The New Paper, 5 August 1999

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  • 20 1 the new paper THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1999 Another quality publication of Singapore Pr—m Holdinga http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg MITA (P) 062/04/99 60 CENTS
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 401 2 Driver using handphone loses control A BATIK businessman's use of his handphone while driving may have led to a drowning accident which killed him and his daughter, said police in Kelantan. Mr Jimin Mustafa, 34, was driving his jeep on Tuesday night when
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    • 219 2 HONGKONG'S bird population whose cousins were slaughtered by the thousands two years ago has a new cause for worry. Health officials said yesterday that 70 per cent of poultry in Hongkong have been exposed to a new strain of bird flu,
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    • 81 2 WHO'S THE BEST KHAN OF THEM ALL? Am Mm. Which Khan is your hero? Call our Infoline on **********1 and you may win some prizes. But first, check out our special Showtime reports on Pages 30-33. Each call costs 20 cents. FROM THE A Introducing YONEX Now Tachnotogy In court
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    • 10 2 Leisure Showtime: Pages 30-33 Comics: Page 34 TV: Page 55
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    • 455 4 NO" Nonsense sa y s Jacelyn. 'My resignation has nothing to do with Fann' YES" <This s rea,ly be n to irresponsible an d too unprofessional,' says Taiwan co-star ONE is shouting: "You're irresponsible!" The other is claiming: "It's all nonsense!" Jacelyn Tay's surprise resignation from
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    • 103 4 THE rumours about Jacelyn's resignation are untrue, says TCS. "Rumours saying her resignation is related to Fann are not true," said Mr Zhang Nengrong, deputy director of TCS' drama unit. "I think Jacelyn has a lot of potential. Her career is only just taking off and for her
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    • 556 4 THE GREAT SINGAPORE YASHICA SALE '99 LUCKY DRAW held on 29th July 1999 RESULTS p' TOP 3 PRIZES: One genuine Diamond Pendant to each of the following prizewinners: QUEK HWEE CHENG BLK 250 #06-78 ANG MO KIO AVE 2 JULIE NING BLK 56 #19-03 CASSIA CRESCENT TEO BOON NGUAN BLK
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 224 6 HOT STORY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS Parliament will resume on Aug 17 and the Government will reply to issues raised earlier by President Ong Teng Cheong. SIGNS seem to point to a no-contest in the coming presidential elections, slated for Aug 28. With just two days to
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    • 33 6 The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 2.54 points, or 0.02 percent, to end at 10,674.77 yesterday. A moderate volume of 781 million shares was traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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    • in FOOCus IN PARLIAMENT
      • 107 6 THE plan to allow market forces to determine a broker's income or commission from share trading may happen earlier than planned. Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that the time-frame for the liberalisation was now being reviewed. In
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      • 72 6 FEWER people will lose their jobs this year, although the number to be retrenched will still be higher than the usual 10,000 to 11,000-a-year before the economic downturn hit. Manpower Minister Lee Boon Yang said retrenchments this year would be "significantly fewer" than the 29,000 laid off
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    • News Break
      • 63 6 I CHINA-US TIES NO, your military aircraft can't land in Hongkong. This was what China told the United States yesterday, just a week after Beijing lifted a ban on military stopovers in Hongkong. China gave no reason for its move, but Beijing has protested against the US'
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      • 55 6 COMPLAINTS DID all Johns Hopkins doctors practising here graduate from the 20 approved universities? This question has been raised by some 50 doctors about the top American hospital operating here. They sent a letter to the Singapore Medical Council last week. They also claimed Johns Hopkins was breaking
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      • 53 6 BUSINESS IKEA workers will share the company's sales money on Oct 9. The Swedish furniture group, which also operates in Singapore, yesterday said its employees will share an expected 500 million kronor ($lO2 m) as thank-you bonus. With 40,000 full-time workers worldwide, each person will take home about
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      • 61 6 Y2K BUG ITS safety first for Singapore Airlines, which has said it may suspend flights on certain routes on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. A final decision on its Y2K contingency plans will be made in October. Its Executive Vice-President (Technical), Mr Chew Leng Seng, said:
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    • 66 7 Picture This TIS THE SEASON: The world's tallest building, the Petronas Twin Towers, is fading out of the Kuala Lumpur skyline due to the return of the haze. However, Malaysian authorities are downplaying its return so as not to "drive away the tourists Environment Minister Law Hieng
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    • 66 7 FAIRPRICE TO celebrate National Day, NTUC Fair Price supermarkets again will slash 5 per cent off all bills for one week, starting today. The supermarket chain has done this in the week preceding National Day in the past three years. The discount offer is for all
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    • 63 7 HONGKONG A FORMER flight attendant is suing Hongkong airline Cathay Pacific. Ms Li Yuet-ngor says she was discriminated against because of her gender. She had to quit last September, after 20 years' service, because of the rule that female cabin crew who joined before 1993 must retire at
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    • 52 7 International Herald Tribune: Nato picks Briton as its next leader The New Straits Times: Charting course to developed status Asian Wall Street Journal: Chinese migrants to US hit the beaches of Guam BBC news: An Iranian court orders a five-year ban on a pro-reform newspaper for spreading
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    • 71 7 The Straits Timet: Brokerage fees may be freed up faster The Business Times: Simon Cheong in ANA deal with DBS Land Uanhe Zaobao: Presidential election will be held on Aug 28; nomination day is Aug 18; possible candidates are Mr S R Nathan and Dr Tan Cheng
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    • 72 7 Quote worthy Since the death qf Mao Zedong, who waswiored as a god by the people j some segments of the population have felt a void. Li fills the gap for Falungong practitioners. A report in a Chinese newspaper, on the Falungong Problem. There is a $10,000 bounty
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  • 1186 8 SINGAPORETODAY Many parents these days don't understand what their kids are up to. Here is the story of a mother and daughter who have complete trust in each other with the mother taking the initiative. New Face finalist Chua Ann May, 20, tells YVONNE
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  • 268 9 SPEAKUP SPEAK B P YOUR FORUM Mrs Jina Williams, Vice-president, The Singapore Kennel Club AS the dust settles down on the Michael Gracia vs Khoo Tou Khiang case, we think that there are important issues related to dog ownership, of
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  • 319 10  -  SINGAPORETODAY BY Genevieve Jiang SHE has only two Barbie dolls and a Lego set but then, she is a little toymaker all on her own. Felicia Tan, 11, can even make birds that fly. You are looking at them now. The Dancing Birds, as she calls
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  • 452 11  -  AUNT ALLEGES IN COURT: By Eugene Wee HE PINNED Wati (not her real name) against the wall and gave her four love bites. Then, he left five messages on her pager, asking her to tell him where she was. Otherwise, he
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  • PARLIAMENTTODAY
    • 405 12 THEY are the child-hunters. A special team of officers who track down every single child who doesn't, for one reason or another, enrol in a mainstream school for Primary 1. Since 1992, that's been two or three out of
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    • 90 12 A child's education is the family's responsibility. Making it compulsory to go to school will "undermine the principle of self-reliance and sense of parental responsibility", said Rear-Adm Teo. It isn't a "magic bullet". It doesn't ensure attendance. You could just face other problems, like truancy. "What
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  • ON THE JOB WHERE TO LOOK WHAT TO ASK FOR HOW TO COPE
    • 374 13  -  From businessman to cabby By! Ng Wan Ching ONE day, you are telling your friends that your father is a general manager, his own boss in a partnership company. Then, the economic recession comes and wipes all that away. Now, your father cannot even
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    • 149 13 ITS all right to be a taxi driver. Miss Annie Lim, the assistant manager of Adecco Personnel's Jurong West branch, would like to reassure Wendy of that. But Miss Lim has some other suggestions for Wendy's father. Try for a job in his
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 360 14 His dream: To become Top Gun HE always wanted to be Top Gun. From the age of just eight, Officer Cadet Ainos Yeo, 19, had high-flying ambitions to blaze across the skies in a fighter jet. His favourite toys were little plastic aeroplanes and helicopters. "I
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    • 87 14 SAF scholars must excel both academically and in their extra-curricular activities during the officer cadet course. They are paid a full officer's salary while they study and are promoted to the rank of Lieutenant after their first year. Upon graduation, they are promoted to Captain. There have been
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    • 368 15  -  It makes me choke By] Lingam Ponnampalam I STOOD before this lorry and could not believe that someone could have attempted something so outrageous. This was the lorry in which 35 illegal immigrants tried to sneak into Singapore last Friday, via the Woodlands checkpoint.
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    • 148 17 SO what do you wear while hunting down historical sights from Chimes to the Esplanade Park? Beat the heat with a cool T-shirt and a cap. You can get them free in a goodie bag if you join the Civic District Fun Walk
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    • 158 18 CLEARLY, Miss Audrey Loh was a person much loved and missed. She accidentally drowned while diving at the Layang Layang resort off the Sabah coast on July 31. Since then, 18 obituaries have appeared in The Straits Times over three days, placed by members of her family,
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  • 296 19 WORLDTODAY ...They wanted to escape war and famine. They wanted a better life. They hid in the landing gear of an aircraft. They died. Now, a letter found on them is making the world's eyes moist AFP. THE two young Guinean boys didn't want
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  • 295 19 (Excerpts from the letter above, written in French found on the dead stowaways) "Excellencies, sirs, members and officials of Europe, We have the honorable pleasure and great confidence to write you this letter to tell you of the objective of our voyage and of our suffering, we,
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      91 21 mutfmui* A 99-year-old woman left her last Mill and testament scrawled on the edge off a British newspaper crossword puzzle she solved every day. What life-long crossword addict Anetta Duel wrote: I leave all my and possessions nephew), and I hope he happy as long as he lives,
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    • 401 21 Did they have an affair? THE author of the newly-released book, Bill and Hillary: The Marriage, has created yet another round of scandal in the White House. Mr Christopher Andersen, author of 20 books, including two on the Kennedys, claims that Hillary
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    • 76 21 In his new book, Christopher Anderson alleges that: Mrs Clinton had an affair with her former law partner and business associate Vince Foster The affair began in 1977 and was well-known to the Clinton's friends and associates Mrs Clinton hired a former FBI agent in 1982 to investigate
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  • 340 22 IPOH MULTIPLE MURDERS MALAYSIATQDAY Source: Bernama A DEBT collector who murdered four people, including the wife of a goldsmith, was found guilty in Ipoh yesterday. G Krishna Rao, 21, was out on bail when he committed the murders. He was awaiting trial on a manslaughter charge.
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    • 226 22 THE MAN'S FACE SPA Expressions "I was man enough to have a facial." There was a time when I would never have dreamt of going for Hp a fecial. I was way too nervous about being made fun of by buddies. if/ Now, I no longer feel self-conscious about going
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 297 24 BABY girls are a hot new "commodity" for Chinese smugglers. Traditionally in China, a daughter was seen as a financial drain on her parents. Today, however, many childless couples there are keen to buy baby girls to create an instant family. And smuggling
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    • 131 25 Reuters. IT was one of those things it happens, despite all the precautions you take. Luciana Morad, the Brazilian model who gave birth to Mick J agger's son in May said her pregnancy was accidental and that she had used contraception throughout their seven-month relationship. But she
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    • 242 25 I 'FORGET QUEEN'S ENGLISH' Reuters. A NEW British-US dictionary has predicted that the Queen's English will sooi be history and the future lay in a colourful new patchwork of words from around the world. So get ready for words like
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    • 86 25 yadda yadda yadda/ In the US, commonly used as an adjective. Means a phrase which is used too often and is dull; not new or original togonk/Used in the US to mean embellish or make something beautiful by adding decorations. Or to improve a story by
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    • 327 26 Source: AFP. HOUSES destroyed, and at least 18 people killed and up to 40 others missing. This was what a mud wall of death caused when a landslide smashed into a middle-class residential area in Antipolo town, outside Manila, on Tuesday evening. Rescue workers have found
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 599 28 Watch out for this kfe ladykiller KHAN 1: SALMAN KHAN They are the top stars in Bollywood—three hunks who rule the worid's biggest film industiy. And they are all Khans—Salman, Shah Rukh and Aamir. A recent poll in India showed that "all three are running neck-and-neck"
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    • 281 29 LIKE the typical movie star, he was fashionably late. But that didn't stop the fans. They had braved the Saturday afternoon rain and rush-hour traffic crawl to be there. At least 300 fans squeezed into The Emporium Cafe, waiting patiently for their
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    • 98 29 SALMAN Khan was in Kuala Lumpur to re-launch Warner Music Malaysia's Indian Music department. This re-launch was timed with the release of the soundtrack of his latest movie, Hello Brother. Hello Brother, yet to be released in or outside India, is the first movie in which
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    • 642 30  -  KHAN 2: SHAH RUKH KHAN By Seto Nu-wen SOME say he is popular because he's a charming gentleman. Shah Rukh Khan begs to differ. "I am popular because I am hardworking," he told The Week magazine. "I am the same person I was
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    • 528 30  -  By Rahul Pathak MY seven-year-old son adores Shah Rukh Khan. In part, it's because (don't ask me why) he likes good-looking guys who beat up the baddies and always get their girls. And, in part, because in many of his movies,
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    • 575 31  -  KHAN 3: AAMIR KHAN By Seto Nu-wen HE doesn't accept awards, doesn't party, doesn't even have a he-man body to flaunt. But all four of his most recent movies Sarfarosh, Mann, 1947 and Mela have been huge hits. That's more than what the other Khans
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    • 190 31 Sasha thoughts HERE'S a chance to win an Infoline watch. can 1900-*****01 to answer two easy questions on German pop star Sasha (above) by midnight, Aug 11. Three correct callers will be picked to win a watch each. Calls costs 20 cents. Sasha is setting European charts on fire. Listen
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  • 542 32  -  Etcetera WITH CHENG PUAY KOON THERE'S no place like home. And some characters in it and I don't mean family make this phrase come alive. Such as one old nasi kandar seller in my Penang hometown with his peculiar habit. Regular customers don't bat an eyelid
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    • 137 32 COMICRELIEF The Concrete Jungle/Colin Goh WHAT'S |lfT>Un\All c n K.rs Y "'I DOIOO 1 I THIfslK UIION6, SLfiSHEbrAI HEuWreb, ipa« L WHAT 1 J ,aw urns? ncnt L/Sr!?-? K ujant 1 Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson «HAT X I'M TELLING TUEsd Bi QOLLI, IF ®HKUk] MMOE I CAM SCMIEAJMti W< 00N*
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  • 339 33  -  WIM&MIE By Ng Boon Yian HE drills bowling balls, and he has two medals to show for it. The medals were a gesture of thanks from ex-bowling golden girl Grace Young, whose bowling balls Mr Walter Tan has drilled for 15 of the 22
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  • 420 35 I FROM PAGE 35 CAREER CHOICE How did you become a bowling ball driller? About 10 days after my NS, I worked in the bowling alley as an instructor for three months. Then I did lane maintenance for two months before doing apprenticeship in bowling
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    • 528 44 YESTERDAY'S GOING AT KUALA LUMPUR: GOOD TRACKWORK SOLDIER OF PEACE, who scored a fluent win last Saturday, looks set for a back-to-back success in the Class 5 event over 2,000 m on Sunday. He showed his intention with a pleasing two-round workout in Kuala Lumpur
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    • 91 44 THE Perak Turf Club will increase the stakemoney for its non-feature races from its August-September Meeting. The existing and revised stakes are as follows: Class 1: RM43,000 to RM70.000. Class 2: RM35,000 to RM55.000. Class 3: RM30,000 to RM35,000. Class 4: RM25,000 to RM30,000. Class
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    • 152 44 Reuters DANCING Brave, one of the best race horses in Europe in the last 50 years, has died in Japan of heart failure at the age of 16. Dancing Brave was the top colt of his generation. His big-race successes included the 1986 Prix de l'Arc de
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    • 119 44 THE Melbourne winter has proven too much for the local circuit's top apprentice Soo Khoon Beng (above). After only a week of his intended six-week stay to understudy trainer David Hall, Soo returned to Singapore yesterday. The 24-year-old Malaysian, who is indentured to Singapore-based Australian
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    • 112 44 THE following horses have been deleted: Alwadah Abjar, Bagus, China Cloud, Dare To Go, Fearsome, Gay Lilt, Great Caesar, Hammering, Jedi Knight, Laurence Michael, Magic Jim, One Sweet Day, Prince Ruby, Protocol, Quid, Royal Demus, Sunshine Band, Thunder. Time Bomb, Turf Arch, War Drum, Cavonier, Charming World,
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    • 36 44 THESE three horses have changed names: Laconic Lad to My Secret (from current Selangor Meeting). Success Mission to Zaragoza (from current Selangor Meeting). Irish Export to Fortune Star (from Penang August Meeting).
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    • 420 45 UEFAINTERTOTO CUP HEERENVEENO WEST HAM 1 (West Ham wins 2-0 on aggregate) RESULTS (Selected results of semi-final round,second leg matches) Hamburg SV (Germany) 4 Trabzonspor (T urkey) 1 (Hamburg wins 6-3 on aggregate) Polonia Warsaw (Poland) 1 Metz (France) 1 (Metz wins 6-2 on
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    • 144 45 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEEDED teams fell, as some of Europe's smaller clubs enjoyed upset victories. That was the Champions League story yesterday. Among the fallen: CSKA Moscow (Russia), Genk (Belgium), Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia) and NK Rijeka (Croatia). One of the biggest upsets came in Latvia, where Skonto
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    • 200 45  -  SINGAPORE POOLS FA CUP SEMI-FINALS POLICE 1 SINGAPORE CRICKET CLUB 0 By Suresh Nair SINGAPORE Cricket Club's giant-killing streak wistfully ended in injury-time at Kallang last night. Just one step away from an unprecedented FA Cup final berth and it went down 1-0 to a very
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      490 46 SEA GAMES' 99: SWIMMING For four years, our men haven't won a gold in the SEA Games pool Can these two swimmers break the barren streak? GERARD WONG checks with their coach Kee Soon Bee DON'T worry, Singapore. We don't have to depend on Joscelin to win all
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    • 80 46 WHAT ABOUT OTHER SWIMMERS? WHAT HE LIKES ABOUT MARK AND FERGUS? I can't make any predictions about them. It wouldn't be fair since I am not coaching them. Kee Soon Bee Their tenacity. They are obedient and very hardworking boys. And they are always
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    • 243 46 MARK'S main rival in the 100 m freestyle will be Indonesia's Richard Sam Bera. But, in the 200 m and 400 m freestyle, it could well be teammate Sng Ju Wei. For, while the top two finishers in both events at the 1997 Jakarta
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    • 30 46 MEN MarkChay Ernest Teo Leslie Kwok Fergus Kuek Daniel Liew Gary Tan SngJuWei Jonathan Chua WOMEN JoscelinYeo Christel Bouvron NicoletteTeo Cheryl Chong Jacqueline Lim PhuaShuYan Rebecca Heng
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    • 133 46 Source: Singapore Sports Council 1993 (SEA GAMES, SINGAPORE) One gold: Ang Peng Siong (50m freestyle) Three silvers: Desmond Koh (200 m and 400 m IM), Gerald Koh (200 m backstroke) Four bronzes: Kenneth Yeo (200 m freestyle), Desmond Koh (200 m breastroke and 200 m
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    • 203 46  -  By Lim Han Ming THE final batch of the Singapore athletes bade farewell to all well-wishers at the Changi Airport this morning, as they embarked on the glory trail to Brunei. They comprised the swimming, athletics, billiard and snooker, cycling, golf, table tennis and taekwondo teams. High-jumper
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    • 600 47 In just 48 hours, Arsenal has signed two World Cup stars, Davor Suker and Thierry Henry. How now, will manager Arsene Wenger swing the Gunners'attack? JEFFREY LOW, who saw the two strikers in action in France '98, can't wait to see it... GREAT balls of fire...you can't get
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    • 176 47 Reuters. CHRISTIAN KAREMBEU: Manager Arsene Wenger has made French midfield star Christian Karembeu his next target. Karembeu. at Real Madrid, would be available for about USs4.smilHon(s7.6sm). The 28-year-old, a member of France's World Cupwinning squad, can play as a wing-back, on the right side of midfield or in
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      249 48 $32M MOVE TO ATLETICO AFP. LEEDS rebel striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is on his way to Spain. He has signed a £12million (s32m) contract with Atletico Madrid. "The signing was completed today," a spokeswoman for Atletico said yesterday. "He will be presented as an Atletico player on August
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    • 338 48 Wire services. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY: Dutch midfielder Wim Jonk will miss the start of the season. He has been granted compassionate leave to return to Holland to attend to a family crisis after his father-in-law passed away and his wife is expecting a baby. Manager Danny Wilson said: "It
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      686 49  -  ...put Lions on the verge of semis SEA GAMES '99: SOCCER SINGAPORE 3 Indra Sahdan 10th min, 35th Latiff Kamaruddin 81st BRUNEI 1 Haji Rosaidi 90th SINGAPORE: Rezal Hassan Aidelskandar SSubramani TanKimLeng MohdNoorAli Nazri NaSir (KadirYahaya, 81st) Gusta Guzarishah (AzharSalleh, 60th) ZulkarnaenZainal Samawira Basri Indra Sahdan Daud (Robin Chitrakar,
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    • 198 50 KADIR Yahaya is back. Yesterday, the seasoned player replaced skipper Nazri Nasir in the 81st minute in the match against Brunei. Kadir had missed the opening match against Malaysia last Saturday because of a hamstring injury. His return is a welcome turnaround for Singapore. Just
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    • 487 50  -  Vietnam or Thailand for the semis? By S Gulam REPORTING FROM BRUNEI WHO would the Lions prefer to face in the semi-finals? Thailand or Vietnam? It doesn't matter, says coach Vincent Subramaniam. "They are equally strong. So it doesn't matter if we face Thailand or Vietnam," Vincent
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    • 254 50 YESTERDAY: Malaysia 7 Cambodia 2 TODAY: Thailand v Vietnam Laos v Myanmar Thailand v Myanmar. THIS is the moment the Thais have been waiting for. To put the record straight. To show who's the football king of the region. There was no doubt about the Thai superiority
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    • 124 51 SEA GAMES '99: ONE TO LOOK OUT FOR AGE: 23 OCCUPATION: UCLA (Berkeley) student RECENT HONOURS: Asian Games: Two golds (200 m, 400 m IM); 1 bronze (200 m breast) 1995 SEA Games: 6 golds (100 m, 200 m breast, 200 m, 400 m IM, 4xloom free,
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    • 298 51  -  By Gerard Wong THEY say an animal is most dangerous when it's wounded and cornered. What about a wounded Thai Torpedo then? There's no denying that Thai swimmer Rata pong Sirisanot must have been feeling a little wounded these last two years. Consider his plight: Four
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    • 47 46 TODAY (selected programmes) 4pm: Table tennis: World Champs (Live, ESPN) 6pm: Tennis: Canadian Open (ESPN) Bpm: Athletics: Golden League (ESPN) 9pm: Futbol Mundial (STAR Sports) 10pm: Table tennis: World Champs (Live, ESPN) Confed Cup: Brazil v Mexico (Repeat, Channel 22) 11pm: Golf: Greater Hartford Open (STAR Sports)
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