Streats, 24 July 2001

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      Lock icon Appeal rejected; JBJ loses seat
      335 2  -  by DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM THE man known for his fiery speeches during election hustings and in Parliament was uncharacteristically quiet yesterday afternoon at the Court of Appeal. J B Jeyaretnam looked crestfallen yesterday when he failed to stop eight people from claiming a total of $175,513
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      Lock icon Feedback chairman calls for Family Charter New Economy worry
      247 2  -  by I KHUSHWANT SINGH THE New Economy is weakening family ties, said Dr Warren Lee, co-chairperson of the Social Aspect Feedback Group at the Feedback Unit’s press conference yesterday. To counter this, he proposed a Family Charter to preserve family rights
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      Lock icon Off-budget goodies revealed
      183 2 OFF-BUDGET measures to cushion the effects of the economic slowdown will be debated in tomorrow’s Parliament sitting. Job prospects, commuting concerns, and the quality of teachers are other topics to be debated. The MP for Pasir Ris GRC, Mr Ahmad Mohd Magad will ask the Minister of
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      Lock icon No time for volunteering and family quality time? Get your family involved
      266 3  -  by KAREN CHEN YOU'RE busy with your career and barely have time for your family. Or perhaps, to find your life-partner. You’d love to be a volunteer, but can’t figure out how to make the time. If you’re
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    • Article
      Lock icon Grants up for grabs
      54 3 AT the conference for non-prof-it organisations yesterday, Mr Abdullah Thrmugi, the Minister for Community Development and Sports, announced the Inaugural National Volunteerism Awards to be given at the year-end. They are: Best Volunteer Management System, Outstanding Volunteer Coordinator and Outstanding New Volunteer Initiative. Winners will receive
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      Lock icon Time Dollars scheme: Think again
      105 3 MS Ellis did not seem too enthusiastic about the Volunteer Service Credit Programme which the Ministry of Health is looking into. The programme awards volunteers with Time Dollars for the hours they spend helping others. These can be used to redeem health-related services and products,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Caution on Red Bull drinks
      111 3 THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case), advises against mixing alcohol with energy drinks containing caffeine and taurine. It also advises against using energy drinks as thirst quenchers. “In 1999 the Swedish National Food Administration did not find any scientific evidence that taurine is a health
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      Lock icon Seaborne illegals change tack
      111 3 A GROWING risk of'being nabbed is driving illegal immigrants to use cheaper, more expendible boats to arrive on Singapore’s southern shores. The Police Coast Guard has been having more success in catching illegals in motorised sampans, which are then confiscated. So the sampans are now being
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      Lock icon Cheered up
      44 3 onekindact Shanti: WAS in a bus feeling tired and stressed as I looked at the driver of another bus. He shook his head and gave me a cheerful smile. I would like to thank the driver of bus No 180, 5796 U.
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        Lock icon Dude, where's my car?
        104 3 A COUPLE drove their two-week-old Mercedes to an Orchard Road discotheque at midnight last Saturday, handed it to the club’s parking valet and never saw it again. Madam Zhang, 31, handed over the $187,000 sedan and the key to one of the three club valets, reported
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        Lock icon Biker killed at Bt Batok
        104 3  -  Sonny Phua A MOTORCYLIST was killed at Bukit Batok early Sunday morning. Technician Mr Juraimie bin Jais, 23, was travelling along Bukit Batok East Avenue 5 towards Bukit Batok Street 52 at about 4.33 am. As he negotiated a right bend, he apparently lost control
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        Lock icon Bird Park exhibits closed
        92 3 JURONG Bird Park’s Waterfall Aviary, South-east Asian Birds Aviary and the flight aviary of the Jungle Jewels exhibit will be temporarily closed from today. Newcastle Disease was detected at the park late last week when a kookaburra died and was sent for tests at the Agri-food
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      Lock icon Easy theft via unlocked door
      198 4  -  Sonny Phua FOR 27 years a family had been in the habit of sleeping without first locking the front gate to their flat, but they finally paid for it in the early hours of Sunday morning. “At three o’clock, my daughter heard somebody open the
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      Lock icon Tough lesson for student: Don't steal panties
      163 4  -  Deepa Vijiyasingam COLLECTING travel souvenirs is fine but not when your favoured mementoes are other people’s undergarments. Student Ahmed Reza, 28, was in court yesterday for stealing various women’s underwear from clothes lines over a period dating back to 1993. He was diagnosed
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      Lock icon Failed PSLE Failed English paper Failed to get into poly Yet he never gave up
      429 5  -  by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER THE words “defeated” and “give up” simply do not exist in Chua Chuan Guan’s vocabulary. The Tampines Institute of Technical Education (ITE) student just wouldn’t say die despite his string of failures
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      88 5 Our weather girl says For soccer fans planning to queue early for the Man U match, look out for thunderstorms over the northern, central and western areas in the j afternoon. So have an umbrella ready, if not for the rain, then at least for some respite from the heat
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        50 5 For people who want to do more for society, visit the National Volunteer Centre site at www.nvc.org.sg. The Volunteer eMatch is a friendly interactive online service which matches volunteers with suitable agencies. You can also call 1800-325 0965 or 325 0955 or e-mail feedback@nvc.gov.sg for further details.
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        Lock icon Remember...
        116 5 More than 90 per cent of students from low-income families who have attended CDAC tuition programmes say they were better prepared for their exams. Here's a list of what self-help groups offer: CDAC Tuition Programme: English, Chinese, Maths and Science for Pri 4-O-level students. Available only to Chinese Singaporeans
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  • Streatsmart Mega's moment
    • Mega threats
      • Gus Dur and his die-hard fans: Will they give way?
        • Article
          Lock icon It's holy war or retreat
          336 6 Wire services TECHNICALLY, Mr Abdurrahman Wahid is without power, without friends and without even the right to continue living in the presidential palace in Jakarta. But he’s going to fight all that with the help of his Muslim supporters, say his aides. He was impeached
          – Wire services  -  336 words
        • Article, Illustration
          Lock icon All bark, no bite – so far
          319 6 All bark, no bite so far Wire services THEY had shown of their “special powers” by walking on cut glass and by letting huge trucks run over their body. But, when push came to shove yesterday, Gus Dur’s die-hard fans who vowed to fight to the death for him were
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    • mega rush
      • Article
        Lock icon S'pore's wish
        36 6 PRIME Minister Goh ChokTong has sent Ms Megawati a congratulatory letter, saying she had in her “quiet and confident way, provided strong leadership” in Indonesia. “We hope Indonesia will recover soon,” Mr Goh said.
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        Lock icon Asean's wish
        47 6 HANOI Asean recognises Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri as Indonesia’s new president despite Gus Dur’s refusal to step down.. “I think it’s a reality, this change. The supreme court has spoken, the parliament has spoken, the MPR, and we have to accept that,” said Secretary-General Rodolfo Severino.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Cabinet soon
        56 6 JAKARTA The newly-installed Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri is to announce her cabinet line-up tomorrow, sources said. “I think Megawati knows what she should be doing and what kind of cabinet structure she should be going for,” said Mr Alvin Lie of the National mandate Party. The item to watch:
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        Lock icon Markets rejoice
        53 6 JAKARTA The news that Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri was to be installed as president caused the rupiah to surge to a four-month high yesterday. The rupiah leapt to 10,100 per dollar from below 11,000 its highest level since March 16 as the market bet on a change for the
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        Lock icon Bush happy
        47 7 ROME US President George W Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi have both praised the unfolding of Indonesia’s power transfer. Mr Bush said: “We look forward to working with President Megawati and her team to address Indonesia’s challenges of economic reform and peaceful conflict.resolution.”
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      • Article
        Lock icon One last try
        59 7 IN desperation, Gus Dur had tried to save his job by giving the army general’s appointment to General Johnny Lumintang at the eleventh hour. The general said “no”, a source said Gus Dur had earlier tried several manoeuvres, including changing military commanders and generals to try to
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    • Mega backers
      • Puppeteers or supporters?
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          Lock icon Amien 'will wait till 2004'
          159 7 .AMIEN Rais, the man who led the charge for Mr Abdurraham’s impeachment [yesterday, had, in 1999, I played a key role in his elecI tion to the presidency. He had backed Mr f Abdurrahman, saying Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri should not become president of Muslim-majority Indonesia
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          Lock icon Army 'to stay out of politics'
          206 7 MEGAWATI Sukarnoputri would never have become president if the military hadn’t wk supported her. Armed forces chief A* Admiral Widodo Adisucipto ||f was summoned by Mr W Abdurrahman Wahid on f Sunday night. He was told to declare parliament’s special impeachment session illegal. But
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          Lock icon Husband weeps at victory
          117 7 TAUFIK Keimas wept yesterk day as his wife, Ms Megawati, ml was declared president. II He was happy it was, after all, his efforts that helped Ms H Megawati find common W ground with Dr Amien. f He strikes the deals, builds the links and coalitions.
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Arroyo's state of the nation address The aim: A million jobs
      259 9 Reuters She promises to wield an 'iron hand' against corruption MANILA Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo unveiled a package of proposals yesterday, including one million jobs within a year, to help the restive poor and vowed to wield “an
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    • Article
      Lock icon Boy, 4, jailed for breaking window
      163 9 -AFP LAGOS Police in Nigeria’s crime-rid-den capital have arrested a four-year-old boy for pelting stones which broke a car window. Konachi was detained for four days last week at the Oko-Oba police station, in the suburbs of Lagos, a police official said. The boy
      -AFP  -  163 words
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      Lock icon KL moves in on Renong
      122 9 -AP KUALA LUMPUR The government announced yesterday the first step in a series of moves to take control of conglomerate Renong, Malaysia’s largest corporate debtor. State-owned investment arm Khazanah Nasional Bhd has made an offer for shares of Renong’s affiliate, United Engineers Malaysia Slid (U
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Reuters to axe 1,200 jobs
      70 10 -AFP LONDON British information giant Reuters is planning to shed 1,200 jobs, reported the Financial Times yesterday. The group’s new American directorgeneral, Tom Glocer, who takes over the charge this week, plans to make annual savings of £l5O million (s39lmillion) by 2003. The Sunday Business
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      Lock icon Isolated Canadian Rockies to host next G-8 meet Rioters irk chiefs
      221 10 Wire services GENOA, Italy The world’s richest nations have decided to abandon ostentatious “super summits” in favour of scaleddown annual meetings. The unprecedented anti-cap-italist violence at the G-8 leaders’ meeting in Genoa has prompted them to move next year’s
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      Lock icon Mutiny in Burundi
      112 10 -AP BUJUMBURA, Burundi Gunfire and grenade blasts reverberated through Burundi’s capital overnight yesterday, when a group of TUtsi soldiers attempted a coup to stop the president from signing a power-sharing deal with the majority Hutu tribe. Minister of Defence General Cyrille Ndayirukiye confirmed that the mutineers had
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      Lock icon US-Russia arms talks at G-8 summit No breakthrough: Putin
      202 11 Wire services MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin described an accord on arms struck with his US counterpart, George W Bush, as progress, not a breakthrough, the Kremlin said yesterday. Mr Putin and the US president came to terms on linking missile
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      Lock icon 11th-hour deal to save Kyoto accord
      116 11 Reuters BONN Environment ministers meeting in Germany reached a last-minute compromise deal yesterday to salvage the Kyoto accord on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. “It’s a brilliant day for the environment. It’s a huge leap to have achieved a result on this very complex international
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    • weird world
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        Lock icon Too much to swallow
        56 11 A TAKEAWAY kebab meal was good, but not THAT good. Keith Cruden, 27, of Aberdeen in Scotland was flabbergasted when he got the credit card bill for the meal £2,700.65 ($7,000), the Daily Record reported yesterday. The meal should have been charged as £27.65, the red-faced
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        Lock icon Persona non charter
        53 11 Reuters NEW Air Afrique CEO Jeffrey Erickson only got as far as boarding the plane when he tried to leave Abidjan, the Ivory Coast capital, on Thursday. Staff who are angry over restructuring that Mr Erickson is implementing at the struggling airline refused to take off with
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        Lock icon Mouse with your fries?
        54 11 Reuters A MOUSE can be seen in whichever direction you look at a Tel Aviv McDonald’s restaurant. But the fast-food giant won’t have a health inspector on its doorstep anytime soon as each is a mouse of the computer variety. McDonald’s has opened its first cyberrestaurant
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Clinton, the $1.8m man
      233 12 WASHINGTON The name’s Bill. Bill Clinton. Also known as the former US President. Who can now be called the US$l million man. According to the New York Post, Mr Clinton is set to become the first ex-president to cost taxpayers more than US$l million ($l.B million)
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      Lock icon Archer held in isolation
      139 12 DISGRACED novelist Jeffrey Archer, who j was sent to jail last j week, is being held in isolation for his own protection. According to I The Mirror, Archer l is sharing a third- floor landing with the most dangerous inmates at Belmarsh Prison in south-east London.
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon One Beng too many
      505 13  -  l ltdljL. tubby by Yvonne Kwok If you want a surefire hit local comedy these days, make the lead character a boor with no sense of style and a poor grasp of English. Can't TV execs think of something more original? IF TV is supposed to
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
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          Lock icon MANCHESTER UNITED VS SINGAPORE
          52 13 Bpm, TV Works This is what all you Red Devil fans have been waiting for the English Premier League team playing on our turf. Will Singapore manage to put in a few goals and will Beckham and company bring a better show than their yawn-inducing match
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          Lock icon JOY LUCK CLUB
          76 13 3.45 pm, STAR Movies (SCV 58) The story of two generations of Chinese women and their American daughters unfolds when one young woman is invited to join the Joy Luck Club the weekly mahjong group of her recently deceased mother. A transfer of wisdom and affection begins
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          Lock icon KITCHEN
          40 13 10pm, VV Entertainment (SCV 56) After her mother dies, Aggie moves in with hairdresser Louise and his “mom” Emma. And when Emma is murdered it’s Aggie’s turn to help him out. Stars Jordan Chan, Yasuko Tomita, and Karen Mok.
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          Lock icon APPLE PIE
          38 13 Bpm, Channel U Bryan Wong and Quan Yifeng in Apple Pie? Yes, Takeshi and Yuhua from dramedy Ad War are guests in this show as Kym Ng’s Ms Chong is modelling for a teacher recruitment ad.
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    • 3-day STREATS
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        Lock icon Three-day fiesta starts tomorrow
        326 14  - Three -day fiesta starts tomorrow m EmpText IT'S only one more day to our three-day treat just for you, the readers. We kick off the fiesta tomorrow with 380 Mango Tango Freezes from Coffee Club Xpress at Orchard Cineleisure. Don’t forget to cut out the redemption coupon in tomorrow’s paper
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      Lock icon Aaron aims for Guinness feat
      119 15 SPORTSMEN ran their way into the Guinness Book of World Records, but singer-actor Aaron Kwok hopes to dance into it. In an elaborate publicity stunt to promote his new film, Para Para Sakura, co-starring Cecilia Chung, an outdoor mass dance was staged at the Tamer
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      Lock icon Finally; a solo for Posh
      112 16 -Reuters LONDON Spice Girl Victoria Beck- j ham is to release her first single as a solo artist, British tabloid y newspapers' reported yesterday, The single was entitled Innocent Girl and in the video Beckham would reveal a raunchier, darker side to the Posh image
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    • easyStreats sports
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        Lock icon Russian smashes own record Sloudnov sets world mark
        388 20 -AFP FUKUOKA, Japan Russia’s Roman Sloudnov (right) smashed the 100 m breaststroke world record yesterday on an action-packed world championship night when six gold medals were decided. Australia and Germany took two apiece with China and the US bagging one each. Sloudnov,
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        Lock icon Kournikova weds, but dad is not sure
        169 21 LONDON Anna Kournikova has married her boyfriend and ice hockey player Sergei Fedorov in Moscow, The Sun claimed yesterday. It said that just five guests witnessed the register office ceremony. The couple went back to their native Russia to many as Anna recovered
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      • SOCCER
        • Article
          Lock icon Arsenal signs Inamoto
          113 21 -Reuters LONDON Arsenal has announced the signing of Japanese midfielder Junichi Inamoto from Gamba Osaka. The 21-year-old was unveiled at a press conference at Arsenal’s Colney training ground yesterday. The fee was not disclosed but is believed to be in the region of £3.5m ($9 million). Inamoto
          -Reuters  -  113 words
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          Lock icon Mexico in semi-finals
          62 21 -AFP PEREIRA, Colombia Mexico raced into the semi-finals of Copa America for the fourth time in its history with an impressive 2-0 win over Chile on Sunday. Jesus Arellano netted the opener in the 18th minute and Daniel Ozorno closed the gate with the second 10 minutes
          -AFP  -  62 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Duval breaks jinx
        119 21 •GOLF -AP LYTHAM ST ANNES, England American David Duval refused to let the British Open turn into the 18-hole shootout everyone expected, seizing control with a rock-solid game that carried him to a four-under 67, and gave him the prize that had eluded him the past four
        -AP  -  119 words
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        Lock icon Armstrong on course
        120 21 •cycling Reuters PAU, France Barring accident, illness, or serious miscalculation, Lance Armstrong will go on to claim his third successive Tour de France victory on Sunday after demonstrating in five mountain stages that he has no equal. There are still six stages to race after yesterday’s rest
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        Lock icon Suffocating security
        307 22  -  by LIM HAN MING "EXCUSE me, where’s your pass?” “Sorry, no photography allowed.” “Can you please stand behind the line?” If you were one of those present at Courts’ Bukit Timah store for the “Meet and Greet’ session with Manchester United players yesterday, you might have overheard one
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        Lock icon Let's cheer champagne football
        344 22  -  Aimn#mfc Hi iH Hi IS HI HI Ml by PETER SIOW SINGAPORE football fans face an unbearable tension this evening. To cheer or not to cheer. There would probably be outrage again if they save the loudest cheers only for Manchester United as they did for
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        Lock icon 'It will be a serious match'
        138 22 WILL Manchester United, like Liverpool last week, play holiday football against Team Singapore today? No way. If you watched the game against Malaysia yesterday the last thing you would call us is boring. Manchester United chief executive Peter Kenyon We've had a good match
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        Lock icon That 'botak' just dashed off
        353 23  -  Comment by < STEPHANIE GOH WHAT'S taking them so long? Are they putting on make-up or what?” mumbled a momentarily disgruntled fan who was within eavesdropping distance at the airport. Frankly, my dear, I wouldn’t be surprised. After all, isn’t Manchester United one of the
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        Lock icon School no, Man U yes
        382 23  -  It was Awol for those Man U-mad students at Changi airport by Tan Kim Han WHICH is more important: Football or education? Yesterday, football won the day as Manchester United mania swept through Changi Airport. Among the estimated 1,000 crowd who had gathered to welcome
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