The New Paper, 6 January 2002

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  • NEWS
    • 411 2 DECISIVE action against terror cells was announced yesterday in Singapore, and a day earlier in Malaysia. These are the frontline efforts that are part of ongoing sweeps against terrorism across the region. The grim background: The terrorist attacks
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    • 376 2 HOME AFFAIRS MINISTRY SAYS FIFTEEN persons were arrested between Dec 9 and Dec 24, 2001 by the Internal Security Department under Section 74 of the Internal Security Act for involvement in terrorism-related activities. Thirteen are cell members of a clandestine organisation which calls itself Jemaah Islamiah. The remaining
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    • Article, Illustration
      245 3 ON Jan 4, Malaysia's Inspector General of Police Norian Mai (above) said members of the Kumpulan Militan Malaysia (KMM) wanted to forcefully establish a Daulah Islamiah, an Islamic state made up of Malaysia, Indonesia and the southern Philippines. Four months earlier, before Sept 11 last year, Malaysian Prime
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    • 69 3 RADICAL Indonesian militants who have been provoking ethnic conflict in Sulawesi, are co-operating with Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network and other foreign terrorist organisations, according to Lieutenant-General Abdullah Hendripriyono, chief of Indonesia's intelligence agency. One of the main militant groups operating in Sulawesi is the Java-based Laskar Jihad.
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    • 85 3 ON Dec 5, Philippines President Gloria Arroyo said that Filipino rebel leader Nur Misuari detained in Malaysia should be added to the US list of suspected international terrorists who pose a threat to American interests. She said the military had discovered that he had links with the Abu
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    • 108 3 MALAYSIAN Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said on Friday it appeared that Al-Qaeda had helped put like-minded Islamic militant groups in touch with each other. "A 1 Qaeda was trying to establish networks of these groups rather than direct them," he told Reuters. Following the crackdown in Malaysia,
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    • 460 4  -  S'PORE SCULPTURE ON THE NEW AGE MAN By Fraemone Wee PRIZE-WINNING artist Chng Chin Hang's sculpture, Peter, is nice to look at and even offeres an inviting texture. But someone probably got so carried away by the experience yesterday, he carried
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    • 1484 6  - How tai-tai tracked rich hubby mistresses IMPRESSION OF REPORTER U: She met the tai-tai for the first time and was struck by her controlled poise and unflappable bearing, despite winning recently one of the largest divorce settlements ordered in recent years $17M BATTLE OF DATUK'S EX-WIFE IMPRESSION OF REPORTER #2:
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    • 294 7 IT was an obituary that first gave Madam Ng, an inkling of her husband's extramarital affairs. The obituary, which appeared in Malaysian Chinese daily Nanyang Siang Pau in 1979, listed her husband as the second son-in-law of the deceased, and husband of one Lee
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    • Article, Illustration
      965 8  -  By Dawn Chia SPELLING words like "table", "chair" and "newspaper" comes easily to his two young children. But for seven long years Mr Liew Hock Lee couldn't handle simple spelling and various other everyday functions. At the age of 37, Mr Liew, a cook, had a bad
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    • 183 9 Doctors say... IT is common practice to remove part of the skull during emergency treatment for severe trauma to the brain, say two neurosurgeons. According to Dr Lee Kheng Hin, consultant neurosurgeon in private practice: "In some cases of brain trauma, removing the skull bone
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    • 681 10  -  REPORTS NG WAN CHING A FEW years ago, plastic surgeons hardly ever saw young patients. But now even teens are asking for plastic surgery. Six of the seven doctors The New Paper on Sunday spoke to say they are regularly seeing patients
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    • 237 10 TEENAGERS considering plastic surgery should be encouraged to look at the alternatives and implications first, say two counsellors. Mrs Lan Teo, director of Children-At-Risk Empowerment (Care), said: "Teenagers who ask for plastic surgery tend to be those who have low
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    • 523 11 JENNY had been bothered by her nose since she was 14. Last month, at the age of 19, she finally had a nose job with the blessing of her parents. And since she was going under the surgeon's knife, she had her eyes done as
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    • 534 12 SOME parents drop their children off for their first day at kindergarten and are distraught when junior sobs and won't let them go. Others are just as distraught when their little one toddles happily into class without so much as a backward glance. Now,
      PHOTO JOURNALIST JOYCE LIM; Picture/The Straits Times  -  534 words
    • 118 13 THE Schoolhouse boasts of many state-of-the-art facilities, including webcam s in all classrooms. With the official launch of the website soon, parents will be able to log onto the Internet and see the classroom online. "It would definitely be great if I can see
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    • 933 14  -  Forgotten spot in Sembawang is drawing the crowds again REPORTS [PICTURES JASON TAN THERE, in a clearing in the middle of the forest, an elderly man was sitting serenely in a bathtub. The tub was full of nice warm water. He looked completely
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    • 400 16 SEMBAWANG SPRING MERCHANT Seah Eng Keong discovered the hot spring in 1909. The village in the area was then named Kampong Ayer Panas, which means hot water village. Villagers believed the water could cure rheumatism and frequently bathed in it. In 1922, soft drinks maker
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    • 98 16 IN some parts of Singapore, there are volcanic rocks lying deep below the ground. If water flows above these rocks, its temperature naturally goes up. After some time, the pressure of the boiling water may force it out of the ground, forming a hot spring, said
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    • 757 18 American-born musician KHALID CAESAR, who has played with stars like Ricky Martin and Madonna, is proud to call himself a "heartlander" PLEASE don't regard me as an expat. Or "foreign talent". I am someone who wants to
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    • 317 18 The secret's in the mix of races and cultures MY six-year-old daughter's experience is somewhat unusual. She was born in Singapore, has lived in Japan, and is attending school in Singapore. She understands she is special in that she is of African-American and Malay-Javanese descent. Although very young, she already
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  • ATA GLANCE
    • 224 20 The job of these five new full-time mayors is to pull the community together YES, Community Development Councils (CDCs) give out money to those in financial need. And provide social assistance programmes such as jobmatching and online access points for CPF top-ups. But do not
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    • 405 20 MOST people wake up on Jan 1 and wonder what the new year will bring. One man wondered more than most. Because when Mr Eduardo Camano woke up on Dec 31 2001, he was head of the lower chamber of Argentina's parliament. And when
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 83 21 CANT find a job why not take up farming? In Malaysia, the government has introduced a scheme, called the Commercial Agriculture Entrepreneurs Scheme for Graduates, that allows unemployed graduates to take up loans of up to RM50,000 ($24,000) each to venture into the agriculture sector. The scheme,
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      • 94 21 SINCE the euro became legal tender in 12 European Union countries on Tuesday, forged notes have surfaced in Ireland, Germany, France and the Netherlands. It is so rampant, conmen have been getting away even with poor quality fakes. Most are simply low-tech colour photocopies or money from
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      • 91 21 CHINA plans to offer "star" salaries and preferential treatment to stem its brain drain problem. The increased competition that entry into the World Trade Organisation will bring has put the government under even more pressure to woo back Chinese studying at foreign universities. The good news is
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      • 95 21 IN exchange for RM50,000 ($24,000) to pay their gambling debts, a Malaysian couple has "mortgaged" their four children's birth certificates to loan sharks. And now, the children who are with their grandparents as the couple has fled are having problems registering in schools and accessing public medical
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      • 95 21 EASY prey, that's how many conmen see the old. And, so far, they have targeted about 3,000 elderly people, using tactics such as high-pressure selling of things like pots and pans. The Consumers Association of Singapore says this is a "growing problem". It is considering printing
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      • 94 21 MORE workers in the service sector are expected to be retrenched in the first half of this year. Some unions are now discussing with employers retrenchment terms for "several hundred" workers, said National Trades Union Congress deputy secretary-general Matthias Yao yesterday. Last year, the number of service-sector
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      • 91 21 PAKISTAN'S President General Pervez Musharraf stole the spotlight at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in Kathmandi; yesterday. After calling for a dialogue with his Indian counterpart, he offered a handshake to Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Indian leader accepted the handshake with
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      • 92 21 ONE hour after he sampled the satay on Monday, electrician Wong Ah Kim, 38, collapsed and was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the National University Hospital. By yesterday, his condition had improved, so he is no longer in ICU. But he has to remain
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    • 273 21 INFOCUS FOR the first time ever, there were so many lawyers leaving legal practice last year, it caused the Bar to contract. And, out of the 335 who quit last year, 150 or 45 per cent were litigation lawyers
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    • 91 20 Space-age Supreme Court The new Supreme Court building will have a two-storey steel structure resembling a discus at its apex. "Futuristic and regal" was how Chief Justice Yong Pung How described the look.yesterday. The structure will house the Court of Appeal and a public-viewing gallery offering views across the city.
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  • NEWS
    • 1119 22 After she was viciously attacked 23 years ago at the age of 15, Mary Vincent lived in constant fear of meeting her assailant again. But only by facing him and her terror could she
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    • 153 23 WHEN Lawrence Singleton was released after serving eight years of his 14-year sentence for the rape and mutilation of Mary Vincent, he went searching for a place to live. But no matter where he went, residents didn't want him. He tried to settle in at least
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    • 436 24 A GIANT reference work which dwarfs any book in history will start to take shape in March. Oxford University Press (OUP) is putting its dictionaries, mini-encyclopaedias and companion works on a subscription website expected to total a staggering 130 million words, reported
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    • 308 24 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941; above) was a poet and philosopher. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. WHERE the mind is without fear, and the head is held high... Indian poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore's vision of a
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    • 368 25 THESE armed bandits will steal anything they can get their hands on. Cigarettes, baby diapers, Christmas trees, frozen shrimp, computer chips, and sex toys. Even manure. The police are fighting a losing battle against these cargo hijackers in Southern California, the nation's capital of
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    • 870 26 They, too, aimed to change the way we move around, like the Segway MR Dean Kamen's Segway, the futuristic scooter also known as It or Ginger, is stirring up a lot of excitement. Apple Computer tech guru Steve Jobs said it would inspire urban planners
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    • 600 28 Iran moving slowly towards mending ties with US THERE'S a kind of rush in Iran a rush of good feelings towards the US. Twenty-three years after an anti-Ameri-can revolution, many of today's Iranians are taking part in pro-US demonstrations and wishing Iran
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    • 226 28 SEPTEMBER 11, last year, was a black day in aviation history. Thousands died when passenger jets were rammed into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. But believe it or not, the total number of air crashes last year was the
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    • 190 29 AP. CAREFULLY, this mother applied drops to her child's sore eye. That was what Ms Christine Giglio thought she was doing. Little did she know that what she was dropping into her nine-year-old daughter's eye on Thursday was nail glue. When Ms Giglio
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    • 249 29 THIS mother and her children also had a happy ending. But not before she went through an hour of agony on a deserted icy mountain. The German woman and her two children were at an Austrian mountain slope, near Lienz, celebrating
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  • Hey! SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND
    • 104 30  -  THEY WORK WHILE WE SLEEP TAN DAWN WEI NINE-TO-FIVE, lunchtime crowd some of the phrases that many of us working folks are familiar with. But believe it or not, there are some folks for whom these phrases hold no significance. They are the people who work the graveyard
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    • 323 30 ■Ms Charmane Yuen Mong Foong, 24, paramedic WHEN most of us are probably deep in REM mode, Ms Charmane Yuen is wide-eyed and tending to asthmatic patients, drunks, those who get into fights and sometimes, suicide victims. Stationed at the Alexandra
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  • 430 31 Mrs Julie Mohan, 45, senior customer service officer IF you've ever called 1626, it could've been Mrs Julie Mohan you were talking to. The mother of one has been troubleshooting and giving customers a listening ear for the last five years at Sing Tel
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  • 279 31 Mr Jackson Khoo, 29, foreign exchange dealer FOR New York and London, Mr Jackson Khoo would readily sacrifice his nights. There's nothing more exciting than trading the two volatile markets, he says. The 29-year-old starts his day at 5.30pm at the
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  • 401 32 HEY! Mr Mohd Norr Suthiman, 39, higher parking officer, enforcement THERE are road bullies. Then there are parking bullies. Mr Mohd Norr Suthiman should know. He's been working as an parking enforcement officer for the Housing Development Board for 16 years. Armed with a torch
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  • 547 33 I have my own taste Brought to you by Ricola Who can deny that Chantel Goh is one of the most beautiful women on our island? But she tells ERIAKBAR that she's no glam gal CLAD in a black business suit, Chantel Goh looked
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  • HEY!
    • 285 34  -  You've indulged and pigged out to the max over the festive period. Now it's payback time, if you want to get in shape again TAN DAWN WEI SO you have overdone it ate and ate and ate like there was no tomorrow over Christmas and the New
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    • 150 34 PROBABLY the fastest way to lose the unwanted kilos is to sign up with a personal trainer at the gym. This person can assess, monitor and motivate you. But if you can't afford one, you can still work out by yourself. "Anything using weight as resistance will
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    • 304 35 Even if you haven't got the time to hit the gym, there are still exercises you can do at home, using things as basic as a chair, the stairs, water bottles or a towel. You don't always need fancy equipment to sweat it out. Here are some
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    • 75 35 IN general, decrease fat intake, take 58 per cent carbohydrates, 12 per cent protein and not more than 30 per cent of fats (only take healthy "fats" derived from plants, and essential oils from salmon and tuna). Skip the chocolates, sweets, desserts, chips and pastries. Avoid fried
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    • 87 35 IN general, you should be exercising at an intensity that is between 70 and 80 per cent of your heart rate reserve. Here's how to calculate the latter: 220 minus your age gives you your maximum heart rate. Maximum heart rate multiply by 70 per cent (of
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    • 178 36  -  SOMETHING IS DEFINITELY WRONG BECAUSE... There are a dozen things that are wrong in this picture. Try and spot them all. If they are so familiar to you, it's because these acts and activities happen or rather don't happen everyday MIKE CHUA I: There's no
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    • 205 37 PICK OF THE WEEK Miharu Chang HITOMI Yaida is such a kooky girl. Just look at her, standing so still, arms raised like a statue... And if you listened to her, you'd find that she packs a whallop with her explosive folk-rock music, raspy vocals and dramatic
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    • 235 37 Eugene Wee A MOVIE as epic as The Lord of the Rings deserves a soundtrack that is equally so. However, Enya's ethereal May It Be that wisps through the closing credits just doesn't seem to bring out the essence of Tolkien's tale. Which is why
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    • 785 38  -  In this spa, there are no marble floors or handmaidens to perfume your baths. But relax... you can feed the tortoise and dig into free mee rebus TOH PAJK CHOO PARADISE is just there, right next door to the Queenstown Remand Prison. And, oh, do bring your
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    • 362 39  -  HEART SOUL PATRICK and Jennifer dated for six years but their marriage lasted only a short four-and-a-half months. Often having known a person for a long period of time doesn't necessarily promise a happy and long-lasting marriage. And you'll be surprised at the reasons behind
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    • 264 39 DANNY NG, psychologist: I AM a 14-year-old girl who has friends of both sexes. However, I notice that my very close friends are mostly guys. Since young, my social circle has been like that. I feel uneasy about this and I don't understand why. Does
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    • 311 39 DANNY NG, psychologist: I AM 23 years old and feel that my English is not good enough. Sometimes I am looked down by others who are fluent in English. I intend to take up an English course at the British Council which a friend recommended but
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    • 293 40 My tummy corset satin dress Biggest fashion boo-boo Actress Gabby opens up. Tan Dawn Wei WHILE most of her fellow graduates plug away in the lower rungs of the corporate world, Gabby Lee has leapt from school to stardom in one swift jump. Well, two. She had a short stint
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    • 465 37 a™— I MM gat Rotten Apples: Greatest Hits The PoliticJ of Dancing (SmashingPumpkins) (Paul Van Dyk) I CANT believe the/re still around. TH E man is such a hit here. And it More than a year after they spht, looks like he can do no wrong. Smashing Pumpkins arestUltiyingto On
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    • 456 40 Highlights Planet Ex TV Works, 4pm Made-in-Asia sports-action series hosted by Kamal Sidhu. Planet Ex is a global, action/lifestyle show, engendering the essence of 'Generation Ex'. The programme travels throughout the world, capturing everything from extreme sports, lifestyle, music and fashion to global alternative personalities. Hackers Channel 5, I Opm
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    • 988 42 Page 42 them*wriifuiimmrjarful6.2oo —=—=—(HEY/' (Clockwise i >i from top j left) Dick V |f 1 b scoring for a production; HTYREAT Gohßoon w m*' different worlds. One is a success at Teckfor school, but her home life's a mess. x Beautiful The other a school, but Thing. THEATRE So of
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    • 367 43  -  TOH PAIK CHOO MOST readers of Paik Choo's goondu writings know I was born in Penang, because I never let people forget my fair isle roots. Last week I returned to this pearl of the Orient, after many many moons of absence (Penangites tend to
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    • 454 44  -  Spoon posh nosh; TAN DAWN WEI What: A cosy yet hip American bistro tucked away in what was once the mess hall of the Immigration Detention Centre. The fare is what the folks at Spoon call "progressive American". The menu sees hearty American grub such as pork
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    • 225 44 CHEAP CHOW ONE doesn't need to travel all the way to Katong in the East Coast to savour a steaming bowl of sinful rice noodles soaked in red hot gravy. In fact, Singaporeans have long had their laksa fix right in the heart of the city.
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      656 45 It's war on the big screen as a slew of combat movies invade local cineplexes. WONG KIM HOH reports... n THE war has started in Singapore. War on the big screens, that is. This week, Behind Enemy Lines a movie about a lieutenant shot down during combat duty
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    • 259 45 Black Hawk Down Will this be another triumph for Ridley Scott after Gladiator and Hannibal? It certainly looks like it, judging by the many reviewers who have given it the thumbs up. The movie is a gritty tribute to a group of US Army Rangers and
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    • 667 46 Judgmental Singaporeans Nice little old man shopping at Orchard Road with his daughter mmm Judgmental Singaporean: Must be her sugar daddy! i h r <• 0. K IS Judgmental Singaporean: Hey, look! Another SPG 1 i ft > t' I f i j Successful young man driving a swanky sports
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  • RACING
    • 157 47 JOCKEY Saifudin Ismail (above) has been suspended for three months with immediate effect over a misconduct charge. This was after a conclusion of an inquiry last Friday over his handling of YOU'RE RIGHT in Race 6 on Dec 16 last year at Ipoh. Saifudin
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    • 652 47 RACE 1 Apprentice M Leong, the rider of STAR RUN, was warned to ensure that he is ready when the start is effected. POP CORN jumped awkwardly in, cramping STAR RUN onto MILLENNIUM STORM. HAWAII DANCER jumped awkwardly in, inconveniencihg BIG THANK YOU.
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    • 74 48 AN AUSPICIOUS start indeed for justcrowned Ma-laysian-based champion trainer Marinus van Breukelen. The affable 51-year-old got off to a splendid start to the new season up north by capturing the opening race at Ipoh yesterday with Lion Mountain. For good measure, he made it two up
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    • 890 48 1 LION MOUNTAIN 57 (21-9) G Skinner (1) 5 1 1 (440) 3 BIG THANK YOU 57 (92-20) lAzhar (7) 8 7 2 (476) 9 MILLENNIUM STORM 51c 48 (44-11) WKumaren (2) 6 3 3 (430) 4 SUPER JOGGER 56.5 (44-11) KWLeong (5) 3
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    • 326 48  -  By Lionel Lee IPOH-BASED trainers dominated the first day of the new Malaysian racing season, sweeping six of the seven events on the card. Yesterday's rout at Ipoh started with Lion Mountain, who won the opening event to give newly-crowned champion Marinus
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    • 347 49 M BEST BET B Richness Of Life appeals on current form. He has never finished worse than third in his last three starts which saw him chalking up a win, a second and a third. His win two starts ago was impressive as
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    • 571 49 JOCKEY LOH KIN KUEN: Chance to score on Quiet Fella in Race 2. Wo. Lwt 6 runi Hone Wt Bating Jockey Berrier (Aga/originhex, trainer-owner) 1 *****- COUNTESS VENETIAN 57 (61) lAzhar 3 (4am Williams-Owner) 2 *****- RIGHT ON TARGET 57 (61) *WKYan 5
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    • 44 49 RACE 1: Right On Target, Victory Wang, Spin Master, Lot Stock, Hippo Ventura, Key Man. RACE 3: Desert Warrior. RACE 5: Daily Moon, Black Pepper,- Gege's Dream, Summer Rose, Big Phoenix. RACE 6: Wonderful General, Great Machine, Fortune Machine, Air Bank, Gorgeous Pete.
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    • 1159 50 No. Lot 6 runs Hone Wt RaMng Jockey Barrier (Agatorigin/m, twinw-owmw) 1 3-52- GIVE ME HOPE 57 (61) KKLoh 4 (5am Lam-Epsom) 2 4196-- EL TRAIN 56 (59) LCurrie 3 (3ag Williams-Ms MS Tan) 3 454-49 FINANCIAL CZAR 55.5 (58) 'WKYan 7 (5ag
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    • 894 51 MYSTERY OF GRAEME LE SAUX OFF the pitch he reads poetry, and has even been known to pen the odd piece of verse himself. On it he has earned the reputation of the baddest man on Planet Premiership, tackling with an over-the-top viciousness that makes the unlamented
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    • 906 52 Wire Services. STEPPING into the ARCO Arena today in suburban Sacramento feels like stepping into some time-warp portal. By all accounts, just watching the way the Sacramento Kings play should make you think of the winters of the 80s. You'd expect to
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    • 216 53 Reuters. MICHAEL Jordan (left) made history on Friday night when he became only the fourth NBA player to score 30,000 points. Jordan reached the milestone as Washington Wizards beat his old team the Chicago Bulls 89-83. He began the game on 29,985 career points and completed the
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    • 507 53 Xinhua. CHINA'S first NBA Player, Wang Zhizhi of the Dallas Mavericks, was honoured last Thursday with two sets of legal tender stamps issued by the Liberian government and distributed globally by the National Basketball Association and the Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC). TTiis tribute to Wang
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    • 971 54 ...MORE ON SINGAPORE'S CROWN PRINCE OF FOOTBALL SINGAPORE'S CROWN PRINCE OF FOOTBALL: FANDI AHMAD IF you ever had any doubt, Fandi Ahmad is back. In Fandi's own words: "Now I am back into football." Back? Where did he go? After leading the SAF Warriors
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    • 317 55 NO corruption, no disciplinary inquiries, no players older than 10. The Junior Soccer Centre and League, with Fandi Ahmad as its patron, promises a whole lot of fun. Started on the initiative of well-known football commentator John Faulkner, the league's
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    • 584 56 Beckham out but not for sale FA CUP (THIRD ROUND): ASTON VILLA v MANCHESTER UNITED DAVID Beckham on the bench is becoming a familiar sight these days. The Manchester United midfielder will once again be on the bench tonight in the FA Cup clash with Aston Villa. Nicky Butt, who
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    • 219 56 MIDDLESBROUGH has offered striker Dwight Yorke £60,000 ($156,000) a week to join the club from Manchester United. The Teessiders have been given a free run at the 30-year-old forward after rival Fulham landed John Carew on Friday from Valencia. 8088 Steve McClaren hopes
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    • 510 57 ..MORE ON VILLA v MAN U PETER Schmeichel's famous red nose will be glowing brightly tonight as the Aston Villa 'keeper comes face-to-face with his old club Manchester United. Yesterday, the Big Dane recollected how United manager Sir Alex Ferguson always demanded the impossible.
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    • 219 57 ASTON Villa manager John Gregory will request a personal hearing to answer an English Football Association misconduct charge over his alleged Boxing Day bust-up with referee Andy DTJrso and his assistant Ray Gould. Gregory was sent off from the dug-out by D'Urso after he
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    • 303 57 MANCHESTER United may be in trouble again over "tapping" Paolo di Canio illegally. West Ham boss Glenn Roeder said it was possible that United had broken the rules. Roeder told The Mirror: "There is no way that Paolo di Canio could have spoken to Manchester
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    • 166 57 WEST Ham manager Glenn Roeder has hinted he may try to lure former Aston Villa striker Savo Milosevic to Upton Park if Paolo di Canio joins Man U, reported The Guardian. Roeder was evasive when asked if he was interested in signining Milosevic. "Not at this stage,"
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    • FA CUP (THIRD ROUND): WATFORD 2 ARSENAL 4 Crowd: 20,105
      • 671 58  -  Noel-Williams 13, Gayle 90 1 R Henry 7, Ljungberg 10, Kanu 63, Bergkamp 85 REPORT EDWIN YEO EVEN if it is just Division One mid-table Watford, Premiership sides should pay attention to Arsenal's potent attack force, the one that easily put four goals past the
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      • 140 58 ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger (right) has admitted David Seaman's World Cup prospects are hanging in the balance. The 38-year-old England goalkeeper has now been out of action for more than three months with a shoulder injury. Wenger says it will be
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    • FA CUP (THIRD ROUND): CARDIFF CITY v LEEDS UNITED
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      • 163 59 LEEDS skipper Rio Ferdinand believes his blossoming centre-back partnership with Jonathan Woodgate could finally help end the club's silverware drought. Since Woodgate returned after avoiding a jail sentence at the end of the trial into an assault on student Sarfraz Najeib, Leeds has reclaimed the
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      394 60 LIVERPOOL 3 BIRMINGHAM CITY 0 WATFORD 2 ARSENAL 4 SUNDERLAND 1 WEST BROMWICH 2 BARNSLEYI BLACKBURN 1 BURNLEY 4 CANVEY ISLAND 1 CHARLTON 2 BLACKPOOLI DAG EN HAM 1 IPSWICH 4 GRIMSBY 0 YORKO LEICESTER 2 MANSFIELD 1 UVERPOOL3 BIRMINGHAM 0 MAN CITY 2 SWINDON 0 MILLWALL
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    • 103 60 Wire Services. A COLD snap caused the postponement of 10 FA Cup third-round ties last night. Tottenham, Middlesbrough, Southampton, Fulham and Bolton Wanderers were the biggest names left out in the cold. Spurs should have been at Coventry but the Highfield Road pitch failed an afternoon inspection. Middlesbrough's
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    • 192 60 FIRST Division outfit West Brom caused the first major upset of this season's FA Cup when it came back from a goal down to register a 2-1 win over Premiership side Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. Sunderland striker Kevin Phillips drew first blood after 11 minutes.
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