The New Paper, 3 October 2000

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1 59 The New Paper
  • 9 1 the new paper TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2000 tilo piper
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 312 2 Gangs prey on expats, seeking bribes IF foreigners in Indonesia thought the "local troubles" wouldn't affect them, then what happened last Saturday in Jakarta would have shocked them. There they were at JeJe's nightclub, the most popular place for foreigners to meet in Jakarta.
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    • 256 2 RESIDENTS of a five-storey apartment block in Kuala Lumpur must be fearing that their worst nightmare will come true. Water from a leaking tank, which has been seeping into the ground in the past few years, is believed to have caused a hillslope
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    • 552 3  -  CAMPAIGN I The National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign 2000 stresses the importance of having a high-fibre, low-fat diet, as well as regular exercise. It ends this Thursday. By Dawn Chia HEARD of the bionic man? Now, meet the organic boy. This is his menu: BREAKFAST: Brown rice
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  • SINGAPORE Y
    • 229 4 The Ministry of Education (MOE) will take greater control of the A-level examinations from 2002. It will develop syllabuses and award grades on its own. But the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) will continue to be involved in the exams. Here are more
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    • Article, Illustration
      60 4 The 18 subjects that will be affected by syllabus revisions: General Paper (AO-Level) Literature (with AO-Level) French (with AO-Level) German (with AO-Level) Japanese (with AO-Level) Geography History Management of Business Principles of Accounting m Music (and Higher Music) Art and Design (and Higher Art) Computing Biology I Chemistry wm
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 134 6 DjjJ THE LITTER PROBLEM THAT is one of the questions a new civic group is asking. The 18-member Habitat Forum has three committees to look at the problem from all angles. One focus will more attractive bins discourage littering? It is believed people are more
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    • 40 6 First-time litterbugs convicted of minor offences need only pay a fine. But if they are caught again, they may be slapped with a Corrective Work Order (CWO). First-time offenders of major littering offences could also be given a CWO.
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    • 144 6 LITTERBUGS think it is cool to litter. And it is even cooler to be slapped with a Corrective Work Order, or so they think. Some see it as an initiation rite for gang membership. This picture of litterbugs emerged from data supplied by the Ministry
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    • 58 7 Palestinians tailing rocks at Israeli border troops during dashes in tiie West Bank city of Rama Hah. Violence increased yesterday as Israelis and Palestinians, ignoring international appeals for a ceasefire, waged fierce gun battles throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip in a fourth day of clashes
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    • News Break
      • 55 6 WEATHER THIS month is expected to be wetter than last month. The Meteorological Service said short showers with thunder are expected on five to six days, mainly in the morning and early afternoon. But there might be short dry-weather spells early this month. So, slight haziness might continue
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      • 59 6 COURT A SCHOOLBOY admitted to biting the breast of his family's maid and punching her on the mouth. The 14-year-old student of Woodlands Secondary School, also admitted hitting the maid, Miss Minari Shahidan, 26, with a belt, chair and drum stick. The boy's lawyer is expected to
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      • 62 6 CHILDCARE THERE will be more childcare centre places soon. The NTUC Childcare Cooperative, which already runs 31 centres, plans to open 25 more over the next five years in Housing Board estates across the island. This means that over the next five years, 2,500 childcare places will be
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      • 60 6 BARINGS FORMER top banking regulator Koh Beng Seng will give evidence in the High Court here for use in a pending billion-dollar British lawsuit between collapsed British merchant bank, Barings, and two accounting firms. The English courts issued a letter of request for assistance from the Singapore
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      • 63 7 images CURRENCY GO ahead if you want to use pictures of the latest series of Singapore currency. You don't need the okay from the Board of Commissioners of Currency to do so. But the board will not permit images to be reproduced in undignified ways, such as on floor mats,
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      • 54 7 SRI A SUSPECTED Tamil Tiger suicide bomber has assassinated a Muslim politician contesting next week's parliamentary elections and killed 20 others in north-Eastern Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Muslim Congress candidate Baithullah and the rest were killed yesterday at a rally in Trincomalee. The bomber also died, while 43
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      • 57 7 COMMUNITY MOST neighbourhood squabbles taken to the Community Mediation Centres have been resolved successfully. More than three in four of the 400-plus cases handled since 1997 have been settled. Many involve disputes over noise and obstruction of the common corridors. Another two centres will be set up by next
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      • 64 7 MURDER THE aunt and legal guardian of a two-year-old was charged yesterday with the murder of the boy. Juhainy Jailani, an only child, was found dead on Thursday in the flat of Sumarni Pono, 33, in Jurong. He died of a ruptured lung and other internal injuries while
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    • 55 6 New Straits Times: No need for new licences International Herald Tribune: Palestinians put toll at 40 amid warlike battles Asian Wall Street Journal: Jakarta to restructure defaulters' debts BBC news: Israeli and Palestinian leaders have had an urgent talk with the US Secretary of State about the
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    • 33 7 Quote w It's conceivable —anything is conceivable. So far, I think I would mtfely say we're doing quite well. 6utv Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loons on economic growth thisyear
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    • 78 7 r^Toc^~i TECHNOLOGY stocks slid yesterday, still showing the effects of Apple Computer Inc's profit warning late last week, while blue-chips ended modestly higher. The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average rose 49.21 points to close at 10,700.13. The technology-laced Nasdaq composite index fell fell 103.92 points to 3,568.90. SINGAPORE
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    • 65 7 The Straits Times: Hand, foot and mouth disease: 19 warded The Business Times: 85% of listed firms fail BT transparency test Lianhe Zaobao: MOH confirms the four children died of hand, foot and mouth disease Berita Harian: Parents should not be alarmed RCS morning news: The Health
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    • 94 7 tmus SINCE August, the Civil Service has been allowed to hire people with criminal records if they meet the job requirements. A Public Service Division spokesman said: "Whether a criminal record affects a candidate's suitability for the job should depend on the job applied for, and the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 586 10  -  By Wendy Teo THOSE who watched the Affairs Of The Heart charity TV show on Sunday night would have seen actress Samantha Toh take a tumble. The camera immediately panned to show a shell-shocked audience. What TV viewers didn't
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    • Article, Illustration
      392 10 2000 National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Charity Show Darren Lim kissed a 1.6 m King Cobra (right). If he had been bitten he would have been dead in five minutes. Zoe Tay kicked and tossed burning poles while standing in a ring of fire. She hurt her feet during
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    • 536 11  -  COMMENT WENDY TEO REMEMBER Superman? The movie actor Christopher Reeve, who portrayed him, is now paralysed from the neck down. That was the result of a 1995 riding accident. So, when Jeff Wang and Samantha Toh had that terrible fall on Sunday's
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    • 530 12 I HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE The Ministry of Health has confirmed that hand, foot and mouth disease caused the death of four children. As of yesterday* 19 children have been warded in hospital because of the disease. The total number of cases
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    • 162 12 SWIMMING POOLS: The Singapore Sports Council advises children to stay away from public and private pools as the hand, foot and mouth disease can be spread through water. Staff will stop those with open wounds and rashes from entering the pools. LIBRARIES: The National
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    • 50 13 LEAVE AND SYMPATHY Next Page LITTLE BOY BLUE: Abdul Latif Yusofwasa picture of misery (left) when he found out that he couldn't take a dip in the water. Out came the tears. Then, he went under the shower (right) and his little world was right again.
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    • 357 13 SHE wasn't really bothered. Standing just a few metres from Abdul Latif s family, Mrs Tan (not her real name) kept an eagle eye on her six-year-old daughter, who was playing happily with her 11-year-old brother in the shallow pool. The
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    • 356 14  -  HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE Last Saturday, President S R Nathan made a presidential plea to all employers to be understanding in dealing with their employees, in the light of the closure ofchildcare centres. One company brings smiles to parents with its response By Amy Chiew and
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    • 344 14  -  BY Amrit Kaur IN Sarawak in 1997, hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) claimed 30 chiidreii wider the age of six, 24 of them under two. It infected some 2,600 people, 800 of whom were hospitalised. The New Paper spoke to Malaysia's Deputy Director General for
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    • 227 14 •vXv' The susceptible age group is AHiittltree and five... We have to be pragmatic about this. If we starigettingparanoid and isolating the children from everyone and everything, then who's going to look after the children? Health Minister, Mr Lim Hng Kiang, adding that samples had been sent to
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    • 58 15 mui*mui* Trade Development Board deputy chief executive office David Ctiin says education is one of the biggest areas of growth. He pointed out that there are almost 160 distance learning Master's programmes avaMable here: I joke that if you give someone a
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    • 98 15 IN our Guess the New Lux Star contest, we asked you who the new Lux star is. The answer: Phyllis Quek (above). Out of 2,297 entries, 1,583 answered correctly. Three correct entries were picked to meet Phyllis for a dinner date at The Ritz-Carlton.
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
    • 323 16 ONE of life's bitter ironies! A Malaysian family of five was on its way to pay last respects to a cousin who died last Saturday. But they are now being mourned instead. Four generations died in one single stroke when their car collided
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    • 230 16 IF your sex life isn't looking up and you can't digest the thought of asking your doctor for Viagra, there is a natural alternative, but it's definitely not for the squeamish. In Malaysia, a man known as the White Ant King, has come up
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    • 832 17 Misconceptions about hair care can lead to further hair loss. Contributed By Michael Bernstein London Institute of Trichologists*, Member International Association of Trichologists, Member The Trichological Society, Member The Asian Society of Trichology, Honorary Secretary Svenson Hair Centre, Technical Director Some clients I spoke to have considered medications, but aborted
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  • 333 19 WORLDTOOAY Source: Wire services. WATCH a strip show in the line of duty? The cops had to do more, in fact chase the stripper. And it was no cabaret. The bare naked prisoner on the loose was armed and dangerous. The bank robbery
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    • 908 20  -  EXCLUSIVE r i His gang is said to have been 5 behind the looting and killing in 1 East Timor last August That was when the territory voted to break away from Indonesia. Since then, more than 200,000 refugees have entered West Timor, still part
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    • 263 21 HIS curly, long hair dyed a bright brown might distract you. But when he opens his mouth to speak, there is no question about it he sounds just like a ruffian. Take his mockery about the United Nations. He said: 'The UN thought it was going
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 16 22 I mutfmutf Why did President Bill Chiton's Press Secretary, Mr Joe
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    • 314 22 WHEN you are a couple and there is another woman in your lives, things are bound to be strained. Look at the Clintons. Look at Prince Charles life in the past. The Estradas, however, are proving an exception. Though earlier, other women were the cause
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    • 113 22 MARRIAGES may still be made in heaven but in Hongkong, the Immigration Department plays a key role, too. According to the lunar calendar, nine Saturdays next year would be a particularly good time to tie the knot. And so, the marriage registries under the department
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    • 313 23 MR Seamus McSporran, 62, retired as sub-postmaster of Gigha, a Scottish island off the Mull of Kintyre on Friday. And also as undertaker. And as fire chief. And special constable. And pier master, school bus driver, postman, shopkeeper, registrar and
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      41 24 THE FUTURE'S SO 1 BRIGHT: But just not J today. Jimmy Lin (photographed here at the Harbour Pavilion) has his sights set on an attractive future —hopefully, one he won't lose any more sleep over. picture/ David Tan
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      708 25  - By 1 Yeoh Wee Teck AFTER 13 albums in nine years, Taiwanese heart-throb Jimmy Lin's image is still the top priority. And that's why his management insisted The New Paper print only his publicity photographs and not take any of our own. Miss Lew Mei San, a promotions executive at
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    • 339 26 Shah Rukh Khan is coming to Singapore. And so are fellow Hindi movie stars Sunjay Dutt, Sushmita Sen —and one with many titles. YONG SIEWFERN reports JUHI Chawla (right) has been called Ms Clean not for her sanitary habits, but her good-girl image.
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    • 69 26 WHAT: Deepavali with Shah Rukh Khan and Friends WHEN: Oct 25, eve of Deepavali, Bpm WHERE: Suntec City Hall 601-603 Tickets at $40, $50, $60, $80, $100, $120, $150, $200 are on sale at Ajantha Beauty Parlour (337-4533/337-0415), Musika Records (Joo Chiat), Mohamed Mustaffa. Or log on to
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    • 465 27  -  By Yeoh Wee Teck Yesterday was tv funnyman Gurmit Singh's radio debut on Class 95's Morning Express. But from the sound of his first day, three is a crowd. Gurmit joins Mark Van Cuylenberg, also known as The Flying
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  • 484 28  -  CETEBfI Ssmii WITH TANYA FONG RECENTLY, I revived a forgotten hobby of mine. Admittedly, it's not something most girls would do for a hobby. Woodwork, that is. But I like the sense of achievement when I assemble my own furniture. I like the
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  • 505 31  -  What do they have to do with each other? BY Tan Hui Leng SOME think music and medicine have nothing in common. But two girls, Grace Quek and Kui Lin, from Chung Cheng High School (Main) know better. Inspired by their love for music, they decided to
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    • 685 40  -  By Lionel Lee S SERE'S favourite horse aay skip the $1 million ►ore Gold Cup in :e for a possible crack Ksl4 million ($3 Hong Kong Cup. sensational revelation irday, trainer Malcolm aites said he was still lecided if his champion mid
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    • 511 42 Keuters, NYT SINNDAR'S win in the Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Sunday was the fourth by an Irish horse in the race known as the middle-distance championship of Europe. The colt joins Ballymoss (1958), Levmoss (1958) and dual winner Alleged (1977 and 1978)
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    • 122 42 GUIDE to yesterday's workouts at Kranji by horses engaged tomorrow. The going was good. IRACBi|f*aris Amour looked welt when clocking 41. 5. Wbiso Star cantered before beingdoing a round of pareweift. nMlmttitardid 1 pace work. Slow work: poppei Arabian Warrior. RACE 2: Time Breakerwent smartly in 39.8. Slow
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    • 248 47 i. V t —•>- V [H Iv "..JX '7 the O L Y m P i C S liSpbr YOUR CALL, READERS --vX The Olympics is about athietes. Aboui feats. ms About men arid women who stand out with their S (if \J m D I C exceptional performances V_
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      177 48  -  Text/ VK Santosh Kumar 01: JINC JUWHOMC (SINGAPORE) IT WAS very close. Jing Junhong (left) lost the chance to create history for Singapore when she lost in the semi-finals of the table tennis competition. The unseeded mother of one had upset top players in her march towards a
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    • 109 48 THE hitherto low-profile sport of pole vaulting has suddenly acquired a battalion of new fans, thanks to the soft-focus charms of I silver medallist Tatiana Grigorieva (above). The 24-year-old Russian-bom athlete with a talent for self-promotion and pin-up good looks has been plastered all over Australian
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      216 49 04: INGE DE BRUIJN (HOLLAND) ELEVEN world swimming records in the past nine months! And two of that in Sydney. How does this Dutch lady do it? Some say she's pumped up with steroids, but the popular opinion is that she's supremely talented. She is a beauty with
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    • 92 49 :>'•< i i.': y- vv SHE won the silver in the women's 100 m hurdles and flew home the next day with the body of her boyfriend in a casket. Glorie Alozie showed tremendous guts to compete in the Olympics. For, her fiance, Nigerian 400 m runner
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      165 50 07; CATHY FREEMAN f AUSTRALIAN "COS Fm free," reads the tattoo inscribed on her muscular bicep. Homegrown athlete Cathy Freeman's (left) ambition was to become the first Aboriginal athlete to win an individual Olympic gold. She realised that quest with ease. As the Olympic Flame she ignited a
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    • 77 50 EVERY one knew she could run fast. But could she jump, too? Marion Jones' (above) quest for five golds came a cropper in the long jump where she looked pretty ordinary. Otherwise, Miss Winsome was on overdrive as she finished the Olympics as the best athlete
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      183 51 01: lAN THORPE (AUSTRALIA) THEY realised he was human after all. The Australian fans had believed that lan Thorpe would prove at the Games that he was supreme. But in the 200 m freestyle final, Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband brought him down to earth, dispelling all notions
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    • 86 51 03: MAURICE GREENE UNITED STATES) HE covered the 100 m track in a few blinks of the eye. As he said he would. Where Maurice Greene (left) went wrong was that he failed to improve on his own world record of 9.795ec. As he said he would. Still, winningthe blue
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      152 52 04: WIIAN PONLID (THAILAND) HE received a welcome worthy of a king. Wijan Ponlid (left), who won a boxing gold for Thailand, had a procession of elephants and a 200-table banquet waiting for him when he got back to his country. The 24-year-old policeman will get another round
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    • 99 52 HE won the men's 200 m and pulled off the biggest surprise on the track in this Olympics. In doing so, Konstantinos Kenteris (above) also became the first Greek runner to win an Olympic gold in more than a century. But for the man who calls
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      167 53 07: ERIC MOUSSAMBANI (EQUATORIAL GUINEA) HE ARRIVED from Equatorial Guinea as a wildcard swimmer. But Eric Moussambani (above) stole the show from even Aussie hero lan Thorpe. He took up swimming only nine months ago and had never ventured into a 50m pool before. When he completed his
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    • 88 53 "IF ANYBODY sees me in a boat again, they can shoot me." ill Rower Steven JFted&Bve (left) saWwose word#?? s. immediately after winning his f fourth straight gold in Atlanta. Four years later, he puffed and huffed his way to a .^)|oricfiftigoldk The 38-year-old Briton's triumph
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      434 55  -  It's hard not to doubt Inge de Bruijn's spate of world swimming records BRUUN'S WORLD RECORD WJR May 20:50 m butterfly 25.83 May 26:50 m butterfly 25.64 May 26:50 m freestyle 24.51 May 27:100 m butterfly 56.69 May 28:100 m freestyle 53.80 June 4:50 m freestyle 24.48
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    • 126 55 Reuters. BULGARIAN pharmaceutical company Sopharma apologised yesterday for its inadvertent role in the disqualification of three Bulgarian weightlifters at the Sydney Olympics. This follows a Bulgarian watchdog committee's findings that the weightlifters had used the banned diuretic furosemide, which is found in Orocetam, a medication made by the
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    • 411 56 BRAZIL COACH WANDERLEY LUXEMBURGO OFRCIALLY SACKED AP. LUIZ Felipe Scolari, trainer of the Brazilian club Cruzeiro, has turned down an offer to coach Brazil's national team, Brazilian media reported yesterday. Scolari was widely believed to be the top choice to replace Wanderley Luxemburgo, who was
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    • 40 56 WE would like to apologise to those who had problems trying to enter our English Premier League contest last Saturday. Look out for our explanation tomorrow on how you can still win the Sydney Olympics 2000 Swatch watch.
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    • 151 56 RAFIALI: I never expected the red card. Tneleast should have been a yellow card for touching the ball with my hand. I didn't think Egmg#was position as the ball was the left side of the field. (Veselko) Paponja behind me. Some referees give. Some dont.
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    • 296 57  -  Reward for the stayers vOflOII 0»tll©T C3r > S-League Awards BY Gary Lim SOME came and left hurriedly. Others remained, still burdened with high hopes of achievement. That's the way it is as a football coach. Otherwise, how do you explain the departure
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    • 251 57 The assessed on their success in the League and Cup. But more weightage will he given to the League. S-League CEO Chris Chan. Hie awards will be handed out on Friday FANIM AHMAD (SAFFC): Singapore's favourite footballing son wrote his own script in the league, winning the title
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  • 515 59 FIN LIVE ON FOOTBALL j CHANNEL 22 I Saturday. 9.55pm I WORLD CUP *?l ENGLAND v QUALIFIER: 4 GERMANY Sky Sports. FORMER England captain Alan Shearer is backing England to beat Germany in Saturday night's World Cup qualifying match at Wembley. He feels his country
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