The New Paper, 29 April 2000

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1 77 The New Paper
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  • Title Section
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    7 1 the new paper SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2000
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      91 1 MB Kak HI KM Ruud 1■ Pah ■QH lmM_"yi saga off to Kr^w Marl latest 861,001 IB «C kTA i Pop diva Out of action for up gl HIS IH I Sharifah Aini is going to a year as knee II to Silicon Valley to collapses suddenly study world music
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon SPLIT IT!
      419 2 US govt wants software empire to be broken into two companies Source: Wire services. THE Office may soon have to do without its Windows. The US government, eager to smash Microsoft's grip on the software industry, yesterday asked a court to split Mr Bill Gates' empire into two
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      Lock icon WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
      138 2 MORE choices for consumers when it comes to buying software for their computers. More incentives to other computer companies to develop alternative operating software and new applications for such systems. These are some of the benefits that will result from the government plan, say its supporters.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Soros: No more giant bets
      215 2 Source: Reuters. THE higher you go, the harder you fall. And when you do, it's time to revamp your strategy and take some tough measures. So it was with US financier George Soros whose hedge fund group was pummelled by a slide in high-tech stocks.
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      Lock icon Let's get physical
      450 3  -  SUNDAY MAY 21: KEEP THIS DATE FREE REGISTER NOW FOR THE BIG WALK REPORT PICTURES ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF NOT a day under 60. But look at them smile. Mr Cheng Choon Hoe, 60, Mr Choo Lye Hock, 65, are not letting age catch up with them. No,
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      Lock icon How could they do this?
      593 4  -  By Serene Foo CAN you imagine a woman being made to stand in public, with her mouth gagged with masking tape, as a punishment? No, this is not a scene out of a sadist video or dark website. It happened right here in Singapore yesterday.
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      Lock icon WHY WE TALK LIKE THAT
      487 5 Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong launches the Speak Good English Movement this morning. He talks about a Zimbabwean caddy who impressed him and Singlish-speakingstudents who worry him MITA SURVEY WHY do you think that speaking good English is important? 41%: It is important to speak
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      Lock icon MINISTRY GEARS UP
      85 5 THE Ministry is introducing new syllabi for primary and secondary pupils next year, to enhance the teaching and learning of English in schools. The emphasis? Critical and creative thinking skills. Media, said PM Goh, is an important tool in the drive to speak good English. The media
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Lock icon Resale market softening
      167 6 war HDB HOUSING MARKET FEWER people are buying resale flats. The number of applications for the resale HDB flats fell 46 per cent for the first three months of this year, compared with the same period last year. But prices are up, reports The Business Times. Resale
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      Lock icon Farewell, foot
      33 6 li- This large, hot pink landmark in Seattle will soon walkaway. The company that owns It, Lincoln Towing, has been sold and the city Is evicting the towing operation. Picture/ Af
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      53 6 The New Straits Times: IGP to help free hostages International Herald Tribune: China forces refugees back to North Korea South China Morning Post: Land tender delayed after flop BBC news: The US government has called for the breakup of computer software giant Microsoft after its founder had
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        52 6 CRIME A FAKE identity card syndicate has been busted. The syndicate churned out the fake cards and work permits using white industrial plastic, a computer terminal, a colour printer and rubber stamps. The police raided the operation at a condominium in St Michael's Road on Thursday. Three Chinese nationals
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        64 6 M COMMUNITY TUITION classes for Primary 3 students will be offered from next year by the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC). From March, a few hundred Chinese Primary 3 students will take short courses in mathematics and English to boost their academic standards. It is part of a
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        Lock icon Drunken death
        66 6 COURT THE State Coroner recorded a verdict of misadventure in the death of hawker assistant See Chau Lai, 40, who was drunk when he was hit by an LRT train on Jan 15. A toxicology report showed that See had 228 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of
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        Lock icon Not 24-hour
        61 6 U chTna THE checkpoint between Hongkong and Shenzhen will extend its operating hours but will not be open round the clock. The popular Lowu border checkpoint will extend operations by 30 minutes until midnight tomorrow and on Monday to cope with more than 1.5 million travellers expected over
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      122 7 in FSHSus GET on to the Net. That will be the message of a new panel the Malay Internet Steering Committee to the Malay community. The aim to help Malays become Internet-savvy and to encourage the development of e-commerce within the community. The committee, and a club
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      Lock icon Sin bins
      64 7 I BRITAIN IF a student is disruptive or violent in Britain, he could be thrown into a "sin bin" to cool off. The student will then be counselled, one-to-one, by a specially trained mentor. The sin bins will be set up at 1,000 city and rural schools with
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      Lock icon 'Not Singapore'
      42 7 INDON^^^M PRESIDENT Abdurrahman Wahid was not referring to Singapore submarines in his recent warning about foreign vessels straying into Indonesian waters. He was talking about gambling ships from other countries, Indonesia's Foreign Minister Mr Alwi Shihab told The Indonesian Observer.
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      Lock icon No 'nuking'
      56 7 THAILAND NO, nuclear blasts cannot be used to help excavate a massive canal across Thailand. Experts investigating the US$23 billion ($39 billion) plan said it would be too environmentally damaging. The Kra Canal will cut across southern Thailand, so that ships can travel between the Indian and Pacific
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      Lock icon Ecstasy
      51 7 1 DRUGS THE drug, Ecstasy, is becoming widely available along the Malaysia-Thailand border. And this has pushed prices down by as much as 50 per cent, making Ecstasy affordable for more young buyers, reports The Bangkok Post. The traffickers peddle the drug to young Thais and Malaysians near the
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      Lock icon US STOCKS
      57 7 THE tech-heavy Nasdaq index rose 86.63 points to close at 3,860.66 yesterday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, however, closed down 154.19 points, at 10,733.91. SINGAPORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ Close in US$/ Change 1. Pacific Internet $33,625/ +2.625 2. Creative Technology $27,375/ +4.1875 3. Flextronics International $70.25/+1.25 4. Chartered
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      74 7 The Straits Times: Threat to behead foreign hostages The Business Times: Slowest home price rise since market bottom Lianhe Zaobao: Liberation Army Paper: Military deployment of air, land and sea launched in Xiamen Berita Harian: Special panel to promote Internet use among Malays RCS morning news: A
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      Lock icon THOSE BANK FEES
      56 7 Ouote Wworthy What we should do is to find a solution that wouM maintain the drive for a cashless society and allow banks to operate without having to subsidise. NTUC Secretary-General Lim Boon Heng. He said we should seek a "national solution to the issue of service
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      Lock icon Maids' musical treat
      255 8  -  By Azhar Guani YOU may have seen these Filipino women dancing. Not in a dance studio, not in some community centre, but in an open area within Orchard MRT station. But that was some years ago. "We stopped rehearsing there when we were told by a security
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      Lock icon TICKETS TO SENTOSA
      151 8 GOOD news for readers of The New Paper on Sunday. There are discounted Sentosa tickets for you. If you are keen to go to the island for the Maid of the Year event on May 7 (5 to 6pm), grab your discounted entry tickets at the Buzz
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      Lock icon He's happy with his TCS handshake
      393 10  -  With payout, he's going to do business with MediaCorp By Chang May Choon Thirty-one years of service. Then a golden handshake. It could well lead to uncertainty and a feeling of being hard done by. But not for Mr Philip Chee, 56. He is
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      Lock icon TCS SEARCHES FOR TALENT
      132 10 HOW will MediaCorp get new talent fast? "We won't restrict ourselves to just local talent. A mix of local and foreign talent will give us a competitive edge," said Mr Richard Tan, vice-president of Group Communications. But isn't the pool of local talent very small, since
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      Lock icon FOUND: The giver of those $50 notes is a woman who may need help
      645 13  -  Neighbours don't know how to help By Leong Mayling IMAGINE this. A woman lives alone in a four-room HDB flat. For eight years, she has been minding her own business. Friendly overtures by neighbours have been
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      Lock icon $5,000 JOKE?
      276 14  -  By Michelle Choh IT can't be true. No way. It has just got to be a joke. All three winners of the Super 150K Sunday Contest, organised by The New Paper on Sunday, couldn't believe their ears. "Are you joking?" exclaimed Madam Maswati Jalil, 31. Her family certainly
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      292 14 jg?|! WiWSl fc Mn OUrtn!. From left, Ms Irene Koh, Mdm Maswati Jaliland Mrs Janet Seah. ESnSB was have three I T can't be true. No way. believed it. But $5,000! I t I It has just got to be a joke, thought it was a crank call, j week
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      Lock icon Anyone knows him?
      186 17 Police are looking for this man POLICE are looking for this 20-year-old man (left) in connection with a murder case in February. His name is Sathiyan Anbarasan, and he lived in Block 79, Lorong Limau, Whampoa. The body of Mr Gunalan Sathasivam, 22, was found at the
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      Lock icon Airport police on the move
      112 17 THE Airport Police Station today moved to its new building. Situated now at 35, Airport Boulevard, it's about one kilometre from its present site. The telephone and fax numbers remain changed. The main station exchange telephone number: 546-0000. PASS OFFICE Pass office telephone number: 546-3120.
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      Lock icon So what have we learnt from this?
      584 18  -  COMMENT ANDRE YEO I WONDER how I would handle a situation like this, when I become a father and my kids start school. Last month, 14 pupils of the Jiemin Primary School forgot to bring their science worksheets to class (above). Their teacher
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      Lock icon INAPPROPRIATE MEASURES
      104 18 ACCORDING to the Ministry of Education, the sacked teacher joined Jiemin last September and was awaiting admission to the National Institute of Education this July. MOE said that together with the school, it had conducted a thorough investigation and found that this teacher had used inappropriate measures to
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      Lock icon When I was in school...
      206 19 ISUIPPINHNCIPEN^^ I READ with interest the article (The New Paper, April 5) on a primary schoolteacher being reprimanded for getting students to slap their fellow classmates. (The teacher was subsequently sacked.) Slapping and caning were commonplace in my former primary school. A student would be
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      Lock icon Paint and punishment
      179 19 IF they handed in their assignments late, or even made errors in spelling tests, they had their faces painted. With lipstick of different colours! A most unusual way to punish primary school students. The Ministry of Education certainly thinks so, and has reprimanded a lady teacher from
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      Lock icon Longwearing uniform
      55 19 mui<mui< Dr Anne Tan Kendrlck, 37, an ex-president scholar, heading the PwdWik Radiology Service at the K K Women's and Children's Hospital, on her earfast RMmory of Mum: Sending me off to school with the length of my school uniform down to my ankles so I could continue
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      Lock icon Having a hard time job hunting?
      577 21  -  Read this you'll be ashamed you're moaning Reports/ Irene Kew TODAY she has a cushy job, money in the bank for study and travel, and a comfortable home. She supervises a technical team and oversees computer labs. Typical Singaporean success, you might think. She
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      212 21 SEVERE jaundice as a baby gave Miss Ng cerebral palsy. At five, she started speech therapy. "Nobody could understand me," she recalls. "I had to learn how to pronounce the alphabet." NORMAL SCHOOL Despite her physical handicap, she attended a normal primary school, like any
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      Lock icon Cases sent to Seattle, lawyers unhappy
      381 23 SILKAIR Ml 185 CRASH NEXT stop, Seattle in the US, home of Boeing. It has been more than two years since that fateful day on Dec 19, 1997, when Silk Air Flight 185 crashed, taking the lives of 104 people on board. So far,
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      Lock icon Back to school for diva
      240 23 FROM vinyl to silicon. Malaysia's longest-reigning pop diva, Sharifah Aini is glad to be able to "take five". She will soon forgo her class act to pursue another "class" act: She's going back to school in a Silicon Valley institute of higher learning near San
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      158 24 AN eight-year-old boy was so desperate to get a rare Pokemon card that he offered to trade in his 10-month-old sister. Not that he didn't love her but that he loved Pokemon more. Harvey Flexman made the offer when the local radio station
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      Lock icon Don't play games with us: EU
      237 24 NINTENDO WARNED Source: Reuters. Europeans have been paying too much for Super Mario and Game Boy video games. But not any more. The European Commission (EU) has warned the Japanese home video games maker, Nintendo, and its seven distributors over the way Nintendo products
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      Lock icon Spoilt American spies
      58 27 I mutfmutf A high-ranking Russian security official praised British and Israeli spies, saying they ranked with Russian agents as the best in the world. Mr Sergri Ivanov said: The Americans have too much money. This leads to the impression that everything in the world can be bought
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      Lock icon Non-stop SIA flight diverted to Darwin
      251 27  -  I POLICE MAKE MISTAKE ABOUT KID I By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY IT was their mistake, Australian police admitted, after ordering a nonstop Singapore Airlines flight to land at Darwin yesterday. The plane was on its way to Singapore. Federal police officers explained
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    Lock icon Gimme 'old economy' babes
    271 29  -  WORLDTODAY Comment/ Herbert Fernandez Picture/ Afp I AM just an ordinary guy, the traditional type, if you like. Though it is politically correct to not drool publicly at beautiful women, 111 come clean. When the pictures of Miss Universe contestants in Cyprus (above) were handed to
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      Lock icon I vote for Hillary...
      616 31  -  And not just because I like blondes with BRIAN MILLER SO they're saying that it's only a Senate race. What's the big deal? It's just one of a hundred similar contests being showcased across the US this election year. Yes. It's just a race for a
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      69 32 READY, GET SET, GO!: When you want to make a point, the more arresting the tactics, the better. At least, that seems to be the motto of this semi-nude cyclist. He was part of the radical group known as Critical Mass, which rode around the streets of
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      321 32 JAPANESE HOTELS' NEW SUCCESS FORMULA THIS is the spirit of entrepreneurship at its best. An admirable example of adapting to changing circumstances and making a profit. But first, the circumstances. Assume you are managing a first-class hotel, and your main income is from wedding banquets.
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      109 54 THE Emirates Singapore Derby at Kranji on May 7 will, for the first time, have an international flavour about it. All The Way, the sole foreign representative in the $700,000 feature, has been filed by Godolphin Stable, which captured the Singapore Plate with Timahs last month. Jockey
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      448 54 DANNY KHOOS GUIDE TO KRANJI TRACKWORK TRUE PROSPECT drew attention to his chances in next Wednesday's engagement with an eye-catching workout at Kranji yesterday. Sent against the clock straight away, the Blushing Scribe gelding returned a smart 36.25 ec over the final 600 m on the
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      359 54 NST. TOWN WINNER wrapped up his preparations for Race 9 tomorrow, a Class 5 Div 11,600 m event, with a good workout yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the Australian-bred entire cantered two laps on the sand track and pulled up well. The going
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      1876 55 TODAY'S ASCOT RACE CARD COMMENTS AND SELECTIONS BY WESTERN AUSTRALIAN TURE CLUB HANDICAPPER PAUL BLOODWORTH No. U«t 4 runt Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrttf (Age/ortgin/sex. trainer i 1 AT THE CLUB 57 (99) Stephen Miller 9 (3ag Chris Willis) 2 LADY RDELIA 55.5 (100) Jason Whiting 2 (3af Lou Luciani)
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      83 56 THE Singapore Turf Club (SNTC) uses four courses A, B, C and D to differentiate the location of the rails. For Course A, the rails are at their original position. For Course B, they are four metres away from the original position. For Courses C and D, they
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      185 56 YESTERDAY'S workouts by horses engaged at Kranji tonight: RACE 1: Wall Street Broker (trainer C Leek) shaped well in 36.8. Slow work: Dual Wonder (O Chavez), looking well, Gift From Heaven. RACE 2: Superb Impact (Leek) clocked 39.3, paced by another. Slow work: Thunder
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      671 57  -  By Danny Khoo IT IS usually not prudent to bet on a three-year-old conceding weight to older horses. But make an exception with the Auric Stable-owned King Creole in Race 7 at Kranji tonight. For the Deputy Governor gelding has class written all over him and
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      210 57 ijr Strategic Alliance (Race 3 No. 5) Jockey Loh Kin Kuen has been having an exasperating time of late. But Strategic Alliance, who ran a nice third to Wall Street Broker on April 15 over tonight's distance, looks ripe and ready to open winning accounts. Loh, on his
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      27 57 RACE 2: Oriental Gold. RACE 4: Mark Of Courage, That's Good. RACE 6: Chinook, Son Of Songkhla. RACE 7: Jangan Takut. RACE 8: Captain Best, Gyro.
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      18817 58 nBOOM BOOM BOOM 57 <57) KL Oo (4) (3agVelu-Kuality Mas) By King Knight-Unsighted. chestnut; landed 21.10.99; formerly Along Came BilL One-fength third to Millennial Dragon in 1000m hooter trial eariy this mouth winner clocked lmieO.lsec. fl MELODY MAKER 57(57) U DO'Heare(2) (3nzgTTan loh Lap Sang)
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      179 58 n STAR GENERAL 57(48) Wilkinson (4) (4nzg Baertschiger-Star General) By Waikiki Star-Maiuet; bay; landed 6. 98; 8r 1-04 (KRsl 700fl:49.153.5) 12.12 99 C5 Soo 55 (42) (5) 9 9 4/11 (S23) 1 Pans Amour KRbiSOOg 1:52.1 (415) 05 01.00 C5 Wilkinson 535 (40) (1)
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      346 69 JUVENTUS v VERONA AP. FIVE points in the ?ad. Three matches left to play. You would hardly c :pect a team to go all out. But Juventus this season is an exception. No-nonsense coach Carlo Ancelotti doesn't want his team to think of a draw when
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      116 69 HERE'S your chance to win prizes by reading our Italian Serie A page. All you need to do is call 1900-*****01 and answer a simple question based on the story found in this page. Five callers with the correst answers will be electronically picked to win a
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      730 70  -  Very close fight to be England's flag-bearers behind (who else?) the Red Devils the new paper RACING EDWIN YEO O the Premiership championship has been sewn up yet again by Manchester United. So the only thing left to play for are the two Champions League places. And
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      429 70 If Arsenal had hit the form it is now showing earlier in the season, Man U wouldn't have walked away with the big title. Still, better late than never. It will want the second spot so that it doesn't have to play the
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      251 71 WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT: MICHAEL GRANT v LENNOX LEWIS LENNOX Lewis, the world heavyweight champion, certainly hopes so. He feels American challenger Michael Grant is a mis-match. He prefers to keep the action at arm's length and has a better left jab. Grant has
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      406 72 POOR Ruud van Nistelrooy. He was in agony yesterday. The 23-year-old PSV Eindhoven striker, who almost signed for Manchester United for a British record fee of £18 million ($4B million), will now be out for one year, reports Sky Sports. The latest: He ruptured an
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      381 72  -  COMMENT SURESH NAIR WISE thinking, Red Devils. Manchester United probably learnt from the recent Ronaldo injury fiasco to say a blunt NO to its £18 million (s4Bm) Dutch wonder boy Ruud Van Nistelrooy. This, after all, is not the first time top
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      903 74  -  MARINE CASTLE COACH SYED ISMAIL STUNNED AT WORST DEFEAT OF SEASON TONIGHTS ACTION WRONG FC V SEMBAWANG (Jurong East Stadium) HOME UNITED v GOMBAK (Bishan Stadium) Both matches at 7 30pm CALL INFOLINE Call 1900-*****13 after 8.30pm for the half-time score and after 9.30pm
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      263 75 Source: AP. A BASKETBALL fan did. And the reason he forked out so much money is because the ball is part of NBA history. It's the ball used in the game in which Wilt Chamberlain scored a record 100 points. And the
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      54 75 THEY PLAY SOCCER ON MOTORBIKES! Lithuania's Augustinas Sliauderis (right) is tackled by Russia's Andrei Pavlov during a match of the Motoball European Championships in Letter, northern Germany, yesterday. Russia won 1-0. The final of the tournament will be held
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      67 70 TODAY: ONTV Aston Villa v Sunderland Watford v Man United Chelsea v Liverpool (LIVE, SCV 22,6.25pm, today) EvertonvArsenal NewcastlevCoventry Jivr SCV 22 9 todav) Southampton v Leicester (UVE, SCV 22,9.55pm, today) Tottenham v Derby H Everton v Arsenal Watford v Man Utd (DELAYED, SCV 22,12.05 am, West Ham v Boro
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      80 72 WILL MAN U GET 100? Ten more goals to go. Three matches to play. Can Premiership champion Manchester United hit its 100-goal target? Tell us if you think so, and you may win attractive prizes. Call 1900-*****01. Three callers who predict correctly will win a Swatch Aluminium Beat watch each.
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