The New Paper, 14 April 2001

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  • 27 1 the new paper SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2001 Singapore Press Holdings Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg MITA(P) 106/03/2001 60 CENTS new paper
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  • NEWS
    • 357 2 A SIX-VEHICLE pile-up. Mr Li Qionghuan, was shocked at what he saw. Mr Li, 48, who works in the travel industry, said that he was ferrying a Japanese client to the airport when he witnessed the accident. Mr Li said: "When I
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    • 345 2 SPY PLANE 'HARRASSEP' Wire services. THE US gloves have come off, and Washington is no longer sparring with Beijing over the spy plane. In fact, everyone, from President George Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell down, is talking tough. Fuelling the US propaganda
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    • 106 2 Wire Services. "THIS incident has not finished yet," said a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman. Mr Zhu Bangzao told a news conference in Havana, where President Jiang Zemin is on a visit: "The US has to assume all the responsibilities... and give an answer to the Chinese people. It
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    • 39 2 A senior US State Department official is fuming at the US$34 ($61.20) visa fee charged for each detained crew member. There were 24 of them, so that's US$Bl6 to add to the US government's list of grievances.
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  • SINGAPORE
    • Article, Illustration
      447 3  -  Cheers, these guys aren't shy about becoming... By Chua Ying-hong THEY can cheer as loud. Kick as high. Look as pretty... eh, wait a minute, maybe not. Some of these cheerleaders are yikes! guys. Well, why not? And if you think it's a sissy thing for men to do,
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    • 113 3 THE Asia One Cheerleading Challenge is part of The New Paper Big Walk 2001. The heats will be held on April 18. The finals will be on the day of the Walk itself, May 20. Anyone between the ages of eight and 88 can form a
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    • 647 4 There will be additional bonuses for teachers who stay in their jobs till retirement, under a new plan to be announced today. SANTOKH SINGH reports BE a teacher and get CONNECTED for life. That's the message from the Ministry of Education (MOE). Teachers who stay
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    • 85 5 There are 380 schools in Singapore with about 24,000 teachers. About 3,500 senior teachers are expected to retire over the next five years. The ministry's recruitment rate has kept pace with its attrition rate. It hopes to recruit about 1,800 teachers this year. The resignation rate
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    • 347 5 CLASSROOM TEACHERS 10 to 15 per cent increase in annual pay package. This excludes officers on the basic General Education Officer or GEO 1 and 2 scales Base performance bonus doubled to one month Outstanding performers can receive up to two months. Plus the Connect
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    • 230 5 GET ready for the Master Teacher a teacher's teacher. Good teachers are promoted and made senior teachers. Besides teaching the pupils, they act as mentors to the younger teachers in his school. And now, good senior teachers can be promoted again to master teacher. The master teacher will
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 181 6 STORY Eni IPATIfIN pyi##* i luii ONE university doesn't suit all. Singapore should instead develop institutions with different strengths which will cater to the varying needs of the economy and the people. So said Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan at the end of his visit to study higher-education
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    • Article, Illustration
      34 6 LEAPING INTO SPRING: A runner enjoying the season at Richmond Park in London. The park has reopened after being closed for a month because of the foot-and mouth disease outbreak. Picture/ Afp
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    • News Break
      • 63 6 I CRASH THE 13 cabin-crew members who survived the SQOO6 crash will have their flying allowances cut if they do not resume flying duties from next month. In some cases, those who do not start work next month will have up to 60 per cent of their wages
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      • 61 6 I WEDDINGS I YOU may be able to get married surrounded by animals at the zoo soon. The parent company of the Zoo, the Night Safari and the Bird Park are in talks with a bridal agency to provide one-stop wedding services. This comes soon after it re-acquired
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      • 64 6 I INCOME TAX THE taxman has apologised for sending income tax forms to a housewife who has been dead for eight years. The forms arrived in the mail for Madam Loh, who died on March 14,1993, at the age of 78, even after her son had changed address. She
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      • 52 6 I GOLPQUEST I GOLDQUEST International Limited has described itself as a direct-mail retailer, and said its products were genuine. And lawyers acting for the company have denied that it is involved in pyramidselling schemes. The Commercial Affairs Department is investigating it for allegedly promoting pyramid-selling schemes involving
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      • 58 7 STOCKS A STAGGERING three-quarters of all Singapore Exchange-listed firms are trading at under a dollar. And 150 counters are trading at 20 cents or less, no thanks to plunging equity prices. The number of so-called penny stocks exceeds even the 235 sub-dollar counters registered in June 1998,
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      • 58 7 YAHOO YAHOO reversed its decision to include hard-core porn videos and DVDs on its popular shopping service. There was a backlash of user complaints. A California conservative lobby group had called for consumers to boycott Yahoo and to write to the company to protest. Yahoo has been under pressure
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      • Article, Illustration
        63 7 DEATH THE very first day after he had overcome his fishing phobia, Mr Bahrawi Bahron (right) drowned in the sea he was scared of, less than a kilometre away from his home. Mr Bahrawi's body was found floating off the East Coast Park beach, near the Bird Sanctuary,
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      • 61 7 I property I THEY bought their HDB flats when the market was at its peak. Now they are trapped. SOme buyers are unable to meet monthly repayments, and they cannot sell their flats as prices have fallen substantially, which would mean losses of between $50,000 and $100,000. That
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    • 34 6 New Straits Times: Stay away, public told International Herald Tribune: Bush tempered instincts during standoff South China Morning Post: Bush talks tough after release BBC news: Chines jet 'snapped in two'
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    • 68 7 EPIDEMIC OVER? I think all the evidence shows that we are past the peak of the epidemic. But it is too early to be overly optimistic Mr Neil Ferguson one of the men behind a report from London's Imperial College School of Medicine on the Foot-and-Mouth disease outbreak.
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    • 66 7 The Straits Times: Bush has 'tough questions'for China The Business Times: Proportion of penny stocks on SGX hits 64% Lianhe Zaobao: Opposition parties hold Black 14 gathering today Berita Harian: Bush rebukes China after spy plane's crew members arrive in US RCS morning news: China yet to
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    • 186 7 Fbcus SHOPPERS take heart. Singapore's favourite hobby is set to get better. Three task forces are working to revive neighbourhood shops, improve customers' shopping experience and, for the first time, train workers to earn academic degrees in the retail trade. And the target the fundamentals. The task forces
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 455 8  -  BY Teng Pei Yun SHE is too young to buy lottery tickets. She wasn't even allowed into betting shops. So Loo Chuan Jin (left), 16, simply quizzed and badgered bettors as they waited in queues outside. All for research on 4D/Toto bettors. Now,
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    • 96 8 THE Humanities and Social Sciences Research Programme (HSSRP) is jointly run by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the National University of Singapore and the Ministry of Education (Gifted Education Branch). Students in both secondary schools and junior colleges are taking part. Under the guidance of
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    • 522 10 Why study maths, especially Additional Maths? Mr Gan Yew Seng, head of department for Maths, Dunman Secondary School: "The study of Maths equips pupils with problem-solving skills. "Maths will help
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    • 588 11 Is there an overemphasis on Mathematics? Do our students know why they study the subject? A panel of eight students from four secondary schools talk to SANTOKH SINGH and AMY CHIEW CHARMAINE Wang wants to be a lawyer. And she has just one question. How
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    • 320 11 complement the formal mathematics programmes in schools. "Participation in mathematics competitions also sharpens problem-solving skills and exposes students to a wider range of situations from routine mathematics problems to problems in unfamiliar contexts." How do we convince Arts-inclined students about the importance of maths?
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    • 86 11 IT'S the Easter weekend, so unscramble these words, all of which are related to Easter. Five correct answers will win prizes. This is open only to those who are aged 19 or below. I.ONNUY 2.GGES 3. CHOCLOAET 4.ARPU 5. FLWESRO 6.HNTU 7.SRPIGN 8. SNUDYA 9. FIRDYA B.SCHEAR Send your
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  • 479 12 Tired of taking the usual 'poisons' at the pubs? Well,at this watering hole, you can have just water instead... NEWS REPORT AND PICTURES/ Florence Tan THERE'S a new bar in town offering 16 heady new drinks: Different brands of mineral water from France, Italy, Germany, Scotland
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 524 13  -  By Desmond ng WHEN you reach the phone, have your photo taken. Immediately slap it onto a postcard (glue not required) and send it to a friend in faraway London. She'll receive it in no time at all. And you'll be poorer by
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    • 130 13 YOU can pay your telecom bills, as well as any fines levied by the Ministry of Environment, the Housing Board and the Urban Redevelopment Authority (for car parks) by end-April. Users can make payments using Nets, cashcard or ATM cards. Current e-tenants of the kiosks
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    • 548 14 COUPLE GETS NASTY SMS MESSAGES OVER AIDS BABY THE torrent of abuse came as a shock. Words of abuse that come via SMS, or Short Message Service. Mr Bani Buang and his family are facing handphone hell because of the baby they've decided to adopt.
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  • 76 17 muimui SINGAPORE Said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, during a lecture ea national issues entitled "Generation M" at Raffles Institntion: I grew up in a house with no modern sanitation. I saw a lot of bluebottles and nothing of yellow daffodils. I wonder how many of
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    • 61 18 m We complete your week Three years ago we reported on these children at the Aids Babies Centre (ABC) in Thailand. Since then six of them have died and one is dying. But there is hope. Fon, the fourth child from the left, is HIV free. As it turns out,
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  • WORLD
    • 273 21 CHINA has jailed members of another group operating in China in a move reminiscent of its crackdown against the Falungong movement. The latest group is registered in Hongkong and has about 500,000 followers on the mainland. It denied claims that it's a Buddhist sect, just like Falungong did.
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    • 338 22 THEY were especially against animals being killed on Good Friday. So when the Dutch government stepped up animal killing operations after fresh cases of foot-and-mouth disease, farmers stepped up their protest too. They set fire to road blocks and hung animal carcasses on street
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      241 24 Slimmed-down ex-hostage denies being in cahoots with rebels JEFFREY Schilling, who was freed from the clutches of Abu Sayyaf rebels on Thursday, lost nearly 46kg while held hostage. Military officials said the American had been mainly fed rice and root vegetables for the seven months he was imprisoned
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    • 68 24 SPEAKING at the news conference with Mr Schilling, Philippine President Gloria Arroyo said the military would continue to pursue the rebels until they were destroyed. Despite making peace overtures to other insurgents, she made it clear she will not negotiate with Abu Sayya£ A Filipino is now
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    53 25 muifmui* NEWS An Israeli computer programmer has certainly made a name for himself by changing his own from Tomer Krissi to Tomer.com. He told Reuters: People who don't use the Internet think what I have done is just a gimmick, but the Internet changed my life. It opened
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  • 253 26 WORLD THIS is what former tycoon "Bob" Hasan has to put up with these days. In his heyday as one of the richest men in Indonesia, he lived in a plush, three-storey mansion in the exclusive Jalan Menteng Raya region of Jakarta. But as an
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  • 501 27  -  CETERA WITH DINAH LEE IT'S very comfortable, my 13-year-old said of a certain brand of feminine products although she had never tried it. "How do you know?" her 22-year-old sister asked in amazement. "The TV advertisement said so," came the earnest reply. "What? You
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    • 463 27 f So who won, and who lost? The 24 crew members of the US spy plane which collided with a Chinese fighter jet have been released after 11 days n etent 0n^'na media looks at the winners ONE thing about George W Bush: Some conservatives are already W€ f He
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    • 660 28  -  REPORTS SETO NU-WEN In Sydney THE kitchen is set for a nice dinner gathering. A mouth-watering array of colourful salads line the buffet table. The menu promises lemon fish and thyme, crocodile meat and minestrone soup. A pretty young lady is putting finishing touches
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    • 364 29 ANYTHING can happen at a rock concert. Unruly crowd behaviour, technical problems. But nothing fazed The Offspring at their Sydney gig last month. The first sign of trouble came when one of the electrical gizmos on stage blew a fuse and sparks flared up in
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  • 612 30 HEY! SHE may be the darling of the J-pop scene, but teen sensation Hikaru Utada gets no star treatment at university. She even got kicked out of class once with friends! The usually reclusive singer-songwriter was talking on Japan's popular TV programme Music Station
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  • 730 32 Just a few of the reasons to listen to opera. Find out what happens when the fat lady sings SO, you think the politics is bad at your office? Then you should see what it's like in Macbeth. That is, in Singapore Lyric Opera's presentation
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  • 438 32 THE chairman of The Singapore Lyric Opera and producer of Macbeth, Mr Leow Siak Fah (left), first fell in love with opera while a student in Kuala Lumpur. The first full opera he ever heard was Puccini's Madama Butterfly, and
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  • HEY!
    • 173 33 WHATEVER Takuya Kimura does, his crazy fans follow suit. When he played the role of a devoted hair stylist in the hit drama Beautiful Life last year, there was a reported surge in the number of hair salon apprentices. And when he transformed into a righteous prosecutor in
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    • 115 33 IS turning 30 a time to revamp yourself? When sweet-faced Mayu Tsurata (right) hit the big three recently, the Cheap Love star decided to ditch her goody-two-shoes image. She donned a fiery red bra and showed off her silky legs in a new stage
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    • 124 33 IT was one disaster after another. Since demure beauty Nanako Matsushima married hunky singer-actor Takashi Sorimachi in mid-February and moved out of her house, her poor family has been suffering. First, her dad was forced to quit his job when his company suddenly closed in late
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    • 161 34  -  By Candice Chia OMEBODY please shove > Christina Aguilera back into her genie bottle and screw e lid on tight. Really tight. So that Little Miss ire-my-navel-at yery-opportunity can't get out lenever she desires to scare the living daylights out of sane people. At the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
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    • 522 35 New technology. Billion-dollar software. Buzzwords of today's compmfr age—and the topic of the movie, Antitrust, now showing in cinemas. Mk LIM LEECHING highlights some oftoday's latest digital gizmos m ML CALL US If you've got great recommendations, contact us at 1800-733-44-55, or e-mail us
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    • 256 35  -  Report and pictures/ Priscilla Foo ITS all in the packaging. Smiling bunnies, gaily wrapped boxes, endearing chickens, kittens, ladybirds, clowns... all in chocolate, and all making a pitch for Easter. Never mind that some shoppers do not even know the significance of Easter, which Christians celebrate to
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    • 1301 42 HAT-TRICK HERO: Jockey Benny Woodworth returning to scale aboard Race 5 winner Isle Of Lucky, the second leg of his treble for trainer Charles Leek. Picture/ David Tan 9 BRIXTON CITY 54 (237-32) JSainul .(1) 7 5 1 (487) 2 RADIANT 59 (22-7) 0
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    • 273 42  -  By: Lionel Lee JOCKEY Benny Woodworth may have difficulty remembering the last time he rode at Kranji, but he certainly has not forgotten where the winning post is. On his first stint in Singapore this season, he outshone the more familiar faces at
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    • 1320 43 RACE 1: ROCK KING was restless in the barriers and jumped awkwardly. SPASSKI dipped at the start. BRIXTON CITY jumped awkwardly in. COMFORT CLASSIC jumped awkwardly out and bumped CYBER KID, who in turn brushed VUKAVAR, who also brushed ROCK KING. RADIANT
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    • 1517 44 >.i~7TTig No. Last 5 runs Horse Wt (lbs) Rating Jockey Barrier Age/Trainer 1 CLASS A WIN 125 ELegrix 14 (3Y0 L Ho) 2 PRECISION 125 TCulhane 8 (3Y0 D Oughton) 3 3353 SOUTH CHINA NINETY 125 SDye 4 (3Y0IW Allan) 4 ARROGANCE 116 E Saint-Martin
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    • 1183 45 TODAY’S KRANJI (LONG COURSE, B) RACE CARD —Going forecast: Good BRIGHT CHANCE FOR TWO OUT OF TWO: Impressive debut winner The Gee (with top apprentice Terry Ong astride) is maintaining form and should have no problem taking Race 6 at Kranji tonight. No. Last 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey
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    • 83 45 THE Singapore Turf Club (SNTC) uses four courses —A, B, C and D —to differentiate the location of the rails. For Course A, the rails are at their original position. For Course B, they are four metres away from the original position. For Courses C and D, they
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    • 732 46  -  $180,000 COMMITTEE'S PRIZE (Race 7,7.45pm) BY Danny Khoo LEADING Malaysian hoop Sofhan Latif failed to score on his first visit to Kranji last Saturday. The best he could do was a second on the Laurie Laxon-trained Jet Star. Back again for another visit today,
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    • 313 46 Horse Prosperity (Race 8 No. 6) Stunning victor over the 1,200 m on Feb 24, when he came from a hopeless last in the 14-horse field of Class 3 gallopers to win drawing away. That was his third win in four starts. He's Keeping form well and should
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    • 345 48 NST. MY GOODNESS wrapped up her preparations for the Class 4 Div 2 1,200 m event in Race 2 tomorrow with a stylish workout in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The five-year-old Australian-bred mare by Made Of Gold sprinted smartly over the final 600 m to clock
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    • SPORT Compiled by: ZAINI MOHAMED
      • 165 54 Reuters. A KING vulture at Rio de Janeiro zoo has become the latest victim of a long-standing financial crisis at Flamengo, Brazil's most popular club. Flamengo, nicknamed 'The Vultures", began sponsoring the bird in 1999 under an animal adoption programme run by the zoo. But zoo officials say
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      • 101 54 WHAT did Gianluca Pagliuca do to upset the Italian football fans? The Bologna goalkeeper, has been in the news this week after being on the receiving end of worms thrown by opposing fans. The former Italian international star had just taken up his spot for the second half
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        102 54 Reuters. WILLIAM Pereira Farias, of the Pontaporanense team in Brazil's far-flung Mato Grosso do Sul state, tore off his shirt and shorts after scoring a goal at an away game on Sunday. Television showed him prancing around in skimpy briefs before flinging the shorts into the stands full
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    • 594 55 Training is Chamkaur Singh's life. He lives in Sydney with a fellow-1,500m runner and they eat, talk,and live running. Between his training and work for his university course, he does not have time for much of a personal life. He's a man on a mission
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    • 368 56 No train, no gain CHAMKAUR Singh and his flat-mate Daniel Lancaster train at the Athletic East Club at Randwick under coach Peter Good and go on runs together. Said Chamkaur: "He's faster than I am he was sixth in the trials for the Olympics so
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    • 131 56 CHAMKAUR Singh does not have much time for social life. Contact with Sydney's growing Sikh community is limited to when he sees someone on the training ground because travelling to the temple takes too much time out of his
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    • 687 57  -  M ARSENAL v MIDDLESBROUGH (Live on FC 22, Sportscity, tonight, from 9.30pm) k* The Big Singly By Edwin Yeo THE end of the season always provides interesting match-ups, with teams trying to fight off relegation and others trying to secure European qualification.
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    • 521 58  -  Player to Arsenal Jersey No 11 By Edwin Yeo ITS no secret that I thought Sylvain Wiltord was a waste of Arsenal's money. At £13 million ($33.8 m), one would think that it should be someone at least capable of getting 20 league goals for the club. But
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    • 473 59 I IIfCDDAAI 1 I FCnC O LIVEIfrUUL X LLCUv cr0wd:44,116 Steven Gerrard 55min Mo Ferdinand 4, Lee Bowyer 33 GUESS what. Leeds hardman David Batty actually has a soft spot. As Liverpool's Steven Gerrard was being sent off in the Premiership match at Anfield yesterday,
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    • 638 60  -  MORE ON LIVERPOOL v LEEDS By Edwin Yeo I KNOW many Liverpool fans, after last night's 2-1 loss to Leeds at Anfield, will be shaking their heads and saying: "Here we go again." Yes, it's that end-of-the-season jinx which often sees teams crack
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    • 23 61 TODAY'S MATCHFS Woodlands Wellington v Tampines RoVers (Woodlands Stadium) Marine Castle v Jurong (Hougang Stadium) Matches start at 7.30 pm x
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    • 112 61 w Odds as at 8.30 am MARINE CASTLE v JURONG Ix 2: (1) Marine Castle: $3.90 (x) Draw: $3.55 (2) Jurong: $1.67 1/2 GOAL: Marine Castle:(+ll/2):51.37 Jurong: (-11/2): $2.70 TOTAL GOALS: 0 Goal: $10.00 1 Goal: $5.20 2 Goals: $4.20 3 Goals: $3.80 4 Goals: $4.90 5 Goals:
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    • 375 61  -  FOCUS ON TAURINES ROVERS' BRAZILIAN DUO By Wang Meng Meng IT'S living on a prayer for Tampines Rovers' Brazilians tonight. Strikers Marcelo Da Silva and Adrian Dos Reis spent Good Friday in prayers at a church before tonight's crunch match agains Woodlands Wellington. Marcelo, who
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    • 217 61 ENGLISH FIRST DIVISION Reuters. FULHAM'S hopes of clinching promotion from the English First Division remained on hold when Bolton drew 2-2 at home to Birmingham yesterday. A Birmingham victory would have secured Fulham a Premier League place but the London side can make absolutely
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    • 53 63 Reuters. Boxing champ Lennox Lewis lived up to his ring name of 4 The Lion He cuddled a lion cub to disprove local news reports that he was scared of the cub. Lewis is in South Africa to fight American challenger Hasim Rahman on April
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    • 589 63 Reuters Football365. ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger fears his side could still miss out on a Champions League place even though they are second in the Premiership. The top three teams in the league qualify for next season's Champions League. Man U is on top with 73 points, followed
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