The New Paper, 8 February 2000

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  • Title Section
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    7 1 the new paper TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2000
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Killer croc surrenders
      431 2 That's what Kuching folk believe THIS giant of a crocodile is dead but its story will be remembered for a long, long time. Especially by these young kids in the picture who are bound to hold their grandchildren in awe with their crocodile story when they grow
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      Lock icon Spice girls sued
      296 2 Reuters. GERI Halliwell, the ex-Ginger Spice, is joining the Spice Girls again. But only to help them fight a lawsuit. The British pop band is being sued by an Italian scooter-maker over her departure from the band in May 1998. Aprilia SpA is seeking nearly £1.5 million
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon 101 wishes
      385 3 CHINESE New Year is always hectic for 78-year-old Madam Chen Zu. Every year she queues at the bank to get new notes, which can come to several thousand dollars. She puts the money into the red covers and distributes them to the family, all by herself. With 101
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      Lock icon Metal in her face, steel in her smile
      1253 4 Metal i n her face, steel in her smile This seven-year-old has metal pieces in herface. And she needs more surgery to correct a rare condition that makes it difficult for her to eat, speak and hear. But she faces the world with confidence. GENEVIEVEJIANG finds there is a bit
      Pictures/ Choo Chwee Hua  -  1,253 words
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      90 4 Is InAir. Will You Be My Valentine? jShfc A Candlelight Set Dinner 'Bpv at $42 per head inclusive of a stalk of rose for the lady. OR partake in an International Buffet inclusive of Penang specialities at $32 per head Early Bird Special 15% discount for bookings received on or
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Lock icon CPF for worker training soon?
      296 5 tfflr DO you want to upgrade your skills after many years in the workforce, but find the courses a little expensive? No problem, just dip into your CPF. You could be doing this soon if a proposal by the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) is
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      Lock icon Lorry overturns
      43 5 "fir OVERTURNED: This Gardenia Bread lorry took a tumble along Lornie Road early this morning after hitting the centre divider. The lorry was travelling towards Farrer Road at 5.26 am when the accident happened. The driver was unhurt. Picture/ David Tan
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        66 5 TRANSPORT HERE'S a handy service to easier bus and MRT travel. From next month, a free online guide will show you the fastest or cheapest route to your destination. In two months, mobile phone users will also be able to tap Multiscience's I-nets portals and webpages. Other
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        Lock icon Regional aid
        59 5 COMMUNITY MONEY raised through the Aidilfitri Charity Fund or Tabung Amal Aidilfitri (TAA), will soon reach the needy across the region with help from money raised overseas. The TAA will be canvassing for donations from members of Muslim organisations in the US. The TAA hopes to use the
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        Lock icon Jogger raped
        63 5 crTme A 27-YEAR-OLD jogger was raped at the Bukit Batok Nature Park on Sunday morning. She had been jogging close to Lorong Sesuai. A passerby heard her cries for help around 10 am and called for an ambulance. She was found in a 10-m ravine with blood on
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        61 5 M BUILDINGS M SINGAPORE'S Institute of Architects has suggested a design contest to save the National Library building and Bras Basah park. They are to make way for the Fort Canning tunnel and the Singapore Management University campus. The architects hope a competition will throw up ideas that
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        61 6 THE US US STATE Department spokesman James Rubin has announced that he will give up his high-profile job in April ana join his wife, CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour, in London. Ms Amanpour is expecting their first child, a boy, in late March. Mr Rubin, Secretary of State Madeleine
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        Lock icon Millionaires
        54 6 WEALTH IT isn't good grades or family connections that make a millionaire. So found Mr Thomas Stanley, who surveyed 1,300 millionaires in the United States for his new book, The Millionaire Mind. While the average millionaire may not have done well in school, they are creative and choose careers
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        Lock icon First lady chief
        67 6 FINLAND THIS is Finland's first woman president, Ms Taija Halonen, 56. The Foreign Minister won in a close vote on Sunday. She is a strong unionist, but her new role is mainly symbolic. It was only the second time the Finns have directly chosen a president. In
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        Lock icon Minister killed
        61 6 M YUGOSLAVIA B YUGOSLAVIA'S defence minister Pavle Bulatovic (right) was killed in a restaurant last night. He was shot through a window by a killer on a football pitch overlooking the table where he was seated at the Belgrade stadium. It is believed he could have been killed
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      Lock icon US STOCKS
      28 5 The Dow Jones industrial average fell 58.01 points yesterday to end the day at 10,905.79. The Nasdaq Composite index rose 77.63 points to close at 4,321.77.
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      41 5 New Straits Times: IC application glitch International Herald Tribune: Jet hijackers free eight at airport in Britain Asian Wall Street Journal: Thailand wins early release from IMF plan BBC news: Israel carries out bombing raids on South Lebanon
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      Lock icon Biz course revamp
      160 6 in FSRSus TOP students can get a master's degree from the National University of Singapore business school in just 4Vfe years. That's because the NUS is revamping its undergraduate business curriculum. So, top A-level students who enter the school in July can skip up to eight courses
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      64 6 The Straits Times: Faster track at NUS for business The Business Times: Small firms' performance worsens in Q4 Lianhe Zaobao: Credit card default rate last year hit record 5567.7 m Berita Harian: Special panel to discuss issue of Malay elite RCS morning news: Indonesia's President says he
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      76 6 I BEHIND. THE DPM... M Mary has been a source of strength to me since we were married more than 35 years ago. It is because she has looked after the home and raised the children that I am able to spend so much time on my constituency
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      87 6 Unlock her heart. V Get Cosy at the Cosy Bay Restaurant Make reservations for Valentine* Day at $88 and you'll be entitled to a romantic Valentine* dinner for 8 at Cosy Bay Restaurant So start planning for this HOTEL MppHKy Reservation Hotline: 841 2455 Fax: 841 0211 Fragrance Hotel Emerald
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    Lock icon HELLO! Here’s a new kitty trend
    593 7 TALE OF TWO KITTIES: A NEW CHAPTER? SINGAPORETODAY First, we had the Kitty queues. Then, in the midst of the madness sparked by the McDonald's promotion, we found people queueingfor hours, only to give the soft toys away. Now, here's someone who didn't queue
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      Lock icon What’s up, doc? Why do I need to go home?
      65 9 mui<mui< Dr Chan Kin Ming, head of geriatric medicine at Alexandre and Changl General Hospital on why more people are seetdnf specialist care, and why some patient* refuse to be discharged and go to a general pmttioneß They become so
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      Lock icon Wrong time, wrong place
      305 10  -  By Leong May Ling IN another time, it might have been seen as a gallant gesture: Punching a man who allegedly insisted on chatting up a woman, even after she had made it clear that she wasn't interested. For his rash act, Filipino Nicomedes Pica Caribo
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      Lock icon It’s more than just a matter of DOUGH
      680 11 THE BREADWINNER DEBATE Say that again WHO should be the breadwinner? If you said the husband, some may call you sexist. If you said either partner, traditionalists will look askance. And if you said both husband and wife might have to work
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    324 14  -  SINGAPORETODAY BY Andre Yeo FOR many of the hawkers at the Ang Mo Kio Ave 1 wet market, today is the first day of work after the Chinese New Year break. But they returned to work, only to be greeted by the sight of their
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    Lock icon Planes collide over LA FOUR DIE
    268 15 WORLDTODAY Source: AP A BODY is seen here sticking out from underneath the debris as firefighters gather at the wreckage of a small "experimental" plane that collided with another in mid-air. A couple, thought to be in their 60s, died in this plane, which
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      287 16 Express your love you heart this Valentine's The first 10,000 love notes received will be placed on candle-lit floats festooned with roses f\> r 10 fantastic prizes to be won! and set adrift on Singapore River on 13 February. 10 floats will be picked to win attractive m pr ie
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      Lock icon When will the good times end?
      31 17 muimui Ms Diane Swonk, chief economist at Bank One Corp, oathe long-running economic growth that the US iudßn<enjoying: die of old age;they die of imbalan^H^P
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      320 17 Reuters. OSCAR-winning director Steven Spielberg, 52, is now functioning on one kidney. He had one of his kidneys removed after doctors found an "irregularity" on the organ, his spokesman, Mr Marvin Levy, said on Monday. Spielberg, the director of such films as Saving Private Ryan and
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      Lock icon The ‘LION’ hijackers want to free
      363 19 Afghan plane hijack Wire services. AFTER several hours of talking to the hijackers of an Afghan airliner, British officials were still unsure as to whom they were dealing with. But the Taleban regime in Afghanistan has no doubt as to what the hijackers want:
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      Lock icon WHO’S FIGHTING WHO
      100 19 TALEBAN IT is an extremist Islamic group which swept through Afghanistan, and seized the capital Kabul within two years after it was formed in 1994. Led by Mullah Mohammad Omar, the regime is recognised only by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. THE OPPOSITION Apart
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      Lock icon My two new hands ‘Now I can cuddle my kids’
      215 20 IT had been his hope for such a long time to give his two children a proper cuddle. That was the wish of the world's first double-hand transplant patient. Yesterday was the first day in the spotlight for Mr Denis
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      654 21  -  what I had expected BY Rinkoo Bhowmik CALL Debra Teng daring. To prepare for the stage role of a Thai prostitute three years ago, she strutted around Geylang in a tank top to know what it felt like being leered at. She also went to Golden Mile Complex
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      168 21 PRODUCERS of inane TCS sitcoms should sit up and pay attention. A local offering from rival station Central is getting rave reviews from viewers. And foreign critics agree. Alter Asians was one of the finalists at the 1999 New York Festival in the Best Mini Series category.
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      69 21 IN FOCUS TODAY CONTEMPORARY VIEWS 4541 now GEYLANG'S BEST KEPT SECRET ib n ow@cyb r w a y com If you're heeding for Xln Fa Cofleeshop at Lorong 35, donl forget to bring your credit card. The humble facade Mies the top grade, gourmet dbhes It serves up almost ewrynight.
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      482 23  -  By Rinkoo Bhowmik THEY are the perfect showbiz couple. They act in the same play 8, know the same friends and critique tapes of each other's performance. That's Tan Kheng Hua and Lim Yu Beng. You can't imagine them being married to anyone
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      113 24 NOW we know why Savage Garden's second album, Affirmation, is full of romantic songs. It's singer Darren Hayes (right, in picture above with Daniel Jones) trying to purge himself of the aftershocks of his marital break-up. He said of his pending divorce from college sweetheart Colby Taylor whom he
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      Lock icon RY WIFE ON SET
      118 24 IT seems that the wife of Ricky Schroder (right) is seeing red over his sexy trysts on set with NYPD Blue co-star Sheeri Rappaport. In the latest season of the popular cop series, Schroder's Detective Danny Sorensen, gets involved with 22-year-old newcomer Rappaport's beat cop, Mary
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      57 24 It was one of those scenes where you Just go in and do your Job. My one rule was, "Keep your eyes up." And I did. Really. Cameron Diaz, (above) on a scene in Oliver Stone's new football movie, Any Given Sunday in which she charged into
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      43 24 That was my backside. That's important to me... Somebody said to me, "Now in that double..." I said, "Hey, that ain't no double, that was me." —Denzel Washington, (above) taking credit for a cheeky shot in his new film, The Hurricane
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    497 25  -  Etctera WITH JANICE WONG IF I had to pay a dollar for every horoscope syndicate I subscribe to on the Internet, I'd be a bankrupt by now. You see, I live by my stars. I base my life decisions on the dictates of the
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  • RACING
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      Lock icon Trainer Brink plays down title hopes
      302 30  -  By Danny Khoo ONE would think that John Brink should fancy his chances of capturing a second premiership title. But the 1996 champion, currently the second most successful trainer at Kranji, rates himself as just an "outsider" for the crown. "I don't have the
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      222 30 MALAYAN Racing Association-licensed jockey Oscar Chavez has achieved a career milestone. The talented Panamanian, who flew off three weeks ago to realise a life-long dream of race-riding in the United States, has already found the mark there. The 25-year-old's achievement came at Aqueduct
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      626 30 *****7 Giant Fight 55.5 (79) (3ac Thwaites-Lucky) 2-4-1 River Phoenix 55.5 (73) (3ag Kent-Lucky Phoenix) ***** Forever Proaperoua ....54.5 (65) (3nzg Thwaites-Lucky) 333 Brixton GoW ...53 (57) (3ag B Ang-Rosahill) -CoolStrike 53 (57) (3nzg Thwaites-Lucky) Indiana Gold 53 (57) iag Yusof-Rosehill) -6-4 Tha
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      155 30 YESTERDAY'S workouts by horses engaged tomorrow: RACE 1: Unbeatable Warrior cantered two rounds. RACE 2: Jet Star (M Fenton), Super Wolverine (E Wilkinson), coming to hand, and Equal Rights did one round of canter each while PowerftaJ Merchant (P Wynne) cantered two rounds. RACE 8: Town Lover, looking
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      944 31 YESTERDAY’S KUALA LUMPUR RACE RESULTS Going: Good DOING IT MEEI WAY: Apprentice Cheah Meei Meel (right) ushering in the Year of the Dragon with good-priced winners Walk That Walk (Race 3) and Top Crown (Race 4) at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Walk That Walk Is trained by Mohamad Ismail while Top
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      1044 32 EVERYTHING'S TURNING OUT JUST RIGHTI Champion Jockey Saimee Jumaat follow up hi* win In the Chairman'a Trophy atop Ouzo at KranJl laat Sunday night (right) with a thrilling noaa-victory In the Tunku Gold Cup at Kuala Lumpur yeaterday afternoon aatrlde the aptly-named Juat
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      260 32  -  By Marc Tan TWO big-race wins in less than 24 hours! Champion jockey Saimee Jumaat can't seem to do any wrong. After booting home the highly-fancied Ouzo in the $200,000 Chairman's Trophy at Kranji last Sunday night, he climbed aboard race favourite Just Right
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      1441 33 RACE 1: The saddle on OUR MACHAL was re-adjusted at the start. A vet exam on BEE CAUSE revealed no abnormality. BEE CAUSE raced poorly and was eased down in the straight. RACE 2: Acting on vet advice that TORBEK was acting abnormally, the
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      4975 34 NARROW VICTORY: Imperator, with Michael Fenton aboard, prevailing by a head from Copperman (No. 1) on the flbreaand track at KranJl laat Wednesday. He may not find It any eaaler tomorrow night In a Claaa3Dlv2 event over I,loom. Picture/ David Tan n VERY CERTAIN
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      176 34 n STAR GENERAL 57(48) Wilkinson (4) (4nzg Baertschiger-Star General) By Waikiki Star-Maazel; bay; landed 6.1.98; 8r 1-0-0 (KR&1700f 1:49. J 53.5) 12.12.99 CS Soo 55 (42) (5) 9 9 4/11 ($23) 1 Pans Amour KRt>1800g 1,52.1 (415) 05.01.00 CS Wilkinson 53.5 (40) (1) 5 3 1/8
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      235 38 AP. YES, the name's Frazier. And it's a she. Jacqui Frazier-Lyde (right, after her win) former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier's daughter made a successful pro debut. She stopped Teela Reese in 83 seconds on Sunday before a sellout crowd of 3,500 at
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      315 38 One-man show from Philadelphia 76ers star sets up 119-108 win LATEST SfgULTS New Jersey 110 Golden State 90 New York 94 Miami 80 Utah 93 San Antonio 90 Portland 100 Boston 94 Detroit 109 Houston 105 Phoenix 105 Seattle 93 Chicago 100 LA Clippers
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      403 39 mmmmmmmr 1 SILENT ASSASSINS Andy Cote is United'stop marksman with 15 goals. Yorke is second with 11 followed by Solskjaer (five) and Sheringham (three) Cole and Sheringham kicked off very wed together for the
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      120 39 Vasco has same problem Reuters. OVER in Brazil, top club Vasco da Gama is facing a "silent" revolution, too. It handed a 10<Jay ban to star striker Edmundo, who on Saturday refused to play against Palmeiras, leaving the dressing room just I minutes before the game. S
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      392 40 f==== OH, MY FACE: Nigeria's TUani Babangfda (left) finds himself elbowed by the charging Senegal striker Ousane Diope Ulllf Henri decorated French coach of Morocco, ti£S resigned. *i must quit the national team," he said after Nigeria r| m M- m A--I aereateo Morocco 2-0 on Thursday.
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      115 40 AFP. NIGERIA 2 SENEGAL 1 (after extra-time) JUBILANT Nigerian fans invaded the pitch and caused play to be delayed for 10 minutes during extra-time. Nervous Senegal players refused to return to the field after being engulfed by the fans, who rushed onto the field when 18-year-old
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      313 40 Wire services. DWIGHT YORKE: Good news for Manchester United. Trinidad and Tobago will release the ace striker from Gold Cup duty to play for the Red Devils against Leeds United at Elland Road on Feb 20. Yorke will, however, miss United's trip to Newcastle on Saturday
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  • SINGAPORE 3
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      132 41 SINGTEL CHALLENGE CUP SINGAPORE 3 (Zami Mohamed Noor own goal 57th min; Tan Kim Leng62, Ahmad Latiff Khamarudin 74th) MALAYSIA 1 (Nizaruddin Yusof 75) YeMow card: Zulkarnaen Zainal (Singapore) SingTd Mjn of tIM Match: Nazri Nasir (Singapore) Shamsul Maidin Crowd: 35,000 SINGAPORE Rezal Hassan, Rafi Ali, S
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      312 41  -  Reports/ Wang Meng Meng YES, Singaporeans want MORE matches like yesterday's clash at the National Stadium. That was the reaction from fans and officials after last night's Sing Tel Challenge Cup match between Singapore and Malaysia. "I've never been to a Malaysia Cup game, but I'm
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      Lock icon SINGTEL MAN OF THE MATCH: NAZRI NASIR
      109 41 SINGAPORE'S skipper fully deserves his award. Reason: Nazri carried on playing after he lost his contact lens for his left eye. Nazrl said: "I lost the lens when a Malaysian player accidentally poked his finger into my eye. But, luckily, there was only
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  • MALAYSIA 1
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      383 42 IT was a bizarre goal celebration. After scoring the Lions' second goal, Tan Kim Leng ran towards the touchline and pretended to make a phonecall. So what was that all about? With a cheeky smile, Tan said: "I did that because the match is sponsored by
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      630 42  -  S Gulam will be traveling with the Lions on their trip to Macau for the Asian Cap HI, ,1-1,, quaiffying matches. The Lions will also be playing* friendly match against Hongkong. Look out for his reports in our sports MEM r w O v ASIAN CUP QUALIFIERS
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      281 43 Hey, ref, why are you celebrating a goal? AP. REFEREE kayu!! That might have been Singaporean soccer fans' reaction to the sight of a English Premier League referee punching the air after a goal was scored... in the match he was officiating! But it wasn't the case, as
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      72 43 Reuters. WOODS WINS AGAIN: Tiger Woods overcame a seven-stroke deficit with seven holes to play to win the Pebble Beach National golf tournament today. It was the American's sixth straight PGA Tour title. The victory tied Ben Hogan's streak of six victories in 1948 for the second longest
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      64 43 TODAY: (Selected programme*) spm: NBA: Indiana Pacers v Orlando Magic (Sportscity) 7pm: Tennis: Heineken Open New Zealand (Super Sports Channel 20) Spanish Football: Vallecano v Celta (Star Sports Channel 24) Bpm: Bowling: Chattanooga Open (ESPN Channels 23 25) 9 pm: Italian Serie A Highlights (Football Channel 22) 11pm: Rugby: Melbourne
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