The New Paper, 12 November 2000

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1 61 The New Paper
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  • Title Section
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    6 1 the new paper NOVEMBER 12, 2000
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      70 1 M A/ nC^- \"A M tmriewpaper NOVEMBER 12, -A. UH1 HHHIfl 70 CENTS I! 1 in III w J g 1 I o llgQ-7"! 81 *****9> Singapore Press Holdings e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg http://newpaper.asia1 .com.sg MITA (P) )19/03/2000 11 11 wiim] mEEiH KHU HOW DD SMllt ■B SUP HTO SPARE? Special sex
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Taiwanese action booed in anonymous MRT banners
      241 2 "THE Taiwanese are not human." These words were scribbled in red on banners placed outside the Bishan and Ang Mo Kio MRT stations on Friday morning. Along with other comments written in a mix of English and Chinese. Measuring 1.8m by 0.9m, the
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    • Article
      Lock icon SEEKING FORTUNE FROM TRAGEDY
      169 2 CALL them insensitive. But you cannot stop them. Three of the winning numbers, that Taiwanese gamblers picked, related to the Singapore Airlines crash in Taipei. The winning numbers 05,06,16, 21, 25,33 which a large number of people bet on came out in the Hongkong lottery, reports
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      Lock icon Leap of faith
      568 3  -  Mark Richmond 'jumps' off the 46th floor of Suntec City j^J FLORENCE TAN MARK Richmond suffers from vertigo. That's a fear of heights. But that didn't stop him from "jumping" off the 46th storey of Suntec City yesterday. Well, he didn't really jump all the way down.
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  • SIA CRASH
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      Lock icon Did SIA get it right?
      788 4 Many Singaporeans have given the thumbs-up to Singapore Airlines for its handling of the SQOO6 crash. The New Paper on Sunday presents the findings of a national survey of 388 people conducted by SPH's Marketing Planning Development (Research). We also spoke to public-relations expert Basskaran
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      Lock icon Lessons from SilkAir crash
      302 5 WHAT SIA did wrong before, they did right this The MIIBS Silk Air crash might have been a public-relations nightmare. But SIA seems to have learnt a thing or two from that experience. Said Mr Basskaran Nair, the chairman of Singapore and Asean Gavin Anderson Company:
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    Lock icon Elaine in the fast lane
    110 6 HER# tlSpin: Youlaeed® 25 linrs to keep 24 hours with always^ wt4 P B room tan, "she Ii^mstarted witifher photoshoot for 8 Days at 8 am. inib ta %fCome on you guys, mflpmyou chflgfcecause this is my show now!" I said. EJ got into a
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Do you remember?
      775 7  -  by Gloria Chandy DRAG queens! Percy Leicester sneers at the term. Not that sneering comes easily to this soft-spoken 69-year-old who was once a rave act in Singapore cabarets and stage shows. He humbly begs to point out the difference. "Drag queens drag their acts out into
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      Lock icon Queen of the art
      77 8 BmTwas never sf| Ml because I duart behave like the Bugte Street queens. Gays have a way of making hand movements, for instance... You don't have to take it further than that! —Percy Leicester, seen at left performing at the Neptune Theatre in one of his
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      Lock icon Exotic looks on Bangkok streets
      769 9 On the streets, in massage parlours and hotels "YOU see that girl over there, the redhead in the blue dress? We have to watch her more carefully than the others," the officer muttered. We were in Bangkok's Little Arabia, off Sukhumvit Road, an area currently
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      Lock icon Living in little space
      547 11  -  By Eugene Anthony High-flying isn't high living. Just look at the world's three current highest flyers. The two Russians and one American now aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Orbiting hundreds of miles above the earth. They can't even all go to bed at the same
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      Lock icon VISIBILITY
      79 11 At dusk or dawn, look up into the sky and you may be able to see the bright lights of the space station as it orbits 368 km above the Earth. Nasa has said that it would be one of the brightest celestial objects when the station is completed
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      Lock icon Satellite radio?
      567 12  -  o ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF SATELLITE radio could be just the gizmo for seafarers or picnickers to take along. But not for those living in HDB flats and enclosed spaces. The radio can only receive programmes beamed by a satellite as long as there is no object between the
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      Lock icon SMUT
      782 13 This magazine with a raunchy cover and provocative pictures inside slipped past the censorship net and was sold at Singapore bookstores. How did it happen? EUGENE NIRVAN ANTHONY investigates IF THE WRAPPING (LEFT) WAS SUGGESTIVE, THE COVER (FACING PAGE) LEFT VERY LITTLE TO THE IMAGINATION WITH a wrapper like
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      Lock icon WHAT IF YOUNG PEOPLE READ IT?
      425 14 THE wrapping of the magazine, The Face, had the words "special XXX issue" and was littered with words like spank, smell, squirt and aim. Words that could lure young people, curious to find out more about sex. Inside, apart from nude women, one page
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  • @ A GLANCE
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      Lock icon $2m pre-school project next year
      208 15 ABOUT 2,000 children in the first year of kindergarten will take part in a $2-million research project next year. The aim of the project, which begins in January, is to improve the quality of pre-school education. Children at 47 centres will have a new curriculum
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      61 15 NEW ROLE: Indian movie superstar Amltabh Bachchan taking the catwalk with leading fashion model Anna Bredmeyere. They were showing the collection of designers Abu Jan! and Sandeep Khosla in Bombay on Friday. Earlier this year, Bachchan was named by BBC as the superstar of the millennium. The
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      Lock icon 'Move ahead but not too fast'
      244 15 DN£>us] SINGAPORE is engaged in a balancing act. It has to keep pace with the new economy, yet be mindful of not leaving other countries in the region too far behind. It is keen to work with Asean members to take advantage of the
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    • BRIEFLY
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        Lock icon Amien as vice-president?
        81 16 SPEAKER of the Indonesian People's Consultative Amien Rais is ready to serve as vice-president should Ms Megawati Soekarnoputri become president in place of Mr Abdurrahman Wahid. Mr Amien said this yesterday in response to reporters' questions. He was reported to have said earlier that he would prefer
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        Lock icon Rail fire kills 170 people
        86 16 A TRAIN transporting skiers to an Austrian Alpine resort caught fire deep inside a mountain tunnel yesterday, trapping passengers inside and killing about 170 people. Salzburg Governor Franz Schausberger told reporters that only eight people managed to save themselves from the burning car, which apparently
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        Lock icon Drug inmates on the run
        92 16 TWELVE inmates of a drug rehabilitation centre near Muar, Johor, are on the run after a riot at the centre. Five buildings were burned and three vehicles destroyed. M Ttie outbreak of violence, which started at about Bpm on Friday, was finally quelled after 3am
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        Lock icon Bogus driver steals army car
        94 16 A MAN posing as an army driver has stolen a black Mercedez E230, a staff car assigned to a Lieutenant-General, reported The Star. The unnamed army officer's driver had sent the car to a Kuala Lumpur workshop for servicing a few days earlier and was
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        Lock icon Moscow flu in Hongkong
        99 16 A NEW type of flu virus, set to hit Hongkong early next year, could affect half a million people. The Moscow flu virus, a variant of the Sydney flu that struck the territory last year, could pose a serious danger to pregnant women and the elderly,
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        Lock icon New $2.8 million park
        99 16 YES, building parks means having to displace some wild life and trees, Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan said yesterday during the launch of the $2.8 million Choa Chu Kang Park. But it is inevitable that some of the forests will have to give way
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        Lock icon Siamese twins' $ 100,000 bill
        95 16 Siamese twins' 100,000 bill THE parents of a pair of Nepalese Siamese twins who are in Singapore for surgery are shocked to find that they have to foot a medical bill of about $100,000. Despite the free service given by doctors, there is still the cost of surgery, medication and
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        Lock icon Pupils' winning website
        86 16 THERE were gasps of admiration at the Bukit Panjang Primary School when a website on human reproduction designed by four Primary 5 pupils was unveiled. It also won over teachers, parents and officials from the Ministry of Education to whom it was shown yesterday The website backed
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        Lock icon FOR THE FAMILY
        100 16 FEED THE BIRDS: Fifteen Singaporean artists give their interpretation of the theme, Feed the Birds. The exhibition includes a range of paintings, ceramics and sculptures. At the Orchard Point exhibition hall, 11am to Bpm. Free. SINGAPORE CHINESE ORCHESTRA OUTDOOR CONCERT: The orchestra has lined up tunes featuring
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      Lock icon US polls: Comic saga
      411 16  -  liiJffclobevvatd) A look at world events by Matthew Thommen I DON'T get it. Just why is the US so often called the world's greatest democracy? It is, of course, the most powerful. But there doesn't seem to be anything great in the way Americans choose their
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      46 16 Partly cloudy. Showers with thunder in the afternoon and early evening over many areas. north Thunderstorms sunrise N 6:47 am mmm- sunset 6:51 pm central Thunderstorms moonrise 7:24 pm so# 'famoonset 6:58 am east Showers minimum 24° C firsttkJe... 3.1m:10:52am maximum 31 °C second tide...2.9m: 11:50pm
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  • THE WEEK
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      13 17 MR BENEDICT CHEONG Chief Executive Officer National Council of Social Service
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      Lock icon Let life bloom...
      701 17 AND this same flower that smiles to-day, to-morrow will be dying. I have been rather distressed this past week. Throughout the day, my thoughts would stray towards the SQOO6 tragedy. I feel very sad for the families and friends of the passengers and crew. I join all
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    Lock icon Life is a gamble
    311 18 107-year-old woman celebrates birthday at the slot machine EnewO sllllSll IT was Ms Emma Tillman's 107 th birthday. And she celebrated it by doing what she loves the most gambling. She played White Lightning, a US 25-cent (42 cents)-a-yank slot machine at the Foxwoods Resort Casino.
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  • EXPAT
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      Lock icon FROM THIRD WORLD TO FIRST — An African's story
      1077 19  - FROM THIRD WORLD TO FIRST An African's story By Kasise Ricky Peprah MY move from a Third-World country, Ghana, to a First is a phenomenal one it's like travelling on the time machine, leaping from the 1950s to the 21st century with the blink of an eyelid. At my village
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      82 20 THE Expat Page is constantly looking for ideas on expats to feature. The person can be anyone as long as he/she is keen to be part of this fabulous family. Write to us. Expat Page editor Gus will do the rest. If you have any other ideas to
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon England's new socer has a coach
      579 22  -  By Gloria Chandy SVEN-GORAN Eriksson may think he's scored a winner. But from all accounts it's his new girlfriend who has won the game. At least for now. Nancy DelFOlio, 42 and said to be a wealthy international lawyer who brokers property for the
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      Lock icon BookFinder, BookFinder
      446 23  -  BY Arthur J Pais REPORTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO WHEN Mr Anirvan Chatterjee turned down an offer to work for Microsoft three years ago, some thought he was nuts. He had been working as a summer intern with Microsoft in Seattle. He had fun both at office and the
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      Lock icon WHERE DID THE BIG IDEA COME FROM
      260 23 MR Anirvan Chattexjee attended a seminar on network information agents at Berkeley around three years ago. The final project was to build a useful network agent tool. "A well-known programmer named Larry Wall said that one of the three great virtues of programmers
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      Lock icon That's a million ...for Estrada
      47 24 IT was nppeeedty a wtfHy iiVVr|PwiMVWlii wl 9 OfSBRiS6i oy me nmppine (wmmmuL SSp<ii|rtyewmeo| people; plSI6p<S patfcyesterday,iMid tight .J> soouflly* p Buttherrifr wis widely iton asashov of support for Pmiidrnilftfftfth Estrad&i Mmi Is under pi tbtin to pBWIp DfiOfP aCCUWDOVIS. Picture/ Reuters
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      Lock icon He was a pious rabbi He evaded $ 18m in tax
      381 24  - He was a pious rabbi He evaded 18m in tax By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY THE bank staff always gave Nachum Goldberg, now 57, the attention reserved for the manager's special customers when he called. They helped him with the shopping bags filled with loose banknotes thftfc he brought
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      Lock icon It was a gem of a scam
      168 24 FOR more than 10 years, it was a perfect scam. Diamond traders in Sydney and Melbourne sold gems illegally imported from Israel and Europe, and laundered the cash proceeds through Nachum Goldberg. Their money ended up safely as US dollars in Israeli and
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      Lock icon JUST RIE
      624 25  -  This is fi|| Banita. Kj This is mm her life: Ih s |d as a child at 14 Man buys her for $1.60. Now, 15 years and five children later, she's... By Shanoo Maharaj THE food was cold, but for more than 100 guests who attended the wedding,
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      Lock icon Sri Lanka: Heaven for tourists, hell for paedophiles
      209 27 THAT'S the message to the world from Sri Lanka. At least, according to prosecuting lawyer S Thurairaja. And he drove the message home by getting the judge to hand out stiff jail terms for two men who dabbled in sex with minors.
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      Lock icon US man 'sold vote'
      108 27 IN an election where every vote has been critical, authorities yesterday charged a Manhattan comedian with peddling his for US$600 ($1,020). Cristian Hazzard, 28, who makes sketches for a local cable channel, allegedly sold his vote to an undercover cop, reports New York Post. Investigators said
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      80 22 Flic NEW Clarke Quay Sunday Flea Mart. With over 100 stalls fighting for your attention, selling anything and everything from movie posters and retro shirts to antique watches and handicrafts. So make a date with us this weekend and have a blast picking up the island's best bargains! Flea Mart
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      210 24 r jo If II fjf.fl he Periscope Adventure. Be the commander of a Supersonic Smga Periscope submarine and embark on a wondrous voyage.You will navigate through challenging situations, making decisions that will change our future! Through the special viewfinders, you can see the past and peek into the future of
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      245 27 Hot Hot Offers! Check out our buffet spread of La Germania cooking appliances the No.l brand of kitchen appliances from Italy. Take your pick from our latest range of gas hobs and cooker hoods to our conventional electric ovens to grand gourmet multifunction ones...all going at amazing prices! So hurry
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    Lock icon Throw a dinner party in style
    1061 29  -  Cookielar I J THE PLACE TO DIP FOR TIPS By Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg SOON, it will be the season to be merry and to perhaps throw a couple of parties. For one thing, it's coming to the end of the year, the time
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      107 30 i m y+\ r V I see the MasterCard sign. Free to enjoy local banking convenience at over y?i>. 9(X) ATMs, because I can use it as a DBS Bank Card. Free to pay by debit or V NETS. Free to sign my purchases like a credit card. Free to
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  • Feature
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      Lock icon Nothing too fishy, just plants
      1180 31 FROM longkang boy to the coolest guy on the block. Two air-conditioners in Joseph Lee's living room run alternately all day, keeping his tanks on a steady cool of 25 degC. Soon as visitors walk into his Pasir Ris four-roomer, they are over-awed by the
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      Lock icon Big catch for pet-shop boys
      446 31 UNDERWATER gardens are on the rise, and George Lim couldn't be happier. George, 31, is an aquatic landscape!*. And to think it all grew from a few jamjars under his bed! The pet shop owner started business four years ago with a stall in the
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      Lock icon Getting into the deep end... ...from previous page
      435 32 WHEN the brothers are called in tc set up a planted tank, the first question asked is, of course, the budget. A decent planted tank, the very basic model, costs between $500 to $800. But a more complicated or sophisticated set-up can
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    Lock icon Dei, Columbus, wrong direction lah
    853 33  -  Column L FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN BY SINGAPORE'S BUSIEST FUNNYMAN MM by Siva Choy WHEN I was in Primary something, Mr Yeo struck my head with a steel ruler and said: "Who found America?" It was Mr Yeo's habit to hit you on the head with a
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      477 35 Highlight of the Week 6 today Royal Rampage: Lennox Lewis vs I® 3 Lcnn!»d!cwii wed To>Heart (Japanese Drama Debut) and trains hard every day. Tohko tea video selections. w Drama fg thu South American WC2002 Qualifier #MB 2am —"Brazil vs Colombia (LIVE Exclusive) current affairs/education «||l§|Bm' This is samba soccer
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  • SeenHeard SHARP
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      Lock icon CHARLIE'S ANGELS
      44 36  -  THEHOVIE Edited by Eugene Anthony nirvana@sph.com.sg An elite crime-fighting threesome, working for a millionaire private investigator (Charlie), use their martial arts skills, hi-tech gadgetry and investigative sleuth to find a kidnapped computer wizard. Stars Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray.
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      Lock icon Angels with tongues planted firmly in cheeks
      360 36  -  fry EUGENE ANTHONY HOW many of you remember the TV series of the same name? If I recall correctly, the show ran for about five years, from 1976 to 1981. The first season had Farah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith: Blonde, black
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      Lock icon FREEZE FRAME:
      96 37 I Dylan (Drew Barrymore, disguised as a )j man), to passenger in the next seat, when lj the airline screens TV show T.J Hooker on 1| board the plane: "Another movie. An |j old TV show." Passenger: "So what are you going I to do?" I Dylan: "Walk
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      Lock icon New Angels are great
      325 37  -  by SETO NU-WEN TREAT this like any mindless action movie. And youll love it. So what if these are new Angels? Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu dazzle as brightly as their sequinned dresses and glitzy eye shadow. This movie works because it doesn't try
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      Lock icon THEY SAY:
      166 37 Roger Ebert in his online review: Iri It*s an all-gtrl series of mindless action scenes. Its basic shot jl consists of the Angels running V desperately toward the camera 1 before a huge explosion lifts f i them off their feet and hurls them through the air and
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      267 37 Drinker's 'heir A man is speeding down the road when he gets pulled over by a traffic police officer. The officer sees that the man has nine huge knives in the back seat He asks him what they are for, and he tells him that they are for his act,
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      1092 38  -  Bangkok, known for its food and shopping, is also THE party place in Southeast Asia. YEOH WEE TECK gives you a list of where you can go and pretend to be Ricky Martin, swaying your hips and shaking your bon-bon j V- Edited by Crispina Robert
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      155 39 THE best thing to happen to Bangkok in recent times must be the introduction of its skytrains. Run by the Bangkok Mass Transit System, the trains operate from 6am to midnight. There are stations at all major shopping and hotel areas like Siarn Square, Silom and
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    723 40  -  Chip CHEAP AND HIP: STYLE FOR THI BUDGET-CONSCIOUS By Carol Leong carol@sph.com.sg ONLY on Wednesdays. That's the single snag with thi home delivery service, but the products are to salivate for! If you're looking for quality Christmas presents both useful and inexpensive (in the $20 range),
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      271 42 I FEEL sad. I have practically no friends in school. I do have a few friends but they are either older than I am, or else they are studying in other schools so I do not see them often. I suffer from spastic
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      178 42 Last week's letter: TROUBLED Girl is 16. Some time back, she got to know a guy. During the four months they were together, they broke up many times but got together again each time, except for the last. The last time they broke up, it was
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      193 42 Readers' advice: LIFE has to move on, do not dwell on the past. He is not the only fish in the ocean. There are better and more mature men who will treat you like a lady. So forget about him. You should treat your own body with
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      159 42 YOU have known his weaknesses and, therefore, decided to keep away from him. Men don't change overnight although I agree with you that maturity plays a part. You mentioned that he sometimes forced you to have sex with him and even beat you up. What makes you think
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      307 43 MY boyfriend and I have known each other for seven years. We have lots of problems in our relationship but he doesn't bother about them at all. I am always the one who has to find a way to solve problems that arise. I've also been
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      478 43 I'VE been married for almost 10 yea|i» I have two lovely kids and a devoted wife. Before marriage, my wife was very attractive, gentle and soft-spoken. However, after marriage, especially after giving birth to the kids| she became less gentle and more fierce in her
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        171 43 I'M a 19-year-old male. Ql've never had a steady relationship or even gone out on a date, yet I have a continual urge to have sex withagiri. By the time I am in my 20s and have sex for the first time, I fear my drive
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        209 43 I'Ma 13-year-old boy and Qhave two questions. Firstly, I did something weird for the first time: I inserted a plastic object into my anus. Now, I am worried. Could I have caught some disease? Was what I did harmful to my body? Now, for my second
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        539 44 9 You're The One t Paul Simon f (Warner) THERE is always something soothingly calm about a Paul Simon album. Maybe it's his fluid voice that carries each song pleasantly and gently. Maybe it's his subtle playing style, with often just one folk guitar. Maybe
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        438 44  -  with Eugene Anthony 1A ff HEN you have a discerning Mf ear for music, you will know W that some sounds are typical of certain record labels. Which, more often than not, makes it easier to go CD shopping. You choose labels you know will
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      59 43 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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    615 46  -  A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN BY SINGAPORE'S THEATRE TEASE by R Chandran I WANT to be 60 years old RIGHT NOW! Or somewhere close to it. I am so inspired looking at the larger-than-life image of Majid Arif in the "LIFE BEGINS AT 60" posters that I
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    521 47  -  ySingleColumn by I Eugene Anthony nirvana@sph.com.sg f t NO, I am not talking about amplifiers and sound systems. The fidelity I am referring to is loyalty in a relationship. How many of us can look in the mirror and say: "I have been faithful"? Or try this: "I
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      1042 51 Mare Tan ryf 4 j?:. Danny Khoo Lionel Lee Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee Ml 4 Dragon Island 1 Sonic The Hedaehoo 1 Sonic The Hedoehoo 4 Dragon Island 2 Wild Liar ■9 II 2 Wild liar 3 Daily Accountant 10 Colour Of Life 1
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      72 51 PICK OF THE DAY Can come into his own after his eye-catch-ing fourth to Police Chief a week ago. That was a tremendous effort as he had to contend with barrier No. 10 which, no doubt, hampered his chances considerably. Drawn marble one this afternoon,
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      2099 52 TODAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD —Going forecast: Good 1st 2nd 3rd J Sargent 41 31 40 J Breukelen 39 31 19 C Robert 23 16 16 F Nathan 22 30 27 M Breukelen 22 17 21 YF Lee 22 14 23 HH Ljm 19 15 12 KC Tiang 18 22
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      119 52 RACE 1: Daily Accountant, Dragon Island, Another Effort. RACE 2: King's Warrior, Kiwi Tycoon. RACE 3: College Master, When You Believe, Lucky Seventeen. RACE 4: Angel's Dream, Kampar Princess, Turf Governor, Bonus, Regal Rex, First Kingdom, Ryans Rocket. RACE 5: United Star. RACE 6: Confidence V, Win Again, Happy
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      1334 54 No. How Wt(lb») Rating Jockey Bfrif Twliwf 1 FURtOSO 135 (22) FCoetzee 3 (AS Cruz) 2 SUPERSTAR 135 (22) D O'Neill 9 (P Chapple-Hyam) 3 SUPREME CHAMPION 134 (21) SKing 11 (PFYiu) 4 BASKETBALL WINNER 133 (20) B Marcus 14 (TKNg) 5 KING'S PREMIUM
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      337 55 170,000 fine for Woods TIGER Woods has agreed to pay a whopping US$lOO,OOO ($170,000) fine for participating in a non-union television commercial. The commercial was shot during the lengthy actors' strike against national advertisers earlier this year. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and Woods' Cleveland-based business agent declined to comment
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      170 55 BANGLADESH ended a historic first-ever Test innings yesterday having reached a surprising 400 all out against India. And to add even more joy for the home crowd, former skipper Aminul Islam (right) became only the third player to score a century on his country's Test debut. With 145 runs
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      100 55 it Win IE MwiimD of Franc* became the fifth player to Chase Championships, which begins tomorrow in New York's' Madhon funara Chlmi. to wUinii awing frofttti M whui oven the tirit iwnidiuMi yiU US$3O,OOO ($50,000), Mauri imodted an ong»lnglog! mm. Earlier, sisters Venus and Serena WMkms, Mary Pierce of
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      149 55 DAMtANO Zenoni hailed his first call-up to the Italian national team as a tribute to his Atalanta colleagues who have surprised everyone by reaching third place in the Italian Serie A. Zenoni's inclusion was coach Giovanni Trapattoni's most unexpected call ahead of Wednesday's friendly match against England. And the
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      319 55 WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP NICK Price is bracing himself for a fall. Despite leading for the first two rounds of the World Golf Championship in Valderrama, Spain, Price knows he's doing a balancing act in the shifting winds. "It's kind of like walking a tightrope a lot of
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      362 56 v ft GHiiy ji fsv 1,211, Ani) Ptwil years now. Well, believe it or not, that is a current NBA Yup. Wipe that shocked look off your face. Pick your jaw off the floor. 8 same roster sellout record last Tuesday. After 13 years have finally lost the
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      401 56 AP. THE Utah Jazz and Cleveland Cavaliers finally fell from the ranks of the unbeaten. And at 0-7, the winless Atlanta Hawks continued their freefall. Utah had won its first five and Cleveland its first four games of the season. But with Brian
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      29 56 Toronto bt Cleveland 11S-88 Indiana bt Washington 86-74 New Yo»* M Boston 102-101 (01) Dallas bt San Antonio 79-77 Miami bt Utah 87-80 Sacramento bt Golden State 114-107(011
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      609 57 Manchester United is back where it likes to be alone at the top of England's Premiership table. Veteran striker Teddy Sheringham, in fantastic form this season, helped the Red Devils to go two points clear of Arsenal after struggling Middlesbrough threatened an upset
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      255 58 YES, Roy Keane was right in whacking certain Manchester United fans. Manager Alex Ferguson has come out in support of his skipper after he rapped United's corporate fans, accusing them of not knowing anything about the game and not giving the team enough support.
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      388 58 EX-LEEDS SUPER-STRIKER DEMANDED $125,000 A WEEK, SAYS CHAIRMAN W HAT'S a super striker worth? For Leeds chairman Peter Ridsdale, certainly not £50,000 (*****,000) a week. Not even for then-Leeds super-scorer Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (left). And, according to Ridsdale, it was Hasselbaink's ridiculous money demands that eventually led
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      73 58 These were some of Hasselbaink's demands, says Ridsdale: "One was that he always had to be the highest-paid player at the dub. Another was that any bid we may get for Mm mI PftmMlinn nim or &ominion or more we had to accept, even If he had signed his
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      637 59  -  TIGER CUP GROUP B: SINGAPORE 0 VIETNAM 1 REPORT SURESH NAIR s-^-s fl| Wt: WHAT a lucky win for Vietnam! No, this is not a sour-grapes reaction from the Lions, after they were beaten 1-0 by Vietnam in the Tiger Cup last night. Instead, it was
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      116 59 MMPOftS fcwi Hassan, Aide Iskandar, (testa Ssthnriante). Tan Mw Lang, Mkvnean Zaiaal ftrii ■■M'niiifa IJIW BWWW 87th), Hasrln laßaoipllaW Moor Mi. Nan I I •WW (2RBV6Q Tan, 71st| v Raff Ml, Ulnmd I Lam. Crowd: ***** SINGAPORE'S biggest scare in the first half didn't come from its red-shirted
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      117 61 SINGAPORE 0 VIETNAM 1 Now it's ordie against the old enemy My main job HMBtopick the boys up and assure them that they can still make it to the semi-finals. We can andwe must beat Malaysia. Lions coach Vincent Subramaniam TANGLED UP: Singapore's Tan Kim Leng (front) and Vietnam's
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      58 59 Support the Lions with a pack of Tigers. 'i MTlmf PB& Ct p The 'Live' Tiger Cup action, on SportsCiiY tsgoing to be Hot, w lSBW |r *y„7,»*"»V""' '.J*— w r .*r *so"be sure t0 600 l down with a few ice-told Tigers. ;*> I *>&>:" -v v? ."V '"*§s"
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