The New Paper, 2 March 2000

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1 55 The New Paper
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    7 1 the new paper THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 2000
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      205 1 Boy, shoots girl, 6 HE'S A DRUG DEN KID Finds gun under blankets at home Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg MITA (P) 062/04/99 60 CENTS 8 n 88? i8i"*****1 Attention McDonald's customers: We're turning up the heat! FRED 4pc HcNttffm"* WITH ORDER Of HcCMckM."* m Hit HUM'MlOUT
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      4 1 Of mice Man U
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    Lock icon Born in a tree
    10 1 ...saved from a flood I Picture/REirTERS
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  • THEHEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon He found gun under blankets at home
      476 2 Wire services. THIS house is a hideout for drug addicts and pushers. It was here a stolen gun hidden under blankets was found by a six-year-old boy. The boy who used the handgun to shoot dead little Kayla Rolland (bottom right) in their
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      Lock icon NOON TERROR Gunman goes on shooting spree
      295 2 Source: Wire services. BARELY 24 hours after the Michigan shooting, a gunman went on a lunchtime rampage in the US state of Pennsylvania, killing two people and wounding three others. His targets included customers at McDonald's and Burger King outlets. The police have
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      Lock icon A giant click for used cars
      416 3 THE FIRST CAR SALE ON THE NET Just when you think everything under the sun has already been bought and sold in cyberspace, here's something new. HONG XINYI meets the buyer of the first car sold via the Internet in Singapore I want to
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      Lock icon HOW IT WORKS
      59 3 EACH car put up for bidding has to go through ST Kinetics' used-car certification programme, which costs the car-seller $120. Cars go through a 120-item check, and this includes the engine condition, paintwork, upholstery, electrical system, oil leakage and road test. The cars are graded A-E. Those
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      Lock icon His sick act shocks little girls into silence
      546 4 JUST 20 metres from the front gate of Radin Mas Primary School stands a playground. It used to be filled with laughter. These days, there is only silence. It was a place of innocence. Not anymore. Children from the school have been
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      Lock icon HOW HE WAS CAUGHT
      158 4 WITH each passing day, he grew bolder. On Feb 26 at noon, he walked into Radin Mas Primary. It didn't bother him that teachers were around. One of his victims recognised him and alerted the school's operations manager, Mr Henry Tay. Mr Tay, a 50-year-old retired
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      Lock icon OUB plans fully online e-bank
      241 6 m STANDALONE CYBERBANK WELCOME to your first electronic bank, Singapore. That is the aim of Overseas Union Bank, which looks poised to be one of the first Singapore banks to set up an electronic bank in cyberspace. In a presentation at the Asian Banker Summit
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      Lock icon 4,800 km walk by 90-year-old
      65 6 piQwe MISSION COMPLETED: Great-grandmother Doris Haddock, 90, arriving at the steps of the US Capitol building on Tuesday. It marked the end of her4,Boo km hike which began in Los Angeles on Jan 1 last year. Her walk was to highlight a cause: That elections
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        62 6 TELECOMS SINGAPORE Telecom has slammed HSBC Holdings for backing a rival bid for Cable Wireless HKT after the bank had "significant access" to details of SingTel's offer. Pacific Century CyberWorks won the bid. Sing Tel said HSBC probed it in detail, but then backed PCC. It also took
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        Lock icon New NUS head
        53 6 EDUCATION THIS is the new vice-chancellor of the National University of Singapore. Professor Shih Choon Fong, 54, (left), takes over from Professor Lim Pin, 64, in June. The Harvard-trained engineer, a Singaporean who lived in the United States for 30 years, is currently one of three deputy
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        Lock icon Guilty pleas
        51 6 CONSTRUCTION LAST year, the roof of the uncompleted Compassvale Primary School collapsed. Yesterday, two engineers and a building contractor pleaded guilty to charges under the Building Control Act. They were engineer Bill Hong Keng Chee, 49, accredited checker and engineer Joseph Huang Wei Liang, 67, and BKB Engineering
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        Lock icon Umno on Net
        52 6 MALAYSIA MEMBERS of Malaysia's ruling Umno party now have an Internet newspaper that also gives them live broadcasts of major party meetings. Berita e-Umno will carry live proceedings of the Umno general assembly when party delegates meet for three days from May 11. The newspaper's website address
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      59 6 New Straits Times: A week to come up with solution The Asian Wall Street Journal: Beijing considers limits on foreign-bank lending International Herald Tribune: Bush gains speed with 3 victories BBC news: International aid agencies say the flooding in Mozambique is so overwhelming that tens of thousands
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      Lock icon Beware Net 'bust'
      145 7 in FSKSus NINETY-FIVE out of every 100 Internet companies engaged in the online consumer business will fail within three to five years. This is the dire prediction of award-winning technology fund manager Henderson Investors, reported The Straits Times. The way to go, it seems, is to focus
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      61 7 CAUSEWAY IMAGINE getting the green light from the Johor Customs department within one minute under a new express clearance system at the Causeway. The Johor Customs will introduce the system with the Immigration department on April 1 for any vehicle carrying only the driver from Singapore. In a
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      Lock icon No Sportsgirl
      39 7 RETAIL RETAILER Robinson Co will close down its Sportsgirl outlets here. Sportsgirl was bought by Australian fashion chain Sussan in December. Robinson's said Sportsgirl was not losing money here, but Sussan was not keen on export business.
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      61 7 AIRCON HOMEOWNERS face a fine of up to $5,000 and up to six months'jail if they don't replace aircon wooden brackets with stainless steel ones by Sept 30. The new law applies to all buildings except landed homes. So far, only about 13,500 (13 per cent) of 104,000
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      Lock icon Rebel blast
      58 7 PHILIPPINES MANILA'S Department of Energy office was rocked by a rocket-propelled grenade and automatic weapon fire today, causing minor damage but no injuries, police said. Chief Superintendent Edgardo Aglipay blamed suspected communist rebels, who sped past at dawn, opening fire and launching the grenade from their cars. The
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      62 7 The Straits Times: Sing Tel slams HSBC for conduct in merger The Business Times: OUB set to be among first with standalone e-bank Lianhe Zaobao: Sing Tel seeking lawyers' advice on HSBC's conduct in C&W HKT merger bid Berita Harian: Plan to make every citizen IT literate
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      Lock icon INDONESIA'S FOREIGN TALENT
      71 7 Quote Wworthy We don't need Kissinger, Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Chok Tong or GaddaJt. IfGus Dur appoints an outsider as an adviser, it's merely symbolic. But if it's a real adviser, then we have to reject it because we are a sovereign state. Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly
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      44 7 The Dow Jones industrial average was up 9.62 points, closing at 10,137.93. The volume traded on the New York Stock Exchange was 1.27 billion shares. The Nasdaq composite index surged 87.39 points, closing at 4,784.08. The volume traded was 2.24 billion shares.
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      131 6 Right from the start he had the potential of a champion but fate took a turn for the worse. Moving into a new house meant throwing away old things, which to some, included the family pet! Maybe they simply abandoned him at a deserted spot to fend for V J
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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    274 8 f your child's xRealth/ ft J Asthma one in five Singaporean children have it. In this issue, we focus on why proper care has to be taken with children who have asthma. GENEVIEVE JIANG reports THE BOY arrived at the emergency room, gasping for breath.
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    Lock icon Great Eastern Life We take care of you for life
    310 9 housewife, takes extra care with her son Abdul Hannan Yeo Ibrahim Abdullah, four. He was diagnosed with asthma two years ago after he had an attack in the middle of the night. She said: "It was during the time when
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    Lock icon THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ASTHMA
    162 9 MYTH: Eating chicken, oranges and bananas can trigger an attack. FACT: Only avoid oranges and bananas if you are having a cough as these fruits cause more phlegm to form, and may block the respiratory passage. Other triggers include dust and mites; cigarette smoke;
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • HOW DID YOU FARE IN YOUR O LEVEL EXAMS?
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        529 10 Some of us may have long forgotten the fear that gripped33,os7who got their O-level results yesterday. SHEELA NARAYANAN visits one school to see how one piece of paper can bring out a whole gamut of emotions KNEES turn to jelly and hearts get lodged in throats.
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        Lock icon Teacher: Just as difficult
        285 10  -  THE OTHER VIEW: By! Sheela Narayanan BREAKING the news gently. That what Mrs Chua Yin Peng, does every year. The teacher in her 30s has been giving out O-level results to students for the last 10 years in Buona Vista Secondary. She admits that it is
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      Lock icon Eight As but he's gone
      715 11  -  O-LEVEL RESULTS By- Tanya Fong TOP scorer. Only son. Brilliant chap. Everything was going great for Tan Zhi Ming, 17, a National Junior College (NJC) student. Sure, he had his worries. Although he had scored six Als for his GCE O-level Prelims, he was still
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      Lock icon THE SAD STORY
      96 11 TAN Zhi Ming, 17, died on his way to school on Tuesday morning at 6.50 am. He was hit by a private bus near Block 139, along Bukit Batok West Avenue 3. Zhi Ming was the only child and lived with his parents in a four-room flat
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      Lock icon Bookworm who was also a little tutor
      350 12 THEY PAY TRIBUTE MORE than 200 friends from Commonwealth Secondary School and National Junior College turned up at his wake at Kallang Bahru. Most of his secondary school mates knew him as a studious kid and a role model for other students. Said
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      635 10 THE OVERALL PICTURE: w fl 1900-912-4567 C«ll V.lc. Un, far aiMlysl* A total of 33,057 students sat for the 1999 GCE «d wh«A 0 level examination. uwrumont 30,444 students or 92.1 per cent obtained V? three or more GCE 0 level passes. 25,209 or i Low 76.3 per cent obtained
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      328 13 Spice Up Every Lesson Home Economics Teacher Training Scheme The Ministry of Education, together with Temasek Polytechnic and the Allowances and Salaries* National Institute of Education, would like to invite dynamic candidates Year Ito 3 Allowance of $9,600 p.a. at $800 per month with good GCE 'O' Level results to
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      Lock icon Coffeeshop Cupid gets his girl, but...
      415 14  -  By Andre Yeo DONT "play-play" when it comes to marriage. That could lead to jail. You have to mean it when you say: "I do." Or you could be accused of cheating. And cheating a Registry of Marriages official is a serious offence. As
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      48 15 muifmui* Businesswoman May Leong paints to release stress. In her first commercial exMMtion, at Opera Gallery, her paintings are priced between $8,900 and $48,000. With art, I feel that I don't waste life. These are things that will live forever, so it's like life for eternity.
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    641 18  -  SUSPECTED FOOD POISONING: OUTRAM SEC STUDENTS HIT SINGAPORETODAY MOE SAYS "The Ministry of Education was informed of the incident by the school principal on Feb 29," said the ministry in a faxed statement to The New Paper this morning. "The Principal has conducted initial
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      205 18 Our formula for educational success is simple: Graduate with our Advanced Diploma in Business Administration and you'll be able to gain substantial credit transfer to any of the 13 universities with more than 160 programmes to choose from. How's that for choice? SOME OF THE PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES GRANTING CREDIT TRANSFER!
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    373 19 JAILED A MONTH WORLDTODAY HANDLE your girlfriend's four-year-old son with care. That was a Hongkong court's warning to Singapore company director Lee Wei Teck in September. But Lee, 46, decided to cane the boy a few months later for not doing his
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      Lock icon Clock that does not tell time
      81 21 mui<mui< AdocktMNrms Mliliooitof HMSfffIOOQ ($192,000) on Malaysia's resort island of La ngkawi, but wtth just •is flaw—ll does not to* the tint during the day. The digital display caaaot be clearly saea la dayflgbt Said Mr P Nada rajah, bead at a local tourist
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      Lock icon Sex maniac taught a painful lesson
      244 21 A MALAYSIAN man, who demanded oral sex from an office worker, will regret his action for the rest of his life. The suspect got more than he bargained for when the victim bit his penis, probably causing serious injury. The incident took place in
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      12 21 SCURRY V 8) ALONG TO PAGE 58 FOR A MICE a3tJ STORY
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      887 22 Double Happiness 2 MARCH 2 APRIL 2000 BUKIT It's double celebration as both Bukit Panjang Plaza (BPP) and Hougang Green Shopping Mall (HGSM) turn two! To celebrate this doubly Joyous occasion, we've lined up a series of promotions where you can win some great prizes. JJT Plus, a very special
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      Lock icon BORN IN A TREE
      391 23 Newborn girl and mum rescued as flood waters rise in Mozambique Wire services. THIS baby was born in one of the most unusual places you can think of. With flood waters rising in Mozambique, South Africa, baby Rositha was born in a tree. That's where her
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      Lock icon ONE OF LUCKY FEW
      80 23 Wire services. BABY Rositha was one of the very lucky few rescued in flood-ravaged Mozambique yesterday. After three weeks of rains, with more expected, officials estimated that about 100,000 people were still stranded in trees and on rooftops after waiting for days for food, rescue or
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    Lock icon No arms, no legs, but not giving up
    465 25 Disabled author has sold 4m books WORLDTODAY Source: AFP. THIS young man was born with tetra-amelia, a condition that left him with no arms and legs. At 23, he has graduated from Japan's prestigious Waseda University and has also become the country's
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      284 26 v miHFI I fll MKp, T^«\n^fl 1 I Cb9 jS*H aHHHH HH pi/: i/ BECOME A NAVAL SYSTEMS SPECIALIST AND GET EXPERIENCE IN DIFFERENT AREAS. ',V> \#;-m '■■CI,- V.V.V <• A career in the Republic of Singapore Navy is not main areas: Electronic Systems, Ordnance and for life. Training and
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    59 27 Besides vocal exercises, this is part of my ritual of looking after my voice. Malaysian pop princess Siti Nurhaliza Taruddin, 21 (right), on a kampung concoction she uses to maintain her nightingale voice. She leaves a glass of water to sit overnight in the moonlight and drinks it early
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    613 28  -  BY Sheela Narayanan A COOL million to make her movie debut. With Bollywood hunk Shah Rukh Khan as her co-star. Who would pass up such a delicious offer? Siti Nurhaliza Taruddin did. The 21-year-old Malaysian pop princess was offered Msl million ($455,000) to star in
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    Lock icon AVID JAPANESE FAN
    207 28 SO what if he can't understand a word of Malay? Japanese fan Hiroshi Nishino is in love —with Siti's music. "There is no need to understand the language to love her music," said the managing director. Mr Nishino, 53, runs Jetro Singapore, which promotes Japan-Singapore trade and
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    Lock icon TOP TICKETS GONE
    102 28 THEY are most expensive tickets for a concert by an Asian singer in Singapore. And they are gone. All 60-odd tickets, at $300 each, have been sold, despite costing more than the top tickets to see diva Mariah Carey $260. Obviously, hardcore fans will pay any price
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  • SHOWTIME
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      Lock icon STILL ROCKING
      130 30 ROCK 'n' Roll diva, er, grand diva Tina Turner (right) never fails to amaze. At 60, she is going on a 120-city world tour to promote her latest album, Twenty Four Seven. She can still rehearse for three hours at a stretch, dancing with 20-year-olds, taking them through
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      108 30 STRAIGHT after news that he's joining Citibank as a private banker, James Lye (right) is setting his sights further in the business world. The hunky former actor is sinking a six-figure sum in a business selling health products, reported Shin Min Daily News. The place? Swanky Pacific
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      121 30 BOY band 911 has suddenly disbanded. Band members Jimmy Constable, Spike Dawbarn and Lee Brennan announced in a statement issued by their record company EMI: "We have really enjoyed the last four years with 911 but we feel now is the right time to move on and pursue
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      66 30 WHY can't basketball players be happy just being rich from the court? Michael Jordan (right) had his face on mugs and plates after his starring role in Space Jam. If you thought that was an overdose, listen to this. Jordan's doting mother and star-struck sister are now coming
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      123 30 WOMAD fans can go mad with joy again. They can catch A Taste of WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) tomorrow and Saturday a forerunner to the full festival at the year's end. Fusion band Shooglenifty from Scotland will rock Fort Canning Park again, like they did
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      108 30 NEWLY-WED Taiwanese singer Annie Y1 Neng Jing (left) had it tough. Her role in a new TCS drama serial which called for a brief separation from hubby, and they've been married only two weeks. Her husband, singer Harlem Yu, wasn't hot on the one-month acting stint in Singapore,
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      86 30 II i ii s I iNTRY TORM~- W/T1 I N I i 11 11 11 11 i I I w' v w' v w' w' V-*' I I 1. 6. I I 2. 7. I I 3. 8. I 4. 9. 5. 10. Each letter can only be used once
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    394 32  -  CAREER CHOICE By Florence Tan HE coaches in a competitive field. His "students" are not teenagers, nor professional sports players. Instead, they are entrepreneurs key people behind success stories, and even owners of big family businesses. Mr Andrew Chong, 31, is a licensed business consultant from
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      350 33 The Singapore Police Force invites applications for the post of POLICE DOG HANDLER. The Police Dog Unit is a unit under the Special Operations Command. The Dog Unit is responsible for the tracking and recovery of firearms, detection of narcotics, detection of illegal immigrants. The Dog Unit is also involved
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      353 45  -  By Tan Thean Loon HI, MUM! It's me, Saimee. And I'm gonna make you and Singapore proud. That's champion jockey Saimee Jumaat's foremost thought at the moment. Well, it has to be. He's, after all, the only local jockey to be riding against some of the
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      442 46  -  French ace gives praise and jets off again to Hongkong By Danny Khoo FRENCH jockey Gerald Mosse flew off to Hongkong yesterday morning to fulfil his riding engagements at Happy Valley. But he must have left with a lighter load on his mind
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      45 46 THE last of the international challengers Bahnhof Zoo and Cheerful arrived at the quarantined stables early yesterday morning. The two New Zealand gallopers, who are running in the $750,000 Singapore Plate, are trained by female Kiwi trainers Jenny Vance and Sheila Laxon.
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        587 47 RACE TO WIN, who ran a dismal race at his last start, showed a return to form at Kraiyi yesterday. Taken out by trainer Charles Leek, the four-year-old grey did a smart 37sec hit-out over the final 600 m on the fibresand track.
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        773 47  -  By Lionel Lee EXCELLENT STRIKER is the pick of the newcomers for this weekend's races at Kraiyi. A four-year-old bay Irish-bred gelding by Fairy King out of Ploy, Excellent Striker has been allotted 105 points under the Central Rating System. Together with
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      245 48  -  S-LEAGUE BUILD-UP; KICKOFFON MARCH 9 BY Wang Meng Meng WHAT is the S-League without the fans? Singapore's professional soccer league, together with sponsor Tiger Beer, will salute the fans with the S-League 2000 Fan Fare the curtain raiser to the Millennium season. "This will
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      554 48  -  RESULTS Arvind Parmar (Gbr) bt Jiri Vanek (Cze) 7-5, 6-4 SINGLES: Arvind Parmar (Gbr) bt 2 Jiri Vanek (Cze) 7-5,6-4 3 Goichi Motomura (Jpn) bt Timothy Aerts (Bel) 6-4,6-2 Dejan Petrovic (Aus) bt 6 Lars Burgsmuller(Ger) 1-6,6-4,6-2 7 Olivier Malcor (Fra) bt Louis Vosloo
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      248 49  -  SCHOOL CD B\ Wang Meng Meng THEY are the imw kids on the block who have woken up all the neighbours. Northland Secondary School, established in 1994, has ruffled the feathers of established names in the schools hockey scene. Its scalps include the fancied
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      324 49 THEY are the three bright young sparks who can ignite fireworks on the hockey pitch. Maisarah Rahmat, Ann Jieying and Vivien Ong form the creative axis of Northland Secondary's all-conquering C girls team. Secondary Three student Maisarah, 14, is a product
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    730 51 THE DAVID BECKHAM SAGA HERE we go again...your favourite football forum, only in The New Paper. And it's David Beckham taking centrestage yet again for the wrong reasons again. Write on any issues in football, on-field or off-field, and send your say to: Far Post
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    291 51 I HAVE been following football around the world for more than 10 years and I've seen nastier things than what Beckham had done. For instance, is Beckham's nasty tackle at Brazil 2000 uglier than Rudi Voeller spitting on Frank Rijkaard at a World Cup match?
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    143 51 BRAT. Egoistic. Coward. King of Hen-pecked husbands. Arrogant. Media savvy. That man is David Beckham. As a Brat, he throws tantrums like a small boy. He's Egoistic by his way of celebrating in scoring goals. He's a Coward who didn't hit back when his baby was
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    177 51 LAST week, we asked what you, as a soccer fan, thought about David Beckham's clash with Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson. Sir Alex wasn't happy that Beckham had missed training. Beckham said it was because his child was sick. Sir Alex
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    480 52 Kick-off: A late start because of traffic problems on the M6O after an accident which delays several thousand supporters. 4tti minute: Bordeaux starts positively, contrary to pre-match expectations of a ultra-defensive strategy. Jaap Stam makes a couple of timely early interceptions.
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    807 52 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE HOW THEY FARED GROUPA Barcelona 4 Porto 2 Hertha Berlin 1 Sparta Prague 1 GROUPB Man United 2 Bordeaux 0 Fiorentina 1 Valencia 0 GROUPA P W D L F APts 1 Barcelona 3 2 1 0 10 3 7 2 Porto 3 2 1 0
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    137 52 BARCELONA 4 PORTO 2 Reuters. THE two smiles say it all. Brazilian striker Rivaldo (right) is on top of the world and shares his joy with Patrick Kluivert after Barcelona outplayed Portugal's Porto 4-2 at the Nou Camp Stadium early this morning. Rivaldo showed why he was
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    62 52 Reuters. WATCH out, Red Devils! That's the fiery warning from Florentine as it cortfcwed to lead the Champions Leagse Group Batter a narrow 1-0 win over Valencia. Yugoslav striker Predrag Mijatovic broke his old club's heart early this morning with a well-taken penalty goal. It was Fiorentina's
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    151 52 ARSENAL v DEPORTIVO CORUNA AFP. SPANISH league leader Deportivo Coruna faces Arsenal tomorrow morning (Singapore time) in the Uefa Cup fourth round with a firm gameplan in mind. "Arsenal plays with its defence well forward and we hope to catch it on the counter-attack," coach
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    191 52 AS ROMA v LEEDS UNITED AFP. AS ROMA coach Fabio Capello has paid a glowing tribute to Leeds just as he finalises plans to knock it out of the Uefa Cup. The two sides meet again at the Olympic stadium today. Last season, Roma
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      327 53 ART: Jeremiah WERE you wondering why all those little mice were scampering around our pages today? Well, here's the story... the mice story. Seems English Premier League champion Manchester United has a secret new signing. Or it could well be a mascot. Either way, visitors to United's
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      123 53 AFP. LIVERPOOL'S injury-hit striker Michael Owen has put himself in contention for a Premiership comeback against leader Man United on Saturday. The 20 year-old England star completed a full 90 minutes of a behind-closed-doors practice match at Anfield on Tuesday. The match was arranged
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