The New Paper, 15 May 1999

Microfilm: NL21506
Total Pages: 67
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • Who just hit Kosovo?
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        Lock icon NATO
        161 2 Reuters. BOMBS shredded this Kosovo village yesterday and killed at least 79 ethnic Albanians. Survivors blamed the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) for the deaths amongst 400 refugees spending the night there. Reporters reaching Korisa, 70 km south-west of the Kosovo capital Pristina, saw wrecked homes and scattered dismembered
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        SERBS
        111 2 DONT assume the attack is another Nato blunder, the United States warned yesterday. It could have been Serb shelling. The US is investigating the incident, which occurred near a highway where Nato has been pressing air attacks on Yugoslav forces. Nato says substantial numbers of Kosovo Liberation Army guerillas
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      $500 m? We don't want it
      578 2 KL TO WORLD BANK: MALAYSIA is not planning on taking a US$3OO ($513) million loan from the World Bank. The move has surprised many because they feel Malaysia needs the money to rebuild its economy and get its stalled infrastructure projects off the ground.
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      OTHER SOURCES
      52 2 Japan loans: Malaysia had secured over RMIO billion ($4.5 billion) in Joans from Japan. The Japanese money, comes at low interest. "But they wanted a piece of the action." Bond sales: Malaysia will go on a global roadshow to sell up to US$3 billion ($5 billion) worth of
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      APEC
      52 2 MALAYSIA renewed its calls for controls on speculators. The call was made at the opening of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) finance ministers meeting at Langkawi. Malaysia blames speculators for the Asian crisis. The stand may raise a possible clash with the US and the IMF at the meeting,
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      Lock icon Jo Jo's ready for his fourth Big Walk
      383 3  -  By Tanya Fong JO JO is used to sitting in the lap of luxury. The five-year old Bishon Frize goes window-shopping with his owner, Miss Arbi Wong, and even goes with her for coffee breaks at Clarke Quay. And come next Sunday,
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      THE BIG WALK
      67 3 WHAT: The New Paper Big Walk. WHEN: May 23, Sunday, 7.30 am. WHERE: Flag-off at the National Stadium. REGISTRATION: The registration fee is $4 for fun walkers and $5 for competitive walkers. You can register at any ox the counters at Jurong Point, Northpoint, Tampines Mall, Takashimaya
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon The young man who 'stopped growing'
      706 5 A handicapped young man was killed by a lorry while waiting for his father to take him home from night classes on Thursday night MELVIN SINGH and RIANA ZAKIR report Police said Wilson died on the spot The accident occurred as he Mas crossing
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      HE LOVED SOCCER
      142 5 WILSON was mad about football. Sometimes, he stayed up late at night to catch his favourite team, Brazil, in action. "He liked all good teams, including Liverpool and Manchester United. "Even with computer games, he would scream in delight at each goal," said a friend who declined
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      PM explains Cabinet reshuffle
      310 6 HOT STORY Will result in a stronger team Gives ministers broader experience APART from having a broader experience, the five ministers involved in the Cabinet reshuffle on Thursday would be stretched in their new posts, with their lesser-known sides developed. It will produce a stronger ministerial
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    • News. Break
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        Up 2½ cents
        63 6 PETROL PUMPING petrol today? Don't be surprised if you are asked to pay a bit more at the gas station. Shell and BP petrol have increased their pump prices by 2V2 cents per litre for all petrol grades. BP's new rates started late last night while Shell's
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        Samson broke
        56 6 GOLF SINGAPORE'S leading golf professional Samson Gimson was declared bankrupt yesterday after he failed to settle his $42,000 gold Visa credit card debt with Citibank. High Court assistant registrar Audrey Lim granted the bankruptcy order to Citibank's lawyer, Mr Mark Han, after Samson, 35, failed to turn up
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        Bushwhacked
        45 6 USA REPUBLICAN presidential candidate George Bush has bought up rights to 200 internet domain names to prevent people planning to set up sites with damaging material on him. Internet sites called www.bushsucks.com, bushsucks.net or bushsucks.org or even -bushblows.com all belong to the Texas Governor.
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        Ships warned
        62 6 PIRACY TEN ships were attacked in the Singapore Strait in the first three months of the year, prompting a piracy watchdog group to issue a global warning to all ships using the waterway. The two most dangerous areas were Indonesian waters, with 18 incidents, followed by the Singapore
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      world Head liners
      54 6 International Herald Tribune: 100 die in Kosovo village The New Straits Times: Thumbs up from World Bank. Wolfensohn impressed with Malaysia's remarkable economic recovery Hongkong Standard: Tensions ease with Clinton, Jiang phone call BBC news: Nato says it's still investigating whether its planes have mistakenly bombed another
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      DOW JONES
      44 6 US stocks plunged yesterday after a government report showed quicker inflation last month. This led to a concern that interest rates may be raised. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 193.87, or 1.8 per cent, to 10,913.32, its third-biggest drop this year.
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      Elderly crime victims: Help... if they want it
      140 7 in F®€us THE elderly who are victims of crime can now get help from a new care and support programme. Started by the Central Singapore Community Development Council, it includes home visits, talks and financial aid. It is available for the elderly
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      Inquiry begins
      65 7 AIR FRANCE AN inquiry is underway into the death of a passenger on board an Air France flight yesterday. The Senegalese man died from heart failure after being tranquilised because he had attacked the flight crew. The plane was on its way to Dakar in West Africa from
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      Fake Viagra
      53 7 MALAYSIA FAKE Viagra pills are being sold in Malaysia. Pfizer, which makes the anti-impotence drug, has hired investigators to track down who is behind the fakes. The company said it would work with the Health Ministry on this. Real Viagra goes on sale in Malaysia on Monday, by
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      New stations
      58 7 FIREFIGHTING THE Singapore Civil Defence Force will build three new fire stations by 2003, and move three others. It may also site a fourth new station at Marina City. The new stations will be at Sungei Kadut, Tampines and Seng Kang. Bukit Timah, Serangoon and Sembawang stations will
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      SIA TOPS $1 bn
      59 7 AIRLINES ANALYSTS are surprised at the strength of Singapore Airlines' recent improvement in performance. SLA announced a whopping full-year net profit of $1.03 billion from group revenue of $7.8 billion for the year to March 31. It's a "satisfactory performance, given the sound and fury", SLA
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      local Head liners
      64 7 The Straits Times: Habibie's the sole Golkar candidate The Business Times: No tax breaks for property trusts in MAS guidelines Lianhe Zaobao: PM Goh: Cabinet swap to make leaders more visionary Berrta Harian: PM: Our team will be stronger RCS morning news: President Clinton talks to President
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      SMILING... BUT SMELLY!
      103 7 Quote Wworthy I feel great. It was a fantastic experience. I've had a wealth of support through the e-mail system f but I'm still waiting for some items I ordered, including some deodorant. Ms Emma Gibson, 30, one of four volunteers who shut themselves away for 100
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      'Cinderella' turns up at hospital
      291 8 REMEMBER THIS SHOE? On Monday night, a lady's shoe was found in the middle ofNicoll Highway at the scene of a fatal motorcycle accident. But where was the owner? FONG FOONG MEI tracks down this mystery Cinderella ITS no glass slipper, but this single platform
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      ANY INFO?
      11 8 Eyewitnesses can call the Traffic Police on 222 2233.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Some Singaporeans eat them
      855 10 This woman is holding human placenta sndm It's slimy, bloody and looks like liver turned inside out. It smells and tastes fishy. Eating human placenta is like cannibalism, said a midwife. So why do some Chinese women here make their kids eat their own placenta? Or
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      Hospitals used to sell placentas
      311 10 ITS rarely talked about. But some Singapore hospitals in the '70s and '80s routinely sold placentas to foreign cosmetics companies. According to a 1988 government gazette, Frederick Pordes Agency, a local company, won the tender to collect placentas from government hospitals for three years. Said
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      Lock icon 3 years old and she's already a Man U fan
      505 11  -  By Melvin Singh RAELENE Toh, three, is a fan of the Teletubbies. Her favourite character is Laa-Laa, the yellow one. But these days she's seeing more red than yellow, thanks to her dad, an ardent fan of Manchester United, the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Little India spiced up man's art
      357 15  -  By] Laavanya K HE has lived in a small 'cowboy' town in British Columbia, Canada, for 10 years. But it is something at Serangoon Road that Mr Chong Fah Chong "will never forget". It's the sound of the spices being ground and the spicy
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      ON SHOW
      12 15 Prime Elements is at the Fort Canning Gallery till tomorrow,
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      Hello, MinCommit?
      41 15 mui*mui* Nominated MP Lee Tsao Yuan, director of Institute of Policy Studtatan one of the changes announced]* the Cabinet reshuffle on Thursday: One thing is that IT will by the new and I suppose they'll be calling it MinCommit.
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  • Article
    Help! I've found a body!
    266 17 Cleaner stumbles upon dead man near a wake SINGAPORETODAY HE was expecting to clear up the rubbish and sweep up fallen leaves in the wee hours of yesterday morning. But he found a body instead. A young Chinese man lay on his back, face up.
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      11 17 Visions o/>//c FUTURE ,//v BETTER THAN DREAMS o/ //n> PAST l
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Golkar hopes he is a plus
      334 18 Golkar picks Habibie for president Wire services. LAST May when Dr B J Habibie took over as President of Indonesia, there were many who thought he would not last long. Now, his Golkar party has picked him as the party's presidential nominee in the
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      FOUR PICKED FOR VICE-PRESIDENT POST
      101 18 WHILE Mr Habibie is Golkar's clear choice for president, four candidates have been chosen to vie for the post of vice-president. They are: Former State Secretary and Golkar chairman, Akbar Tandjung first, armed forces chief General Wiranto, Yogyakarta Sultan Hamengku Buwono X and chief economics
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    SM's crystal ball
    439 20 THENEWSTODAY TV,* ;%Ai v s h£ i j >v :< r>.'r <■' Here's what you can expect to happen in this region in the next few years. Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew responds to questions in the latest issue of Asiaweek magazine MALAYSIA WIN Dr Mahathir and
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  • WORLD TODAY
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      No change
      58 21 muifmuif Golkar deputy chairman Marzuki Darusman commenting on pressures by certain groups on Indonesian President B J Habibie to replace military chief, General Wiranto. Mr Marzuki told The Business Times: II doesn't make sense to replace the chief of the armed forces every time there is social disruption.
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      Lock icon Don't tell anyone, but I'm still a great kisser
      155 22 WORLDTODAY Reuters. THAT'S what British attomm Catherine Zeta-Jones thinks, too. She is Sean Connery's co-star in his latest film, Entrapment. So, what's it like kissing so many gorgeous women, Connery? The silver-haired actor, still a sex symbol at 68, replied: "It's
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      Lock icon Help, help... I'm stuck in the well
      377 22 Reuters. ONE minute, little Jessy Kraus was playing in the garden while his father worked. The next minute, the 17-month-old toddler had disappeared down a narrow well. The irrigation well with a 25 cm opening was being dug in the front yard and
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      Lock icon Forget soccer... it's time for cricket
      629 23 SATURDAY with BRIAN MILLER FROM today until June 20, my eyes will be focused on the playing fields of England. But 111 be far away from Highbury, White Hart Lane and even Stamford Bridge. Instead, I'll be in more noble and aristocratic surroundings, like
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      'Snoopy' smells something fishy
      398 26  -  By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY THEY wanted to start a lucrative trade in smuggling tropical fish to Australia. The right fish could be worth Aslo,ooo ($11,200) on the illicit market. But they didn't count on the best noses in the business. Australia's highly trained quarantine
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      Great noses on the job
      88 26 THE beagle sniffer dogs at every Australian airport are trained to pick up a range of more than 30 odours. They are keen workers as their handlers reward them with a food treat every time they nose out a smuggled item. Their noses are so
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    Family and passion
    484 28  -  ET CETERA WITH PN BALII THE teenager in my home will threaten to kill me for this. What the heck! The rebel in me wants to put the threat to the test and see what happens. Before this streak of boldness disappears, here I goOne day, I
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
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  • ShowTime
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      FANN
      694 29 The truth about By Avis Wong SHE is willing to open up, said the Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) while arranging this interview with Fann Wong. Wow, that's something new, I thought. I presumed I could get something more out of her than the usual flat denial about her
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      Paik Choo reports from Cannes
      59 29 MORE REPORTS NEXT PAGE TINSELTALK /Pages 36&37 STARS TURN OUT IN FULL FORCE: (From left) Russian actor Oieg Menshikov, US actress Julia Ormond and Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov posing at the steps of Palais de Festival where the 52nd Cannes Film Festival Is being held.
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    Movie star Fann
    297 30  -  FROM PREVIOUS PAGE COVERSTORY By Avis Wong Fann WONG's debut movie, The Truth About Jane Sam, will hit the cinemas on July 8. Produced by TCS' film arm, Raintree Pictures, it is directed by Hongkong filmmaker Derek Yee Tung Shing (That's Life My Darling) and stars Taiwanese
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  • MUSIC
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      Can you believe this French star is 52?
      340 31  -  By Lynn Lee C L AT first glance, Julien Clerc (above right) does not look 52. Into his 32nd year in showbusiness and with 17 albums to his name, he could still pass off as a young chap. On the phone from
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      SHOW INFO
      18 31 WHAT: Julien Clerc WHEN: Tomorrow 8 pm WHERE: Victoria Theatre TICKETS: $25, $35, $45 and $60.
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      621 32 |O|D|M|S|C dk i I JL 1\ KST m I comedienne m and actress. Here's a simple guide to good music on CDs. Some CDs you must have (BUY IT), others M I she hkes music you may like, but we're not sure (TRY IT) and some might take some getting
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  • THEATRE
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      Just mamadrama this time
      324 33  -  By Avis Wong ELAN GO VAN wants to chuck his controversial label. So the playwright-director is staying off serious, contentious plays this time and doing something lighter. Something like the English theatre production Mamadrama. It is a melodrama, Elangovan told The New Paper. You know, the
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      SHOW INFO
      21 33 WHAT: Mamadrama(in English) WHEN: Today and tomorrow, 8 pm WHERE: Guinness Theatre, The Substation TICKETS: $10. from The Substation
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      MAN OF CONTROVERSIES
      98 33 THE 41-year-old bilingual poet and playwright-director (left) must be used to being in the limelight, for stirring up the emotions of the community. He offended many last month when he staged the English version of his 1995 play, Dogs, which dealt with sex and impotency and was
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  • TINSEL TALK
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      Lock icon Cannes opens with two bombs
      484 34 Sylvia TohPaikChoo is a film critic and contributor to The New Paper. She has also written humour books such as Eh Goondu. She will provide us with regular reports of the ongoing Cannes Film Festival THE 52nd International Festival of Film in Cannes started off
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      The jury
      357 34 THE jury has met the press. The jury is a panel of judges made up of names from every field an actor, a composer, director, musician, photographer, producer, writer. It is headed by a president. The jury has the unenviable task of watching 22 films in 11 days
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      Trainer Brink holds aces in feature
      541 49  -  By Danny Khoo THE Racing Writers Association Trophy, slated for Race 7 this afternoon at Penang, looks to be a benefit for American trainer John Brink. The leading trainer provides four of the 10 runners in the field and, on current form, two of
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      MUDLARKS
      40 49 RACE 2: Beau Dawn. RACE 4: Gentle Johnny. RACE 5: Liverpool Bay. RACE 7: All Baba Abjar, I Say Man, Gaya Boleh, Panalo. RACE 8: Victory Pet. Star Betelguese. RACE 9: Serheed's Joy, Ichiban Reflex, Great Caesar, Great Dream.
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      BEST BETS
      163 49 King Planner (Race 5 No. 3) Back in form. Caught the eye when he Hashed home for third to Sealed With A Kiss over the 1,200m trip last Sunday. Should be able to see out the 1,700m on breeding. With Jolly Good Fun, Sydney and Persian Tycoon commanding
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      Indigenous hard to beat
      221 49  -  BY Tan Thean Loon HIS record speaks for himself. Cups King Ivan Allan's Indigenous looks a shoo-in in the Hongkong Champions Chater Cup, slotted in Race 6 on today's Penang card. Like his trainer, the favourite for this season's Hongkong Horse of the Year award is
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      Fischer reigns once more
      186 49 FISCHER did not disappoint his supporters at Penang yesterday. Like in so many of his triumphs on turf, the sprint kingpin found little resistance on the way to his second Pan Malaysian Pools Horse of the Year award. The Malcolm Thwaites-trained galloper was again the popular
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      TODAY'S PENANG RACE CARD: Going forecast—Good
      1176 50 Wo. Laat I Ml Horw W R*ling Joe»sy B«rrir tXyHOttyrJMi. tr*n*-ow»n 1 7-6 GREAT EURO 57 Gopal 13 (4rug Velu-Tan Chin Tee) 2 5-57 GREAT HOPE 57 DChee 6 (4n*h Seow-GnMt Hope) 3 BREED TO WIN 555 Foong 6 (3nzg PK Leong-LJberator) 4 -59
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      Lock icon YESTERDAY'S GOING AT PENANG TRACKWORK: GOOD
      212 50 NST. DRUM RHYTHM wound up his preparations for Race 7 tomorrow with an eye-catching workout at Penang yesterday. Taken out by jockey V Si van, the New Zealand-bred cantered one round and then sprinted over 600 m in 37.75ec. The going was good. Workouts
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      TOMORROW'S PENANG RACE GUIDE
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      32 57 the new paper racing urpnscd 1 when he first noticed me hogging the Sunday Classified section. He hadn't known that I'd discovered easy-to-read six student |cata| Buy Jt. Sell It. Find It.
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      Lock icon Oh, a sunny win for England
      789 60  -  WORLD CUP CRICKET IN ENGLAND: ENGLAND bt SRI LANKA by eight wickets By' T r Ramakrishnan TELEVISION VIEW England beat Sri Lanka by eight wickets. England 207 for 2 in 46.5 overt (Alec Stewart 88, Graeme Hick 73 not out) Sri Lanka 204 (Rotnesh
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      205 60 Reuters. BAT BLOW FOR ENGLAND; Graeme Hick and Andrew Flintoff were prevented by cricket's ruling body, the ICC, from using blue-backed bats. Slazenger, the makers of the bats, wanted the two players to use the bats which matched the blue of the England strip. The bats have
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    615 61 NOW THEN Football has never been more popular with women as well as men and no team more popular than Manchester United. Alex Ferguson's men beat, among others, Italian giants Inter-Milan and Juventus to land a place in the European
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    ENGLISHPREMIERSHIP'99
    187 62 Tiger Pick of the Year by Jeffrey low Name Club Position Remarks Doubles*, the "Striker of 1. Dwight Yorke Man Utd 8 J M Y *y" t0fC< r^ > If not for Yoehe's high-scoring season, 2. Dennis Bergkamp Arsenal S% "ice-Berg" would have been my choice for top striker.
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    Giggs is tops for readers
    206 62 A WHOPPING total of 1292 votes were polled by readers in the Tiger Pick of the Year contest. And guess who the majority voted as the Player of the Year? Ryan Giggs. It was quite a surprising choice as injury-prone Giggs had not exactly been
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    READERS' CHOICE
    42 62 1: Ryan Giggs 328 2: Dwight Yorke 271 3: David Beckham 218 4: Dennis Bergkamp —134 5: Peter Schmeichel —107 6: Roy Keane 90 7: Emmanuel Petit 40 8: Jaap Stam 33 9: Andy Cole 33 10: Marc Overmars 30
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    WINNERS
    62 62 JEFFREY Low's Player of the Year is Dwight Yorke. Ten callers whose choice tallied with his have been picked to win prizes, courtesy of Asia-Pacific Breweries. The winners are (IC numbers): $500 cash plus a Tiger Beer watch *****40 A Tiger Beer watch each *****89, *****54, *****70, *****58, *****80
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      TONIGHT'S MATCHES: TANJONG PAGAR v SAF WARRIORS (Queenstown); TAMPINES v WOODLANDS (Tampines)
      289 63 TANJONG PAGAR v SAFFC (Queenstown Stadium, 7.30pm) THE Warriors of Singapore Armed Forces will be meeting their boogey team today. But they are happy. Because for once they have been rated as underdogs against the Jaguars of Tanjong
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      Lock icon LAST NIGHT'S ACTION AT BISHAN STADIUM: HOME UNITED v GOMBAK UNITED
      37 63 GOAL JOY: Goncalves exchanges a high-five with Home United assistant coach Yakob Hashim (left) and manager K T Velu after scoring the match-winner Picture/ Mohd Ishak
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      Painful joy in victory
      434 63  -  HOME UNITED 2 Zsolt Bucs 32nd, Egmar Goncalves 69th Main sponsor Super Coffeemix Equipment sponsor Uhlsport GOMBAK UNITED 1 J Surachai 2nd Main sponsor Shakey's Pizza Equipment sponsor Umbro Reports/] Peter Siow HE was nursing a groin injury. Each time, he shot with his left foot,
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      575 64  -  Tftfer Beer STLE^GUE JURONG FC 2 (Joseph Pragasam 40th m (pen); Jason Ainsley 60th) Main sponsor WSA Lines Equipment sponsor Kronos Seven red cards Players and club officials angry Furious fans hurl bottles and abuses Police threaten to call in dog unit CLEMENTIKHALSA 3 (Nahar Daud 35th;
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      'Ref did quite a good job'
      296 64  -  By Peter Siow NO action will be taken against referee A C Ganesan for flashing seven red cards at Jurong East Stadium last night. Instead, FAS referees' committee chairman Jeffrey Beh felt he did quite a good job, given the difficult situation. He said
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      It always takes two hands to clap
      259 64  -  COMMENT GERARD WONG WAS referee A C Ganesan wholly to be blamed for the farce at Jurong East Stadium last night? Frankly, I'd have to say no. After all, the players on the pitch last night were no angels either. Sure, Ganesan must
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      Massacre again? No way
      162 64  -  RUGBY SINGAPORE v lIAIIAI#AkiA nUlibßUflu (Today, spm, School of Physical Education) BY Gerard Wong FIVE years ago, a St Andrew's Secondary Two rugby student watch in disbelief his heros crumble. Singapore was thrased 13-164 by Hongkong in the 1994 Asian Rugby Championships a score that still
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      Lock icon Keane gearing up
      234 65  -  PREMIERSHIP TITLE CHASE: MANCHESTER UNITED v TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR Live on Premiere 12,10.55pm tomorrow ARSENAL v ASTON VILLA Live on Football Channel 22,10.55pm tomorrow MANCHESTER UNITED: By Lan Brown Manager Alex Ferguson watched with particular interest as his skipper Roy Keane put in another training session yesterday. United
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      Lock icon Faith in Graham
      182 65 ARSENAL: Reuters. ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger urged his club's historic north London rival Tottenham to do their best to help the English champions retain their league title at the weekend. "I am sure they will go there and give everything to try to win the game," said
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      SPORT IN YOUR SUNDAY PAPER:
      38 65 MANCHESTER UNITED: 10 DAYS FROM GREATNESS ROB HUGHES: Red Devils' new enemy lAN BROWN: Man U's secret strength PETER SCHMEICHEL: The last waltz CRICKET WORLD CUP: It's a matter of life and death
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      35 64 S&? e houmis Xrong MATCH n gombak Clßßfn STADIUM BISHAN JURONGEAST DATE 14/05/1999 (Fri) (Fri) MATCH I RESULTS I SCORE RESULTS I IX2 ClFMF>rri GOMBAK CLFMENTI 1/2 GOAL (♦y,) TOTAL x r GOALS J 3
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      40 65 INSIDE: Cricket World Cup: On England's win Man United: Team '99 and '66 compared S-League mayhem: Fury at Jurong Rugby series: No fear of Hongkong NBA PLAYOFFS: Houston v Lakers Atlanta v Detroit Miami v New York Sacramento v Utah
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      62 65 TODAY: (selected programmes) 12.30pm: WWF—Backlash In Your House (STAR Sports Channel 24) spm: PGA Golf: Byron Nelson Classic (STAR Sports Channel 24) 5.45pm Cricket World Cup: India v South Africa (Live, Channel 37) 5.45pm Cricket World Cup: Zimbabwe v Kenya (Live, Channel 38) 7pm Badminton: Sudirman Cup final (Live, STAR
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