The New Paper, 23 December 2001

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  • 15 1 the new paper DECEMBER 23, 2001 70 CENTS on Sunday the new paper on sunday
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    • 110 1 e iiew.wa :r freedom fighters? DECEMBER 23,200 V U^owrpraEmail trp@»p»i com s| Tat ttOO-7 44 5S Webw wwwuel cemig MfTA (P)103/D3/2001 TJTa: (M I Regrets of a teen Like Annie Leong's teen killer, this man also killed someone while in his teens. He recalls his 10 years in Changi Prison.
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  • NEWS
    • 487 2 THIS is one goal that Japan is longing for. And it could be scored before the World Cup, which starts in June, reported the Financial Times. And what a goal it could be. Research by HSBC Securities shows that developed countries which have hosted the
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    • 344 2 ONE minute, 17-year-old Misionare Toilolo was carrying gifts for his family as he headed off to do volunteer work. Next minute, he was chasing a thief who snatched somebody's bag. And a few minutes later, he was sitting on the kerb crying. He had
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  • NEWS
    • 1252 4  -  What's in store for Annie Leong's teen murderer in Changi Prison? A former teen, also convicted of murder, talks of life there REPORTS TANYA FONG LOCKED and lonely are not the only words to describe life in prison. You also must know
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    • 250 5 TWENTY years ago, Senior Counsel Mr R Palakrishnan (right) met a skinny 16-year-old boy who was charged with murder. "It was incredible. He looked rather innocent, and for a moment I could not reconcile the act of murder with him." During the trial, he also
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    • 378 5  -  By Fraemone Wee MADAM Annie Leong's teen murderer (right) has been sent to Changi Prison where he will be detained at the President's pleasure (TPP). This means he could be held there for any amount of time until the President grants him clemency. A prison spokesman
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    • 859 6 PREGNANT AIDS VICTIM EJECTED BY LANDLADY Despite more than 10 years of Aids awareness education, attitudes towards Aids victims have yet to change. FRAEMONE WEE speaks to a woman who had her clothes and belongings thrown out by her landlady because she
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    • 385 6 IT is one of the greatest fears of Aids victims rejection. Their worry is one of potential loss because of their condition loss of jobs, homes, friends and even family. Miss Molly Wijeysingha (above), 64, knows the reaction all too well. She heads The Cyrenes, a
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    • 162 7 HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. It attacks the human immune (defence) system, and over period of time destroys it. Only when the immune system becomes seriously damaged do people begin to fall ill. The term "Aids" (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), is reserved for this late stage of
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    • 601 8  -  Deepavali, Hari Raya, Christmas, Chinese New Year —the perfect time to spend on yourself and your loved ones. But just hou> much are Singaporeans spending to mark the festivities? According to a TNP on Sunday survey of 100 households, the average amount is $1,215.30
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    • 310 9 CHRISTMAS came early for the Gohs this year in the form of a bouncy five-month-old baby. So even though they will not be indulging in their usual holidays abroad during this festive season, because Dr Joyce Wong could not get leave, staying at
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    • 297 9 THE economic downturn means cutting down expenses for Mr Jiang Siew Wang. And the 54-year-old finance admin manager will be doing the same this Chinese New Year. But this doesn't mean his family will not have a good time. Mr Jiang lives in a
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    • 821 10  -  REPORT SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO TOM Cruise gives the greatest performance of his life! That was my thought on that red carpet as I joined the 3,000 who thronged the Lido cineplex last Tuesday for a sight of arguably, the world's biggest star today.
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  • NEWS
    • 748 12 In September, a slow infection from body piercings took a US man to the brink of death. Three months later, doctors linked another woman's brain abscess to her pierced tongue. FRAEMONE WEE speaks to a Singaporean who lived to tell this horrifying tale HIS tongue was
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    • 210 13 A COOL $10,000. That's how much Mr Jerome Ong thinks the art work on his body is worth. This tattoo addict knows the right people, and picked up some skills from them. Most of the tattoos on his body were done by friends for
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    • 157 13 TONGUE piercing is dangerous. A neurosurgeon told The New Paper on Sunday that the external skin on the tongue, unlike the ear, or other parts of the body, does not heal easily. "When you pierce the tongue, you're creating a wound, or a raw area, on it," said
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  • AT A GLANCE
    • 258 14 THE competition for bright, young Singaporeans has just hot up. The Public Service Commission (PSC) will make changes to its prestigious Overseas Merit Scholarship (OMS) scheme from next year to make it more attractive, reported The Sunday Times. PSC had noted that it no longer had
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    • 61 14 Wow! Nothing Kko a row of omo la red holding hands, with umbrellas over thoir hoods, to stop the traffic. Bat, boy, If two 1,,, I A«* ii, j. strange stgm to mo pooestnan waoung across rauasta rvmnn hi the financial district of Sao
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    • 399 14 DONT shrug off the crisis in Argentina as another case of economic mismanagement. Argentina was the victim of its own success. It did not pile up the world's biggest public debt US$l32 billion ($243b) through sheer fecklessness. Oh, no, it was careful with its money.
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 91 15 A WOMAN has been accused of biting her maid's breasts and nipples, causing the maid "severe bodily pain" for 20 days. In October, clerk Jennicia Chow Yen Ping, 30, first appeared in court for hurting Miss Kusmirah, 19, at her Woodlands Circle home. She also allegedly splashed
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      • 70 15 INDONESIAN president Megawati Sukarnoputri will drop corruption charges against ailing former president Suharto, 80, on humanitarian grounds. The private SCTV television network quoted senior parliamentarian Pramono Anungas as saying yesterday. However, Ms Megawati would seek parliament's approval first, as required under the constitution. Suharto is charged with
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      • 105 15 QUEEN Elizabeth II (right) is reportedly "unhappy" with a portrait which makes her look grumpy and ugly. Mr Lucien Freud, considered Britain's greatest living painter, took 18 months to complete the portrait. When the portrait was unveiled last week, it was greeted with diplomatic silence
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      • 89 15 LOTTERY-OBSESSED Spaniards waited anxiously yesterday for the draw that would pay out 236 billion pesetas ($2.3b) the largest amount ever to take place. The annual Christmas lottery is officially nicknamed El Gordo, the Fat One. According to a 189-year-old tradition, balls are plucked from a golden tumbler
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      • 84 15 CATHOLIC Archbishop Nicholas Chia has ordered a massive reshuffle of priests the first time such a major change is taking place in local churches. Thirty-three priests will be transferred or promoted to parishes and offices. Most of the postings will take place on Feb 18. Archbishop Chia said
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      • 91 15 WITH all of two planes, Ariana, the national carrier of Afghanistan dubbed "God Willing Airline", is taking to the skies once again. The airline is recruiting flight attendants to replace those fired by the ousted Taliban regime, including 20 to 30 female crew. But the burqa, an
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      • 85 15 THE economic slump has forced jobless Malaysians to drive illegal taxis plying Johor Baru-Singapore overland routes. Retrenched workers, broke businessmen and civil servants have taken up the service known as kereta sapu, or illegal taxis. They charge between $40 and $80 per trip and usually wait next to
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    • 206 15 IN FOCUS SINCE SMS has taken young people here by storm, the Social Development Unit (SDU) has adapted it to facilitate the dating game. So now, the blind date goes digital with SMS dating, reported The Sunday Times. SDU members sign up and send SMS messages
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • EXPAT
    • 942 16 When she arrived in July last year without a job, many thought she was crazy. Briton MARGARET FIORENTINI, a magazine editor, returned home with lots of memories of the island she hardly knew when she arrived WHEN I first arrived in Singapore some 17 months
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    • 155 17 EXPATTALX: THANK you to those of you who have given me your wonderful feedback on the articles we've run these last few weeks. Many are still e-mailing me, wanting to contact the expat writers whose columns appeared last month. While I cannot divulge addresses or phone numbers without
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  • 528 18  -  GUEST EDITOR Ms Serene Goh FREELANCE WRITER FEAR is powerful motivation. But when it comes to dollars and sense, how well will the Singaporean kiasu approach work? Let's take the current turns in Asia's economic climate. As South-east Asian nations and China agree to set up the
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    • 42 18 SPORE'S GREAT TALENT HUNT H Superstar vs the unusual candidate CHERIAN GEORGE suggests a very unSingaporean human resource BLmMI approach to finding talent. Will it make HR people shiver? In The New Paper's special edition on Dec 26. (The Straits Times will
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  • 362 20  -  NEWS By Ng Wan Ching SHE is fine. So says the mother of the five-year-old girl who went missing from her parents' stall in Redhill Close. She was found some 12 hours later at 10.30 am on Friday. But efforts to
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  • NEWS
    • 479 22  -  Selangor residents find castrated man in pool of blood, metres away from burning car BY Dawn Chia THEIR curiousity was aroused when they saw a car ablaze in front of a deserted house. Residents of Kampung Lombong, a residential area in Klang, Selangor, went out to
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    • 410 23 A QUIET tug of war is taking place on the diplomatic front involving China and the US. The Chinese government wants the US to hand over ethnic Uighurs from Xinjiang province who were captured while fighting with Taliban forces in Afghanistan.
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    • 408 24 L_ Download me into your handphone! SOON, American teens will be getting a Britney buzz in their pockets. We're talking teen pop queen Britney Spears (right) being a slave for you on your handphone. In yet another gadget "breakthrough", handphone owners will be able to listen to
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    • 407 25 Ex-Enron employees unite to form e-support group THE world gasped when the mighty fell. But even as the financial world tries to recover its ground, sprouting in place of an impersonal giant of a corporation is a close-knit community. Linked through the Internet, the more than
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    • 507 26 INDIA STOPS RAIL-ROAD SERVICES TO PAKISTAN THE 37 passengers from Lahore, Pakistan, got off the bus in New Delhi on Friday night hoping to spend some quality time with their loved ones. But their hopes were dashed when they were told to
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  • NEWS
    • 299 29 Merry XXXmas from your boss Dismay over Aussie tax-deductible sex bonuses FANCY a romp at a brothel? Well, that's just what you might get as a Christmas bonus if you're working in Australia. In fact, one brothel madam told BBC News Online that the demand from corporate customers was so
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    • 494 30 IT took a strand of dog hair to uncover two men's murderous intent. When a dead woman's body was found in a desert, her hair had been scattered over the desert by coyotes, leaving little trace evidence. But stuck on her socks were a few
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    • 250 31 IT was a combination of alcohol and adrenaline that brought about that momentary reversal of roles. On Wednesday night, an intoxicated Dana Michael Murphy hit a car in the rear on a Miami road. Murphy, 28, took off after the hit-and-run and was
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    • 548 32 WHEN it comes to the high notes in Daniel Rodriguez's life, even operatic greats like Verdi have competition. Verdi might have written La Traviata and Aida but Mr Rodriguez's is the ultimate fairy tale come to life. From aspiring singer to police officer to
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      849 34  -  SUNDAY# YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND We've all sniggered at supermodels trying to act Now actors are modelling... and reaping big benefits from it too JOANNA HUGHES LATE really late night TV used to be the boneyard for actors with careers on the skids. That's when the ads
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    • 291 34 EVEN now, sophisticated ads for lipstick and hair colour and perfume star actresses, not supermodels. Uma Thurman is the face of Lancome's Miracle, and Milla Jovavich is one of L'Oreal's. Stars have shown up in ads endorsing milk (Jackie Chan and Noah Wyle) and
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    • 1452 35 USA Today. USA Today. THE first words from Michael Jackson seem to portend a candid dialogue. "Excuse my skin," he says. "I just came from the dermatologist. So pretend you don't see it." That instruction is tough
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    • 536 37  -  BY Saw Tek Meng REMEMBER the name. Ryan Adams. Not be mistaken for Bryan Adams. Speaking of whom, what's happened to him? If Bryan is history, Ryan, 26, is the future. He's been called the Kurt Cobain of alt.country and drawn comparisons with Bob Dylan, Bruce
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      344 37 IT used to be that rock music was for the isolated who felt out of place. These days, rock has morphed into happy guitar pop where everything is a 24-hour party and everyone's invited. But you can't fault Smashmouth for not having enough angst. With inane nursery-rhyme lyrics and
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    • 582 38  -  MIKE CHUA ITS that prayerful time of the year again. You can feel it in the air. It's the only period when the volume of prayers pip the number of SMS messages here in Singapore, as children pray for the most exciting toys
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    • 286 39  -  DANNY NG, PSYCHOLOGIST I AM a 20-year-old and have been living with my 21-year-old boyfriend, H, for about a year. When we first started out, I lied about my past as I did not want it to affect our relationship. When he finally forced me to
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    • 171 39 Last week's letter: ALL Alone is a 15-year-old girl who has been trying to lose weight as she is unhappy with the way she looks. Her friends and family say she looks fine but she feels they are saying it only because they don't want to
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    • 85 39 Readers' advice YOU seem to have analysed your situation with great insight. Your bulimia probably stems from your sense of worthlessness and need for acceptance and approval. You have to learn to recognise and value your good points and realise that you need not rely on
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    • 102 39 FIRST of all, you should stop vomitting your food out. You are putting your health in danger by doing this. If you want to lose weight, try exercising and following a low-fat, balanced diet. You should also try to communicate with your parents. Take the initiative and tell
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    • 313 40 MY boyfriend and I are in the same secondary school and we have been going steady for nearly half a year. But I feel foolish continuing a relationship that I know will get us nowhere. He had a reputation as a playboy before he met me
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    • 395 40 MY colleagues are a bunch of hooligans and bullies. My department has a fund for us to buy equipment but when I requested for three items, the colleague in charge said I was allowed to buy only one item. However, I heard her allowing another colleague
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    • 168 40  -  DR LIN SU MIN QI'M 13 this year. Though I started having my period in September last year, I still find that I'm a bit flat-chested. Am I abnormal? Or am I suffering from some disease? Why doesn't the size of my breasts increase? I've heard that
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    • 72 40 Sexuality affects many— teens to adults. So, if you have a question or need advice on sex and heart issues, write to: Aggie, The New Paper, News Centre, 82, Genting Lane, Singapore *****7. Or fax 737-5375, e-mail: tnp@aph.com.sg Mark your envelope: Aggie or call 1900-*****07 (calls cost
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  • 561 44  -  I Hfwe. iw oww4tfsU Why can'tfootballer Indra Sahdan sit still for a minute? ERIAKBAR tries to catch up pant with him Brought to you by Ricola EVEN his mum thought he was reckless as a boy. But footballer Indra Sahdan (above) was just a child
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    • 512 45  -  Bianco Caffe' Italiano POSH NOSH TAN DAWN WEI What: The former Porta Portese is now a newly revamped, slick and slightly classier eatery called Bianco, which still serves the same brand of simple but hearty Italian cuisine. This little gem of a restaurant is nestled at the junction
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    • 264 45 CHEAP CHOW MR Chua of Ping Kee Popiah would probably win Fastest Fingers First Watching him grab from the array of ingredients, wrapping the skin and slicing the popiahs with incredible dexterity, he wins hands down. And it takes much more than speedy digits. At any
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    • 375 46  -  TOH PAIK CHOO GREAT train journeys begin with train journeys that weren't that great at the time you were taking them. And then, in the afterglow of nostalgia, (when in your own clean toilet at home) the nightmare train ride wasn't too bad after all.
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    • 591 47  -  Sleeping with Madonna's bustier... EUGENE WEE fills you in on where you can fulfil this dream EUGENE WEE ONCE every so often someone comes in to check on Madonna's underwear. The panty inspector takes his job very seriously, as the Hard Rock Hotel in Pattaya cannot afford
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    • 209 48 IT kickstarted 30 years ago when guitar god Eric Clapton, a regular at the first Hard Rock Cafe in London, asked staff there if they could hang his guitar on the wall next to his favourite bar stool to mark his "spot". A week later,
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    • 432 48 Amara Singapore celebrates Christmas New Year MMwwww.iii..iJi.iU;jjjiiiji in Style! MM at 1 Chrtstnrts Eve Semi Dinner (34 Dk 2001) Treat yoursetf to a semi buffet filled with festive delights including appetizers, soup, desserts and a choice of ma,n courses Stuffed Supreme of Turtcey with BaPßiWMlW*llgiHlMfc4jlln Brussel Sprout, Baby Carrot and
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    • 639 49 —HEY/)i WHAT'S HUP I just don't get it I just don t get it. At the company s annual dinner But when we bump into them at work, J 'V s d 2 n 1 9 et and dance party, we greet everyone as if we have we g0.... When
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    • 85 51 PICK OF THE DAY This last-start winner can defy the extra 5.5kg load on his back to register his second career win. His lVfe-length victory over the Penang 1,200m in soft going on Oct 14 was long overdue —what after chalking up two seconds
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    • 1140 52 TODAY'S PENANG RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD 1 MUDLARKS RACE 1: Juvenile King, Blue Grass, Racy Stacy. RACE 2: King General, Kiko's Palace. RACE 3: Lot Stock, Happy Fella, Comrade-ln-Arms, United Saga. RACE 4: Kiko's Joy, Best Win. RACE 5: Eagle Has Landed, Sphritzer, Magical Star. RACE 6: Yellow Bee,
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    • 543 53 TODAY'S PENANG RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD I Ha Lot 6 rum Hortt Wl RaMng Jocfcty Sfrir (AqttorigkVm, tnkm<mnK) 1 *****- WONDERFUL GENERAL 57 (86) 'BShahrul 6 (5ag YB Lee-Fated To Win) 2 -007-1 CYBERVAIN 56.5 (85) SHOh 11 (6ag P Lee-Dragon) 3 *****- THAT'S WHY 55 (82) LCurrie 7
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    • 1160 53 YESTERDAY'S PENANG RACE RESULTS GOING: GOOD 111 LINE SQUALL 54 (18-8) JAzhar (8) 6 1 1 (462) 3 STARGATE EXPRESS 56 (11-7) CPitty (2) 5 4 2 (446) 8 BELLE OF ISLAND 54.5 (44-11) DChee (10) 1 3 3 (504) 5 FOX ACTION 55.5 (51-12) .S Marzuki (6) 11 6
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    • 197 53  -  By Danny Khoo TRAINER Johann van Breukelen boosted his title hopes with a brilliant hattrick on opening day of the Governor's Gold Cup meeting at Penang yesterday. The Penang-based handler took the last three races to move within two winners of cousin and rival Marinus van
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    • 341 54  -  By Danny Khoo IF TRAINER Malcolm Thwaites had a second glass of the bubbly after Race 4 at Kranji last night, he was entitled to it. For Kipkeno's win not only gave him much to look forward to in the months ahead but also ensured that
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    • 901 54 RACE 1: Trainer B Brogan was fined RM2OO ($9O) for declaring I Azhar on CHAPERONE without confirming with the rider. He was fined an additional RM2OO for being late in submitting a declaration to remove the blinker/pacifier on CHAPERONE. Trainer B Ng was
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    • 1558 55 YESTERDAY'S KRANJI (SHORT COURSE, C) RACE RESULTS GOING: GOOD 2 CLASSIC MARCO 56.5 (7-5) Q Carter (6) 1 1 1 (454) 3 FURY 55.5 (96-18) LMumby (2) 4 3 2 (483) 8 KEY PROSPECT 54.5 (201-26) Mdu Plessis (7) 2 2 3 (397) 7 OVERALL CHAMP 55 (55-11) JSaimee (5)
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    • 1245 56 RACE 1: KB Soo replaced L Danis on SUPERB PROFIT as the latter was certified unwell. OLIUTO was restless In the barriers and jumped awkwardly. G Sharrol, the rider of OLIUTO, reported that he lost his near-side stirrup iron momentarily at the start.
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    • 34 55 4-D DRAW SATURDAY December 22. 2001 FIRST 3152 SECOND 5717 M THIRD 7416 STARTERS 4982 2735 9636 2067 8427 2994 8146 9911 1567 4971 9567 5348 3069 5420 2384 3188 1250 3022 9901 1928
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      846 57 At the beginning of the NBA season, the Phoenix Suns and the New Jersey Nets traded away their best players to each other. One month into the schedule, both teams have fortunes different from their previous years. The once-horrible Nets are now the NBA's biggest surprise. The once-powerful
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    • 709 58 LAKERS SHOCKED THE struggling Memphis Grizzlies clawed their way to another shock victory when they beat the defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers 114-108 at the Pyramid on Friday. Playmaker Jason Williams scored 10 of his 26 points in the final four minutes to
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      262 58 AFTER one month of ballotting, Mich—l Jordan was sixth in overall voting for the 2002 NBA All-Star Game and the third-highest vote-getter in the Eastern Conference. Toronto's Vlnce Carter was leading the race, ahead of Lakers stars ShaqnMle O'Neal and Kobe Bryant, followed by Kevin Garaett and Allen
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    • 760 59  -  S-LEAGUE 2002: FOCUS ON GEYLANG GOALKEEPER LIONEL LEWIS By Jeremy Au Yong Bittersweet. That's the best way to describe the year 2001 for Lionel Lewis, the 19-year-old goalkeeping giant. The I.BBm-tall Geylang Eagle is being touted as Singapore's next great goalkeeper after David Lee. It was certainly
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    • 200 59 FABIEN Barthez maybe called "butterfingers" this season. But to Geylang Eagles 'keeper Lionel Lewis, the Manchester United man is still the best in the world now. He said: "I say that without any doubt. "He is very alert and also has very quick reflexes. "I
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    • 149 60 JUST like many others, Christmas for Geylang Eagles goalkeeper Lionel Lewis will be about the three Fs. Family. Friends. Food. "Every year we will have this party during Christmas where all my aunts and uncles get together with a group of friends," said Lewis. He
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      791 61  -  SUNDAY SHOWDOWN: LIVERPOOL v ARSENAL What a week it's been for Liverpool and Arsenal Arsenal produced some of the best football of the season on Tuesday night in the first 40 minutes against Newcastle but it was all spoiled by referee Graham Poll, and the shameful antics of Thierry
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      885 62  -  ...MORE ON LIVERPOOL v ARSENAL By. James Flynn ARSENAL should have been sitting on top of the Premiership table by now. And relishing the prospect of underlining its title ambitions during a hectic holiday programme. Instead, the Gunners have seen other teams overtake them. And defeats against Liverpool
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    • 466 63 SUNDAY SHOWDOWN: LIVERPOOL v ARSENAL WILL Nicolas Anelka make a sensational debut for Liverpool today against former club Arsenal? The controversial French striker must first undergo a medical and his debut is more likely to be against Aston Villa on Boxing Day.
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    • 161 63 NEWLY-CROWNED French Player of the Year Patrick Vieira has said that he will consider leaving Arsenal in the summer. The Arsenal star becomes the third Gunner in three years to pick up the trophy, with then-Bordeaux player Sylvain Wiltord taking the accolade in 1999, and Thierry
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    • 146 63 SERGEI Rebrov is at it again. The Ukrainian striker has hinted that he could leave White Hart Lane as he is not getting enough games for Tottenham Hotspur. Rebrov has been mostly used as a substitute by Glenn Hoddle, who prefers veteran strike duo Les
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    • 793 64 This is supposed to be the season of goodwill, but English football does not appear to have got the message. The unsavoury developments at Leeds and Man U show that all is not well with the game in this part of the world AS I was
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    • 1021 65  -  Red Devils back in title chase SATURDAY SHOWDOWN: MAN U 6 SOUTHAMPTON 1 COMMENT SCOTT WILSON EVEN if he'd been dressed up in a beard and a red suit with reindeer for company, Sir Alex Ferguson couldn't have expected six Christmas presents as nice as these. Fergie
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    • 388 65 DERBY COUNTRY 3 (Ravanelli 45th mm. Carbone 67. Christie 87) ASTON VILLA 1 (Angel 45) Wire Services. ITALIAN duo Fabrizio Ravanelli and Benito Carbone helped Derby to only its fourth league victory of the season with a crucial 3-1 win over Aston Villa. It was
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      524 67 LEEDS UNITED 3 NEWCASTLE 4 ON the pre-Christmas weekend when the top four teams are entertaining one another, the loudest cheer must surely be coming from a manager old enough to be Santa Claus himself. The 68-year-old Bobby Robson can revel in the thought that unless Liverpool overwhelms
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    • 123 67 I ■DERBY 3 Fabrizio Ravanelli 45, Benito Cartoone 67, Malcolm Christie 87 ASTON VILLA 1 Juan Pablo Angel 45 MANU6 Van Nistelrooy 1,34,54 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer 41 Roy Keane 72 Philip Neville 78 SOUTHAMPTON 1 Marian Pahars 55 CHARLTON 0 BLACKBURN 2 Damien Duff 57 David Dunn 90 LEEDS 3
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