The New Paper, 19 August 2001

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  • NEWS
    • 510 2 Many trapped by hotel's burglar-proof window grilles MANILA'S WORST FIRE SINCE 1996 SHE hung on to the iron window grille of the burning Quezon City Manor hotel, shouting "Lord, please save us!". Ms Bon, 25, a born-again Christian, was lucky not to fall to the pavement
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    • 667 3  -  Cautionary tale for the Internet Generation BY Jason Tan THE photos will make you cringe. They show Shanghai-based artist Zhu Yu, 31, cutting up what looks like a human foetus and then eating it. He claimed the dead foetus was a six-month-old baby, which
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    • 214 3 MOST people who saw the e-mail didn't believe it, a random check by The New Paper on Sunday showed. "Could it be a camera trick? Or a cut-and-paste job? You know, with the Internet, people can come out with all kind of stories," said Ms Chia Hui
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    • 1029 4  -  REPORT NG WAN CHING THIS woman almost lost her life in a freak case of a bone in a squid getting stuck in her throat and then piercing an artery. Madam Tan Bee Neo, 55, had prepared her own lunch as usual
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    • 224 5 NEVER use food to try and force a bone stuck in the throat down the oesophagus. Said Dr Chia Kok Hoong, consultant vascular surgeon at Singapore General Hospital: "The arteries are covered with soft tissue. "It is extremely unlikely that anything we eat
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    • 1023 6  -  1.2 MILLION RANSOM VICTIM: KIDNAPPING, WEDDING, THEN HIDING By Ng Wan Ching THE irony of his kidnapping was that Mr Tay Teng Joo, son of a Singapore tycoon, had kept a much lower profile compared with his flamboyant sibling, Arthur. Not surprisingly, the
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    • 901 7  -  CAR REPAIR SCAM BY Dawn Chia POLYTECHNIC student L W Wong, 20, is fuming. His eight-month-old Nissan Sunny car is his pride and joy, a gift from his mother. But on Aug 8, his car was hit in the rear by
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    • 318 7 MR Wong believes he was the target of "bua kias" (Hokkien for crocodile). He believes they are part of a group who create accidents, after which they try to persuade the victim to send the car for repairs at a certain workshop. When The New
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    • 659 8 When they go to clean up, he sneaks into their flats and steals their valuables. DAWN CHLA reports Madam chua Koh Tee was resting after a visit to a doctor when she heard a knock on her door. It was a man she
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    • 87 9 FAMILY members should advise elderly relatives living at home to be wary and never open their doors to strangers. They should also be reminded to keep their grille gates and doors locked at all times to prevent unwelcome visitors from entering the
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    • 947 10  -  CHINA'S APPEAL Lots of land, cheap rentals Huge pool off labour from population off 1.26 billion Educated workers. Example: It churns out 145,000 engineers a year compared to 4,000 in Taiwan Prepared to work ffor lower wages Big domestic market THE US WAY Technologically
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  • NEWS
    • 357 13  -  That's the CNB's strategy to fight the spread of heroin here. And it did just that on Friday by nabbing 34.8 kg... worth $5.2 million on the street BY Jason Tan THE street price of heroin Singapore's most widely-abused drug has doubled in the past six
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    • 105 13 1 Syndicate leader, 35, leaves Cascadale L condominium in Changi in a taxi. CNB 9 officers trail him to Kranji MRT Station. 2 He picks up Mack Umbro bag from pavement and boards another taxi. 3 He is arrested by CNB officers at the I junction
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  • AT A GLANCE
    • 275 14 THEY enter Singapore as tourists or students. But instead of Sentosa or school, they end up as hostesses on customers' laps in pubs and karaoke lounges. At least 44 of such illegal workers have been arrested this year. Still, neither arrest nor regular raids seem to
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    • 96 14 APPRENTICE WARRIORS: Is there a fighter in you crying to get out? If so, a two-month course at the Roman Gladiator School (above) In Rome, Italy, is just for you. F0r216,000 lire ($177), you'll get to wear a little skirt like Russell Crowe did
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    • 417 14 THE US dollar has come down to around $1.75, eight cents less than it was a month ago. And, I've been trying to understand whether that is good or bad for Asia. Wrote Tom Holland in the Far Eastern Economic Review recently: "If the
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 116 15 ARCHAEOLOGIST John Miksic and his team started excavating on Wednesday, hoping to find 14th century artefacts on the Bras Basah field between Waterloo and Queen Street. That's why what they finally did find came as something of a surprise that the land on which the Singapore
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      • 110 15 THEY have not been paid for three months. And, the 25 men from China refuse to return home until they are paid the money owed them between $4,000 and $5,000 each. The foreign workers are just some of the more than 100 employees of Wei Sin
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      • 120 15 Reuters. THE Russian air force is in such disarray that there is no fuel at 49 of the country's 115 military aerodromes. The commander of Russia's air force, Mr Anatoly Kornukov, said yesterday that the nation's air defences needed huge investments at least US$375 million ($656
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      • 94 15 AFP. MEMBERS of an Austrian theatre company accused Italian police yesterday of abusing them psychologically, physically and sexually in detention during last month's Group of Eight summit in Genoa. Said a statement: "The 25 Austrians were mistreated psychologically, physically and sexually when they were held on
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      • 101 15 Reuters. SO far, 226 deaths have been confirmed. But the death toll from devastating floods in north-east Iran could reach 500, the state radio reported yesterday. It is the region's worst flooding in 200 years. UN experts have travelled to the flood-stricken area to assess the scale
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      • 101 15 AFP. A PASSENGER train derailed in north-western Sri Lanka yesterday, killing at least 13 passengers and wounding over 50 others, police said. Three compartments of the train derailed 70km north-east of Colombo, the police said. The cause of the disaster was not immediately known. Police
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      • 99 15 AP. MALAYSIAN embassies have been told to look out for Malaysian groups out to topple governments. The ruling party's information chief Mustapa Mohamed said the missions should try to obtain information about such groups before their activities become more serious. "We hope our embassies play a role in
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      • 108 15 THE Golden Mile Food Centre will be revamped at a cost of $5.2 million, one of three centres that will be undergoing renovations. At separate dinners held to celebrate National Day yesterday, Kampong Glam MP Loh Meng See announced the upgrading of the Golden Mile centre, while
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    • 178 15 INFOCUS THE Think Centre said it shut down its website's online discussion group to protest against the recent changes made to the Parliamentary Elections Act. But Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng believes that that's just an excuse. He said yesterday: "I do not know that
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  • EXPAT
    • 833 16  -  The brain drain from Singapore is partly from women here who marry expats and leave to follow their husbands home, a reader wrote to a local daily recently. But how do these "daughters" of Singapore, as Prime Minister Goh ChokTong aptly calls them, feel about home when
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    • 457 17  -  COUPLE 2 By Debra Palmer IN MASSACHUSETTS. US MOVING to the US has made me realise what a beautiful and wonderful country Singapore is. It's so ironic, but true. For someone who had always wanted to leave Singapore to see the world, this revelation
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    • 143 17 THE extent of Singaporean women marrying out marrying a foreigner, possibly Caucasian, and leaving and joining the growing group of overseas-based Singaporean women expats is not immediately clear. Marriage statistics shed some light. Of 1,778 inter-ethnic marriages recorded under the Women's Charter in 1999, 16 per cent (the
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    • 36 16 YOUR CALL COULD SHE HAVE ACHIEVED AS MUCH IN HER CAREER IN S'PORE? Call from a handphone to give your vote Yes PI» 88******1 No Pl» 88******2 Results Pl» 88******0 You must press the asterisk button.
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    • 165 17 Education RfIJUH in Australia Adelaide is "possibly metropolis on earth" |WK. f the New Yorier Magazine Exhibition Seminar Program (run in conjunction with the Education Exhibition) Saturday 12.00 Opening exhibition Being successful in Australia as an overseas student Presenter: Mr Alfred Huang, The Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor of Adelaide
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  • 932 18 NEWS Is the Suharto family starting to feel the heat? His eldest grandson was found recently with 70 rounds of ammunition in his house. And the search has intensified for Mr Suharto's fugitive son, Tommy', after investigations linked him to the killing of
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  • NEWS
    • 555 20  -  By Surya Gangadharan REPORTING FROM NEW DELHI The Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) in the Indian capital, Delhi, is a far cry from Raffles City or City Hall. Literally and metaphorically. One is a bustling bus interchange servicing a population of 13.8 million in crowded, chaotic Delhi.
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    • 196 20 THE Delhi Metro is expected to cost more than US$4 billion ($7.2b). The first phase, which began in 1998, is to be completed by March 2005. Said public relations officer Anuj Dayal: This is internationally acknowledged as a tight schedule since similar projects in other countries
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    • 403 21 Made-in-Taiwan jelly snack linked to choking deaths in the US. Major food stores take it off the shelf AP. ITS popular with children. But it's been pulled from the shelves of hundreds of supermarkets in the US after it was blamed for the choking deaths of
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    • 186 21 THERE was some publicity over similar mini-jellies in Singapore in 1999 after reports of choking incidents in Taiwan and Hongkong. In December 1999, a nine-year-old disabled boy reportedly choked to death on a mini-jelly in his Yishun home. At the time, children were advised not
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  • Hey! SUNDAY YOUR MA HE WEEKEND
    • 961 22  -  Money, stardom and a jet-setting lifestyle. So why did pop diva Mariah Carey (right) suddenly cave in when her life looked so good? YONG SIEW FERN THE great MC had done the unspeakable. Like mortals under pressure, Mariah Carey had succumbed to the blues, suffering
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    • 907 24  -  SIVA CHOY I ALWAYS watch a good TV programme when I eat, especially when I have cooked my own dinner, because a good show can make the worst meal enjoyable. Yesterday, there was nothing worth watching, so I ended up watching a soccer
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    • 42 23 YOUR OPINION What's the main cause of Mariah Carey's breakdown? Call from your handphone to tell us. Too much work PIE 88******1 Bitter divorce PIC* 88******2 Boyfriend breakup P\m 88******3 Poor management PIS 88******4 Results PIC* 88******0 You must press the asterisk
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  • 636 25  -  It doesn't matter how young or old you are: Everyone needs calcium. JOANNA HUGHES tells you how much and why [Health Now Brought to you by Anlene AS a child, I remember being very proud of a T-shirt that said "Champion Milk Drinker". Milk was
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  • HEY!
    • 615 27  -  They were once stored in dingy warehouses. But now... No money to invest in a Van Gogh? Why not get a movie poster instead? Collecting film art can reap very handsome returns WONG KIM HOH TWO years ago, marketing manager, Mr Ng Peng Hui, bought
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    • 124 27 READ Collecting Movie Posters by Ed and Susan Poole (orders available through Borders at $81, tel: 235-7146), which takes you through every aspect of the hobby. Posters which have value can be divided into three broad categories: Classic Movies: Highly sought after movie posters in this category
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    • 671 28  -  CAROL LEONG I THINK that we should all have, in our repertoire, a few tasty dishes that we can cook when we need to lose a few kilos fast. A favourite black dress acts as my diet gauge once my little potbelly starts straining against
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    • 175 29  - Third cousins and in love MATTERS OF THE HEART AND SOUL I'M 23 years old and working here as a domestic helper. This is my second working stint in Singapore. I find Singapore very nice, especially if one's employer is good. I'm a Filipina and I started work here in
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    • 169 29 Last week's letter: HOONG is 50 years old and planning to leave her husband. She has been married for 35 years and has three children. Her daughter is 28, and two sons are 27 and 18, respectively. Her daughter and one son are already married and she
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    • 144 29 Readers' advice I AM a 31-year-old woman and I have three children like you. They are all girls, aged five, seven and nine. You have brought up your children to a stage where they can lead their own lives, all without the help of your husband.
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    • 139 29 HE has not been a husband to you for so many years, so that hanging on any longer to the marriage would be meaningless. Especially as your children are all grown up. I suggest that you go ahead and see a lawyer on how to legally
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    • 369 30 I'M 18 years old and still studying. My mother passed away when I was very young and after a few years, my father remarried. My father was very strict with me and this makes it hard for me to express my feelings to him now.
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    • 370 30 I AM a 14-year-old working at a fast-food restaurant. My father was jobless for two months. But recently, he has got a job as a security guard. Since he suffered a heart attack, most companies do not want to employ him. Also, I want to work
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    • 247 30  -  DR LIM SU MIN Q RECENTLY, I tried to have sex with my girlfriend. But no matter what I did or she did, I couldn't get an erection. I am not a virgin, but this was the first time I was with this particular girl. I've
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    • 88 30 Q I WOULD like to know whether there are any side-effects to masturbation. Will it eventually decrease my sexual ability when I grow older? Curious Boy 3 There are no scientifically proven side-effects to masturbation, despite many old wives tales. Masturbation does not cause weak knees, hairy
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    • 431 31  -  t TV WATCHIT YONG SIEW FERN p LEANORWong, lawyer-playwright-debater, is a confident woman with an equally commanding voice. I'd share a drink with her after hours, but when she is chairing a current affairs "panel" chat show, I'd rather admire her furniture and
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    • 40 29 CAN YOU HELP? If you think you can help with some useful advice, write or fax to Aggie by Wednesday. The best letter will be published next week. The writer of the best reply will receive a New Paper T-shirt.
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    • 62 30 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. Or fax 737-5375, e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg (please mark: Aggie) or call 1900-*****07 (calls cost 30 cents a minute). (You can use a pen name,
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 432 31 Highlights The Love Letter TV Works, 3pm A man buys an antique desk and finds a letter from the Civil War era written by a woman who died 100 years ago. Just for fun, he writes a reply only to begin a magical correspondence with the dead woman. Stars Campbell
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 863 32 THE NEW PAPER/Sunday, August 19,2001 Page 33 TV 9 10.00: 9.00: Herman's 10.00: Ninku 9.00: Digimon 9.00: Let's and 9.00: Ultraman 9.00: The World 10.02: Jejak 10.00: Golden Beastwars/The Head (Sitcom) (Animation) Adventure/In Go/The Big Q Tiga Today/Money Eksklusif Kids Club 2}>Yl Real Adventure 9.30: lo.3o:Chibi Kid's Camp 10.00: Batman
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  • Article, Illustration
    593 33 HEY! CHIEF Inspector Lee and LAPD detective James Carter arrive in Hongkong for a vacation. But the two cops are soon caught up in investigating a bomb blast, a deadly triad and some priceless plates used to print counterfeit bills. Stars Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Don Cheadle,
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 364 33 m highlight Star Trek Insurrection I a J L'osieau Bleu The Federation gets involved in a plot with Cast: Toyokawa Etsushi, Natsukawa Yui, Maeda AeSon'a allies to extricate 600 members Gin. A tale of tragic love between Yoshimori, a ofthe Ba j race rom t eir nome p anet WBPi
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 287 34 and find the person who killed the woman to their soulful ballads. on board the elegant Eastern and Orient of their dreams. MTV SEA (Ch I I), 9pm, Sat Express. AXN (Ch 19), I Opm, Fri National Geographic (Ch 3 5), 9|91Pr%9 I Opm, Wed w^The,p A of T h^en"
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  • 624 35  -  HEY! TRUDY LIM MY daughter has been talking about it for ages. This is her favourite time of year. Two birthdays in about two weeks. She plans and plots and schemes, changing her mind every day as seven-year-olds do. She makes cards and gifts for
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
    • 667 36 FUNNIES WHAT'S HUP When we have a 50-storey HDB block... Darling, don't give me anymore pressure. I have enough already. 8 m sgfR; mi The horror -if i 3® r V 111 4K >1* V =«ii > EY/ Please draw the curtains. I don't like people looking into the bedroom
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  • 816 37  -  HEY! GLORIA CHANDY SHE's the original a-go-go girl who's really gone places. From small town Muar in Johor to the New World Amusement Park in Singapore to New Jersey in the US. On hot pants, leather boots and what looked like duck tail feathers for eyelashes.
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  • RACING
    • 1322 38 YESTERDAY'S KRANJI (FIBRESAND TRACK) RACE RESULTS GOING: GOOD ESlHHMBBElin 2 WISDOM STAR 58.5 (17-6) SPasquief (8) 4 2 1 (516) 7 GOLDEN CROWN 54 (125-21) KBSoo (5) 6 5 2 (428) 8 BRUTUS 53 (56-12) 0 Chavez (1) 5 6 3 (433) 6 PANORAMA 57 (24-7) MduPlessis (3) 9 8
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    • 226 38  -  By Lionel Lee IT'S final. Singapore Gold Cup winning trainer Michael Kent (left) will move to Macau. After spending weeks deliberating, Kent has decided to trade in his Malayan Racing Association licence for a Macau Jockey Club permit. Speaking from Kranji last night
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    • 209 39  -  By Lionel Lee INTERCITY has done it once again. Stepping out after a two-month rest at Kranji last night, the six-year-old American-bred packed too much power in the Speedsters Handicap with another smashing victory. It was the second time this season that Intercity has
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    • 1577 39 RACE 1: Trainer S Gray was warned for declaring BALLYGUNNER as a runner when the horse did not fulfil his required test. Before the running of the race, trainer C Leek advised that he had instructed the rider of BUCATTI to race just
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    • 795 40 RACE Is CELTIC PLEASURE was slow into stride. GOWOZZA had a tendency to lay in shortly after the start and finished the race on the inside. PRINCESS LAN had a tendency to lay in during the middle stages. JOVENA'S JOY bled. RACE 2:
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    • 991 40 3 SOUTHERN KING 57 (21-8) *B Shahrul (4) 5 2 1 (476) 4 PRINCESS LAN 56.5 (31-9) KOh (11) 6 3 2 (450) 10 GOWOZZA50c 49.5(134-31) *KTCheng (1) 1 1 3 (449) 2 GEORGE S WONDER 57 (61-19) lAzhar (9) 7 5 4 (417)
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    • 304 41  -  Sweet day for apprentices Shahrul, Cheng and Kumarentheran By Marc Tan IT WAS an easy day at the office for jockey Benny Woodworth and a happy one as well for apprentices BN Shahrul, KT Cheng and A Kumarentheran. The foursome were the toast in the
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    • 1442 41 Mtllliwi Hwt Wl Walwp Jodf Bmrkr tufcwi uaim) 1 3-0- MIGHTY FOX 57 (48)~ I Sarfudn 1 (4ag Chase) 2 --4851 STAR8UZZ 57 (48) 'D Chang c3 3 (5irg SH Tan-GoW) 3 *****4 KING GENERAL 56.5 (47) TLY* 11 (6n*g W Leong-Fatod To
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    • 69 42 |PICK OFTHEDAYI Has returned to form. Only three weeks ago, this five-year-old chestnut Aus-tralian-bred tried to lead all the way over the Penang 1,400 m on a soft track but was headed out at the post by Starbuzz. That run should serve as a
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    • 53 42 RACE 1: Starbuzz, King General, Persian Tycoon, King Lark, Spunky Dasher, That's Good. RACE 2: His Highness, Mega Strike. RACE 5: Desert Warrior, Bold Mission. RACE 6: Wahid Abjar, Alfred's Princess, Blue Grass, Heilo Girl, Lucky Gem. RACE 7: Season Dancer, Storm Legend, Time Breaker. RACE 8: Sir Caversham,
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  • SPORTS
    • 1202 43  -  SATURDAY SLAM REPORTS WANG MENG MENG JERRY Bartholomeusz nurses a secret anguish. An anguish that involves SAF Warriors goal-machine Mirko Grabovac. The Tampines Stags defender's v anguish began 11 months ago. Flashback Sep 15 last year: Seventy-one minutes into the first-leg of the Singapore
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    • Article, Illustration
      179 44 THE Warriors' camp is beginning to resemble ER now. Goalkeeper Rezal Hassan and defender Tan Kim Leng are the latest casualties of war after last night's 8-2 victory over the Tampines Stags. Rezal had his left shoulder heavily strapped while Tan's left ankle was packed in ice. Both players
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    • 331 45  -  YONEX-SUNRISE SINGAPORE OPEN BADMINTON 2001; Day 7 By Brian Miller THEY met three times last year and, on all three occasions, she saw herself bowing out to compatriot Gong Zhichao. It must have frustrating for Dai Yun, who never seemed able to get away from Zhichao's shadow.
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    • 137 45 NETBALL SUPER LEAGUE SOUTHERN Stingrays overcame the Western Vipers by the skin of their teeth, winning their semi-final 38-36 at Toa Payoh Sports Hall last night. Their victory qualifies the Stingrays for a place in the Preliminary Final on 22 Aug (at 7pm). The match was keenly
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    • 98 46 MORE PREMIERSHIP REPORTS: Pages 48, 49, 50, 51 52 The past few months have been very trying indeed for Singapore football fans. Coping with the economic downturn was bad enough, but having to do so without the weekly dose of Premiership action was almost cmel. But
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    • 512 49  -  m Owen's form a big threat to Man U COMMENT SAW TEK MENG MICHAEL Owen served notice in the most emphatic way that new Manchester United striker Ruud varfj Nistelrooy won't have it his own way in hotshot stakes. The Liverpool's striker's two brilliant goals against
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    • 47 49 Liverpool was impressive. But It has a bit of a problem penetrating West Ham's defence. K even resorted to long-range shooting. But Mich sol Owen used his pace excellently to get the winning goal. Former Singapore skipper TERRY PATHMANATHAN, a Liverpool fan J
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    • 220 49 BIG TROUBLE AT ANFIELD IN most jobs, if you spoke down to your boss, you'd be out. Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier has made it clear to Robbie Fowler: Say sorry to No 2 boss Phil Thompson or be grounded. "He would have been sacked in any other job
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    • 317 49 SIR Alex Ferguson (left) last night pleaded with his Premiership rivals: Challenge my team for a change and help me win the European Cup. He insists it would be terrific for Manchester United if four sides were genuinely battling for the league
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    • 446 50  -  COMMENT EDWIN YEO THIS is probably premature, but Arsenal fans here have reason to expect a good season. Well, sure, that's easy to say after it demolished Middlesbrough 4-0 at the Riverside Stadium last night. But any true Arsenal fan will understand what this
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    • 73 50 Arsenal played a patient game. It stM has a ■LI uJ|L -ig If ,a -L* a proo#em wtui aiscipcine. it n wains 10 D€i senous IT|l nnmA dmm il I Dm& I true comenoef, me atsctpttne must oe ngm. but i H .j A a 1141
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    • 217 50 NO GOALIE FOR HAMMERS I WEST HAM manager Glenn Roeder is hopping mad. He is very angry over the injury sustained by his No 1 goalkeeper David James while playing England. A scan confirmed that James has ruptured knee ligaments which could rule him out for the
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