The New Paper, 22 August 1999
1999-08-22
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Title Section23 1999-08-22 1 the new paper AUGUST 22 1999 Another quality publication of Singapore Pnm Holding* on sunda/ http://n»wpapar a»la1 com sg MITA(P) 107/03/99 70 CENTS23 words
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Article, Illustration549 1999-08-22 2 Their spending habits could help Japan out of slump THEY'RE young. They're single. They hold good jobs. They've got big money to spend. And spending big is exactly what they are doing. Meet the women of the "New Japan". But, the only problem is, on meeting them,549 words
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Article, Illustration240 1999-08-22 2 Ng Wan Ching - BY Ng Wan Ching A FIGHT between some young men at Orchard Road led a security guard along a trail of blood. Literally. The guard, who wanted to be known only as Mr Chin, said he saw blood in the lobby of his shopping centre.Picture/Tanya Fong - 240 words
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Article, Illustration814 1999-08-22 4 Last year, Paddy Chew was the first Singaporean to come out into the open and tell the world that he had Aids. His message: We are human, too. Our former reporter, TEO HWEE NAK, remembers the man who died yesterday814 words
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Article333 1999-08-22 4 Chan Seet Fun - By Chan Seet Fun IT was not a typical funeral. There were no cloth patches on shirt sleeves and no wailing. Many who attended Paddy Chew's funeral were dressed in cheery, colourful garb. There was even a tape recorder at the front of the hall playing333 words
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Article, Illustration248 1999-08-22 5 SENSES OF THE CENTURY IT seems everyone has the "M" word on their minds. So Swatch has come up with a creative contest to mark the millennium. What do you think is the sight, sound, taste, smell and touch of the 20th century? The prize is a248 words
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Article, Illustration565 1999-08-22 6 Donald Urquhart - Q When it comes to shoes, men ond women couldn't be more different BY Donald Urquhart THE best selling and, by now, famous book has confirmed what many have long suspected Men are indeed from Mars and women from Venus. But there's morePicture/ Florence Tan - 565 words
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Article, Illustration1007 1999-08-22 7 Chan Sect Fun - RAPE-TAPE CASE UTTLE COMFORT: Ng's parents live in this run-down double-storey house. The provision shop Is little more than the seaied-up front porch. BY Chan Sect Fun IN LANGKAWI SHE is in the evening of her life. Her four children had all settled down. HerPictures/ Mohd ishak - 1,007 words
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Article, Illustration326 1999-08-22 8 THE rapist's wife is suing seven Malaysian newspapers for RM7 million ($3.08 million); Madam Sim Sok Yew, a hairstylist and make-up artist in her 30s, wants RMI million each from Sin Chew Jit Poh, Nanyang Siang Pau, Kwong Wah Yit Poh, Guong Ming Ribao, China Press,326 words
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Article134 1999-08-22 8 NG Liang Neng's two young victims are still living and studying in Langkawi but their schools declined to let them be interviewed. Ng, 35, a coffeeshop operator, raped a 12-year-old and forced her to perform oral sex on him. He also raped a 15-year-old and warned her that134 words
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Advertisement277 1999-08-22 5 Loved ones abroad? Send them weekly! p 1 From abroad, home news is like The Straits Times (Weekly Edition) provides a crisp summary of The Straits Times coverage of the week's happenings in Singapore and Asia. So, if you have a loved one ;v*i- studying/working overseas, send them 'Home' ....weekly.277 words
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Advertisement142 1999-08-22 5 "Hospice 100 Carnival" On Sunday, 22 August 1999 at Central Nail, 1 Magazine Road from Ham to 7pm Guest of Honour MRS GOH CHOK TONG Do Charity For Peanuts. Don't Laugh Gurmit Singh V will fie there too! i| yVf Come on down for fun, games, gourmet to home-cooked El142 words
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NEWS
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Article, Illustration264 1999-08-22 10 All year round m Ski, toboggan and snowboard in sunny Singapore? Yes, you can when the $6 million indoor snow centre, Snowcity, opens its doors next May. The centre covers an area of 3,000 sq m, about half the size of a football field.264 words
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Article, Illustration746 1999-08-22 11 Ng Wan Ching - What's wrong with speculation? If there's no speculation, there*B no activity in the economy and money doesn't move. But now, everyone has more business toe renovator, contractor, lawyer, banker, sales agent and so on. Mr Daniel Teo (right), president of the developers'association It's all right746 words
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Article130 1999-08-22 11 REDAS president Daniel Teo told Business Times last month it had discarded its three-year-old guideline that only 30 per cent of units in new projects be set aside for soft launches. The rest would be sold to the general public. But with last year's crash of property130 words
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Article, Illustration1262 1999-08-22 13 More and more Vietnamese gangs are kidnapping poor country girls to sell as brides or whores in China, as its economy booms. The Asian Wall Street Journal recounts one such woman's sad story JOBLESS and destitute, Nguyen Thi Hoan felt her luck was about1,262 words
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Article204 1999-08-22 13 BRIDE-BUYING, a Chinese tradition that the communists largely stamped out, has been revived again with the country's surging economy. Starting in the 1980s, "women were taken from poor areas, and sold to areas that had gotten richer," said Ms Ding Lu of the All-China Women's Federation, a204 words
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Article, Illustration635 1999-08-22 14 Toh Li Lin - A female look at male menopause BY Toh Li Lin WAIT till you join the club. Then you'll know what we mean. She gave my arm a little squeeze and laughed. It's not some ritzy fitness club. Or an old schoolboys' club. AndPicture/David Tan - 635 words
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Article, Illustration336 1999-08-22 15 Toh Li Lin - Violet Oon shows how BY Toh Li Lin YOU don't have to be a I slave in your own kitch- I en. And it needn't smell like a hawker centre either. So said food consultant Violet Oon at a cooking demon- stration yesterday for 100336 words
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Article, Illustration677 1999-08-22 16 Andrew Cowan - C E^ T > I agKM I TtoNe* PtaarfeMt 1 hM I M8.HM > 1 11 w** I I f Jli^Wl By Andrew Cowan NOT too long before my wife and I left Vancouver to come here, a female friend talked about romantic rolesPicture/ Joyce Lim - 677 words
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THE WEEK
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Article, Illustration41 1999-08-22 17 Every Sunday, we invite a personality to comment on the week's headlines that happen to catch his or her eye. Today, actress Vernetta Lopez, who plays Denise in Under One Roof, looks at issues in the news Vernetta Lopez41 words
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Article, Illustration892 1999-08-22 17 Guest Editor ah? OK lah, can try. Yes, you guessed it. I'm taking this opportunity to poke my nose into the Singlish issue. Thank goodness this is print or I might be accused of speaking in an "American" accent! In892 words
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@ A GLANCE
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Article206 1999-08-22 18 MALAYSIA is cracking down on foreign traffic offenders. Now, offenders from Singapore and Thailand often get away, but Malaysia is planning to track them down. The tool: Computers linked to border Immigration checkpoints. This is how it will work. Details of traffic offences will be keyed into206 words
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Article, Illustration39 1999-08-22 18 BIKERS'BAZAAR: Part of a convoy of 300 motorcyclea lad by woman bikers. The motorcyclists were riding from Killing to Marine South In aupport of the Breast Cancer Foundation, their nominated charity. Picture/Jonathan ChooPicture/Jonathan Choo - 39 words
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194 1999-08-22 18 Latest THE architect of India's market reforms has said that India is heading for an economic crisis because of Government plans to raise military spending. Mr Manmohan Singh, a candidate for the main opposition Congress party in the coming elections, warned that the financial194 words
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Article80 1999-08-22 18 FRUITS GALORE: It's a fair with a difference. There'll be all kinds of excitement with a dog show and a fruit buffet at the Hospice 100 Fruit, Food and Fun Fair at Central Mall froim 10 am to 6 pm today. MUSIC GALORL Take an evening stroll80 words
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BRIEFLY
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Article, Illustration120 1999-08-22 18 THE owner of a watch and jewellery shop has been charged with faking a robbery to claim insurance. Poh Chin Teck, 38, had reported a $460,000 robbery at his Marine Parade Central watch and jewellery shop on Monday. Yesterday a court heard that he had plotted with three120 words
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Article104 1999-08-22 18 THE Indonesian economic crisis is no excuse for backing out of a property deal in Singapore. That was what the High Court has ruled. Indonesian businessman Edy Yumianto had bought a $4.9 million Ardmore Park apartment but tried to back out of the deal citing the economic104 words
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Article109 1999-08-22 18 THE shake-up of Malaysia's banks and other financial institutions could cost 75,000 Malaysians their jobs, says the labour movement. The opposition Democratic Action Party has called for an independent study on the merger of banks and financial institutions. Party secretary-general Lim Kit Slang said there has109 words
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Article192 1999-08-22 18 SINGAPORE Airlines has been voted the best airline in a field of 38 competitors by Time Asia magazine readers. It was tops for image, inflight service, and as the airline most frequently flown in the past 12 months in the magazine's Airline Images 99 survey. SIA also192 words
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Article101 1999-08-22 18 The United Nations should send armed peacekeepers to East Timor to prevent increasing violence in the territory, a visiting US senator said yesterday. lowa Democrat Senator Tom Harkin and fellow Democrat Senator Jack Reed and Republican Congressman Jim McGovern had flown by UN helicopter to Suai and Maliana,101 words
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Article104 1999-08-22 18 THEY lost their food and wet market stalls in a fire. Today, almost all the 122 stallholders affected by last month's fire at Eunos market have taken up insurance policies to protect themselves against losses due to fires, floods, explosions and any other disaster. Over the past week,104 words
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Article, Illustration575 1999-08-22 19 when ex-Soviet First Lady asked about her illness FORMER Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has never looked so strained. Not even when the Soviet Union was breaking up. But the blow this time is personal. His wife, Raisa, has leukaemia. The light has gone out of his eyes,Picture/Afp - 575 words
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Article68 1999-08-22 19 MR Gorbachev, leader from 1985 to 1991, became the darting of the West for introducing economic and democratic reforms. But the reforms eventually led to the death of the Soviet empire in 1991. Still, he will be remembered as the man who helped to bring an68 words
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Article323 1999-08-22 20 Just kidding... AS far as pranks go, this must rank up there among the silliest. Four children who would rather spend their holiday in Disneyland that at a "boring" British beach resort thought of a way to spice up the trip. They cooked up an emergency appeal for323 words
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Article, Illustration267 1999-08-22 21 Pfeifferto do fewer movies MAKING movies and raising a family at the same time is a tough act to handle. So actress Michelle PfeifTer, 41, has decided to put her husband and two children first. No, the beauty with the translucent skin and perfect bone structure is notPicture/Afp - 267 words
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Article, Illustration542 1999-08-22 22 ADELAIDE Abankwah committed what is considered to be a cardinal sin in her village in Ghana. She had premarital sex. She was found out. And, for Ghanaians, this meant she had to be punished. What a punishment it was to be. The attractivePicture/ Reuters - 542 words
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Article, Illustration474 1999-08-22 23 SERIOUSLY folks, I can sing, says Caprice Bourret. J f Oh yeah? Well, excuse us for remaining I sceptical till we actually listen to it. J p You see folks, the supermodel, tabloid darling, > Wonderbra icon, magazine star and regular at f partiesPicture/ Reuters - 474 words
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Aggie MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
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48 1999-08-22 25 MY son is an active and smart boy. He died at a young age. I miss him so much, I cry every day. I cannot control myself. I love him very much. What should I do? Please help. Sad Mother48 words
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Article145 1999-08-22 25 CONCERNED is a teenager who has known her schoolmates for almost two years. They joke, share problems and always help one another. They also go out together and have fun. But their friendship started to cool off a little after they told her they smoked. She was145 words
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Article, Illustration317 1999-08-22 25 A reader's advice IT is good of you to be worried about your friends. But if they don't want to help themselves, I feel there is little you can do to help them. If they want to quit smoking, you317 words
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388 1999-08-22 26 I'M a 34-year-old foreigner, and I have been working in Singapore for some time now. I'm alone as my wife didn't follow me here. I fell in love with a pretty and modern Singapore girl who is working at the same company as388 words
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Article242 1999-08-22 26 I AM 20 and and my boyfriend is 23. My problem is that he prefers to be with his friends than with me. We have been a couple for five years now. Lately, he has been showing no interest in me. Because of him,242 words
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Puberty Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues
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Article204 1999-08-22 26 Q MY name is David and Ql'm 20. I've listed my problems below. Please advise: I've noticed a sticky liquid being ejaculated when I masturbate. It is clear and has no color. I always thought that semen is milky in color. I'm very worried that something204 words
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Article238 1999-08-22 26 I AM a 15-year-old guy. I Qwas normal at first, until last year, when I started acting "gay". I walk like and sometimes even talk like one. What do I do with myself now? Confused There are many reasons A why people who are238 words
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Advertisement44 1999-08-22 25 CAN YOU HELP? If you Chink you can help with soma useful advice, write or fax to Aggie by Wednesday. The best letter will be published next week. The writer of the best reply will receive a special QT-shlrt and a New Paper cap.44 words
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Article, Illustration638 1999-08-22 27 Brian Miller; Calvin Low - yuppie by Brian Miller By Calvin Low calvin@sph.com.sg I WILL be the first to admit. It wasn't my choice assignment and I have been handed some bummers in my time. But the instructions were precise. Hop over to Chinois Chinois. Check out the joint, get aPictures/ David Tan - 638 words
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Article, Illustration535 1999-08-22 28 THEY said it couldn't work. No Yuppie worth his necktie would want to be caught dead in a joint that played ching-chong music. They said that Mr Dennis Foo, the executive director of Europa Group, must have been stoned out of his head when he535 words
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Article, Illustration396 1999-08-22 29 Carol Leong - I™" T (U j I CHEAP AND HIP: STYLE FOR THE BUDGET-CONSCIOUS I PJ A f By Carol Leong carol@sph.com.sg Sometimes, it's better to create your own pendants. You get a bigger buzz out of it because it will be something unique. No dangers of bumping into someonePicture/David Tan - 396 words
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Advertisement554 1999-08-22 32 Eg assei NHANCEMENT I I Exercise prudence when investing your CPF savings. I While you strive for higher returns on your CPF savings, suffered a heart attack when I keep in mind the importance of financial security in old age. shar plunged r luckily he still has MediShield! I CPF554 words
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Article, Illustration565 1999-08-22 33 Ng Wan Ching - [cookie,] Edited by Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg HOME can be a dangerous place, especially for young kids. From the staircase to the sharp corners of the coffee tables, to door grilles and slippery floors. As a mother of two young children, here's how I565 words
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Article, Illustration33 1999-08-22 34 Chan Seet Fun - THE MOVIE Edited by Chan Seet Fun seeft#un@sph.com.sg The life of sitcom writer Jerry Stahl spirals downward after he becomes a druggie. Stars: Ben Stiller, Maria Bello and Liz Hurley.33 words
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239 1999-08-22 34 WOON WUI TEK - byi WOON WUI TEK IF you're a Hollywood comic who's hit the big time, your next goal is "respectability". Suppressing your zanier instincts save when bubbling over at strategic moments earns you kudos as a "serious actor". Just think Robin "Dead Poets Socidty"239 words
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Article50 1999-08-22 35 Kitty: "You went to California to get away from drugs?" Stahl; "I miscalculated." Kitty; "Honest mistake." Stahl "Hollywood is the only town with a 24-hour self-help (radio) station." Cynical doctor (played by the real Stahl): "You want optimistic? Some people make it, some people drop dead. Good luck."50 words
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Article, Illustration257 1999-08-22 35 CHAN SEET FUN - by CHAN SEET FUN Hollywood has a way of turning misery into a movie. They've done it (again) with Permanent Midnight. Based on a book by Jerry Stahl, a sitcom writer who pulled in US$5,OOO a week in his heyday in the 80s, this movie257 words
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Article167 1999-08-22 35 James Berardinelli in his online review; "Permanent Midnight doesn't offer much in the way of surprises or revelations. It is largely what you expect it to be the story of a man ruining his life because of his endless, desperate quest to inject dangerous fluids into his bloodstream.167 words
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Miscellaneous457 1999-08-22 36 M "l 1 teF> CALL: 873-3333 Cable] movies sun, A Life Less Ordinary provocative story is about the events 9pm A love story from the makers of that abruptly end the childhood of the Trainspottirtg. Robert works as a boys and push them into a world of deane- at a457 words
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Miscellaneous404 1999-08-22 37 r~~ m m Highlight of the Week %J 1 4pm The feisty threesome talk candidly about their recent comeback, bankruptcy and their personal trials. previous interviews and music videos M S*«h*«A*||| —a relationship that has allowed the JM Bedouin to become masters of the LW'wM drama/serials aSM y BL- X404 words
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Article, Illustration429 1999-08-22 38 CALVIN LOW; Rachel Tan - by CALVIN LOW Edited by Rachel Tan rachel@sph.com.sg LAST Sunday, they clinked glasses, savouring one last toast before saying, "Adieu, until we meet again" in a generation's time. Yes, for the fifth time in this century, the Winegrowers' Festival drew to a close in thePictures/ Calvin Low - 429 words
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Article, Illustration404 1999-08-22 39 You can take the specially decorated Wine Train from Vevey to the vineyard village of Chexbres (SFr 7.20). Where young bunches of choice Chasselas grapes slowly turn golden in the summer sun there. The pride of the Lake Geneva region, these grapes are harvested every September,404 words
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Article49 1999-08-22 39 Ms Faridah Musa (IC: *****05/E) has won a pair of tickets to Cairns and Darwin, courtesy of Qantas and British Airways. She was picked from among the 3,177 correct entries. The answer to last week's contest: Qantas offers Breamtime seats in its Business Class wJBfcion.49 words
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Miscellaneous776 1999-08-22 40 Turn 7.00 AM Talespin/Fabulicious Day Hk 8.00 Disney's Doug (Cartoon/r) J 8.30 All Dogs Go to Heaven (Cartoon/r) ■sieseessl. of the w*u r ..si. 11.00 New Adventures of Robin Hood— V Channel 5, 5.111 pm P .j First Love (Drama): Robin's first love. They say be careful what you wish776 words
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Article, Illustration307 1999-08-22 41 Dancer, actress and model Rachel Lee, 18, takes readers' questions this week [New Facel interview J Tauflk: For a gorgeous woman, you must have been hounded by guys. How do you you handle them? What would you say about Rachel Lee if you were a307 words
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Article, Illustration736 1999-08-22 43 Siva Choy - by Siva Choy WHEN I was a child, my uncles and aunts were always demanding to know what career I would pursue when I grew up. I always answered, "Doctor", even though it was the last thing on my mind, because the expected answer was736 words
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Article, Illustration187 1999-08-22 43 "Some people tell me that they feel very blissful listening to my songs." Alex To, 37, singer (above) "A recent issue of i-weekly said that I'm very good at acting the bad guy. I feel honoured." Liu Qlanyi, 47, actor "My laughter.187 words
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Article, Illustration520 1999-08-22 44 Says TABITHA TAN (right), one of our New Face 1999 finalists SWEET 17. The age of innocence. The bittersweet road to discovery when you poke your finger into every tempting pie. Like every 17-year-old, I harbour notions of the perfect romance: Me running on the520 words
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Article86 1999-08-22 44 Love is but a friend, it's seldom true. tt steals your heart and maims a few. The concept of love can be fake, many place it high at stake. They risk they gamble, they play their cards. They swindle the King or Queen of Hearts. Some want to86 words
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Miscellaneous78 1999-08-22 45 Pfowl -—J—- How to double our gold tally at the next South-oast Asia Games J I I First im P° rt sportsmen who are not 6Ven fr m UtheaSt AS a J (\1 A i I Xm I J if Atoxt. offer tf.em go/d tor Then °for them citizensh.p. Voila,78 words
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Article, Illustration1030 1999-08-22 46 Jacintha Abisheganaden - Colum, j by Jacintha Abisheganaden I WOKE up with a dream of Hawaii the other morning. There was once I stopped over in Honolulu on my way home to Singapore from the US and stayed for two years. I was a very different person then. In recalling1,030 words
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Miscellaneous948 1999-08-22 47 OTI laygroundl' s 1 Dave Ang dave@sph.com.sg amm HJAW Measuring the pole \*M HL TWO morons were trying to measure a telephone pole. They kept trying to climb it, v but kept sliding down. Along came this really big, muscle-bound shmuck who asked: "Hey, what are you guys doing?" i948 words
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Miscellaneous110 1999-08-22 50 WALNUT COVE BY MARK CULLUM 5 gASBroM jf I guess we should get some baked beans... We mighfcas well get a few extra, since they") I i j if^tyT^nm^ "J S y > months' hJkr-s 12! you fet a V "Of course I regret not having children. y n-rVa^ waY110 words
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Miscellaneous167 1999-08-22 52 1 i 11 MEG BY GREG CURFMAN PW* I D,LBERT By Scott Adams v (here's mo f allow ke to at KV PLl ilC© I f I RE/AAIN I I (THAT'S BECAUSE ,M J OE SPITE THE *OU HAVE NO PRIDE ,1, \r PRESSURE. OF I AND NO KMBITION! IMPOSHBLE167 words
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Article, Illustration317 1999-08-22 53 Tan Thean Loon - MUD LOVER: Track conditions at Penang an likely to favour the well-prepared Glider Line, seen with race-Jockey Oo Khuang Liang and trainer John O'Hara. By Tan Thean Loon UNLIKE last month's Emirates Singapore Derby, the RM650.000 ($290,000) Sprint Trophy in Race 6 at Penang today317 words
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Article159 1999-08-22 53 Marc On The Line (Race 7 No. 10) It's been a long time since this grey showed any worthwhile form. But last Sunday, he caught the eye when coming from a long way back to finish second to Amazing over 1,200m. The extra 500m today suits his late159 words
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Article258 1999-08-22 53 IIJHljjJarcJfen Ma Tan Tan Thean Loon 11 Longfibre6 Tokyo City 11 Longfibre 10 Top Revenge 11 Longfibre 6 Tokyo City «j 2 Wind Thunder 3 Praise Be 10 Top Revenge 13 Sky Fighter 9 Fairway Boy 9 Fairway Boy flflfM 12 George's Wonder 1 Mr Coffe 12 George's Wonder W7Zaragoza258 words
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Article89 1999-08-22 53 RACE 1: Breezy Vee. RACE 2: Sir Regent. RACE 3: Cookie, Red Dragon, Imperial Star. RACE 4: Pegasus Abjar, Winde, River Palace, Burnt Yates, Corporate Lady, Thunder Tiger, Klevens Wings. RACE 5: Boy Gerent, I'll Make It, When You Believe, Abjar 'D' Great. RACE 6: Ariva Abjar, Confidence V,89 words
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1463 1999-08-22 54 TODAY'S PENANG RACE CARD: Going forecast Heavy Wo. Lite run* How Wt BoMnq Joctoy BHw (Ag»tortflln/m. tatntr-o«m») 1 -0909 AUSCHAMP 57 (57) Sani 11 (6ag SH Tan-Owner) 2 WIND THUNDER 57 (57) Gopal 7 (4ag Tiang-Wind Thunder) 3 2—8 PRAISE BE 56.5 (56) Tai 1 (4nzg M Breuketen-Uberty) 4 0-00-01,463 words
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Article, Illustration333 1999-08-22 55 Danny Khoo - Today's card hangs in the balance By] Danny Khoo UNSAFE track conditions forced the Penang Turf Club (PNTC) to cancel its races yesterday. The third day race programme, comprising nine races, catered to horses in Classes 1, 2, 4 and Maidens. In its press statement, the PNTC saidPictures/ Nanyang Slang Pau - 333 words
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Article253 1999-08-22 55 May 6, 1990: Races were cancelled midway through the card at Kuala Lumpur because of adverse track conditions. About 80 angry punters demanded refunds at the Bukit Timah racecourse. July 29, 1990: At the request from jockey 8, several races were cancelled after jockey KC Woon253 words
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Article, Illustration836 1999-08-22 56 AP AMERICAN jockey Gary Stevens' British experiment ended at Sandown yesterday afternoon. It was probably a good time for him to go. The 36-year-old was leading rider at York's Ebor meeting last week and the instigator of Royal Anthem's devastating display in last Tuesday'sAP; Picture/ Afp - 836 words
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Article, Illustration186 1999-08-22 56 Reuters THE powerful Godolphin team will seek to complete a clean sweep of Group 1 prizes at Deauville, France, with City On A Hill in the Prix Morny today. Godolphin has swept the board at the Normandy track with Diktat in the Prix Maurice deReuters; Picture/Afp - 186 words
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Article, Illustration777 1999-08-22 59 It's said to be $240 million in debt. Yet Spain's Real Madrid is throwing millions at new star players this season. And it could still end up as bridesmaid THE blood-letting season has begun. Far from Highbury Stadium, from where many of you will tonight view the777 words
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Article252 1999-08-22 59 THE Spaniards are everywhere. No doubt you saw Sergio Garcia in pursuit of Tiger Woods at the US PGA last week? A first-year rookie of 19 chasing down the Tiger who is all of 23 and has banked USsloom for hitting that little white ball further than other252 words
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Article, Illustration764 1999-08-22 60 Lan Brown - SUNDAY SHOWDOWN! ARSENAL V MANCHESTER UNITED (10.55 pm. LIVE ON FOOTBALL CHANNEL 22) With Manchester United and Arsenal's first-choice 'keepers both injured, today's showdown could hinge on their deputies... By] Lan Brown ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger acknowledged the long-term withering effect of reserve football last summer. He764 words
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Article, Illustration227 1999-08-22 60 ARSENAL captain Tony Adams wants Treble champion Manchester United out of the FA Cup for good. He said the decision of the Red Devils to pull out of this season's event was "an insult to a great competition". "They should never be227 words
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Article161 1999-08-22 60 THE Gunners have been United's bogey team in recent years. In its last seven meetings, Arsenal has an impressive track record five wins and one loss. And even in that one defeat, in last season's FA Cup semi-final replay, it required a goal from Ryan Giggs wrapped161 words
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Article, Illustration642 1999-08-22 61 NIGEL WHITEFIELD in Seville - golds failure says 'superwoman' Marion Jones WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIP. SEVILLE ISPAINI By NIGEL WHITEFIELD in Seville AMERICAN track queen Marion Jones has vowed to dump big shots Michael Johnson and Maurice Greene in the shade in Seville by running and jumping into the history books. The two US hotrods havePicture/ Reuters - 642 words
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Article292 1999-08-22 61 AFP AMERICA'S King and Queen of Sprint began their quests for gold in convincing fashion on the opening day of the world athletics championships yesterday. Under blazing sunshine, an eager Maurice Greene and an impatient Marion Jones cruised through their opening heats to ease intoAFP - 292 words
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Article, Illustration580 1999-08-22 62 S GuLAM - TANJONG PAGAR 4 Fabio Da Silva 43rd min, 60 Rudy Khairon 45 Alexander Duric 72 Main sponsor JVC Equipment sponsor: Puma BALESTIER CENTRAL 1 Paul Richardson 89 Main sponsor None Equipment sponsor Umbro By S GuLAM IT was Brazilian football at its best and its worst. Taiyong PagarPicture/ Choo Chwee Hua - 580 words
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Article106 1999-08-22 62 GOMBAK 3 SEMBAWANG 2 IT was a ding-dong battle in this five-goal thriller at Gombak Stadium. Gombak led twice, only to see Sembawang equalise both times. But a third goal proved too much for the Stallions (Sembawang's nickname). Gombak got off to an outstanding start when106 words
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Article, Illustration499 1999-08-22 63 JEFFREY LOW - CHELSEA 1 ASTON VILLA 0 C N^0 I REPORT I JEFFREY LOW SILVER-HAIRED Dan Petrescu discovered to his relief that there was, after all, a silver-lining in his cloud yesterday. As he finished the match the solitary goal hero in Chelsea's 1-0 home499 words
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Article, Illustration519 1999-08-22 64 I Arsenal v Manchester United Reserve 'keepers grab their chance REST OF THE ACTION TOTTENHAM Hotspur went to the top of the table after beating Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 for its third straight win. Goals from Les Ferdinand and Oyvind Leonhardsen came either side of a 23rd-min-ute519 words
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Article, Illustration246 1999-08-22 64 Lim Han Ming - ASIAN CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP: SAF WARRIORS 8 ROYAL DOLPHINS 1 SAF (Mirko Grabovac 16th, 35th. 41st 44th penalty, 80th, Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin 19th, Veselko Paponja 25th, Steven Chan 63th) ROYAL DOLPHINS 1 (Hok Sochetra, 89th) By Lim Han Ming HE is to Singapore Armed Forces246 words
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