The New Paper, 26 August 2001

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  • 14 1 the new paper on Sunday AUGUST 26,2001 MITA (P)103/03/2001 70 CENTS I hh MM
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  • NEWS
    • 412 2 HE had spent the day at work, as usual. Little did the middle-aged man in Johor Baru know that during the day he had become a mul-ti-millionaire. He had won a whopping RMI2 million ($5.5 m) in this month's Malaysian lottery.
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    • 182 2 Reuters. AMERICA could produce a US$2BO-million (ssoom) lottery winner today. The Powerball drawing, to take place at 11am Singapore time, is offering the thirdbiggest pay-out in US ryBut the odds are 80 mil-lion-to-one for a sole winner. The pot has snowballed because no-one
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    • 129 2 WHAT are the odds of winning the US Powerball draw? Well, they're pretty long, reports CNN. An expert on odds and gambling, California State University Professor Mike Orkin, told CNN: "If you buy 50 tickets a week, the odds are that you would win once every
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    • 184 2 THERE'LL be no more Hype for Fann Wong (above) come October. Her recording company, Hype Records, is not renewing her recording contract, reported the Shin Min Daily News. A Hype spokesman said: "Hype has decided that our artistes must sign a recording contract, as well as a
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    • 613 3  -  By Jason Tan THE man on the stage raised a handsome gold-plated horse statue during the Hungry Ghost Festival auction. In fluent Mandarin, he urged on the bidding from the crowd gathered in an open field at Jurong East St 24
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    • 548 4  -  Car brakes cut twice REPORTS JASON TAN TALK about Monday blues. Mr Eric Koh, a 24-year-old marketing executive, was in a hurry to get to work on Aug 6. He got into his four-year-old BMW 318 and promptly drove off. Unknown to him, however,
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    • 111 4 MR Norman Lim, 36, a former professional rally car engineer, says that there are ways to slow a car when the brakes suddenly don't work. The driver can go up a gentle slope, and then try to apply the handbrake when the car
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    • 218 5 THE culprit who cut the brake cables may not be a motoring expert. The rear brake cables were cut in both cases. Mechanic Tan Han Kit, 50, said that if the culprit were an expert on BMWs, he would know it is easier to cut
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    • 846 6 FORMER NATIONAL SPRINTER MONA KUNALAN (RIGHT) QUIT RUNNING BECAUSE OF THE... And, she's not alone. More people are getting heel pain, or what is called heel spurs. NG WAN CHING reports THE pain was so great in her left heel, former national sprinter Mona Kunalan was
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    • 54 7 The pain came after each training session..', and the first 10 minutes of every morning, (when) the pain would be at its worst... (In 1997), said enough was enough. I quit competitive running. It felt like somebody was banging a hammer on my heel all the time
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    • 13 7 SMS reporter Dawn Chia on 94-77 88 99
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    • 390 7 FIVE orthopaedic surgeons and sports medicine doctors we spoke to say that there is an increase in the number of patients with heel pain. Most say they are seeing 20 per cent more such cases now compared to two years ago. It was
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    • 685 8  -  BY Dawn Chia MR Lui Heow Wee was delivering gas cylinders when his frantic wife called him on his handphone. She told him that their son, Denis, had been beaten up by eight youths. Mr Lui rushed home immediately at 6.45pm even though he had
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    • 165 8 DENIS' parents have tafed him to stay at his grandmother's house for a while. Said Mr Lui: "I am very emotionally drained because of this incident. I worry about his safety all the time. "I don't know what they would do if they see him again."
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  • NEWS
    • 770 10  - And now, for speech #87 Speakers' Corner turns one this Saturday. When it was launched, 395 people signed up to speak. But up till last Tuesday, only eight had signed up this month. One man has persevered. The New Paper on Sunday catches up with Mr Tan Kim Chuang, who
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    • 100 11 UP till Aug 21, a total of 1,109 people had signed up to speak at Speakers' Corner. The numbers are of speakers who registered to speak each month. According to press reports last year, a significant number did not speak although they had signed up. The figures
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    • 57 11 The Speakers Corner is not meant to replace established feedback channels. If the people want the Government to take up an issue, they should still go through the feedback unit, talk to their Member of Parliament, or write in directly to the
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    • 298 11 ONE man suggested buying a birthday cake to celebrate the first anniversary of Speakers' Corner. But another insisted it should be closed down. "Every week, ifs the same old gramophone playing the same old time," said Mr James Lou, 41, a global trader, who turns up
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    • 790 12  -  By Suresh Nair THIS tough defender tackled his fair share of footballers in Singapore's glorious Malaysia Cup era. Today, the sweat-soaked jerseys and dirty boots are gone. He hardly talks of the famous ball game that made him a sporting legend. Instead, Syed Mutalib
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    • 144 12 SYED Mutalib was nicknamed The Gangster" for his no-nonsense tackling skills when he played along Samad Allapitchay, Quah Kim Song and Dollah Kassim in the legendary mid-*****, under the coaching of the late Choo Seng Quee. Those were the years when the Lions made it to several Malaysia
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  • AT A GLANCE
    • 310 14 THESE S'POREANS... HE had been getting food rations for a year but started grumbling that it was always the same old things. So he demanded that he be given something other than the usual tinned sardines and biscuits. Another man, 60, told a sob story
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    • Article, Illustration
      169 14 INFOCUS THESE S'POREANS... FOR two weeks, the 23-year-old was flooded with calls. Not from boyfriends. Miss Fazeela Abdul Rashid's callers were vice-presidents, managers and analysts. Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) and Merrill Lynch were wooing the chemical A A ll engineering graduate to jom them as an
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    • 378 14 A FASCINATING political tussle is brewing in Taiwan. A new party, the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU), has been formed with the blessings of former president Lee Teng-hui. It aims to take votes away from the opposition Kuomintang to help the pro-independence Democratic Progressive
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    • 130 15 BRIEFLY Yes y Singapore has caught the cold too. And once you have caught it, there is no quick cure. You can take Vitamin C, drink herbal soup and keep yourself warm, but the cold will still have to run its course. You
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    • 80 15 DUXTON Plain, the cluster 0f324 flats, will make way for super-tall HDB blocks perhaps as high as 50 storeys. Residents have two years to move out. As relocation benefits, they will get priority if they want to buy or rent HDB flats nearby. If they buy
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    • 83 15 JUST when British farmers thought the worst was over, a new case of foot-and-mouth disease has cropped up, sparking fears the six-month epidemic is far from over. The case, found in a new area, a farm in Northumberland, north-east England, is the first reported in 14 weeks. It
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    • 72 15 FIRST, she was his wife. Now she's his "sister". Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, 71, made news recently by marrying South Korean acupuncturist Maria Sung, 43. But the Roman Catholic Church wants its priests single. So Pope John Paul II asked him to leave his wife. On Friday, the
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    • 73 15 MID-AIR drama forced a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 to make an emergency landing in the Japanese city of Nagoya yesterday. One of the plane's tyres had burst while the aircraft was airborne. All 329 passengers and crew members were unhurt when flight SQ9B2 landed safely at 8.30
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    • 84 15 THE only two hostels for ex-convicts have been forced to close because of lack of funds and trained staff. The Singapore After-Care Association closed its hostel at the end of last year, nine months after the Salvation Army's Chang Ten at Bukit Timah, closed. These two hostels used
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    • 45 15 A Japanese dancer showing her moves for a samba contest during a parade as part of the annual summer carnival, Atakusa Samba 2001, in Tokyo yesterday. Some 3,00P Japanese and Brazilian dancers were performing before 500,000 spectators* Picture/ Afp
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • EXPAT
    • 253 16 SINGAPORE resident Robert Casteels, a composer, conductor and educator, has won Belgium's prestigious Plantin Prize for 2001. The award was named after the famous Belgian printer, Christofel Plantin, and has been given to one person each year since 1968. It recognises outstanding achievement
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    • 776 16 Besides winning the Plantin Prize 2001, Mr Casteels recently released Set Sail, an album featuring gamelan instruments with Chinese, Western, Indian and computergenerated sounds. He shares on how he discovered the gamelan, a traditional Javanese instrument, and his contact with the Hungry Ghosts Festival shows
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    • 215 17 COURTESY of my Singaporean wife, of course! I met Jia Lin in London in 1985. She was studying piano at the Royal Academy of Music and I was doing postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She joined me in Belgium
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    • 66 17 Did you end up in Singapore because your spouse, partner or friend is a Singaporean? How did he/she persuade you to come to Singapore? Share your views with us. Contact Gus, Expat Page editor, at <guspang@yahoo. com.sg>. Or write to: Gus, The New Paper Expat Page 82 Genting
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  • NEWS
    • What's on their minds?
      • 174 19 Three Asean leaders visit Singapore over six days. AZHAR GHANI reports I INDONESIAN PRESIDENT MEGAWATI SUKARNOPUTRI THE visit by Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri (left), which starts today, is part of her whirlwind seven-day, nine-nation tour. The purpose of this tour: To send out a message of confidence to
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      • 228 19 THAI PRIME MINISTER PR THAKSIN SHINAWATRA HOW do outsiders regard Singapore? One diplomat at least regards the nation as the "businessman" of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean). This is Mr Suranand Vejjajiva, a Thai MP and spokesman for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's (right) Thai
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      • Article, Illustration
        266 19 PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO While she was here, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (above with President S R Nathan) showed interest in the Housing and Development Board (HDB) and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). Said Dr Federico Macaranas, ex-foreign affairs Under-Secretary of the Philippines: The average Filipino
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    • 259 20 NORWAY'S ROYAL MARRIAGE Reuters. SHE doesn't have evil step-sisters or a nasty step-mother. But what Crown Prince Haakon's bride, Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby, does have is a son out of wedlock and a drug-tainted past. Something that many Norwegians objected to at first. But yesterday, the single
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    • Article, Illustration
      658 21 •n the trail of a self-confessed... After being on the run forfive years, one of America's most wanted men was finally caught in Bangkok this week. What is self-confessed child molester Eric Franklin Rosser like? JASON TAN traces his downfall WITH his glasses, soft voice and clean-shaven look,
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    • 744 22 It was an eye-openerfor3oobikers from all over the world as they travelled overland from South Korea into North Korea on their lean machines. For our photojournalist, it was a dream ride THERE was no way I was going to miss this
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    • 523 23 "ITS a start," said Mr Shin Jun Yong, 43, president of the Korean Motorcycle Federation (KMF). He kick-started the event by flagging off two BMW motorcycles at the head of the convoy. Many had doubts whether such a large-scale motorbike tour was possible. Most people were
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    • 375 24 /FROM PAGE 22 YOU could see them but you couldn't hear them just like a silent movie. The North Korean villagers were waving but you could not hear them. It was as though they were meant to be seen but not heard. The
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    • 522 25 ORANGE boxer shorts. A pair of Wal-Mart denim jeans. A roll of toilet paper. All sold over Internet auction site eßay. And all to be visited once more by the person who sold them, John Freyer. What began as a
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  • Hey! SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND
    • 692 26  -  Men and their mean street machines. But you'd be surprised at how many women are also into performance cars. We catch up with some ladies here who have, well, 98 Octane running through their veins... EUGENE WEE THEY are grease monkeys who really know
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    • 424 27 BEING behind the wheel of a hot rod that chews up the tarmac doesn't help these ladies avoid the "woman driver" stereotyping. All three said that being taunted to race by Ah Bengs in souped-up Honda Civics was a regular occurence for them
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    • 443 28  -  TOH PAIK CHOO I LEARNED to whistle at the foot of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, in those days when that landmark monument still had an inclination. But not, as you'd be forgiven for thinking, for the tall, dark and handsome Italian
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    • 98 28 FLY to Rome and take the train from Termini (the main railway station serving all Italy) to Florence. From there, you can take any of the guided day tours to the town of Pisa. The tower is no longer open to climbers. Currency is lira, almost $1 to
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    • 639 29  -  RINKOO BHOWMIK NITIN Mehta, all of 15, boasts a fine goatee. Only his mother doesn't know Nitin "grew" it with her Revlon eyeliner! How? A dab hand at the brush strokes, he painted a tiny little triangle just below his lower lip, above his chin.
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    • 89 29 Dil Chaahta Hai (The Heart Desires) is a fun story about how guys bond. It stars Aamir Khan, Saif All Khan and Akshaye Khanna three friends on the threshold of manhood. Farhan Khan, son of poet and screenwriter Javed Khan, has certainly pulled off his directorial
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    • 614 30  -  A child's bond with his parents is crucial when he returns to the community after a spell in prison. A new programme helps both parent and child cope with the challenge GLORIA CHANDY HE took a wrong turn when he was just 13. Mixed
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    • 84 30 YOUNGSTERS who've had a run-in with the law now have a second chance to better themselves Bridging Family Ties is a programme for young offenders in prison, and their families, and will begin in two months. Mr David Kan, a trained counsellor with Family Life Centre, said the
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    • 522 31  -  MIKE CHUA MISTAKES and miracles. These were the two things I grew up on. Back in the sixties, mistakes and miracles punctuated my growing up years. And boy, were the marks telling. You see, I made more mistakes than friends when I was a kid.
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    • 659 32  -  'Seductress, adultress and thieves'. Those 'evil' foreigners who steal our men... But our local and single writers reflect in the mirror before pointing fingers at 'those'foreigners drinking from 'our' pool ADELE ONG IN the brouhaha over China-born
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    • 661 33  -  JANICE WONG MY Aunt Julie is a longstanding employee of a large local company that recently had a major retrenchment. Although she escaped the axe, Aunt Julie spoke sorely of how it is increasingly common to hail foreigners working here
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    • 254 34 Getting that deep, dark secret off your chest WHEN I was 16,1 met a much older fellow who fell in love with me. He would wait outside my school for me; he would turn up where he thought I would be. He
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 545 34 Highlights Conspiracy Theory Channel 5,7pm A taxi driver gets himself into trouble after his self-published conspiracy magazine stirs the t interest of some shady government agents and leads to i the unexplained murders of five subscribers. He gets help from an attorney, who has her own murder to solve. Stars
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 854 35 TJJEMEWPAPEW3unday i August26 i 2oo^ iii^^^BH^^H^^M^^^^ TV Page 35 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 #am Real Adventure 9.30: lo.3o:Chibi Kid's Camp 10.00: Batman
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
    • 958 36 HEY/ THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY August 26,2001 IOWNG TODAY RUSH HOUR 2 Cathay-Orchard: 10.30,1130,1230,1.30,230, 3 JO, 530,7,7.30, t, 9.30 Cathay-Causeway: 12.30,1 JO, 2.45,4,5,7, 7.15,115,9.30 EW-Sun Plaza/Toa Payoh: 11 JO. I JO, 3J0, 5J0,7 JO, 9.30 EW-Suntec: 11.15,1.15,3.15,5.15.7.15.9.15 EW-West Mall: 11 JO. 12.45. 1.30. 2.45. 3JO. 5. 5 JO, 7,7
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
    • 625 37 TOE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY August 2b, 2001 HEY/»> Ushering a new era in R&B Si id RAVE USHER is proof that there is more to R&B than the bump 'n' grind of Beyonce and her Destiny sistas. And in the year of Craig David overkill, the singer's 8701 stands
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  • HEY!
    • 246 38  -  DANNY NG, PSYCHOLOGIST I'VE been with Z for over a year. I am 17 and he is 20. We have a newborn son but are not married. The problem is, we can't get along. He says I'm controlling his every move. He claims I never
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    • 142 38 Last week's letter: ANGEL is 23 and working here as a domestic helper. This is her second working stint in Singapore. She finds Singapore very nice, especially if one's employer is good. She's a Filipina, started work here in 1997 and has been reading Dear Aggie
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    • 143 38 Readers' advice YOU seem to be deeply in love with your boyfriend and oblivious to the many problems you may face in this relationship. Sometimes, only third parties such as your parents and his parents can see things you cannot. When two cousins of the same family
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    • 144 38 MOST parents would generally disapprove of marriages between cousins. Generally speaking, marriages between first cousins are prone to offspring with recessive gene disorders. However, in real life examples, some babies born to first cousins can be normal. Marriages between second or third cousins are not considered to
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    • 369 39 I HAVE a problem with my girlfriend's family. We have been together for about two months and everything is going well except for this one issue. It's our age difference. I'm 17 years old and my girlfriend, L, is 20. My parents know about L and me.
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    • 395 39 I am in love with my girlfriend who is two years younger than me. We have been going out for nearly a year. My parents do not know about this relationship and neither do her parents. Only her aunt and our friends know about us. We
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    • 143 39  -  DR LIM SU MIN I AM a 17-year-old girl Qand I am really worried because my period has not come for three months. I have seen a doctor and did a pregnancy test but the result was negative. I asked her if I have any illness but
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    • 193 39 MANY women write in with worries about delayed period (above). If you are sexually active, then the most significant thing to be concerned about is pregnancy. Get a urine pregnancy test done. And repeat every 10 days if negative or until
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    • 83 39 As you've noticed, we've changed this column from Puberty to Sex Matters. Sexuality affects many teens to adults. So, if you have a question or need advice on sex and heart issues, write to: Aggie, The New Paper, News Centre, 82, Genting Lane, Singapore *****7. Or fax
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    • 777 40  -  KAREN TAN TO my relief, National Day is over. I sound so unpatriotic, but that's how I feel, and it's the same feeling at the same time, every year. It's not so much the celebrations I don't care for, but the run-up
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    • 445 41  -  FOR GREENHORNS AND YEGETARIANS CAROL LEONG I'M rooting for lotus roots this week since a semi-vegetarian Indian girlfriend said she's never once cooked,it in her kitchen. "I don't know what to do with it!" she exclaimed. A pity, though I can understand her perplexity. The
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    • 155 41 IF you're not keen on lotus root, look upon it as a crunchy vegetable. Stir-fry it with other crunchy vegetables like asparagus, snow peas, water chestnut and cashew nuts. Or you can marinate the lotus roots in equal quantities of sugar and white vinegar and a little salt
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    • 42 38 CAN YOU help: n 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. V
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    • 408 46  -  180,000 SILVER PLATE: Group 3, 1,400 m long course By Danny Khoo INDIAN-BRED Saddle Up made a stunning start to his Kranji career last night. The six-year-old by Bold Russian, who moved to the yard of trainer Laurie Laxon a few weeks ago, scored a
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    • 1796 47 RACE 1: Kim Mighty and Golden Strategy were withdrawn due to a capacity field. Highland Star was restless in the barriers. Superb Profit and Casino Killer bumped on jumping. Shortly after Casino Killer and Highland Star bumped. Approaching the 800 m. Superb Profit
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    • 111 48 NETBALL SUPER LEAGUE FINAL A LAST-MINUTE goal by injured goalshooter Kelly Ng enabled Southside Sharks to pip Easter Mannas 36-35 to win the NTUC Fair Price Netball Super League title at Toa Payoh Sports Hall last night. Ng, who took pain-killers and had plasters all over
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      290 48 CUP QUALIFIERS: ASIA^f IRAN 2 SAUDI ARABIA 0 CHINA CHARGE: China got off to a fiery start with a 3-0 win over the United Arab Emirates in Shenyang, last night. Under new coach Bora Milutinovic, China is being hailed as one of the favourites to qualify. SINGAPORE
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      • 1070 50  -  Only 18. Cool, confident a class of a goalkeeper ERNEST LUIS ITS been two decades since an Eurasian wore Singapore football colours. Surprised? Maybe. But this rare trend changed this year when Lionel Lewis, at the tender age of 18, replaced No 1 choice Rezal Hassan towards the
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      • 276 51 DOLPHINS DENIED...7th min: Sharifuddin Mahmood makes a defensive lapse and the Dolphins' striker Tom English turns and shoots. But Eagles' keeper Lionel Lewis pulls off a good reflex save. DOLPHINS DENIED AGAIN..£th: The ball is punted towards the Eagles' goal during a goalmouth melee. But Azhar Baksin
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      • 871 52 Big Big pressure Pro refs in England offer no answers YOU think professional referees won't make mistakes? You must be joking! The new Premiership season ushered in a new era for the men in black professional referees. Their introduction was hailed as an important move to cut down on wrong
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    • 1468 54 GERARD Houllier may be as French as frog's legs. But he has a far better command of the English language than many of the home-grown players who inhabit the Premiership today. And he
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      226 55 LIVE TONIGHT ONE more sit out for Jaap Stan. The bald-headed defender has been dropped from the Manchester United team playing Aston VHIi hi the 9 t-i- a g ,4» ficfiiivrsiiip lontgTn. What's more, he's been fined £100,000 ($252,000) and stripped of the United vice-captaincy, reported Soccernet. In
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    • 261 56 LEEDS v REFS STOP making us feel as though we're schoolkids! Leeds United skipper Rio Ferdinand last night launched an attack on Premiership referees claiming they are "untouchable". He believes referees are no longer approachable, unlike when he first started out in the game a few years ago,
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      493 56  -  Buck up if you want to challenge Man U COMMENT EDWIN YEO YOU would have to think real long and hard to remember such a poor performance from Leeds. Even when it lost 3-0 to Valencia in the Champions League semi-final, Leeds didn't play as badly as it
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    • 425 57  -  COMMENT WANG MENG MENG MY Sunday football team has a super striker. Eng Soon, an officer with the Housing Development Board, is the tip of our sword. Win the ball, hoof it up and chances are, well be running towards him to salute a goal. Sometimes,
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    • 255 57 Stop fighting! GOALKEEPERS are known to use their hands, legs, body anything to keep rivals from scoring. But when they start using their hands on their own team-mates, you can expect loads of trouble. And it's war when two goalkeepers from the same side square up against each
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      408 59 Taylor faces sack after Highbury blow ARSENAL 4 LEICESTER 0 ON the wall of Peter Taylor's office hangs a framed photograph showing the Leicester City manager with David Beckham and his England armband. The hand-written message on it reads: "To Pete thanks for giving me the chance,
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