The New Paper, 9 February 2000

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    24 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2000 Another quality publication of Singapore Pr— Holding* http://newpaper.asla1 .com.sg MITA (P) 062/04/99 60 CENTS the new.. paper
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      51 1 tl IRMH Four ua3H jump M 4 JH m m CI X out of x r T rr \X k hijack plane window #i Ifelt e3 Brian Miller like I was Wr*) joined the a dish JL Toto queue TV serial man's nude pose To try for the $10 million
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Did pilot jump out too?
      514 2 [AFGHAN PLANE HIJACK THE HIJACK The Afghan Ariana Airlines Boeing 727 was hijacked on Sunday after it took off from Kandahar for Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan with 165 passengers. Its first halt was in Tashkent (in Uzbekistan). Ten passengers were freed here. Next stop: Aktyubinsk in
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      Lock icon Reuters joins the crowd
      227 2 Wire services. PEOPLE slow down when they grow old. The same goes for some companies. Reuters, the news and information company, for instance. It is 149 years old and many have been criticising it for not moving with the times. But yesterday, it did. It decided
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      196 3 '-jv come celebrate Valentine's Day lave. set:, match Buy any pair of NIKE Air footwear, match your lucky dip hearts, and win instantly, prizes We'll be snapping polaroids of 1 ranging from NIKE shooting shirts, accessories, couples who pop by our stores caps, t-shirts, •B*l*R*D* vouchers and other fully clad
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Battered and bruised
      752 4 JOGGER RAPED AT BUKIT BATOK PARK iTCS Tower Maybe you heard something. Or saw somebody suspicious at the Bukit Batok Nature Park on Sunday morning. You probably dismissed it or decided not to get involved. But a woman is in hospital, bruised, battered and raped. Only a
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      Lock icon The park gives me the creeps
      408 4  -  By Irene Kew IT wasn't tranquil. It was more like a rush of fear. Jogging alone through the Bukit Batok Nature Park gave me the creeps. Maybe I was affected by what had happened here. She was alone in a familiar place a regular
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      234 5 LMKV |jLJM East-Asia, the world's fastest growing emerging market JUST two years ago we seemed to be on the brink of disaster. Chaos in Indonesia. Currency controls in Malaysia. Sharply devalued currencies and battered stockmarkets all around. But now, the region has rebounded strongly to become the
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      Lock icon Lending a helping ear?
      62 5 STRONG EAR: This would be useful If your car breaks down. Mr LI Jlanhua managed to pull a Ford Taurus with his right ear In Shanghai yesterday. He and another Chinese tried to outdo each other to get Into the Guinness Book of Records. His record
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        62 5 SCIENTISTS in Hongkong suspect that stir-fry cooking could be a cause of lung cancer, due to the unusually high incidence of it among Chinese women. Studies on the possible link are underway. World Health Organisation figures show the death rate from lung cancer among Hongkong women to be
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        56 5 MALAYSIA AT least 100,000 Malaysians have been asked to re-apply for their identity cards because of a mistake in recording the applications. The error occurred as officers had recorded the applications manually, instead of keying them into the computer. People affected include those who had applied for identity
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        Lock icon New missile
        50 5 PAKISTAN PAKISTAN test-fired a new, more accurate short-range surface-to-surface missile that can hit targets 100 km away on Monday. The move is likely to aggravate already troubled relations with neighbouring India, especially after last December's hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane, which India has accused Pakistan of orchestrating.
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        Lock icon Faster lane
        62 5 CAUSEWAY YOUR drive into Johor across the Causeway will be speeded up from July if you're travelling alone. Johor will open a driver-only lane for cars entering Malaysia to cut queueing time and jams at the Causeway. Policing will be strict; others using the lane risk having their
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        Lock icon For long-sighted
        69 6 VISION HERE's good news for the long-sighted (hyperopia). A new technique available at the Singapore National Eye Centre and Tan Tock Seng Hospital makes it possible to correct the defect. The Lasik operation costs about $2,000 an eye. It takes about 15 minutes, and can correct up to
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        Lock icon No Yahoo!
        59 6 "■TOrrr^ YESTERDAY was a black day for the most popular site on the internet, Yahoo!. Web-surfers found the site jammed for three hours, no thanks to computer hackers. The $160 billion company said unknown hackers jammed its Web servers with trivial requests. But industry sources say the fault
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        62 6 TRAINING BETTER trained cabbies are on the way. The Government and Land Transport Authority have endorsed a proposal for a national training centre. But some issues need to be ironed out, such as who will fund and manage it. The three cab companies run programmes for their drivers,
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        Lock icon False claims
        58 6 CRIME FORMER Environment Ministry officer Wong Seng Toong, 46, was charged yesterday with cheating the ministry of almost $770,000 while working there. He was then a senior technical officer. He cheated the ministry by helping two contractors to make false or inflated claims for work and took a
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      60 5 New Straits Times: More cases of maid abuse International Herald Tribune: Productivity soars in US and labour costs ease Asian Wall Street Journal: Jakarta fires Astra chiefs to clear the way for a sale BBC news: Within the last hour and a half four people have jumped
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      74 6 The Straits Times: East Asia 'fastest-growing emerging market' again The Business Times: Tech stocks send KLSE 2nd board soaring 9% Lianhe Zaobao: Primary school students donate their red packets to show that they care Berita Harlan: Number of hawkers at hawker centres falling RCS morning news: Education
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      72 6 Hurting children is a common feature now. This cannot go on. The crime committed here is worse than child abuse. I have to send this message by imposing a deterrent sentence. Perak Sessions Court Judge Sarala Pillai on 22-year-old Mohd Fairuzazahari Mat Aleh, charged with hurting a six-year-old
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      34 6 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 51.81 points yesterday to end the day at 10,957.60. The Nasdaq Composite index rose 105.42 points, past its previous record of 4,321.77 to close at 4,427.19.
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    1062 7  -  *Rice porridge for prosperity HEALTHTODAY By Carol Leong RICE porridge is a universal all-purpose food. Among the Chinese, rice porridge is known as jook or moey and is either watery or thick. Porridge or congee is also extremely healthy. "Plain porridge, frugally flavoured with just a little
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      42 7 your health WRfTETO: It's Your Health The New Paper 390 Kim Seng Road Singapore *****5 FAX: 737-5375 E-MAIL npops@sph. com.sg (Please mark: "It's Your Health") CALL: **********3 and leave your questions for our panel of doctors. Calls cost 30 cents a minute.
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    Lock icon Goodies galore for Dragon babies
    213 8 SINGAPORETODAY LOOKS like it is a pretty good year for Dragon babies. Usually one baby arrives on the dot in the Dragon year. But last Saturday, two little fellows came at the same time. And Robinsons presented both with a $2,000 gift hamper of baby
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    Lock icon THE $10 MILLION DREAMERS
    99 10 HOUSEWIFE, seen peeling out $50 bHts like they were going out of style: I'm spending about $2,000. But not all is mine. I'm sharing with my mahjongfriends. I've got no luck in Toto, so I'm going to ride on the luck of my friends. They win,
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    Lock icon Brian Miller ioins the queue for the Millennium Hongbao Toto draw
    971 10 THE English couple stood across the street along busy Joo Chiat Road. Arms folded, they surveyed the scene. It was one in the afternoon. Lunch time. There were already about 80 people in the queue which was snaking into
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    Lock icon HOW TO SURVIVE A QUEUE...by Brian Miller
    115 10 Choose who you are going to stand behind. Sniff the line. You don't want to be caught behind someone with body odour. Don't lend your pen to strangers. You might not get it back. Ifyouhavea handphone. Talk into it or pretend to talk
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      Lock icon THE SPEAKERS AND THE SUBJECTS THEY WILL TALK ON:
      132 11 Mr Motet Wong, Registrar/director of student services, Temasek Polytechnic: Why you should choose a Polytechnic and a brief overview on the available courses offered. Mrs Lee Ptiui Min, Principal, Victoria junior College: Why you should choose a junior college and a
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      Lock icon Are you a sheep?
      432 11  -  By Desmond Ng SOME students decide on the path they will take after their O levels based on what their friends think. And become like a herd of sheep. Others get attracted to the colour of the junior college uniform. Both are not the right way
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      Lock icon How not to get CONNED
      661 12 Yet another person lost $650t0 a conman last month, after handing him a wad of cash to count. How do these conmen do this? ANDRE YEO spoke to a magician and saw how the trick was done. Now, read and find out how you can
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    486 14  -  JUDGE PASSES HEAVY SENTENCE AS A WARNING TO ALL FOREIGN CRIMINALS SINGAPORETODAY Ary Sugeng, Johan Johari and Nanang Anan were each sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane. The maximum sentence for each charge of armed robbery is five years and 12
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      Lock icon Sex, lies and a cry of rape
      412 16  -  Music lounge hostess, a mother of four, spins a false tale of her lover By Chua Wei Yng THE story moves fast, from a music lounge to a Geylang hotel. A local man meets a Malaysian woman in a music lounge on Joo
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      Lock icon The signs of pain
      72 16 111 U l*m Lt 1* Dr Lew YII Jen of Jurong FWycflnk, on non-Engltsh speaking foreign workers Mfho visit Ms cHnks: They have limited vocabulary, so they always say that they are in pain. They point, "pain here". We have to use sign language at times.
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      58 18 v m More people are reading. %m* 'Bf^' I According to an independent survey, readership of Singapore s daily newspapers increased in 1999 over the previous year By sin total readership for the English and Chinese dailies, and 6 8 for the Malay daily Proving that Singaporeans still rely on
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      Lock icon Ricky goes home
      38 19 m u i*m u i* ritonni It Mi Iwmelaed, Pwrto Wee, •aMoaday: Fm happy because Fm going to see my family (and)be able to breathe that air that you can > only breathe on this land,
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      229 19 BE careful with what you say. That is the message waiting for Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid when he returns home on Feb 13 from an official tour. The Speaker of Indonesia's House of Representatives, Mr Akbar Tandjung, yesterday urged the President, also known as Gus
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      Lock icon CAR... BUNGEE!
      242 20 THE name's Smart. Smart Car a cute new model from Mercedes. But the two fellas in the car are they smart, too? We 11... you decide. After all, they allowed themselves to be strapped very tightly in the car, which was then lifted by a giant crane about
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      Lock icon Ski resort crash: US, Italy pay
      208 20 Reuters. AN accident two years ago, involving a US military jet in Italy, is about to be settled with a huge compensation. Twenty people died when the US military jet flew low and cut the cable lines causing the victims to plunge 120 metres
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      Lock icon Bjork: An island for her own use
      213 21 AFP. RECOGNITION has its privileges. So pop singer Bjork (left) should know. She has been granted the exclusive use of an uninhabited island in western Iceland for what she has done for her country. M Bjork has done more for the popularity of
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      Lock icon Caught after making sex deal on the Net
      209 21 AP. HE thought he had struck a deal with the 13-year-old boy he had met on the Internet. They had arranged to meet for sex. But the boy turned out to be a member of an anti-pedophile task force. George Prosoparis, a
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      Lock icon 60 years' jail for 'evil' mum
      239 23 Reuters. SHE killed her two children and tossed their bodies over a cliff. Yesterday, Tina Marie Cornelius, a 23-year-old former topless dancer, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for her crime. She had pleaded guilty to two counts of injury to a child.
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      Lock icon Beauty quits power politics
      135 23 Source: AP. MS Irene Saez, a former Miss Universe from Venezuela, is giving up politics. She is quitting as governor of Margarita Islands because she is pregnant. She said she cannot go through the rigours of a re-election campaign. The re-election is due at around the
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      Lock icon Baby in croc-swamp
      79 23 Reuters. A JAMAICAN woman was asked to look after her neighbour's baby son. Instead, she dumped one-year-old Tyler Harrison in a crocodile-infested swamp because she feared the child would be left in her care indefinitely. A passer-by found the child, who was unharmed. Domestic worker Yvonne Wright,
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      Lock icon Charred body found
      108 23 AP. A COLLEGE student's charred body was found in the trunk of his Honda Accord on Jan 24 in a remote area of Irvine, California. Mr Yichen Liu, 22, had gone to the US two years ago to study and to help his Taiwanese parents run an
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      Lock icon Hei! Don't laugh at my Mandarin!
      510 25  -  Reports/ Hazel Tan WONG Hei is used to being laughed at. As a child, he was teased for his beady eyes. "When I was five or six years old, people had already started laughing at my small eyes," said the actor from Hongkong. "They
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      Lock icon Bearing stares for baring all
      395 26 HE bared all in a pictorial book, Access Wong Hei. But don't try asking Wong Hei to promote his nude pictorial. It makes him blush. "It's most awkward. Once, I had to appear on a television programme to promote the pictorial. The female presenter was
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      177 26 PROMOTING his nude pictorial made Wong Hei feel like a dish. And opening his mouth to sing made him feel like a kid. Wong Hei has just recorded a solo Mandarin song and a duet with newcomer Fred Chong, for the soundtrack of S.N.A.G. Both are acting in
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      Lock icon Always a diva
      405 27  -  By Seto Nu-wen HE was the chameleon of the 80s. Campy, flashy and over-the-top in lipstick, lace and tarantula lashes. Almost two decades later, Boy George (right) still has that camp attitude. The colourful rags woven into his long, tight plaits have given way to a neat
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      Lock icon Boy George contest
      85 27 Hard Rock Cafe is organising a Boy George Wannabe Contest to find the fan who can best imitate him. The best Boy will win front row seats at the concert, go onstage to perform with Boy George and get a goodie bag. All ticket holders who produce
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      Lock icon OH NO, YOKO
      377 28 Sean Lennon (above, with mum Yoko Ono), 24, is dating an older Japanese woman, Yuka Honda, who is 38. They've been together for three years. You'll think his mum, Yoko Ono, would be thrilled. After all, she was the older Japanese woman that Beatle John Lennon fell
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      128 28 The Ultimate Theatrical Showdown! YOUNG tWVMfWAWAWS iZ Venue The Suntec City Auditorium, Level 2 Date 12th February 2000, Saturday Time 10.30 am I.oopm (Category A 13-16 yrs old) 2.30pm 5.00pm (Category B 17-18 yrs old) FREE ADMISSION; seating on first-come-first-served basis Catch 8 new plays fined with exciting ideas, iconoclastic
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    450 29  -  miMM CETERA jfej WITH RIANA ZAKIR NOT so long ago, I thought of most housewives as losers who can't get the smell of cooking out of their clothes. Sheltered from "real life", where's the stress in staying at home? Where are the deadlines? It didn't help that
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      399 39  -  By Danny Khoo THE John Brink-trained Myst, who found a superior rival in Sail To Victory at his last start, underlined his chances of going one better at Kranji yesterday morning. The Auric Stable-owned grey looked much-improved when he reeled off 600 m in
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      238 39 RESULTS of yesterday's I,ooom barrier trials on the fibresand track at Kranji. The going was good. TRIAL 1:1 Casual Trio (P Wynne) 2 Purple Knight (apprentice J Sainul) 0 Hard To Resist (E Marchant, dislodged) Unofficial margins and time: 6 (lmin 01.9 sec). TRIAL 2:1 Red Taurus
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      401 40  -  By Danny Khoo JOCKEY Oo Khuang Liang can make a swift return to the winners' enclosure at Kranji tonight. The three-time Malayan Racing Association champion returns from a four-day suspension on a charge of careless riding on Centurion and can gain compensation as he
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      103 40 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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      472 41 YESTERDAY'S GOING AT IPOH TRACKWORK: GOOD NST THE GURU, a beaten favourite last month, looks set to make amends on Sunday, judging by sizzling trial in Ipoh yesterday. The four-year-old Australian-bred gelding trotted one round and then easily held stablemates Lord Virgo (Class 3 Div
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      345 41 ANOTHER HEADACHE IT IS a well-known fact that watching trackwork at Kranji racecourse is no fun. Most of the back straight is obscured by the two huge dividend boards and the gigantic Diamond Vision screen. Furthermore, trackwatchers have to strain their eyes through binoculars to catch the saddle-cloth
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      521 42 nbal THE MAILMAN CROSSES THE 30,000-POINT MILESTONE THOSE eyes. They say a lot. On court, as he trades elbows with the best in the NBA, they burn with intensity. Off court, as he rides his Harley into the sunset, they twinkle with a sense of
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      142 43 TOMORROW (Seml-flnafs) South Africa v Nigeria Tunisia v Cameroon SUNDAY Oliseh (right) is finding his new role as Nigeria skipper a "very tough challenge". On the eve of tomorrow's crucial semi-final against South Africa, the Juventus midfielder candidly said that he does not
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      177 43 HAVE you ever dreamed of being Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger or Gianluca Vialli? Here's your chance to show that you are championship manager material and win $8,000! Simply take part in The New Paper-Fantasy Football Management Challenge the game that puts you in the
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      391 43  -  14th COMMONWEALTH TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS The 14th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships is onattheToa Payoh Sports Hall, Singapore Table Tennis Academy, from Friday until Feb 17. Admission to day matches is free. Tickets to night sessions are $3 and $1 (students), finals tickets $5 and $3 (students),
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      171 43 NOT easy that was Singapore Table Tennis Association president Yeo Guat Hwang's reaction to the draw for the event, which was fixed by ballot yesterday. "This is not an easy tournament. But I hope the women's team will defend their four gold medals from the
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      443 45  -  ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP PLAYER OF THE WEEK: STEVEN GERRARD I'm contort able at right back but I'm really a midfielder. (Former Liverpool midfielder) Steve McMahon was my hero, I Modelled my game on him. Gerrard (left). By Ian Brown THE teenager from the red house on the Bluebell estate
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      371 45 PREMIERSHIP TEAM OF THE WEEK: BRADFORD CITY BRADFORD 2 Windass 10th min, Saunders 57 ARSENAL 1 Henry 13 Crowd: 18,276 BRADFORD: Davison, Halle, Wetherall, O'Brien, Jacobs, Lawrence, McCall, Whalley, Beagrie, Saunders, Windass (Dreyer9o) ARSENAL Seaman, Dixon, Keown, Grimandi, Winterburn, Parlour, Ljungberg, Petit, Malz (Bergkamp
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      614 46  -  COMMENT SURESH NAIR SATURDAY'S clenched-flst salute from Premiership referee Mike Reed may well open the Pandora's box for the soccer judges. Right or wrong, the referee, as the man in charge on the field of play, should never display
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      55 46 Liverpool's Vladhnlr Sndcer was fouled In the build-up to the goal but referee Mike Reed Instinctively played a good advantage. Sndcer passed the ball to Patrlk Berger, who scored from outside the penalty-area with s 25m rising shot for Liverpool's 2-1 goal. Reed was seen punching the air
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      62 46 Reed, 48, Is In Ms last season as a PvsiNltrsMp match-official. He has shown more red cards In Premiership matches this season than any other referee sending off six players and hooking 65 In 14 matches. Off-the-pltch, he Is a die-hard Aston VMa supporter. And to date, he
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      54 46 Russian referee Sergei Khusainov has been suspended until the end of July over allegations that he and fellow officials got drunk before a Uefa Cup tie in Israel last September. The Russian Football Union moved to suspend Khusainov and three other Russian officials for the rest of the
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      101 46 LEEDS United chairman Peter Ridsdale has suddenly come to the defence of Mike Reed after the referee appeared to "celebrate" a Liverpool goal. "I thought Mike (Reed) handled what was a highly competitive game magnificently. This matter has been blown out of all proportion,"
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      466 46 MARC OVERMARS: Arsenal's Dutch striker (right) has fuelled fears that he will leave Highbury at the end of the season. He has admitted that his long-term future may not be with the Gunners, reports Sky Sports. Overmars, 26, has been a long-term target of Barcelona's Dutch boss
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      399 47 IT was estimated that 35,000 fans walked through the turnstiles at the National Stadium on Monday for the Sing Tel Challenge Cup between Singapore and Malaysia. Some claimed it was 30,000. Others said it might even be fewer. To be sure, no one knows yet
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      329 47  -  LIONS IN HONGKONG MACAU REPORTS S GLAM IN HONGKONG ITS not Nakata. It's not Nanami It's the weather which will be the Lions' greatest enemy in Macau. The Singaporeans had a taste of things to come when they arrived yesterday in the city known for its gambling
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      197 47 HE is a man with a fiery temper. One who has no time for anyone whom he thinks is a fool, be it a player or an official. He wants things done his way or he will walk out. But when Japan coach
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      112 47 JAPANESE pride almost took a beating last night at the Hongkong Stadium. Despite the big reputation and vast experience, the Japanese couldn't find a way past the more determined and more aggressive Hongkong League XI in the Carlsberg Challenge. The Hongkong XI, comprising mainly foreigners, played like
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      52 47 SPORTS TODAY: (Selected programmes) 5 pm: Swimming: World Cup (Sportscity) 7pm: Tennis: Heineken Open New Zealand (Super Sports Channel 20) 7.05pm: Golf: Heineken Classic Highlights (STAR Sports Channel 24) Bpm: NBA: Seattle Supersonicsv San Antonio Spurs (ESPN Channels 23 25) Motorsports: Dakar Rally (Sportscity) I 11pm: Cricket: Under-19 Youth World
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      755 48 Tv TODAY Turn The X-Files Spirit of the Dance Jack of Hearts Channel 5, 10 pm Central, 11 pm Star Movies (Ch 58) 9pm f The beginning of this final season sees A breathtaking Irish dance. It has a Roy Murcant is a self-made millionaire Mulder and Scully searching for
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    272 49 Text, picture/ Reuters. AP. CLINT Eastwood (right) knows what will make Tiger Woods' (left) day. A Grand Slam, golfs impossible dream of all four mqjors in a season. Something that's never been achieved. Yet But the actor, who used the line "Go ahead, make my
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