The New Paper, 30 April 2000

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  • NEWS
    • 510 2 Shock find during laptops raid in KL THE contents of this suitcase is enough to flatten a single-storey house. There's a detonating device, explosive believed to be C 4 hidden in plasticine, a roll of wire and a clicker (firing device) all part of a
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    • 129 2 TERRORISTS favour them. Plastic explosives are, after all, powerful, and they can be moulded into shapes that make them difficult to detect. C 4, Semtex and RDX are the known types. They are widely used by Sri Lankan Tigers, the Irish Republican Army and Sikh separatists. These explosives
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    • 174 2 INDIA AND CHINA ON BORDER DISPUTE: Source: Wire services.’ CHINA and India may have border disputes but they are still talking. That was the message from the foreign ministers of both countries who met yesterday in New Delhi. "The two sides agreed that an expert group would
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    • 418 3  -  By Sylvia Toh Paik Choo IT was a scene straight out of My Fair Lady. With Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong as Professor Higgins and contractor Phua Chu Kang as Eliza Doolittle, the Speak Good English Movement 2000 got off to
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    • 264 3 BEST IN S'PORE I HAVE watched the first four episodes of the new season of Phua Chu Kang and it is still the best comedy series ever to come out of Production s's sitcom department. Quite a few of the episodes, those written by Mr Ong Su Mann, come close,
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    • 1190 4 When columnist Suzanne Walker wrote about older women-younger men relationships last Sunday, it struck a chord. Eight people told us of similar experiences. NG WAN CHING speaks to an older woman who is happy with a younger man, despite family objections
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    • WHAT OTHERS SAY
      • 112 4 I AM turning 18 in a couple of months. I may be young, but I have been in relationships with older women. Most of them were three to four years my senior. I don't find this weird as 1 don't feel attracted to girls my
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      • 85 4 I USED to date a guy two years younger than me. I was 18 then. Dating a younger guy can be exciting at first because the two of you are having fun together. But it can become boring later when people keep saying you look
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      • 96 4 I AM 21 and my boyfriend is 18. We have been together for two years. With my older boyfriends, I was dumped most of the time. I would be treated like an extra to make their "lonely" national service days better or as a substitute
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    • 877 5  -  COMMENT TRUDY LIM HAS it really come to this? Your toddler is bitten by a classmate. So you march over to his day-care centre and you bite the little viper. We all know that it happened. And last week, the woman who did the biting was
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    • 557 5  -  By Gloria Chandy IF you don't stop bullying my son I am going to sue you!! Does that sound like the kind of language a three-year-old would understand? Not likely. But that is exactly what one irate mother yelled at a toddler in a childcare centre in Choa
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      175 5 WOULD you bite a baby in retaliation? One mother did just that at a child care centre last year. She was fined $1,000. When two-year-old Linus told his mother, Goh Joo Huay, that a classmate had bitten him, she lost her cool. She marched into the centre,
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    • 580 6  -  A change In law later this year will make It compulsory for parents of delinquent children to attend "school". MICHELLE CHOH checks out what such a "school" for parents Is about By Michelle Choh PARENTS are funny people. Funny? Of late
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    • 63 6 WHEN juveniles are first-time offenders of petty crimes such as shoplifting, they have to attend a six-month rehabilitation programme at family service centres such as Fei Yue. The juvenile and the family will have to go for counselling sessions and programmes such as the above. If either of
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    • 283 6 BETWEEN 90 and 40 par cent of parents with children on probation or in homes do not attend ministry-run pragrenvnn or support-group meetings. But this wM chance later 4U- ...a n.Mili una jvJi nlH.il UIC WWOicfl and Young Poreons Act it amended. The—parents wN then have
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  • NEWS
    • 1156 8  -  Do You Remember? RememSer? She made the biggest impression at the recent Divas Concert here, which featuredfour of the biggest names in Malay music. We catch up with Singapore's very own Vegas queen Anita Sarawak J by Gloria
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    • 841 9  -  BY Pam Males IT may be belated, but the recent announcement that some British hospitals are interested in recruiting Singapore nurses set me thinking: As a trained nurse, what would I do if I were in the shoes of the Singapore nurse? Would I take
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    • 339 9 I need friends HsythsreGus, PmalSy—r old rtwdent who haa boon Rvtngln Sbipporafor six months. I'd realty 4a y in, n,, RKe to know*you niwcontacts wnn tne expatriates whom I cm imhi friends wHh? I fool viry itrmp approaching the locals and would Ma to know the non-locals
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    • 504 10 You've read about them. You may even have voted for them. But have you ever wondered what makes them tick? AZHAR GHANI finds out Look at us. We need courtesy campaigns and kindness movements to remind ourselves of the need to uphold human decency. With the
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    • 47 10 THE outstanding 10: 1) Madam Chandralatha Jayawardene 2) Madam Rosita Frando 3) Madam Pacita Cablay 4) Madam Kami Madkasdi 5) Ms Siti Komsatun 6) Madam Creesencia Caburao 7) Madam Tessie Caraulia 8) Madam Jocelyn Eusibio Bayudan 9) Ms Mercy Carolino 10) Ms Lorna Ocampo Ramirez
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    • 117 10 THE top three winners of the "Maid of the Year" contest will be revealed in tomorrow's The New Paper. The winning maids will get: $3,000, $1,500 and $500 in cash respectively, courtesy of Maid-Power. But to find out who's the top vote-getter, join us at the prize
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    • 111 11 GOOD news for readers of The New Paper on Sunday. There are discounted Sentosa entry tickets for you. If you'd like to see the Maid of the Year event on May 7, grab the tickets at the Buzz kiosk outside Lucky Plaza at Orchard Road.
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    • 518 12  - Here comes the bride a little bit late The couple met at a pub two years ago through a mutual friend, Joanne Fernandez. Last year, while they were on holiday in Bintan, he popped the question. She said yes immediately. The couple went through the traditional Muslim wedding rites on
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  • 487 14  -  THE WEEK Guest editor DANNY TAN CEO of eWORLDofSPORTS.com A FRIEND just returned from Paris. And, what do you know, he was gushing over what he termed the Frenchmen's level of customer service. Despite the differences in language and whatever intolerance they may have
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  • 258 15 Antibiotics: End of abuse? A GLANCE IS your child taking antibiotics too freely? Well, the Health Ministry will be releasing a set of guidelines for antibiotics use in children. Yesterday, the ministry released guidelines on the use of antibiotics in adults. They spell out when antibiotics should be used, and
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  • BRIEFLY
    • 105 15 A MAN walked into a food centre yesterday, picked up a chopper from a table and tucked it under his arm. Then he stared at a stallholder. And stared, and stared. Frightened, Madam Hasnah Bony, the stallholder, screamed. Chaos erupted at the food centre, which is next to
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    • 91 15 HE moves through the men's clothing sections of Berlin's most select department stores. His favourite is Kaufhaus des Westens, Berlin's equivalent of Harrod's. He fingers the merchandise. Then with deft, seamless moves, he slices the clothes up with a scalpel, causing thousands of marks worth of damage.
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    • 102 15 DBS Bank should consider holding back on imposing a $2 monthly service charge on customers who have less than $500 in their accounts, so that the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board can work out a way to let lower-income members transfer CPF savings to long-term retirement accounts
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    • 104 15 THE natural mother of one of two little girls switched at birth in the US has been given visitation rights. Ms Paula Johnson will now get her biogical daughter, Rebecca Chittum, aged four, at least one weekend per month. She will also be able to visit during
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    • 88 16 VIDEO conferencing and e-mail will soon be used by Singapore courts to settle copyright and e-commerce cases. They will work with the Ministry of Law, Economic Development Board, the Singapore Mediation Centre and other organisations to come up with a framework for resolving such disputes. Chief Justice Yong
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    • 96 16 IF you're hoping to go to Hongkong for some "chou tofu", you might find it hard to find. The deep fried dish, a popular snack among the Chinese, is definitely not the flavour of the month. It's in big trouble. The Hongkong press yesterday reported that a stinky
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    • 96 16 YOUNG Sophonie Telcy is in a worse boat than Cuban castaway Elian Gonzalez. The six-year-old Haitian girl is alone in the US. Her mother had taken her there, then returned home and died. Sophonie's supporters are afraid she will be sent back to Haiti. They say that her
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    • 92 16 A FORMER navy recruit was jailed 18 years in Ipoh for killing a 10-year-old girl by pulling out her intestines through her vagina. Fairuzazahairi Mat Aleh, 20, will serve this sentence after he finishes serving his first 18 years for hurting a six-year-old. The victim, Nurul Shuhaida Ahmad
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  • INFOCUS
    • 216 16 THREE out of four new jobs created here will be for the new economy. So if you don't go for re-training to learn skills needed in the new economy, you're in big trouble. In his May Day message, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong warned that
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    • 62 16 Ths new economy opportunities for our workers, if they are prepared to continually learn relevant skills. This may appear hard, especially to our older workers with less than secondary education f but lam confident that f so long as they adopt a positive attitude, they can learn and
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    • 92 16 CATCH THE STARS: Don't miss Najip Ali, Tanya and Jai as they help launch Soundbuzz, an Internet website offering music downloads. Watch their gigs for free at Ngee Ann City from noon to 7 pm today. H CYCLING TREK: From 7.30 am to 10 am today, cycle 18
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 54 16 Showers with thunder expected over many areas in the late morning and early afternoon. P N V X north Showerc sunrise 6:57 om west Showers sunset 7:07 pm I control TlwndersSDnßS moonrise 341 Qm south Thunderstorms moonset 4:02 pm lN fir^ttide 2.2 m: 8:18om minimum 25 second tide.. 2.4 m:
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  • NEWS
    • 81 17 PUBLIC registration for the Big Walk ends on May 14. You can register either for the fun walking ($4) or competitive ($5) category. Fun walkers can sign up at any of seven registration centres at Takashimaya Square, Jurong Point, Tampines Mall, North Point, OUB Centre, SAAA and News
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    • 507 17  -  REPORT AND PICTURE FLORENCE IT'S not easy being an artiste, especially a famous one. Take Thomas Ong, for instance. "When I returned to TCS, my face was like a bao (Chinese for bun)," he said, puffing up his cheeks to show me how chubby he
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    • 227 18  -  By Rahul Goswami WHAT'S in a name? Plenty, if that name belongs to Elian Gonzalez (left). The Cuban boy is back with his father, but his name still means big bucks. On the Internet. Internet bandits quickly realised when the saga
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    • 449 18 THE wedding, an arranged marriage, was a lavish one. There were 900 guests at the ceremony in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in Britain. But the newlyweds began arguing almost immediately. They cut short their honeymoon in Barbados, split up after 70 days and later divorced. And
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    • Article, Illustration
      567 19 When seven men and one woman squeeze into a rocket... IT was what she had been waiting for all her life. As a child, Miss Judith Lapierre, 32, had dreamt of becoming an astronaut. So, when the former nurse was told that she had been chosen for
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    • 484 20 Tourists on holiday taken hostage. You sat up straight and took notice. The kidnappers: The Filipino Muslim extremist group, Abu Sayyaf, feared for having chopped off the heads of people... YES, it's true. These children are among 22 that the Abu
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    • 155 20 THE Abu Sayyaf group took 21 foreigners hostage last Sunday from the Malaysian resort island of Sipadan, near Sabah. The foreigners have since been moved to the southern Philippines island of Jolo, says a TV journalist who has been allowed access to the hostages by the group.
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    • 391 21 AP. HE was lying on his hospital deathbed, his 54-year-old body ravaged by Aids. Mr Robert Jahn, an executive with Walt Disney Co, was confused and dazed. He was weak and in pain. He had no lawyer by his side. No family. No loved ones to
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    • 123 21 MR Robert Jahn was a senior vice president at Walt Disney and was in charge of making trailers and TV ads for Disney films. He died of Aids. Mr Jahn's estate then sued Disney, accusing the company of forcing Mr Jahn to sign over US$2.2 million
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  • 659 22  -  FREE SPEECH BROUGHT TO YOU BY By Ivan Lim lvanl@sph.com.sg IDA Bachtiar is slightly agitated as she takes her seat at the breezy, open-air section of Da Vinci's Restaurant at H2O Zone. It's neither the service nor the food, which are both superb. She
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    • 532 23 Thanks. It wasn't a secret liaison as Ivan so cheekily led you to believe. I was filming for an episode of Phua Chu Kang where I was invited to guest star as, ahem, myself. Ivan, as usual, invaded the set, but I think the actors didn't mind
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    • 316 24 Catch the It Squad this Wednesday on Power 98 ISM Write a script for tha next one, win a $100 dinner voucher at H20 Zone and moat the It Squad. The It Squad will invade the airwaves on Wednesday at noon. We'll go on air, tell
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    • 107 24 EILEEN WEE. Just after The New Paper on Sunday had secured a deal with H2O Zone to run a series called Free Speech at its premises, our Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong told the world that Singapore is ready for a Speakers' Corner. But we assure
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  • 586 27 CookieJar THE PLACE TO DIP FOR TIPS ITS already the end of April, and urgh, look at the clutter that has accumulated in just a few months. Pete and Pepe are trying to clean up their home and get organised. Yes, it is time
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  • Aggie MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
    • 177 28 I AM an 18-year-old girl. I used to have a very sweet boyfriend. We were very much in love for two years. But about three weeks ago, something terrible happened to us. I had just started out on my new job and liked it very much.
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    • 543 28 My parents are lying to keep us apart I HAVE known this guy for two years and our relationship has been going well. He is 18, the same age as me. I got pregnant and this led to us being apart. My parents did not agree to our marriage because
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    • 475 28 I'M 16 and have had a few boyfriends before. My father was against all these relationships. Recently, I had a boyfriend who was a Malaysian. We are serious about each other. He is six years older but I don't mind. After my father found
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    • Puberty Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues
      • 208 28 I AM an 18-year-old boy Qnow studying in ITE. What is French kissing? How is it done? Is French kissing done to deepen a relationship? Or is it just a "courtesy greeting" as shown on television? Please tell me about the biological effects of French
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      • 361 28 What the doctor says: Do you know that... MANY readers write in to ask how pregnancy occurs. A basic primer: A female becomes pregnant through sex a process of intimate behaviour during which two partners share the excitement of giving and receiving sexual pleasure. The sexual apparatus of a female
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    • 44 28 CAN YOU HELP? If you Chink you can help with torn* useful advice, writ* or fax to Aggie by Wednesday. The boat letter will be published next week. The writer of the best reply will receive a special ©T-ehirt and a New Paper cap.
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    • 57 28 WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU If you are the letter writer who signed off as Torn Apart recently, please call us. We would like to talk to you. You wrote that you had problems with your husband's drinking. You can contact us at 730-5569 or fax 737-5375. Please address fax,
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    • 60 28 CALLUS If you need advice on matters of the heart or sex issues, write to: Aggie, The New Paper, Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5 Or fax; 737-5375, e-mail: npops@sph.com.sg (please mark Aggie) or call 1900-912-0007 (calls cost 30 cents a minute). (You can use a pen name,
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 863 29 QrVtoday] Turn An Unforgettable September Variety Vision II (Ch 56), The Stupids W 7.25 pm Channel 5, NOON Romeo Juliet An interesting look at a Beijing school A man trying to uncover a garbage Channel 5 f 7pm preparing for an athletics scam is discovered and targeted for A modern
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  • seenHeard SHARP
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      79 31 THE HOVIE Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's dreams of winning the middleweight boxing title are destroyed when he is wrongfully arrested and convicted of the murder of three people. Serving his three life terms in prison, he writes a book about his own story. The book reaches the hands of
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    • 356 31  - This film’s a knockout great acting, gripping storyline. But... by LINGAM PONNAMPALAM WHAT'S there not to like about The Hurricane 7 It's a movie withjuxrient race and racism history ofviofnuce and injustice for storytelling. Upon closer tnk backdrop. Tlymovie, to me, is aboiMlhe triumph of the/iuman spinJ^er^THQkiTl^sadvKrsit^ Am there's a
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  • 96 32  -  Edited by Lingam Ponnampalam lingam@sph.com.sg After the shooting at the Lafayette bar in 1966, Carter (Denzel Washington) and a fan, John Artis (Garland Whitt), are pulled over by the police on the same night Policeman: "We're looking for two negros in a white car.*' Carter "Any two will
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  • 315 32  -  by MICHELLE CHOH THE Hurricane has all the elements of a typical Hollywood movie. There is the protagonist Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (Denzel Washington). An underprivileged black who has been a victim of police racial prejudice ever since he was 12. But he never gave up on
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  • 187 32 Online review by James Berardinelli: "Alternatively tragic and triumphant, The Hurricane is an exhilarating trip through the life and times of the title character, who spent 19 years behind bars for murders he did not commit. It not only details the crime and the miscarriage of justice that
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  • 88 32 Non-stop arguing A man and woman are having marriage problems, and decide to end their union after a very short time together. After a brief attempt to reconcile, the couple goes to court to finalise their break-up. The judge asks the husband: "What has brought you to the point that
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  • 65 32 How did he do it? A MAN went to the police station wishing to speak with the burglar who had broken into his house the night before. "You'll get your chance in court" said the Desk Sergeant "No. no, no!" said the man. "I want to know how he got
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  • 66 32 I feel the Earth move... Near the end of a particularly trying round of golf, dunng which the golfer had hit numerous fat shots, he said in frustration to his caddy: "I'd move heaven and earth to break a hundred on this course." Try heaven." said the caddy. "You've already
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
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  • Feature
    • 303 35  -  Report/ CORTLAN BENNETT WANT a chance to feed tigers? You can do precisely that in China's Xiongsheng Bear and Tiger Mountain Village, just 15 minutes from the popular scenic city of Guilin. There, right before your eyes, the big cats are fed live domestic animals. Privately funded,
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      235 36 > into the arena next, seemingly unaware of its impending doom at the jaws of a large, lean, full-grown cat, which is immediately let loose from its cage and goes straight for the calf s throat. The calf mews and cries, kicking at the tiger and struggling to remain or
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  • 613 37  -  singleColumn by Janice Wong wonghlj@sph.com.sg CONTRARY to popular belief, I am painfully shy. I suspect I suffer from a chronic social deficiency: Small talk disorder. I can't make polite conversation about inane topics to save my life. I would examine
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    • 368 39  -  By Carol Leong carol@sph.com.sg IF you've always associated the bamboo plant with food for pandas, well, open your eyes panda-wide! Bamboo figured greatly in the inventions of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell (see other report below), and it saved the life of the subject of
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    • 117 39 BAMBOO is the fastest-growing plant on earth. In one day, it can grow up to an astounding 1.2 m and one cluster can produce 200 poles. It's a good alternative to wooden furniture. "Then you don't have to cut down so many trees!" declared Uma. Bamboo also
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  • 633 41  -  Vonue Text and pictures by SETO NU-WEN SETO NU-WEN IN cherry blossom time, not only sakura but the entire city of Tokyo comes to full bloom. Welcoming the cherry blossoms is ritualistic for the Japanese. From early March, daily newspapers chart the progress of how fast the
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    • 418 47 PICK OF THE DAY This smart four-year-old is definitely heading for better things. An impressive winner last August, he resumed after a spell last month with another display of power, coasting home in lmin 12sec over the Kuala Lumpur 1,200 m. His time was
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    • 122 47 RACE 2: King Romance, Harrier. RACE 3: Federal Highway, Breezy Vee. RACE 4: Alfred's Princess, Kenwin. RACE 5: Fortune Machine, Energy Special, Ooatari, Caro Lad, Hula Fighter. RACE 6: Breezy, Great Dream, Winmic, Steptronic. RACE 7: Rich Strike, His Highness, Safe Harbour, Squawk Box, Boy Emperor, Verified, Must Invest,
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    • 640 47 TODAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD —Going forecast: Good No. L—t 6 run« Horn Wt Rating Joctoy Bwriw (AgatortgkVm, tnlmt-omm) 1 BOOM BOOM BOOM 57 (57) KLOo 4 (3ag Velu-Kuality Mas) 2 MELODY MAKER 57 (57) DO Heare 2 (3nzg T Tan-Loh Lap Sang) 3 44 CONVERGENCE 57 (55) 'M Huzairi
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    • 1062 49 YESTERDAY'S KRANJI (COURSE D) RESULTS Going: Good 6 MASCOT 57 (9-6) M Kway (3) 3 1 1 (512) 2 DUAL WONDER 58.5 (19-6) DOHeare (4) 6 6 2 (417) 4 GOOD FIGHTER 58.5 (121-21) E Wilkinson (2) 5 4 3 (524) 7 ROYAL DRAGON 56.5 (53-11) JSalfudln (1) 7 7
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    • 414 49 YESTERDAY'S PERTH (ASCOT) RESULTS Going: Good 5 HONOUR YOUR DEBT 52.5 (29-8) Pitrick Carbery (8) 1 4 ZOLOTO 53 (29-9) PaterKnuckey (6) 2 2 LADY FIDELIA 55.5 (34-9) Jason Whiting (2) 3 Also ran: AT THE CLUB Stephen Miller, SPIRIT OF JULES Troy Turner. ANCHOR BUOY Noel Rudland, CLEMENTI Jason
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    • 460 50  -  By- Tan Thean Loon THE duel to the post between Mascot and Dual Wonder, the top tow fancies respectively in the opening event of the eight-race card at Kranji yesterday, was a tense affair. It looked like a deadheat. But, in the end,
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    • 639 54  -  COMMENT EDWIN YEO IT irks me that everybody assumes Liverpool has secured its Champions League place. Even the Premier League Highlights on Sportscity showed the local crew going around asking the public whether they thought Leeds or Arsenal would get the third Champions League place. As Liverpool's
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    • 101 54 RACE FOR EUROPE: GOALS from George Weah and Roberto Di Matteo gave Chelsea a 2-0 victory over Liverpool. The result threw wide open the race for Champions League places next season. Champion Manchester United earlier beat Watford 3-2 for its ninth successive win, a result which confirmed Watford's
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    • 378 55  -  By Ian Brown THE last of England's football elite remaining in Srivate hands seems set to oat and challenge Manchester United's supremacy in the Premiership. The 51 per cent imyority shareholding of the Moores' family is reckoned to be restricting Liverpool's
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    • 716 55 RACE FOR EUROPE; EVERTON 0 ARSENAL 1 Marc Overmars 34 OTHER RESULTS: ASTON VILLA 1 Gareth Barry 60 SUNDERLAND 1 Niall Quinn 85 Crowd: 33,949 NEWCASTLE 2 Alan Shearer 78 penalty, Diego Gavilan 84 COVENTRY 0 Crowd: 36,408 SOUTHAMPTON 1 Hassan Kachloul 4 LEICESTER
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    • 76 55 IPSWICH Town ensured the battle for the last automatic promotion place to the Premier League will go to the last game. Yesterday, Ipswich won 3-1 at First Division champion Charlton Athletic. After Manchester City beat Birmingham City 1-0 on Friday, Ipswich had to win to stay in the
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    • 54 56 JURONG FC got back to winning ways at the Jurong East Stadium last night after losing to Tampines Rovers last week. Player-coach V Sundramoorthy led the way for the Cobras (Jurong's nickname) with a goal in the second half. Paul Masefield and Hrvoje Ratkovic
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    • 87 57 YES, after all that has happened, Man U boss Sir Alex Ferguson still wants Ruud van Nistelrooy. This despite the PSV Eindhoven striker being ruled out for at least eight months with more knee ligament damage, reports Sky Sports. Fergie is adamant the 23-year-old striker could
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