The New Paper, 5 July 2000

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  • 7 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY. JULY 5, 2000
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    • 58 1 WHSI tVi a Kelonfl KlnB LyAirr pumps salt £1« s, tot 311*3YV water through => jfe><®£J 1 nnflPr horse s nose <M (funnnfi^n < .1 of racehorse Singapore Praaa Holdlnga Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpi m Would you bare it for free drinks? Boat Quay pub
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 651 2 NO PAY CEOs and top managers take pay cuts and work for virtually nothing NO IPOs Pstcoins have canned plans to Rst on the Stock Exchange this year NO NEW STAFF Recruitment frozen while staff turnover figures are beglning to worry CASH TRAP CaAcha.coM cut costs
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    • 34 2 Ivan and Eileen, The New Paper's It Squad, are on today as Internet jockeys. Call them between 1 and 2 pm. Or e-mail them anytime. Call: 730 5562 e-mail: tnp@asial.com.sg
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    • 95 2 There's no time to waste, the Great Singapore Sale is coming to an end. Follow in the flip-flops of our Good Buy girl as she goes on a last-minute shopping spree. Also, find out if entertainer Jacintha Abisheganaden (right), who used to go
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 470 3  -  THE INSIDE STORY By' Tan Hsien Chong ONE drop of essence. That's what made this cocktail a winner. It is also what made a team of four from Phoenix Hotel keep the truth from their general manager. By giving him the impression that they were using jackfruit. When
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    • 123 3 PAssion took the top prize in the cocktail category of the competition organised by the People's Association and the Singapore Hotel Association on June 1. Mr Chia Tze Yee, Chairman of the PA Staff Club, and one of the judges, described the entry from Phoenix Hotel
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    • 33 3 30 ml vodka 30 ml melon liqueur 60 ml pineapple juice 30 ml coconut milk 1 drop of durian essence Garnish with a kiwi wedge and cherry on the rim.
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    • 499 4  -  IN POLICE CUSTODY The maid has been taken into police custody. She is now under observation at the Alexandra Hospital. Attempted suicide is an offence in Singapore. When The New Paper tried to interview the maid, she declined to speak. The
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    • 375 5 IZ——————» j SEAANGOON PARKWAY PARADE EAR EAST PLAZA ANG MO WO CHINATOWN POINT CINELEISURI ORCHARD MTEL 538 1368 TEL 734 8998 PROGRAMME A PROGRAMME B PROGRAMME C For development For firming ft For reduction of of bust In the prevention over-sized bust natural way of sagging Don't you just hate
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 239 6 More for star professors m ITS time for a change and our two main universities will shed their civil-service salary structures. They will pay according to performance and market factors only performance will decide promotions and increments, and "star" professors will be well-rewarded. Hopefully, this will attract top academic minds
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    • 41 6 iviuio AICUICIU9 BOMB ATTACK?I An explosion shattering windows at the offices of Indonesia's attorney-general yesterday shortly after Mr Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, youngest son of former President Suharto, was questioned for an investigation Into alleged graft. Picture/ Reuters
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    • News Break
      • 62 6 BRUNEI BRUNEI will look beyond oil and turn itself soon into an international financial centre. An announcement regarding this is expected around July 15, the Sultan's birthday, according to top policy makers in the country A special unit has been set up in the finance ministry, which now
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      • 60 6 DEFENCE SINGAPORE and Israel will develop surveillance satellites, reports Jane's Defence Weekly magazine. The deal is worth over US$l billion ($1.7 billion), with Israel expected to provide the technology and Singapore, the funding. Jane's said the joint research and development deal was agreed on in the past month.
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      • 60 6 VIDEOTAPE A MARKET-RESEARCH manager, who filmed two women secretly while they were using the bathroom in his apartment, was a "serial professional", the High Court ruled. He had hidden a video-camcorder in a basket of soft toys. Albert Tay Beng Guan, 35, who had been fined by a
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      • 70 6 PROPERTY ONLY $106.6 million changed hands in the auction for property sites. Of the 729 pieces of property that were auctioned by the top four auction houses, only 73 went under the hammer. This is a massive drop from last year, when 191 of the 554 sites
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    • 39 6 International Herald Tribune: Saudi threat on output pushes oil prices lower Asian Wall Street Journal: Producers' outlook improves in Japan BBC news: France has launched an investigation into the American global surveillance network known as Echelon
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    • 169 7 in F®Sus SCHOOLBOY Eugene Yang's death is similar to cases where people strangle themselves for sexual pleasure, but hang themselves accidentally. The most famous case is probably that of rock star Michael Hutchence whose naked body was found hanging from a belt attached to the
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    • 65 7 WEAPONS THEFT I ITS a tense situation in the jungles of Perak. Several hundred soldiers have surrounded a gang of 15 men who stole a cache of weapons from two military camps on Sunday morning. The gunmen have taken three villagers hostage Soldiers have refrained from an all-out
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    • 64 7 CLOB THE trading of Clob shares remained quiet and orderly yesterday, the second day of their release. Thus the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange which has the option of suspending trading of the RMIS billion ($6.8 billion) worth of Clob shares may not have to intervene. It was prepared
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    • 57 7 PARKING DAYS of free parking at the National University of Singapore are numbered. To deal with lot shortage and illegal parking, a computerised payment system goes on trial at the arts faculty today. Computerised cameras will register car licence-plate numbers and the time spent in the carpark.
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    • 75 7 MISSING GIRL THE Oxford University prodigy who is missing had called her college dean a day after she disappeared. In the call on June 22, Sufiah Yusof, 15, said she was fine but needed space. The dean said Sufiah had not seemed under pressure. But her friends
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    • 62 7 The Straits Times: NUS, NTU get freer hand in pay and funds The Business Times: Singapore dotcoms feel the burn Berita Harian: Gang in Perak arms theft takes two men hostage RCS morning news: Singapore's two public universities will be given greater financial and operating autonomy but
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    • 78 7 CAIRNHJLL'S APPEAL At Cairnhill, you get a layering. You have ***** buildings, as well as those from the *****, 1950s and the year2ooo. It's a street which has taken on historical depth and that's something we have pretty much wiped out in Singapore. Dr Sharon Siddique on the
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  • HEALTHTODAY
    • 579 8  -  the new paper RACING By l Carol Leong DONT you just love breakfast? Simple or elaborate, breakfast readies the person to face up to another new day. The importance of breakfast is clear form the old advice: breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine
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    • 329 8 (NO time to eat? Breakfast on ready-to-eat foods such as fruits, cereal, bread, yoghurt and cheese. Feel like a hearty meal? Have a non-stick fry-up. Pry onions and chillis in a pan, add baked beans. Eat with toast. This is full of fibre and a tasty
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    • 66 9 Mummy was right. Children should eat breakfast before going to school. It helps them learn better. This was first documented over 30 years ago at the University of lowa Medical College. Children who skipped breakfast had problems concentrating, were restless, irritable and tired by late morning. Astudy of
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    • 110 9 I AM 49, weigh 60 kg and am 1.58 m tall. Recently, my left knee felt painful and the doctor referred me for an MRI scan. The result indicates no meniscal tear but there is some small joint efiusion and mucoid degeneration. Osteoarthritic changes are also present.
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    • 26 9 WRITE TO: It's Your Health, The New Paper, 390, Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5 FAX: 737-5375 E-MAIL tnp@sph.com. sg (Please mark: It's Your Health)
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    • 45 9 Cal 1900-912-0006 to Had onfc Wky teenage girls wbo drink soft drinks, particniariy cola, are far awreMiety to bnaka bona. Getting fit improves yoar love ■fa. Antibacterial soaps auqr be no CMMsn soap—the l£eH In qnestioa! Cais costs 50 cents a arinnte.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 332 10  -  TWO WEEKS AGO: Bad taste, say readers By Leong May Ling THIS in-your-face ad isn't going to travel through Singapore on SBS any more. At least, not the same way. But while it did, FCUK made people talk. Which was precisely what it wanted. Last
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    • 27 10 4tafcp wW<c dgHHw, we have with our client, and they have agreed to change the ad. Mr Vincent Lim, SBS assistant manager of corporate communications
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    • 36 10 SBS should have shown a little bit more sensitivity when deciding whether to carry the advertisement or not. Mr Ravi Suppiah, 39, on why the change was made only after a public outcry
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    • 147 10 ON June 17, The New Paper reported on the reactions of Singaporeans to the FCUK bus advertisements. Many complained that the acronym for French Connection United Kingdom was too strongly associated with the f-word. Others called it was an erosion of creative advertising
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 39 12 Social woriwrYogeswaiUHNh how social work requires professional training ao|airide range of skMs and knowledge. Ms Yogeswari was Rotary Club of Singapore (West) and the of Social Woriiere: People think sBn&l Bakers are good-hearted, ralHwe no brains.
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    • 306 13  -  By Chua Wei Yng HE urinated in the drain. Then he swore at the top of his voice. Then he attacked a police officer. Later, Ang Thian Bing said he was very drunk. But he couldn't escape a fine of $5,000 for shouting in public
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    • Article, Illustration
      935 14  -  Horse trainer Henry Tan was disqualified from racing for 10 years after he was found guilty of "tampering" with his horse, which had to be put to sleep. WHAT IS DRENCHING? Drenching is done to give medication or water to horses that are too sick to eat. A
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    • 138 14 THE Selangor Turf Club stipendiary stewards found Henry Tan guilty of the following at an inquiry on Saturday: Tan, as a licensed trainer, had "tampered" with Memorable Star on the morning of March 19. This resulted in severe internal injury to the horse. Memorable Star had to
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    • 244 14 IasLOU Name: Henry Tan Kheng Beng Nationality: Singaporean Marital Status: Divorced Experience In racing: 1982 to 1986: Amateur rider. Won five races. December 1987: Granted MRA trainer's licence. Based at BukitTimah. December 1997: Trainer's licence expired. Ntogr 1998: Re-applied for trainer's lioence. August
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    • 231 14  -  By Chua Wei Yng A VETERINARIAN told The New Paper: "There are more methods of altering a horse's performance than there are ways of detecting them." The vet, who has treated horses both locally and outside Singapore for more than 20 years, did
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      378 16  -  Lottery winner to FINED TAN Chin Keong faced two charges of unlicensed moneylending and one charge of harassment. He was fined $14,000 for each of the money lending charges and fined $3,000 for harassment, a total of $31,000. For unlicensed moneylending, Tan could have been fined up to $100,000.
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    • 327 17  -  BY Amrit Kaur THEY have un-pronounceable names, and they come from the European heartland. Now, these foods and wines have made their way into our own heartland the HDB estates. Through NTUC supermarkets. You can try suit ibamajszelet (pan fried goose liver), gulyas (a thick soup) and
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 521 19  -  Five minutes is all a person has if a King Cobra bites and hangs on to him If it's a bite-and-pull-away situation, the victim has to be rushed to hospital within 30 minutes Darren had only practised once with the 4.5 m King
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    • 58 19 Audiences donate for different reasons, it's not necessarily due to the dangerous stunts. We feel the main reason is that people trust NKF's good track record and know that we use the money for charitable causes to help the patients. Ms
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 351 21 A FULL-SCALE punch-up in the air. That's what the pilot of a British jet feared. After all, there was a group of 12 drunken Irish friends and family on board and they were threatening the cabin crew and a Jamaican passenger. The pilot
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    • 323 22 Three teenage boys 'torture and kill a 15-year-old like a scene in Tarantino's cult movie' Source: BBC. THREE teenage boys allegedly acted out a scene from a Quentin Tarantino film, cutting off a 15-year-old boy's ear and then killing him. He was tortured to death repeatedly
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    • 150 22 THIS is not the first time that a grisly scene from the movie directed by Quentin Tarantino (right) was said to be re-enacted for real. A New Zealand policeman was gagged and tortured at his house in 1996 and then doused with petrol. Police said
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 382 24 In Thailand, they're Net-talking up to five hours at a time Talk, talk, talk. Apparently that's what many Thai teenagers do when not at school. Talking on the telephone, chatting on the Internet, for up to five hours a day. Frivolous talk, as a relief from the
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    • 330 25 YES, blind people such as this man, may soon be able to see. Three surgeons in the US have performed an eye operation where they implanted a silicon microchip to act like the retina in the eye of three patients. All three patients
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    • 251 25 THE OPERATION starts with three tiny cuts in the white part of the eye. Through these cuts, the surgeons remove the gel in the middle of the eye and replaces it with saline. This is done with a very tiny cutting and vacuuming device. Then, they
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    • 419 26 Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid has been criticised for travelling too much. He has been to 35 countries since he became President last October. How does he make himself at home in the air? MELVIN SINGH finds out THERE are three things President Abdurrahman Wahid never
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    • 227 27 Wire Services. THESE resplendent boats had reason to boast. They were part of an armada of tall ships from 50 countries which converged in New York harbour yesterday, for the largest nautical celebration in history. Operation Sail 2000 was the highlight of American Independence Day celebrations. It involved
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    • 42 28 mm*mui< A money-losing Internet company, JFax.com lnc v has changed Its name to J2 Global Communications toe to avoid being labelled a "dotcom" company. Said Its chief executive Steven Hamefsto£ People are perceiving we're on the endangered species list.
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    • 145 28 AFP. "WHICH one of you idiots put an electronic tracking tag on a prisoner's false leg?" thundered the prison chief "Sorry, guv," says a warden, 'Thow were we to know he'd get legless down the pub?" Smirks and snickering. "It's no laughing
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  • 490 29  -  the new paper RACING WITH PAULINE D LOH HAS love on the Internet shrunk from a forever plan to a short-term strategy? Just as Internet technology is shortening the life span of a strategic plan for an organisation? Take the case of Dreamer, a member
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  • 790 31  -  So what if we have entered a new millennium? The oldest sales trick in the book using a pretty face and sexy body to attract attention and sell products is alive and kicking. JOYCE LIM visits a pub and a restaurant while DREW FRITZ checks out a
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  • showtime
    • 810 32 FORGET the man-eaters of Hollywood. Gladiator's Russell Crowe would rather be with his farm animals Down Under. The hunky actor first found himself a hit with LA Confidential in 1997, then got an Oscar nomination for The Insider two years later. And now, as the
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      115 33 Name Russell Crowe ■rtMate April 7,1964 ■rtkplaeac Wellington, New Zealand Fm Facte Started his music career as Rus Le Roc, with the single I Want To Be Like Marlon Brando. Now, he heads 30 Odd Foot of Grunts in which he sings, plays the guitar and writes lyrics.
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    • 553 34 One week into her job as a Showtime reporter, WENDY TEO was asked to interview a star for the first time. Problem was, most people had never heard of the Taiwanese singer Zhang Ke Fan I MUST have answered the question a dozen
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    • 141 35 IT'S hands off one of Hollywood's most eligible men, Robert Redford (right), now. Redford, 62, will take his vows for the second time in the romantic city of Paris, reported entertainment newspaper The Star. Redford has stubbornly refused to remarry after his first marriage ended
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    • 133 35 MINNIE Driver will be so pleased to know her ex, Matt Damon, has got his just deserts. Girl Interrupted star Winona Rydw (left) called it quits when Damon persuaded her to part with more than US$l million ($1.7 million) for an investment that eventually turned bad.
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    • Article, Illustration
      122 35 FIVE Backstreet Boys, sitting on the wall. One got married, and now there're four. Yes, gals, Backstreet boy Kevin Richardson (above) has walked down the aisle with long-time girlfriend Kristin Willits. The two exchanged vows at a private ceremony in Kentucky and only their closest friends and family
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    • 246 50 PICK OF THE NIGHT MARC TAN Quite highly-strung but he has been looking more relaxed during trackwork. Also looked well at his last engagement on June 24 but was withdrawn when he bolted and took jockey Jim Cassidy on an unscheduled gallop.
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    • 639 51 DANNY KHOO'S GUIDE TO KRANJI TRACKWORK IMPRESSIVE last-start winner Deo Gratias looks on track for a second successive win at Kranji on Saturday. Taken out by winning rider Greg Childs yesterday, the three-year-old gelding underlined his sound form in a testing 600 m workout in
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    • 272 51 HAPPY DAYS FOR BUSUTTIN THE days of frustration and despair are over for Kiwi trainer Patrick Busuttin, at least for now. After a bad start to the season, when nothing seemed to go right, the winners have started to stream in for HIM at Kranji. Last Saturday, he
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    • 147 51 RESULTS of yesterday's four barrier trials over I,ooom on the fibresand track at Kranji. The going was good. TRIAL 1:1 Gold Bullet (C Carmody) 2 Good Request (J Saimee) 3 Super Rhydon (E Wilkinson) 4 Bold Mckee (E Marchant) 5 Smart Express (KB Soo) 6 Maumill's Magic. Margins
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    • 239 52  -  By Danny Khoo LEADING Singapore trainer Malcolm Thwaites (left) has taken another giant stride towards realising his ambition to establish a satellite stable in Dubai. His application to train at Nad A 1 Sheba, the headquarters of Sheikh Mohammed's famed Godolphin operations, has met with
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    • 683 52 NST. BIG DEAL did a sizzling workout in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-old Australian-bred by Bletchley Park easily held Winde (T Samsuri, Class 1 I,700m) in a 600 m trial to clock 40.2 sec. He finished full of running
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      323 53 Star athletes (from left) Marie Jose Perec, Donovan Bailey and Sergei Bubka making comebacks with Sydney Olympics in mind AP. GET ready for a burst of nostalgia as the 25th Athletissima athletics meet kicks off in Lausanne, Switzerland, today. Three superstars of yesterday France's Marie Jose Perec, Sergei
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    • 285 54 COACH QUITS Reuters. I'VE had enough. Dino Zoff (left) quit as Italy coach last night after stinging criticism of his tactics in the Euro 2000 final defeat by France. What prompted him to throw in the towel was an unprecedented public attack by opposition leadei
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    • 346 54 SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa leads Africa's clarion call for a chance to host the greatest event the first time for a football-intoxicated continent. South Africa has ultra-modern stadiums in all of its major venues, with just minor modifications needed to bring them in line with World Cup requirements.
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    • 456 55 Reuters. Germany is very, very angry. The second-favourite to host the 2006 World Cup has threatened to turn it into a non-contest by throwing in its towel. The reason: Germany is outraged by yesterday's announcement that a deal has been struck between
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    • 207 55 THE DECISION MAKERS: Twenty-four members of the Fifa executive committee will decide tomorrow who will host the 2006 World Cup Finals. Four out of voters are from Asia. They are South Korea, Thailand, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The others are three each from South America and Central America,
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    • 272 55 jHARtToNjH HOOLIGAN^ AP. SOCCER hooligans are in for a very hard time. The British government this morning proposed tough new measures to prevent them from travelling to mqjor international matches. This is seen as a major step towards curbing the bad hats who shamed England
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    • 449 56 VENUS WILLIAMS TO PLAY SISTER SERENA IN SEMI-FINAL Wire Services. THEY have introduced new levels of velocity to female tennis. They are in great form. It's unfortunate they are clashing in the Wimbledon semi-finals. American sisters Venus and Serena Williams illuminated
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    • 272 57 PETE SAMPRAS V JAN-MICHAEL GAMBILL ONE quarter-finalist this year is unmistakable: Mr Wimbledon himself, Pete Sampras (left). The six-time champion, nursing an ankle injury, goes into today's match against fellow American Jan-Michael Gambill (right) on the verge of making more history. Sampras, 28, is three matches
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    • 154 57 AP. JELENA DOKIC (right) is back in the spotlight for the right reasons. And she's served a warning to No 2 seed Lindsay Davenport with her tennis. The 17-year-old Australian and her father Damir has been attracting headlines for their bizarre behaviour. Yesterday, the focus was
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    • 87 58 THERE were no winners in last week's WSA Sport's Goal Rush contest. But dont worry, there's still another chance this week. 1111 To take part, call The New Paper Irrfoline 1900-914-0001 before 6pm' tomorrow and register your predictions for this week's six
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    • 471 58  -  FACTFILE Name: Jed Elliot Ong Wei Ren Data off Urth: Dec 14,1985 Haight 174 cm Waight 61kg Patavant 200 metres freestyle, 400 metres freestyle Favowta whnmari: Ang Peng Siong and lan Thorpe Favoorila food: Pasta Hob Mii! Swimming, playing computer games, internet chatting
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      319 59  -  TIGER BEER S-LEAGUE: FACE IN THE CROWD FACTFM-E Name: Norfazilah Sowtali Act: 22 Height 1.55 m Weight 46kg Ocapßw! Nanyang Polytechnic student Hobbies: No time for hobbies Fevowrtte teewt: Jurong FC, Manchester United and France Ft vow 111 player*: David Beckham, Diego Maradona, Fandi Ahmad. By Gary Lim SHE
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    • 118 59 ON June 26 we asked you to predict the winner of Euro 2000. You had to pick one of the teams from the four semi-finalists. The response was great but there was a surprise. France was not the popular choice. Of the 3,331 entries
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    • 322 60  -  By' Wang Meng Meng POOR V Sundramoorthy (above). The Jurong FC player-coach was cleared of diving by the referees committee yesterday. But the yellow card given by referee N San than for the alleged offence during last Saturday's 1-1 draw against Tanjong Pagar United
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      90 60 V E N U S Venus Williams hops. Skips. And jumps. Why? She beat top seed Martina Hingis 6-3,4-6, 6-4 in the women's quarter-final. But there's a twist to the Williams tale. Find out what it is on Pages 58-59 WHO WILL GET WORLD CUP 2006? Pgs 56-57 STAR
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    • 179 57 WHAT'S (ON WHAT'S G(Q)NE Today's main matches: How select matches went MEN (Singles quarter-finals, sewings in bold): MOTS DOUBLES (Third round): 10-Mark Philippoussis R °g er Federer, Switz, and Andrew (Australia) v 2-Andre Agassi (US) Kratzmann, Aus, bt 10 Mahesh 1-Pete Sampras (US) v Bhupathi, Ind, and David Prinosil, Jan-Michael
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    • 269 83 Colour explosion The Reda (Ngee Ann City) just A m scream out for attention. jp The colours are just so gAbright and cheery that I had tJfc to walk into the store. jPJJT, Green, blue, red, grey, jflffrost, yellow. JJ3* Pens, pencils, scrapbooks, V jw *£i namecard holders A „vL..
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    • 917 103 |^H ;> m mm :< One hour a year i Shopping and he complains lis my safari By Gloria Chandy a test to see whether our marriage is L By Desmond Ng still intact. LAST week, a colleague wrote I need that hour each year because, f UYS hate it.
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