The New Paper, 31 May 2001

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  • 32 1 the new paper THURSDAY, MAY 31, 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 Illllllll 8 *****1 *****1 the ngvv r
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    • 85 1 S'porean hotel cheat flees from Bali police 'L 'i'i, k-'.o- V ;4 V > THURSDAY. MAY 31, 2001 -izfe' V "V- r 1® t 1 Si 1^. isL'"~cp < .i' -q;. ■isl .rv M t v\r 4^ *fSP w mtmm m i *< anrnm i 3*? 3s* mm KM SSpS
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  • NEWS
    • 324 2 TEMPERS flared when groups supporting and opposing the move to acquire two Malaysian Chinese dailies gathered in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. About 500 people from both sides had gathered at the entrance of Wisma MCA by 4pm. And suddenly the demonstration turned ugly, reported Malaysian
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    • 130 2 Wire services DOWN 4 per cent, as investors run away from technology stocks again. Why? Analysts' warnings about counting on quick recoveries in the crucial computer chip and communications equipment industries. Strategist Douglas Cliggott, from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co, said: "'Hope overcame reality in
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    • 77 2 STOCKS on Wall Street staggered yesterday after network computer supplier Sun Microsystems and telecom gear maker Alcatel slashed their earnings forecasts. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 166.50 points, or 1.51 per cent, at 10,872.64. The New Yoi* Stock Exchange volume was 910.09 million shares. SINGAPORE COMPANIES
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    • 2 2 Malay Ringtones
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    • 106 2 Alfresco? No (TNP, May 29): It was stated that five restaurants along Jalan Merah Saga in Holland Village have closed their alfresco dining areas. Though ordered by the Urban Redevelopment Authority last year to shut them down, only one Da Paolo has closed its open dining area. The others open
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    • 830 4 It is a choice no parent can make without sleepless nights face financial ruin or save your child from inevitable death. One couple tell SHEELA NARAYANAN how they made their painful decision FOR five long years, the Yeos have been riding a giant rollercoaster
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    • 266 5 WHEN Bridget was born, she was a blue baby. Basically, her heart defects prevented her heart from pumping pure, oxygen-dissolved blood into her body. Instead, her body is getting mostly impure deoxygenated blood. Her condition is so severe that a 10-minute walk
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 198 6 HI V <or! GOING GREEN 4 THANKS to the fuel-cell programme initiated by DaimlerChrysler and the Economic Development Board (EDB), you could be driving your fume-free car to your clean, noiseless office within the next few years. The fuel-cell technology, which generates electricity via chemical
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    • 159 6 FOCuS WITH the economy looking uncertain, many companies here are taking steps to cut costs. And it's going to hurt Singapore workers. Twenty per cent of 237 companies polled this month said wages have or will be frozen. And more than half, or 56 per cent,
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    • News Break
      • 67 6 COURTS YESTERDAY, Lim Chee Khoon, 33, was jailed for a month after he admitted to hurting two passengers in a taxi on Jan 2 last year. The driver of the car he was in jammed his brakes when a cabby cut into his lane. But Lim lost his
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      • 58 6 MALAYSIA A MALAYSIAN High Court judge has freed two opposition Parti Keadilan politicians detained under the Internal Security Act in a surprise move. Justice Hishamudin Mohamad Yunus said "it was high time" Parliament reviewed the detention-without-trial law to decide if it was meant as a dragnet only
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      • 64 6 HDB THE Housing Board will move to Toa Payoh in the middle of next year and plans to sell its HDB Centre in Jalan Bukit Merah. A tender inviting consultants to market the twin towers closed yesterday, The Business Times reports. Analysts say it is worth between $300
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      • 56 6 DIABETES COMPARED with other Singaporean women, more Malay women have diabetes, high cholesterol levels and high blood pressure, and are overweight. So say the latest figures from the National Health Survey 1998. The unusually high rate of diabetes among Malays could be because of a diet rich in
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      • 59 7 COE THERE will be 6,675 Certificates of Entitlement (COE) available for the monthly closed tender, the Land Transport Authority said yesterday. For the Open category, 671 COEs will be put up for tender while the other 671 will be used in the open-bidding exercise starting June 18. Closed
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      • Article, Illustration
        66 7 MEDICAL DOCTORS here have managed to reduce by a third the size of an Indonesian girl's head (left), which had been swollen with excessive fluid. Chen Shuyun, two, has hydrocephalus and her head was 2V2 times bigger than that of a normal baby. The surgical team also removed
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      • 78 7 SINGTEL DEUTSCHE Bank cancelled plans to issue 50 million call warrants on SingTel shares yesterday. Dealers say it's because cautious local investors don't think the stock will rise 10 per cent. If you buy a call warrant, you can buy the firm's shares at a future date at
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      • 73 7 HEALTHCARE THE National Healthcare Group wants to provide home-care service which allows the elderly to have their needs seen to by doctors and nurses at home. And Dr Luisa Lee, now chief executive officer of Tan Tock Seng Hospital, will take on the new role as CEO
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    • 46 6 International Herald Tribune: Indonesia begins impeachment drive Asian Wall Street Journal: Indonesian Parliament moves to determine Wahid's fate New Straits Times: Impeachment imminent BBC news: Government ministers in Indonesia say they'll oppose any attempt by President Wahid to declare a state of emergency
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    • 43 7 TMs NOT A SHOESTRING BUDGET: 17-year-old Melinda Barrett is dwarfed by more than 300 pairs of shoes at her home in the US. She collected them for charity—they will be sent to orphanages in Russia, Romania and China. Picture/ Ap
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    • 58 7 Hie Straits Times: Impeach Gus Dur Hie Business Times: Resounding call by legislators to impeach Gus Dur Lianhe Zaobao: Parliament asks MPR to impeach Gus Dur Berita Harian: Calls for special session to impeach Gus DurNewsßadio 93.8FM: Gus Dur loses his fight to block parliamentary proceedings Project
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    • 47 7 Quote Wworthy (right) is Ms Chua 1.52 m. So, she says he'll make a big difference. —Raffles Hotel's public-relations manager Lee Kit Pui, on what the hotel's out-going general manager Jennie Chua has to say about the her German replacement, Mr Michael Luible
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 344 9 What if the MRT and bus operators increase the fare by five cents per trip? If you, like most people, use public transportation at least twice a day, it's at least a $36.50 fare increase for the whole year. SHEILA MURUGASJJ asked two
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    • 263 10  -  Santoke Seng lf6S| W'jr -r '5~ '''_rY jyy flj flfliBfttfl&j pul d Thailand, with 25 and The reasons for also vary^p STUDY OR BOUPAY? geography of exotic South Africa by 20 Anderson College students. Punggol Primary School's choir of 41 pupils will participate in
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    • 297 11  -  Comment/ Euge ne Wijeysingha IT is debatable whether money that go into them, especially if they are 1 *11* A devoid of some specific educational content. Nevertheless, the very act of organising them could, in themselves, constitute an educational experience. Tliis beifig a«|Base«|fe; schools,
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    • 191 12  -  By Lee Tee Jong FOR almost a year, Malaysian Rasappan Sankar, 33, sneaked in and out of Singapore under a fake passport a total of 101 times before he was caught. And the way he did it was sneaky too. In March last year, Rasappan paid RMIO,OOO ($4,764)
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    • 170 12 THE New Paper first asked The Singapore Immigration and Registration (SIR) via an e-mail on how Rasappan could have escaped detection for so long. Said an SIR spokesman: "Based on police investigation, Rasappan Sankar had managed to successfully apply for, and was issued with, a genuine Work
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 404 14 MADAM Lim Leok Lan was a stout-hearted lady, even at 75. Her favourite drink was stout (a beer-like brew). Then her family doctor forbade her to drink it again as she had high blood pressure. But the senior citizen still remains high-spirited.
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    • 16 16 muifmui* women. So what choices do women x have?
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    • 535 18 Majority wins? Not all the time. In a landmark decision, the High Court has ruled that a resolution by majority shareholders of a company, against a minority director, is invalid. ANDRE YEO reports THEIR family business is partly in tiles and marble. Now
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    • 211 19 THE company Polybuilding Pte Ltd had three shareholders Mr Koh's wife, May, (40 per cent), Polymotor (40 per Mr Lim Soo Kong (20 per cent). J On Dec 13, three of Polymotor's shareholders, including Mr Lim and one of his brothers, signed a resolution
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    • 111 19 THE Business Times markets correspondent, Mr R Sivanithy, 41, said the ruling protected minority shareholders. He added: "If the board wants to get rid of one of their own, they have to conduct themselves in a proper manner. There has to be some transparency." A lawyer who declined to
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    • Article, Illustration
      356 20  -  By Genevieve Jiang THREE weeks ago, she celebrated her 28th birthday with gifts of two gold chains and three pendants. Today, all she has to show for them are angry red weals on her neck and a clump of ripped-out hair. She was robbed in broad daylight.
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  • WORLD
    • 204 24 Reuters. OH, no. Trouble again. President George Bush's twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara, are being investigated for allegedly trying to buy alcohol illegally. It is claimed that the twins, aged 19, tried to buy alcohol at a Mexican restaurant in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday. Texas
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    • 402 25 Wire services. THE teenager's father doubted that his son would be alive. The youth had been missing for eight days, after gill. Now, after 19-year-old Joe Spring's rescue, some say it was a miracle that he lived. The Canadian youth had been
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  • 198 26  -  MALAYSIA By C L Tan Reporting from K L RACKED by stomach cramps, she thought she was suffering from food poisoning. At about 11.30pm on Monday, the 27-year-old salesgirl went to a clinic near her house in Senawang, Negri Sembilan. There were no other patients around. After
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  • WORLD
    • 55 28 mui*mui* Dr William Doherty, professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota, on how male pride could be the biggest stumbling block for men marrying above their station in life: Many women want to be Mrs Ted Turner, but how many men want
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    • 257 28 YES, old habits die hard. And gambling's a hard one to shake off. But these days, it's not just the casinos that are ringing with the sound of cash. Hongkong people are now going high-tech on gambling, reported the HK i—Mail. And, according
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    • 226 29 IT'S something that British secret service agent James Bond would hop into for one of his car chase scenes. In fact, the US military studied James Bond films to come up with this SmarTruck, a vehicle that's filled with high-tech gadgets to fight urban warfare,
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    • 752 30 With the Indonesian parliament beginning its debate on the impeachment of President Abdurrahman Wahid, the president's days appear numbered. But he stubbornly clings on to power. SETO NU-WENfinds out why MAY 1998: Troubled times for Indonesia. Students were on the streets, urging President Suharto to
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    • 128 30 BBC AMID all the chaos, there is is one positive development the assembly is trying to stick to legal procedures in its battle with a president who still threatens to declare a state of emergency. But, the Indonesian constitution is a sketchy document, drawn up
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    • 395 31 SCANDAL IN PARIS Wire services. THE case of sleaze and corruption at the highest level has kept France riveted. Roland Dumas, 78, was French foreign minister under former President Francois Mitterand. At the time, in the late 80s, he had a mistress, a ex-lingerie model called
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  • Hey!
    • 523 32  - sex and too much for children prime time? By 1 Yeoh Wee Teck SEX the very thought of explaining it to children can send shivers down the back of many parents. And yet, it was the subject of a prime-time Chinese programme, shown at 8pm last Friday. Channel U's Banzai!
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    • 668 33 CELEBRITY MILLIONAIRE Did Wong Li Lin lose $15,000f0r charity because she was too proud to ask for help? Should Vernetta Lopez have risked her $16,000 when she was only 50 per cent sure of her answer? Some viewers blasted the stars' performances during the celebrity
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    • 50 33 In an e-mail reply, a MediaCorp TV spokesman said that "all over the world, the celebrity version of WWTBAM is played for charity. We work closely with format owner Celador -to come up with this special edition, and everything was done in the name of entertainment for charity".
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    • Article, Illustration
      139 34 POOR Wa Wa. The 21-year-old Taiwanese half of Thai pop duo China Dolls was sick while touring Singapore last weekend. Yet, she couldn't let the thousands of young Singapore fans down. Together with her partner, Bell, Wa Wa performed at Bishan Junction 8 on Saturday and
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    • 130 34 RIGHT! No more the innocent girl-next-door, thank you! Is Kit Chan's demeanour the result of her new love status? Kit, happily attached to a local guy, had no problem turning the heat on and posing like a sex kitten for her new Cantonese album. Looking like 1950s star
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    • 86 34 Judging from the way she held court in the armed robbery TV commercial for Sing Tel overseas calling card, she should have no problem in her new role. COME Aug 9, Irene Ang also known as Mrs Phua Chu Kang will be all over our TV screens.
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    • 149 35 THANK goodness she grew out of it. Mavis Hee used to be an assistant photographer before she got drawn to the razzle-dazzle of showbiz. Her love for monochromes black and white had drawn her to photography when she was younger. But after she became a singer, colours
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    • Red-hot Latin beauties
      • 170 36 JENNIFER LOPEZ IS there no end (in sight) to the talents of undisputed Latina queen JLo? She rules the radiowaves and hogs the silver screen. No other Latin siren wannabe comes close to "La Guitarra" (The Guitar), nicknamed so not just for her billion-dollar butt but also
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      • 257 36 SALMA HAYEK SHE'S what you call a Mexican Marilyn Monroe: Stunning, sexy and sizzling on screen. Born to a Lebanese father and Mexican mother, the former Catholic boarding school girl was forbidden by her overprotective parents to wear a bikini. But Hayek's grandmother saw the
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      • 172 36 ROSARIO DAWSON BRIGHT-EYED, curious and brimming with life, Dawson has her mixed parentage to thank for it. Puerto Rican, African-American, Cuban, Irish and native American all rolled into one, discovery-of-the-year Dawson was found sitting on the stoop of her homestead in the middle of downtown Manhattan. The
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      • 273 36 M PATRICIA VELASQUEZ ONLINE men's magazine AskMen.com dubbed her "a woman who wears her sex appeal on her sleeve". But don't think the 1.75m, 29-year-old model-turned-actress doesn't wear her brains on the other sleeve. This is one towering Latina
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  • 543 37 Hrithik's ready to pose with fans but.. WONDERING why the press didn't pick up the news of Bollywood hero Sanjay Dutt who's done a prison stint in real life for possessing unlawful weapons bashing up Ajay Devgan in Malaysia till the cops intervened? Probably because it was
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    • 165 55 IT'S BACK to RM6 ($2.80) for a win and RMS for a place from Saturday in Malaysia. The Totalisator Board of Malaysia said in a statement on Tuesday that the RM6-and-RMS payout will replace the RM9-and-RM7 minimum dividend. The RM9-and-RM7 minimum payout, introduced in July
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    • 259 55 CAMPOMANES, formerly prepared by trainer Bart Cummings in Flemington, will make his debut at Kranji tomorrow for trainer Dr Yeoh Kheng Chye. One of three newcomers entered for the meeting, the four-year-old brown New Zealand-bred gelding by Grosvenor out of Magyar Princess is credited with three wins from
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    • 371 55 Monetaree and Rave Express brighten up dull morning DANNY HMO'S GUIDE TO YESTERDAY'S KRANJI TRACKWORK MONETAREE and Rave Express livened up an otherwise slow morning at Kranji yesterday. The John Meagher-trained duo were among a handful of horses engaged tomorrow night sent against the clock. Taking off
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    • 371 56 HONGKONG'S Fairy King Prawn, trained by former Singapore champion Ivan Allan, is set to retain his crown in the Group 1 Yasuda Kinen in Tokyo on Sunday. "I seldom say that I am confident of winning any race, but I would say that
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    • 25 56 The New Paper's Tan Thean Loon will be giving a few tips in tonight's Track Talk on SCV's Super Sports Channel at Bpm.
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    • 301 56 Race 1 Class 6 7400m| Wu Kau Tang Handicap 5 GOLD FLASK 129 (24-8) DWhyto (5) 9 BEETLE 123(54-16) KSYu (4) 1 EASY WAY 133 (171-53) W Woods (11) 1 2 H 3 Winning trainer: TW Leung. Margins: 6 V4, 1 Vi. Time:
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    • 426 56 NST GAYA EMAS geared up for his fifth success in the Class 2 Div 1 event over 1,600 m on Saturday—with a good workout in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the three-year-old Australian-bred gelding by Salieri stretched out well in
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    • 103 56 AP THE Dubai-based horse racing stable Godolphin suffered another blow on Tuesday when its main hope for next week's English Derby, Celtic Silence, was pulled out after suffering a leg injury. The three-year-old son of Celtic Swing was a 16-1 shot and Godolphin's best chance
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    • 681 64  -  FOCUS: TEENAGE BOWLER FAIZAL CHEW FA1ZAL FACTnLE Age: 16 School: ACS (Barker Road) Hobbies: None. "No time." Bowling average: Close to 200. Milestones: Silver medal in Asian Schools Masters. Fifth place in Asian FIQ singles. Highest game bowled: 298 Bowling style: Spinner. Hero: "My dad."
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    • 193 64 FAIZAL'S father Adam Chew, who is one of Singapore's national bowling coaches, feels his son is trying to go too fast. When asked to rate Faizal as a bowler, Adam said: "As a parent, I want him to go as far
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    • FRENCH OPEN TENNIS LIVE, CH2O, 10.30PM
      • 604 65 Andy Roddick bt Michael Chang 5-7,6-3,6-4,6-7,7-5 AP. HOBBLED by cramps near the finish of a five-set marathon, Andy Roddick almost collapsed on the clay. Between points he grimaced, limped, staggered, hopped on one foot, bent over in pain and leaned on a linesman for support.
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      • 178 65 AFP. TEENAGER Andy Roddick is being touted as the greatest talent to come out of the United States since Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras. One of the reasons for that is he's the quickest learner around. So says his coach Tarik Benhabiles, who "discovered" the 18-year-old
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      • 560 66  -  JENNIFER CAPWATI By Brian Miller LISTEN up and listen well. Jennifer Capriati is on song and she is beginning to sound real good. Actually, after watching her come back from 5-2 down in the second set to beat Emilie Loit 6-2, 7-5 in her first
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      • 260 66 AP. MATURITY may have been forced on Jelena Dokic, but she's feeling more like a grown-up these days and a tougher tennis player too. For much of her young career, the 18-year-old's tennis has been overshadowed by her father's disorderly conduct. Damir Dokic, her father and
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      • 145 66 AP. THE return to Roland Garros for tennis great Martina Navratilova was a short one this year. Navratilova and her doubles partner, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario of Spain, lost their first-round match yesterday. Kveta Hrdlickova of the Czech Republic and Barbara Rittner of Germany ousted the ninth-seeded pair 2-6,
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    • 284 65 How the seeds fared: MEN 1 Gustavo Kuerten (Bra) bt Agustin Calleri (Arg) 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 4 Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spa) bt Marcos Ondruska (SA) 6-2, 6-2, 6-0 6 Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) bt Nikolay Davydenko, (Rus) 6-0, 6-1, 6-3. 7 Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Rus) bt Cecil Mamiit (US) 7-6,(3), 3-6, 6-3,
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  • 455 67 The S-League goes into its second round this week with the Geylang Eagles still leading the table by five points from the unfancied Jurong Cobras, who are ahead of the Home Protectors and the SAF Warriors. Yet, like all S-League clubs, they would
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  • SPORTS
    • 770 68 Towkay: Stress man. Why did I call Egmar? Anyway, must be Kakimoto. He's the only one who doesn't sound like food. And Yamamoto, I remember him from some history book. So he can't be alive now. So it's Kakimoto. Ernest: Well
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    • 53 68 THIS WEEK'S MATCHES TONIGHT: Clementi Elephants v Woodlands Rams (Clementi) Gombak Bulls v Balestier Tigers (Gombak) TOMORROW: Sembawang Stallions v Home Protectors (Yishun) SAF Warriors v Jurong Cobras (Choa Chu Kang) SATURDAY: Tanjong Pagar Jaguars v Marine Castle Dolphins (Queenstown) Geylang Eagles v Tampines Stags (Bedok) AN matches
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    • 110 68 Odds as at 8.30 am CLEMENTI v WOODLANDS Ix 2: (1) Clementi: $2.65(x) Draw: $3.50(2) Woodlands: $2.10H 1/2 GOAL: Clementi :(+l l/2):sl.3oWoodlands: (-1 1/2): $3.05 TOTAL GOALS: 0 Goal: $11.00 1 Goal: $5.50 2 Goals: $4.30 3 Goals: $4.00 4 Goals: $4.60 5 Goals: $6.30 6 Goals: $10.00
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    • 323 69 THE SOL CAMPBELL EFFECT? ENGLAND captain David Beckham is ready to move abroad and has told friends he would like to join either Barcelona or AC Milan. Beckham will resume contract talks with Manchester United whfcn he returns from World Cup duty in Greece,
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      354 69 WORLD CUP QUALIIFIER: GREECE v ENGLAND Reuters, AP. MICHAEL Owen may have missed training for the second successive day, but England officials were not bothered. They played down fears that he could miss next week's World Cup game against Greece in Athens if his back condition does
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    • 212 69 Planet Football. CONFIDENT Joe Cole has insisted he can solve England's left-sided problems, despite being right-footed. The talented West Ham United starlet who also reiterated that he will remain a Hammer made a real impact on his England debut against Mexico, and insists
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    • 175 70 BEST OF THE PREMIERSHIP CONTEST THE Premiership season is over. Now is the time to look back and take stock of the best the league had to offer. The New Paper's EDWIN YEOhas nominated some of the best teams, managers, goals and players in five categories.
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    • 99 70 PLAYER 1. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (Chelsea) 2. Teddy Sheringham (Man U) 3. Marcus Stewart (Ipswich) 4. Olivier Dacourt (Leeds) NEW SIGNING 1. MarkViduka 2. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink 3. Neil Sullivan 4. Olivier Dacourt MANAGER 1. Gerard Houllier (Liverpool) 2. George Burley
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    • 269 70 CONFEDERATIONS CUP AP. MEXICO skipper Claudio Suarez could not celebrate equalling Egyptian Hossam Hassan's record for most appearances in soccer internationals yesterday. His team lost 2-0 to Australia in the Confederations Cup. But he vowed to break the record in style. Said
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    • 289 70 ASIAN WORLD CUP QUALIFIER THAILAND 2 LEBANON 2 AFP. THAILAND pulled off a stirring home performance yesterday to book the last berth in the Asian World Cup second phase qualifiers. It drew against Lebanon 2-2. Lebanon's Wartan Ghazarian headed home the opener in
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  • 141 71 AP. AMAZING as it may seem, it took 40 games and over four years for Patrick Vieira to score his first goal for France. But when it came, it was a goal to remember. Vieira's moment came in the 19th minute of France's 5-0 thrashing of
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  • 229 71 says Steven Gerrard Football Unlimited. STEVEN Gerrard just turned 21. And having toasted treble success with Liverpool, the youngster has really come of age this season. But the modest midfielder still thinks he has a lot to learn. And the man to learn it from is Patrick
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  • 274 71 says Arsene Wenger Onefootball.com. STOP dreaming, Man U. Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger has dismissed speculation that Patrick Vieira could quit Highbury this summer for Manchester United, or even Barcelona and Juventus. "Patrick is not available for anyone and that's the end of the matter,"
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