The New Paper, 5 November 2000

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  • [NEWS]
    • 138 2 QUALITY people, strong political leadership and sound institutions. These are what Singapore needs. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong reiterated some of the points from his National Day Rally speech at the NUSS Millennium-Lecture last night. A minute's silence was observed as a mark of respect to the
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    • 544 2 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong answered questions at the end of his speech, Singapore Beyond 2007, at the National University of Singapore last night. These are some points he made: GETTING SINGAPOREANS TO COME HOME:If you have shared memories of your friends in Singapore, you
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  • SIA CRASH
    • 282 3  -  By Jason Tan Singapore Girl's body found IN a shocking development yesterday, two bodies were found under the wreckage four days after the crash of Flight SQOO6. The charred but intact remains of a Singapore Girl was among two female bodies recovered yesterday at 4pm, one under the wing
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    • 631 3 Crash investigators in Taiwan are talking about filing criminal charges if the cockpit crew was negligent. But investigations into the Oct 31 crash of Flight SQOO6 isn't even over yet Is it a witch-hunt, ask ANDRE YEO and SETO NU-WEN HOW long will
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  • 779 4  -  By Eugene Anthony YES, it's that time of the year again. So forgive us if we sound preachy. But can you blame us? When you enjoy the sight of life thriving in our rivers, it's painful to see floating amid the splendour of nature empty
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  • 269 5 HERE are my top picks for Clean and Green Week activities. Today Opening of Brontosaur Park at Pasir Ris Street 71. The event will include tree planting, a telematch, a brisk walking activity, children's on-the-spot art competition and colouring contest. Contact Ms Caral G0hat*****62. Tomorrow Official
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  • 932 6 Life with 'no hope' dad EN E WSJ w Imagine living with gamblers. Hard-core addicts who stay out late, demand money from their cash-strapped families and who neglect their children. Recently, The New Paper on Sunday received two heartfelt letters from writers'to the Dear Aggie
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  • 348 7 Where gamblers can go for help THERE is Alcoholics Anonymous for drinking addicts, but there is no Gamblers Anonymous for addicted gamblers here. Both basically need the same treatment as addicts, say counsellors and doctors. How can you help a gambling addict? Set the markers clearly, says
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  • 487 7 She has two jobs —to pay her husband's debts MRS Tan has only one wish: That her husband give up gambling before she drops dead from the exhaustion of single-handedly looking after the household and their seven-year-old daughter. She has to hold down two jobs just to make ends meet.
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  • 605 8  -  w^McmSK IN TAIWAN: TANYA FONG A CRASHING sound. Then a loud explosion. Mr Teng Kang Hui had settled down to try and sleep, but those terrifying sounds snapped him upright. What he saw next got him leaping into action. "The ceiling of the
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  • 727 9 FRAEMONE WEE reports on the debate Fhe New Paper, Thursday THE New Paper has carried stories both heartwarming and tragic about the Singapore Airlines crash in Taipei. But this picture (right) provoked some readers to react strongly. Several thought we should not have printed the
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  • 238 9 Sonalism is okay if you're to draw attention to causes depletion of the rainforests ophilia, but to focus on morbidity is inane. —A listener who faxed her reaction to 90.5FM N&ihatter what kind of message the across, the relatives to know about how hard identify the bodies or
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  • SIA CRASH
    • 748 10 That stalk of yellow chrysanthemum on a dark, brown coffin told a story. A grim story. A story which began to unfold near midnight on that terrible Tuesday. The final chapter has not yet been written. But even now,, what we have is a nation in grief.
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    • 342 12 THE woman broke down when she saw the dented black case bearing the name, "Tee Seok Choo". As the airport police pried open the case, she rummaged through the clothes with her trembling hands. [IpShe knew what she was looking for. |jjj|Seconds later, she
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    • 104 12 p|K MR Rau Fong Shan, vice-cap-tain of Taiwan's Criminal Investi--5 gat ion Division Aviation Police said in Mandarin: "We jjliave sectioned the personal be- longings according to the parts of the runway on which they had been found. g|r "So far, 114 items of personal have
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    • 392 11 Needless to say, I feel sad and grieved. But these sorts of things happen, we lust have to get on with It. In terms of SIA, this doesn't change my viewpoint, they're very safety-conscious. I Just feel very sorry for the families affected. It's tragic. Singapore is not exposed to
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  • 347 14  -  By Gloria Chandy WHAT happens in a chilli eating contest? Everybody saw red... Special guest Media Works star Bryan Wong looked like a red chilli padi himself, host Under One Roofs Nicholas Lee was more of a green pepper. And some contestants saw red, too, at The
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  • 72 15 jßKif OK, bite that chilli in half, chew it cmm swalloiv it Host Nicholas Lee Came on? this is not in my Special guest Bryan Wong, Media Works star BETWEEN MOUTHFULS: Boy, this is hot... that was no gag! Is Bryan's
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  • [@ A GLANCE]
    • 218 16 AP. WORKERS' Party chief JB Jeyaretnam said yesterday he can now pay damages from a libel lawsuit in monthly instalments and thus will not lose his seat in Parliament. A group of eight people sued Mr Jeyaretnam, 74, a Non-Constituency MP, for defamation over an article
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    • 180 16 |njcus] SCREAMS and cries daily from your neighbour's flat. You need not feel helpless. You can do something. The first step: Turning to grassroots bodies who play a key role in identifying those who need help from family violence. Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, Senior Parliamentary Secretary to
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    • 57 16 LOOK at this mass Om^ DAODW: puupiv gMllftHWi far vIMI owe imsocl --■to demand tiw nwrfgimttiMl wi pj||(pp|#|lll™ Pieikloflt Joseph s> f ,i.„ J, V ESuaua* nw mammotir L„ raay sir m morethaa 50,000 I protester! wn held In 1 tttbHliMfll Mandaluyon^ yesterday. Coaldthis signal the
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    • 172 16 LATIN BEATS: Groove to the sounds of the Tribal Tide Percussion Band today, at Chijmes Lawn, from spm to Bpm. The band kicks off the Chijmes Latin Series with African rhythms and Brazilian street samba. There will also be a demonstration of the capoeira, a Brazilian-African dance/martial
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    • [BRIEFLY]
      • 98 17 PIRATE attacks in the region are rising. And attacks on Singapore ships more than doubled in the first nine months this year. From January to September this year, 31 Singapore ships were attacked by pirates, reported the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre. The figure was 15
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      • 100 17 TWO technicians from the Public Works Department's Building Control Division were yesterday charged with taking $500 each in bribes from a houseowner. Ahmad Ashek, 46, and Abdullah Abdul Majeed, 39, allegedly took the money as a reward for recommending that a Temporary Occupation Permit be issued to
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      • 96 17 AP. A CAR repairman hijacked a bus carrying 33 Japanese tourists in Greece yesterday after killing his mother-in-law and a friend. An anti-terrorist squad, two police helicopters, several police cars, motorbikes, ambulances and fire trucks shadowed and isolated the moving bus while negotiators spoke to the gunman by
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      • 93 17 AFP. AN Indonesian maid who kidnapped her Malaysian employers' baby because she bore a grudge against them has been jailed for two years, reports said yesterday. Enny Susilawati, 47, on Friday admitted taking Mohamed Emir Daniel, 15 months, from his parents' Kuala Lumpur home on
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      • 105 17 EX-CENTRAL Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officer Edward Lee Kok Fai, 25, was yesterday charged with taking $10,000 to switch the urine sample of a drug suspect. He also allegedly got loans of more than $4,000 from the staff of two nightclubs for tipping them off about
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      • 116 17 signatures HOWS this for a money-spinning sideline? Put your signature to some company documents and get paid $2,000. And if you do that for as many as 200 companies each year, that adds up to $400,000 a year. It's possible if you're a nominee director. Under the Companies Act, there
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      • 107 17 NO kidding! The Shah Rukh Khan concert has been postponed once again. The Bollywood megastar flew into Singapore yesterday to explain. At a press conference at the Pan Pacific Hotel, he said: "We're not just sorry, this has gone beyond being sorry. This is embarrassing." The
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      • 105 17 Bernama. LUNAS state assemblyman Dr Joe Fernandez, 54, died of gunshot wounds at a specialist hospital in Penang yesterday. State Deputy CPO Datuk Abu Kassim Mohamed Nor said three shots were fired at the Kedah legislator, while he was in his car at the Jalan Maju-Jalan Harapan
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    • 373 17 ewatch NEXT week, one of two men will lose the US presidential election. Both candidates have been so close to winning, it is the losing that promises to be friore interesting. The question now is not how Republican George W Bush turned a slight deficit in the
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 59 16 Slightly hazy, Showers with thunder are expected in the morning and early afternoon mainly over western, southern and eastern Singapore, party cloudly thereafter north PartlyCloudly sunrise 6:47 am west Thunderstorms sunset.... 6:slpm central PartlyCloudly moonrise 1:55 pm south Thunderstorms moonset 1:27 am east Thunderstorms minimum 24 °C firsttide... 2.1 m:
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  • 680 18  -  £TH^WeekJ Guest editor TANYA CHUA Singer I WAS born somewhere in the bustling city of Singapore, in an apartment fit for two, after a sister, into the arms of two wonderful human beings, who later 0n... wait a minute...my life story? Nah, I wasn't going
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    • 164 19 4 MSN wants to fly you and a friend to Newark to see Ricky Martin "Live"! S1 868HBflpffigjM |kj&yi >^K; Log on to www.msn.com.sg/ricky.asp now and all you have to do is tell us briefly why you and your friend should win.The best answer wins you the chance to fly
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  • 205 21 THE Loy Krathong festival dates to the time of the Sukhothai Kingdom, about 700 years ago. At the time, the festival marked the end of the rainy season and the main rice harvest. It was based on the Hindu tradition of thanking the water god for the
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  • 20 21 THE Thai is :^E^Q^S^^fefi(^^^|P|^pE^Ev&|6|^lQi®i Xc^s|^p^Sg>:;^pS3®E«e^|Gl333s.raßV; and five committeejnembers. I I of themembers^are here oiTemployment pass. Jobj#iveB|s to§p§oniategl|||f andHMN^M^
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    • 209 21 Contact us THE Expat Page is constantly make the Expat Page more relevant looking for ideas on expats to to you, feel free to contact Gus at: feature. The person can be anyone The New Paper Expat Page as long as he/she is keen to be 82 Genting Lane, News
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  • [NEWS]
    • 1196 22  -  She was brought up in a wealthy traditional Hindu family in Saskatoon, Canada, where her father had a medical practice. As a teenager, she dreamed of a romantic love marriage, but later ,pinned her hopes of happiness on an arranged one. m She was a dentist
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    • 266 23 DURING her first trial, Alpna Patel remained free on a $200,000 bail. This time, she waits in a Baltimore prison on a $1 million bail as lawyer Edward Smith appeals her three-year-sentence for killing her husband. Mr Smith had argued unsuccessfully for
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    • 282 23 TO many Americans and Canadians, the tragedy of Alpna Patel has a lot to do with arranged marriages. She said she was suffocated living with her in-laws, particularly father-in-law Nandlal Patel, who did not want them for some weird reason to have sex on
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    • 128 23 CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH.i MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH.MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH.B MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH. MORE CASH.
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  • [NEWS]
    • 318 25 HE is one of the Australian Army's most senior officers. He is the Director-General of Australia's Defence Health Services. And he is being investigated over claims of sexual assault and harassment of female subordinates. Look at what Brigadier Wayne Ramsey is accused of doing.
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    • 297 26 THE killer husband probably thought he could get away with murder. Literally. He had plotted his wife's death for a long time. He had decided that after he killed her, he would dress up in her clothes to make everyone
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  • 438 28 MAD COW DISEASE REPORT LnewO mm 4/ mm: THE British government told an unsuspecting public throughout the 80s that it was safe to eat a]^>eef. But that, say latest reports, was just not true. The consequences are expected to be severe. Because some of the beef
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  • 314 30 HOW safe is your home for kids? Nearly 70 per cent of accidents among the young occur at home, says the child-safety centre at KK Women's and Children's Hospital. The reason? The many innocuous "kid-killers" lurking in your home without your even knowing
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  • [Feature]
    • 358 32  -  She now has 'minders'! They haven't all gone on to greater things. But for several past winners of The New Paper New Face contest, winning, finishing as runner-up, or merely being a finalist was a springboard to fame and fortune by Gloria Chandy SHIRLEY Yee. Yes,
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    • 198 32 GABRIELLE Dai, 1998 winner, was busy swotting for her first-year university exams when we called her. "It was more for the fun that I took part," says the girl who, swoons one young colleague, was "only the cutest girl in RJC". "I had several offers
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    • 397 32 SERENA Kim Adsit, 1995 first runner-up, won the now defunct GO Magazine New Face competition just a few months before. She was 16 then and thought that being a New Paper New Face might give her modelling ambitions a boost. It did! "What a big thing that
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  • [SeenHeard] SHARP
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      50 33  -  THE MOVIE r Edited by Eugene Anthony nirvana@sph.com.sg Teen comedy about a cheerleading squad trying to make it to the top of the national cheerleading competition finals, fiercely butting heads with a rival team along the way Stars Kirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union, Eliza Dushku and Jesse Bradford.
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    • 385 33  -  by EUGENE ANTHONY THIS is not "on" and neither did it take me anywhere. I am probably too "old" for this utter nonsense of a movie. What this means is that it has probably been made for anyone who's up to his or
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      68 34 Torrance, to rest of cheerleading j squad: C'mon everybody, w© can't I rest on our laurels. j Squad mate: Why does everybody have to say that? Maybe laurels are a good place to rest. Bforrance, persuading her motherto j sr to continue her cheerleading s: Mothers will like
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    • 337 34  -  *>y YEOH WEE TECK CHEERLEADING is not the biggest thing in Singapore. The few cheerleaders I have see in action were overly made-up women clinging on to dingy pom-poms. And there seems to be an unwritten cheerleading rule here: Overload on the sequins. The faster
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    • 135 34 Roger Ebert in his online review: This movie wants it all. In addition to the sex comedy, the intrigue and the condescending treatment there's also the big climax at the cheerieading competition, so that a movie that has exhausted *bl hi^h^^lwol obligatory plot gimmicks Big Game, f The
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 194 34 Hp*" Request for pepper A French guest staying in a hotel in Edmonton, Canada, phoned room service for some pepper. "Black pepper, or white pepper?" asked the concierge. "Toilette pepper!" said the guest Not his daughter A little girl, when asked her name, would reply. "I'm Mr Sugarbrown's daughter." Her
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 485 35 B wmm I CALL: 873-3333 A I 24-hour subscription sales hotline VflOVlfiS tue Extreme Crisis I Opm The Concordians, an international today Cool World terrorist group, infiltrates aTV station spm Josh Debbs (Bryne, The Usual j n Hongkong and threatens to release gMK™ Suspects) is an underground cartoonist the deadly
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    • 473 36 I Highlight of the Week sports 'iSfllini fr* UEFA Cup 2nd Rd (2nd Leg)— W mmmsmp' 2am Dlnamo Zagreb vs Parma (LIVE Exclusive) Parma's two goals in the first leg should see them through to the next round, provided they secure at least a draw World will be in Washington
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  • 580 37  -  r> hin s f I CHEAP AND HIP: STYLE FOR THE BUDGET-CONSCIOUS By Carol Leong carol@sph.com.sg WHAT do you see in this little white $1.99 porcelain plate? Possibilities. Plenty of possibilities. The moment I saw it at the 0ne.99 shop in The Heeren, I immediately thought:
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  • 499 38  -  mm warn ISingleColumnJ. by^ Adele Ong o ongssa@sph.com.sg SOME time ago, I was determined to have a child before it was biologically no longer an option. It took months of soul-searching to change my mind. Being unmarried wasn't the problem. If my final decision had favoured motherhood, singlehood
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  • Article, Illustration
    983 39  -  I Venue I jet, set, go Who says fast cars and pit-lane babes are just for the guys? YONG SIEW FERN took a whirlwind virgin tour to the Formula One Grand Prix in Sepang, Malaysia, and returned with accidental memories and a Mercedes... plastic bag Edited by Crispina
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  • 517 41 Tune in, G Decibels chill out U Righteous Love Joan Osbourne (Warner) THE woman who wondered if God was one of us is back. Here, you get the signature Osborne style—groovy folk music with a generous dose of bar-style blues. Backed by a soulful chorus, the result is, at times,
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  • 662 41 Rave WHEN I first met John ||l|g morning after his Istana 1996. j§He.was wea|ing?his sunglasses in® his hotel (lressed in black. plßitt|Myiß^ these. I've hacfsfjjpng night and o r/tfajj a >\jjp onn Jfi ad i r L rn lr 1 o'o~c u o' tfssra &c 13 Fftfrj.
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  • 697 42  -  fSoSueMej SUZANNE WALKER WRITES A FORTNIGHTLY COLUM by Suzanne Walker "YOU cut your hair." I was working out in my regular gym and strutting from the water cooler when he caught my attention. Thus began my episode with this hot to trot Channel 8 TCS heart-throb. When
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  • [Aggie] MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
    • 311 43 I'M 16. Some time back, I got to know this guy. One day, he came up to me and asked me to be his girlfriend. I was very happy and agreed. From that day onwards, I started to fall in love with him. He
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    • 215 43 Last week's letter: VIRGO Girl is 13. Around June this year, her school held a combined, camp for all uniformed groups. 1 While they were having fun, she saw this guy looking at her. At first, she did not like him but lately, she started to
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    • 156 43 Readers' advice: FM 13 too and have been in your shoes before. I had a crush on this boy, A, last year. A lot of talk was going on about us being together. He admitted to some of his friends that he had feelings for me.
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    • 169 43 WHAT you are experiencing is a crush that has developed from your constant thoughts of him. I recommend that you simply ignore all the feelings you have for him, difficult as it may be. If you can't cope with these simple crushes, you will have problems
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    • 545 44 I'M a 16-year-old girl, Earlier this year, I got to know A, who sits beside me in class. We were just like sisters and shared everything, including our problems. One day, I went shopping with A. We went into a supermarket. She took a
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    • 371 44 I'M 18 and have an Internet boyfriend who is six years older. He is in Australia. We have been together for a couple of months. We maintain our relationship over the Internet and phone but have never met. I checked his particulars through a friend
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    • [Puberty] Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues
      • 140 44 I DON'T have any obvious Q symptoms that prove I have a sexually-transmitted disease (STD). I don't have a burning sensation when I urinate. My private parts look normal with no growth or blisters. But sometimes, when I masturbate, there is pus in tlfe semen.
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      • 221 44 lAM 19 years old and my Q boyfriend, whom I've known for more than a year, is 20. We have sex regularly—but sex sometimes hurts. I think this might be because I am "small". Is this normal? I've heard that sex is not meant to
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    • 69 44 CALLUS If you need advice on matters of the heart or sex issues, write to: Aggie, The New Paper, News Centre, 82 Genting Lane, Singapore *****7. Or fax: 737-5375, e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg (please mark: Aggie) or call 1900-*****07 (calls cost 30 cents a minute). (You can use a pen name, but
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  • 842 45  -  Column f MUSICIAN ART FAZIL SOUNDS OFF by Art Fazil WE have a global problem. It has to do with our size. We are so small that on the world map we hardly exist, but as a tiny-weenie dot. In some maps, the dot is hardly
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  • 935 46  -  [Far out I AN OFF-BEAT ROUT OF EVERYDAY LIFE with Mike Chua chuamcg@sph.com.s TWO of the happier talking points that stood out last month for me were SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) and "How to be a better father". In the spirit of this column, I think
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    • 907 50 RACE 1: Squawk Box: RACE 2: Platoon Commander. RACE 3: Energy Special, Lucky Gem, Another Effort. RACE 4: Tuis All Round, Hero Legend, Intan Singapura 11, Another Chapter. RACE S: Secret Formula. RACE 6: Kiwi Tycoon. RACE 7: Win Again, Winde, Bold Hero, Eastern Dragon, Direct Link, Spin Master,
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    • 65 50 PICK OF THE PAY Graduated with flying colours last time out despite putting together a string of dismal runs at previous starts. His demolition act left his closest rival reeling eight lengths behind. Trainer Gavin Kelly put the sudden transformation down to the gelding
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    • 1132 51 TODAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD Going forecast: Good KEEPING WATCH: Perth jockey David O'Heare, seen returning to scale aboard Sir Benton at Kranjilast Sunday, has four rides in today's card of 12 races at Kuala Lumpur His mounts are likely to provide good value, so keep an eye on their
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    • 405 52 Reuters. FREEMASON was installed as the early favourite for Tuesday's As 3 million ($2.79 million) Melbourne Cup after the draw for the 3,200 m handicap was announced yesterday. The four-year-old, winner of last season's Queensland Derby (2,400 m), was listed at odds of 6-1 for
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    • 1097 52 TODAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD —Going forecast: Good No. La«t 6 ruin Hone Wt Rating Joetov Barrier (Aaaforiglnfrex, trainer-owner) 1 *****1 MAGIKWIRA 57 (89) *RLim .4 (7ag Landers-True Magic) 2 947-0- WIN AGAIN 56 (87) PVellaikannu 15 (6nzg F Nathan-Wong Kooi Yen) 3 *****1 WINDE 55:5 (86) "MM Cheah 11
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    • 481 53 National Warm Jar Handicap 12 AMIABLE 119(58-16) KHUng (6) -.1 1 KING'S GLAMOUR 134(30-11) CPTIng (2) 2 10 KING COBRA 121 (29-9) SKSIt (5) 3 Winning trainer: PC Kan. Margins: Shd, shd. Time: Imin 36.75ec. Forecast: $87. Tierce: $1,178. Panasonic Office Automation Equipment Handicap
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    • 237 53 1 COOL BUSINESS 68.5 (14-5) Henry Barnabas (5) 1 6 BALLET GIRL 53 (99-20) Peter Knuckey (4) 2 4 GWAUA GIRL 55 (68-13) Stephen Miller (1) 3 Winning trainer: Jim Taylor. Margins: Shd, Vfc, hd. Time: Imin 11.7 sec. Forecast: $47. Tierce: $455. 1 FAIR ALERT 58.5
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    • 611 54  -  By Gary Lim WHAT sport would you expect these Catholic Junior College students to indulge in? Football, basketball, bowling, snooker or archery? Guess what? Four of them are in love with lawn bowling. The 17-year-olds have taken up the sport to satisfy their curiosity. Mary Lim,
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    • 233 54 JiCMHmY S medaWrtta the sJngfc* art the ***** SEA Games mi i hnwr national hockey player; J" I picked up the game about 30 years ago. It's a very challenging game. It gives you the opportunity to carry on—you can still match the younger ones
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    470 56 Hill hobbles out AP. GRANT Hill played 36 minutes in Orlando's loss to Philadelphia yesterday morning, hobbling through the last few on his surgically repaired left ankle and missing six of his last seven shots. If he's is unable, to play today morning in Atlanta, his next stop
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  • PREMIER LEAGUE
    • 129 57 What a game. Sheer thrills and spills, hits and misses as Leeds United fought a 2-goal deficit to win 4-3. One man stood out. One man got four goals. The final score: Mark Viduka 4, Liverpool 3. 24th minute: Left-back Christian Ziege, who had scored Liverpool's second
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      55 58 73rd minute: Liverpool is 3-2 up, but Viduka proves elusive again. He pounces on a through ball from Olivier Dacourt and swivels past P t atrik Bergerto slot home from the narrowest of angles pastWesterveld and Jamie Carragher. To add injury to insult, Berger twists his ankle
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    • 341 59  -  msmmsm SURESH NAIR SHAME, shame, shame. The Lions were embarrassed on the eve of Asean's biggest soccer tournament by a wrong photograph which appeared in the 26-page Tiger Cup official souvenir. The players and officials were taken aback by the large-sized picture on
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    • 509 60 BOLD. Brave. Courageous. Heroic. Now, what appropriate word shall I use to describe this man who's a riddle wrapped in a mystery? Yes, lion-hearted is probably the perfect word to describe Nazri Nasir. If you were here in Songkhla, you'd shake your head if
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    • 329 60  -  By Lim Han Ming FIRST, it was Indra Sahdan. Now, it's Harun Juma'at's turn. The former Marine Castle winger (right) has followed in the footsteps of Indra by signing up as a junior police officer for five years. That means Harun, like Indra, will
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    • 568 61  -  COMMENT EDWIN YEO LETS face it, 20 minutes into last night's match between Liverpool and Leeds at Elland Road, even the most die-hard fans would not have given the home team much chance of a victory, much less a 4-3 win. After all, Liverpool was
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