The New Paper, 10 April 2005

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      1071 2  -  dfd At Boon Lay bus interchange: Drugs sold in AlvinChiang alchiang@sph .com. sg THERE is a drug problem in Boon Lay. And residents say it's getting out of hand Men and teenage boys are buying prescription drugs from one another—drugs which can be sold only by doctors. Like
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    • 244 2 IT is ironic that subutex, a drug usually given to heroin addicts to wean them off their addiction, is itself addictive. The drug helps to reduce heroin withdrawal symptoms such as vomitting, cold chills and diarrhoea. To reduce dependence on heroin, addicts take smaller and
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    • 893 3  -  Ex-addict fears getting hooked again with pushers so dose to home From previous page AlvinChiang alchiang@sph.com.sg THE heady mixture of subutex and dormicum in hot water is a potent brew that can give addicts a bigger "kick" than if they merely injected dissolved subutex into their
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      626 4  -  To build race car from scratch, team eats, sleep and think Report pictures Zaihan Mohamed Yusof zaihan@sph.com.sg IT'S called the Centennial, and it can hit lOOkmh in mere four seconds. And it took a team of 12 National University of Singapore undergrads just seven months to put the race
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    • 175 4 IT began as an idea four years ago to build a race car from scratch and enter it in an international competition in die US. The first attempt by NUS marhnfilrjßt students fizded out asthey did not have enough money for the Formula-Society
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      1132 5 Not enough women in S'pore politics THE SEARCH FOR THERE'S a catchy advertising slogan for a women-only credit card which goes: The men don't get it. Sad to say, in high politics, it's the other way round. Let's look at the facts. At the end of June last
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    • 470 6 MRS Um Hwee Hua (above), 46, has been called many things since she entered politics in 1996. Superwoman. Rare species. Even "oddball". Why? Because in Singapore, a busy mother of three with an MBA and a high-flying business career just doesn't drop everything to join the tough,
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    • 999 7  -  MOST FLOUTED SAFETY RULES: Motorists bikers have been warned of safety risks. But petrol stations here are still getting their the forecourt of a station Remaining straddled on the motorbike while refuelling Buying petrol using unapproved containers Leaving the engine on during refuelling Smoking within the
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    • 136 7 THE New Paper on Sunday set out last month to observe several petrol stations along Bukit Tlmah road. At a Shell service station, a driver was seen getting out of his car. He then started to make a call on his handphone. The next
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    • 971 8 How do foreigners perceive Singapore life? Long-term expatriates debunk some of the myths they believed about the Republic before coming here IMBIB Singapore is relatively cheap to live in Oil and gas analyst Simon Crellin, 34, thought he could get cheap lager here like in the rest of
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    • 553 8 Foreigners still link s’pore with gum ban fay’s caning IT has been more than 10 years since the chewing gum ban and the Michael Fay caning happened here. Yet the impressions of Singapore from many foreigners are based on these, says the Singapore Tourism Board (STB). In January 1992, chewing
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    • 1079 9 Love finally Next page 7- jjjg, jpr "?f(' v I^J|#«^ Theirs is a passion that spanned Jrf*f LdT d ana a M y lifetimes worth of disapproval. As Prince Charles married Camilla W f W' Parker Bowfes yesterday, we detail their, intense affair. It began with a
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      705 10 From previous page Even before their marriage, and even before he married Diana, Charles and Camilla were behaving like husband and wife BY 1980, Charles' obsession with his mistress was becoming difficult for the royal family to ignore. He even had Camilla accompany him on a royal tour
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      430 11 Record ransom, but victim slips away Want Taiwan gambling boss back? Kidnappers demands. CALL this one of Taiwan's most outrageous kidnap cases so far. For 18 days, the country's King of gambling dens was handcuffed and tied to a tree in the remote mountains of southern Taiwan. The
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    • 139 11 AN Indonesian and a Malaysian navy ship have crashed in disputed waters off Borneo, according to local media reports. The accident on Friday morning involved Malaysia's navy ship KD Rencong and Indonesia's KRI Tedung Naga. An Indonesian navy officer said the front of both
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    • 88 11 A SENIOR education official has called on Bangkok schools to stay open 24 hours a day "like convenience stores". Deputy Education Minister Rung Kaewdaeng said the city could only become a capital of learning if the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration gave the public unlimited access to schools, reported The
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    • 144 11 A FRENCH student has been hailed a human calculator after solving the ultimate mental arithmetic challenge—finding the 13th root of a2OO-digit number—in under 9 minutes, without writing anything down. Watched by official timekeepers, computer science student Alexis Lemaire, 24, took 513 seconds to
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      • 146 12 ITS what many trendy women wear. Yesterday, about 1,000 people got a whiff of Toxique' on Orchard Road. Six models distributed strips printed with anti-smoking messages and carrying the odour of tobacco smoke. It was the latest initiative by the Health Promotion Board's Fresh Air
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      • 79 12 A WOMAN had to flee home in her panties after a snatch thief ripped off her miniskirt. The 40-year-old from China was returning to her Sengkang flat at 1.45am on Friday when a man with tattooed arms appeared at the void deck. He reached out for the
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      • 80 12 ABOUT 1,000 protesters threw rocks and bottles at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing and smashed windows at nearby restaurants yesterday after a noisy march demanding a boycott of Japanese goods. They were opposing new Japanese textbooks that they feel gloss over Tokyo's wartime atrocities. TTiey shouted
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      • 157 12 LEARN to make it out before you write it out That's what Primary 1 and 2 pupils in 25 schools will do with Chinese characters when a new curriculum is introduced next year. Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said the new Chinese language
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      • 180 12 ONE of the most influential people in the world. That is what Time magazine says of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. He is among 12 Asians on an annual list of 100 people whose achievements are, according to Time's editors, making the greatest
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      • 61 12 Doctors in Hong Kong have removed a leech from the nose of a 55-year-old woman who complained of nose bleeds more than a month after she swam and washed her face in a stream. They checked others who had gone hiking with her and foundaJeechJn the nose of a
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    • 1195 14 THE recently-concluded Singapore Fashion Festival was a feast for the eyes, with its display of fashion both wicked and wild. But while the women may have been salivating at the gorgeous, glamorous couture on show, some men weren't the least excited by the parade of
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    • 505 15  -  Syhria Toh Paik Choo paikchoo@sph.ccxn.sg ELIZABETH Hurley in that Versace dress held together by safety pins, Jennifer Lopez in another Versace number kept on by sticky tape. Now, you think Liz wore that because she's a pin-up girl and J Lo came out in
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    • 32 14 SYLVIA TON: A Own up! Women dress to annoy other women Page 20 JANICE WONG: I dress for the men Pao^ 22 Wfrl WENDY CHENQs^fe I dress to dare HVI Page 23
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    • 575 17  -  JanieWang janicewOsph.com.sg IF THERE were no men on earth, I would be in loose androgynous clothes such as pyjamas all day and would never have discovered contact lenses. I would not pluck my eyebrows and other straying hair. Perfume and cosmetics? Forget it Luckily or
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    • 580 19  -  uvjfe^gThe Miss Singapore Universe contest last Saturday has still got tongues wagging this week. Two of our columnists join the banter with their own takes EdwinYeo tnp@sph.com.sg IT'S time to deal with one of the biggest mysteries in life. It's something which has baffled experts
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      447 19  -  Johnson Ong tnp@sph.com.sg IT'S a thankless job being Miss Singapore. You just get no respect particularly in Singapore. lust ask 20-year-old Sandy Chua, last year's Miss Singapore Universe winner. When she was in Ecuador representing Singapore for the Miss Universe pageant, "people were waiting on the streets for
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    • 293 21  -  HE'S MET PEOPLE WHO PAWNED THEIR SARONGS FOR $5 OR $10. TODAY, STEVEN LAM OWNS AN UNSET DIAMOND PAWNED FOR $650,000 EmitynHi ngemilyn @sph.cofn.sg SOB stories are common in his line of work. Out of the 300 or so people who visit his shop daily,
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  • racing
    • 356 39  -  MarcTan marc@sph.com.sg TWO in-form gallopers stand out in the card of eight races this afternoon. Dreamcast, the mount of Mohammed Djulkifli (right), can get you off to a good start in the opening event at Kuala Lumpur while Julian (A Kumar) looks a
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    • 64 39 WONDERFUL FAME (Rac« 2 No. 3) In a race with not-too-hot rivals, Wonderful Fame can repeat his all-the-way effort on 21 Jan, when he broke through in Maiden company over today's course and distance. Battling jockey David Ow Yang, just back from a tour-month ban, will want to
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    • 112 39 RACE 1: Tommba, Solar Istana, Water Snake, Ban Soon, Smart Warrior, Speedy Dragon, Caught Unaware, Celebrity Wonder. RACE 2: Mechanic Man, Successful Secret, West Of The Sunset, Relau Warrior. RACE 4: Dipang Ranger, Akashi, Asia Star, Cheers Again, Eanwright, Classy Dewan, Strive. RACE 5:0' Belle, Maiznificant. RACE 6: Flying
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    • 252 40  -  DannyChoo dkhoo9sph.com.sg THE much-improved Scenic Sea continued his majestic march to top company with his fourth straight win at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Facing his stiffest test todate in Class 2 company, the four-year-old gelding by Scenic showed he was destined for better things when
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    • 157 41 6V4-LENGTH WIN IN WATC DERBY RED HOT favourite Plastered completed a double yesterday when demolishing his rivals in the A$300,000 ($384,000) WATC Derby at Belmont Park. The odds-on favourite scored by a massive 6 V* lengths to add the WATC version to the Victoria Derby he won last
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  • sports
    • GOLF
      • 230 42 VISA DYNASTY CUP CHINESE trailblazer Zhang Uan-wei (left) has won famous head-to-head duels against Ernie Els, Colin Montgomerie and Nick Price in the past. Japan's Shigeki Maruyama could be next on his hit list. The 39-year-old Zhang will feature in Asia's defence of the Visa
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      • 105 42 WANT to play a round of golf with Retief Goosen, Grace Park, Thomas Bjom and Colin Montgomerie at the Tiger Skins 2005 at Blue Canyon Country Club in Phuket? Ilien take paxttojm online charity auction for four Tiger Skills charity pro-am slots an 17 April
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      • 212 42 TIGER SKINS 2005 COLIN MONTGOMERIE is keen to come out firing on all cylinders at the 2005 Tiger Skins in Phuket this week after after missing out on the US Masters at Augusta. Montgomerie, who has an amazing seven consecutive European Order of Merits,
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      • 573 43  -  GodfreyRobert npsports@sph.com.sg WHEN Mardan Mamat walked to the first tee at the Saujana Country Club in Kuala Lumpur last Thursday, a lean Indian man walked up to him and said: "You've already won, just play your normal game." It was the second round of
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      • 463 44 AP. THE Masters is all about tradition. The returning champions. The Crow's Nest. The Hogan Bridge. Well, there's one tradition those guys in the green jackets would gladly abandon. Bad weather. In what has become a mud-stained rite of spring, the pristine grounds of Augusta National
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      • 854 45 Wire Services. ENGLAND'S David Howell went on a spectacular second-round charge to share the lead with Ryder Cup team-mate Luke Donald and American Chris DiMarco on his Masters debut at Augusta National. Then came the rain which ended Friday's play for the day. The 29-year-old from Swindon, without
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    • 160 47 HIS real talent was in running, but his first love was playing football. As a kid, Kesavan Soon lived in Rangoon Road which is near Uncle Choo Seng Quee's home in Owen Road. The late Uncle Choo was a legendary coach who led Singapore to
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    • 871 48 df Two Fridays ago,Th«N«w Paper detailed road plans for a possible Formula One street circuit aroundthe central business district-like a "Monaco of the East", in tandem with a possible casino nearby Today, ERNEST LUIS discovers how an alternative plan may work in Marina South REVVING engines, screeching
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      703 50  -  EXCLUSIVE The man who I would be Andrew Warshaw Special Correspondent PLANS to force every professional club in Europe to employ a quota of home-grown players will prove catastrophic and result in a spate of legal challenges. This is according to French legend Michel Platini, still one of the
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    • 766 51 The controversy of whether the ball crossed the Una will soon ba a thing off tha past iff Fifa's plan to introduce goal-line technology proves successful. Inffographics journalist FABIAN CHAN shows how tha system will work whan it is officially introduced at tha World Youth Championship in June
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    • 1323 52 IT'S tune again for Spain's biggest grudge match Real Madrid versus Barcelona. And Brazilian maestros Ronaldo and Ronaldinho come face to i face to determine whose team will race away with this season's Primera I Liga title. The New Paper's football analyst TOHARIPAIJAN, gives WANG MENG
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    • 426 53  -  TEXT: By Brian Miler TEAM UPDATE: Aston Villa's Olof Mellberg is sidelined. Liam Ridgewell will replace him. Gavin McCann returns after a knee injury. West Brom could start Robert Earnshaw on the bench. FORM GUIDE: Ifsan inconsistent Villa side which will face West Brom. Should the visitors take this
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    • BATTTLE FOR PRIMERA LIGA
      • 279 54 REAL MADRID v BARCELONA DAVID Beckham has repeated, ahead of the biggest game of the season in Spain, that he wants a contract extension at Real Madrid—NOT a return to the Premiership. The 29-year-old appeared to deliberately leave the door open to a quick return to English
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        497 54 RONALDO has backed Michael Owen (left), the man who partners him in attack tonight, to answer a "save our season" SOS for Real Madrid against Barcelona. Owen has become a reluctant "super substitute" in Spain but he will start Real Madrid's most important must-win match of the
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    • EPL SUNDAY CHEERS MATCH PREVIEW
      • 490 55 TOTTENHAM v NEWCASTLE PA Sport. MARTIN Jol has insisted Robbie Keane still has a future at the club. This is despite his show of petulance during last weekend's Premiership draw with Birmingham. Keane, the Republic of Ireland's leading goalscorer, has started just four of Tottenham's last 12
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      • 696 56  -  By Andy Clayton SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport Aiwnal: Pireft(73) NcMHaMinl Middleebrough: Jones, Parnaby, Riggott, Southgate. Queudrue, Parlour (Ehiogu 90), Dortva (Graham 86). Boating, Downing, Nemeth, Hasaelbaink Subs (not used) Cooper, Kennedy, Johnson Booked: Queudrue. Areenal: Lehmann, Lauren. Toure, Senderoe, Cole, Fabregaa, Vieira, Stlva, Piree. Reyes (Bergkamp
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      • 563 57  -  By Jim Van Wijk SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT KIW MUSAMPAS last-minute finish gave Stuart Pearce his first win as Manchester City boss and dented Liverpool's hopes of a fourth-place finish. Stuart Pearce was given a standing ovation by the City support when he was formally introduced before the
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      • 217 57  -  By Andy Clayton SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport MORTEN GAMST PEDERSEN Struck a contender for goal of the season to open the scoring for Blackburn in their vital relegation battle against Southampton at Ewood Park. Pedersen's seventh goal of the season in the
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        612 58 EVEN the greatest, the mightiest, the strongest are only fallible. And Petr Cech, the best goalkeeper in the Premiership, has finally erred. In a season where he had never blotted his copybook with silly mistakes, he was guilty of a gross misjudgement that nearly scarred the leaders' pristine
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    • 421 59  -  CHELSEA 1 BIRMINGHAM 1 Wang Meng Meng npsports@sph.com.sg PERHAPS, the caterers had already been called in, champagne bottles at the ready and waiting for the green light to be uncorked. The undeniable truth is, Chelsea are just three wins away from the Premiership title. But there has
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