The New Paper, 19 May 1999

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 291 2 ECONOMIC SURVEY RESULTS Yes, but slowly. The top news: The Singapore economy grew 1.2 per cent from Januaiy to March compared with that same period last year. Compared with the previous three months, growth momentum showed a strong pickup of 6.8 per cent But the Government is
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    • 120 3  -  TEXT: EVANGELINE POH Locals. Expats. Two words that have been in the news of late. Here's a local whose parents were expats. He doesn't carry a passport or an IC. This is an animal born at the Singapore Zoo. TO BE CONTINUED: This series will
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    • 70 3 LIKE this picture? Would you like to have a copy of this or the pictures published on Monday and yesterday in glossy finish? Call our Editorial Library at 730-5508 or 730-5726 and place your order. The prints are priced between $6 and $50 each depending
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 590 4  -  By Fong Foong Mei LOOK at the woman in this picture. Would you be offended if you saw her and her child like this in public? Childbirth educator Nikki Macfarlane doesn't think so. In fact, she's so determined to make her point that today, she plans to
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    • 153 4 NOTHING wrong with breastfeeding in public, said Nominated Member of Parliament Claire Chiang, who has breastfed all her children. "When milk comes, it comes," said the NMP, but added that nursing mums can be discreet, wearing scarfs and big shirts. "We need to adopt creative
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    • 453 4  -  EVEN IF YOU COVER UP. THERE MAY BE PROBLEMS. SAYS THIS MOTHER-TO-BE BY Riana Zakir MY first baby is due in September. I wish I had the courage to say: 'I'll breastfeed anywhere I want. To hell with the men." But I
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 251 5 iffir SPH SHARE BUY BACK SCHEME: SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) has unveiled a novel scheme that could earn its shareholders more money for their stock. It involves opening a new trading counter to buy back its own stock, which, under a recent law change,
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    • 54 5 HORRIFYING: Relatives applying bandages to a 15-year-old girl whose hands were hacked off by rebels during an attack on their village in Sierra Leone. Rebels have severed the hands of thousands of villagers In a bid to win a protracted civil war In the West
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    • News Break
      • 60 5 CONTRACEPTION CONDOMS are the favourite form of contraception for women in Singapore. A survey of about 4,000 married women, aged between 15 and 44, also showed that the pill and lUDs are unpopular. Permanent contraceptive methods such as sterilisation went down from about 23 per cent of married
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      • 50 5 MALAYSIA MALAYSIA was not re-admitted into the key Morgan Stanley Capital International Emerging Markets Free Index on Monday. This disappointed Malaysians who had driven up the stock market in hope of more foreign investment. The country has been left out since capital controls were imposed last year.
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      • 61 5 PROPERTY CK TANG might lose its flagship store in Orchard Road if it defaults on its loan of $143.5 million. United Overseas Land (UOL), from which most of the loan was taken, would buy the property valued at $210 million recently from the loss-making retailer. CK Tang could
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      • 64 5 MALACCA THE mass slaughter of pigs in Malacca will begin today in a battle against the encephalitis virus, which has already claimed 101 lives. Malacca State Secretary Abdul Aziz Omar said five pig farms keeping a total of 29,200 pigs had been infected with the virus. The
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      • 63 6 IN COURT A MAN charged with murder earlier this year died of a massive heart attack on Jan 25 before he could be tried. Chen Chee Fan, 41, fled Singapore in 1992, but was tracked down in the United States and brought back last year. He killed painter
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      • 57 6 LABOUR ILLEGAL immigrants in Johor have been using stolen documents to secure Malaysian passports to work in Singapore. Over the past year, foreigners have used false or stolen identity cards to apply for Malaysian passports so they can apply for work permits here. The passports also allows them
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      • 53 6 CRIME A MONK bet on horses with bookies, had a cloned pager to receive horse-betting tips and kept obscene and uncensored video CDs. Phrachannarong Woraadisak, 44, a resident at the Wat Patthar Buddhist Society in Geylang, admitted the offences in a magistrate's court yesterday. He was fined a
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      • 51 6 GERMANY MASS-MURDER suspect Guenter Ewen committed suicide as police stormed his Luxembourg hotel room yesterday. French police said the 36-year-old killed himself with his .357 magnum pistol. The German gunman is suspected of killing five people in Germany and France. He was being sought by police in several
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    • 34 5 The Dow Jones industrial average fell 16.52 points, or 0.15 per cent, to close at 10,836 yesterday. A moderate volume of 736 million shares was traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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    • 76 5 International Herald Tribune: Clinton refuses to rule out ground troops In Yugoslavia The New Straits Times: Bullish KLSE investors continue buying sprees to extend 7-week rally: Turnover surges past $1 m Asian Wall Street Journal: Hongkong asks China to interpret Basic Law: Move to block immigrant influx
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    • 189 6 (^Sus IF BUYERS return to the property market, the Government will consider releasing more land for housing. That's what Finance Minister Richard Hu said in The Business Times today. He said he believed that the Singapore property market had bottomed out and that if
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    • 60 6 The Straits Times: Big win for Barak in Israel election The Business Times: S'pore market sizzles as banks' local shares jump LianheZaobao: 100,000 soldiers and policemen deployed in Jakarta to prevent violence Berita Harian: Indonesian election campaign begins RCS morning news: The OECD says the economic outlook
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    • 65 6 Quote Wworthy Jam delighted that in their unique Singaporean fashion, the authorities of that country are going towards their own Big Bang. International Monetary Fund chief Michel Camdessus, praising Singapore's efforts to open up its financial system. He says measures announced on Monday to further open up the
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • HEALTHTODAY
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      438 7  -  You've been warned —you're a "borderline high". You have high blood pressure but it's not very serious yet. So what should you eat? WHAT TO EAT??? BY Carol Leong IS there anything you can eat to prevent high blood pressure? Not drugs, but some kind of food? People ask
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    • READERS ASK...
      • 194 8 QI'VE had constant constipation either for a week or three days in the past two years. Am I having problems with my bowels, or is it something I've eaten for lunch or dinner? I don't eat many vegetables. I am worried. Can it cause cancer? I
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      • 319 8 QI BRUSH my teeth twice a day and floss daily, as advised by the dentist. I had one wisdom too til removed 12 years ago, and the other, about two years ago.A few months later, I began to have problems chewing. My molars started to hurt,
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  • 267 9  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Laavanya K HE can't see very well but Tan Eng Teck has a noble vision: to help disadvantaged children in China. The 22-year-old Ngee Ann student, who needs a magnifying glass to read, is helping to repair a school in Jiangxi. The one-storey building
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • Article, Illustration
      46 11 mui<mui< Clementi Khalsa coach Bahman Foroutan after seven players were sacked at last Friday's match. How can we even think about qualifying lor World Cup 2MO time are not alihfed #play as well start an S-League Volleyball League with no body contact at all.
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      111 11 FREEBIES galore, open air music and a jolly good time with friends and families. It's all happening at The New Paper Big Walk on Sunday. But let your fingers do the walking first. Pick up the The New Paper this Friday for your comprehensive Big Walk guide. Highlights
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    • 621 12  -  By Irene Kew IT was so swift that Mr Ravindran Visuvanthan didn't feel anything. He only realised he had lost a finger when he spotted it metres away. But thanks to the swift response of the Singapore Civil Defence Force control room operators and Mr Visuvanthan's
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    • Article, Illustration
      350 13  -  Man dies in gas stove blast He loved to cook. But he couldn't do so last week because his gas stove was spoilt. Instead of eating out, Mr Ng Soon Heng, 36, decided to fix it. He hauled the portable stove to his bedroom. But the heavy smoker had
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    • 85 13 WANT to know who cooks the best dry mutton curry? Or what payasam, a South Indian dessert, looks (and tastes) like? Then go down to the Admiralty Resort and Country Club in Sembawang on Saturday. The Christian Malayali Club is organising a contest for the best dry
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 34 14 muKmuK Qmfln Elizabeth's royal retidtneo It placod at the bottom of a Ist of Britain's top affiatlhw Sayt a palanr spokosmaiu Buckingham Palace is not a theme park.
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    • 316 14 Don't fall for this JUDGE FREEZES ASSETS Yesterday, a US judge froze the assets of the company involved in the scam. The order prevents US telephone carriers from sending money to the Dominica phone company. Source: Reuters AN obscure company has been using the Internet to send bogus
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    • 455 15  -  with WOON WUI TEK REAL men don't dance, say so-called tough guys. Two-stepping is for sissies, they claim. Really? Well, the opposite has actually been true in Israeli politics: Only "real men" bona fide tough guys have dared to dance. Dance, that is, with Israel's enemies
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    • 344 16 INDONESIAN POLLS: JUNE 7 Source: The Business Times, wire services. IF the Golkar party wins in the June 7 polls it may be bad for Indonesian stability. That's the popular view. Now here is the twist: An opposition victory is also a cause for worry.
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    • Article, Illustration
      345 17  -  'Plastic surgeon' snips with scissors in BUNGLE DOC By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY SHE offered plastic surgery to Japanese tourists visiting Sydney. And she had her own way of doing things. She didn't wear gloves or sterilise her instruments before reuse and she preferred scissors to scalpels
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    • 55 17 LEE was fined A 53,600 (about $4,000) by the Medical Board in 1997 for similar offences. She said she had not known it was an offence to pass herself off as a doctor in Australia. She claimed to have performed similar procedures in Korea without problems. But then
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    • 367 17  -  1 BUNGLE AGENT By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY THE Australian spy facing American spying charges is an enthusiastic bodybuilder with a love of steriods, yoghurt and women. Jean-Philippe Wispelaere, 28, is a former Canberra-based intelligence analyst. He left his job suddenly in January.
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    • 133 17 My, 1996: Wispelaere begins work with Australia's defence spy organisation. H September. He considers espionage to make money, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says. J—nary 1999: He quits job "to travel and write". Lan 1& Goes to India or Pakistan's embassy in Bangkok to sell US
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    • 332 18 Source: Wire services. THE Fed, the US central bank, usually keeps people guessing about anything to do with the interest rate. But this time, in a surprise move it has revealed that it was open to the possibility of raising interest rates. And it revealed
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    • Article, Illustration
      322 18 Japan's Toyota to recall 810,000 cars over a suspension problem with recent models Source: Wire services. THE operation will be the largest recall of its cars it has ever made. Japan's largest carmaker Toyota Motor Corp said yesterday it would spend at least 14 billion yen ($194 million) to
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  • ShowTime
    • 441 19  -  By Fong Foong Mei THE audition called for girls to turn up in bikinis. She suspected something sleazy. And, if not for her husband's encouragement, Ava Lynette Koh (left) might not be starring in her first movie. The ex-Raffles Girls* School student, 23, has no professional
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    • 89 19 SHANGHAI Lily is a thriller set in 1930s Shanghai. It's about an American who's found dead under mysterious circumstances in a brothel called The Hollywood Club. His wife, played by American stage actress Lea DiStasio, goes to China to unravel the mystery, aided by the enigmatic bargirl Lily.
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    • 490 20  -  We're mature enough to get 'shagged' By Saw Tek Meng I WAS surprised when the censors bonked the word shagged from the title of the new Austin Powers movie. But many people couldn't make out why and rooted for it to be put back. When the Films
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    • 356 21  -  Sylvia Toh Paik Choo is a film critic and contributor to The New Paper. She has also written humour books such as Eh Goondu. She will file regular reports from the Cannes Film Festival PAIK CHOO in Cannes IT was more like a de-press(ing) conference when we
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      171 21 WELL, I have just been to the market screening (for buyers) of SEX: The Annabel Chong Story, and I have to tell you the truth I dozed off in parts. Even worse is to come, for I have an interview with Grace Quek, the Singaporean girl who
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      151 22 FAME is a drug, says Matthew McConaughey (right). "It's a hell of a drug, and a heaven of a drug. It's a drug, though. "And you can't really explain what it is," the hunky star of EDtv told the Internet's Mr Showbiz. In EDtv, he plays an
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      93 22 REMEMBER Linda Wong? W The doe-eyed beauty with flowing tresses who gave us H[f aA hits like Don't Ask Who I Am and Victim 7 After more than a E. Mmi year away, the M Taiwan-based singer '^k She's been busy filming TV serials in Hongkong. J She's
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      50 22 IF you really read the tabloids, they're very clever. Sometimes they're really well-written and so Imaginative. I have to live vicariously through my own rumours because they're much more exciting than my real life. —Ally Mcßeal star Calista Flockhart (inset) on published rumours about her dieting and other problems
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      72 22 Brendan met quite a p few times Jljflß. t through our t •9 iUHV)'b^J remember Jfl jn when I was because the same lawyer, and I remember when she told me she had Brendan Fraser as a client, and I was like, "Oh, yeah? Can you set me
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    • 765 34  -  TRACKWORK YESTERDAY'S GOING AT BUKITTIMAH: GOOD/YIELDING By Danny Khoo Newcomer Royal Dragon bears watching when he lines up in the Restricted Terms 1,400m event on Sunday. Taken out by trainer Charles Leek, the Restricted Terms galloper caught the eye when he disposed of 600m in a
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    • 212 34  -  TRACKWORK BY Danny Khoo LUCKY TYCOON looks set to step up on his encouraging debut third judging by his impressive hit-out at Bukit Timah this morning. With a track rider aboard, the nice-looking gelding by Last Tycoon strolled out effortlessly to
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    • 211 34 RESULTS of yesterday's barrier trials at Bukit Timah: Trial 1 (RT): 1 Silent Star (Soo) 2 Precious Pearl (Sainul) 3 The Growl (Tai) 4 Lady Star (Aslam) 5 Unbeatable Warrior. Margins and time: Vi, hd (1 min 04.1 sec) Trial 2 (RT): 1 Aussie Lobster (Kuah)
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    • 454 35  -  BY Tan Thean Loon WHAT has the ban on the movement of horses between Singapore and Malaysia got to do with prizemoney for races? Well, for a start, it has rendered the Singapore Turf Club's Performance Bonus Schemes for local trainers and owners obsolete.
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    • 252 35  -  WHIP HAND By Marc Tan CHEATED. That is exactly what race-goer Peter Kuek felt after watching top jockey Oscar Chavez boot home New Centre in Race 8 at Penang last Sunday. The Hoy Kee Poh-trained galloper scored easily by four lengths in the Class
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    • 240 35 OWNERS and trainers yesterday welcomed the increase in stakemoney. Champion trainer Charles Leek said he was happy with the increase as it would help owners in maintaining their horses. He hoped that the Singapore Turf Club (SNTC) would give more next year. Owner Gary Desker, 41, said
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    • 154 35 Prizemoney increase for normal races from 1988-1999 1988 1989 1990 1991 1993 1998 1999 Ctats 1 $30,000 $33,500 $36,000 $40,000 $50,000 $70,000 $85,000 Class 2 $22,500 $26,500 $28,000 $33,000 $40,000 $50,000 $60,000 Class 3 $19,500 $23,500 $26,000 $29,000 $35,000 $35,000 $40,000 Class 4 $17,000 $21,500 $21,000 $26,000 $26,000 $26,000 $30,000
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    • 533 36 I NBA CONFERENCE SEMI-FINALS THIS Laker was on fire. This Laker was sprinting up the court. This Laker was muscling in and grabbing the big guy. Too bad this Laker wasn't Shaquflle O'Neal. It was his bodyguard. And he was hanging onto his screaming, 2.1-metre tall boss,
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    • 185 37 RESULT Group A: England beat Kenya by nine wickels (England 204 for 1 in 39 overs: Nasser Hussain 88 not out, Graeme Hick 61 not out. Kenya 203 in 49.4 overs: Steve Tikolo 71, Ravindu Shah 46; Darren Gough 4 for 34) TODAY Group A:
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    • 769 37  -  BY T R Ramakrishnan TELEVISION VIEW INDIA plays Zimbabwe in a vital Group A World Cup match today, knowing defeat could end its hopes of making the next stage of the tournament. It lost its opener to South Africa on Saturday by four wickets,
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    • 646 38 Last Sunday, Manchester United edged out Arsenal in the Premiership title race. It was gripping stuff on the pitch all the way from the start of the season in August '98. But it was just as exciting off the pitch —from pre-season in June '98. English football
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    • 502 39 WHAT HAPPENED MANCHESTER United captain Roy Keane was arrested by police on Monday night after being accused of hitting a woman in a bar. He was released yesterday on bail. The Ireland international has not been charged with any offence. A 25-year-old woman, Leanne Carey, claims
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    • 426 39  -  NATIONAL SCHOOLS A DIVISION RUGBY FINAL (POLICE CUP): By Gerard Wong A CHANCE to avenge lost pride that's how Anglo-Chinese JC views today's Police Cup final against arch-rival Rattles JC. ACJC suffered heartbreak at last year's final when it lost 5-8
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    • 754 40  -  NIKE ASIAN TOUR: ARSENAL IN Kl What: Malaysia v Arsenal friendly international Where: National Stadium, Bukit Jalil When: Tonight, 8.45 pm Crowd expected: Capacity 85,000 Arsenal arrived in Kuala Lumpur last night for the first leg of its Asian Tour '99. How did the Gunners behave
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    • 154 40 Reuters. ARSENAL'S French striker Nicolas Anelka appears set to leave the London club. And, in an interview published yesterday, he suggests that the English media is to blame. "I'm certainly going to leave one day. Today, my decision to leave or stay has been taken," Anelka,
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    • 374 41  -  Clubs with gaming machines: Geylang United (17 jackpot machines) Home United (seven) Marine Castle (seven) Tampines (six). By Peter Siow CALL them fruit machines, gaming machines, jackpot machines or one-armed bandits. The name means nothing. What matters is the money that flows out of the machines.
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    • 269 41  -  By Gerard Wong SHOW more enthusiasm in fighting football corruption in your own countries. And you'd better. Because the Asian Football Confederation will be watching you closely. A frustrated AFC secretary general Datuk Peter Velappan sounded this warning to all Asian member football associations
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    • 77 41 We're cuixious, serious y and laughing that's a good way to prepare/or a final. Real Mallorca coach Hector Cuper My biggest problem will be deciding which two, or maybe three, cf our four forwards will play. Christian Vieri, Alan Boksic, Marcello Salas and Roberto Mancini are all
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    • 144 42  -  By Peter Siow CLEMENTI may seem to be a lame duck without top goal-getter and skipper Nahar Daud for today's clash. Nahar, who has knocked in six goals so far, was sacked in last Friday's infamous match against Jurong FC in which seven players received the red
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    • 109 42 (Jurong East Stadium, 7.30pm) TANJONG Pagar will probably not find a better time to visit Jurong FC than today. For the host will be without its four foreigners Sead Kolasinac, Bojan Hodak, Jason Ainsley and Mirko Jurilz who were sacked last week. It will be interesting
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    • 264 43 MANCHESTER UNITED'S TREBLE TRAIL 1,*L Premier League: Vaffl CHAMPION W LJ 2JL FA Cup: v NEWCASTLE X (Saturday) I European Cup: O f Reuters. MANCHESTER United manager Alex Ferguson will wait until Saturday morning before making a decision on Dutch defender Jaap Stam. He needs him desperately for
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    • 47 43 WEMBLEY FOR THE TAKING: Man U 'keeper Peter Schmeichel looks on as one of the Wembley Twin Towers collapses on a special cake to commemerate his final Wembley appearance in the FA Cup final on Saturday. It was handed to him yesterday Picture/ Afp
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