The New Paper, 16 September 1999

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  • 21 1 the new paper THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1999 Another quality publication Singapore Press Holdings http://newpaper.asia1 com.sg MITA (P) 062/04/99 60 CENTS .nn
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    • 47 1 ■boat i: ><* >4,£y ■'-_/A• 'V *v V 'it tn i i® v j "i lIIMI m I M I for 3 days "I felt for the toilet bowl like a blind person would. And every time I went in, I would shout out to them: 'Don't peep!"'
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 448 2 But Saidin Thamby denies taking a RMI million bribe A FORMER state assembly speaker and current Selayang district division chief of the most important political party in Malaysia, the United Malays National Organisation (Umno), has been charged with corruption. Saidin Thamby, 63, was charged with
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    • 263 2 Source: Wire services. THE grey area called East Timor just become greyer. Having voted for independence on Aug 30, it is now waiting for the Indonesian parliament to approve theresults. That has to wait till October. In the meantime, chaos and anarchy
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    • 61 2 I PKIMt INDEX C k I t>wt vflvWllllK Pages 22 to 25 Comics: Page 28 TV: Page 51 Sorry In the report New Look for TVI2 (Page 6, yesterday), the surname of TVl2's newlyappointed chief operating officer, Mr Woon Tai Ho, was wrongly spelt. We are sorry for the error.
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  • 502 3  -  THEMEWSTODAY By Yong Siew Fern AS The New Paper photographer, David Tan, entered the room, I couldn't resist saying: "David, this is Beckham." And there was Channel 8 actress Pan Lingling wanting to see Beckham's feet. Beckham Wee that is, who wears soft cotton baby
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 1341 4 in a dark, dark world A 14-year-old girl was kidnapped on her father's birthday. CHUA WEI YNG listens to her three days of quiet courage I'M not sure if it happens to all reporters after a two-hour interview. The image of the plucky teenager I
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    • 146 4 TWO people from China allegedly involved in the kidnapping were charged in court yesterday. Zhou Jian Guang, 26, and Shi Song Jing, 29, are unemployed. The day before, alleged mastermind Vincent Lee Chuan Leong, 33, also unemployed, was charged. All three have been remanded at the
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 244 5 m A total of $2.62 billion was paid in income tax last year, less than the $2.87 billion the year before despite almost 90,0 CX) new taxpayers being added to the pool. THE region may have been rocked by an economic crisis last year, but the number
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    • 167 5 in rmus YES, that is a naked model posing before an art class (left). And yes, the class is being held in Singapore at a community centre. Outram Park CC has been offering a Government-approved life drawing class to its Art Society members since 1992,
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    • News Break
      • 61 5 I JOBS THIS year's graduates are finding it easier to get jobs. A study on Monday at Nanyang Technological University found that more than 60 per cent of its 1999 graduates had found jobs within six months, compared with just half last year. Starting salaries were also up
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      • 59 5 CIGARETTES B THE number of vendors applying for licences to sell cigarettes has dropped. Out of the 6,666 whose licences to sell tobacco expired last month, 5,501 have applied for renewals. Last September, the Singapore Health Ministry said vendors who sold cigarettes must be licensed. Vendors selling tobacco
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      • 69 5 I COURT B AN ex-police inspector in Singapore was jailed for six months yesterday for corruption. Pang Peow Meng, 33, took over $2,000 in commission for getting someone to buy bird's nest from a friend of his last October. At the time, Pang was in charge of nine
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      • 52 5 COMMUNITY ONE in three Singaporeans is worried about their housing needs in old age. And almost two in three young Singaporeans aged between 20 and 34 will choose to move to smaller homes when they grow old. This is according to a survey commissioned by the Chinese-language daily
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      • 56 5 GOLF GOLF great Tiger Woods will play at the World Cup Golf Championship in Kuala Lumpur for US$7OO,OOO ($1.19 million). The organisers of the event, to be held at the Mines Resort, are coughing up US$l.4 million to entice Tiger Woods, Mark CTMeara and Colin Montgomerie. O'Meara
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      • 61 5 I hongk^^^B ON the way: Hongkong's version of Hollywood's sidewalk of star-shaped plates and stars' handprints. Hongkong plans to build a Walk of Fame along the harbour front in the tourist district of Tsim Sha Tsui, reports The Business Times. Promoters believe that tourists would be drawn
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      • 59 5 B JOBS AT least 1,600 people here who work for Seagate Technology Inc face sackings, voluntary retrenchment and retirement. The No. 1 independent computer disk-drive maker said on Tuesday it would cut 8,000 jobs, or 10 per cent of its workforce, at its plants here and in China,
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      • 52 5 \MBOt CAMBODIAN police say the death of a Singapore tourist there was suicide. Mr Liew Eng Wah fell eight storeys on Tuesday after partying all night. Singapore Embassy officials, however, said Mr Liew's companions on the night would not speak with them. Cambodian police had not been cooperative,
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    • 18 5 The Dow Jones industrial average fell 108.91 points, or 1 percent, to close at 10,801.42 yesterday.
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    • 47 5 International Herald Tribune: Yen surges to 3-year high Asian Wall Street Journal: US approves Timor force led by Australia BBC news: Military preparations are underway to send peacekeepers into East Timor after the United Nations Security Council approved the formation of such a force
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    • 67 5 The Straits Times: UN troops heading for Timor The Business Times: Auditors ordered to cover up Baligate report UanheZaobao: UN approves formation of 8,000-strong peacekeeping force which Australia will lead to East Timor on Saturday Berita Harian: UN directs formation of peacekeeping force RCS morning news: Indonesia
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    • Article, Illustration
      80 5 Quote Wworthy They 9pid I'll be too shy to say anythiny. Chiam Liping (right), eight, on what her sister and two brothers said when she told them she was to be presented with an award. Liping is the youngest of the 10 student Friend ofSinga Award-winners chosen by
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 51 5 Tongue CHeqk WHAT'S HUP I see you like 1 Yes > th ®y 9 ive out 1 I agree, but don't you think I f|T7 "^l£) pandan plants. nice fragrant like I the re're too much of it I f\lV U' i J air freshener. in this taxi? A I
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 396 6 FROM above, it looks like any other drain in Singapore. But this small drain (above) in Tampines Street 21 is the entrance to a dangerous playground, used by students of nearby schools. Some use it as a shortcut, others catch fish there. And yet others
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    • 109 6 THE Ministry of Environment will not seal up the entrance to the drain by installing metal grilles or lockable covers, as this would get in the way of regular drain maintenance work. The Ministry said in a statement that there are several openings along each drain to allow
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 517 8 BRIAN MILLER catches up with Junie Sng, Singapore's golden girl of swimming in the 1970s and '80s LAST night, I caught up with an old friend and, boy, did I notice the changes. This wasn't the Junie Sng I knew from way back then. And when
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    • 85 9 Age: 35 Marital status: Married to Mr Geoff Holden. Residence: Melbourne. Stunting turrets: Started swimming for Singapore in 1975. Won a total of 38 SEA Games gold medals. Won two Asian Games gold medals in 1978. Made the finals of the 400 m and 800 m
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    • 69 9 mui<mui< Mr Nod Hon, chjimun, Singapore Convtesy ConncM, on the Importance of conrtoey: When we were a developing nation, we were often excused for our lack of grace. As a developed nation, we will not be excused and if we do not mind our manners and exhibit
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 183 11 Three flavours for lucky TNP readers HAVE you been too busy to eat? Lost too much weight recently? Or are you simply health conscious? Try Novartis Resource Standard a complete, lactose-free nutritional supplement. It's being touted as both a meal replacement and a meal supplement. And it comes
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    • 68 11 ALMOST all the entries to our SCV contest last week answered the two questions correctly: LA Confidential is one of the movies that will be shown in the SCV special preview and David Schwimmer is the actor in Breast Men. I TiMwiMMrslafaaHBObacliMck each): *****87,*****86,*****54, *****42,*****49,*****06, *****79,*****37,*****15, *****71,*****12,*****83,
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    • SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM
      • 370 12 Philip Teo Ah Chwee, e-mail I refer to What kind of a man is this guy? (TNP, Sept 2). You have not been fair in your portrayal of Mr Wong Hoong Hooi. You tried to give the impression that most men do not
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      • 296 12 I C SHANTHENI REPLIES NO, the world does not need more men like Mr Wong Hoong Hooi "who dare speak up for their rights." Definitely not if they think it is their right to beat a woman up sometimes. That there are
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    • Article, Illustration
      406 13  -  By Chua Wei Yng WHAT do you do if you find yourself with 100 kg of cabbages in your kitchen? Make kimchi of course! And the Korean Ambassador's wife, Mrs Chung Sung-young, 52, is making pots and pots of kimchi for the Red Cross International Bazaar on Sept
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    • 670 14  -  On Tuesday, as the last batch of about 1,400 refugees from East Timor arrived in Darwin, two families told MELVIN SINGH their tragic stories REPORTER MELVIN SINGH In Darwin HE had lost contact with his wife and five children. Nine-year-old Sonya Imaculda and
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 115 12 •ftk. go for show! [JIP 1 JM finish homework, OK? lipK J What will he ftHH Because, reason and why should y V be showing'?!/ "W**not be used together because they f v mean the same thing. I Ji 0/£~5\ jnA /tK CI The correct form: Because he 7/1 AflVra
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 465 15 She has accepted live-in babysitter 'job* REMEMBER Madam Lim Kheng Ngoh? She is the 52-year-old widow in Malaysia who wanted to give her 11-year-old son up for adoption, reported The New Paper last Saturday. She loved him dearly but felt Chee Woon Thai would be
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    • 202 16 THEY are so noisy, the only place for a bit of peace and quiet is the toilet. Indonesian Minister Fahmi Idris works in there to get away from protesters outside of the Ministry of Manpower, reported the Jakarta Post. "Just imagine that I
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    • 302 16 —Woman on vice girl charge responds ITS the stuff soap operas are made of. Sex for sale, an affair with a policeman, a tell-all book and a cover-up. It burst into the open after the woman in the centre of it all
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    • 60 16 GIBSON is free on US$l5,OOO ($25,500) bail pending her court appearance next week. An aspiring singer, she recently recorded an album of dance songs "and was about to begin a tour of Europe to promote it", said West Coast recording industry sources. A previous album of hers was
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    • 112 16 LOS Angeles police, who arrested Gibson, and Beverly Hills police have started a probe into her claims in her book proposal. Her lawyer said his client wrote vividly about her affair, saying: "We would have sex all over the Beverly Hills Police Department. The gym,
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    • 393 17 Wire services. MORE than 3.5 million people from the east coast of the US have fled inland to escape the flight path of a hurricane. Those who have stayed from Florida up to New England have been preparing for the potentially devastating effects of Hurricane
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    • 61 17 AFP. STRONG winds and heavy rains hit Hongkong this morning. It forced several flights to be diverted as Typhoon York headed for the territory. Cathay Pacific said it diverted some incoming flights to Taipei. Bus and ferry services in Hongkong were also suspended. Officials said the eye of the
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    • 253 18 YOU are in danger, the man told her after she answered the knock on her door. He then said he was paid a £10,000 ($27,500) to kill her. Can you imagine the horror of Mrs Inthu Velani, the lady who opened the door. More
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    • Article, Illustration
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  • ShowTime
    • 430 19  -  By Hazel Tan Malaysian pop star A-Gu has one regret that he didn't master English when he was in school. Halfway through his press conference here on Monday, A-Gu cried out loud: "I regret it now." Then, he added: "So sorry." Sorry because his
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    • 272 19 NO CHANGE STILL NO AIRS A-GU is still A-Gu. Never mind that his previous albums outsold those of Leon Lai and Aaron Kwok in Malaysia. And one in two Chinese pop fans can hum his hits Big Belly, Mamak Shop, Please Look Over, The Girl Opposite, City. Blue Sky, and
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    • 503 20  -  By Hazel Tan PHYLLIS Quek is on cloud nine. She is the "chosen one" for the new movie with Aaron Kwok, not City Beat host Kym Ng or former Television Corporation of Singapore actress Wong Li-lin. Said the Singaporean actress who will pair up
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    • 125 20 PHYLLIS doesn't mind being Aaron's "girl". The controversy about him being secretly videotaped getting intimate with a girl in a hotel in Australia would not affect their working relationship, she said. Neither is she worried that her name will be linked to Aaron henceforth. She said: "Artistes
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    • Article, Illustration
      463 21  -  By Seto Nu-wen AFTER singing ballads for six years, most artistes would gladly make a switch. Not Rick Price. The Australian singer-songwriter seems content to stick to his syrupy pop mould. He tried to break out of it with his previous album, Tambourine Mountain. But with Another Place,
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    • 119 21 THE Backstreet Boys new CD Millennium made history when it sold 1.13 million units in a week. And their new hit single, I Want It That Way, has climbed into the Top 10 in Billboard magazine's chart. Now, call 1900-*****01 to answer two questions on this boy
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    • 99 21 DEEP Blue Sea, that movie about rogue sharks starring Thomas Jane, LL Cool J and Saffron Burrows, is still chomping away at audiences here. Now, Golden Village is giving away five goodie bags to readers of The New Paper. Each goodie bag contains a Deep Blue Sea cap,
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  • spotlight
    • 603 22 Smuggled snakes. Kidnapped gibbons. Yes, despite all the warnings, the illegal pet trade is still growing. But if you buy a 'pet'from these greedy traders, it is not just one wild animal you are harming, but an entire species. TEH JEN LEE and
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    • 202 22 YOU can be jailed for keeping endangered animals as pets in Singapore. The Government is a signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) which regulates the trade in these animals and plants. The organisation with a current membership of 144 countries was set
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    • 272 22 MORE illegal traders are being nabbed. The PPD has sent at least 37 cases to court so far this year. There were 41 similar cases last year, compared with just nine in 1997. In July alone, the PPD closed nine cases. The cases involved
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  • 490 23  -  Et cetera WITH BRIAN MILLER I'M a pet guardian. No. Let me correct that. I'm a guardian of many pets. Cats and dogs. Just last week, an animal-rights group in San Francisco deemed that owners of pets be called guardians. They said it
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 113 23 COMICRELIEF The Concrete Jungle/Colin Goh S^ CE 2§r SRS*tfiO 7/ sfe" c «aw*s I J sa^M j~s Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson Vtl I J r\ TOO LATC.'T (I*HT PAKT) l WADt I'M QUITTING IF \\nrW ANOTHER VC DOMT STOP HOME RUN. I USING THIS TCMHIS BAUL. jr EyeTECH/Thach Bui (PC
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  • Article, Illustration
    395 24  -  mwamaE By Chua Wei Yng MADAM Jean Chua, 44, (left) thinks of buying a house every week. She doesn't buy it, of course, but as a property agent, she has to put herself in the buyers' shoes. "You don't purposely stretch your buyer's budget to close a deal.
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    • 538 25 Career Choice =Walk in interview at the followings= 1) 2991. Jalan Bukit Merah S'port *****8 2) 751. BukK Tlmah Rd S'port *****57 Trainee Cafe Supervisor Full-time Cook 1 Part-time Cook (relevant experience required) 0 Full-time Servers Part-time Servers (preferably those able to work from Mon. to Fri. 11-3pm.) COME DOWN
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  • 418 26 FROM PAGE 29 CAREER CHOICE How do you get a housing •gout licence? You have to pass the CEHA (Common Exam for Housing Agents) test set by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras). Then, you need to sell 15 HDB flats and five private
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    • 162 26 I I Lawrjs The most dynamic now restaurant concept In Singapore is seeking candidates for tlw following positions: Pre-Requlsltes: A graduate with a minimum of 3 years' experience In the hospitality industry. Energetic, self motivated and team player with good interpersonal communications skills. Ability to establish and execute sales &PR
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    • 595 37 YESTERDAY'S GOING AT KL:COOD NST. Essence of deer, who ran a disappointing fifth last week, looks ready to make amends in the Class 4 Premier 1,200 m on Sunday, going on her two-round workout in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the
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    • 160 37 Reuters AUSTRALIA'S most popular jockey, Darren Beadman, is making a comeback less than two years after quitting the sport to start a new life as a preacher. Beadman stunned the horseracing racing industry in December 1997 when, while at the peak of his career, he walked away from
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    • 176 37 AFP THE Irish St Leger looks set to be a grudge match at the Curragh on Saturday after both last year's winner Kayf Tara and runner-up Silver Patriarch were confirmed as runners on Tuesday. Kayf Tara, who beat Silver Patriarch by two lengths,
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    • 109 37 TRACKWATCHING in Singapore will be easier come tomorrow. The difficulty of identifying horses without their training numbers will be a thing of a past. No longer will trackwatchers have to refer to their notes to make out a certain horse. From tomorrow, all Singapore-based horses will
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    • 187 37 RESULTS of Tuesday night's trials over I,ooom on No. 1 grass track at Kraiyi. The going was good. TRIAL 1:1 Dirk Diggler (Saimee) 2 Molasses (apprentice Ong) 3 Summer Garden 4 Leading Command (John), pulled up lame 5 Kim River (apprentice Soo) 6 Prima Facie (Sivan)
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    • 217 38 ENGLISH LEAGUE CUP: SECOND ROUND. FIRST LEG FOREST 2 BRISTOL CITY 1 A FAMILIAR name, hopefully not a familiar toothless smile, for the boy's sake. That's the story behind Bristol City's hero as the Second Division side kept the second leg alive with a battling performance
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    • 242 38 Skysports. Mit halter Ctty 0 SowHmnptwi 0 IN a week full of shocks, Maine Road saw yet more evidence that the gap between the Premiership and First Division is not as big as previously thought. Manchester City rallied in the final 15 minutes and would
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    • 282 38 AFP. AFP. JIINWHO BRAZILIAN midfielder Juninho (right) is set for a return to English Premiership club Middlesbrough. This comes after the British government granted him a work permit yesterday. The diminutive playmaker, such a hit at the club during his
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    • 253 38 COVENTRY boss Gordon Strachan has blasted what he sees as the positive discrimination and political correctness (PC) that has seen women referees come to the fore. Strachan was unhappy with assistant referee Wendy Toms during Coventry's 4-3 loss to Leeds last weekend. Leeds' fouth goal, Michael
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      342 39 MATCH HIGHLIGHTS CHELSEA 0 AC MILAN 0 Crowd: 33,473 CHELSEA: Ed de Goey, Dan Petrescu, Albert Ferrer, Celestine Babayaro, Franck Leboeuf, Marcel Desailly, Didier Deschamps, Gustavo Poyet, Dennis Wise, Tore Andre Flo, Gianfranco Zola AC MILAN: Christian Abbiati, Alessandro Costacurta, Paolo Maldini, Thomas Helveg, Roberto Ayala, Demetrio Albertini,
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    • 552 40  -  ...MORE ON CHELSEA v MILAN UVEWATCH...bv Jeffrey Low IF not for the woodwork, if not for the goalkeeper, if not for the near misses, if not for...what? So here we go again...if not for that blessed four-letter thing spelt L-U-C-K, yet another English triumph would
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    • 69 40 Zola picks up Ferrer's chip, exchanges a one-two with Flo, gets through to face Abbiati and then places the ball beyond the keeper's diving reach only to see his shot hit the post and rebound back to a grateful Abbiati. Zola, the best player on show,
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    • 322 40 PROFILE ON GIANFRANCO ZOUU BY lAN BROWN THE Italian Job! The cast: Three Italians, two bald and one hitman with a thick Sardinian accent and a shock of hair. Mission: Muscle in on the lucrative Champions League territory and see off the Milan
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    • 170 41 ■OLYMPIAKOS PIRAEUS 3 REAL MADRID 3 Real Madrid: IkerCasillas, Michel Salgado, Roberto Carlos, Fernando Hierro (Helguera 59), Fernando Redondo, Raul, Steve McManaman, Fernando Morientes (Nicolas Anelka 53), Savio, Geremi, Julio Cesar See reports on facing page Wire services. IF not for Raul... Seven-time
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    • 85 41 Wire services. ENGLAND winger Steve McManaman also featured strongly in Real Madrid's fightback. First, he delivered a precise cross from the right for Savio to head home in the 24th minute. Later, McManaman started the move that led to Real's equaliser. He played the ball to
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    • 282 42 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE; OLYMFMKOS 3 REAL 3 Reuters. SPANISH prodigy Raul saved seven-time European champion Real Madrid from an embarrassing defeat at Greek champion Olympiakos. He scored a late equaliser in a pulsating 3-3 draw. Olympiakos, which reached last season's quarter-finals, bowing out to a late
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    • 322 42 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP F: BAYERN MUNICH 2 PSV EINDHOVEN 1 Wire services. BAYERN Munich barely put away the ghosts of last season's bitterness with its bumpy 2-1 win over Dutch side PSV Eindhoven. Brazilian Paulo Sergio was the star of the evening, firing home both goals in
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    • 383 42 Reuters. M VALENCIA 2 RANGERS 0 Valencia put its disastrous start to the Spanish league season behind it to down Rangers 2-0. The Scots who had knocked out Italy's Parma in the qualifiers, had expected to draw on that experience and gain a point. An own
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    • 232 42 UEFACUP first round, first leg: TODAY: (selected ties): TODAY: BodoGlimtvWerder Bremen Kaiserslautem v Kilmarnock Salonika v Servette Geneva Omonia Nicosia v Juventus AjaxvDukla Banska Lausannne-Sports v Celta Vigo Parma v Krivbas Krivoj Tottenham v Zimbru Chisinau Atletico Madrid v Ankaragucu SC Beira-Mar v Vitesse Amhem Monaco
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    • 380 43 TOP TIP: MARINE CASTLE COACH SYED ISMAIL: 1 SAFFC: I feel that they are a more composed side than Home United. And that will tell in the final stages. SAFFC has an easier run-in for the final five matches. The
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      282 43 Sydney Olympics: Rest day gives sprint queen's bid a boost AFP. SHE failed in her bid to win four golds at the recent world athletics championships. But American sprint queen Marion Jones has an even more ambitious goal: To win five golds at the Sydney Olympics next year.
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    • 152 43 Reuters. IT'S confirmed. Former world sprint champion Merlene Ottey's second urine sample has also tested positive in a dope test. The 39-year-old Jamaican sprinter had first tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone in Lucerne, Switzerland, on July 5. Yesterday, the Jamaican Amateur Athletic
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    • 279 43 MARINE CASTLE 0 Main sponsor: None Equipment sponsor: Lotto BALESTIER CENTRAL 1 Main sponsor: None Equipment sponsor: Umbro AFTER beating Marine Castle 1-0 last night, Balestier Central is gunning for Jurong. The win consolidates Balestier's seventh position in the S-League. Eighth-placed Sembawang Rangers is now five points
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    • 421 44  -  GEYLANG UNITED 2 (Jacksen Tiago 28th mln, Billy Bone 46th) Main sponsor Pmhiil Marina I Equipment sponsor? Nike SEMBAWANG RANGERS 1 (Jerry Bartholomeusz 72th, own goal) H Main sponaon Hyundai Group Equipment sponaon Grandsport By Gerard Wong HE was the S-League boy wonder before the
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    • 155 44 BILLY BONE, Gcylang skipper "We were feeling the effects of playing three games in the last six days against Home United last Friday, then a friendly against Sarawak on Sunday, and then tonight's match. We deserved to go 2-0 up in the first half, but the lads
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    • 338 44 FOR four months, he has been watching from the stands as his striking partner grabbed all the glory with his goal-scoring exploits. But these days, it looks like Jacksen Tiago has swapped places with Indra Sadhan. Indra has struggled to score since the league resumed.
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    • 145 45 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE The Italian has an outstanding day and is the star of the match, even though he does not score o for Chelsea As the rest of its stars disappoint and blow their chances to let AC Milan get away with a draw CHELSEA 0
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    • 125 45 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Group E OLYMPIAKOS 3 REAL MADRID 3 SCORERS: OlyntpMios: Giovanni 10,64, Zlatko Zahovic 67 RMk Savio 24, Roberto Carlos 32, Raul 80 CROWD: 80,000 MOLDEO PORTO 1 SCORER: Deco 88 CROWD: 9,000 Group F BAYERN MUNICH 2 PSV
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