The New Paper, 29 October 2000

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  • 19 1 the new paper OCTOBER 29, 2000 Singapore Pnaa Holdings http://newpaper.asiai com.sg [tiiKiiinffl 70 CENTS e-mail: tnp©sph.com.sg MITA (P) )19/03/2000
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  • NEWS
    • 296 2 She was arrested for refusing to leave Drama Centre SHE wouldn't leave so she left in a police car. And although the theatre group head was eventually released some five hours later, it was on $2,000 bail. S Thenmoli, 35, of local group Agni Kootthu, was arrested at
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    • 168 2 IN a faxed statement at 12.04 am this morning: "Police received a call from the National Arts Council at 5.55pm requesting police assistance as there was a group of performers refusing to leave the Drama Centre despite having been advised by the staff of the Drama Centre
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    • 201 2 IN a joint statement issued with the Public Entertainment Licensing Unit (Pelu), Singapore Police Force and National Arts Council yesterday evening: "After Agni Kootthu was informed by Pelu that their application for a Public Entertainment Licence was not approved, the group made announcements to the public
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    • 162 2 "I FEEL I had a right to the rented space (the auditorium). "All I wanted was for the NAC to clarify what had happened. They had said the final decision to grant the licence was up to Pelu. We didn't dispute that. "They said they could not
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    • 77 2 Talaq, which means Muslim divorce, explores issues like marital violence and rape among Indian Muslim women. And the woman who acted in their first three Tamil performances in late 1998 and 1999, Indian-Muslim divorcee Nargis Banu, 37, claimed to be a victim of an oppressive marriage herself. Written by
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    • 229 3  - Spicing up the dance floor and they're only 12 1 By l Woon Wui Tek s a t torn lyllam. Something fiery Vivas certainly giving 12-ye»olds Kirkkiat Vannavisap and Salin Subrungruan#extra pep. FjJlt of foot and bursting wily spirit, the Thai pair. da«ed up a more than kidsisd storm last
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    • 757 4 The purpose? Simply education, says the attendant at Thailand's "horror" museum TheSongkran Niyomsane Forensic Medicine Museum is located just off Arun-Amarin Road at Siriraj Hospital, just behind the Thonburi Railway Station on the west bank of the Chao Phraya river. IT was a sight that would
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    • 32 5 These jars of deformed babies caught this boy's attention at the Forensic Medicine Museum. A hand with a striking tattoo. A gunshot wound left a gaping hole in this head.
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    • 1027 6 'His skin is very itchy so he's always scratching It bleeds and he cries' This Malaysian toddler was abused and abandoned by his own father. Because he suffenra rare congenital skin conditUn. He's still his mother's j "beautiful boy", but life is tough, k M SETO NU-WENiiastA J^ gut-wrenching story
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    • 240 7 4 MAT Shukri can lead a normal, healthy life. That's according to his doctor, a skin specialist from Alor Setar General Hospital in Kedah. The doctor, who declined to be named, said Mat Shukri is suffering from congenital ichtyosis bullous erythroderma. It is due to
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    • 914 8  -  BYj Amy Chiew ONLY 14 and already a veteran when it comes to Mandarin competitions. In the two-room flat in Ang Mo Kio which he shares with his mother, the "evidence" can be found. There, lined on a shelf, are
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    • Article, Illustration
      936 10 FIFTY days at sea. Rolling decks and gusty winds. Roaring waves and endless horizons. That's how I sailed into discovery of how alike and different we Aseans are. Yes, Aseans, not just Asians. We were all Aseans on board except the Japanese who were also on board. But
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    • 133 10 THE spirit of the programme does not end after the voyage. The participating youths become lifetime members of an exclusive international alumni. This is where the contacts are made and strengthened across Asean. In Singapore, the alumni is SSEAYP International Singapore (SIS). Every
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    • 44 11 The Nippon Maru with young people from Japan and Asean countries will set sail today at 4pm from the World Trade Centre Harbour Pavilion dock. It will visit six Asean countries and reach Japan, where the programme will end on Dec 15.
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    • 114 11 THE Ship for South East Asia Youth Programme (SSEAYP) is an annual programme which was started in 1974. It is sponsored by the Japanese Government and brings together more than 300 young participants from Asean countries and Japan to live and interact culturally for close to 50
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    • 473 12  -  By. Jason Tan YOU'D bend over backwards to see the fabled Leaning Tower of Pisa, but you can't afford the plane fare to Italy. Just 400km north in Perak is a cheaper alternative. The leaning tower of Telok Intan was built in 1885 by a "tycoon
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  • NEWS
    • 241 15 TODAY'S the day, folks! Come down to The H2O Zone by 3pm and watch our 30 contestants sweat it out for a place in the finals of The New Paper on Sunday Great Chilli Challenge. Celebrities Nicholas Lee and Bryan Wo&g will host this red
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    • 104 15 3pm: Host Nicholas Lee (star of Under One Roof) will be giving away Nik and Hanis Restaurant vouchers in a'series of audience participation games. 3.30pm: Round 1 of the Great Chilli Challenge. The two contestants who are the fastest to eat their way through the challenge dishes will
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    • 119 15 LUCY Ong (above) will find the final Chilli Challenge a pushover if she makes it there. "Chewing a mouthful of chilli padis is no problem at all. But not too many, just five or r> SIX. However, she is talking about the tiny bul-let-shaped variety
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    • 176 15 r"MY parents think I've got some sort of medical condition because it is not normal for someone to like chilli the way I do," says Kamil Haque, 18, 'A' level student and Great Chilli Challenger. Kamil (right, with spoon) adds: "I get through four or five
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  • EXPAT
    • 1042 16  -  By John Faulkner ON JAN 1, 2001, my wife Cecilia and I will have been in Singapore exactly 10 years. I arrived from the UK as a professional actor and, after starting the first, full-time drama school, LaSalle College of the Arts, with Brother Joseph McNally, I have
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    • 206 17 LETTERS TO GUS THE idea to invite Mr John Faulkner to write actually came from one of our readers. Mr Faizal wrote in an e-mail: To Gus Expat Page, Enjoy your Expat Page a lot. I have a suggestion for you. How about something on John
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  • @ A GLANCE
    • 213 18 THE Singapore Zoo has been accused of caging young chimpanzees and training them to pose with visitors. Renowned wildlife photographer Karl Ammann has alleged that getting the chimps to sit timidly on strangers' laps was against their nature. 'The amount of discipline needed can only
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    • 155 18 AFP. ...and she's won a bodybuilding contest. Prof Elizabeth Hatton says bodybuilding has enriched her life: "I'm 53 and until recently, hadn't worn a bikini for i 20 years." I But another bikini shot of 1 the dean of Edith Cowan University's South-West
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    • 129 18 WATCH'EM RUN: See marathon runners compete in the 2nd Link Bridge Run. Held for the first time this year, the run, on the Singapore-Johor 2nd Link, aims to strengthen ties between Singapore and Malaysia. It also hopes to promote sports and tourism in the two countries. Free.
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  • INFOCUS
    • 143 19 STOP the selective recruitment and deployment of Malay Singaporeans in the Singapore Armed Forces. That's what Malay-Muslim self-help group, the Association of Muslim Professionals, wants the Government to do. It said yesterday the community was upset by the issue of Malays being shut out of
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 72 19 SHOPPERS have been putting trash in the Community Chest donation boxes at the check-out counters of supermarkets. Razor blades, soggy french fries, straws, receipts, lucky draw coupons, bus tickets and sweet wrappers have been found in the boxes since they were placed at Cold Storage and NTUC
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      • 73 19 PSA's 100m deal THE PSA Corporation yesterday signed a $100-million deal to manage, develop and operate the Muara Container Terminal (MCT) in Brunei for 25 years The deal, which includes an option to extend the arrangement by five years, is the first major privatised project awarded by the Brunei government.
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      • 79 19 Reuters. TWO men, believed to be connected with the Sikh extremist movement responsible for the 1985 bombing of an Air India airliner, were arrested on Friday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Ajaib Singh Bagri, 51 and Ripudaman Singh Malik, 53, are also accused of a related 1985
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      • 69 19 THE Building and Construction Authority has issued 103 summonses to enforce the new ruling that wooden brackets supporting air-conditioners be changed to stainless steel ones. Eighty-six of them were private apartment owners, it said on Friday. The rule affected about 104,000 households, but 100 HDB flat owners and
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      • 86 19 IT was a catfight in a lift. Between two women neighbours, who called a time-out when the lift door opened at a landing. But when the door closed, they resumed their fight. Yesterday, sales coordinator Tan Ah Moi, 43, and housewife Kwek Tjui Hun, 35, pleaded guilty
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      • 78 19 Reuters. A MIDDLE-AGED Japanese executive has been charged with drugging and raping a Canadian woman. Joji Obara, 48, is also being questioned over the disappearance of British bar hostess Lucie Blackman, 22. Tokyo District Court prosecutors charged Obara on Friday with raping the Canadian, 23, a bar
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      • 80 19 TRAVEL agents organising packages to Mecca for Muslims going on the Haj next year must sign up at least 50 pilgrims. This rule was set by the Haj Ministry of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and announced here on Friday by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore
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      • 70 19 THEY'RE going to Europe to test a new fighter plane in the hope they'll find a substitute for their ageing A4 and F5jets. The Republic of Singapore Air Force pilots will go there next year to test the Eurofighter Typhoon. The plane, jointly developed by Britain, Germany, Spain
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      • 75 19 Reuters. FOUR people were killed and 19 others missing as Typhoon Xangsane hit the main Philippine island Luzon early yesterday. Xangsane, with maximum winds of 110km per hour near the centre, hit land around 2am, battering the Camarines provinces 220 to 300km southeast of the capital Manila.
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    • 63 19 to many countriesl I cansay that generally, the quality of service in Singapore does not match that in many of the places I have visited. We mustfind solutions to these challenges of staff shortage and indifferent service. Prime Minister Goh ChokTongin a speech he
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 53 19 Showers with thunder are expected in the morning affecting most parts of Singapore, partly cloudy thereafter. a*** north Showers sunrise 6:47 am west Thunderstorms sunset 6:51 pm central Thunderstorms moonrise 8:15 am south Thunderstorms moonset 8:35 pm east Showers minimum 24 °C first tide... 3.0m:12.15am maximum 32 C second tide..2.9
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  • 558 20 MRJOE AUGUSTIN Senior programme and promotions manager, Power 98FM THE WEEK Guest editor AS we were growing up, we were often told: Cheaters NEVER win. It was the phrase that we would usually bring up whenever somebody "played cheat". And I, for one, believed
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  • 329 22 Novel way to bring together young Jews in New York NEWS THE 29-year-old lawyer was desperate. Let's call him Mr Joshua. He was looking for a young Jewish girl who he could take home to his dad and mum and raise kids. One
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  • NEWS
    • 657 25 BRIAN MILLER comments on that $9m unfaithfulness clause WHAT price, a one-night stand? Right now, and according to Hollywood's Prince of Philanderers, the figure stands at a whopping US$5 million ($8.78 million). That's is what he will pay actress and wife-to-be Catherine
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    • 151 26 LIKE waste in a rubbish dump, these bodies were left to rot in a forest. The 40-odd men were shot. Victims of post-election violence, their bodies were discovered on Friday outside Ivoiy Coast's capital Abidjan. Last Sunday was election day in this
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    • 380 26 Prank that went horribly wrong THE instructions from the radio station were simple. If you want to win a cash prize, just pick up the phone, dial a number and repeat the phrase, "I'm gonna kill the president". So it was, two teenagers eager for
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  • NEWS
    • 550 29  -  rriTTi- T IP mnrm-m-mimnm mm »>■, >■ mm 11l ,1 minimi* CHALLENGER: VLADIMIR KRAMNIK CHAMPION: GARRY KASPAROV .v. >' 1 B\ Ng Wan Ching IS the student going to upset the teacher? Perhaps. In fact, quite likely. Especially when you consider the current scoreline at
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    • 255 29 By Dr M L Wong, former Singapore champion and National Master GAME I Kasparov, with white, starts with the aggressive pawn to king's four. Kramnik surprises him with obscure Berlin defence. Stunned, the champion falls behind on the clock and seems undecided. The storm passes
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    • 175 29 BESIDES chess, Kramnik loves to play tennis. Standing 1.93 m tall, Kramnik could also easily have been a top player in a volleyball (one of his hobbies) or basketball team. Born on June 25,1975, his father is an artist and a sculptor and his mother is a music
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    • Article, Illustration
      308 30 Spooky Backstreet Boys video is 'best of all time' TODAY'S young pop fans don't just like their music funky. They like their music videos spooky too. A scary pop video by the Backstreet Boys has been voted the best of all time by young pop fans, beating acts like
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    • 59 31 THe New Paper On Sunday Detour 29, 2000 Q v l^adi'' K&W^ i=. DO ei 3-vfl mm po^lS»^^F. feMH I LV l wPjn| 1* k 7 =2- 5' o' v» •<«-• v ~v£ •i2;2 'Ao ;/f .2 Jif •'•7-S-' Jjf 2£ SINGLE COLUMN: VENUE: ISk JSI 1 PASS THE 6AROUPA
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  • 584 32  -  Cookiejar THE PLACE TO DIP FOR TIPS By Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg YOU'D never guess what could be one of the causes for your feeling tired, slouchy and generally stressed out. It's breathing wrongly. Apparently, breathing isn't as natural as er... breathing. Many stress
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  • SeenHeard SHARP
    • 73 34  -  THE MOVIE Edited by Eugene Anthony nirvana@sph.com.sg The American football season is fast approaching and the Washington Sentinels team has gone on strike. Scrambling for a solution, Sentinels owner Edward O' Neil (Jack Warden) comes up with a plan. He will bring in legendary coach jimmy McGinty (Gene
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    • 315 34  -  by EUGENE ANTHONY Testosterone. If you don't know what that is, go watch this movie, which oozes male hormones. How did you guess it's about American football? Think jocks, bimbo cheerleaders and heavy football-speak. But thqn, don't write it
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    • 64 35 Coach Jimmy to Sentinels owner, Edward, when asked to recruit the football team: I want to have full control of the team, to recruit whoever I want. Edward: My word is my bond. jimmy: I want it in writing. J Cheerleader Annabelle to Shane: I remember you from
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    • 316 35  -  by TAN HUI LENG WATCH The Replacements only if you're looking for fluff entertainment. And be warned that the plot is as flimsy as a Posh Spice hanky top. The Replacements is simply a jock flick. It's the kind of movie that guys will sit around
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    • 178 35 Roger Ebert in his online review; The Replacements is slap-happy entertainment painted in broad strokes, two coats thick. It's like a standard sports movie, but with every point made twice or three times—as if we'd never seen one before. The football footage is at least mostly comprehensible; director
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    • 475 35 That's cheap TIM wishes to buy his wife a gift. The cosmetics clerk shows him a $50 bottle of perfume. "That's expensive," says Tim, so she returns with a smaller bottle for $30. "That's still quite a bit," he complains. Growing annoyed, the clerk takes out a tiny 15 bottle.
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  • Feature
    • 427 36 FOR a long time, it was thought that as you got older, you should do less. Even doctors assumed that the eldeiiy and the frail could not take part in weight-resistance exercises. Well, how wrong we all were! Hie frail and elderly can increase strength
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    • 814 36 Reports/ NG WAN CHING AT the age of 59, Mr Christopher Yeo was a walking time bomb and didn't know it. Oh, he knew he had hypertension and was taking medication for it. And yes, he even used to go to
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
    • 570 37 1 ILL CALL: 873-3333 IA y myym 24-hour subscription sales hotline a movies character displays sacrificial motherly love for her son in spite of her own today The Waterboy fight against cancer. w Entertainment WE 9pm Thirty-one-year-old waterboy, Bobby BiSi Boucher (Adam Sandler) is constantly tormented by the team he
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
    • 383 38 Highllgh. «,e Week ->**«•»«>» rth f product testing, labour unrest, includes road tests, news and features odier cnbca sat The Underwater Lives Of Valerie P® depths. Be surprised and astounded as To onl^forv^to creatures that inhabit them. Also, meet Ali. TmVj^Sup^^mevey 1 13 1 W-'W ffr m Jfc, JHH eye-to-eye
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  • 349 39  -  Chip CHEAP AND HIP: STYLE FOR THE BUDGET-CONSCIOUS By Carol Leong carol@sph.com.sg THE year end parties, the prom nights are coming. Quick! How to glitz? Well, glitz is a state of mind glitz girls always, always, have a bit of sparkle somewhere on their person. This
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  • 591 40  -  Column A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN BY SINGAPORE'S THEATRE TEASE by R Chandran I AM glad our children are back on the streets. For the past month, Singapore had felt like Hamelin, that town in the famous tale about The Pied Piper. In the story,
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  • 1095 41  -  Venue JET, SET, GO Thematic holidays are not only more refreshing from the usual, frenzied trips, they can be a real eye-opener too. Contributor SERENE LIM went on the trail of a famous artist Edited by Crispina Robert crispina@sph.com.sg VINCENT Van Gogh is arguably
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  • 525 43 > Tune in, c Decibels I chill out fl U Warning Greenday (Warner) THE boys from Greenday are certainly not greenhorns. They've leamt that punk rock doesn't need to be so full of angst So they have written more mature stuff. On insecurity. Isolation. Or fashion victims. All done in
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  • 509 43  -  mm -mik Rave with Eugene Anthony AZZ musicians who have made the switch to pop. There have been a few, though (sadly) they are better remembered for their pop forays. I recall three First, singer/drummer Phil Collins. He started off as a drummer
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  • 955 44  -  Column A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN BY SINGAPORE'S BUSIEST FUNNYMAN by Siva Choy I HEAR my old school is providing hearty breakfasts of hamburgers and roti pratas to help its students cope with the pressures of exams. While they're at it, they could
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  • Aggie MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
    • 273 45 I AM a 13-year-old girl. Around June this year, my school had a combined camp for all uniformed groups. As we were having fun, I saw this guy looking at me. At first, I did not even like him but lately, I have
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    • 144 45 Blue Aquarius met a 16-year-old guy, X, four months ago. He's the same age as her. They are from different secondary schools. Soon, he started calling her and they enjoyed talking to each other. Once, he even asked her to go steady with him but
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    • 200 45 I'VE been in the same position as you. I got to laiow this guy, A, through the Internet chat room. We exchanged e-mail addresses and he e-mailed me every day. He portrayed himself as a* gentlemen and I was quite attracted to him.
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    • 219 45 I, TOO, have been in a similar situation. Fm 16 and will be taking my 0 levels soon. A few months ago, I met this girl on the Internet Relay Chat (IRC). She is three years younger. After chatting a few times, we exchanged phone numbers.
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    • 287 46 I'VE fallen for a girl in my workplace and she has the personality and character of the Miss Right I have been trying to find. However, she rejected me on the three occasions I tried to date her, and when I expressed my feelings for her.
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    • 577 46 BEFORE my grandma died, she requested that my boyfriend and I get married. She said she did not know how long she would live. So even though we did not have much savings, I managed to convince my boyfriend to go ahead with the marriage. As
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    • 454 46 I AM an 18-year-old girl. Q Recently, I broke up with my boyfriend, who is 22. It was over certain sexual issues. And so I need some clarification. First of all, how does a person know
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    • 66 46 SUPPOSE a girl is riding a Q bicycle. As she is cycling (or perhaps a little later), she notices blood oozing from her vagina. Is she still a virgin? Concerned The only way to lose your A virginity is to have sexual intercourse. Riding a bicycle will not
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    • 59 46 CALLUS 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, but
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  • Page 47 Miscellaneous
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  • 566 48  -  SingleColumn by Adele Ong ongssa@sph.com.sg SEVERAL years ago, a stranger chatted me up in a Glasgow bookshop. He had frizzy red hair, a beard, red nose and beer belly, and was clad in a red coat. After a perfunctory literary exchange, he asked me out for
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    • 432 52  -  By Lionel Lee A DARING ride by champion jockey Saimee Jumaat on a much-fitter Trillion Win paid off handsomely in the inaugural running of the $180,000 Kranji Sprint last night. Despite drawing the second outermost barrier in a field of 15, Saimee drove his mount hard
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    • 1590 53 SATURDAY SPECIAL: Miss Sinqapore World2ooo finalists greening for the earners Kranji yesterday as they posp with vintage cars involved in the Singapore Gold Cup Horsepower Rally2ooo. The overall winner of the rally was Daniel Loo, who competed In his 1939 MG TA.
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    • 1312 54 RACE 1: FURY was slow to begin and was further inconvenienced shortly after the start on the inside of JUST BANANAS, who jumped awkwardly in. JOHN COFFEY jumped awkwardly out, brushing FRENCH FRIES. CYBER GOLD raced greenly in the backstraight. FURY raced
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    • 726 55 Sunning Handicap 9 WIN IT ALL 122 (57-14) JEgan (4) 1 5 GREAT INTENT 124 (29-10) E Saint-Martin (1) 2 6 CROWN REGENT 123 (13-6) SDye (2) 3 Winning trainer: BK Ng. Margins: 3 Vk, nk. Time: Imin 51.3 sec. Forecast: $43. Tierce: $444.
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    • 298 55  -  By Michael Lee LEGENDS are said to be made at the Moonee Valley racecourse in Australia. And yesterday's 79th running of the 2,040m BMW Cox Plate will certainly go down as one of the finest illustrations of that saying when Kiwi super
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    • 1379 56 No. Last 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 -10-3 SKY WARRIOR 59 (61) CTreymane 10 (3nzg Dragon-Sky) 2 0-6590 THEBOSSMAN 58.5 (60) DO'Heare 1 (6nzg Clements-James Tan) 3 63-134 SUPERB TYCOON 58 (59) JSaimee 4 (4ah
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    • 82 56 THE Singapore Turf Club (SNTC) uses four courses—A, B, C and D —to differentiate the location of the rails. For Course A, the rails are at their original position. For Course B, they are four metres away from the original position. For Courses C and D, they are
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    • 694 57  -  By Danny Khoo WHILE the racing fraternity waits eagerly for the $1 million Singapore Gold Cup field to be despatched at 9.15pm tonight, there should be no lack of excitement leading up to the big race. For in the preceding two races, punters will
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    • 301 57 Sir Benton (Race 4 No. 5) Has been rewing up too late in recent starts. Working with gusto for comeback win. In easier company tonight, he can overcome his wide berth and take the race at reasonably good odds. Trust David O'Heare to do the job. Couple him
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      • 217 58  -  By Marc Tan LE RHONE for the Cup? Well, some colleagues of mine think I am crazy. They aren't wrong, you know. I love to support underdogs and, like the way I select my horses all this while, it gives me
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      • 200 58  -  By Danny Khoo OUZO has been a dream horse for trainer Malcolm Thwaites. He has won practically everything the local circuit has to offer, including the prized SIA International Cup. But he has paid a heavy price for his success. For
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      • 204 58  -  By Lionel Lee THE Singapore Gold Cup tonight has everything that a great handicap race should be, as it has always been. A superb line-up of runners whose chances of striking gold are invariably hampered, enhanced but rarely unaffected by the weight on
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      • 210 58  -  By Tan Thean Loon GRAF PHILIPP. It has to be. The Frenchbred has that special quality called class to capture tonight's Singapore Gold Cup. The compact five-year-old showed that last March when beating all but the powerful Godolphin's Timahs in the 2,000m
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      • 222 58  -  By Michael Lee LOCAL hero Ouzo would have been a clear-cut pick if it wasn't for two reasons. Primo, although 2,200m may be up his alley, it's, sorry to say, not his forte. Secundo, 59kg compounds matters even further,
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      425 59 PRINCE NASEEM HAMED: UNDEFEATED WORLD CHAMP FOR FIVE YEARS Prince Naseem Hamed is a 26-year-old British boxing sensation. He is making a lot of heads turn with his brand of entertaining boxing with flashy theatrical arena entrances and flips over the ropes into the ring. He is
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    • 34 59 My motive is to achieve greatness, become a legend, to become supreme. I'm going to be better than All. I will go down in history as being better than All.
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    • Sportsline
      • 108 60 SOCCER: JAPAN'S charismatic French coach Philippe Troussier played down the favourite tag for the Asian Cup final against Saudi Arabia. Popularly known as the "white witch doctor" for the success he enjoyed in a nine-year stay in Africa, he said Japan has to stick with its
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      • 94 60 FORMULA ONE: TWO Ferrari 360s collided last night during "Ferrari Day," a day of special events to celebrate Ferrari's Formula One title in the Italian city of Scarperia. German driver Ulrich Plattenhardt, 66, died after he failed to avoid Daniel Kuenzli's car after it went into a
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      • 73 60 SOCCER: DON'T miss this soccer camp, kids. Singapore Cup champion Home United is conducting a stay-in soccer camp for boys between the ages of 10 and 14. The camp, which will run from Nov 2024, will be conducted at the National Community Leadership Institute. Charges are
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      • 99 60 TENNIS: TOP seed Martina Hingis overcame a bad start to reach the final of the Kremlin Cup with a convincing 7-5,6-3 viciory over Amelie Mauresmo yesterday. Hingis, seeking her third title in a row, will play doubles partner Anna Kournikova in today's final. Making her first
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  • 736 61  -  PRADEEP PAUL A RE you ready? It's NBA time again. What? So soon? Didn't we get our fill of tall black men shooting hoops just a few weeks ago? Aha, that was the Olympics. This, my friend, is the NBA. The Mecca of basketball. And
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  • 170 62 9 Oct 31:*****1 NBA regular season begins Feb Ml, 2001: NBA All-Star I 2001, MCI Center, Washington I April 1& *****1 NBA I regular season ends I April 21: NBA Playoffs 2001 begins June 3: NBA Finals earliest possible start date June 6: NBA Finals latest possible
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  • 1138 63 HSINGAPORE SKIPPER NAZRINASIR SIZES UP THE TEAMS FOR THE TIGER CUP GROUP B: SONGKHLA CAMBODIA LIKE Myanmar, a very courageous team where the players sincerely work for one another. The lack of individual ball skills is more than made up by excellent teamwork and resolute commitment. Cambodia
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    • 95 64 '&/IP-P:: !U njTvnn^BTn^Qn T H A I 1. A N D 1 00 0 GROUP A: CHIANGMAI November 06 Indonesia v Philippines Thailand v Myanmar November 08 Philippines v Myanmar November 10 Thailand v Indonesia f November 12 Myanmar v Indonesia Philippines v Thailand GROUP B: SONGKHLA Sunday Singapore v
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    • 28 64 ON TV Singapore's matches will be shown Hve over vponsviijj starting with the Cambodia match on Sunday at 5.30pm. For other TV times, please check The New Paper
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      858 65  -  SINGAPORE 4 Ahmad Latiff (11th 57th) Indra Sahdan (31st) Nazri Nasir (90th) SRI LANKA 0 Half-time: 2-0 4jgo^ Crowd: 2,500 HOW THE LIONS FARED Singapore Under-23 plays Sri Lanka in a friendly game at the Tampines Stadium tomorrow at 7.30pm. Admission is free. ST;-., BY Wang Meng
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    • 163 66 SINGAPORE coach Vincent Subramaniam: I don't want to read too much into this victory. It's good for team morale and for the public. But we must always bear in mind that it's just a friendly match for the Tiger Cup. I would prefer to analyse the video-tapes
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  • PRFMIFR LEAGUE
    • 126 67 Arsenal 5 Ashley Cole 44 Dennis Bergkamp 52 Sylvain Wiltord 75 Thierry Henry 82,88 Manchester City 0 Red card: Danny Tiatto (Man City) 43 Crowd: 38,049 Aston Villa 2 lan Taylor 33 Paul Merson 41 Chariton Athletic 1 Dion Dublin 82 og Crowd: 27,461 Chelsea 3 Jimmy Royd
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    • 42 67 DEVILS WHACK SAINTS: Andy Cole (right) is congratulated by David Beckham I (left) and Nicky Butt after he scored the opening ninth-minute goal in Manchester United's thumping 5-0 win over Southampton at Old Trafford. Picture/ Reuters
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    • 938 67 Where's your Spurs Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink 13,87 Gianfranco Zola 39 Millions of Tottenham Hotspur fans around the world have said this over and over again. Do not play Ramon Vega. But Spurs manager George Graham doesn't seem to listen. Last night, his side i~ot 3-0 to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
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    • 348 68 TONIGHT: Bradford City v Leeds United (LIVE, SCV 22, 11.55pm) Liverpool v Everton CALL INFOLINE Call 1900-*****13 after 6.30 am on Monday for the result. Calls cost 30centsa minute ARSENAL 5 MAN CITY 0 PREMIERSHIP newcomer Manchester City received a roasting at Highbury thanks to another Cole!
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    • 86 68 10: Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (Chelsea) 8: Thierry Henry (Arsenal), Teddy Sheringham (Manchester United) 7: Michael Owen (Liverpool) 6: Marians Pahars (Southampton), Alan Smith (Leeds United) 5: Francis Jeffers (Everton), Alen Boksic (Middlesbrough), Marcus Stewart (Ipswich Town), Paolo di Canio (West Ham United), David Beckham (Manchester United), Emile Heskey
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  • 201 69 AP. THE Dream Team concept may finally be put to rest. NBA Commissioner David Stern and Deputy Commissioner Russ Granik say future US Olympic men's basketball teams might be selected on strategic needs rather than a desire to assemble a team of the NBA's most marketable and
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  • 118 69 They are making a splash, whatever their style. Competitors at the Paralympic Games in Sydney are not like ordinaiy swimmers: Some don't have arms, some are without legs. Yet, their spirit is such that they want to make their presence felt wishing away
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    • 878 70 lliP V. hh The Waterboy The Longest Summer Air Force One 1 U ii Star Movies (Ch 58), 9pm W Entertainment, 10pm Channel 5,7pm Adam Sandler plays a dim-witted A group of Chinese soldiers of the Harrison Ford plays the US president, O young man whose ambition is to be
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