The New Paper, 20 January 2002

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  • 688 2  -  MINISTRY ON BOMB THREAT IN STORE: By Melvin Singh JUST who is this mad bomber codenamed Mike, who has links with the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) here? That's the question authorities in the region are asking. Singapore is looking for Mike
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  • 208 2 HE is young and educated. Believed to be 27 years old, Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi Qeft) speaks over a dozen languages and carries several falsified passports. A suspected member of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, he apparently moved in and out of the Philippines since 1996
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  • 484 3 TERRORISM IN SINGAPORE MPYatimanYusof THE comments made by the leader of a fringe group here have evoked a range of reactions. Mr Zulfikar Mohamad Shariff, who heads the website, fateha.com, had said that the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) member's actions were prompted by the
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  • 143 3 NTUC Secretary-General Lim Boon Heng has called on all Singaporeans to condemn the terrorist acts of the 15 people arrested by the Internal Security Department. Mr Lim was speaking at a tea reception for infocomm and media union leaders yesterday. He said investors and tourists
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  • 136 3 THE cause of terrorism lies in politics, not religion. So said Mr Khaw Boon Wan, Senior Minister of State for Transport and Information, Communications and the Arts at a Buddhist function held last night. He said that terrorists were merely using religion as a guise and that
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  • 132 3 THE news on television last Sunday stunned Muhammad Ridzwan Rahmat. The 22-year-old national serviceman could not believe that Singaporeans had actually planned terrorist attacks. He told The Sunday Times: "At first, I thought they were foreigners, but when I learnt that they were actually Singaporeans, I
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  • NEWS
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      834 4  -  She thought she'd go blind, but a special op saves her sight REPORTS NG WAN CHING IT'S a good thing she got a second opinion. Otherwise Madam Lin Ya Cheow would certainly be blind. Instead she's alive and well and can see again, thanks to a revolutionary form
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    • 143 4 Cataract: The lens inside the eye loses its transparency and begins to become opaque, eventually preventing light from reaching the retina. Diabetic retinopathy: A disorder of the blood vessels in the retina stemming from diabetes. Glaucoma: A condition in which the pressure within the eye is
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    • 374 5 MADAM Lin Ya Cheow is a lucky woman. Until very recently, there was no treatment for a macular hole and patients had to live with their impaired vision for the rest of their lives. This was confirmed by Dr Au Eong Kah Guan, consultant ophthalmologist and
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      228 5 MACULAR hole surgery is usually performed under local anaesthetic on a day-surgery basis, and takes about two hours. Three small openings are made in the eye-wall to allow the gel-like material inside the eye to be removed. The gel has to be peeled off the macula.
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    • 697 6  -  IF you have a safe deposit box in which to keep your valuables, count yourself lucky. There is a shortage of such boxes in Singapore. And to get one at a bank branch of your choice, you may have to wait for a year
      Picture/ Joyce Lim  -  697 words
    • 351 7 WHEN the police came to warn her about several break-ins in her Siglap estate early last year, Madam Siti Zawiah Ismail decided to look for a safe deposit box. The insurance agent, 39, called up several banks but was told that all the safe deposit
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    • 1228 8  -  How politically aware are you? LATEST SPH SURVEY SHOWS THAT... WORRY APATHY WILL AFFECT QUALITY OF FUTURE LEADERS DON'T WORRY CURRENT LOW LEVEL OF INTEREST MAY BE DUE TO RECESSION BY Woon Wui Tek and Dawn Chia YOU'D be surprised, if not concerned,
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    • 684 10 YOUNG SINGAPOREANS POLITICAL/GRASSROOT ACTIVITIES? GOOD news: Young Singaporeans say they are not "too busy" to get involved in volunteer work. Bad news: But political/ grassroot work isn't a priority. This is another key finding of the latest survey conducted by Singapore Press Holding's Marketing, Planning and
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    • 490 11  -  By. Jason Tan THE white van with the Malaysian licence plate looked innocuous enough. But it ended up leading a team of drug-busters on a high-speed chase through the heart of town. It all started when the van, with two men in it, entered the
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    • 835 12 A recent survey on the state of marriages in Britain reveals that women are more likely to feel the seven-year itch than men. DAWN CHIA reports on the situation here IN Singapore, the sevenyear itch may be more myth than reality. Marriages can
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    • 227 12 WELL, that's according to the results of a survey conducted on the state of marriage by the Reader's Digest. The survey also found that the seven-year itch does exist, at least in the UK And women, it seems, get itchier than men. Mrs Denise Knowles,
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    • 262 13 NOBODY'S SCRATCHING HERE SOME marriages are put under greater strain than others, yet they seem to survive. What makes the difference? It's trust, according to Mrs Mary-Ann Seet. Her marriage to Mr Ronnie Seet has its own peculiar challenge: She's a flight attendant with Cathay
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  • NEWS
    • 554 15 What's the fascination for pricey fish among Singapore businessmen? WOULD you pay $68,888 for a fish? Mr Lawrence Ng (above) did, because he says that his business has looked up since he first set eyes on the fish. Just what is this top-dol-lar fish?
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    • 119 15 CICHLIDS are brightly-coloured freshwater fish of the family Cichlidae (which contains over 6,000 species) and can grow to 30cm long. Singaporeans are partial to ornamental fish. Part of the reason is that Singapore is the world's largest exporter of ornamental fish, providing about 30
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  • 1078 16  -  BY Andrew Paterson Decrepit it was not, although it certainly wasn't the most luxurious place I had ever lived in. The 7th floor flat it had one bedroom and a living room was in an older part of Ang
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  • 348 17 Andrew Paterson. MY real life experiences with Malays extends to reel life, too. On Dec 23 last year, I acted in an episode of Suria TVs Sayembara Cerpen. I played the role of an American Muslim-convert, Johan, who met his Singaporean wife here. The
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    • 616 18 TALIBAN AND AL-QAEDA TERRORISTS SHIPPED TO CUBA JAIL Wire services. THEY clanked off a cargo plane in their one-piece orange prison uniforms. Their legs and hands were in shackles. They wore orange knit caps, sported goggles with the lenses blacked out, and blue surgical
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    • 225 19 Transplanted cells help diabetic produce own insulin YOUD think that once you get diabetes, you'd have to control your insulin through jabs, diet and exercise for the rest of your life. But there's hope that the illness can be cured. After an unusual operation on Thursday,
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    • 91 18 Geomancy Talks conducted by Master Koh Pu Lin THE APPLICATION OF 1 CHING ■I FENG SHUI FOR THE YEAR 2002 22nd Jan (Tuesday) 7:3opm 9:3opm NUSS Orchard Guild House Bth Level, Cathay Cineleisure Orchard No.B Grange Road, Singapore *****5 26th Jan (Saturday) 7:3opm 9:3opm NESSEACLUB 1230 Upper Thomson Road, Singapore
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  • NEWS
    • 294 21 US authorities warn group who whip kids publicly THE church calls it "tough love". The police call it child abuse. A group of church-goers in the US have been told they will lose their children unless they stop whipping them with
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      784 22 One of FBl's top 10 most wanted fugitives arrested while hanging out on a beach AP. THEY thought he was a charming and likeable reporter from a well-known newspaper. Hanging out at a beach camp along Mexico's Caribbean coast, he made friends with the tourists there. But what they
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    • 155 22 LONGO was on the run even before he allegedly murdered his family. Longo, who owned a construction cleaning business in Michigan, is named in six lawsuits seeking more than US$3O,OOO ($54,900). He is wanted on two warrants in Michigan for probation violation and
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    • 462 23 Sun, Oracle CEOs insult Bill Gates in public spats ONCE in a while, a business rivalry turns publicly nasty, like when media mogul Ted Turner compared fellow media kingpin Rupert Murdoch to Hitler. Twice. The second time under oath. But no rivalry can compare with the decade-long battle
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    • 92 24 AP. I A VIRUS that leads to vomiting has hit more than 157 patients and staff at a Scottish hospital. Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary remains closed to all except emergency admissions as medics work to contain the rapid spread of the virus. None of the affected people is
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    • 354 24 THE American public's reaction was explosive. Pet owners were outraged, many rang the St Louis city council to complain about what they saw on the TV news report. The scandal started with two homeless dogs by the names of Blacky and
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    • 327 25 Pyjamas appear on the streets shows LATEST FASHION TREND PYJAMAS are no longer worn to bed. In fact, they're becoming quite a fashion trend and people even wear them teamed up with everything from slippers, a tank top, a scarf or even a sweater, reported Fox News. A New York
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  • ATA GLANCE
    • 251 26 At least 10 crashes every month at PIE bend near Stevens Road exit IF you're heading towards Jurong on the Pan-Island Expressway, and at the bend near the Stevens Road exit, drive carefully. It's one of the most dangerous stretches of road, motorists, five tow-truck companies and
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    • 86 26 SHATTERED glass litters the corridor of an eight-storey flat in Outram yesterday after what seemed like an explosion of a liquid petroleum gas cylinder. A woman in her early 40s was found alone at home at the Pearl Bank apartment by the police and civil defence
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    • 161 26 INFOCUS SPECIAL treatment, round-the-clock, just for children. That's what the National University Hospital's Children Emergency Department promises when it opens next month. The department, located beside the hospital's Accident Emergency department, will tend to child patients having diarrhoea, high fever and asthma, and those involved in accidents.
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    • 88 27 THE police raided Soopoo Football Club at Upper Dickson Road, which was operating without a licence. When questioned by the police, the club's staff members were unable to produce original registration documents from the Registry of Societies. Instead, they produced a photocopy of the registration
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    • 86 27 OIL giant Shell proved to be a humane employer during its last retrenchment in 1997. Workers being axed then were allowed to choose when they wanted to leave, giving them time to plan their next move. Many found new jobs by themselves or through contacts provided by the
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    • 99 27 PAKISTAN'S President Pervez Musharraf said he believes Osama bin Laden has died of kidney failure. In an interview with CNN on Friday, he said: "I think now, frankly, he is dead for the reason that he is a kidney patient. "We know that he donated two dialysis
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    • 102 27 RECESSION has not stopped police plans to recruit 700 more officers, invest more than $1.4 million for staff upgrading and hire more women for the force this year. To widen the search for talent, the police have even linked up with the Ministry of Education to
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    • 92 27 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's ruling coalition romped home in a Perlis by-election yesterday. The National Front coalition retained the tiny constituency of Indera Kayangan in the state of Perlis when its candidate Oui Ah Lan defeated opposition candidate Khoo Yang Chong by a majority of 2,592
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    • 90 27 ANOTHER seven people, believed to be linked to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network, have been detained without trial by the Malaysian police. Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said they are suspected members of the Malaysian Mujahedin Group, which is accused of waging a "holy war" in
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    • 359 27  -  RAHUL GOEWUWI THE world's biggest corporate bankruptcy has turned out to be a very dirty Pandora's box. But the truth is that the first clues about the enigma of Enron were being collected by far-sighted whistle-blowers years ago. In 1992, as part of an effort to liberalise
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      676 28  - They are furry, they bark and they bring joy as well as cheer to the sick and the aged. Meet a different kind of volunteer —canines from The Singapore Kennel Club's pet assisted therapy programme By< Carol Leong THE elderly woman lying on the bed sits up slowly, when she
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    • 328 29 Cuddly, warm calming... dogs help lower blood pressure YOU can say that pet therapy began when some cavemen brought a few wolf cubs into the den to serve as companions for family members. According to a paper written by Dr
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    • 74 29 ACCORDING to the Agri-food Veterinary Authority of Singapore, there are 36,923 registered dog owners. At the Singapore Kennel Club (SKC), dogs have to go through an aptitude test to see if theyVe suitable for pet therapy work. Essentially, the dog needs to remain calm when it encounters strangers
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  • HEY!
    • 362 30  -  ANDREW DUFFY TRUE Singaporean gourmets trek all the way to Changi, just to taste the best nasi lemak. And yet Anthony Bourdain would scoff. Bourdain is the American chef who found fame a couple of years ago with his book Kitchen Confidential, a shocking, profane, sex-and drug-crazed
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      76 30 THE New Paper on Sunday has five copies of A Cook's Tour and 15 copies of Kitchen Confidential to give away to readers who call our infoline on 1900-914-0801. All you have to do is answer a simple question by midnight tomorrow. The first five callers with
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    • 285 30 BOURDAIN'S quest for the perfect meal is something any Singaporean would understand. We asked a handful of Singaporean chefs and food gurus to snare their strangest eating experiences and their idea of the perfect meal. Andrew Tjioe President and CEO of Tjung Lok Restaurants Strangest food: Braised
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    • 870 31 Vanilla Sky OST (Various) WITH a mix of bouquets and brickbats, the merit of Tom Cruise's latest movie remains questionable. Music critics, however, will be more united in passing judgement on the soundtrack. Not surprising since director Cameron Crowe's taste in music has been known
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    • 493 33 THINK economic downturn and lost jobs will naturally come to mind. Little do people realise that the recession has also affected marriages. A man who has lost his job may vent his frustration on his wife and family. The spouse
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    • 215 33 THIS is my first relationship and I love my girlfriend very much. However, I have a problem accepting that my partner is not a virgin. This issue bothers me a lot, to the point that she can barely get a good night sleep. I
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    • 230 33 I AM a 24-year-old who recently broke up with my boyfriend. We were together for six years and were very much in love. But I have a bad temper and this meant I picked on small things. My boyfriend always forgave me but sooner or
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      202 34 WHY don't I have a big and normal-sized penis? Is there something wrong with my hormones? You said in an earlier report that size does not matter and that medically, it is normal. But what will others say? When I have a girlfriend, I don't want to disappoint
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    • 196 34 I AM 19 and have been on the pill for three months now. I have noticed a significant improvement in my skin, but my weight is now a major issue. I have gained a few pounds since being on the pill. I have also noticed
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    • 99 34 SNIPPETS HERE'S proof that a man's sexuality is tied to his sense of power: With the value of Argentina's peso dropping like a stone, many people are seeing their jobs and savings disappear like vanishing ink. In a recent study by a Buenos Aires
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    • 62 34 ACCORDING to psychologist Dr Nancy Kaiish, if parents force teens to break up their super-heated crushes, they may have to deal with the repercussions later on. She interviewed thousands of couples who have reunited years after being separated and found such reunions are hard on parent-child relationships. Reunited lovers
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    • 219 35 RED-HOT and flamboyant, she's the self-confessed "cherry" of the group. And ever since her tantalising Talentime-winning tango performance with girl trio Cherry Chocolate Candy (CCC), many a red-blooded male has been yearning for a Cheryl Miles poster. But the 26-year-old insists she's a track-pants-and-track-shoes
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    • 70 35 Cooking Showdown Channel U, 6pm Welcome to a survivalist cooking show where only the winners get to eat. Watch as guest contestants struggle to make a choice between two delicacies Peking duck and abalone. A Perfect Murder Channel 5, I Opm A husband blackmails his wife's lover to kill
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    • 102 35 The Family Man W Entertainment (Ch 56), I Opm A high-flying Wall Street playboy wakes up one morning to find that he is living a different life he's a married man with two children. Stars Nicolas Cage, Tea Leoni. Crimson Tide Star Movies (Ch 58), 9pm A nuclear submarine
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    • 941 37 HEY/ WHERE WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK \«^< American Woman (ii a Let Me Fly from and she's very, very funny. Karen Kay Cad s n er of Loftus is one of the new girl 1 Jamiroquai. comedians, sharp of wit and stiletto heel. performing arts group. MAKEOVER Dr Johannes
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  • HEY!
    • 544 38  -  JOANNA HUGHES SHOW me a woman whose pulse doesn't race when she sees a sale looming on the horizon, and 111 show you a woman in need of medical attention. Sales bring out the huntress in every woman; to continue in National Geographic mode, a
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      848 39 KELVIN CHAN and SIMON ANG take you through the amazing flight path of Ridley Scott's epic war movie Black Hawk Down IT is the biggest war movie of the year even if it's just January because it is Black Hawk Down, director Ridley Scott's much anticipated war
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    • 410 41  -  POSH NOSH TAN DAWN WEI What: If you feel out of place amid the young, techno, gorgeous crowd that populate Mohd Sultan Road, and just want a place to kick back, relax and let the love handles spill out, head across the street to Sullivan's
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    • 166 41 CHEAP CHOW PEOPLE have been known to travel from far-flung ends of the island to savour the prawn noodles at this coffeeshop off MacPherson Road. The various newspaper clippings plastered proudly on the stall's panels are testament to its long-standing popularity. The stall
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    • 54 42 At the on-going Detroit North American International Auto Show 2002, Mitsubishi unveiled a concept car called S.U.P (Sports Utility Pack). It comes with a shower head and car panels that double as suitcases. Bizarre or practical? Joe Sunday will attempt to solve answer just that
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    • 707 43 HEY/ WHAT'S ED"" :n HAWKER CENTRE RIDDLE There are 10 stalls and 20 tables in a hawker centre. Each table has five seats. How many seats are there in the hawker centre? a i 1 n Fifty. Because 10 tables are occupied by things that belong to the 10 stalls.
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  • RACING
    • 2004 44 RACE 1: CELESTIAL RIVER (cast near-fore plate and was injured) was withdrawn. GIFTED jumped awkwardly in. INGENIOUS STAR, who raced at the rear and wide of the field, was checked by the vet who reported that the horse returned cut near-hind. KINGVIEW had
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    • 1597 45 BREAKING GROUND: Breaker Morant (jockey Oscar Chavez aboard) streaking ahead in the opening event at Kranji yesterday to give reigning champion trainer Malcolm Thwaites his first winner of the year. For good measure, Thwaites went on to land a treble with Aristocracy in
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    • 247 45  -  By Lionel Lee AFTER a rather sluggish start to the new season, champion trainer Malcolm Thwaites finally had the picture restored by sending out a brilliant treble at Kranji yesterday. Thwaites' first winner for 2002 arrived in the shape of Breaker Morant, a $53-shot in
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    • 582 46 $350,000 LION CITY CUP (GROUP I 1,200 m short course, Q: RACE 8,6.10pm The talk of the town is that this afternoon's Lion City Cup race could turn out to be a clash between the two highest-rated sprinters Military Chief < 113 points/ and Yorich
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    • 306 47  -  By] Danny Khoo GET set to salute Military Chief at Kranji today. The five-year-old by Military Plume (left), who has found himself playing the supporting role behind the likes of Superb Effect and Bocelli more times than his connections care to remember, looks set to come
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    • 68 47 IN RECOGNITION of their achievements last year, the stars of the turf will be honoured at Kranji this afternoon. The annual Malayan Racing Association awards will see a total of 10 prizes being presented. I Among them are the top owners, trainers and jockeys on both
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    • 723 47 LION CITY CUP Day is also Charity Day, when 15 charities will receive donations from the Singapore Turf Club and Singapore Pools totalling $150,000. Guest-of-honour Dr Wee Kim Wee, Patron of the Singapore Turf Club, will present the cheques. The
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    • 2472 48 Marc Tan Danny Khoo Lionel Lee Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee 10 Happy Quest 1 Striking Diamond 4 Imperial Treasure 4 Imperial Treasure 1 Striking Diamond 1 Striking Diamond 2 Belarus 2 Belarus 2 Belarus 4 Imperial Treasure 4 Imperial
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    • 83 48 THE Singapore Turf Club (SNTC) uses four courses A, B, C and D to differentiate the location of the rails. For Course A, the rails are at their original position. For Course B, they are four metres away from the original position. For Courses C and D, they
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  • SPORTS
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      672 50 After going it alone on the court and off it for the better part of the past five years, Kobe Bryant relishes being a member of the Los Angeles Lakers'winning gang ONE year after the team was almost torn apart by dissension, the Los Angeles Lakers are
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    • 177 50 Wire Services. FORCED to scrape through the first of three games without Shaquille O'Neal last Monday night, Kobe Bryant scored a career-high 56 points in Lakers' 120-81 rout of the Memphis Grizzlies. His 56 were the most points scored in the NBA this season. He made 21 of
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    • 841 51  -  S-LEAGUE2OO2: TAN KIM LENG'S PERFECT MATCH REPORTS ERNEST LUIS THEY are undoubtedly one of the most glamorous couples in the S-League. Which is why footballer Tan Kim Leng and his Swedish wife Tina Roholm, who he recently married, find that everyone stares at them wherever they
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    • 445 52 ‘She left family friends to stay by me’ MORE ON TAN AND ROHOLM TWO days after his hole-in-the-heart operation, Tan Kim Leng went jogging at the Queenstown Stadium while it rained. "I think I went a bit mad," he said as he recalled that incident. "I was still in a
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    • 688 53  -  HERE'S THE FAMILY WHICH COULD FORM ITS OWN FOOTBALL TEAM! REPORT WANG MENG MENG "ERM... there's a slight problem," Jill Quek muttered to me on the phone. "One of our sisters, Joy, might not make it back home for the interview." You see, it's not easy
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    • 241 53 EXCEPT for Joy and Marlene, the Quek kids are great at sports: Jason Quek (24), national serviceman: National men's floorballer. Strong and silent type making comeback to the national team. Jill Quek (23), marketing executive: The most celebrated of the family. Started out as an ice-hockey player
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    • 1152 54  -  THE GENIUS OF PAOLO PI CANIO ALAN HUBBARD Exclusive/ From London I HAVE a friend who has been following West Ham for more than half a century. He claims his father first took him to Upton Park as a toddler. A few days ago I
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    • SUNDAY SHOWDOWN: LEEDS v ARSENAL
      • 747 55 OUR MAN AT HIGHBURY JAMES FLYNN IF it's true that Arsenal thrives on adversity then Leeds had better break out the tin hats and razor wire before today's colossal Premiership clash at Elland Road. For the past seven days have seen misfortune produce enough ammunition to
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      • 684 55  -  BY James Flynn PATRICK Vieira's (leR) future is surrounded by so much lies and mystery that it's hardly surprising he seems unsure whether he's coming or going. Only two facts are beyond dispute: He chose to spend a couple
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      • 502 56 Wire Services. STAND by for some bruising, thumping sill-action tackling today as Leeds and Arsenal go head to head. There's no love lost between these two Premiership giants and the match has assumed huge importance as both try to peg back a resurgent Man Utd. The
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      • 197 56 Wire Services. LEEDS chairman Peter Ridsdale has revealed how he used his friendship with David OXeary to keep the Irishman at the club. Manager OXeary was despondent after a 3-1 defeat to Newcastle last year and considered quitting before a special meeting with
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    • 316 57 1... MORE ON MAN U 2 BLACKBURN 1 The penalty that brought van Nistetrooy his record was hotly contested by Blackburn, whose 'keeper Brad Friedel furiously begged the referee to book Laurent Blanc for diving. Penalty or not, it
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    • 379 57 CONCACAF GOLD CUP 2002 THE rehearsals for the World Cup Finals have begun, rather cautiously, in the Concacaf (Confederation of North, Central American and Carribean) Gold Cup. Costa Rica, one of three Concacaf qualifiers for the Jap an-South Korea date, resembled a sleeping
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    • 680 58 SATURDAY SHOWDOWN: LIVERPOOL 1 SOUTHAMPTON 1 LIVERPOOL'S title dreams are turning into a nightmare after it stumbled in front of its own disbelieving fans. Michael Owen may well have scored his 20th club goal of the season, but had it not been for a last-ditch save from
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    • 628 58 TENNIS: AUSTRALIAN OPEN Afp. PETE Sampras reached the fourth round of the Australian Open after a tremendous battle with Nicolas Escude, who saved six match points. Sampras won 7-6, 5-7, 6-4,6-7, 6-3 in just under four hours to set up a showdown with Marat Safin,
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    • 514 59  -  MAN U 2 BLACKBURN 1 COMMENT EDWIN YEO WE'VE heard it a million times before. When you play badly and still win, that's the mark of a champion. Which perfectly describes Manchester United's laborious 2-1 win over Blackburn at Old Trafford last night. A surprisingly resilient
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    • 97 59 I mmmml m^— I vS i r %.'^^jr# DERBY 1 Malcolm Christie 79 IPSWICH 3 Marcus Bent 47, Sixto Peralta 67, Martijn ReuserB7 LEICESTER 0 NEWCASTLE 0 LIVERPOOL 1 Michael Owen 8 SOUTHAMPTON 1 Kevin Davies 46 MANU2 Ruud van Nistelrooy 45pen, Roy Keane 81 BLACKBURN 1 Craig Hignett 49
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