The New Paper, 29 April 2001

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1 61 The New Paper
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon She's been found
      609 2  -  But her family wants to know what really happened BY Ng Wan Ching WHEN they watched TV together, her mother would make gestures to make her understand how dangerous the outside world is. But now that the 16-year-old has had a bitter taste of some of those
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      Lock icon PM for a day, pension for life
      259 2 HE was prime minister for less than 24 hours, yet he is eligible for $25,200 in annual pension. Not bad for a few hours work, you'd say. But that is what Fiji's constitution allows Mr Ratu Tevita Momoedonu (left) to claim for his
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      274 2 <<<CH I N E S ERIN Dong qi lai *****2 Ask for more *****2 Ai dao cai 2i ton Jj *****8 u|H J V 1 iti&j Dul bu qi wo ai nl *****3 Be my girl *****3 Cuihua W *****0 Zhongguaren *****4 Bon xiao hai *****4 chenqun 3ft. tKBBM SaSss,.
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      1213 3 The HSBC Care-for-Nature MasterCard credit card How? By setting aside its annual fee along with a Singapore and help built a sanctuary for native birds is a card like no other. It is understated in appeal yet percentage of your total spending for the Nature of the region. recognised in
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon She chased a Peeping Tom... and got him
      874 4 On March 17 last year, a man was caught for secretly video-taping a young woman in a fitting room. FRAEMONE WEE speaks to the gutsy woman who exposed the voyeur HAVE you ever walked into a fitting room, undressed and suddenly got
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      Lock icon His hidden camera roved for more than three years
      610 5  -  By Jason Tan AN innocuous paper bag hid the dark secret of a voyeur. It kept Pua Thiam Guan's second-hand Sony Video 8 Camcorder. He had cut out a hole in the bag and taped a pinhole device there. Then, he
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      Lock icon Fitting rooms were modified after Peeping Tom was caught
      194 5  -  By Jason Tan AFTER Pua Thiam Guam's action at two departmental stores, one modified their fitting rooms. The Mango outlet at Wisma Atria is located in the Isetan Orchard department store. The outlet's fitting rooms on the second level were easily
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      Lock icon eight years, than ttle e pill ok her life
      1136 6 i i a!^. jyjfr nj, WHERETO GETHELP If you need help for sleeping pill dependency, you can call the Institute of Mental Health on 389-2200 or Alexandra Hospital on 4744-872. Number of people admitted to NUH for sleeping pill abuse: 1996
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      Lock icon SHE WANTED TO CHANGE
      134 6 HER death came as a shock to hospital staff and volunteers. 'She was talking about looking for a job. We were even laughing and making jokes," said a counsellor who met her at the Institute of Mental Health. "She didn't look like someone who was defeated.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Dormicum: Deadly but legal
      310 7 DORMICUM, which has been on the market for more than 25 years, can be deadly. It is one of a group of regularly abused prescription drugs in Singapore. Each month, Dr Brian Yeo, a consultant psychiatrist specialising in addiction treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, sees one
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      Lock icon Girl, 15, shot in head by an arrow
      314 8 NO camera tricks, no special effects. This picture is for real. And that is a 40cm arrow sticking out of the girl's head. The 15-year-old girl was shot in the head and miraculously survived. But her condition is critical. The accident happened
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  • the new paper MAID OF THE YEAR 2001 WESTERN MONEY UNION TRANSFER
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      Lock icon Beloved Bel
      587 9  -  By Lim Lee Ching THE neighbours think Ms Maribel Camilet Pacleb is the Findleys* maid. Actually, she is their ministering angel. Mr Stephen Findley, a pastor, called her the family's Florence Nightingale. After the Italian lady who dedicated herself to nursing the sick and the battlewounded in the
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      Lock icon THE CONTEST
      88 9 MS Maribel is the third of six finalists of The New Paper-Western Union Maid of the Year contest. The others will be featured over the next three Sundays, after which you can vote for the 2001 Maid of the Year, who will win $5,000. The first and second
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      Lock icon Viv's in love!
      821 10 Ex-Showbuzz host Vivian Tan is modelling, emceeing and koochie-cooing with her man "I LOVE what's up here," George, Vivian Tan's squeeze said, pointing his finger to her forehead. Man-in-love and I were beside Vivian as she worked at maximum resistance on the cross trainer in the gym.
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  • EXPAT
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      Lock icon What a friendship!
      1092 14  -  She s an expat wife, he s a toilet cfeaner She calls him "little pontianak" (Malay for devil) and 'hay-nay" (mother), and he calls her "madam"and "maid". She says of him: "He's my longest and closest friend." He says of her: "I don't know what I'm going
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      Lock icon Woman, you're always in my heart
      668 15  -  By Imhar Syed WHEN I was introduced to this Latin American woman, I thought hers is a name that's relevant only to roads. Still, a Mercedes, in the Singapore context at least the car, I mean always sounds exotic, classic and high-class. But the
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  • AT A GLANCE
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      Lock icon Old estates New homes
      285 16 YOUNG people setting up homes will get to live near their parents and enjoy the ready amenities in old estates. There's more new housing coming up in older towns such as Bukit Merah, Bedok, Ang Mo Kio and Toa Payoh. The blocks will be 30 storeys
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      Lock icon That Power Supply crisis...
      181 16 INFOCUS THE company wanted to give its 1.2 million customers more user-friendly utilities bills. But Power Supply's plan has turned into an $800-million fiasco with angry customers and hundreds of thousands of delayed bills. In 1999, it commissioned the $35-million German SAP system to give bills
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      Lock icon FOR THE FAMILY
      108 16 MRS SINGAPORE 2001: Be among the first to check out the 28 women vying for this year's title at the preview show tomorrow. Held at the IMM Building at Jurong East at 3pm, there will be a "Vote for Your Mrs IMM Most Beautiful Mum Award" and
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    • BRIEFLY
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        Lock icon Easier access
        88 16 GET from Bishan to Paya Lebar in less than 15 minutes, half the time it takes now. That's what will happen in the year 2010, when two projects, totalling $3 billion, scheduled to completed by 2006, and the $l-billion Marina Line from Dhoby Ghaut MRT interchange to Stadium
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        Lock icon Better school facilities
        92 16 ABOUT 50,000 students in 33 schools can look forward to larger classrooms, new or better computer laboratories and more common areas to mingle in. They will also get access to the Net and media-resource libraries as their schools come under phase three of the Programme for Rebuilding
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        Lock icon Many return to crime
        103 16 CHIEF Justice Yong Pung How yesterday called for stiffer punishments for repeat offenders. They made up 43 per cent of all convicts last year, he said at the Subordinate Courts 10th Workplan Seminar yesterday. He also said 5 per cent of criminals convicted last year were
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        Lock icon 'Humbled' by rally
        94 16 WORKERS' Party chief JB Jeyaretnam, 76, said he was grateful and humbled at a rally last night to raise funds to save his political career. Organisers said that about 5,000 people attended the rally, but other estimates had it that more than 1,000 people turned up at
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        Lock icon Sells pee on Net
        93 17 HE'S been selling his urine over the Internet to help people beat drug tests. And now, he's fighting a court battle with his home state of South Carolina, US, which wants to stop him from carrying on such sales. Mr Kenneth Curtis claims to have sold
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        Lock icon Teen on air rage charge
        96 17 AN AUSTRALIAN teenager was charged in a district court yesterday with air rage on board a Singapore Airlines flight. Garin Noel McGeough, 17, is said to have wilfully endangered the safety of passengers on board SQ 326 by behaving in a violent and disorderly manner
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        Lock icon Kidnap drama
        80 17 A RESCUE operation was underway last night with the Philippine police homing in on the hideout of kidnappers, who had earlier abducted a Singaporean. The Singaporean, Mr Benedick Leong Kim Chay, 35, and his business partner Ms Judith Chan, 30, from Hongkong, were kidnapped last Thursday. They were
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        Lock icon Caught for drinking
        89 17 JENNA, US President George Bush's 19-year-old daughter, was stopped by police for underage drinking in Austin, Texas, early on Friday. The legal age for drinking in Texas is 21. She must now either pay a fine or do community service. Jenna, a student at the University of
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      Lock icon Giant leap of faith
      93 17 Mr Andrew Ferguson makes a Leap of Faith off the 36th floor of a Sydney hotel— against the backdrop of the Sydney Harboui Bridge and Opera House. Mission Australia, organiser of the fund-raising event, is giving hundreds of Sydneysiders the chance to abseil or jump off
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    505 18  -  STELLA KON PLAYWRIGHT GUEST EDITOR Lawyer Edmond Pereira THERE was an infant, Muhammad, who was born with a frightening defect in his male organs. The parents were horrified and ashamed. There was a family with a grown-up son, Latif, who was born with the same condition
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    Lock icon No $, so hospital became his prison
    474 19 No so hospital became his prison NEWS HE was held captive for nearly one year. Not by any ruthless gang hankering for a king's ransom, but by one of India's top hospitals. Mr Ashish Pande, 22, was confined to Bombay Hospital, a premier medical centre in Mumbai, west India, since
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      174 20 ..i„V v <- -V ■Ml TUNE IN TO "TURN UOW from 7pm to 10pm this Sunday nlaht. 29th April jSgtfc on Channel U, Singapore's brand new FREE Mandarin channel launching on 6th May. f For the first time in Singapore's television history, you get to sample What's more, take a
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon What has airconditioning to do with plane blasts?
      297 21 SABOTAGE or something else? April, 2001. Passengers readying to board their plane in Bangkok. Then suddenly, there is a blast and a flight attendant is killed. Is it history repeating itself? July, 1996. Another plane, another blast. The casualties were far greater
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      Lock icon Excuse me, counsellor, but you stole my wife!
      199 22 A CANADIAN man is suing a marriage counsellor who he says stole his wife while counselling the couple. The man claims the psychologist began having sex with his wife while he was still counselling the couple. So he is suing the counsellor
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      246 22 8 8 Ringtones And Logos! we have the largeet; logo and ringtone database! 7001 AiNIAiDao 7011 Eyes On Me Jl 7002 Ai Pia Jia Eh Yte 7012 Freedom 7003 Amour 7013 Goodbye 7004 Bu Yeo Hei Pa 7014 Jia Ru Wo Shi Zhen De 7005 Cheng Quan 7015 KaiFengXiang 7Q06
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  • Article
    Lock icon Reebok pulls car-stunt ad
    359 24 [NEWS! WHEN tennis champ Venus Williams beats basketball star Steve Francis, what are they playing at? Actually, it's a Reebok match of TV advertisements. The multinational giant had been beaming a TV ad showing NBA star Francis leaping over an oncoming car, reported The Cincinnati Enquirer.
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    Lock icon Lovely thing about walking Smart
    851 25  -  The joy of running/ Page 39 By Lim Li Fern WALKING is, in many ways, easier on the body than jogging. For one thing, the impact on the feet isn't so great, so it doesn't cause as much wear and tear of the joints, especially
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      272 26 _j .if J £wm mm. M mMmm If rn m 1 Here are the eight finalists of the TNf> Big Walk 2001 W^ wfc-c- 'f *J*„.. W^"W^titf^^KKKKKmKS^^mi^^3M^^^' ee^ea<^n 9'^* >^en 9 e The y the Big Walk on2oMay to fire up the crowds and vie for jfht I I the
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    Lock icon She's a 'wild lover'
    483 27  -  the new sure By Desmond Ng SHE knows where they don't like to be caressed. Ms Shanida Abraham, 23, is talking about the animals she looks after in the Singapore Zoological Gardens. "They may look adorable but these cuddly creatures are still wild animals. This perky
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  • Health Now WITH JOANNA HUGHES
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      Lock icon Get those Zzzzz zzzzz
      439 28 YOU can talk about insomnia all you like, but the latest research seems to reinforce something most of us already know: Too little sleep will make you crazy. And it isn't something that just happens to prisoners in old movies: It's happening to us in our
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      Lock icon This week's quick tips
      238 28 Herbal teas: They can now be found even in neighbourhood supermarkets, with flavours like peppermint, chamomile and lemon verbena are hot favourites. Unlike traditional Asian herbal teas, these are usually drunk without sugar, as sugar tends to mask their delicate tastes and negate the health benefits
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  • HEY!
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      Lock icon Abusive father, suspicious boyfriend
      267 30  -  MATTERS Of THE HEART AND SOUL SINCE young, I have never known what a father's love feels like. My father beats me and scolds me with vulgarities. Lately he doesn't beat me any more, but he still hurts me with his words. He looks down on
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      Lock icon Loveless and lonely
      163 30 Last week's letter: LONELY Island is 23 and has been with her present boyfriend for nearly four years. Although he is stable, he lacks passion. He is predictable and boring. In the second year, they started fighting. To forget the pain, she got to know Mingwei in
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      Lock icon Go for Trevor
      139 30 Readers' advice: THERE are many people in the world but you can only find one person whom you can truly love, and hopefully, hell truly love you too. What's the use of having a boyfriend who is not the one you want? Since Trevor is what you
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      Lock icon Decide for yourself
      153 30 I GOT married at 22 after a five-year courtship, but the marriage only lasted a year. He was very much like your present boyfriend, stable but lacking passion, predictable and boring. We started to fight every other day over trivial matters. Just like you, I felt obligated
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      Lock icon He got an 'I luv you' SMS
      477 30 HONEY and I have been living together for more than a year with his family, despite my family's initial objections. We love each other deeply and plan to register our marriage soon after he finishes his National Service. He knows about my first
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      Lock icon I lied and lied and lied
      345 30 I HAVE been married for two years. My wife cared a lot about me and she is everything a man could ever ask for in a wife. Sad to say, I have been lying to her since the first day we met. When she
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      Lock icon Did chicken give me plump breasts?
      180 30  -  DR LIM SU MIN I AM a 16-year-old male Q student. My problem is that I have plump breasts. I believe this is the result of eating too much food containing female hormones (for example, chicken wings) when I was younger. Is there anyway
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      Lock icon Where's the blood from?
      265 30 WHEN I went to the toiQlet recently, I noticed that there was blood mixed in with my faeces. At first, I thought it was due to my period. But then I found blood in my urine. After I'd urinated a few more times, I couldn't detect
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      Lock icon When love at first sight took flight!
      1088 31  -  CHANG MAY CHOON IN TAIWAN IF you've watched matchmaking programmes on television, you'll have an idea how I felt taking part in one. But nothing could have prepared me for the end result. I came this close to finding my perfect well almost
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      Lock icon A wedding from each episode
      398 31 ITS all about romance. And this weekly TV matchmaking show has resulted in more than 200 marriages since it debuted in August 1996. That's about one wedding per episode! "During one New Year's special, one couple had their two kids walk to the centre of
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      Lock icon Hatyai-not just for...
      1042 32  -  By Patrick Jonas IT'S a man's place. That was what most of my colleagues told me about Hatyai before my trip to the southern Thai city. At Hatyai airport, a friend pointed out the long line of men in front of the immigration counter and asked me:
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      Lock icon Golfers will enjoy it
      251 32 WITH seven golf courses, Hatyai is also a good getaway for golf enthusiasts. I visited two of them, both 18-hole championship courses. My first stop was at the Hatyai Resort Golf Club (below), about 30 minutes from the city. It is said to be one of
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      565 33  -  CAROL LEONG I VERY seldom see threading being done. It's an ancient method which Chinese and especially Indian women used to get rid of unwanted facial hair. The process is simplicity itself no equipment or hot wax. Just a long piece of thread and dextrous fingers.
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      405 34  -  TUNE IN, CHILL OUT SETO NU-WEN Remember that tv advertisement a while back for a brand of film where they ask: Do you dream in colouir? Call me imaginative, but I don't just dream in colour, my dreams have soundtracks to go with them.
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      615 35  -  CAROL LEONG AS my plump cousin in Hongkong once said with a sigh: <r Why is it that everything delicious must be fattening?" Potatoes definitely come under this category that is, if you want them tasty. And there's no denying that potatoes and fat are a marriage
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      116 35 THESE are some ingredients which combine well with potatoes: Fats: Butter, ghee (clarified butter), olive oil, peanut oil, sesame oil, mustard oil, canola or soya oils Herbs: Basil, chervil, chives, coriander leaf, curry leaf, dill, laksa leaf, mint, parsley, spring onion leaf, rosemary, thyme Spices: Asafetida (known
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      844 37  -  NICHOLAS LEE YOUTHFUL exuberance a convenient term to explain the silly and stupid things we do in our youth. Last week I spent six glorious days in Phuket, the closest thing to paradise I've ever come across, in the company of two of
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      1192 38  -  Hey. parents: SIVA CHOY EVERY now and then you read in the newspapers about some super whiz kid who at the age of 12 has been admitted to university to study cold fusion physics, cephalopods, quarks, prions or something equally meaningless but impressive-sounding. Most 12-year-olds don't
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      1713 46 TODAY'S IPOH RACE CARD Going forecast: Soft Race 1 12.15 Class 4 Premier 1400m (LCj Stakes: RM33,000 No. Last 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 3-2281 IDEAL LAD 57 (69) J Cameron 5 (4nzg HS Lim-Up Up) 2 *****1 AURIFEROUS 54.5 (64) *KT Cheng c3 3
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      745 47  -  MUDLARKS RACE 1: Ideal Lad, Auriferous, The Spider, Hot Striker, United Naga, Hotel California. RACE 2: Walk That Walk, Victory Ranger, Mega Strike. RACE 3: Just Brilliant, Big Milano, Cindy's Pet. RACE 4: That's Why, Sir Caversham, Confidence V. RACE 5: Super Happy, Sphritzer, Mr
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      255 47  -  By Tan Thean Loon FORMER sprint kingpin Fischer, unofficially retired after his last run almost a year ago, will make a comeback on Saturday. Trainer Malcolm Thwaites said yesterday that he would be entering his 10-year-old in the Lightning Stakes over 1,000m on the
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      1320 48 YESTERDAY'S IPOH RACE RESULTS Going: Heavy (Races 1 2), Soft (Races 3 to 9) GRAND COMEBACK: Mathieus, whose last win was in October last year, chalks up his ninth success yesterday. 3 PRINCE PALIDAN 54.5 (27-9) SHLee (3) 1 1 1 (492) 5 IPANEMA GOLD 53 (27-8) 'NAzman (5) 5
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      332 48  -  By Danny Khoo AT SIX, his legs may no longer be what they used to be. But that did not stop the gutsy Mathieus from giving his second excellent effort in as many weeks at Ipoh yesterday. Stepping up on
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      1233 49 RACE 1: THE SADDLER was slow into stride and showed no early pace. TRIPLON was impounded for an analytical and vet exam. The vet reported that GANBARE returned cast off-fore plate. RACE 2: MAHLIGAI jumped awkwardly outwards. Approaching the I,ooom, WONDER PLANET
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      31 48 4-D DRAW SATURDAY: April 28, 2001 FIRST SECOND THIRD STARTERS CONSOLATION 7805 4426 3829 3580 5774 3256 9740 6052 8577 2611 1727 4273 2746 1838 8932 8203 0834 5601 2288 2416
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      551 50 < f WHEN I was growing up long time ago, let's not go there! my rugby coach had this piece of advice for me. "Offence is the best form of defence." Not very original. But it worked for us. Every time our team had its back to the wall, he'd
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      1028 51  -  Celtic's Swedish 'hitman' Henrik Larsson Rangers vs Celtic 7.55pm (Live Exclusive on Super Sports) ALAN HUBBARD Exclusive/ From London BRA is an uplifting word in any language, especially Swedish. There it means "good"and happens to be pronounced identically to the Scottish dialect word braw, which has exactly the
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      653 52 (who turns down Man U) goes for Goal No 50 today Samson, this was one man who had not left his strength on the barber's floor. It simply added to his apparent ordinariness. Born of mixed parentage his black father came from a former Swedish colony he is a
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      1068 53  -  mrjmI'/ J. QATIIDnAV H 1 SLAM REPORTS ERNEST LUIS BY day, he uses his hands to repair cars. By night, he uses them to catch footballs. Meet Shahri Rahim. Day job: Car mechanic. Night job: Goalkeeper coach for reigning S-League champion Singapore Armed Forces Warriors. But now,
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      1005 55  -  51 foreign coaches engaged by 24 national sports associations Half of them from Asia's top sports power China Largest number Eight coaches with badminton Close to 1.4million in subsidies provided last year for foreign local coaches by the Singapore Sports Council REPORTS SURESH NAIR THERE'S an
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      123 55 CLOSE WATCH: Billiards'former UK pro Gregg Tugby (below) teaches a schoolboy the right strokes concentration against a top-class field of past world champions from USA, Europe and Asia. I was very proud that she never let anything outside the lanes rattle her. She also never
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      200 56 CORE SPORTS BADMINTON: Zhao Jianhua (China), Zhang Qingsong (China), Liu Zhen (China), Gu Rong (China), Paulus Iswanto (Indonesia), Faris Mawardi (Indonesia), Nunung Wibiyanto (Indonesia), Dicky Purwotjugiouo (Indonesia) BOWLING: Ron Hoppe (USA) FOOTBALL Jan Poulsen (Denmark), Flemming Nielsen (Denmark) SAILING: Jacob Palm (Sweden), Qian Hong (China), Andras Sigmond
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        78 57 Coventry City 0 Liverpool2 Sami Hyypia 83 Gary McAllister 86 Derby County 1 Stefano Eranio 45 Arsenal 2 Nwankwo Kanu 21 Robert Pires 80 Everton 2 Duncan Ferguson 47 Niclas Alexandersson 64 Bradfbid City 1 Andy Myers 3 Man City 1 Shaun Goater 23 West Ham 0 Newcastle
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        345 57  -  Roaring fight to the TOP SCORERS 19: Marcus Stewart (Ipswich) 18: Jimmy Floyd HaSselbaink (Chelsea) 17: Thierry Henry (Arsenal) 16: Mark Viduka (Leeds) 15: Teddy Sheringham (Manchester United) 14:Emile Heskey (Liverpool) 12:Atenv Boksic(Boto) COMMENT EDWIN YEO SAME objective, same result, even same scoreline. The race for Champions League spots
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        596 58 finish for Europe berth TOMORROW Charlton v Ipswich Town TUESDAY Bradford v Liverpool Newcastle v Southampton GOING DOWN: Bradford City will play in the First Division r next season after missing two penalties in the 2-1 defeat: at Everton. Fowler in the 62nd minute made the visitors
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        91 58 Current position: 2 Points: 66 Goal difference: Plus 25 To play: Leeds (H) Newcastle (A) Southampton(A) Current position: 3 Points: 62 Goal difference: Plus 15 To play: Arsenal (A) Bradford (H) Leicester (H) Current position: 4 Points: 62 BGoal difference: Plus 15 To play: Chariton (A) Man
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      419 59  -  Fifa does not endorse world ban on corrupt S-League players By Suresh Nair TWO former S-League "kelong kings" can play professional football again. They've got a sort of a reprieve from Fifa, football's world governing body. Former Geylang United Football Club goalkeeper Lutz Pfannenstiel (above left)
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