Streats, 9 March 2001

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    22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets FRIDAY 9 ivlarch 2001 I Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • Article
    Lock icon Another teen horror in American school Girl shoots girl
    317 1 Wire services SHE was a shy girl. She was being bullied in the state school she was attending. So she transferred to a Roman Catholic school hoping the famed discipline there would help her avoid the bullying. But at Bishop Neumann
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    Lock icon ...but in other places, tip-offs avert tragedy
    357 1 TEENAGER Charles Williams’ deadly rampage in his California high school on Monday has apparently prompted students, teachers and parents to be more vigilant about violence in schools. In Perris, California, a woman was enrolling her son C J; on Tuesday at the Perris
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  • Article
    Lock icon 30,000 jobs at show
    55 1 morningrusA IT'S time once more to look for the latest career and educational opportunities at Singapore’s largest career show. Organisers of Career 2001 say that 10,000 jobs are available on the spot and over 20,000 openings are available online. Catch Career 2001 at the International Convention
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      43 1 can’t stop the fun The fun and excitement never stop at Singapore’s newest ice-skating rink, Super Ice World, now open at Kallang Leisure Park. Opens 10 am to 9 pm daily No. 5 Stadium Walk #O3-06/07 Kallang Leisure Park Singapore *****3 Tel: *****03
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      51 1 And now for the big question that must surely have haunted many of us after the (Committee on Sporting Singapore) seminar: How in hell can all these plans be implemented? Netball Singapore president Ivy Singb-Lim, who starts a fortnightly column in our Sports pages today. SEE PAGE 37 FOR HER
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Peeping Tom with HIV follows girl into loo
      364 3  -  reports by KHUSHWANT SINGH Butsheand a friend drag him to the cops A 17-YEAR-OLD girl was with friends in the reading room of the Bishan East Community Centre on Oct 15 last year. At about 8.20 pm, she excused herself to go
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      Lock icon Petrol cheat's ruse runs out of gas
      159 3 A MAN who doctored his car’s fuel gauge to make it show the tank was fuller than it really was, has been made to pay for it. Low Hai San, 50, a Singaporean, was trying to take advantage of Malaysia’s lower petrol prices.
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        Lock icon Hotel guest ripped off
        107 3 AFTER a visit to Singapore in October last year, Mr S Tokita returned home to receive a shock. He had a credit card charge for $1,078 that he didn’t remember authorising. His faxed query to the Westin Stamford hotel proved the undoing of Chow Keng Hai,
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        Lock icon Firms misuse 'Buddha'
        88 3 BUSINESSES which involve the killing of animals and the consumption of alcohol should not use “Buddha” in their names, the Singapore Buddhist Federation said yesterday. It cited the examples of Buddha Bar, Buddha Duck Rice Stall, Zen Seafood Restaurant and Falun Buddha Society. The federation will ask
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        Lock icon Fashion store robbed
        82 3 THIEVES stole $60,000 in goods and cash from a fashion store at the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre, Shin Min Daily News reported yesterday. The store manager got a shock when he went to open the store on Wednesday morning. The main door lock was broken and the
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      Lock icon Chinese of the world in first global meet
      325 4 -AFP ETHNIC Chinese community leaders and scholars from around the world gather here in Singapore today for the first global meeting on the Chinese diaspora. More than 200 delegates are expected at the two-day conference organised by the Chinese Heritage Centre. Mr
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      Lock icon Attentive bus driver
      134 4 onekindact Kaja Maideen ON Jan 27,1 boarded SBS bus no 147 with my son. As I was not sure where Serangoon North Ave 2 was, I asked the bus driver to alert me when the bus reached the place, and we went on the upper deck of
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      Lock icon A Home away from home
      457 7  -  by KAREN CHEN REMEMBER him? FOR two years, 55-year-old Mr Neo Chwee Toh was an unwilling spectator of the hustle and bustle at Admiralty MRT station, 12 hours a day, day in, day out. He was left there because there’s no one to take care
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      78 7 Our weather girl says Expect rain, rain and more rain all over in the late morning and. early afternoon. Those in the north, centre and east should 4 lookout for lightning and 3 thunder too. Temperatures <ij will reach a high of 32°C. High tide will hit 3.0 m C?4lll|
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon From this month...
        156 7 From this month Trans-Island Bus Services Ltd launches four more Nightßider (NR) services. NR 9- Marina to Sembawang via Sin Ming, Upper Thomson; NR 11 Clementi to Boat Quay via NUS, Buona Vista, Commonwealth, BukitMerah, Tiong Bahru, Holland Village, Mohd Sultan Road and Boat Quay; NR 12- Bedok to Upper
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        66 7 Be entranced by a heartrending story on the loss of love and freedom of a young African elephant. Performed by the Dodgy Clutch Theatre Company from Britain, An Elephant Called Slowly is a visual feast incorporating music, dance routines, elaborate body puppets and gauze-effect transformation. On at
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  • Streatsmart column
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      Lock icon Press a hand, not a button
      596 6 AT THE rate we are going, Singaporeans may soon degenerate into a bunch of techno-freaks, mutely thumbing our mobile phones, sending text messages to one another. On Valentine’s Day, seven million text messages were sent on just Singtel and M 1 systems. You know
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Gus Dur tours Borneo as Dayaks threaten war
      357 8 ap PALANGKARAYA, Indonesia Slammed by critics who say he has downplayed ethnic bloodshed in Kalimantan, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid toured the region yesterday. He met with the provincial governor and other officials before flying to the town of Sampit, the scene of
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        Lock icon Hostage cop killed
        93 8 Reuters MANILA A Philippine police officer, held captive for 16 months by rebels and scheduled to be released soon, died yesterday of injuries sustained in a rescue attempt. Chief Inspector Abelardo Martin died of blood loss after being rescued by Army Scout Rangers, who chanced on the
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      • Article
        Lock icon Riots as 'assassins' held
        88 8 -AP DILI Three men were held on Wednesday for an alleged plot to assassinate East Timorese leader Jose Alexandre “Xanana” Gusmao. The arrests sparked off violence, with mobs attacking UN vehicles, a mosque and a restaurant and setting up roadblocks. It is not clear whether the
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        Lock icon State sues KL over oil cash
        100 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR Opposition officials yester- day sued Malaysia’s central government, seeking the payment of oil royalties they say were cut by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Leaders from Terengganu, where the Parti j se-lslam Malaysia has been in power since 1999,
        – AP  -  100 words
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        Lock icon Call for Ezam's release
        94 8 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Jailed Malaysian politician Ezam Mohd Noor must be released immediately as he is at risk of ill treatment, Amnesty International said yesterday. Mr Ezam, leader of the youth wing of Parti Keadilan Nasional which campaigns for the release of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s
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        Lock icon Pervert to stay in jail
        82 8 AP PHNOM PENH Cambodia will not accept a fine to release a British man jailed for making indecent video films of young girls. Jon Keeler, 56, has other legal options available and the proposal by his sister, Mavis Roper, will be rejected, said Secretary of
        . – AP  -  82 words
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      Lock icon Taipei studies plans to set up casino
      280 10 AP TAIPEI The government is mulling the possibility of approving a five-star hotel and casino on an outlying island, a project that would be Taiwan’s first legal gambling venue. The cabinet “will assess the environmental and social impact of the proposed casino on
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      Lock icon Zhu says 'madman' blasted school
      207 10 -AFP BEIJING The fireworks explosion that killed more than 40 people was the work of a lone madman and not moonlighting children, the Chinese premier has said. According to Cable Television and RTHK, Premier Zhu Rongji blamed the man and denied that children were making
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      Lock icon Sydney is going to the dogs
      170 10 -AP SYDNEY Illegal dogfights are becoming more prevalent in Australia, with gamblers betting large sums on the fights, a state government official said yesterday. New South Wales Local Government Minister Harry Woods called on the Australian public to help the police force track down
      -AP  -  170 words
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Foot-and-mouth disease No horses, so it's hamsters at the races
      228 12 -AFP LONDON Hamsters have been called into action in London to satisfy keen gamblers dismayed at the lack of horse racing in Britain because of the foot-and-mouth crisis. At a small venue in north-west London, hamster dragster racing has proved
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    • Article
      Lock icon Bullying, teasing bane of US kids: poll
      277 12 Reuters WASHINGTON Bullying, teasing and discrimination are “big problems” for American children, a new survey reported yesterday. Nearly three-quarters of the children surveyed said teasing and bullying occurred at their schools, and about half of those aged eight to 11 years old said
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      Lock icon Cheltenham meet called off
      126 12 AP LONDON The most prestigious event in European jump racing was postponed after a disease outbreak near stables used by the horses. Agriculture officials reported 14 new cases of the disease in England and one in Scotland, bringing the total to 96 since the beginning of
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      Lock icon Hollow ring to tunnel claim
      203 12 Reuters MOSCOW -A Russian counter-intelligence source dismissed reports yesterday of an eavesdropping tunnel under the Russian embassy in Washington DC, saying they were an invention aimed at discrediting US spy suspect Robert Hanssen. The New York Times reported the existence of the tunnel last weekend,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Barbershop quartets
      113 12 knowornot You've surely seen barbershop quartets on TV or in the movies. You know, four guys wearing straw hats, harmonising on Stone Age favourites such as Sweet Adeline. In Shakespeare's time a barbershop was a male hangout as well as a place to get one's haircut. There guys
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      Lock icon There's a spy on the Net
      253 15 Reuters BOSTON Electronic gadgets with links to the Internet are a growing threat to consumer privacy. Mr Richard Smith, chief technology officer for the Privacy Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy group, said some gadgets now feed consumer data directly back to corporate marketing systems. Such
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      Lock icon India House jams MPs handphones
      156 15 Reuters NEW DELHI Fed up with the incessant ringing of mobile phones, the leaders of India’s parliament have installed jamming devices to thwart lawmakers who refuse to turn their phones off. The Hindustan Times reported yesterday that deactivators had been set up in both the
      – Reuters  -  156 words
    • web cites
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        Lock icon Middle East crisis
        39 15 The Israel/Palestine Centre for Research and Information at www.ipcri.org founded in Jerusalem in 1988, is the only joint PalestinianIsraeli public policy thinktank in the world. It is devoted to developing practical solutions for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.
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        Lock icon Roots of the conflict
        30 15 Surfers can take a look at the early history before the time of the Hebrews to 1914, and also maps of Palestine/lsrael at key stages www.mideastweb.org
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      Lock icon Karaoke triggers an instant hit
      106 16 justbelieveit. -AFP TOKYO-There was a whole new meaning given to the term hit song yesterday when a middleaged Japanese carpenter was arrested for shooting his drinking buddy in an argument over a song. Police in Yokohama arrested Shigeru Yoshida, 5 1, and found a revolver
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        Lock icon 'Old' mammograms best
        75 16 AP WASHINGTON No new breast cancer detection systems, including highly touted digital mammograms, so far have proven better than old-fashioned mammograms, a medical panel said yesterday. But because mammograms aren’t perfect, the report by the Institute of Medicine urged more study of technologies that might one day
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        Lock icon Jumper in sea for 7 hours
        135 16 Reutefs MIAMI A man who jumped from a cruise ship into the Atlantic was rescued by the crew of a gambling ship on Wednesday after spending more than seven hours in the sea, Coast Guard officials said. The 23-year-old passenger was on the Sovereign
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        Lock icon Foot-and-mouth 'catch'
        85 16 Reuters VANCOUVER Efforts to prevent foot-and-mouth disease spreading to Canada have produced an unexpected benefit the arrest of a drug smuggler. A man was arrested at Vancouver airport late on Monday carrying 10,543 steroid vials and pills in his hand luggage. He was travelling from Greece via a
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        Lock icon Inca city may collapse
        83 16 Reuters LONDON Machu Picchu, the ancient Inca citadel perched 2,550 m high in the Peruvian Andes, could collapse at any time, New Scientist magazine said this week. The earth beneath the hallowed city, listed as a World Heritage Site by Unesco and one of Latin America’s
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        Lock icon Child-labour parents fined
        80 16 Reuters ISTANBUL A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced 21 heads of families to three months in prison each for forcing their children to work, the state-run Anatolian news agency said. The sentences were then cut to fines of 159 million lira ($320) in lieu of jail terms.
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon NO Thais 'reject Estrada request for asylum'
      297 19 Reuters BANGKOK Deposed Philippine President Joseph Estrada applied for political asylum in Thailand last week but was turned down, The Nation newspaper said yesterday. The daily quoted an unidentified government source as saying that Mr Estrada, who is facing allegations of corruption and
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      Lock icon YES Lewinsky to star in documentary
      168 19 Reuters LOS ANGELES History’s most famous White House intern, Miss Monica Lewinsky will make an encore appearance as the star of a new HBO documentary, a network spokeswoman said on Wednesday. “She approached HBO and said she felt she still had a lot to
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      Lock icon NO Honey, you can't claim his money
      280 19 Reuters HOUSTON Former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith said she was no gold digger. But a Texas jury disagreed on i Wednesday when it found that her late 90-year-old husband never promised her half his bil-lion-dollar fortune. The jury ruled that younger son
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      Lock icon YES Call an election, Blair. You'll win
      232 19 Reuters LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair was greeted yesterday by headlines many politicians can only dream about that a gen-eral-election victory is his for the taking after a widely applauded Budget Mr Blair’s term runs out in May 2002. Britain’s major newspapers
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon Beauties who shun contests
      553 20  -  by r CARA van MIRIAH They are good-lookers and you see them in shopping centres or restaurants but not in the media spotlight. Streats picks out some young women who may have l the makings of the next Miss Singapore IF you had watched the Miss
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      Lock icon Dragons with no fire
      354 23 at tife movies You can reach Stephanie Goh at gohcys@sph.com.sg Dungeons Dragons Directed by: Courtney Solomon Starring: Jeremy Irons, Justin Whalin, Marlon Wayans, Thora Birch DUNGEONS Dragons is Star Wars gone mediaeval, and wrong, very wrong. But one thing’s for sure. It takes guts to attempt
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      Lock icon City skips the Beat
      261 25 HERE'S more bad news for City Beat fans. After five years of giving viewers the lowdown on interesting pockets of Singapore, the show will end its run at the end of next month. The programme had taken some beating of late, with its seemingly endless change
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      Lock icon China lifts ban on Ah-Mei
      184 25 Taiwanese songbird Chang Huei-mei should be singing for joy. The Chinese government appears ready to welcome the singer, better known as Ah-Mei, with open arms after banning her from performing on the Mainland since last May She had sung the Taiwanese anthem during President Chen
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      • Today's must-see TV...
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          Lock icon MY FELLOW AMERICANS
          58 25 7.30 pm, Channel 5 Republican and Democrat ex-presidents who detest each other, Kramer (Jack Lemmon) and Douglas (James Garner), become embroiled in a cover-up perpetrated by the current prez, Haney, a smug, fat Clinton-type with an empty-eyed Quayle-like VP (John Heard). Quickly, bodies start piling up and
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          Lock icon TROJAN WAR
          43 25 11pm, Channel 5 This romantic comedy stars Jennifer Love Hewitt as a lovelorn girl who tries to get the guy of her dreams to notice her. The tragedy is that he falls in love with another instead. Hand her a kleenex.
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          Lock icon VIOLENT COP
          56 25 10pm,V V Entertainment (SCV 56) A castrated corpse is found and Inspector Cuba Koo, who has a reputation as a cop with unorthodox methods, is assigned to investigate the case. While doing so, he gets to know people from the underground world and discovers some of their darkest
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      Lock icon Flying Dutchman to clean up his act
      421 26  -  Class %'s risque DJ promises fun and wit sans the off-colour jibes when he hosts prime-time's Who Wants to be a Millionaire by I DIANA SER last week, the Programme Advisory Committee singled out his radio show, The Morning Express, as containing too
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      Lock icon Fusion food that's easy on your waistline
      294 28  -  two shoes by Wileen Chang YUP, this is a Japanese restaurant. But do not expect to find a sushi train, the fortune cat or waiters/waitresses yell- ing “welcome” in not-so-perfect Japanese, when you step into the Dragonfly Japanese Restaurant Bar. This place can
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      Lock icon where to go
      93 28 Tina Tan recommends you try pies at: Big Ben's Bakery, Bedok North Avenue 1, Blk 551 #Ol-542. Te1:876 0737. She says: I'm a pie lover myself but sadly most of the pies that I've tasted in Singapore are made of puff pastry with very little filling very
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    • easyStreats sports
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        Lock icon Scholes, Barthez to the rescue
        544 35 Reuters ATHENS Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson hailed his two saviours, Fabien Barthez and Paul Scholes, after they earned his side a last-gasp 1-1 draw with Panathinaikos in the Champions League. United was heading for a historic first ever defeat to a Greek club after
        – Reuters; Pic: AP  -  544 words
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        Lock icon Valencia, Galatasaray in last eight
        266 36 -Xinhua LONDON Valencia and Galatasaray reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Wednesday while Spanish side Deportivo Coruna turned in the performance of the night by coming back from 0-3 down to beat Paris St Germain 4-3. Last season’s runner-up Valencia demolished Sturm Graz
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        Lock icon Let's act now, sports associations
        492 37 SO, we’ve all been to the greatest sports seminar in Singapore and we’ve all been told about the wonders of a sporting nation. We also had the chance to bombard those poor souls on the Committee on Sporting Singapore (Coss), who have worked their butts
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        Lock icon Woodlands fancies chances
        433 39  -  by TAN KIM HAN WOODLANDS Wellington found itself drawn in a difficult Singapore Cup group yesterday. It was placed with S-League champion Singapore Armed Forces FC and Gombak United, yet Woodlands manager R Vengadasalam could afford to joke about it. He said: “I think it’s an easy
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