The New Paper, 2 July 2000

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    28 1 the new paper JULY 2, 2000 1 l.UUII.I.kPI II1 Another quality publication ol Singapore Pima HokUnga WMhttp //newpaper asiai com sg MITA (P) >19/03/2000 Q Rp?. «1T1 orw*Q >
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      39 1 Great start to an Olympic day. 4 Jj, t to go it- k A PRI I GIRL STABBED 9 TIMES, TH ROWN INTO DRAIN L School burnt. Bullet found. How safe are our schools, ask Malaysian parents V P4
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      Lock icon Drug officer loses gun on Orchard Road
      73 2 AN off-duty anti-drug detective lost his service revolver along Orchard Road. The Central Narcotics Bureau officer reported the loss at 2.25 am yesterday. The revolver has yet to be found. Police are advising the public to remain calm. If anyone finds the gun,
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      Lock icon They have lost their baby
      463 2  -  SIPADAN HOSTAGE CRISIS BY! Melvin Singh NO matter which way it's argued, the Abu Sayyaf rebels are responsible for the loss of a life among the hostages they abducted from Malaysia's Pulau Sipadan on April 23. South African Monique Strydom suffered a miscarriage in the
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      Lock icon What's happening to Malaysian schools?
      1077 4  -  Wave of violence has parents worried, but others not afraid REPORTS LINGAM PONNAMPALAM ARSON, stabbing, assault, threats and fear. What's happening to schools in Malaysia? Why are even 13-year-olds becoming violent? One morning at the Desa Jaya Chinese public primary school, I saw every sign
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      Lock icon That bloody, brutal attack
      283 5 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE SCHOOL ended like it did on any other schoolday for Nurulsyuhada on June 21. But what followed was shocking. It was just past Ipm and the seven-year-old was waiting for her elder sister at the bus-stop outside the Taman Mudah public primary school
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      Lock icon Stabbed by 13-year-olds
      440 5  -  BY Lingam Ponnampalam THE seven-year-old was stabbed and beaten up, outside her school, in broad daylight. That itself is shocking. That this was done by 13-year-olds makes Nurulsyuhada Abdul Majid's story horrible. BAP MEMORIES Recovering at the University Kebangsaan Malaysia Hospital, in Kuala Lumpur, she is still
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      108 4 North American Cookout North America is a melting pot of sorts from art, cuisine to culture and music from all parts of the world. Inhabitants and the visitor alike are spoilt for choice with the diversity of offerings in a land of plenty. That's what you get at our North
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      159 5 A Long History of Unsurpassed Support, Now Even BETTER! For years. Spinal Guard sleep sets have been satisfying the needs of those who want to wake up without i backache caused by the inadequate support of a too soft mattress. The heart of this Chiropractor Endorsed Spinal Guard sleep system
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      358 6 Trusted Quality for over 100 years Lef's CApVuve ouv Sometimes they are little angels. Sometimes little devils. We find them everywhere, children whose faces are filled with emotion. If you have a photo that captures one of these faces, enter Konica's "Hello Kids of Asia" contest. It's open to all
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      606 7  -  The Civil Service has been very much in the news this last week, with the revamp of top civil servants' career paths so they can move up faster, and take on larger responsibilities earlier. On top of that, salaries are being raised to stem the
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      Lock icon Dr Who?
      323 7 EVEN a cursory look at his credentials impresses. An ace student, Dr Finian Tan received his doctorate from Cambridge. Was Chief Trader at Shell Japan at 31. Head of J Aron Co, the commodities arm of Goldman Sachs, Singapore, at just 35 after a stint as executive director
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      Lock icon All those years ago ...
      168 7 All those years ago DE Finian Tan is a multi-tasker, sure and simple. Just run your eye down his resume, from his modelling days (yes!) as a polytechnic student But tfw original CarrtorManhas Aal AaA j| |%|A for nis cran. I ,ika taking a roller-coaster ride 30 times for a
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      Lock icon PLAYING THE GAME
      83 7 You see, in Government you are the coach, the referee and the management board of a football team alt at the same time But you are not a player. I miss it, and I want to go back to being a playerfor now especially when the rules
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    Lock icon Oops! We're just typical kiasu Singaporeans
    961 8  -  Guest editor CONSTANCE SINGAM, executive committee member of the Association for Women's Action and Research OH my goodness! We are being picked on, yet again, for our rudeness and obnoxious behaviour. We attack each other, verbally and physically, with whatever that's handy. Foreigners attack
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      Lock icon Who is this woman with Gurmit?
      1277 10  -  What would you do if you had a bit role on TV with Gurmit Singh? Pencil it in your diary, ofcourse —if you keep one, that is. Nancy Lint made a note (but NOT of Gurmit) in one of the many diaries she has
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      201 10 THE small role she played with Gurmit Singh in Can I Help You? sprung a surprise on Ms Nancy Lim. She was so taken aback when she found that they were to be in the same TV sitcom that she forgot to enter it in her diary.
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    1065 11  -  Australasian Aboriginal couple in Singapore [EXPAT] BY Greg Hoy I AM about to leave the perfect society: A prosperous city state overseen by a "benevolent dictatorship"; a land of comfort rich in cash and technology swept and clean and always being reconstructed. And I'm
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      206 12 TELL US YOUR VIEWS WHAT do you think of online at The New Paper Mr Hoy's piece? Do you website, newpaper.asial. agree with his com.sg. Click on Expat, observations? Do you think This page is not for expats Singaporeans look down" only. Many Singaporeans, on people who may not those
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      148 12 LETTERS TO GUS We want to know the expats Your weekly Expat helping hand. Su Mei Page in The New Paper on 1 just want to get to Sunday is fabulous, the way know some of the expats you get the different for- here who need friends eigners to write
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      Lock icon La Nina: The saga of Asia's richest woman
      1148 13 A multi-billion-dollar property empire. A sinister kidnapping. A husband missing for 10 years. A feuding father-in-law. Court battles. Blackmail. Political connections. Towering ambition. Scenes from a soap opera? No. It's all real life. PAULINE D LOH takes a look at the drama
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      Lock icon THE BILLIONAIRE WHO WORE PIGTAILS
      687 13 HER world is coloured by little red mini-skirts and bright pink cheongsam. For years, Mrs Nina Wang's trademark twin plaits, swinging on both sides of her cheerful apple cheeks, marked her out as she hurried from boardroom to boardroom. It saved her time and money,
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      186 13 SHE must have worried constantly about her husband's safety. Mrs Nina Wang paid ransom for her husband not once, but twice. Mr Teddy Wang was the victim of two kidnappings. Once in 1983, armed men spirited him away to a dingy apartment near Hongkong's railway terminal. They stuffed
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      512 14 Whut's life like for Singaporeans living in Japan? SETO NU-WEN reports from Tokyo IT came as a shock to Mr Nee Pai Chee: Japanese husbands getting an allowance from their wives. "When I first came here, I thought it was a very patriarchial society because women aren't encouraged
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      Lock icon YOUR FINGERPRINT, ALIEN
      145 14 DONT be alarmed if they take your fingerprints in Japan. Foreigners who go there to work are required to give their finger prints and register themselves at the immigration office. The finger-printing rule used to be a controversial one. It was required only of foreigners and common
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      Lock icon Were the Japanese this cruel?
      344 14 HER Japanese friend broke down in tears at the Sentosa Wax Museum. Miss Sia Sheau Chwen (below) said the young Japanese friend had little idea of the kind of atrocities that people suffered under the Japanese Occupation. Said Miss Sia, 32: "Most of the younger
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      321 15 WELCOME home. That's the wife at the doorway, welcoming you with a broad smile. You slip out of your jacket, kick off your pants and slip into a robe readied for you by the wife, the same one who greeted you with that big smile.
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  • @ A GLANCE
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      302 16 SINGAPORE may never have to worry about running out of drinking water if a proposed US$l.5 billion ($2.58 billion) project with Indonesia gets off the ground. And the supply could come through as early as 2005, through undersea pipelines. It will come from a
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      47 16 This robot is a step ahead of Its peers because It can go down or climb a flight of steps. The Japanese public got to see car maker Honda's human-like robot, P3, when It was unveiled at the company's headquarters In Tokyo yesterday. Picture/ Reuters
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    • BRIEFLY
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        85 16 THEY used their handphones while driving. For this, eight drivers will be charged in court, reports Berita Minggu. They were the first to be arrested yesterday the first day the heavier penalty was implemented. Those caught will be charged in court even though they are first-time offenders.
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        Lock icon Crushed at Pearl Jam gig
        80 16 EIGHT people were crushed to death at a rock concert in Denmark when a huge crowd pressed forward against the stage during a performance by US group Pearl Jam. The disaster occurred in muddy and rainy conditions just before midnight on Friday. Fans pressed forward
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        91 16 Reuters. SOME users of Microsoft's free Hotmail e-mail service received a bogus message threatening to cancel their accounts because it has too many customers. Microsoft quickly responded by saying the message was a prank and that Hotmail, one of the largest Web-based e-mail services in
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        Lock icon Never too late for a bus
        100 16 GOOD news for party goers and night owls. You can now catch a bus home after midnight and the fee is $3, an introductory flat fare. Launched yesterday, the SMRT Nightßus travels along MRT routes in the east, west and north every night from
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        81 16 AFP. THE police in Jakarta will deploy men skilled in shooting in a bid to fight rising crime in the Indonesian capital. "The move is show that the police are serious in fighting crime and to make people feel psychologically safe," said police spokesman Colonel Zainuri Lubis.
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        75 16 THE Singapore Mediation Centre not only saved the judiciary at least $7.8 million in High Court costs but also an estimated 1,200 court days. Between January 1997 and May this year, three-quarters of the 499 cases handled by the centre were settled amicably out of court. Retired
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        Lock icon Matthau dies
        69 16 ACTOR Walter Matthau, one of Hollywood's best-loved comedians, died of a heart attack yesterday. He was 79. His hang-dog face and grouchy, slouchy appearance helped him move from playing bad guys into comic roles. He was best known for his role as the untidy sports writer, Oscar Madison,
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        71 16 REMEMBER the opposition MP who stirred a controversy with his book called ***** last year. Datuk Shahnon Ahmad launched a second book, called Muntah (Vomit), this weekend in Kuala Lumpur. His new 173-page book is also a satire on the country's social and political state of affairs.
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      230 16 Injcus] OR how to create a home spa? Or you may want to learn how to laugh again. These are courses and seminars normally held at posh hotels and private clubs. They now have a new venue community clubs and centres (CCs). Soon, Mediterranean
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      114 16 TO MARKET, TO MARKET: Can't get enough of the Big Singapore Sale, then head down to the flea market at Clarke Quay. There are more than 70 stalls selling antiques, collectibles and handicraft. Today, from 9 am to 5 pm at the five-foot-way and atrium of The
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      45 16 Showers with thunder in the predawn hours and earty morning over many areas. north Showers sunrise 703 cm sunset 7:15 pm central o\m moonrise 7*17 dm moonset 7:52 pm east Thunderstorms mssmmam minimum 25 °C rst m maximum 32 °c second tide.. 3.1 m: 11:13pm
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      564 17  -  British parents upset over making babies' book By Sudha G tilak IN OXFORD. BRITAIN THE title alone is enough to shock many parents. Then there are the graphic cartoons in the children's book, showing how parents mate to make babies. Result Mummy Laid an Egg!
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      221 17 NG WAN CHING THE book "Mummy Laid an Egg!" has been sold at Borders Books since June last year. But there has been no uproar here. The sales assistants say they have three copies at the moment and people have leafed through them. We showed the
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    636 19 it squad SportsCity's Euro 2000 presenter John Faulkner has been keeping a big part of Singapore's population company almost every night in June. He's had such little sleep he might convert his eye bags into sleeping bags at the end of tomorrow's final match between
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      261 20 c Ch i li w \F3mh The It Squad took the Mitsubishi Mirage Sportswagon for a spin last week. The car was a prize offered by Cycle Carriage for the Great Singapore Sale lucky draw. Qualifying period ends July 9, so go ahead and shop. Here's what Ivan has to
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    Lock icon Tune in, Decibels chill out
    521 23 TripleGrande- SWnnyLatte (Independent) THE first song I ever heard from Livonia was Backseat Star, off the Left Of The DiaJ compilation. Since then, the band seems to have developed a slightly harder edge and this album is a good reflection of that. Livonia s indie
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    520 23  -  with Jessica Leow Q*avo FROM one of best remixers in the dance genre comes one of the coolest collection yet. Taking someone else's song, putting your own signature on it without killing what makes the original good in the first place is n< easy To do that over and
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    734 24  -  But it may not be all that romantic [single Column by Jason Tan jasont@sph.com.sg YOU'RE excited about someone in your life. You know, a hot date or even a prospective partner. You guys have met a few times, had dinners, caught a few movies... that kind
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    781 25  -  I""*' ICoolciGjsrl THe place T dm> f r tm>s mm This week, we kick off a series on kids the things which affect them in this confusing world of ours and how we can try to help them. First up: The television set. By Ng
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    1047 26 [Venue] <™==™==™™=* IT was all a bit surreal. We were sitting cross-legged on the bamboo*€latted floor, across from the chief of the Malaysian longhouse, in the middle of the Borneo jungle. Piglets, chickens and dogs of all manner of shapes and sizes milled lazily among the
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  • Aggie MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
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      210 28 I AM facing an emotional crisis. I have been with my first girlfriend for 10 years. But I can say that I must be a VERY INSENSITIVE 28-year-old guy who always does things to annoy and anger her. She says she has given me many
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      Lock icon Told lies about his wife
      157 28 Last week's letter: Capricorn Girl is 24 and her boyfriend is five years older. They've been together for almost three years. It was only after two years that she found out he's married with a child. He told her to give him a chance to
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      Lock icon Don't waste time on him
      217 28 Readers' advice: I THINK you are wasting your life on a meaningless relationship. He is merely using you. First of all, he was not honest about his family. He is a married man with a child yet he did not say a thing till you
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      Lock icon Start a new life
      147 28 THANK goodness you have separated from this guy. The feelings of loneliness and that of missing your boyfriend come from having got most of the attention from him in the last few years. Life becomes meaningless when you find you have no one to confide in.
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      Lock icon After two years, he now says he needs space
      579 29 I'VE been with my boyfriend for nearly two years. He's 22 while I'm 19. We've never had any big fights or disagreements. If there were any, we would compromise. I love him so much, and I know that he feels the
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      Lock icon Who should be my girlfriend?
      260 29 I'M at a loss. I can't decide whether to get into a relationship with an older girl or a girl my age. The girl who is my age has told me we should just be friends for now. But I can't wait. I want to
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    • Puberty Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues
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        Lock icon I get excited when I pee
        193 29 I AM a teenage girl. Q Often, I like to wait until my bladder is very full then take a bath. I use my hands to try to stop the urine from flowing out. I like the sensation when I do this. Even though,
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        Lock icon Am I bisexual?
        286 29 I'M a 20-year-old man. Ql think I am bisexual. I've read on the Internet that between 20 per cent and 30 per cent of people are bisexual. Is this true? Ever since I was 13, I've had an urge to see the private organs of men especially
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      44 28 CAN YOU HELP? If you think you can help with some useful advice, write or fox 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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      59 29 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 markAggie) or call 1900-912-0007 (calls cost 30 cents a minute). (You can use a pen name, but
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    854 30  -  -ealurejorfoeEß THE GUYS WHO ONCE OUTSOZd THE >BEATLES (IN SINGAPORE LhH I RETURN... by MICHELLE CHOH DONT ask the members of October Cherries how they got the name for their group. This is a family newspaper, after all. Well, December Buah Dukus was not an option But seriously, if
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    597 32  -  E~u- "1 _T P J By Carol Leong IT sells the most beautiful, Chinese-inspired crystal I've ever seen. It's so much nicer than Daum and Lalique! I'm talking about Liuligongfang at Paragon in Orchard Road. Everything in the shop is handmade and is limited edition.
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  • SeenHeard SHARP
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      Lock icon FREQUENCY
      74 33  -  THE MOVIE Edited by Sheela Narayanan sheeJa@sph.corn.sg I What if you had the chance to travel back in lime and change one event in your life? What would it be? John Sullivan, a New York cop, has a chance to undo events of Oct 12,1969, when an out-of-control fire
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      Lock icon Gripping start, then it gets all confusing
      333 33 by SHEELA NARAYANAN I REALLY wanted to see this movie, just from watching the trailers. Time travel and second chance to change things. How many of us wanted to do that? And so the promise begins well. The build-up action grips you, the
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      Lock icon Freeze Frame:
      53 34 Frank Sullivan (Dennis Quaid) to his son John ()im Caviezd): "Chief? Chief? Arc you there?" John: "I'm right here, dad.** Frank: "You have the voice of an angel reaching out of the heavens." Frank Sullivan: "We have got to be talking of the father-son spot of all time."
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      Lock icon Stay tuned, or else...
      361 34  -  by DREW FRITZ Gripping. That's how Fd describe Frequency, just arrived at a movie theatre near you. Right from the opening scene, this flick is non-stop tense, and it just keeps getting more and more tense as the movie progresses. The plot is well thought out
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      169 34 [J Roger Ebert in b« online review: MYIkAMA smm# OSM#4 9 ncrc may Dvnovfn «ki inconsistencie4lfrtheplot,l was too confused tttbfc sure. And I don't much caWanyway, because the underlying idea is so appealing-—that a son who fi n a WAM%A«VIWa«i lIIA oown i r WMWiiDcr nw iiuicr could
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      253 34 Quick learner A RETIREE was given a set of golf clubs by his co-workers. Thinking he'd try the game, he asked the locaJ pro for lessons. The pro told him: "Just hit the ball towards the flag on the first green." The novice smacked the bail, where it stopped inches
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      244 36 rapß Today is the day. Where you can unleash the Internet's full potential through SCV's I iPWI broadband Internet access service. Introducing SCV Max Online. Now available special price* of $76 per month or $56 per month for SCV Cable TV subscribers. Here's u how this new service can change
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    165 37  -  C Far out 3 with Mike Chua chuamcg@sph.com.s OCTOBER Cherries (our cover story for @ease section) is not the only Seventies icon on a revival trip. The kick scooter, currently riding on a crest of popularity, is yet another rage from an earlier age. Then there was
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    598 38  -  [SoSueMe I SUZANNE WALKER WRITES A FORTNIGHTLY COLU -J by Suzanne Walker IF you spend a week along Mohamed Sultan, youll surely meet someone who's lost their driving licence through drunkenness. Don't expect to meet them as you sit quietly in
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      756 44  -  By Tan Thean Loon KIWI trainer John Sargent celebrated his move to Kuala Lumpur with a sweet double yesterday at his new base in the Malaysian capital. With luck, he can repeat the feat today. One with a promising team formerly based in Penang, the burly and
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      356 44  -  By Marc Tan IT WILL not be a memorable birthday for trainer Henry Tan when he turns 40 on Wednesday. Tan, who owns and trains Memorable Star, was handed an unprecedented 10-year disqualification by the Selangor Turf Club (SLTC) stewards yesterday. Memorable Star, a
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      1383 45 TODAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD Going forecast: Good to yielding No. Lot 6 rum How Wt FUMng Jodwy Banter (AgtMaMtx, tnkm-omm) 1 9036-6 IMPERIAL STAR 57 (48) *MLeongc1.5 3 (7nzg PK Leong-Ng Kian Choon) 2 5-9075 YOUR CHOICE 56.5 (47) *N Chong 1 (3nzg V Chong^Choice) 3 *****0 STAR COMMAND
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      1070 46 YESTERDAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RESULTS Going: Yielding 9 VA LAT1FF 51 c 515 (8-6) J Item*) (1) 1 1 1 (433) 2 MIGHTY Vm 57c 54,5 (24-7) .HOjulWfll (6) 4 3 2 (416) 11 DYNAMIC QUALITY 50 (251 -37) _"BSh»hnjl (5) 3 4 3 <448) 10 SEPTEMBER N1HTH 50 c 49.5
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      199 46  -  By Danny Khoo A PROMOTION in class can prove to be a stopper. But at Kuala Lumpur yesterday, six-year-old Zanzi Khan achieved a rare feat when he overcame a double promotion. The Family Ties gelding, who completed a double in modest Class 5 company last
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      596 46 RACE 1: HULA FIGHTER jumped awkwardly out, throwing his head. SEPTEMBER NINTH was bumped at the start when ZARAGOZA jumped awkwardly in and YA LATIFF jumped awkwardly out. At about the same stage, jockey B Woodworth, the rider of ZARAGOZA, lost the use of
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      386 47  -  By Tan Thean Loon RISING star The Mighty Finn put up a courageous effort to beat the circuit's top galloper Ouzo in a heart-stopping finish in the inaugural $180,000 Jumbo Jet Trophy at Kranji last night. Ridden by visiting jockey Daniel Nikolic, The Mighty Finn
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      1000 47 4 THE JUNGLE KING 55 c 56 (8*5) 'YFUoog (1) 2 1 1 (463) 3 ROYAL DRAGON 58.5 (47-9) HBakri (7) 6 3 2 (463) 6 MEGA VICTORY 535 (48-9) „....KK Loh (2) 4 4 3 (465) 1 FIELD WARRIOR 59 (1S-6) OOuvcz
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      839 48 RACE 1: RUBY'S STAR jumped awkwardly out onto GIFT FROM HEAVEN. Thereafter, GIFT FROM HEAVEN was difficult to settle in the backstraight. RUBY'S STAR was difficult to settle in the backstraight and around the turn and had a tendency to lay out in the
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      477 49 YESTERDAY'S PERTH RESULTS Going: Yielding 1 LADY FIDELIA 54 (10-6) **ilH»v»y (7) 1 3 PARIS HEARTBEAT 54 (32-8) Ptler Knuctay (12) -2 2 CLASSY ACT 54 (151-33) M«rkS«tteh (10) 3 Also ran: DASH FOR CASSY Shaun McGruddy, MISS CENTAINE Jason Brown, HALF PAST Danny Miller, CLASSIC LADY Stephen Miller, BALEEN
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      34 49 4-D DRAW SATURDAY: July 1, 2000 FIRST SECOND THIRD 3446 6866 4234 STARTERS 2689 0019 0540 1761 0007 2511 9173 0751 4553 9962 CONSOLATION 9951 5748 7577 0995 3568 3110 6802 8420 2090 0919
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      292 50 Pete Sampras bt Justin Gimelstob 2-6,6-4,6-2,6-2 AP. PETE Sampras overcame a sore shin and a slow start at Wimbledon yesterday. He played with his characteristic brilliance on grass and overwhelmed fellow-American Justin Gimelstob. The third-round victory reduced doubts about Sampras' ailing left leg Acute tendinitis
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      90 50 UNSEEDED Jennifer Capriati, briefly distracted by music from a nearby brass band, rallied to beat Yayuk Basuki 7-6 (4), 6-0. Capriati fell behind 5-2 and refused to continue. Assistant referee Tony Gathercole was quickly dispatched to the court, and Capriati complained to him about the brass
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      871 51  -  (...well, most of the time, anyway) MELBOURNE OLYMPICS 1956 By Rudy Mosbergen THE Australian public was determined to demonstrate that the Melbourne Games in 1956 would become known forever as the "Friendly Games" (for some Aussies, it would be the "Bloody Friendly Games"). They certainly went out
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      512 52 EUR*****FUNPAGE ■wW A History repeated itself when mg A M.-k J ZinedineZidaneconverted a W0 WCmf V1 f ™T m m*W fm 119th-minute penalty to fire I I I \0 M J 1/mJmj France to a 2-1 golden goal W%/w victory over Portugal and into V L* the Euro 2000 final.
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      113 53 LEURO 2000 rance w ns van and Eileen will dress as stereotypical French artists, complete with beret and paint palette, walk into an Italian restaurant and call the Italian patrons losers, in whatever I J9 ,ta,ian the y 'W can muster. here's the fl* in i n0 idea y et
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    434 54 ZIDANE PLATINI: THE No 10s WITH STRIKING SIMILARITIES EURO 2000 AFP. HISTORY repeated itself when Zidane Zidane converted a 119th-minute penalty to* fire France to a 2-1 goldengoal victory over Portugal and into a Euro 2000 final meeting with Italy. In 1984, another French playmaker Michel Platini notched a 119th
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      632 55 IHT. ZINEDINE Zidane put the French nation through to the Euro 2000 final with a crescent sweep of his right boot when he scored the golden goal from the penalty spot against Portugal. To the great, white majority in France haunted by racial folk memories from the Algerian
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      413 55  -  By Gary Lim BURSTING through a crowd of English midfielders, he jinked past the entire defence before coolly rounding a hapless Peter Shilton. The rest, as they say, is history-Iliat was in the World Cup (fuarter-final 14 years ago and the man is none other
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      28 55 II JEM's Guide to the Euro 2000 Final DESTROY THE ENEMY'S BOWEL MOVEMENT Reduce Italy's manpower by secretly spiking their pasta with anything that induces diarrhoea or constipation.
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      970 56 THE BORE THE BEAUTIFUL I WHICH SIDE HAS THE BETTER DEFENCE BDWINs HOW do you beat the Italian defence? The semi-final against Holland shows there's no way. Mark luliano, Fabio Cannavaro, Alessandro Nesta and Faolo Maldini seem invincible. On top of that, Francesco Toldo is commanding in goal. Opening game
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      76 57 FRANCE is riding high, but look how Italy came from behind to bring Holland to its knees! That's the story so far according to these two outsized Euro 2000 fans, who took a break for a spot of... urn...extra-curricular activity The two jumbos, who
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      147 57 AFP. TOMORROWS Euro 2000 final be tween France and Italy will be spectacular provided there is an early goal. Sc says former French captain Michel Platini. Said Platini: "If that isn't the case, I don't think it will be good to watch. "Finals are rarely exciting.
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    663 58 FINAL FRANCE v ITALY Tomorrow Morning; 2am FOR three fine weeks, the Dutch dressed in orange, the soccer of Euro 2000 was the Beautiful Game, and we all became young again, intoxicated again with sport played the way it should be. And then, Holland met those
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    534 59 EURO 2000 FINAL FACTS FIGURES French midfielder Patrick Vieira has committed 17 fouls at Euro 2000, more than any other player from the squads of France and Italy. Fabio Cannavaro and Francesco Totti (12 each) have committed the most fouls for Italy Italy has committed a total of
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    313 60 FINAL: FRANCE v ITALY Tomorrow Morning, 2am Wire services. HEAD TO HEAD Italy and France have played each other on 29 previous occasions in official international matches. Italy has won 16 of the matches and France six. Seven of the matches have been drawn. Last match:
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      139 60 MSB J A I Ks Itj 4 .^^l o' Wi? J^H WA r >l9ii3 ij^^l J. Winning l Like all the teams that have made it to Euro 2000, a career with Apro Security is very much about being part of a winning team. Sure, we have all the state-of-the-art
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      462 62  -  BY Peter Siow TANJONG PAGARI (Steven Tan 25th) JURONG FCI (Matthew Hyson 66th) DID he dive or not? That was the question referee N Santhan had to ask himself seconds after V Sun dram oorthy went flying into the air following a muscular challenge by Lim
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      139 62 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: Geylang United vSAFFC Sembawang Rangers v Tampines Tovers TanjongPagarvGombak United dementi Khalsa
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