The New Paper, 24 February 2001

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    27 1 the new paper SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2001 Singapore Press Holdings Email: tnp@sph. com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg MITA (P) 058/04/2000 60 CENTS
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Down,down, down...
      369 2 Wire services. RED lights lit up most of the world stockmarkets yesterday, indicating that the stocks were down. Except for Japan and the US tech index Nasdaq, markets suffered another case of the jitters and ran for the exit. The gloom was spooked by: Economic uncertainty Corporate warnings
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    • Article
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      63 2 Sorry (The New Paper yesterday): Our report carried incorrect closing figures for both the Nasdaq and Dow Jones indexes. The Nasdaq Composite Index ended down 23.98 points at 2,244.96 yesterday. It was the Nasdaq's lowest close in two years. The Dow Jones industrial average inched up 0.23 of
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      Lock icon JAPAN DOWNGRADED
      111 2 JAPANESE financial markets reacted favourably after a downgrade of the country's credit-rating.^ The cut sent a strong signal to Japanese politicians who have shown little resolve to tackle problems in the economy. The international credit rating agency Standard Poor lowered its assessment of the credit-worthiness of Japanese government
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      Lock icon Malaysian teens lag behind in handphone ownership
      184 2 EIGHT out of every 10 youngsters in Singapore, Hongkong and Taiwan own handphones. This compared to only 57 per cent in Malaysia. American music reigns supreme in Singapore and Malaysia but the youths in Thailand have have closer ties to their home, preferring
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Baby Nook's mum: Her incredible ourney that ended in a drain
      712 4 A village girl who wanted a better life... baby a For Minister-Counsellor ja and Head of the new paper, fbb 16 Consular Affairs, MrNoppadon Theppitak, Baby Nook's mother retraces her journey to Singapore. GENEVIEVE JIANG and IRENE KEW report
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      Lock icon She cut umbilical cord with a pair of scissors
      398 4 THE labour pains were so excruciating she had no choice but to risk getting caught. They tried to get to a hospital. Said Mr Theppitak: "They tried unsuccessfully to get a cab. No one would stop for them/' Left without a
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      Lock icon MUM AND BABY VERY LUCKY
      92 4 Baby Nook and her mother are extremely lucky. She could have been jailedfor at least two weeks. The Singapore authorities have chosen to handle this matter in a humane way. If other illegal offenders start thinking that this is a way out, think again. Having
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      Lock icon We're grateful to Singaporeans'
      152 4 THREE boxes full of fresh, clean baby clothes. Tins of milk powder. And a little teddy bear. Baby Nook and her family flew home yesterday afternoon with these things and more. All thanks to concerned readers who offered their help since The New Paper broke the
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • Article
      Lock icon One jailed, one facing sentence
      197 5 HOT STORY HARBOURING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS THEY are both elderly women. One is 60, and sentenced to six months jail. The other, 70, out on bail, is facing the prospect of a similar sentence. Their crime? Harbouring illegal immigrants. A district court yesterday sentenced Pheh Kim
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      Lock icon STAY SAFE
      53 5 A landlord must Inspect his tenant's original work permit and compare the particulars with those in his passport. If the tenant is employed, the landlord must also match his particulars with those in the employer's records. All three checks must be made. Harbouring illegals carries a minimum punishment
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      Lock icon News Break Company to pay
      68 5 ACCIDENT WIDOW Ong Tean Hoe and Hong Kong Industrial Company have reached a settlement over her lawsuit. The company said it was responsible for the accident last April 12 that left her without hands. They were amputated at the wrists after a machine crushed them.
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      Lock icon TV3 to pay $45m
      64 5 MALAYSIA THE Malaysian High Court has ordered Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Bhd (TV3) to pay RM100 million ($45m) in damages to an employment agency boss for defamation. Mr Badrul Zaman PS Md Zakariah, 49, said TV3 had aired a news bulletin on Feb 24,1998, which showed him
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      Lock icon War rape is crime
      61 5 UNITED NATIONS A UNITED Nations tribunal has declared that "sexual enslavement" is a crime against humanity. The tribunal's decision on Thursday breaks the old pattern set by international courts, which had considered rape in war as a lesser offence. The tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs who
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      Lock icon UOB guilty
      61 5 BANKS UOB Asia, the corporate finance arm of the United Overseas Bank Group, has pleaded guilty to "misleading the public" twice last year through initial public offer announcements. It faces a fine of up to $1 million. UOB Asia had asked co-underwriters of eWorldofSports.com and Hua Kok International
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      Lock icon Donor in court
      66 6 HIV BLOOD NEO Swee Chye, 30, a HIV-infected man, was charged in court yesterday. He is accused of giving false information on a blood-donor registration form before donating blood at a mobile blood bank at Lorong 24A, Geylang, on June 25 last year. He allegedly lied that
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      Lock icon 2 ministers quit
      50 6 NEW ZEALAND IT was alleged that New Zealand's Environment Minister Marian Hobbs and Customs Minister Phillida Bunkle had registered themselves as Wellington residents for voting purposes. However, they claimed government allowances for living outside the city. The two, who were under investigation for wrongful conduct, resigned yesterday.
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      Lock icon New LCD plant
      48 6 ELECTRONICS TWO giant Japanese electronics corporations are setting up a $1.84 billion plant in Tampines to make liquid-crystal-display (LCD) panels. It will be one of the largest and most technologically-advanced plants in the world. This is a joint venture between Toshiba and Matsushita Electric Industrial.
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      Lock icon Anwar lawsuit fails
      51 6 MALAYSIA JAILED Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim has failed in his final bid to sue Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. The Federal Court ruled that Anwar's RM100 million ($45.8m) defamation suit against the leader was frivolous. Anwar, serving 15 years for corruption and sodomy, filed it in January
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      Lock icon world Head liners
      35 5 New Straits Times: Blacklist on the net International Herald Tribune: Sinking of trawler sullies US-Japan ties BBC news: President Bush and Tony Blair have had their first face-to-face meeting at Camp David
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      52 6 The Straits Times: Something for everyone in 'most generous Budget' The Business Times: A big boost for businesses, personal perks for all Lianhe Zaobao: The Budget is indeed generous Berita Harian: A generous budget PCS morning news: Budget for new fiscal year gets a general thumbs-up Streats:
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      Lock icon Designer HDB
      164 6 in FOGus GOT a budget of $40,000 to $50,000? Want to fling it all on a designer makeover for your humble flat? Mr David Tay, who owns interior-design firm DTA, has started a subsidiary, Yi-Space, to enter the Housing Development Board (HDB) market. He said: "More than 80
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Golden flush
      59 6 I "mis This golden throne is not for sale. It sits grandly at a Hongkong jeweller's shop. The owner, Mr Lam Sai Wing says ifs for his customers—and only if they spend at least $225 at his shop. It cost him $8 million, so you are only paying
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      Lock icon Quote worthy
      44 6 Unless my health gets bad, or people stop buying my CDs and stop coming to see me, I'll retire five or 10 years after I'm dead. Blues legend B B King, 75, who won the Grammy for Pop Collaboration, on his retirement
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      138 5 Our heartiest Congratulations to all the winners of our recent Toshiba Alrcon Cool Lucky Draw, and thanks to all who participated. All winners will be notified by post. Ist Prize: $3,000 cash Whaid Bin Ismail *****822/ D 2nd Prize: $2,000 cash Frank Ko Kai Heng *****316/F 3rd Prize: $1,000 cash
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      25 5 Call our news hotline. If your tip-off leads to a news report, you'll receive a home-delivered LARGE CURRY CHICKEN PIZZA! US PIZZA* tht pin* professionals
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    99 8 :Vr iSSS? 3$ ?>• w > V.; in the distance, our heroes come through with good news for you. Oscar-nommated epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's main characters, Li Mubai and Yu Shulien, guide you through the highlights of this year's Budget The harvest is not just good, it must
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  • Movie producers: Woon Wui Tek,Azhar Ghani, Kelvin Chan and Joe Nathan Lourdes
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      Lock icon E-budget?
      491 10  -  |hhIHMM|HH BY Woon Wui Tek THERE are three reasons why Finance Minister Richard Hu's speech suggests the phrase "E-Budget". No, not as in Election. The main goals this year, Dr Hu made clear, were to position Singapore for a new growth era while helping workers weather the transition. In
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      Lock icon Help for shops
      70 10 ***** l 111 RETAILERS running neighbourhood shops, markets and hawker centres in HDB estates will be getting a hand. The government will be introducing a programme that includes elements of upgrading assistance, incentives to help ease the retirement of operators who wish to do so, and re-training
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      66 10 THE government is raising the Singapore Allowance. This is an ex-gratia allowance over and above the pensions that the government pays about 12,100 pensioners here. The allowance will be upped by $10 to $150 per month, and the gross pension ceiling raised from $950 to $1,050 a month,
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      Lock icon New donations
      71 10 NOW you can get tax deductions if you donate shares. For a start, deductions will be granted for donations, effective January this year, to Institutions of a Public Character (IPCs) of shares which are listed on the SGX and unit trusts readily tradable here. This opens up another
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      Lock icon Stock options
      81 10 IF you exercise stock options, you could get income tax exempt [on for up to $1 million worth of gains over 10 years. But the Company Stock Option scheme only applies to companies offering options to at least h&lf its employees and for options granted from April 1.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Get rid of cigarette bugs and handphone pests in schools
      418 12 Smnkmg: it mi pppr prpssnrp Smoking and handphones were the most talked-about topics in the YScene pages over the past two weeks. Today, we take a look at what some readers have to say THE most common reasons that people
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      Lock icon Schools should take drastic measures
      280 12 AS a student and a non-smoker, I am strongly against the idea of students who smoke. Firstly, they are endangering their health. Your life is precious, so why shorten it by smoking? Don't believe your friends, those who ask you to try smoking. Believe it
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      Lock icon Handphone: Common sense needed
      167 13 IT is true that the school is a place of rules. Therefore, students should not take their handphones toschosl. I am aware that in some companies, —when staff are busy surfing on the Internet, talking on their handphones or busy using the short message service (SMS),
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      Lock icon Parents shouldn't encourage kids
      208 13 IT is not wise for students to take their handphones to school. The negative aspects are: They may lose their handphone through carelessness, or it may get stolen. It can be used for cheating in tests, as when SMS is used. Parents would not want these
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    • Article
      Lock icon BRAINBUSTERS
      90 13 UNSCRAMBLE these words related to one of the topics featured in Y Scene this week —soccer: iSCREO 2. STKRIE 3.GOLA 4 PELTYNA 5. FILDE e FTOOBLLA 7 DENDFE 8. KCKI Five people with the correct answers will win prizes. But this is open only to those who are 19
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      Lock icon GET IT OFF YOUR CHEST!
      120 13 KEEP those letters coming in! The Y Scene is happy to receive your letters and e-mails. So, is there anything happening in your school that you want to share? Or something that you think the Y Scene should highlight? Or simply you want to share
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      Lock icon HAPPENINGS
      158 13 SEX EDUCATION PARTY—The Necessary Stage Join in for a time of fun in a first-ever, large-scale performance party organised for young people, with the focus on sex education. The Necessary Stage's Black Box will be transformed into a nightclub of performances stand-up comedy and, of course, dance! The performance
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      Lock icon What is the link?
      653 14  -  By Amrit Kaur STRANGE deaths. You must have heard of these cases, and wondered what was going on. Could they have died in some kind of kinky experiment gone wrong? We asked an expert about what is known as autoerotic asphyxiation or "breathless sex". Dr Stephen
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Noise to one, music to another
      438 16 MOBILE TV DEBATE Do you want TV on buses? No, said 62 per cent in an on-line poll, reported The Straits Times. And of 62 letters the paper got, only five were for it. Here are more letters sent to The New Paper. Havpritpal
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      Lock icon What MediaCorp says
      86 16 THE objective was to introduce another quality service, MediaCorp TVMobile Chief Executive Officer Anthony Gan wrote in a letter to The Straits Times. Some excerpts: An established consumer-research company conducted a survey (from July 28 to Aug 12,1999) before we introduced the service. Eighty-nine per cent of
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      Lock icon Bus-ting the sound barrier
      406 16  -  Comment/ Eugene Anthony FOR a few years, there was no television in my life. Until recently. Damn. What a horrible thing! I am referring to the mobile television on the SBS buses. Noisy, grating on the ears and an utter invasion of what little space I
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      Lock icon Book trip down memory lane
      179 16 READ and reach. Sure, he is doing that. Every week, 57-year-old Mr Seow Yeow Koon goes to Hong Wen Primary school to conduct reading sessions with a select group of Primary 1 and 2 pupils. And he is reminded of his own children. The programme,
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      Lock icon CONTEST
      66 16 IN conjunction with the Read and Reach programme, The New Paper will be running a series of short stories written by five personalities next weekReaders will stand a chance to win MPH book vouchers by entering a contest which will accompany the stories each day. On Monday, Ms Suzanne
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Keeping handphone pests quiet
      69 18 Imuifmui* handphones in pubiilrl^|if| wniiea h>t|i||jpiopteMw*S cant shot up. The Office of Telecommunications said it may restore sflenceto ||J| some public places by jßstoßMhan^hoaig i®>>h>s®«toii|P Welcoming the idea, rnhknt Christine Lam it J said: JU i When I was at a movie, a man behind me
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      Lock icon A heap of words...and nothing else
      733 18 SQ 006 CRASH REPORT No great doubts were quelled in Taiwan yesterday, at the unveiling of the report on flight SQ 006, which hit heavy equipment on its take-off last October and killed 83. MICHELLE CHOH unravels the findings... POOR facilities at the Chiang
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      Lock icon And in the Silk Air case...
      94 18 Transportation convenient smoking gun and relying on a psychological autopsy, concludes that the Captain of the flight committed suicide and was responsible for the murder of his passengers and crew. Suicide committed by pilots of commercial aircraft is an event so rare that it
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    Lock icon Is the Chinese community split as well?
    550 19 Race relations in Malaysia: Part 3 MALAYSIAfQQAY An increasingly public battle rages within the Malaysian Chinese Association, a key member of the governing coalition. But the community is united over issues close to its heart. WOON WUITEK reports FACT l: Two groups one
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
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      Lock icon She even slept upright on a chair for a month
      306 21 1 ACCIDENT VICTIM'S ORDEAL IMAGINE being confined to a chair for a month, eating drinking and even sleeping while sitting upright. That was Ms Li Chaoqun's life after a road mishap left her almost paralysed. Life was going along fine
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      Lock icon Father pays $230,000 ransom to free son
      128 21 THE 18-year-old boy was kidnapped outside his father's shop last Tuesday. But was released the next day after his father paid a ransom of RM500,000 ($229,500), reported The New Straits Times. According to the police, the teenager was kidnapped by four men in
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon WORLD BANK ISSUES DIRE WARNING
      535 22 THE angry young Dayak in the picture below shows just how difficult it is for Indonesia to rebuild its economy and social stability. Now, the latest World Bank report on Indonesia says communal conflicts throughout the country may consume all efforts to save the battered
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      Lock icon These fires may consume Indonesia
      175 22 WHAT'S BEHIND THE BORNEO CLASHES? WHY are the Dayaks and Madurese killing each other in central Kalimantan? Hie BBC says the clashes are part of a pattern of violence between the indigenous inhabitants of the island of Borneo (the Dayaks) and immigrants from other parts
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  • showtime
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      Lock icon Irin gets a touch of real life
      525 24  -  By Yong Siew Fern FRESH from a holiday in Thailand, TV actress Irin Gan never imagined that a few days later, she would be standing outside the mortuary at the Singapore General Hospital. Or that she would be comforting two different women who
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      Lock icon A seasoned newsman
      120 24 COMPARED to Irin Gan, fellow actor Ix Shen is a seasoned pro. He was also sent to Shin Min Daily News to prepare for his role in the same serial as were fellow artistes Bernard Tan and Lynn Poh. Ix used to be a photojournalist for the
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      454 25  -  Singer does five countx^es|aifl^days By Yeoh Wee Teck JENNIFER Lopez had her famous butt in an aircraft seat the longest time last week. She flew halfway round the globe to be in five countries in 12 days. <? The girl's a multi-tasker and
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    Lock icon It's very late at night...
    576 26 He proposes. She accepts. And they stroll to the local office to register their marriage IT was 11pm, Tokyo time. While most people were in bed, two lovebirds were strolling towards the local city office, holding hands. They were there to submit their marriage registration
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    Lock icon Casanova leashed
    142 26 TO hold on to Takashi Sorimachi's heart is no easy task. Just ask pretty model-turned-actress Ryo and candy-faced actress Izumi Inamori. Both failed to hang on to the Casanova when his eyes went a-roving. Ryo and Takashi were an item during their modelling days, long before they became
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  • SHOWTIME
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      Lock icon Ai-yo-yo, is that Chen Liping
      452 27  -  BY Teo Kuan Yee WOULD Zoe Tay or Fann Wong do the same? Sacrifice glamour to look like an ugly social misfit in a new Channel 8 drama serial? Just check out how Chen Liping looks in Fa Yi X Dang An (Beyond The aXis
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      415 28  -  By Candice Chia HER parents didn't name her Joy for nothing. Joy Enriquez, the latest American sensation to hit the radio waves, sauntered into the Four Seasons Grange room, fresh as a daisy and happy as a lark. "Hi, everyone! Good morning! How're
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    Lock icon As far as love goes, it's not bad
    348 29  -  GOODMUSIC OTHER LOVE ALBUMS OUT THIS WEEK Love Songs Various (EMI) Moments In Love Various (EQ) Love Is 3 Various (Rock) Best Love Is Various (Rock) Love Songs Natalie Cole (Warner) The Greatest Pan Pipe Love Album Various (EQ) Artiste: Various Album:
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    Lock icon You can get fresh too
    953 30 ;%-p EVEN though we technically don't have spring here, there's something about this freshstart frame of mind that makes us clean out closets, get a new hairstyle, buy a new lipstick, even rethink the way we take care of our skin. And stores know that.
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    Lock icon Car tales: Shake, rattle and roll
    500 32  -  Etcetera WITH DINAH LEE "EH, aunty, your car very nice, ah..." I was greeted by that remark when I drove up to a Mobil station to top up on petrol. But I was not flattered. Instead, I was amused. The elderly pump attendant had
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      430 40  -  By Lionel Lee GOLD BULLET showed just how strong he could be on the fibresand track when defeating a smart line-up in $100,000 The Ascott Cup over 1,100m at Kranji last night. And jockey Shane Scriven was quick to admit after the
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      1094 40 2 CELESTIAL RIVER 56 (195-26) VHUm (11) 2 4 1 (485) 5 UNTOLD STORY 56 (10-7) EAhem (7) 3 3 2 (470 3 NUCLEAR WEAPON 56 (17-7) E Merchant (4) 1 1 3 (469) 7 IMPERIAL TREASURE 55.5 (26-7) E Wilkinson (5)
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      1563 41 APPRENTICE Kuah Cheng Tee (right) has been suspended a total of six race days over two careless riding offences. He received two days over his handling of DIAMOND BROKER in Race 1 last Saturday and four days on CITY BROKER in Race
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      322 42 Danny Khoo Lionel lee Tan Thean Loon 11 Counting Stars 1 Counting Stars 1 Counting Stars 6 Kazam 6 Kazam 6 Kazam 6 Kazam 5 Proficient 5 Proficient 5 Proficient 2 Elkayel 2 Eikayel 2 Ever Strike 5 Les Alpes 5 Le Alpes 5 Les Alpes
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      365 42  -  By Danny Khoo IT'S been a clean sweep for local trainers in the major features so far. Five such races have been staged at Kranji and all have gone the way of Singaporeans. Charles Read, Malcolm Thwaites, Charles Leek and Mohd Yusof have kept
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      238 42 Oliuto (Race 9 No. 14) This game fella deserves a winning break. Discard his last start on Jan 27, when he probably disliked the yielding going. He tried to take the shortest route home in that 1,600m race but found the ground next to the rails too wet
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      1522 43 TODAY'S KRANJI (LONG COURSE, B) RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD No. Last 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 *****2 COUNTING STARS 59 (61) D Holland 1 (7ag Yeoh-Chelsea Macesy) 2 *****1 ELKAYEL 58.5 (60) J Fortune 14 (3nzg Laxon-Silver Fern Racing) 3 -08- ARIS 58 (59)
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      1323 44 No. Last 5 runs Horse Wt(lbs) Rating Jockey Barrier Trainer 1 ASHKANESSA 125 FCoetzee 8 (AS Cruz) 2 FLOWERS PRIDE 125 KCTsang 1 (TP Wong) 3 3 GOLCONDA 125 RFradd 3 (IW Allan) 4 0 MIR 125 SKSit 6 (TP Wong) 5 87 TEMPTATION
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      406 45 DANNY KHOO'S GUIDE TO KRANJI TRACKWORK SUPER GOLEM, back after his Magic Millions triumph last October, has benefited from a short rest and should be watched closely in Race 5 at Kranji tonight. Yesterday morning, the Semipalatinsk three-year-old turned heads with his good looks as he
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      182 45 NST. his preparations for the Class m Dfv t l,4ooflVevent in Race 4.0 tomcpow with a two-round Taken out by a track rider, the five-year-oid Australian-bred gelding by Bletchley Park cantered two rounds on the sand track and pulled up well after the exercise. The going
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      15247 46 n DRIVEN BACK 57 (73) S Fargeat (7) (5nzg Jordan-Owner) ByJetball-Winter Falls; chestnut; landed 14.09.00; stakes won A$20,800; late Counter Attack; IrO-O-O. 28.01.01 C3-P Fargeat 57 (73) (1) 11 11 8/12 ($101) 6 Gayalstimewa K1400y 1:25.2 (461) Passed a few in run home at debut. R1
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      173 46 nSTAR GENERAL 57 (48) Wilkinson (4) (4nzg Baertschiger-Star General) By Waikiki Star-Maazel; bay; landed 6.1.98; 8r 1-0-0 (KRsl 700fl:49.153.5) 12.12.99 C5 Soo 55 (42) (5) 9 9 4/11 ($23) 1 ParisAmour KRb1800g 1:52.1 (415) 05.01.00 C5 Wilkinson 53.5 (40) (1) 5 3 1/8 ($11)
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      223 55  -  Compiled By ZAINI MOHAMED Sun Online. WE knew it all along. Now it has been confirmed. Manchester United has more supporters in Singapore than in its home city Manchester. Guess who wants to rub home this point? None othen than United's local rival Manchester City.
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      199 55 Reuters. MARSEILLE fans came up with a novel way of inspiring their team holding up pictures of goats with the numbers 1-11 printed on them. The move did the trick. A much-improved Marseille followed the 1-0 defeat to Auxerre recently with a creditable 1-1 draw away to Lyon
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      125 55 KAISERSLAUTERN'S French international, Youri Djorkaeff, is the latest football star to fancy his chances in the world of popular music. He has already recorded his first single. The midfielder's musical ambitions were ignited after he met up with a friend a DJ in France. He played
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      297 56 DAY 2 ROUND-UP FRANKEE Minoza (17-under) of the Philippines exploded at Bukit course yesterday, shooting a 10-under par 61 and blasting the course record to smithereens. Vijay Singh (15-under) shrugged off the hangover of a birthday celebration to keep within striking distance of Minoza while Colin
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      459 56  - Mouland Edmond, two of a kind Reports/ Brian Miller MARK Mouland isn't a name you would expect to see near the top of an international leaderboard. The Welshman is, well, inconspicuous. A journeyman on the European Tour. Same too with Frenchman Olivier Edmond. The two are not leaderboard material and
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      611 57 Onefootball.com Reuters IT may have taken almost two years, but for Juventus, Godot has finally arrived. Two goals in his last two matches and Alessandro del Piero is back in business. So long has everyone been waiting for the old Del Piero, that Juventus
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      74 57 TOMORROW: Atalantavßari Bologna v Napoli Fiorentina v Brescia Inter Milan v Udinese Juventus v AC Milan Lazio v Hellas Verona Lecce v Reggina Parma v Perugia Vicenza v AS Roma SPANISH LEAGUE FIXTURES TOMORROW: Alaves v Celta Vigo Athletic Bilbao v Numancia Barcelona v Real Sociedad Deportivo
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      723 58  -  Houllier magic at Airfield LEAGUE CUP FINAL: LIVERPOOL v BIRMINGHAM Tomorrow Live on Football Channel at 10.55pm. By Alex Hayes UK CORRESPONDENT THEY say a week is a long time in politics. If that is the case, the last fortnight must have felt like an eternity to Gerard
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      400 59  -  BY Alex Hayes THE single-most pertinent change of fortune in the Liverpool ranks in the last three weeks has been that of Robbie Fowler. Nowadays, the most anticipated sight after another superb display by the striker is his manager waiting for him on the sidelines with
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      308 59 FOCUS; BIRMINGHAM Reuters. BIRMINGHAM loves to be the underdog. That is how it is going to be against Liverpool in the League Cup final tomorrow. "We're quite happy to be going in against them as the underdog, just as we were before beating Tottenham, Newcastle and Ipswich
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      617 60 e MANCHESTER UNITED v ARSENAL LIVERPOOL fans may disagree, but tomorrow's match between Manchester United and Arsenal is set to be the Match of the Season. Pity that, on a night when Liverpool takes on Birmingham in a potentially engaging League Cup final, there
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      532 60 WANG MENG MENG speaks to TOM ENGLISH Tom English, 19, is a former Arsenal apprentice for two-and-a-half years. He has represented England at schoolboy level and is currently a striker for S-League side Marine Castle United. NO one, absolutely no one, can catch
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      390 61 'We have to wake up' LIVE, FOOTBALL CHANNEL 22,8.55pm, tomorrow THE MIDFIELD BATTLE: Reuters. Manchester united will not be a certainty for the Premiership title even if it beats second-placed Arsenal. That's according to Man U captain Roy Keane. Victory over the Gunners at Old
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      187 61 WES Brown is convinced tomorrow's showdown will virtually settle the Premiership. And the man whose threat he will need to snub out is Thierry Henry, Arsenal's top Gun, reports the Manchester Evening News. Brown said: "If I was in Arsenal's position I'd still
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      305 61 PLAYERS ON TRIAL Reuters. BLOODSTAINS have been found on Leeds United player Lee Bowyer's leather jacket. And the blood group matched that of the brother of an Asian youth beaten unconscious by a gang last year, a British court was told yesterday. Forensic expert
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      151 62 Which two Man U strikers will start? IT'S a top-of-the-table clash tomorrow, when Arsenal tackles leader Man U. The Gunners' defence will have their hands full against the Red Devils' lethal strike force. This week's question is: Among the foursome of
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      598 62 ERIKSSON'S ENGLAND Sven Goran Eriksson's choice of players for next week's friendly against Spain shows that he has an eye on the future. Man U defender Wes Brown and Liverpool's Jamie Carragherare two who should be at their prime for the2oo6 World Cup. Then there is the West
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      267 63  -  U-18 SINGAPORE 0 ENGLAND SCHOOLBOYS 2 (James Thomby 25, Graham Hockless 29) Reports/1 Lim Han Ming TO DO well, the young Lions need to play more international friendlies. That was the consensus after they lost 2-0 to the England Schoolboys U-18 at Bishan Stadium last
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      182 63 THE English will have to thank Singapore goalkeeper Hassan Abdullah for their win. In the 25th minute, Hassan failed to hold on to Richard Pell's close-range header and James Thornby swept the loose ball into the net. Four minutes later, Hassan conceded a penalty
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      106 63 SINGAPORE plays Bahrain tonight in Kuwait City. The Lions will be without impressive defenders Aide Iskandar and Mohd Noh Rahman for this pre-World Cup qualifier tie. Both have been suspended after picking up two yellow cards. But S Subramani, Rafi Ali, Dalis Supait and Noh
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      158 63 MARK this name Sulaiman Hashim. While all eyes were centred on defender-turned-striker Baihakki Khaizan, it was the pocket-sized Sulaiman who got everybody talking after the match. Even England coach Malcolm Hird sang his praises. "I was impressed with Singapore's No 17 (Sulaiman Hashim). He gave
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      147 64 THE RED REVOLUTION 60 Gerard Houllier is slowly but surely, bringing the glory days back to Liverpool 61 1 ST? LEAGUE CUP FINAL: 0L LIVERPOOL v BIRMINGHAM Wire services. FINNISH striker Jari Litmanen is out of the Liverpool team for tomorrow's League Cup final. He has failed to
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      306 64  -  By Brian Miller IN the age of IT, computers, the space shuttle, weather satellites and digital what-have-we, it is amusing to see that old beliefs and superstitions still prevail. Here at the swanky Singapore Island Country Club's Bukit Course, hi-tech gizmos help ensure that the Caltex
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