The New Paper, 19 August 1999

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  • 7 1 the new paper THURSDAY AUGUST 19, 1999
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    • 267 2 ATRIP to Genting Highlands for a group of Singaporeans ended on a scary note after their bus overturned yesterday. The driver and several passengers were injured when the tour bus skidded while coming down from the hill resort, said a police spokesman. According to
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    • 250 2 CHINA FREEZE H Source: BBC. CHINESE businessmen have a big headache. For the past two years, they have been producing millions of VCD players, bicycles, air-conditioners and other products that people are not buying. As a result, they have had to slash their prices, causing
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  • 280 3 v l YOU have heard him described as linjbrmal, courteous, friendly. IHpw tee for yourself. V Singapore's next President doesn't stand on ceremony. When he saw some reporters outside his\ house yesterday morning, he came out to greet them in his usual wear, the sarong. And, do you
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 719 4  -  By Yvonne Lim HUMBLED THAT'S how Singapore's newest President felt when he walked out of the nomination centre at Kallang yesterday and looked around at the cheering crowds. And some old faces among them, in particular. Mr S R Nathan, 75, President-elect, said: "I was in fact overwhelmed
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    • 396 4 "I had a bypass operation way back in 1991. It was, in fact, not as a result of a heart attack, but it was optional on my part. "Since then, I have been keeping good health. While in the United States, I have had
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    • 438 5 ADVERTISEMENT I Christy Chung: One of Asia's three sexiest women. Christy Chung was bubbling with excitement, having just been voted DOYOUWANTTO SEE one of the top three sexiest women A w u lp in Asia by a reader survey in A MORE SHAPELY BODY IN THE MIRROR? Singapore's FHM magazine.
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 232 6 HOT STORY SINGAPORE Telecommunications has frozen staff pay although net earnings rose 3.7 per cent to $1.96 billion for the year ended March 31,1999. But Singapore's largest and most profitable listed company will still pay bonuses, reports The Business Times. SingTel's
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    • News Break
      • 67 6 INSURANCE ABOUT 21,000 accidents have been reported to insurance companies from May to July under a new scheme for accident claims where there are no injuries. It aims to cut five weeks off processing time. Motorists were urged not to leaving out information in applications. A brochure is
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      • 56 6 AUSTRALIA THE Supreme Court of Australia's Queensland state says the registration of Mrs Pauline Hanson's One Nation party came up through fraud last year. The court said 500 supporters were shown as party members. Her party stands to lose A 5500,000 (*****,000) in election funding earned for winning
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      • 60 6 HEALTH MANY new cases of the disease tuberculosis (TB) are in South and South-east Asian countries with poor control strategies. A World Health Organisation study has found 1.86 billion people, or 32 per cent of the global population, now carry the bacterium that causes it, many unware of
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      • 57 6 BRUNEI A SINGAPOREAN died in Brunei after a roller-coaster ride. Mr Uduwela Ananda Nihal, 35, was found slumped in his seat after a ride at the Jerudong Park Playground. He died later at a hospital. Mr Nihal was part of a TV crew that covered the SEA
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    • 45 6 The Straits Times: Nathan elected President The Business Times: Small cap stocks come roaring back with 11% surge Lianhe Zaobao: Nathan is second elected President Berita Harian: President Nathan RCS morning news: President-elect SR Nathan outlines his policies or rather his priorities
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    • 27 6 The Dow Jones industrial average fell 125.70 points to close at 10,991.38. yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 677 million shares.
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    • 160 6 JUST key your starting point and destination into the computer and in less than 10 seconds the computer will tell you how to get there by bus or MKT (see picture on the left). And the computer can also tell you how far you need to walk from
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    • 89 6 Quote worthy The LTA has modified the gantry design for the seven new gantries under ERPPhase 2A... the words "In Operation"are replaced with a digital clock display for motorists* irtfdirmation, and two amber lights will light up during ERP operational hours to indicate that ERP is in
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    • 64 6 meplcal BLOOD banks in the US and Canada have been told to stop collecting donations from people who lived in or frequently visited Britain during the "mad cow" disease outbreak. Australia and Japan said they were considering a similar ban. The fear is that donors who ate tainted
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    • 60 6 STOCKS SINGAPORE stocks hit the fast lane yesterday, rising 3.3 per cent. The reasons? First, news that Singapore stocks would be given more weightage by Morgan Stanley Capital International in its index. The other was the good showing by Wall Street stocks. Interest rate hike worries in
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    • 63 6 International Herald Tribune: Quake toll nears 3,500 as aid teams rush to Turkey The New Straits Times: Malaysia-China accord on key issues Asian Wall Street Journal: Taiwan's Lee signals support of defence plan BBC news: Rescuers in north-western Turkey are working through a second night in an
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    • Article, Illustration
      53 6 BUSINESS DR David Chew (right), 41, has won this year's RotaryASME Entrepreneur of the Year award. He founded Strategic Technologies (Stratech) in 1987 with "only a few dollars in my pocket". Today, Stratech, which designs, develops, implements and maintains information technology and technology systems, has a yearly turnover
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    • 63 6 TECHNOLOGY ZERO hour: 8 am, Sunday. But it will hit only those with old Global Positioning System receivers, which use satellites signals to pin-point positions. The GPS runs on a "clock" time of 1,024 weeks, which ends on Sunday. So the "clock" must be reset to zero. In
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 49 6 WHAT'S HUP Today,I saw a picture of my old classmate, Raja Then, I saw a picture of Mary, my old girlfriend. Gee, I really feel old. Why is that Ah Kong? m m m s Pr 1 I mm Because they're all in the Obituaries section of the newspaper
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        72 7 OUR report highlighted the plight of Angelica Sharon Lengkong, 10, and her sister, Michelle, eight. Stepchildren of a Singaporean who is married to their Indonesian mother, the two could not get into any local school because they didn't get student passes. Their stepfather, Mr Johnny Lim, claimed SIR told
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      • 177 7 Richard Kwok f e-mail I REFER to the report Mummy, when can we go to school? (TNP, Aug 11). It is really sad that the two children's parents are facing so many problems just to get them into school. It is sad as the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 1172 9  -  VICTIM 1: Ex-SIA stewardess Loses dream job Six operations to scarred face Says she is broke VICTIM 2: Dead driver's mum Sued for compensation Discovers she has breast cancer Says she's broke Reports/ Riana Zakir LOOK at Miss Winnie Chng's smooth, oval face closely. Tell
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      23 10 111 111******K strength and faith. If you think you are that low, you have nowhere else to go but up.
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    • 392 10  -  By Ng Boon Yian IT was a vicious stabbing attack, but the weapon wasn't a knife or a parang. It was a jagged-edged fluorescent tube that snapped into two after it was thrust into his stomach. As blood spurted from the deep gash, Mr Pang Kim
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  • PARLIAMENTTODAY
    • 280 12 ELECTED PRESIDENCY DEBATE THE White Paper is President Ong Teng Cheong's legacy to help future presidents perform their duties. It is a statement of principles which President Ong, his staff and the Government established. It was tabled in Parliament on July 2. As such,
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    • 192 12 OPPOSITION MPs did not want the White Paper to be made binding. Non-constituency MP Mr JB Jeyaretnam claimed the principles in the White Paper are invalid because they were madeiust before President Ong leaves office. He added that it was a waste of time debating MP Mr Shriniwas
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    • 117 12 Q A Many are wondering why President Ong Teng Cheong chose to air the difficulties he had with the Government, at a press conference. Nominated MP Zulkifli Baharudin raised this question in Parliament on Tuesday. Q: Is there a way we can find where we could discuss these problems without
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    • 158 13 CHECK out the frame that your aircon sits in. If it's a wooden frame (like the one in the picture, above right), get ready to change it. You have one year from yesterday, the passing of the amended Building Control Act, to change
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    • 92 13 ABOUT 50 doctors here had queried if all Johns Hopkins doctors had graduated from the 20 approved medical schools. Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang said that all foreign doctors who practice here are subject to the same rules and are required to register with the
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    • 85 13 IN the past, bankrupts had to go to court for permission to do business or be company directors. From now on, they no longer have to make that trip, shell out time and money to do so, with the amendment to the Bankruptcy Bill. The Official
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 459 14  -  COMING TO HER ENGLISH CLASS: By Chua Wei Yng MS Yeo Soo Ling (right) takes her love for movies into her classroom. She screens films like Schindler's List and The Joy Luck Club so that her students can hear characters speaking good English. Ms Yeo herself prefers to
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    • 106 14 WANT to sign up for The New Paper olevel seminar? It will be held at Raffles Girls School (Secondary) at Anderson Road on Sept 4. You may choose to go for the English session from 8 am to 11.35 am or the Maths session from 12.15 pm to
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    • 754 16  -  Life has changed for Mr Smart Money ll By Ng Wan Ching HOW suddenly life changes. Last month, this man was strutting about town, even saying he might be the next Sim Wong Hoo. Barely a fortnight back, he was
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    • 233 16 SBBB.com's Mr David Chang says he knows how to sell and will patent his business model. "I have so much experience in retailing and marketing," said the former general manager of Pertama Holdings. "The challenge for me with SBBB.com is to get people to come
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    • 192 16 THE Criminal Investigation Department's Commercial Crime Division is investigating SBBB.com's business practices. The Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has said the company's marketing method smacks of pyramid selling and warned that people "may have been sold a dream". In pyramid selling, a person acquires a commodity or
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    • 510 17 What makes buying and selling shares online attractive? IRENE KEWspeaks to three who have bypassed their brokers LAPTOP IS ALL I NEED OUT TO MAKE A QUICK BUCK THERE'S MORE DISCIPLINE HE quit his engineering job which paid $3,000 a month so that he could
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    • 213 17 What you need A computer with a modem and an Internet account. Brokerages will specify what you need. Some also provide the software. How to get on the Net to trade Open an account with the Central Depository. Open an Internet trading account with a
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  • 378 18 help identify victims PROTON TYCOON AUTOPSY MALAYSIATODAY Bernama. HE was the man they called the Proton king. Transport tycoon Tan Sri Yahaya Ahmad was flying his beloved helicopter to see his sick mother. Although only a student pilot, the tycoon was a powerful man and liked to
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 345 19 Says Sonia as she files her nomination papers Wire services. INDIA'S Congress party president Mrs Sonia Gandhi's Italian roots are a major campaign issue. Time and again, her opponents harp on it in an effort to win over the masses. They ask how a foreigner can
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    • 51 20 muKmuK ItoctNft wporti kivi Mid that th# World B—k way ortsr Myanmar ipiclal lid If H» mMtary Isadora agree to hold tala with oppooiloa loader Aung San San KyTo party. Mynmrrmlii) Minister Win tang's reaction to the rsport: We are not monkeys to give money and bananas
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    • 113 20 Source: Reuters. TEXAS Governor George W Bush wants to be America's next president. But rumours that the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination has used cocaine are spreading. Worse for his image, he has evaded the matter. What he did say was that he believed the rumours
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    • 275 20 CHINA MALAYSIA Source: Wire services. CHINA and Malaysia are two of Asia's harshest critics of the West. They reinforced that status yesterday when they told outsiders to keep out of their maritime territorial dispute. Their leaders "agreed that the South China Sea
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    • 72 20 Source: Wire services. THE two countries have agreed to start a pulp mill joint-project in Sabah as soon as possible. The agreement between Fuxin Pulp and Paper Industries of China, a major state-owned company, Innoprise Sabah Sdn Bhd (ISSB) and Lion Forest Industries was signed yesterday. Mahathir is
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    • 313 21 THE fate of former Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet may have been on his mind. Indonesia's ailing former President Suharto has reportedly decided not to seek expert medical help abroad, the BBC reports. Mr Suharto, 78, who suffered a stroke last month, is wary of the
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    • 183 21 FORMER president Suharto may be discharged from hospital in the next few days. But that's only if he shows rapid improvement, said Dr Ibrahim Ginting, who is leading the medical team attending to him. "He should be set to return home in the next few days,
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    • 283 22 YOGENDRA Singh Yada, an Indian soldier awarded the Param Vir Chakra medal after his "death" in the Kashmir conflict, was, to the army's embarrassment, found alive and kicking at a hospital in New Delhi. Yadav, of the Grenadier regiment, was believed to have been killed
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    • 214 23 WHILE his peers are still cramming for their college entrance examinations in Taiwan, 15-year-old Ting Hsing-yuen has made his first $50,000. While studying in the United States he took part in a nationwide stocks and shares investment simulation competition at his school, Lincoln,
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    • 144 23 THE truth is out there. More than a million people in 223 countries, including 90,000 in Britain, believe this. They have signed up, via their computers, to search for intelligent life in the universe, reported the Electronic Telegraph. They are aided in their search by
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    • 190 23 Wire Services. IRAQ has denied a claim by an opposition group that Deputy Prime Minister Mohamed Hamza al-Zubaydi was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in the suburbs of Baghdad on Tuesday. "Such information is a tissue of lies from beginning to end, and is
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    • 122 23 AFP. THE doctor said that 4-year-old Sunzo Sugino only had a minor throat injury and sent him home with some antibiotics and painkillers. He died shortly afterwards. A post-mortem revealed a shocking discovery: A 7.6 cm chopstick was found in the
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    • 169 21 year and is under British nouse reportedly sought assurances trom He has been sickly in arrest. Germany that he would not be recent years. He is fighting extradition to Spain, detained there. U After he went for which wants to put him on trial for But these were not forthcoming
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  • 912 24  -  Rescuers are racing against time to pull survivors from the rubble of Turkey's devastating earthquake on Tuesday. Latest reports say about 4,ooopeople were killed and at least 16,000 injured. Here, a Singaporean recounts in a telephone interview how he huddled in a
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 289 25 If Russians cannot remember who their prime minister is today, who can blame them They have had five in the past 17 months. Each new premier had come to the scene promising to do this and that for Russia. But they usually end up being kicked out
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    • 116 25 Source: Reuters. THEY may have been yesterday's men In Mr Yeltsin's eyes. QaaA HA|H i i l qui iww rnme Minister Vladimir Putin believes that Ms predecessors can still be of some help to him. y. it.ji m "irriiiin yesreraay met Mr Viktor Me ill I li. Vllvt IIUVIIJT
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  • 500 26  -  et CETERA WITH YONG SIEW FERN I'M a sniffer. I snifT at things so much that my late greatgrandmother would have chided me for being rude and unladylike. My most fervent habit: I sniff food before I eat, for fear of eating sour-smelling
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 132 26 COMICREUEF The Concrete Jungle/Colin Goh 6»ll®£ 11 Uk.SUtt. I f [MbHdtE I f HUSTILL I |...l«WlbCI> I NKEIKA. 1, in sot... fw*iieet>«rt an. ftutflMtt n*rt>suf j||jT sj& gar feSl Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson I/*** 1 00U,1«5t BUGSI OOKT 9CRKKM HUT HA I TVUKVt. 93METMIHC Utt MMBE STOTIH& OJT 1 MEJMEVH.'
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    • 446 27  -  By Yong Siew Fern IN HONGKONG FORGET Faye Wong. (As if you ever can.) Na Ying looks set to be the next pop diva in the region. She is Faye's good friend, she sings just as well, and she is also from China, but thank goodness the
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    • 204 28 NA Ying gave a showcase of her songs at Star East restaurant-disco-pub in Hongkong last week. Thanks to a blackout at her hotel, she was half an hour late. Still, she made it in one piece, though her hair and make-up was only half done, and she had
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    • 408 29  -  SHOW INFO WHAT: Konsert Gembala M Nasir WHERE: Harbour Pavilion, World Trade Centre WHEN: Tomorrow, 8.30 pm TICKETS: $55, $40 and $30, from Slstlc outlets. Or call their hotline, 348-5555. By Seto Nu-wen BRIGHT lights, ear-splitting sound, and dazzling pyrotechnics. Not
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    • 147 30 HE is used to tackling controversies as FBI Agent Fox Mulder in the hit series The X-Files. Now, actor David Duchovny, (right) is levelling conspiracy charges in real life. He filed a conspiracy lawsuit on Aug 10 against 20th Century Fox, reported Variety magazine. In
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    • 132 30 YET more protests over the orgy scene in the late Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut with Nicole Kidman and hubby Tom Cruise (left). This time, it's the US Hindu Anti-Defamation Coalition taking issue with the film. But it's not about the simulated sex scenes
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    • 82 30 PRODUCER Larry Charles has persuaded comedian Jerry Seinfeld (left) to perform the voice of a snide mainframe computer on the Dilbert cartoon. USA Today reported that Charles, who was one of the producers of Seinfeld, doesn't like to ask friends for favours. He said: "I don't
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    386 31  -  CAREER CHOICE By Chua Wei Yng MR Adrian Ng, 24, hates bugs. Not your common garden variety housefly or beetle, but software glitches computer bugs. Mr Ng has been a multimedia programmer for more than a year. He basically writes software to make CD-ROMs. Programmers put together visuals,
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    • 493 42 GUIDE TO PENANG TRACKWORK NST. Reformed rogue geared up for the Dr Lim Ah Soo Memorial Trophy race on Sunday with an eye-catching workout in Penang yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the Australian-bred gelding by Congressman trotted one lap before sprinting over the final
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    • 443 42 Reuters. ROYAL ANTHEM at last proved himself to be a real champion on Tuesday when spreadeagling a high-class field to win the 2,000 m Juddmonte International Stakes by a breathtaking eight lengths at York, England. "He is the best horse on Planet Earth," said Prince
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    • 357 43 COUNTDOWN TO THE WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS, SEVILLE (SPAIN) From Saturday to Aug 29 At Seville in Spain EXCLUSIVE REPORTS British athletics writer Nigel Whitefield will be reporting this championships for The New Paper. Look out for his reports in the sports pages from this weekend.
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    • 256 44 MORE ON THE WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS. SEVILLE (SPAIN AFP. STAR sprinter Merlene Ottey (above) has pulled out of the World Championships in Seville. Reason: The former world 200 m champion from Jamaica has tested positive for a banned steroid Nandrolone. The International Amateur Athletics Federation (LAAF) has
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    • 36 44 GETTING READY' Workers at Seville's Olympic Stadium getting the flaga of all competing nations ready. Which one will flutter In the breeze most often? We'll know In a week. Picture/ Afp
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    • 160 44 TWO Singapore athletes will be participating at these World Championships. They are sprinter Tan Shieh Li and steeplechaser G Elangovan. But don't expect any medal-winning performances from them. After all, their personal bests are way off the standards of the top-ranked athletes who will be
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    • 241 44 AFP. SPRINTER Susanthika Jayasinghe (above) doesn't want to stay with the rest of the Sri Lankan team at the Games Village in Seville. Reason: She fears her food will be spiked. The Midweek Mirror said that Asia's top female sprinter had asked the organisers to provide her
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    • 549 45  -  After scoring a hat-trick against Woodlands, SAFFCstriker Mirko Grabovac (picture right) seemed to be saying to fans:"l'm the main man. "But it was Ahmad LatiffKhamaruddin who left the fans wondering... WOODLANDS WELLINGTON 1 (Masrezwan Masturi, 30th min) Equipment sponsor Lotto SAFFC3 (Mirko Grabovac 37th, 64th, 90th
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    • 214 45  -  CLEMENTI 4 (Bogdan Brasoveanu 7th and 59th, Nahar Daud 45th and 66th) MARINE CASTLE 2 (Esad Sejdic 24th, Harun Jumaat, 41st) BY Peter Siow CLEMENTI Khalsa's coach Jita Singh could not stop smiling yesterday. The reason: His team has climbed up from the basement of
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    • 260 46 LAN WRIGHT TO MOVE FROM SOCCER TO ACTING AFTER THIS SEASON Reuters. FORMER England and Arsenal striker lan Wright, now with Premiership club West Ham, plans to retire from football at the end of the season. He wants to become a film star. The
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    • 195 46 Wire services. ARSENAL Feyenoord's Dutch defender Bert Konterman is the latest transfer target of boss Arsene Wenger. Gunners' scouts took a trip to Holland last Friday to check up on the £8 million-rated (s2lm) star play in his team's 4-0 victory over Den Bosch. And reports from within the
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    • 175 46 AFP. RONNY Johnsen could be forced to undergo surgery on both his knees. If that happens, Manchester United will miss its Norwegian defender for the rest of the year. Johnsen has been sidelined all summer with a condition known as "jumper's knee", which
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    • 320 47 Group 2: Slovenia 2 Albania 0 GroupS: Yugoslavia 0 Croatia 0 GROUP TWO Reuters. HOW MATCHES WENT OVER 52,(XX) fans packed the national stadium in Belgrade to watch Yugoslavia and Croatia battle to a goalless draw in their Euro 2000 Group Eight qualifier yesterday. Even though the
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    • 441 47 Wire services. THE residents of Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, are used to electricity blackouts. After all, they endured two months of Nato bombings recently because of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic's treatment of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo province. But yesterday, there was nothing sinister about
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    • 397 48  -  INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL FRIENDUES AROUND EUROPE Northtfn Ireland 0 Franca 1 HOW THEY FARED Estonia 2 Armenia 0 Ukraine 1 Bulgaria 1 Belarus 0 Russia 2 Sweden 0 Austria 0 Denmark 0 Holland 0 Norway 1 Lithuania 0 Northern Ireland 0 France 1 Poland 1 Spain 2
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    • 465 48 Reuters. Denmark 0 Holland 0 Denmark and Euro 2000 co-host Holland drew 0-0 yesterday in a far from amicable friendly marred by a spate of rough tackling and bookings. Dutch striker Patrick Kluivert summed up the frustrating nature of the match when he somehow headed
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    • 437 49  -  By Peter Siow IT took some persuasion to get Nazri Nasir to talk about it. About that penalty miss against Indonesia that he would rather forget. Four days after he failed to get the better of Indonesian goalkeeper Hendro Kartiko at the Brunei South-east Asia Games match
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    • 190 49 AFP. THE cut on his finger is hampering his game. And he has tried every method he knows to get the skin toughened up. Surgical spirit, Friar's Balsam and urine. Yes, urine! You might go Yuks! but the bodily fluid certainly doesn't disturb
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