The New Paper, 25 March 2001

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  • NEWS
    • 439 2 One after another, three bombs explode in Russia Officials suspect Chechen rebel leaders behind blasts Wire services. MOSCOW is on alert. Three bombs which went off almost at the same time killed at least 21 people in Russia yesterday. More than 100 were injured in the blasts.
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    • 93 2 RUSSIAN forces withdrew from Chechnya after fighting the rebels there for two years from 1994 to 1996. Chechnya, which is a province of Russia, had broken away. Russian troops returned in 1999 after rebels invaded a neighbouring Russian region and after apartment building bombings killed 300 people in
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  • MAID OF THE YEAR 2001 WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER
    • 226 3 IS your maid as indispensable as Madam Rosita? If she is, we want you to tell us because she could be the Maid of the Year we are looking for. HOW Send your nomination to us, telling us why your maid deserves to be The New Paper—Western
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    • 475 3  -  Says employer of Maid m mm of the Year 2000 By Lim Lee Ching SHE had already been playing several difficult roles to perfection. Uncomplaining nurse to a difficult stroke patient. A second mum to Yiwen, 12, and Yuting, 15. Right hand to her mistress.
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    • 147 6 Wm£.: > ■WEil*: JSWW v S ik 1 r r?.a R.E.A.D.Y. fas |p to show your mettle? f Your palms may turn sweaty, but the pounding in your chest is not fear —it's the determination and mettle to S||l leap into the face of potential danger and eliminate a ll
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  • 729 7 L (lie new sure It's more than just fast cars. Formula 3 racer Christian Murchison (right) tells SHEELA NARAYANAN that racing is a sport that can elicit just as much passion as basketball and football THE roar, as you gun the engine to life, runs through
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  • NEWS
    • 661 8  -  A gust of wind slams the door shut. The maid realises she has left the key in the flat, heads for the window. A boy and his grandmother try but fail to dissuade her. Said the boy, nine: 'She put her hands
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    • Article, Illustration
      363 9  -  By Chang May Choon SINGING is in Nicholas Tse's blood. As a little boy, he could croon songs from popular Hongkong dramas. His Viva Live concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium last night showed footage of those early singing days: An adorable scamp with a toothy grin singing
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    • 1244 10 HE HATED SCHOOL Soccer bookie Auyok Kim Tye, 33, created legal history recently when he was jailed and fined a whopping $700,000. It was the biggest fine ever for a bookie. How did he start his illegal business? What kind of a man is he? JASON TAN
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    • 591 11  -  Dad of 15-year-old firestarter speaks... By Lee Tee Jong NO matches or lighters for this kid. His parents are extra careful to keep him away from anything he can start a fire with. They dare not leave him alone in the flat. After all,
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    • 52 11 ON Feb 12, John pleaded guilty to three charges of mischief. The prosecution proceeded with two charges and took one into consideration. Last Tuesday, he was placed on probation for two years, ordered to perform 150 hours of community service and pay the school $1,740 for the
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    • 707 12  -  By Fraemone Wee TEN years ago, when Mrs Shirley Chandrasegaran was told that her husband had only 24 hours to live, she prayed for a miracle. Her prayers were answered. After living on to be the longest surviving patient of a heart transplant
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    • 568 13  -  By Lim Li Fern What is cholesterol? It is a soft, waxy substance found in our blood plasma and all tissues, and is an essential part of a cell. It is synthesised mainly in the liver, where the excess is also broken down into bile acids and excreted.
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    • 152 13 Cp!' Dear Diary, Oh, what fun! We went for a company health screening yesterday and now J is sweating! He was chided for being slightly apple-shaped and somewhat overweight, but worst of all was his cholesterol level. The woman doing the test did a double-take, gasped and frowned. Poor J
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  • EXPAT
    • Article, Illustration
      907 14  -  How I became a By Lawrence Chau IT SEEMS to be everywhere! People stereotyping us on how we speak, how much we should be valued in the marketplace, where we stand in the entertainment industry. A bizarre combination perhaps, but that's about as bizarre as it gets when it
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    • 243 15 WHILE I can't really complain about the work opportunities that have come our merry expat way, I can say they haven't always been fair. Whether through personal experience or plain observation of friends working in various Asian countries, I do believe there are cases of discrimination against
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    • 172 15 THE idea to invite Lawrence Chau to write came from Ranjini. She wrote: "How about inviting Lawrence Chau to write in the Expat Page He has been in Singapore for about four years and he could share his experience with us." Thank you, Ranjini, for your
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  • @ A GLANCE
    • 267 16 The Ministry of Manpower surveyed3,ooo employers last June and found that 13 per cent of employees tooksick leave. So, how to make workers healthier? ONE company has the answer. Eat your vegetables. And get a prize for doing so at least at Tata Precision
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    • 223 16 ['NpCOS] NEW RULING Your disposable income should not be more than $10,000 a year after subtracting: $3,000 for the applicant $2,000 for each dependent An amount not exceeding $1,000 a year for rent The applicant's contribution to the Central Provident Fund MORE
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    • 63 16 ART: Andrew Yeo's paintings on Mohamed Sultan Road. WHERE: The ART Gallery, 101 Thomson Road,#ol-77, United Square WHEN: 10am-Bpm DANCE: Swing crash course by Jitterbugs Swingapore WHERE: 160, Orchard Road, Orchard Point, #04-12 WHEN: 2-6pm FEE: $40 DOG SHOW: SKC Championship Dog Show WHERE: Singapore Expo, Hall
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 73 17 A 13-YEAR-OLD boy suspected to be behind a spate of arson attacks in Ang Mo Kio and Serangoon was arrested on Friday evening. He was charged with committing a rash act by throwing stones from an upper floor of the block. The boy was spotted throwing stones from
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      • 72 17 ABOUT 30 retailers were fined up to $5,000 each recently by the tax man for displaying prices that excluded the Goods and Services Tax (GST) payable. Their customers only knew they had to pay extra the 3 per cent GST, when they were making payment, the Inland
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      • 69 17 SINGAPORE will send about 70 Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) regulars to East Timor in May, the first deployment of soldiers as peacekeepers in a United Nations mission. The SAF regulars will join other Singapore contingents already in East Timor a medical team, a police contingent and three
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      • 66 17 TUBERCULOSIS (TB) claimed 97 lives in Singapore last year. The incidence of TB here remains very high, compared to other developed countries. The number of new cases has dropped from 57 per 100,000 in 1998 to 47 per 100,000 last year. But this is still higher
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      • 86 17 STARTING next month, HDB residents in Jurong will be given blue and yellow plastic bags. Paper waste will go into the blue bag, while plastics, glass and aluminium will go into the yellow one. Twice a month, these bags will be collected. People in landed homes will receive
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      • 78 17 THE alleged mastermind of an armed robbery last year was charged in a district court yesterday, with using an automatic pistol. Lim Peck Hui, 24, also known as "Pai Kia Hui" (which means "Bad Boy Hui" in Hokkien), allegedly used the gun outside a coffeeshop in Choa
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      • 82 17 Now, you can now read any English-language web page in Malay and vice versa with a click of a mouse. The new portal www.ePedoman.com is an initiative of the Malay Internet Steering Committee. It also allows you to set up e-mail accounts that will translate e-mail from
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      • 70 17 THE Tamil-speaking community supports official moves to simplify Tamil-language textbooks and examination papers. Sembawang GRC MP K Shanmugam said he had spoken to several principals, teachers and parents about the coming changes. He said people in the community thought the standard of the Tamil language taught in schools
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    • 357 17 Globewatch IT wouldn't be surprising if some Indian politicians and military officers were in no mood to smile when they found themselves on Tehelka.com's candid camera. They certainly weren't looking their best accepting bribes from a non-existent company selling a non-existent product. What has been
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 51 16 Showers with thunder and gusty winds in the pre-drawn hour and earty morning affecting many areas. north Thunderstorms sunrise 7:08 am west Thunderstorms sunset 7: 15 pm central Thunderstorms moonrise 7:16 am south Thunderstorms moonset 7:37 pm east Thunderstorms IBuIEiIBBaBBI first tide 2.8 m: 11.35 am minimum 23 C second
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  • THE WEEK
    • 8 18 Mr Adrian Pang Actor and Producer/Presenter
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    • 863 18 MONDAY 6.57 am: ANGELINA Jolie is about to let me raid her tomb... when Fm woken up by Xander. "Daddy's got to go to work, so Daddy needs sleep," I plead with him. "You go back to sleep too, okay?" He screams. I guess
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  • 639 20 f ne yQ What had begun as a journey of hope for a group of illegal immigrants turned into a nightmare of survival. Adrift at sea without food and water, the passengers slowly began to die. Two men survived. One of them tells a tale
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  • 589 22 newQ THE embrace broke her heart. Even in death, her eldest son was trying to protect his only sister. Arafat Musa, 10, and his sister Mastura, six, died in a fire at their two-bedroom kampung house in Johor Baru on Tuesday. He was
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  • NEWS
    • 717 24 FOOT-AND-MOUTH CRISIS The past few weeks have seen the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) destroy the livelihoods of thousands of British farmers. What is FMD, and how does it affect us? SON: Are they being killed because of some disease? FATHER: Some
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    • 375 25 M Scottish judge lets student off H Women's groups are furious THE woman might not want it, but having sex is not rape if no force was used. That was the decision of a high-court judge in Scotland yesterday when he cleared law student
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    • 284 26 THE only surprise it that it has taken this long for an insurance company to come up with the idea. That is, a policy to cover costly payouts on divorces. In 1990, 123,000 people divorced where last year it was closer to 200,000. Certainly,
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    • 159 26 10,000-wait for Mir ends in nothing HE spent nearly $10,000 on an adventure that could have cost him his life. But all Mr Chia Yeong Kwong got in return was one long wait. However, the 42-year-old Singaporean still calls it a "wonderful experience". Along with Russian cosmonauts Sergei Avdeyev and
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  • MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
    • 318 28 I HAVE been married for nine years. During our courtship, my husband remembered my birthday every year. In the first few years of our marriage, he would plan and apply for leave way ahead of time, to be with me on my birthday. But for
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    • 137 28 Last week's letter: V is trying to help her brother get over his ex-girlfriend. The girlfriend initiated the breakup. Vs brother thinks the girl dumped him for another guy, L. V and L are good friends. V says L never taade a move on this girl and he
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    • 120 28 Readers' advice: AT the moment, there is no way to help your brother. He won't listen to you and it is clear he is being taken for a ride by this ex-girlfriend of his. Love can blind some people and your brother is blind to
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    • 119 28 IT is good that you show so much concern for your brother. Apart from talking to him gently about this, there isn't anything you can do. But sometimes people take advice more readily from outsiders than from family. Does your brother have a close friend
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    • 494 29 I AM emotionally confused. I am currently attached to a girl whom I feel is "the one". We are both young adults, although she is older than me. I come from a background with very strong Christian beliefs one which is against pre-marital sex. As a
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    • 328 29 I AM a secondary school student. I used to have three very good friends. But because of a misunderstanding, I lost two of them. I have a girlfriend, H, and we have been together for almost a year. But I am the sort of person
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    • Puberty Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues
      • 143 29 I HOPE you will be able Qto ease my fears. I sometimes feel pain in my private parts after petting my testicles. At other times, when I am aroused but still in my underwear, I experience this same pain. This worries me. Luckily so
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      • 261 29 I AM a 15-year-old girl Qand I often read your column. I want to know what will happen if a woman had sex while having her period. Would this be a problem? Is there any reason why she should not have sex while menstruating? And finally, is
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      • 60 29 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,
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  • 570 31  -  I CHEAP AND HIP: STYLE FOR THE BUDGET-CONSCIOUS By Carol Leong carol@sph.com.sg IF you look closely, these tiny little embroidered figures show a scene from two types of Vietnamese wedding parties. The wedding guests arrive carrying gifts mysterious, wrapped bundles of something surely auspicious. Perhaps a
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  • Feature
    • 705 32  -  WORKING FROM HOME: Reports/ DENISE CHONG YOU stick favourite pictures on your office cubicle walls. Roger the family dog curled up on a sofa and mum smiling in the kitchen. A cool action figure from your bedside collection snarls from your office
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    • 221 32 FOR Ms Dershini Winodan, lunch is not a break from working at home. Food IS her business. The food consultant and cookery teacher quit her broadcasting job and worked from home since the birth of the first of her two children in 1980. For her,
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    • 209 32 HIS office-at-home is out of bounds to all but his wife, which is why he takes his business meetings in clubs, Mr Michael Lum said. Although living in a spacious three-and-a-half-storey house with an "office" on the top floor, he stops at
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    • 406 32 Start your business with what you already know and love, so you can concentrate on building the business instead of learning a new trade. And be passionate about it because you're going to work long hours and make sacrifices for it. Write down a business mission and
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  • Article, Illustration
    438 33 Criti essay] SHARP! A WOMAN and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village, shaking up the rigid morality of the community. Stars Juliette Binoche, Victoire Thivisol, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Hugh O'Conor, Lena Olin, Peier Stormare, Judi Dench and Carrie-Anne Moss. Directed by Lasse Hallstrom.
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 463 35 r i f a|%|A CALL: 873-3333 1 24-hour subscription sales hotline H g§ frt^prevery male is born with violent tendencies, the remaining nigllllgVlb illC WCCIV females decide to produce only female offspring S 31 Days Of Oscar: Seven Brides for A If *1 A musical extravaganza with a magical storyline,
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
    • 394 36 Wm BEST OF THE WEEK'S CABLE TV AT A GLANCE I military, Yoon-Hee discovers that she is pregnant and T Yfti.no Anac ves rt^to a daughter wit^out telling Dong Woo. Toungunes YV Drama (Ch SS),Bpm, Sat Juvenile delinquent Jia Hui is finally arrested for his wayward behaviour and ends up
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  • 589 37  -  jSingleColumn by Adele Ong ongssa@sph.com.sg ONE year, I found a lump in my neck before Christmas. When it remained hard over five weeks and four reluctant visits to the GP, I started worrying that it was something awful, like lymphoma. Needles terrify me. The doctor drew
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  • Thegreencook for GREENHORNS AND VEGETARIANS-
    • 552 38 IT seems I've been misled. A banana tree isn't a tree botanists classify it as a giant herb. It's botanical name is musa sapientum and according to Miriam Kashin Hospodar's delightful ayurvedic book, Heaven's Banquet, this name translates as "wise man's fruit". Apparently, this comes from the
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    • 45 38 Here is a list of all ingredients that go with bananas: Alcohol (brandy, cognac, rum) Almonds, butter, chocolate, coconut, cream, cream cheese, ginger, ice-cream, nuts, sour cream Spices (cardamon, cinnamon, nutmeg) Different types of sugar (brown sugar, gula melaka, honey, maple syrup)
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    • Article, Illustration
      248 38  -  By Carol Leong carol@sph.com.sg ARE you a home owner with lots of love to give to a lady? Then sir, you're in for a great time, once you let me into your life. Fm Brenda and Fm a four-and-a-half-year-old bull-terrier. Fm a devoted friend who will love you
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  • Venue JET. SET, GO
    • 723 39  -  Heard of sand tobogganing? Reporter ANDRE YEO, (right) who is terrified of heights, gives it a go down a sand dune and lives to tell of his one-of-a-kind experience in Brisbane, Queensland Edited by Crispina Robert crispina@sph.com.sg I AM not afraid to confess I am frightened
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    • 40 40 The National Association of Travel Agents Singapore will be holding a travel fair from March 30 to April 1 at Suntec City Exhibition Halls 601 to 603. Visit the Tourism Queensland booth for more information on Brisbane.
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  • 760 42  -  [Column I MUSICIAN ART FAZIL SOUNDS OFF by Art Fazil IF you have to pack all the things you would need, would one backpack be enough? We live in an age where one is defined by his acquisition of material possessions. I own,
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  • 862 43  -  1 2 I I SUZANNE WALKER WRITES A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN lliillllf by Suzanne Walker THE health warning on every pack says it kills. Commercials showing clogged arteries give a better visual. Some wake up with hacking coughs. Others hurl thick viscous phlegm into the
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  • Page 44 Miscellaneous
    • 594 44 FiinnieH I mm art m I 9 fl WHAT'S HUP 8 Justin, good for you. You are not driving to work p-^___-_ because it's Car-Free Day. > I m taking a cab Did you pass the I n q j Didn't I ask you H I I did but the
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  • Page 45 Miscellaneous
    • 385 45 FunnieH Eft He? 0 E QU "T ""g"" n A I V S. VSWO THE TI6ER, I 'JUST THEN A HUNTER CAME I i jßslk SWDUJTUL F£D R®>Ne rtCOp L TtGER. AND HE POUNCED EN, AND WHEN WE SAVt J fk/,4/ /fT«P n™ E WTH! J t~K H ONUTUEHED THE
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  • 1597 46 RACINGTODA Y No. Last 5 runs Horse Wt (lbs) Jockey Barrier Age/Trainer 1 GOLDEN GOBLET 130 (49) RFradd 6 (3YOTW Leung) 2 GOLDEN SPIRIT 130 (49) KHTing 1 (3YO TP Cheung) 3 LIFELINE EXPRESS 130 (49) DWhyte 4 (3YO AT Millard) 4 SPRING LOVE
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  • RACING
    • 1287 47 TODAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD No. Last 6 runs Horse Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 1 —44 KAWAUGOLD 57 (60) lAzhar 5 (4nzg Sargent-Owner) 2 894-5 HUNKY-DORY 56.5 (59) *WKYanc2.5 4 (4ag KL Chong-Sunshine Eight) 3 08-05- BABY LUCK 56 (58) SHl,ee 2 (3ag YF Lee-Kuality
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    • 316 48 THE BIG ONE: Jockey Oo Khuang Liang retains the ride on Endanger, whom he partnered to victory last week, and you can be sure the Danehill gelding will give his best again on a track he seems to love. His two wins on the local circuit
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    • 67 48 RACE 1: Alma Mater, Admiral Benbow, Mega Strike, Hello Girl. RACE 2: Crystal Crown. RACE 3: Victory Ranger, Persian Tycoon. RACE 4: Amazing, Mathieus, Direct Link, Yellow Bee, River Channel, Born To Be King, Bandau. RACE 5: Strong Character, Ichiban Reflex, Rich Strike, Mega General. RACE 6: Great Machine,
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    • 63 48 PICK OF THE DAY Showed no let-up in form at return from brief layoff last Sunday, when caught close home by the stronger-finishing Up And Up. Relief of 3.5 kg will brighten up this Spectacular Phantom gelding's chances to go one better over the
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    • 375 48  -  By Lionel Lee IF THERE'S any runner in the 13-horse line-up with a better chance of landing today's RM500,000 ($225,000) Sultan of Selangor Gold Cup, it will have to be the classy Endanger. After last Sunday's outstanding performance, when he came from out of the
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    • 1355 49 YESTERDAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE RESULTS GOING: GOOD 6 MEGASAABJAR 53.5 (17-7) SMarzuki (2) 1 1 1 (478) 7 PERSEPHONE PRINCE 53.5 c 54 (74-20) C Hewitson (6) 8 6 2 (442) 8 STORM COMMANDER 53.5 (38-11) KLOo (5) 6 5 3 (509) 2 NEW FOUNTAIN 56.5 (19-7) KKLoh (7) 2
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    • 331 49  -  By Lionel Lee PUNTERS who kept faith with the cleverly-named Everybody's Dream yesterday realised their winnings again when the Key Business four-year-old duly completed a double for the Kuala Lumpur meeting. Despite being pitted against a stronger lot this time round in the RM70,000 ($31,500) Wawasan
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    • Article, Illustration
      86 50 2001 DUBAI WORLD CUP: Captain Steve, with Jerry Bailey aboard, won the US$6 million ($10.2 million) Dubai World Cup—the world's richest horse race—last night. To The Victory (Yutaka Take) was second in the Group One2,ooom race on dirt. Singapore's Qur Aristotle (Saimee Jumaat) finished second last of 12 runners.
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    • 519 50 Reuters. EXPRESS TOUR, ridden by David Flores, battled back to win the Group Three United Arab Emirates Derby by a shorthead last night, outdoing Godolphin stablemate Street Cry, the mount of Frankie Dettori. With US$2 million ($3.56 million) in prize money, the UAE Derby is
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      682 53 Stick in Malay. But it means stupid when used as an abuse HERE we go again... This national soccer anthem of the disgruntled football fans has started. Someone once told me this unsporting baying of the four-letter word against referees never ends, even after the cows jump over the
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  • 77 54 TAN JONG PAGAR gave Jurong a lesson it will never forget with a 5-1 drubbing at Queenstown Stadium last night. "Every player did his job," said a jubilant Tanjong Pagar coach Tohari Paijan. "There was rough tackling from Jurong but Sutee (Suksomkit) was too fast for them
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