The New Paper, 21 January 1999

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  • 21 1 the new paper THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1999 MITA (P) 151/04/98 60 CENTS http://newpaper.asia1 .com.sg Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings
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    • 139 1 She I I W* I I I I know I V j| 0 I I I I mum Story an MHB woman who /Pages I My HIH^H I A L with III I I Chinese I M K I I language /Page v .I HI lllfll I MITA(P) 151/04/98 60CENTS
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 339 2 Mr Market Mover opposes plan to invest government money in stocks AMERICA'S most influential banker, Mr Alan Greenspan, seldom disagrees openly with President Bill Clinton. But yesterday, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (Fed), made it clear that he did not like Mr Clinton's
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    • 94 2 US stocks are too highly priced, says the country's Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. The good times, he said yesterday, could be leading some investors into a trap. He said the boom in stock prices in the last three months would give the impression that there has been greater
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    • 75 2 BANG: The driver of this van came to a sudden stop as he was travelling along the PIE towards Changi Airport near the turn-off to the East Coast Parkway today at 1.50 am. The van hit a tree and a signboard, before hitting another
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    • 331 3 TROUBLE ON EMIRATES FLIGHT TO SINGAPORE ©The plane is forced to turn back. It lands safely at Dubai airport. IT was five minutes of pure terror for 37 Singaporeans who were returning from Jeddah yesterday. Emirates flight EK 76 had just left Dubai in the United Arab
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    • 20 3 The Umrah is the minor pilgrimage. Many muslims perform the Umrah in Mecca during the fasting month of Ramadan.
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    • 243 3 I WAS returning to Singapore after performing the Umrah in Mecca. Emirates flight EK 76 from Dubai had just taken off. Suddenly, we heard an explosion in the back of the Boeing 777. Smoke began to fill the cabin, and passengers started coughing. The
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 1121 4  -  Giving birth: Just a stomach ache By Riana Zakir and Shazalina Salim THEY are an intriguing pair to watch. Especially when Lisa rattled a pack of prawn crackers to hook little May's attention. But the child didn't care. Feeling spurned, Lisa sulked and
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    • 98 4 THE silver-haired rapist, a 59-year-old cleaner with at least 24 grandchildren, was scolded by the judge for exploiting Lisa's "simple nature and simple-mindedness". He was jailed for 14 years in April 1995 for rape. True, Lisa followed instructions easily, the prosecution psychiatrist, Dr Arthur Lee, told the court.
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    • 226 4 We put some questions to Ms Florence Seah, Acting Chief Social Worker, Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore WHAT symptoms do intellectually disabled (ID) children show when they are sexually abused? Some show signs of trauma like baring breasts or masturbating when men are around.
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 246 5 m TRAIN STATION ISSUE MALAYSIA claims a legal right to keep its Customs and immigration facilities at Tanjong Pagar railway station. And this legal issue must be settled because it involves Singapore's sovereignty, said Foreign Minister Professor S Jayakumar in Parliament yesterday. Only when Malaysia acknowledges the
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    • 173 5 AM LATEST: MALAYSIA RESPONDS MALAYSIA is not ignoring Singapore's rights by wanting to continue operating its CIQ facilities at Tanjong Pagar, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar. "It does not mean that we do not respect Singapore as a sovereign nation with rights in
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    • News Break
      • 66 5 LAND THE Government will not release any more land for sale this year. Reason: There are already about 26,000 private property units for sale in the pipeline. "So, there is no sense of urgency to release land for this year. We will consider releasing land for next
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      • 53 5 I INDUSTRY THE Government will spend another $750 million to give Singapore the edge in information technology, knowledge and skills. Initiatives in New Technology, a manpower development scheme, will get $500 million. The rest will go to the Innovation Development Scheme. Both are part of the the Government's
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      • 44 5 International Herald Tribune: Fed Chief opposes Social Security plan Berita Harian Malaysia: Chances of economic recovery brighter Hongkong Standard: Tung shrugs off call for tax cut BBC news: NATO alliance steps up its readiness to intervene in the crisis in Kosovo
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      • 53 5 I EDUCATION GOOD news for undergraduates in the universities, polytechnics and Institutes of Technical Education: There's a fee freeze for this and next academic year. Bad news for postgraduate students: An extra $300 more a year for lab-based and non-lab based courses. For medical or dental post-graduate students,
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      • 67 5 I A MAN faces a seven-year jail sentence for biting off another man's ear in March last year. Lim Keng Hui, 37, and the victim Tan Hai Chen, 46, had been fighting over a woman, the District Court heard yesterday. She had been going out with
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    • 27 5 THE Dow Jones industrial average fell 19.31 points to close at 9,335.91 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 899 million shares.
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    • 172 6 in FSHSus FOUR trillion e-mail messages were received in the US last year and not all of them by the right people. Many a sender hit "Reply to all" instead of "Reply" and zapped their bitchy personal message not just to the person they were confiding in,
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    • 67 6 FIRES LOVE LETTERS set more than hearts on fire. Cooks dumping the embers used for cooking the crackers down chutes set off eight or nine fires a day in the festive season, said the Singapore Civil Defence Force. Fires in residential blocks went up 5 per cent last
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    • 70 6 JOBS US disk-drive maker Western Digital is to close its Tuas plant and cut 450 jobs. The drives made at Tuas will now be produced at its older Chai Chee plant. Half the job cuts will come from the THias plant, the rest from Chai Chee. The
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    • 50 6 The Straits Times: Changes to teaching of Chinese The Business Times: US stocks too high, Greenspan suggests Uanhe Zaobao: More students to offer Higher Chinese in Govt's plan Berita Harian: Singapore's external trade likely to fall 5% to 7% RCS morning news: Chinese language undergoes major overhaul
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    • 60 6 TRADE SINGAPORE'S trade outlook is still uncertain. Adding to regional economic problems, demand is slowing from the key export markets of the United States and Europe. The Trade Development Board does not see signs of a pick-up and warns, if an electronics glut continues, Singapore will feel it.
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    • 57 6 CHINA THE population in the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park is growing. To cater to this, an indoor swimming pool complex, a steam plant, a kindergarten and more low-cost housing will be built. The capital outlay for these projects is more than $15.5 million. The township is a co-operative
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    • 133 6 PREPARE FOR SLOWER GROWTH Ihe Asian financial crisis has been a test not only of economic resilience, but also of political leadership and social cohesion. It is because ire have done relatively well on all three fronts that there is cause for optimism for future in the years
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 384 7 Amid all the jargon at the yearly conference of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) yesterday, two letters stood out U and W. No, it's not an alphabet game. We're talking about billions of dollars here. The letters stand for two predictions on Singapore's economic health, by two
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    • 86 7 THE V is a quick return to growth. In 1985 and 1986, growth was a depressing —1.6 per cent and 2.3 per cent. But the recession lasted only for four quarters. And in the next 10 years, the lowest growth rate was still an
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  • 385 8  -  You want toes you can kiss? COSMOPROF INTERNATIONAL BY Jill Lim WELL, before you turn to the nail polish and perfume, make sure the basic problems are taken care of. What are common foot problems people have? "Corns, calluses, ingrown toenails, sweaty feet, heel pain, flat feet..."
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  • 291 9 MINISTRY OF HEALTH REPLIES SPEAKUP I REFER to "Some Aids ads unfair to women" by Ms Natalie Mok (TNP, Jan 8) and "Aids ads portray both sexes as culprits" by Ms Hillary John (TNP, Jan 15). The writers had said that the Ministry's Aids advertisements paint
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    • 251 9 CTnrarrcr Aids ads... Aid Portray both i sexes as f culprits Jan 15. Some Aids ads unfair to women MA ff ITH tiw rwant advrrtiMiMat TNP: Jan 8. Mr -*-6 ?V: <B»^ W *f B /W I -#MfcrfP^S# R .Hflr V H. Tl 1 1 y^qS^S f -I Blackheads are
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  • PARLIAMENTTODAY
    • 275 11  -  BY Brian Miller PARLIAMENT was abuzz with words like Chinese heritage, culture, and bilingualism yesterday. This was when MPs debated Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's ministerial statement on the teaching of the Chinese language in schools. The statement was an offshoot of Prime Minister Goh
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    • 118 11  -  By Toh Li Lin FROM next year, you can take Higher Chinese (HCL) at Primary 5 if you score a Band One in Chinese Language at Primary 4 streaming, and at least a Band 2 in English Language and Mathematics. At secondary level,
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    • 202 11 YOU can take an alternative Chinese Language syllabus called CL 'B' from 2001 in Sec 3 and JC1 level. It will be pitched at a level in between the current Chinese Language and basic Chinese offered for Normal (Technical) students. CL 'B' will
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    • 686 12  - MP's son tells of his struggle —then and now with Chinese BY Teo Hwee Nak THEN: WHILE his classmates were taking their O-Level Chinese examination, Peter Chen, then 16, was holidaying with his parents in Australia. He had decided not to go for the examination with his parents' blessings. Mr
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      438 13 Fear...that's the reaction of most older Singaporeans to computers or new technology. But there's no getting away from all that in the knowledge economy. Do you shy away and risk becoming obsolete? Or adapt, as one man has... YVONNE UM reports THIS secondary-school leaver sets up the
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    • 265 13 Mr Sundram answers the questions ofMrX, a 40-something worker trying to cope with computers and high-tech machines at work. Mr X: Are you afraid? Mr Sundram: I'm proud that I'm not afraid of anything. Mr X: Isn't it tough to go back to school at your
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    • 137 13 GONE is the old analogue technology of the 1970s and 1980s. The digital technology now used by Sing Tel has opened the way for "intelligent" services, such as call-waiting, caller-ID and Magix. "Singapore Telecom operates in a fast-paced industry with rapid developments in communications technologies... Employees must
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    • 120 14 HAVE you ever fallen in (or out of) love over the Net? Tell us all about it, by e-mail to yongsh@Bph.com.sg or by fax to The Editor, The New Paper, at 737-5375. Please include your name and telephone number. The three best real-life stories will each
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    • 81 14 mui<mui< Mr Mdianl Moon, 40, Managing director of headhunting linn Humana International Asia, on what drove Mm to becoroa aa MitrtprsiMUß I looked at my peers ahead of me. They were in their 40s with house mortgages, kids in university, a certain lifestyle which, for them,
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 138 15 AFP. GOOD news for Russia's ailing President Boris Yeltsin came yesterday when doctors ruled that his stomach ulcer did not require surgery afterall. This comes after French specialists in Paris last week recommended invasive surgery that would take six hours under general anaesthetic and put the
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    • 440 15  -  By Patrick Jonas IN the last week of December, India's top-most naval officer was sacked by the government. What caused his fall? His wife, say some. Others blame the arms lobby and the man himself. The immediate cause was the Admiral's refusal to
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    • 307 16 Hongkong's chief executive Tung sees this as the way to rival Singapore Reuters. ITS going to be another tough year for Hongkong, said its leader Tung Chee Hwa yesterday. And if the territory wants to compete with its Asian rivals such as Singapore, more mayor cost cutting
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    • 110 16 The Business Times, Reuters. COMPETITION from Singapore has aroused much resentment in Hongkong, particularly over its new futures contract. But rivalpr was good as it will help Hongkong improve and be Asia's premier business centre, its new council of international advisers agreed after checking Singapore's revival plan. "The
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    • 337 17  -  Sullivan looked the perfect baby-sitter on paper with a child care certificate, five years' working experience and some good references when she came to England. She started working for investment director Marcel Jongen, 41, and his financial analyst wife Muriel, 36, in their London home
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    • 136 17 LOUISE Sullivan endured a bitter childhood. Her parents separated when she was a teenager. At her high school on Queensland's Gold Coast, she was placed in remedial classes as a slow learner. The three mums in Australia, who sacked her, were: Elisa
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    • 256 17 Wire services. IF the Indian police are to be believed, millionaire militant Osama Bin Laden's men would have bombed the US embassy and its consulates in India on Jan 26. Police have arrested Sayed Abu Nasir, a Bangladeshi, in Delhi. He is said to
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    • 45 18  -  murtmui* beng Russian Prime MMster Yevgeny Primakov, 68, on why be hat no Interest in running for the orsskiency: Any lunacy has its limits. I reached mine in agreeing to become Prime Minister. Myage is not right, you 8 uwfcratnnd mmmtm Goodbye!
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  • Showtime
    • 447 19  -  HK star may team up with Singapore's Christopher Lee BY Avis Wong FRIDAY Weekly's most popular television star, Hongkong actress-singer Chan Chung Ling, may be steaming up the goggle box with Christopher Lee. In the new mega production Coup de Scorpion, scheduled to be filmed in March
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    • 81 19 CHAN Chung Ling beat Zoe Tay and Fann Wong for the second year running to become Friday Weekly's most popular TV star. She said: "I'm really surprised and excited to toin again. The voters are really kind." But Chung Chung had only one serial, Cold Blood Warm Heart,
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    • 394 20  -  AN ACTRESS UNDER PRESSURE By Hazel Tan JACELYN Tay is feeling the pressure these days. Barely two months after she managed to squeeze into the Star Awards' Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes list with the likes of Ann Kok and Fann Wong she is starting to
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    • 38 20 56th Annual Golden Globe Nominations I Best Supporting Actress Sharon Stone Best Original Song Music by Sting Lyrics by Sting Trevor Jones I ti 4L H Hk H I V .1 V GOLOCN village E3 Opens Today! n
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  • 202 21 sports WHAT: Australian Open tennis WHERE: Melbourne WHEN: Jan 18 to 31 SOME PLAYERS TO WATCH: Men: Michael Chang and Andre Agassi of the US, Alex Corretja of Spain and Australian Pat Rafter. Women: Swiss teenager Martina Hingis, American Lindsay Davenport and Russian Anna Kournikova.
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 397 22 They are top stars, they are handsome and were among the most popular at the recent Star Awards. But another poll shows that one group of viewers, the younger ones, don't count them high on their list of the coolest dudes. A VIS WONG
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    • 86 22 Christopher seldom plays the cheeky youngfnan. His roles are always quite mature and brooding whereas Chew ChorMeng usually gets funny roles and kids like that. Mr Lawrence Ma, executive producer of The Return of the Condor Heroes IjprqferChew Chor Meng because he is more adorable
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    • 36 22 TELEVISION 1. Chan Chung Ling 2. Zoe Tay 3. Fann Wong MUSIC 1. Aaron Kwok 2. Jeff Chang 3. Daniel Chan MOVIES 1. Julian Cheung 2. Ekin Cheng 3. Aaron Kwok
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  • 478 23  -  eT CETERA WITH CHENG PUAY KOON THERE was this truly disturbing story I read some time ago. About a little black girl who prayed every night for the prettiest, bluest eyes. Like those of a pink-skinned, golden-haired, much-loved baby doll. She wished so hard she
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 201 23 COMICREUEF The Concrete Jungle/Colin Goh sofeArnANIAM, L, 1 ueiOME" I MI 1 TH£CCFEE Y nsa& n wsß- >s& §hh£ ii? Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson oty+- lEVEKI DM I NOTUING EVER CUMtQES. f N V* NY I TWHKIOO jS'n HAVE TO GET IT'S JUST SCHOOL, BUT HOT TOOK*, I SWQWU) *6K
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  • 409 24  -  CAREER CHOICE By Tanya Fong CONTRARY to what you might think, putting a store window display together is not simply a 30-minute job of changing dresses on the mannequins. Mr Ja6on Fong, 26, the display artist for Tangs shopping centre in Orchard Road, spends a lot
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  • 395 26 FROM PAGE 27 CAREER CHOICE Why did you choose to be a store display artist? After I graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts six years ago, I applied for this job just to try it out and I've been "addicted" to it ever
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    • 346 34 AUSTRALIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS: IN MELBOURNE Reuters. FOR a woman under pressure to hold her world No 1 ranking, Lindsay Davenport is remarkably at peace with the world. The 22-year-old American says she's very comfortable in her new role as the queen of women's tennis.
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    • 238 34 YESTERDAY'S Reuters. Reuters. Mark Philippoussis beat Michad Chang 7-6, 2-6, 6-3, 5-7, 7-5 MARK Philippoussis thrilled a packed Centre Court as he blasted his way past Michael Chang in the second round of the Australian Open yesterday. The gripping duel, which lasted three hours and
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    • 498 35 While French winger David Ginola has been a joy to watch this season with his dazzling displays for Spurs, he's also been a pain in the neck with his blatant diving, says GERARD WONG. Readers give their views on this page. On the next page,
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    • 128 35 FRANCE 1 Youri Djorkaeff 47th min MOROCCOO Half-time: OO Crowd: 55,000 AFP. YOURI Djorkaeff earned France a 1-0 win over Morocco on his 50th international appearance yesterday. Djorkaeffs 20th international goal after 47 minutes extended France's unbeaten run to 16 matches. The main aim of coach
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    • 77 35 AFP. IRAN, the United States and Northern Ireland were jointly awarded Fifa's 1998 Fair Play prize yesterday. World soccer's governing body gave the award to Iran and the US for their show of sportsmanship in a highly charged World Cup Finals match in Lyon on June 21. The
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    • 262 36 Stay home on Sunday: Big match at Bpm MANCHESTER United manager Alex Ferguson literally cannot wait for Sunday's showdown with Liverpool. And neither can many around around the world as they prepare to tune in to the gunfight at Old Trafford when the country's two
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    • 342 36 DAVID Ginola's latest tumbling act will not worry the man in charge of the potentially explosive Wimbledon v Tottenham Part II. Referee Dermot Gallagher is no stranger to controversy and will not be making any special arrangements for Saturday's FA Cup rematch
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    • 301 37  -  dunhill CUP PREPARATIONS: LIONS v FUIPRE-OLYMPIC TEAM (Today. National Stadium. spm By Ernest Luis THE Lions lost to them last Sunday. So they will be out for revenge against the Fiji pre-Olympic team when the sides clash again today. And national coach Vincent Subramaniam says
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    • 61 37 For Dunhil Cup Coach: Vincent Subramaniam Team manager Omar Ibrahim Physiotherapist: Thomas Pang Sports trainer Jeffrey Thiam Goalkeepers: Rezal Hassan, Yazid Yasin Defenders: S Subramani, Aide Iskandar, Zulkarnaen Zainal, R Sasikumar, Tan Kim Leng, Lim TongHai Midfielders: Imran Mohd, Azhar Salleh, Nazri Nasir, Hafizat Jauharmi, Mohd Noor Ali,
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    • 87 37 AFP. BULGARIA has stepped in at the last minute to take Myanmar's place at the Dunhill Cup in Vietnam next week. Myanmar withdrew because it said that its team had not made good preparations for the tournament, Pham Ngoc Vien, general secretary of the
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      30 38 SWEAT-OUT: (Second from left) Robert Lim and Fandi Ahmad stretch, while Swandi Ahmad and PN Sivaji (right) do their version of the football ballet Picture/ Mohd Ishak
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    • 315 38  -  By Ernest Luis THE above were not the only ones. There was also Tohari Paijan and Robert Lim trying hard to get an "A" rating. They were sweating it out
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  • 91 34 How the main matches went (seeding* in bold): HEN"3 Patrick Rafter (Aus) bt Mark Woodforde (Aus) 6-2, 6-4,6-4 9 Richard Krajicek (Hoi) bt Mariano Zabaleta (Arg) 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 Marat Safin (Rus) bt Gustavo Kuerten (Bra) 6-3, 5-7,4-6, 6-3,6-4 14 Mark Philippoussis (Aus) bt Michael Chang (US) 7-6
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