The New Paper, 27 July 2000

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  • 7 1 the new paper THURSDAY, JULY 27, 2000
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    • 95 1 World Cup qualifier: Bad draw for Uruguay \>}"'@&-$_'*|\$='==);`=,^'^},=| CONCORDE CRASH: Bodies forced into ground by massive impact? 27 still buried/Page 26 Slngsporv Pr— Holding* Email: tnpOsph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpaper.asial com.sg MITA (P) 058/04/2000 60 CENTS Offer ends 18 Auqust Z000 Take a bite that doesn't eat
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    15 1 She jumped from hotel room. 'If not for open window...' /Page 34 Picture/AFP
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    • 31 2 Even the babies were not spared the torment of a hijack drama in the high seas yesterday. How did it end? Report on Page 29
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      434 2 Speight (left) arrested. 1 supporter killed Dozens injured as chaos continues Source: AFP REBEL leader George Speight's surprise arrest last night has led to chaos in the country. His supporters seized an Air Fyi aircraft early this morning. It is not known how they plan to use that
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  • 508 3  -  By Arul John WHAT'S that cat doing here, Mr Sarry Hassan asked himself. It was crouching nervously in a corner of his house, its coat a strange colour. Who let this stray in, he wondered, and called out to his maid. When she told him,
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  • 107 3 THE New Paper asked other pet groomers how they would handle Persian cats. Mr K C Chin, who owns The Pet Hotel, explained that owners of Persian cats in Singapore often request that their pets be shaved as they don't have the time to groom them in a
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  • 358 4  -  YESTERDAY: TODAY: SINGAPORETODAY By Lee Tee Jong ON paper, it says she is a graduate. And Fenny Lukito used that to apply twice for her employment pass, Singapore PR once and two job interviews. And it worked up to a point. She found
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 235 6 tfflr SINGAPOREANS are not spending too much on luxury items for the time being. At least, not in the next three months. This is because they are not too optimistic that the economy would improve in the near future according to the latest Straits Times Consumer
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      71 6 I!- First, it was Mao fashion. Now, Its Kim fashion. It's hot —at least In South Korea. The North Korean leader Kim Jong II Is now a popular figure in South Korea, after he signed a reconciliation pact with the South Korean President Kim Dae Jung recently. Picture
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      • 66 6 B INVENTIONS M CHINA has flushed Britain's claims to have invented the 100 down the drain with the discovery of a 2,000-year-old toilet. The 100, found in the tomb of a Western Han Dynasty king, comes complete with running water, a stone seat and an armrest. Until
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      • 63 6 CRIME ANGRY motorist Wong Then Kwong, 41, did not know the man in the red car was a policeman when he kicked him in the stomach over a near-collision. But on learning his occupation, he still kicked the off-duty staff sergeant once more in the stomach, before being
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      • 62 6 U FARECARDS j FOR Transit Link fare Cards issued or topped up from Aug 1, refunds can be made over a four-year period, instead of the current two years. But the farecard remains valid for two years. This applies to normal adult, senior citizen and child/student farecards.
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      • 55 6 BRIBERY A MANAGING director of a construction firm yesterday had an expensive lesson: It does not pay to bribe a cop. He was fined $25,000. Quah Eng Hock, 51, had been accused of harbouring six immigration offenders. He offered Staff Sergeant Somasundaram Mookaiah $100,000. The officer rejected the
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    • 46 6 New Straits Times: Ministry of Health takes over International Herald Tribune: Graft charges filed against Suharto Asian Wall Street Journal: Japan's government postpones NCB sale BBC news: President Clinton said he still believes an honourable compromise is possible over the future of Jerusalem
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    • 65 7 The Dow Jones industrial average fell 183.49 points to 10,516.48. It was the blue-chip gauge's lowest close since July 6, when it finished at 10,481. The Nasdaq composite index fell 41.85 points to 3,987.72. SINGAPORE COMPANIES OH NASDAQ Close in US$/Change ricnic internet $15.625/ +0.4375 2. Creative Technology
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    • 52 7 ■W Mi Reporting the good is perhaps considered "mushy". The media influences the public. I think the media should consider its role in dkueloping the right values in society. NTUC chief and Minister without Portfolio Lim Boon Heng on the stories he would like to read in
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    • 58 7 NS MEN EVERY time a national serviceman in SinMah Poultry Processing wins a fitness test award, boss Chiew Kian Huat, 51, matches it dollar for dollar. Ten outstanding NSmefi won awards yesterday, while SinMah received the Outstanding Award for employers of NSmen. It pays NSmen employees full salary
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    • 65 7 SMRT STOCK SMRT Corporation had an unimpressive debut on the Singapore Exchange yesterday, trading mostly around 64 cents. Most analysts had pegged SMRTs fair value at around 70 cents. It closed at 61.5 cents, just half a cent above its offer price. Analysts said the huge share offer
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    • 53 7 AWARD FIFTEEN years after graduation, in 1988, Associate Professor Aziz Nather set up the National University Hospital (NUH) Tissue Bank, from which important research on the subject spread to the rest of the world. For his contributions, he was yesterday awarded Achiever of the Year by Berita Harian
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    • 52 7 INDONESIA INDONESIA is set to bring former president Suharto to court on charges of corruption involving 1.4 trillion rupiah ($2BO million). Attorney-General Marzuki Darusman said with the completion of the investigation, he would likely meet the deadline of Aug 10 to file the corruption charges at the South
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    • 59 7 The Straits Times: Concorde mayjiave been doomed from the start The Business Times: Briertey homes in on 'cheap' shares Lianhe Zaobao: As tension in the Taiwan Strait escalates, concept of "Fuzhou war zone" appears in Chinese media Berita Harian: France suspends Concorde flight RCS morning news: President
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    • 116 7 in FSHSus SOME exclusive clubs turned out to be just that: exclusive, banning maids and drivers. Four out of seven clubs surveyed by The Straits Times said that maids were not welcome on their premises unless they were there to tend to their employers' children. Three clubs
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    • 29 7 WHAT'S HUP You must watch your salt intake. Also, your cholesterol level. Don't eat too much red meat.. Hullo, the more you talk, the higher my blood pressure goes!
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  • 38 8 mui<mui< SINGAPORETODAY Ram-maker Eric Khw oa his actresses: I look for good actresses. That they are beautiful is secondary. I'm a happily-married guy. I cringe whenever I see the headline "Khoo Babes" in a magazine.
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    • 456 11  -  But history decrees the need to keep S'pore's White House By Desmond Ng GONE with the wind? Not the White House of Singapore. A winner still, even after a brush with the wrecker's ball. Over 100 years old, it's a place where you could once meet
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    • 75 11 THE URA Architectural Heritage Awards were introduced for monuments and buildingß that have been well restored. Launched in 1996, it aims to encourage the conservation and restoration of old buildings, with 33 projects getting the awards since then. There are six winners this year: 36 Club Street
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    • 753 12  -  How one Singapore family copes with disabled son BY Irene Kew THEY called him a vegetable once. Now, he claps his hands when he sees his parents. They called him a good-for-nothing. Now, he drags his mother out of the kitchen when he doesn't want her
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    • 235 13  -  MORF ON TMF VFO FAMII V AND TWFIP nKARI Fn QON By Irene Kew EUGENE Yeo has been staying at the Bishan Home since May last year. That decision was a tough one to make, the Yeos told The New Paper. Said Mrs Yeo: The first
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      53 16 Normally, men ask their women after sex, 'so, how was it for you?' The woman might say. 'good'. But wouldn't it be nice to experience what she really feels? Professor Kevin Warwick ROBOT: Professor Warwick displaying a robot he will demonstrate to the university and polytechnics here
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    • 498 17  -  BY Carol Leong FOR the sake of science, this British professor of cybernetics will hook his nervous system to a computer and have sex with his Czech wife. Professor Kevin Warwick, 46, known as "Britain's leading prophet of the robot age" grinned boyishly. "Normally, men ask their women
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    • 87 20 ON Celebrity Buzz 1900-912 0004 this week: Crackpot comic Jim Carrey shocked his sexy fiancee Renee Zellweger (above) by hiring a jetliner just so they could make love at 9,000 m! Listen to how famous British actor OMvar Reed died in Malta during the
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    • 75 20 and movie reviews SKIPPER George Clooney and rookie Mark Wahlberg braved Tlm Perfect Storm to prove that they are man enough in this non-fiction movie. Gods and Monsters, starring lan McKellen and Brendan Fraser, tells the story of a Frankenstein director who finds solace with his gardener in his last
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    • 240 21  -  By Andre Yeo HE had a bad case of the one-armed bandit. You know, the jackpot machine. He was hooked on it and couldn't let go. In the end, that landed him in jail. Chan Pek Leng, 39, was the sales executive-cum-store
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  • 342 25 WORLDTOOAY A JAPANESE doctor is dishing out delectable tidbits at a McDonald's restaurant in Tokyo's entertainment district of Roppongi. Every Thursday at 9 pm, Dr Tsuneo Akaeda places a sign reading "health consultation for women" on a table at the corner of the restaurant and waits.
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    • 451 26 Wire services THE number 13 once again proved unlucky. Only 13 minutes separated the taking-off of the ill-fated Concorde jet from the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris and its crashing into a hotel near the town of Gonesse on Tuesday. An amateur filmmaker captured the
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    • 446 26 THERE are still 27 bodies buried in the mud, wreckage and debris. Bodies forced deep into the ground because of the massive impact of the Concorde crash. These are bodies of passengers, flight crew and hotel staff killed when
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      197 27 AFP A KIND man. A hero. An accomplished sportsman. These were the words used to describe Captain Christian Marty (left), the pilot of the doomed Concorde. Captain Marty, 55, joined Air France in 1968. He became captain on board a Boeing 727 in 1983. He progressed to the
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    • 432 28 Top computer students at famous China universities in scam THE syndicate's bogus Hongkong identity cards are of top quality. The fakes are almost impossible to detect, says a member of the syndicate. Which is hardly surprising because the gang is using top-class
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    • 395 29 Swiss family, yacht captain safe PICTURE ON PAGE 2 Source: Wire services ELITE coast guard divers have shot dead a Czech gunman who held hostage a five-member Swiss family and the Greek skipper aboard his sailboat. The family and captain were freed unharmed after the coast
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  • 192 30 Poor visibility hampering rescuers MALAYSIATODAY THICK fog has hampered search and rescue work for 13 foreign tourists who are stranded at Gunung Tahan in Taman Negara, Jerantut. The tourists, from the Isle of Man in Scotland, had entered the National Park via Merapoh, Kuala
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  • 455 31  - A customer from Hell I was behind him Etcetera WITH PETER SIOW HE seemed to be suffering from a mild version of Alzheimer's disease. He appeared to forget completely how to operate a handphone even though he was holding on tightly to one. So he fired in rapid fashion one
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  • 1158 34 concorde plane crash Source: Wire services. ONCE a year, a group of old friends from the west German soccer town of Moenchenglabach book a trip together, usually a cruise. This year, the Caribbean cruise, for six local couples and one child, included a
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 438 35  -  By Denise Chong STORIES About Love gets two out of five ticks. Even though it hurts like two lashes to tender skin When the local film industry is as young as Singapore's, you'd want every film that's born in this country to do well. Tension is
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    • 458 35 YOU'LL laugh. You'll ciy. At the wrong parts of Stories About Love. The three tales of love and sex in the Lion City run in a sequence, each separately directed by a local filmmaker (James Toh, Cheah Chee Kong, Abdul Nizam). Let's stand up and be glad that
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  • 543 36  -  CAREER CHOICE By Ian Tan Photo journalist ONLY a few centimetres above a century-old painting, her right hand was as steady as a rock. With an alcohol-drenched cotton swab, she began to wipe away at the painting carefully. A yellow layer of varnish disappeared slowly to reveal gleaming
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  • 387 38 FROM PAGE 38 CAREER CHOICE What is the most frustrating thing about the Job? Many people don't understand that there is always a certain amount of risk when restoring paintings. Some paintings stored in an outside environment have "wet paint". When people send in
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    • 427 55 DANNY KHOO'S GUIDE TO YESTERDAY'S KRANJI TRACKWORK Lonely planet, who disappointed at his last two engagements, is worth another chance in the Class 4 1,200 m race on Saturday. At Kranji yesterday morning, the three-year-old by Blues Traveller impressed when he disposed of 600 m in
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    • 412 55 GUIDE TO KUALA LUMPUR TRACKWORK GOING: GOOD NST THE promising Boom Boom Boom underlined his chances of a second success in the Class 3 Div 2 event over 1,200 m on Sunday with a dashing trial in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The three-year-old Australian-bred went as well as stablemate Wild Liar
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    • 149 55 NST SEVEN visiting jockeys have been granted local permits to ride at the Selangor Turf Club's August Meeting starting in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Except for Michael Clarke, who is currently riding atKraiyi, the others are familiar faces having ridden at the previous Kuala Lumpur
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    • 437 56  -  By Lionel Lee IDEAL EXPRESS put another great exhibition at Krai\ji last night to stay unbeaten in three starts. The three-year-old son of Ideal Planet, with regular apprentice Soo Khoon Beng in the saddle, won the 1,200 m sprint on
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    • 772 56 RACE RESULTS GOING: GOOD LAST NIGHT'S KRANJI (SAND TRACK) 1 AMBASSADOR STAR 55 c 52 (27-7) *YFUong (2) 1 2 1 (470) 2 DANSW1NNER 55 (7-5) DO'Heare (7) 3 3 2 (441) 6 CRYSTAL JOY 53.5 c 52 (101-13) *C Ang (5) 2 1 3 (466) 4 THEUONSTAR55(39-6) PWynn® (3)
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    • 1251 57 RACE 1: At the start, AMBASSADOR STAR was leaning in the barrier and jumped awkwardly in, brushing the inside gate. BLESS EM ALL and CRYSTAL JOY brushed at the start. SUPERB ACES jumped awkwardly and dipped shortly after the start. THE LION STAR had
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    • 405 58  -  41ST NATIONAL SCHOOLS' TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS By Lim Han Ming WHY should Singapore's fastest schoolboy be so cheerful after finishing last in the 100 m finals? He knew he was not fully fit and so was not disappointed with the result. Moreover, his last place
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    • 232 58 Boys' B Div, 100 m: 1 Mohd Shameer Mohd Ayub (DMN) 11.28 2 Mohamed Iman (CCS) 11.68 3 Yap Mu Qin (HIH) 11.69.1,500 m: 1 UmZhiyi (Rl) 4:19.03 2 Vigneswaran Meenathchi (HKS) 4:21.98 3 Muthukumar (SPS) 4:23.93. JmHn: 1 Koh Hor Yee (TWS) 53.19 (r*c) 2 Foo Jie
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    • 402 59 EARL Woods believes his son Tiger is only warming up. "The best is yet to come," Woods senior said from the home his son bought him in California, reports The Mirror. Earl had to watch on television as his son fulfilled the first part of
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    • 285 59 CRICKET: AFP. PAKISTANI cricket players will be officially "watchdogged" on home and away tours to keep them in check. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief General Tauqir Zia said the extraordinary step of planting a mole (informal spy), the identity of whom will be kept
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    • 124 59 AP. FORMER Indian cricket captain Mohammed Azharuddin became a multi-millionaire due to match-fixing, Australian TV reported. The ABC's Four Comers programme alleged that Azharuddin earned about US$5O million (sBsm) from illegal gambling syndicates. The match-fixing scandal that rocked cricket earlier this year when former
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    • 240 60 AP. INJURED Brazilian superstar Ronaldo (left) is continuing to push for a "softer" way back from his second straight knee surgery. He is seriously considering a stint with the US-based Mqjor League Soccer (MSL). "My thinking is always to return to Italy
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      303 60 WORLD CUP 2002 SOUTH AMERICAN QUALIFIER URUGUAY 0 PERU 0 MORE trouble for Uruguay's Argentinian coach Daniel Passarella. He was left with a massive headache after Uruguay lost two precious points at home following a dismal 0-0 draw against Peru in Monteveido early this morning. It was a
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    • 102 60 AP. OH, the pressures of football! Qualifying for the World Cup Finals is very big business anywhere in the world. Chile President Ricardo Lagos (second from left) summed up the fanatical mood at the presidential palace in Santiago as he watched a crucial match between Chile and
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    • 356 61 TOUGHER RULES IN PREMIERSHIP AGAINST ERRANT PLAYERS HERE'S a very stern warning for players in the Premiership. H you jostle or hold referees, you will bo hit with at least a 12-match suspension. And a yoar-long ban If you ovor ropoat tho offence. Those who push
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    • 61 61 Leeds and Tottenham were both fined £150,000f0r faffing to control their players after a mass confrontation at Eland Road last season. Paulo 01 Canio was banned 11 matches for pushing referee Paul Alcock (top photo) last year. He was later transferred to West Ham after a troubled
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    • 200 61 KUDOS to the England-based Football Association for taking strong measures to minimise referee intimidation. Cheers will come to the FA of Singapore, too, if it takes similar measures against the local bad boys who try and bully referees. The men
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    • 372 62  -  WANNA BET? By Peter Siow THE year: 2002. The occasion: Soccer's World Cup. The final match: Let's just say France is set to clash with Brazil. Present versus past champions. Action and drama galore. That's when you get the urge to bet. Unless you have
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    • 305 62  -  S-LEAGUE FACES IN THE CROWD By Gary Lim SPECTATORS at Bishan Stadium last Thursday got more than what they bargained for. Well, the SAFFC supporters at least. For two familiar faces were among the crowd. 'And the way they made heads turn nearly threatened to
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    • 41 63 TANJONG PAGAR v CLEMENTI (Queenstown StacHum) MARINE CASTLE vGEYIANG (Hougang Stadium) Matches start aft 7.30pm CALL INFOUNE Call 1900-*****13 after 8.30pm for the half-time score and after 9.30pm for full-time results. Calls cost 30 cents a minute
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    • 27 63 PETER SlOW: Tanjong Pagar 3 Clementi 0 Marine Castle 0 Geylang 2 WANG MENG MENG: Tanjong Pagar 2 Clementi 0 Marine Castle 0 Geylang 3
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    • 117 63 Latest odds (9.lsam)* TANJONG PAGAR MARINE CASTLE v CLEMENTI rGEYLANG Ix 2: M Ix 2: (I)Tanjong (1) Marine Pagar: $1.28 Castle: $7.00 (x) Draw: $4.50 (x) Draw: $4.40 (2) Clementi: (2) Geylang: $7.50 $1.30 1/2 GOAL 1/2 GOAL Tanjong Pagar: Marine Castle: (-11/2) $1.60 (+ll/2) $1.90 Clementi: Geylang:
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    • 419 63  -  Singapore hopefuls sweat it out to get fit By Wang Meng Meng IT is not easy becoming a Lion. Ask the roughly 30 S-League players now going through a series of fitness tests under the watchful eyes of the national coach. These players are roughing it
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    • 151 63 THERE are no winners for the WSA Sport's Goal Rush contest last week. So, the cash prize for last week's contest has been added to this week's prize making it $13,000. To take part, call The New Paper Infoline 1900-914-0801 and register your predictions for this
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      120 63 ARE you still holding on to your S-League "Strike a Thrill" postcard? If you are, have you collected enough stamps on the postcard to stand a chance to win fabulous prizes such as jerseys, footballs and game consoles (as in the photo above)? All supporters aged 16
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    • 379 64  -  By Peter Siow SHOULD a coach who is banished from the bench for indiscipline be allowed to go on the field as a player? No, said the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) because once you're out of the game, you should remain
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    • 127 64 JITA SINGH ICtaMMU NMM coach): Although Rfa is silent on this, the respective tournament committees can decide on their own. Personally, I feel it is unethical if a coach who is sent off for misconduct, is allowed to come back as a player. KOK WAILEONG (SAFFC team
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    • 256 64 AFP. AFTER winning his second Tour de France title, Lance Armstrong said his next goal is winning gold at the Sydney Olympics. "I would like to have Olympic glory in my career," Armstrong said yesterday, which was declared Lance Armstrong Day in New York in honour
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