The New Paper, 31 July 1999

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  • 19 1 the new paper SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1999 Another quality publication Singapore Prmsa Holdinga http://newpaper.a8ia1.com.sg MITA (P) 062/04/99 60 CENTS
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 218 2 ILLEGAL immigrants have tried coming into Singapore through land and sea. Many have been arrested and jailed. But death has never been the price for them until yesterday. Four men who had tried to sneak into Singapore via the Causeway are dead. They
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      416 2 Woman behind Monica scandal charged 8 months after immunity offer LAST NOVEMBER: Ms Linda Tripp revealed tapes of conversations she had with Miss Monica Lewinsky. They were about the former White House intern's affair with theUS President. Ms Tripp was promised that she would not be charged. YESTERDAY:
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    • 168 2 TO make the tape recordings, Ms Linda Tripp used to wire herself up. Some reports have suggested that she was encouraged to do this to gather evidence. She also taped telephone conversations she had with Miss Monica Lewinsky. Both women became friends when they worked together ait
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    • 312 3  -  Bi Genevieve Jiang THEY were there strutting their stuff, grating their hips to pounding music. And no, they weren't teenagers partying the night away, or contestants at a beauty pageant. They were children, between five and 13, having a whale of a time at
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  • FIRST LADY, MRS ONG TENG CHEONG, DIES OF CANCER AT 62
    • 623 4  -  Reports by YVONNE LIM, CALVIN LOW, GENEVIEVE JIANG and NG BOON YIAN IMAGINE going to a food court and bumping into the First Lady. Yes, you might have seen Mrs Ong Teng Cheong having lunch at a food court, though you probably didn't recognise her. And
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    • 107 4 ntCj j ititonwt fi urn tin r,i„, m ffcjn v i invt? nrViniSXCi S LnTlCe, headlined Flying of State Flag, sent yesterday: "In response to numerous queries, following the death of the First Lady, whether the state nag mm m ivowyi at half-mast, the Prime Minister's Office explained:
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    • 47 4 THE wake is at 1, Dalvey Estate, from today to Tuesday. Visiting hours are 10am to 10pm. The funeral will take place on Tuesday at 4pm, at Mount Vemon Crematorium, Service Hall 2. The First Family requests that no wreaths, flowers or ctonations be sent.
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    • 152 4 IT was a sad day at Nanyang Girls' High School yesterday. Staff and students mourned the loss of Mrs Ong, a much-loved old girl. At 2 pm yesterday, many of the 1,390 students and staff wept silently as they observed three minutes of silence. Michelle Goh, 13,
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    • 137 4 A STRICT, hands-on and caring boss. That is how Mr William Ong, 45, remembers Mrs Ong. He worked in Ong and Ong Architects, of which she was chairman and chief executive officer, for three years. Said Mr Ong: "Somehow, she would know when you're not well. Fve known
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    • 724 4 I FIRST COUPLE S 1 OVE STORY HE played a drunkard and she, a bar-hostess. Through this unlikely combination, love was born. Yes, the love story of President Ong Teng Cheong and his wife Ling Siew May took some strange twists, but their lead
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 242 5 MIT MAKE it a buyers' market. Launch fewer homes than you can sell. This will dry up supply and drive prices up. This strategy by property developers has worked because latest official figures show an 11.4 per cent jump in private housing prices from April to June.
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    • 30 5 The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 135.14 points, or 1.26 per cent, to 10,655.15 yesterday. About 726 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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    • News Break
      • 60 5 WOMAN JAILED AN accounts manager cheated her employers of $3 million over seven years. She used the money to buy a BMW and to take friends and relatives on holidays abroad. Lim Hoon Choo, 45, altered 500 company checks by making them out to herself and adding
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        60 5 I ROOF COLLAPSE CHARGES have been laid over the collapse of the hall roof at Compassville Primary School and injury of seven workers last month. Engineer Bill Hong Keng Chee (left), 47, checker Joseph Huang Wei Liang (far left), 67, and building contractor, B. K. B. Engineering Constructions,
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      • 61 5 SBBB.COM ITS business as usual for controversial e-commerce firm SBBB.com. The Attorney-General's Chambers will not give a ruling on whether the company has run foul of the law. It said yesterday it does not do that. Company officials said their firm, with 14 million members signed up, is
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      • 56 5 CHINGAY THE annual Chingay parade will start at City Hall and end at Suntec City's fountain next Chinese New Year. The reasons for the switch to the Civic District: Orchard Road has too many overhead gantries, sidewalks have become too cluttered, and thick roots of mature trees make
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      • 60 6 I THE US ITS a step towards better relations between Bering and Washington. The US will pay China US$4.5 million ($7.6 million) in compensation over Nato's bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in May. "The money will go to relatives of the three journalists killed and those
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      • 56 6 1 INDIA ITALIAN-BORN Sonia Gandhi will stand as a candidate in India's general election in September. India's opposition Congress Party said yesterday its central election committee would endorse assassinated leader Rajiv Gandhi's widow, who is the party's president, in a committee meeting next month. Mrs Gandhi, 52,
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      • 64 6 I ELECTRICITY ARE electricity meters wired to the correct flats? Power Supply will send its technicians to new and upgraded housing blocks to make sure. It has had 16 complaints so far this year from people who found they were paying a neighbour's bills because of errors in
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      • 62 6 INTERNET I WIRE-free surfing of the Internet will be tried at the National University of Singapore next week. Some 500 students will test laptop computers with a high-capacity wireless link to the big campus network. Their machines will have a credit card-sized device from Lucent Technologies to
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    • 158 6 in F®@US CLOB MALAYSIAN lawyers say Clob investors have legal grounds to pursue a legal claim to unlock their frozen shares. M lt is... doubtful that there is any legal basis to argue the illegality of Clob International under Malaysian law... Even now, in London and
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    • 80 6 DO NOT SEND THIS E-MAIL TO YOUR FRIENDS, IT'S HOAX Forward this letter out to as many people as you can. This is a new and malicious virus and not many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning by Microsoft, please share it with everyone
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    • 40 6 This Is the world's first video mobile phone with a colour TV-style screen. Launched by Japanese electronics giant Kyocera, It comae equipped with a video camera andcanaend two Images per second.lt costs about $550. Picture/ Afp
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    • 44 6 International Herald Tribune: Stock trader's gruesome revenge The New Straits Times: Stock trader guns down 12 in Atlanta BBC news: As world leaders in Sarajevo call for Yugoslavia to embrace democracy, Belgrade dismisses it as nothing more than a Nato meeting
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    • 53 6 The Straits Times: Troops sent to Batam as violence escalates The Business Times: Private home prices up a faster 11 per cent in Q2 Uanhe Zaobao: Grief over First Lady's death Bertta Harian: Death toll in Batam now 14 RCS morning news: China rebuffs Taiwan's latest bid
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 447 7  -  A RECLUSE NO FRIFNDS FEARED MEETING PEOPLE ■THEN CAME RETIREES'CENTRF By Ng Boon Yian FOR more than 10 years, she had seldom stepped out of her house. She hardly spoke to anyone and she had even forgotten how to take a bus. Madam Lim Wah
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    • 129 7 THE Chua Chu Kang Fei Yue Retirees Centre was set up in August last year. It provides a sanctuary for retirees to engage in meaningful activities, said Miss Lynn Lim, its co-ordinator. Weekday programmes include morning exercise, singing, handicraft making, English conversation and even IT classes. Members
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    • 611 8  -  Man found guilty of slapping secretary's buttocks I FINED I By Eugene Wee HE seemed confident of his innocence throughout his trial. John Chin Siew Choy looked poised and dignified when he appeared in court. As he spoke, he used his hands the same hands
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    • 427 9  -  BY Toh Li Lin HE will end up a roadsweeper. That's what Darren Liew Quek Lan's father used to say about him. Why? Because in primary school, Darren failed English and was transferred to the extended stream. That
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    • 575 10  -  By< Genevieve Jiang They call him Gun Dog. Because formation specialist pilot (FSP) Lieutenant-Colonel Sham Chee Keong (above), 45, has virtually never lost a "dog fight". That's another name for air combat. In 27-year career as a Republic of Singapore Air Force
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    • 64 10 LT-COL Sham and his team of 11 pilots will showcase their skills on Aug 9. Five A4-SU Super Skyhawks will fly towards the grandstand of the National Stadium at 640 kmh, then fan out in five directions spewing red and white smoke at 457 m above the
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    • 467 12 sage a future lit up with the wondrous possibilities... Like ying in the world's finest ?rsities, honing your prodigious its, blazing a trail in the '$?> Civil Service. fiß And, best of all, being one of the select few V? Ivance Singapore into the next jry. This is what the
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    • 101 13 M pH^ppppWlS IC HA Lim KayTong 1 Where have all the Madonna and She jf 12C> Aft rr I *~J Sylvester^ t t Vt*e IV I (V r \*s nat>° r B \V s 9 _«*M E ev®v I \Mhat PSTN 1 -STEL-AG-1400-96* PSTNI STEI AG 1400 96" a Pnrrfjnnc
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  • 749 14 THENEWSTODAY The migrants from Flores have been blamed for the riots in Batam. Our team reporter MELVIN SINGH and photographer MOHD ISHAK— drives right into their stronghold to attend a meeting of their elders and to find out if there is an
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 130 15 THE body of a five-year-old boy was found in a rubbish bin in Kemaman, Terengganu, yesterday. Ahmad Aminuddin Zulkifli is believed to have been murdered. He had strangulation marks on his neck, said police. His body was covered with a blanket. Police said the boy
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    • 266 15 THAI police have nabbed a man who terrorised young women in Bangkok by stabbing them with a syringe he said was contaminated by the Aids virus. Police said Jeerawat Hohsoongnern had confessed to being the much-wanted stalker who had stabbed more than 10 young women
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    • 211 16 4-year-old takes on Kasparov in Internet chess game STEPHANIE Hale has been making the right moves. The chess prodigy is the world's youngest national chess player r being only four years old. But that doesn't stop her from pitching her talent against even
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 249 18 A TERRIFIED schoolgirl drowned her newborn daughter before hiding the body in her schoolbag with her favourite teddy bear. The girl became pregnant two years ago at the age of 12 after a relationship with a man twice her age. To hide the
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 438 20 COMMENTARY Source: The New York Times. SURE, a visa to China won't get you into Taiwan. But don't you dare to say it, President Lee Teng-hui. The Taiwanese President blundered when he talked of separate states. So what if Taiwan has its own government
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    • 925 21 What for? The berserk investor who killed nine people on Thursday also killed his family earlier this week. Yet, in a neatly typed letter (right) to US authorities, mass murderer Mark Barton projects the image of being the victim. But if you look at the horrible acts
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    • 302 20 w Lfi PT- Sc'* TIME% Start August 29th Jfc That's the day we launch Singapore's 1 very own permanent Civic District Trail, i |W A path that takes the historic sites of the Civic District and strings them into a J j 1 wondrous trail of adventure and discovery. J
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
    • 958 22 Source: Bernama. M I WISH to slate my homosexual relations with Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. It started in 1976 or 1977,1 cannot remember. I cannot remember the date. I came from Indonesia with my mother and father to stay and to go to school in Kuala
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    • 133 22 THE court's decision to accept Sukma's confession as evidence in Anwar's sodomy trial is seen as damaging to the ex-deputy premier's case. The prosecution wants to use the confession to support the allegation that Anwar and his adopted brother had unnatural sex with Aziz an, his wife's former
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  • 335 24  -  ■h Kwl i m e BY Yong Siew Fern NO, Mark Richmond isn't moonlighting as a hairstylist. The Triple Nine star and his Channel 5 colleague Gurmit Singh were just fooling around after signing a one-year tie-up with hair and body salon Mahogany on Tuesday. And it's
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 468 26  -  By Hazel Tan GROWN-UP love. Maybe that is what it's all about. We're talking about the love between Triple Nine dude Robin Leong and Growing Up babe Jamie Yeo. Lifestyle magazine reported earlier this year that the Channel 5 artistes have been sweet on each other
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    • 237 26 WHILE the couple appeared uncomfortable talking about their love relationship, Robin and Jamie were all excited when the topic moved to balls. Robin passes his ball to Jamie, she catches it, aims and throws it into the net. It's basketball we're talking here. The duo
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    • 417 27  -  By! Seto Nu-wen JUDGING by their youthful ages, you'd think they would be an alternative rock band. But while their peers are headbanging to heavy metal or moshing to grunge rock, these four men in their 20s prefer to go back to the '60s. They
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    • 102 27 WHIP out those mini skirts and platform shoes because Beatlemania is back' Catch Gold 90.5FM's Battle of the Beatles at 8 tonight at Clarke Quay. Seven bands will battle it out to see who will emerge as Singapore's Fab Four and win $6,000. You could also be
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    614 28 MUSIC Here's a simple guide to good music on CDs. Some CDs you must have (BUY IT), others you may like (TRY IT) and some might take some getting used to (BORROW IT). Today's guest critic: EDMUND CHEN, actor. ALBUM: Sunrise at Bondi Beach ARTISTE: Andy Holm EDMUND RECOMMENDS: Buy
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  • showtime
    • 601 29 Fibre is big business. So are dead cells. Hair and body salon Mahogany has just struck a one-year deal with a group of Channel 5 artistes (including one former artiste). The 13 TV stars grow them, Mahogany will cut, clip, colour, steam and slough them. YONG
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      136 29 CHANNEL 8 has David Gan. Now, Channel 5 has Gary Lim (below). Both hairstylists are taking care of the crowning glory of the TV artistes. Does Gary sees himself as David's rival? "Well, David is doing Channel 8, we are doing our own thing, there is no direct
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  • I S L T L
    • 238 30 ITS a backbreaking job being a diva, it seems. After Celine Dion, Shania Twain (above) is next to give up on the race. The sexy country-turned-pop singer is planning to stop singing to have babies. "What I've had to sacrifice is life itself. I haven't really
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    • 122 30 SEX AMO DOUBTS Well, this is showbusiness. It's a lot of fantasy... You can fantasise however you want to. Go for it. Be free about it. I'm not too concerned with what people say about me. You can think whatever you want. Ricky Martin, on rumours
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  • 475 32  -  Etcetera WITH IVAN FERNANDEZ "MERIT* is a dirty word in some places. According to Malaysian Premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad, if the country adopted meritocracy, as upheld by the West, the Malays and bumiputras would become manual workers. A merit system is supposed to make
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    • 1314 42 TODAY’S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD: Going forecast Good No. L—l»nw» How Wt RUna Joctav BorrHr (AgiMaMtn,tnHm-omm) 1 *****6 CRYSTAL MAGICAL 57 (48) laid.5 5 (7mg PK Leong-Crystal Magical) 2 5-5-5- SUPER DEVIL 57 (48) 'Sainulcl.5 8 (4nzg Tiang-Good View) 3 *****- TORAMITAI 56.5 (47) Yin 6 (3ag KL Chong-Ms Saori
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    • 118 43 7>r Goldline (Race 6 No. 4) Was very unlucky when second to Happy Tycoon over the Ipoh 1,600m last June. On that run, this powerful finisher should not miss. —.3....Bronze Tycoon (Race 4 No. 1) Looks the one to beat on last-start gallant second to Fairway Boy over
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    • 50 43 CONGRATULATIONS to Dave Hoong of Bedok North Avenue 4, the top-prize winner of The New Paper/Singapore Turf Club Race Day Mandarin Presenter Contest. Hoong will collect $1,500 cash. There are 75 other winners of special prizes. All winners will be notified by post. See Page 48 for list.
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    • 38 43 RACE 1: Crystal Magical. RACE 2: Imperial Command. RACE 3: Lord Virgo, Bloomberg. RACE 4: Gentle Johnny. RACE 5: Direct Link. RACE 7: Intan Singapura 11, Black Dash, Valentine's Day, Courting Dancer, Trembalau. RACE 8: Liverpool Bay.
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    • 414 44 MTE^^RDAY^UJA^^JMPU^KACKWORI^^ NST. Newcomer Terrific showed forward form in his winding-up gallop in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, underlining his chances of making a winning debut in the Maiden Stakes Div 2 1,200 m event in Race 4 tomorrow. Taken out by jockey Anandan Subramaniam, the two-year-old
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    • 303 44 $1,500 cash: Dave Hoong. 50 prizes of $50 sto red-value cards for admission to Kranji racecourse: Tan Kim Kiat, Yong Kian Chau, Pung Teng Yong, Mawjit Singh, Lek Ah Keow, Ler Huck Cheong, Tng Chui Luan, Wan Yoon Lin, Judy A 1 Rivers, Wong Yuen Chit, Goh Song
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    • 312 44 Reuters. DEPOSED Kieren Fallon rode a winner on Thursday for Henry Cecil, the man who sacked him from British racing's top job amid lurid headlines about Cecil's wife Natalie's alleged affair with a top jockey. In a supreme irony, Fallon prevailed by a head in
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    • 465 52  -  CHRITY SHIELD: United was the first winner of the Charity Shield when the competition was launched in 1908 and manager Sir Alex Ferguson, the traditionalist, would like to end the century by lifting the trophy for a 15th time. COMMENT BY JEFFREY LOW THERE'S nothing
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    • 102 52 The Charity Shield is always an occasion. You're going to Wembley and you hope you enjoy the event and that you win. Last year, all we got was humiliation when we lost 3-0 to Arsenal so I don't think the players would want that again. United manager
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      328 53 FOOTBALL CHANNEL 22, TOMORROW, 9.55 PM It will be the last pre-season curtain-raiser at the old Wembley before the stadium is torn down and replaced by a new £475 million (sl.3billion) complex. Reuters. Tomorrows charity shield can be won and lost in four key areas, where Manchester United
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    • 108 53 ARSENAL The Gunners are set to make a £6millk>n ($16milllon) bid for Blackburn's promising England Under-21 striker Matt Jansen. Manchester United has also been linked v with Jansen, but relations between Blackburn boss Brian Kidd and his United counterpart, Sir Alex Ferguson, are not what they used to
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    • 380 54  -  SINGAPORE ONE-DAY CRICKET INTERNATIONAL: KALLANG OVAL WHEN From Sept 2-8 WHERE KallangOval (next to the Kallang Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet) HOW MUCH Tickets are $20 (adults) and $10 (school children) FIXTURES Sept 2: West Indies v Zimbabwe B Sept 4: India v Zimbabwe Sept 5:
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    • 423 54  -  By Lim Han Ming IT was a memorable national schools swansong for Rachel Fang of Ghim Moh Secondary School yesterday. On the final day of competition, the Asian Schools kegler became the undisputed B girls champion,
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    • 358 55  -  SEA GAMES '99: SOCCER Thailand 9 Philippines 0 Vietnam 9 Laos 0 By! S Gulam WHAT'S this? Two matches, 18 goals? Shameful? Or exciting? Are we going to see more such one-sided matches? Chare we going to see more exciting contests? Are the Thais and
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    • 369 55  -  SINGAPORE'S FLAG-BEARER FAST FACTS LeeWung Yew aside, the other members of the Republic's shooting team are Chng Seng Mok, Lai See Pan, Tan Chee Keong and Kwa Eng Cheong. Singapore won four shooting golds in Jakarta the individual trap, double trap, team trap and double
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    • 328 56  -  SEA GAMES '99: ONE TO LOOK OUT FOR REANCHAI SEEHARWONG (Thailand) By Gerard Wong HE'S back. And he wants to be king again. Make no bones about it, Thai sprinter Reanchai Seeharwong winner of the 100 m and 200 m crowns at the 1995 Sea Games
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    • 477 57 SEA GAMES '99: THE BIG MATCH TONIGHT (Singapore v Malaysia) HAPPY, HAPPY? TODAY'S FIXTURES Singapore v Malaysia Indonesia v Cambodia Call The New Paper Infoline on **********3 alter 6 pm for the results of today's matches. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. S GULAM reports
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      123 57 KADIR Yahaya joined the Lions yesterday. But he's definitely out of today's clash against Malaysia. He's hoping to play in the next match against Brunei on Aug 4. But the chances are not good. Said Dr Teh Kong Chuan, the Singapore Sports Council Sports Medicine and Fitness Centre's
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    • 817 58  -  SEA GAMES '99: THE BIG MATCH TONIGHT (Singapore v Malaysia, Live, 4pm, Premiere 12) CONFEDERATIONS CUP Ldiwi result: USA 2 Germany 0 CALL INFOLINE Call 1900-*****13 after noon today for the result of the Brazil v New Zealand clash. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. COMMENT
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