The New Paper, 19 December 2001

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  • NEWS
    • 200 2 THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said the US will crawl out of recession next year. In its World Economic Report released yesterday, it said it was not sure during which part of next year the world's biggest economy would start changing gears. The reason:
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    • 107 2 THE IMF thinks the US recovery will be due to the aggressive rate cuts by the Federal Reserve and additional economic stimulus in the form of tax cuts and increased government spending. The IMF cited several other factors for the recovery. Said the IMF: "These forces include
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    • 371 3  - Dive into the sound of m usic By Desmond Ng DIVE deep into the water. Straight away, the melodious, light-hearted tune of the Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies by Russian composer Tchaikovsky hits you underwater. This is one of the few swimming pools in Singapore which has music piped
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    • 150 2 THE IMF is, however, concerned about personal safety and rising unemployment affecting spending. Noted the IMF: "On the other side, concerns about personal safety and rising unemployment, together with the sharp downturn in corporate profitability and the difficulties faced by some specific sectors, could delay the recovery of household and
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  • 468 4  -  SINGAPORE By Uyen Vu MEN shopping for women at Christmas time is something to be encouraged. But a man shopping at Christmas time using a woman's credit card and signing his own name well, that must
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 331 6 THE heat is on. Most multinational corporations (MNCs) here have been under pressure from their head office to cut costs, reported The Business Times. But a survey of 101 MNCs revealed that only 13 per cent of them have laid off staff in recent months.
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    • 55 6 PICTURE THIS New York firefighters managed to save the main section of the Cathedral of St John the Divine, in the upper West side of Manhattan, after a fire broke out yesterday morning. The fire damaged the north side of the building, which is the largest Gothic
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    • 69 6 FORMER Indonesian President Suharto is critically ill with pneumonia. His son Tommy was allowed to visit him in hospital under police escort despite being in prison under investigation for the murder of a judge. Mr Suharto's poor health he has suffered multiple strokes and been fitted with
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    • 69 6 'Beijing' good food IF your Peking roast duck doesn't measure up, you will be barred from listing such dishes on menus, Beijing food outlets were told. The Beijing Food and Beverage Industry Association also said they will not be allowed use the prefix "Beijing" to describe sub-standard dishes. This is
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    • 73 6 FOURTEEN boys between 14 and 19 who were allegedly involved in a hammer attack, were hauled to the Juvenile Court and the District Court yesterday. They are charged with attacking Wong Wei-En,ls, and his four friends in front of a hawker centre at Circuit Road on Saturday. The
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    • 66 6 SINGAPORE mathematics textbooks are catching on in American schools and homes, with over 140 schools across the US using them. American Jefferey Thomas and his Singaporean wife Dawn Yuen, who live in Portland, Oregon, say they are doing a brisk trade selling primary and secondary mathematics
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    • 61 6 THOSE who are retrenched or whose jobs are at risk can now attend subsidised courses launched by the Ministry of Manpower yesterday, for professionals and executives. Subjects offered include managing depression, reinventing oneself and understanding labour trends. The $4 million programme aims to train 5,000 Singaporeans next year.
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    • 67 6 POLITICAL parties spent over $2 million contesting the general election this year. The PAP alone chalked up nearly $1.82 million in expenses while opposition parties spent $261,000. The amounts were up from $1.7 million that the PAP spent and the $250,000 that the opposition parties spent in
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    • 86 7 What we're beginning to see is a pendulum swing, with lots of men wanting to talk about emotional things, while women become less family orientated. Women held the emotional balance, but now they have more opportunity to get out. At the same time there is increasing insecurity for men,
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    • 219 7 A STRONG report on the US housing sector and an upbeat outlook from key firms sparked a rally yesterday that lifted the Dow Jones industrials to within a hair of the 10,000-point level. US housing construction rose 8.2 per cent in November much stronger than expected which showed strong
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    • 235 7 ON THE RACK TWO Singaporean entries are in the final 14 of the Far Eastern Economic Review and Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific second annual Young Inventors Awards. These awards encourage and honour the spirit of invention among students in this region, reported the Far Eastern Economic
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    • 70 7 The Straits Times: US-Russia talks on nuclear cuts The Business Times: S'pore MNCs in battle with HQs to keep staff Lianhe Zaobao: CID sets up Technology Crime Division to fight cyber crime Berita Marian: Afghan leaders agreeto accept international secunty force NewsRadio 93.8FM. US warns that it will
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    • 60 7 International Herald Tribune: Rebound on horizon (but forget that '90s-style luster) Asian Wall Street Journal: Toshiba to stop making low-end memory chips New Straits Times: Lower price surprise: Food items being sold below ceiling levels BBC news: British official said 100 Royal Marines, the first contingent to the
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  • 857 8  -  SINGAPORE By Eugene Wee IT'S a win-win situation, and yet some "winners" feel they've been ripped off. About 15,000 motorists are getting letters from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) which, in effect, tell them that they saved quite a bundle
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 611 10  -  More young S'pore women lighting up By Irene Kew THERE'S a killer on the prowl. Silent, but deadly. Stalking the streets of Singapore, lurking in our townships. The victims? Young women. The killer doesn't care about what they do, how they look or whether
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    • 50 11 Men are still the heaviest smokers in Singapore. But more and more women, especially 18to 24-year-olds, are taking up the dangerous habit. In 1998, the figures show fewer young men were smoking, while more young women were starting. Figures from 1998 National Health Survey. Graphic/HUP
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    • 275 11 THERE are times when walking just a few steps has him gasping for breath. Mr Larry Koh, a 73-year-old retired businessman, says that can be very frightening. "You feel you're going to die. You can't catch your breath." Mr Koh suffers from COPD.
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    • 145 11 MORE young women around the world are lighting up. Thanks in part to sexy advertising campaigns, says a World Health Organisation report on Women and the Tobacco Epidemic. Smoking is made to seem a means of "attaining maturity, gaining confidence, being in control of one's
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 322 15 TURN-OFF OF THE YEAR 1. Lum May Yee 2. Allan Wu 3. Fiona Xie 4. LMin SCANDAL OF THE YEAR 1. Fly Entertainment stars want out 2. Mark Richmond and Vernetta Lopez split 3. Michelle Saram's contract woes 4. Glenn Ong and Kate Reyes split
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    • 543 16  -  HORROR AT HILL STREET By Low Ching Ling IT was a terrifying sight and all Mr Mike Khoo could do was scream as he helplessly watched it happen. A huge bus was flying straight for his car. Said the 37-year-old salesman: "For a moment,
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    • 513 18  -  By Genevieve Jiang SHE is a quiet, reserved secretary in a huge industrial corporation. But for the first time in her eight years at SembCorp Logistics, Mrs Irene Lim has been calling the shots. Vice-presidents and managers in the company have been
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    • 137 18 THE Boys' Brigade's Sharity Gift Box project has only managed to collect about 170,000 gifts to date, against a target of 300,000 gifts. The project, commissioned by the National Council of Social Service (NCSS), encourages the public to give gifts such as rice, sugar and
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  • WORLD
    • 214 19 THEY may be protecting their country, but they're also illegally involved in protecting nightspots. On Monday, it was revealed that 30 Thai military officers were mafia suspects, reported the Bangkok Post. According to the newspaper, the Thai Supreme Command's list of suspects included
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    • 222 20 AP TIMES may be bad. But good fortune is rolling in for those whose business is telling the future. In Thailand, as much as 1 billion baht (about $42m) went into the pockets of fortune tellers this past year, in Bangkok alone. According to a
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    • 149 20 THEY won't exactly eject you from the throne. But they will buzz you off. We are talking about a new generation of toilets which will be installed in February at tourist spots in Bangkok, Thailand. When you next visit Thailand, don't remain inside
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    • 229 21 AP. One in six Britons suffers from mental illness. Questioned in a national survey, a sixth of adults aged between 16 and 74 revealed they had suffered from mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety and phobias. But while many suffer from such illnesses, the good
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    • 232 22 AP. THE 15-year-old private school student, dressed in army fatigues, hid for several hours among trees in a Melbourne park. Then he attacked and raped a 55-year-old mother of three when she came along. The following day, the teen allegedly caught a bus
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    • 266 23 PALESTINIAN POLL: AFP. IT looks like more blood will be spilled in the Middle East. The majority of Palestinians want suicide bombings to go on inside Israel, despite Israeli retaliatory raids and international pressure that have followed such attacks, a Palestinian poll showed yesterday. A
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  • 274 24 THE adults were happy and smiling, the children were playing. After all, the spirit of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, was in the air. And that gave them reason to celebrate. The mood was genial, filled with hope
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  • WORLD
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      385 26 SHOOT first, question later. This is the new way for Australia to fight terrorism in the air. When the first group of 22 air security officers (former counter-terrorist first response team members from the Australian Protective Service) hit the skies next week, they will have a "licence
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    • 306 26 HER legs felt as if they were about to give way. Only the thought of her mother trapped in the flat kept her going. In her fiery determination to rescue her wheelchair-bound mother from a fire, a filial daughter
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  • 438 27 slice of life COMMENT THIS is what most journalists would deem a non-story, and I may be accused of flogging a near-dead horse. I'm talking about women and national service. Not girlfriends who wait outside army camps for a whiff of their
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    • 668 28  -  By Yeoh Wee Teck IT doesn't take more than 10 minutes to get from outside Isetan at Shaw House to the Lido Cineplex. Last night, Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise took two hours. He loved it, the 3,000-strong crowd loved it and, heck, even us jaded press hacks
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    • 215 30 SNOT: Tara Reid (right) IN: Burbeny Store, Beverly Hills THE ACT: Three's a crowd for American Pie cutie Tara Reid and her new beau David Schwimmer, 35, as she fends off her ex-fiance Carson Daly's desperate attempt to
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      80 30 SHOT: Gwyneth Paltrow (below) IN: The Royal Tenenbaums premiere, Los Angeles THE ACT: Paltrow apparently threw a fit recently, during rehearsals for Saturday Night Live. The show's Weekend Update segment made fun of her pal Madonna and her male and female lovers. Paltrow demanded all negative references
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    • 128 30 SHOT: Liv Tyler (right) IN: Premiere of Lord of the Rings, London THE ACT: Tyler embarrassed herself when she undressed a doll based on her Lord Of The Rings character Arwen then couldn't get its clothes back on. The gorgeous actress
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    • 526 31  -  By Eri Akbar RILLA Melati doesn't look a day over 17. But the 28-year-old Suria artiste is the mother of a nine-month-old boy. With her waifish figure and skin as smooth as a baby's bottom, she looks like she belongs in a secondary school. Her "sweet
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    • 127 32 IF you think only teenage girls who hanker after boyband members do crazy things, you haven't met the fans of Korean actress Kim Hee-Sun (right). Hundreds of screaming fans greeted the "No 1 Beauty in Korea" when she held an autograph session in Guangzhou last week. One
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    • 171 32 THEY had a score to settle, and they were waving fists. But F4's Jerry Yan and Ken Zhu were merely playing "scissors, paper, stone" to settle a disagreement. Then they tried comparing heights and weights. Finally, it was their birth dates that did the trick.
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    • 301 33 PRIME-TIME TV WATCH EVERY time I'm watching a Japanese drama and a fighting scene comes up, I feel like cringing. Not because it's so violent that I can't stomach it, but because it's so lame that I don't have the heart to watch it.
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    • 17 33 Salary man Kintaro 2 (right) is on JET TV Ch 57 at 9pm daily. It debuts today.
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    • 646 34 THE NEW PAPER/Wednesday, December 19.2001 PRIME-TIME TV 6 6.30: Akazukin 6.00: Hollywood 6.30: News 6.30: Singapore 6.00: Kong, The 6.00: Masak 6.02: Virginity 6.00: News at 6 6.00: Malaysia ChaCha Squares (Variety) Today (News) Animated Series Apa? (Cooking) Price or Prize? 6.30: GaJeri— Book Of nm (Cartoon) 6.30: Wheel Of
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  • 437 35 HEY! In the second of a two-part series, DESMOND NG checks out the exotic spreads available at hotels this Christmas OKAY, SO you want some j| exotic stuff this Christmas. And the traditional turkey or ham just doesn't cut it. !Well, Christmas
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    • 226 38 TK NEW PAPER /Wednesday, December 19. 2001 PROPERTY HUNTER Page 39 IMMEDIATE OCCUPANCY! T.O.P OBTAINED! OVER 70% SOLD! CHOICE UNITS STILL AVAILABLE I The sweet sounds of luxury just got this weekerK^^^^^^^ Euphony GOfCjOnS encompasses the best of harmonious living. Inspired by the musical culture of historical Europe. enchantment awaits
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    • 161 39 One's near the sea and the other's near nature. Maybe one could be your ideal home? DESMOND NG takes a peek at two 99-year leasehold residential developments RIVERVALE CREST RURAL and urban? At Rivervale Crest (right), you get the best of both worlds.
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  • PROPERTY MITER GUIDE TO HOT REAL ESTATE & HOME IDEAS
    • 478 42  -  By Desmond Ng THERE is a flat piece of wood on the floor. Look again, it is a TV console. Huh? Well, that's Zen for you where a piece of wood can be anything. A TV console, a book shelf, even a table perhaps? This
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    • 146 42 NO ZEN please. That was the short and very simple brief Mr Kong Chong Phang gave to his interior designer. Mr Kong, a second-year NUS student, moved into a five-room flat at Telok Blangah Heights with his parents and sister two months ago. Before they moved
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  • RAGING
    • 220 49 DANNYKHOO'S GUIDE TO KRANJI TRACKWORK CLASS 3— 1,100 m: Victory Whip (E Wilkinson) 39.4, nicely. CLASS 4— 1,000 m: Last-start winner Southern Warrior (G Carter) 44.9, took it easy. Gulf Emperor, looking well, did pace work. OPEN BENCHMARK 52 1,200 m: Clear Vision and
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    • 174 49 Classic marco, a good thing beaten at his last start, worked with vengeance at Kranji yesterday morning. Partnered by jockey Gary Carter, the three-year-old by Clang drew notice to his chances when he led from pillar to post to win his I,ooom trial (see report
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    • 401 49 OPEN (horses rated 85 and above) 1,600 m: Bo Mag canter/43.4. Newcomer Hoeberg (Innes) 37.5, paced by Cosmic Champion (R Lim, OB 781,400 m). Komplete Kaos (YF Leong) and Fire House (Mumby, C31,600m) 37.2. Slow work: Bright Era, St Kentigern. OPEN BENCHMARK 95 1,200
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    • 249 49 RESULTS of six barrier trials conducted over I,ooom on the fibresand track at Kranji yesterday. The going was good. TRIAL 1:1 Wotbwiw (R Lim) 2 Royal Stirling (L Innes) 3 Mega Fortune (L Mumby) 4 Long Dragon (E Wilkinson) 5 John Street (J Saimee). Unofficial margins and time:
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    • WHIP HAND
      • 220 50 FATE sometimes brings people together in strange and wonderful ways. And Singapore Turf Club (SNTC) presenter and race-caller Steve Levar, 29, can testify to this. Ten years ago, Levar joined Brisbane's 4TAB the premier horse-racing radio station in Australia and worked together with the No.
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      • 140 50 CHENG KE TEN had a memorable first day at Kranji, riding a winner aboard chance mount Superb Quality for trainer Charles Leek. But things could have been a lot better for the 2.5 kg claimer last Saturday. He was on hot fancy Sky Bullet
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      • 82 50 ITS nice to get away from the cold in England. But after bagging three winners at Kranji last week, 1999 English champion apprentice Robert Winston has shown that he is in Singapore not just for the sun. Making a great debut last Friday at
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      • 262 50 SUPERB QUALITY'S bodyweight has been a talking point after the three-year-old romped home in the Maidens' race last Saturday at juicy odds in only his fourth start. The son of Haayil had been full of promise since running a smack-up sixth behind Victory Commander at his
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    • 439 50 NST. LUCKY EIGHTY ONE drew attention to his chances in the Class 1 Premier Division event over 1,400 m on Saturday with an eye-catching workout in Penang yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the six-year-old Australian-bred entire by Dauberval easily beat Little Brother (Class 4
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    • 283 50 TRAINER Stephen Gray's Dubrovnik is the only experienced newcomer entered for Friday's Kranji meeting on the fibresand track. The four-year-old grey New Zealand-bred gelding by Slavic out of Princess Carbine did not race at two. At three, his first start saw
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  • SPORTS
    • 494 51  -  S-LEAGUE 2002 By Ernest Luis THE Tampines Stags seem to have a new nickname The Tampines "Warriors". It was given by many in the S-League community because of the number of players they lured from the SAF Warriors in the off-season. The biggest name is Nazri
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    • 106 51 THE FORB6N LINE-UP; Kyrgyzstani goalkeeper Zakir Djalilov (right) who came midway through this year's season, has been a key to frustrating the opposition. Brazilian Luciano de Oliveira has been mesmerising away fans and leaving opposing defenders up in arms. Playmaker Joselito da Silva the Brazil-born
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    • 388 52 FOCUS ON CHELSEA GOALKEEPER CARLO CUDICINI CHELSEA goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini is at a loss to explain why his team beats the top teams yet struggles against smaller clubs. The 4-0 thumping of league leaders Liverpool on Sunday, in which the Italian saved a penalty
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    • 97 52 9th minute: A Gary McAllister corner is flicked goalwards by Stephane Henchoz at the near post. Carlo Cudicini tips the ball upwards and William Gallas heads the ball off the line. 24th min: Gerrard cuts in from the right flank, meets a sweeping cross-field ball from Igor Biscan.
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    • 30 52 Name: Carlo Cudicini Nickname: Black Spider Position: Goalkeeper Date of birth: Sept 6.1973 Birthplace: Milan, Italy Height 1.85 m Weight 77kg H Previous dubs: Lazio, Castel Dl Sandro
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    • 563 53 MORE ON CHELSEA 4 LIVERPOOL 0 MORE ON CHELSEA 4 LIVERPOOL 0 In the end, Chelsea showed the world that it, too, can play the Liverpool-style of "ugly soccer"—defend like mad, strike in a flash, and make most of your opportunities count. And did
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    • 805 55 2001 EUROPEAN FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR WINNER: MICHAEL OWEN Wire services. AT least five years away from his prime. That's the warning Liverpool striker Michael Owen, the 2001 European Footballer of the Year, gave. "I'm extremely proud. I couldn't believe it when I first
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    • 285 55 Reuters. RAUL (right) netted a hat-trick io send Real Madrid through to the King's Cup quarter-finals with a 4-2 win over Gimnastic Tarragona. Real, trailing 1-0 from the first leg against the Second Division struggler, found itself in deep trouble as it twice
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    • 427 56 LEEDS PLAYERS' TRIAL: THE AFTERMATH LEE BOWYEITS REACTION: LEE Bowyer has claimed he has been "victimised" by Leeds, after the club placed him on the transfer list. The midfielder has been put up for sale after refusing to accept a fine of four weeks' wages amounting to
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    • 177 56 LEEDS chairman Peter Ridsdale has made an impassioned plea to transfer-listed Lee Bowyer to accept the club's disciplinary sanctions. Ridsdale told BBC Radio 5 Live: "We want Lee to play football for Leeds United. "He is a very valuable member of the squad, but I think
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    • 235 57 ARSENAL 1 NEWCASTLE 3 Robert Pires (20th min) Andy O'Brien (60), Alan Shearer (85 pen), Laurent Robert (90) Crowd: 38,012 JSf IfwoKed a clear tackle from behind and the only reason I did not send off the Arsenal player (Campbell) was that I thought the Newcastle player
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    • 930 58 ARSENALTaylor, Lauren, Campbell, Keown, Cole, Pires, Parlour, Vieira, Henry, Kanu(van Bronckhorst 45), Wiltord (Bergkamp67) NEWCASTLE: Given, Hughes, O'Brien, Oabizas, Elliott (Robert 58), Dyer (Distin 86), Solano (Lua-Lua 58), Bernard, Speed, Shearer, Bellamy ARSENE Wenger had been insisting right up to the start of the game
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  • THE RITE CHOICE
    • 598 61 His job is to tell the story IN the aftermath of an accident, the site will be crawling with men in uniform. Officers from the police force or the Singapore Civil Defence Force taking photographs and interviewing witnesses. Enter civilian Roger Gan. The
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    • 90 61 CASE 1 (picture above) When: Early 1999 Where: Industrial factory What happened: Four new trucks parked inside the factory caught fire. Conclusion: Caused by faulty wiring in the refrigerators on the truck. CASE 2 (picture on cover) When: Mid 1999 Where: Along a main road. What happened:
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  • 555 69 Dress rehearsal was at the ITE... THE RITE CHOICE EIGHT years ago, he dipped into his savings to come up with $15,000 to start a multi-media company with two friends. Back then, it was not smooth sailing for Mr Tan Eng Tiong, 35. He said:
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    • 549 76 More people now recognise the quality of technical education which the ITE offers school leavers. Surveys show ihat the percentage has increased from 34 per cent in 1997t0 37 per cent in 2000. LEE TEE JONG speaks to one N-level student who qualifiedfor the O levels
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    • 231 77 TIMES are changing, and so are perceptions. Hie ITE is no longer associated with school dropouts or students with disciplinary problems. Take a survey done in 2000 to find out people's perceptions of the ITE and technical education. Eight out of 10 Singaporeans say the
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    • 725 78 The hours are long but packed with activities. LEE TEE JONG follows 18-year-old Cassandra Tan, a Chemical Process Technology student at ITE Bukit Batokjor a day MORNINO RUSH It's 7.45 am and Cassandra and I join the queue of students dressed
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    • 518 80 AN EMPLOYER SPEAKS... ITE graduates have two things which make them very marketable. They enter the working environment with basic skills. And they are willing to start from scratch and learn as much as possible. Inzign managing director Phua Swee Hoe should know. He has
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    • 356 82 WORK as a bus technician is far from routine. Unusual things can happen. Mr Mohammad Isa Sudin (left), a SBS Transit senior technician, remembers an incident 16 years ago. Mr Mohammad Isa was then in the bus depot repairing a bus when he heard shouts. A
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