The New Paper, 12 January 2000

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 406 2 ON New Year's Day, Malaysian police were kept busy trying to foil an embassy takeover bid in the capital, Kuala Lumpur. They apparently stopped a group of foreigners believed to be Acehnese from Indonesia who wanted to seize the embassy, a report
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    • 76 2 MALAYSIA faced a mcgor embassy takeover bid, also by Acehnese, in 1998. Four missions and the regional United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office were stormed. The French mission (left), the Swiss and the Bruneian embassies allowed the Malaysian police to enter and escort
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    • 412 3 IT won't wag its tail, leap on your lap or try to lick the skin off your face. But soon, the computer mouse will know what your mood is like. Just like many dogs, often called man's best friend. "We touch our
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  • 394 4  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Sheela Narayanan ZAREENA Jabar's grades were out of step with the rest of her class in secondary school. The bubbly girl was on the edge of failing her O levels. She was getting F9s for her Maths and and C6s for science in
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 209 6 HST THE world is changing rapidly so continuous education for teachers is important. Education Minister Teo Chee Hean made the point yesterday when he announced changes which will allow 24,000 teachers to take courses at different stages in their careers. This will help them
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    • 169 6 It SHE was accused of shoplifting and the "punishment" of the seven-months pregnant woman was swift and horrendous. Madam Lu Shanhui, who was shopping at the Ayia supermarket in Guangdong province, China, on New Year's Eve, had four of her fingers chopped off. Store employees
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    • News. Break
      • 61 6 CLOB TALKS MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says he is ready to meet Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong to discuss the Clob issue. He stressed the Clob issue had nothing to do with the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Mr Goh had said on Monday that Singapore
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      • 58 6 RESORT THAKRAL Holdings has bought a beach resort in Australia for As2o million (5521.8 million). The hotel and property arm of Singapore-based Thakral group will acquire the Courtyard Marriott Great Barrier Reef Resort at Palm Cove from KM Australia. The resort is close to the Great Barrier Reef
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      • 59 6 SINGAPORE SINGAPORE, Hongkong and New Zealand rank as the world's freest economies, according to a survey by the Cato Institute, a free-market think tank. The US and Britain were placed fourth and fifth in the ranking of 123 countries, which takes into account the size of government, protection
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      • 58 6 CORRUPTION A FORMER senior police officer was sentenced to 18 months'jail and ordered to pay $8,000, after being found guilty of corruption. Hassan Ahmad, 29, a law graduate and former assistant superintendent of police, took money from an alleged loan shark, "Ah Long San". He is the highest-ranking
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      • 50 7 PHONE^SERVICE ALL households will receive flyers that will explain the various new options available when Starhub starts offering fixed-line telephone services here in April. A programme will explain issues such as changing service providers while retaining existing telephone numbers and using additional international direct dialling (IDD) numbers.
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      • 53 7 DRUGS NEW ZEALANDERS are upset that a wealthy American tourist caught bringing drugs into the country was allowed to go free. Insurance magnate Peter Lewis, 66, admitted to importing cannabis. But the judge said finding him guilty "would far outweigh the crime", and asked him to "enjoy
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      • 44 7 AUSTRALIA AS many as 5,000 private light aircraft were grounded in Australia and New Zealand yesterday. This was because of contaminated fuel. Those affected included Australia's renowned flying doctors' service, fire-fighting support services and some of the national search and rescue aircraft fleet.
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      • 48 7 WARNING CHINA warned India against granting asylum to the Karmapa Lama. Doing so would violate the two countries' agreement of non-interference in each other's internal affairs, it said yesterday. Tibetan Buddhism's third-highest spiritual leader, Ugyen Trinle Doije, 15, fled to India last week, to everyone's surprise.
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    • 50 6 New Straits Times: Embassy takeover bid foiled The Asian Wall Street Journal: Two titans, facing a bind, bet on futuristic megadeal international Herald Tribune: AOL's Time Warner bid: An Internet Triumph BBC news: Too sick to stand trial, it looks as if General Pinochet is going home
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    • 161 7 in FiRSus CHECK your Nets cashcards. The first batch of about 30,000 cards, issued in 1996, will expire by the end of this month. To check your card's expiry date, get a top-up or statement printed at an automated-teller machine (ATM) or Nets terminal.
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    • 66 7 The Straits Times: Gus Dur warns Muslims against 'holy war' The Business Times: Sing Tel, Deutsche deal as good as dead: Sources Lianhe Zaobao: Users can subscribe to fixed-line telephone services from two companies concurrently come April Berita Harian: Programme to help teachers get higher qualifications RCS
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    • 71 7 astounding. Do you realise that the deal itself is worth more than the economies of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia put together? Mr Kenneth Tang, director ofstockbroking house Goh Vickers, on the AOL-Time Warner merger. The deal has created the world's biggest media and telecommunications conglomerate. Asian and European
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    • 15 7 The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 45.91 points to close at 11,618.11 yesterday.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • HEALTHTODAY
    • 179 8 Do anti-fat pills work? CAROL LEONG takes a stand SIX months ago, the drug, Xenical, was launched in Singapore. Basically, it is an anti-fat pill, costs $2 a capsule and you'll have to get it from a doctor. To qualify for a prescription, you must
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    • 298 8 It sounds like a dream eat and get a fat discount! A study reported in the Journal of American Medical Association showed that Xenical patients can lose up to 10 per cent of their weight. The truly fat do benefit less strokes, heart attacks and high blood pressure.
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    • 229 8 The ancient Romans used to gorge themselves silly at banquets and then go to vomitoriums to vomit so that they could eat some more. I'm somewhat plump but despite the temptation, no way will I take anti-fat pills. Starvation diets and anti-fat pills in my early 20s have taught
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    • 136 8 The British paper, The Guardian, did a story on yo-yo dieting and compiled this timeline 1994: Mr William Banting, a British coffin maker who became too fat to tie his shoelaces, wrote the first diet book, Letter on Corpulence. 1973: First mention of anorexia. Caifr 1990k Calorie
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 719 11 AN OPEN LETTER FROM MADAM SARASVATHV d/o VEERAPPAS SUBRAMANIAM, 31: 1 V One mumyearnsfora baby after trying for five years, another wants a baby girl after having had three sons. Yet, one mother has the heart to abandon Baby M, inAngMoKio, last Friday. One mum
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    • 514 11  -  By Brian Miller BEING married and childless is no fun. I should know. For three years, the wife and I tried for a baby. No luck. Were we cursed to go through the rest of our lives childless? Seemed so. We kept asking ourselves,
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    • 29 12 mui<mui* Growing Up ector Andrew Seow on the weirdest miMlPhe's heard abo«t himself: That I fell in love thFannWong after thifr years President's Star Charity.
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    • 186 12 IF you are the owners of IC numbers *****40 and *****26, get ready to let your hair down. This is no hairy tale. Come Jan 15, you will get your hair teased by celebrities Jamie Yeo and Lawrence Chau. Yes. They'll soap and shampoo your crowning glory.
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  • 303 14  -  SINGAPORETODAY BY Florence Tan THE little green man has come out in spots! And the red, amber and green lights too, for that matter. Have you noticed? At many road junctions the traffic lights are no longer a single bulb. Each light is made
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 304 15 Mum gets 172 years for abusing her premature quadruplets Reuters M I THINK I shook it too hard this time. "I may have broke its back." Chilling words overheard from a mother. Words which were used in a court testimony to help convict
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    • 125 16 THE manager of Hongkong teen singing idol Daniel Chan fell to her death on Monday morning. Ms Rebecca Liang Shaoting fell from the 23rd storey of the building where her elderly parents live. She landed on a balcony on the second floor, rupturing a gas pipe.
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    • 363 16 A "brother-sister-love affair" gone sour? Or a "life-long contract" gone bad? As Daniel Chan, 24, is younger than his manager, Ms Rebecca Liang Shaoting, 31 their relationship was dubbed a "brother-sister-love affair". Daniel also once referred to their working relationship as a "life-long contract". But
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    • 172 17 ITS over, baby. Tycoon Donald Trump, the White House wannabe with a roving eye, has given his beautiful girlfriend, Ms Melania Knauss, the boot. And the georgeous fashion model is crying her eyes out. "She's heartbroken," a source close to Ms Knauss told The New York Post. After
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    • 298 17 THIS time, the woman will speak. Indonesia's Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri will present the draft 2000 Budget to the House of Representatives on Jan 20, reports The Jakarta Post. Traditionally, it is the President who will appear and read his address on the draft Budget. However,
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    • 340 18 Spoon singer's remains unclaimed Source: The New Straits Times, Bernama. A POLICEMAN, who was remanded to help investigations of the murder of the lead singer of Malaysian rock group Spoon, has been detained another week. The 33-year-old lance-corporal was first remanded last Wednesday. Police said he
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    • 204 18 AFP. THEY were just three plastic frogs sitting in a garden. How much harm can they do? In this case, enough to cause an unneighbourly row in Glasgow. You see, these electronic frogs are fitted with sensors to detect even the slightest movement. Mr
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  • showtime
    • 530 20  -  By Chua Wei Yng CECILIA Cheung is one happy babe. Judging by her answers, everything is "very good" (hen hao). But the 19-year-old actress was dogged by trouble last year. In September, some Hongkong triads apparently issued a rape-and-kill threat against her, after her
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    • 140 21 IN September last year, a tearful and frightened Cecilia Cheung flew into Hongkong after a promotional trip to Singapore. She had learnt that the triads had made a rape-and-ki 11 threat against her. "Many asked me if I am scared and the truth
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    • 375 22  -  By Seto Nu-wen HIS father sent him to an engineering college with hopes that he would be an engineer. But he preferred to sing and dance. Still, the filial son that he was, he obtained a degree in mechanical engineering. But now, at 38, Mr
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    • 69 22 H2O ZONE throbs with the sounds of drums this month. As part of the International Drum Fest, the Singapore Polytechnic Japanese Daiko Drum Team, Trinidad and Tobago drummers and others have been performing there since Jan 1. Manipuri drummers (above) from the Ranganiketan Cultural Centre in India will
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    • 325 23  -  By Seto Nu-wen WHY does the Hindu God Ganesh have the head of an elephant and not that of a mouse? That was one of the questions that Thamizhvanan Narayanasamy Veshnu was asked when teaching an Indian dance class in Australia. Said the
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    • 101 23 IN secondary school, Veshnu took part in an Indian dance competition. He didn't win, but his performance caught the eye of one of the judges, Neila Sathyalingam. She invited him to join her dance company, Apsaras Arts. Ibis Saturday, Veshnu and other dancers from Apsaras Arts will pay tribute
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  • Article, Illustration
    99 24 spotlight The closest you can get to a magic carpet in real life. That's American Chad Vogt's skateboard. He wowed spectators in Thailand recently with his amazing stunts. And when it comes to flying, Pat Miller is not far behind. The only difference: He does it on a
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  • 431 25  -  Et cetera WITH PETER SIOW PAUNCH. That little bit of fat that protrudes from the stomach. All right, sometimes more than a little bit. Often, when a man with a spare tyre appears, he is looked upon as ugly and lazy. But back in the
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    • 374 39  -  By Danny Khoo THE cleverly-named flail To Vietonr has yet to reproduce the farm that took him to two brilliant wins in Now Zealand so far. But there is reason to believe that his turn is not far off as the Charles Lock-trained galloper appears to
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    • 592 39 iAffc I A MMM HH »»0- Liff o njn# wi 1 -06-41 STAR GENERAL 57 (48) E Wilkinson 4 (4nzg Baartachigar-Star General) 2 *****7 EASTAMGUA 55 (44) KLOo 8 (5kg Lack-Proaparity) 3 *****6 PANAMAWMGS 53.5 (41) DHoland 2 (3ag Lack-Entire) 4 -***** 8EASCEGOLD 52.5
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    • 103 39 UNLIKE turf races, the Singapore Turf Club has three ratings to describe the state of track for sand races. They are: "Firm", "Good" and "Yielding". Firm means a fast track and is a result of heavy rain after which the sand track becomes more compact. Good is similar
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    • 204 40 RESULTS of yesterday morning's I,ooom barrier trials on the sand track at Kranji. The going was good. TRIAL 1:1 San tana (J Saimee) 2 Sheriff (D Walker) 3 The Engineer (apprentice T Ong) 4 Prince Planet (apprentice J Sainul) 5 Hard To Resist (E Marchant). Margins and
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    • 442 40 PURE SILK, the Chilean galloper bought with the big races in mind, showed forward form in his barrier trial at Kraqji yesterday morning. With Saimee Jumaat up, the four-year-old entire jumped brilliantly and led throughout to clock an impressive lmin 00.8 sec over the
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      • 114 40 HORSE racing does get too serious at times in this part of the world and good old George Simon, the popular race-caller and presenter at Kranji, certainly knows when to add a bit of humour when the occasion calls for it. In Race 2 last Saturday, race-goers were
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      • 113 40 FROM a drunkard to a nervous wreck. Of course, horses can be temperamental. And, more often than not, temperament affects a horse's performance. Greg Carpenter, Chief Handicapper and co-presenter at Kranji last Saturday, did not miss noticing Cactus Jack's nervousness just before Race 5. So, after Cactus Jack
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      • 83 40 BACK to Race 2 at Kranji last Saturday. Trainer Dr Yeoh Kheng Chye has never been so confident of Once A Native's chances. "If my horse doesn't run a place in this race, I will not see you again," he said with certainty to a racing scribe
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    • 752 41 Class 4 Div 3 1200m (Ratings 61-49) y-OO- Victory Hangar 57 (61) (5ra 4115-0 Gifted ClaM 59 (59) (Mi •***** BattarBaafth 56 (57) 4ag M-99 MarcilaaaWIn 55 (57) (5ag 7000-7 Lova Cruaadara 545 (59) (flan 4-016- Winmie 54,5 (Wi lf>®$ -***** Go4dan Flaah 53
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    • 862 41 Class 1 1200m (Ratings: 117-83) *****0 SouffMdvWM 12—0 Bom Tom King 3-01-0 I'mDmrm »5 _....535 i 50* i 115) (Sag cb KankJA YoungADM Gorton) f NaUan-Ownar) RCLaono-KM NchoH-Tan Eng Tnng) Lar-taa H#a bar) PK Laong-Trua Mage) V T TarvBCL) J Braoha^ao-Hydrocarbon) *****3 KJngRunnar *****9
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    • 105 42 KRANJI TRACKWORK WORKOUTS BY HORSES RUNNING TONIGHT RACE 1: Panama Wings 40.6. East Angiia did pace work. Slow work: Lueky Horse, El Sues, both taken out by Michael Fenton. RACE 2: Slow work: Sail To Victory, looking well, Twins, Man Of Tomorrow. RACE 3: Slow work: Uncle Chan (O Chavez),
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    • 796 42 NST. GOLDEN LASS underlined her chances in the Class 4 Div 2 1,700 m event on Saturday with a sparkling workout in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-old mare by Desert Sun cantered one round and then reeled off the
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    • 434 43  -  The S-League has just got another shot in the arm, with more money for the clubs. The referees are also being given a pay hike. But is it enough? WHAT LOCAL REFS GET PER MATCH S-League referees: $80 (up from $60) S-League assistant
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    • 144 43 SO, what are the S-League referees saying about this pay hike? One senior referee, with 10 years experience, spoke on condition that he was not named. This is because FAS referees are not allowed to publicly comment on FAS administration matters. He said: "It's very disappointing. "In
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    • 457 44  -  HERO ORaaa KENNY ANDERSON, Boston Celtics guard, after hitting a late three-pointer to help secure a 101-93 win over Sacramento on Friday: I'm not afraid to take a shot to be the hero or the goat. I've been in situations like that and I've been
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    • 194 44 GRANT Hill of the Detroit Pistons was named the latest NBA Player of the Week. He led the Pistons to a 3-1 record on the week, averaging 38.8 points, 5.3 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game. He topped the 40-point mark in three of
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    • 203 45 JEFFREY LOW TWO goals by Quinton Fortune saved the day for Manchester United Reserves in its hope for a fair finish to the World Club Cup tournament early this morning. As South Melbourne offered only inexperience and spirit to an almost empty Maracana Stadium, the youngsters of
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    • 274 45 MAN UNITED 2 Fortune 8,20 MELBOURNE 0 Reuters. HIS mind was not so much on the boring match at the Maracana Stadium. United manager Sir Alex Ferguson (above, right) had to tackle a couple of flies which persistently drew his attention for most of the
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    • 413 46  -  9.30 AM LATEST IN THE WORLD CLUB CUP: LIVEWATCH by JEFFREY LOW VASCO DA GAMA 2 NECAXAI WHAT a resounding ring there is to that name...Ro, Ro Romario. Looking as if he's destined to take his rightful place in football history, the man who was once
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    • 132 46 Reuters. HE was one of the stars of the World Club Cup tournament. But with his head sadly bowed, Real Madrid's controversial French striker Nicolas Anelka (photo, above) was wheelchaired out of Madrid's Barajas airport last night. His knee injury may take as long as
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    • 118 46 Reuters. WHAT a big blow for Sao Paulo-based Corinthians. It will be without Brazilian central defender Joao Carlos for Saturday's final. Carlos pulled a muscle in his left thigh shortly after the start of Monday's 2-0 win over Saudi Arabia's A 1 Nassr. He was substituted
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    • 99 46 ENGLISH FACUP AFP ANOTHER Premiership "big gun" bit the dust in the English FA Cup early this morning. Bradford City was knocked out 3-1 by Second Division Gillingham. For underdog Gillingham, it means a lucrative fifth-round ticket against either Wolves or another Premiership club Sheffield Wednesday. IN
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    • 60 46 AFP. LAN Taylor was Aston Villa's hero in the League Cup quarterfinal replay at Upton Park early this morning. He scored twice as Villa shocked West Ham United 3-1 after extra-time. Five-time winner Villa will now play either Leicester City or Fulham for a place in the final.
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    • 65 46 I've signed on loan for six months. But if I like it at Chelsea, I iron 'f be coming back to Italy. would have liked to finish my career with AC Milan. But it just wasn't possible. Now I hope to bring some glory for Chelsea. Former ?ifa
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    • 93 47 Z!Z%£l ewv M|iuuiu« w turn up and do (fcirfph«tf ihp CJktf coimfcrßa "it w,,tt, f f The rule is simple: When the etsßtryeaflf 90m, gou answer the call No two MjiMA i^AM#r i POyfCOOWIi. M National Ttowt MrkkAnt ##Untitle WOODLANDS cteribdtSutHton* among thaaix
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    • 648 47 THE Football Association of Singapore will act tough ou footballers who turn their backs on the national team. These footballers will be banned from playing during the period they are representing the country even for their clubs. They will also serve an extra five-day
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  • 218 49 Wire services. AND to think that Manchester United gave up its chance to defend the FA Cup by coming to Brazil for the World Club Championship! Yes, the high-flying Red Devils the champions of Europe had landed in Rio as hot favourites
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  • 145 49 AP. FORMER Brazilian World Cup winner Gerson is not impressed by all the hype surrounding Manchester United. In fact, he thinks the European champion is an over-rated bunch of highly-paid prima donnas who came to the World Club Championship in Brazil
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  • 336 49 Reuters. MIKE Tyson's latest comeback fight could be over before he boards the plane to England. The former world heavyweight champion was told yesterday he may be refused entry to Britain for his Jan 29 fight against Julius Francis because of his criminal past. Although
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