the controversial decision not to award
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      193 41 HOW THEY STAND P W D L F A Pts 1 Aston Villa 12 8 4 0 18 6 28 2 Man Utd 12 7 4 1 26 11 25 3 Arsenal 13 6 6 1 14 5 24 4 Chelsea 11 5 5 1 17 10 20 5 Leeds
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      404 41 LEADING SCORERS: 8: Hamilton Ricard (Middlesbrough), Michael Owen (Liverpool), Dion Dublin (Aston Villa. 3 for Coventry) 7: lan Wright (West Ham), Dwight Yorke (Manchester United) 6: Alan Shearer (Newcastle), Marcus Gayle (Wimbledon), Nicolas Anelka (Arsenal), Clive Mendonca (Charlton) 5: Tony Cottee (Leicester), Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (Leeds) 4: Jason Euell (Wimbledon),
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      537 42 TIGER BEER SINGAPORE CUP FINAL Tanjong Pagar United 2 (Nicodeme Boucher 24th, Valdo Bozinoski 54th) SAFFCO Stories/S GlJLAM A DAY after the Tiger Beer Singapore Cup victory, one would expect Tohari Paijan to be out celebrating his "biggest moment in life". Or, knowing him to be a
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      166 42 HE'S the S-League's best marksman, yet he has no job next year. Stuart Young finished the season on a flourish on Saturday night, scoring four goals against Sembawang Rangers to win the Topscorer Award. But even his 22-goal feat has not won him a new contract
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      419 43  -  MORE ON THE SINGAPORE CUP FINAL... Stories/! S Gulam AS he slumped into his chair, gulping his bottle of mineral water, Fandi Ahmad took off his skipper's armband and handed it over to his coach Vincent Subramaniam. "Here, take it. I don't need it anymore.
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      279 43 THE scoreline shocked one and all the winners, the losers, the fans, the officials, the media, the "keropok, curry-puff, kopi-O" man... The burning question was: How could the season's surprise team lose so badly? So what happened in the third-place match which Sembawang Rangers lost
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      107 44 DEPARTING Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel says World Cup winner Fabien Barthez should be the man to fill his boots. Schmeichel said of the French 'keeper: "I would look to the goalkeepers who played in the World Cup for a replacement for me when I leave at
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