The New Paper, 24 October 1999

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  • 265 2  -  NEWS Report and pictures/. Dominic Ong STUCK and in pain, the little kitten mewed and mewed. It was trapped at the base of an ATM machine. Its tiny head stuck out of a hole about 4 cm wide. The rest of the body was inside. Its mother
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  • 662 4  -  GOLDEN MILE'S 'PLAY-PLAY' BOYS C7O By Ernest Luis THIS Myanmar national offers sex for money to Singapore men at the Golden Mile Shopping Complex along Beach Road. SHOCK NO 1: He is not gay. Yen (not his real name), 25, forces himself
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  • 428 5 'PLAY-PLAY' BOY NO 2 HE could be your teen brother. But your teen brother would not be able to imagine what this boy has been through. Som Khit (not his real name) is only 19. Like Yen, he comes from Myanmar. Like Yen, he allows
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  • NEWS
    • 636 6  -  Comment/ Ernest Luis THE Golden Mile Shopping Complex sits on the fringe of the financial disctrict, a couple of bus stops away from the hustle of the heart of Singapore. Outside, people are everywhere. They spill out of the food centre, from hundreds of HDB homes
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    • 123 7 WHAT would you pay for a room like this in a European city? It has: U a single bed with a firm, slightly springy mattress; U a large window overlooking a nice view; 0 a small attached shower, toilet and wash
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    • 334 8 Believe it or not YES, the hotel-like room on the previous page is a jail cell. No wonder the prisoner inside, Mr van Heijn greeted me with a smile when I visited the Dutch prison. Mr van He\jn, who is in his fifties, is serving time
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    • 115 8 ONLY 5.7 per cent of jailbirds in Dutch prisons are women. Most of the prisoners are Dutch (47 per cent), followed by Surinamese (9 per cent), Turks (8 per cent) and Asians (3 per cent). Most are jailed for crimes of violence (29 per cent), although crimes
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    • 161 8 Believe it or not The inmates don't have to wear any prison uniforms. They can wear their own clothes, in any style they choose. They can also do their own cooking. There's a grocery order list which goes out to them every week. They can
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    • 336 9 Believe it or not to work but to spend their time studying for a diploma or a degree instead. But they would have to pay for it themselves. Prisoners also move in and out of their rooms throughout the day
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    • 141 9 Believe it or not When prisoners get visits from their families or friends, there are no barriers between them. They sit in a big room filled with tables and chairs and can hug if they want. Prisoners are strip-searched after these visits as well. Said
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    • 36 9  -  Believe il or not REPORT NG WAN CHING In Amsterdam GAMES: Every cell block ha* a common area with a table tennis and a anookar table.
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    • 245 9 THE prisoners have an inquiry board to look into injustices against them. If a prison guard is found to have beaten a prisoner without good reason, he will be suspended and the inmate will get cash compensation. Said Dr J F van Huet, the Inrichtingen
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    • 819 10 The law gives police the right to seek a court order to send a suspect to Woodbridge Hospital for checks if mental problems are suspected. RemisierSoh Gek Kim, who was arrested after accosting her boyfriend's common law wife, was one such person. AZHAR GHANlfinds out what
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    • 441 11 A PERSON referred to the Institute of Mental Health is processed in the same way as any other patient. The exception is that such remand patients are cuffed and enter the admission area via a separate entrance, away from the view of the public in the
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    • 460 12  -  World Mental Health Day was Initiated by the World Fedaratloa far Mciitnl Health in 1992. It la dedicated to reducing the and stigma of and that moat sufferer* can leed normal Nvos. By Genevieve Jiang OUT of the lift on the sixth floor of the
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  • Article, Illustration
    354 14 MAN OF CONTRASTS C n^o DO you know the words to Whole Lotta Love or Stairway To Heaven? Any heavy-metal fan would have no problem spewing out the lyrics of these classics by British rock legend Led Zeppelin. Chances are, so would Indonesia's new President. Mr Abdurrahman Wahid,
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  • 1108 15 MODEST MAN He lives in a modest home in the lower-middle class suburb of Ciganjur, about an hour's drive from the centre of Jakarta. The narrow roads which lead to his home, where chickens and ducks roam freely, are full of potholes. While speaking to Inayah,
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  • EXPAT
    • 188 16 THIS is a story of a Briton and his Singaporean Chinese girlfriend that began in London 20 years ago. The couple's relationship was abruptly interrupted. But through a strange twist of fate, they came back together 20 years later, in Singapore. Unlike other tragic love stories,
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    • 770 16 IOHN: It all started in 1978. The place: London. A friend and I went to Sissy's 21st birthday party. Months later, when my friend said Sissy had suggested that we go out to dinner with her and her sister, I couldn't even remember what she
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    • 535 16 SISSY: WHENEVER friends ask me about our relationship, one question that always crops up is: What if I had remained in England and married John? We might have had a couple of bubbly kids who would be young adults by now. And we would not have
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    • 21 16  -  AUGUSTINE PANG npops@sph.com.sg 390, Kim Seng Road, Times House, Singapore *****5 Tel: 1800-733-4455 Fax: 737-5375
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  • @ A GLANCE
    • 184 17 A 16-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl was badly injured when her date lost control of the dark green Rover he was driving and crashed into a tree early yesterday morning. Olivia Ong Shen Shen, a Secondary 4 student at St Hilda's Secondary School is in a serious condition
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    • 47 17 AFTER THE ELECTION: A gaggle of geese troops past guards at vice-president Megawati Sukarnoputri's home, about an hour's drive from Jakarta. Indonesia's new seconcNn-command has a two-storey house with sprawling grounds where she keeps ducks, chickens and geese as pets. Picture/ Mohd Ishak
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 72 17 A NEW type of addict has surfaced in Singapore. He just cant get enough of eybtntOL Psychologists psychiatrist* said they were starting to see cybersex addicts their patients for the first time. Three of the 10 therapists The Sunday Times spoke to said they were treating several current cases.
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      • 74 17 IT is one of Singapore's best-kept secrets. Contractors and labour agents are running a $660 million a year racket importing foreign labour to work at construction sites. All because Singapore relies heavily on cheap, unskilled foreign workers. The agents get money for each worker brought in and they
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      • 113 17 ATTHE PRESS OF A BUTTON: Singaporean Dr Yu Wei Slang, 30, (above) has a hold on the pizza market He has clinched the rlghte to market the world's first automated pizza dispenser all over Asia. His company, Synaptic Technology, will Install as many as 100 machines
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      • 91 17 Reuters. FROM baguettes to brie, from mistletoe to apples, British shops have declared war on French food in an escalating row over the French ban on British beef. British fury was stoked by the revelation that the European Union had blasted French rendering plants for using sewage sludge
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      • 91 17 SOME 74 young people were hospitalised on Friday after the discotheque they were at went up in flames near Bad Goisern in Upper Austria. The youngsters were dancing at a polystyrene party when balls of the light-weight substance caught fire from a cigarette. The youngsters panicked. Many of
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      • 83 17 A MERGER between the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit System (SMRT) and Trans-Island Bus Services (Tibs), is still possible. So said Communications and Information Technology Minister Yeo Cheow Tong. He said the main discussions between the companies were based on Commercial grounds" and they could not come to
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      • 81 17 A FASHION photographer is auctioning his women models' eggs on the Internet. Would-be parents are willing to pay up to US$160,000 ($249,300) in the hope of having a beautiful child. The photographer, Mr Ron Harris, said the auction was a natural outgrowth of the urge humans have
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    • 221 17  -  LAST WEEK IN A MINUTE by Trudy Lim ITS been a roller-coaster week. There has been a lot of violence and bad news at home. In Indonesia, though, excitement reigns. SO CLOSE: A little good news here. A plane narrowly missed hitting a flyover when it
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    • 65 17 JAZZ IN THE PARK: Enjoy jazzy tunes that combine American street culture with French multi-ethnic music. The Thomson Jazz Band performs with Accoules Sax this evening at the Botanic Gardens at spm. DANCE AT THE MALL: Dance champions will spin and twirl at Great World City this
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    • 318 17 The Perfect Environment A sophisticated, cosmopolitan city of around 1.2 million people, Adelaide is a welcoming city with an excellent climate (an average temperature of 29C in the summer and 15C in winter). There are direct flights from Singapore to Adelaide which only take 6 1 /2 hours of traveling
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  • THE WEEK
    • 301 18  -  Every Sunday, we invite a personality to comment on the week's headlines that happen to catch his or her eye. Today, Thomas Ong, who stars In the new TCS 8 blockbuster serial Coup de Scorpion, speaks up. The busy actor gave his take on the
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    • 216 18 I find news about the rising suicide trend among young girls very disturbing. Maybe movies have given suicide a romantic image. Or maybe today's young are just have weaker wills than our parents' generation. That generation seems to have faced hard knocks and survived. Or
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  • NEWS
    • 367 19 Source: AFP A GROWING number of US colleges are telling students to get a computer if they want to get in. Good grades are not good enough for this small but expanding band of colleges from North Carolina to North Dakota with an eye on jobs
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    • 60 19 COMPUTERS and computer literacy are also the buzzwords at the National University of Singapore. Hie university is training its students to rely less on their lecturers and more on information technology to gather straightforward facts. About 20,000 plug points have been fitted all around the campus. Students can
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    • 65 19 OF 6,179 entries to our Spot-the-differences Contest last week, 3,436 found all six. Three callers with the correct answer were drawn. They each win a pair of Thai Airways International return tickets to Bangkok. Plus two nights' accommodation at Le Meridien President, courtesy of the hotel. Winners: Sree
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    • 373 20 China leader breaks out in song at London banquet THE banquet given by President Jiang Zemin at the Chinese Embassy in London on Thursday will be remembered many years hence. The spectacle of China's leader breaking out in song alone, not once, not twice, but three
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    • 110 20 Source: Wire services. PRESIDENT Jiang is in France, the second leg of a six-nation tour of Europe and Arab countries. Yesterday, he lunched with French President Jacques Chirac in Lyon. A heavy police presence kept human rights activists well away. Mr Jiang and his wife were due
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  • NEWS
    • 694 22  - Jailed for putting a pig's heart, kidney liver into a man IN INDIA... His nightmare began after his patient died seven days later By! Shanoo Maharaj In Calcutta THIS Indian doctor was thrown behind bars, made to sleep with hardened criminals and confined to a long house arrest. Dr Dhani
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    • 176 23 DR Baruah is seeking US$l.3 billion ($2.17 billion) in damages from the Assam government for wrongful arrest and defamation. He has also.filed a complaint with India's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). The commission has already announced in the press that it had served notices to the
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  • 499 26  -  CHE A P AND H,P: STYLE F R THE BUDGETaCONS CIOUS By Carol Leong canol@sph.com.sg THESE copper tumblers are a pleasure zone of touch. I discovered them at Holland Village Shopping Centre and was instantly attracted. I held one in my hand and immediately I felt
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  • CookieJar THE PLAGE TO BIP FOR HOMEMAKING TIPS
    • 725 27  -  /T doesn't work. One of the appliances In your homo, that Is. So you roach for the telephone to call a service centre or repairman. What should you know, and what should you do to make sure everything goes smoothly? TRUDY UM, who has spent the
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      • 76 27 KEEP a diary, planner or calendar specially for noting down important school dates and family events. That way everyone can keep track of special days, and will know when the kids have to be in school early. Trudy says: I print a calendar each month on the computer.
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      • 75 27 THERE are all kinds of bugs going round. The best defence is to wash your hands frequently. That way, you are less likely to fall ill, even after coming in contact with someone who has the flu. But don't just rinse your hands. Wash with soap for
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  • Aggie MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
    • 114 28 I'VE been married for more than two years. My husband and I married after knowing each other for a year. We now have a child. Both of us are middle-aged. He is the quiet sort. Still, he appears cheerful towards others. He
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    • 117 28 Last week's letter: DESPAIR is 30 and average-looking. She's an extrovert but when it comes to relationships, she feels that she should wait for the man to make the first move. Recently, a girlfriend introduced her brother-in-law to Despair. They went in a group for a
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    • 94 28 Readers reply: LOTS of people feel the way you do. It's hard to find that someone special, but the main thing now is to get out there and try again. Concerning the point about who's going to make the first move, it's usually the guy. But take it
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    • 125 28 IF you can attract married men, you can attract bachelors too. Find chances to talk tQ your single male colleagues at work. Don't be too bothered about what your female colleagues think. If you feel attracted to a bachelor, take the initiative and make the first
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    • 462 29 I HAVE known my boyfriend since our school days. He completed his national service recently and now works in an office that is just across the road from mine. We meet every day for lunch and spend our evenings going to the movies or just
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    • 379 29 I AH confused. I just broke up with W, all because of F, my ex-steady. I just can't forget F. We went steady last year but broke up because he was a two-timer. Although he is at fault, I blamed myself for not taking care
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    • Puberty Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues
      • 210 29 I'M a 17-year-old boy. I Q broke off with my steady recently. She was the 30th girlfriend I've had. Once, while we were still together, I went to her house and I wanted to have sex with her but she refused. A few
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      • 81 29 I'M a 14-year-old male. I Qhave problems with my nipple. It is quite big and sharp and looks like a girl's nipple. There is also something that feels like a ball in my nipple. It is painful when pressed. Is there something wrong with me?
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      • 56 29 DURING masturbation, I Q ejaculate only once before losing interest in continuing. What's the problem? Am I impotent? Victor It is normal for there to be a A loss of sexual interest after the release of sperm. You are not impotent as you obviously
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    • 44 28 CAN YOU HELP? If you think you can help with some 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 ©T-shirt and a New Paper cap.
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    • 44 29 CALLUS If you need advice on matters of the heart or sex issues, write to: Aggie, The New Paper, Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****9. Or fax: 737-5375, e-mail: npops@sph.com.sg (please mark Aggie) or call 1900-*****07 (calls cost 30 cents a minute).
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  • Feature
    • 818 30 Men baring their bods: COFFEESHOP assistant Richard Tan (above) bared more than he should have and caught the attention of the law. He was hauled up by the police two weeks ago for causing a public nuisance: His working shorts were too skimpy. The 46-year-old's nonchalant
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    • 147 30 WOULD a Chippendales-themed cafe with male waiters in micro shorts work in Singapore? "If you have a hunky 20-year-old guy or a James Lye lookalike serving the coffee in a theme cafe, I believe itH actually attract customers even if he's scantily clad," said student Jo-Ann Kwek, 19.
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    • 155 30 "If I were having a meal at the hawker centre and I saw that man's butt, I would definitely lose my appetite. But not so at a swimming pool, where you expect to see men in trunks.** Student Juliana Lim, 16 "Aiyoh, he was very indecent.
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    • 257 30  -  By Calvin Low calvin@sph.comsg "At a coffoeshop, where there is still a certain degree of decorum, I think he crossed the line. I don't think anyone would expect to see almost bare buttocks at a coffoeshop. "And I don't think it*s a gender Issue. A girl
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 836 31 [TVtodayJ AM Talespin/Down at the Zoo 'MV 8.00 Disney's Doug/All Dogs Go to Jodie Foster H V/ IN Nell 900 s < r^ t r er Tweet y Channel 10.00 Go wild/Beast Wars O' 111© Start the week with Jodie Foster, and u.oo n«w Adventures of Robin Hood HsiV the
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  • 700 32  -  L| "Singapore is at the crossroads socially and culturally... "The next phase of loosening up has to be carefully considered. How far can we go?" by Lim Kay Tong AT university in the United Kingdom, I did a play for the drama department called
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  • 461 33  -  Yes, there are more singles*** £singleColum0 by Lela Jalil lela@sph.com.sg IF you read the papers last weekend, you would have, like me, zeroed in on those reports on marriage trends. People, especially women, are choosing to marry later. More people are also
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  • 852 34  -  Foreign spouses UZA N N E WALKER by Suzanne Walker MANY women often ask me how they can get expat boyfriends. The assumption is that, since I'm half-English, 111 have a binfill of eligible expat men friends to spare. I can never manage an answer.
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  • SeenHeard SHARP
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      50 35 THE MOVIE About the fete of star-struck Neil O'Hara, who comes to Hollywood in the '50s with movie-star dreams. He is discovered by Bob Mizer, who runs the Athletic Model Guild, an agency for bodybuilders, and publishes their photographs. Stars: Daniel Maclvor, Joshua Peace, Jonathan Torrens, Carroll Godsman
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    • 245 35  -  by CALVIN LOW THOM Fitzgerald's latest movie Beefcake is not for those with an aversion to men au naturel. For this semi-documentary flick about the "coming out" of muscle culture in the '50s centres around the work of photographer Bob Mizer. It
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    • 73 36  -  Edited by Ernest Luis emest@sph.com.sg Photographer Russ Warner on the good old days of muscle magazines: 'That was whan bodies were really beautiful. Now you've got steroids and monsters all over.** Mizer (Daniel Maclvor) to his mother (Carroll Godsman) about the idea for his magazine: "It may not
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    • 186 36  -  by ERNEST LUIS THIS movie is 100 per cent pure American beef. But guys, be warned, there are no babes in this movie, at all. Only lots of sculpted men in the buff here. Mostly, though, the hunks walk around in G-string "pouches". Which made my
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    • 128 36 Independent movie buff, Scotter, in his online review; M l saw Beefcake during the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was well worth the price of admission. The acting was very good and it was well directed. And the recreation of the old photos was very
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    • 251 36 ITS rare to find a boy band which can sing ■v veil. Japan i i«iesL boy band export shames the critics by doing just that This album is easily more impressive than any material from those US or British boy bands. The
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    • 470 37 Cn CALL: 073*1333 2||j|£ I £-~»l~.».k» 24-hour subscription sales hotline HH mnylp» began her acting career. TNT Celebrates Angela Lansbur/s birthday today Wlshmaster with the first MGM movie for which 9pm In this supernatural shocker, she auditioned. The Picture Of Dorian Alexandra Amberson accidentally Gray (1945). Lansbury plays the love
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    • 455 38 Highlight of the Week Dr. Frederick Cook, claimed to have beaten him to it So who was the first man to stand at the North Pole? Or were both lying? QtegggJ| W MjL variety today Boxing: Mike Tyson vs o'rflln Norrts today Super Summer Show 1998 I Oam (LIVE) 8.40pm
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  • 1034 39  - Flirty fisherman wife I SAY. MARSEILLE [-1 ®j| FUJI FILM VenueJ 00 Pretty Paris is not the only place in France to visit. Once you've had your fill of the city of lights, head down to the sunny south, where the warmth of the locals beckon. RACHEL TAN takes you
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  • Page 41 Miscellaneous
    • 980 41 [Playgroundj A# Dave Ang daMe@sph.comsg Britain recently? will play a cop in to *v? Steven Spielberg was discussing his new project —an Raintree Pictures' 4 act^on docudrama about famous composers starring third movie AD lii to P movie stars. 2 000:' 3b 'jfi^P«Sb"/' 'i Arnold Schwarzenegger were present. Ai Spielberg
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    • 332 47  -  By Yong Shu Hoong shyong66@hotmail.com IT isn't hard to imagine that, soon, a CD writer could well be a standard feature on every PC just like the built-in 3.5-inch disk drive you see on your computer. With the price of CD-R (CD Recordable)
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    • 454 47 Weired THE graphical interface for the CDDB website may not be much to look at, but the site is touted as "the world's largest online database of audio CD information". To use this free service, you are required to download one of the many CDDB-friendly CD players
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  • the new paper RACING
    • 1205 48 TODAY'S KRANJI RACE CARD —Going forecast: Good LOOKING FORA DOUBLE: Australian jockey Simon Price, who won last year's Singapore Gold Cup astride Three Crowns, will be hoping for success this time around with Peak Of Perfection XI. Ma UUnm Horn Wt Brthfl JbO»i> Bwrtw Hfcwuwwr) 1 -9303 HOT CHESTNUT 57
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    • 732 49  -  By Danny Khoo Trainer Malcolm Thwaites will be hoping his luck holds out in the circuit's biggest race, the Singapore Gold Cup, at Kranji tonight. He is on a roll having won the Queen Elizabeth II Cup, Emirates Singapore Derby, Singapore Cup and the
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    • 165 49 El Duce (Race 7 No. 8) Humble Kiwi trainer Patrick Busuttin is on the verge of achieving his biggest victory with El Duce in the $1 million Singapore Gold Cup tonight. The four-year-old Lord Ballina gelding certainly looks ripe and ready to stamp his authority after a flying
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    • 63 49 RACE 1: Rafferty, Twins. RACE 2: Mark Of Courage, Kim Thunder, King General. RACE 3: Fanchea, Victory Fighter, Gyro. RACE 4: Chinook, Empire Windrush. RACES: Renegade, Captain Best, Expect The Best. RACE 6: The Mystery. RACE 7: Ouzo, Just Call Me Sir, Rosebery, El Duce, Alpha Omega, Hero's Return.
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    • 613 50 13 UP POMPEII 52 (28-10) PaulKJng (11) 1 8 MY MATE JACK 52 (71-12) Prtrfck C«t>«y (2) 2 11 RIO FE 52 (151-52) Link Robertson (8) 3 2 STRIKE SWIFTLY 55 (121-30) TroyTumw (1) 4 Also ran: Strolling Home (76-16) Danial Staeck, Natch (10-7) Jeff Noske.
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    • 391 51  -  By Danny Khoo IT WAS a matter of time before trainer Charles Read's charge A Matter Of Honour greeted the judge. And the six-year-old mare got her act right at Kranji last night to break through at her 14th local start to give the veteran trainer his first
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    • 1333 52 PERFECT DAY: Apprentice Salnul Jumaat is all smiles after booting home Bright En In the opening race at Kranjl. He made It two wlnaoutof two rides aatrlde outsider Stonewall Jackaon In Race 7. Picture/ David Tan 3 BRIGHT ERA 52 (44-10) *S«lnul (9) 1 1 1
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    • 415 53 Reuters. JOCKEY Kieren Fallon, who this week joined the greats of horse racing with his third double century of winners in Britain, now faces the winter challenge of riding in Hongkong. Hie taciturn Irishman, whose superb judgment of pace and driving power in
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    • 1200 53 RACE 1: Trainer J Brink was fined $100 for failing to declare his intention to use blinkers on Masagana. Strategic Alliance was fractious before the start and dislodged jockey P Wynne. He was difficult to be boxed and lugged out at the start, losing
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      274 54 THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE S-LEAGUE IS OVER. ADAM HASHIPY JfTA SINGH ((S3 HU»> What We must try and allow NSmen who are not selected for Home or SAFFC's first team to play for other clubs. Why: The clubs get weaker and the players that are left
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    • 193 55 ASKS CLUB MANAGERS TO RANK THE SINGLE CHANGE FOR 2000 Lee Kheng Whatt HE KHEHQ WHATT (!■■>!■ 11 ■www! What I want relegation-promotion. Why: The soccer will be more competitive and exciting. The clubs will have to shape out or risk being shipped out. KOK WAILEONG
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    • 389 55  -  COMMENT S GULAM ONE more season, one more winner. But where are we headed? The birth of the S-League seems like only yesterday. But four seasons have gone by. It was said that if we survived the first three years, we should go on and build a
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    • 228 56 ANOTHER CROWN FOB PRINCE Reuters. BAD news. The "Prince" was not impressive. Britain's Prince Naseem Hamad added another jewel to his featherweight boxing crown yesterday. He scored a 12-round unanimous decision over Cesar Soto to take away the Mexican's World Boxing Council
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    • 466 56  -  By Brian Miller AUSTRALIAN Kenny Druce will be hard to beat in today's final round of the Nokia Singapore Open golf championship. The 27-year-old, who led the field from Day One, was "on fire" once again yesterday. After making an uncharacteristic bogey on the par-five opener,
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    • 122 56 They went out in the same flight and, throughout the 18 holes, they kept themselves locked together like Siamese twins. The camaraderie paid huge dividends for the Thai duo of Thongchai Jaidee and Prayad Marksaeng. Like true "twins", they returned identical scores five-under par 67s for the round
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    • 402 57 Now race is on HOW much trust and respect do we owe those appointed to govern the increasingly monied world of sports? In Paris yesterday, five lawyers overturned the stewards who disqualified Eddie Irvine and Michael Schumacher from their victory at the Malaysia Grand Prix last weekend. The
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    • 172 57 RULES are worth defending only when they are sound rules. In the US the law that permits a man and a woman to box one another for seedy public entertainment is obscene. The same nation that jails a man who beats his wife puts on
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    • 291 57 AND FINALLY... IN England, Mark Hughes and Paul Gascoigne are charged with breaching FA law by playing while under suspension. Their sin? Performing in the testimonial match for Sir Alex Ferguson. Hughes did this as a calling. His career was shaped by Sir
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      718 58  -  ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP: CHELSEA STUNNED BY COMEBACK 2 3 FIXTURES Today: Everton v Leeds Watford v Middlesbrough West Ham v Sunderland Tuesday: Newcastle v Derby By Mike Chua IN a match that was supposed to showcase the English game to the world, the much-awaited London derby almost proved
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    • 245 58 REST OF THE PREMIERSHIP ACTION SPURS 3 MAN UNHID 1 AFP. TOTTENHAM Hotspur banged it hard on Treble champion Manchester United. The Red Devils saw its Premiership hopes dip after a surprise 3-1 defeat at White Hart Lane last night. United took the lead in the
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      671 59  -  SINGAPORE CUP: HOME UNITED 1 (Emie Tap* 64th min)TANJONG PAGAR UNITED 0 By S Gulam WHAT a cracker of a game! One red card (Egmar Goncalves). Five bookings. One player (Lim Tong Hai) carried out with a head injury and sent to hospital. A disallowed equaliser. A
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    • 369 60 FORMULA ONE; MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX APPEAL Wire services. EDDIE Irvine has been reinstated as Formula One world championship leader. This dramatic U-turn, following Irvine and Michael Schumacher's disqualification from last weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix, came after the sport's ruling body upheld
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    • 310 60  -  TOBHV: South Africa v England (7.30pm) New Zealand v Scotland (10pm) Argentina v France (12.30 am tomorrow) /Mi Matches «H >r Chanal 24 By Nigel Whitefield THE all-conquering All Blacks sent out a chilling warning to Scotland ahead of today's World Cup quarter-final, declaring:
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    • 133 60 MIDNIGHT LATEST Reuters. AUSTRALIA overcame a spirited challenge from Wales to win a gruelling World Cup quarter-final 24-9 at a soggy Millennium Stadium in Cardiff yesterday. Two tries by scrumhalf George Gregan and and one from winger Ben Tune, either side of a scrappy but extraordinarily tense
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    • 43 60 GOLF: This Aussie is still leading in the Singapore Open Page 60 What's Egmar doing wearing a tuxedo? Page 63 Ti'def Beer STIfE&GUE Four seasons gone. What they want for next season... Paget 58,59 PREMIERSHIP What a comeback by the Gunners Page 62
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