The New Paper, 21 March 2001

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 436 2 AFTER US FED CUTS INTEREST BY 0.5 PERCENTAGE POINTS... Wire services. MR ALAN Greenspan, this cut is too small for us. This was the reaction of investors after the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a half percentage point. The Fed cut its rate, charged
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    • 49 2 Hie Singapore market is likely to be disappointed today. But the rate cut should see more money flowing into the region during the next two months. And this should beJbenificial to the region as a whole. Mr PKBasu, chief economist, of Credit Suisse F Boston, Singapore
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    • 165 2 ECONOMIC confidence in Hongkong seems to be dropping. The latest monthly survey by the Hongkong Policy Research Institute shows confidence levels in three key areas the stock market, property market and employment to have dropped more than 20 per cent, reports the Hongkong iMail. The stock market
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    • 64 2 st oc k watch THE Dow Jones ld§t 238.35 points, or 2.39 per cent, to close at 9,720.76. The Nasdaq composite index dropped 93.74 points, or 4.8 per cent, to end at 1,857.44. SINGAPORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ Close in US$/Change 1. Pacific Internet $4.0313/+0.0313 2. Creative Technology $9-257-0.375 3. Flextronics
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    • 136 2 Reuters. MAYBE Fed chief Alan Greenspan should learn something from this Italian banker. Sick of losing money on the Milan stock exchange, he decided to see whether threats would force the market to rise. He stole the corpse of legendary Italian banker Enrico
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    • 584 3  -  She plays female lead in Media Works Channel U's new TV serial By Yong Siew Fern THIS catwoman will slink away if reminded of her feline past. Said singer Kit Chan of her 1996 TV debut in a catsuit (left) on Channel 8: 'To me, that
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 462 4 And now she's in jail. She stole because she wanted to read more. How does the National Library deal with those who steal books? ARUL JOHN asks an NLB officer YOU can borrow them. But steal them? Usually they are too smart for
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    • 286 4 LATHA Palayyan (left), a 23- year-old part-time student, went to Jurong East Community Library (JECL) in July last year. And faced a problem. She found eight books, but could borrow only five, as she had already taken out three books before. So she took the extra three
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 262 6 ITorI LONG HOSPITAL WAITS: Hospitals are getting tough with waiting time. Starting next month, the National Skin Centre and two specialist outpatient clinics at the Singapore General Hospital will try out a new set of orders to help cut the time patients spend waiting to see
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    • Article, Illustration
      34 6 GHOSTBUSTER: A Buddhist monk performing a ritual to pacify any "restless spirits" at the new offices of Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper, which have been plagued by rumours of haunting.
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    • News Break
      • 50 6 EUROPE U SALES of Australian kangaroo meat and South African ostrich are soaring because consumers are concerned about eating tainted European beef. Mad-cow and foot-and-mouth diseases have been devastating their domestic livestock herds. Seafood suppliers also benefit, with exports of Thai shrimp rising 63 per cent in January.
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        53 6 M BUSINESS AWARDSM THE winners of the Singapore Business Awards 2000 have been announced. Mr Goh Lik Tuan (left), executive chairman of GES International, was Businessman Of The Year 2000; Mr Boon Swan Foo of Singapore Technologies Engineering was Outstanding Chief Executive; and Chan Brothers Travel won
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      • 60 6 I SMUGGLING BABIES have been smuggled in boxes on speedboats from Indonesia into Malaysia, but tragically, some die during the trip. Indonesian Marine Police say two to four of the unwanted toddlers, aged between three months and one year and intended for prearranged buyers, are smuggled by
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      • 53 6 M LABOUR M SINGAPORE manufacturing firms in Malaysia have been given the nod to import trained foreigners. Malaysia preferred to stop importing workers, but would ease restrictions due to the tight labour market. With RM1.78 billion ($829 million) in projects approved last year, Singapore is Malaysia's biggest
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      • 63 7 I CINEMAS I CINEMA operators must pay a licensing fee before they screen films with music and songs. A judge found that United Artists Singapore Theatres had infringed the copyright of three composers and an artist when it screened Titanic and Jerry Maguire. That licence fee would
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      • 66 7 I NTUC BE the best in capturing the essence of Singapore's labour movement in a building design and you'll win $100,000. That's the top prize the National Trades Union Congress is offering for its NTUC Building design. To be ready by 2004, it will stand at the junction
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      • 58 7 I AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA is offering big money for some super "brains". It is alarmed by its academic brain-drain. So it will create 125 research fellowships over five years to entice science superstars from Asia and beyond. Salaries of A 5225,000 ($200,000) will be paid, Up to a fifth
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      • 50 7 I water I A COMBINATION of two processes desalination and reverse osmosis could be the win-win solution experts are seeking to produce more fresh water from the sea using less energy and at a cheaper rate. So says Mr Leon Awerbuch, technicalprogrammes chairman for the International Desalination Authority.
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    • 55 6 New Straits Times: Clear backlog, EPF told international Herald Tribune: Markets count on Fed cut Asian Wall Street Journal: Amid ruin, many see benefits in deflated high-tech bubble BBC news: Authorities in Macedonia give ethnic Albanian rebels ultimatum to surrender or withdraw by the end of Wednesday,
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    • 73 7 The Straits Times: Hospitals move to cut patients' waiting time The Business Times: Fed disappoints with 50 basis point cut Lianhe Zaobao: Two specialist clinics to cut patients' waiting time from next month onwards Berita Harian: Pilot project to cut waiting time at specialist clinics RCS morning
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    • 151 7 in FOCUS TOTALLY wired both within the home, as well as to the world outside. That's the game plan for one in four Singapore families in five years' time, according to the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). Computers and appliances
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    • 52 7 Quote Wworthy A woman candidate who has to change her position is seen as a waffle queen. Men are seen as doing what's necessary. ■v, v JJS Republican pollster Linda DiVall, who found that men and older voters were more likely to prefer a man for a
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    • 43 7 Dilbert /Scott Adams I LIKE TAKE-CHARGE C'MON, WE'RE THAT'S THE MEN UJHO JUST SAY. GOING TO THE 5 DUMBEST I THINK "CtAON, UJE'RE GOING BOWLING ALLEY! I IDEA I'VE I SEE SOMEPLACE." EVER HOU THIS J I V I HEARD. WORKS. HtH ire'
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  • 562 8  -  SINGAPORE rm By Teng Pei Yun FIVE small fires, all around the same time, in one HDB block. Residents of Block 307, Serangoon Avenue 2, are used to strange happenings. Shoes have gone missing, things have been thrown into flats, and someone has been acting
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    • 210 9 pod has turned One: not only one year old, but one of mind, one of soul, one of passion. Indeed, pod celebrates the collective that has maintained constant contact, pod salutes those that have kept the flame burning the dreamers, the adventurers, the mavericks: the generation that is shaping the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 372 10  - Watch out for Ver Vu he’ s FAST By Santokh Singh REMEMBER the name Vern Vu Tien Viet. He is set to become Singapore's fastest schoolboy in the near future. Evidence for that his three gold medals at the Western Australia Little Athletics/Singapore/Malaysia (Walaa) meet in Perth recently. They came
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    • 157 10 UNDER-11 KaingYou Hour —silvers for 100 m (13.6secs) and 200 m (28.1secs) Melody Lee Huixian bronze in 400 m (67.5secs) UNDER-12 Vern Vu Tien Viet —golds for 100 m (12.9secs), 200 m (26.9secs) and 400 m (60secs) Jeffrey Hong —bronze for 10mm (13.6secs) UNDER-14 Muhammad Salman —golds for
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 737 12  -  She has a family, yet she sleeps on the streets She doesn't work, yet she has a bag full of money She has a past, but she won't talk about it BY Ann-marie Tan SHE was dirty and stank. Her clothes were in tatters. Like
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    • 271 13 THOUGH most people pitied Mary Lim as a harmless old lady, some felt she was a nuisance. Mr Lim Soon Huat, 50, who owns the eatery called Katong Rice Dumpling, had a lot of complaints. "She blocks the way to my office. She sleeps on
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    • 554 13  -  By Low Ching Ling SHE looked clean and happy in her new home but Miss Mary Lim still refused to talk about her background or her family. "I have no story to tell you, I have no background." These were her first words to us
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    • 426 14 AND IT'S AT HALF PRICE SO, THE New Paper Big Walk is here again! And this time, you can be more certain of walking correctly with the right type of shoes on May 20. Say goodbye to blisters and sore feet. Reebok, a Big Walk
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    • 187 14 HANDPHONE shopping at three in the morning? We're not kidding. For the past three months, late-nighters have been flocking to Unicomm 3 at 227, Geylang Road for their mobile needs. The shop opens from spm to 4am daily. Situated just a few units away from Geylang's famous frog-legs
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    • 211 14 ITS the same excuse all the time: you know you need to be out there exercising those lazy bones, but the weather it's either too humid or too rainy just causes lethargy to set in. Enter ice-skating THE original in-line skating. What better way to exercise than in
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    • Article, Illustration
      164 14 HOW can anyone resist something with a name like The Dish of the House of "Jehova"? Available at the Berkely Restaurant and Pub in Sloane Court Hotel, this signature dish ($15.50) of seafood baked in mashed potato and cream has been around for such a long time that
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    • 273 15 SHE'S one brazen shoplifter. How brazen? Well, you won't believe the excuse she gave for stealing. Tan Yi, 31, had taken her maid with her to the Great World Citv shopping centre on Jan 29 this year. At about
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    • 362 16 THE spooky calls would come in threes. The first would be at midnight. The next at 6am. And the third at 11.20 am. Each time, it would be the same mystery man. The same scary silences, four-letter words or dirty talk. The victim: Actress
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    • 48 17 muAnui^ Ms Lynn Lee, 27, a former lawyer who lost her taste for law and caved in to her love for chocolate and now runs Awfully Chocolate in JooChiat "I'm a better person in my cake shop than I could ever be in a courtroom."
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  • 161 19 WOULD IT was the new sports car that was supposed to steal the charity event. But what everyone was really looking at was Jennifer Lopez (above). Looking impossibly glamorous, the 30-year-old showed off her sleek curves at the US launch of a car, reports Sky
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
    • 305 20 THE next time you're in Kuala Lumpur, make sure you double-check your claim ticket after handing over that gleaming new Mercedes Benz to the car jockey. Otherwise, you might just get this reply when you return to get your car keys: "Somebody claimed
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    • 214 20 Bernama. HE was beaten in three separate places in Ipoh, all because he tried to claim back a RM7O ($32.65) loan. Sometime on Monday, cement plant worker Gunalan Palamuthu, 26, was seen twisting the arm of a man who borrowed the money from him.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 42 22 muifmui* All newborn Malaysian babies will now have micro-chipped identity cants far easy Azizan Ay ob said: We hope parenis will view the card which win carry a basic name, address and blood group data simply traditional birth (»MRate.
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    • 367 22 Source Wire services. THE US will not discuss arms requests from Taiwan with China. Washington gave this warning yesterday, ahead of talks between a senior Chinese envoy and US President George Bush. China's vice-premier Qian Qichen is to meet Secretary of
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    • 279 23 RICHARD Burner's family was delighted when he was found after going missing from his Ohio home for nearly 10 days. The Toledo Blade newspaper said Mr Burner went missing on March 5. He had apparently fallen while climbing from a hayloft and
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  • 423 24 (from left) George Soros Steven Spielberg Ted Turner Oprah Winfrey George Lucas WORLD Daytime, he chopped vegetables and washed dishes in a New York restaurant. When night fell, the dishwasher and trainee waiter unleashed his tricks. Using the Internet, he operated a complex
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    • 153 25 where Great Minds J, certainly exciting when you J&. get to shape Singapore's skyline. In the construction industry whether you architect, engineer, supervisor or craftsman, vision, knowledge and skills can help bring about a higher standard of living. You get to create world-class infrastructure, design and build stylish homes and
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  • 414 26 Because it has no money for storage space WORLD THINKING of sending your teenager to study in an Australian univeristy? You should first find out about the financial status of the university you are looking at. It is natural when undergraduates bury their heads
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  • Article, Illustration
    316 26 THE world's largest offshore oil rig finally went under yesterday. Located off the coast of Brazil, its dramatic final plunge took place in a matter of minutes. Its sinking comes six days after powerful blasts ripped through the rig, killing 10 of the 175 workers aboard. Brazilian oil giant
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  • 454 27 spotlight TIME seems to have come to a standstill for Madam Leong Sott Mui. As well it might when you are 93. One day in her life is much like the next. She wakes up at 6am, has breakfast,
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  • showtime
    • 647 28 She's the undisputed pin-up girl of countless army guys. So we thought it would be neat to put singer Jolin Tsai in army pants and watch her rough it out in a fitness park. CHANG MAYCHOON reports THE army guys' dream girl. The teenage boys'
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    • 135 28 DESPITE her popularity, poor Jolin has also attracted a lot of flak. Someone posted an article on a website to say that she was raped while studying in New York last year. Jolin's response? A hearty laugh. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard
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      619 29  -  KJilRALliS MAYA3HSI poefcgt Hot By Yeoh Wee Teck Cosmetics companies may lodge their protests written in their latest lipstick shades. Truth is, more and more of Singapore's beautiful women are happy to look plain. Why, some even think of it as a good career move! Zoe Tay, Pang
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    • 151 30 MBMAWORKS ACTRESS MICHELLE CHIA: Tve done that before (for a period drama) and I enjoyed it "It was quite funny and I wouldn't mind doing it again. "Looking plain is not necessary to boost a career, there are other roles you can do. "But it's
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    • 539 31  -  wb y EDWIN YEO SOME readers have noted from my columns that I'm a wrestling fan and wondered why I've not said anything about the wrestling saga in the past few weeks. The answer's simple: Miss Body Beautiful generates more interest than Jesse
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    • 432 33  -  By" Yeoh Wee Teck WHEN you have worn a baju panjang (like a long kebaya) half your life for a living, and you are a man, chances are people will talk. Actor/chef/businessman and now, first-time stage director, Kenny Chan, 50, (left) shrugs off what
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  • 510 34  -  ET CETERA WITH DINAH LEE MORE children here are seeing psychiatrists, said a front-page report in The Straits Times earlier this month. Many of the young patients are grappling with anxiety disorders stemming from the fear of school, exams and failure. One psychiatrist
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  • the new paper RACING
    • 504 42 YESTERDAY'S KUALA LUMPUR TRACKWORK—GOING: GOOD NST BLADE Runner Abjar did a dashing workout on a good track at Sungei Besi yesterday morning. The three-year-old bay Australian-bred was taken out by jockey Marzuki Saini for a round of canter before picking up speed from the 1,200 m.
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    • 795 42 Wo. Usl 5 rum Horee Wt(lb») Rating Jockey Barrier Ageflrelnw 1 ***** COQD'OR 133 (24) MKinane 7 (5YO G Lane) 2 ***** LUCKY AHEAD 133 (24) RFradd 1 (6YO AT Millard) 3 ***** PROLIFIC WINNER 128 (19) GMosse 11 (SYOPCKan) 4 ***** FURIOSO 126
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    • 198 43 RESULTS of yesterday's barrier trials conducted over I,ooom on the kßanji fibresand track. The going was good: TRIAL 1 (Official Race Trial): 1 Southern Warrior (A Eirwan) 2 Southern Dragon (YH Lim) 3 Cyber Sawy (apprentice M Hairin) 4 Wild Thing 5 Southern Reign (G Sharrol)
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    • 128 43 AFP IRISH trainers and horses are unlikely to take part in next month's Grand National or the rearranged Cheltenham Festival in England because of the foot-and-mouth outbreak. "It looks very unlikely. It doesn't look good," said Irish Racehorse Trainers Association chairman Willie Mullins on Monday after
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    • WIHP HAND
      • 159 43 WHILE heads continue to roll with the recent disqualifications of jockeys Samsir Hamid (one year) and Timothy Foong (18 months), others have bounced back from the "gallows". Apprentice Mohammed Djulkifli, who got off light after all when his one-year ban was revised to a three-month suspension upon
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      • 101 43 MALAYSIA is also jumping on the Hongkong bandwagon. Well, at least for one day, when next Sunday's 2,000m Hong Kong Derby will be beamed live at Sungai Besi, the SelangorTurf Club's racecourse. On top of the Kuala Lumpur eight race-programme, which features the RM500,000 ($225,000) Piala
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      • 154 43 TWO favourites in a row bit the dust after showing the way at Kuala Lumpur last Saturday. Nothing uncommon, except that both second-placed Ideal Lad and Melody Power were ridden by former top Melbourne hoop Michael Clarke. In his heyday, Clarke would be a cut
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      • 173 43 APPRENTICE Richard Lim's win on Melody Park in last Sunday's Race 2 at Penang for trainer Lim Hoon Hooi once again demonstrates that hands-and-heels riding can be just as effective sometimes in getting a horse to cross the line ahead of the pack. Melody Park got the
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • 389 44 GORAN IVANISEVIC ATP. GORAN Ivanisevic today is but a pale shadow of the player he was in the 90s. He still remains an entertainer, though. His sense of comic timing is as precise as his feared services once were. Over a 14-year period, Ivanisevic,
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    • 389 45 Bay Hill won... on to the Players Championship... and then the Masters... The winless period never really bothered Tiger Woods. The real motivation had always been the US Masters. It had been in the back of his mind since the new year started. And it
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    • 237 46 WHEN Tiger Woods competed in a tournament in Dubai earlier this month, two things became apparent, says John Hopkins, the golf correspondent of the London Times. The first was how angry he was with himself at the way he threw away the one-stroke
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    • 130 46 TIGER Woods can miss the cut in his next 14 events including all four Majors and still continue to top the world rankings, reports the Sun. His triumph over world No 2 Phil Mickelson on Sunday at the Bay Hill Invitational confirmed
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    • 126 46 AP. THE dress rehearsal for the Augusta Masters is at The Players Championship, which starts tomorrow. It is one of the toughest tests of the year on the Stadium Course at the TPC at Sawgrass the tightest fairways, the thickest rough and, depending on the rain that
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    • LEEDS PLAYERS’ TRIAL
      • 324 46 LEEDS United footballer Michael Duberry revealed yesterday that team-mate Jonathan Woodgate told him he had been involved in a fight with a group of Asians on the night a student was beaten unconscious. Duberry told Hull Crown Court that, after the attack, Woodgate had also said
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      • 178 46 A LIFELONG friend of Leeds United footballer Jonathan Woodgate denied yesterday he had given another Leeds player, Lee Bowyer, a "victory hug" after a vicious street attack on an Asian student. The incident, caught on a security camera, was shown by the prosecution earlier in
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    • 604 47  -  Life's become tough for this professional player By Ernest Luis HARIS Sumri (below left) is an S-League player in limbo. A striker who may not play any competitive football for the next few months. Not because he is injured, but
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    • 155 47 HARIS Sumri is not the only player affected. The uniformed groups Home United and Singapore Armed Forces FC each registered four players aged 21 and above for the Prime League. The problem is they are still doing their national service. This contradicts the new Prime League
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    • 487 48 He charges... raises fist... pushes... punches... and he's separated NST. Malaysian sprinter Watson Nyambek and hurdles coach Hanafiah Nasir were in a furious mood yesterday. They traded punches when a routine meeting between Malaysian Amateur Athletics Union (MAAU) officials and the national athletes turned ugly at the
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    • 579 49 ERIKSSON ON ENGLAND WORLD CUP GROUP NINE ENGLAND v FINLAND Wire services. ON HIS FIRST-CHOICE GOALKEEPER: If David (Seaman) misses one training session it is not a problem but he must be in good condition by the end of the week in fairness to himself
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    • 250 49 Reuters. ENGLAND coach Sven Goran Eriksson dropped a heavy hint about his team for the World Cup Qualifier against Finland when he played what looked like his first choice line-up in a practice match yesterday. He organised his 26-man squad into two sides with the injured
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    • 684 50  -  'Everybody knows David is having a lean spell. Yet he is an automatic choice. That is not right.'—Gordon Hill COMMENT EDWIN YEO SVEN Goran Eriksson passed his first real test two days ago. Don't worry, you didn't miss England's World Cup qualifier against Finland.
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    • 280 50 Sporting Life. FORMER England international Ray Wilkins believes that David Beckham's quiet captain approach can help his country along the path to World Cup glory just like Bobby Moore 35 years ago. Wilkins has backed Sven Goran Eriksson's decision to stick with Beckham
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      320 51 WHAT GERMAN CAPTAIN OLIVER BIERHOFF SAID: Voeller doesn't stand behind his captain the way Berti Vogts did for Juergen Klinsmann...lt would be nice if it were like that AP. WE'VE made up. German national team coach Rudi Voeller and his captain, Oliver Bierhoff, seemed to have patched up
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    • 237 51 GROUP EIGHT ROMANIA v ITALY: DON'T expect too much from Alessandro del Piero. The warning came from Italian coach Giovanni Trapattoni ahead of Saturday's crucial World Cup Qualifier against Romania. But he believes the striker is nearly back to his best, reports
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