The New Paper, 1 July 1999

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  • 7 1 the new paper THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1999
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    • 68 1 Interest rate surprise Anwar men protest in prison 1 /Page 19 Bridegroom vanishes, bride sues /Page 18 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg MITA (P) 062/04/99 60 CENTS >» > I r r 'SO J' sagk. mmsam J -V,< &M COLLECT MORE WIN MORE WIN STAR WARS COLLECTIBLES
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 497 2  -  US interest rate up I Surprise: Fed goes 0.25 per cent neutral Clarifications Tongue In chttk cartoon (TOP, June 30): The cartoon represents a dove of peace charred by the recent hostilities between North and South Korea. Two Hotline Plus callers thought it referred to our
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    • 151 2 TWO financial analysts said this morning that the stock market here will continue to boom. Said Mr Yang Sy Jian, research director for Kay Hian Research: The stock market will continue its boom. But because it has already gone up so much, there will be
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    • 224 2 Q. What li the Federal Retem (Fad) afl about? A. The Fed serves as the US central bank. One of its key tasks is to ensure that the economy grows at a rate that will not result in high inflation. To do this, the Fed can raise or lower
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    • 50 2 Wire services. NEW YORK: The Dow Jones industrial average surged 155.45 points to close at 10.970.80 points yesterday. TOKYO: Japan's Nikkei 225 sharemarket index opened 2.14 per cent higher. SYDNEY: The benchmark All Ordinaries index .AORD rose 49.5 points or about 1.7 per cent to 3,018.4. Wire services.
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    • 587 3 LACY lingerie planted ideas in their heads. Not naughty ones though. This group of enterprising students came up with a new washing technology to protect these delicate pieces of intimate clothing. Why lingerie, you ask this all-male group. Some clear their throats. Others look
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  • 584 5 SINGAPORETODAY THE bell hadn't rang yet, but the maths lesson had been interrupted by the teacher. Five boys were told to line up before the class. Their "crime": Having the gall to doze off while he held court, chalk in hand. The year was 1971. The school: The
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 230 6 HOT STORY CLOB ISSUE THE long-running Clob issue has taken another twist. Today, two of Malaysia's largest companies are expected to announce plans to buy over some Clob shares. Yesterday, Telekom and United Engineers (Malaysia) (UEM) stunned investors when they suspended their shares pending the announcements. The companies
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    • 246 6 in FCKlus Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew spoke to Global Viewpoint editor Nathan Gardels in Davos, Switzerland earlier this year. He covered a range of topics. Here are some highlights SENSE OF OBLIGATION Now the brightest students are educated at universities abroad and are marketable
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    • News Break
      • 62 6 THE chickens here are safe to eat as Singapore does not import any chicken from farms in Ipoh, said a spokesman from the Primary Production Department. A research study has revealed high levels of the banned antibiotic, chloramphenicol, in chicken samples in Ipoh. The banned antibiotic has been
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      • 61 6 FROM today, all new heavy vehicles must have a device which limits their speed to 60 kmh. Older vehicles have until next November to have the device fitted. Heavy vehicles which cannot go beyond 50 kmh, such as tractors, forklift trucks and Singapore Armed Forces and emergency vehicles,
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      • 62 6 THE total value of companies listed on the Singapore stock market has jumped over 100 per cent in the last year, to $316.3 billion for the half-year that ended yesterday. And the number of companies whose share value has breached the billion-dollar mark has almost doubled. The Straits
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      • 59 6 THERE has been an outpouring of aid for the 700,000 refugees that have flooded Albania and Macedonia. But the World Health Organisation said about a third to half of the shipments were essentially useless as they contained medicine not suited to the needs of the refugees, or drugs that
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      • 58 6 A THREE-MONTH-OLD boy's tongue and the inside of his mouth were so badly burnt they turned white. He was admitted to the National University Hospital on Tuesday morning and is in critical condition. The boy's father, an engineer, said doctors told him the burns may have been caused
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      • 62 6 THREE Indonesians a man and two women aged between 23 and 27 were caught trying to sneak back to Batam on Tuesday. They promised to pay a boat's master $150 each to take them back. The three illegal immigrants were hiding in the engine compartment of the boat.
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      • 59 6 NEW Housing Board flats will as much as 6 per cent cheaper in the third quarter, said the HDB. Meanwhile, the average capital values of private condominiums and apartments rose 10.7 per cent in the second quarter and that of landed homes by 6 per cent, according
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      • 69 6 THE world's most famous fast-food giant will pay US$4 million ($6.8 million) to settle a legal suit. McDonald's will pay the sum to the US government after failing to alert the authorities of injuries to more than 400 children at its playgrounds in the '70s and '80s.
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    • 59 6 International Herald Tribune: Pacific Rim seeks wider round of talks The New Straits Times: Telekom and UEM to make bid for Clob shares Asian Wall Street Journal: US Fed lifts interest rate by quarter point BBC news: The deadline for an agreement in Northern Ireland has passed
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    • 62 6 The Straits Times: Market capitalisation hits a record $316b The Business Times: SES market cap surges 64% to record $314b Lianhe Zaobao: Heavy vehicles must install speed limiting devices by end of next year Berita Harian: 23 kindergarten kids die in South Korean fire RCS morning news:
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    • 78 6 JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES Nobody else before (Philippine President Joseph Estrada) spoke their language the language of their favourite movie in which the rugged downtrodden hero would triumph over fictional foes. Meanwhile, the thinking class despairs. Jarius Bondoc of the Philippine Star newspaper on how the Philippines'impoverished
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 30 6 C°K#®k bllCCIV WHAT'S HUP T Hello. Yes, your men No, I don't dare delivered the sofa but to do it myself. you forgot to trim I—■-m off the extra leather.
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  • 464 7 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION REASSURES TRAINEE TEACHERS SPEAKUP SPEAK B p YOUR FORUM Miss Chan Guet Har, assistant manager, public relations, NTU/NIE We refer to the report "Pre-dawn queue for courses" (yesterday's TNP). Please allow us to assure your readers and all our trainee teachers that
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  • ON THE JOB
    • 514 9 Shhh! And you thought being a technopreneur was all about inventing gadgets. The business has its prophets and seers, too and YVONNE LIM looks ahead with one of them IMAGINE always being two years ahead of your time. The sceptics who constantly say
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    • 411 10 IMAGINE: Computer screens of the future that can be moulded into any shape. That's what we could have in two or three years' time, i said Dr Lee. And users will have to pay a small company called Cambridge Display Technology for this.
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    • 129 10 DR Lee describes his two children, aged 15 and 17, as the "typical next generation". "Their lifestyle is very different. They don't watch TV because everything is on the Internet. They spend more time on the ICQ (a popular chat programme)." But they aren't the ones
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 976 11  -  BY Liene Kew THE old lady used to be very active, helping out in the kitchen whenever she could, and taking long strolls in the neighbourhood. Until arthritis struck. Even when Madam Kadjja Norasi, 80, could no longer walk, she would sit at the
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    • 438 12  -  By Genevieve Jiang NEVER before has he participated in a birthday celebration involving a whole nation. But just three months as a permanent resident in Singapore and Mr Jeffrey van Tongeren, 39, is already enthusiastically making preparations for Singapore's 34th birthday. Said the Dutchman,
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    • 240 11 The a Food Festival Is! exotic Yong Tau Foo delights, such as our famous fried oysters, this buffet 1 31 July 1999 gained tremendous popularity over the years. The Food Fest has begun, and there 13 .50+++ per person $6.oo+++ per child no better place to your 12% discount for
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    • 113 12 Congratulations to the winners of The Great Centrepoint Hot-Air Balloon Adventure Draw. 28 May to 27 June'99 Ms Justina Phua (l/C No. *****46J) A trip for two to the Albuquerque Hot-Air Balloon Fiesta (2-10 October *99) in New Mexico, USA Mr Aaron Tan Eng Soon (l/C No. *****96C) $1,000 worth
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    • 449 13 Advertisement YEO'S drink gives Mr Tan 1,000 reason to celebrate, j IT WAS ONE OF THOSE Mr Tan couldn't believe his luck. He normally UNBELIEVABLY HOT AND HUMID stocks U P on Yeo s chrysanthemum and Soya o c. w Tr >Ki Bean drinks, as well as baked beans. But
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    • 429 14 CANCER DOCTOR'S QUEST TO FIND CURE THE CANCER RESEARCH IF all goes well, Dr Kong Hwai Loong says we may be able to treat cancer with just an injection in five years time. He is working on a method to combine two
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    • 65 14 Senior Minister Lee Kuen Yew, in an interview, on the chaflenges and vision of building a nation today: Certain societies, like Japan, are like Lego blocks. They stick together no matter what. But young, multi-racial societies like Singapore societies without a long shared history will be at risk.
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 268 15 THEY were due to hold their wedding ceremony. There she was, all dressed up and ready to exchange vows with the bridegroom. But he didn't turn up for the big day! About $15,000 had been spent preparing for the ceremony in 1994 but
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    • 66 15 British social historian Lawrence Stone, who died recently, did more to reveal the honors of marriage and divorce in England over the centuries than any other scholar. Whle his own marriage endured, he concluded in his last study that: What is clear is that the idea of
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    • 49 15 This is believed to be the first case of its kind in Singapore's Syariah Court, reported BH. A lawyer, who declined to be named, told The New Paper this morning that he had not heard of such cases before. He didn't think this case would affect non-Muslim weddings.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 349 16 ANWAR SUPPORTERS' PRISON PROTEST A LARGE group of Anwar Ibrahim's supporters, some of whom came in MercedesBenzes, disturbed the peace at the Sungai Buloh prison recently. The former Malaysian deputy prime minister is serving a six-year jail sentence for corruption there. The supporters entered
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    • 303 16 Sex torture: Ex-Marine gets death Source: Reuters. HE was born in Hongkong and later served in the US Marine Corps. But he didn't live up to the corps' ideals, because he murdered 11 people, including two babies, in a sex-and-torture spree in the '80s. For that, a judge in California
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    • 445 17 Twentythree children died in a blaze at the Seal and Youth Training Centre, a summer camp facility for children, located about 80 km south-west of Seoul. THERE were about 500 children inside the makeshift building at the summer camp in Hwasong, South Korea. But just two
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  • WORLD TODAY
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      391 23 IT was all just a lie. Edwin Sabillon, 13, whom we reported yesterday as making a fantastic 7,0000 km voyage from Honduras to New York now says he made it all up. The New York media and others all over the world went to town with reports
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    • 358 23 RYAN, four, was an aggressive, disruptive child and difficult to control. He had lashed out at strangers and had suffocated the family cat. He had a reputation of kicking and biting teach era, calling one "a stupid cow", reported The Evening Standard (Internet edition).
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    • 343 24  -  AUSTRALIAN No. 2 TIM FISCHER QUITS FOR BACKBENCH By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY ITS been upsetting for Mr Tim Fischer's family when he's away on political business for days or weeks. And it's been an extra strain since his elder son, Harrison, five, was diagnosed
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    • 165 24 MR Fischer told of his concern after he and his wife received a report last week on son Harrison's progress. Mrs Fischer said: "Harrison's getting along very, very well now he's at school, he's happy, he's learning things, and like a lot of kids with it,
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    • 142 24 TRANSPORT Minister John Anderson was voted new leader of the National Parly in a ballot this morning. He will become Deputy Prime Minister when Mr Fischer steps down on July 21. Mr Fischer will act as prime minister for two weeks when John Howard goes to
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  • 302 25  -  but they enjoyed the party spotlight PICTURES MOHD ISHAK BY Melvin Singh WHILE politicians played their games behind closed doors, the children of Indonesia took to the streets. Not to protest or hold rallies. But to demonstrate their wide-eyed amusement at the orgy of colour and
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  • 529 27  -  ET CETERA WITH MARY LEE YOURS is an Englishspeaking family and your primary-school child is weak in MT (mother tongue). You are also no longer sure about the benefits of private tuition. Fear not: You can help your child, even if, like me, you're
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 129 27 COMICRELIEF The Concrete Jungle/Colin Goh I3SS.S® L I ISSSSSSFII IskssHbH lass Ifaffl ssM>aa7i swags l rasr S 3Ea nouttic WHOSEETOTS gES 11 7/ -\l 'Zs ONBE..W, J* StSgfy 1/ pp ®P® Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson iDOtJMTWtHK ITSMMS) IIWERE ITIS» THE BEAR'S *11, "WATS *3T kKIICIAI f "^2 WWE S«? TOSM
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  • ShowTime
    • 506 28  -  28 Avis Wong THE first thing Hongkong actress Karen Mok noticed when she sat down was my South Park bag sitting next to me. "Eh, you have that! I love the cartoon," she cooed. Yes, Karen, the quintessential sex goddess, was reduced to an enraptured little
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      180 29 KAREN MOK kicked off her career with a solo Cantonese album, Karen, in 1993. Then she shocked everyone when she showed off her back on the cover of her second Cantonese album, All of Karen Mok, in 1996. She started acting in 1994 and was the Best Supporting
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      223 30 "SHAKEN, not stirred." James Bond's famous line about how he likes his martini may never seem the same again. That is, if My Best Friend's Wedding star Rupert Everett (above, right) gets his way in writing and starring in a gay version of James Bond. "I'm halfway through
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      89 30 Eddie Murphy said it to me 10 years ago. He said: "Cool and funny don't mix." And it didn't dawn on me until this film (Wild Wild West)... Sexy and funny is an even worse mix... I really wasn t prepared for that. I got on to the
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      55 30 Playing a dog called Sundae for a McDonald's home-video series. I was down on all fours constantly, it was hot, and the head was so big, I kept falling down. —81-cm tall Verne J Troyer, who played Minl-Me In Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me,
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    • 523 31  -  Picture/ Berita Harian IT began as an assignment in April last year. It will be sealed with her wedding next month. Former Prime 12 newsreader Iskandaria Masduki did a three-part feature on love on the Internet, including whether the Malay community accepted such
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  • 386 34 FROM PAGE 36 CAREER CHOICE What is the best part of your job? The satisfaction you get when you finish a job. And getting to look down on everyone while working in Scotts Road. How long have you been involved in industrial rope access (RA)?
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    • 516 43  -  By Danny Khoo STYLISH first-up winner Celebrity River continued to show good headway at Bukit Timah yesterday. Taken out by winning jockey V Sivan, the two-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding caught the eye when he disposed of 600 m in 36.55 ec easily on a track rated
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    • 214 43 NST. FAITH AND POWER, trained by Australian Michael Kent, is the only Class 3 newcomer entered for the Singapore Turf Club's July meeting starting on Saturday. The four-year-old brown New Zealand-bred gelding by Trustful out of Wigan's Lass raced twice as Vampire for a win over 1,200 m in
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    • 35 43 Mighty Power will not be running in the Class 2 1,600 m event at Bukit Timah on Sunday. Instead, he will be taking part in the Class 2 1,200 m race on that day.
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    • 775 44  -  By Norman Stevens REPORTING FROM ENGLAND Pat Rafter bt Boris Becker 6-3, 6-2,6-3 SEVERAL minutes after the last point of the match was won and lost, the applause from the Centre Court could be heard more than 400 metres away yesterday. And in a corner of
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    • 159 44 AFP. BRITAIN'S Tim Henman broke the biggest heart in men's tennis when he outlasted American Jim Courier in a thrilling five-set encounter on Centre Court. The sixth seed saved three match points to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon for the fourth successive year with a 4-6, 7-5,
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    • 514 45  -  SOUTH-EAST ASIAN GAMES (BRUNEI, AUG 7-15) Reports/ Peter Siow Basketball will make history in more ways than one in the South-east Asia Games in Brunei from Aug 7-15. Reason 1: Singapore will field China-born Han Li Jun for the first time. Reason 2: The
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    • 144 45 THE Singapore National Olympic Council wants swimmer Joscelin Yeo to take part in more events at next month's South-east Asia Games. The 20-year-old multiple-gold medallist has been entered for only the 100 metres freestyle and butterfly. SNOC secretary general Lau Teng Chuan said that he would
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    • 335 45  -  RUGBY: FIRST PHUKET INTERNATIONAL SEVENS (JULY 3-4) By Gerard Wong LAST year, he guided Malaysia to the semi-finals of the Commonwealth Games rugby sevens plate competition. Last week, he led Blacks to the Ml National Rugby Championships Sevens title And now national sevens
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    • 302 46 ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP UPDATE AFP. ARSENAL coach Arsene Wenger yesterday completed the signing of Brazilian defender Silvinho. The signing is Wenger's first step towards dismantling the Gunners' aging back four. The 25-year-old left-sided defender moved to Highbury from Corinthians for a fee believed to be in
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    • 407 46  -  MORNING LATEST ON COPA AMERICA: rT7TT?iTrffITTT] By Ian Brown MEXICO proved that it's not the amount of possession you enjoy which determines the outcome of a match. Rather how you use the ball. Chile lacked ideas in its shock 1-0 defeat in the Copa
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    • 471 47  -  Reports/ Suresh Nair EXPORTING Made-in-Singapore soccer refereeing talent. The proposal to allow the cream of Singapore's referees to blow the whistle in Asia is under consideration by the Football Association of Singapore. It is learnt that the FAS intends to work with the Asian Football Confederation
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    • 103 47 THE latest FAS proposal has got the thumbs-up from George Suppiah, 70, the last Singapore referee to officiate in the World Cup Finals 25 years ago. He hailed the move "brilliant in terms of offering first-class match experience". "But we have to look into the
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    • 300 47 CONTROVERSY IN NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE DIVISION TV/0 PROMOTION contender Pioneer Arsenal is in hot soup. The Football Association of Singapore is taking it to task for failing to play Saturday's top-of-the-table Division Two match against West United at Tanglin. It is the first
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  • 525 48  -  Confident mood despite blow of late withdrawals and injuries THE SINGAPORE STARS: I Goalkeepers: Yazid Yasin (Home United); Rezal Hassan (SAFFC) Defenders. S Subramani (Home), Kadir Yahaya (Geylang United), Tamil Marren (Jurong), Aziz Salim (Balestier Central) Midfielders: Nazri Nasir (SAFFC), Zulkamaen Zainal (Geylang), Gusta Guzarishah (Home),
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  • 294 49  -  WHAT: Tiger Beer S-League All-Star Challenge WHEN: Tomorrow, 7.30pm WHERE: Bishan Stadium TICKETS: $30, $8 and $5 (adults); $2 (students) WHAT YOU WILL GET FOR A $30 TICKET: A seat in Bishan Stadium's sheltered red-seats area A Kentucky Fried Chicken meal set and drinks BUY
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  • 272 49  -  TOMORROW, 5.45 PM BtSHANSTAWUM By Ernest Luis YOU can expect a star-spangled celebrity match as the curtain-raiser. Showbiz stars, led by Triple Nine star Mark Richmond, will take on Soccerbiz, comprising the journalists. And top on the mind of the journalists is revenge for the
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  • 211 49 SALE OF TICKETS THE $100 VIP tickets are sold out! Lucky to grab the last 20 tickets was Jurong FC's saviour Ken Chiang (right). The WSA Lines vice-president who came to Jurong's rescue last year with a $210,000 sponsorship deal believes in supporting a worthy cause.
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  • 569 50 Ifs official: Manchester United is out of the FA Cup ~spUrtstoday HOLDER Manchester United withdrew from next season's FA Cup yesterday, effectively placing country before club. United the Premiership, FA Cup and European Cup holder bowed to a request from the English Football Association (FA) to
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