The New Paper, 2 September 1999

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  • 26 1 the new paper THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1999 Another quality publication of Singapore Pruma Holding* http://nawpapar.asial.com.sg MITA (P) 062/04/99 60 CENTS jljljj|||j|^ iff 8''*****l"*****V the new paper
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 358 2 THE tiger which severely mauled the Thai baht in the currency jungle two years ago is back on the prowl. The US-based Tiger Fund, an investment fund for the super-rich, re-launched an attack on the baht in the Hongkong market yesterday. Its heavy selling of the
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    • 94 2 Will Tiger Fund's move spark a new round of economic crisis in Asia? Highly unlikely, said market-watchers. Today's circumstances are very much different from those of 1997. For example, the baht is no longer pegged against the US dollar. So, Thailand is not obliged to defend It
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    • 218 2 Reuters. YOU'D better hurry if you collect the small Beanie Babies soft toys. Come Dec 31 this year, American beanie toy maker Ty Inc will be withdrawing all of its stock from the market. The company announced the move to stockpile its toys on
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    • 182 2 MALAYSIA Source: The Business Times, Reuters. AFTER having their millions trapped in Malaysia for a year, foreign investors were finally allowed to take their money out without having to pay an exit tax yesterday. Sept 1 was the first day that taxes were removed on principal sums
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  • 932 4  -  MR ONG TENG CHEONG SAYS GOODBYE... THEN, I MR SR NATHAN IS SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT SINGAPORETODAY By Brian Miller IF there were any doubts remaining that this was going to be a people's presidency, these were quickly dispelled barely minutes after Mr
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 256 5 m Dear Dr Mahathir, TREAT all races equally and build more Chinese schools. These are just two of the items on the wish list from 11 Chinese guilds and associations. The groups are trying to take advantage of the Mahathir administration's campaign to win their
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    • 51 5 It C IS FOR CELL: Madam Li Pang playing with her children Jason (right) and Jackie. China-bom Dr LI, a cell biologist, has won this year's Young Scientist Award for her work on cell death. She is the first woman to win the award. Picture/ The Straits
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    • News Break
      • 57 5 JOBS ABOUT a thousand workers at Seagate Technology will lose their jobs this week. The workers affected are from five factories: The company's disk drive plant in Ang Mo Kio, its printed circuit board assembly plant in Senoko, its recording media plants in Tuas and Woodlands, and
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      • 65 5 PHONES MANY phones on Sing Tel Mobile's GSM 900 network did not work properly for more than three hours yesterday afternoon. A Sing Tel Mobile spokesman said: "Not everyone was affected at the same time and in the same manner. "Some of them could not receive phone calls,
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      • 65 5 SOCIETY FAMILY should mean uncles, aunties and grandparents, too, says a working group here looking at the "aging society". It has suggested family policies be reviewed to take in the extended family. The number of childless and single elderly people was rising, it said. They should
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      • 58 5 ILLEGALS ABOUT 190 illegal migrants, believed to be from China's Fuji an province, were found on board a rusty ship near the northern tip of Vancouver Island on Tuesday. It was the third attempt to smuggle human cargo into Canada by sea in just five weeks. A military
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      • 64 6 CRIME THREE Singapore businessmen were robbed at gunpoint on Tuesday afternoon in Johor. The men had just finished a round of golf and were eating lunch in a coffeeshop in Gelang Patah when the robbers came in and held weapons to the men's backs. They took
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      • 67 6 JAPAN TWO babies in Japan died when left in a car in the sun as their teen mum played pinball. It was above 30 deg C in Takasaki on Friday. The 18-year-old mother was arrested on Tuesday for suspected manslaughter. She gambled on the game called
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      • 62 6 1 ROLLERCOASTERS THEY still want to go on rollercoasters, although they know four people died on such rides last month. Amusement-park rides caused 47 deaths in 12 years, 13 of them on rollercoasters, said the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. But amusement-park operators in the US said
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      • 69 6 STUDY MOTORISTS who use a mobile phone while driving are four times as likely to have an accident, compared with drivers who don't. And the comparative risk is six times higher in the first five minutes the drivers talk, says a Canadian study. Kits that allow a driver
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    • 27 5 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 108.60 points to close at 10,937.88 yesterday. About 697 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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    • 59 5 International Herald Tribune: Pro-Jakarta forces rampage in Timor New Straits Times: No rush to withdraw funds by managers Asian Wall Street Journal: Central Bank moves to resolve Phatra dilemma BBC news: The UN Security Council has strongly condemned the violence by the pro-Indonesian militias in East Timor
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    • 113 6 in F®*Sus The need to speak good English was raised in both Japan and Hongkong recently. A poor command of the language in both countries has been said to limit links to the rest of the world. Japan needs to make a bold attempt to reform itB
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    • 60 6 The Straits Times: Nathan sworn in as sixth President The Business Times: Hong Leong in talks to buy over Regal Hotels' US assets LianheZaobao: President Nathan and PM Goh pledge to work closely to carry out constitutional duties Berita Harian: President Nathan sworn in RCS morning news:
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    • Article, Illustration
      4 6 Tongue Chf)k
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    • 99 6 Owe has maintained that the current system of Certificate of Entitlement bidding and dealing forces consumers to place too much reliance on dealers and allows dealers to manipulate customers... and should the Government not be keen to exclude dealers from bidding for COEs, then they shouldforce the industry
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 56 9 mutfmutf The Government is cajoling Singaporeans to keep on acquiring new skills. How to put this message succinctly and dramatically? Futurist AMn Toffler sums K all up this way in a report In The Business Tlraess The illiterate of the 21st not be those who cannot read anjjltite,
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    • 596 9  -  Housebreakers face up to five years'jail and a fine. If theft is intended, the sentence may be two to 14 years'jail. By Ng Boon Yian THIS was not a crime against the elderly, but a crime allegedly committed by an elderly man. The victim
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    • 238 9  -  BY Azhar Ghani HE wrote a novel that stirred up a storm, not just for its name, but its content. ***** was a satire on Malaysian politics that riled the Malaysian establishment. There were calls for it to be banned and the writer, Professor Shahnon Ahmad,
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    • 93 10 With the will to fight and dominate our ground, WE MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. Oi /MmtSS I Gascon THE DECISIVE FORCE 4 Ji, ,'^K 1 vv» V dp v r Qtnie'> '4t+ $ty~ .^cAdNH^f^MNMMil|^M^' kM, V <3 > -<* wy yS/ y •ST v 'V -v W v V*. Ws 0
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  • SPEAKUP
    • SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM
      • 157 11 Stephen FeMx Grosse (e-mail) SO much emotion has been raised with the latest development from the investigations of the Silk Air tragedy. But it is a double tragedy when malicious speculation is circulated before final conclusions can be arrived at. It seems terribly unnecessary to throw ideas like
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      • 83 11 Mohamed Sediek (e-mail) SHOULD teachers accept students' gifts on Teachers' Day? Rather than buy gifts, I think students should be encouraged to make cards or posters to show their appreciation. My daughter, a secondary school student, wanted $10 to buy gifts. She has more than four teachers
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      • 197 11 Kevin Leong THIS is with reference to the story, What about those like us?* (TNP Sunday, Aug. 22) Ms Geraldine Chan is not the only one who is fed up. I am fed up with those like her who blame everyone except
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 142 12 WATCH, listen, feel, taste, sniff and be part of Swatch's Five Senses of the Century contest. Each month till the end of the year well be highlighting one of the senses. For each, we will be asking for suggestions of what should be
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    • 422 13  -  By Lingam Ponnampalam IT was a sight that stunned the lunchtime crowd in front of crowded Peninsula Plaza. Right in the middle of the busy road, a man had his hand around the neck of another and was squeezing hard. The berserk van driver
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    • 643 14  -  By C Shantheni WHEN I typed the name "Wong Hoong Hooi" and tapped the search key, I had little knowledge of what lay ahead this morning. As the minutes ticked, I read fascinated, unable to pull away from the picture that was
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    • Article, Illustration
      364 15 HERE are some excerpts from Mr Wong's published letters over the past two years in The Forum Page of The Straits Times: THE SINGAPORE MAN: He has his role stamped out for him by society and women. To perform national service, then acquire the 60s or as many
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    • 462 12 DRAW No. 09/1999 Ist prize ($1.5 million) 434 6973 2nd prize ($400,000) 260 2236 3rd prize ($200,000) 125 8940 10 JACKPOT PRI2ES ($lO,OOO EACH) *****11 *****95 *****63 *****96 *****79 *****88 *****54 *****76 *****96 *****04 10 LUCKY PRI2ES ($5,000 EACH) *****49 *****89 *****50 *****53 *****62 *****53 *****78 *****76 *****86 *****42 25
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    • 139 15 Undergraduate Post Graduate Degrees S Direct Entry University Of Technology, Sydney »Diploma to Degree Graduate Coursework I Professional education in communication, social inquiry and information sciences. UTS offers Australia's leading undergraduate and graduate programs in these I rapidly expanding areas. I UTS combines contemporary theory with high quality professional practice.
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  • 289 17  -  SINGAPORETODAY BY Irene Kew THE MAID came to Singapore two months ago. She joined the household of a newly-married couple in Choa Chu Kang. All indications were that the 21-year-old woman was doing fine. Until yesterday afternoon... when she just went berserk.
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  • 365 18 WORLDTODAY THEY ordered their wives to marry men in another province so they could swindle the men out of"bride money". But when their wives decided they were happier with their new "husbands" and refused to go home,
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    • 141 18 From now on till 30 September, eat across the region with our Asian Hawker Food Promotion. You'll enjoy signature dishes such as Hong Kong's famous Shark's Fin Soup, spicy Thai Tom Yam Soup, hearty Penang Char Kway Teow, crispy Japanese Tempura, delicious Sichuan Dan Dan Noodles and tasty Wanton Noodles
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    • 258 18 fijq7fll3[if!Yi^T7^l Sndoraed by 9 ■SaSH^ffll CAL (a member of Informatics Group) is the first and only computer school in Singapore to award the Certificate in Web Design, which is endorsed by NCC Education Services in UK. Education in Singapore is fast moving towards virtual learning. Web Design has thus become
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 319 20 j ONE bank robber left behind a bag with his photo in it. Another tried to rob a bank by making a gun with his thumb and finger. But he forgot to put his hand in his pocket when he pointed
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    • 190 20 DUMBO NO 1 DAVID Hindmarsh was an extremely patient robber. Two years ago, he walked into a bank at Fort Lauderale and threatened to explode a pipe bomb. The bank teller asked him to wait a moment. He did, standing in line for what turned into 20 minutes.
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  • 428 22  -  SHARMA CASE STILL ON MALAYSIATODAY By Melvin Singh U 1 WILL follow you, Follow you wherever you may g0... But to the toilet? Datuk Abdullah Hishan Mohd Hashim should be familiar with this song. After all, he apparently is a big karaoke fan. But
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  • 370 23 VENICE nun FESTIVAL WORLDTODAY THEFWJKI Eyes Wide Shut open# with Kidman stripping off and sitting on the 100 asking Cruise how she looks. It delves into the marriage of a Manhattan couple who struggle with jealousy and fear of infidelity after Kidman confesses to fantasising about having
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  • Article, Illustration
    337 25 WORLDTODAY East Timor's worst nightmare of violence and mayhem —has come true. Though the voting on Monday was peaceful, armed gang members have started beating, kicking and firing at people. Among the victims: A British journalist Source: BBC, CNN (Internet). I AM lucky to be alive, says Mr Jonathan
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  • 687 26  -  spotlight Two months ago, we gave you an exclusive peek into the work of the elite Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (Dart). But how do these tough guys keep in shape? Our reporter joins them for a day's training and survived... Well, just about
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 316 27 AIR CRASH IN ARGENTINA Reuters. FOR a few hours Mr Ricardo Weigel held high hopes that his brother would be alive. His brother, Gustavo, was the pilot of the plane which crashed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, yesterday. He was originally listed as a survivor. Mr
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    • 280 27 Reuters. AN unruly passenger forced a Canadian jet had to make an emergency landing at a Canadian wilderness airport that usually serves as an emergency landing strip for US space shuttles. Canada 3000, a chartered A 330 Airbus carrying 340 people, was
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    • 113 27 BRITAIN in getting tough on air rage. Stiff new punishments were announced yesterday, ranging from unlimited fines to two years in jail. Airlines in Britain have reported a 400 per cent increase in the past year. Some experts say it could be due to taking too much alcohol
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    • 318 28 Source: Reuters. THEY'VE done it to mice, so maybe they can do it to humans. Make them smarter, that is. At least, that's what some American scientists believe they can do to mammals, including humans. They created smart mice which remember objects much longer
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    • 75 28 m u i 4 m 111< Mhrirtir wanied that the country Is lagxfafbsMnd in lumpaUtliaiMM Me alas dsfuded Nsmwsak ngiilin for n» article which highlighted prostitution and golf as Bangkok's o«|y advantages. Minister of Science and Tectmolocy Arthit Ouralrat said: We lag behind in everything... Many people
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  • ShowTime
    • 626 29  -  By Hazel Tan SCHOOLGIRL by day, singer by night. This is Lee Peifen's double life during the Hungry Ghosts Festival. The 11-year-old is one of Singapore's hottest and youngest getai singers. If you think balancing studies and singing is hectic, wait till you find out
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    • 135 29 FEWER getai shows are being staged this year because of last year's recession. The number of shows depends on how much the Zhong Yuan Committee made at the auctions the year before. Mr Jackson Power, a popular getai compere who is the boss of Power Show, estimates that
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    • 401 29 SHE'S a born performer. After watching Lee Peifen perform, I'm convinced this kid was born for the stage. You should have seen her prancing around and swaying her hips to the music. She has a sharp tongue, too. "If you were my dad, my mum must have
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    • 656 30  -  By Seto Nu-wen SEVEN minutes. That was all the time I had with Ricky Martin. No, he wasn't unfriendly or aloof. The Latino hunk seemed more than willing to talk. But his hectic schedule simply couldn't permit that. After arriving in Singapore on FViday night,
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    • 306 31 HERE are Ricky's answers to some of the questions that readers sent to The New Paper: ffyoaqiritoaedqr, what woaMyoa arias The stage. The stage is so addictive because you're doing concerts and having a beautiful connection with the audience. What do you tMak el StipponT I
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  • 505 32  -  Et cetera wrm MICHELLE ANG I USE many e-mail facilities, each for a different reason. At home, I use Eudora to communicate with friends overseas. At work, I log on to Lotus Notes. But I also have accounts with Hotmail, Yahoo!, Rocketmail and Mail City.
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    • 25 32 CareerChoice Your weekly recruitment feature The New Paper, every Thursday. I I jgsiggg y. 1.1.».»,• -M/n MjitK'ih i Villi >1 t ir '.>»■ '-a f.i '".in
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  • 379 33  -  CAREER CHOICE By Ng Boon Yian NO special treatment for this lady. One of the three female couriers for Federal Express, Madam Helen Tan, 49, (above) despatches as many packages as her male counterparts with as much gusto. "We can't do less because then the guys will
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  • 429 35 FROM PAGE 37 CAREER CHOICE What attracted you to this Job? Actually it's the exercise that I can get. I've been very active since I was young and couldn't sit still. At least that's what my daughters tell me. I don't even need any exercise
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    • 371 45 Hingis unconcerned by talk of an ail-Williams final Reuters. TOP-SEEDED Martina Hingis says it is all hype and she's not losing sleep over it. The hype started and encouraged by Venus and Serena Williams' father, Richard is all about a possible Williams sisters final at
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    • 52 45 AFP. NINTH seeded Briton Greg Rusedski stopped the rot of falling seeds in the first round with a four-set victory over Spain's Juan Carlos Ferrero. Rusedski, runner-up to Pat Rafter in the US Open in 1997, defeated Ferrero 4-6, 6-2,6-3,04 yesterday. He advanced to a meeting with German
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    • 263 45 AFP. THE spectators added insult to injury to defending US Open champion Patrick Rafter yesterday. The volatile New York crowd booed the Australian's fifth-set retirement from an opening-round match because of pain in his right shoulder. Rafter retired trailing France's Cedric Pioline 6-4, 6-4,3-6,5-7,0-1 when
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    • 295 46  -  We made abig mistake BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE'S MOVE TO SIGN CHINA-BORN PLAYERS BY Peter Siow THE Basketball Association of Singapore admitted it erred in the selection of seven young Chinese players. "When we brought them in early this year we had hoped that they would eventually improve and
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    • 531 46  -  THE COCA-COLA SINGAPORE CHALLENGE (Kallang Oval, starting today) By Rahul Pathak TWO weary masters of the game and one quick learner. Two legends of batting and one pleasant journeyman. Guess who was smiling? The man whose name doesn't even ring a bell, even though he's called
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    • 131 46 Reuters. THE comeback of two-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher has been put on hold. It came after he pulled out of a Ferrari test session in Monza, Italy, yesterday. "I don't think I will compete in the next two races," he said. Schumacher was set
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    • 521 47 EURO 2000 QUALIFIER: England v Luxembourg Live on Football Channel, 9.55pm, Saturday LATEST Tottenham defender Sol Campbell and Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman have been ruled out of the two Euro 2000 qualifiers against Luxembourg and Poland after medicals yesterday. Campbell has a leg injury while Seaman
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    • 159 47 Sky Sports. MICHAEL Owen understands Kevin Keegan's dilemma, even though the young Liverpool striker feels he is fit and ready to play against Luxembourg and Poland. England expects to beat lowly Luxembourg fairly comfortably at Wembley on Saturday. But the real battle ahead is in Poland
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    • 221 47 Sky Sports. KEVIN Keegan will probably gravitate towards picking Michael Owen's Liverpool team-mate Robbie Fowler to partner Alan Shearer for the Luxembourg match. And maybe risk Owen against Poland. Keegan certainly has no worries about Fowler fitting into the side. "Against Arsenal he
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    • 396 48  -  YAZID ON THE FANDI SCORCHER: SINGAPORE ARMED FORCES FC 0 Main sponsor SAF Recruitment Centre Equipment sponsor Asks HOME UNITED 0 Main sponsor Super coffeemix Equipment sponsor UMsport By Peter Slow THEY are the hottest of hot-shots. They have made
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    • 528 49  -  Reports/ S Gulam THE "Grand ole man" of Singapore football almost pulled it off for the Warriors last night with his only shot at goal. Fandi Ahmad, whom many think is playing beyond his time, came on as a substitute for Steven Chan in
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    • 412 49 PRESS CONFERENCE: Coach Mladen Pralija: Who says it's all gone? I think the draw is a good result for us. If we had lost, we would have been finished. But, anyway, who says we cannot be No 2? Why must we always be No
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    • 236 49 WOODLANDS 1 (Masrezwan Masturi 78th) Main sponsor None Equipment sponsor Lotto CLEMENT) 1 (Bogdan Brasoveanu 54th) Main sponsor FTMS, Civic ambulance Jb'iMS civic Equipment sponsor Umbro TEENAGER Masrezwan Masturi was not exactly on fire. But he did enough to warm the hearts of Woodlands Wellington's supporters yesterday.
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    • 637 50 EURO 2000 QUALIFIER: Ireland 2 (R Keane 53, Kennedy 68) Yugoslavia 1 (Stankovic 59) IRELAND Alan Kelly, Denis Irwin (Stephen Carr 66), Stephen Staunton, Gary Breen, Kenneth Cunningham, Roy Keane (Lee Carsley 69), Kevin Kilbane, Mark Kinsella, Niall Quinn (Tony Cascarino 80), Robbie Keane, Mark Kennedy.
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    • 226 50 AFP. A WEEK after scoring on his debut for Italian champion AC Milan, Andriy Shevchenko is looking to hit a few more headlines this weekend by helping Ukraine to topple world champion France. Shevchenko made a bitter-sweet debut for his new club on Sunday, scoring to
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  • Page 45 Miscellaneous
    • 272 45 WHAT'S G(S)NE WHAT'S fl$N Hew the main matches went (seeding* In Hicham Arazi (Mor) bt Karim Alami Today's main matches: heM): (Mor) 6-2,7-6 (7/4), 1-6,6-4 MEN MEN: 2 Andre Agassi (US) v Axel Pretzsch 9 Greg Rusedski (Gbr) bt Juan Carlos WOMEN (Ger) Ferrero (Spa) 4-6,6-2,6-3, 6-4 1 Martina Hingis
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    • 59 46 TODAY: (Selected programmes) 7pm: European Football Weekly (ESPN Channels 23 25) 7.30pm: Tennis: US Open 2nd round (STAR Sports Channel 24) Bpm: Golf: Oldsmobile Classic (ESPN Channels 23 25) 10pm: Berlusconi Trophy: AC Milan v Real Sociedad (Football Channel 22) 11pm: Tennis: US Open 2nd round (Live, STAR Sports Channel
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