The New Paper, 10 December 2000

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  • 20 1 the new paper DECEMBER 10, 2000 on sunday Singapore Press Holdings e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg 70 CENTS I http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg MITA (P) )19/03/2000
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    • 29 1 DECEMBER 10, .JL. m HH lllll 70 CENTS I H l| Singapore Press Holdings e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg MITA (P))19/03/2000 )71Q1 4200C i > jH by couple C UP>e Picture/Drew Fritz
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      450 2 Who could it be? And why does he call himself a wombat? Worried about the radiatiofeji i /AJ from your handphone and hands-free kit? Here's good news n f HERE'S a cheap and simple solution to protecting your brains from the risk of being Med by your
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    • 36 2 All radiation levels found by the British Consumers' Association were well within safety guidelines. No research has yet shown that handphones are harmful, butthe biological effects of handphone radiation including cancer risks are being explored.
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      341 3  -  How to M 8 n ■> «w-. V' i 3 I C, i >j t »L_ C, f By Eugene Anthony TAKE the yellow shine of the firefly or the green luminence of the jellyfish, and introduce it into a seedling and behold, a Christmas tree that
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    • 910 4  -  Some advice for chess nuts MEET SINGAPORE'S FIRST CHESS GRANDMASTER By Ng Wan Ching DR Wong Meng Kong has finally done it. He has become Singapore's first chess grandmaster (GM). With his full-time job, it took him 20 years. The qualification commission of the game's
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    • 57 4 Dr Wong played black in this game against Milandinovic of Greece at the recent Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey. Look at the position on the board (above). If white's next move is Rel, can you work out the next 10 moves for black to win?
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    • 109 5 AFTER GM, there aren't any higher titles other than world champion, currently Vladimir Kramnik (right). Said Dr Wong Meng Kong: "Of course in the trade, we make a distinction between the top grade grandmasters and the run of the mill grandmasters." There is a select group of
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    • 774 6 EVERYTHING WAS ARRANGED IN HEAVEN Their story reads like the plot of a bad Indian movie. A mix-up at birth only to be discovered 20 years later. Two girls one Chinese, one of mixed parentage —were given to the wrong sets of parents. They grew up having
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    • 171 6 MS WONG Yoke Kwan is the natural daughter of lorry-driver P Krishnan and Madam Chuah Sook Ching but she was raised by Mr Wong Chow and Madam Ng Thai. Seamstress Ms Anama's natural parents are tin-miner Mr Wong and Madam Ng but she was brought up by Mr
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    • 766 7 I THOUGHT SHE A LOT LIKE MY OTHER DAUGHTERS THE knock on the door came on Mother's Day. And on the door-step stood the long-lost natural daughter of Madam Chuah Sok Chin, 52. Said Madam Chuah in Mandarin: "I remember it all. She came in a
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  • NEWS
    • 462 14  -  EzEE does it THIS is the last instalment of the PUB-TNP Go EzEE series. Remember: it's so easy to use electricity efficiently. It saves watts and money, too! We hope that the series has helped make you more aware of the advantages of
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    • 164 14 LIM LEE CHING THE new online information portal, www.can.com.sg, allows you to examine your utilities bills online. This is what you have to do to enjoy the service: Log on to www.can.com.sg or www.cansupply.com.sg. Register as a member. You will need your household's Power Supply utilities account
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  • FREE SPEECH BROUGHT TO YOU BY
    • 582 15 Free Speech is a series of interviews with personalities held at H2O Zone. This week's guests Singapore's glamourpuss Jacintha Abisheganaden and our King of Swing, Jeremy Monteiro. UNGAM PONNAMPALAM catches a few minutes with them WHEN. the phrase "free speech" cropped up, they raised their eyebrows
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    • 35 15 Jeremy and Jacintha will be playing with bassist and vocalist Eldee Young on Sunday, Dec 17, at 7.30 pm.The venue is the H2O Zone Outdoor Event Plaza (outside Orchard Point). Admission is free.
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    • 193 16 y/ i n 0 f Her beauty and Style won the hearts of the judges Her potential impressed everyone. Our heartiest congratulations to Callie Roberts on her victory. Winning The New Paper New Face 2000 title will accord her a distinct advantage should she pursue a career as a model,
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  • 286 17  -  NEWS BY Joanne Koh STILL not Zouked Out? Stagger back to Sentosa. Yep! It's yet another beach party on a little islet. Go for the Island Black Moon Party tiext Saturday. There will be no foam in sight. You can forget about flashing disco lights
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  • @ A GLANCE
    • 341 18 HEALTH MINISTRY SAYS: NURSING homes, hospices and community hospitals can take in people with Aids. They will receive the same subsidies for these patients as they do for others under their nursing care. This announcement from the Health Ministry helps clear the air
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    • 148 18 PARENTS should not be laid-back in fighting myopia in their children, said Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang. Three out of 10 Primary 1 pupils are short-sighted. By the time they get to Primary 6, the proportion is six in 10. This problem has to be licked,
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 65 19 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong was discharged from the Singapore General Hospital yesterday morning. He was there for a one-hour operation on Thursday afternoon to repair torn cartilage in his right knee. A statement from the Prime Minister's Office said that he was already back at work. The
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      • 75 19 THIS time, it is official. Hill Street Food Centre will close on Dec 31. Patrons and foodstall operators will really say goodbye to the place after projected closures in the past three years that never materialised. The centrally-located centre, built in 1984, is popular with office
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      • 64 19 MALAYSIA'S Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed ex-Deputy Premier Anwar Ibrahim's petition. The jailed politician was appealing against a High Court decision striking out his $26million defamation lawsuit against Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Anwar, who is in hospital with a slipped disc, is serving a six-year jail sentence
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      • 74 19 PEOPLE who are intellectuallydisabled are being recruited in Marine Parade to serve as domestic cleaners from next month. They will be trained in sweeping, mopping, ironing, and cleaning of windows and toilets. Working in pairs, they will be supervised by a volunteer or a family member.
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      • 66 19 COME 2003, Johor wants to stop buying treated water from Singapore. This is according to the Johor Economic and Social Report 2000/2001. The report said SAJ Holdings is arranging for treated water to be provided by the Semanggar water supply project instead. At present, Johor buys
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      • 63 19 THREE weeks ago, the Japanese police started a Tokyo-wide campaign urging citizens to report anyone who looked Chinese. The campaign flyers read: "If you think a person is Chinese, call the police." On Friday, the police stopped the campaign saying their actions were "inappropriate". The police launched
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      • 73 19 A SALESMAN greedy for big profits poured cheaper brandy into 31 Martell bottles and sold them to a karaoke lounge as the real thing. Tan Kau Meng, 24, operated his scam from a van. His luck ran out on Friday when officers located the van at Somerset
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      • 64 19 TRAVEL agents plan to take action against Singapore Airlines for acting against their interests. The reason: SIA refuses to pay them for promoting and selling its tickets. SIA has also "unreasonably refused" to consider other forms of compensation. A National Association of Travel Agents Singapore (Natas) spokesman
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    • 140 19 CHARITY SALE: Drop by Safra Tampines' Casuarina Room between 10 am and 6 pm for a charity sale. Pick up clothes, books and toys at bargain prices. You don't pay for the items in cash. Instead, you adopt a toy brick for $1 each and exchange the
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    • 365 19 iSyGlobewqtch THE Dutch have done it again. They have marched into legal territory where other countries would not tread. In the Netherlands, prostitution is not a crime. Nor is the taking of certain drugs. Now, joining the list is a form of killing. Mercy killing or
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    • 54 19 Showers with thunder can be expected in the late afternoon and early evening mainly over many areas. vwimniisisvPTfmii north Thunderstorms sunrise 6"57 am west Thunderstorms sunset 6:59 pm central Showers moonrise... 6:03 pm south Showers moonset.... 5:37 am east Thunderstorms first tide... 3.0m: 9:43am minimum 24 °C maximum 32 °C
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  • EXPAT
    • 1009 20 HE'S Belgian, but he speaks and writes fluent Mandarin and Hokkien. Here is what FRANS DE RIDDER wrote WHENEVER I take the taxi, I always make it a point to sit next to the drivThis immediately creates an atmosphere of closeness and friendship, a willingness
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    • 166 21 THE idea for this week's column by Father Frans De Ridder came from a reader, Ms Lynette Enoch. Ms Enoch, who is in her 30s, said: "Here is a Caucasian who reads, writes and speaks Mandarin and Hokkien even more fluently than some of the locals.
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  • 749 22  -  r > LTWWeekJ Guest editor SHARON ISMAIL Actress TWO hundred eighty-seven. That was the highest aggregate score in this year's PSLE cohort 13 points short of perfection. Gosh! I don't even remember what mine was 14 years ago. How does it feel to be
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  • 188 23 NEWS AP. OUT: Moustache. In: the distinguished-looking "French" goatee. Men in the Indian city of Bangalore are ditching traditional facial hair and growing goatee beards. In a special report on the trend, one of the country's newspapers found men of all ages giving up
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  • 593 24 REVLON IN TROUBLE IF LUCY Liu is indeed the next Revlon girl, she probably would have to do a super selling job. She would have to haul Revlon out of a tired and dated image which was the reason why Revlon had decided to drop
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    • 284 24 b1 WnwßwFm o%ifsia Be enchanted with the mesmerizing voices of the NTU choir, and captivating close-up magic by the Phantom Magician at Tivoli Coffee House and Wall St. Cafe on Christmas Eve. LUCKY DRAW till 8 Feb 2001 For every $50 spent at our participating F B outlets, you can
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  • 293 26 IS Hollywood obsessed with plastic surgery? Yes, says film legend Robert Redford. What's more, he feels it is sick, reported the Daily Express. "Everyone in Tinseltown is getting pinched, lifted and pulled," he told an American magazine.
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    • 126 27 s. WATCH MEN FLY. MINGLE WITH 6 FOOT TALL BUTTERFLIES. (NO, IT'S NOT A BUNCH OF HOT AIR.) 12 December 2000 Suntec City Fountain For the very first time in Singapore, the MSN Heiiosphere Just follow the instructions on your CD and you stand to win will be floating high
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  • 319 28  -  Cyberstalker scare in Perth ends when family's guest owns up C/n N grj By Peter Wilson IN SYDNEY THE e-mail messages were chilling. Someone was watching the Perth family's attractive blonde teenage daughter. His messages revealed that he knew a lot about her, her folks and their
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    35 30 Lnew^ Some Royal Elbow Grease 1 -tS-. =s-.SV f r 1;- v si i'" Who's That? m. mmm mm o AA Ij. A D AA I :®HSv: -iWHWy- u. Not A Palace j
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  • NEWS
    • 356 33 BRITISH students are going to get new English teachers. From India. In a case of taking coals to Newcastle, about 40 teachers are to be recruited from India to work as English teachers in government and private schools in the UK A
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    • 222 34 Philippine President Joseph Estrada may be facing an impeachment trial, but he can still crack a joke or two. With the ladies and gentlemen of the press, no less. According to Mr Estrada himself, he has a record of firsts in many things, reports
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    • 101 34 CHESS ANSWER Here's how black wins: Rela4 Rse2 Qf6+ Rf2 Qd4 Ke2 b3 Rdl Qe4+ Kd2 Kb 2 Re 2 Qc2+ Kela3 g4a2 g5 al Q 0-1 MAYOR of San Juan town and son of President Estrada, Mr Jinggoy Estrada, has laughed off the allegations against him. In
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    • 88 35 rayg j The New Paper On Sunday December 10,2000 That does it, I'm moving to the other side... wm rail mWKßmsi i MEDIA WAR BREAKS OUT 38 s J>~ HI r^r f— I p 4fH PP""* *RK /R DECIBELS: vJ Christmas chill-out 0 ®Sf^ H CO SIVACHOY: IMF y-sSrlfgf| I§
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  • SeenHeard SHARP
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      50 36 THE MOVIE The date is 2050. Earth is dying and a team of astronauts led by commander Kate Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss) goes on a mission to try to colonise Mars. Stars Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, > Benjamin Bratt, Simon Baker and Terence Stamp. Directed by Antony
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    • 255 36  -  by EUGENE ANTHONY REMEMBER the television series, Space 1999? would remember tl» shew about spswe (Exploration of the re 2001, space .feThmg ia, movies Smmme space bfiHgnd and wal|||g for thatefipeqLL contact with other life forms in the universe. At least, that's the
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    • 64 37 [JSanten: We're not gonna talk about God, are we? Because if we are, I'm gonna have to have another drink. Burchenal: Not God, faith. Santen: I had a girlfriend named Faith once* She cheated on me... with a girl named Chastity. J J Burchenal, as the oxygen runs
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    • 275 37  -  r Edited by Eugene Anthony nirvana@sph.com.sg by DENISE CHONG CARRIE-ANNE Moss in Red Planet is incredibly likeable. Val Kilmer is incredibly NOT. Between them is a story wasteland with twists to nowhere. But if you want to compare this to Mission To Mars, it's way better to
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    • 181 37 James Berardinelli in his online review: Red Planet's production values are good. The special effects are strong without being ostentatious, especially during the crash-landing, which is the picture's high point. As a human-interest drama, it is more thin than Mars' atmosphere. As an action-adventure flick, ifs too obviously
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    • 202 37 How to prepare a chicken "MAY I take your order?" the waiter asked. "Yes, how do you prepare your chickens?" "Nothing special sir," the waiter replied. "We just tell them straight out that they're going to die." Putting the bite back into love A COUPLE were in bed after celebrating
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    1343 38 Feature As Singapore Press Holdings gets into television and Media Corporation of Singapore publishes its newspaper, the stars are lining up for the fray. CHANG MAY CHOON emerges from the frontline with this report This means MediaCorp's got Ally and Buffy and Malcolm and Amy and Veronica and
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  • 680 40  -  [/•>■ jj \f I CHEAP AND HIP: STYLE FOR THE BUDGET-CONSCIOUS By Carol Leong carol@sph.com.sg OUT of nosiness, I walked into a lifestyle shop in Ngee Ann City (which shall remain nameless) just to see if they had anything new and exciting. That's when I
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    • 518 41 CALL: 873-3333 f IA mOQD 24-hour subscription sales hotline imaulac Jack Frost Hl©w ICS 9pm In his pursuit of his dreams as a tue The House Off No Nan musician, Jack Frost (Michael Keaton) I Opm Three women with three different neglects a loving wife and a devoted personalities and
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    • 530 42 Hi?hlicht of the Week wed Boxing: Knockout Wednesday o*o VVccK 9pm Calling boxing fans: Re-live boxing jgf w action from Marvin Hagler this month i with Super Sports. Tune into Super Sports every Wednesday at 9pm Pand find out why this powerful left-hander and Boxing Hall of Fame animals that
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  • 643 43  -  I Column A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN BY SINGAPORE'S THEATRE TEASE by R Chandran THE other night, while at a coffee shop eating mee goreng, I was introduced to a gangster. Well, ex-gangster would fit the description better. He was eating his CHAR KWAY TEOW, and looked well into
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  • 549 44 Joy: A Holiday Collection Jewel (Warner) JEWEL'S hauntingly beautiful O Holy Night might inspire you to go to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. But you won't need to go.to a church to capture the Christmas spirit Her interpretation of this, one of the oldest of
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  • 460 44  -  Rave m with Eugene Anthony O HOLY NIGHT (Traditional arrangement) T was and still is a "tradition" in I my family for all of us to gather at (I my aunty's home for a Christmas Miner on Christmas day itself. iTes, food and good company were
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  • Aggie MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODT
    • 251 45 I AM 24 and I had a relationship with this guy, A. Now, I cannot forget him. Before our relationship started, he said he was single. I told him I was married. He said it did not matter, that he liked me for what I am.
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    • 216 45 Last week's letter: LOST is a 15-year-old boy. He has known a girl for the past two years. She is ayear younger. This year alone, she has had two boyfriends. Each relationship did not last more than five months. Lost has been hoping to become her
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    • 129 45 Readers' advice: IF the girl has not shown you the kind of interest you're talking about after all this time, chances are that she's not interested. This is not to say a deeper relationship cannot develop in future. Or that you cannot remain friends despite your pain
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    • 152 45 WHY so lost? She is not even your girlfriend. She is treating you like the good friend that you are. If she cannot be honest with you, she probably has her own reason. Maybe, she is just keeping you on a string but did she say she
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    • 369 46 MY boyfriend and I have been going out for two years. I am 18 and studying in polytechnic while he is 21 and working. We had sex a few times and plan to marry. His mother has been asking him to get engaged to
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    • 500 46 I AM 14. My parents divorced when I was in Primary 3. Since then, I have not met my father. I have thought of meeting him but have never done so. However, when I was in primary school, someone told my mother that I
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    • Puberty Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues
      • 230 46 RECENTLY, I had sex with Qmy partner. He used a condom. Later, however, I happened to look up an "ovulation calculator" available on the Internet. It told me I was ovulating on the day I had sex. Now, I am worried. Will
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      • 158 46 MY partner has a tight Q vagina. This has caused her quite a lot of pain whenever we have sex. What is the reason for the tightness and what causes it? Is there any remedy? Chansh DYSPAREUNIA is the A medical term for the condition
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    • 32 45 CAN YOU HELP? :u orftoto Ag£lc by Wednesday. The best letter will be published next week. The writer of the best reply will receive a special ©T-shirt and a Hew Paper cap.
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    • 69 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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  • 588 47  -  Cookiejar] J THE PLACE TO DIP FOR TIPS By Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg Singaporeans love throwing out old stuff. Even when they are in perfectly good, reusable condition. Examples of stuff I have seen on the roadside almost new prams and baby
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  • 724 48  -  SingleColumn by Ami John anathan@sph.com.sg g I THOUGHT it wouldn't be long before I finally settled down. Just finish my formal education, get a good job, and soon the right girl would come along. Yeah, right. My twenties (the age, not the years)
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  • 866 49  -  Venue Street walking abroad brings the best holiday results, says this week's writer, NG KING KANG, a Lianhe Zaobao columnist and veteran traveller Edited by Crispina Robert crispina@sph.com.sg SO call me a street walker, as I have found the best way to see and get to know
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  • 840 51  -  [Column]., by Siva Choy BUTCH "Sourface" Fernandez was a serious fellow until he was hospitalised. Then he became much more serious, and started talking in his hospital bed about how he had seen Death in his dreams. "I saw this very old man with a
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  • 541 52  -  *ferried with kids *»y TRUDY LIM trudy@sph.com.sg ITS that time of year again. No, not the school holidays. Rather, it is getting ready for school time. Parents are toting booklists to the shops, ticking off titles, making lists of stationery needed and taking stock of uniforms,
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  • Page 53 Miscellaneous
    • 142 53 Funnies I TOMMY, ISN'T ITGREAT THAT Jl C ARE YOU <4VOU CAN'T I THINK Pf YOU THINK THIS flt f5 J 3000 Viacom International Inc. Created by Artene Klasky, Gabor Csupo, and Paul Gemain. Drst by Creators Syndicate. njgrata.mck.com www.creators.corr PROOAOLY 'CAUSeY BUT I'M MKT I'M SORRY/ Wl6 T///5 HAPPY
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  • RACING
    • 303 56  -  By Danny Khoo IT PAID a meagre $9 for a win on both sides of the Causeway. But that was the furthest thing on Kiwi trainer Stephen Gray's mind. All that mattered to the 36-year-old was that he had saddled his first
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    • 350 56  -  100,000 VANDA TROPHY By Danny Khoo FLAMBOYANT French jockey Olivier Doleuze could not have timed a better winning start to his current Singapore sojourn. The 27-year-old, who drew blanks at the two preceding meetings since racing resumed at Kranji, kicked off his four-month local
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    • 1169 57 YESTERDAY'S KRANJI (COURSE B/LONG COURSE) RACE RESULTS IMTFFl BREAKING THE DUCK: English jockey Gary Carter finally found his first winner at Kranji with the John Brink-trained Kim Governor in Race 7 yesterday. Picture/ Florence Tan 14 SPEEDY TAURUS 51 (8-6) 'MHalrin (9) 1 1 1 (462) 4 EXOTIC 53 (25-7)
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    • 1460 58 RACE 1: H Bakri replaced D Holland on SUPERB ACES when the latter was unable to ride the correct weight. Holland was fined $200 under MRA Rule 133 (b). The stewards permitted trainer P Busuttin to race PIECES OF APRIL with a
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    • 1534 59 TODAY’S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD Going forecast: Good No. Last 6 rung Hone Wt Rating Jockey Barter (Age/ortgtn/iex, trainer-owner) 1 0-00 BABY POH POH 57 (51) *S Kumar 3 (3ag Sargent-Kuality Mas) 2 303 BIG SUCCESS 57 (52) BTai 2 (3ac Vashaiya-Owner) 3 -7 HELLO JOHN 57 (52) TSamsuri 4
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    • 662 60 PICK OF THE DAY One of the rare former Kranji-based gallopers to have settled in quickly up north. The English-bred displayed great stoicism to run on strongly for second despite sustaining a cut to his off-hind last Sunday. Jockey Benny Woodworth should know him well
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    • 81 60 RACE 2: Diamond City. RACE 3: Platinium, When You Believe. RACE 5: Fortune Star, Kiwi Tycoon, Mr Quick. RACE 6: Black Romance, Yellow Bee, Jambhala, Business Success, Boy Gerent, Lord Virgo, Standford. RACE 7: Silver King, Colour Of Life. RACE 8: Hero Legend, Big Secret, Darumasan, Emerald Heights, Cookie,
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    • 317 60 No. Last 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Ay/origin/sex. trainer-ownerl 1 *****5 LUCKY GEM 57 (61) *YFLeongc2.5 5 (5mm Sargent-Lucky) 2 3-3306 BIG ONE 55.5 (58) *CAngc1.5 8 (6nzg YF Lee-Good-Luck) 3 227-87 ESSENCE OF DEER 55.5 (58) *MHuzairi 1 (6nzm F Nathan-Owner) 4
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    • 422 61 GOING: GOOD TO FIRM Shum Shui Po Handicap 8 SPECTACULAR TALK 122 (23-9) FCoetwe (6) 1 4 SUPERIOR TITLE 127 (42-16) ELegrix (2) 2 10 TYPHOON 119(121-37) ESaint-Martin (12) 3 Winning trainer: PF Yiu. Margins: 5V*, nk. Time: 1min 40.8sec. Forecast: $34. Tierce: $1,740.
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    • 241 61 GOING: FIRM 7 MISS SYDNEY 52.5 (94-25) Paul King (6) 1 6 CHINESE ARITHMETIC 53.5 (10-6) Patrick Carbery (1) 2 15 SUMMER SUNDAY 52 (44-13) Danny Miller (2) 3 Winning trainer: Don Fortune. Margins: 3 A, 3 A, shd. Time: 1 min 11.5sec. Forecast: $55.
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  • SPORTS
    • 271 62 FIRST PAY'S RESULTS Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) bt Albert Costa (Spa) 3-6,6-1, 2-6, 6-4,6-4 Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spa) bt Pat Rafter (Aus) 6-7,7-6, 6-2, 3-1 (retired) AP. PAT Rafter, who was forced to pull out with mysterious cramping in his forearm, thigh and hip in
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    • 502 62 DAVIS CUP: AUSTRALIA v SPAIN AFP. CLAYCOURT tennis can so often look like a slugfest. Throw in an Iberian bearpit with 15,000 flag-waving patriots supporting a country which has never won the competition, and Davis Cup tennis can also look like a battlefield. The venue for the battlefield,
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    • 410 63  -  PRADEEP PAUL Think back. How many points did you score the last time you laced up your high-tops? If you're like me, a grand total of 8. If you're a hotshot on the national team, 22. And if you're Kobe Bryant, 51. Yup, that's the difference
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    • 73 63 Position: Guard Team: Los Angeles Lakers Age: 22 Height: 2.01m Weight: 95.3kg Career stats: 4,839 points, 286 games, 1160 rebounds, 899 assists, 333 steals, 187 blocks, 683 turnovers Personal data: Named after Japan's famous Kobe beef after his parents saw it on a restaurant menu. Spent eight years
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    • 294 63 ZEN AND THE ART OF BASKETBALL SUCCESS "Defence is a signal to a basketball coach that a team is playing well together and sacrificing for each other. All the adulation, the praise, the press, go into who scores. That's not important. The important part is defence.
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    • 10 64 Hfc V:- jP ki, I •"..i^| v Illustration/ Kelvin Chan
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      941 65 Thumbs-up from young Singapore coaches after soccer study tour to Japan REPORTS: SURESH NAIR OVER 30 years, Jan Poulsen has travelled the globe to scores of footballing venues. You name it: From Europe, Africa, America, Australia and Asia. But the recent nine-day study tour to Asian Cup champion
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    • 160 66 FROM legendary world luminaries like Brazilian hero Zico (now adviser to Kashima Antlers) to Ossie Ardiles (coach of Yokohama Marinos). From Philippe Troussier (Japan's French national coach) to Japan Football Association president Shunichiro Okano. The red carpet was laid out to the Singapore coaches right from
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    • 87 66 Director), Tay Peng Kee (FAS Executive, Football Development), Robert Lim (Singapore Under-23 assistant coach), Rajagopal Suriamurthi (Singapore Under-16 national coach), M S Arasu (FAS staff coach), Mohd Basir (Singapore women's national coach), Kunju'Jamaludeen (Geylang United), Zubir Abdullah (Sembawang Rangers), Lim Wee Seng (Tampines Rovers), 1 Bernard Lan
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    • 177 66 HOME United'* Bernard Lan: The study tour was a dream-come-true eye-opener. Japan's football development is very professional and this is the most important lesson: You must do your homework, get your basics right in order to succeed in the long run. BALESTIER Central's Mohd Zainuddln: Fantastic is
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    • 871 68 IT was one of the most crucial moments of his football career. Impress, and he could book his seat on the flight to Songkhla with the rest of the Lions. Mess it up, and the all-too-familiar heartbreak would follow. Said national footballer Hasrin Jailani: "When I
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    • 120 68 SIR Bobby Charlton once singled out Hasrin Jailani as a player to watch in the future. It happened eight years ago, when the former England star striker played in the Singapore Cricket Club's soccer sevens. "Bobby Chariton was hers during thotournamont and ho
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    • 349 68 SEAK POH LEONG, Geytang United director of football: After his return from national training in 1999, which was also when he was dropped from the Sea Games team, he could not make his way back into the Geylang first team. We were only able to
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  • RTS
    • 906 69  -  SINGAPORE OPEN GOLF MEET SINGAPORE ISLAND COUNTRY CLUB HOT ROOKIE: Rosales is confident of turning the table over the fancied rivals REPORT I BRIAN MILLER THE dew was still thick in the early morning air when The Kid picked up his irons, laced up his boots
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    • 234 70 Leading scores after third round: 201: Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 72,64,65 202: Gerald Rosales (Phi) 69, 71,62; Hendrik Buhrmann (SA) 66,66, 70 203: Ted Purdy (US) 67,68,68 204: Charlie Yi (Kor) 69,68,67; Danny Zarate (Phi) 69,69, 66 205: Amandeep Johl (Ind) 68,68,69 206: Arjun Atwal (Ind) 68, 70,68; Ahmad
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    • 307 70 WORLD CUP GOLF AP. A REJUVENATED Tiger Woods and partner David Duval used four straight birdies on Friday to climb into third place at the World Cup of Golf two strokes behind leaders Argentina and New Zealand. The US duo started the day trailing the co-leaders
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  • PREMIER LEAGUE
    • 704 71  -  COMMENT; EDWIN YEO Middlesbrough put on one of it most spirited displays this season last night against Sunderland. And that was the extent of influence Terry Venables, helping manager Bryan Robson out for the first time, had on the players. That it still lost 1-0 means that,
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    • 310 72 MIDDLESBROUGH is not giving up the fight. It will hand Terry Venables and Bryan Robson a massive £25million (s6sm) transfer kitty to save the club from relegation in the next five months. It is now at the bottom of the table with 11 points from 17
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    • 119 72 ARSENALS Thierry Henry 13 Ray Parlour 16,86,90 Nwarikwo Kanu 52 NEWCASTLE 0 BRADFORD 3 Jamie Lawrence 9 Dean Windass 69 Benito Carbone 89 TOTTENHAM 3 Ledley King 1 Sol Campbell 21 Chris Armstrong 54 CHARLTON 3 Sean Bartlett 10,79 John Robinson 85 MAN UNITED 3 Ryan Giggs 42
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    • 267 72 Football 365. SIR Alex Ferguson (above) completed a U-turn on his future yesterday. He committed himself to remain with Manchester United after he retires as manager in 2002. He had previously snubbed all attempts to keep him at Old Trafford because he felt the
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    • 247 73  -  By Suresh Nair THE Kallang Roar may well return in full force on Saturday, Jan 27. That's when the Lions will have their long-awaited showdown with newly-crowned Tiger Cup champion Thailand. Thailand has confirmed it will play at the National Stadium, says the Football Association of
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    • 124 73 Sir Bobby Charlton can spot, all right. But not only talent on the pool table. Any sight of extraordinary skills on a green surface is enough for him to holler to the world what they'll get to see. The
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