The New Paper, 3 August 2000

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    • 67 1 6 :»< :ii J& k k Ai A k A m m vn l Ell East Timor bloodshed UN troops kill 2 fiercegunbattle ll Her children keep going ...again again again Whyf Because they can't remember their address. Or phone number. iiiiii Singapore Pr—a Holdings Email: tnpCsph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33
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      442 2 UN forces kill two in E Timor Source: The Australian, wire services. THINGS are hotting up in East Timor. Just nine days after a New Zealand soldier was shot dead, UN peacekeeping forces killed two militiamen yesterday. The two pro-Jakarta militiamen were shot dead by an Australian army patrol
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    • 197 2 AFP. THE most eligible man in the British cabinet is to end his bachelor days. Chancellor Gordon Brown (left) made the surprise announcement that he is to marry his girlfriend Sarah Macaulay today. The couple will tie the knot in his Scottish constituency. Mr Brown,
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    • 619 3  -  Bfl. toc4 Don't know what it is? By, Amrit Kaur THE best way to get Graham Chua's attention is to tell him: "Bfl to c4." It might sound like spy code to you, but to Graham, it's a cool chess move. The little boy looks
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    • 435 4  -  BY Tan Hui Yee HEY, what's this, a play pen? Or a kindergarten? Or a child care centre, maybe? Nope, this is an office. A very highbrow one at that. It's a New Economy office, in fact. They provide consultancy in global e-business the
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    • 58 4 Mfuybe because I lost the game (to the interviewer)... I was that day! But my pool has improved a lot st&c&lfou see a marked improvement in the game of most of the guys here. Mr Bryan Teo deft), on how he was hired
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    • 327 6 m N ANYANG Technological University (NTU) graduates are up in arms. And it's all over an article of clothing their convocation gowns. Graduates pay $170 to rent the outfits of which $150 is refundable. But this year, the NTU Alumni and
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    • 36 6 TOPSY-TURVY: Britain's Jamie Strachan files upside-down at the 2000 Rip Curl World Hell Challenge In Wanaka, New Zealand yesterday. The competition showcases the best free riders and skiers In the world. Picture/ AP
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      • 57 6 1 UNIT TRUSTS OVER 80 per cent of CPF-approved unit trusts produced negative returns, and around 70 per cent underperformed their benchmarks, for the second quarter of this year. These figures were released by investment consultant William Mercer. Only 14 of the 92 CPF-approved unit trusts had positive
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      • 53 6 I GAMING CYBERCAFE game buffs can now fight out the popular game, Half-life Counterstrike, using local backdrops like the old Capitol cinema or HDB estates. Three Singaporeans have created and installed two "virtual maps" in their version, called Towkay. So, get set to hear phases like "Choong... ah!"
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      • 58 6 I BANKING DESPITE a 31 per cent jump in interim profits, Britain-based bank Standard Chartered is conducting a productivity scheme that will cut about 6,000 jobs. The bank said the programme, aimed to improve efficiency and customer service, would cost £480 million pounds ($1.25 billion) over the next
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      • 58 6 I CRIME THE mother of the four abandoned children in MacPherson estate has returned home. She claimed that she had no idea her children had been left behind by their father. She said she is now determined to take care of them. She had left home nearly
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    • 51 6 New Straits Times: Major boost for Bumi businessmen International Herald Tribune: Foreign minister quits Israel Cabinet Asian Wall Street Journal: Standard Chartered to cut 18 per cent of staff BBC news: US joins international condemnation of renewed violence in Kashmir as militant separatists are blamed for more
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    • 63 7 LIM Sok Hoon, 24, has been ordered to perform Corrective Work Order (CWO) for eight hours and fined $1,000 the stifTest penalty so far. Lim, a repeat offender, pleaded guilty to throwing a cigarette butt in front of Wisma Atria at about 9.15 pm last June. She did
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    • 51 7 I INDONESIA AN Indonesian official yesterday denied an Asian Wall Street Journal report that President Abdurrahman Wahid had hired a foreign public relations consultant to improve his image. Said secretary Joko Mulyono: "We don't even know of such a contract... "Even more so, the US$3OO,OOO ($519,000) budget for
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    • 62 7 M MALAYSIA B A WOMEN'S group in Malaysia has launched a website to let women e-mail the prime minister. Mail to Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad can be sent to mymalayBiaboleh.com until Aug 20. The homepage was created in conjunction with the Women's Day celebrations on Aug
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    • 61 7 U HONGKONG AT least 46 people were burnt in an incident at Hongkong's immigration head office in Wanchai. About 30 mainlanders, seeking Hongkong identity cards, set fire to themselves and immigration staff. They lit inflammable liquid poured from plastic bottles. They did that at 6pm after they were
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    • 56 7 The Straits Times: Crime rate down again The Business Times: 80% of CPF unit trusts lost money in Q2 Uanhe Zaobao: 46 injured in Hongkong Immigration Department fire attack Berita Harian: Number of major crimes down in first six months RCS morning news: Scientists map out the
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    • 133 7 in FSHSus SINGAPOREANS are not doing enough to fight flab, a survey has shown. More than one-third of 308 Singaporeans between the ages of 15 and 45 thought they were fat. Of those 113 people, nearly four in five waited months before they
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    • 110 7 US STOCKS B A LACK of fresh earnings news, a bulging supply of initial public offerings and lingering anxiety over the Federal Reserve's next move paralysed the Nasdaq market yesterday. But blue-chip stocks posted solid gains on Wall Street with news that left investors optimistic that the economy
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    • 57 7 Quote Wworthy Everybody who always hated me all those years and were so mean to me, they're all transferred their anger to her now. It's almost as if they've got one last chmmee to beat me. US President Bill Clinton. His wife, Hillary, is trailing Republican
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  • 351 8  -  PRACTISES LANDLORD'S SIGNATURE ON CREDIT CARD, THEN GOES ON SPENDING SPREE SINGAPORETODAY By Lee Tee Jong IMAGINE getting your landlord to pay your air fare. And your fitness club membership dues. Roxell Ho (left) got that and more. Not that her landlord knew. Ho, 22, helped
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    • 776 12  -  Eldest son, who does simple jobs, now missing Two other sons search for scraps of junk Two daughters stay home to help mum ALL FIVE CHILDREN AND MUM ARE MENTALLY DISABLED REPORTS IRENE KEW Everyone in this picture is mentally handicapped everyone except the frail,
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    • 218 12 THE eldest son, Mr Goh Thiam Hock, 44, is missing. He left for work last Friday morning and never returned. Said Mr Koh Teng Hong: "Usually, the company bus would drop him off at the bus-stop near his block. And he would
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    • 523 15  -  LTA: IT'S needed to keep the area free for emergency vehicles Coffeeshop: We're concerned about our fire safety By Priyia Paramajothi EMERGENCY needs were uppermost on the Land Transport Authority's mind when it put up a fence near Aljunied MRT station. But stall owners at a
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    • 188 16 THE fence was put up "in the interest of public safety", said the Land Transport Authority in a reply to The New Paper by Ms Lynn Ong, corporate communications officer. There was "repeated encroachment" into the area, the Authority explained. "Despite repeated enforcement efforts, tables
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      522 17 HE peeped. He poked through the louvres with a bamboo pole. He would even try to pry open the louvres to break in. His targets? Some 60 women in two blocks of flats in Marsiling Lane. They are production workers who work at a nearby electronics factory, which
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    • 425 19  -  THE PROBLEM WITH MEN By Arul John HE suffered from male menopause when he was only 39. He even quit his job as a school teacher. "For months, I felt tired and listless, developed a pot-belly, and could not sleep at night," recalled James Teo (not
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    • 92 20 AND WHERE TO GET HELP iMt&Uke l was not a real mafy My interest in sex to drop, and Ifelt depressed. I was in despair. Mr James Teo (not his real name), "a sufferer" escpefts talked about were similar to mine. Butiwas afraid of what people would think, and did
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    • 240 20 WHAT: Publte forum on Male Local and foreign experts wM speak on the symptoms and treatments available. Dr Urn wil alto evaluate the results of one year of Viagra treatment In Singapore. WHEN: Saturday, Aug 5; 1 pm tWS pm WHERE: Ballrooms Mat Level 2, Sheraton
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    • 376 21  -  By. Jason Tan THEY fight. They pull each other's hair and scratch each another. They are women prison inmates. Assistant Superintendent Shie Yong Lee, 27, has seen it all. ASP Shie was one of 124 senior Prisons officers promoted on Monday. Part of her
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  • 362 23 WORLDTODAY TO his critics, Texas Governor George W Bush's only claim to fame is that he comes from a famous political family. Many argue that Mr Bush, 54, doesn't have the experience or personal qualities to run for the US presidency. Yesterday, his father,
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  • 390 25 WORLDTODAY A NAIROBI man drove his wife from their home after she tested positive for the Aids virus. The Total (K) worker, aged 36, had claimed his 34-year-old wife, a cashier with the National Bank of Kenya, had posed a grave threat to his
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    • 343 27 Kidnapped star Rajkumar's fan tries to kill himself SO they're not just screen heroes. Tamil superstar Rajnikant, Kannada actor Ambareesh and Bollywood actress Jayaprada have offered to trek through jungle terrain to meet sandalwood smuggler and murderer Veerappan, in a bid to rescue
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    • 421 28 He buries her in their back yard And confesses to the murder on her birthday Source: AP and Reuters. THE 64-year-old retiree was furious. His wife of 37 years had turned down his sexual advances. But what he did next ruled out
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      361 29 KISS TELL 'Actually, he's not that great' THIS showbiz couple is history. But it certainly doesn't look like kiss and say goodbye. More like kiss and tell. In case you didn't know, Liz Hurley had split from her long-time boyfriend, actor Hugh Grant (seen here with her last year, above).
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    • 323 30 IN the love story, Romeo and Juliet, the heroine queries the importance of a person's name. What's in a name? Plenty, if judging by the public reaction to a Thai political leader's claim. Opposition New Aspiration Party leader Chavalit Yongchaiyudh says the
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    • 241 32 Woman finds a 1-cm long live cockroach in a bun packet Boy complains of stomach pain after eating a bun Factory recalls 23,000 mouldy buns JAPANESE consumers seem to be having endless problems. First, it was milk and now it is buns. A woman
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    • 71 32 In June, residents in Osaka suffered diarrhoea and vomiting after drinking Snow Brand's low-fat milk. It was found that bacteria in a productionline valve had led to the milk becoming poisoned. About 14,555 people were affected. Last month, milk from another manufacturer, Morinaga, gave out a bad smell
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      47 32 m ui<mui< After putting her bjjjfr to wort* In Hollywood, acteflMsabeth Shue wants to use her baft* jgain. Shue, 36, said: In Holl^T you're fortunate if you getJHpWjgkere your brain is I felt I needed IHHHPhing with my life. I more connected to the world.
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    • 618 33  -  By Shailaja Nair BANK employee Veena Ghorpade was keen to get home last July 25. She was nervous as she waited for the train to take her to the suburbs of the Indian commercial city of Bombay. There were rumours that Mr Bal Keshav Thackeray, head
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    • 195 33 A CARTOON in The Times of India on July 18 said it all. An old doddering man is told: "Good news! Remember the offence you committed in 1923? Well, you have been honourably acquitted." A true comment on the tardiness of the Indian legal system. The comments for
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  • 492 34  -  WITH CHUA WEI YNG THIS is the story of my hair. Or lack thereof. No, I am not worried about going bald. Rather, my hair length has never ventured past my shoulders in the past 10 years. That doesn't mean I don't envy the
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    • 135 34 COMICHtUtT The Concrete Jungle/Colin Goh Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson WCM, WWAT ItouPEILVrTOCKME 40 **> TUEH \T TR\ED HOI. BUAHONG J HAPPENED OFF? MINVJTES TO OFF. 7 TO ROW ME. (VO, TAKES A LVTUI TO HX/.-V y SUBDUE IT TO TU£ I CNtH.'ntOMT Jt PRACT\CE. > < JTi POWT VWEHE t
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    • 78 35 wttwmm mmS mmty S^Mdj&^S^SPjSjk Picture/ Alvin Toh WE SHALL NOTBE MOVED: Not a ripple Is seen as soldiers stand to attention. KNOW US?: Snipers In camouflage atop one of the vehicles in the mobile column. THREE CHEERS FOR MY COUNTRYr Madam
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    • 154 35 THIS is your chance to win tickets to THE event of the year the National Day Parade. All you have to do is answer these simple questions. Q1 How many marching contingents will there be at the National Day Parade 2000? a) 36 b) 33
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    • 792 36 Zoe Tay and Chen Lipingplay bankers in a new Channel 8 drama. But in real life, they are totally clueless about managing money. CHANG MAYCHOONfinds out ZOE Tay (right) calls the shots at work. And she sure knows how to use money. But she's "dumb"
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    • 302 36 TALK is rife that Zoe Tay may join the new kid on the block. But both Media Works the newcomer, SPH*8 new broadcasting arm and MediaCorp Studios, Zoe's "employer", denied the rumour when quizzed by The New Paper. Said Mr Man Shu Sum, head of MediaWorks' Chinese
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    • 488 37  -  By Wendy Teo NEVER offend Jon Bon Jovi. If you do, he may well beat your brains out. "I'm gonna beat the out of you, and it's gonna be easy," said the rocker, spewing venom at the Entertainment Weekly reporter. All the reporter did
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    • 125 37 NOW that Jon Bon Jovi is an up-and-coming movie star, will Crush be the last album from the band? No. Then again, he has pointed out that he has made a big sacrifice to do the Japan tour. "I turned down a starring role in a movie
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    • 136 37 IS pretty woman Julia Roberts (right, as Erin Brockovich in the blockbuster) behaving like a runaway lover again? She has been caught smooching with ex-boyfriend Jason Patric in a Los Angeles park. Current partner Bexyamin Bratt, former Law and Order co-star, was nowhere in sight, meanwhile. The
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    • 418 55 ON THE KRANJI TRACK with DANNY KHOO THATS how the Laurie Laxon-trained gelding looked as he cantered two rounds on the fibresand track at Kraqji yesterday morning. Defence Of Honour seems to have made headway after his fast-finishing second at his debut last month.
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    • 485 55 GUIDE TO KUALA LUMPUR TRACKWORK GOING: YIELDING NST BOLD MISSION drew attention to his chances of scoring his maiden win in the Class 5 Div 2 event over 1,900 m on Sunday with a good workout in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by his trainer, Tan Soo Beng, the four-year-old
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    • 326 56  -  By Lionel Lee VISITING Melbourne jockey Aaron Spiteri (right) could not have asked for a better way to start his two-month riding stint at Kranji last night, kicking home two winners from as many rides. The former champion apprentice gave a glimpse
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    • 116 56 Reuters ASCOT Gold Cup runner-up Far Cry is among 45 northern hemisphere-trained horses nominated for the Melbourne Cup to be run at Flemington racecourse on Nov 7. Racing Victoria spokesman Greg Nichols said on Tuesday that 300 nominations had been received for the A
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    • 1137 57 RACE 1: Jockey H Bakri was dislodged on the way to the start when RIVER EAST LION slipped on the road. RIVER EAST LION was checked by the vet and was passed fit to race. On jumping, RADIANT and CRYSTAL JOY bumped.
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    • 239 57 AP RETIRED American woman jockey Julie Krone remembers the tears of frustration and anger in the early days. "Do you know how many times I was in the shower crying my eyes out, thinking, *Why are you doing this?* M Krone
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    • 1072 60 PAUL GASCOIGNE: FADING ENGLAND STAR SPEAKS HIS MIND The new Premiership i. season suns oa Aug 19. Everton piays Leeds United nny it FWnttil Road. In the season's curtain-raiser on Aug 12, champion Man United plays FA Cup winner Chelsea at Wembley I
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    • 312 60 1967: Born Gateshead, May 27. 1983: Joins Newcastle as an apprentice. 1985: League debut for Newcastle as a substitute against Queens Park Rangers. 1985-88: Makes 106 League and Cup appearances for Newcastle, scoring 22 goals. 1988: Joins Tottenham for £3 million. He makes England debut as substitute
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    • 77 60 "I'm 33 now. My footballing's always going to be there. My brains are in my feet As long as I stay lit, injury free, I can't see any reason why I can't play for England again." Gascoigne "Maybe Gazza will prove everyone wrong and have a great
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    • 437 61 Worid high jump record holder's drug ban is reduced by the IAAF AP. JAVIER Sotomayor is a happy man. The Cuban high jumper was cleared to compete in next month's Sydney Olympics yesterday when the International Amateur Athletic Federation decided to halve his two-year
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    • 168 61 AFP. NORMALLY, cricketers celebrate when they score a century (100 runs). Michael Atherton and Alec Stewart will have a celebration of another kind: They join an exclusive club when they make their 100th Test match appearance today. They will be part of the England team
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    • 599 62 BIG CLUBS CASH IN, BUT... ROY Keane admits he has been watching the European transfer merry-go-round with a tinge of envy this summer. The Manchester United skipper and his Premiership-winning team-mates know that the strict pay regime at Old Trafford will never
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      • 125 62 Mirror Online. The Australian 'keeper looks set to leave Manchester United on loan. United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has cleared the way for Bosnich to join Scottish club Celtic to protect his career. However, Bosnich's agent said the Aussie would be keeping his options open because other clubs
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        123 62 AFP. England's No 2 goalkeeper (left) has signed a two-year extension to his contract with Leeds United that will keep him at the Premier League club until 2004. Leeds chairman Peter Ridsdale announced the news on the club's official website yesterday after several days of talks with the
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      • 134 62 AFP. Middlesbrough boss Bryan Robson is to keep a close watch on his midfielder, who is finally cutting his losses and returning home to Brazil on a year's loan deal with Vasco Da Gama. The 27-year-old, still officially an Atletico Madrid player, has opted to return to South America
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    • 372 63  -  But these two may have found a place here BASKETBALL NEWS By Lim Han Ming THEY arrived amidst high hopes. Nine basketball players from China. Tall, young with lots of potential. But they have yet to convince the national selectors that they are
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    • 247 63 MEANWHILE IN THE NBA... IT'S a new jersey and a new team for All Star guard Eddie Jones. He is pictured on the right getting the new jersey from Miami Heat head coach
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    • 241 64  -  TIGER BEER S-LEAGUE By Gary Lim WHAT a beauty! The goal, struck from 35 metres out, was a piece of Brazilian artistry at its dazzling best. And it came from the foot of a player you would least expect Balestier Central's Eduardo Ribeiro. Now, he must
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    • 114 64 FANDI Ahmad partnering V Sundramoorthy in attack? This mouth-watering prospect will turn into reality during the "Night of the Stars" on Sept 16 at the National Stadium. Organised by Sporty Sports Singapore, the first match between ex-national players from Singapore and Thailand
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    • 121 64 Mohamed Zainudeen, 31, head of Balestier's youth development, will be heading to Zeist, Holland, this Saturday to learn from the very best. Rinus Michels, the mastermind of "Total Football", which was perfected by the Ajax side and Dutch national team that he managed in the 1970'5, will
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    • 279 65  -  By Peter Siow THE date: Sept 15. The occasion: Olympic Games opening ceremony. The flame is about to be lit. And, as before, millions of fans all over the world are asking themselves: Who will light the flame? Will it be former Australian sporting
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    • 178 65 Reuters. THE young damsels were in danger... and he dived right in to save them. Baywatch? Naaah, real life... with a former Welsh rugby union star. Jonathan Davies dived into the sea to save two young sisters who had drifted out to
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