The New Paper, 7 August 1999

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    19 1 the new paper SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1999 Another quality Singapore Press Holdings http://newpaper.asia1 .com.sg MITA (P) 062/04/99 60 CENTS
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      87 1 JB police No. 2 killed 200 Indonesians held /Page 2 cou TV saga, part Jacclyn's Or 146 000 beats to suwtcnw year 2000.(1 Day 1000 beats) •0881 Used bra, part Twice daily, but never on Sunday /Page 24 forced girl, 9, to have sex with /Page 4 Another quality publication
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon US beef recalled after boy falls ill
      213 2 Source: Reuters. ANOTHER food recall. This time in the US in New Hampshire. A meat processing plant there has started recalling 112,000 kg of beef. Jac Pac Foods of Manchester is recalling all meat produced on April 2. This includes frozen beef and
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      Lock icon JB deputy police chief killed
      415 2 200 Indonesians held Bernama. THE Johor Baru deputy police chief was hacked to death yesterday. Police suspect it was an act of revenge. Deputy OCPD (North Zone) Superintendent Mazlan Mohd Jamil, 48, was slashed by two armed intruders at his house in Kulai, about 33
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      Lock icon Blast at Texas hotel
      201 2 9 AM LATEST Reuters. AN explosion tore through a hotel in Grapevine, Texas, injuring a number of people, including children. The town is close to the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, police said. No further details were immediately available at press time. CNN television said the explosion
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      Lock icon What kind of mum is this?
      799 4 GIRL RAPED WITH MUM'S BLESSING 7 am the last messenger of God. Your daughter and you were my wives in a previous life."A former security guard spouted this lie to a married woman. The horror is, she believed him and forced her young daughter
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      Lock icon COMMENT/ C SHANTHENI
      201 4 WHAT kind of mother forces her little girl, the one she carried in her womb for nine months, to have sex with her lover? To give the poor girl over to a rapist like a sacrificial lamb? Well, the kind of mother who is either so stupid
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      Lock icon JAIL AND CANE
      43 4 Yesterday, the man was sentenced to 24 year*' Jail and 24 strokes of the cane on four counts of rape and one count of using wrongful restraint to molest a minor. 'niepelce are investigating the motbef's rote in the rapes.
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      Lock icon An open letter from a rape victim
      607 5 WW&fr wkerfriend. So another rape victim, 14, to HIIHflHhto thigirl to give her strength I have never met you, but I understand what you are going through. I, too, was raped by someone I know. But unlike you, my mother didn't know about
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      203 6 Mil Potential presidential candidate S R Nathan, and currently ambassador-at-large, in an interview with The Straits Times THE DECIDING FACTOR When I am called to do any thing for this country over the years, have never turned away from duty. And since so many good friends and important
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      42 6 Picture This WOMEN POWER: These women are balancing their act on the world 's longest surfboard which took two months to build. Their goal: The US$2O,OOO ($34,000) prize money in an all-women surfing championship in Cornwall, England. Picture/ Reuters
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        63 6 CPF THE labour movement wants the Government to start restoring the CPF cut sooner than planned in view of the recovering economy. The chief of the National Trades Union Congress and Minister without Portfolio, Mr Lim Boon Heng, said yesterday: "As our economy has picked up faster
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        67 6 CARS DEMAND for cars is high despite dearer certificates of entitlement. More than 18,600 cars were sold in the first seven months of the year, a 28 per cent rise over the same period last year. The stock market recovery, new models and economic confidence have contributed.
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        140 6 CAUSEWAY Bernama. ALL entry and exit lanes at the Causeway and Second Link in Tanjung Kupang, Gelang Patah, will be opened in conjunction with Singapore's National Day, which falls on Monday. The move was in anticipation of congestion, which usually occurs during public holidays, especially when they
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        58 7 FATHERS SWEDEN'S largest company, Ericsson, is encouraging more men to stay at home with their children. It's raising its generous benefits for new fathers. "Life is more than just work. I think it's important to say it's okay to stay home with your children," a company spokesman said.
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        Lock icon $835,000 bill
        59 7 JFK SEARCH THE search for Mr John F Kennedy Jr's crashed aircraft last month cost far more than US$5OO,OOO ($835,000), the New York Post has estimated. The US Coast Guard did the bulk of the recovery work off the coast of Massachusetts and said that worked out at
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        63 7 PARLIAMENT NOMINATED MP Lee Tsao Yuan is seeking a third two-year term in Parliament. If the director of the Institute of Policy Studies is reappointed, she'll be the first NMP to serve six years since the scheme was launched in 1990. Only one of the nine NMPs Mr
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        Lock icon 1 billion people
        59 7 INDIA WITHIN two weeks, India's population crosses the one billion mark. In 40 years, with its population growing at 1.6 per cent a year, it will overtake China as the world's most populous country. When India gained independence 52 years ago. it had 345 million people. China
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      40 6 The Dow Jones .industrial average was down 79.79 points, or 0.74 percent, at 10,714.03 yesterday. For the week, the Dow rose 58.88 points. A moderate volume of 696 million shares was traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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      50 6 International Herald Tribune: Markets shaken by US job data The New Straits Times: Proton stake to cost Petronas RMlb Hongkong Standard: Envoy target of Diaoyu anger BBC news: Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic has spoken for the first time about the recent wave of protests against his regime
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      Lock icon More tourists
      170 7 in FSRSus WE can expect 500,000 more visitors this year compared to last year, if revised predictions are correct. A total of 6.7 million visitors is forecasted, a growth of 6 to 8 per cent. This is a far cry from the 13.3 per cent drop experienced last
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      44 7 The Straits Times: Nathan to run for president The Business Times: Banks bounce back with sparkling results Lianhe Zaobao: Nathan to run for president Berita Haiian: Another 12 killed in Aceh RCS morning news: Martial law may be imposed in Aceh
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      Lock icon DR M: NO BRAINS REQUIRED IN DEMONSTRATIONS
      91 7 Quote Wworthy Even if we were to take the brain out of their heads and leave them totally empty, they can still set fire to rubbish dumps and dent cars without having to go to school f let alone the university. What's the
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      40 7 Tongue c Kjttk WHAT'S HUP llrTliI 31 Later I want my money back. V We did. .a You promised you wonl s* We gave you i make me look like js» new age. I ,n hlS old a 9 e
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      53 8 muKmul* Petrol companies waged a price war last week, offering discounts of up to 12 per cent on petrol. The discounts ended last Saturday. Said Mr Tay Yak Meng, 37, an operations manager It was good while it lasted. Now I will just have to resume
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      53 8 FREEBIES galore! Five thousand copies of these Cartoon Network notepads (right) and 2,000 King's popsicles will be up for grabs in Monday's copy of The New Paper. Want to know how you can get ice creams and notepads for free? Grab a copy of The New Paper
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    847 10 THE MAN WHO COULD BE PRESIDENT SIHGAPMETODAY HE'S very much a man of the people. That's how one former colleague describes Mr S R Nathan, the man who could be our next President. Said Dr Amitav Acharya, an associate professor at the Institute of Defence and
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      Lock icon From Red Army hijacking to Michael Fay
      180 12 IN 1974, Japanese Red Army and Palestinion terrorists hijacked a ferry off Pulau Bukom and held five people hostage. When Tokyo gave the terrorists safe passage to South Yemen, Mr Nathan was among 13 Singapore officials who volunteered themselves in exchange for the
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      492 12  -  MAN WHO COULD BE PRESIDENT/FROM PAGE 10 BY Yvonne Lim HACKLES were raised in The Straits Times Press when Mr Nathan became executive chairman in February 1982. Relations between the press and the Government were strained at the time. In journalists' eyes, Mr Nathan was ex-security
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  • SINGAPORE TODAY
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      Lock icon MAJOR MADAM
      629 14  -  When she gives orders on board, men obey BY Yvonne Lim WHERE'S a woman's place on a ship of war? Answer: For the first time ever, it's at the helm. Major Tay Poh Ling, 33, is the first woman commanding officer to stand on the bridge of a
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      394 15 SUCH a rare baptism of fire isn't a privilege most new Commanding Officers of the Singapore Navy get to undergo. At 1 am on July 1, a knock on the door woke Major Tay Poh Ling, 33, the new Commanding Officer of the
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      Lock icon Was Audrey special?
      106 17 MISS Audrey Loh's tragic and untimely death at the Layang Layang resort on July 31 has touched many. Clearly, she was a person much loved and missed. With the consent of her father, Dr Loh Ban Chye, we will be publishing a memorial to celebrate her vivacious
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      Lock icon He found $10,000 and gave it back
      387 18  -  HONESTLY, HE'S A GEM By- Tan Shou Min HE found a wallet with as much money in it as he earns in a year and a quarter. And he didn't even check to see how much there was inside. All he wanted to
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      Lock icon MEGAWATI AIDE: If Megawati becomes President, she may pardon Suharto But... (read on to find out more)
      255 19 WORLDTODAY ...only after he is punished AN aide to presidential hopeful Ms Megawati Soekarnoputri, told The Jakarta Post this yesterday. He was responding to a call by Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) chairman Abdurrahman Wahid,
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      252 21 WORLD TO DAY What's their beef? Find out here... AFP. BURGER King is feeling the heat. It is now in the centre of a Middle-East conflict of its own. The US fast-food giant opened an outlet a few weeks ago in
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      42 22 mui<mui< BMW Mm down, fot a shock |Ai||Blasm U A wnon rnncvs fviiHafii ana narry Mpod Mm push It roar London: They acted as though it was no big deal. It's amazing when there are two princes pushing your car.
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      315 22 How US surge could hit us Source: AFP, Reuters. A REPORT of a big jump in new American jobs yesterday is shaping up to be a big headache for money markets. The US government said 310,000 new jobs were pumped out last month. That's
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      81 22 THE huge surge in jobs indicates that the US economy is expanding too fast, said economist William Sullivan. The US central bank, the Federal Reserve (the Fed), will have to move carefully in trying to cool off the economic surge, he said. At the same time, it would
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      568 24 BUSINESSMAN SAYS IN COURT: Source: Bernama, NST THE details read as if they were lifted from some soap opera script in Hollywood. But the venue was a sombre Kuala Lumpur High Court, in which a well-known Malaysian businessman gave a blow-by-blow account
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      160 24 THE trial is about money. Datuk Abdullah Hishan said that he loaned RM263,350 ($118,000) to Sharma to buy 167,000 Insas Bhd shares. He says he gave her the money because she promised to convert to Islam and marry him. He claims she broke the promise.
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      249 24 Source: Bernama A WHOLESALE fishball seller knocked into a housewife and her daughter after a dispute over a carpark lot at a shopping centre in Kuala Lumpur last year. Teh Chuan Ann, 41, committed the offence while in a rage, the judge found. There
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    467 25  -  Et cetera WITH P N BALJI WITH 50 years of my life gone by (30 years of them being a workaholic), a daughter planning to get married next year, a heart by-pass surgery behind me and energy levels that are dropping by the day...l've been asking myself:
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      Lock icon Is this man a demon?
      712 26  -  By Seto Nu-wen THE only file photograph we have of him shows a bearded man with piercing eyes and a mane. No wonder Elangovan says people think he's a demon. Now, he looks like any man on the street. Clean shaven, sporting short hair and
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      143 27  -  By Seto Nu-wen ELANGOVAN'S latest play, Mirugam II (mirugam means animal), deals with the friction between two people from different backgrounds. The satire is about two Tamils an expatriate software-engineer and the offspring of a coolie who meet by chance in a park. They
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      396 28 LATE next month, Taiwanese singer Chang Huei Mei will strut her stuff here at the National Stadium. But earlier that month, Chinese concert-goers can warm up with Hongkong singer Andy Lau, who will be here to assault your senses for two nights. His concert promoter
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      18 28 What Andy Lau National Day Give-away Whit. Ngee Ann City, Civic Plaza WhMK 6 pm, today
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      555 29  -  She withdraws resignation letter in dramatic twist By Hazel Tan SO much drama, this quitting business. In the latest twist, Jacelyn Tay withdrew her resignation letter yesterday, five days after she had quit in a huff, citing her studies as the reason. And like any good drama, the
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      288 29 ACTING has affected Jacelyn's school work, it seems. Her grades dropped last semester. "My grades? Let's just say there were very good ones and the 'oh, no' ones," she said. She took three units in the first semester and did well, but found
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    504 30  -  MUSIC SHOW INFO WHAT: NAC-M1 Jazz Jam Series Eldee Young and quartet; Chromazone WHEN: Tomorrow, spm WHERE: Botanic Gardens TICKETS: Admission is free For more information about jazz concerts, you can go online to www. nac.gov.sg or call 3717-832 (during office hours) BY Yong Siew Fern
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    443 32 Ever wondered how you can change your looks? CAROL LEONG gets four people to try a makeover spotlight To celebrate Singapore's 34th birthday, Cattivo, The Makeup Studio b giving away 3,400 free fn<i keovere A makeover usually costs $80. Look out for the contest coupons in The
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      1247 41 TODAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD: Going forecast Good No- LutSrum How Wl BaMng Jockov Borritr (AgaterigtoVni,tralnor-own*) 1 5-8-0- SNAPPY STRIKER 57 (48) Woodworth 11 (6nzg Tiang-Mdm Chay Woon San) 2 53-4- BLUE FLYER 56.5 (47) Allan 2 (Sag Yeo-Egoli) 3 47-0 ASK YOU 56 (46) Sam 12 (7am Stone-BLDG) 4
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      885 42  -  RACE 1: Bullcreek Dancer, Ferric Storm. RACE 2: Great Dream, Gentle Johnny. RACE 4: Alfred's Princess. RACE 5: New Centre, Boy Emperor. RACE 6: I'm Sure, Lord Virgo, Emperor Returns. RACE 7: Crystal Magical. RACE 8: Bintan Star. By Danny Khoo IF THERE is one
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      161 42 T>r Princess Lan (Race 2 No. 12) Her late-closing fifth over the 1,400m last week was a top effort. The Stargazer mare needs a bit of distance to be at her best. Just two runs back, she won impressively over the Penang 1,700m. So the mile trip today
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      455 43 NST KL TRACKWORK Another effort deserves to break the i duck in the Class 5 2,000 m event in Race 7 tomorrow, going on his winding-up gallop in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-old American-bred gelding by Premiership sprinted keenly
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      161 44 I 1 SUPER KEYM AN 56 5(73) Soo (7) (4nzg Baertschiger-Top Super) ntiings-By Surprise; chestnut; landed 17.3.98; 6r 2-0-3 (Kl200g 1:12.2$7. S1200y 5) C3-3 Soo 55 (65)(13)2 1 1/14 ($203) 1M> lucky Mike Sl200y 1:12.4 (459) C3-P Soo 56 (73) (15)11 9 3-'15 I.J68) 5 We
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      688 51 ARSENAL: Kate Winslett, Prince Harry, Chris Smith CHELSEA: Sir Richard Attenborough, Mel B (Spice), Tamara Beckworth, Sebastian Coe, Martin Tyler (Sky), Andy Flethcher(Depeche Mode) MAN UNITED: Naomi Campbell, Mick Hicknall, Ulrika Johnson, Rod Stewart LEEDS: Stefan Edberg, Nasser Hussain (cricketer) NEWCASTLE: Tony Balir
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      624 52 Jeffrey Low: The winner of the 1999-2000 Premiership will not be Man U IT was Alan's 12th birthday last month, and he wanted a pair of "Becks" before it's too late. Too late for what event, he didn't want to say, vet. He just
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      105 54 ARSENAL Underrated: Nigel Winterburn: One of the most reliable players of last season and the source of many of the left-sided attacks. Overrated: Ray Parlour: The clamour for him to be a mainstay of the England squad says more about England's mediocrity than his brilliance. He's good. But
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      1209 54 A LOOK ATTHE OTHER PREMIERSHIP CLUBS The Guardian. ASTON VILLA Underrated: Julian Joachim: Promising striker of England material, who fights when the going gets tough. Overrated: Alan Wright: He was ever-present not because of his performance but because of the lack of competition for his place.
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      95 54 MANCHESTER UMTED Underrated: Denis Irwin:Too often forgotten when searching for keys to United's success. Referee David Elleray, bored with sending off Roy Keane, did his best to rescue him from anonymity with a red card last season. Overrated: All United's players have been overrated reientlessly one minute and
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      182 55 Reuters. ARSENAL will not be taken for a ride by another problem boy. Fresh with the memories of troubled French striker Nicolas Anelka, the Gunners have given new Croatian star striker Davor Suker a year to prove that his "problem boy" tag is unfounded.
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      113 55 Wire services. SUKER'S attitude to pro soccer is completely wrong, says Real Madrid coach John Toshack. Toshack, the former Wales and Liverpool star, threw the book at him because he showed a repeated lack of discipline and kept missing training sessions. He fell out with Toshack after
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      403 55 BIG KICK-OFF TO THE PREMIERSHIP SEASON: TODAY: Arsenal v Leicester Chelsea v Sunderland Coventry v Southampton Leeds v Derby County Middlesbrough v Bradford Newcastle v Aston Villa Sheff Wed v Liverpool Watford v Wimbledon West Ham v Tottenham TOMORROW: Everton v Man United ARSENAL v LEICESTER: Arsenal beat
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      736 56  -  SEA GAMES '99: SWIMMING BY Gerard Wong REPORTING FROM BRUNEI HE spent the 1980s trailing futilely after Ang Peng Siong's wake in the pool. He spent the first half of the 1990s taking over the 50m and 100 m freestyle crowns from Ang. And then the
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      178 56  -  SEA GAMES '99: BOWLING By Gerard Wong THE SEA Games bowling competition doesn't begin until tomorrow. But some of our bowlers have succumbed to the heat. The heat in Brunei, that is. The searing temperatures (33 to 34 deg C) have made Tan Yong Seng
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      589 57 When Kee Soon Bee speaks, everybody listens. Not only because of his booming voice. But because he is, simply put, the Grandfather and Voice of Singapore swimming. Yet, in an interview, GERARD WONG finds the 80-year-old Kee wondering if our brightest swimming talent will heed his
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      Lock icon JOSCELIN AT THE BRUNEI GAMES
      263 57  -  INTERVIEW GERARD WONG THE US-based swimmer is slated to compete in 12 events at the Brunei Games. She will swim in nine individual events and three relays. In 1995, Joscelin Yeo was named Female Athlete of the Games for her nine-gold swimming haul. But the
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      306 57 CAN we go one step further? Can we produce more than just one world-class swimmer in Joscelin Yeo? Kee Soon Bee believes we can. "Who says we're not good enough to produce athletes of such calibre?" he shot back. "Look at sprinter Poh Kim
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      115 58 I'm happiest when my swimmers put in a lot of effort at training. The medals are only a bonus to me. One of my happiest moments was on Dec *****. There was a huge flood throughout Singapore that day. I stood at the Toa Pay oh Swimming Complex
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      85 58 I can't recall a moment when I've been very disappointed. But I do feel a slight tinge of regret that our waterpolo team didn't get to go to Cardiff for the World Olympic Games in 1948. We could have represented China because we won the gold at the
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      23 58 She will win 10 golds and create new records in the majority of her freestyle and butterfly events.
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      63 58 I don't know what happened to Joscelin after the 1995 SEA Games. But Ido know that something must be really spurring her on at the moment. You see, Joscelin is a God-given talent. She doesn't break records because she has to but because she wants to. And
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      773 59  -  SEA GAMES' 99: SOCCER THE MAN WHO PUT SINGAPORE IN THE SEMIS SINGAPORE 1 Indra Sahdan 90th min INDONESIA 1 BimaSakti, 36th min penalty SINGAPORE: Rezal Hassan Aidelskandar SSubramani TanKlmLeng Mohamed Noor Ali NazriNasir AzharSalleh Zulkarnaen Zainal (Robin Chitrakar, 79th) Samawira Basri \Kadir Yahaya, 59th) RafiAii Latiff Khamarudin
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      534 60  -  By S Gulam REPORTING FROM BRUNEI WAS it really a penalty? The Indonesian coach said "no". The Indonesian striker, who was supposed to have been fouled, said "no". Tan Kim Leng, who was supposed to have committed the foul, swore he did nothing wrong. His captain Nazri
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      256 60 WHATEVER the pundits may think > one man is convinced it'll be a Singapore-Indonesia final. "It's a draw today. It's 1-1. The score is even. We shall meet again in the final to decide who's better," said Indonesia coach Bernhard Schumm. Asked what made him
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      352 60  -  By Gerard Wong REPORTING FROM BRUNEI MAYBE our national swimming team should attend every match Singapore's soccer team plays. After all, look at what their 10-minute presence did for the Lions who played Indonesia at the Hassan Bolkiah National Stadium yesterday. When our swimmers arrived at
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      32 61 BUSY, BUSY: Workers putting the finishing touches at ihe Hassanai Boikiah Stadium In Brunei, where the SEA Games opening ceremony will be held. Picture/ Reuters
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      791 61 KEE SOON BEE: On Singapore's SEA Games hopes SGULAM: On Singapore's Lion King JEFFREY LOW: The winner of the 1999-2000 English Premiership will not be Man United... SEA GAMES: Joscelin Yeoatease ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE: Reports on tonight's matches and preview of Everton v Man U ROB
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      126 55 ON TV TONIGHT: CHELSEA v SUNDERLAND (FC 22, 9.55pm) SUNDERLAND is in for a very hard time in its opening Premiership match at Stamford Bridge today. The newly promoted team plays a revitalised Chelsea, which is set to fire away in order to prove its tag as one of the
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      145 55 ON TV TOMORROW: EVERTONv MAN UTD (FC 22,10.55pm) CAN the Red Devils wipe out the bad memory of last week's Charity Shield defeat to Arsenal? The answer will come in an acid test at Goodison Park tomorrow when Manchester United takes on Everton. United was unbeaten in 33 matches last
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      24 55 ON TV: Chelsea v Sunderland (Live, 9.55pm, today) Watford v Wimbledon (Delayed, 12.10 am, tomorrow) Evertonv Man United (Live, 10.55pm, tomorrow) Football Channel 22
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      42 61 a (Live, ESPN) jf 9.30pm: 1 English Premiership preview tfliriilP* 9.55pm: TODAY (selected programmes) English Premiership: Chelsea v Sunderland Zp (Live, Ch 22) Tennis: Canadian Open 11pm(ESPN) Tri-Nations Rugby: 9pm: New Zealand v South Africa Table Tennis: World Champs (Live, Star Sports)
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      989 62 TV 00AY 9.00 AM Hip-0 A Friend* (Children) Turn 9.30 gi joe Extreme(Cartoon/r) Bl Mary Kate Olsen and Ashley 10.00 Kids at Work (Local children's p FllllGr OISGII ff rn mm > MP H Takes Two of the Mffar jflL Channel 5, 7.30 pm 11.00 Big Bad Beetteborg (Drama) A
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