The New Paper, 16 February 2000

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  • Title Section
    Lock icon Masthead
    7 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2000
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    Lock icon BATAM MURDER
    14 1 Singaporean killed while on late-night stroll /p age 19 Picture/ DESMOND NG
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Were these luxury cars smuggled into Johor from Singapore?
      260 3 Source: The New Straits Times WHERE did these cars come from? Is Singapore their original home? That's the suspicion Malaysian authorities are working on. The cars were among 18 seized in the last two days in the city areas of Johor.
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      Lock icon Two apartment explosions
      366 3 In London In Vladivostok (Russia) AFP. BOTH blasts took place within an hour of each other, but on different sides of the globe. The gas blast in London took place about 4.30 am Singapore time. But the bomb blast in Vladivostok, eastern Russia, occurred early this morning.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Double happiness
      335 4  -  By Koh Zong Fen YES, it's a case of identical twins going on a double-date with their boyfriends on Valentine's Day. The New Paper team met the two girls and their respective boyfriends on Monday outside Wisma Atria shopping centre, where Go magazine was holding a promotion. For
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      Lock icon Couple passes Valentine's love test
      472 4 The New Paper invited couples interested in an all-expenses-paid Valentine's Day evening to take a "Love Test". HONG XlNYlspeaks to some lucky couples who got to enjoy a night under the stars at Sentosa HOW WELL do I know thee? Let me count the ways.
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Lock icon War to move to cyberspace
      149 6 ifflr DEFENCE GET ready for new battlefields. No longer will the fight for Singapore's sovereignity be merely military. The battle now includes the economy, society and cyberspace. The new threats means the Ministry of Defence and the Singapore Armed Forces must take a broader perspective
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      Lock icon Art blends with cruel life
      60 6 If people see a fish In a blender, will they hit the power switch That was the question at an art exhibition In Denmark. Ten fish were put In blenders. And two visitors hit the "on" buttons, killing two fish. The police stepped In after
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    • New Break
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        56 6 ilkIK'W |Kl|K T A NEW news product catering to the wired generation has received its licence to publish. Project Eyeball, from Singapore Press Holdings, is for Internet-sawy readers between 20 and 40 years old. There will be a print tabloid edition every morning, from Mondays to Saturdays, and
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        Lock icon Kia case
        57 6 COURT THE managing director of Auto Asia, which used to sell Kia cars here, is facing trial on 12 charges of criminal breach of trust. David Koh Beng Oon, 52, (left), allegedly misappropriated his customers' vehicle log books and Preferential Additional Registration Fee certificates and pledged them to
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        Lock icon Boy lives
        63 6 1 FALL A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy feil 10 storeys on Monday and lived. Shraeyas Tejasvi fell from his 14th-Btorey condominium apartment off Holland Road while peering over the balcony to look for his mother. He survived because the zinc roof of a third-floor flat broke his fall. He had
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        Lock icon Toddler dies
        65 6 CRIME A TODDLER, whose teenage mother has already been charged with hurting her with a weapon, died in hospital yesterday. The two-year-old girl was taken to hospital on Thursday with bruises on her chest and head. Her mother, Rosnani Ismail, 19, was charged in court last week with
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      42 6 New Straits Times: ACA probing RMlOm 'kickback' allegation International Herald Tribune: Pinochet departure is held up by court Asian Wall Street Journal: China to shut more than half its trust firms BBC news: IRA pulls out of disarmament talks
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      Lock icon Maid recovering
      131 7 in F®Sus Bernama. THE Indonesian maid who allegedly suffered head usuries at the hands of her madam has begun to regain consciousness. Ms Kusiah Manijan, 32, had head surgery yesterday at Ipoh Hospital. The hospital's consultant surgeon, Datuk Dr P Kandasami, said she had started to regain consciousness
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      Lock icon New service
      48 7 TECHNOLOGY U YOU can get your voice-mail, e-mail, fax and snail mail messages anywhere, anytime with a new service. Singapore company eJazz.com (www.ejazz.com.sg), uses unified-messaging (UMS) technology from Canbox. It is a one-stop service for your messaging needs that brings all the different message mediums together.
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      Lock icon No China link
      57 7 BUSINESS INO, Beijing did not initiate the Pacific Century CyberWorks bid to thwart Singapore Telecom's merger proposal with Cable Wireless HKT. So said Mr Kwong Ki-chi, Hongkong's Secretary for Information Technology and Broadcasting, reports The Business Times. He also dismissed worries that Singapore has political motives, saying
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      63 7 The Straits Times: Dare to take on the world, says SM Lee The Business Times: Sentosa residential project stalls over $500 m gulf UanheZaobao: Singapore's 21st century defence policy must cope with various threats Berita Harian: The cyber attack a new challenge for Singapore RCS morning news:
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      Lock icon Project stalled
      57 7 I SENTOSA THE Land Office wants $1.3 billion for the 116 hectares on Sentosa. The Sentosa Development Corporation will pay $800 million, reports The Business Times. So its French Riviera type residential project is stalled. The gap between money offered and asked comes from a difference in how
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      52 7 MALAYSIA MALAYSIANS will be able to use their Employees Provident Fund savings for their children's tertiary education. The fund will introduce the Children's Education Withdrawal Scheme in April. Under the scheme, Malaysians can make annual withdrawals for each child who qualifies. The fund is now fine-tuning details of
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      Lock icon FIRST NET IPO
      73 7 Quote Wworthy We were first to offer rPQ? over the ATM, first to offer Internet banking and we will be the first to offer new share applications over the Net. DBS head of Internet banking Sherman Tan, in announcing that the bank will issue an initial public
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      25 7 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 198.25 points yesterday, to close at 10,718.09. The Nasdaq Composite index rose 2.22 points, closing at 4,420.77.
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      125 7 PS XBACHELOR OF ARTS IN MASS |if COMMUNICATION M AWARDED BY UNIVERSITY OF mvtralia fl SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND (AUSTRALIA) M "USQ is judged the world's best global university tor distance learning." The Executive Committee of the International Council /jmA for Open and Dittance Learning (ICO€). Norway. 1999 Am The degree course
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  • HEALTHTODAY
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      Lock icon Do you.. Have sex? Share or clippers? If so, you may get hepatitis
      588 8 There are about2oo,ooo Singaporeans believed to be hepatitis carriers. SHEELA NARAYANAN tells you more about this common bug CONTACT US WRITE TO: It's Your Health, The New Paper, 390, Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5 FAX: 737-5375 E-MAIL
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      Lock icon A, B, C, OF HEPATITIS
      147 8 HEPATITIS A and E are transmitted when an infected person does not wash after going to the toilet and handles food. Both types of hepatitis are transmitted by contaminated food and water. Hepatitis B and C can be transmitted through casual sex or blood transfusions.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • SM & MTV
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        323 9 SM RISK-TAKERS SM LEE KUAN YEW TALKS Yes, it's hard to imagine SMLee Kuan Yew channel surfing. But SM, who once described himself as possibly a fuddy-duddy, has finally checked out MTV. He sees beyond the "songs, songs and jiggling around" and used MTV to talk about some dilemmas we
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        Lock icon SM & THE LOVERS
        249 9 SM THE LOVERS Tlm question: What kind of social change wffl tha future bring? This is how different our generations are, said Mr Lee. "Coming up just now in the car, my wife said to me, boys and girls walking hand in hand did I remember ever seeing that happen
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        Lock icon SM & TH 'ME'GENERATION
        171 9 SM TH 'ME'GENERATION The question: What's the one traK you would not want to see in today's generation? "What is there in it for me?" That is an attitude in younger Singaporeans that concerned SM Lee. He blamed this on changes in the physical environment. "I grew up in a
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        Lock icon SM & WOMAN PM
        138 9 SM WOMAN PM I don't see why not, if there are enough tough-minded women prepared to give up their free time to go into politics. That was SM's reply when asked if Singapore would ever have a woman PM. But in reality, he said, it was difficult in an Asian
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        Lock icon SM & FOREIGN TALENT
        102 9 SM FOREIGN TALENT Si gapore Airlines started, it a illay, Malayan-born who duation made his career in "e. So, too, Dr Cheong Choong Kong, the present CEO. We must have a successor CEO who must be equal not just to Joe Pillay and Dr Cheong, but to Richard Branson (British
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        Lock icon SM & NMPs
        285 9 SM NMPs From NMP to MP? Some Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs) may be asked to stand as candidates for the People's Action Party in the next poll. SM Lee said some younger leaders were "thinking seriously" about the idea because of the shortage of credible candidates with good ideas
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      Lock icon AT NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
      367 9 PICTURE this: Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew watching MTV. It's true. And this struck a dear chord with the fascinated 1,000-strong audience last night made, up mostly of MTV-generation undergraduates. Mr Lee said that if he has the time, he spends half an hour flipping through
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      Lock icon Being yourself and somebody else
      26 10 mutfmui* When you're singing, it's a good way to be yourself. When yoji're acting, it's a chance to be somebody else.
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      636 10  -  Loganatha was not my lover I didn't tell my daughters that Loganatha was servicing me because their father couldn't I never said I wanted to divorce him, take the girts and keep the property for myself By, Jason Tan SHE was first produced in court on Dec 6 with
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      Lock icon THE MAIN CHARACTERS
      61 10 Mr T Maniam, a retired police inspector, was brutally murdered just metres from his home on April 21,1999. Julaiha Begum (above), 51, wife of the deceased, is charged with abetment. Loganatha Venkatesan, and Chandran Rajagopat, both 25 and Indian nationals, are charged with murder. Ms Fairos Banu,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Call it his sixth sense
      454 12  -  ENGLISH/MALAY NEWSPAPERS ANNUAL AWARDS News Picture of the Year by The New Paper's Mohd Ishak By: Sheela Narayanan CLICK. And here's the picture he already knew was going to take place. Call it the photographer's sixth sense. The New Paper's (TNP) executive photographer Mohd Ishak
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      Lock icon 'Artists must think like journalists'
      230 12 Infographics of the Year by The New Paper's Lee Hup Kheng ONCE there were only journalists people who write for newspapers. And then came the photojournalist a one-man army who writes and takes pictures. Now comes the infographics journalist a one-man army that converts text
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    Lock icon TNP on Sunday—on the go from Day One
    392 15  -  ENGLISH/MALAY NEWSPAPERS ANNUAL AWARDS SINGAPORETODAY By: Sheela Narayanan THE NEW PAPER is putting on the heat. So said Mr Cheong Yip Seng, editor-in chief of the English/Malay Newspaper Division (EMND), at the annual awards yesterday. According to him, when The New Paper
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon This is where it happened
      40 16 The Singaporean's body in a Batam mortuary Picture/ Desmond Ng DANGER ZONE: Mr Chen was stabbed here, a stretch frequented by many Singaporeans. There have been cases of robberies reported here before Picture/ Shin Min
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      Lock icon A WALK WITH DEATH
      556 17  -  Singaporean murdered in Batam By Desmond Ng and Lingam Ponnampalam Reporting from Batam and Singapore HE was a regular visitor to Batam, always staying at the Hotel Wisma Bahari 1. He was also a loner, hardly mixing with the hotel people. Singaporean Peter Tan Tio Aun,
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      403 18 A HUNGRY elephant is a crazy elephant. That was what passerbys and drivers in central Bangkok learnt on Monday night when a 3000-kg bull elephant, swindled of its food, ran amok and trampled through the streets on a wild two-hour chase. Police had to close two
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      Lock icon Last stop for dead passenger
      256 18 THE next time you're on a bus and find the passenger sitting next to you sleeping, think again. The person may just be dead. For a dead passenger was what Brooklyn bus driver Michael Festo found on his bus yesterday. He thought the man, Mr
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      Lock icon His house is now worth $186m And his property tax bill $1.7m
      275 20 That's Bill Gates for you Source: AFP BILL Gates is famous as the world's richest man. Just in the last two years, his Microsoft shares have risen by US$6O billion ($lOO billion). That's about $6 million an hour.
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      Lock icon THE HOUSE
      177 20 THE massive Gates estate sits on two hectares (20,000 sqm) and took seven years to build. It features a 20<oom main house and a marvmade trout stream with its own salmon run. It boasts 84 km of fiber optic cable, touctvsensitive pads controlling lighting, music, and cHmate, seven
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      Lock icon Dr 'Zorro' to pay $3m for carving patient
      289 20 THE doctor in New York who carved his initials on a patient's abdomen will pay her US$l.75 million ($2.97 million) in compensation. Dr Allan Zarkin, 61, has been dubbed Dr Zorro after carving 'AZ' on the woman after delivering her baby on
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      Lock icon Ouch, the old knees...
      35 22 muifmui* to m IMi« wflh AAmwfc, MWm MiMllMtph EflM*tfcaaMfctM Mamtfteal chtdM* h U«/I«platta I have arthritis in both knees, which I inherited from my father. Above my knees, everything is perfect.
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      Lock icon Why only Wiranto?
      353 22 MELVIN SINGH (LEFT) MEETS EAST TIMOR LEADER, HORTA Ex-armed forces chief, Gen Wiranto is being investigated for human rights abuses. Should those on the East Timor side be probed as well? Our reporter reports from Bangkok PUT those on the East Timor side, who also kidnapped and
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      1339 24 M. ADVERTISEMENT =T at 'fy dj rjt* \f' GLORIOUS LEADERSHIP OF 'N# HIS EXCELLENCY KIM JONG IL I I on his 58th Birthday KIM JONG II plants, construction sites and all others he pays CATUED r\c i/Anr a vt DEr\DI to the opinions and countenance of the working people rather
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    Lock icon Just how sick is Suharto?
    269 25 WORLDTODAY Too ill, his lawyers said, to turn up for questioning on corruption charges on Monday. Give us a medical report on the former president, Indonesia's government legal eagles demanded. This is what it says TOO physically and mentally unfit to undergo an investigation. That
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      548 25 Visit Singapore's Largest Career Shoui and Explore a New Millennium of Career and Educational Opportunities! CAREER 2000 RECRUITMENT 2000 9 -12 March 2000 ******1 to Bpm Daily Halls 601 to 603, Level 6 Singapore International Convention Exhibition Centre (Suntec City) Having benefited over 2 million visitors since its Career Cyber
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      Lock icon Want to see the REAL Laos? Take a bus
      374 26 WHATS the best way to explore far-flung places? Hit the road. And the simplest way to hit the road? Take a tour bus. That was what I did on my last trip to Laos. I flew to Bangkok and on to
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      Lock icon DRIVE INTO ADVENTURE
      250 26 IF you drive, you can go on "Auto-ventures". These are trips organised by the Automobile Association of Singapore (AAS) for its members. Mr Eugene Tan, AAS' assistant manager of programme and activities said they have been to countries like Australia, China, Malaysia and Thailand. Mr Tan often
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    Lock icon Ah, the power of love
    453 27  -  ET CETERA WITH PETER SIOW STEP forward if you are the woman I saw mollycoddling your boyfriend at a late-night coffeeshop along busy River Valley Road last week. For you belong to a rare breed. The sort whom probably every man wants by his side.
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      122 27 COMICHEUSF The Concrete Jungle/Colin Goh TR3*Mto)4MIBL) [uatfccftUttT J"1 fIMM lf~ii»K i y Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson CALYIH. V£WLD*>J (VEASE I WkSNT XES,**) WERE, I'M HOT CMMM. I'M IQC* I DC*t\ DEMONSTRATE "WE HOMEWORK. HERE. CAUIM. WONT WPUCATE NUMBER FWE. SEE WWW SSO PROBLEMIOW HERE ASSIGNED IESTCRDM i *XJ Do NPUttIC
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      114 28 Kietam up ftOSft temasek polytechnic open house 2000 Thurs to Sat, 17-19 February 2000 1 2pm to 6pm (Thurs Fri) 10am to 6pm (Sat) metamorphosis, change, transformation. from adolecent to adulthood, from secondary school to tertiary institution. a new approach to education, a new look at polytechnic life. a new
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      33 29 DOUBLE TAKE: Beatrice Chla (above) as she appears on the special Invitation card, which can be considered a tribute of sorts to J-pop singer Ayuml Hamasakl's pose on an album cover (right)
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      661 30  - By: Seto Nu-wen IF you get a picture of a half-naked Beatrice Chia in your mail, don't get ideas. Even though it is an invitation to meet the actress in person at night. It's for the First 42 Audience Award show next Tuesday evening, at which Beatrice will be the
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      Lock icon MOST POPULAR ON STAGE
      88 30 THE First 42 Audience Award show honours the most popular performers at Action Theatre's First 42 Theatre Festival. Audiences at the company's performances last November and December were asked to vote in several categories, including Best Actor, Best Actress and Most Promising New Play. Presenters for
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      Lock icon OSCAR GHOSTS
      537 31 last night, the nominees for this year's Oscars were named. The awards will be announced and presented on March 26 in Los Angeles. Billy Crystal, with six previous Oscar shows to his credit, will return to replace Whoopi Goldberg who hosted last year's ceremony. YONG SIEW FERN gives
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      228 31 i American Beauty The Oder House Rules The Qreen Mile "V,,I I The Insider The Sixth Sense tttr mmem Sam Mendes (American Beauty) j Spike Jorue (Baku John Matkovich) Lasse HaHstrom (The Cider House Rules) J Michael Mann (The Insider) M Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) ■BTMVO* Russell
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      103 40 YESTERDAY'S workouts by horses engaged today: RACE 1: One Foot Kick returned 38 after cantering a round. Slow work: The Engineer (apprentice J Sainul). RACE 2: None seen on the main track. RACE 3: Slow work: Star Betelguese, Sail To Victory. RACE 4: Slow work: Last-start winner Man
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      640 41  -  He's off to Dubai if he runs well By Tan Thean Loon MOVE over Ouzo, the King is back. And with a certain agenda in mind. While his stablemate has been hogging all the limelight the past few months with his might in the msyor
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        80 41 IT WAS a double celebration for trainer Charles Leek last Sunday. A strong turnout of 420 people gathered at the Pan-Pacific Ballroom to celebrate the trainer's championship season and the Chinese New Year. His guests included Singapore Turf Club chairman Herman Hochstadt, executive deputy chairman Goh Yong Hong,
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      119 41 RESULTS of yesterday's I,ooom barrier trials on the fibresand track at Kranji. The going was good. TRIAL 1:1 Blushing Risk (WH Lao) 2 Breed To Glory (KK Loh)3Red 'N' Dusty (apprentice J Sainul) 4 Hunky-Dory (E Wilkinson) 5 Whip Will Win (T Samsuri) 6 W465 (E Marchant). Unofficial
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      442 42  -  By Danny Khoo Trainer Mohd Yusofs Bold Explorer continued to show the form that has earned him two brilliant wins already. At Kranji yesterday morning, the three-year-old gelding by Marooned underlined his chances with a fluent 600 m hit-out in a smart 39.95 ec on the fibresand
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      394 42 I REFER to your article entitled "Out of Sync?" which appeared in the Whip Hand on Feb 2. After the panel of internation handicappers had ranked the horses entered for the Singapore Airlines International Cup in order of merit, Godolphin Stable had seven of the
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      442 42 IPOH TRACKWORK NST TRUE MAGIC showed a return to form with a sizzling workout in Ipoh yesterday and looks set for a comeback win in the Class 5 event over the I,loom straight on Sunday. Taken out by jockey Anandan Subramaniam, the four-year-old
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      349 43  -  14TH COMMONWEALTH TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS (UNTIL TOMORROW By Wang Meng Meng WHO is he? That was the question ringing around Toa Payoh Sports Hall after little-known Luo Jie's (left) stunning display yesterday. The Shanghai-born Singaporean went close to claiming second seed Matthew Syed's scalp in the men's singles
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      47 43 Men's and women's singles second round (from 9am). Mixed doubles final, men's doubles final and women's doubles final (from 7pm). The event is on at Toa Payoh Sports Hall. Tickets are available at the Singapore Table Tennis Association, 297 C Lorong6Toa Payoh. For details, call 259-6750.
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      104 43 MEN'S SINGLES Cai Xiaoli (Sin) bt Steve Hall (Wales) 21-13,21-8,21-3 Duan Yongjun (Sin) bt Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi (Canada) 20-22,21-13,21-14 21-15, Zhang Taiyong (Sin) bt Andrew Hubbard (NZ) 21-9,21-18,21-6 Sen YewFai(Sin)btChooSim Guan (Malaysia) 16-21,21-17, 16-21,21-17,21-12 WOMEN'S SINGLES Tan Paey Fern (Sin) bt Das Mouna (India) 21-14,21*,21-10 Lay Jian Fang (Aust)
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      388 44  -  S-LEAGUE 2000: MARCH 9 KICK-OFF By Lim Han Ming OH, THE passion of the North! So intense, so feverish... In fact, the fire in the f northern belly is so hot that it may surprise everyone by spreading throughout the country. Woodlands Wellington and Sembawang
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      208 44  -  By Peter Siow THE Koreans are back down south. Not since sturdy Jang Jung's debut for Geylang United in 1996 has there been any bite of the kim-chi kind in the S-League. But now two Koreans striker Kim Shi Man and defender Park In Hwa
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      500 45  -  By Lim Han Ming HE'S probably the greatest player in Thai football history. And arguably the best in the region, too. Once, he was a feared striker, a film star, a pop singer and a sports commentator. Today, he's a rising football coach who
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      138 45 TAMPINES Rovers will take on M-League champion Pahang in the inaugural Sunrise-Mikasa Challenge Cup this Saturday. Like all Singapore-Malaysia derbies, this match is expected to serve up 90 minutes of top-class football. While Tampines has reported a clean slate of health, the visitor may have to
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      713 46  -  ASIAN CUP QUALIFIERS. MACAU Today: Singapore v Macau CALL INFOUNE Call 1900-*****13 after 6 pm today for the result. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. Sunday: Singapore v Brunei REPORTS S GULAM IN MACAU FOR an hour yesterday, Singapore football's technical supremo Jan Poulsen
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      295 46 WHEN Macau kicked off against Brunei in the Asian Cup qualifiers' opening game on Sunday, a journalist wondered how many fans were at the Main Stadium. One suggested 37. But the former asked again: "Have you included the medical and security people, the
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      354 47 YES, the brawlers at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground may have been caught in the act by a closed-circuit television camera. The club could be asked by the Football Association (FA) to hand over a videotape that may contain footage of Saturday's tunnel brawl between players and officials
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      216 47 AFP. THE woes of wayward former England star Paul Gascoigne increased yesterday when he was charged with misconduct for elbowing George Boateng. The 32-year-old broke his forearm in a wild lunge at Aston Villa's Dutch midfielder during Middlesbrough's 4-0 home defeat on Monday night. Gazza was
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      171 47 AFP. MANCHESTER United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has one hope this weekend. And that is that referee Peter Jones can keep order in the English Premiership leaders' potentially explosive clash with second-placed Leeds at Elland Road on Sunday. All eyes will be on the official to see if
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    242 50 SPORTSTODAY LAZY ENGLISH BONES AFP. MANCHESTER United goalkeeper Mark Bosnich has labelled English football players as lazy. And he has hit back at claims that foreign players were ruining the game in England. "I think it's just a lot of high-handed moaning
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