The New Paper, 6 January 2000

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1 53 The New Paper
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Dow bounces back, Nasdaq dips further
      235 2 US technology stocks took another beating yesterday on Day Two of what is being called a global stock market correction. Fears of interest rate hikes that prompted record sell-of& remained alive. However, investors are hoping that the worst is over after the Dow Jones
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      Lock icon The Aids worry for Thais
      241 2 SURVEY OF THAI SEX HABITS Source: The Nation. ASEXUAL revolution is shaking the very core of Thai society. An official survey revealed some shocking statistics recently about Thai sex habits. Teenagers as young as 13 are exposing themselves like never before to the risk of
      Source: The Nation.  -  241 words
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Unveiled
      76 3 SHE was bashed and scalded terribly. Yesterday, we could only describe in words the condition of 14-year-old UnMeiUn (not her real name). But this is how she looks, as she Res in the Intensive Care Unit of Singapore General Hosoital. with burns aN over her body. The teen was
      Picture/ Shinmin  -  76 words
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      Lock icon $14,000 grabbed from her car
      521 4  -  SAD RAYA FOR WOMAN, AGAIN Reports/. Ian Tan SHE has found it very difficult to celebrate Hari Raya for the past two years. Last year, around this time, Madam Rohayah Yussof lost her father. Two months ago, her mother-in-law passed away. And just when she
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      Lock icon He picks up coins and loses $32,000
      240 4 ELSEWHERE, it was a blue Monday for Mr Jeffrey Tan Wee Jin as well. In another act of carelessness, the 38-year-old marketing manager lost $32,000 on the same day that Madam Rohayah had her earnings whisked away. At 3.45pm that day, Mr Tan
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Lock icon Asian markets take beating
      271 6 m TOP FIVE LOSERS: Pacific Century: Down $4 to close at $18.90 yesterday. SPH: Down $3.10 to $34.10 SPH 100: Down $2.60 to $34.10 Creative 25 cents: Down $1.80 to $28.60 DBS: Down $1.70 to $24.60 TWO days after the New Year cheer propelled regional stock
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      Lock icon HEALTHY CORRECTION
      49 6 We need to see the market take a breather. This is a short spike down, not a hard landing. While communications and Internet stocks may he turbulent in the short term... the upside potential/0r... fUrther growth is very strong. Mr Alexander Henderson, a director at Henderson Investors
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      Lock icon STILL IIPBEAT
      51 6 On the positive side, while a lot ofh0$ money fled equities during the last two days, mosfobservers do not expect a significant capital outflow from the local markets. At least, not while economic recovery is on track and corporate earnings are poised to rebound. Business Times correspondent Ven
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      Lock icon She posed as Datin
      168 6 and conned $7.2 million in jewellery A WOMAN pretended to be super wealthy and conned a merchant out of $7.2 million worth of jewellery over three years. Kalimahton Mohamed Samuri, 38, was jailed yesterday for 6Vi years. She called herself Datin Sharina and lived in two
      Picture/ The Straits Times  -  168 words
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      Lock icon Another blast
      73 7 SRI LANKA A SUICIDE bomber set off explosives strapped to her body, killing herself and 12 others outside the Prime Minister's office in Sri Lanka yesterday. It is the third assassination bid in three weeks. The woman is believed to be a member of the separatist group Tamil
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      Lock icon Hacker fined
      51 7 COURTS A TEENAGE computer hacker was fined but not jailed because he was underaged when he committed the offences. Peng Yuan Han was 15 when he hacked into the computer systems of the National Computer Board, Ministry of Education and Nanyang Technological University in 1997. He was fined
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      Lock icon Human cargo
      56 7 HONGKONG HONGKONG has been identified as the centre of a new people-smuggling racket which packs mainland Chinese into containers and ships them to the United States. More than 60 suspected illegal aliens from China have been captured and four containers seized in California and Washington state in the
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      Lock icon Trading voice
      73 7 STOCKBROKING THREE stockbroking services here are the first in the region to offer voice-activated trading. Over the phone, users guided step by step by a computer voice can place, change and cancel orders as well as check stock prices, reports The Business Times. The service is available 24
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      Lock icon Kim Eng probe
      54 7 INVESTIGATION OFFICERS from Singapore's Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) have questioned staff at Kim Eng Securities. The department said it was investigating certain dealers from Kim Eng, but did not give details, reports The Business Times. Speculation in the industry about the probe has centred on share packages
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      Lock icon Going home
      59 7 CUBA THE US authorities have decided that the Cuban boy rescued off the Florida coast two days after his mother drowned, should be returned to his father in Cuba. Elian Gonzalez, six, has been at the centre of a political and emotional tug-of-war between the two countries since
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      Lock icon JOB CHALLENGE
      45 7 Quote (Myjob)is like eating peanuts. You doing it, keep doing it, and you never get tired because thefuture is always ultimately unknowable. Mr Alan Greenspan (left), 73, who was nominated Federal Reserve Board chairman to a fourth term by President Bill Clinton yesterday
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      51 7 International Herald Tribune: Stock price tumble reaches the Asian markets Asian Wall Street Journal: Asia shares plummet, but US rebounds New Straits Times: Putting end to stormy ties BBC news: The tug-of-war continues over the six-year-old boy whom the US said should return to his father in
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      60 7 The Straits Times: Asian bourses' record highs vanish The Business Times: S'pore, regional bourses get a drubbing Uanhe Zaobao: Stock markets around the world plunge into chaos and darkness Berita Harlan: STI suffers its biggest fall since '98 RCS morning news: Indonesian military chief says the military
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Not a tear in sight
      587 8 FIRST TIMERS IN SCHOOL All over the island, there were jittery parents wondering how their little darlings fared on the first day in 'real'school. Was the bag too heavy? The pencil case filled up? LIEW HUI LI sat in on a brand new Primary 1
      Pictures/ Zaihan Mohd Yusoe  -  587 words
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      Lock icon CLASSROOM BUZZ
      61 8 How do J draw my grandfather? A Primary 1 pupil in Hong Wen Primary Stkod, when asked to draw a picture of his family They will talk to one another. But the boys are noisier than the girls. T%ey have adapted well. Teacher Ms Chua Hui Long, 23,
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      378 9 Race ahead in the millennium with JVCx AV-P29WS *0*1799 AV-K29MS2 HCPSB99 29-inch Flat-Screen 29-inch Triple Stereo Colour TV Triple $tmo Colour TV H Live Spatial Surround 30 Digital Comb Filter /jtimrW Q FASTEXT Decoder 3 mode Live Spatial Surround B -inch Colour TV I Baivßlaitef Powered Woofer System I B6E*
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    Lock icon School bus nightmare, Pt.2
    846 10 Now three other children go missing... SINGAPORETODAY CASE 2 The New Paper executive sub-editor TRUDYUM and her two children were themselves the victims of a school bus nightmare yesterday.... CASE 1 WHILE Xie Yang Yang was safely in the arms of her parents on Tuesday afternoon
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon ‘On Call’? More like ‘Get lost’!
      456 13 Say that again GIVE your car a miss and hop on a bus, cab or train instead, advised the ad for the Orchard Road millennium party. But taxi services here still have a long way to go, complained some irate commuters recently on The
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      Lock icon WHAT WE SAY
      87 13 SO there are just not enough taxis available at peak hours, says Comfort. But that's small comfort to the commuter. The taxi operators say they are doing all they can to improve the service. But, clearly, it's not enough. A lot more can still be done. Perhaps,
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  • SPEAKUP
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      Lock icon BG Lee on TV
      70 14 DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will speak about his life and policies in a two-part interview, the first of which will be aired tonight at 7.30 pm on television. Some of the topics to be covered in Channel News Asia's programme, In Conversation, include the
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      Lock icon FREAK FLOODS: Monsoon to blame, too
      278 14 SPEAK 0 P YOUR FORUM WE refer to Mr Henry Lim's letter in The New Paper on Dec 30, in which he suggested that the floods were predictable and that a public warning should have been issued. We emphatise with Singaporeans affected by the
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      251 14 I I 1 (IA popular department store was burnt down In 1972. > Which waa It? (DOG l (2) Robinsons I I (3) Metro I I I l Q These 3 "worlds" uaed to be the "In" place to go N> before WWII up to the late 50a. Which one
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    Lock icon Boom! It all goes up in flames...
    450 16  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Leong May Ling LOOKING at these skeletal remains of 13 charred motorcycles, you would imagine a raging inferno. But those who were near this carpark in the early hours of Sunday morning dismissed it as a small event. So what happened
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon What a surpise!
      54 18 iiniiMmn* I think they were surprised that I could speak and act! Up till then, I had felt like a glorified extra. Actress Neo Swee Un y who had a small part in the movie, Anna and the King, on her experience with the crow members dfler
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      Lock icon Kiss, kiss, tsk, tsk, off to jail
      509 18 Romeo wants his Juliet. But what if she loves him not? Not quite Shakespeare, of course, but neither was this Romeo. LINGAM PONNAMPALAM reports Sappani was jailed 12 months for using criminal force with the intent of outraging the modesty of his victim.
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Players fight volleyball bikini rule
      294 19 WOMEN must wear revealing outfits in beach volleyball contests. After all, the sport*s image is important Tikis was what the International Volleyball Federation, which runs both beach and regular volleyball, declared more than a year ago, the Telegraph (Net) reported. HkM bottoms cm km a
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      Lock icon Dole backs Bush
      55 19 111 111*111 lII* Mrs Elizabeth Dole, wife of former US senator Bob Me, ha* dripped oat of the race for Km US presidency and now backs Mr Qoov«» Inst Jr tor the top US Job. She said be wonhi be Me former US president femMßM^n: He made
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      Lock icon Snub, splits, ashes and a drug watch
      243 20 Revenge of the T-shirt golfer Ticked offbyagoifdub for breaking its dress code? No problem. Just build your own course. That's what billionaire Bill Gates is doing, according to British newspaper The Express. The world's richest man was ticked off by officials at the
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      Lock icon A $ 13 billion question
      225 20 A 13 billion question ACTRESS Jane Fonda is unlikely to get a bite of husband Ted Turner's US$B billion ($13.3 billion) fortune following their split. The media tycoon almost certainly signed a prenuptial agreement with Fonda, his third wife. It would bar her from receiving a percentage of his assets,
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      Lock icon Prince William’s guards on 24-hour drug watch
      215 20 DO NT let any drugs near Prince William (right). That*s an order from the palace. The prince's bodyguards Live been put on a 24-hour drug watch. They have been tola to arrest anyone who tries to sell or pass illegal substances to the
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      Lock icon Separate ways
      183 20 JENNIFER Lopez and boyfriend Sean "Puffy" Combs are on the verge of breaking up. The couple (left) spent New Year's Eve apart she with her mother in Miami, he in New York, reported The Electronic Telegraph. Lopez returned to court on Tuesday to testify about the New York
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      Lock icon Ashes by her bed
      81 20 Reuters ACTRESS Patsy Kensit keeps her mother's ashes by her bed and hugs the urn when she is feeling down. The wife of bad-boy pop star Liam Gallagher (both pictured at right) of British band Oasis, told GQ: "I know it sounds weird but I like
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      Lock icon COUP? WHAT COUP?
      455 21 Soldiers can't even take care of this city SO said a reform-minded Indonesian military officer, Major-General Agus Wirahadikusuma. The officer, who heads the military command in South Sulawesi, believes that the military neither has the political will nor the means to oust the civilian government of President
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      Lock icon Friends named as aides
      161 21 SOMEONE may call it a friendly move, in more ways than one. President Abdurrahman Wahid named two veteran government critics as his top aides yesterday. The Indonesian leader installed Mr Marsilam Simajuntak as Cabinet Secretary and Mr Bondan Gun a wan as Secretary of Government Supervision
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      361 23  -  BY Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY THE COUPLE had been drinking when they got into their car. Instinctively, the husband readied out for his cigarettes and lit up. His wife was furious when he did this and scolded him. Mr Jacques Didier Alcide, 33, had
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      166 23 ARMY commandos will ride certain Tnttian AlTtin— The move comes after the recent hijack dftwo ill yinftinn said yesterday. 'The 'afar marshals' shall be part of the craw hywflf situations as par operational requirement with use of arms hiding thu ultimate resort,* tin statement said. Airport security would
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    Lock icon Cold days and hot soup
    503 25  -  Etcetera WITH CHENG PUAY KOON IT heeds no one. Comes and goes as it pleases. Crashes on the floor and rebounds from the concrete in a violent spray. And, half a metre away, splatters on a row of feet purple-nail toes in pink platforms, squeezed
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      Lock icon BLACK TIGERS OF LANKA
      941 27  -  Girls who kill and get killed TfctTsnlTlpn kavabaaa flcfcUncfora ■•pants slate la SriLaafca's norm mm msi alacatfcaaaHy 1980s. Thawarhaa 55,000 Rvas. TamNs account for around IS par cant of Sri Lanka's 11, n iwflfOv iiy popalattoa of MfjSaro rSsmtettwir By Sudha G tilak REPORTING FROM CHENNA!
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      Lock icon Tea with him before final mission
      145 27 THE Black Tiger volunteers are given special training in lonely spots to condition their minds and bodies to fearlessly carry out the suicide attacks, LTTE watchers say. A day before a Black Tiger leaves the camp, never to return on a final mission, the
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      Lock icon SHAMPOO BOY
      324 28 LAWRENCE CHAU LOCAL celebrities Lawrence Chan andJamie Yeo are flexing their fingersfor the Rejoice Shampoo-a-thon on Jan 15. HAZEL TAN engages them in hair talk, before the big day LAWRENCE Chau groaned: "It's painful. My back hurts". That was Lawrence the morning after he shampooed, rubbed and massaged
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      Lock icon Hair-raising experience
      352 28 TALK about a hair-raising experience. Jamie Yeo (right) was in a shower when she came face to face with a... flying "I screamed and ran out of the bathroom naked. I was crouching on the floor to make sure no one could see (my private parts). I am
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      Lock icon HEADS, THEY WIN
      114 28 THE Rejoice Shampoo-a-thon is organised by Procter Gamble (P&G) in conjunction with the launch of its new improved Rejoice 2-in-l shampoo with hot oil essence. The company hopes to set the record for the most number of heads washed in salons by washing 800 heads in nine
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      Lock icon Viagra is scary
      281 29 DID Ban Affleck (right) really want to see if he could be a teenager again or is he hiding something? The 27-year-old actor told Playboy magazine that he popped Viagra, the anti-impotence drug. Affleck said he was nudged on by claims that his hormones would run as
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      Lock icon BUZZ ON, SALMA
      63 29 ACTRESS Salma Hayek (above) says there's a lot more to her than just being sexy. Call Celebrity Buzz at 1900-912-0004 to find out more about the Mexican babe who's making a bid for world stardom in the new millennium. On Hot Gossip, there's news on former Spice
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      Lock icon The way we love in Singapore
      443 30  -  WHAT: Looking For Love WHERE: Velvet Underground at Zouk WHEN: 7.45pm, Jan 26-29 TICKETS: $20 (Jan 26), $15 (Jan 27), $25 (Jan 28 29) available from Sistic. Price includes one standard drink. Free entry to Velvet Underground and Zouk after the show. Only for
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      Lock icon THE STORYLINE
      73 30 A SUICIDAL teenager with emotional baggage. A sweetie pie who realises that revenge may not be what she bargained for. And an emotional songbird with high hopes and low expectations. The only thing they have in common is their nightclub job and their problems with men. Based on
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      293 43  -  By Lionel Lee THE Singapore Turf Club and the 16,000 race-goers at Kranji literally welcomed a shower of blessing last night. It was the inaugural mid-week night meeting, with six races conducted on the sand track for the first time. Seven-and-a-half centimetres of rain recorded at
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      205 43 Complted by LIONEL LEE CLASS 3 entry Tal is the pick of six newcomers at the Singapore Turf Club meeting on Saturday. A four-year-old bay Australian-bred gelding by Danehill out of TVist A Girl, Tal raced 14 times in city tracks in Australia for a win, two
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      644 44 RACE 1: Supreme Partners Game off-fore) was withdrawn. Trainer J Meagher was allowed to race Stellar Express with pacifiers. He was warned for failing to declare his intention within the prescribed time. Rain fell before and during the race. At the 900 m, Boss
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      652 44 3 STELLAR EXPRESS 57 (6-6) LDMmn (6) 2 2 1 (436) 4 SUPER WOLVERINE 57 (2S-6) EWWnaon (2) 1 1 2 (432) 1 BOSS MAOC 57 (50-15) DHofartd (1) 3 3 3 (<?8> 5 SATORI555 (40-11) OPwvw (4) 4 4 4 (462) 2 IOTA
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      240 45 OANNY KMOO'S GUIDE TO KRANII TRf CKWORK wiiiiinai" iim Tin- i n ■win—iiiinin iMiinihTili i r—rtTmmninnir'- M m JfINCENT livened up an otherwise m# lacklustre morning of treck work st W Kraiyi yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-old fay Northern Regent cantered cm
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      478 45 GUIDE TO IPOH TRACKWORK NST. BABY GENIUS, a course scratching last week, did a splendid workout yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding by Clay Hero sprinted smartly over 600 m in 38.7 sec. He finished full of running
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      162 46 TORONTO'S Vine* Carter leads all players in the Eastern Conference and LA Lakers' Shaquille O'Neal leads all players in the Western Conference. Starters for the 2000 NBA All-Star Game wiU be determined by the programme, which began throughout the NBA's 29 arenas and via
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      138 46 SLAM-DUNKS Reuters. The Miami Heat star centre, who recorded a double-double in 10 of his team's 14 games last month, was named NBA Player of the Month for December. Mourning averaged 23.9 points, 10.5 rebounds and 5.29 blocks for the month. He currently leads the league in blocks
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      135 46 LA Times. His timing couldn't be worse. At 33, Hardaway's in his free-agent year, but his injured right knee hasn't responded well to treatment. He has been out since Nov 24, and there's no indication of when he will return. Miami was 8-3 when Hardaway went out and
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      142 46 LA Times. The Atlanta guard is also seeking a big-money contract and has told the Hawks he would accept a fair offer "in five minutes." But Rider's blow-up after a 27-point home loss to Indiana last week and subsequent refusal to accompany the team to Detroit, didn't inspire
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      416 47  -  GOING THE FOREIGN ROUTE: By Lim Han Ming SINGAPORE last won a bronze medal in women's volleyball in the 1981 South-East Asia Games. Since then, our national spikers have returned home with memories that are best forgotten. Now, the long and futile wait could
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      188 47 AFP. CANADA'S Olympic 100 m champion Donovan Bailey is on the comeback trail and world champion Maurice Greene had better watch out. Bailey underwent surgery to repair tendon damage which kept him out of the 100 m at the World Championships in Seville last August.
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      170 47 AP. OLYMPIC gymnast Dominique Moceanu, who sued in 1998 to gain independence from her family, says she has patched up relations with her parents. And now her focus is purely on the Sydney Games. The 18-year-old travelled to Cincinnati, where she is training, with her
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      229 48  -  S-LEAGUE UPDATE: By Peter Siow THEY'RE the best of friends. V Sundramoorthy and Tamil Marren were often seen sharing meals after S-League matches or training sessions. Not surprisingly, when Sundram moved from Woodlands Wellington to Jurong FC two years ago, he naturally made an offer
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      226 48  -  By Wang Meng Meng ZULKARNAEN Zainal is set to leave Geylang United. But no one seems to know where the 25-year-old midfielder is going. A source says he wants to join a European club, preferably in Spain or Portugal. But there have been no takers despite his
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      194 48 Davis it a aMaartoTba Football How—i ocontly tarvfcaato HI Is froofortiM 7JO pn tali at tat FAS raanattha SURESH NAIR WILL soccer referees of the future be mere robots? Merely holding the whistle to resolutely enforce what world controlling body Fifa says or, in our case, what
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      249 49 VASCO PA GAMAv SOUTH MELBOURNE Homorow, 6.45 am, Live. FC 22) AFP. CONTROVERSIAL Brazilian striker Romano knows the world's eyes will be on him when he takes to the field against Oceania champion South Melbourne (Tomorrow morning, Singapore time,
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      330 49 MAN UNITED v NECAXA (Tomorrow, 4.15 am, Live) Manchester United's inspirational skipper Roy Keane may well be on the bench. Oh, no, you may well say. Keane is a doubtful starter for tomorrow's opening match against Mexico champion Necaxa. He is down after suffering a knock
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      327 50 EUROPE KICKOFF: ITALY; SPAIN IN IT/UY: AFP. MAURIZIO Ganz made an unforgettable debut for Veneris last night. He scored one and made the other as his relegation straggler shocked Italian league leader Lazio 2-0. Ganz, who joined from reigning champion AC Milan over Christmas, slid the ball
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      89 50 AFP. PERUGIA'S Japanese star Hidetoshi Nakata could be playing for another team next week. This is the view of coach Carlo Mazzone. Nakata has recently been linked with a move to title challenger AS Roma. Mazzone, whose men face Inter-Milan today, made it clear that the
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      246 50 IN SPAIN: AFP. BARCELONA has revived its Spanish title hopes with a 3-1 win over Real Sociedad yesterday. The victory leaves Barca six points behind leader Deportivo Coruna which suffered a crushing 3-0 defeat at home to Racing Santander. Barca's victory came courtesy of two brilliant strikes
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      354 50 IN ENGLAND: FA CUP WEEKEND NIGERIA is threatening to have Arsenal kicked out of the FA Cup following a bitter row over star striker N wank wo Kami. The African country is furious at Highbury boss Arsene Wenger's refusal to release him before Sunday's
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      605 51  -  Sun, sand and... ...by LIVEWATCH...JEFFREY LOW REAL MADRID 3 AL-NASSRI FINALLY, beleaguered Nicolas Anelka has broken his duck. But whether it signalled his return to international fame is another story as Real Madrid opened the first World Club championship with a 3-1 cruise over Al-Nassr at
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      77 51 BRAZIL'S Corinthians scored its expected win over Africa's Raja Casablanca in the second game this morning, running way with a 2-0 triumph at the Maracana Stadium. But victory came with controversy when the second goal in the 65th was awarded despite the ball not crossing the line. Fabio
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      62 51 AFP. BLOW FOR MARADONA: A first analysis of a urine sample provided by Argentinian football legenc Diego Maradona, currently hospitalised after suffering from hypertension and an irregular heartbeat, has revealed traces of cocaine. A Uruguyan police officer said that the drug had been detected in th€ first sample. He
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      86 49 (AH Singapore time) Tomorrow: Man United v Necaxa (4.15 am) Vasco da Gama v South Melbourne (6.45 am) Saturday: Real Madrid v Corinthians (4.45 am) Raja Casablanca v AWMassr (7.15 am) Sunday: Man United v Vasco da Gama (4.15 am) South Melbourne v Necaxa (6.45 am) lan II: Real Madrid
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