The New Paper, 19 April 2000

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1 54 The New Paper
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon $21.6 million won, then lost
      385 2 SINGAPORE FAMILY'S HEARTACHE JUST two months ago, this Singapore family thought their long battle was over. They had fought for 23 years to have their father's wrongful death case heard in the US. (See report at right.) In February, their efforts seemed to have paid
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      Lock icon THE 23-YEAR CASE
      159 2 THE victim, Mr Leong Chong, died in a Singapore shipyard 23 years ago when a 12.5 kg metal block fell 15 m onto his head. He was doing welding work on a Libyan -registered oil tanker docked at Sembawang Shipyard. The tanker was managed by Esbo, then
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      Lock icon 'Please... we need your help'
      187 2 YAWN... Yet another picture of starving, undernourished children? Isn't there anything else to look at? That tends to be the reaction of people nowadays. It is easy to dismiss suffering when one is a few thousand miles away, comfortable and well-fed. Easy to just turn
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    Lock icon Me? Angry with Fann?
    345 4  -  SINGAPORETODAY BY Joyce Lim IS Phyllis Quek fuming? After all, fellow TCS actress Fann Wong said fashion shows should not be part of award shows. The very same fashion show at the 19th Hongkong Film Awards that Phyllis had the rare honour of being in last
    REPORT & PICTURE JOYCE LIM  -  345 words
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Lock icon Risk-taking gives S'pore edge
      199 6 HOT STORY COMPETITIVENESS SURVEY: SINGAPORE 2ND DEREGULATION, a flexible labour market and risk-taking culture are some of the marks of Singapore society. These factors helped Singapore come in second in the World Competitiveness Yearbook 2000. They also put Singapore under the Anglo-Saxon behavioural model of society.
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      Lock icon Dunk your tax agent
      58 6 This TAXING GAME: Take out your tax-tiling frustrating by dunking a US tax service agent. Radio station employee Tlana Francisco (right) plays the agent In the "Dunk the IRS Agent" game In Concord, California. If the filer manages to dunk the "agent", the station will pay
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    • News Break
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        59 6 INTERNET SINGAPOREANS are spending less time with their families and more time on the Net. According to an MasterCard International survey, 18 per cent of Net users here spend less time with their loved ones. But, eight per cent of Singaporeans reported spending more time with their friends
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        Lock icon Pay damages
        65 6 MALAYSIA A BUSINESSMAN in Perak, northern Malaysia, has been asked to pay his ex-Thai wife for giving her herpes. The court ordered Peter Chew Soo Kong, 48, to pay RM78,000 ($35,000) to Apa Kulawong, 30. He was also ordered to pay $37,766 for her maintenance and another $22,480
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        Lock icon Yak, yak, yak
        57 6 RECORD GO on, talk. For about three minutes on any topic. And in good English, please. You could help the organisers of the 36-hour Speech Marathon 2000 on May 6 and 7, set a world record. They hope to enter it in the Guinness Book Of World
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        Lock icon Arrests down
        59 6 JUVENILES THE number of crimes by youths was down last year. In 1998, 2,400 juveniles were arrested, compared to last year's 1,500. Most arrests were for theft. Police said joint programmes between schools, the National Crime Prevention Council and the Home Team had helped reduce such crime. The
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      58 6 nie New Straits Times: US help for ^-economy International Herald Tribune: Farmers are enemy', Mugabe tells nation nie Asian Wall Street Journal: Asian Tiarkets gain as investors return SBC news: President Mugabe of Zimbabwe las described white farmers as enemies of the state and accused them of
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      Lock icon Wiring up the CBD
      137 7 in F®€us ABOUT 10 per cent of the Central Business District will have broadband access by this year-end. The wiring-up is set to speed up as landlords find that their buildings cannot be left out of the broadband loop. According to 1-Net chief executive Mock Pak
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      Lock icon No tech board
      69 7 STOCKS The Singapore Exchange (SGX) will not set up a separate technology board for the trading of higher-risk technology stocks as its role is not to distinguish, for investors, stocks with varying degrees of risk. Said SGX senior vice-president Ho Yew Mun: "(It) would mean that someone
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      Lock icon 'Not enemies'
      58 7 HONGKONG PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong reassured Hongkong yesterday that Singapore does not regard it an enemy. "We have always treated Hongkong as a benchmark for enterprise. We have a healthy respect and admiration for your resilience and business talent. "I find Hongkong's acute sense of rivalry with
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      64 7 The Straits Times: S'pore is No. 2 again even as Asian rivals lose ground The Business Times: Pressure on business landlords to go broadband Lianhe Zaobao: PM Goh: China will safeguard "one China" principle at all costs Berita Harian: Compulsory education does not necessarily mean the demise
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      Lock icon No prison
      66 7 COURT A TEENAGER, who robbed a taxi driver, might not go to prison thanks to his parents. Chief Justice Yong Pung How said Shah Amir Singh's (right) parents could help in his rehabilitation as they are experienced counsellors. The 16-year-old had been sentenced to 40 months' jail and
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      Lock icon Park here
      56 7 BOOK MR TAN See Hui (right) decided to do something about his parking offences. The 26-year-old engineer has published Singapore's first Parking Guide, priced at $4. Besides parking laws and Electronic Road Pricing charges, the 48-page book claims to list 99 per cent of all parking sites and
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    • The two sides of Gus Dur
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        Lock icon HE'S CAPABLE
        47 7 Quote Wworthy President Abdurrahman Wahid and Indonesia deserve international support. (He) offers the best prospects to restore stability and preserve Indonesia's integrity. Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in Hongkong yesterday. He was urging Hongkong companies to help the Indonesian economy recover by investing there
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        Lock icon HE TRAVELS TOO MUCH
        51 7 (ius Dur cannot play the role of a rallying figure in his Cabinet because he is never around... We elected him because we thought he was the best bet for national reconciliation. He has shattered our dreams and is digging his own grave. National Assembly chairman
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      141 7 38 HB (Good) For a better world... as at Bam this morning W6 CciTC Give her a satisfying homecooked bonus. Fashion Show Attractive Lucky Draw Prizes ft Door Gifts 25-28 April $26 per person In addition to our traditional Curry Rice Buffet, you can spoil your secretary and yourself with
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  • HEALTHTODAY
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      Lock icon Don't lose your liver
      619 8  -  By Carol Leong LAST week a British newspaper, the Daily Mai) carried a report about geese in France. How they are force-fed with a kilo of maize every day. The reason? To make their livers swell 10 times their normal size. The result is that prized
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      Lock icon BEWARE OF HEPATITIS
      277 8 AS MANY as 200,000 Singaporeans are believed to be hepatitis carriers. Hepatitis means inflammation of the liver. There are several types of hepatitis. In Singapore, the most common types are A, B, C and E. You can catch Hepatitis B by drinking from an infected friend's mug
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      Lock icon Your questions answered
      205 8 Q: I have a three-year-old daughter who is prone to flu. I am worried about my in-laws who are looking after her. They get unnecessarily worried when she's sick and they tend to change doctors. Is it good to switch doctors especially when antibiotics are given? If
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    452 9 SINGAPORETODAY THE roof fell on this business. Blame it on the weather. The canvas top tumbled like a house of cards in yesterday's storm. With a whoosh, the strong winds accompanying the rain blew off the pasar malam (night market )'s canvas top, said Mr Huam Chew Kooi, 43.
    Report and Picture/ Florence Tan  -  452 words
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  • SPEAKUP
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      Lock icon Will you ever act?
      279 11 Catherine, e-nuil I AM terribly upset after reading the articles on handphone theft published on April 14 and 15. How can the handphone companies be so ignorant about this matter? As the writer said: "If all the handphone companies maintain their slack attitude towards handphone thefts,
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      Lock icon Try insuring your handphone
      70 11 Lynn Ong, e-mail Perth, Australia IN Perth, the phone companies provide a range of insurance plans to protect users' mobile phones against theft, loss or damage. For Optus, there are three types of plans, namely, SafeGuard Basic, SafeGuard Essential and SafeGuard Business. For international students like
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      Lock icon At no time was elephant in any danger
      289 11 Robin Goti, Assistant Manager (PR), SINGAPORE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS With reference to Mr Herbert Teo's letter in The New Paper on April 14, we would like to thank him for his concern over our elephant Gambir and the means of her transportation to
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      439 12 How do you make a student fall love a sonnet? Or see 0 poem? Enthusiasm As a there are many ways to interesting. If you are rub off on your The love for learning, which you inspire today, will stay *pr with your students long after they have left school.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon 'S' now a series of dots
      70 13 mukmuk Leow CheeTsai, 51, supervisor off the telemarketing team, manning the SPH Shares's hotline, became Wind in a motor accident when he was m Everything changed. I had to start from scratch, and it was harder because I used to have sight. Learning Braille
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      Lock icon Can you recognise them?
      209 13 Check out the next issue of The New Paper on Sunday for all their names. DO you know who these five men are? They are former Members of Parliament people who once held our future in their hands. They were at one time, were very much
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon THE CONTEST
      119 17 MAID OF THE YEAR FINALISTS THE search for the Maid of the Year is almost over. Our panel of judges has narrowed the field to 10 finalists. Since Sunday, we've been featuring two finalists each day. When we've featured all 10 finalists, it'll be time for you, the
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      Lock icon Madam hears only her voice
      513 17  -  BY Azhar Ghani SHE cut short her marriage leave. When her father died, she wasn't even by his side. Madam Jocelyn Eusibio Bayudan, 27, did go home to visit her very sick father. But she rushed back to Singapore because she was worried about her
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      Lock icon Serving as her legs
      386 17 MIL 15 an HtM |SAU A! l^. AAJ 141 more On and off, Madam Creesencia Caburno, J3, ha* been wiving as back-up leg* for »even-year-old Celestine. Celestine, who has mild cerebral palsy, haw iifTiculty walking. The muscles In her right leg arc rather weak and she
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
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      Lock icon THEY LIVED WITH A DEAD FATHER
      753 18 Two sisters, agedfive and three, remained in a house for three days while their father lay dead in the bathroom. They were found only after neighbours alerted the police of an unbearable stench. JASON TAN visits the family's Kuala Lumpur house and is struck
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      Lock icon Neighbours afraid to call police
      325 18 SHOULDNT the neighbours have called the police earlier? Surely they must have realised something was amiss when they didn't see Mr Wang for a few days. "I thought he was just sick and was sleeping at home," said his neighbour of 15 years, Mr Ng,
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    230 19 WORLDTODAY They went for the jump of their lives. Now they are hanging on to their lives by a thread. Two teenagers are in a serious condition in hospital after a bungee jump went horribly wrong, reports Lianhe Wanbao. They leapt off a high platform in
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    406 20 MALAYSIATODAY Source: Bernama, The New Straits Times. HOW does it feel to lose and lose? One should ask Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, the Kelantan prince who lost out by just one nomination to run for the No 3 post, the vice-presidency, in Malaysia's biggest political party, the United
    Source: Bernama, The New Straits Times.  -  406 words
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Nailed mail!
      77 21 inn I*llllll* US President Bill Clinton made a joke at Ms own expense when a nine-year-old boy asked him how he uses the Internet He rspHed that he has shopped online but doesnt use electronic mail. (The Justice Department is looking into thousands of incoming White House e-mail
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      Lock icon What's in a name? Plenty!
      294 21 HRRMPH. I'M A... IF you want happy workers, you have to call them names. Good names. Even if you can't afford to pay them well, they'll be satisfied if you give them higher-sounding positions. A report published yesterday revealed that office workers have become so
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      Lock icon The 'Black Widow' of China
      330 22 FOUR YEARS, FIVE MURDERS SHE is a human "Black Widow" as deadly as the female spider of the same name, which is known to kill its mate. Though just 22 years old, Liu Qiong has already been married five times. And she has confessed to
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      Lock icon 'What would you do with the culprit?'
      486 23 RAPE OF 91-YEAR-OLP WOMAN YOU have the power to sentence a man found guilty of bashing and raping a 91-year-old woman. What would you do with him? That was one of the questions asked of 500 local men in the Australian country town
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      Lock icon Guess what she's eyeing? Hollywood
      183 23 WOW! Look at those groovy specs! They're called "Britney Spears" sunglasses, after the famous US pop star wearing them here. The 18-year-old singing sensation, whose album, Baby One More Time, made her a household name, flashed her pearly whites and flaunted her newly-created glasses during
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      441 25 These X-men are the blips that show up on the X-ray screen. But unlike the comic book characters, they have no superhuman powers. Britain's illegal immigrants can no longer beat the Customs, thanks to the latest high-tech scanner used by British immigration officials IT doesn't
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      Lock icon It's all up again on Wall Street
      199 26 Source: Wire services. REPORTS of strong earnings by US companies helped to drive up US share prices yesterday* The tech-heavy Nasdaq surged 254.41 points, or 7.19 per cent, to 3,*****. The Dow Jones went up 185 points, or 1.75 per cent, to dose
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      Lock icon Buy, hold or sell?
      400 26  -  SMALL INVESTOR: By Suresh Kumar THAT is one question that nobody not even the Wall Street gurus has an answer to. Most market experts are advising their clients to take a wait-and-see attitude until the dust settles. Some have suggested giving the markets a week or
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    625 27  -  lslploltWilglhltl REPORT A PICTURES JONATHAN CHOO InCambodta THIS "amusement centre" is unique. No, it's nothing as simple as shooting with plastic guns in front of a screen. This is the real thing. The Pkor Loan Club is a real shooting range
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      Lock icon Andrea deals a knockout
      734 28  -  Mark Richmond blacks out for 15 mins By Seto Nu-wen BROODING Mark Richmond looks like hell punch the daylights out of anyone who crosses his path. Instead, he got his lights knocked out big time. And by willowy Andrea De Cruz, no less. He blacked out
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      Lock icon Four to quit TCS
      400 29 FOUR 1997 Star Search winners are saying goodbye to the Television Corporation of Singapore. Amanda Ho, Michelle Low, Sean Tang and Deborah Sim will leave by the end of the month, Shin Min Daily News reported. It's their third year in show business, and none has
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      Lock icon Beginning to live again
      358 30  -  By Seto Nu-wen IN KUALA LUMPUR BATTERED wife. Divorced mother of two. But the pint-sized Malaysian jazz singer, Sheila Majid, has bounced back to life. She won four awards at the Anugerah Industri Muzik (AIM) Awards in Kuala Lumpur last Saturday. One of them, Song Of
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      Lock icon SHOW INFO
      67 30 Sheila Majid will be in town for Diva Concert 2000 this Sunday. The concert will also feature fellow Malaysian Siti Nurhaliza, Indonesian Hetty Koes Endang and Singaporean pop star Anita Sarawak. WHAT: Konsert DIVA WHERE: Harbour Pavilion WHEN: April 23,8.15pm TICKETS: $100, $80 and $60, available only from
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    Lock icon Lousy job? Don't whine Quit
    467 31  -  mmm CETERA WITH RIANA ZAKIR IF you have struck lottery and are rich enough to work for free, will you? Do you love your job enough to return to your cubicle day after day without pay? Some people actually will. I enjoy my job a
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    229 44 PICK OF THE DAY This three-year-old son of Exploding Prospect looks set to recoup the losses. Was an expensive failure at his debut last month. However, has been working diligently and should stamp his mark against five mediocre rivals, which include two stablemates.
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    643 44 TODAY'S KRANJI (SAND TRACK) RACE CARD Going forecast: Good No. L—I» mm Hoot Wl fUflng Joctoy Bantu tnkm-cmrm) 1 5-369- ISLEOFMAKO 59 (48) *EAs!amc2.5 1 (3ac Leck-Prospenty) 2 *****7 LUCKY VICTORIES 57.5 (45) *RUmc2.5 2 (3ac Thwaites-Lucky) 3 6-56-8 DESTRIER 56.5 (43) 'BTai 7 (4eg Thwaites-INC) 4 56-864 IOTA 56.5
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    103 44 UNLIKE turf races, the Singapore Turf Club has three ratings to describe the state of track for sand races. They are: "Firm", "Good" and "Yielding". Firm means a fast track and is a result of heavy rain after which the sand track becomes more compact. Good is similar
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    547 45  -  YESTERDAY'S GOING AT KRANJITRACKWORK: GOOD By Danny Khoo LAST-START winner Titleist showed impressive form at Kranji yesterday. With jockey Ernie Marchant up, the Regal Classic three-year-old drew notice when he went as well as stablemate Mighty Power in a smart 36sec hit-out over the last 600
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    211 45 RESULTS of yesterday's barrier trials over I,ooom on the fibresand track. The going was good; TRIAL 1:1 Mr Speedy (apprentice YF Leong) 2 Celebrity Look (KL Oo) 3 Hanks (D Walker) 4 Pacific Dragon (YH Lim) 5 Hopkins (apprentice T Ong) 6 Hard To Resist (I Saifudin,
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    142 45 YESTERDAY'S workouts by horses engaged tonight: RACE 1: Isle Of Mako (trainer C Leek) sped over 600 m in 39.2. Slow work: Swift Grey, Zafiro. RACE 2: Blue Chip Broker (Leek) did a smart 38.3. Slow work: Arabian Connection. RACE 3: Nimitz went stride for stride
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    166 45  -  BY Lionel Lee TRAINER Patrick Busuttin will introduce The Mighty Finn, a proven performer at Group level in New Zealand, at Kraxiji on Saturday. The Mighty Finn is the only newcomer entered for the meeting. A five-year-old grey New Zealand-bred gelding by McGinty out of Our Rosalee, The
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    281 46  -  By' Tan Thean Loon THE virus scare at Kranji is well under control. And, yes, there is no danger of racing being disrupted. So said the Singapore Turf Club (SNTC) is a faxed response on the virus issue. There were a lot of talk last week that
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    907 46 NST RIVER VOLK geared up for his maiden success in the Class 2 Div 1 event over 1,200 m on Saturday with an eyecatching trial in Penang yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-old New Zealand-bred went as well as seasoned
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      189 46 ALAS, there was no HK$l million (S$210,000) bonus for globe-trotting French galloper Jim And Tonic. The carrot was his to take if he had captured last Sunday's Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup. He won the same race last year, as well as the Hongkong Cup and
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      99 46 A DAY at the races need not completely be a' serious gambling affair. The Singapore Turf Club (SNTC), for one, always makes sure of it. True to its spirit of adding entertainment value to racing, the SNTC will spice up tonight's meeting with some exciting Peruvian
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      409 47  -  Parents sent him to study here. Now, he's Dunman High's top basketballer FACTFILE Name: Miyao Shiro Age: 16 Born: Kobe, Japan Height: 1.67 m Weight 53kg Plays: Forward Hobbies: Playing basketball Favourite NBA player. Jason Williams (Sacramento Kings) Reports/ Lim Han Ming MIYAO Shiro is his name.
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      234 47 TENNIS TENNIS fans, cry your hearts out. World top-notchers Michael Chang, Marcelo Rios, Mark Philippoussis and Lleyton Hewitt may never play in Singapore again. Reason: Heineken has backed out from sponsoring this year's Open. The Open's organiser ESPN Star Sports Event Sports Management Group
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        118 48 TOMORROW'S BIG MATCH: MAN U v REAL MADRID [2.30 am s pore time) SO-O was not the suit away from ause Real now know they can change things round with a goal at Old Trqfford. But all we've got to do is win on the night. It's
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        48 48 I mU&£ sess his form because in the ttitfjfMwvti he has played, he has come on in the last 20 minutes. I saw the game on Saturday night against Zaragoza and he won the penalty and we know enough about Anelka to be aware qf him.
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        14 48 train today andhe something really special tomorrow but he has a chance.
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        85 48 have been fantastic in the last few weeks, I really do. I could not ask for more from them. It's the best they have been playing together, no doubt. In terms of natural energy they are blessed with that. I don't think in the modern-day game
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      356 48 I CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Q-FINALS (S-LEG) FIRST LEG VALENCIA 5 LAZIO 2 SECOND LEG LAZIOI VALENCIA 0 Veron 52 Valencia wins 5-3 on aggregate Wire services. THE tragedy was not only for Lazio. It was for all Italy. Lazio was the only Italian team left in the Champions League.
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      845 49  -  COMMENT EDWIN YEO THIS man Rivaldo. He misses a penalty four minutes before he could have sealed the match for Barcelona. The match goes into extra-time. Nine minutes later, another penalty is given to Barcelona. Guess who takes it? Rivaldo. Guess what happens? He scores. And
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      259 49 FIRST LEG: CHELSEA 3 BARCELONA 1 AGGREGATE: BARCELONA 6 CHELSEA 4 Barcelona 1-0 (Aggregate: Chelsea 3-2) 24th minute: Didier Deschamps upends Rivaldo outside the penalty box. The Brazilian gets up and takes revenge with deflected goal off the free-kick. (See graphic.) Barcelona 2-0 (3-3 on aggregate,
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      287 49 |THE TALKING POINTj SURESH NAIR WHY didn't Swede referee Anders Frisk wait for a second before blowing for the 86th-minute penalty? If he had played the advantage, Barcelona striker Patrick Kluivert's goal would have stood. And Barcelona would've taken a 5-4
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      219 49 BIG FORMATIONS: Thousands of Barcelona fans formed gigantic card-formations before the start of the match to signal '2-0' to indicate to the players the scoreline they looked forward to in order to make it to the semi-finals. A 2-0 home win would have tied the match at
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      40 50 TAMPINES V JURONG (Tampines Stadium) GOMBAKvBALESTIER (Bukit Gombak Stadium) Both matches start at 7.30pm CALL INFOLINE Call 1900-*****13 after 8.30pm for the half-time score and after 9.30pm for full-time results. Calls cost 30 cents a minute.
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      66 50 U 1- L..1L,, I- I-,,. rUnvTy Drotn€r"in*»3w of Gombak United dcfnidtf Sywi AM: I pick Gombak to win 2-0 because its Thai players are very good, especially Surachai Jatturapattarapong. Eilena Khusnin, cousin of TdmpiMS Rovers defender Jaslee Hatta: Tampines Will win 1-0. It is playing on home ground.
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      17 50 SGULAM: Tampinesl Jurong2 Gombak 2 BalestierO UM HAN MING: Tampines2 Jurong2 Gombak 2 Balestier 1
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      114 50 Latest odds (9.lsam)^ TAMPINES v GOMBAK v JURONG BALESTIER Ix 2: Ix 2: (1) Tampines: (1) Gombak: $3.70 $1.30 (x) Draw: $3.40 (x) Draw: $4.50 (2) Jurong: (2) Balestier: $1.75 $6.80 1/2 GOAL: 1/2 GOAL Tampines: Gombak: (+ll/2) $1.33 (-11/2) $1.95 Jurong: Balestier: (-11/2) $2.90 (+ll/2) $1.70 TOTAL
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      472 50  -  THE BIG MATCH; TAMPINES ROVERS v JURONG FC BY Wang Meng Meng VSELVARAJ was once Singapore's most-feared striker. He was as fast as greased lightning. Hed had the knack of scoring important goals, s And he was a Malaysia Cup hero in 1994. Lately, very little has
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      64 50 Name: V Selvaraj Age: 30 Family: Wife Gayatri Devi Club: Tampines Rovers Previous club: SAFFC Position: Striker/Midfielder Honours: Malaysia Cup Champion 1994, Malaysian League Champion 1994, Premier League (predecessor to the S-League) Golden Boot 1995, S-League Pioneer Series Champion 1996, S-League Champion 1997, 1998; FA Cup 1997, Singapore Cup
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