The New Paper, 13 May 2001

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  • NEWS
    • 521 2  -  High drama in this village when... By C L Tan IN KUALA SELANGOR SHE talks like a man. She walks like a man. And, nearly got married as a man. Only to be exposed for the woman she was. "Unmanned" in a strip-search by suspicious
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    • 384 3 IT was a whirlwind romance. In less than a month after Siti Jamaliah met "Mr Kulzami Amir Shah", "he" proposed engagement. Siti was on cloud nine. She took "him" home to meet her parents. "He is cute, soft, caring and
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    • 175 3 SHE had pulled a perfect bluff. Not even an experienced man like Mr Muzani Sharif (left), 88, the village official who performed the engagement rites for Siti Jamaliah, could tell. "She had a husky voice and a manly-shaped body. I
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    • 438 3  -  By Jason Tan AN uncannily similar case happened in Singapore 10 years ago. A babysitter, Madam Lim Ying, married a macho-looking man, only to discover on their wedding night he was once a woman. Madam Lim, then 30, went to the High Court
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  • EXCLUSIVE
    • 807 4 In over 1,000 raids last year, Central Narcotics Bureau's undercover agents risk their lives to penetrate the drugs scene. For the first time here, a Journalist gets a look at the world of... WfK lanky man with lacklustre, long hair approached the pusher for a fix, the
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    • 338 5 THEN you must be a good poker player. One who never gives his game away. Said Mr Muhammad Azni Sarbini (left), the deputy director of Central Narcotics Bureau, of his undercover officers: "They must have a poker face and be calm under pressure. "They
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    • 369 5 THE pretty young thing sat alone in a coffeeshop in Geylang. No-one found it amiss. A few men even propositioned her, thinking she was a sex worker. She simply ignored them and continued to wait. To observe. Rachel, 22, is an undercover officer with
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  • 544 6 I NEWS 1 WHEN is golf definitely not your cup of tee? When a ball lands smack on your car. Ask S P Arumugam, 44. On April 29, Mr Arumugam was driving his Mercedes Benz along the PIE towards Jurong. As he turned into the slip
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  • NEWS
    • 658 8 It's Mother's Day today. But apart from mothers, there is a special group of women who are equally important to some families: Godmothers. DAWN CHIA reports WHEN it was time for Miss Catherine Chin Kai Koon to join junior college, she was not sure what
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    • 243 8 MANY Singaporean Chinese believe that having a godmother helps children who are sickly and/or naughty. Said Mr Kua Soon Khe, executive secretary at the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan: "Some believe that if they find a godmother for their sickly or rebellious child, the child will be blessed with
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  • 440 9  -  the new sure By Desmond Ng IN his right hand rested a shiny revolver. He cocked it. He fired into the distance. Satisfied with its performance, he smiled, nodded his head and proceeded to pay for his consignment of handguns. A scene from the
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  • EXPAT
    • 283 10  -  By Patrick Fiat AT 20, shortly after I graduated from a hotel school in France, my dad gave me a one-way ticket and told me I could go anywhere I wanted. I chose Teheran, Iran, even though, in 1972, it wasn't exactly
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    • 258 10 I was bitten by the travel bug when I was young, thanks to my dad, who worked in the airline industry and gave me complimentary tickets. At 14, I went to New York on my own. By 18, I had covered the major cities in South America.
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    • 249 10 People who say that Singapore is boring are those who have not been back to this fan- tastic country for a long time. There are so many wonderful restaurants, entertainment outlets, movie houses, shopping complexes here... My accolades can go on and on. But yes, there's a
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    • 186 11 YES, it was literally that a task involving animals when I worked at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Jakarta from 1995 to 1998. I set up a fund for the Wanariset Orang Utan Reintroduction Project. Its aim was to return to the wild those apes kidnapped from
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    • 46 11 V FEEL free to contact Gus, the Expat Page editor, at: Gus, Expat Page editor <guspang@yahoo.com.sg> The New Paper Expat Page 82 Genting Lane News Centre Singapore *****7 Tel: 1800-733-4455 Fax: 737-5375 To read our stories online, including our previous stories, visit <newpaper.asial. com.sg/expat/expat.html>
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  • Health Now WITH JOANNA HUGHES
    • 253 12 Fat-free food —the greatest thing since sliced bread? JOANNA HUGHES finds out that fat-free isn't all it's cracked up to be ANYONE who's ever been on a diet has dreamed of a world full of treats but minus the calorie-laden fat and oil. Imagine potato crisps and
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    • 253 12 ECHINICIA: An echinicia a day keeps the doctor away? Echinicia (which is also spelled echinacea) is a herbal derivative of a North American wild flower called the purple coneflower. It was used by native Americans to heal many illnesses. This herbal derivative has been rediscovered in
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  • the new paper MAID OF THE YEAR 2001 WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER
    • 501 13  -  CANDIDATE NO. 5 By Lim Lee Ching THE girl had been gone a few days, but the old lady already missed her. "Where is Siti?" the late Madam Poh Ah Ching asked constantly throughout the one month that Ms Warsini Sumingan was home on leave
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    • 85 13 MS WARSINI is the fifth of six finalists of The New Paper-Western Union Maid of the Year contest. Next Sunday, we will feature the sixth finalist, after which you can vote for the 2001 Maid of the Year, who will win $5,000. The first and second runners-up will
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    • 166 13 7 L IF THE MONEY DOESN'T ARRIVE, I Mt SHE WON'T HAVE AN ADDRESS. ij|jJjjj|j||J She's guaranteed to receive the money, if her husband uses Western Union to send it home to her. Western Union is a Cast and reliable way to send and receive money. Besides complete assurance, you
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  • NEWS
    • 439 14  -  Half-naked man breaks in and cracks French expat's skull By Ng Wan Ching NEW Paper columnist Gloria ChandyMarchi's Easter holiday in Kuala Lumpur was ruined the moment she returned home to Singapore. Her husband, Mr Jean-Claude Marchi (above), 57, had been badly assaulted in
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    • 220 14 THERE were no witnesses to the assault on Mr Marchi and this appears to be a problem in arresting his attacker. "The police are saying that my husband did not make the report to the 'correct type of police'," said Mrs Chandy-Marchi.
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    • 484 15  -  Distraught wife's 33-hour journey REPORT GLORIA CHANDY FLYING time and layovers totalled almost 33 hours. And I didn't know what to expect when I arrived at my destination. All through that long and arduous journey, I kept imagining the
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    • 174 15 IN a letter to The New Paper on Sunday, Mr Eduardo Ra-mos-Gomez, Ambassador of Mexico, stressed that the doors of his embassy are open to Mrs Gloria Chandy-Marchi or any relative of Mr Marchi's in Singapore to discuss any problems. u We are willing
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  • 897 16  -  Dear Diary, Oh dear, problems in paradise. J came back from his night out with the guys reeking of cigarettes, and Angela got extremely upset. She thought he had quit. He said he's already cut down and doesn't cough so much. She said
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  • NEWS
    • 464 17 Going to the toilet regularly is something most take for granted. Yet a local doctorfound that 12 per cent of us suffer from irritable bowel syndrome. NG WAN CHING reports on an extreme case FOR Ms Tan, 36, going to the toilet to move
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    • 290 17 DR GWEE Kok Ann, consultant gastroenterologist at Gleneagles Medical Centre, has just done a study of 2,000 people to detect irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The study was done with the National University of Singapore. The findings show 12 per cent of the
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    • 111 17 IBS is a disorder of the intestines which leads to cramps and pain, gassiness, and bloating. Some people with IBS get constipation (difficult or infrequent bowel movements). Others have diarrhoea. Some have both. IBS causes discomfort and distress but no permanent harm to the intestines. Nor does
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  • AT A GLANCE
    • 127 18 THE driver of this truck was trapped in his vehicle for 15 minutes when it overturned at the Clementi Avenue 6 exit along the Ayer Rajah Expressway yesterday evening. A Singapore Civil Defence Force spokesman said SCDF received a call
      Picture/ Mohd Ishak  -  127 words
    • 260 18 SARONG Party Girls could be responsible for as many as half of all troubled expat marriages here. Mrs Karen Gosling, a counsellor, says that in about half the 155 relationship cases she has handled since 1998, an Asian woman is the third party. Only six ended in
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    • 119 18 INFOCUS OPPOSITION group National Solidarity Party plans to field at least seven candidates in three single seats and a Group Representation Constituency in the next general election, due by August 2002. The line-up hasn't been finalised, but the party has been active in Chua Chu
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 99 19 LIONEL Yen-Fong Loh, 22, a national serviceman, was sentenced to five years' corrective training for cheating two taxi drivers of more than $500. Firstly, he charged taxi fares to his debit cards knowing the charges would be declined. He also told the driver to charge a higher
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      • 97 19 STUDENTS learning Tamil and Malay can now turn to two websites to brush up their language skills: wwwl.moe.edu.sg/namnaadi and wwwl .moe.edu. sg/nadi. Created by the Ministry of Education, the websites offer jokes, educational games and contests, in addition to serious content. Launched yesterday, the websites are meant
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      • 105 19 A GRANDMOTHER who rented her Cavenagh Road flat to four illegal immigrants from Bangladesh was sentenced to six months'jail, the minimum for harbouring immigration offenders. Lee Hong Tee, 71, admitted to harbouring Majed, 33, at her flat in Cavenagh Road from January to July 17 last year.
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      • 105 19 POLICE have smashed a syndicate that supplied pirated music CDs to stalls in New Bugis Street and Woodlands Street 82. In raids on Friday, officers from the Criminal Investigation Department arrested 14 men and seized 20,000 pirated music CDs, DVDs, CD-ROMS and VCDs with a street value
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      • 100 19 11 m question SHAREHOLDERS of DBS Bank expressed concern yesterday oven a Bloomberg report that the bank had paid two top executives US$6 million ($10.9m) in total last year. "Are we paying too much or do we have too much money?" asked one small shareholder. Shareholders pointed out that the
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      • 90 19 BREAST implants will be redundant in five years because technology will allow women to grow their own. Australian tissue engineer Kevin Cronin said scientists have progressed remarkably in the growing of human tissue. Dr Cronin said particular progress had been made in Australia on growing fat and breast
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      • 87 19 MALAYSIAN prosecutors yesterday dropped all five outstanding criminal charges against Anwar Ibrahim. The charges relate to four more counts of sodomy and one of corruption. Anwar told reporters: "It was a pleasant surprise but I would have preferred to face the charges." The former deputy premier is serving
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      • 108 19 Mum's advice AP. NO mum to talk to on Mother's Day, or any day? Fear not, the chief executive of a dotcom start-up is 'selling' his mum's chatter over the Internet. The highest bidder will get the benefit of her advice at least twice a month for three months. Said
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    • 114 19 BALLET UNDER THE STARS: Enchanting performances, good food and great company. Do something different this evening by taking your family to the outdoor ballet. Catch the premiere of Glimmer Of A Glimpse by Jamaludin Jalil, which touches on the joy and pain of love. WHERE: Fort Canning
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 52 19 i Showers with thunder in the late morning and early afternoon mainly over northern, j western and eastern Singapore. minimum 25 C L** I maximum 32 C 6.56 am J sunset 7.07 pm h I moonrise first tide 2.7 m .1.46 qui I moonset 11.39 am second fide 2.2 m
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  • NEWS
    • 413 20  -  By Wong Shdeh Yen DON'T be surprised if you find yourself walking next to a "mermaid", or an "octopus" or a "dolphin" next Sunday during The New Paper Big Walk. Sixty employees of the The Royal Plaza on Scotts hope to make waves, by dressing up as
      Picture/ Kenneth Koh  -  413 words
    • 164 20 MORE than a thousand members of the Sembawang/Hong Kah Community Development Council will also be taking part in The New Paper Big Walk next Sunday. The 1,300 participants aged five to 60 are from 43 brisk walking clubs managed by the council. Members meet for weekly walks
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    • 936 21  -  Dotcom bubble blowers lost sight of... GUEST EDITOR J INDEJIT SINGH MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT I was at the Taman Serasi hawker centre last week, waiting for a certain Mr Benny Tong, a young engineer. He wanted to discuss the business plan for an idea that he'd
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    • 771 22  -  I'm not an oddity here, says man with one arm SINGAPOREANS Think Cambodia, and images of ripped roads, war-torn buildings and the killing fields come to mind. But for many Singaporeans, Cambodia is now home REPORTS TANYA FONG In Cambodia Homesick? Not this Singaporean
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    • 584 23 IN CAMBODIA SHE was shocked when her husband told her three years ago that his company had decided to move him to Cambodia. Mrs Adrianne Ong, 46, recalls: "I was absolutely horrified! I imagined guns, violence... I was worried for my children's safety and
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    • 265 23 FOR Dr Arthur Kan Meng Kin, 34, it was the challenge of a new place which made him take the plunge in Cambodia. Said Dr Kan: "Some businessmen saw the need for a standard of medical care, so they set up
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    • 189 24 The shoeshine boys There is more to Cambodia than just the world-renowned Angkor Wat temples. Tanya Fong takes you through the streets of Phnom Penh for a slice of the colourful life in this ancient city I WAS seated in a Chinese restaurant in Phnom
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    • 185 24 THIS market in Phnom Penh is well-known for its smorgasbord of consumer goods. You ean buy anything here from household appliances to gold jewellery. Outside the market, they sell fresh produce, raw meat and seafood. The first smells which greet your nostrils may not be pleasant, but
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    • 128 24 MISS Oum Sophea, 20, owns this textile shop in the Central Market in Phnom Penh. Her immediate aim in life is to master English so she can sell more silk scarves and linen table cloths at the market and pay off her debts. Each scarf sells for
      Pictures/ Tanya Fong  -  128 words
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    • 110 20 BIG WALK 2001 You can still register for the Big Walk from noon to 8pm today at: Causeway Point (Level 1) Jurong Point (Level 1) Ngee Ann City (Basement 2) Parco Bugis Junction (Level 1) Suntec City (Level 1) Tampines Mall (Information counter) DEADLINE EXTENDED The closing date for registration
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  • NEWS
    • 388 26  -  ISLAMIC SCHOOLS IN MALAYSIA By Sheila Murugasu MUSLIMS concentrating too much on religious studies could lose out in the global economy. Unless they study real world subjects too. Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad gave that warning
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    • 234 26 "There are never enough religious schools to accommodate all the children. Last year alone, we had to turn away 30 children whose parents wanted to enrol them in Standard 1 (Primary 1)." So declares Mr Ismail Ishak, 35, headmaster of the Ibn Khaldun primary school,
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    • 461 27 An ad for the job of mothering might look like this Wanted: Cook, housekeeper, baby sitter, party planner, office manager, efficiency expert, personal trainer, teacher, social worker, medical practitioner, healer, spiritual guide, therapist and sex partner. Must be available 24/7, year-round.
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    • Article, Illustration
      422 28 Reuters. Hollywood is not above recycling plotlines. Not- even, it seems, for a recent real-life murder drama. The murder of TV actor Robert Blake's wife last week has some intriguing similarities to the O J Simpson dou-ble-murder case the most notorious in the history of the
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  • NEWS
    • 366 30  -  I First, dates her W I Later, 'punishes' her By Chang May Choon SHE thought it would be fun to get an Internet date. But she ended up literally scarred for life. "Susie" reportedly skipped class to go surfing at an Internet
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    • 38 30 He took a long thin metal wire, heated it with a lighter and branded the outline of the characters, Night Cat (Hokkein slang for prostitute), on her chest Each scar was 4.5cm long and wide.
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    • 183 30 THE director of Taipei's Municipal Police Department has apologised to the teen branded by a policeman. Police chief Wang Chochun said in Taipei last week there was no evidence the girl had worked as a prostitute. "The department, after an investigation, has concluded that the victim is
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  • 311 32 NEWS That's the time US commuters spend a year in their grid-locked vehicles A COUPLE of days spent behind the wheel sounds great if it's a nice caravan camping trip. But imagine spending that amount of time in a nasty
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  • HEY!
    • 863 34  -  ERI AKBAR BEHIND every successful star is a... dancer. Erm, and sometimes, even in front... as a dancing cue. Mr Bill Calhoun, a choreographer with nearly a decade's experience, revealed this about "background" dancers: "I always place them slightly in front of the artiste. If artistes
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    • 355 35 WANT to make a living out of dancing here? Be prepared to take on more than one dancing job, said Mr Desmond Chen, a full-time dancer for the past three years. Besides being a regular performer at a club, the 24-year-old takes on as many
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    • 145 44 YOUR story is just like mine seven years ago. If I could turn time back, I would. I will choose to take care of my parents and my son. Your boyfriend should love you for who and what you are. If I were you, I would think
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    • 63 51 AIR France flies to Lisbon via Paris daily. The fare is $1,843. Cheap lodging ($4O a night) can be found in old-fashioned residential flats like Pensao Arco da Bandeira and Pensao Prata. The interiors are minimalist but they are clean and staff are warm and welcoming. Three to
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    • 479 52  -  YUEN VEIVERNE LETS hear it for Roxette and another of its love ballad ensembles! In the 15 years since its debut album Pearls of Passion (1986), Roxette has managed to maintain its own distinct style of music. Room Service is proof of that. The
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    • 641 57 English raider staves off French pair in second $3 million SIA International Cup SHEER class told in the second running of the $3 million SIA International Cup at Kranji last night as the foreign brigade made a clean sweep of the top placings. Endless Hall
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    • 187 57  -  REPORTS DANNY KHOO ANYONE winning his biggest ever race would be thrilled to bits. But Jamie Spencer, successful rider of the $3 million Singapore Airlines International Cup had other things in mind, too, last night. His immediate concern after giving a brief interview
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    • 1231 58 RACE 1: JUMPIN JACK FLASH, IPANEMA DANCER, IRISH VIRTUE and JUDGE 'N' JURY were withdrawn due to a capacity field. At the start, BRIGHT WONDER and FLAWLESS DIAMOND came together. SPEEDY TREASURE jumped awkwardly and was slow to begin. KRANJI PIONEER stood
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    • 456 58  -  By LIONEL LEE SO CLOSE and yet so far. Trainer Malcolm Thwaites almost pulled off another big one for Singapore last night when Trillion Win was beaten narrowly in the inaugural running of the $1 million Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Sprint at Kranji.
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    • 1041 62  -  Promoted last season, Ipswich was tipped by many to make an immediate return to Division One. Instead, the club currently lies fourth in the Premiership, with 65 points. It has already booked a place in next year's Uefa Cup. It is still in
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    • 789 63 NO one begrudges seeing Ipswich up there mingling again with the giants and no manager is more deserving of the accolades now being heaped upon him than the 45-year-old George Burley. Ipswich is my team of the year. There can be no
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        65 64 Kaki mate S-LEAGUES J-POP COUPLE Like any striker, Clementi Khalsa's Japanese hit-man Michiaki Kakimoto cherishes all his goals. He, however, has a soft corner for one of them. He considers it the best he's ever scored. It resulted from a crafty move six month ago, as ERNEST LUIS finds out
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      • 715 65 Clementi Khalsa 0 Home United 5 Indra Sahdan 18th min, 42nd, 77th Egmar Goncalves 85th. 92nd CLEMENTI Elephants' Japanese striker Michiaki Kakimoto has scored the best goal of his life yet. Later this week, he will marry his fiancee
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      • 286 65 HOME SCORES!... 18th min: The ball heads towards Home's Indra Sahdan Daud after a penalty box melee and he volleys it first-time past Clementi 'keeper Shamsuri Ahmad. RED CARD!...40th min: Clementi finds itself a man down after Sophian Ahmad is sent off for stamping on Peres de Oliveira's
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    • 756 66  -  WHITE WITCH DOCTOR TROUSSIER SPELLS OUT JAPAN'S ILLS By Wang Meng Meng I only wanted a quick 10 minutes with Philippe Troussier. Knowing what a busy man the Japan national coach is, I promised the media officer from the Asian
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    • 328 66 STAR PLAYER HIPETOSHI NAKATA Nakata is the only Japanese player who will thrive in Europe. As a person, he is physically and mentally strong. He has the skin of a crocodile. You can't shake his confidence and he has never been injured. He is open. He picked
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