The New Paper, 22 September 2002

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  • 30 1 the new paper SEPTEMBER 22, 2002 on Sunday] ttiV Singapore Press Holdings MfTA (P) 009/03/2002 Hotline: 1800-7 33 44 55 70 CENTS Email: tnp'Osph.com.sg Website: newpaper.asia1.com.sg the newspaper |on Sunday
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    • 46 1 75 workers are after his blood 8"*****1 *****9"> China's 0 over.. ki; 4 V §pi? SgMttr. spsow Arsenal scores last-gasp win -3 3?fe. Kind stranger tops up poor duo's CPF ...so they can get ERS shares 0 Staple-gun surgery ends S'pore man's 20 years of pain
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  • NEWS
    • 837 2 S Korea makes itself a more inviting place LIKE the mythical phoenix, South Korea is rising again. The country's economy had been all but reduced to ashes in the 1997 economic crisis. It has recovered faster than any other cri-sis-hit Asian country and repaid all
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    • 659 3 SEE that bracelet on tennteMrtarOweaa Williams (right)? She wore it on and off court while winning the US Open recently. The 242-diamond 12-carat bracelet, which costs U5529,000 ($51,590) was presented to her by Hollywood jeweller Harry Winston. The firm, which has kept movie stars bejewelled since
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    • 1021 4  -  He helps to recruit workers from India, getting $100 commission for each He collects deposit from those who want to work here Hands money over to man who he claims has disappeared Police report made. Ministry investigating REPORTS JOYCELYN WONG HE
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    • 290 5 A SPOKESMAN for the Ministry of Manpower said they were aware of Mr Balu Pillappan's case. "It appears to be a cheating case and hence it is being handled by the police. We will work with them to see if the parties involved have also infringed
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    • 694 6  - Students score highly in English but can't speak it well CHINA'S LANGUAGE BLUES REPORTING FROM BEIJING EUGENE WEE WHEN it comes to scoring at English language tests, these students in China don't have much of a problem. Take third-year management student Wu Jiaqi. She has been taking English language classes
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    • 390 6 WITH the pressures to pass their exams and hopes of getting jobs in multinational corporations, the demand for English tuition is at an all-time high in China. If s estimated that the number of private English tuition schools has grown more than five-fold in the last
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    • 466 7 THIS grammatically-incorrect greeting is the first thing you see when you step into any taxi in Beijing. It is printed at the top of a prominently displayed taxi licence issued by the Beijing municipal government to all taxi drivers. Ironically, the authorities which issue this
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    • 890 8  - 7-min of staple-gun op End of 20-year pain For 15 days, he bled every time he went to the toilet. He even fainted after a game of badminton... REPORTS NG WAN CHING OVER 20 years, he tried everything from pills to stool softeners, to his own fingers. But Mr Sng
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    • 51 9 First, the surgeon threads a 1 purse-string loosely around the haemorrhoids in the anal canal Then, a spear-shaped staple gun is pushed into the anal canal, gathering the haemorrhoids into a special scoop. The purse-string is used to 2 help pull the haemorrhoids into DFD
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    • 302 9 YOUR piles problem will end after a purse-string and a few staples. And with hardly any pain and no external wounds. This is what stapled haemorrhoidectomy done using the Longo Technique promises. It should be good news for the one in three adults here who have
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    • 853 10  -  How to tackle girl matters with teen daughter By Aaron Chong IN the movie, About a Boy, Hugh Grant pretends to be a single dad to get into bed with as many single mums as he can. But in reality, the life of a single
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    • 935 12  - Money no enough but kind stranger helps top up REPORTS AND PICTURE/ Lee Tee Jong THEY were strangers to her, but Miss J Wee went out of her way to top up their Central Provident Fund (CPF) accounts. All so that the mother-and-son pair can both get $400 worth of
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    • 116 13 A MINISTRY of Finance spokesman said that needy Singaporeans who are not able to make the $50 contribution may want to turn to their family members, relatives or close friends for help. There are also community organisations and groups which are prepared to provide assistance if the
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    • 584 14  -  S PORE'S SINGING TELEGRAMS REPORTS DAWN CHIA HIS job was to get a "yes" for marriage, from a woman he wasn't even dating. And he got it. Mr Merwyn Dennis Fernandez, a singing telegram, was hired by a male client to add
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    • 341 14 SHE has a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Masters in International Management and Mass Communication. Yet, Ms Emily Sutanto opted to be in entertainment world. Said the 23-year-old: "Fve always wanted to be in the entertainment business. "That's why I've accelerated my studies
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    • 180 15 EXECUTIVE officer Cedric, 39, who hired the Red Indian singing telegram to jazz up his proposal, said the experience was "beyond my wildest expectations". He said: "It turned out to be a memorable, yet private event for us." Pun, not overly embarrassing. That's the mark of a
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    • 45 15 A singing telegram costs between $120 and $400, depending on the duration, costume and nature of performance. Customers are usually fun-loving individuals in their mid-20s to early 30s. Parents of young children would also hire singing telegrams to make their children's birthdays memorable.
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    • 253 16  -  By Ng Wan Ching FOR about IV2 hours last night, fire raged over an area the size of two football fields, near Lorong Halus in Pasir Ris. Fortunately the fire was in a deserted area, on a patch of lalang (tall grass), not
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  • NEWS
    • 574 18 desert places AUSSIE OUTBACK DILEMMA FOR RURAL ROMEOS: WHERE HAVE ALL THE YOUNG GIRLS GONE? AP. THEY step out of dusty pickup trucks, dressed somewhat incongruously in tuxedoes, cowboy boots and felt hats. The men have driven hundreds of kilometres to the parched Outback fairground looking
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    • 167 19 EXTORTION and death threats have forced Coca-Cola's Bangladesh director, Indian national Ajay Mitra, to leave the country. And Bangladeshi intelligence agencies worry that an international terrorist group is involved. Mr Mitra had informed the police that he received threats from notorious underworld terrorist
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    • 639 20  -  By C L Tan Reporting from Kuala Lumpur THE world's strongest and biggest beetle can be found in Malaysia. And smuggling these Caucasus beetles into Japan is a rather lucrative trade. A live one can fetch as much as RM15,000 ($7,000) on
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    • 307 20 THE Caucasus beetle scientifically known as Chalcosoma Caucasus is the strongest bug in the insect world. In terms of size and proportional strength, the rhinoceros or rhino beetle would win hands down if compared to an elephant. An elephant can only carry up
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    • 180 21 GO ahead, take some leave. That seems to be Japan's message to working mums and dads. On Friday, Health Minister Chikara Sakaguchi submitted to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi new measures to deal with Japan's declining birthrates, including steps to have more men
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    • 302 22 ONCE upon a time, meat was probably the most disgusting food they would ever put in their mouths. But today, many vegetarian Americans are turning their back on vegetarianism and are eating meat again. They usually do so because of limited menu choices and because
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    • 279 23 DiS MAKING TROUBLE THERE was nothing funny about the on-air remarks. Even though they were meant as "jokes". The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) has reprimanded Tuks FM, a Pretoria-based community broadcaster, for airing jokes about child rape and
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    • 215 23 DJ IN TROUBLE Reuters. IT was a dramatic debut. Swopping his mike for a gun, a rock musician stormed a DJ's booth in Brazil and forced the DJ to play his debut album Phases of Life for more than an hour
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    • 364 24 16 YEARS AFTER CHERNOBYL BLAST BUMPER crop at harvest time. So, there's every reason to celebrate, right? Wrong. At least, in Moscow. Ever since the disastrous explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear-power station over 16 years ago, Moscovites have had to live with the
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    • 93 24 ON April 26 that year, a reactor at the Soviet-designed Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded after staff members cut off the reactor's safety systems to test the unit's capacity. The explosion and fire sent a radiation cloud over much of Europe and contaminated large areas of then-Soviet Ukraine, Russia
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    • 323 25 TODAY'S young women are strong, independent and quite unhappy. That is the conclusion of a study done by Cosmopolitan magazine. And the magazine believes the feminist revolution is to blame. According to its editor, it is because the women are strong and independent that
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    • 220 25 UK SURVEY WHAT further proof is needed to show that the age of chivalry is dead when a woman suspects hidden motives in a man who gives up a seat for her. In a survey published in UK on Thursday, half of the 800 women questioned
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    • 727 26 Report says crew are made to work I 6-hour days FIGHTING INJUSTICE War On Want was founded by publisher and author Victor Gollancz and former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1951. Mr Gollancz wrote to The Guardian newspaper asking people to join an
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  • AT A GLANCE
    • 284 28 MYTH: Children who are beyond parental control come from broken homes, and have unemployed or poorly-educated parents. TRUTH: More than half come from intact families, and one in three has a father in a managerial position. So says a study of children and
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    • 389 28 IT must be because they like to holiday abroad. Where else could good Germans get the idea they could sell their votes? It's against the law, of course. The penalty: Up to five years'jail. But that didn't stop one German company from offering to deliver
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 102 29 MERIDIAN Junior College, the 16th here, will open its doors in Paris Ris in January next year. The new junior college is expected to take in, as its pioneer batch, 800 first-year students. Built on 6 ha of land and costing almost $50 million, it
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      • 112 29 IT'S a scheme that's making potential pet owners happy. It lets them see if they can cope with a pet beore committing to one, says Rich's Pet Place. The shop offers breeds like Jack Russell terriers, miniature schnauzers, maJtese and shih tzus for hire, at
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      • 96 29 GOING to deliver a baby? Good news, the six private hospitals here are battling to serve you so brand-name gynaecologists, a la carte confinement food, free baby-care classes, free Infant health insurance or competitive prices are up forgrabs. And their efforts seem to be paying off. More
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      • 106 29 TAXES will still be able to stop at the taxi stand outside Centrepoint. It can stay, at least until early next year, says the Land Transport Authority (LTA). But the shopping mall has to make sure that there are not more than four cabs queueing at
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      • 111 29 ■Jm i We mustnot let the actions of a few sow suspicion and misunderstanding between the different communities in Singajjore. Nor should we aUowthem to jeopardise the future of the many who are committed to Singapore as our home and see no contradiction between being Muslim
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      • 94 29 TAI-TAIS, well-paid professional women and housewives with young children are baring their bodies. These women in conservative Singapore awe paying artists up to $30,000 to depict them nude. But these paintings will never be seen in public,, but remain in the customers' bedrooms, said Mr Stephane
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      • 95 29 Reuters. THE US criticised oil producers yesterday, and called high oil prices harmful and potentially damaging to world economic growth. Said US Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham: "High prices may be pleasing to producers in the short term, but in the long term, volatile pricing regimes
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    • 74 29 This is a good way to jazz upa household chore. This 24-year-old British engineer, who wanted to be known only as Basket, is preparing to iron a towel during the forest section off the Extreme Ironing World Championships mGenaany yesterday. He is one of
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  • Hey! SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND
    • 429 30 Mention Chinese furniture and some people think: Dingy, dusty and oh so obiang. But the elegant lines of antique Chinese hardwood chairs, tables and cabinets are making a comeback in modern homes, giving the place a timeless feel. For instance, in actress Karen Tan's
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    • 409 31 THINGS have flattened out in the last two years for Chinese furniture shops. For some, business has dropped by 70 per cent. Prices have never been lower. "We used to sell three containers of horseshoe chairs a month without any problem five years
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    • 104 31 THERE are two ways new items are treated to become "antiques". One is to make it look very refined. "Watch out for heavy lacquering", says, restorer Chan Hong Cheong. "This is used to hide lousy wood." If there are carvings, those made by a machine are "not
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    • 225 31 Jl ACCORDING to Mr Chan Hong Cheong, 72, Chinese furniture-making standards have gone steadily downhill since World War Two. Mr Chan has been restoring Chinese hardwood furniture since he was 15, and some of his projects include antiques in the Istana and National Museum.
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  • HEY!
    • 950 32 IT MIGHT as well be Goodbye Kitty, Hello Qoo. Two years since the phenomenal cat gave Singaporeans enough reason to spend the night in a queue, the collectible stuffed felines have gone under the bed for a new character. Qoo (pronounced "coo") is not a toy
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    • 221 32 UNDERGRADUATE Grace Yeo, 21, has a Qoo "shrine" in her room, strategically set next to her door. If s not really a shrine, but my friends call it that," she laughs. "My dad thinks it's, a bit too much. But I tell him
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    • 207 32 HIS father collects thousand-dollar luohan fishes, but Mr Thomas Ee's treasure trove comprises Qoo merchandise. Qoo bottles and flavours from other countries line Thomas' shelf at home, including grapefruit and pineapple flavours which he swears by from Japan. Singapore offers just Fuji
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    • 627 33 EDMUND Rajendra is showing us a piece of history, and it's going cheap. This Afghan war rug is just $300. At his auctions at the Sembawang base (lots ofUS Navy men), everyone wants a war rug. There are 35 rug dealers in Singapore and Mr Rajendra, 49,
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    • 454 34 POSH NOSH WHAT: One year after Tung Lok brought Paris' idea of t Asia to Singapore, the f emphatically hip and sexy (bra-less hostesses) Asian the offshoot of a Jf% restaurant and club there has H| gone home. Kf And Tung y Lok has gone back to what
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    • 268 34 FLAVOURS OF THE WEEK LAST year, Shev Shev Restaurant at Tanjong Pagar opened, rather unfortunately, around Sept 11. Since then, the restaurant has seen a change of hands in the kitchen; it has also lowered its prices. One year old now, and with Chef David Chan,
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    • 130 34 NEW BUYS WHATS NEW: After 130 years in the business, Campbell's has finally decided that Asian soups could be big business too. Try the new Oriental Treats series Szechuan hot and sour soup, corn seafood soup, mushroom, scallop and seafood soup and winter melon with
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    • 672 35 Smoke pours from a smokestack of a power plant against a cloudy sky j in Calcutta. Environmentalists say the thick cloud of pollution shrouding South Asia is a matter of concern but it would take up to five years to know its impact. Puunv
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    • 402 36 gleaned from years of Garboitis (not being left alone) SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO'S 1. THERE are two ways to travel. With children and without. When in doubt, drop the parents, they're the ones who teach their kids to call you "auntie". I'm "your majesty", but no
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    • 646 37 IF you remember what it was like to learn how to ride a bicycle, then youll probably know that the most difficult part is the balancing. Having nothing but the handles to hold on to, you have to believe that such a fragile
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    • 264 37 Be careful how you treat your skin. The slightest irritation even from something as nondescript as an insect bite may cause a brown mark that is slow to fade. You see, when dark skin is inflamed or injured, a condition known as post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation is triggered. The reason: More
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    • 217 38 I AM a Bangladeshi worker and I have been dating a Filipina for 10 months. We were very happy, but we quarrelled after I refused to meet her employer as I was scared. When I found out that she had another boyfriend, we had a
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    • 422 39 Page 40 f <0 HEY/)) AS FAR as local theatre actresses go, not many have consistently garnered the heaps of praise that Claire Wong has received over the years. Her compelling stage presence, for one, is something that every critic who has seen her work, goes away talking
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    • 231 39 Squeeze and Squeezability is on at the DBS Arts Centre, 20 Merbau Road, till Oct 5. Tickets at $23, $33 and $43 from TicketCharge (6296-2929). S HE19H PI 0.00am: Tennis—WTAJPMorgan Chase Open 11.00am: EPL 2002/03 11.30am: Team Tennis ATP World Team C'ship 2002 Singles Final 1.00pm: Premiership Extra 1.30pm: Sailing
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    • 169 39 Highlights Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Channel 8, 7.30pm A veteran swordsman goes after a wily thief who has stolen his treasured weapon. Stars Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi. The Threat of Love Channel U, 10.30pm An eight-part mini-series starring Lawrence Ng, Nancy Sit, Ben Wong and others. In
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    • 926 43 HEY/ THE NEW PAPER pN SUNDAY Seplemfrqr a. ?W- Bizet's Carmen I 1 Imrgfft THE Singapore Symphonic Orchestra collaborates with Qj 111 Ll Ifo the Singapore Lyric Opera to bringyou Bizet's Carmen, J V a riveting tale of love, passion, anger, betrayal and jfe? jyy< The opera recounts the tragic
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    • 974 44  -  By Elaine Lipworth TAT J,, with light brown hair and green eyes, if s easy to see why Christian Bale has a reputation as a serious heart-throb. Bale, 28, along with Matthew McConaughey, are the heroes tasked the saving humanity from ferocious fire-breathing dragons in
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    • 554 45  -  It's what every woman longs to hear, but not Indian actress Lillette Dubey By Sheela Narayanan MIRA Nair calls her film Monsoon Wedding "a Bollywood film made on my own terms". Which means forget about the over-the-top dance numbers. And the big Bollywood stars like
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    • 335 47 THE Way Home is dedicated to all the grandmothers in the world. And chances are, when you're done with the movie, youH want to dash home into granny's crinkled arms. A tale about unconditional love, it's the antidote to the city-weary cynicism that has become almost epidemic.
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    • 380 47 Stark Raving Mad (Seann William Scott, Lou Diamond Philips, Timm Sharp directed by Drew Daywalt and David Schneider) STARK Raving Mad is the cinematic equivalent of a poser. It tries oh so desperately to ooze cool and nonchalance from every pore. Writers/directors
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    • 154 48 ACTRESS Nicole Kidman (right, in Moulin Rouge) may soon be twitching her nose and waving her wand in a new film adaptation of'6os television series Bewitched. According to the Hollywood Reporter website, Kidman has expressed interest in playing pretty witch Samantha, who earnestly tries to abandon her powers
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    • 103 48 THINGS are going great guns for British actor Orlando Bloom. He has just signed up for Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean, a project headlined by Johnny Depp. Bloom, best known for his role as the sharp shooting archer Legolas Greenleaf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship
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    • 216 48 GIRLFIGHT JET Li is no stranger to raining kicks and meting out pain to villains on screen. But he's having a bit of a problem on the set of his latest movie, Cradle 2 To The Grave. That's because
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    • 560 48  -  DEMISE CHONG THERE'S no grey area. When it comes to actresses, it seems pretty black-and-white that we prefer eyeing the nubile young versions. Watching The Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood, your eye is drawn more to the fresh bloom of 30-something actresses Ashley
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    • 47 49 >£. >«y. i*» iTamerjuam Mun uiucw wui roil out Jti J I *1- |)1 A "J. i?-»j-|ijT_'«ll r iiSmm ~.lu.'- til wlklßgßt' Wlt*3 the nomination of in-form jocke/Loh Kin Kuen, the combination looks hard to topple. «>»'"' i 4 s i".'•'*•,■• <Sx»i» 9 J l*w,-".Viic«. i x
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    • 2274 49 TODAY'S IPOH RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD -U*. ,*%r, ALL SMILES: Coldplay's trainer Lam MunChiewis all ready to play his winning number to the tpoh crowd. Danny Khoo Lionel Lee Michael Lee jfcjg 3 Diamond King 5 Shadow Dancer 10 Bold N Vibrant HHH m m£ 5 Shadow Dancer 8
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    • 57 50 RACE 1: Racy Stacy, Be Aheads, Sumptuous. RACE 2: Starbuzz. RAC£ 3: Big Phoenix, Be My Lotus. RACE 6: Storm Legend, Moon Town, Great Machine, Marchetti, Maybe RACE7:Triplon, Military Tycoon, Tribal King, Gorgeous Pete. RACE 8: Truly Serious, Flying Abjar. RACE 9: Citichamp, Yellow Bee, Our Magic King, Sportsman.
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    • 203 50 YESTERDAY'S IPOH RACE RESULTS GOING: GOOD 1 ROYAL APPLE 57 (16-8) JCKLoh (9) 3 2 1 (452) 14 SPECTACULAR MAGIC 52 (153-34) lAzhar (6) 4 3 2 (468) 15. LUCKY COLOUR51 (167-40).......... .w«.8H 01) (15) 2 4 3- (403) 7 HAPPY NEWS 55.5 c 54 (81-24) *H Barnabas 7 7
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    • 185 51  -  By] Lionel Lee MJIfHAT better way to WW start a four-day V W meeting than to be greeted by three winners. Jockey Loh Kin Kuen is used to success. But still, the popular hoop could not have asked for more when he came up
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    • 1877 51 5 MIGHTY FOX 55 (103-30) SHLee 2 3 1 (466) 11 NOBLE ORE 53 c 51.5 (44-16) *YFLeong (8) 1 1 2 (486) 12 SHE'S FLY 53 (86-23) SHOh (7) 13 13 3 (467) 1 HILL TO HILL 57 c 54.5 (21-8) XGoon (2) 10
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    • 1233 52 RACE Is KK Loh replaced R Poobalan on Royal Apple when the latter was certified unwell. Happy News was examined by the vet at the start and passed fit to race. Good Spice and Grand Magic were slow into begin. Passing the 300
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    • 257 53 Agassi v Sampras Act II TENNIS TRIVIA CONSIDERING the fact that 10-month-old Jaden Gil Agassi is practically walking on his own, it's not surprising that the relationship between the infant and Pete Sampras' baby due to arrive at the end of the year is already being talked about. And Agassi
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    • 454 53  -  COMMENT SUMIT MUKHERJEE ALL those who followed the US Open on telly must have caught the sight of a bubbly, blond toddler hassling Steffi Graf as she cheered hubby Andre Agassi. Looking at Agassi's adorable baby boy, Jaden Gil, makes one wonder what the
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    • 346 53 THE always outspoken Martina Navratilova has not been able to stay retired and away from the game. At the recently-concluded US Open, fans had another glimpse of why she was such a great talent and great spokesperson for the game. Navratilova, who lost in the second round
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    • 892 55  -  ALAN HUBBARD Exclusive! From London UNLIKE certain of his illustrious contemporaries, Terry Venables is unlikely ever to get a tap on the shoulder from Queen Elizabeth and hear the words: "Arise, Sir Terence." El Tel, as he has been popularly known
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    • SUNDAY CHEERS
      • 395 56 BLACKBURN v LEEDS (TO DAY Blackburn manager Graeme Soilness may not be mad if his side play badly against Leeds today. That's because it might mean they end up as victors. Rovers' only victory this season came in a patchy performance at Birmingham,
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      • 83 56 CORRADO Grabbi may be the only recognised striker to play against Leeds tonight. But at least the Italian is finding the net. Scoring was something he failed at last season, but now, Grabbi has struck twice in 110 minutes. Full-back Lucas Neill said: "Ciccio's
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    • 598 57 FAN WATCH Starting today, with the rising Premiership fever, the various English fan clubs in Singapore will be featured regularly. ERNEST LUIS unearths the newest club in town: Singapore Everton Supporters Club. MEET SINGAPORE EVERTON SUPPORTERS CLUB TONIGHT: Head down to the Beach Bar at Robertson Quay,
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      • 246 58 Merson backs man who broke his heart! PAUL Merson has come out in support of the man who made him cry when he mercilessly booted him out of Aston Villa. Merson believes Graham Taylor is the man to lead Villa back to the good times even
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      • 53 58 GERMANY Bradford 2 Burnley 2 Gillingham 1 Shefff Utd 1 Grimsby 0 Nottm F 3 MillwallO Walsall 3 Norwich 1 Portsmouth 0 Rotherham 1 Brighton 0 Sheff Wed 0 Leicester 0 Watford 3 Crystal Pal 3 Wimbledon 0 Coventry 1 Wolves 0 Reading 1 Derby v Preston
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      • 130 58 Reuters. LEADERS Bayern Munich came from behind to earn a 3-1 victory over Energie Cottbus yesterday to move four points clear at the top of the German First division. Bayern, who started their Champions League campaign with a 3-2 home defeat by Deportivo Coruna on
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      • 799 59  -  ARSENAL 2 BOLTON 1 ARSENAL: Seaman, Campbell, Cole, Keown, Lauren (ToureB4), Ljungberg (Bergkamp 68), Parlour, Silva, Henry, Kanu, Wiltord (Jeffers 68) BOLTON: Jaaskelainen, Barness, Bergsson, Campo, Charlton, Whitlow, Djorkaeff (Totting 81), Farrelly, Frandsen, Holdsworth (Okocha 66), Pedersen (Ricketts 48) By Ernest Luis IF there's a way
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      • 618 60  -  MANCHESTER UNITED 1 TOTTENHAM 0 Ruud van Nistelrooy (63rd minute, pen) Crowd: 67,611 Man U Fabien Barthez, Phil Neville, John O'Shea, Rio Ferdinand, Mickael Silvestre, David Beckham, Juan Veron (Gary Neville 76); Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (Diego Forlan 76) Spurs
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      • 76 60 AP. TOTTENHAM captain Teddy Sheringham wants a one-year contract extension with Spurs, which would see him playing to the age of 37. run out at the end of the season, but he said he "I want to play as long as I can," he said. 'The club
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      • 266 61 NEWCASTLE "keeper Shay Given became the latest in a line of Premiership shot-stoppers to provide us all with a good laugh unless you're a Newcastle fan of course. In the 38th minute, he presented us with a memorable goalkeeping blunder that, while not in the Peter
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      • 619 62  -  Sunderland look set for drop NEWCASTLE 2 SUNDERLAND 0 Craig Bellamy (2nd min) r Alan Shearer (39) Crowd: 52,181 By Edwin Yeo ITS a bit early to say this, but Sunderland really look like a team who are going down. Forget the gutsy display against Man
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      • 16 62 AFP. SUNDERLAND boss reier Keia siamrnea nis players after watching them surr
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    • 640 63  -  SUNDAY CHEERS By Ernest Luis IF ever a game rested on the mental readiness of one player who conceded a horrendous own goal last week, this has to be it. Everton fans will be happy that Aston Villa has indicated that manager Graham Taylor will persist
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