The New Paper, 8 May 2000

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1 52 The New Paper
  • 10 1 the new paper MONDAY, MAY 8, 2000 the new paper
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    • 188 1 YKAR MAID OF IHb l: new paper a 12 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg MITA (P) 058/04/2000 60 CENTS MMfcVS-MF 51.. Hotcakes Zw nM on» m only AA nvnirml I Not valid with any other promotion otter VaM dunng O f M»fas: hours ibetore Ham) Hotcakes Gavn
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  • Article, Illustration
    11 1 Sushi at East Coast Park Picture/ KC WONG
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 415 2 while he slept A HEATED room filled with steam from burning charcoal is the last place for one to fall asleep in. But one man, who had been drinking, did. And it cost him his life. Mr Douglas Green, 39, was scalded to death after
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    • 88 2 A SIGN outside the sauna where the death took place says: Elderly people and those suffering from medical conditions or are under the influence of alcohol or drugs are advised not to use the sauna. The sauna should be used for a maximum period of 15 minutes. Longer
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    • 188 2 Source: Reuters. AS a Roman Catholic priest, Father Charles Mentrup is bound by church law to keep the identities of all those who come to him for a confession secret. And Father Mentrup, 41, is determined to uphold that law even if
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    • Article, Illustration
      565 3  -  Sushi mermaid: PHOTO JOURNALIST KC WONG WOULD this sushi platter leave a bad taste in your mouth? No, it appears in the case of over a hundred guests at yesterday's opening of Tung Lok Group's Food Gallery at East Coast Park. First a little stunned, they were
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  • 1086 4 PM ON MADRASAHS SINGAPORETODAY Compulsory education and its impact on Muslim religious schools (madrasahs) is still under review by the Government. But the recent debate in the Malay community has raised emotions in some quarters. As a result, the real issue might become confused. This is
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 280 6 Mir THAT'S what many HDB residents have been told over the past week. The Housing Board has advised about 4,000 households to remove all potential killer litter outside their flats. Dangerous objects include potted plants perched on parapet walls, bird cages hanging from windows,
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    • 42 6 PiQure This Moko, a female walrus, plays the alphorn at the HakkeJlma Sea Paradise aquarium in Tokyo. Moko, and Piko (right) showed their musical talent at the aquarium last month and have now become idols. Picture/ Afp
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    • News Break
      • 66 6 CRIME SHE was so sure there were no illegal workers in her home that she allowed a security company to use her HDB flat as an example for a television documentary on illegal immigrants. But Ms Tay Krishna Veni was wrong. When the firm visited her flat on
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      • 57 6 MEDICAL DOCTORS at Alexandra Hospital can now diagnose and treat patients at two nursing homes using a multimedia computer and a video camera. Both the accident and emergency and geriatric departments at Alexandra Hospital are now linked to the Lentor Residence and the Moral Welfare Home in a
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      • 57 6 EDUCATION NAN Chiau High School will move to its new home in Sengkang next year with a clean slate. It will not be taking all its secondary school students along. About 160 secondary students will be transferred to Monk's Hill Secondary School. The school will start in Sengkang
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      • 62 6 SHARES SINGAPORE stocks may fall this week led by DBS Group Holdings, banks and property stocks, reports The Business Times. All because of concerns that the US Federal Reserve may raise rates by a larger-than-expected 50 basis points, which may eat into companies' earnings. This is coupled with
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      • 62 7 COMPUTERS A WOMAN could be behind the Love Bug virus. Police in the Philippines said the suspect, a woman, had been identified but that it could take a while to make an arrest as "the suspect is a moving target". Police said she was a young computer school
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      • 62 7 VIOLENT crime in the US went down sharply last year. That was the eighth year in a row that it fell, providing new evidence of a dramatic improvement in the nation's long-term crime trends, the FBI said yesterday. The federal law-enforcement agency said preliminary figures for all four
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      • 66 7 INDONESIA THE US AT least 37 people are dead and many more are missing after a ferry sank off Ambon island yesterday. The overloaded boat was carrying more than 100 passengers. Rescuers found 37 bodies and rescued 56 people. The ferry was going from Ambon to Waipirit on
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      • 73 7 BUSINESS SINGAPORE Airlines could end up paying more for its 16.7 per cent stake in Air New Zealand. SIA has agreed to pay Brierley a premium if Air NZ meets profit targets. And the airline is likely to meet some of those targets. Brierley Investments said the eventual
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    • 56 6 New Straits Times: Dr M probing complaints International Herald Tribune: Putin inaugurated in glittering show Asian Wall Street Journal: Police trace 'Love Bug' suspect to Manila BBC news: Britain is sending a naval force with paratroopers to West Africa in what it calls a precautionary move to
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    • 219 7 in F©<Sus CPF SAVINGS ARE you really ready for retirement? You may think you will have enough money, but in reality, your Central Provident Fund savings may not be sufficient. This discrepancy between perception and reality is worrying, said Minister for National Development Mah Bow
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    • 62 7 The Straits Times: Sipadan hostage-takers issue fresh demands The Business Times: China, India to lead Asian Internet boom Lianhe Zaobao: MOE to launch Chinese website for primary schools on Saturday Berita Harian: Madrasahs welcome Prime Minister's proposals RCS morning news: Singapore's major challenge in the ITA is
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    • 97 7 Quote Wworthy I've become successful through business and now it's time to pay back. I want to encourage others to take up the spirit of enterprise. I've been keeping track of (the Singapore Management University's) progress over the past year. I like that it willfocus on training future
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • SINGAPOERTODAY
    • 48 8 mui<mui< Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng, in a speech to Toa Payoh residents on the issue of killer litter It doesn't require a nationwide task force. What it requires is some localised, very focused approach to deal with the problem.
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    • 344 8  - Leaving on a jet plane and landing in jail JAILED Lin Yun and Chen Yu were each jailed 10 months for using false passports. They could have been jailed up to seven years and fined. By Chua Wei Yng THEY would be seeing the bright lights of New York by
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    • 285 9  - Two couples, one 100 a straw By Eugene Anthony Legs. Not two, but eight. Spider? No, humans. Oh, you mean there were four people? Yes. Nothing odd there. But they were all in the same toilet cubicle! And one of them was taking methylamphetamine hydrochloride, commonly known as Ice. Two
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    • 90 9 SEA Chee Yew was sentenced to 12 months' jail under the Misuse of Drugs Act. He could have been fined up to $20,000 or jailed 10 years or both. Ice is a Class A Controlled Drug, also known as Ice Cream, Glass, Crystal or Quartz. Highly addictive,
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    • 806 10 From 694 nominations, to our judges'shortlist of 10 finalists and finally, the readers' choice of top maid. So meet Singapore's top maid. AZHAR GHANI, who was at Sentosa for the prize presentation by the Philippines Ambassador, reports MAID of the Year: Madam Rosita Frando, 46. It took
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    • 217 10  -  By Azhar Ghani FROM "helpers" to "household companions". It's not just a name change. Giving respectability to domestic work as a profession? Perhaps, but in the Philippines, the change is getting serious attention. The possible change? From "katolong" (helper) to "kasambahay" (household companion). lriis was revealed
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    • 70 10 A TOTAL number of 2,806 votes were received in our Maid of the Year contest. Three callers were picked to win a Fujifilm Mx 1200 digital camera, worth about $500. each. They are (!C number): *****99,*****08 and *****80. The following won The New Paper on Sunday laptop bag.
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    • 570 11  -  Health ministry officials go undercover to check health shop acting as clinic By Eugene Anthony SNEAKY operators call for sting operations. That's why three Health Ministry officials went undercover to expose an unlicensed clinic masquerading as a health shop. Such steps are necessary to protect
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    • 112 11 DIABETES can lead to kidney failure, blindness, heart disease, impotence, and disorders of the nervous system. You get diabetes when your body lacks or does not respond to a hormone called insulin, which helps convert glucose into energy. CHOLESTEROL levels need to be checked often, says the
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  • WORLD TODAY
    • 507 12 Japanese women want communicative, co-operative men with comfortable incomes SINGLE is best. So goes a hit song by a female Japanese singer several years ago. Lately, a growing number of young Japanese women are declaring that being single is indeed the best option if they cannot
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    • 149 12 IT'S taller than three storeys of an HDB block 8 m. So how much does the whale weigh? Well, pile up 1,500 chickens weighing 2 kg each and you'll get the idea. This poor whale died after colliding with a container ship. And no wonder.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 398 14 WIFE PHONES OASIS STAR: IT was a trans-Atlantic conversation. Or, perhaps, a screaming match. Certainly, it was tearful, reported British newspaper The Mirror. Actress Patsy Kensit, in London, phoned husband Liam Gallagher while the Oasis singer was in the US, and dropped the bombshell news: Their three-year
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    • 135 14 HORRIBLE and untrue. That's how the ex-manager of 14-year-old British singing sensation Charlotte Church described allegations that he had behaved badly towards her. Mr Jonathan Shalit, 38, has denied the accusations Charlotte's parents have made in a legal counter-suit. They have claimed Mr Shalit, who discovered Charlotte
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    • Article, Illustration
      75 15 m uttmutt US Secretary of Slate Madeleine Albright is angry with the country's diplomats for losing a laptop containing top secret files, and allowing a Russian bug to be planted in a supposedly-secure conference room. She says: 1 don't care how skilled you are as a diplomat, how
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    • 340 15 Ready for take-off... almost Source-Sydney Morning Herald THE Qantas jumbo jet had been in the air for an hour. Suddenly a red light began to flash. A generator had failed. The pilot chose to turn back to Hongkong airport. It happened on Saturday. For, this was the same Boeing 747-400
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    • 355 16 ARRESTED IN AFGHANISTAN Reuters THE two Arab men were trying to find the man dubbed America's Public Enemy No 1, Osama bin Laden. They sneaked into Afghanistan to spy for the US and Israel, the ruling Taleban there claimed. It has arrested the men. But
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    • 98 16 WASHINGTON has offered a US$5 million ($8.5 million) reward for the arrest of Osama bin Laden. The US calls him a deadly terrorist. Osama, said to be in hiding in Afghanistan, is charged with masterminding the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in 1998, in
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  • 324 17 THE SIPADAN HOSTAGE CRISIS Source: Wire reports. THIS was the message the 21 Sipadan hostages had for the journalists who visited their pigpen-like hideout made of tree branches on Saturday. "I'm not sure if I will come out of here," said Filipino hostage Roland Ullah. He
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 59 20 COMICRELIEF jM *4py llf 1 I Next to New York, I think HHBj iTTanvlins" has captured my Rv^ 7 J«n IS |1| I imagination the most... j j RQQQA Both have in^, 9 enou I Yeah... but while one revels in Vsiowly, cultures formed by r jJ my Nyonya Ayarn
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  • HEAR
    • 144 21 j MY dream is to become an air-stewardess or a business woman. I will be sitting for the N levels this year, afler which I plan to go to a private school. Can I take my O levels in a private school? Is there
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    • 208 21 I AM in Secondary 3, in the normal technical stream. I want to know if the N levels are the same as the GCE exam. My dad insists that I take the O levels. Is there any way that a normal technical student can
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    • 241 21 I AM 18 and a t second-year science stream student in a junior college. Last year, I barely passed the exams. In fact, I was on the promotional exercise, where teachers come together to consider whether I should be promoted or retained. Luckily, I was
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    • 184 21 I AM a 16-year-old girl in the normal i technical stream. The problem is that I am taking exploring science in the N levels, and I dislike it very much. My other subjects are English, maths, Chinese, exploring science, computer applications and elements
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    • 195 22 I AM in my third year of the 4 electrical engineering course at Singapore Polytechnic. I am having trouble coping with my studies. I am not really interested in electrical engineering. I was thinking of transferring to the School of Informatics to take up a
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    • 326 22 I AM 18 and I've dropped out 4 of school (Temasek Polytechnic). I have a total of five credits in my O levels. I'm interested in advertising. The problem is, I don't know which school I should apply to. Should I go to Nanyang Academy of Fine
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    • 182 22 I AM a diploma holder in 4 electronics, computer and communication. I am now interested in doing the Advanced Diploma in Business Administration in IBMEC. But the diploma is awarded by UTS, University of Technology, Sydney. Is this recognised in Singapore? The course can be taken in
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    • 90 21 CALL US Do you have any questions regarding education? Write or fax to: Dear Wijey The New Paper 390 Kim Seng Road Singapore *****5 Fax: 737-5375 Infoline: 1900-*****03 (calls cost 30 cents a minute). E-mail address: npops@sph .com.sg (Please I mark it: Dear Wijey.) 'i/fri/y (V/^/zr 2D /La/orr« jlr 'icr/
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  • Show Time
    • 795 23  -  sjfefeflw workowto Swimming Martial arts and Sheep placenta! BY Chang May Choon SAY Adam Cheng and you'll see eyes light up in recognition and mouths curling to say, "Ahhh, that's Chu Liu Xiang, right?" As the legendary Swordsman Chu, that he played back in
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    • 507 24 MTV'S TAMIL VEEJAY He's as trendy as you can get—what with bis earrings, gelled hair in spikes, rings and chokers. He's also made history as MTV's first Tamil veejay* AMBIGA RAJU meets Nesh, the attractive host of Priyam, Priyam in the flesh
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    • 235 24 THE MTV style of short chit-chats followed by video clips is new to the Tamil audience. And it doesn't help that Nesh speaks like a rapid-fire gun on air. You get distracted by his gestures and wonder if this young man can 6peak
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  • 545 25  -  By Carol Leong WHY is Patrick Tan so happy and contented? The answer lies in the life he has carved out for himself. He is a full-time dad to his 18-month-old son, stays home whenever he wants, juggles his work schedule to his convenience and makes enough
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  • 304 27  -  FOOD WITH A VIEW By Melissa Lee THE offer was attractive. Japanese dried abalone, which normally sells for $108 each, was going for $38.80 (one abalone per person). What's more, the restaurant was offering an extra-value meal which gives 10 dishes free with each abalone ordered.
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    • 479 40  -  By Danny Khoo Mission accomplished. That just about summed up All The Way's outing in the $700,000 Emirates Singapore Derby, run for the first time at Kranji last night. The sole foreign representative from the world-famous Godolphin conglomerate, whose seven starts included a
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    • 1269 41 YESTERDAY'S KRANJI (COURSE A) RESULTS Going: Good 2 BLADE RUNNER ABJAR 55 (8-5) JCassidy (8) 3 3 1 (460) 3 DRAGON PROSPERO 55 (48-9) D Holland (3) 5 5 2 (452) 7 STAR BOMBER 55 c 53.5 (63-10) *CAng (2) 6 4 3 (442) 8 STONE TURNER 55 c 53.5
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    • 154 41  -  By Danny Khoo LAST night marked the final day of racing at Kranji until June 17, when racing resumes after a six-week break. But it also signalled the end of Australian Greg Carpenter's role as part of the presentation crew at the Singapore Turf Club. The well-liked
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    • 1166 42 RACE 1: BLADE RUNNER ABJAR proved difficult to be boxed and caused some delay. STONE TURNER showed no early pace. AURIFEROUS was difficult to settle in the backstraight. Rounding the turn after the 800 m, STAR BOMBER steadied when inconvenienced on the inside of
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    • 953 42 YESTERDAY'S IPOH RACE RESULTS Going: Good aiBHamiiABina 8 MISTER K 52 (42-13) SMarzuki (3) 1 1 1 (451) 4 NASEEBWALA 56 (16-7) TL Yin (4) 3 2 2 (440) 7 MAGIC GOLD 53 (41-13) 'BShahrul (6) 5 3 3 (501) 10 FONTAINE 50.5 (27-8) \JSainul (2) 4 4 4 (525)
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    • 244 43  -  By Lionel Lee JOCKEY Suhairi Sani and apprentice Brethem Tai capitalised on their chance mounts at Ipoh yesterday and turned them into winners. Sani had to thank jockey Sam Subian for not being available to ride Blue Bottle in Race 4. Taking advantage of
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    • 832 43 RACE Is CRYSTAL MAGICAL was withdrawn with the stewards' permission. The gelding was impounded. Trainer Gavin Kelly was fined RMIOO ($45) for failing to produce the declared colours on MISTER K. Trainer YF Lee was questioned regarding the increase in weight of MAGIC GOLD.
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    • 801 44 Reuters. Fusaichi pegasus shattered the jinx against favourites in the Kentucky Derby by roaring down the stretch at Churchill Downs in Louisville on Saturday to win the 126 th running of the "Run for the Roses" race by 1 x /i lengths over Aptitude. Fusaichi
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    • 462 46 SORRY, Liverpool fans. Your club appears to have thrown away its European Champions League dream early this morning. In a bitterly frustrating Anfield finale, Pool (Liverpool's nickname) was held to a poor 0-0 home draw by struggling Southampton. Liverpool may have gone back to No 3 spot
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    • 155 47 EURO KICK-OFF: SPAIN, ITALY GERMANY Atletico is out SHOCK NO 1: POOR, poor Atletico Madrid. Racked by financial worries and a criminal investigation, it dropped out of the Spanish Primera Liga after 65 years following a 2-2 draw with Real Oviedo. The draw doomed Atletico nine times champion and Cup
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    • 179 47 SHOCK NO 2: SO sloppy, Inter Milan. It suffered its heaviest home league defeat in 92 years in the Italian Serie A with a surprise 4-0 hammering by Fiorentina at the San Siro. Enrico Chiesa put the visitor 2-0 up with goals either side of the interval
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    • 82 47 GERMAN CUP CHEERS: Bayem Munich manager Otmar Hitzfeld cannot escape the boozy celebrations after the 3-0 win over Werder Bremen in the weekend 's German Cup final. Brazilian striker Giovane Elber gives him a beer shower as the boss tries in vain
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      362 48 LATEST RESULTS: Western Conference: Portland 94 Utah 75 (Portland leads series l-O) Scottie Pippen scored nine of his 20 points in a big fourth quarter when Portland pulled away for this impressive win over Utah Jazz in the best-of-seven Western Conference semi-final. Los Angeles lakers 105
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    • 168 48 A free trip to watch the Uefa Champions League Finals in Paris awaits you! Just guess the total number of goals that will be scored in the second leg of the Uefa Champions League semi-finals. Real Madrid will play host to Bayem Munich on May
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    • 393 50  -  BY Wang Meng Meng GEYLANG United wants to spread its wings. And how? By changing its name to The Eagles. Currently third in the S-League table, the club proposes to retain its officially-registered name "Geylang United Football Club." But aims to reach out to a
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    • 184 50 AFP. NINE years older. That's a helluva lot of experience in tennis. Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario tried to take advantage of that yesterday. She played to her strength in the final of the Betty Barclay Cup in Hamburg, Germany. But that was just not
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