The New Paper, 28 May 2000

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  • 528 2 C NE f v 4 Source: Wire services. THE choice could not have been more painful for Mrs Marta Milagro Pascual. The Peruvian mother, who had four months earlier given birth to Siamese twins, was asked to make a decision which no mother
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  • NEWS
    • 1134 4  -  by Gloria Chandy CLIMB every mountain. That could well be his personal anthem in every sense of the word. Steven Chiang, 33, recently made it to the top of Mount Kinabalu. Last year he successfully scaled Mount Ophir. Conquered its peak too.
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    • 373 5 DR Chiang Hai Ding, now Economic Adviser to Neptune Orient Lines, said of his son, Steven: "He is courageous and determined. He hasn't given up. I like the phrase used in an awareness campaign once by the National Council of Social Services: Disabled Doesn't
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    • 135 5 Steven's presence was inspiring and motivating. Initially everybody was a little apprehensive. But he is physically very Jit. And his determination to reach the summits made everyone feel that if he could do it, so could we. Kelvin Ang, a
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    • 998 6  - The people of Singapore through an expat's eyes Everybody's Talking was launched at Borders two weeks ago. It is available at MPH, Page One, Kinokuniya, Select bookstores and stores under the EMF chain. By Gloria Chandy HE'S been scolded by angry old women in Chinatown. Wet-market stall holders have threatened
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    • 208 6 LAST week, two American teen brothers, Will and Jonathan Ashton, wrote to say they wanted to make more friends. Here, we feature one of the responses to the brothers. Impressive column Dear Gus, 1 need your help. I need you to help me pass a letter to
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    • 162 6 THE Expat Page comes on faithfully every Sunday. Started more than a year ago, it features expats from all over the world. They tell us what it is like living here, what are some of the toughest decisions and adjustments they have to make, what they like or dislike
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    • 1476 8  -  if the Internet is your regular playground. you've probably heard of Selena Sol... "She" is famous in cyberspace as a "girl" with brains, a Net icon. "She" is the "surprisinggirl" to be introduced this week, the one who was at eXtropia years before any of
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    • 156 8 MOST people saw the funny side of it after finding out that Selena Sol is a "he man". But eXtropia president Tachibana recalled that one woman was upset with him She's Sue Braiden, CEO of Frontiers, a 3-D virtual world community. He said: "She said, 'How could
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    • 1435 9 u NG WAN CHING the times of her life Jannie Tay of The Hour Glass tells AT first glance, it would seem that life has dealt Dr Jannie Tay a fantastic hand As you step into her Nassim Road home, it strikes you
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    • 696 9 MBHir llinaa IM air— ,IL. |L, IA/nirßi iivosc ywrs of expanding uic business 200 looking after Sabrina, Dr Jannie Tay felt Audrey and Michael suffered because they received less attention from her. "ft, ,111 1J ■1L 1 m a ~a_ at rarnciHany Auorcy f Doc3irse hw was uic
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  • 882 11  -  Z»yQ Do You Remember? Do You Remember? By Gloria Chandy The whiff of Singapore Girl enters the room, followed by its fragant owner as she glides noiselessly into the lounge, head erect, ever elegant. She is, after all, co-creator of the world renowned per fume Christina Balsara,
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    486 12 Vigilance and agility win the day, as two police officers nab mystery car thief. I The following two-page advertorial is brought to you by The Singapore Police Force. It portrays the realism in police work and the challenges the police force faces. Part One appeared yesterday in
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  • 446 13 The rule of the thumb is to be R.E.A.D.Y. Police officers need to have Resilience, be Equipped with tools and skills, have the right Attitude towards change and improvement, self Discipline, and Yearning to do a good job. For more information on a career as a Junior Officer
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  • 82 13 Police officers also get involved in the community and work hand in hand with members of the public to crack crimes. Sometimes, even the smallest bit of information from the public can serve as a huge clue in solving a case. That's why SSgt Shaari and his
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    • 64 14 I SALE OF THE 21 ST CENTURY, THE HOUR GLASS SCOTTS S C. ATRIUM Lin conjunction with the Great Singapore Sale, The Hour Glass is offering top international timepieces at fabulous prices up to 80% off. Don't miss out on this 6 day Sale at fabulous offers! Scotts Shopping Centre
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  • 562 15  -  BROUGHT TO YOU BY -fa W By Ivan Lim lvanl@sph.com.sg HE thinks it is funny, seeing one thousand people in tears. "I would like to do a small movie that would make the entire audience cry, that would be the ultimate," he says,
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  • 497 18  -  n^o By Lingam Ponnampalam I WAS staring at stars last night, but I couldn't name a single one. The arcane science in question was not astronomy, but South Indian cinema. So it was with sweaty palms that I went backstage of the Silver Screen MGR
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  • @ A GLANCE
    • 262 20 IN an about-turn, the Home Affairs Ministry (MHA) will allow most of the 12 foreign spouses who were repatriated because they have the Aids virus to return to Singapore. The change in policy came just hours yesterday after Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong commented at
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    • 46 20 THIS lion at a zoo in Wichita, Kansas, in the US is separated from visitors by a 2.5 cm-thick glass wall. The Sedgwick County Zoo Pride of the Plains exhibit opened yesterday, and is delighting visitors. Picture/ Ap
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 95 20 THERE will not be a five-day work week for the civil service, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday. He explained that such a move could have far-reaching consequences on the economy. Instead, he will leave it to the individual departments to decide on their own working
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      • 92 20 THE latest computer virus disguises itself by pretending to be a resume from a job applicant. Called Killer Resume, it is spreading through e-mail systems using Microsoft Outlook. Several corporate e-mail systems in the US have been hit. The subject line of the e-mail reads: "Resume Janet
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      • 99 20 A SINGAPOREAN family arrested recently at the KL International Airport for stealing baggage are said to be wanted for serious crimes here. The 49-year-old man, his wife, 39, their son aged eight and daughter aged six, went to Malaysia on a social visit pass in 1997, and turned
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      • 92 20 A NEW Jersey student who missed a maths homework assignment got smacked by a group of his classmates. The maths teacher, Maxie Rivers, has been accused of ordering them to take turns at the boy. The teacher has been suspended with pay, while Hillcrest School investigates. A doctor
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      • 87 20 THE Environment Ministry may examine crayons imported into Singapore, following reports that these crayons may cause cancer. An ENV spokesman said yesterday that it will monitor the results of a US study by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which claimed that crayons used by children worldwide could contain
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      • 103 20 THAI women desperate to get into Japan are donning fake flight attendant uniforms and walking through the staff-only passage at the Osaka Airport. Japanese police suspect that more than 20 women, with the help of "brokers", have already smuggled themselves in using this method. They pay these
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      • 191 20 ALL of Fyi's President's actions are unconstitutional, said deposed Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry's Labour Party. Yesterday, President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara swore in Ratu Tevita Momoedonu as Prime Minister, had him dismiss Mr Chaudhry and his Cabinet, advised that Parliament be suspended and then made Mr Momoedonu
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    • 185 20 Qn£>us] MORE than 1,000 people got richer by exposing their employers and other companies which used illegal software. Some of them got $10,000 each. However, the top reward of $20,000 still remains unclaimed. Business Software Alliance (BSA), a non-profit software watchdog that represents IT giants such as Microsoft,
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    • 84 20 GET ON THE CATWALK: Dress up in artist Sanjot Kaur Sekhon's clothes, put on some makeup, then strut on the catwalk. You check out how you did on video and stills. It's at the Substation and it's free, from 11 am to 9 pm. TOP DOG: Check
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    • 60 20 WEATHER TODAY Showers with thunder are expected in the afternoon over many areas. i m H •-rJ' -.-V Weather Air Quality PSI: 34 .Heolrhy) north Thunderstorms west Thunderstorms central Thunderstorms sooth Showers east Showers minimum maximum 2S% 34 sunrise 6:56 am sunset 7:08 pm 2:19 am 2:40 pm first tide
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  • 650 21  -  [the weeiH Guest editor DANA LAM-TEO President, Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) Actor Lim Kay Siu THE Great Singapore Sale starts this week, no, next, er, actually, you're a couple of days late if you haven't already
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  • NEWS
    • 255 23  -  CANNES REVISITED: BY SYLVIA CANNES brings out one's best and worst. Just look at this page. We've been loitering here the French Riviera this last decade and we still don't know how to make better pictures. Come to that, neither do some of the actors
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    • 205 23 IT was Asia's night at the presentation ceremony in Cannes 2000. "It was hard to decide, as the general level of the selection was quite high," said Luc Besson, president of the jury of the 53rd International Festival of Film in Cannes 2000. But, "artistic expression from Asia
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    • 288 24 TOH PAIK CHOO THE secret of Tony Leung Chiu-Wai's screen success appears to be ta-da! NOT having a buddy-buddy working relationship with director Wong Kar-Wai. "Wong Kar-Wai and I are not friends," the Hongkong i actor told me just hours before he walked away with
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  • NEWS
    • 874 25 THE ABU SAYYAF TERROR PART 2: MORE ON THE FORGOTTEN HOSTAGES Last week, we featured the children who were dragged away as hostages into the Abu Sayyaf s ruthless world. They were not the only ones. LINGAM PONNAMPALAM speaks to others, both those seized
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    • 355 25 TIME crawls. So they sit in the gloom of their tears and fears. They wait. They hope. They pray. They want nothing more than to have their children returned to them. Normalcy has been cast to the wind and their lives have ground to
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    • 323 25 EDEN Lanosa must be preparing to offer a thanksgiving mass today. When she spoke to The New Paper on Sunday a week ago, she promised: "If Billy gets out, the first thing IH do is offer a thanksgiving mass." Then, the 42-year-old housewife was
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    • 472 25  -  COMMENT LINGAM PONNAMPALAM WHILE working on this story, I was looking at Basilan through foreign eyes. Educated, affluent Singaporean eyes. This perspective got me rankled from yelling through crackling phone lines, indignant that pictures could not be e-mailed to me.
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    • Article, Illustration
      1379 26 He wants to donate his sperm He advertises in the Internet He meets and vets the mums-to-be EMILY is six months old She has his eyes and his nose. Actually, she's a spitting image of him when he was a baby. Mr Alan Jones remembered the day
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    • 267 28 ONE of the smallest babies ever to be born and survive has just been allowed to go home. South Korean baby Choi Ji-won (above) was roughly the size of a grownup's hand She weighed in at an incredible 486 g at
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    • 264 28 AN Australian MP is under psychiatric care following an incident in which a car with a hose attached to its exhaust was seen in a forest park. A ranger called police after being told of a man at the rear of the car and two
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    • 582 29 INDONESIAN PRESIDENT'S BROTHER UNDER FIRE THE two Indonesian brothers were born 12 years apart. But the age gap hasn't stopped Mr Hasyim Wahid, 47, from being very close to his elder brother, President Abdurrahman Wahid "It seems to be a special relationship possibly dating from
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    • 375 30  -  By Surinder Singh IN CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA SINGAPORE Girls are known for their charm and grace. Now some of them have shown that they have a heart too. Recently, Singapore Airlines gathered 16 children suffering from cancer at a special five-day camp organised by Camp Quality,
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    • 134 30 QUALITY gets quantity. Since January this year, SIA has been a major sponsor of Camp Quality. The carrier will also help it launch and support new programmes in other countries Said Mr T O Thoeng, an SIA senior vice-president: "We were not satisfied with merely donating cash and
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  • 996 32  -  f And hopeiully for Bittersweet, there'll be many more fans like Kevin M out there. |4 x muster re?K fa khjiteae 1 fer 4 tMfah 1 by MICHELLE CHOH Bittersweet. A name that epitomises the band perfectly Not just with the kind of music it plays, but
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  • Article, Illustration
    707 33 You want to buy a pair of sports shoes. You walk into a store and find yourself staring at a mind-boggling array of shoes. Which is the right one for you? Reporter MICHELLE CHOH and infographic journalist LEE HUP KHENG lend you a hand HOW TO I CHOOSE
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    • 745 33 r SPORT STARS FANTASY SHOES s, Yusof Alias, 28, national sprinter Yusof wants to take off like a speeding bullet at the word GO! But he also wants a secret baby rocket attached to his shoes to give him a little super-charged turbo boost. So that for the last 30
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  • 243 34 PETE and Pepe have been sweating it out in the current hot spell. Their main priority these days has been to keep cool as the temperatures soar. Cookie Jar brings you some tips on coping with the heat. Drink, drink, drink This is basic Make sure
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  • 229 35  -  f By Trudy Lim trudy@sph.com.sg Blot, blot, blot In hot weather, your skin gets greasy. Facial blotters are indispensable for keeping your skin shine free. Cold, cold, cold This describes the food you should be eating. Go for salads. And chill them well. Salads
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  • SeenHeardl SHARP
    • 67 36 THE MOVIE Any Given Sunday takes an intimate look at a cross-section of American football, from the players to their coaches, their families, the moneyed team owners and corporations trying to control the game, the hungry sports media and the hangers-on trying to get a taste
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    • 371 36  - When it's bad, it's bad but when it's good... by LINGAM PONNAMPALAM THINK Oliver Stone and you think an outing into politics. His approach is always the same look at the power struggles, the power brokers, and the powerless. In other words, politicise the whole damn thing. This time around,
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    • 87 37  -  Edited by Lingam Ponnampalam lingam@sph.com.sg Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino) tells Willie Beamen (jamie Foxx) matter-of-factly: "On any given Sunday, you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is, cam you win or lose like a man?" Star quarterback Cap Rooney (Dennis Quaid) is in hospital with an
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    • 344 37  -  by MICHELLE CHOH ANY Given Sunday is one dark, cynical movie. Everyone, and I mean everyone, has an agenda in this movie. And often, it's about money, or more accurately, the pursuit of it. The movie is about America's favourite sport., football But football only represents one
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    • 170 37 Roger Ebert in his online review "Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday is a smart sports movie almost swamped by production overkill. The movie alternates sharp and observant dramatic scenes with MTV-style montages and incomprehensible sports footage. It's a miracle the underlying story survives, but it does... I guess
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    • 241 37 What's your name again? THE manager of a office noticed a new man one day and told him to come into his office. "What's your name?" he asked the new guy. "John," the new guy replied. The manager scowled: "L00k... I don't know what kind of a namby-pamby
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
    • 479 38 r"| f CALL: 873-3333 I Jn 24-hour subscription sales hotline movies Tempting Heart I Opm Rou and Jun fall in love at first sight toc j a y The Audrey Hepburn story However, they break off because of £1 (Parti) resistance from her mother. At this This is the captivating
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  • Page 39 Miscellaneous
    • 505 39 Highlight of the Week mon French Open Tennis (Live) spm Last year's winner Steffi Graf will not Hbe on hand to defend her tide. Instead. Graf will be in the stands cheering on boyfriend Andre Agassi. Coincidental!/, Agassi was also last f 21 mill# year's winner. Will he deny his
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  • 1106 40  -  f/enue] Edited by Crispina Robert crispina@sph.com.sg -JL THE people of Northern Ireland usually have a good pair of walking shoes And for good reason too. Northern Ireland, with a land area 17,000 km square kilometres, is a pretty big place. And walking is the best way
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  • Aggie MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
    • 264 42 I'M 25 years old and have been with a guy for four years. He is 32, very egoistic, hot-tempered and unromantic. He always complains that I don't trust him. So I tried to change, to trust him more. But it seems he is now taking
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    • 236 42 ALWAYS Sad has been married to A for four years. But they cannot get along. Whenever A feels like having sex, he will impose himself on her, even if she is already asleep. They do not have time to talk to each other
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    • 161 42 IF your husband goes home to show care and concern towards his birds, why not to his family? I think his reaction to you and your kids could be caused by some third party interference. Try and talk to his close friends to find
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    • 168 42 BEING married for four years and having two children appears to be quite a mammoth task for your husband. Especially that of coping with young children. But while he may be having problems coping, he does not show it or talk about it. You could, perhaps, help
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    • 568 43 I'M 23 years old. I have problems with my fiance, who is actually my husband, as we have registered our marriage at the Registry of Marriages. We intended to hold our wedding dinner next year but now, I don't want to go through it after
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    • 375 43 I HAVE a boyfriend and he is nice to me. But in the past, there was a guy, J. We met on the Internet and I like him very much. We talked on the phone every night. But after we met, he stopped calling
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    • Puberty Dr Lim Su Min clears the air ove teen sex issues
      • 255 43 I AM a 14-year-old girl Q studying in a reputable girls' school. When I was a child, I had some bad sexual experiences. Could this be a contributory factor to lesbianism? You see, over the years, I have developed an intense interest in
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      • 169 43 I HAVE been sticking Q items up my anus. I do this because I am curious about how it feels like to have anal sex. Is this dangerous? Will I contract any diseases? Is there any reason why I should stop? Also, as a 14-year-old boy,
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    • 44 42 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 43 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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    • 876 44 [TVtoda "I Turn The Rock Audrey Hepburn Story Channel 5,7 pm Hallmark (Ch 36), Bpm Ever After An army general-turned-villain holds Jennifer Love Hewitt stars as Star Movies (Ch 58), 9 pm I hostages in the prisons of Alcatraz and world-renowned actress Audrey This is a variation from the classic
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  • 685 45  -  r n I A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN BY SINGAPORE'S THEATRE TEASE by R Chandran AND they are coming soon. I received proof of this while standing by my letterbox with the complete copy of the Saturday newspaper tucked in my armpit. In order to make you read
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  • 368 56 planetcel I n Singapore, there is a ritual which is observed at social meetings. During the introduction, after the name and occupation have been stated, the next question would be "So, where do you live?" A question like that is inevitable after an early morning drinking
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  • RACING
    • 1523 58 TODAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD Going forecast: Good No. Lot 6 runs Hotm Wl Rating Jodwy Brrtw (AgthriqMn, Wtkmnrnm) 1 -068-2 CONVICTION 57.5 (51) *M Djulkjfli <2.5 4 (4nzg Campbell-Mdm SM Wong) 2 000-3 GOOD LEXUS 57.5 (51) *H Mohammad c2.5 7 (4nzg Kelly-lf) 3 26-4- SECRET WIN 57.5 (53)
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    • 674 59  -  By Danny Khoo THE ladies more than held their own against their male rivals at Sungai Besi last weekend when they won four of the 16 races contested. The victorious quartet were Ask You, Mutual Cooperation, Jade's Blessings and Clever Girl. This afternoon, the ladies
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    • 116 59 RACE 2: Miss Energy, Verified, King Lark, Better Health, Spunky Dasher. RACE 3: Young Nelson, Great Expectation, Key Man, His Highness, Squawk Box, House On Aces. RACE 4: Hula Fighter, Queen Romance, Island Gold. RACE 5: Super Warrior, Crystal Magical, Alfred's Princess, Moonstruck. RACE 6: Royal Mandarin. RACE 7:
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    • 524 59 TODAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD Continued No. Lot 6 mm How Wt RiBng Joctay Brrir (Ag«/origl»V»tx, tnkm-cmrm) 1 0-0-90 HIGH MASTER 57 (81) MZaidi 11 (6nzg KH Lim-High Master) 2 *****0 MAGIK WIRA 56 (79) *M Djulkifli c2.5 10 (6ag YF Lee-True Magic) 3 5-9- OCEAN ZODIAC 55.5 (78) M
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  • SPORTS
    • 384 61 NBA PLAYOFFS TO COME Western Conference Final: Game 4: LA Lakers v Portland Trail Blazers (Monday, Singapore time): Lakers lead series 2-1 Eastern Conference: Game 3: New York Knichi>»/ Indiana Pacers (Today): Pacers lead 2-0 Reuters. KOBE Bryant did the damage at the start and then came
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    • 56 61 IBcroeoft co-foandsrs BW Gates (right) and Paul AMen were at coortside for the Trail Mazers-Lakers matck la Portlaad. Gates was aaan lumping far Jay whan the keme team scored vital points out stM apptaaded tha Lakars whan thay Mt a basket. Maybe BM cant afford
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    • 195 61 TENNIS: FRENCH OPEN (STARTS TOMORROW) AP ANDRE Agassi couldn't have chosen a better draw in the French Open if he had picked his opponents himself. And Pete Sampras couldn't have got a much tougher start than the one he received. Agassi, the top-seeded defending champion, faces
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    • 418 62  -  YOUNG LIONS 1 (Baihakki Khaizan 30th) LYNGBY FCI (Carsten Munch 11th) OTHER RESULTS Beijing Guoan (China) 2 Perth FC (Aust) 2 Olympia Athletic FC (Ghana) 3 Wakayama FA (Japan) 0 TOOArS FIXTURES Perth FC v Wakayama FA (5.30pm, Hougang Stadium) Young Lions v Beijing Guon FC (5.30pm, Toa
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    • 293 63  -  'A' DIVISION SOCCER FINAL: RAFFLES JUNIOR COLLEGE 1 VICTORIA JUNIOR COLLEGE 0 BY Alvin Chiang VICTORIA Junior College (VJC) must be wondering why the number seven does not work wonders for it, as it had done for Raffles Junior College (RJC). After a promising first-half
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    • 353 63  -  SAFFC TO CHASING PACK: By Peter Siow YES, that's the message to would-be poachers who want to sign Adi Saleh. The Singapore Armed Forces FC goalkeeper, who will finish his national service next month, is believed to be on the wanted list of
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  • EURO 2000
    • 379 64 Hollywood keen to make hooligan film before Euro 2000 starts IF you have footage of violent soccer-related exploits like this, you can make some quick bucks Yes, Hollywood will pay you substantial cash rewards, reports The Observer Online. Film-makers in California are planning to
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    • 166 64 VICIOUS thugs appear to be given the green light to turn Euro 2000 into a battlefield after cops terrifyingly vowed: "We're going on strike!" Close to 2,000 police officers in Belgium one of the two co-hosts of the event, the other is Holland
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    • 145 66 sth min: Martin Keown has a good header saved by Dida. 9th: Torrential downpour affects game. But both teams maintain enterprising pace. 13th: Alan Shearer heads David Beckham's free-kick straight at goalkeeper Dida from the edge of goal-area 39th: GOAL! England 1-0: Owen shows quick
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    • 632 67 THE stadium is the theatre of life and life can be so cruel on its principal players. Take Stade de France where two years ago Ronaldo fell from his perch as the greatest forward on earth. I can still see him lying on the turf, brooding,
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    • 104 67 A FRIEND of mine watched Brazil training at Wembley the other day. My friend became heroically poetic on the movements of arguably the world's most feared football team that he said it was "like the Joffrey Ballet rehearsing a Nike commercial" But he described the session as lazy,
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