The New Paper, 30 January 2005

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    • 38 1 FA CUP ?lew ppifrgsgw A BtCEWEO i < J«t3» 191 hsRraJ on Sunday Kt m A/ m .v A." Yes, says mum of S'pore boy. Not so simple, say experts 0 CAN HE REMAiN TRUE WHEN ANOTHER WOMAN SMILES?
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    • 996 2  -  Zubaidah Mazcer zubaidah@s ph.com.sg LIKE most boys his age, Joel Lee, 12, is playful. When it comes to rugby, he is a bundle of energy. But when it comes to school, his enthusiasm slackens and his studies suffer. The result?
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    • 280 2 HYPNOSIS is a tool rarely used to get children to improve their grades. Psychologists and psychiatrists say only a few ask specifically to be treated to improve their studies. Said Dr Ong Thiew Chai, a senior consultant psychiatrist at Tan Tock Seng's Department of
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    • 856 3  -  'HONEY TRAPS' ARE IN DEMAND HERE, SAY INVESTIGATORS The Honey Trap II Faith Tm wenli@s ph.com.sg Joycelyn Wong tnp@sph. com.sg IF you're a man with a roving eye and a weakness for a pretty face, be careful who you flirt with at the pub next time.
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    • 548 3 Faith Teo IT is a typical Wednesday night at a popular pub in Suntec City. A tall and slim woman, attracting attention with her long hair and attractive features, moves amongst the after-work yuppie crowd. Her eyes fix on one of the many
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      815 4  -  The Honey Trap II Joycelyn Wong tnp@s ph.com.sg ITS happy hours at a popular pub along Mohamed Sultan Road. Cindy is decked out in her knee-high boots and a short, slinky dress that shows off her svelte figure. Her colleague, Amy, steals glances at her as she
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      469 6  -  HOW DID SHE DO IT? Snatching LIVE FISH OUT OF THIN AIR Spot THE FISH? OUR PHOTOGRAPHER UNCOVERS THE TRICK China teen holds Tampines crowd captive with slick stunt Joyce Lim joycel@sph.com.sg SHE calls her trick "fish snatched out of thin air". In true cowboy style, 16-year-old Lu Ning
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    • 833 7  -  IT'S MORE LIKE Fawziah Selemat fawziahs@sph .com .sg ITS known as the Garden of Fame. But it might as well be called the Garden of Shame. The garden, located at the top of Jurong Hill, once played host to foreign dignitaries and members of royalty in the
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    • 304 7 THE rubbish left at the Garden of Fame could be due to the "minor maintenance works" being done at Jurong Hill Park, said JTC Corporation (JTC). In an e-mail reply to The New Paper on Sunday, JTC, which manages the park and garden, said
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    • 555 8  -  SECOND BOTANIC GARDENS ON THE WAY Clarence Chang clarence® sph.com.sg SINGAPORE'S often called a Garden City, but lately there's been little sign of any garden anywhere in the city. The Singapore Management University's city campus has swallowed up what's left of
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        106 9 PM'S EVENING WITH INDIAN COMMUNITY K is still possible to produce a stable, peaceful Iraq, but only if Washington gives up trying to remake the country in the image of Texas. Former British foreign secretary Robin Cook, in the Guardian. THE wait for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
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      • 69 9 A Singaporean detained in Indonesia for allegedly stealing gym equipment from hotels the window of a toilet at a police station on Friday. Five police officers were later questioned for suspected negligence, the Jakarta Post reported. The 32-year-old man, who had been arrested on Dec 7, persuaded
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      • 86 9 A 13-year-old girl has succumbed to bird flu in Ho Chi Minh City, the 11th to die of the HSNI virus in Vietnam in recent weeks. Sixteen others are infected. A doctor at the General Hospital in Kien Giang province said a 25-year-old woman from
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      • 181 9 AFTER SUCCESSFUL CAR RENTALS, NTUC RELAUNCHES BIKE SERVICE NEED a bike in Bukit Batok? Reach for your handphone. Townßike lets you pick a bicycle at a docking station and send the number of the station and bicycle by SMS to 9327-3667 or 9CARCOOPT
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      • 116 9 THERE will be a Nicoll Highway MRT station on the Circle Line, but it won't be at the site where the road collapsed last year. The station will now be located about 100 m away, near Java Road, Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said at the
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      • 181 9 COMMERCIAL jets flew non-stop between Taiwan and China yesterday, for the first time since 1949, raising hopes for permanent air links and better ties. Starting with China Southern Airlines, six charter flights from the mainland touched down one after another at Taipei's international
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      • 51 9 A man trapped in his car under an avalanche in Slovakia freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it. Rescue teams found him drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his Audi car was buried in the Tatra
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    • 1142 10  -  RAIDS BY RELIGIOUS POLICE ON KUALA LUMPUR NIGHTSPOTS HAVE OWNERS PUZZLED Fawziah Selemat fawziahs@ s ph.com. sg FIRST, the loud, thumping music in the club was abruptly silenced. Patrons then noticed all the exits being blocked off as men and women identifying themselves as
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    • 202 11 thngaporean Muslims can be arrested by religious officers conducting raids. But whether the charges will stick is another matter, said Malaysian Syariah lawyer Nisah Haron. "Singaporeans are not bound by Malaysian Syariah law. So there is no way a Singaporean Muslim can be charged with a
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    • 276 11 EXPLAIN or I will sue. That's what one angry parent says. She has given Jawi a week to explain the actions of its officers during the raid or face legal action. The woman, who wanted to be known only as Maria, said she had
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    • 788 12  -  At 22 and 18, they are Thailand's wealthiest sisters. But unlike the Hiltons, nobody knows much about Thaksin's daughters Gary van Zuyien Reporting from Bangkok POLITE and confident, already groomed for the corridors of power, or ready and willing to compound their massive wealth? Nobody knows, and no
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    • 127 13 ACCORDING to a Thai magazine, family members of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra are the biggest stockholders in Thailand. The combined wealth of his family swelled by a massive 70 per cent, or 13 billion baht ($546 million), in the past year, reported the Banking and Finance
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      606 13 UK woman tracks down British MP dad after 36 years IT was the swinging '60s and, by his own admission, he was "pretty wild". As an 18-year-old sailor in the British navy, he met a girl called Sue and tattooed her name on his arm. That short
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    • 686 14 AP. CHRISTMAS Day last year is one that Nicobarese tribesman Michael Mangal will never forget. There was a big village party, common among the closely knit community on Pillowpanja Island at the southern end of India's remote Andaman and Nicobar archipelago. Nicobarese, many of whom are
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    • 592 15 Wire services. UNLIKE the Nicobarese tribesman, Mr Zebulon Simentov has known loneliness for several years. For the last seven years, he and fellow Jew Ishaq Levin had been living and worshipping at opposite ends of the same tiny synagogue in Kabul, muttering insults whenever they saw
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    • 842 16  -  HYPNOSIS: HYPE or HOPE*: Zubaidah Nazeer zubaidah@sph .com.sg OR Sharm Manzana, life without a puff seems to be I coming up roses. She kicked a 19-year-old smoking habit, left her public affairs job and opened up a flower shop this month. And the air around her
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    • 537 16 MR JOE Nathan Lourdes' toes had it bad. For 25 years, he would peel the skin around his toenails. Most times, it happened without him even realising it, such as when he was reading a book or watching television. And the most abused members of
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    • 154 17 FORTUNE is said to favour the brave, or at least, those brave enough to jostle with the Chinatown crowd now. And fortune is just what they are seeking. Yesterday, with furrowed brows and focused eyes, frenzied shoppers flock to the stalls to buy anything heralding good
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    • 557 18  -  Edwin Yeo tnp@sph.com.sg ON MONDAY, there was this new television programme on Channel 5 called Desperate Housewives. Which is amazing because, every now and then, I get e-mail from the exact same people. It's true. One weekend away from office and I find some three to
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    • 491 18  -  Siva Choy tnp@sph.com.sg I HAVE a good reason for hoping that they build a casino in Singapore, quickly. Because when I'm in Perth and Singaporean friends call on me, the first thing they want to see is Perth's casino, and I end
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    • 504 19  -  Dolores Tay tnp@s ph.com.sg JO ANNIE, my best pal and childhood mate, received a termination letter in the post two days ago the second such letter in ner six-month career as a female bartender. She has not looked back since making the huge career switch
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    • 669 19 I WAS bowled over the first time I set eyes on Adam in a jazz club. Jazz trumpeters are a rarity in Singapore; one who sings, even rarer. And he reminded me of Chet Baker, whom I revere. His style of playing and the clarity of
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    • 396 19  -  Rachel tn p@sph.com.sg I AM often misunderstood, so once and for all, I'd like to set the record straight. When I was pursuing mv degree while juggling full-time work as a flight attendant, my law lecturer impressed upon the entire class that
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      557 19  -  Karen Wong karen@sph .com. sg IF YOU'VE been doing much driving lately, you may notice your letter box suddenly inundated by mail with the letterhead "On Government Service". You open one of them, hoping that you have been given some form of money, such as the Economic
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    • 586 20  -  WHEN CHARLIE CHANTS HIS MANTRA, HE CAN SELL A $50 LUOHAN, CAUGHT IN A CANAL, FOR UP TO $300. SO, WHY THE FISH IS HE PEODUNG GOLDFISH TODAY? Joyce Lim joycel@sph.com.sg FOR those of you who once paid hundreds and thousands of dollars for
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    • 573 21  -  Johnson Ong tnp@sph.com.sg ITS not often that I stop and stare at something in the women's underwear department. Once a month at the most. For instance, I was once utterly intrigued by the Aqua Bra. The science that goes into women's
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    • 614 22  -  Text by Keith G Emuang SENGKANG couple Bahja and Reena have very conservative backgrounds. Their experience with sex has, as one would expect, been limited. "Before marriage, we had only kissed on the cheeks. Imagine, on our wedding night, we actually spent the night
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    • 677 23 I AM a 23-year-old Indonesian maid who has been working here for about four years. I'm having problems with my boyfriend, who is 10 years older than 1.1 fell in love with him. He is a nice guy and was single
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    • 578 25 I9M v v> MW*** -•-r > r THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY January 30,2005 I'll m »f »f > I'i 1 Page 31 SytviaToliPaikChoo tnp@sph.com.sg A Very Long Engagement I've Been Waiting So Long (PG) Another in the ho-hum-titled movie genre. (Usually "foreign films" here to mean non-English language—which suffers
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    • 726 26 I Ugyl I D THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY January 30,2005 Page Switch on HtanraiicK W I 1 FawziahSelamat fawziahs@sph.com.sg Dog The Bounty Hunter n M JHH Star World (StarHub Ch 18) Saturday (Feb 05), 10pm Jurassic Park II: The Believe it or not, this show is B, IncfWnHH actually
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  • 604 28 HERE'S a gadget that busy executives may want to have on their desks. It's a 17-inch LCD TV that can double up as a computer screen. The Samsung SyncMaster 730MP is no ordinary LCD screen. With its picture-in-picture (PIP) and picture-by-picture (PBP) features,
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  • 272 29 AERIAL PHOTOS AND VIDEOS 10 COURT HEARINGS $30,000 BILL ALL THESE TO PROVE... tech AFP. YOU are familiar that handphone driving is an offence. But what about "apple driving"? A British nurse was caught by cops in London after she was spotted eating an apple while
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  • racing
    • 315 37  -  Trainer dr yeoh s charge all set to bolt home in race 3 Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg FORMER Australian-bred campaigner Never Stop has come right and should get off the mark in Race 3 this afternoon. Three encouraging efforts at Kranji have topped the Dr Yeoh Kheng
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    • 49 37 REALLY GOOD (RACE 6 NO. 3) Model of consistency with five wins, a second and a third from eight starts to date. Resuming fit and fresh after a nine-month rest, this consistent Don Baertschiger-trained gelding should continue where he left off. He is handily weighted at 52.5kg.
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    • 637 37 ■■■■H -i6oom HHHHHHHHHHBHHHI1 Wo. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/oriqin/sex. trainer) 1 603-7 RATA 59 (60) *M Kellady cl.5 11 (5ag Baertschiger-Mrs S B'schiger) Has the class to win here although his trackform is only average; good second over 2,000m
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    • 692 38 Open Benchmark 67 Quartet 2.40 HittH -1400m Stakes $48*000 Wo. Last 6 runs HOUSE Wt Rating Jocfcey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer) 1 500-16 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 57 (66) *MKohc3 11 (5nzg Leek-Ternary) Recent efforts not too bad; meeting strong opposition, though;
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    • 1364 39 Best bet: Five-time winner Really Good I (No. 10) is resuming fit and fresh after a nine-month rest and should continue his winning ways in Race 6 today. AM No. LUSn— HOME Wt Rating Jockey Banter (Age/oridnfrex. tratner) 1 -2110-
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    • 55 39 RACE 2: Royal Pacific. RACE 3: Soldier Of Fortune, Always Innocent, Gold Zest. RACE 5: Lucky Luke, Make No Mistake, Mr Strategiser, Jackson, Havityourway, El Marroqui. RACE 6: Dreyfuss, Mayo's Music, Que Expresion, Izamaman, Kronos, Mount Street. RACE 7: Roktzar, Thunder On. RACE 8: Popular, Starmix. RACE 9: Disco
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    • 654 40 GOING: GOOD 2 SPEED RANGER 55 (19-5) J Winks (4) 4 3 1 (473) 4 FREEDOM ONE 55 (11-8) BShahrul (5) 3 1 2 (448) 1 CONTINUANCE 55 (19-7) PVellaikannu (6) 7 5 3 (446) Winning stable: Gold Plus. Trainer: Stephen Cook. Margins: V*, 2 Vi, 3.
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    • 40 40 ASIAN EXPRESS(RACE 2 NO. 2) This three-year-old gelding by Brief Truce looks a safe proposition. Showed he was on the winning trail when he grabbed third spot behind Joker Calibre over a similar trip at Ipoh last November.
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    • 58 40 RACE 1: Brimstone, lonstone, Aberdonian, Fox Action, Reap Without, Golden Victory, De Hoss. RACE 2: Field Force. RACE 3: Raftaar, Lago Alumine, Shapely. RACE 4: Wanko, Tamara, Sure Cut, Club Loui, Hidden Dragon. RACE 5: Caldecott Vision, Power Of City, Arizona, Pacific Success, Bushrange, Hi-Point. RACE 6: Zhu Chen,
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    • 185 41  -  Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg SCENIC SEA continued to thrill race-goers with another turbo-charged display up the Penang home straight. After storming home to upset the calculations in a Class 4 Div 3 1,200 m affair a week ago, the John McGillivray-trained charge was the centre of punters' attention
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    • 181 41  -  Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg MAKE sure you are not catching 40 winks at 4.20pm this afternoon. For that's when the starter at Penang will be hitting the button in Race 4 to send the Class 3 field of eight runners on their way in
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      702 42 TENNIS: AUSTRALIAN OPEN AP MARAT Safin claims he's not superstitious, but he does believe in destiny. Lleyton Hewitt is living out his dream, backed by a lot of hard work. One will have to give today, when fourth-seeded Safat faces No 3 Hewitt in the first Australian Open
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    • 279 42 Reuters. THE Williams sisters are not done yet. That was the message emphatically underlined when Serena, the younger sister, got her Grand Slam career back on track with a brave comeback win in the Australian Open final yesterday. The seventh seed secured her seventh Grand
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      • 600 44  -  CALTEX SINGAPORE MASTERS By Lim Han Ming npsports@sph. com.sg FORMER Masters champion Laura Davis of England and Asian champion Soo Yun Rang of South Korea may be the stars of the inaugural Samsung Ladies Masters starting next week. But don't be surprised if a
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      • 880 45  -  CALTEX SINGAPORE MASTERS Godfrey Robert nps ports @sph.com.sg HE hails from Liverpool but he supports Manchester United. After revealing that, Nick Dougherty placed his index finger over his lip and said: "But don't tell my mates back home in Liverpool about that. They'll kill me."
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      • 434 46  -  CALTEX SINGAPORE MASTERS Godfrey Robert npsports®sph.com.sg MANY came prepared; in shorts and sandals, with shoulder bags filled with water bottles. Some carried umbrellas, the nuyority wore caps, and several fathers had their little children on their shoulders. A few parked themselves on one
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      • 244 46 AP. IT remained the Joe Ogilvie show yesterday at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. But there were a bunch gaining on him, one of them a portly 51-year-old with a bushy, gray moustache you could hang a swing on, who moves as deliberately
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      666 47 Hottest Dwayne Tyrone Wade NBA 2005 s fastest rising star, NBA player who is as short as you and I, Britney's crush. < Infographics journalist CEL GULAPA pushes the rewind button to give you an on and off the courts highlights of the games so far... Miami Heat
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    • 1025 49  -  By Gary Lim npsports@sph.com.sg IF running is a religion, then Philip Hampden-Smith is a devout follower. If the greenery surrounding the jogging trails is his addiction, then the sense of well-being after a morning run is the antidote for his stressful job. The 46-year-old father of
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    • 139 50 PHILIP Hampden-Smith owns a vacation home in Galle, Sri Lanka, where he and his family used to live. Now, it has been turned into a hostel for aid workers. Galle is one of Sri Lanka's areas hardest hit by the tsunami disaster. Hampden-Smith revealed that some
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    • 300 50 PHILIP HAMPDEN-SMITH doesn't have a problem sticking to a strict exercise regime. After all, he should know a thing or two about discipline he spent five years of his life in the British Army. He was a lieutenant in charge of a recce platoon. During his
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    • 559 51  -  HEART HEAkT Gary Lim npsports@sph.oom.sg FATHERHOOD is something Indra Sahdan embraces. Home sweet home is a four-room flat in Whampoa where he lives with his wife of four years, Nur Elfa Aisha, and his daughter, Elsa Nurshaistah. The striker became a father in June 2003
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    • 146 51 "SOME S-League clubs do not take care of their nlnvAra wall cm mi ah These footballers have mouths to feed and bills to pay," said Indra Sahdan. "Some players are not getting their salaries on time and some have received bounced cheques.
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    • 311 52 REGRETS, he's had a few. Most of all, Indra Sahdan bemoaned at not taking up a scholarship by Oklahoma City University, worth about $70,000. It would have allowed him to pursue a degree and play competitive football at the same time. That was in 1997. Recalled the
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    • 1021 53  -  HEART HEAm INDRA: THE DOTING DAD... /.W.VAo Gary Lim npsports@ sph.com.sg CRADLING his sister's baby in one arm and trying to drag his 19-month-old daughter Elsa Nurshaistah off the staircase with his other, the blissful look on Indra Sahdan could not be mistaken. Throughout the
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    • FA CUP SUNDAY CHEERS MATCH PREVIEW
      • 362 54 PA Sport. Birmingham fullback Mario Melchiot (left) believes the players Jose Mourinho inherited at Chelsea have been responsible for their success this season. The 28-year-old Holland international left Stamford Bridge last season after five successful seasons in the capital, just as Mourinho arrived from
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      • 459 54 TEAM UPDATE: Bolton will take on the League One side without the services of Radhi Jaidi, who is still on a long MC. But Kevin Davies seems to be back to full fitness. Oldham will start with Lee Croft, who is on loan from Man City. FORM
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    • 290 55 •J < J PA Sport. ENGLAND striker Michael Owen looks likely to be given his chance as Real Madrid prepare to brave the cold of Numancia's Los Pajaritos stadium. Owen was looking a certainty to start the game on the bench, but a family emergency saw
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      • 579 56 SAINTS 2 (Matt Oakley 54th min, Peter Crouch 90 pen) PORTSMOUTH 1 (Yakubu Aiyegbeni 56 pen) PA Sport. HARRY Redknapp could not have dreamed of a more perfect ending to an incredible FA Cup tie. With just seconds remaining of Southampton's clash against his former club
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      • 78 56 Reuters. NOTTINGHAM Forest have accepted an offer from Southampton of £4 million (sl2m) plus two players for their Irish international midfielder Andy Reid, 22. Southampton will swap striker Brett Ormerod and defender Darren Kenton (right) for Reid. Said Forest chairman Nigel Doughty: "I promised
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      • 414 57 ARSENAL 2 WOLVES 0 Is Thierry Henry (right) a thug? The Arsenal star came under the microscope during the Gunners' controversial 2-0 win over Wolves in the FA Cup. WANG MENG MENG gets the views from The New Paper's football analyst TOHARIPAIJAN BILL Shankly once said:
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      • 252 57  -  Suresh AFC Referee Instructor QUICK initiative of a striker or plain robbery of the goalkeeper? Thierry Henry sneaking die ball out of Wolves goalkeeper Michael Oakes' hands and walking the ball into goal was the main first-half talking point. Referee Mike
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      765 58  -  ARSENAL 2 (Vieira 53rd min pen, ljungbergB2) WOLVES 0 FA CUP SUNDAY CHEERS TV VIEW Wang Meng Meng nps ports @sph.com.sg YOU need help, Thierry Henry. Wonderful player he may be, but Arsenal's deadly marksman has issues. For all his technical excellence, the beast in his heart
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    • 131 58 FA CUP 4th Rd OIOHAMv BOLTON Ch 24,9.40pm, tonight CHELSEA w BMMMGHAM Ch 24,11.55pm, tonight EPL ARSENAL v MAN UTD Ch 23,3.55 am, Wednesday CHMLTONv LIVERPOOL Ch 24,3.55 am, Wednesday BOLTON v TOTTENHAM Delayed, Ch 24,6 am, Wednesday PORTSMOUTH BONO Delayed, 6am, Ch 23, Wednesday MAN CITY v NEWCASTLE Ch
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