The New Paper, 17 June 2001

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  • 8 1 the new paper JUNE 17, 2001 on Sunday
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  • NEWS
    • 439 2 Uncle Sam says make them hardboiled, nothing else, if you want what's good for you HERE, we have them soft-boiled and served by the dear, old uncle in the neighbourhood kopitiam. A dash of soya sauce, a sprinkling of pepper into the
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    • 361 2 IT was an irreverent take on a sacred subject. A devout Catholic carrying a bowl of Lipton onion dip for his Holy Communion wafer. This tongue-in-cheek advertisement, which appeared in the weekly New York Press, has New York Catholics up in arms. And had Unilever
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    • 420 3 WHAT do you see, the road or the soft toys? The picture on the left was taken from inside a private bus. It is driven by, well, Mr Driver (let's call him that since he didn't want us to use his real name) who
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    • 709 4  - Psst, want pirated movies— Shrek, Pearl Harbor? Some sell porn VCDs. DOOR-TO-DOOR VCD PUSHERS Reports/ Jason Tan SHE dresses plainly and carries two bags a no-frills black canvas bag and a colourful plastic one. Quietly, stealthily, she moves from one floor of the factory to the other. Her eyes home
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    • 107 4 'f I't fyw 1 1 1 FIVE Chinese nationals were arrested last month in the Joo Chiat area for selling illegal VCDs, police spokesman Chua Chee Wai said yesterday. The women, aged 25 to 55, were picked up by officers from the Bedok Police Division on May 17. -The
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    • 68 4 UNDER the Films Act, anyone who distributes uncensored films can be fined at least $500 per film, up to $40,000, or jailed up to six months, or both. The penalty for distributing obscene films is a fine of not less than $2,000 for each film, up to $80,000, or
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  • NEWS
    • 1233 6 A mini-discussion on the subject was heard recently when the Think Centre conducted J an online poll. FRAEMONE WEE j explores both A W sides of the issue I M What if they were innocent? HE veteran lawyer has defended Y I many criminals some of whom
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    • 220 6 ARGUING for the death penalty, an Oxford-based teacher and writer called Singapore "one of the most drug-free nations on earth". According to Mr Neil Clark, writing in London's Daily Mail (right), every country that has abolished the death penalty has seen its murder rate
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    • 729 8 CHANGING TECHNOLOGY UNTIL six months ago, Chen Yen Ling, 20, couldn't make an appointment with a friend without her mother. No, her mother was not a control freak. Yen Ling is deaf. She had to rely on her mother to call her friend's
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    • 795 10 Think air force, and you think macho fighter pilots. But increasingly, women are taking on elite combat roles in the Republic of Singapore Air Force. JASON TAN speaks to three of these gungho women IT ALL started at a recruitment drive for flight stewardesses.
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    • 476 11 AT 18, she was an introvert clueless about army life. At 24, she's an air-defence artillery commander who leads 20 men, and has no qualms about relieving herself in the woods. That about sums up the transformation of Lieutenant Lee Siew Hui in six years.
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    • 374 11 SHE is 25, oozes charm, and commands fighter pilots. From the ground. Meet Captain Tan Yen Ling (left), a command, control and communications officer at 203 Squadron which coordinates all military flights in and out of Singapore. Armed with a vocabulary of more than 100
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    • 567 12  -  Why they still do it REPORTS AND JOYCE LIM THE tales a sailor can tell. Mr Izzat Hamzah had one about pirates. It happened in 1988, he said. The ship was anchored off Indonesia... One could imagine victims tied to masts, raiders flashing knives. Well, said Mr
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    • 208 12 SOMETIMES, Mr Mohd Abu Bakar would be away from his wife for as long as 1 l A years. And he would stay for only three months whenever he got back. Mr Mohd, 47, started sailing in 1978, when he was 25. "I wanted to make a lot
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    • 211 12 IT used to be the dream job for many people. With this "dream job", they could earn up to four times as much as they could onshore. All that has changed. "It has become a dying trade," said Mr Leow Ching Chuan, 50, general secretary of
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  • EXPAT
    • 1001 14 Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong ended his US visit yesterday. There to hold talks with President George Bush and other top officials, he also spent time meeting Singaporeans based in the US. His call: Reach out. What is it like, living with people in a
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    • 79 15 SHARE your experience with us. Let the Expat Page be a place where we can talk to one another, a platform to exchange ideas and a forum for views to be heard. And feel free to contact Gus, the Expat Page editor, at <guspang@yahoo.com. sg>. Alternatively, you can
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  • ATA GLANCE
    • 278 16 YOU are going to eat just one bar of chocolate a month... How many times have you told yourself that... but failed miserably? Well, perhaps a hypnotherapist can do the trick for you. More people are now aware of hypnosis as
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    • 76 16 ricture/ K&UVEKS Remember the Dutch "abortion" ship, Aurora, which was on its way to Ireland last week? It docked at Dublin on Thursday, but the campaigners failed to get permission to conduct abortions on board and the floating clinic was turned away. They vowed to return, however. They
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    • 373 17  - Rebels without a cause blame the past? GLOBAL WATCH A LOOK AT WORLD EVENTS MATTHEW THOMMEN YOU can always blame the past. The origins of the militant Abu Sayyaf group in the southern Philippines can be traced to the Afghan conflict of the 1980s. Its leaders are believed to have
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 84 17 POLICE dogs sniff out nearly 3kg of heroin worth about $600,000 hidden in a car that was about to enter Singapore through the Woodlands Checkpoint. The drugs were hidden in the dashboard of a blue BMW driven by a 34-year-old Malaysian. Central Narcotics Bureau officers found
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      • 75 17 Reuters. MALAYSIA'S ruling party Umno suspended six more members yesterday from holding party positions. This came after an investigation into 400 complaints of vote-buying and abuse of power. The party's special disciplinary board had earlier barred six members from contesting positions, bringing the total number suspended to
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      • 76 17 Reuters. AN Olympic running suit worn by Australia's World Sportswoman of the Year Cathy Freeman was auctioned for A$22,000 ($20,880) to raise money for breast cancer research. The suit, which covered Freeman from head to toe, was one of more than 100 items auctioned at
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      • 87 17 Reuters. US President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin began their first meeting yesterday, in Slovenia. Each said the other had made a good first impression. Mr Putin said he had a "good first impression" of Mr Bush who then chuckled and told reporters: "I rest
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      • 78 17 A prisoner of war (PoW) in Singapore, Mr Jimmy Chew, 77, was compensated with more than $25,000, by the British government. Mr Chew had served in the British Armed Forces during World War II and was captured by Japanese soldiers. At least five Singaporeans here, all of them
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      • 78 17 GROWTH of Singapore's retail sales rose a mere 6.4 per cent in April to $2.16 billion from a year ago. The Department of Statistics said that all major retail groups did not perform well. Month-on-month sales of telecommunications and computers, motor vehicles, and medical goods and toiletries
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      • 82 17 Reuters. THOUSANDS of protesters rallied in the Indonesian city of Bandung yesterday, against the 30 per cent fuel price hike. Hundreds of bus drivers went on strike. The police said around 6,000 people rallied and burned tyres. A spokesman for President Abdurrahman Wahid downplayed the protests, saying
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      • 73 17 THE wife of Teo Cheng Kiat, the employee who embezzled nearly $35m from Singapore Airlines, was charged in court yesterday almost one year after Teo was sentenced to 24 years'jail. Maureen Tan Lay Bee, 50, faces eight charges of dishonestly receiving money that she believed, or
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    • 215 17 INFOCUS WHY do young Singaporeans who grew up in a clean and green environment continue to litter? In order to keep Singapore clean, it is better to understand the psyche of litterbugs than making them clean public toilets said Acting Environment Minister Lim
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  • 761 18  -  GUEST EDITOR Khairudin Saharom ACT OR-CUM-ARCHITECT NOW that the whole beauty queen issue has simmered down, let us sit back and ask ourselves what this beauty queen business is all about. Has it really been about the imperative combination of beauty and brains? Have the pageants
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  • NEWS
    • 76 20 Wire services. AMERICAN Lori Lynn Lomeli, 43, twirling 83 hula hoops during a Guinness World Record challenge at the World Trade Centre in Taipei yesterday. And yes, she's did it (below), breaking her own record. Each hula hoop weighs 250 grams with a diameter
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    • 370 20 NOW even pet dogs could soon be using the Internet. Well, with a little help from owners who feel guilty about staying at the office while Fido or Rover is home alone. Yes, those hardworking urban professionals too busy to check up
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  • NEWS
    • 409 22 TRY bringing a bookie to book? Tough. In India, after the recent cricket betting scandal (see report at left), bookies daren't go too close to a pitch. But they're having a field day on a new, exciting playground, just round the corner, called Bollywood. Betting
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    • 328 23 ABU SAYYAF LEADER COMMANDER ROBOT WHO is this man journalists would give their right arm to interview? A man in his mid-40s f with the "mental capacity of a 12-year-old", with at least four wives and millions of US dollars. He is Commander Robot, real
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    • 192 23 FAT lot of success health warnings have had in cutting down on obesity figures. So New Zealand is now trying a whole new tack. Overweight Kiwis, who insist on eating fatty food, may soon face slimmer wallets. Some of the country's leading nutrition experts
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    • 201 23 HE was caught shoplifting, but a DNA test showed he had done something far worse 13 years ago. John Wood, 59, is starting a 15-year jail term for "monstrous" sex attacks on two young sisters in Britain, Sky News reported. Wood was brought
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  • NEWS
    • 478 25 OVER 50 years ago, a nine-year-old king was sent into exile by a foreign army. Since that day, in 1946, he constantly dreamt of his country. Now he is back in his country, being seen as a beacon of hope, and very likely to
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    • 182 25 MOST women have known it for ages. Men gossip more than women and enjoy it more. Women do tell tittle-tattle but do it to bond with women and build friendships. Men do it to boost their egos, according to a study quoted in The Electronic
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  • Hey!
    • 881 26  -  FEATURE GLORIA CHANDY HE thought the world would end with the Millennium and so he set out to see it without an itinerary but with a dagger in his boot, just in case. Mr Alex Soh "bummed around" from 1998 to 2000. "It's not
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    • 493 27 WHILE her fellow undergrads were checking on job opportunities, she was studying bus and train schedules. Tan Teng Teng had the wanderlust and did her bumming around after she graduated in 1991. "I knew I'd have responsibilities immediately after," said Teng Teng, 31, who has a
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    • 263 28 I AM 18 this year. Last year, during the November holidays, I was helping out in my uncle's 24-hour coffeeshop. There was this guy who was working in a nearby police station who came almost every day with his friends to have a drink
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    • 158 28 Last week's letter: CONFUSED is a mother of two children aged 13 and 10. She has been married for 15 years. Her husband, an alcoholic, does not go to work to support her or their children. Whenever he comes back drunk, he will start a fight. He
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    • 128 28 Readers' advice: YOU should try and stick to your marriage. Divorce will definitely affect your children. You should not jump to the wrong conclusion that R is the right man for you and your children even though he is willing to support you. This relationship will
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    • 94 28 ARE you feeling guilty for wanting to leave your husband instead of sharing in his misery? Have you not tried hard and long enough to pull him out of it? Your husband is a miserable wretch because he has chosen to be one, not because, he is
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    • 489 29 I'M an 18-year-old girl stuck in the net of love. I got to know this guy through a chatline. He's 25 years old. We talked on the phone and found that we had a lot of things in common.
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    • 293 29 I AM a 19-year-old guy waiting to go into the army. I have a problem which I don't wish to tell my family. One-and-a-half years ago, I got to know a 16-year-old girl from the chatroom. After we met a few times, I realised
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    • 249 29  -  DR LIM SU MIN I AM a girl in SecondQary 3 and I have two questions. First, I shaved my private parts about two days ago while in the bath. It was the first time I have done so. Afterwards, I had a terrible itch. It was
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    • 119 29 WHAT effects would Q bathing with the opposite sex have on the girl? Can the girl somehow get pregnant? No condoms were worn. But there was no sex either. We were just bathing and hugging. Please help. Don Pub Bathing together can be A dangerous. Being
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    • 590 30  -  ADELE ONG BLAME me for taking my convent upbringing to heart, or blame Dad, but whenever a date boasts\)f his earning power, I develop an urge to bolt. You see, I was a convent girl for 10 years. While others rebelled against Cerberus-like nuns
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    • 860 31  -  ART FAZIL WHEN I was eight or nine years old, I remember my father taking my brother and I to a Hindi movie at the still-standing Singapura cinema in Geylang Serai. It was a classic called Hathi Mere Sathi a film about a young boy
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    • Article, Illustration
      527 32 WHEN a waitress, who is a soap opera fan, witnesses her husband being killed by two bickering crooks, she goes into a state of shock. She imagines herself to be a nurse in her favourite soap opera and sets out to find her dream doctor, with the crooks
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    • 535 34  -  («TV») WATCHIT RIANA ZAKIR NOT long ago, while staying home for four months to look after my newborn son, I looked forward to mainly one thing. Watching the Oprah Winfrey show. It was the highlight of my weekdays, ranking even higher than breastfeeding. It broke the monotony
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    • 59 29 CALL US If you need advice on matters of the heart or sex issues, write to: Aggie, The New Paper, News Centre, 82 Genting Lane, Singapore *****7,0r fax 737-5375, e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg (please mark Agggie) or call 1900-*****07 (calls cost 30 cents a mnute), (You can use a pen name, but
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 384 32 story of a young psychologist who comes jjjjf no-nonsense advice to an array of quirky lob-/* summer Holidays Star Movies (Ch 58), 9pm, Mon J Love seeps in for Momocha and SID mJHB Redang. Can two people with different f ARI P goals in life break the barricade around -r_
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 485 34 Highlights Armageddon Channel 5,6.30pm A monstrous asteroid is hurtling towards Earth threatening to destroy it. Nasa hires a crew of oil-riggers to prevent the disaster. Stars Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi, Owen Wilson, Billy Bob Thornton. A Few Good Hen Channel 5,10pm An arrogant young Navy lawyer defends two
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
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  • HEY!
    • 710 36  -  SUZANNE WALKER BEING alone doesn't mean you suffer loneliness. Loneliness is a single person's psychological interpretation of their social environment. I read this on Saturday in the health section of the Washington Post. Higher numbers of singles in the US has triggered studies on the
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    • 767 37  -  C SHANTHENI I HAD just been on the phone with a good friend. My daughter Zara, aged eight, and her two girls are best pals. So, it was the usual weekend get-together plan for kids and parents. Except, my friend said, she and her
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    • 728 38  -  CAROL LEONG I WAS walking down Campbell Lane in Serangoon Road when I came across a stall selling mangoes fat, yellow ones neatly arranged on trays. The sight reminded me of the mango season in India makeshift stalls along the road selling plump, fragrant mangoes for a
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  • Page 39 Miscellaneous
    • 558 39 {<( HEY/))} WHAT'S HUP S* X Leo (July 22 to Aug 23) Pisces (Feb 20 to March 20) I Inefficiency and discourtesy will be causing brown; lucky number I. It's going to be important to get off to a flying I Leo hackles and voices to rise in anger. The
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  • RACING
    • 764 42 Burst Away (Race 3 No. 5) One who richly deserves a winning break. With five seconds in six starts, it looks like he needs luck, more than anything else, to burst through. His laststart second just a fortnight ago was a top effort. Racing fresh from
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    • 90 42 RACE 2: Desert Warrior, Calibre. RACE 4: Cookie, Mega Success, Winmic, Casual Dragon, Storming Eagle. RACE 5: Noryn's Pride, Daily Accountant, Hunky-Dory, Spin Master, The Best Action. RACE 6: Spunky Dasher, Mega Strike, Victory Treasure, Swift Sweep. RACE 7: Meyer Princess, Sir Bureaucrat, Goldlenda. RACE 8: New Formula, Great
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    • 1832 43 No. Last 6 funs Horee Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/»e«, trainer-owner) 1 000- DIAMOND BOSS 57 (49) KWLeong 2 (3ag SH Tan-Queen) 2 HI HO SILVER 57 (53) DChee 8 (3nzg W Leong-Majestic) 3 *****- KIKO'S DESTINY 57 (51) CDinn 1 (3nzg Robert-Mdm
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    • 1447 44 TENSE DUEL: Keeneland (No. 5) prevailing by a head from Horse Prosperity in Race 4 to give trainer John Meagher the first leg of a treble at Kranji yesterday. Picture/ Drew Fritz 7 SUPER DRATINI57 (15-7) E Wilkinson (6) 3 1
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    • 251 44  -  By Lionel Lee SIMPLY great. That about summed up last night's proceedings for trainer John Meagher, who sent out a winning hat-trick. First to salute from the 52-year-old Australian's camp was the Lucky Stable-owned- Keeneland in Race 4. The Danehill progeny, ridden by Mick
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    • 1146 45 RACE 1: Spasski, Paramount Chief and Dual Wonder (withdrawn, capacity field); Blessed (jumped awkwardly inwards/held up for a run between 300m and 200m mark, tendency to lay inwards thereafter/brushed with Exotic shortly after 100m mark); Crate Of Thunder (jumped awkwardly outwards, brushing outside gate
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    • 32 44 4-D DRAW SATURDAY: June 16,2001 F SECOND THIRD 0549 4387 2266 2502 4959 0800 6654 1470 7918 3939 2676 1837 2914 STARTERS 1106 1653 7565 1780 0339 9449 9294 9740 2761 8694
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    • 401 45 RECOGNISE FORMER STARS, SAYS EX-MALAYSIA CUP SKIPPER: Pages 54 55 COME on, let's hang loose a little. Take off your jersey because you're NO longer going to get a yellow card. But make sure that you don't offend anyone, from rival players, officials or spectators,
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    • 1595 46  -  ALAN HUBBARD Exclusive/ From London DAVID Beckham's on the buses in Beijing. Michael Owen, too, their faces adorning placards designed to boost the sales of Pepsi-Cola. It used to be Chairman Mao's little red book which conveyed the message to the Chinese people. Now it
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      918 48  -  The Lakers retain NBA title with ease PRADEEP PAUL HOW MATCH WENT NOBODY'S perfect, not even the Lakers. They sure came close, though. The winningest post-season run in NBA history came to a conclusion yesterday morning. The Los Angeles Lakers, looking jtes dominant and unbeatable as they for nearly
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    • SATURDAY
      • 1016 50  -  REPORT ERNEST LUIS THEY may just be seen as fat cash cows, waiting to be milked by an undernourished S-League team. But Tang Weng Fei and Francis Gomez, who represent Ramtron Oil and SembCorp Gas respectively, are sponsors with a difference. Yes, they've
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      • 228 51 SAVE! 5th min: Dolphins striker Ashrin Shariff fools a defender and volleys at goal but Rams goalkeeper Faizal AN blocks his shot. DOLPHINS MISS. 26th: Ghanaian winger Dickson Ocloo shoots from outside the box but it sails just over the crossbar. RAMS SCORE BUT...34th: Little Masalan Mahat is
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    • 1137 52 NEXT WEEK: THE 1 MIDFIELD I MASTERS THE Rock of Gibraltar. The Tanker. The Gangster. The Camel. The Iron Man. Char Kway Teow. If you're not familiar with these famous Singapore-style soccer nicknames of another glorious era, don't fret. Just read on. Because these fiery nicknames
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    • 416 53  - SAMAD: COACH CROCODILES If you were a Malaysia Cup footballer in the 1970s, you were like a sporting demi-god. The Lions, who fired up the Kallang Roar, were saluted from the stadiums, schools, streets and sarabat-stalls. In the second of a special four-part series, we hail the deadly defenders with
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      181 53 SAMAD Alapitchay would've been a badminton or hockey stalwart if not for a leading soccer referee. "If not for HS Dhillon (left), I would never have put so much of effort to football. "He saw me play in school, he nurtured me for four years and told
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    • 531 54  -  FORMER MALAYSIA CUP HERO LASHES OUT AT fev Suresh Nair FORMER decorated football hero Samad Alapitchay (right) points to the Singapore flag and says he played with immense pride >r Singapore. He is in Asia's Hall of Fame as a efender-extraordinary,
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    • 422 55 SORRY RECOGNITION WATCH before you take an easy swipe at us, says the Football Association of Singapore (FAS). FAS chief operating officer John Koh has strongly defended that former national players have not been forsaken. Rebutting the points raised by ex-Singapore skipper Samad Alapitchay (see previous page),
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    • 159 55 AP. TIGER Woods is not firing. Spain's Sergio Garcia is. He continued his overall solid play and moved into contention to capture his first major championship with a two-under 68 for a 138 total after two rounds of the US Open. Garcia came to Southern
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