
Here's a close-up of the page:
It's from 2 January 1997, the day Singaporeans cast their vote in the 1997 General Election and more than a decade before I joined the paper.
This image of the TNP page one has been circulating online long before yesterday, but no one ever showed what was actually inside the paper. A case of judging a book by its cover perhaps?
I was curious enough that I found these pages from that day's TNP in the NLB online archives.
Sorry, I didn't look up the football pages.
To recreate more of that 90s vibe, here are the No. 1 songs that week in the US and UK.
The New Paper editor at the time was PN Balji, who ironically wrote this commentary for Yahoo: