Streats, 6 August 2003

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  • 6 1 Streats E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita ip) 101/03/2003
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  • 674 1  -  As terrorists step up activity in region, more security guards in Singapore seek to upgrade skills By_ Khushwant Singh SECURITY guard Arunachalam Ramachandran has come to realise that it is not that easy to be a qualified guard He now knows that there is
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    • 95 1 I 3? M it? 1 1 s v .-3 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita <p) m, 03/2003 m ‘awggggajv. 3« 5 v <•‘l f: 51?« 23WWM1 «1» "1 TT* .»3* v SIW ‘We strongly condemn these dastardly acts of terror... PM Goh Chok Tong in a letter to Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri
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  • Morning Rush
    • 419 2  -  B y Pradee]} Rajan THE car bomb blast that tore apart Jakarta’s luxury hotel, JW Marriott, yesterday could be the start of a series of attacks. And the attacks are expected to escalate as court verdicts are passed in the trials of the
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    • 186 2 THEY were headed for home. And were just stopping by to collect their bags. But, as the four Singaporeans reached the JW Marriott Hotel, the car bomb went off. Mr Francis Kenneth Poulose, 36, Ms Vanessa Harijanto, 24, Mr TP Chan and Ms Carol Chia Ngen
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    • 542 3  -  More youngsters needed to make CC activities more hip, says RC chairman, 26 B v Zvbaidah Nazeer SHE’S just 26 years old, but Ms Jessica Teo is handling a job that many women her age would find daunting. She even presides over a
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    • 296 4  -  By Khushwant Singh THEIR wings may have been clipped but retrenched Singapore Airlines cabin crew are not about to feel down and out. Mr Khalil Adis, 27, a marketing manager, wants to lift their spirits and find them a job at the
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    • 430 4 Reformist O’Neal consolidates power NEW YORK The unceremonious departure from Merrill Lynch of executive vice-chairman Thomas Patrick (right) last week heralds winds of change for the time-honoured ways of the investment bank, The New York Times reported yesterday. The abrupt resignation of Mr
      Bloomberg  -  430 words
    • 123 7 BUZZSTOP THE move to cut bus services which run along the North-East Line (NEL) has been backed by the Government. Yesterday, Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said that it is “important” to make full use of the line by stopping services that duplicate it.
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    • 157 7 Maid abuse case A WOMAN who was jailed for five months in 1997 for abusing her maid was yesterday acquitted of abusing another maid. But her son, who hired the maid, may be charged if he had the maid work for his mother, the Ministry
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    • 135 7 Dissent in Iran -AFP A GRANDSON of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, has denounced the country’s religious regime as “the worst dictatorship in the world”. Iran “needs a democratic regime which does not use religion as a means to oppress people
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    • 53 7 A fireman hosing down a fire near the village of El Tejado in the Sierra de Candelario, 180 km west of Madrid, Spain, on Monday. The fire services are struggling to contain wildfires which have broken out in the region after a long hot and
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    • 168 7 TWO brothers who migrated to Singapore from Indonesia and set up 55 companies are slugging it out in the High Court over millions of dollars in company assets. The Straits Times reports today that Mr Ng Kim Suan, 68, and Mr Ng Kim Choon,
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    • 91 7 -ap HONG KONG leader Tung Chee Hwa received a mix of praise and warnings yesterday from local media and political analysts following the appointments of new finance and security chiefs, with one newspaper saying his future depended on them. Mr Tung, the territory’s chief executive, on
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    • 106 7 -AP THE leader of rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which recently agreed to resume peace talks with the Philippine government, has died, the group said yesterday. Mr Salamat Hashim’s renunciation of terrorism last month was key to the resumption of talks to end the group’s
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    • 90 7 -AFP NORTH Korea accused South Korean conservatives yesterday of murdering a Hyundai executive found dead while under investigation for illicit payments to the Stalinist state. Mr Chung Mong Hun, who was on trial over the illegal cash transfer to North Korea in 2000, fell to his
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    • 93 7 -AP AS many as 7.5 million Americans have “cut the cord” and gone solo with their cellphones. Students, recent graduates and young professionals are at the forefront of this trend, citing cost and convenience as key reasons. Cellphones now comprise about 43 per cent of all US
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  • Financial
    • 481 8  -  Best bargains are trips to former Sars-affected areas By ChuaKcmgHo ANANDA Travel will go ahead with its annual travel fair later this month, despite recent rumours that it was in danger of financial collapse. It will hold the one-day event at Suntec
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    • 279 8 Wire services SINGAPORE Sing Tel had its credit rating lowered by Standard Poor’s on concern that the Government’s planned sale of its two-thirds stake in the company will remove a potential source of financial support. The long-term rating was cut one level to A+, the
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    • 68 8 SINGAPORE IT professionals in Singapore will be the first in South-east Asia to pursue a diploma programme that would certify them in .NET and XML web services technologies. The Institute of Systems Science, together with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and Microsoft, yesterday unveiled the Diploma.NET
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    • 74 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Creative Technology Ltd probably made a profit of US$3.6 million (556.3 million) for its fiscal fourth quarter as sales fell amid the Sars outbreak. Net income was probably four US cents a share for the three months ended June, according to the median estimate from
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    • 98 8 Bloomberg MANILA The Philippines rejected all bids for three-year Treasury bonds at an auction after banks demanded higher yields. A sale of all three billion pesos of bonds (5596.3 billion) the government offered would have raised the yield to 9.875 per cent from 9.500 per cent on
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    • 77 8 SINGAPORE Singapore Exchange Limited will launch its Central Depository phone service today. Available 24 hours a day, the service provides CDP direct account holders with instant access to their shareholding information and IPO application results. Users can also retrieve stock information using a fourdigit stock code. Account
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    • 394 11  -  Core operations being shifted to cut costs By Deepa Vijiyasingam NEWS and financial information provider Reuters is planning to move much of the core of its operations to India in an attempt to save costs. This will affect its Singapore office, too. But it will remain
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    • 167 11 -AFP SINGAPORE China and India are forecast to drive Asia’s economy between now and 2007 to keep it the world’s fastest growing region, but the rest of Asia is expected to post only modest expansion. In its latest quarterly report, the Economist Intelligence
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    • 505 12 Airline has to convince shareholders that recovery is on the way, say analysts Bloomberg HONG KONG Cathay Pacific Airways chief executive David Turnbull spent two weeks in London and Nice in June, just after the outbreak of the Sars virus forced him to ground
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    • 326 12 Bloomberg SEOUL Shareholders of Hanaro Telecom, South Korea’s second-largest high-speed Internet service provider, yesterday voted against a plan which would have led to a takeover by LG, the country’s second-largest business group. Hanaro shareholders rejected the first stage of the plan, under
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    • 454 14 STI: 1,508.69 28.59 Reuters SHARES ended at a one-month low yesterday after a bomb blast in the heart of the Indonesian capital Jakarta unnerved investors and spurred a spate of selling in the late afternoon. Dealers said that Singapore’s proximity to Indonesia raised concerns over security
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    • 24 14 *AS AT AUGUST 5 US$: 551.765 552.847 EURO: 552.007 Ss: 68.27 YEN Ss: RM2.154 Ss: HK54.420 Ss: 23.82 BAHT Ss: 4851 RUPIAH
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    • 674 17  -  Comment By CHET CURRIER Bloomberg ONE large obstacle in the path of a stock market recovery is the smug expectation that such a revival is bound to happen. After three years of pain, many investors seem to feel, it’s high time to get back to
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  • Comment
    • 891 18  -  By LEE HAN SHIH LAST Monday, a contributor to a local Chinese daily advanced a theory that Malaysia, having undermined Singapore ports, is now making a concerted effort to do the same to Changi Airport through the upstart airline, Air Asia. Pieces by the writer, Mr Goh
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  • Vocal
    • 198 21 I REFER to Mr Conrad Raj’s commentary, “Rethink tax on golden handshake” (Streats, Aug 4). He said that the Singapore Airlines staff who accepted the golden handshake early retirement deal have to pay income tax on the lump sums received. I understand that,
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    • 163 21 I WROTE to the Ministry of Education (MOE) to voice my unhappiness over some matters at my child’s school, as I was unable to get satisfactory answers or action from the vice-principal. In my e-mail, I specifically stated that I wanted any investigation to be done discreetly so
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    • 109 21 LONG queues, long waiting time and, worse, no goodie bags. This was what happened to hundreds, or even thousands, of spectators in the green zone at the National Day Parade preview on July 26. Army personnel explained that not enough goodie bags were prepared. No further
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    • 172 21 I REFER to the letter, “Must I pay for waiting?” (Streats, Aug 4), by Mr Erwin Lee. Mr Lee asked if there is a need to display a parking coupon when waiting for a friend in a car occupying a parking lot when there are
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    • 535 23 IT seems like yesterday that we arrived in Singapore. My husband had accepted a job as a Singapore Airlines pilot and we arrived in May 1974. My husband had trained at the same Indian aviation centre as some of the pioneering pilots of Singapore’s new
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    • 198 23 I FLY frequently on Singapore Airlines and will readily declare that it offers excellent service in all respects. The SIA cabin crew are almost always unfailingly polite and the inflight service is good. SLA flight attendants have never refused a service request by saying, “No, I
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    • 132 23 IN a company as large as Singapore Airlines, it is inevitable that a few hundred of its employees are belowaverage performers. In good times, a large company can carry this inefficiency. But in difficult times, a company will have to remove it. The Ministry of Manpower
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    • 87 23 WE refer to the report, “SIA did not talk to us, says union” (Streats, Aug 5) For the record, although the retrenchment package is within the prerogative of management, SIA management held three briefings for the Siasu cabin crew branch representatives to cover
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    • 85 21 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at $treats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. We reserve the right to edit your letters for brevity and clarity. By your writing to us. it shall be
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    • 291 23 1 The CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER' certification is for individuals who want to acquire the knowledge and skills to become a highly regarded and qualified financial planner. (Module 1) Foundations in CFP Certification (Certified Financial Planner™ Practitioner AFP Certification Financial Planning (Assoc. Financial Planner Practitioner*) FP FP School of Finance An
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  • Global
    • 429 24 Democrat presidential hopeful promises to stand up against Bush’s reckless policies SYDNEY “I’m Howard Dean, I’m running for president...” And he is certainly getting the attention, if not the votes yet. The American Sunday talk shows have been full of this US presidential hopeful, and
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    • 321 24 LOS ANGELES Mr Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine, is running for governor in California’s recall election. “I don’t think the business I’m in has anything at all to do with being a good governor,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle. “Just because I publish
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    • 314 24 LONDON The hunt for former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and his sons who were killed recently has put the spotlight on a secretive US military organisation used to gather intelligence on America’s enemies. Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), as the group is called
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    • 367 26 Vote on bishop-elect delayed after accusation of sexual misconduct Wire services MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota The Reverend Gene Robinson may make history by being confirmed the first openly gay bishop in the US Episcopal Church but he wasn’t always comfortable with his sexuality. In fact, the 56-year-old clergyman
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    • 238 26 -4#» v BRISBANE Australia’s conservative prime minister has no plans to allow gay marriages because such unions do nothing to ensure the “survival of the species”. In an interview published in yesterday’s edition of Brisbane’s Courier-Mail newspaper, Mr John Howard said that there would be
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    • 116 26 AUCKLAND New Zealand’s Ministry of Health has pulled a poster featuring actor Michael Hurst from a national breastfeeding campaign. The poster features the actor with his shirt unbuttoned and a baby at his breast, the New Zealand Herald reported yesterday. It was withdrawn even
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    • 413 28 He may have committed suicide, police say JAKARTA Businessman Marimutu Manimaren, an executive of the cash-strapped Texmaco Group, died early on Monday morning in an apparent suicide. Mr Manimaren, who was also a former treasurer of the Golkar Party, is thought to have jumped from
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    • 331 28 -AP JAKARTA A judge in a crowded, fan-cooled courtroom grills a government witness in the trial of Indonesia’s boldest editor whose headlines have compared President Megawati Sukarnoputri to a cannibal and a leech. “Does this show proper manners? Is this polite?” asks the
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  • Medical
    • 242 31 Reuters NEW YORK Researchers have created large intestines in laboratory animals that look and act like the real thing. The large intestine, or colon, in a person is often removed entirely or in part if that person has certain conditions, such as cancer. In such cases,
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    • 146 31 I Is fish head (including brain and \Cy soft tissue) high in cholesterol? A A Fish head, with or without brain and JL JL tissues, does not vary significantly in cholesterol level. Every IOOg of the edible portion of a boiled fish head has about 30mg of cholesterol.
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  • EasyStreats
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      633 32 He may look: more like a rock musician but for him the piano was the reason to keep on living back in his war-tom teen years. GARY IJM reports WITH his stage outfit of skin-tight snakeskin jeans and fashionably tousled liaii; he could easily pass olf as a
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    • 603 35 Cte of Paris’long-time cheese maitres, Gerard Poulard, takes SHARON SOH to his favourite cheese shop in the city WHILE holidaying in Paris early last month, I met up with Gerard Poulard, Le Meridien Montparnasse’s long-serving cheese maitre, and, quite possibly, Singapore’s favourite cheese guru. He has
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    • 238 36  -  By Chua Kong Ho BEER lovers are in for a treat this Friday night with the first Singapore Beer Festival taking place at Central Mall. The event is jointly organised by local brewery Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) and the Towkay Wong’s Group, which runs the popular
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    • 180 36 NO surprises on the favourite viewing in the White Elouse: It’s the 1952 Gary Cooper Western, High Noon, according to a new documentary about the viewing habits of American presidents. The documentary, All the President’s Men, draws on the memories of the White House projectionist
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    • 430 38 BOYISH Bend It Like Beckham actress Keira Knightley could soon be hitting the big time in Hollywood, reported Ananova recently. The 18-year-old English actress, who has received praise for her role in the action-adventure movie Pirates Of The Caribbean as Elizabeth Swann, a governor’s daughter
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    • 113 38 FORGET Renee Zellweger as Roxie Hart. It’s veteran actress Melanie Griffith drawing the praise for her portrayal of the singing murderess in the current Broadway production of the musical Chicago. The New York Times praises her as “sensational” but also said her performance was “bizarrely successful”,
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    • 102 38 MOVE over Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey might just be the next home and decorating diva. The woman voted No 1 on music channel VHl’s assessment of the 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons will be moving into home-design, reported Canadian newspaper The Globe Mail. A 48-page home decorating
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    • 95 39 Our weather girl says. The National Environment Agency’s weatherman, looking ahead over the next week or so, says that weak to moderate south-west monsoon conditions will continue. Expect showers witly thunder on a few days, mainly in the late morning, and showers with gusty winds in the predawn hours on
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        59 39 8.30 pm, Channel i Premiere of a new series where dinosaurs and humans live together in a lost continent. Two teenagers survive a plane crash, only to find themselves castaways on Dinotopia. As they adjust to this new land, a renegade group, the Outsiders, discovers a mysterious amulet that
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      • 53 39 10pm, Channel 5 Did it make a difference that Evan wasn’t a real millionaire but a construction worker? Did Zora and Evan last? Find out in the season finale which takes you behind the scenes for the real Joe Millionaire story. Zora and Evan reunite after three months
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    • Happenin’
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        81 39 BEING Tomorrow till Aug 17; 11.30am-Bpm, Monday to Saturday, noon--5.30pm on Sunday Utterly Art (208, South Bridge Road, #O2-01, tel 6226-2605). Free Multimedia specialist and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts lecturer Terence Tan Chee Wah showcases his abstract Chinese ink paintings in his first solo exhibition. He derives his
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      • 51 39 INCUBATING JUICE Today, 7pm and Bpm Guinness Theatre, The Substation Entry is pay-as-you-want Indian dancer Jaynthi Siva, an associate artist of The Substation, has arranged choreography in response to Michael Corbidge’s new collection of poems, Relationships Apocalypse This is a work-in-progress presentation that includes fellow artist Andrew Cory and
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    • 219 41 Wire services MANCHESTER Midfielder Ryan Giggs insists there is still room for improvement following his side’s pre-season tour of the United States. Manchester United’s current forward line flew out of the United States last night having netted an impressive 14 times in
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      • 102 42 Reuters TOKYO David Beckham scored his first goal for Real Madrid yesterday, curling home a trademark free kick as the Spanish champions beat FC Tokyo 3-0 in a pre-season friendly. The England captain, who joined the Spanish champions in June, sent an unstoppable angled shot from the left
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    • 131 42 BOXING -AP LOS ANGELES Heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis is considering retirement and has decided against fighting again this year. That means a discussed rematch against Vitali Klitschko in December won’t take place. Klitschko was upset upon hearing the news. He said: “Honestly, it seems to me that
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    • 114 45 TAMPINES v YOUNG LIONS 1X2 Tampines 1.37 Draw 4.55 Young Lions 5.60 1/2 GOAL Tampines (-11/2 goals 2.05 Young Lions (+11/2 goals) 1.63 TOTAL GOALS 0 goal 11.00 1 goal 5.90 2 goals 4.10 3 goals 4.00 4 goals 4.60 5 goals 6.20 6 goals 11.00 7 goals
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    • 269 45 TONIGHT: Tampines v Young Lions (Tampines Std) Team news: Tampines Tan Lim Leng, George Goutzioulis, Sead Muratovic suspended, Ismail Fitrey doubtful; Young Lions Jaslee Hatta, Toh Guo An, Mustaqim Manzur injured Team progress: Tampines LWLWWL; Young Lions LLLDLW This season: Tampines 2 Young Lions 0, Young Lions 0
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