Streats, 9 February 2001

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  • 17 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats(S)sph.com.sa MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
    • 70 1 RESIDENTS in the north-east can now pay their bills with a smart card, using Singapore’s first community portal. Besides links to other governmentrelated websites, wwwnortheast.org.sg will also host a virtual mall, a chatroom, free e-mail services and some e-learning sites. To provide equal access to everyone in
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    • 72 1 SINGAPORE officials plan talks on reaching a free-trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association, the Trade and Industry Ministry said yesterday. Efta groups Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Switzerland and Singapore will “announce the start of exploratory talks” today during a visit here by Swiss Minister of
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  • 580 1  -  by CLAIRE HILLS A MAN threw a stinker in court yesterday, charging that he had to spend 48 hours in a remand prison cell that was filthy, smelly and overflowing with faeces. His
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    • 34 1 My own assessment isthatPakLah (Malaysian DPM Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi) has been able to touch ground very well with the leaders of Singapore. Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Syed Hamid Albar SEE PAGE 3
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    • 20 1 /"A n ‘Hr 'js I &V^ "*m> (Syed n Sfte doesn't want to l on Fandi's popularity SEE PAGE 25
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 391 2  -  by\ KHUSHWANT SINGH IF you have been stuck in snaking queues at a POSBank branch lately, DBS Bank’s newly-appoint-ed vice-chairman and CEO, Philippe Paillart, has an admission to make: “As a result (of recent branch closures), we have forced a larger number of customers into a
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      • 110 2 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian authorities, in cooperation with Singapore police, busted a major drug-processing operation in Johor on Tuesday. Raids in the towns of Batu Pahat and Johor Baru shut down a laboratory and cut off a heroin supply line to Singapore. Nine people were
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      • 134 2 AN arrested serial housebreaker slipped his handcuffs, punched a policeman and fled. The bloodied police sergeant pursued Herman Bin Mohd, 23, who was being accompanied on Jan 10 to the scene of a house burglary, but he managed to escape. Mohd was re-arrested five hours later with
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      • 108 2 RESIDENTS of Block 414 Pandan Garden were startled by four loud thuds outside their building at about 8.50 pm on Wednesday. An investigation led them to a man on the eighth floor who was throwing down pieces of wood from a discarded cabinet that had been left
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      • 119 2 TAN Chee Hong, 34, faced a court yesterday for allegedly endangering others by jumping onto an MRT track at Clementi station on Tuesday. Tan was charged with wilfully endangering commuters and the train operator, Jumain Bahrom. The court heard that Mr Bahrom was forced to
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    • 225 3  -  The Third Committee to Recognise the Contribution of Operationally Ready NSmen in Total Defence (Record III) presented its recommendations yesterday. Committee chairman David Lim, Minister of State, Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Information and the Arts, said that in the light of increasing regionalisation,
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    • 204 3 SPECIAL arrangements have been recommended to ease the burden of NSmen in institutes of higher learning. Specific vacation periods without any academic programmes may be synchronised with NS in-camp training to help NSmen manage their studies along with their NS responsibilities. High-key training may be
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    • 114 3 RECORD 111 is a comprehensive set of recommendations which also includes a proposal for more frequent reviews of allowances for NS Command and key appointment holders because of their higher responsibilities. There are also suggestions for various incentives for NSmen to contribute more effectively to Total
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    • 238 3 MEMBERS of the Malaysian team, currently on a three-day visit to Singapore, were able to to "touch ground very well with the leaders of Singapore”. A key member of the team, Foreign Minister Datuk Syed Hamid Albar, told Bernama yesterday that he considered the visit a
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    • 132 5 A GOLDEN eagle called Samson, who lives at Jurong Bird Park, has been adopted by Singapore Press Holdings. Samson arrived in Singapore as a youngster from a German bird sanctuary in 1986. At 15, he is now a naturalised Singaporean, fully mature and trained and ready
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    • 366 5  -  by CARRIE HO AN 81-year-old grandmother was swindled out of $23,000 by two conmen who convinced her that she had cancer and that they had the cure. They told Madam Chua Kie on Tuesday that she could borrow their “magic stone” to cure
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    • 91 5 Our weather girl says More cloudy skies and thundery showers in this afternoon and early evening over many areas. But cheer up and look for the beauty in rain as poet Emily Dickinson did: A drop fell on the apple tree Another on the roof A half dozen kissed the
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    • Just a minute
      • 41 5 Good news for those of you who have housing loans with POSB. The mortgage rate for existing POSB Credit customers has been cut by one percentage point to 3.75 per cent for the first year of the loan.
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      • 66 5 The Chingay 29 Singapore Street Parade Preview will be held today. So bus commuters, please take note. The following roads will be closed to vehicles: (from 7.00 pm to 11.00 pm) St Andrew's Road, Coleman Street, Parliament Place, Old Parliament Lane, Fullerton Road and Connaught Drive; (from 7.30 pm
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      • 69 5 For a combination of romance and 80s nostalgia, don't miss Dance! a stage remake of that classic dance movie "Dirty Dancing" by Sheares Hall of NUS. The event will be held at the University Cultural Centre, NUS today at 7.45 pm and tomorrow at 1.45 pm and
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 516 6 uncovered more wrongs. “You can’t save the world,” Jeff said, trying to make me feel better. That’s what we joked about too, in journalism class. What the teachers didn’t deign to mention is that once you get into journalism, you’ll actually feel like changing
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    • 619 8  -  by KAREN CHEN TUESDAY was a bleak day. Not because anything bad happened to me, but because I had my eyes opened to an aspect of life that I, like many other fortunate people, do not really take note of on a normal day
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    • 181 8 \y PORE GfIROEnS .em =x= sgl !ja3SB <K> 14 February 2001, Wednesday s^WB f 6.45 pm -7.15 pm 7.00 pm -7.30 pm Romancing In The Wild P .0 I JJ» 9.00 pm -9.45 pm JUill <v V.,4' I Registration <& boor-gift Sunset Cocktail Elephant and Primate Greetings Dine in the
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 192 11 -AFP More than than 600,000 Thai children are reportedly addicted BANGKOK Thailand’s primary schools are in the grip of an alarming drug abuse problem which has spread from high schools and campuses, according to a survey published in the Bangkok Post yesterday. The National Primary Education
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    • 106 11 webcites AFTER you've seen the movie you can own a piece of it for posterity. Here's five sites where you can lay your hands on movie memorabilia. HurrellsHoilywood.com: For connoisseurs of old world Hollywood glam where you can find original silver gelatin photographs of screen
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    • 174 11 AP HONGKONG Samples of a blood product possibly tainted with the human form of mad cow disease reached Hongkong but they are being kept at the Health Department and pose no threat to the public, officials said. “They have never been used on
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    • 298 13 -AFP Surabaya seems quiet after days of protests JAKARTA Protests in support of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid subsided yesterday as a minister urged him to visit East Java to rein in his supporters. “I will suggest to the cabinet today that the
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    • 262 13 Reuters Decision needed to protect organ donor system, they say SYDNEY Some Australian doctors are refusing to perform transplants and other life-saving operations on smokers on medical and moral grounds, a surgeon said yesterday. Dr Greg Snell, respiratory surgeon at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital,
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      • 82 13 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is looking for ways to save RM7 billion ($3.2 billion) in its annual spending on energy through the efficient use or “conversion” of natural waste. The organic or “biomass” waste is largely a by-product of palm oil and processed timber production.
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      • 70 13 Reuters NEW DELHI India and China began talks yesterday aimed at reconciling differences over nuclear proliferation. Wang Yi, the assistant minister in the Chinese foreign ministry, and Indian Additional Secretary T C A Rangachari kicked off the second round of a security dialogue that was launched last
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      • 55 13 -AP TOKYO Japanese officials responded with enthusiasm to US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill saying that the US will stop pressuring Tokyo about its economy. Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori’s spokesman said yesterday that a softer touch could help solve a whole range of thorny issues even US
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      • 93 13 -AFP SUKHPUR, India Japanese Red Cross doctors helping victims of the Indian earthquake are using satellite phones and digital photos e-mailed to Japan to seek second opinions before beginning surgery on patients. The doctors work out of a field hospital in Sukhpur A few metres from the operating
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    • 193 11 1 V m m Open House 2001 Dates: 10, 15, 16 and 17 February 2001 Time: 10 am to 4 pm ijp ii 4: ■KH H. mmt Mir tar s ?fc ar plilpf m SLH"«i mmSSSHSHighlights: Meet Cyberella, the humanoid robot Visit Young Innovators’ Exhibition Discover Life Sciences through virtual
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    • 342 12 www.ml.com.sg Everywhere under the sun. Introducing Ml’s latest innovative service Fun Cards. Now you can purchase and send a card to your loved ones from your mobile phone, through SMS. This first-of-its-kind service is exclusive for Ml’s GSM* subscribers only. So for a start, why not send a Valentine’s Day
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 299 14 -AP Girls tend to be affected more than the boys NEW YORK -The most famous youthful romance in the Englishspeaking world, that starcrossed love of Romeo and Juliet, was a tragedy. Now researchers have found that falling in love for teens is anything but
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    • 96 14 justbelieveit -AP SYDNEY New Zealand's national symbol a small flightless bird may be Australian A genetic study published yesterday in the respected journal Nature suggests the kiwi is more closely related to Australia's emu than to New Zealand's now extinct moa. While moas developed into a
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    • 144 14 Reuters NEW DELHI India’s Censor Board plans to hire private detectives to deter cinema halls in four cities from showing unauthorised steamy sex scenes, The Indian Express said yesterday. The cinema sleuths will check that censored scenes are not spliced back into movies and
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      • 67 14 Reuters WASHINGTON Authorities were weighing charges yesterday against a 47-year-old accountant who police said fired several shots outside the White House, before he was shot by a secret serviceman. The gunman, named as Robert Pickett, was listed in “serious condition” following surgery to remove bullet fragments from
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      • 91 14 -AFP LONDON A British firm has fitted a circular 130 m running track into a Boeing 747 passenger jet to combat the so-called economy class syndrome, a British newspaper reported yesterday. The Daily Telegraph reported that the jet, which had 300 seats removed to create extra
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      • 78 14 Reuters MUNICH, Germany An intoxicated German beer drinker who urinated on the leg of a woman student in the middle of a crowded Oktoberfest beer tent was fined $6OO by a Munich court. The 22-year-old man told the court he had drunk two litres of beer
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      • 99 14 Reuters NICOSIA Cyprus says it will pay families to have more children in an attempt to boost the island’s flagging birthrate. The Labour Ministry pledged a monthly allowance of CYE30.74 ($B5) to couples who had a third child, extending a benefit currently offered only to
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      • 99 14 -AFP CAIRO Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak yesterday warned Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon “against increasing the danger” in the region if he ignores what has already been achieved in the peace process. In a statement carried by the state-run MENA news agency, Mr Mubarak said he had followed
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    • 287 16 AP Social activists turning to hacking GENEVA The technicians at the World Trade Organisation became suspicious when “journalists” in an online press conference went by screen names like “NO-TO-WTO”. Soon after, WTO DirectorGeneral Mike Moore was kicked out of the system by anti-globali-sation
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    • 162 16 -AFP WASHINGTON Americans are still resistant to the metric system of measurement, 25 years after the United States decided to go metric. And the government sees an urgency to accelerate the change. Lorelle Young, president of the non-profit US Metric Association, said:
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 140 17 Reuters,, AFP BERLIN German prosecutors have recommended that former Chancellor Helmut Kohl be fined without facing criminal charges for having taken undeclared cash donations of US$l million ($1.75 million) for his party while in office. The Justice Ministry in North RhineWestphalia said yesterday
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    • 183 17 -AFP LONDON Prince Charles, his son William and lover Camilla Parker Bowles put in a public appearance together for the first time on Wednesday. The three were attending a star-stud-ded party in London to mark the anniversary of a body which protects the
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    • 280 17 AR AFP WASHINGTON The Central Intelligence Agency has identified Saudi billionaire Osama bin Laden as the biggest single threat to US security. “Osama bin Laden and his global network of lieutenants and associates remain the most immediate and serious threat,” CIA
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    • 167 17 Reuters BERLIN Former tennis star Boris Becker, who divorced his wife last month, has admitted fathering a child with a Russian model living in London. The confession came after Ms Angela Ermakowa, 33, launched paternity proceedings on Monday, saying Becker was the father of
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    • 226 18 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has gone on record again saying that South-east Asia’s current political turmoil was deliberately engineered. He was quoted yesterday by the New Straits Times as telling India’s The Hindu newspaper in an interview
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    • 211 18 Reuters WASHINGTON Former president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary have returned US$2B,OOO ($49,000) worth of White House furnishings that they took with them when he left office. “At this point, everything’s been returned to the Park Service, and we’ll leave it to them to
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  • easy STREATS
    • 555 19  -  by JAY MING ROSY cheeks. Succulent lips. Porcelain skin. Delicate features. And these are just the boys. Welcome to world of J-pop where the boys are as pretty as the girls. The obsession with the pretty boy phenomenon is a consistently forceful
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    • 410 20 at tire movies You can reach Stephanie Goh at gohcys@sph.com.sg HOW do you make a movie about an essentially elitist sport where sedate men stroll along the greens clutching sticks, tapping a non-descript white ball in the direction of elusive holes the least bit
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 86 20 7.30 pm, Channel 5 Jennifer Aniston plays ambitious Kate, a talented advertising director i who’s in lust with col- I league Sam (Kevin I Bacon). Unfortunately, he’s only keen on women who are “bad” ie, chicks who are already attached but game for some hanky-panky. So best friend
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        • 67 20 11pm, Channel 5 Shallow Grave and Trainspotting director Danny Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge trade haggis for cheeseburgers, jW and kilts for Levi’s jeans. Set in Utah, the film tells of how two (angels, under God’s orders, attempt to engineer love between two strangers by having
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        • 84 20 10pm, Central As a young boy, Richard was fascinated with science and objects in motion. This wonder was reinforced through the efforts of his father. The only thing that mattered as much as science, and his family, was Arline, whom he met when they were both in school. But
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        • 66 20 Bpm, V V Drama (SCV 55) Shi Fen has been a voluntary policeman for many years. He loses his full-time job when he offends his employer in the course of duty. Fortunately, he gets a job in a food company where he’s immediately pitted against his superior; who
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          111 20 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) This emotional roller- i coaster of a movie I recounts the last days of 1 Mankind as a comet looks set to smash into planet Earth. Leelee Sobieski and Elijah Wood play two young lovers separated in the mad frenzy as the comet’s shadow
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    • 369 23  -  mam Tooaie two shoes by' Wileen Chang WOW, it’s that time of the year again. Yup, that time when you have to fork out senseless dollars for anything vaguely heartshaped (cuddly soft toys, balloons, coffee mugs, fridge magnets) and/or $lOO for half a dozen roses
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    • 216 25 SO you think that Wendy Jacobs is popular and gets on TV just because she’s Fandi Ahmad’s wife. Well, she’s out to prove you wrong. With her new job at new English-lan-guage station TV Works, she’s determined to make full use of her talents,
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    • 147 25 A FRIEND in need is a friend indeed. Hongkong actor Liu Wai Hung, better known as Ah Charn from the serial Man in the Net, will find out who his real friends are come March 9. The actor, who has huge money problems after his
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    • 260 29 Just one i V» .question I studied in Australia for three years. The way I see it, what happens in Singapore is so much tamer than what occurs Down Under. There's
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    • easyStreats sports people
      • 231 31 Reuters BOCA RATON, Florida Tennis has never been everything to recent Australian Open champion Andre Agassi, and on Wednesday he unveiled plans for his latest outside diversion. Agassi will have hosted a ceremonial groundbreaking for the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy yesterday, a charter school
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      • 153 31 LONDON Despite being heartened by an injury-free return to action for Liverpool’s reserves at Bradford on Tuesday, Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier seems certain to stick with a strike partnership of Emile Heskey and Robbie Fowler at Sunderland tomorrow. He wants to delay Owen’s comeback until next
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      • 197 31 AP SAN DIEGO The real reason for what’s been holding back Tiger Woods was finally revealed on Wednesday j It’s the hair He dyed it blond over the holi- J days and hasn’t won 1 since. That’s all of three tournaments. “Maybe I need
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 441 33 NEW YORK -The question came at Sir Bobby Charlton like a curve ball from the hand of a Major League pitcher. It was hard, deceptive and uncompromising. More than that, it was designed to make the Manchester United legend look stupid, reported Soccernet. “Can you
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      • 117 33 LONDON A football analyst believes Manchester United will leave the English Premier League within three years following its deal with the New York Yankees. The alliance with America’s top baseball side will bring in tens more millions of pounds to Old Trafford, reports football36s.com. And City
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      • 51 33 PHILADELPHIA Hakeem Olajuwon scored 18 points and added 14 rebounds while Steve Francis and Cuttino Mobley each scored 23 points as the Houston Rockets beat the Philadelphia 76ers 112-87 in an NBA game on Wednesday. Allen Iverson had 26 points for Philadelphia and Theo Ratliff added
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      • 273 34 Reuters, AFP LONDON -A six-goal feast. A come-from-behind win for Tottenham Hotspur. Tottenham’s 4-2 victory over Charlton Athletic had everything an FA Cup tie could offer in terms of excitement. But Charlton had trouble even selling tickets for the match. According to Charlton Athletic
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      • 312 35  -  by 'TAN KIM HAN HE HAS come a long way. A few years ago, he could only score one goal from 10 tries. Today, Bahraini forward Yusuf A’Amer can easily put away one out of every two chances that come his way. His
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      • 437 35  -  by PETER SIOW FOOTBALL for Singapore has often been more famine than feast. Poor results at last year’s South-east Asia Games and the Tiger Cup tournament have left it with an empty plate. But a plucky draw against mighty
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      • 59 35 SINGAPORE 1-Rezal Hassan. 3-Rafi Ali, 5-Aide Iskandar, 6-S. Subramani, 7-Nazri Nasir (capt), 20-V. Selvaraj, 12-Zui-karnaen Zainal, 15-Dalis Supait, 27-Fadzuhasny Juraimi. 24Mohamed Noh Rahman, 26-Ali Imran Lomri. BAHRAIN 22Hamad Khalifa Al Ruwaie, 2-Mohamed Hussein Mohamed, 4Abdulla Marzooki, 6-Ghazi Majed Al Kuwarie, 8-Khalid Abdul- Al Sadi, 15-Khamis Eid Rafia (capt),
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