The New Paper, 18 June 2000, Afternoon Edition

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  • NEWS
    • 659 2  -  FATHER'S DAY WORRY FOR MALAYSIAN FAMILY By Desmond Ng FOR many families, today comes with a special meal and presents to honour the man of the house. But for one family in Malaysia, it will be yet another day fraught with worry. Thalr father, Tan Sua
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    • 77 2 HE wanted to "discipline" his wife because she did not visit him while he was in jail for manslaughter. So, Hassan Ibrahim, 59, tied her up and hung her on the washing line outside their fourth-floor apartment in a working-class district of Cairo.
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    • 221 3 NOKIA Connecting People -~fcif r9l i 'k<!i m The new Nokia Care Centre. Designed specially for many of our diehard fans. It's no wonder why the crowds are flocking to Wheelock Place! Simply That's not all! From 20 June onwards, you can personalise your mobile because our new Nokia Care
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  • NEWS
    • 1073 4  -  Her dad decided: 'GIFT' FROM TWIN SISTER By Ng Wan Ching THIS little baby with the cherubic smile has no idea how much she has gone through in her young life. Chong Lih Ying, 59 days old today, was
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    • 574 4 THE SURGERY THE doctor at the centre of the world's first infant hand surgery never expected such a case to land on his lap in his career as a hand surgeon. It was the greatest roller coaster ride
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    • 146 4 THREE team of PP jinrAn-M jj ooctors ana HUMS W6W involved Doctors toofc Vri hours to nmn the donor annonMay 18. They tagged the arteries, The transplant !A- u M vts6fr umeq iroivv 1.30pm to sam the next day. R ins dene at the mid-arm level -a
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    • 481 5 AFTER THE TRANSPLANT THE Selayang Hospital looks very cold and uninhabited from outside. But when I step into the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit (Nicu), that impression fades in an instant. Baby Lih Ying's cot, in a room of her own, is crammed with five nurses
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    • 155 5 1. A hand transplant was performed onAwtraßMCMHalaminLyom, Franca, on Sapt 23,1996. 2. A US team in LoaMte, Kentucky, (wtwra Dr Pathmanathan trainad) performed tha lint hand transplant in tha US on Jan 2S laat year. It ramalns tha only one dona so tar toitha US. parfsnnad in China
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    • 166 6 EmlbMlm HRmiLTon C AMERICAN SINCE 1892 Backin Time i* t* I of the rich American heritage and banished cumbersome manual first digital watch and Automatic winding watches forever and Chronographs from the *****. paving the way for the development UartZ own Hamilton Ventura so much, HoIIVWOOCI S IJ amilton, America's
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  • NEWS
    • 707 7 He's the one whom blind lawyer Steven Chiang credits with inspiring him to conquer two mountains. GLORIA CHANDY meets Mr Ron Chandran-Dudley who, being blind himself, has long been a champion of the physically-disabled THE playing fields are
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    • 278 7 "I FOUND someone stronger than me who helped me find that strength to get back on my feet," says 53-year-old Susan David (not her real name). "As Ron says though, you can get on with your life only if you have the strength yourself. "Whatever help
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  • NEWS
    • 1086 9 My maid can't taka phona messages Sri's home, like most of the others in her village, does not have a phone. When they need to use one, they run across the stone path to the village shop. So Sri and her friends are not used
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    • 421 9 IT is a pleasant, rustic life, for Sri Utama and her family in a little village in Malang, about three hours' drive from Surabaya. From the outside, the homes look almost palatial, with their shiny roof tiles, red brick walls and gleaming wooden
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  • EXPAT
    • 196 10 YOU have written. We have heard. Next week, we will devote the entire Expat Page to your letters. So, if your letter has not been featured, you may want to look out for it. And even if it does not get published next week, we'll find a
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    • 630 10  -  The choice is clear BY V k Santosh Kumar I TRAVEL by BMW Bus, MRT, Walk. So why settle for an HDB flat? Status warrants status. It's a condominium for me. Regal. Royal. Romantic. Glass walls, blue-tiled bathroom, diffused lights, the works. My thinking, on
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    • 563 10 My thoughts as a housing agent Some weeks ago, our writer, Rahul Goswami, wrote about his househunting experience and how he had to deal with agents. You know, people described as those who would use every trick in their bags to market flats. They are, in Mr
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  • NEWS
    • 753 11  - Pachinko parlours Japan's biggest craze REPORTS/ Seto Nu-wen IN TOKYO. JAPAN IN his clean-cut suit, Mr Akihiro Fujiyama is your typical Japanese salaried man. But after work every day, he heads off to more exciting night activities. And it's not the red-light district. Mr Fujiyama, 24, goes to one of
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    • 261 12 I DROPPED by the Maruhan Pachinko Parlour in Shinjuku one Monday night. The brightly-lit parlour, with a seating capacity of at least 200 people, was packed. The clientele ranged from suited yuppies to matronly housewives to immaculate-ly-coiffed young women. The game itself seems impossibly mundane.
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    • 192 12 WHILE gambling is illegal in Japan, pachinko hits a grey area as the winnings are traded for prizes, not cash. A Japanese government survey puts pachinko revenues in 1995 at 32 trillion yen. That's a higher turnover than many of Japan's key manufacturing sectors. Yet, the odds
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  • @ A GLANCE
    • 326 15 CHINESE OR INDIAN PM WELL, the talk around town is that Malaysia may get a new Law Ministry within the government to handle legal affairs. But Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad has denied any such plans. "I don't know anything about it," he said. Before
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 92 15 THREE full-time national servicemen were yesterday convicted of assaulting a lawyer after he ticked off their friend for talking loudly on a mobile phone during a midnight movie. Teo Bee Keong, 21; Soh Wee Ping, 20; and Yong Thiam Hock, 19, were found guilty of causing grievous hurt
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      • 64 15 A MAN fell into a canal in Toa Payoh and floated down the Kallang River towards Potong Pasir. And he lived to tell his tale. The 23-year-old man was found floating near St Andrew's Junior School yesterday evening during a heavy downpour. The incident happened at around
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      • 91 15 COMPUTER failure at Britain's main air traffic control centre grounded flights across the country. Yesterday, air traffic controllers in London had to manually produce crucial flight information. "The controllers still have their radar... but the computer which prints out all the information about a flight is not working,"
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      • 88 15 PANADOL capsules on sale here are safe and have not been contaminated by the poison strychnine, the Health Ministry said yesterday. But following the tampering scare in Australia, the drug's manufacturer, SmithKline Beech am, has voluntarily stopped the import of the product for the time being. At least
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  • INFOCUS
    • 245 16 SOME Singaporeans have been in foreign news recently for the wrong reasons. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) revealed that there are more than 100 Singaporeans in jail overseas. These detainees include former SIA steward Zaini Jeloni, jailed for six years on a manslaughter charge in Los
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    • 92 16 BARBIE FAIR: Little girls below 12 years old, come together to take part in a Little Universe contest. They will be singing, dancing or playing an instrument. Organised by Mattel, the finals is at 3.15 pm today, at the Raffles City Atrium. Even if your daughter is
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    • 75 16 MEAT SLICER?: You wouldn't want to um this on your wont enemy. But It would probably make a good conversation piece In your living room. It may also come In handy for cracking crab shells or nuts. Thai knife-maker Seta Thangthal, 41, makes unique blades from Imported
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    • 92 16 STAFF Sgt Somas undaram Mookaiah, 38, was offered $100,000 to cover up a crime. But he refused.. A man suspected of harbouring illegal immigrants, offered him the amount at a car park in Clementi West on March 13. But the response from the Tanglin police division officer was
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    • 79 16 Source: Wire services MUSLIM rebels have demanded 200 million pesos ($4.7 million dollars) for the release of five women among 21 mostly foreign hostages held in the southern Philippines. The demand came as Abu Sayyaf rebels freed five Filipino children from another group seized on the island of
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    • 92 16 PYONGYANG is eager to implement agreements struck at the landmark Korean summit. It proposed that Red Cross officials from the two Koreas meet this month to discuss reunion of families separated by the Korean War. Both sides are also likely to hold high-level talks next month to
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    • 83 16 YOUNG women from the Philippines are being lured by vice syndicates in Singapore, with promises of high-paying jobs like band singers, performers and actresses. Some are promised jobs as secretaries and boutique assistants. The Philippines Embassy believes the 20 to 30 cases it sees each year are the
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 52 16 Showers with thunder are expected in late morning and early afternoon affecting most areas. Partly doudy thereafter. north Thunderstorms sunrise 7:00 am west Thunderstorms sunset 7:12 pm central Thunderstorms moonrtse 8:23 pm soldi SbowK moonset 7:54 am oast Showers minimum K°r 2.4 m :0:58 pm maximum 32 0 fide... 2.8
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  • 251 17  -  NIKE DESIGN-YOUR-DREAH SHOES CONTEST By Michelle Choh HE'S a hardcore Nike fan. After all, he owns about 50 pairs of Nikes including many Air Jordans. Mr Yasser Suratman is the winner of the Nike Design-Your-Dream Shoes Contest. His proposed Air Machrunner marries state-of-the
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  • 68 17 Firtt prize: Yasser Suratman, *****392 A Second: Keith Tan Chee Kang, *****124H Third: Sim LlngErh, Lynn, *****334 A Consolation: Ivan Ho, *****496 Alvin Quek Chee Weng Ng Kang Leng, *****598J Neo HongGiap, *****816 D Yuan Tlaunman, *****13K Makorn Chaovanich, P*****1 Low Lin Klat, *****2761 Terence Koh Jun
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  • 569 19  -  THE WEEK GUEST EDITOR S VIVAKANANDAN Chief Executive Officer Sinda NEXT WEEK: MTV VJ Belinda Lee KIDS change us. I am not just referring to books being thrown off shelves, newspapers being chewed, the sleepless nights, the demise of many things that
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  • NEWS
    • 367 20 Net firms retrenching staff LAYOFFS Some of th« big sine* Docombar PBNows.Com, company; all 140 employees. Closed. Boo.Com, onliiM retailor 400 employees. Closed. Coral Corp, software maker 320 of 1,180 workers. Digital Entertainment N®twof1i teen entertainment 200 employees. Closed. HoatthShop, oniino natural-health products store: 60 workers. Closed. Rooi.Com, oniino
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    • 606 21 POOR Baby Bradley. He was only eight weeks old when he met with a brutal and violent death. The evil killer: His own dad, Christopher Rees, 24. What is truly horrifying was the way Baby Bradley was killed. His
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  • NEWS
    • 972 23 AT the height of his success, he was lauded by the world press. Forbes business magazine named him China's fourth richest man. A Chinese publication disagreed and said, no, he was the RICHEST. And just three years ago, Mou Qizhonghe (right) announced that his Land
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    • 133 23 MOU was accused of cheating the Bank of China's Hubei branch of US$75 million ($129 million) in letters of credit. The Land Economic Group allegedly committed the crimes in 1995. As its owner, Mou was charged. Mou and his company were tried separately. Four of his employees Yao
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    • 677 24 An eye for the women as well THE private life of Mou Qizhong of seven rioters, well-known in raise a billion dollars anytime." It didn't take long for the second (left) is every bit as their native Sichuan for beauty and Indeed, the second Mrs Mou Mrs Mou to resign
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  • 505 27  -  [cookie] Edited by Trudy Lim trudy@sph.com.sg Tip: Take stock Gather all the uniforms, shoes, books and bags. Now is the time to stitch on the missing buttons, patch the tears and wash out the stains. And check that the uniforms and shoes still fit.
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  • Aggie MATTERS OF HEAR ANO BODY
    • 369 29 I'M 34 and I manage a pub. This leaves me very little time to spend with my boyfriend. He's 43. He's a businessman who's very busy with his work. If I'm lucky, I get to see him three to four days a week. Every time we
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    • 200 29 Last week's letter: MADLY Worried is a 15-year-old guy who feels that he has done something really stupid. He accidentally entered the girls' washroom at his school to wash his hands. He said it was a mistake. He did not mean to do it. The worst part was
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    • 160 29 Readers' advice: WHAT you did was a mistake. I'm a girl and I know you feel embarrassed, but don't feel guilty. This kind of thing does happen to guys. Once I saw a schoolmate, a guy, entering a ladies' washroom at a shopping centre. When he saw
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    • 143 29 I'M sure other guys have made the same mistake, but it does not happen very often. I don't think you'll be expelled from your school. And if you made things clear to the girl who saw you, it might not be a problem. I think you should
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    • 417 30 MY story began three years ago when I got involved with this guy. He had a girlfriend then, but they were always quarrelling. We love each other very much. One month into our relationship, he suggested a break up with her. She
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    • 355 30 ITS been a few years since my husband and I got married. From day one, we've had problems. To put it simply, he is suspicious of me. He is a very unreasonable person. I just can't forget the things he has said or done to me. I'm
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    • Puberty Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over air over teen sex issues
      • 291 30 MY periods have always Qbeen irregular. But last month, I actually missed my period, and I still haven't had mine this month. I'm starting to wonder if something is wrong with my body. I don't have sex on a regular basis: Maybe once or twice a
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      • 160 30 I AM 14 and I am in Q secondary school. My school teacher taught us that our testicles do not "hang" on the same level. He said that the rtght one is usually lower, but I've discovered that my left side is the lower one. Am
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    • 60 30 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 *****5 Or fax: 737-5375, e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg (please mark: Aggie) or call 1900-912-0007 (calls cost 30 cents a minute). (You can use a pen name,
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  • 357 31  -  hI p I CHEAP AND HIP: STYLE FOR THE BUDGET- CONSCIOUS By Carol Leong carol@sph.com.sg TODAY is Father's Day and no doubt, children across the island are asking themselves what they should do for their fathers. I came straight to the point and asked a practised
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    • 295 32 [I" Kelvin Chan is BDaddyCool A comic take on Father's Day. I know it's a little premature to aLail f enjoy it now as it won't be for l.frtll I another few years before little 11 V/' 1 Raelynn appreciates what I going 1 for her, all the Look at
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  • Feature
    • 863 33  -  by LINGAM PONNAMPALAM THERE'S been a "new" pulse beating in the heart of Kuala Lumpur's nightlife for some three years now and it's growing stronger. Where bar-flies and night-birds once grooved languidly to the silky sounds of the pervasive rhythm and blues, the pace has become
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    • 261 33 PESTA liar. In recent months, these two words have haunted Lisa Kobayashi (right) and made her an overnight media sensation in Kuala Lumpur for all the wrong reasons. "Pesta liar" roughly translates from Malay into "wild party" carrying with it very negative connotations of sexual abandon. With
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    • 245 33 SHE thought it the perfect alternative venue for a pnvate party, a secluded area in the lush tropical jungle, a few kilometres behind the National Zoo. Mrs Kobayashi did not check if the land could be rented. She paid RM7OO to rent four chalets at
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    • 507 33 IS DANCE culture halal? Or is it out of place in conservative Malaysia? The New Paper on Sunday asked members of a tight clique in KL's clubland as well as the more conservative man on the Malaysian street. No surprises from
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  • Article, Illustration
    669 34  -  All shook ua r^^WBHflnffflTr^'iniiiKr -~t 4 p 'k > r I ACTOR LIM KAY TONG WRITES A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN by Lim Kay Tong WHEN I was living in Los Angeles, there appeared to be two topics which never went away: Movies and earthquakes. I had a taste of both,
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  • 677 35  -  SUZANNE WALKER WRITES A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN by Suzanne Walker MY ex recently asked me point blank: "Are you gay?" I wasn't surprised. It's not the first time someone has thought I am gay. But I'm puzzled. I ask my gay friends if I have gay
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  • seenHeard SHARP
    • 295 36  -  THE MOVIE SHANGHAI NOON The Wild West meets the Far East in a battle for honour, royalty and a trunk full of gold. Chinese imperial guard Chon Wang goes to America to rescue Princess Pei Pei, who has been kidnapped from the Forbidden City. Stars: Jackie
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    • 114 37  -  Edited by Lingam Ponnampalam VW lingam@sph.com.sg r 1 Princess Pei Pei's (Lucy Liu) teacher has mm delivered her to the kidnapper, Lo Fong: Lo Fong: There is your reward. Teacher (pulling out a pistol): Well, I now you have to double it Lo Fong: (slurping an oyster) One
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    • 329 37  -  by LINGAM PONNAMPALAM by UNGAH PONNAMPALAM MUGGY weather, a difficult day at the office... none of these stands in the way of enjoying Shanghai Noon. That's because it takes all of two braincells to fully savour this flick. The plot is bare and the jokes are
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    • 176 37 Roger Ebert in his online review: "What Shanghai Noon proves is that no matter how much effort is put into production values and special effects, a movie like this finally depends on dialogue and characters. Wild Wild West, which came out almost exactly one year earlier,
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    • 254 37 Hell is... A YOUNG woman came home from a date, rather sad. She told her mother "Jeff proposed to me an hour ago." 'Then why are you so sad?" her mother asked. "Because he also told me he was an atheist Mum, he doesn't even believe there's a hell." Her
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 39 Miscellaneous
    • 476 39 jM Highlight of the Week I drama/serials thur Fist off Hero (Debut) 7pm In late 20's Shanghai, everyone has heard about the 'King of Leg" Zhang, 'King of Fist' Rong and 'Thunder Fist*. CUITCVIt dff 3l V*S 6dUC3tiOVI Rong has a daughter, Mingzhu and son, HaiShan.HalShanfal'sin'ovewW>» t ues Science Technology
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    • 35 40 i w 1 Qpr sortie trafellers.jbheckjfig intra is the best part of tljfeir holiday it's home suite home, onty better. CAROL fcEONG, fo was in Bapgkoicrecently, puts two rld-j&ss huels tjSkhe til
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      947 41  -  Edited by Crispina Robert cnspina@spkcor^g I'VE always wanted to know what it would feel like to stay at a legendary hotel. During the long Labour Day weekend last month, I finally got my wish and stayed at The Oriental hotel in Bangkok. What can I say? In the
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  • RACING
    • 1257 48 YESTERDAY'S KRANJI RACE RESULTS Going: Yielding SUPER MAN: A top-form trainer Michael Kent chalka up three wlnnera and a second from four runners at Kranji yesterday. Winning stable: Lucky. Trainer: Malcolm Thwaites. Margins: 2 V*, nk, 2V«. Time: 1 min 37.45ec. Forecast: $10. Tierce: $186. Quartet: $852. Malaysian W/P: RM29,
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    • 283 48  -  By Lionel Lee AS RACING swings back into action at Kranji last night, it was trainer Michael Kent who hogged the limelight. Kent had only four runners and three of them Emperor's Flag (Race 2), Precious Pearl (Race 4)
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    • 1102 49 RACE 1: VICTORY FIGHTER was scratched by the vet when found to have respiratory disease. In terms of MRA Regulation 17.2, he must be presented to an official vet before being declared to race again. Steady rain fell before and during the running of
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    • 1409 50 TODAY'S IPOH RACE CARD Going forecast: Yielding BUS Olympic Flag (Race 4 No. 3) This horse has proven to be very consistent this season, just unlucky. From five starts, he has notched four seconds and a fourth. He went down by only a head to Alma Mater in his last
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    • 1057 51 Marc Tan Lionel Lee Tan Thean Loon 11 Unpredictable 9 Little Jyn 4 Austin Power H 5 Breezy 4 Austin Power 5 Breezy J 8 Right Angle 5 Breezy 11 Unpredictable 1 Make Believe 11 Hero Legend 4 Twin Fortune wWM 11 Hero Legend 7 Golden
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    • 242 52  -  By Lionel Lee WHAT do the five visiting jockeys in action at Ipoh yesterday have in common? Nothing. That's right. They all came away from the opening day of the Perak Turf Club June meeting empty handed. Martin Wepner, Kevin Moses, Damian Miller, Jan Cameron and
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    • 1093 52 RACE I: CEPAT-CEPAT, who stood and was slow to begin, must pass one starting stall test. TAMBUN TERROR jumped awkwardly in onto AWESOME BELLE. At the same time, CRYSTAL IMPERIAL jumped out onto TONGARINO. This resulted in KARWYEKEET becoming cramped and losing some ground.
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    • 854 54 COUNTDOWN TO THE OLYMPIC GAMES: SEPT 16 OCT 1 IT'S EVERY ATHLETE'S DREAM TO BE A PART OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES: FORMER HOCKEY GREAT RUDY MOSBERGEN RECOUNTS HISTRIP TO MELBOURNE IN 1956 i SYDNEY 2000 brings to mind Melbourne 1956 when 65
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    • 180 54 SO far, 13 Singapore athletes will be heading to the Sydney Olympics in September. Originally, the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) announced that 10 athletes would be going, while the sailing and shooting fraternities still needed to sort out their candidates. Shooting duly announced
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    • 290 54 TWO incidents involving our hockey squad stick out vividly in my mind. One concerned a team whose manager and coach felt the boys could do with some early momingjogging. The boys were roused from their slumber at the crack of dawn, about 5 am. They were
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  • 184 55 I MIIO SPOT THE BALL CONTEST WHAT a week of football action. And you think you have seen every bit of It. But how much of the thrills and spills of Euro 2000 still remain in your memory? Here's one bit of action taken off the Italy-Belgium
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  • 352 56 40OW&&& IF any club actually pays that amount for Portuguese soccer wizard Luis Figo, it would set a world record. But that is the figure his club Barcelona set yesterday for his transfer. Barcelona announced the huge sum in an apparent attempt to calm the whirlwind
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    • 113 57 EURO2OOOFUNPAGE Peter Holland played in his I If yni 100 th match M M for wVw T 9 European J Jf/jJf 4/ -rfiJli^H Cross-eyed from too much soccer on TV? Then try our EURO 2000 crossword l^:^g|&j|fe^'y=^ puzzle and win an adidas bag Number players to the so far H
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  • EURO 2000
    • 91 58 SPAIN v SLOVENIA Delayed telecast Sportscity, 7.30 am tomorrow SPAIN is preparing to change its team and its tactics against group C outsider Slovenia. But its players admit that unless self-belief replaces the self-doubt so evident in Tuesday's opening 1-0 defeat by Norway, Spain
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    • 113 58 Live on TV3, 2.15 am tomorrow Reuters. YUGOSLAV coach Vujadin Boskov is in a quandary about who to play against Norway. Predrag Mijatovic will start up front but Boskov's dilemma concerns his partner should it be Darko Kovacevic, who has recovered from a muscle strain, or Savo
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    • 277 58 TAAU I y ANDY pENDERS ChIef Editor of ,nternet site LUUIvI'IIi Zoom Soccer.com zooms in on tonight's games SPAIN v SLOVENIA: Slovenia took part in perhaps the game of the tournament so far when it played its part in a
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    • 511 60  -  Costinha (90th minute) 1 IA 0 By Wang Meng Meng NO surprises. No fun. No goal. That was how I was going to write this report. That was how the game went for 90 minutes. That was how I underestimated the "beautiful game". Costinha, otherwise known as
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    • 363 60 2nd: Nuno Gomes latches onto a Luis Figo through ball he's onside but because he's so far ahead of the last man the flag goes up. A bad decision. sth: Figo feeds Gomes dowr the right he cuts inside intc a bit of space but drags
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    • 55 60 game. A \atience, a game. Romania was a very hard team to beat. It is a difficult team with very experienced players. Portugal coach Humberto Coelho lm^^mately y we lost seconds, after the last seconds. Because the refshowed/our minutes irtfury time and the goal came after the four
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    • 1011 61 Alan Shearer (53rd minute) ENGLAND 1 GERMANY 0 SHEARER TAKES FLIGHT: England captain Alan Shearer meets a David Beckham free-kick with a flying header (left) SHEARER SCORES: The ball flies into the top right corner of the net (below), leaving the German goalkeeper stranded SHEARER CELEBRATES:
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    • 269 62 HOW THE MATCH WENT 19th min: Oietmar Hamann shoots from the edge of the area but David Seaman brings off a good save. 23n1: Mehmet Scholl is set up by Jens Jeremies but he shoots straight at Seaman from inside the area. 35th: Michael Owen heads well but
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  • SPORTS
    • 378 63  -  GEYLANG UNITED 2 HOME UNITED 2 BY Wang Meng Meng HE did it again. And again. And again. Geylang United coach Alan Vest, sensing that a defeat against Home United was on the cards, threw in three substitutes in the 80th minute with his team trailing
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    • 147 63 HIT for six. And it is not cricket we are talking about. At the Jurong Stadium, table-toppers SAFFC whipped bottom side Balestier Central 6-2. The Tigers (Balestier's nickname) got off to a flying start through Faizal Sazali in the 17th minute. But the Warriors (SAFs nickname)
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    • 65 63 sa? e GEYLANG I SAFFC I MATCH VS VS HOME UNITED BALESTIER STADIUM BEDOK JURONG DATE 17/6/2000 17/6/2000 •FULL-TIME 77" MATCH 2-2 6-2 RESULTS II •"Full-Tim®" includes injury tim« but not extra time or penalty shoot-outs. I SCORE RESULTS I IX2 DRAW SAF FC i fI) AA A GEYLANG SAFFC
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