The New Paper, 31 December 2000

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  • NEWS
    • 698 2 THE TOLL 14 dead, nearly 100 injured in five bomb blasts Wire services. THE lunchtime crunch was intense in anticipation of a merry New Year's Eve. Festive crowds were heading home laden with food for the traditional big feast on the following night. Then in
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    • 204 2 Wire services. NO group has claimed responsibility for the bombings. But there are many theories doing the rounds in Manila as to whose work it could be. Police say the bomb blasts could be the work of the extremist Abu Sayyaf Muslim rebels. The reason: The
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  • NEWS
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      683 4  -  BY Brian Miller SO, this is it. And, thankfully, I want to say goodbye to the old year. So long, Hello Kitty. See ya later, Speakers Corner. Catch up with you, Night Rider. And cheers to those beepers or pagers which, for all intents and purposes, seem to
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      403 5  -  By Rahul Goswami Sources: The Economist's The World in 2001, Newsweek Special Edition: Issues 2001, Discover, National Geographic, The Economist Christmas issue, Asiaweek year-end special. TECH IS IT Technology is going to up the ante in 2001. Keep close tabs on key fields like genetic engineering and robotics.
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    • 416 6 Fancy ushering in the new year with a sea of people? If you don't mind a bit of a tight squeeze and pumping out countdown energy, here are a few places to check out... WHAT: A Whole New World Countdown Party 2001 WHERE: NTUC Lifestyle World,
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    • 85 6 <ddß^Hl^" l^^^^^Hi ,ASHHHHH wi lr MICHAEL DOUGLAS TOBEY MAGUIRE FRANCES McDORMAND KATIE HOLMES FROM THE DIRECTOR and ROBERT DOWNEY JR. OF "L A CONFIDENTIAL" WONDER BOYS Esraasi^ HANSON O«kteB w CURTIS HANSON WWIMMKH ES2SS! .-.^SSa^^M^Pl OPENS 4 JANUARY SOOl The bloke's got writer's block! That's Michael Douglas in his highly
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  • NEWS
    • 882 8 A gay man donated sperm which was manipulated to create a female child His gay mate gave sperm for a male child The embryos were put in a woman's womb The woman, who was paid, gave birth to twins POOR little rich
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    • 330 9 Rejection of kids by peers and other adults that's the issue WILL Barrie and Tony's kids be harmed psychologically in any way because of their unusual family structure? Said Dr Linda Semblitz, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at Adam Road Hospital: "Lots of normal kids are raised in homosexual households.
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    • 1036 10  -  While most Singaporeans were already in a holiday mood in December, some Singaporeans were making a difference to Cambodians, whose lives were devastated by floods. Their good work set the right note for the International Year of the Volunteer beginning tomorrow PHOTO JOUNALIST ZAIHAN MOHD
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    • 842 12  -  By Gloria Chandy THEY drank champagne Charles Heidsieck and Louis Roederer, to be precise. They danced at the Raffles Hotel New Year's Eve Ball to the Band of the 16th Madras Native Infantry. That was Singapore, Dec 31, 1900 and Jan 1, 1901. The
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    • 130 13 fc r Singapore's Largest Sporting Goods Retailer KM &%am&> a dty&tffocm/ T^' r Jlj*4 thank you very much for your fantastic support in the year2ooo r ojUmsJ| PIMM, C I jyL I JWMiIMI sp^^gn tJL LJL jJmnS^ I jy errelij liiisiig 1 norm <>» 25 Dec 2000 f Jan 2001
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  • 1007 14  -  For some, New Year is a time to party. For others, it is a time for quiet reflection. For expat teen WANLE-BEN (right), New Year neperhadany significance, until now\ He used to dread the countdowns. But ibis year, he endured a 27-hour flight from the US
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  • Article, Illustration
    20 15 NIGHT LIFE: Letter-writer Zannie Leong (on right) living it up with friends at Toronto's trendy club, Jump.
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  • 528 15 AT the young, naive age of 13, when my parents told us that we were moving to Toronto, Canada, all I felt then was the excitement and joy of living a new life in a new world. I was happy to leave my convent school upbringing
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  • 230 15 THANK you for being part of the Expat Page. It has been a wonderful year of letters, e-mails, phone calls and exchanges. I have tried, as best as I can, to reply to every e-mail, to answer every call and to accomodate every request.
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  • @ A GLANCE
    • 328 16 HE is an undergraduate and he is also a social escort. Edwin, 23, started in 1998, after finishing national service. The National University of Singapore undergraduate said providing sexual favours for women paid his way through university. One escort agency told The Straits Times that most of
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    • 185 16 DNlQcus] THE 42-year-old homeless man with Aids, who made his home in a disused shopping centre, died on Wednesday at the Communicable Diseases Centre. Publicity about his plight prompted the Ministry of Health to state that hospices, nursing homes and community hospitals could take in Aids
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 60 16 Showers with thunder in the pre-dawn hours and early morning and again in j|f• the late afternoon over many areas. r 1 7 r north Thunderstorms central Thunderstorms east Thunderstorms minimum 24 °C maximum 32 °C sunrise 7: 07 am sunset 7: 09 pm first tide... 2.6 m: 2:56 am
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  • BRIEFLY
    • 95 17 Soft soil in wet weather proved to be a hazard at a construction site on Bishan Street 11 yesterday. Luckily no one was injured as a piling rig sunk into the soil and tipped over at 3.45pm. One contractor working on the executive condominium project
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    • 82 17 Fund makes 1 m A surprise donation helped The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund shoot past the $l-million mark. On Friday, with only two days to go to the close of the fund at the year end, there was $492,000 in the kitty. After some checks on the progress
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    • 73 17 FOR the next month, Singapore will be president of one of the most powerful international bodies the United Nations Security Council. It will take over the monthly-rotated presidency from the Russian Federation. Singapore's stint as a non-permanent member of the Council starts tomorrow. It will last until Dec
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    • 76 17 IN a strong show of force, Indonesian police said they will deploy more than 100,000 personnel throughout the country today. The high alert is prompted by Christmas Eve's bomb attacks which killed 14 people and wounded 119. Security would be beefed up to watch over churches, mosques and
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    • 58 17 NEPAL'S cable television has resumed broadcasting channels showing Indian programmes. The programmes were suspended after protests over alleged anti-Nepal comments by Indian movie star Hrithik Roshan. Protesters clashed with police and attacked shops owned by Indians in Kathmandu on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Indian Airlines has also resumed flights to
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    • 74 17 THE Kuala Lumpur International Airport boasts the world's tallest air-traffic-control tower, the largest columnless hangar, and the world's longest baggage conveyor belt system. That last feature is now proving a thorn in its side. With a total length that spans 34km, the belt takes a an average of
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    • 77 17 MALAYSIA'S jailed former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim may be hauled back to court to face further sex charges. The country's new top prosecutor, incoming Attorney-General Ainum Mohamed Saaid, said yesterday: "I will look into it when I come in. That will be next week." Ms Ainum, 54, will
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    • 77 17 DESPITE a scandal over alleged false disclosure of his wealth, Thai tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra could be leading his party to victory in the Jan 6 general elections. A poll 0f26,250 residents by Bangkok's Assumption University showed Mr Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thai) Party would win 30
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    • 81 17 TWO ferries making their way in a dense fog. Most of their passengers sound asleep. And then BANG a collision occurs. After the first ferry sank in the Meghna River in southeast Bangladesh on Friday, 30 bodies were found floating in the river while 50 were trapped in
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  • 841 18  -  Guest editor BERNARD LIM, MediaCorp Radio Assistant vice-president of English programming thenar] T NEXT WEEK Chua Yuxin, last year's topPSLE student TOMORROW is another new year. Year 2000 has come and gone in a flash. It was this time last year when the world
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  • 245 19 [nf^J KEEP your clothes on, Gwyneth! That is the message that film fans have for Gwyneth Paltrow the Shakespeare in Love star. Cinemagoers are obviously keen to avoid a repeat performance of Gwyneth's strip in Great Expectations. She also appeared topless in Shakespeare
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    • 52 20 1 V§ I r jjL' p:'S; U v Hi, W jjgWl f Yup, our Sports pages have that. Edited by Yap Koon Hong, who does not pull any. You get your sports news and views straight, with a wallop. In one of our five handy sections. MyStraitsTimes Call 388 3838
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  • 130 21 Forget the television series. This is for real. This is 65 days of gruelling training, hardly any sleep, minimal food and water. This is the Singapore Armed Force's Ranger course. JASON TAN watches survival at its toughest :J Jungle training. Hot. Humid.
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  • Article, Illustration
    339 22 HEIR bodies were beyond HHI exhaustion. It was their 65th day of misery and the Singapore Armed Forces Ranger trainees were close to collapse. Practically no sleep for the past 13 days. Mission after mission of lightning raids, hasty withdrawal and defence. In between, they stole 15 minutes of
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    507 24 NITED by a burning desire to pull through the last mission, they inched along. "Quit... go on and quit. Go home and have a easy life. This course is not for weaklings," screamed an instructor. None did. As the trainees stumbled into camp, breathless and exhausted, they thought their
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  • Article, Illustration
    294 26 HE yearly IHi course is open to any SAF serviceman, who must pass a rigorous physical fitness test. This year the 28th course in SAFs history 52 were accepted. Just over half, 29 to be precise, made it. That's because the Ranger course is designed to weed out everyone
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  • NEWS
    • 265 27 SHE took her dad to court because he wouldn't pay her school fees. And won. Nicole Lavelle, 16, wore her school uniform to the court in UK and claimed that her father stopped paying her school fees out of spite, reported the Electronic Telegraph.
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    • 369 28 TESS was one year old when she was adopted by the Canadian family. Six yeiars later, she proved her worth by saving the family that rescued her from the dog pound. The seven-member Anderson family, a cousin and a friend escaped with literally
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    • 116 29 ROBERT Vienneau, 34, is stuck in a Quebec jail, along with a 1.15carat diamond ring. It's been a month since he stole the C 516,000 ($18,510) ring from a jewellery store and swallowed it on the run, reports the Toronto Sun. The jeweller caught
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  • 664 35  -  Cookielari W W J 8 THE- PLACE TO DIP FOR TIPS By Ng Wan Ching wancning®spn.com.sg WHAT with the merry season, the excessive eating and drinking, how many of us have escaped with all our clothes unmarked? I'm talking stains. Not just on my clothes but
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  • 715 36  -  Single Column by Resma Gulzar Mohd sci9o346@nus.edu.sg ONCE upon a soulful night, while I was mugging for an exam, a sweet friend of mine asked careftilly, "Hope you don't mind me asking this, but have you ever felt lonely or left out since you're not attached?" That
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
    • 453 37 -1 CALL: 873-3333 f I I QBBDD 24-hour subscription sales hotline movies sat InDreams today Children Off The Heaven 9 P m Academy Award nominee Annette I Opm This story revolves around Ben.ng (Amencm Beauty) .s Claire .-impoverished Ali and his sister,Zohre, a n^ an ous^ w B who are
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
    • 454 38 Highlight of the Week va **iety today World's Greatest Magic 9pm The world's greatest magicians gather together and create a magic show that will amaze and excite all audiences. In H one night, 18 magicians from around f dltll IV the world perform their all-time STARWorid mon The Lion Of
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  • Aggie MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
    • 367 39 I'M 13 and I love a guy, P. I've been waiting for him since I was in Primary 4. He's 16 and a Taiwanese, like me. At the begining of this year, I found out that he has feelings for me, too. But he loves
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    • 216 39 Confused Girl is 17 and has never been in a relationship before. She used to be envious of girls with boyfriends by their sides and she really prayed hard that she would one day have a boyfriend. A few months back, she went
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    • 132 39 YOU are right! You are too young to be in a serious relationship. You should be hanging out with your friends, not committing yourself to just your steady. Regarding your steady, if he really cut his wrists just because you broke your promise to call him,
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    • 118 39 HAVING a boyfriend by your side isn't that glamorous after all. A relationship comes with joy and pain. At 17, you are not ready for a steady relationship. You are still young and fickle. Just tell your steady that you feel you are still too
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  • Puberty
    • 325 40 I HAVE a problem. A few months ago, I got to know a guy on the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and we started to chat on the phone. We have a good conversation each time. I found him to be extremely caring. He kept
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    • 418 40 A FEW months back, my good friend became my steady even though we are different in many ways. At first I regretted our decision to go steady and wanted to break up. But I never told her. The thought of breaking up faded away as
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    • 190 40 Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues RECENTLY, I've been Q having problems with my menstruation. Previously, I've never had any difficulty. One time, for instance, my menstruation lasted seven days. I suspect that was because I drank some cold
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    • 221 40 I WOULD like to know Qwhat oral sex is. I have read that it can lead to sexually-transmitted diseases (STD). Is this true? If so, how exactly are the diseases transmitted? I have also read that two examples of STDs are oral herpes and gonorrhea of the pharynx.
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    • 70 40 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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  • 974 41  -  N/0 HU C JET, SET, GO M SIRS Edited by Crispina Robert u ibpir i i.bg WALK down the cobbled streets of any German town in December and you may think you are in true Christmas land. The huge decorated Christmas trees, the crisp snow powdering
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  • Article, Illustration
    417 43 Criticssay j QUI ADD S uspense thriller with touches of the supernatural revolvii^aHHmfDavid Dunne (Bruce Willis),, who learns 1 something extraordinary about himself after a horrific accident. > Stars Bruce Willis, Samuel J L Jackson, RobinWrightPenn and Spencer Treat Clark. Directed by M Night Shyamalan. James Berardinelli In his
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  • Page 44 Miscellaneous
    • 451 44 Ml MOVIE s SHOWING TODAY 1 |Mi Cathay-Orchard: 10.30, 12.45, J, 5.15,730, GV-Bishan: 10.45, 1.15,3.50, 630,9.10,11.45 Cathay-Orchard: 11.15, 1.45, 4.15, 7.15, GV-Boon Lay: 11.55,2.10,4.25,6.40,9,11.20 I 9.45, Hn, 2.15,4J0 GV-Boon Uy: H.IS, 1.45, 4.15, *.45. 9.15, 9.40, Hn, 230,5 GV-EastPt: 11.55,2.10,4.25,4.40,9,11.20 H Cathay-Causeway: 12.30, 2.45, 5. 7.15, Cathay-Causeway: HH, 2.20, 4.50,
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  • 664 45  -  SoSueMe SUZANNE WALKER WRITES A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN by Suzanne Walker NOW that everyone has stopped talking about sex, I'd like to. Given the holiday season, it's also probably a good time to do so, since as Nina Simone sings, "When you're feelin'
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  • Tune in, Decibels chill out
    • 124 46 FRESH after a greatest hits release, Yanni is back with his 12th album. More material for another greatest hits compilation in 10 year's time. As expected, most of the stuff is easy on the ears. Lush, flowing tod soothing. His instrumentation never strays
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    • 114 46 WARNING: The music of L' Arc-en-Ciel (pronounced JLa-Kan-Cell) is for heavy metal frock fans only. So don't blame me if you [develop a throbbing headache after listening to this loud (literally!) four-member band for too long. The first track, Get Out From The Shell, might sound vaguely
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    • 124 46 JUST looking at this CD cover alone tells you what kind of music it contains. Yes, it's all in the dreadlocks. Despite being tied up in colourful ribbons, the stiff strands of bundled hair still send out a strong rhythm and blues signal. Well, Sakura is yet
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    • 129 46 THE first thing that strikes you about this CD is the lovely girl on the cover. Wow, who's that babe, you ask. Well, she's none other than Malaysian singer Li Xinjie, whose voice is as sweet as her looks. You might recall her
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    • 284 46  -  Qlavo o with Johnson Ong P 999 by Prince r Perhaps too obvious even a year late, but hey, extra points if you can get alternate versions, like by Mike Flowers or Gary Numan! Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees That
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  • Page 48 Miscellaneous
    • 609 48 [Funnies] WHAT'S HUP I can't believe it's the 1 You're not s JPrecisely my end of the year already. I fff/f sten n 9 to me 'IHii resolution So, what's your new I Wrp*i j, .1 year resolution? J \T E Horoscope! T les of family affection are superstrong at
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  • 841 51  -  One year ago... Column I MUSICIAN ART FAZIL SOUNDS OFF by Art Fazil I TS that time of the year again when we look back contemplatively at the past year and look forward resolutely to the next. The year 1999 closed with the dark
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  • RACING
    • 1564 53 No. Last 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 4422-4 BABY CHILLIES 57 (50) L Sofhan 7 (3nzg Sargent-Kuality Mas) 2 37 BEST WIN 57 (52) lAzhar 4 (3ag Tennent-Kah Yien) 3 038 DESERT FIGHTER 57 (51) SAnandan 10 (3nzg
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    • 53 53 PICK OF THE DAY This St Jude gelding may not be the most prolific customer around, but his last-start third to Eaglehawk was a most commendable effort. Seems to be the 2000 champion jockey Richard Lim's best chance to wrap up a fantastic year
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    • 762 54  -  PENANG GOVERNOR'S GOLD CUP (RACE 6,4.05pm) By Lionel Lee A GREAT horse, a carefully mapped-out plan and a race worth a record one million ringgit. Centroview, crowned Malaysia's Horse of the Year after his Governor's Gold Cup triumph last season, has peaked again after being put through
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    • 122 54 RACE 2: Always Sincere, Fire Starter, Passing, Cheers Again. RACE 3: Mega Success, Imperial Star, Man U, Great Discovery, Soldier Of Peace, Wise General, Call The Police, El Suez. RACE 4: Better Health, Sweet Vibration. RACE 5: Prince Nazare. Blue Grass, Platoon Commander, Night Man, Victory Warrior, Rumours Of
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    • 306 55  -  By Michael Lee KUALA Lumpur-based trainer Osman Sidek must have felt half the job was done the moment his flying machine Lucky Eighty One outsped his 12 rivals to grab the lead in the RMIOO,OOO (5545,000) Pesta Pulau Pinang Cup at Penan'g yesterday. Especially
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    • 251 55 YESTERDAY'S PERTH (ASCOT) RACE RESULTS Going: Firm 10 MISSISSIPPI BELLE 52 (28-10) Alana Sanson (11) 1 11 RICH TRICKS 52 (60-19) Jason Whiting (12) 2 7 DEPARTURE LOUNGE 52 (25-10) Jason Brown (1) 3 Winning trainer: Allan Macpherson. Margins: 2 V*, shd, nk. Time: Imin 31.4 sec Forecast: $45. Tierce:
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    • 1263 56 Little Emperor (Race 4) Baby Guess (Race 5) Boom Boorh Boom (Race 8) RACE 1: Trainer John Sargent was fined RM2OO ($9O) for wrongly declaring .H Samir instead of T Samsuri on HELLO JOHN. NATURAL CLASSIC was withdrawn
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    • 463 58 (COURSE A/ALONG Going: Good 13 YABONGA55(18-8) ODoteuze (9) 8 6 2 (530) 7 SECRET SUCCESS 56.5 (14-7) (7)-4 4 3 MM 11 KRAMJIPAPPU 55 (45-13) LOittman (8) 9 7 4 (487) 6 MALAKAS 55.5 (546-77) ...J Fortune (11) 10 10 5 (498) 9 S« BENTON 55.5 (58-16) ..•..MUlilil® SOO (3)
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    • 1104 58 RACE 1: SWEET SMILE was scratched by the vet when found to be lame off-fore. In terms of MRA Regulation 17.2, the horse must be presented to an official vet before being declared to race again. RED NOT was difficult to be
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