The New Paper, 22 October 2000

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    • 48 1 f. OCTOBER 22, on sunda' Singapore Press Holding* e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg i 'am. S& m mp: m. life m mm wmm SIM http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg MITA (P) )19/03/2000 8 *****1 *****9 > i FOR MOST PARENTS, IT'S HEAR NO 'EVIL', SPEAK NO 'EVIL'AT HOME BUT IT'STHEIR CHILDREN WHO PAYTHE PRICE... ./Page 14
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    19 1 Jealous teen plots to kill NSync because boyband star is dating Britney Spears /Page 27 Picture/The Star
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  • NEWS
    • 406 2 One killed, two seriously injured in Johor Bernama. A RETIRED religious teacher was killed, and two others seriously injured in an attack yesterday. A 27-year-old man, believed to be mentally unsound, ran amok with a parang at Felda Sri Jay a, about 80km from Muar.
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    • 188 2 DEATH can come in many ways. Sometimes it is obvious and brutal. Sometimes it comes quietly, choosing a victim here, taking a person there... and leaving others to see the light of another day. And the survivors may not even know
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    • 574 3  -  PCK LOOKALIKE CONTEST IN KL By< Cl Tan REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR IF you weren't looking closely, you'd swear that you were hearing Phua Chu Kang. For 19-year-old Jamie Francis Morais talks just like the television comedy series character. He's got the gestures and mannerisms just
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    • 129 3 WHEN Jamie Francis Morais' mother, Madam Ho Hin Choo, and sister Alina spotted the contest invitation while at Midvalley Megamall in Kuala Lumpur, they both jumped for it. "I just got tired with all his PCK's lines at home, especially the famous 'don't pray, prayY said
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      636 4  -  KL supergig By CL Tan IN KUALA LUMPUR BURSTING with energy all the way. That was Ramli Sarip at Rentak Asia (Rhythm of Asia) at the National Stadium in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, on Friday night. Ramli and the Rentak All Star Band rocked the house right from
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    • 121 4 RENTAK Asia was a two-day mega concert held in conjunction with today's Malaysian F1 Grand Prix. It was the first music festival of its kind that brought international and local artistes together to perform in three venues simultaneously at Bukit Jalil on Friday and Saturday.
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  • NEWS
    • 343 6 NICHOLAS Lee of Under One Roof fame will be hosting The New Paper Great Chilli Challenge next Sunday. Come on down and watch this sizzling contest which will be full of fun and entertainment. It will take place at the Outdoor Event Plaza (outside Orchard
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    • 256 6 NICHOLAS who used to star in the popular TCS sitcom, Under One Roof, will not be appearing in the newest series. He became popular as girl-crazy Ronnie, youngest son of the Tan family. "I feel that I was too typecast," he said. "That's why I
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    • 146 6 WE were there's only one word for it chillified! A hundred over entries from our readers, eager to pit their mouths in our chilli eating contest. We picked out 30 red hot contenders for the challenge. Remember, don't call us, well be calling you! You are: Gertrude Chia;
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  • NEWS
    • 436 8 Watch the ears those horse droppings! WHEN a horse does the unexpected at the races, the result is many worried faces. How do you define "unexpected"? I guess that's when a horse decides not to race, shows resistance or simply misbehaves. And the many worried faces? Well, there are the
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    • 151 10 T 112 jhii MSM®!Sraf V Mi l «l w K i. .i. u-.v..-. fev-tefa a-# j i. a--, >. Mllllitftelittww where to go for help, life H She took out a little notebook, where she iimniin nf hnr debtors and to
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    • 61 11 S someone who needs help? n > I 1 We all need one when we ore colling out for help. We have listed some financial assistance schemes available for Singaporeans. Also listed are some of the organisations that can help you. Know someone who needs help? Start now. I'm-' r
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      926 12 wow, you can spend your next holiday on Mars. Well, nearly there, courtesy MirCorp, a US company promoting Russian space station Mir as a tourist destination. Astronaut Jerry Linengertellsyou what life on Mir was like in his new book, writes EUGENE ANTHONY BLAANG! Blaang! Blaang! The master
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    • 60 12 p iL' Ho" t edi funds, thereby jeopardising die future of theprqject. Such reports notwithstanding, MirCorp announced on Oct 12 that it plans to raise $117 million through an f initiai pubMS offering to 3 M finance long-term 0118 Russians in 1986, is still in „l, *i i-p-jj- stwji3.(3
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    • 1397 14 Just 20, and marriage on the rocks Mum says: I'm to blame Parents, don't make These teens fumbled their way into pregnancy and marriage. Then reality bit. Now, they wish someone had told them the truth of sex. But sex education isn't the only
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    • 374 14 DONT let boys touch your breasts, for you may get pregnant. TTiat's what her mother told Faridah (not her real name) when she was 14. But her mother never talked to her only daughter, now 23, about puberty, how babies were made, safe sex and responsibility.
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  • EXPAT
    • 680 16  - Oh, oh French drivers on the loose ENCOUNTER IN FRANCE Although we concluded ourfour-part series on Singaporean expats early last month, we continue to receive letters from readers telling us their experiences living overseas. We highlight two By Tina Tan IN LYONS, FRANCE WALKING along the Rue de la Republique
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      398 17 prickly creatures had become when I went back to England for a short visit. A friend and I were chatting away as we were just about to cross a small side road when I saw, from the corner of my eye, a car coming in our direction. Like a mother
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    • 207 17 CALLING all expat teens! There are many Singaporeans out there who want to know you. Over the months, The Expat Page has received a lot of e-mail offering to show you around. We want you to have your say. We want to hear from you.
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    • 605 17 ENCOUNTER IN US I AM married to an American and livp with my husband in a small town in the desert in the Southwest. I'm a Malaysian, though I was educated in Singapore most of my life. For the five years I've been living
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  • THE WEEK
    • 254 18  -  Guest editor MR SOKALINGAM CHINNIAH Comfort taxi driver YOU cannot be scared if you want to be a taxi driver. That's what I keep telling myself. But I was very sad for the family of Tibs cabby Koh Ngiap Yong, who was found murdered near Chestnut
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    • 330 18 If they look suspicious We are often told by management to be careful. We are allowed to refuse to take customers if they look threatening or act in a suspicious manner. For example, we can refuse to be hired if the potential customers are four big men who are asking
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    • 195 18 The policeman at the NPP, unfortunately, accidentally left his keys in the post while hurrying out to help me. And he was locked out after the door slammed shut. By the time that was sorted out, the passenger woke up. I sent him home. There, he staggered out
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  • @ A GLANCE
    • 203 20 YOU'RE late. You've just missed the bus. So when's the next one coming, you want to know. Never mind, have a coffee, relax. After all, in about two years, you'll find out just by whipping out your pager, handphone or palmtop. By
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    • 129 20 InOcus] FROM next year, teams of three to four nurses will visit secondary and tertiary institutions four times a year to test them for Hepatitis B. The Health Ministry is including these schools in its four-year programme to boost immunity levels. About half of
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  • BRIEFLY
    • 81 21 THEY'RE willing to give up their Singapore Cricket Club membership over the club's "no-maids" rule. Club officials yesterday questioned Mr Peter Monksfleld about his wife's comments on club rules barring maids from its premises. The Monksfields said they would give up their membership if the rule
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    • 82 21 A PLUCKY biker chased a drunk pickup driver who I sped off after he ijj tbM knocked down and W/ killed an elderly cyclist on Friday. j motorcycle, Mr Tseng Peck Chuang, 44 (right), chased the culprit for about 1 km before swerving into the pickup's
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    • 101 21 HE went absent without leave, then tried to leave Singapore by cramping into the boot of a Malaysian-registered car, with two immigration offenders. Full-time national serviceman Lee Kim Han, 23, was arrested at the Woodlands checkpoint on 1 Thursday. The two others with him a Thai
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    • 101 21 AP. AT least 40 Thais were injured when hundreds of angry protesters clashed with police and then stormed a public hearing into the construction of a Thai-Malaysian gas pipeline. Officials at the hearing at a sports arena in Had Yai, 950 km south of Bangkok, had
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    • 103 21 THOSE in the arts thought it was going to happen. But no, it doesn't look like censorship rules will be relaxed. The Ministry of Information and the Arts will do it only "when the need arises". Surveys by Mita and Channel News Asia last year, and
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    • 77 21 SINGAPORE'S $1.2b investment package for Indonesia does not need to be refined, Mr Goh Chok Tong said yesterday after meeting Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid. Speaking on the sidelines of the Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem), he said investors' decisions depended on the situation in Indonesia, especially its political stability.
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    • 88 21 THIS should please both the bored husbands who trail their shopping wives and the women, who find them a pain. On Friday, Britain's first shopping mall creche for men was unveiled. Complete with care staff, newspapers and a choice of computer games, the creche attracted a steady
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    • 102 21 AFP. PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat yesterday accused Israel of massacring his people and warned that its actions at holy sites could lead to "wars of religion". In a speech at the opening of an emergency Arab summit in Cairo, he said the Palestinians were victims of an
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    • 150 21 CELTIC SOUNDS: Watch Australian group, The Coogans, play folksy Irish country music. In the last of the NAC-Esso Concert in the Park series, the group will perform today at the field opposite the Singapore Art Museum, from 5.30pm to 7 pm. Free. GROOVE IN LINE: Always wanted
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 62 21 Showers with thunder over many areas in the predawn hours and again in the afternoon y N i v 7 y mast*,. X north Thunderstorms sunrise 6:47 am west Thunderstorms sunset 6:52 pm central Thunderstorms moonrise 2:24 pm south Thunderstorms moonset 2:54 am east Thunderstorms minimum 24°C first tide... 24
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  • NEWS
    • 338 22  -  By Amy Chiew WHEN Filipino maid Remedios Zinggapan won our weekly 3Q Challenge, her boss also got in on the action. Ms Zinggapan won a Palm IIIc organiser worth $649, which she's selling to Madam Jeam Lau at a discounted price of $500. Said the 33-year-old
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    • 391 23  -  BY Mike Chua FOREIGN workers are* a valued lot. And the Government intends to ensure that their work and stay in Singapore is both rewarding and happy. This was the key message from the Minister of State for Manpower, Mr Othman Haron Eusofe, when
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    • 710 24  -  This man has the answer PROBLEM: 111 11 ■lIIIWIIiIB I 111 lIIIWIIHI TTiiilW By, Arthur J Pais REPORTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO AT first, it was a simple exercise. Concerned by his two daughters' complaints that their school maths was not only boring but also wasn't
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    • 432 25 LOBOHOMBO disco is one of Mexico City's popular night spots. It is usually crowded and can hold about 3,000 people. Like any other night, the disco was packed on Thursday. But as dawn was approaching, the crowds were thinning. Around 1,000 remained. Around sam local
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    • Article, Illustration
      275 26 No, it won't help you beat the speed radar IT'S never been proved that playing CDs in your vehicle makes you a better driver unless it stops you from falling asleep. But some drivers in Dubai, a Mid-dle-Eastern city in the United Arab Emirates, have been putting the
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      429 27 NSYNC STAR DATES BRITNEY. SO, JEALOUS FAN PLOTS MURDER THE 17-year-old was a big fan of American teen pop queen Britney Spears. And when he heard that another pop star, Justin Timberlake of the boyband NSync, was dating her, he went almost mad with jealousy, according to Skynews.
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    • 242 28 THE advertisements for ladies' underwear were meant to get attention. That they did. In fact, they turned out to be so shocking that the Advertising Standards Agency in Britain ordered the posters to be taken down, according to Skynews. Because they implied oral sex
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    • 202 28 IT was total chaos at the railway station in Guwahati, a city in Assam State in India. Rifle-wielding soldiers last night sprayed bullets on each other inside a train compartment. The battle lasted three hours. And, at the end of it, four soldiers and
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    • 43 29 The NeW Pa >er 0(1 Sunda y October 22,2000 §1 strings attach e d Our eligible writers pour their hearts out, touching you. Why do they do it? And how has the single column changed their lives m£ H 9. in. w-" |MBMBBBppMM|jtf^mpMS
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  • 903 30  -  Cookie arl J THE PLACE TO DIP FOR TIPS By Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg HOW do you balance work with career? As every working mother already knows, there is no simple answer. But there are many little ways of making things easier on yourself.
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  • SeenHeard SHARP
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      61 32  -  THE MOVIE Edited by Eugene Anthony nirvana@sph.com.sg Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) is a big-city newspaper columnist. She has an alcohol problem and is sent to a rehabilitation centre for 28 days. There, she plans immediately to find a way to beat the system. Stars Sandra Bullock, Dominic West,
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    • 419 32  - Comedy tragedy double tragedy by EUGENE ANTHONY WHO says you can't look at tragedies in a humorous way? There is a saying somewhere which goes: Tragedy plus time equals comedy. However, in this movie, the formula ends up: Comedy plus tragedy equals double tragedy. I must admit that I have
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    • 28 33 n Rehab resident to Gwen: I tike your coat. Is it vinyl? Gwen: No. Resident Leather? Gwen: Yes. Resident Do you believe Ni killing animals? Gwen:
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      321 33  - by WOON WUI TEK SO 28 Days isn't another grimy, draining, endlessly tragic look at rehab. Excuse me while I sigh in relief. And lest my colleague, Eugene, makes you think it's "just another sunshine film", consider these spoilers: Gwen (Sandra Bullock) does not end up with Viggo Mortensen's dreamy
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    • 196 33 Roger Ebert in his online review; The movie was written by Susannah Grant, who also wrote Julia Roberts'hit film, j Erin Brockovich. I differed with Erin for the same reason I like 28 Days: The tone of the central character. I found
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    • 265 33 Ghostly face Two guys leave a bar after a long night of drinking, jump into a car and start it After a couple of minutes, an old man appears in the passenger window and taps lightly. The passenger screams: "Look at the window. There's an old ghost's face there!" The
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 488 34 CALL: 873-3333 IA jj 24-hour subscription sales hotline a movies fri Lucky Number lOpm When all seems to be going bad for o° p him, he turns to selling Viagra and lfcSh l||L 9pm Magu.re(hodyt.pped to play Peter pirated VCDs. Is a number all he Parker in the newbig-screen needs
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    • 485 35 Highlight of the Week sports tues Tennis Masters Series —Stuttgart Bpm Day I (Delayed) Stuttgart will welcome the world's best players for the first indoor event current affairs/education VHk of the Tennis Masters series. Last year, Sweden's Thomas Enqvist captured 1 ■Kill WMHi the title by defeating Richard Krajicek ccpn
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  • Feature!
    • 966 36 Reportsl MICHELLE CHOH ORDINARILY, being single means going solo. Not coupled, neither hitched. Alone, at one with yourself. Until the single gets involved with the extraordinary in The New Paper on Sunday. Being single then suddenly means no longer being on your own. As these three brave
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    • 251 36 BRAVE. That was the adjective that figured largely in the minds of followers of our Single Column. Said regular reader Beaver Ong, 23, a student: "It takes someone outspoken and daring who doesn't mind letting people know how they feel... I really admire their guts for
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  • Single Column
    • 178 37  -  ...CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK So you're not a hopeless single, and you don't see yourself as a couldn 't-care-less single either. Neither are you a buaya single, a die-die-won't-admit-it single, or God forbid —a desperate single. But maybe you '11 find yourself f in this
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    • 754 38  -  by Art Fazil THE problem about flying long distance is the distance. Sitting in an enclosed space in a vehicle zooming across the sky 180,000 m above the ground for 12 to 15 hours can drive you mad with restlessness. For the first several
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  • Article, Illustration
    516 39  -  Venue I It's a sport that gives new meaning to the word 'extreme'. JASON TAN gives a first-hand, er, body account Edited by Crispina Robert crispina@sph.com.sg A PENDULUM, yo-yo, rocket scientist, I was all that when I tried a new extreme sport. Bye-bye bungee jumping, sayonara para-gliding.
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  • 450 41  -  Chip I -"I—- CHEAP AND HIP: STYLE FOR THE BUDGET-CONSCIOUS By Carol Leong carol@sph.com.sg LITTLE things mean a lot. Take this tiny thing. Deceptively simple, but it can breathe new life into your old costume jewellery, especially necklaces. Basically, it's a hook that turns mid-length
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  • 688 42  -  1 1 I SUZANNE WALKER WRITES A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN by Suzanne Walker HAVE you sucked your tummy in or peeled off all your clothes before stepping on the weighing scale? And after you've sweated, starved, experienced Nazi-like mental duress, behaved as though you're on permanent PMS for
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  • Aggie MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
    • 203 43 Blue Aquarius FOUR months ago, I met this 16-year-old guy, X. He's the same age as me. We are from different secondary schools. It was love at first sight when we met. I thought X was a nice, caring and wonderful guy. When he asked for
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    • 207 43 Last week's letter: PISCES has always believed in suffering now and gaining happiness later. Life has not been good to her since she was 13. That was until three years ago when, at the age of 32, she met T. He's a man every woman
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    • 109 43 Readers' advice: WHY wait for him? It's just a waste of time. What he has done shows that he goes to you because you can produce children. But obviously, he does not need you for a wife. If women who divorce their husbands can live without them,
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    • 179 43 HE has used you for selfish reasons. Did you ever think that, perhaps, his wife could not produce children and has allowed him to go and look for a woman who can? This might be their deal: That he can have another woman who will bear him
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    • 453 44 I'M 19 and my boyfriend, J, is 22. He's now doing his national service. He's a very nice guy and we have been together for three years. He always encourages and supports me whenever I feel down. I admit that I am abit bad-tempered and
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    • 430 44 I'M a 28-year-old divorcee with two lovely children. I have been divorced for about nine months. I have a boyfriend whom I have known for about two years. We became close after my divorce. I love him and Pm happy the way things are now.
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    • Puberty Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues
      • 192 44 I AM married and in my 30s. Ql have a question on male ejaculation. Previously, I used to be able to "shoot far" when climax is reached during either sex or masturbation. But now, the semen merely oozes out from the penis. There is no "high-speed thrust"
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      • 245 44 I AM an 18-year-old male Qand two matters have been worrying me. First, I find myself getting an erection very often, even when I am not fantasising at all. Actually, it usually happens when I am idle. Is this unusual? Second, I have quite a
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      • 70 44 If you need advice on matters of the heart or sex issues, write to: Aggie, The New Paper, News Centre, 82 Genting Lane, Singapore *****7. Or fax: 737-5375, e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg (please mark: Aggie) or call 1900-*****07 (calls cost 30 cents a minute). (You can use a pen name,
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  • RACING
    • 1112 51 RACE 1: At the start, COVERED 'N GOLD and VICTORY FIGHTER came together. Shortly after entering the homestraight at about the 400 m mark, PARAMOUNT CHIEF became unbalanced and faltered. Approaching the 300 m mark, VICTORY FIGHTER switched out around the heels
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    • 224 51 YESTERDAY'S PERTH RACE RESULTS Going: Firm 1 FUJIAMA 55 (81-17) Tim Stubberfleld (8) 1 2 RAJA BOY 54.5 (11-5) Patrick Carbery (6) 2 9 PRINCE ADELPHI52 (251-45) Michael Ryan (2) 3 Winning trainer: Andrew Voigt. Margins: 3 A, 1V*, nk. Time: 1min 24.9sec. Forecast: $41. Tierce: $1,541. 1 SISTER PATRICIA
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    • 320 52  -  Xenophon achieves fifth consecutive victory in a canter By Lionel Lee Sensational sprinter Xenophon struck the right chord for the fifth successive time last night at Kranji to keep his perfect record intact. The Westminster aided by a featherweight on his back, capitalised on the advantage to score
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    • 894 52 YESTERDAY'S KRANII RACE RESULTS Going: Good 1 ARABIAN COMMANDER 59 (10-6) LDittman (8) 1 1 1 (470) 7 CLASSIC COUNT 56.5 (30-8) EMarchant (6) 4 2 2 (464) 6 VICTORY FIGHTER 57 (125-20) KBSoo (4) 6 6 3 (497) 2 JUNESON 58.5 (332-39) SScrlven (2) 6 7 4 (484) 8
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    • 1486 53 TODAY'S PENANG RACE CARD Going forecast: Very heavy No. Last S runt Hone Wt Rating Jockey Banter (Agtforigin/atx, trainer-owner) 1 804-2 VICTORY LEXUS 57 (60) DChee 4 (6nzg Vashaiya-Victory) 2 66-9- LUCKY SEVENTEEN 54.5 (55) \)Yeohc3 7 (6am W Leong-Egoli) 3 -3-30 GREEN FRONTIER 53.5 (53) SMarzuki 9 (4nzg Ali-Viva)
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    • 157 54 PICK OF THE DAY Has found a new lease of life since being relocated in Malaysia. Has had three starts since resuming from a break for a win, a second and a fourth. Capitalised on his speed to win convincingly over 1,200m last
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    • 734 54  -  Continuous heavy rain renders racecourse unsafe for racing By Lionel Lee INCESSANT rain has forced yesterday's Penang races to be abandoned. The decision to cancel the Penang Turf Club's (PNTC) third day programme came after a track inspection in the morning by the club's committee. For
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    • 1379 55 Ho- Horse Wflbt) Rittng Jockey Bfrttt Twtwr 1 SMART HORSE 133 (55) KHTing 13 (KWLui) 2 TRIUMPHANT MASCOT 132 (54) JSaimee 2 (IW Allan) 3 FIELD'S WINNER 130 (52) D O'Neill 3 (TKNg) 4 GREAT CHIEF 130 (52) SKSit 6 (PC Kan) 5 GOLDEN
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    • 32 52 The $1 million Singapore Gold Cup race will be run at Kranji next Sunday. Watch out for our countdown to the 2,200m classic this week, starting with a curtainraiser of the candidates.
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  • SPORTS
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      115 56 GUTS GLORY SPANISH swimmer Javier Torres is handicapped. Yes, no hands and his legs are artificial, too. ButTorresisa sportsman. One with the Olympic spirit. He is at the Olympic Games for the handicapped in Sydney. The look of his face is of a gutsy athlete who wants glory. But Torres
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      9 57 j MIKE TYSON IS STUNNED...AS HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CLASH
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    • 670 57 IN just under 10 minutes yesterday, heavyweight boxing was dealt a knockout blow. It was swift and cruel something which we have come to associate with bad boy Mike Tyson. Only this time "Iron" Mike came out as clean
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    • 522 58 ENDS IN A FARCE IN THE THIRD ROUND ANDREW GoMk Listen, boxing is a difficult sport. I was head butted. The referee did not respond. Everyone says I'm a dirty fighter. But I don't know why there was no reprimand for Mike (Tyson). I'm sorry to
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    • 168 58 Andrew (Golota) has gotnoguts. It's a "big disgrace for boxing. start. With his long reach and good height, he surprisingly stuck close to Mike when he could've jabbed and moved around. By keeping close to Mike, he got whacked several times early and went down, too. I think
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    • 418 59 FORMULA ONE MICHAEL Schumacher is dreaming of a new era for Ferrari. He may have clinched the Formula One world drivers' championship before this afternoon's final round in Malaysia. But he insists there is still much for him to achieve at Ferrari. "My mission is far from over,
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    • 146 60 1. Michael Schumacher (Germany) Ferrari l:37.397secs 2. Mika Hakkinen (Finland) McLaren 1:37.860 3. David Coulthard (Britain) McLaren 1:37.889 4. Rubens Barrichello (Brazil) Ferrari 1:37.896 5. Alexander Wurz (Austria) Benetton 1:38.644 6. Jacques Villeneuve (Canada) BAR 1:38.653 7. Eddie Irvine (Britain) Jaguar 1:38.696 8. Ralf Schumacher (Germany)
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      149 60 FOR a race only one |yea|old|the Malaysian Grand Prix already has a lot of history. k spectacular return Sjtoihe Formula One season last year after a three-month break to |p®cover from a broken leg, repoiteThe Independent. WMHtftwmyde position, Eddie Irvine, was disqualified after the race, then reinstated. Now,
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      80 61 You might expect a grandmother of five at 69 to be enjoying family bliss in the comfort of a rattan chair in her backyard. But not Singapore's new czarina of football. She's on the ball, in every sense of the word. Jeanette Sim, the new chairman of the Football Association
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    • 93 61 JULIE TEO y FAS women's team secretary: We're very excited because Mrs Sim is the first chairman of the women's football committee. You can tell she's very concerned with the national team: She's also very warm, friendly and approachable. MOHD BASHIR, nationar women's team coach: She's been
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    • 810 62 A TRENDY Fendi outfit and a brilliant smile. Note that elegant foot perched on the football? That foot belongs to Singapore's new czarina of football. Jeanette Sim is the new chairman of the Football Association of Singapore women's committee. And yes, just to let you know in passing, the
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    • 160 62 COACH: FAS has appointed its experienced staff coach Mohd Bashir to prepare a formidable women's national team. Picture/ Jonathan Choo GOALKEEPERS: Noraini Samin (Balestier Central), Norhayati Hamir (Tampines Rovers 1951). DEFENDERS: Anna Leong (Home United A), Diana Sokemi (Tampines Rovers 1951), Jamie Oh (SAFFC), Liza Bakar (Tampines Rovers
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    • Sportsline
      • 80 62 SOCCER: SINGAPORE Referees are on Cloud Nine. The top-of-the-world feeling came after a rousing 4-0 win over Singapore Coaches in the annual H S Dhillon Cup annual match played atTanglin Oval yesterday. "The coaches are usually expected to be the brains in football. The referees, more often
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      • 100 62 TENNIS: POOR Michael Chang. Sweden's Magnus Norman booked a spot in the final by trouncing him 6-3,6-1 at the Shanghai Open tennis tournament last night. Norman stuck to his steady baseline style to outgun crowd favourite Chang. Sjeng Schalken of Holland overcame Spain's Alex Calatrava 6-4
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      • 87 62 SOCCER: TAMPINES Rovers is thinking bowling as an out-of-soccer fund-raiser in the S-League. The Stags (Tampines' nickname) will be staging a mammoth bowling tournament today from 9am at the Orchid Bowl Country Club to raise $100,000. "We're always looking at refreshing ways to raise money," said
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      • 169 62 SOCCER: CHRISTOPH Daum was dropped as designated coach of the German national team and fired by his club Bayer Leverkusen last night. It came after a drug analysis on his hair came back positive. The surprising result was a sudden twist in a loud and public feud
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      427 63 KEVIN PHILLIPS IS EUROPE'S TOP SCORER. Club: Sunderland Birthday: July 25, 1973 Birthplace: Hitchin Synopsis: Started his career at Southampton. But he was not offered professional terms. Played for non-league Baldock Town as a right-back before moving to striker where his predatory finishing alerted the attention of Graham Taylor,
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    • 617 64 nobody else is telling me, either. "During Euro 2000, (manager) Kevin Keegan did not once ask me to warm up during any of our three games. "During all the talk of who should take over from Alan Shearer he never once
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    • 189 64 KEVIN Phillips has candidly admitted he might have to leave Sunderland to fulfil his England ambitions. "Deep down, you have to start thinking it's your club, not your form, that might be the problem," he told Soccernet. "To not even get a minute against Germany. To not
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    • 124 64 Kevin hasjustgotto be patient. He's a quality striker in a country with quite a few quality strikers. I'm sure he'll get his chance again. He just has to keep his head down and get on with it. —Sunderland manager Peter Reid Kevin has proved his striking merit
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    • World of soccer
      • 85 64 ENGLAND: BOBBY ROBSON will be unveiled as England's caretaker manager next week, with a brief to lead his country again for three games. The former international boss, now with Newcastle, has been approached to guide England through the friendly against Italy next month, Spain in February and the
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        73 64 BRAZIL: FORMER Brazil coach Wandertey Luxemburgo (above) has told police he was blackmailed by a former business associate who accused him of evading taxes. He spoke to Rio police last night as part of the tax-evasion investigation into his finances. His former partner, Renata Moura Alves, is also
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      • 53 64 VIETNAM: VIETNAM will not renew the contract of national soccer coach Alfred Riedl. The Vietnam Football Association is angry that he attacked the sport's governing body in a recent press interview. Riedl's contract expires on Dec 31 and it will not be renewed after the Tiger Cup
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      710 65 Borg babes Swedish tennis star Bjom Borg talks exclusively to LIM HAN MING 'I want to give the kids a chance to be great players and let them travel the world' WHAT: Ml Motorola Champions 2000 WHEN: Tuesdayto Friday WHERE: Singapore Indoor Stadium TICKETS: $20 to $55 available from Sistic
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    • 100 67 EDWIN YEO says: Manchester United's opening 41st-minute goal by Dwight Yorke was the talking point at Old Trafford. Even if Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wasn't offside when he received the ball on the right from David Beckham, Yorke in the centre surely was. You can argue
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      889 68  -  COMMENT EDWIN YEO YES, Manchester United fully deserved to win its Premiership match against a toothless Leeds United at Old Trafford. But be honest, Man U fans. All three goals scored in the match had its share of fortune, and I don't mean the Red Devils' left midfielder
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    • 119 68 Bradford City 0 Ipswich Town 2 Dan Petrescu 34 og Jamie Clapham 89 Crowd: 17,055 Charlton Athletic 1 Mathias Svensson 68 Middlesbrough 0 Crowd: 22,043 Chelsea 6 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink 24 pen, 42,52,58 Gianfranco Zola 48 Tore Andre Flo 68 Coventry CHyl Cedric Roussel 89 Crowd: 34,646 Liverpool
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      169 68 Reuters. CHELSEA 6 COVENTRY 1 f Chelsea is slowly but surely getting back among the 1 Premiership leaders. Four impressive goals for Holland striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (right) leapt the London club from 15th place to 1 10th. B It was only Chelsea's third win of the season and
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