The New Paper, 2 March 2001

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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon $22,400 a year
      360 2 That's how much it costs to send a child to kindergarten in Hongkong Education is no child's play for Hongkong parents. Some kindergartens charge as much as HK$lOO,OOO ($22,400) a year. Others billed parents as much as HK$ll,BOO for a year of school lunches, it was revealed
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      Lock icon Fees in Singapore much lower
      101 2 WHAT about Singapore parents? Well, they can heave a sigh of relief. Kindergartens here come much cheaper. While the neighbourhood kindergarten may cost around $300-$350 a month, some like Kinderland Academy charge up to $1,088 a month as stated on its website. This, however, does
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      209 2 Leisure Showtime: Pages 36 to 39 Comics: Page 44 TV: Page 83 JRBL W Flawless good looks can be achieved wrth our professional services The agony of having problem skin can now be solved with Expressions professional facial, whether is it oily skin, problem skin, yQOO2^ acne scars, facial lines,
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      Lock icon This and oxygen tanks are her round-the-clock lifeline
      977 4  -  By Gayle Koh MS Sheila Ng is 28 and has a year to live. Or less, according to her doctors. And that is not the biggest blow life has dealt. She has to live it out hooked onto tubes and oxygen tanks
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      Lock icon HELP FROM CPF SCHEME
      252 5 DID you know if you are suffering from a terminal illness that prevents you from working, you could bank on the Dependants' Protection Scheme (DPS) to help tide you over? According to a CPF Board spokesman, DPS is an opt-out individual term-life insurance scheme. It aims
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      Lock icon Clinic has seen eight cases since 1999
      254 5 NO cause. No cure. Not even any specific telltale symptoms. That's life for PPH patients. The illness is often diagnosed in its later stages. It happens to one to two per million people. The New Paper spoke to Ms Ng s physicians, Dr
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      Lock icon More kids seeing shrinks
      151 6 H..T HEALTH PSYCHIATRISTS in Singapore are seeing more children. And many of them are in primary school and kindergarten. And it is mainly because of our pressure-cooker environment. The number of young psychiatric patients multiplied 3Vfc times between 1990 and 1998. Most of the young patients
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      Lock icon This Plane scare at Changi
      96 6 Pit ture GROUND SEARCH: This Air India plane, flew in from Mumbai yesterday, and was immediately surrounded by policemen and fire engines. Flight A 1478, which was carrying 211 passengers and crew, was searched, and the passengers were made to stay on board for between
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        58 6 MEAT MEAT in Singapore is safe to eat, said the Agri-food and Veterinary Authority (AVA). It was reassuring the public concerned about all the overseas news of foot-and-mouth and mad-cow disease. The AVA said it screened all primary foods. And it banned meat from Taiwan and Britain
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        Lock icon Nabbed in India
        64 6 FUGITIVE SALWANT Singh (left), 39, wanted by Singapore police and Interpol for fraud, has been nabbed in India. Detective firm Lancers Network caught him in New Delhi. His wife, Zuraini Abdul Rahim, got away. They had been running international telephone "callback" services here with no licence, after
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        Lock icon Govt gets tough
        62 6 MALAYSIA THE Malaysian government has finally acted on its threats to "discipline" the international news media for what it sees to be alleged biased and unfair reporting on Malaysia. The latest issues of Asiaweek and the Far Eastern Economic Review, which should have hit the news-stands over
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        Lock icon Deserted baby
        65 6 COURT AN HIV-positive Thai woman who abandoned her newborn girl at a hotel and overstayed by 284 days was jailed nine months and fined $2,000 yesterday. Arnai Khanitta, 30, left Lai Ming Hotel in Geylang in October after giving birth. She pleaded guilty to the offences on Wednesday.
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        Lock icon Doors opening
        61 7 MALAYSIA MALAYSIA will let in new foreign banks and insurers in six years. Foreign banks already in the country can open more branches from 2004 and start a shared ATM network. These are part of a new 10-year plan to free up the financial sector. The current 14
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        63 7 COURT SEVEN timber merchants fined $1,000 each for illegal gambling will get their money back after the High Court cleared them. The associate they gambled with Mr Chua Seong Soi, 50 had his conviction quashed, so they wanted a clean slate, too. He won an appeal, on
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        62 7 I EZ-LINK 1 THE new ez-link smart card coming next year can be used to pay bus and MRT fares as well as for paying bills. Ez-link cards don't have to be put through the fare-gate slot. Users flash their cards over an electronic "reader" and the
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        Lock icon Woman dies
        63 7 SET ON FIRE THE woman set on fire by attackers in Johor Baru on Wednesday has died. She suffered 70 per cent burns. Four men were seen leaving the woman's home in Taman Century and the police are calling it murder. The unidentified woman, in her 20s, was
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      55 6 New Straits Times: Financial masterplan International Herald Tribune: Israelis consider retaking territory Asian Wall Street Journal: APP may seek financial relief via debt-standstill agreement BBC news: The international community has reacted with outrage to the news that the Taleban authorities in Afghanistan have begun destroying the country's
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      71 7 Hie Straits Times: More S'pore children seeing psychiatrists The Business Times: 2 high-tech US firms give S'pore biotech a leg up Lianhe Zaobao: Twice as many people with mental disorders during the past 20 years Berita Harian: S'pore's education system opens up chances of advancement PCS morning
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      Lock icon Smokers’ drug linked to deaths?
      132 7 in FOCus IT is used in Singapore to help smokers quit the habit. But the prescription drug, Zyban, has been linked to the deaths of 18 smokers in Britain. Four smokers there died of heart attacks, four of brain disorders, one had heart disease and
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      Lock icon He’s meeting SM today
      371 8 Mr Jaafar Sidin, secretary-general of Majlis Pusat, describes the dialogue between Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew and about 100 representatives from the Malay Muslim community at Parliament House today as a "friendly chat". AZHAR GHANI reports UNLESS there's an earthquake, lawyer Ahmad Khalis Abdul Ghani is
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      Lock icon Why the dialogue
      163 8 IT began with SM Lee's remarks on Malays in the SAF at a Singapore 21 forum in Tanjong Pagar in September 1999. Responding to a question on instinctive emotional ethnic bonds, he gave an example to explain how overcoming them could be difficult and had to be
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      Lock icon She showed me a world I didn’t want to know
      636 10 In conjunction with the Read and Reach U' Programme organised by the Central Singapore CDC, The New Paper invited five personalities to write short stories for your reading pleasure. In the fifth instalment of this series, singer and songwriter Jai
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      Lock icon Your chance to win a voucher
      77 10 IF you've read Jai's story, answer story, answer the following question and you could be one of three readers to win a $50 MPH book voucher. fThe question is: Why does the author equate mrnpaptrs with the realwrarid? Call 1900-*****01 and we will give
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      Lock icon CONTEST RESULTS
      70 10 IN the Love Turkey Project Contest held on Wednesday, we asked you to guess why Charles Carrol was so determined to return the ring. The answer was because pawning it would demean the value of the gift. Three correct entries were picked to win a $50 MPH book
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    Lock icon THIS LEADS TO ARREST OF $1.6M HEROIN SMUGGLER
    438 12  -  SINGAPORE tO By Michelle Choh ONE tiny packet of cigarettes without a Singapore health-warning label. That was the first reason for a Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officer to get suspicious. Then, he found a footprint next to the drain that led to
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      223 14 I The Truth About I Teaching If you teaching is about preparing lessons, conducting classes and mar king books, you are mistaken. The profession offers much more to those who are keen on a challenging career. "T"eaching is about stimulating young minds, nurturing talent and instilling I values. Your ultimate
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      156 15 t i Enthusiasm One of the greatest joys of teaching is to inspire a love for learning. Good teachers know how to make their lessons come alive. They take their students beyond their textbooks to discover and explore a world of knowledge. *f£ M^rm. jrgpPßL H^^b 3r Jl H 9
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      Lock icon Dialysis? He does it himself, 24 hours a day
      977 16 Despite the easier option of do-it-yourself peritoneal dialysis (PD),five out ofsix kidney patients here still go for haemodialysis (HD), in which their veins are repeatedly poked with needles. One patient tells NG WAN CHING how PD has given him a new
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      Lock icon How peritoneal dialysis works
      94 16 STAGE 1: The cavity is filled with the dialysate (a sugar solution) by attaching an abdomen tube to the tube outlet of the solution bag. The bag is then hung in a high position to allow gravity to help the solution drain into the peritoneal cavity.
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      Lock icon Treatment trend set to change
      108 17 UNTIL recently, HD was the traditional treatment for kidney patients. But, said Mr Soo S Chur, country manager, Singapore, Baxter Healthcare (Asia): 'With changing lifestyles, younger patients seek more options and the mobilty and sense of independence that PD offers." Baxter Healthcare makes the solution
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      Lock icon Causes of kidney failure
      98 17 DIABETES and hypertension are major causes of kidney failure. Here, one in 11 suffers from diabetes and one in four from hypertension. They account for 'more than half of the 500 new cases detected annually. According to the National Health Survey, half the diabetes and hypertension
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      Lock icon WHAT NKF SAYS:
      190 17 The National Kidney Foundation advocates the most suitable form of therapy for each patient. And this is discussed between patient and physician before referral to the NKF. The NKF believes patients should be told of the pros and cons of all the options, to make an informed
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      Lock icon ‘I want to act in Hollywood’
      550 19  -  He's only 10, but already a theatre pro Ilove attention from the audience. You just feel so good when you perform, and people clap for you... You get to do different things every time, so you can never get bored. —Anish Kumar Hazra, 10
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      Lock icon Meet the KING
      302 20  -  By Rinkoo Bhowmik He doesn't look like your regular stage performer. A little weird looking, with kohl-smeared eyes and bells on his feet! But when he takes to the stage, oh, he can make magic with those feet of his. He is the King of Kathak Pandit
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      57 20 THE Ramakrishna Mission hopes to raise around $75,000 through the Fusion of Dance and Drums concert. The Mission needs a gymnasium, more classrooms and a laneruaere room. The estimated cost for constructing a new building is $1.6 million. The Ministry of Community Development dishes out $240 per
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      Lock icon Man stabs to death sister, nephew
      395 21 HE was jealous of his five-year-old nephew. He believed his angel-faced nephew was receiving all the attention he had missed out on when he was a boy. So Raymond Wills stabbed to death his sister and her five-year-old son in frenzied anger. The butchered
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      Lock icon First, Now, HK he lawyer copied strips this again stunt... on busy street
      598 22 THIS Hongkong lawyer is at it again baring himself to the public. First, lawyer lawyer Paul Tse Wai-chun bared all for a Hongkong magazine imitating the stunt that Sir Richard Branson had pulled. Not surprisingly, he ran
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      Lock icon Most celeb power — no Mission Impossible for Tom Cruise
      259 22 Most celeb power no Mission Impossible for Tom Cruise Reuters. MOVIE actor Tom Cruise, the star of Jerry Maguire and Mission: Impossible, was named the most powerful celebrity in the world by the business magazine Forbes. In Forbes' unique ranking, Cruise vaulted into the top spot in the Celebrity 100
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    456 24 LAWYER TRIED TO BLACKMAIL ASIA'S RICHEST WOMAN. HE TELLS COURT: WORLD HE pretended to be a government chemist who could authenticate her missing husband's will for a fee. Barrister Thomson Mo, 36, lied to Mrs Nina Wang, 61, that the police suspected her husband's
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      324 24 f r Y The National Cancer Centre is designated as the national centre for cancer care and serves as an National au t° nom ous organisation that provides ambulatory care and research into cancer. ancer Cctitvc Singapore -We have careers for people who share our caring philosophy and we invite
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      Lock icon What we still don't know about Aids
      410 26 THE AIDS PUZZLE In the 20 years since the deadly Aids virus reared its head, scientists have learnt a lot about the disease. In fact, they claim to have learnt more about this illness than any other. What we know is that the
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      Lock icon CHEAPER AIDS DRUGS TO COME
      341 26 FOR years, expensive life-saving Aids drugs have been beyond the reach of millions in impoverished countries in the African continent. But with an Indian manufacturer's offer to supply Aids drugs for US$350 ($609) a year per patient to a doctors' group there, big pharmaceutical companies
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      Lock icon 2 survivors tell tale of panic and screaming in truck
      473 27 CHINESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS' TRUCK TRAGEDY Wire services THERE were 60 of them, all packed into a container truck. And the only air vent was closed. As they gasped for air, the Chinese illegal immigrants screamed and kicked at the doors.
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      Lock icon US fines firm in China
      207 28 Reuters. A COMPANY in China was convicted on Wednesday in the US for using prison labour. It is the first Chinese company to be convicted under the 1932 federal law which bans the import of goods made by forced labour, the authorities said yesterday. Allied
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      Lock icon Why US inflation affects you
      423 29  -  By Azhar Ghani THE average US family is finding it more costly to put food on the table. The overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) for January rose 0.6 per cent, double the projected 0.3 per cent. But how does that affect Singaporeans? Well, a rising
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      Lock icon Bears are on the prowl
      314 29 MARKET WATCH Wire services. IT was a scary slide when stock markets opened across the world yesterday, as the global shares sell-off continued. In Tokyo, the benchmark Nikkei Stock Average plummeted, to close at its lowest level in over 15 years. After falling 176.32 points
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      74 29 SINGAPORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ watch Close in USS/Change THE Dow Jones industrials ended with a ac c Internet 53.3125/-0.8125 modest loss of 45.14 points (0.43 per 2. Creative Technology 510.9375/-0.375 cent), to close at 10,450.14. The Nasdaq 3. Flextronics International 526/-0.5 composite index broke out of its slump 4. Chartered
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      Lock icon Vending machines mean big bucks for US schools
      325 31 IN class they teach you that junk food is bad for your health. Then during lunch break they want you to eat it. Students are not the only ones to drool at the sight of soda and candy machines. US school authorities
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      Lock icon PARENTS TAKE ON VENDING MACHINES
      159 31 THE battle against the junk food takeover of schools has begun. In Philadelphia last year, angry parents blocked a multi-million dollar deal between the school system and Coca-Cola. Last week, the New York Board of Education settled a 1999 class-action lawsuit brought by parents. An
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      Lock icon Going to court? Just log on
      321 32 AP. IN the near future, courtrooms could exist only in cyberspace, with the crime scene re-created as a hologram and trial participants seeing each other through virtual reality glasses. Called Courtroom 21, there was a recent display of it in the US. While the
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      Lock icon Ouch! That must hurt
      40 32 THIS one-year-old baby is all scarred because of a traditional Indian healing method called Dama. It involves poking a red-hot sickle on parts of the body and is used for ailments as simple as stomach pain.
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      Lock icon Chinese flee Riau island
      446 33 ETHNIC violence in Indonesia is raging closer to Singapore than most people think. Our attention has been on Kalimantan province in Borneo, where marauding Dayaks are slaughtering Madurese settlers. But Hongkong's South China Morning Post reports the near total destruction of Selatpanjang, in the Riau archipelago,
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      22 33 murmur Turkish prisoners are using old-fashioned methods to smuggle high-tech handphoneshitoy^»--^, Bdphone and then flew |id not have tes, whidj^ade
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      106 43 COMICRELIEF The Concrete Jungle/ Colin Goh |SSM I toSSsEF I |;9£«SBJ\-« I«UL I SJKT M^g* 0 SSfSS? 61Near Calvin and Hobbes /Bill Watterson I LIKE. SLEDDING DOWN I ITS TOO MUCH I KNOW.' I'LL S\T OMTME I EVEN NM FMHOS HILLS, BUT I WAT* HMltte WORK-' it's SLED AND YOU
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      429 44 These can take you higher than you think. V The Construction Industry Training Institute (CITI) invites GCE "0" Level and SPM holders to apply for our full-time programmes. i T I The 3-year full-time Diploma in Reinforced Concrete Construction Technology programme gives I you a head start in the construction
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      62 45 i I I It's just a phone call away. I Call C.A.T.S. at 1800-737-1166 I for Classified advertisement I bookings and you'll reach out I to I <*BB,ooo readers of I The Straits Times. I Source: ACNielsen Media Index 2000 I CATS. I Buy It. Sell It. Find It. I
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      467 46 fUbfeal erfcr^ I Dilsee Music Lounge Contributed by Kwee Hon Jin dt fcfc I ilsee Music Lounge opened only on 9h|. ajjiMte I I 1 February 10 this year, and from the *Bfc JBH» m i»,. jjj^m I outside on Cuff Road, it looks like a j|f\| nondescript little pub.
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      168 49 henever I'm at an ffcstaurant, ChijmeS) where I theme, supposedly reminiscent of the '60s and 70s. Wm M |q I My two off with two I Homemade Soups French Onion and Baked Potato ($6.99 W&gm* jfl I each). The consistency of the potato soup was too cloying, 1 > r
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      137 57 SSQS 2542 Hotel/Lounge B3j 2842 Hotel/Lounge SEjS 2642 Hotel/Lounge Restaurant Positions Restaurant Positions Restaurant Positions a/ Club Eden is seeking applications for the following positions: i) Assistant 4) Waiter/Waitress Manager 5) Bartender/Barmaid |2) PR Executive 6> Maintenance 3) Cashier Technician Experience preferred Good communication skills ability to speak well in
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      210 57 (sari mm) The Biggest Indonesian Food Restaurant chain in Jakarta urgently requires suitably qualified applicants to fill the following positions for our Singapore's branch. WAITERS/WAITRESSES Part Time/Full Time Requirements: Pleasant personality and good working attitude a must. ■VMnBMVMHMIVHMKPPV SARI KURING RESTAURANT Tower 4 Suntec City Mall 81-053/054 (below Carrefour) Tel
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      443 61  -  By Lionel Lee CHAMPION trainer Malcolm Thwaites will introduce nippy Class 1 newcomer Taj for tomorrow's Kranji meeting. A five-year-old bay Australian-bred gelding by Last Tycoon out of Humour, Taj arrived with a smart record of five wins, six seconds and four thirds from 22 starts in
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      828 62  -  CHAMPION APPRENTICE TERRY ONG: FACTFILE Name: Terry Ong Age: 22 Height: 1.59 m Weight: 46kg Winners: 36 First winner: He's Classic on Dec 8, 1996 Biggest win: Bo Mag in Orchid Trophy on Jan 13 this year Favourite horse: Set The Fashion, on whom he won
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      224 63 THE Agri-food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) has acted to ban the import of horses from the United Kingdom as the foot-and-mouth epidemic afflicting livestock in England continues to take its toll. While the disease affects cloven-hoofed animals such as pigs, cattle, sheep
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      719 63 ENTRIES FOR PENANG TURF CLUB’S MARCH MEETING (MARCH 10 11) CLASS 3 Air Bank 1200 Ali Baba Abjar 1200 American Navy 1200 Baby Tycoon 1200 Bee Line 1700 Blue Bottle 1400 Breezy 1700 Controlling Stake 1200 Courage And Power 1400 Courting Dancer 1700 Crusader Sword 1400 Cuppa Tea 1700 Dashing
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      269 64  -  By Danny Khoo NEW ZEALAND-BRED filly Tapildo gave Kiwi trainer Laurie Laxon his first success in the Oaks as a owner last January. Come May 12, the 54-year-old horseman will be hoping to strike gold as an owner-trainer with the same horse in the Group
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      487 64 NST. HARD JOURNEY drew attention to his chances in the Class 5 Div 1 1,400 m event on Sunday with a good workout in Ipoh yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the three-year-old Australian-bred gelding by Magic Of Money was not extended over 600 m
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      12918 65 BRIGHT CHANCE: Crystal City, with Shane Scriven aboard during trackwork yesterday; will be hoping to go one better in Race 3 tomorrow. Picture/ Shahriya Yahaya SHIPSHAPE: Trainer John Meagher's Kim Angel, winner of last year's Singapore Gold Cup, looking geared up for tomorrow's
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      175 65 nSTAR GENERAL 57 (48) Wilkinson (4) (4nzg Baertschiger-Star General) By Waikiki Star-Maazel; bay; landed 6.1.98; 8r 1-0-0 (KRsl 700fl:49.153.5) 12.12.99 C5 Soo 55 (42) (5) 9 9 4/11 ($23) 1 ParisAmour KRb1800g 1:52.1 (415) 05.01.00 C5 Wilkinson 53.5 (40) (1) 5 3 1/8 ($11)
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      435 74 COMING SOON YOUR WAY ALI vFRAZIER Generation next AP. Sister Smoke was smokin' and the "Queen Bee" was buzzing. Jacqui Frazier-Lyde and Laila Ali aren't fighting each other tonight. But you never would have known it listening to their taunts during training this week, as
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      206 74 SAY, what is Tiger Woods doing with Patrick Rafter? Isn't Tiger supposed to practice? Doesn't he want to improve on his not-so-awesome-anymore golf swing? Actually, golfs greatest personality was merely conducting a golf clinic at the Jabel Ali Hotel in Dubai. And Australian tennis
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      65 75 See facing page 100 metres... GRECO-ROMAN WRESTLING- EQUESTRIANISM... A participant (top left) races his bullock cart during a sprint event. Participants (top right) display their strength by allowing a tractor with 10 adults to pass over them. A competitor (bottom) goes all out to ensure victoiy for
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      374 76 MORE ON THEOH-lympics WEIGHTLIFTING... PTI. BYE-BYE Sydney, hello Ludhiana. The world may have to wait for four long years for the next edition of the Olympic Games, but India's rural Punjab has just seen some hot sporting action. Welcome to the annual Rural Olympics where the
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      358 77 LEEDS v MAN UNITED Live on FC 22; Sportscity, from 7pm, tomorrow Sports.com. Sports.com. ROY Keane believes Leeds will be on a high after its victory over Anderlecht when it takes on Manchester United in the Premiership. And he claims David O'Leary's team is one
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      216 77 Teamtalk.com, AP. SVEN Goran Eriksson did Manchester United a big favour on j Wednesday, and Sir Alex Ferguson j will be delighted with the way his j players were sparingly used. Aware that the game against j Spain was only a friendly, and that
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      109 77 AND THE WINNERS ARE... AFTER the long wait, the results for the Old TrafFord Contest are finally out. 4,756 took part in this contest but only two emerged as winners. Mr Larry Wee (NRIC: *****907/Z) and Mr Surjit Singh (NRIC: *****341/ C) both walked away with a
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      595 79 ERIKSSON'S ENGLAND The simple task of beating Spain in a friendly is over. Now comes the more serious business of seeing England through to the World Cup. The real challenge has just begun for England's first foreign coach, Sven Goran Eriksson. Sporting Life. CAN Sven
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      87 79 REMAINING MATCHES Mar 24: v Finland (home) Mar 28: v Albania (away) Jun 6: v Greece (a) Sep 1: v Germany (a) Sep 5: v Albania (h Oct 6: v Greece (h) HOW THEY STAND GROUP NINE P W D L F A
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      347 80 AP. England's performance against Spain was encouraging even to the doubters. Those who had voiced that the England team should be coached only by an Englishman were effusive in praising Swede Sven Goran Eriksson's game plan. "I cannot say there was a bad performance from anyone.
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      241 80 REAL Madrid striker Raul has warned Sven Goran Eriksson and his new-look England side not to get "too carried away" with its victory over Spain. He insisted the 3-0 scoreline reflected more on a below-par-performance by Jose Antonio Camacho's Spanish side rather than the dawn
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      231 80 The Indenendent. ENGLAND coach Sven Goran Eriksson explained some of his perplexing decisions against Spain. On why David Seaman didn't figure as the first-choice goal-keeper "I told him I've seen him for 20 years, I know what he can do. "I wanted to see
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      229 80  -  S-LEAGUE UPDATE By Wang Meng Meng TANJONG Pagar United, the S-League club thumped Johore FC 4-0 in the quadrangular Johore Challenge last night. The match was played at the Larkin Stadium. Jaguars' (Tanjong Pagar's nickname) Croatian striker Davor Dzelalija pounced on a defensive
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      357 81 AP. MORALE at Barcelona is still reeling following a recent uproar in the club. And it could not have come at a worse time. Prior to its biggest away match of the calendar at hated rival Real Madrid Barca players publicly criticised coach Lorenzo Serra Ferrer for his
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