The New Paper, 24 November 2002

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  • 32 1 the new paper November 14, 2002 70 CENTS Singapore Press Holdings MfTA (P) 009/03/2002 on Sunday| Hotline: 1800- ***** 55 I Hotline: 1800- ***** 55 Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Website: newpaper.asial com.sg the i^w^paper
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    • 76 1 From refugee From Datuk's Arsenal, to restaurant daughter to Liverpool I chain owner >« gangster's girl 20 upset 71 n ===H=ssS® fl Iji lIITt K 1 Email: tnp@sph.com.sg 00 I® Singapore Press Holdings MITA (P) 009/03/2002 IMHHfeßilMHlif JHI Hotline: 1800- J J 44 J J Website: newpaper.asial .com.sg (I* I^^^^
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  • NEWS
    • 388 2 They will even incur debts buying the children designer clothes and toys PARENTS spoiling their children with too much indulgence. This is not new. But UK parents are taking this to new highs. They even get into serious debt trying to fulfil their little darlings' needs.
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    • 380 2 FAKE fingerprints, underwater breather, toxic pens and killer umbrellas are all gadgets that James Bond's resourceful chief engineer, Q, has come up with for the dapper spy. But today reality seems to have overtaken Bond and his gadgets. Scenes
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    • 621 3 She has been called this and more —the Nigerian woman who faces death by stoning. Though it was another controversy that ended Nigeria's hopes of staging the Miss World pageant, it was Ms Amina Lawal's plight that first drew world attention to this year's contest. So who
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    • 885 4  -  He was accused of staring and punched on the cheek... By Teh Jen Lee THE baby of the family, Dahlia, turns four today. But instead of celebrating, Madam Asmah Basri and her three children will be burying her husband of 28 years, Mr
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    • 1153 6  -  By Lee Tee Jong He was hit by a car and spent almost three months in hospital fighting for his life Widow awarded $81,000 in damages, but her pain lives on SHE will never forget the face of the man
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    • 309 7 MADAM Yeo and her husband were on their way home after closing their hawker stall in Ang Mo Kio Ave 10. She was crossing over to the other side of the road, carrying her 2-year-old grandson in her arms, when she heard
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    • 106 7 LAWYER Choo Si Sen said that technically, this is not a hit-and-run case as the driver did turn back. He said: "There is a hit-and-run section under The Traffic Act but the driver was not charged with it." A hit-and-run incident is one in which the
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    • 835 8  -  But it's not people who do his bidding REPORTS NG WAN CHING "HERMES: Insufflator, activate! Table height, move down! Image, capture!" The man handing out these instructions in the brightly lit operating theatre was consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Alex Ooi. But he
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    • 226 8 STRYKER has been building this kind of operating theatre since 1992, and has installed nearly 1,000 of them in the US and around the world. The Hermes voice-activated system in Mount Elizabeth Hospital is the first in Singapore. SPECIAL VOICE CARP Each doctor has a special
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    • 263 9 THE man behind the voice activated OT is Mr William Chang (left), a Singaporean living in the United States. Mr Chang is the chief technical officer and vice president of the research and development division of Silicon Valley company, Stryker Corporation. He started thinking about a
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    • 790 10  -  USING SOCCER TO TEACH MATHS: LESSON ON UNITS Measure the length and breadth of the field using boot-length as a unit Walk round the field. Record the number of steps needed. Then multiply the boot-length by the number of steps to arrive at the
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    • 174 11 THE idea for the football club came during World Cup. Mr Muzzamir observed that soccer-crazy students are usually weak in Maths. After talking with his former colleague, Miss Norliah, they started the club and are the only full-time staff members. They roped in two
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    • 550 12  -  One Sandy Lam concert is not enough for these followers (left) who turn up wherever the Hong Kong singer holds a concert By Yeoh Wee Teck SANDY Lam saw some familiar faces during her concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium last night. For among the 7,500 people present
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    • 75 13 Her music appeals to people prone to depression, like me. When her song, Ai Shang Yi Ge Bu Hui Zha Di Ren, was released, I was still doing my national service. I was training in Brunei and her cassette was the only one I brought along.
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    • 487 14 SHE puts in a 10-hour day, needs daily grooming and is always coated with powder. She's a Little India shop, affectionately nicknamed by the men who work there as the "old lady". She is equipped with five England-made grinding machines. One worker estimates
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    • Article, Illustration
      120 15  - I REPORT YONG SIEW FERN s 'j. Business is not as good as in the past. Especially now, when customers can buy pre-packed curry mixesfrom supermarkets. Usually, it's the older customers who will come with their own recipes of what mixes they need. —Mr Gnanapandithan P Sanmugan, manager ofVaUi FtourMiU
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    • 24 15 Curry powder: $2.50 per kg Spices like coriander and tumeric: $3.50 per kg Chilli: $3 per kg Flour: $1 per kg
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    • 50 15 First the item to be ground has to be sorted by hand (top, where an employee sorts chillis); then it is put into the grinder (above); the ground powder is collected in huge tins (left); and it is finally handed back to the customer (below).
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    • 981 16  -  From refugee to owner of restaurant chain The food and beverage industry has been hailed by the Economic Review Committee for attracting talented foreigners. For one of them, it all began because he experienced bad service... REPORTS GLORIA CHANDY HIS name card says: Michael Ma,
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    • 354 17 patsV kdar^Bi HE grew up in a rough Sydney suburb, a child of Laotian refugees who arrived there without knowing a word of English. As if the circumstances of his arrival weren't traumatic enough, he had to take to life on the mean streets, coping with the fact
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    • 536 18  -  By Teh Jen Lee IMAGINE a French castle in the middle of an ancient rainforest in Malaysia. Unbelievable? But that's exactly what you can drive to from the middle of next year. Bukit Tinggi Resort Berhad has almost completed a five-star French castle about 45
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    • 703 20  -  FROM DATUK'S DAUGHTER TO GANGSTER'S GIRL By C l tan REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR SHE is bright, he is dangerous. And it was love at first sight. Never mind that she is the daughter of a prominent datuk and top Kedah Economic Planning Unit
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    • 103 21 HERE are some of the crimes linked to Khairul in the past seven months. April 24: Khairul and four accomplices, including Ku Noraida, were alleged to have hijacked four Mercedes-Benz cars and robbed four petrol stations in KL, Selangor and Negri Sembilan. July 9: Khairul and three others
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    • 169 21 THE Mamak Gang started as a family affair in the early '90s. Police figures show the gang was responsible for 18 hijacking cases and more than 100 robberies in 10 states over the past decade. Malaysian CID director Commissioner Datuk Salleh Mat Som said
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    • 194 22 Reuters. HE got the snub alright. But in French. Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma (left) has been accused of arms smuggling to Iraq and was warned to stay away from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) summit in Prague. But he turned up anyway and even attended
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    • 299 24 Broken families is fast becoming a cause of concern for the US government Marriages are said to be made in heaven. But sometimes you need help to make it last. With a divorce rate exceeding 50 per cent and onethird of all families being
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    • 311 25 THEY come. They steal. They leave. Hopefully before the police can catch them. Hong Kong criminals are hiring burglars from the mainland to do the job for them. The burglars are driven to posh neighbourhoods or given maps to help them find their
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    • 418 26 JILLS of all trades is an overdue phenomenon one in which women can pick up a drill as easily as a mixer. They've discovered that handy-men either cost too much or take too long to get round to the task. Women all across the US
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    • 534 28 Formertrade minister is first woman to join Politburo in two decades TOUGH but flexible. Iron lady. This is how the only female member of China's 24member Politburo, Ms Wu Yi, 64, is described by those who know her when she was minister of foreign trade and economic
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    • 489 29 A robot that sings, dances recognises faces And others (left) can do housework COMING 500N... THINK Japanese brand names like Sony, Matshushita, Toshiba and Fujitsu, and the items that come to mind are electronic gadgets and mod-cons. But now, Japan's top tech shops are trying to get even more up
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  • AT A GLANCE
    • 283 30 THEY'RE supposed to start six years of basic schooling as required by the new Compulsory Education Act on Jan 2. But at least 178 "missing" children will not be in school. The Education Ministry (MOE) has been unable to contact them or
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    • 60 30 Chinese special task police officers entertained onlookers yesterday with a display of their stunt-driving skills. But, what's this? It looks like the sidecar passenger is taking off its wheel—to add to the excitement? The demonstration was held yesterday in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, as part of a public
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    • 456 30 A NEWSPAPER editor who did not read his own paper... A government that did not heed religious sensitivities... It was enough to plunge Nigeria into communal riots over, of all things, a beauty contest. Not that the beauties were entirely blameless. News reports putting
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 96 31 AT the Sengkang Community Library, if you need help with a book, you can call the "cybrarian". Based at the Tampines branch, he will monitor things remotely at the Sengkang self-service library with help from the 16 cameras mounted on the ceiling of the new library, which
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      • 93 31 THE good life doesn't come cheap that's what most Singaporeans seem to think, according to the latest quarterly survey by NTUC Income. Almost seven in 10 Singaporeans and permanent residents said they liked living here, but only four in 10 feel that the Government keeps the cost
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      • 118 31 WHAT a waste each day, leftover food at fastfood chains and bakeries here is just thrown away. Only three of the 10 fastfood and bakery chains The Sunday Times spoke to said they do not dump their leftovers. Gardenia Foods says its leftover bread is used
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      • 86 31 MORE than 120,000 farmers and fisherman demonstrated in Taipei against the government yesterday in what analysts said was the largest signal of no-confidence in President Chen Shui-bian. Shouting slogans such as "if agriculture perishes, Taiwan would perish too", the protesters besieged the Presidential Mansion. Most of the farmers
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      • 99 31 WITH Saturday's deadline looming, more than 250,000 people still have not qualified to receive free shares from the Government which they can cash in at any time. They need to put at least $50 into their Central Provident Fund accounts before Saturday to get the
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      • 96 31 INVESTORS and suppliers of a chain of neighbourhood shops that offer customers credit till the end of the month are taking action against the parent company. The police have received eight complaints from investors who claim they have been cheated. Ten lawsuits have also been filed against
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      • 104 31 AFTER Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's National Day Rally speech on Aug 18, some in the Indian community said they felt left out because their community was not mentioned. Some also said they were disappointed that no Tamil translation of his speech was posted on the government
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      • 98 31 THE Malaysian government will shift the site of a waste incinerator away from a densely-populated area after angry residents signalled they may vote for the opposition if the plan went ahead. The RMI.S billion (s7oom) plant will be moved from the Puchong area in Selangor to a
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  • Hey!))) SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND
    • 763 32 He'll take you on a 1,900year family trip IT'S a common enough story in Singapore. Mr Tan Hua Lua, 48, didn't even know his grandfather's name. When his father died suddenly two years ago, he realised with a sense of shock that he knew zero about his roots. Luckily, he
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    • 335 33 FOR those who hit a blank beyond their grandfather's generation, there are other equally wonderful ways to keep the family history alive. Urged into action by the death of his grandmother, retiree Cedric Pereira, 54, traced his Eurasian history up five generations to 1832. He interviewed
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    • 187 33 MADAM Elsie Toh, 58, adored her businessman father. In his memory, she began to piece together the Toh genealogy but hit a brick wall in her family village in China. She said: "All records have vanished from the village." Don't give up, advises Mr Tan: Get the
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  • HEY!
    • 630 34 ONE day, Mrs Akiko Silva, who designs clothes using old kimono material for her shop, Patch Magic, leaned forward and whispered her fervent wish. "If I ever expand my business, the first person IH do my best to hire is Jeremy who's the
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    • 523 34 HAVE you seen the movie, The Guru? It offers a comic look at the limitations of cosmetic personal branding. Our hero is an Indian dance instructor who goes to the US hoping to make it big. By accident, he becomes the "guru of
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    • 800 36 IT'S all about the timing. If the photographs he sent to one of the world's most coveted camera brands, Hasselblad, hadn't coincidentally arrived on the day of an important board meeting, they might have gone into the dump. Instead,
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    • 209 36 EVERY year, the Rolls Royce of camera brands, the Swedish Hasselblad, selects the works of 12 masters in photography from around the world. Hasselblad is best known for its medium format cameras much sought after by top art, fashion and commercial photographers who demand high
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    • 792 37 Indonesian-German arts event manager Hannes Nimpuno tells ANDREW DUFFY how he's watching the West use culture to get the cash flowing out of China—and how the Esplanade will be a money magnet for Singapore FROM what Mr Hannes Nimpuno says, we are all sitting in the
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    • 98 37 HAVE you got right under the skin of Singapore? Has your experience working, resting or playing with Singaporeans given you an insight into what makes the place and people tick? Have you seen a side of Singapore that most other expats don't even dream
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    • Article, Illustration
      416 38 WHAT: Finally, -31 theatre with fine W"" J dining, and we're not talking about Igor's or Ah Kong's mj fl Birthday Party. ,9 Ristorante Teatro Singapore Lyric |7 i. Opera founder Leow 8 Siak Fah's new baby hopes to serve up regular operatic, musical, dance and drama performances
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      111 38 WHAT'S NEW: We've already got curry in a bun, so why not laksa? PrimaDeli has just introduced its Laksa Zing, a bun which comes packed with chicken bits, tau pok, chilli, dried prawns and fragrant laksa leaves. Don't expect laksa sauce to come bursting out of the bun.
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    • 187 38 CHEAP CHOW Arts Bistro 6 Marine Parade Central (inside NTUC Fair Price Supermarket) Tel: 6345-0668 Opening hours: 11 am-10pm on weekdays, 7am-10pm on weekends and public holidays. TUCKED inside the new NTUC Fair Price Supermarket at Marine Parade Central is a new bistro the second Arts Bistro,
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    • 390 39 THEY say that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And that applies in equal measure to how you live your life. But even before taking your first step, you will need to do plenty of planning. Start by figuring out what
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    • 269 39 I'M 15. Last year, Friend A and I were quite close, and I thought she was the best friend I was looking for. Later this year, I found out that I was wrong when Friend B came along. Friend A and I
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      255 39 I AM 69 years old. Please advise me on the following: I suffered from erectile dysfunction on a number of occasions during the last eight months or so. On the rare occasions that I had an erection, I was unable to ejaculate. I have a small penis and never
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    • 248 40 For men who do not believe in pills, there's a neat little device which could boost their sexual potency. The Norwegians have now come up with a battery-operated penis ring which they claim can help to cure impotence. In a report by ananova.com, electrical engineer Birger Orten said the
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    • 757 41 HE y f THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY November 24, Jj** Proof of Wmk nt rl.vn rrt Highlights 31 CI n S S Armageddon Malaysian theatre director Krishen Jit plays with genius and chaos SSSSX B asteriod. Stars Bruce Willis, l jr James Bond has to protect a IHVCtCrCltC an
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    • 899 45 C I I,, jm I 5 "Cartoon Network Tinseltoon X'mas" V C A r I IF you're crazy about Cartoon Network I >• Original Characters like The Powerpuff y '0Ba>" pi Girls, Cow Chicken, Dexter and Dee Dee, J|| and Johnny Bravo, you ought to head east. 1 jCf There
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    • 684 46 WHEN you grow up in an attap house surrounded by tall trees and dark vegetation, you are close to the spirits of nature and any other spirits lurking out there. When your nights are filled with jungle-like sounds and ghostly fireflies flitting around the
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    • 462 47 Local book targets Singapore pooch-owners HERE is a story first-time dog owners can empathise with: Sick with worry, an Englishwoman visited a vet's clinic with her German Shepherd who was bleeding heavily from its underbelly. She told the vet: "I pulled a
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    • 136 47 ONE of the most endearing aspects of the book are the little anecdotes that pepper it. Beethoven is a two-year-old St Bernard belonging to shipbroker Douglas Lim. Beethoven lives in a custom-made, air-conditioned doghouse that was built and shipped in from Bangkok. This abode of love cost $2,000.
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    • 310 48 I HAVE been licked to death across the length and breadth of Singapore and Malaysia and lived to tell (wag) the tale (tail). Why write a dog book? Well, to reverse Sir Edmund Hillary's famous remark about climbing Mt Everest, because it wasn't there. As
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    • 501 49 IN ancient times, there was no prize greater than freedom for the victorious gladiator. In these times, though, the finest laurel is a gold nude chappie who answers to "Oscar". And this century's finest gladiator, Russell Crowe (left) has let his Oscar crown go to his
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    • 164 49 WHO'S been a good boy then? Not Russell, naughty Russell Crowe. If you didn't know better and you don't you'd think the actor is downright dysfunctional. His nasty notches thus far: Got up and walked off in mid-sentence during an interview with a New York Post reporter
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    • 554 51 FOUR years ago, the traditional world of Thai boxing found a most unlikely candidate for a posterboy. Or shall we say, postergirl? Parinya Charoenphol, or Nong Toom as she's affectionately known, stunned the world by wearing eyeshadow, powder and scarlet red lipstick into the ring, and proceeded
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    • 455 51 FIRST it was Chang and Eng. Now, Nong Toom. You'd think Action Theatre's artistic director Ekachai Uekrongtham (right) has a fascination for the sensational. "I think that even though they're considered not normal, to me, I always find that in the peculiarities
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    • 373 52 ASANEE Suwan has been women-watching a lot lately. The kick boxer-turned-actor, who for the record, is ramrod straight "a real man for sure" is getting into his role as Thailand's best-loved transvestite kick boxer, Nong Toom. "I observe women more closely and try to
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    • 458 53 Treasure Planet (voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, Emma Thompson, David Hyde Pierce directed by John Muskerand Ron Clements) DISNEY does push its luck sometimes with classic stories. They pushed it a lot with Pocahontas, and even more with Mu-lan. But
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    • 278 53 Ghost Ship (Gabriel Byrne, Juliana Margulies, directed by Steve Beck) GHOST Ship is water-logged. It is a cinematic vessel built on a lame script. It plunders every conceivable horror movie cliche in the book. Not surprisingly, it has a hard time tiying to keep itself afloat. Directed
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      1537 55 VIVA, MUSCUTT: Kidd, with jockey Mark du Plessis astride, staving off the fast-finishing Mayo's Music in Race 7 yesterday for Muscutt's second winner of the afternoon YESTERDAY'S KRANJI (SHORT COURSE, A/ FIBRESAND) RESULTS x -,v' Going: Yielding (Races 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 on turf): Good (Races 4
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    • 47 55 JOCKEY Frankie Dettori guided local horse Eagle Cafe to its first victory on a dirt course in the Grade One I,Boom Japan Cup dirt race at Funabashi yesterday. He will ride Italian galloper Falbrav in today's Japan Cup which will be telecast live to Kranji.
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    • 236 55 RACE 1: MONDE GOLDS jumped awkwardly in. FIGHTING SUPERIOR, OUR SANDMAN and STAR RISING were slow. At about the 700 m, DASH FOR FAME steadied off the heels of DE KOONING. COMPLETE HARMONY bled. MYSTICISM was impounded. The vet reported that the horse returned not striding out freely.
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    • 341 56  -  Battling Zimbabwean trainer enjoys sweet double with Sycamore and Kidd By Danny Khoo TRAINER Peter Muscutt may not have the luxury of a big string at his Kranji yard. But the battling trainer certainly made his small number count yesterday. With only four runners to his
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    • 1148 56 RACE 3: BRANDAVINO, GINKGO FIRE, EATON SQUARE and THE ROCK were restless after being loaded into the barriers. CYBER KING was bumped between EATON SQUARE and EXEMPLARY CHIEF, who jumped awkwardly in at the start. J Saimee, the rider of EXEMPLARY CHIEF, lost his near-side
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    • 1560 58 No. Last 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 825-48 HEQUUS 59 (61) JGeroudis 10 (4frg Moussac-Henri Chalhoub) 2 *****0 RED TAURUS 59 (61) MduPlessis 3 (6nzg Thwaites-Floating Outfit) 3 *****0 SIMPLY TOO GOOD 59 (61) E Wilkinson 1 (4ag
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    • 329 59  -  By Danny Khoo Trainer Michael Clements' Striking Diamond looks a top prospect in today's bumper Kranji programme as he resumes fresh from his gallant effort in the Singapore Gold Cup in Race 8 this afternoon. The promising Covetous five-year-old has not lost any of
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    • 278 59 No. Last 6 rung Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 *****3 IRON EYES CODY 59 (61) JGeroudis 13 (3ag Moussac-F/L'ward Park Stud) 2 *****8 GOLDEN LEGACY 57.5 (58) MduPlessis 1 (4nzg B Chua-Resourceful) 3 -4-5-1 MEGA TREASURE 57.5 (58) GCooksley 10 (5nzg Riley-Owner) 4
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      806 60  -  NATIONAL BASKEIBALL ASSOCIATION DALLAS MAVERICKS' BY Leonard Lau YOU can almost picture Dallas Mavericks' All-Star point guard Steve Nash as the perfect poster boy for a Social Development Unit promotion. With his Beatles mop of hair, he looks like a cross between Austin Powers and Tom Petty of
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        738 61  -  jwln TOTTENHAM Vi!3Bjg43HjlCgg»' V LEEDS By Frank Malley PA Sport. THERE'S nothing like a bout of moral generalising to get the old abrasive juices flowing. So here goes. Liverpool football fans are sharp and witty and not averse to lifting the odd radio from cars parked on
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      • 885 62 X tottenham leeds THEY meet at White Hart Lane tonight in the battle of the banana skins two once great clubs apparently on the slide. Both are guided by distinguished ex-England managers now facing torment and uncertainty. We are told that Terry Venables has
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      • 573 63 f TOTTENHAM v LEEDS (f?§) vly Picture/ Reuters FORMER Elland Road favourite Robbie Keane (right) is likely to play against Leeds for just the second time tonight when they travel south to face Tottenham Hotspur. Spurs bought him for £7 million ($18.9 m) and
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        821 64 S TOTTENHAM v LEEDS: FOCUS ON ALAN SMITH PA Sport. ALAN Smith needs no greater motivation to play for his local boyhood club, Leeds United, than simply pulling on the club's shirt. But he concedes that this is not enough if he is to become a great striker.
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      • 837 65  -  ft TOTTENHAM v LEEDS (III) BY Wang Meng Meng NOTICE anything unusual about British telecommunications company 02's sponsorship of Arsenal? Other that the usual jibes about 0-2 scorelines against the Gunners, not many here in Singapore know that the chief executive of 02, Peter Erskine, is
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      • 255 66 EURO KICKOFF: GERMANY KAISERSLAUTERN 0 BAVERN 2 OTHER RESULTS Yesterday Arminia Bielefeld 2 Leverkusen 2 Borussia M'gladbach 2 VFL Bochum 2 Berlin 0 Bremen 1 Schalke 2 Rostock 2 Stuttgart 3 Hannover 0 Wolfsburg 2 Dortmund 0 Tonight 1860 Munich v Nurnberg Hamburg v Cottbus BAYERN
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      • 546 67 MAN UNITED 5 NEWCASTLE 3 AFP. RUUD van Nistelrooy grabbed a classic poacher's hat-trick as Manchester United defied talk of a crisis with a five-star demolition of Newcastle at Old Trafford yesterday. Ravaged by injury and written off as title contenders after a string of
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      • 766 68 MAN UNITED 5 NEWCASTLE 3 Defending has to be the real stoiy of the game, right? Tohari: Everything Man U touched turned to goal. Apart from (Ole Gunnar) Solskjaer's goal where he hit Aaron Hughes on the head first before scoring, the others
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        467 70 SOUTHAMPTON 3 ARSENAL 2 WHAT a shocker for the Gunners at St Mary's Stadium. Southampton staged a roaring comeback to surprise the Premiership leaders for only their third League defeat this season. Ironically, it boiled down to taking the small chances that came along something that Saints manager
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      • 195 70 I P W D L F A Pts 1 Arsenal 15 10 2 3 33 16 32 2 Liverpool 15 9 4 2 26 13 31 3 Everton 15 9 2 4 18 15 29 4 Chelsea 15 7 6 2 25 13 27 5 Man U
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      • 123 70 DION-Dublin scored his 100 th Premiership goal in Aston Villa's easy win over West Ham. The victory helped to extend Villa's unbeaten run to six matches and push the under-pressure Glenn Roeder's side further into the relegation mire. Dublin's top-flight career looked as if
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      • 108 70 EVERTON are on a roll. They are rising to be the biggest surprise package during the early part of the Premiership season. They scored their sixth League victory with this solitary-goal win over bottom club West Bromwich Albion. Tomasz Radzinski's 35th-minute goal made the big
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      • 445 71  -  FULHAM 3 LIVERPOOL 2 BY Wang Meng Meng PERHAPS Mrs Jerzy Dudek made an extra-hearty breakfast for her husband. Perhaps, Dudek has been at a goalkeeping workshop with Fabien Barthez and David Seaman. Perhaps. Perhaps. But no ifs and buts about Fulham's 3-2 win over Liverpool
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