The New Paper, 23 January 2005

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    • 55 1 THE GREAT CASINO DEBATE Will you win? POLU)F HHM -m W m 500f It If! i C 0 s lIA ,nf KCEIVFn U mi 1'• r°4 Jan 2005 rJ mm X mI UV Sim*** /y pocket, uUiM&f what Won S'poreans Sunday choose? o |P |Yet they kept him I For
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  • news
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      1187 2  -  Paralysed foreign worker's Stuck for 16 months in hospitals because of buck passing Sim Chi Yin dawntan@sph .com. sg FOR 16 months, he lay Dn a hospital bed, desperate to go home. But Bangladeshi construction worker Dalim Ahmed Ali could hardly move. For a while, he could not
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    • 363 3 THE tears have not stopped flowing since he got home. As soon as Mr Dalim was wheeled out of the Dhaka airport past midnight on Jan 8, his two older brothers who were there to pick him up broke down. They were met
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    • 608 4 Paralysed worker still waiting for OUTSTANDING WAGES, MEDICAL SUPPLIES MR Dalim Ahmed Ali may be back home, but he is still waiting for medical-leave wages of almost $5,000 and the rest of the equipment due to him. Mr Jolovan Wham, a social worker at
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    • 126 4 UNDER the Workmen's Compensation Act, a workman injured in a work-related accident is entitled to claim medical expenses, medical-leave wages and compensation for permanent incapacity, if any. Employers have to cover all medical expenses incurred due to such injuries. And they must buy Workmen's Compensation insurance. If
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    • 640 5  -  Tiger cup victory parade By Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg THEY were excited. Perhaps too excited to think about bringing paper or pen for that precious autograph. So they used soccer balls, bare arms, T-shirts, shorts and even currency notes to record the autographs of their favourite soccer
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    • 1108 6  -  STREET POLL OF 500 SHOWS S'PORE STARKLY DIVIDED 8Y... MONEY OR VALUES MORE IMPORTANT? HALF SAY YES, HALF SAY NO TO CASINO WHAT IF SPORE LOSES OUT, WAGES HIT? THEN THREEQUARTERS MIGHT SAY YES TO CASINO By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph. com.sg NEVER in recent history has
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    • 877 7  -  HE WAS PICKED TO REVIEW CASINO PLAN IN 2001 THE. GREAT CASINOJ>EBATE Edwin Yeo tnp@sph.com.sg HE was the man first picked to look into the feasibility of a casino in Singapore. It was in 2001 that the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) put the task
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    • 368 7 IS a casino really important to the intergrated resort concept which the Government is proposing? It is understood that potential investors are also encouraged to propose concepts which doesn't include a casino. Looking at the way clubhouses are run here may
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    • 370 7 Eugene Wee NICE to have, but it's not a neccesity. That's the view economists shared with The New Paper on Sunday when asked if it was vital for Singapore to have a casino. University of Massachusetts professor Chris Roberts, who also does research
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    • Article, Illustration
      890 8  -  Slice of S'pore Life You're not thirsty or hungry. Karaoke bars don't turn you on. You're a hot-blooded male, but you're not into sleazy joints. So what's there to do in Geylang in the wee hours of the morning? Plenty Joyce Lim joycel@sph. com.sg IN Geylang, if you
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      443 10 FG ITS only natural to expect some interesting encounters when you're open for business at an unearthly hour right smack in the red-light district. Miss Ice Ye, 21, has been doing the overnight shift at M 5 Collection for the past three years. Among her customers are women who work
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    • 153 10 Beyond 'O' Level Seminar 2005 If you are waiting for your GCE 'O' Level results, come to the Temasek Polytechnic/ The New Paper Beyond 'O' Level Seminar. Find out more about your education options Poly? JC? or When: 28 January 2005 (Friday), 2:30pm Where: Temasek Convention Centre, Temasek Polytechnic, 21
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    • 822 12  -  When herßßi removed HHH her facial hair, this girl grew so sick she nearly died. She only got out of bed when it grew back 1 month later Joyce Lim joycel@s ph.com.sg IT WAS her second child and Mrs Sompon Sasupan, 34, had expected her
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    • 691 14 FROM STORE HELPER TO CEO TOOK 40 YEARS. LOSING IT ALL TOOK A DAY HE was the son of a cleaner and a handyman who rose to become the head of one of the biggest financial institutions in the US. Mr Franklin Raines's (right) rise to
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    • 460 15 AT 10, she starred as the poor little rich girl in The Little Princess in 1995. At 12, she was the US president's daughter in the Harrison Ford action-adventure Air Force One. Now, at 20, she's stormed the
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    • 248 15 LAST April, he angered people by his n****r insult aimed at Chelsea's Marcel Desailly. Now, disgraced TV analyst Ron Atkinson has targeted the Chinese. The former Man Utd and Aston Villa boss, did it again at a fund-raising dinner on
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    • Snap Shot
      • 61 16 Watching the inaugural ceremonies reminded me of the scenes near the end of The Godfather in which a solemn occasion (a baptism) b interspersed with a series of spectacularly violent murders. Even as President Bush was taking the oath of office, the news wires were churning out stories
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      • 75 16 THAILAND'S Phuket island has become the centre of a battle between a government bent on bringing natural beauty back to beaches, and vendors and developers keen on a return to the pre-tsunami situation. The government's plans to rebuild the devastated areas would also relocate some of
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      • 54 16 ALTERNATIVE power for your handphone? Here's a methanolsolution cartridge and a prototype of a power supply for handphones using the direct methanol fuel cell. It's from Hitachi, which says the prototype can generate enough power for about two to three hours of talk time and television viewing using
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      • 76 16 THE police fired three shots to foil a robbery attempt outside the entrance to the New Century Hotel and Greek Mythology Casino, in what was the most violent incident in Macau since the handover six years ago. The suspected robber an armed Hong Kong man was
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      • 173 16 Hanoi admits safeguards not stoctly enforced BIRD flu has claimed two more victims in Vietnam. So far, nine people have been killed by the disease since Dec 30, and 29 since the end 0f2003. Vietnamese officials admitted tough measures to contain the outbreak were not
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      • 90 16 EIGHT Chinese hostages held by insurgents in Iraq have been freed, the Al-Arabiya television station said, quoting their captors. China said it had already warned its citizens to stay out of Iraq after the kidnappers said they would spare the hostages if Beijing issued a travel ban.
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      • 189 16 THE first tsunami early warning system in the Indian Ocean is expected to be in place next year. It's part of a UN action plan to reduce casualties and damage caused by natural disasters. A UN official said about US$B million (sl3m) had been
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      • 57 16 AN Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell into a coma. But hours after his death, she woke up in hospital in Padua and asked for him. Padua is 60km from Verona, where the character Romeo kills himself, believing Juliet to be dead. But minutes later, Juliet wakes
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 35 16 Central JUfffr Showers HI ,M. ,1fvoociianos Showers •TTTNPr dhbkt Showers ChM i Showers Jurong jfjjP Showers max I 30®C min I 24° C first tide 2.7 m I 9.41 am second tide 2.6 m 1134pm
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  • 189 17  -  Sim Chi Yin simcy@sph.com.sg MR ANTHONY Chan is 49, balding, portly, single and lonely. The Secondary Two dropout works as a security guard at an American oil rig company in Tuas from Bpm to Bam, seven days a week. Then, he takes a bus home
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  • 828 18  -  And he has gone back to the classroom for 'lessons' Soma tips: Sp«ak softly Do not wear slippers And no whita shoas, plaasa Sim Chi Yin simcy@sph.com.sg TIP No 1: Dress smartly, speak softly. That was the first piece of advice trainer Michael Lum
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  • 511 18 MR Anthony Chan didn't have a way with women even when he was in his 20s. He had two relationships, but both foiled. He was 21 when he met his first girlfriend, a colleague at a logistics firm where he was working as a storeman.
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  • 552 20 Trainer conducts free workshops as social contribution HE admits that he's no ladykiller. For the past 20 years, Mr Michael Lum has been married to the only woman he has dated. He says he can understand the predicament of blue-collar bachelors, and wants to
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  • 72 20 THE proportion of Singapore residents remaining single in the 40-44 age group has increased from 11 per cent in 1990 to 15 per cent in 2000 for males, and from 12 per cent to 14 per cent for females. Singlehood was more prevalent among males who have
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  • 516 21  -  Edwin Yeo tn p@sph.com.sg ISN'T it amazing how we Singaporeans want to be the nub of everything? At last count, we are the arts hub, media hub, IT hub, cruise hub and more recently, starhub. In my time, the only hubs we knew were
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  • 378 21  -  Jonathan Lim tnp@sph.com.sg CAN! How much you want to pay me? Again? Why? Am I pregnant? Um... when do you need to know? Who else said yes? Am I the only one? No, seriously. Gosh, was I that good last night?
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 43 21 FAB'S rfoll FLIPS Fabian (m| |M fabiandsph.com.sg Hey, WHY LOOK SO MOOOY? you CBMBMeeC THIS expensive exonc tpopical PISH I SOUSHT TWO WEEKS ASO? (WOW.' you SHOULD ee HAPpy it's spown SO MUCH/ WHAT 010 ITEAT? 4LL /HZ OT"tf£/P expeNSive exonc TQOPICAL FISHfff
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    480 22  - Hyde shriek Tan Dawn Wei dawntan&sph.com.sg Peace. MY name is Tan Dawn Wei and I have an abuse problem. I'm a pacifist, a tree-hugger, an animal-lover, a vegetarian and generally personify a beached whale. But I go from mouse to louse the minute it's foot to the pedal: Yes, I
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  • 796 22 No gym, no diets, no problems WHAT can one expect on a date with a radio DJ and emcee? Well, Edmund brought his favourite Mike along. I mean, his microphone. Yes, he led me to the Youth Park, got into his suit, whipped a microphone out of his bag and
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  • 368 22  -  About last night Rache Rasburn tnp@sph.com.sg I'VE been feeling melancholy lately blame it on the recent bout of rainy weather here in Singapore. And it's not as simple as water pouring from the sky the rain impinges on our social life, our mental health
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  • 560 22  -  Annette Tan tn p@sph.com.sg A WEEK ago, when the sun finally peeked out from behina the thick grey clouds, I decided it was time to dust off the old bikini and soak up some sun. Once I fastened the last string on my bikini top,
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  • 690 23  -  NO ONE WANTED TO PAY $10 FOR TAKAHASHI KENICHI'S BOWL OF NOODLES SEVEN YEARS AGO, SAYING HIS RAMEN TASTED LIKE LAKSA. HE HAD ONLY ONE OUTLET THEN. TODAY, HE HAS 10 ,fes 6p! What really goes on in 9-to-5 jobs? E-mail tnp@sph.com.sg Joyce Lim
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  • 634 24  -  Janice seah tnp@sph.com.sg ALL through last Christmas, like some annoying yuletide mosquito, came this incessant, high-pitched whine which threatened to turn tnat most blessed of seasons into a farce so ridiculous, so ludicrous that even Donald Trump's hairstyle would pale in comparison. No,
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  • 639 25  -  Doctor Love Oft LOVE'S HOTLINE Hang-ups keeping your love life down? Let Dr Love and his team of doctors and counsellors offer possible solutions to spice up your life. Call Dr Love's Hotline at 1900-912-5683. All calls will be treated in the
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  • 667 26 PLEASE help me. My wife wants to leave me because she says I don't trust her. Now, you tell me how I can trust her? Last week I saw a man's SMS to her, calling her "dear" and saying that he
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  • 628 27 The Government is mulling over extending the smoking ban to more areas, including pubs. Do you think this would be a party-pooper? Would you welcome such a ban? ban smokin in sg. Breathing in 2nd hand smoke is like getting spit in the face.
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  • 22 27 Theyo-yowas reportedly invented in China, but received its name from the Philippines. The word is Tagalogfor "come back".
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  • 20 27 Being awake for 17 hours affects your alertness the same way that two glasses of wine will.
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  • Article, Illustration
    346 28 Spun Off Elektra (PG) The box-office curse of Ben Affleck has been transmitted to Jennifer Garner (right) in her title character spin-off from his Daredevil original. The over-cute Gamer from TV's Alias is here resurrected as a deadly assassin. You go, girl, kill the box office. Enjoy The
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 322 29 JeanmarieiM jeanm@sph. com. sg The Kid Channel 5 Tonight, 7.30pm Just when you thought Bruce Willis had enough problems dealing with a kid who see dead people, he now sees an 8-year-old version of himself (Spencer Breslin) who mysteriously appears. Throw in an adorable puppy and a touch of heartwarming
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    • 344 29 Manhunt StarWaiM (StartfabCh 18) Tuesday (Jan 25), 10pm Man, I feel like a woman! Yes, it's that time of the show for the remaining 12 beefcakes to get in touch with their feminine side for some avant-garde photo shoots. Manicures, pedicures, eyebrow-plucking and chest-waxing are in order along with the
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    • 140 29 E NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY January 23.2005 i Ki f.'j i The Simple Life 2 fhinirl 5 Saturday (Jaa 29), 10pM Paris and Nicole's favorite phrase is "That's hot", and never has it been more appropriate than when they take a job as chambermaids at Caliente, a nudist resort. Sorry,
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 340 30 Television Channel 5 9:00am I 7th Heaven —A Song For Lucy (Drama) 10:001 SmaHviH II— Ro$etta( Drama) 11:00 I Copt (Variety) 11:301 Spanish League Highlights (Sports) 1:001 Star Trelc Enterprise 111 Stratagem (Drama) 2:001 Sunday Afternoon Movie—4:001 Third Watch V 5:001 JAG. VIII 6:001 Singapore's :rn (Variety) 7:301 Sunday Prime
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    • 418 30 THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY January 23,2005 Page 33 Channel 8 Suria Kids Central Discovery 10:00am I Bright Sparits/Na Na Shalala (Children) 11:001 Gem In The Palace (Drama/ Episodes 29 30) 1:00pm I World This Week (Educational) 1:301 Roostmanla (Local Culture) 2:001 True Colours (Local Variety) 2:301 Super Sunday (Variety)
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  • tech
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      687 31 *msui#ay Do you have ghostly items? Why not sell it on eßay where ghost-weary sellers are putting up items like dolls furniture on sale and making money LAT-WP. THERE was a time when eßay was just an Internet yard sale frequented by the obsessive-compulsives and their enablers.
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    • 190 32 AP. ANEW Zealand study has found that teenagers aged between 15 and 19 are who surf for child porn on the Net. The study by the Internal Affairs Ministry found that a quarter of all child porn users tracked and caught by investigators were under
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  • 262 34 tech Reuters. DONT answer this supposed call for help. A mass e-mail message posing as a plea for aid to help the victims of last month's Asian tsunami disaster is actually a vehicle for spreading a computer virus, Web security firm Sophos said. The worm appears
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  • Article, Illustration
    257 38 _7tech^— AP. THEY may be able to crack the most difficult cases, including those found in the "X-files". But when it comes to computers, the guys at the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) need help badly. A US$l7O million ($278 million) computer overhaul intended to give
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  • racing
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      357 40 Racing Editor Marc Tan Deputy Racing Editor Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee 0 10 Ninety-Nine Aces 5 Gash Of Titans 6DJn^mMa 7 Power Lad 6 Din Kim Ma 8 War General II jeram Rose 6 Din Kim Ma 7fower Lad 7 Power Lad IS Winning
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    • 94 40 BEST BET Never mind that he is tackling the 1,400m trip after scoring over 1,700m at his last start. This seven-year-old is retaining winning form and can be followed confidently again over his pet Batu Gantong track. Since he left Kranji, he has carved
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    • 92 40 RACE 2: Tinker Bell, Golden Victory, Celebrity Wonder, High Five, Strive. RACE 3: Proud Tycoon, Highest Happiness, Celebrity Eclipse, Kelven's Express. RACE 4: Minnale Magic, Tamara, Bushrange, Hidden Dragon, Wonderful Day. RACE 5: Aberdonian, Chew Ma, Atas Semua, West Of The Sunset, Baby Says Good. RACE 6: Wanko, Club
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    • 1455 41 GOING FORECAST: GOOD Today's Hong Kong race card: See Page 47 Double Trio Jackpot: A jackpot sum of $5,755 has been added to today's pool. Wo. Last 6 rum HORSE Wt Eating Jotkey Barrier (Aga/origln/sex, trainer) 1 4439-7 CONSPIOOUS 55 (46) SAnandan t (3ag Lines-Confidence) 2
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    • 691 42 GOING: GOOD 4 DOUBLE TAKE 50.5 (11-5) ISaifudin (5) 1 1 1 (429) 1 MAIZNIFICANT 57 (13-9) SSam (4) 5 3 2 (474) 6 BIASABIASA 50 (119-35) SSani (3) 2 2 3 (430) Winning stable: Lucky King. Trainer: KM Noordin. Margins: 2 1 /t, 5, shd. Time:
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    • 267 42  -  Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg Apprentice k Eirwan and South African jockey Martin Wepner provided the highlight at Penang yesterday. The duo gave their backers some anxious moments in Race 3, a Class 4 Div 3 1,400 m affair featuring 12 runners. Eirwan's mount, the Tiang Kim Choi-trained
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    • 608 42  -  BY HKJC TIPSTER JEREMY GREENE RACE 1: EVEREST (4) should be able to figure In the finish of an open race. He is bred to handle the dirt and his latest effort showed decent form. Supremacy (2) has slipped to an attractive rating and looks
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    • 1105 43 Going forecast at ShaTln: GOOD Double Trio Jackpot: A jackpot sum of $4,331 has been added to today's pool Rac« 1: Class 4 1200m Time 1*0 Stakes: HK$570,000 NO. HORSE NAME TRAINER JOCKEY WTQB) BAR 1 SUPERSONIC ASC CKTong(-10) 132 12 2 SUPREMACY
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  • sports
    • WORLD OF GOLF
      • 702 44  -  CALTEX MASTERS Godfrey Robert npsports@ sph.com.sg DRIVE with the Masters, says the slogan on the posters featuring marquee names Lee Westwood, Colin Montgomerie, Thongchai Jaidee and Zhang Lianwei along Xilin Avenue. Whoever coined the phrase must feel like having scored a hole-in-one, for
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      • 332 44 ORGANISERS, players and sponsors of the Caltex Masters will pitch in to help with the Tsunami Disaster Relief, while remaining committed to ongoing support for local community organisations. One of the fundraising initiatives is the Caltex "Birdies for Charities" programme, where the title sponsor will
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      • 406 45 BUICK INTERNATIONAL AP. SOUPY fog made it hard to see. And it caused a three-hour delay. But one man seem to have kept his vision, and benefited from it. American Ryder Cup captain Tom Lehman returned from the delay of the Buick International, shot
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    • 672 49  -  GRADUATE OF SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS HEART 2 HEART Wang Meng Meng npsports@sph.com.sg HE shoots, he scores and he celebrates. If that winning feeling can be bottled and sold at pharmacies, doctors will have found the perfect tonic to relieve all kinds of injuries and bodily
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    • 440 49 SO, what's next for Fandi Ahmad, Singapore's favourite football son? The national team's assistant coach has two years on his contract to run and, should Raddy Avramovic relinquish his post then, the striker would be a popular replacement. Fandi himself is unsure about his destiny. He
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    • 426 49 IN his long and distinguished career, Fandi Ahmad has always cherished the thought of making it big in European football. He had no problems plying his trade in Asean, where he has won league and cup medals with the SAF Warriors, Indonesian club Niac Mitra and
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    • 903 50  -  Ha is a valued member of the Lions squad. Yet, he did not play a single minute in Singapore's Tiger Cup victory and is arguably the country's most famous Lion. WANG MENG MENG has a heart-to-heart chat with striker FANDI AHMAD, now the national team's
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