The New Paper, 25 June 2000

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1 69 The New Paper
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    20 1 the new paper JUNE 25, 2000 Another quality publication of Singmporm Aw Hotdtnga BffEJTTffEW 70 CENTS http://n«wpap«r.Mial com tg MITA<P)IO7WW
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      103 1 Another quality publication ot on sunday 70 CENTS http://nawpapar asia 1 com sg MITA (P) 107/03/99 8"*****1 "*****9 > E U R 0 2 0 0 0 '0 ■HB PORTUGAL 2 TURKEY 0 y y v/v 5 -^Cr.£*'. ,-r v; v.. v"; r v'*/ t Figo stars in classy Portugal
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      Lock icon Malaysian set free
      401 2 SIPADAN HOSTAGES ONE of the 21 Sipadan hostages has been released after 63 days of captivity in the hands of the Abu Sayyaf armed group in Jolo Island. He is Malaysian Zulkarnain Hashim. Philipines' Chief Government negotiator Robert Aventajado, confirmed this at 8.45pm yesterday, when contacted by
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      Lock icon 4 women hostages freed in Fiji crisis
      285 2 5 AM LATEST AFP. FOUR women being held hostage in Fiji's Parliament have been released. Among the four is a minister of the ousted Cabinet, Adi Koila, the transport and tourism minister. The four were the remaining female captives among the 31 hostages
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      334 3 x Dear Customers, If you bought unt ■'"'Y 2000. So there's vouchers for the ffk no need to rush. (Please be sure Hello Kitty 6 Dear Daniel to redeem your vouchers at the Chinese Wedding pair between rs£L?„ same McDonalds restaurant 3-19 February 2000, you can HBU where you purchased
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      Lock icon Guess what they're doing
      880 4  -  by Ng Wan Ching NO, this isn't the battle of the sexes. These young men and women are learning how to gracefully move in step. They want to go to the Grand Gala Dance and they know it's not merely a case of dressing up and
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      Lock icon INVITATION
      131 4 THE organisers are inviting young women and men aged between 16 and 24 to be debutantes and beaux. They can do their part for charity and have fan at the same time. Participation fees are $600 for a debutante and $300 for a beau. The fee includes weekly dancing
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      Lock icon DEB BALL 2000
      140 4 COME Aug 12, 26 young couples will waltz to music performed by the Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Yan Yin Wing, at the third Debutante Ball at The Ritz-Carlton. The first was held in 1991 and the second, in 1996. Community Development Minister Abdullah Tarmugi and
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      Lock icon It's a family affair
      548 4 ALL the youngsters in the Yeoh family have taken part in the Debutante Ball. I That's because their mum, Dr Ann Chan, is one of the main organisers. In 1991, Dr Chan's daughters, Annabelle and Isabelle Yeoh, were debs with then-President Wee Kim Wee's grandson, Colin
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      Lock icon Hai... All roads lead to Faye
      918 5  -  By Yong Siew Fern HONGKONG star Nicholas Tse looks good in aviator sunglasses. So which celebrity is willing to be seen without one of those these days. But are we really here to talk about lighting and shades? Or about the opening of the
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      120 6 I I IN THE SPIRIT OF I I LOVE# SHARE YOUR 3 I FREE KE CREAM I I FROM WALL'S* I I JUST BUY ONE AND CET ANOTHER FREE* I X V I With Wall's Season of Love 2000, you can add more excitement to your days. Prom today, you'll
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    Lock icon Oh, those pirates, how I hate them
    762 7  -  [th^4eek] Guest editor MTV VJ BELINDA LEE TO WRITE this column, I first scanned the papers but no news items really caught my eye. Stuck, I went down to the pasar malam nearby for some tidbits and there my topic stared me in
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      Lock icon The day Fann got the jitters
      469 9 FANN Wong unmasked. No make-up. Looking very fit, veiny beautiful and just a teensy bit jittery No wonder. It was just a few hours before her first solo concert. Make that the first solo concert ever by a home-grown Singaporean singer. As usual, she
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      Lock icon A night to remember for Fannatics
      288 10 FANN Wong in concert is like a hyper-active teenager. She giggles. She chuckles. She skips and hops around the stage, and breaks into a body-twisting dance. She seemed quite excited in her first-time concert before a crowd of almost 8,000 people at the Singapore
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      534 11 v vSHllNllfJlWVPPP^^^^^^^^^^B Go local. Go global. Absolutely free! Whether you're looking for something distinctively Singaporean, or information about anything around the world, you'll find them all at Yahoo! Singapore easily. It offers the best of both local and international worlds at a dick of your mouse. Plus, it's packed with
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    Lock icon Guess what Fann's mum said?
    339 12  -  NEWS By Chang May Choon "DID I pass, Mum?" That's what Fann asked her mother, as she posed with her parents for pictures after her solo concert, the first ever by a local artiste at the Indoor Stadium. And what did the proud mother say?
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      267 13 HI What's it like being an Internet Jockey, or IJ? We had a hand at that for the past|j two weeks. While some called us w out of curiosity and to ask about our adventures, there were some callers who asked us who we think would win at Euro 2000!
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      524 14 R dare with a virtual tiatie We met a very unusual person this week. Unusual t M because she isn't flesh, but possesses a personality. Move aside, Kyoto Date and Lara Croft. Meet Li U, MTVs new cyberbabe and VJ. She'll make her debut On MTV next month <• LILI:
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      823 16  -  SHE HAD URINE POURED ON HER HEAD: 'At first I thought it was By Michelle Choh WHAT have I done to deserve this? It's a question Ms Audrey Chen asks herself every day. "People are laughing at me," she said. "I am innocent, I have done nothing disgraceful.
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      Lock icon THE CASE
      134 16 ON Jan 14, Teo Chill Suwa, 46, saw Ms Audrey Chen at the West Coast Car Centre. nc emereo a nearuy iwwi ana uniMXni into a cap. Then he confronted Ms Chen, accusing her si talking about him bs hind his hark Before she could respond, he poarsd
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      Lock icon This is my new home in Singapore!
      355 17 Dearest Mum and Dad, Love, Prionka D«ir Gm, We have been living in this country for three years. Yet it seems as if it was only yesterday that everything here was new and alien to me. I remember feeling very dejected over the
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      Lock icon Are they expats, too?
      301 18 MORE LETTERS TO GUS I've been reading your articles on expats and I find them interesting. However, I question your definition of an expat. I think it's a mistake many Singaporeans make. An expat is someone sent from his home country to work overseas. He is
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      Lock icon Anything for teens?
      155 18 Thank you so much for publishing my letter a few weeks ago. I am a big fan of this column and whenever I buy The New Paper on Sunday, I turn to the Expat Page first to see what you've got. It's nice reading about the lives
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      Lock icon No problems finding flats
      200 18 Three weeks ago, Mrs Anusha Sathe wrote a column about her house-hunting blues, where she said her experience was that Singaporeans prefer to rent to locals or those of their race. Here is a response I find it very interesting that it'is taking Mrs Sathe four
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      162 18 THE Expat Page appears 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 about Singapore,
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      Lock icon Waltzing Lows still high on dance
      754 19  -  Remember? REPORT GLORIA CHANDY THERE ib no such thing as two left feet Sunny Low, well-known member of Singapore's Dancing dynasty, has put his foot down on that He claims he can teach ANYONE to foxtrot, tango or Hip Hop. Especially people who swear
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  • @ A GLANCE
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      Lock icon Life sciences get a $ I b booster shot
      311 20 Life sciences get a I b booster shot The President puts on his dancing shoes THAT should get the adrenalin going and push Singapore into the life sciences industry However, even before we get into this new frontier, we need a lot of help and advice from those who are
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      Lock icon Verbal abuse — the new domestic violence
      221 20 Verbal abuse the new domestic violence EN£>us] WORDS can hurt more than a fist in the face. The constant barrage of hurtful words cuts the deepest, leaving women with emotional scars and low self-esteem, Bay psychiatrists and social workers. This is the new domestic-violence profile that is emerging. And it
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    • BRIEFLY
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        Lock icon Higher water bills
        97 20 WATER charges will be going up again for home users. Prom July 1, the rates for water tariffs and the water conservation tax will increase by between 14.3 and 23.3 cents per cubic metre. Water-borne fees, which are used to offset the cost of treating waste water
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        Lock icon China stands firm
        80 20 Reuters. CHINA says it will make no concessions on opening up markets for goodß and services in its bid to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The warning was issued by China's lead WTO negotiator, vice-minister for foreign trade, Mr Long Yongtu, in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr Long
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        Lock icon Council seeks advice
        90 20 RESIDENTS in the Tar\jong Pagar-West Coast constituency have removed items like potted plants and laundry racks from the parapet wall outside their homes. However, there are still the religious items and the town council has asked for help from various religious associations on how to advise its
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        Lock icon GuS Dur's 3-hour probe
        83 20 PRESIDENT Abdurrahman Wahid, or Gus Dur as he is popularly known, was questioned for three hours by the police on Friday night in connection to the "Buloggate" embezzlement case. This is the first time a serving president has been interrogated in a police probe. National police
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        Lock icon Did he cause blaze?
        74 20 Wire services. AUSTRALIAN police investigating the hoetel fire which killed 15 backpackers want to interview this man (right). He is Mr Robert Long, 37, who was known to have visited the Palace Backpackers Hotel in the town of Childers. It ia not confirmed whether he was
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        Lock icon Yellow gold is out
        91 20 SALES of traditional yellow-gold jewellery have slumped while shops selling white-gold pieces with pearls, diamonds and other gems have been mushrooming. Established 63-year-old Tin Sing Goldsmiths saw yellow-gold sales fall 30 to 40 per cent in the last two years. But newer chains Lee Hwa and
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        Lock icon Japan go to polls today
        93 20 Wire services. THE Japanese are likely to have the economy uppermost in their minds when they go to the polls today to vote in the country's general election. Opinion polls indicate that the governing coalition is likely to retain a reduced majority in parliament However,
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        84 20 Wire services. POLLING was reported to be brisk as five million Zimbabweans went to the polls yesterday in the country's fiercely contested parliamentary elections. The two days of voting follow a campaign marred by political violence and intimidation in which more than 30 people have been killed. President
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      Lock icon FOR THE FAMILY
      142 20 WATCH THE KIDDIES TAKE TO THE FLOOR: Ballroom dancing is not strictly for the adults. See for yourselves at the International Children Ballroom Latin Dance Competition at the Great World City today at 3 pm. Six pairs of cuties from Russia, China and Australia, will show off
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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      60 20 Showers in the late morning and early afternoon mainly over northern, western and southern Singapore. llllH| de |l| torms 7:02 om west Thunderstorms 7:14 p cen J]' a Partly Cloudy moonrise 0:59 am south Showers moonset 1:20 pm east Partly Cloudy first tide 2.4 m: 3:52 am minimum 25 C
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      Lock icon Brides for sale
      619 21  -  Fleeing famine, North Korean women end up being sold in China By Russell Working REPORTING FROM YANJI, CHINA SHE was nearly bald from surviving on a diet of grass and shredded bark mixed with an occasional spoonful of rice Eun-byol, 27, was weak from malnutrition, but she
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      Lock icon SEXUAL SLAVERY = FREEDOM FROM HUNGER
      304 22 SEXUAL SLAVERY FREEDOM FROM HUNGER WITH a famine hitting North Korea in recent years, the trafficking of uneducated rural girls has taken a new twist. Hunger has made even a life of "sexual slavery" attractive. Of the tens of thousands of North Korean refugees in three northern Chinese provinces, some
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      Lock icon Kl CLUB CULTURE — PART 2
      575 23 Kl CLUB CULTURE PART 2 Kuala Lumpur's thriving club culture is attracting the hip and trendy but also drawing sharp criticism from the conservative. LINGAM PONNAMPALAMgets on the scene and explores WALK along the trendy Bangsar stretch on a Saturday night and youll see the beautiful ones out to party.
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      Lock icon THE WILD SCENES
      273 23 ON May Day weekend, a sizzling party was held on the roof of Lot 10, in downtown KL. Men strutted their gym-trim bodies in leather and latex as they hugged and danced. One Caucasian man was in a Popeye suit, another had his hairy chest harnessed in
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      Lock icon THE BIG CONCERN: DRUG ABUSE AT THE CLUBS
      306 24 "ECSTACY on the Rave!" screamed one newspaper headline for its story on clubland blues. Drug abuse is a key concern on the club scene, but Ecstacy isn't the end of it. Sources suggest there are also ice, speed and ketamine doing the
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      Lock icon JAILED: Drug dealer, 12, who made judge cry
      527 25 THE boy, 12, is believed to be the youngest drug dealer to come before the British courts. His case so moved the judge, he cried when the boy was found guilty. But yesterday, it was the boy, now 13, who was earned
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      Lock icon No show, so Jacko sued for $34m
      183 25 WHAT it should have been: Michael Jackson wowing many with his dance moves at two concerts marking the new millennium. But the King of Pop was a no-show. Devastating not only his fans, but the concert promoter. He is taking Jackson to court
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      Lock icon Want to sink your hands in dung? This expo will let you...
      193 25 WELCOME to the worst-smelling expo you can imagine. But it's real. And you can get a hands-on feel of all the (waste) items on display. The purpose? A serious one. To teach Japanese children about a fundamental habit
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      57 26 /A I jf i usa s a 7**^^ HK®Lv 4^ HBaM^Mj^^^^r, BL. .m 3f 4 v\ jimCarrey gushing over v 1(8 I f IMBPW I JHB7:V i I single mum: v ji i x. F jV J I l bach my man flH* .<*§&* Mm 99 I 1 v M
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  • Aggie MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
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      370 27 I'm 24 and my boyfriend is five years older. I've been with him for almost three years. It was only after I had been with him for two years that I found out he's married and has a child. He told me to give him
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      Lock icon Has he been unfaithful?
      169 27 Last week's letter: SH is 34 and manages a pub. This leaves her very little time with her boyfriend, a 43-year-old businessman who's very busy with his work. Each time they meet. It's usually straight to bed. They hardly have time to talk. She tries not
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      Lock icon He may be hiding something
      270 27 A reader's advice: THE relationship you are having is very unhealthy. You mentioned that every time both of you meet, it's usually straight to bed. It seems that your relationship is focused on sex only. If this is all you have from the beginning, your
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      Lock icon I'm torn between my parents
      573 28 I'M 19. I've been married for two years to a 26-year-old guy and we have a 15-month-old baby boy. I have three sister*, an eider brother and a younger brother. My elder brother is 13 and the rest of my siblings are studying. My parents
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      Lock icon I carve his name on my body
      270 28 I AM in my early 20s and my husband is in his mid-20s. We have been married for 10 months. I do not have a proper job while he works as a salesman. He does not earn much and the problem is that
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    • Puberty Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues
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        Lock icon Can barber's shave give me Aids?
        307 28 I HAVE several Q questions concerning Aids. Recently, after a haircut and shave, I discovered a sore where I haul been shaved. Could I have contracted anything? Can the Aids virus be transmitted through sweat and saliva? What about open sores? Can even sharing
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        Lock icon Early sex raises cancer risks
        148 28 I am a 15•year-old girl. Ql have the following questions: I) Will having sex at an early age make a girl more prone to cancer? 2) What Is an orgasm? 3) Will drinking water mixed with sperm make a girl pregnant? 4) For the average
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      44 27 CAN YOU HELP? If you think you can help wkh some useful advice, write or fox to Aggie by Wednesday. The beat latter will be published next week. The writer of the best reply wiN receive a special @T-shirt and a New Paper cap.
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      44 28 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: tnp@sph.com.sg (please mark Aggie) or call 1900-*****07 (calls cost 30 cents a minute).
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    Lock icon These bowls sing
    658 29  -  F Ti" I p I CHEAP AND HIP: STYLE FOR THE BUDGET-CONSCIOUS By Carol Leong #carol@sph.com sg THE first time I ever heard of the mysterious Tibetan singing bowls was from a fengshui expert called Denise Linn. She is a "space clearer" in her book, Sacred Space,
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    Lock icon Euro's taken my man
    512 30  -  ■Hk I SingleColumnJ by Chua Wei Yng weiyng@sph.com.sg MY man just returned from a two-week holiday in luscious Bali without me. And now, hell be off for three whole weeks. This time, he's visiting two tiny countries in Europe. All from the comfort of his couch.
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    Lock icon Lost in a public place...
    629 31  -  I the rlace T d| p f r tips By Keep your children safe, both at home and in public. That is every parent's aim. So in the midst of the Great Singapore Sale, how do you make sure your little ones don't get lost
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      83 31 the key to driving it. Two of the finest BMWs in their class have been won. Two remain. Fortunately, until 30 September 2000, J f»f Q2S3(HB| every $100 you spend on your DBS credit card (including balance transfers*) gives you a chance to win**. -!V ''f l' A 1 'tpftkatil»BßS
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      33 32 I L iiSlk 4i I Prize I ~> fWEllßlf Pn' f,< %1 GREATER CHOICES FOR YOUR EVERY NEED. ?1..'1 v< ••«>u«c-/ sv p'ti''r>Mi» »fJB!« i.ndfV'mb*"! 1o n'i' ««vt<i»t,i IA .u .w/.iir.'... i«r.i*nu :H .is
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      952 33 Tune in, Decibels X i I chill out J ,«1 7? |7»[p*:7;«=aa •»•<«•• Inside Job Kid Rock^ I Out There And Back High Fidelity Don Henley t (Wamer) 112f ul v D r k (Original Soundtrack) (Warner) (AvexTrax) Various Artists IT'S been a decade since Don WHO'S this young upstart
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      818 34 ADVERTORIAL Go, going, Gone Banan^^% In the first of two instalments on online shopping, MONICA TAN explores a new way of buying and selling things as she rides on the AUCTION, with its unprecedented variety of colourful history, has goods to the virtual block. c m since the days when
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    Lock icon out-of-this-world tok yo fashion
    580 35 Over at another train station... Featur^ Report and pictures by SETO NU-WEN in Tokyo, Japan ITS like something out of a Play Station video game. A girl in a white doctor's robe with red-smeared "bandages" swathed on her arms and face. Another girl strides up in
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    622 36  -  Columnl A FORTN,GHTLY COLUMN BY SINGAPORE'S THEATRE TEASE by R Chandran Concierge. Now, what kind of a word is that? I am not even asking for the meaning yet. To me it looks as if a frustrated person got hold of a few letters of the alphabet and threw
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    Lock icon This is one game that HURTS
    730 37  -  n ColumtJ* FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN BY SINGAPORE'S BUSIEST FUN by Siva Choy I'M inclined to think that there is something about football that incites violence and ends up with innocents being inured, and that this is nothing new. My recollections of soccer from the time
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  • seen Heard SHARP
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      Lock icon More of such adult cartoons, please (and so sorry, kids!)
      427 38  -  THE HOVIE TITAN A.E. The year is 3028. Earth has just been destroyed. The human race barely escapes with its greatest treasure, the Titan. Cale is the reluctant hero who holds the key that may just save mankind. Stars: Voices
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      405 39  -  by LINGAM PONNAMPALAM Edited by Michelle Choh michchoh@sph.com.sg WOWIE Zowie Ma! What a movie! There were all these mean blue things called the Drej, and they were all sort of energy or something and you couldn't kill them They blew up the Earth in
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      132 39 1 A WOMAN was worried about whether her dead husband made it to heaven, so she decided to try to contact his spirit by having a seance. After a while, her husband's voice was heard: "Hello Margaret this is meeee..." "Fred," she answered. '1 just have to know
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      67 39 'MR Gark. I'm afraid I have bad news." 'the doctor told his anxious patient "You 'have only six months to live 1 The man sat in stunned silence for the next several minutes. Regaining his •composure, he apologetically told his doctor he had no medical insurance
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      535 41 T~~ 777 77# I mon Wimbledon Lam Tennis Highlight Of the Week 9pm Championships, Day I (Live) Ranked No. in this tournament, Pete Sampras fell to Mark Philippoussis on the first day at Roland Garros 2000. Will he defy the odds against him and thurs Travellers: Fire Ant Festival defend
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    768 43  -  I Feature H by Sylvia Toh Paik Choo in New York THE Man On The Moon is over the moon. Over Renee Zellweger, hia co-star in Me, Myself Irene "But I wasn't going around like a wounded dog the way the Farelly brothers are telling everyone!"
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      813 47 £rv!c] A Bk. What Dreams Hay come Don Quixote I Cinemax (Ch 59), 9pm Hallmark (Ch 36), 10 pm Channel 510 pm m. M Robin Williams stars as a doctor who A classic story of Alanzo Quixada who J* is kUkd i„ a freak accident Death isn't takes on the
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      1471 48 PERfIK TURF CLUB STIPENDIARY STEWARDS' REPOR RUNNING AND HANDLING OF DOUBLE EAGLE JOCKEY V Elengovan was yesterday disqualified for 12 months over hia handling of DOUBLE EAGLE in Race 10 at Penang on June 4. The stewards concluded an inquiry and, after taking all the into
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      1179 49 TODAY'S IPOH RACE CARD Going forecast: Good Wo. Lot 6 runt Hon* Wt Rrtlng Joctoy Barrt* (Agatortqln/m, train*-ownw) 1 *****5 PRINCELY STAR 57 (58) G Skinner 2 (6nzg SB Tan-Mdm JA Young) 2 CONTROLLING STAKE 56.5 (57) CTreymane 7 (2ag Yeo-Control Racing) 3 8--029 MEYER TECH 56.5 (57) *NAzmanc1.5 5
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      70 49 PICK OF THE DAY B LIONEL LEE U Despite meeting some older horses this afternoon, this two-year-old has a top chance. He was a good third to stablemate Baby Tycoon in his debut earlier this month. With a postage-stamp weight of 48.5 kg on
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      67 49 RACE Is Night Man. RACE 3: Truly Serious, Imperial Power, Season Dancer, Miss Energy. RACE 4: Twin Fortune. Squawk Box. RACE 5: Rich Strike. Shillelagh, Verified. RACE 6s Baby Boss, Golden Smile. I'll Make It. RACE 7s Blink Home, Gorgeous Pete, That's Why, Twenty First, Big Thinker, Flying General,
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      488 50  -  By Danny Khoo THE consistent but luckless Breezy earned a well-deserved win at Ipoh yesterday. The three-year-old by Kala Dancer, who had finished in the frame in his laßt eight starts, found his winning chord in Race 4, a Class 4 Premier race
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      952 50 RESULTS Going: Good YESTERDAY'S IPOH RACE 7 MISS HAPPY 55.5 c 54 (12-7) *RUm (5) 1 1 1 (457) 5 SCALE THE HEIGHTS 57 (25-8) K Moses (3) 2 2 2 (431) 10 LUCKY GIFT 49.5 c 50.5(191-42) BWoodworth (6) 4 4 3 (459) 8 BABY CHILLIES 49.5 c 50.5
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      1476 51 RACE 1: BEYOND EVEREST was rearing in the barrier, dislodged jockey D Walker and became cast. Acting on veterinary advice that BEYOND EVEREST had been injured in the barriers, the race meeting stewards ordered his withdrawal at 6.02pm. The gelding must be presented to
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      1053 52 YESTERDAY'S KRANJI (COURSE B) RACE RESULTS Going: Good 3 IDEAL EXPRESS 57 (25-7) 'KBSoo (3) 2 2 1 (467) 7 THE ENGINEER 57 (69-11) MSiinul (5) 1 1 2 (494) 2 HANKS 57 (171-21) L Rutherford (1) 6 4 3 (513) 5 ROMAN GHOST 57 (26-7) lAztl* (6) 3 3
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      334 52  -  By Lionel Lee AN UNSCHEDULED act by Just Call Me Sir added a bit of atmosphere to last night's races at Kranji but it also had jockey Jim Cassidy in absolute disbelief After finishing an unlucky fourth on red-hot favourite Power General in
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      204 53 THE dual Guineas heroine Crimplene completed a sizzling hat-trick on Friday when she landed the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot in majestic style. "She is something special,'' said jockey Philip Robinson after his pil-lar-to-post victory on the 4-1 joint-fa-vourite in the 1,600 m event. Crimplene
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      453 53 RESULTS Going: Yielding YESTERDAY'S PERTH RACE 3 ZOLOTO55.5(37-10) Peter Knuctoy (8) 1 9 THE VOLT 52.5 (64-17) Patrick Carbery (1) 2 10 JUNGLE JET 52 (211-56) Warren Hughes (4) 3 Also ran: LATEST PLOY Mark Sestich, SPIRIT OF JULES Troy Turner. REGAL MARCH AJana Samson. ANOTHER AFFAIRE Michael Ryan. YELMAR
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      100 53 AFP BRITAIN'S champion jockey Kieren Fallon (above) faces a lengthy spell out of action after ing major surgery on the shoulder he injured in a four horse pile-up at Royal Ascot earlier in the week. He is reported to have had an operation at
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      191 54 AP. WIMBLEDON has yet to react to the boycott threat by three top Spanish players. A Wimbledon spokesman said yesterday that the All England Club was formulating a response. "Until we have word from the ATP or the players on this we won't have a reaction,"
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      827 55 THE OPENING CEREMONY MELBOURNE '56 OLYMPIC GAMES: NEXT WEEK: The Games ABOUT RUDY MOSBERCEN Played hockey for for Singapore from 1953-60. In 1956 he represented the Republic at the Melbourne Olympics. His position was right full back. From 1958-60, he captained the national hockey team He was
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      468 56 THE OPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONIES IN the second week of the Games, our hockey team manager S Yoga raj ah, called a hurried meeting of the players. He informed us that there was now going to be a closing ceremony on Dec 8.
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      61 54 TODAY: (Selected programmes) 12.30pm: Cricket: Pakistan Tour of Sri Lanka (SCV Channel 38) 11pm: Golf: St Jude Classic (STAR Sports Channel 24) 3.30pm: Chinese football League: Dalian v Chongqing (LIVE, STAR Sports Channel 24) Soccer: Gol Mania (Sportscity) Bpm: Volleyball: Holland v Russia (ESPN Channel 23) 9pm: Golf: Compaq European
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      267 57 EURO2OOOFUNPAGE V-9rj[ Russia Giuseppe "WJtP 1 W |i| I (left) m "'■-"V fWm kJT J Lev was mrm tor oldest player the finals of i E|| I Euro '96 iflT both |i /|*jf w wMMM, j|r L goalscorerin Et"W/% ii t [^^^HBk mm I M/ four m%/ m w J
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      Lock icon Q-FINAL MATCH-UP: HOLLAND v YUGOSLAVIA; FRANCE v SPAIN Close, but it'll be Holland
      354 59 HOLLAND v YUGOSLAVIA: Live on Sportscity 11.30pm HOLLAND: Ik^ta Goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar should be back after missing the game against France. But midfielder Ronald de Boer will most likely be out. He managed only 15
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      342 59 FRANCE v SPAIN: Live on Sportscity 2.45 am tomorrow AP. SPAIN: Nurin; Spain will most likely be missing veteran Real Madrid defender and team captain Fernando Hierro through a relapse of a thigh injury. Hierro, with more than 70 caps, has been a mainstay in
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      Lock icon BOY vs GIRL
      439 61 Q-FINAL 4: SPAIN v FRANCE (Tomovrow, 2.45 am) ■fell her it's a beautiful game, asks you how it can be beeftiful, tell her, slowly and geiAr, that it is a beautiful game. ■■xplain to her that watching footMU will improve your drees sense dramatically. If anything, it
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      Lock icon France has edge
      376 62  -  Darryl David WITHOUT doubt, this is the toughest quarter-final tie of the four. The French have looked the most complete side in the tournament so for. After fielding its second-Btringers in a match which it narrowly lost to Holland, the world champion will have to be back
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      Lock icon Don't count on Dutch making it
      336 62  -  Q-FINAL 3: HOLLAND v YUGOSLAVIA (Tomorrow, 12am) Edwin Yeo THIS interesting match-up will pit the most over-rated team in Euro 2000 against the most under-rated. I m talking about Holland and Yugoslavia, in that particular order. Everybody nmii impressed with the Dutch, especially after
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      Lock icon Rijkaard picks his winner
      63 63 WHO does the Dutch coach think will win? "Italy," said Frank Rijkaard. A heartbeat later: "Romania." And after another: "Spain." Then France, Yugoslavia, Portugal... and just about every team that made it past the first round. "It's always like that in these competitions, ifs wide open,"
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      Lock icon Heart-attack after injury time
      97 63 RESTAURANT owner Slobodan Velickovic suffered a heart-attack on Wednesday after Spain had scored the winning goal in injury-time, beating Yugoslavia 4-3, the daily Sportski Zumal said. Velickovic "was bitter about the shameful, criminal refereeing by Frenchman Gilles Veissiere. After Spain's winning goal, his heart, overburdened by
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      122 63 GERMAN Chancellor Gerhardt Schroeder has come to the defence of record cap-holder Lothar Matthaeus following his poor performances in Germany's disastrous Euro 2000 campaign. In an open letter to the former German captain published by Welt am Sonntag, Chancellor Schroeder said it was "disgraceful that certain
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      Lock icon Shootout scare
      39 63 FIVE armed, masked men near the hotel where the Yugoslav team are staying resulted in the rapid deployment of anti-terrorist police. But it was a false alarm. The guns were toys and the men were playing "paintball-gun".
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      Lock icon Steady Italy
      53 64 WHY, HAGI, WHY? SCORERS* Francesco Totti (33rd) IT AI Y 2 Filippo Inzaghi (43) r%Mm I ITALIAN HITMEN: Totti (above, celebrating his goal) and Inzaghi (below, beating the Romanian 'keeper). SHAME? DISBELIEF? ANGUISH?: Wonder what's going through Hagi's mind as he walks off after being shown the red
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      119 64 FRANCESCO Totti and Filippo Inzaghi scored a goal apiece as Italy moved into the semi-finals with a 2-0 victory over Romania. For Romania, the defeated was doubly disappointing. Its captain Gheorghe Hagi's career came to a shameful end with a second-half expulsion. Totti fired the Italians
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      Lock icon ROMANIA 0
      1039 65 SUBS: Gianluca Pessotto (Maldini, 46th); Conte (Luigi di Biagio 56); Totti (Alessandro del Piero 75) 4-4-2 SUBS: Galea (loan Lupescu 68); Moldovan (lonel Ganea 64) 3-4-1-2 3 SNOTS ON TMNCT 4 6 SHOTS OFF TARGET 8 4 CORNERS S 21 FREE-KICKS 28 5 OFFSIDE 1 0 RED CARDS
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      349 66 HOW THE MATCH WENT Scorer Nuno Gomes (44th f 56th) Wire services. SPARKLING Portugal powered past 10-man Turkey 2-0 and into the semi-finals of Euro 2000. Its mastermind was Luis Figo, who set up two goals for striker Nuno Gomes. Turkey did well initially. It was
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      Lock icon Portugal carves Turkey
      851 66 mH QUARTER Q[ HW.I 11 SHOTS ON TARGET 3 11 SHOTS OFF TARGET 5 11 CORNERS 1 15 FREE-KICKS 15 1 OFFSIDE 4 0 RED CARDS 1 5 YELLOW CARDS 3* EDWIN SAYS... YOU want to know how scary Portugal is? Consider this. In three first round
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      Lock icon ALPAY SEEING RED
      171 66 Yes. Alpay's red card was deserved. K might be deemed a bit harsh, but referee Dick Jol got tt right. The Turkish defender was felled by Fernando Couto, and the former lashed out with a punch on the ground. Stupid, stupid, stupid. As stupid as David Beckham's
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      290 68  -  By Peter Siow MARINE CASTLE 0 SINGAPORE ARMED FORCES FC 1 (Nenad BacJita, 61st min) HE was an unlikely hero. Certainly, he was not expected to stop Singapore Armed Forces FC. Not the mighty Warriors, who had roept aside almost all and sundry in their t;
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      284 68 The WSA Sport's Goal Rush continues! The phone-in S-League score prediction game reopens its phonelines today. To take part, call The New Paper Infoline 1900-914-0801 and register your predictions for this week's six matches: Tampines Rovers v Woodlands Balestier Central v Home United Geylang v Sembawang Tanfong
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      150 68 SEMBAWANG 0 TANJONC PAGAR 6 (Djamd Achouri 15th, Boubacar Sack 19th, 49th, Davor Dz&falQa 40th, 49th, 61st) DAVOR DZELALIJA helped Taiyong Pagar to its biggest S-League victory last night. He scored a hat-trick proving he would have no problems filling in for striker Nicodeme Boucher.
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      58 68 SCo re MARINE CASTLE SEMBAWANG MATCH vs vs SAFFC TAMJOWG PA6AH STADIUM HOUGANG YISHUN DATE 24/6/2000 24/6/2000 ♦FULL-TIME MATCH 0-1 0-6 RESULTS "FuH-Tim*" includes Injury time but not extra time or penalty »noot-out». SCORE RESULTS IX2 I SAF ISEff 10 4, 4A A.| MARINE CAST! TAKJONGPAGAR 1/Z GOAL <4 .ivi)
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