The New Paper, 18 April 2001

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  • 32 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18. 2001 iflNI 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 IIIIR 8 1, *****1 *****1
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  • NEWS
    • 341 2 Indonesian president Gus Dur slams his nation's lawmakers AFTER remaining quiet for a while, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid (also known as Gus Dur, above) has hit out. Yesterday, he trained his guns at members of Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR). The Indonesian Observer reported that he said
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    • 217 2 FOR days they have been preparing. Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid's die-hard supporters are even willing to die for him. And they are getting ready to pour into Jakarta in their thousands on April 29. So much so, lawmakers are thinking of moving the House of Representatives session
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    • Article, Illustration
      179 3 Tomorrow is Singapore's first car-free day. Everyone is encouraged to leave their cars at home and find alternative ways of getting to work. Our resident biker and infographics journalist FAIZAL strongly recommends that you dust off that rusty bicycle and pedal to work. Headlight or reflector White blinking light
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    • 382 3 Check first Start early Cycle smart Make sure your bike is in good condition. Give yourself ample time for the journey. Cycle on the road, please. Pavements are Check that the brakes are working and the Pack your things the night before and sleep for pedestrians and toddlers on three
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 855 4  -  BUST SALES PITCH TURNS UGLY By Irene Kew SHE was close to tears. Stuck in a room with a consultant who wouldn't stop talking, Ms Jenny Teo, 25, was at her wits' end. Self-admittedly timid, she hardly uttered a word. Or moved an inch.
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    • 133 4 SHE couldn't believe her eyes! The consultant was unbuttoning her own blouse and asking her to touch the exposed breasts. Ms Krate Tang's consultant, Ms Catherine Goh, started off by explaining the biological structure of the breast. And how the centre's massaging technique, used together with their product, would
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    • 435 5 ITS a misunderstanding, said Mr David Ong, 45, an investor in Slim Fit. He explained that it's a strict company policy that the doors be locked when a breast inspection is conducted during the consultation. For the reason that someone might stumble into the room by
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    • 152 5 headlined What Salon Says.) Ms Goh then told her there was a 30 per cent deposit of $384. But Ms Tang said she needed time to think it over. "When I said I couldn't pay the deposit, she kept asking how much I had $100? "I told her
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    • 108 5 THIS is a serious matter if the allegations are true, said the Consumers Association of Singapore. Said Mr Stephen Loke, chairman of the Case consumer-affairs committee: "If what was alleged is true, there are instances of personal violations where the consumer was made to do things, against her
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 216 6 Ho J r education system: SINGAPORE'S education system is excellent in parts and lacking elsewhere. So says Professor Andy Green, a British comparative education expert who has been studying our system since 1994. So what's wrong? The short answer is that while the system ensures
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    • 13 6 Digging in for another round of ping-pong diplomacy
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    • 65 6 Many... I've seen many successful couples who are successful because they started building their asset base together early in life. Social Development Unit director, Mrs Tan-Huang Shuo Mei or not? It indicates mature young people who want to ensure that they are financially sound before getting married, rather
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    • News Break
      • 67 6 COURT MARTIN Yong, 47, poured boiling water on his sleeping wife, Madam Ng Hong New, 42, on Dec 22. He hit her with a chopper. He was jailed for 15 months and given four strokes of the cane. The Chief Justice increased the sentence yesterday to three years'jail
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      • 71 6 BRITAIN POLICE in London are hunting two handbag thieves who deliberately drove their getaway car over a woman after robbing her. After they snatched her bag, the victim, 43, gave chase and managed to hang onto the bonnet of the car. The car sped on, with the
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      • 59 6 MALAYSIA MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has called for a review of the country's education system. Highlighting the emphasis on religion in national schools, he said weaknesses in the system have failed to unite the people. He said there is a need to correct the
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      • 65 6 NEPALESE TWINS ONE of the separated Siamese twins, Jamuna, has been taken off her respirator. She is doing well and even throwing tantrums. Her sister Ganga remains quiet, said nurses at Singapore General Hospital. Previously, Ganga had been the noisier of the two. They were separated in
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      • Article, Illustration
        56 7 THE US IN perhaps the ultimate tribute to TV chat-show host Oprah Winfrey (left), the University of Illinois has a full-credit business-history course called History 298: Oprah Winfrey, the Tycoon. "Oprah provides a prism that allows us to examine various aspects of American commerce and culture with greater
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      • 64 7 BABY DROP SHE is 50, a mother of four and active in community work. Now, Mrs Queenie Tan wants to open her home to unwanted babies who would otherwise be abandoned in places like toilets or sidewalks. On whether Mrs Tan will get into trouble with the law,
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      • 81 7 1995 MURDER A PRIME suspect in a murder case in Singapore has been arrested in a drug raid in Hongkong. Triad member Cheng Hui Yu is thought to be linked to the murder of businessman Tommy Chui To Yan in 1995. Mr Chui was killed here just days
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      • 65 7 STOCK EXCHANGE FROM September, investors here can hedge investment bets with futures contracts on single stocks. The stock exchange equity futures contracts are now based on a basket of stocks. With singles futures, investors can hedge the price paid on a stock by buying a futures contract on
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    • 50 6 New Straits Times: EPF members to decide International Herald Tribune: US weighs responses after clash with China Asian Wall Street Journal: China scholars attack academics' detention BBC news; Israel has begun pulling its forces out of the Gaza Strip after receiving a shock rebuke from the US
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    • 161 7 in FOCUS THE Land Transport Authority says there are more big cars on the road in Singapore. Since 1990, their numbers have accelerated by 140 per cent. Compare this with a 40 per cent increase in the total car population here, and a 20
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    • 80 7 Berita Harian: Israel retakes control of parts of Palestinian territory RCS morning news: The Government launches its $2m scheme to help SiyiEs develop manpower Project Eyeball: Fight with a BITE Streats: My babies are beautiful The Straits Times: Govt ready to help bosses face downturn The Business
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    • 117 7 THEjPJUSJCER OF CORRUPTION The country is suffering from, a national disease —corruption—that heeds to be cured. Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, India's Prime Minister DEGBgO^UCCESS Oprah provides a prism that allows us to examine various aspects of American commerce andeuiture with greater clarity. Course instructor Juliet Walker, on a
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 202 8  -  By Arul John SHE continued living with him even after she took out a court order to stop him beating her. She was the breadwinner, he was jobless and violent and had beaten her about 15 times since their marriage in 1985. Yet Mrs Selvam, a civil
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    • 649 9 Mrs Selvam said: "After our marriage, I realised he had a drinking problem. He often came home drunk early in the morning. "He'd then wake our-daughter and shout at me when she cried. I said she was just a child but he'd then slap or
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    • 43 9 Selvam was jailed for a year. For breaching a protection order, Selvam could be fined up to $2,000, jailed up to six months or both. For subsequent* offences, he could be fined up to $5,000, jailed up to 12 months or both.
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    • 58 10 The tour guide, like most Singlish speakers, translated what she wanted to say from Chinese to English, hut her sentences are stuck with the Chinese syntax instead.. The correct form should be: "Don't go about on your own, okay? It you don't keep close, you'll
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 66 12 mugmug Retiree Teo Chew Hock, 73, who is going Mind, on the 16. Nanyang Polytechnic students who read to the eideriy at tin Shalom Seniors Activity Centre in Beach Road twice a week: I can't see, so I appreciate the young people reading to me. I
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    • 336 13  -  By Jacqueline Lee Tanya Fong IT was after midnight and the 23-year-old was hanging out her laundry. She glanced at her neighbours kitchen in the next block and saw this: Her 35-year-old neighbour was standing on something. She could see the tattoos running from his
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    • 42 13 The flasher, Choo Book Koon, 35, was sentenced to 12 weeks'jail at the Subordinate Courts on April 12. Anyone guilty of appearing nude while exposed to public view can be fined up to $2,000, orjailed up to three months, or both.
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    • 352 14  -  RAFFLES TOWN CLUB SAGA By Brian Miller FOR more than six weeks, he was "one of the gang" who sat in the crowded gallery of Court 16. A regular face among a regular bunch of guys who, for reasons best known to themselves, have
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    • 268 14 NO. It is not over. YES. The fighting factions are very close to a settlement. MAYBE. Later today, word will come through that a deal has been struck. Does that answer all those niggling questions you might have about this on-going lawsuit involving the Raffles
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    • 155 14 MR Peter Lim, 47, former 'Remisier King' turned corporate adviser, ..claims Raffles Town Club shareholders chairman Lawrence Ang, Mr William Tan and Mr Dennis Foo broke an oral agreement to give him a 40 per cent stake inthe club. Mr Ang and Mr Tan had also promised to
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  • WORLD
    • 178 16 MISS Israel will wear a bullet-proof gown to next month's Miss Universe beauty pageant. The top of the silk dress is covered by an army-issue flak jacket. It is adorned with diamonds for a softer look, reported Ananova. The dress sends a message that
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    • 208 16 Wire services. AROUND this time last year, the situation in Israel and its neighbouring areas was different. Peace was still discussed by leaders of both sides even though relations between Israelis and Palestinians were not very good. But there was hope for peace. All that changed towards
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    • 344 16 EACH year, one-third of Malaysia's murder cases many involving immigrant workers go unresolved. In some cases, the authorities cannot identify the victims as a result of severe mutilation or decomposition of the bodies. That's why the Malaysian Cabinet has ordered the authorities to
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  • WORLD
    • 57 18 muifmui* France's love affair with table wine appears to borrowing cold, with water now the favourite tipple at meal times. A study shows that wine consumption has almost halved. Mr Christian Melani, one of the report's authors, said: Since the *****, our consumption has been getting lower,
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    • 136 18 THERE was no space to play in his New York apartment block. So 10-year-old John Ramirez resorted to the dangerous game of lift surfing. And died after falling six floors into the lift shaft, reports the New York Times. In an effort to perform
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    • 230 18 MARKETWATCH SUDDENLY there's a glimmer of hope on the US economic horizon. An outright recession in the US may be avoided, analysts were hoping yesterday, after government statistics painted a positive picture of the economy's health. For the first time since September, industrial production rose,
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    • 79 18 The The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 58.17, or 0.6 per cent, at 10,216.73, after spending much of the session down. The Nasdaq composite index gained 13.68 points or 0.7 per cent to 1,923.25. Over a billion shares were traded by the New York Stock Exchange. SINGAPORE
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    • 380 19 Every time it gets jiggly, I buckle down, I go to the gym. Lopez, on her famous butt BITCHY, bitchy. The roses are showing their thorns again. Va-va-va-voom diva Jennifer Lopez's war of words with supermodel Cindy Crawford has taken a nasty turn in Germany after
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    • 318 20 A US conman, facing up to 20 years in prison, made a deal with a judge yesterday. His offer: He would donate a kidney to his ailing sister if the judge granted probation. The judge agreed, reported the Philadelphia Daily News. Con
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    • 110 20 Latin pop sensation Ricky Martin is set to hip-swivel onto London's West End stage in a musical version of Zorro, reported Britain's Sun tabloid. Martin was in final talks with theatre producers over plans to take on It said producer Adam Kenwright, of
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    • 400 20 HE wanted to end his life but couldn't bring himself to do it. His wife had ignored his ranting and raving so he made his six-year-old son kill him. Forty two-year-old Ronald Moore from Texas, US, held a gun in his young son's hands
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  • Hey!
    • 615 22 Who will it be? The snake? Orßambi? Will brawn beat *****? YEOHWEETECK stakes his reputation as armchair Survivor fan to predict who will walk home with the million bucks... that's US dollars mind you OKAY, I admit it... I'm a fan throw me into a river.
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    • 210 23 WHAT'S the latest on Survivor 2: The Australian Outback? According to its official website, there will be a fight between two tribe members over rice rationing next week. Going by the trailers, it seems that Keith and Colby will clash, thus weakening the alliance further. But these trailers
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    • 417 23 TINA may get my vote, but she has to face four others before she can claim the US$l million (sl.Bm). Who will join her as the final two survivors? The New Paper hazards a guess: THE HUNK: Colby Donaldson, 26, custom auto designer. The
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    • 377 24  -  By Yeoh Wee Teck THE faint-hearted can breathe freely again Singapore's first intimate wear fashion show for men was not so intimate after all. Last Friday, models strutted at Cafe Boum, Far East Square, in underwear and swimwear in vibrant shades of gold, blue and red,
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    • 1081 26 All right everybody. It's time to play Who Wants To Be A Millionaire! Put on your thinking caps and let's begin For $100... 1) Which of the following is as much a diva as I am Brad Pitt? A) Madonna B) Aretha Franklin
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      415 27 Talk about art Mtathig Rfe. HBO didn't choose Hale Bony tostar in Its latest telefilm, introducing Dorothy Dandddge, for nothing. Bote 1950s screen siren Dandridge and movie star Berry had bad karma with men, but maybe luck's on Berry's side tMs time. CANMCECHU reports THEY wouldn't let her
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      302 28 LIKE Dorothy Dandridge, Halle Berry, 34, has had bad luck with men. Her alcoholic father disappeared when Berry was four. He returned when she was eight but all he did was beat up her sister, mother and the family dog. Then an ex-boyfriend sued Berry for US$BO,OOO ($142,000).
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    • 648 29 2 handphones $130 monthly savings How it works out... Which handphone deal —of the many offered by Sing Tel, Ml and Star Hub is best for you? Well, meet savvy handphone user Joel Foo, who taps into the various plans so that he ends up paying less. And you can
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    • 83 29 CHALKING up staggering handphone bills? Mr Foo will help two lucky Step Out! readers see how they can cut costs. Give us details of your handphone usage and the amount of your latest bill. Include your name, age and contact number. Send your letters to: Step Out! The
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    • 452 29 STEP OUT! TIPS MR Foo on how to get the best deal: Get SIM card only If you already own a handphone, just get a SIM card. Do not get tied down to a two or three-year plan just because the handphone provider says
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  • On the rack
    • 404 31 Koizumi is the most colourful of the candidates. He has tried to be prime minister before, and failed. He is, in fact, known by a nickname, Henjin, which translates roughly as "weirdo" or "strange man". That comes about partly from his personal style: He's
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    • 524 31  -  Ct cetera WITH DINAH LEE HARD news aside, I like columns and comments. I get to read the writer's spin on events and appreciate things from a different perspective. I get to tap into his or her consciousness, as I do when I read my
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  • RACING
    • 153 39 ON THE KRANJI TRACK with DANNY KHOO LIKELY favourites Trillion Win and Pacific Prince came away from their dress rehearsal for Saturday's Fischer Stakes with flying colours at Kranji yesterday. Sent for a barrier to sharpen up, the duo pleased as they finished
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    • 431 39 CLASS 2 1,600 m: El Bufon canter/37.9. Expect The Best 38. Good Request 43.1. Streisand canter/37.7, stylishly. Star Miracle (O Chavez, Maiden 1,200 m) 38.8, beat Follow Suit and Supreme Gold (J Sainul, Maiden 1,600 m). CLASS 3 1,600 m: Hanks and
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    • 257 39 FISCHER STAKES 1,200 m: Arabian Commander (Dittman) 37.9, smartly. Invincible Diamond (Dittman) 39.9. Super Goldluck (E Wilkinson) 36, fluently. Senet Pete 37.5, fitter. Slonim (Maiden 1,200 m) beat Class 1 newcomer Bravado in 37.5. Slow work: Bright Era, looking fit. CLASS 2
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    • WHIP HAND
      • 148 39 THE untold practice is to try and load a stubborn horse riderless if all else fails. Njot quite the same story when odds-on favourite Untold Story refused to be boxed in before the start of Race 7 last Friday atKranji. As jockey Sofhan Latif remained in the
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      • 120 39 A FEW clicks on the mouse and surprise, surprise! Laurie Laxon leads the Singapore trainers' championship with nine wins, one more than second-placed Malcolm Thwaites. Veteran race-goer Matthew checked out the Singapore Turf Club's website and did a double take when he saw the trainers' standings, which were
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    • 334 39 RESULTS of yesterday's seven trials—three official and four practices conducted over I,ooom on the fibresand track at Kranji. The going was good. TRIAL 1 ■1A La Natural 2 Sugar Ray (0 Chavez) 3 Super Viper (E Wilkinson) 4 Cyber Power (B Woodworth) 5 Lady Festal (M du Plessis)
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    • 208 40  -  By Lionel Lee EMIRATES, the name synonymous with not just quality travel but major racing events, has pledged its support to the Singapore Derby for a record seventh year. The airline's continued support marks the longest sponsorship of any race in Singapore. And to commemorate the
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    • 500 40 NST SUPREME JUSTICE is back in form, judging by his 600 m hit-out in 36.25 ec on a yielding track at Ipoh yesterday. Watch him in the Class 4 Div 2 event over 1,600 m on Sunday. Fast work was conducted on the No. 2
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    • 866 40 No. Last 5 runs Horse Wt(lbs) Rating Jockey Barrier Age/Trainer 1 ***** CHAMPION BOMB 132 (28) MW Leung 9 (4YO DA Hayes) 2 ***** LUCKY SUPREME 132 (28) KCTsang 4 (3YO TK Ng) 3 ***** STORM BOY 132 (28) E Saint-Martin 7 (6YO PF
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  • SPORTS
    • 462 41  -  Tan Kim Leng, The hole in the heart, if left unoperated on, could mean that Kim Leng may never live past the age of 50 REPORT ERNEST LUIS THE doctor's words were short and brutal: "Tan Kim Leng, you have a hole in
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    • 110 41 WHAT THE DOCTOR SAYS TAN Kim Leng (left) can return to the S-League next year if his operation next Monday is successful. Said Dr James Yip, an associate consultant in cardiology with the National University Hospital: 'It's best he goes for the
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    • 226 41 IRONICALLY, Tan Kim Leng's younger sister used to have a hole in her heart. Said Kim Leng: "She found out when she was 10 years old, and she could not take PE (physical education) after that. "She's now 18 years old and the hole closed
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    • 244 42 Life is so unfair to me FOR the last few days, Tan Kim Leng (left) has been asking himself one question: Why is life unfair to him. His heart defect has topped off a series of personal upsets in the last year. He
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    • 121 42 ONLY Tan Kim Leng's Singapore Armed Forces FC team manager Kok Wai Leong knows the extent of his heart condition. Kim Leng sees Kok as a father figure. Said Kok last night: "It's shocking and it's a very sad situation. "Since I joined SAFFC in 1998, he has
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    • 451 43 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUARTER-FINAL (2nd leg): AP. LEEDS United scraped through to the Champions League semi-final 3-2 on aggregate. It moved on despite losing 2-0 to an unlucky Deportivo la Coruna at Riazor Stadium this morning. Leeds will meet another Spanish side, Valencia, in the semi-finals. Fighting
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    • 488 44 DEPORTIVO 2 LEEDS 0 Leeds wins 3-2 on aggregate Scorers: Djalminha Bth min (pen); Diego Tristan 73 LEEDS' HERO NIGEL MARTYN: IF Leeds had a hero at the Raizor Stadium this morning, it was goalkeeper Nigel Martyn. Said Martyn: "We had to cope with
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    • 248 44 Reuters LEEDS United manager David O'Leary said he was astonished that his young team had made the semi-finals. "Frankly I am amazed that we have reached the next stage of the competition," said the overjoyed Irishman. The Premiership outfit lost 2-0 on the night
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    • 182 44 Reuters. DEPORTIVO coach Javier Irureta said he could not fault the effort of his players this morning. But he said the first-leg result (3-0 to Leeds) had weighed heavily on his team. Said Irureta: "We made a mammoth effort, scored two goals and hit the
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    • 414 45  -  CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Q-FINAL 2ND LEG VALENCIA 1 John Carew 75 ARSENALO By Darryl David V IF this match were a movie, it would be more of a political thriller than an action-packed blockbuster. It was the closest game on paper of all the quarter-finals and
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    • 443 46 Wire services. ARSENAL coach Arsene Wenger was left to rue his team's one defensive lapse that saw John Carew send Valencia through. "One lapse in concentration cost us the tie," said a frustrated Wenger after his side was ousted on the away goals rule.
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    • 352 46 SPURS 0 CHELSEA 3/ Wire services Football365. TOTTENHAM'S winless run against Chelsea stretched to 24 matches in all competitions going back to 1990 after it was outclassed. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink glanced in a Denis Wise corner, his 21st goal of the season, in the 29th minute
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    • 117 47 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 0-FINAL 2nd LEG VALENCIA 1 ARSENALO VALENCIA Santiago Jocelyn Angioma, Fabian Ayala (MiroslavDjukiq49), Mauricio Pellegrino, AmedeoCarboni, Gaizka Mendieta, Ruben Baraja, Vicente, Miguel Angel Angulo Aimar 67), JohriCarew, Juan Sanchez (Zlatko Zahovic 73) ARSENAL David Seaman, Lee Dixon, Martin Keown, Tony Adams, Ashley Cole, Lauren,
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    • 876 48  -  Carew rises to the occasion By Edwin Yeo WHEN Arsenal looks back at its Champions League exit at the hands of Valencia this morning, it can easily point the finger at one person. Its manager, Arsene Wenger. For all the good he has done for the club,
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    • 413 48  -  By V K Santosh Kumar PRICELESS. That's what Tony Adams has been in the Arsenal defence. Belligerence and doggedness. That's what the Gunners expected from their captain this morning. When Adams has been brilliant, Arsenal has looked unbeatable. When he had been missing through injury, the
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      353 49 VALENCIA 1 Carrie 75th in in ARSENAL 0 Aggregate: 2-2. Valencia wins on away goals rule CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUARTER-FINAL SECOND LEG Reuters. VALENCIA reached the semi-finals for the second successive season. John Carew headed the only goal against Arsenal to clinch a 2-2 aggregate draw and an away
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