The New Paper, 18 April 2000

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1 48 The New Paper
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon STOCK WATCH
      125 2 SHARES were mostly higher in Asia in early trading this morning. But the panicky mood that swept Asia yesterday eased after prices in New York rose. Investors are still unsure how the markets will react later on in the day. SINGAPORE: At 9.15, the Straits Times Index opened
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      Lock icon Torn between 2 Cs
      588 2 Clinton okays arms sales to Taiwan but risks angering both China and Congress E333EBH Under the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, the US promised to provide Taiwan I with enough weapons to enable it to I defend itself. The act was 1 passed when j Washington
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      Lock icon Caged, and loving it
      612 3 To Kathryn Lim, it's just a job that she enjoys. But what do her parents and boyfriend think of it? WEAR something sexy. Walk into a cage. And perform "erotic dance moves enticing... to the fullest", as the promo from ABR Holdings (Europa Pubs and Entertainment
      REPORT & PICTURE JOYCE LIM  -  612 words
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon TRICKS DIRTY TRICKS
      581 4  -  Renting flats to foreigners Reports/ Woon Wui Tek THEY acted like Singaporeans, said landlords taken in by slick illegal workers. Said Kay, a 20-year-old administrative assistant: My mother's tenants dressed so well: Nike cap, Timberland boots, Guess belt, pagers even a Breitling watch! "Even I can't afford
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      Lock icon Check, check...
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      Lock icon Daddy is going to jail, right?
      618 4 THE price of not charting carefully can be very high. Volunteer church deacon Seow Boon Wah's family knows this well. He was sent to jail after his appeal was rejected by Chief Justice Yong Fung How. In November, a district judge had sentenced Seow
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    • Article
      Lock icon The law
      34 4 YOU face six months' to two years'jail and a $6,000 fine for harbouring an illegal immigrant. Over 300 people were arrested for this offence last ▼ear. They included housewives, grandmothers and professionals.
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      Lock icon Why the law
      85 4 ATTENTION was first focused on employers wno harbour illegal foreign workers. Until the Immigration Act was amended in November 1993, some of these bosses had wriggled out of charges by saying the workers had produced (what appeared to be) immigration papers. After the change, employers had to
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    • Article
      Lock icon Changes?
      154 4 FOLLOWING Seow Boon Wah's case, several changes have been suggested by lawyers, agents and other Singaporeans. A sampling: Scrap the mandatory minimum of six months' jail to give the courts more flexibility. Don't be as tough with landlords as with employers who harbour immigration offenders. Make a distinction between
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      Lock icon Jail, even if you didn't know
      137 4 SOME offences are so serious that the intention of the accused person is not considered relevant. Lawyers cadi this strict la bitty. So, for instance, whether or not Seow intended to harbour an illegal immigrant does not matter. What matters is whether he made
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Lock icon PM Goh says...
      191 5 tar Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong arrived on Sunday in Hongkong. Here are some excerpts of what he told reporters yesterday On£L£S Wdare thinking along tlw& Uqe (to divest the Gpwrifment stake in gfflfflrnment-linked companies for public distribution). Maybe some kind of unit trusts comprising GLC shares
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      Lock icon Pigs in the ring
      32 5 HOGGING THE LIMELIGHT: Peopkg.th.ring to fighting In Bangkok's Tak Province on Sunday. The event was staged on the weekend of Thailand's traditional New Year celebration, Songkran. Picture/ Ap
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    • News Break
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        Lock icon DNA charge?
        64 5 RAPE A 33-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with the rape of a 91-year-old woman in an Australian town. The rape in Wee Waa, 240 km from Sydney, was followed by mass DNA testing of the men in the town. In all, 440 men were tested. But the police
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        Lock icon MCA feud
        61 5 MALAYSIA THERE was a shouting match between Malaysian Chinese Association party leader Datuk Seri Ling Liong Sik and his deputy, Datuk Lim Ah Lek, last week. The reason? The alleged failure of the former to promote Datuk Chan Kong Choy to a full minister. Datuk Chan, an ally
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        Lock icon Quit pledge
        59 5 ISRAEL ISRAEL'S Transport Minister said yesterday he will quit the Cabinet if the attorney general goes ahead and charges him. Police recommended his prosecution on Sunday on three counts of sexual assault after complaints from a 23-year-old employee in his ministry. Mr Yitzhak Mordechai, an Iraqi-born career soldier,
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        Lock icon 6-week splurge
        75 5 SALE OKAY, so the stock market is swinging wildly and racking your nerves. Time for retail therapy. The good news is the Great Singapore Sale is on from May 26 to July 9. It now lasts six weeks. Markdowns are up to 90 per cent and you could
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      67 5 The New Straits Times: No cause for concern: Fall In US and world markets not unexpected International Herald Tribune: US stock markets take a breather after sharp drops in Asian and Europe Asian Wall Street Journal: Most Asian markets tumble, led by drop in tech stocks BBC
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      Lock icon Razaleigh out of race
      127 6 in FSHSus MALAYSIA'S ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) yesterday rejected a party vice-presidency nomination for Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. Umno secretary-general Khalil Yaacob said the decision was "to prevent a precedent and to ensure the Supreme Council's directives are followed". He added that the council, including
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      Lock icon Better returns
      64 6 MINORS IF you are underaged when you inherit money, the authorities will invest it for you for higher returns. This will mean more money for you when you turn 21. This affects young people below 21 whose parents have died without a will. Until now, the money was
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      Lock icon Cable case
      59 6 COURT TWO Queen's Counsel have taken on the battle over the presence of Sing Tel cables at the site of a proposed condominium. The case, between property developer Japura Development and Singapore Telecom was heard in chambers by Justice S Rajendran, who reserved judgment. Japura issued a writ
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      Lock icon Tycoon Li sued
      57 6 COURT PACIFIC Century Regional Developments (PCRD), whose chairman is Hongkong tycoon Richard Li, is being sued by its joint-venture partner for alleged breach of a shareholders' agreement. Canadian Imperial Investment (CII) is claiming damages from PCRD, which is denying liability. The two companies were to build and
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      Lock icon 25% deal OK
      67 6 SIA SINGAPORE Airlines (SLA) can buy up to 25 per cent of Air New Zealand (Air NZ), the New Zealand government has said. The go-ahead brings SIA a step closer to its of gaining a foothold in both the New Zealand and Australian markets. This is because
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      59 6 The Straits Times: Wall Street jolts Asian markets, billions wiped out The Business Times: $26.3b wiped off SGX stock values Lianhe Zaobao: Asian bourse suffers overall crash, plunging by 4 to 12 per cent Berita Harian: Market dives as panic selling grips investors PCS morning news: US
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      Lock icon CHARMED TRICK
      58 6 Ouote Wworthy ~v> She was good. She hit on my childhood experiences very accurately. She said I had this evil pall hanging over me. Housewife Lin Jian Ying, 32, who was conned out of nearly $4,200 on Saturday by a stranger— who introduced herself as a fortune-teller —she
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon THE CONTEST
      131 7 MAID OF THE YEAR FINALISI THE search for the Maid of the Year is almost over. Our panel of judges has narrowed the field to 10 finalists. Since Sunday, we've been featuring two finalists each day. When we've featured all 10 finalists, it'll be time for you, the
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    • Article
      Lock icon She's not thrown by tantrums
      345 7  -  Reports/ Azhar Ghani ONCE, when they went shopping, Germaine threw a tantrum. She pulled down all the clothes on the racks in the shop. Sometimes she'd hit people on the MRT or buses. Or she'd blow her nose at her. And sometimes, the intellectually disabled
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Four flights of stairs? No problem
    460 8 MAID OF THE YEAR FINALIST SOMETIMES, he slaps his own mum. So how do you think he treats the maid? Much the same but Miss Siti Komsatun, 25 doesn't blame him. She knows that the slaps and kicks from 12-year-old Muhammad Kashif are not
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon We want to keep the madrasahs
      287 11  -  says Minister in charge of Muslim Affairs BY Azhar Ghani WE'RE on the same side. We're not the enemies. That's what the Minister in charge of Muslim Affairs, Mr Abdullah Tarmugi, told Berita Harian yesterday on the issue of madrasahs and compulsory education. Mr
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      Lock icon OPTIONS
      93 11 ONE option is to turn madrasahs into government-aided schools. The other is to let some government schools offer religious studies outside the normal curriculum. If we go for the first, Mr Abdullah said the madrasahs would have to follow the national curriculum and admit students of other religions. If
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    • Article
      Lock icon Shoplifters from top schools
      258 11 YOUNG shoplifters need not be poor students. In fact, 15 per cent of shoplifters, aged between seven and 16, come from the top 50 Special/ Express stream schools. Another 15 per cent come from the top 40 normal stream schools. These disturbing figures are quoted by
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      Lock icon Single... and self-centred
      54 12 mui<mui< The Straits Times' Life! editor Richard Lim on being a bachelor. I realise that not being a parent, IVe not learned to live my life for another person, to care for that person fully and unconditionally... That's part of the problem of being single you don't
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      Lock icon PART OF SINGAPORE'S HISTORY
      60 12 Tlil« appealed la last Sunday's MP— Guess tha mam of thosa circled. Thraa caMsrs wtth tha cenect wnwn wM be pichad to win a Fujffllm Instaxcamaraeoch.Anothar 10 winnarswfll be picked to win a TNP on Sunday laptop baf, T-shirt and cap. Chack out tha next Issue
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      Lock icon Can you recognise them?
      170 12 THESE men once held our future in their hands. They are people who, at one time, were very much in the limelight. Can you recognise any of them in this photo (above), taken at a lunch at the Rendezvous Hotel on Saturday, April 8 which we
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  • SPEAKUP
    • SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM
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        Lock icon Those police reports: NKF explains
        344 13 AlwynLlm, chairman, finance cwMw vice-chairman, executive committee National Kidney Foundation I REFER to the article by Ms Lee Wei Jia in The New Paper. Involving children in fund-raising is a universal practice adopted by various charities around the world. In the process of raising money,
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      • Article
        Lock icon Spare a thought for the child
        190 13 CtMW (e-mail) YOU may have your point against using kids to get donations for NKF. However, you shouldn't have thrown away the card. You should have spared a thought for your child and the of embarrassment she has to go through. I am in
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        Lock icon Students made to feel 'bad'
        206 13 Joanne Tan (e-mail) I AGREE with your article that the NKF should not use our kids to raise money. My Primary 1 child came home one day with the NKF card and said that the school had asked the students to help raise money for
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      276 14 FLYING DUTCHMAN QUITS! m I I THE FLYING DUTCHMAN TELLS YOU WHY AT THE QUIT WIN SEMINAR, 26 APRIL 2000. Join him at Singapore Marriott Hotel, Grand Ballroom, Level 3 (Admission is FREE). Hear PROGRAMME his success story on quitting smoking. Pick up useful tips from him and Prof Chris
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon No stolen e-goods
      45 15 I H—IIH ll SdrkA ...»I H—irtdf ftroilhelwof —Urn Wxn (afcm),f»MM far his beofc Naked Law* r dip+c* iifiMi Biem Whirfw 9f Hamm polio* It looks like a bunch of papers in a drawer that the thief just scooped up. BID 11A STEAL!
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      Lock icon AG schemes way to get Suharto
      316 15 GET a Suharto friend or a Suharto family member and try them jointly. That is a plan "hatched" by Indonesia's Attorney-General, Mr Marzuki Darusman, to take Mr Suharto to court for alleged corruption. Mr Marzuki revealed the plan in The Australian where he was
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      Lock icon Girl's lawyers want casino to return money
      510 16  -  $204,900 teen gambler By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY SHE got hooked to gambling at Perth's Burswood Casino. The young Asian student became a regular at the exclusive International Room at the resort. But then she started losing big money. And try as
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      Lock icon RICH STUDENT GAMBLERS
      178 16 FROM Australia comes a shocking story of how Asian students are gambling away their parents' money. Perth's Burswood casino, for one, has become a popular night playground. Student associations said many young Asians were regularly losing between Assoo and A 54,000 a night. Fernando Widjaja, president of
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon At last, a breather
      388 19 MANIC MONDAY HITS SINGAPORE HARD, MILD MONDAY BRINGS RELIEF TO WALL STREET Wire services. BATTERED US stock indices staged a shaky recovery yesterday, raising hopes that Wall Street had stabilised. Big-name stocks rallied after last week's punishing losses. But most other stocks fell again, however, as
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      Lock icon HOW SINGAPORE'S NASDAQ STOCKS FARED
      87 19 SINGAPORE companies on the Nasdaq were badly hit yesterday on the stock exchange here. But on the Nasdaq, three stocks actually gained: Chartered Semiconductor (CHRT). Closed at: U5570.75 Percent change: 28.6% up. Creative Technology Ltd (CREAF). Closed at: U5522.50. Per cent change: 1.6% up. Flextronics
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      Lock icon Singapore trader stays cool
      315 19 The Singapore stock market, unnerved by Black Friday, pushed the Straits Times Index down 190.37 points to I,999.39yesterday, its biggest point loss since the crash of October 1987. The fall wiped out $26.3 billion from stock values in one day. SURESH KUMAR finds out what life
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      Lock icon 'The baby's heart is still beating'
      506 20 JABBED NURSE TO PROCEED WITH BIRTH THE baby may be born deformed. And the US nurse whose lover injected her with a drug to try and get rid of the baby is terrified about the birth. The drug she was injected with can cause
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  • SHOWTIME
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      Lock icon Bye-bye Wuyin Liangpin
      545 21  -  BY Teo Kuan Yee REPORTING FROM KUAU* LUMPUR SORRY seems to be the hardest word, so a sad song goes. But goodbye is even harder. At least for the Malaysian pop duo, Wuyin Liangpin. Its farewell concert in Kuala Lumpur at its homeground last Saturday was just
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      203 21 IF it works, don't fix it. Wuyin Liangpin definitely works, storming the Chinese pop charts in 1996 with its hit, Palm. The duo's second album, Having You By My Side, sold half a million copies in Asia, with 150,000 copies sold in Taiwan in 10 days. So why
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    Lock icon Don't call me Ricky Martin
    475 23  -  H|w| I| E By Seto Nu-wen REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR THEY say he swivels his hips like a certain Latino ladykiller. And he's probably the only Malaysian singer who sings salsa music in Malay. So no wonder they call Shawn Baharin the Ricky Martin of
    Pictures/ Mohd Ishak  -  475 words
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      Lock icon The travelling student
      464 24 Go out, young people! This is the message from the National Youth Council. Young Singaporeans, it says, are complacent and recommends exchange programmes so they understand globalisation. TNP reporter WU SHANGYUAN, 18 (below), did go out with her student friends, and discovered the rewards of voluntary work
      Pictures/ Wu Shangyuan  -  464 words
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      189 24 SHANGYUAN is an only child. Dad Goh Kay Kee is a journalist with Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao and mum is a senior programme officer at The People's Association. The trio have travelled all over the world since Shangyuan was seven. "We want to expose her to as
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      189 25 > y v L ir |j. j|f s* The world looks very different from here. |gjt^ff 4 What do you see when you look around you? Do you see a caring brother waiting for his little sister to finish school? Do you see a man running down the street, fUjfc,,
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    Lock icon Still rocking on, still winning
    531 26  -  |h|w|i| e By Setto Nu-wen REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR ITS hard not to snigger and think "ageing rocker" when you see Malaysian rock star Amy walking towards you. Everything about him reeks of 80s rock, whether it's his husky Steve Tyler-esque voice or bona fide
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    Lock icon Too much talk about nothing
    460 27  -  CETERA WITH JANICE WONG IT can range from evergreen in-house advertisements to profound quotes. Fillers. In-house ads to fill a newspaper's odd spaces. And when it comes to conversation, air fillers sentences spoken with no higher intent than to fill dreaded silences. It seems nature
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      518 36  -  By Lionel Lee The Tiger Beer Triple Challenge, designed primarily to encourage owners and trainers to bring in young quality horses, has scored another roaring success. With prize money and bonuses raised to a high of $530,000 this year, it once again attracted
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      156 36 YESTERDAY'S workouts on the Kraqji fibre sand track by horses engaged tomorrow (going was good): RACE 1: Lucky Victories showed a return to form when clocking 38.2. Zaflro trotted, then sprinted in the straight Swill Grey did pace work. RACE 2: Slow work: Arabian Connection. RACE 3: Star
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      354 38  -  By Tan Thean Loon AUSTRALIAN trainer Peter Tennent, one of the masters of two-time champion Charles Leek when the Singaporean was learning the trade in the late 1980s, has taken up a challenge to train in Kuala Lumpur. The 47-year-old from Geelong, near
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      45 39 NON-ACCEPTORS: MING GENERAL (KENT), WILLIAM'S PRIDE (DRAGON). NON-ACCEPTORS: MR BOJANGLES (KENT), SONIC JET (BUSUTTIN), MAGIC DREAM (BANG). NON-ACCEPTORS: PURPLE KNIGHT (CLEMENTS), SILENT STAR (BAERTSCHIGER), THE DOCTOR (KENT), WAAJINSKI (BAERTSCHIGER). NON-ACCEPTORS: MANDAMUS (THWAITES), WITHOUT PREJUDICE (THWAITES), FAITH AND POWER (KENT).
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      47 39 mi OPENING HOURS ON GOOD FRIDAY Please note that all 4-D branches and telephone betting services will remain open on Good Friday, 21 April 2000. However, the racecourse, betting centres, and the Telebet Service Centre at United Square will close on this day. SING APOIE TUir CLUB
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      221 42 NBA.com. THE NBA Legends Tour, featuring a star-studded team of former NBA players, returns to China in August. It will play a series of games against the Olympic-bound Chinese men's national basketball team. NBA commissioner David Stern said the NBA will stage three exhibition games in Beijing,
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      120 42 PLAYER OF THE WEEK AP. LOS Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, who joins centre Shaquille O'Neal to form the league's most potent one-two punch, was named NBA Player of the Week yesterday. Bryant averaged 29.7 points, 7.0 assists and 6.0 rebounds in a 3-0 week for the Lakers,
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      258 42 BOSTON MARATHON TODAY: (Selected programme*) 6pm: Diving: Watersports World (STAR Sports Channel 24) 7pm: Champions League Highlights (ESPN Channel 23) Bpm: Tennis: Masters Series Monte Carlo Dayone (ESPN Channel 23) 10pm: S-League Highlights (Sportscity) 10.30pm: English Premiership Highlights (Sportscity) AP. IT looked like the finish of the 100
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      260 43  - 'Ugly list growing BY Wang Meng Meng Disappointing. That's one word to describe the performance of a host of foreign imports last week. And that list which puts those in the "ugly" category is growing. A sign perhaps, that the worst is yet to come? In last week's list, there
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      157 44 Money, money, money for football rugby THERE were smiles all around. And who would complain. Two local sports, football and rugby, got a boost yesterday. Sing Tel and Lycos Asia jointly handed out a big cheque to the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) $1.3 million. For its contribution, Sing Tel
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      132 44 f SPORT'S mm THERE are no winners for the WSA Sport s Goal Rush contest last week. So, the cash prize for this week's contest has been added to this week's prize. And it has gone up to $3,000. To take part in the contest,
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      76 44 IN our SCV/Serie A contest, we asked for the nationality of Inter's midfielder, Clarence Seedof. The amner Dutch. Five callers with the correct answers were picked to win a gym bag, T-shirt and water bottle from ESPN, and a T-shirt from Football Channel. Their identity card numbers are:
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      965 45  -  CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: QUARTER-FINALS (Second leg) UEFA CUP: SEMI-FINALS (Second leg) Friday (Singapore time, 3.00 am) LEEDS v GALATASARAY (at Bland Road) Friday (Singapore time, 3.00 am) RACING LENS v ARSENAL (at Lens) Tomorrow (Singapore time, 2.30
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      132 46 CHELSEA manager Gianluca ViaHi (left): Well not be complacent. It will be very, very tough going In Barcelona. But we're thinking positive. We'll play attacking football to get more goals to add to the 3-1 advantage at Stamford Bridge. BARCELONA y CHELSEA (at Barcelona, tomorrow:
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      293 46 YOITVE probably heard of the popular Western cowboy phrase: Have gun, will travel. Now Turkish champion club Galatasaray has a new strategy: No guards, no play. Its request to have a squad of Turkish anti-terrorist squad commandos to accompany the players for this week's trip to Leeds for
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      218 46  -  TAMPINES DUMPS YUGOSLAV DEFENDER By Lim Han Ming ANOTHER S- League foreigner is about to get his marching orders. Last week, Woodlands Wellington sacked Ante Konjevic, and now Tampines Rovers is about to terminate the contract of Yugoslav defender Plojovic Hasan. Hasan has not seen any Tiger Beer S-League
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      73 44 He sparked Jurong Cobras to DpoH Hlf* I I a fifth place finish last season. I Wfi MM now Jason Ainsleyisaims ufllllfi I mJL rntoKftßalesfier Tigers. S-"""™ ls he sti as 900 d! I 111 r WSt ijgg Chat with Jason as he ioins us oil: Bw rn lirl/ Tuesday
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