The New Paper, 21 October 2001

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  • 8 1 the new paper on Sunday OCTOBER 21, 2001
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  • NEWS
    • 551 2 THREE years ago, the US bombed Afghanistan. Some of the cruise missiles that were aimed at Osama bin Laden's bases, however, did not explode. According to a senior Al-Qaeda agent based in Europe, China is said to have paid
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    • 179 2 THE greyhound could never take the lead in a race. It could only come in second, at best, because it was so short-sighted it needed another dog to follow. Until it was fitted with contact lenses, reported The Australian. The greyhound did not lack speed,
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    • 398 3 AP NOT red stars over Beijing it's Yankee razzledazzle lighting up the Shanghai sky. Talk about carrying coal to Newcastle, the land that invented the firecracker was alight with fireworks made in the US. And the background music was pure Beethoven. It was globalisation with oomph at
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  • GENERAL ELECTION
    • 622 4 THE E-word is looming large in the Singapre voter's mind. The Economy. That's what matters now. So said 100 Singaporeans polled by The New Paper ranging from homemakers to professionals, aged between 21 to over 60 in Toa Payoh, Joo Chiat, Yishun, Woodlands and Serangoon. Said
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    • 511 5 RECESSION GUIDE FOR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES [NEWS] jn&f Can't pay for your flat? Try these HDB help schemes: Stretch your loan term up to 30 years. No money for instalments? Make family members joint owners so their CPF can also be used. Or get approval to stop payments
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    • 445 6 This People's Action Party candidate says his wife has veto power over his involvement in politics. So, GLORIA CHANDY speaks to the wife MRS Joy Balakrishnan does not like being in the limelight. The former teacher, with a 13-year-old daughter, and two sons, aged 11
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    • 57 6 HE had once been asked to become a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP), Dr Vivian Balakrishnan revealed. And, he turned it down. "I didn't feel then that we needed unelected people without mandates giving their opinions." He later conceded: "They have since proven
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    • 170 6 MR AHMAD KHALIS ABDUL GHANI Mr Khalis is a partner in a law firm. He has been the general secretary of the Muhammadiyah Association since 1993. He also chairs the Law Society Muslim Law Practice Committee. In 1998, he chaired the Law Society Muslim Law
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    • 316 7  -  By Tanya Fong THE ruling PAP'S manifesto, revealed on Friday, is "consistent". Number one: You want life, you vote for PAP. Number two: You vote for PAP in order to have a good life. So quipped Mr Low Thia Kiang, Workers' Party (WP) secretary-general, yesterday.
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    • 102 7 A TRUE Hokkien man. That's what Dr Poh Lee-Guan, 40, called himself as he rattled off, in Hokkien of course, the three maxims his father had taught him since he was a little boy. First: "Ai lun" (must tolerate). Second: "Mai luan gong" (don't talk without discretion).
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  • NEWS
    • 1559 8  -  Husband gets monthly sum for care of their kids 'Rare for wife to pay maintenance' IT is rare for a wife t<» pay maintenance to the husband for the children. Three family lawyers explained why. Said Mr X Kanagavijavan: "It is rare that the
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    • 90 10 IT wasn't difficult to spot Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew in this 1936 photo of the Boy Scout troops of Raffles Institution. Out 0f6,084 calls to our contestline last week, 4,508 identified him correctly he is the scout circled seven in the picture. The three
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    • 898 10  -  REPORTS NG WAN CHING FOR years, she was laughed at and taunted about her badly-de-formed feet. Then one day in July, a man at the karaoke lounge where she was looking for a job, laughed at her feet and carelessly remarked: "How can
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    • 134 11 CLUB foot is a birth defect where one or both feet are twisted. A person with club foot appears to walk on his ankle and the outside or inside edge of his foot. The exact cause is not clear. Club foot may be due to a temporary
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    • 268 11 FIRST, a U-shaped cut was made in Ms Tan's left foot. Then, her foot and leg were placed in a three-part supporting frame to hold the two ends of the broken bone. The frame is connected by nuts and bolts.
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    • 974 12  -  REPORTS FRAEMONE WEE THEY call her Ummi, which means Mother. And 50-year-old Singaporean Zarinah Abdullah fits the role perfectly. In fact, for some foreign workers who find themselves out of work and down on their luck, she's the only family they have. The welfare angel helps
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    • 195 13 EVEN before the scruffy faces of refugee children from Afghanistan made the pages of international newspapers, Ummi Zarinah Abdullah was already making plans to help them. She loves children, and has already set up orphanages in Jakarta, Myanmar and Bangladesh to shelter and school the
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    • Article, Illustration
      556 14  -  fdm^UjdMj^^ BE ■r w- Confidence is a very sexy thing and Robbie Williams wore it like a second skin at the Singapore Indoor Stadium last night A 10,000 capacity crowd surrendered willingly to his seductive charisma BY Wong Kim Hoh IT took the 10,000 strong crowd at the
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  • AT A GLANCE
    • 220 16 tornado didi^g A MULTI-RACIAL, multi-religions, multi-cultural society, which is open to the world, cannot be entirely unaffected by developments in other countries. Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan said this yesterday when he spoke of how Singapore's social cohesion will be tested from time
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    • 151 16 INFOCUS ITS trying to bring hepatitis B vaccinations "to the doors of the people". Sing Health Services Polyclinics will offer mass screening for hepatitis B and immunisation against the disease at workplaces, community centres and other convenient places, said Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Health, Prime
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 102 17 IT can be hard for troubled youths who stay in institutions to enrol in schools. Principals hesitate to admit these teenagers and often say that there are no vacancies at their school, say the homes' supervisors. In some cases, supervisors must try at least 10 schools
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      • 86 17 RETRENCHMENT is never good news. And, more often than not, neither employee nor employer handles it well. Although the news is sometimes expected, most workers are still shocked when they're finally told that they have been laid off. It doesn't help either when companies handle layoffs badly. Some
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      • 90 17 JAPAN will sign a first of its kind free-trade deal with Singapore by the end of the year. Under the deal, Japan agreed to eliminate tariffs on garments from Singapore and to reduce tariffs on oil and other petrochemical products refined in Singapore or shipped through there. Some
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      • 97 17 DOCTORS for the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said yesterday he did not need to go for knee replacement surgery. The Dalai Lama was "fine", the doctors in the western Indian city of Bombay said after he underwent a day-long routine medical examination on Friday,
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      • 94 17 HE pretended to be a policeman and asked young girls for help in locating a group of wayward youths. The fake cop would then lead them to deserted staircase landings in nearby HDB blocks and molest them. He surfaced in the afternoon, in the Tampines, Geylang
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      • 78 17 THERE were gleaming trishaws, towering Merhons and orchids galore screaming "Singapore". All part of a colourful parade yesterday that kicked off the nine-day Ginza Accueille (French for "Ginza Warmly Welcomes") festival in Tokyo. The festivities marked an agreement between Tokyo's high-fashion Ginza and Singapore's Orchard Road shopping
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      • 95 17 THE World Trade Organistion (WTO) should confirm Qatar as host of its ministerial meeting from Nov 9-13, WTO director-general designate Supachai Panitchpakdi said yesterday. "We have to make sure we go ahead and hold the meeting in Qatar. We should not have second thoughts," he said.
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      • 106 17 A BOMB exploded at Islamabad international airport yesterday, sparking a terrorism alert. The bomb went off soon after it was found in a carpark near the airport VIP lounge but there were no casualties, Pakistani police said. It was the first attack of its kind in Pakistan
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    • 330 17  -  GLOBAL WATCH MATTHEW tIOMMWOMAEKim THE anthrax scare overshadowed the week's military and diplomatic moves. As Indian and Pakistani forces exchanged fire, and Palestinians tried some "targeted killing" of their own, shooting dead a hardline Israeli cabinet minister, the US struggled to keep them all on
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  • NEWS
    • 387 19 First, it was Wonderbra... BOTTOMS up. Now you can, even without going to the gym. You don't even have to wear underwear. Don't be shy, if you want to give your butt a lift. The only way to make it perk up like this is without underwear.
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    • 457 20 I thought I would spend my old age doing embroidery and crochet. I never expected to be selected (for the job). After all, I was well past the retirement age. Ms Ramapuram, who found her first job two months ago, at the age of
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    • 203 20 WHAT a nightmare. She woke up thinking that her room "looked very different" and that "maybe this was a dream". Then, she realised she had awakened, naked, to the "terrible nightmare" of an alleged sex attack at the hands of landlord Abbas Dadgarnejad,
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    • 325 21 THE voice analysis machine, known more for its use in criminal cases, is getting an expansion in its role. A leading British insurance company will be introducing lie detector tests in March to catch customers who make fake claims, reported The Guardian. Highway Insurance,
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    • 378 22  -  By Dawn Chia Malaysian police believe this "black horse" (above) is involved in at least six serious crimes on the peninsula. How did he get that nickname? A 28-year-old woman told the police in Penang she had received a call from a man
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    • 349 23 OPRAH Winfrey has taken on a lot of roles in her colourful life a slave in the movie The Color Purple, self-confessing talkshow host, woman with a weight problem... But a gender-bending bandit? Unbelievable, but that was who the staff of a
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  • Hey! SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR WEEKEND
    • 1046 24  -  Low rates and state-of-the-art equipment are not enough anymore. Gyms now offer spa treatments, health bars and 1 new age fitness classes to win over bodies, and minds... FEATURE TAN DAWN WEI The Spa Where: Capital Tower, OUB Centre, The Oriental What: Gym, pool, spa, steam,
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    • 606 26  -  Fine wine, gourmet food, even cigars. Stores like 7-Eleven are stocking more than mere essentials to keep up with the times FEATURE JOANNA HUGHES YOU'RE single, you're young, you work hard, you party. You hit the pub and the gym. You've got cash, but when
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    • 270 27 7-Eleven and One.99shop team up NOW youH be able to shop One.99shop round-the-clock. Reason: Fifty 7-Eleven stores will carry selected One.99shop merchandise as well. The twist is that the One.99shop merchandise will be $2 with the extra one cent going to 7-Eleven's adopted charity, the Association for
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    • 688 28  -  By Seto Nu-wen AAARGH... there has been so much hype about the rivalry between these two that it just wants to make me do the locomotion with a football player! Oh, and look at what clever marketing Kylie in virginal white and Victoria in mystical black.
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    • 631 29  -  Great moments in soy history: Two scientists who first spread, the word on soy, and a chance to test your knowledge of rare soy foods WTTH JOANNA HUGHES LI YU-YING (CIRCA 1881 -1973) Although his exact age and place of birth are not known, it is
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    • 556 30  -  HARRIED WITH KIDS GLORIA CHANDY ADRIAN Pang is a bit worried that his son Zack might be taking the like father like son' adage a little too far. "Well be in the middle of a crowd," the Media Works artiste says, "and hell suddenly point
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    • 749 31  -  FEATURE TOH PAIK CHOO THEY'D like to teach the world to 'ABRACADABRA!' Coca-Cola the soft drink that keeps mum up nights when junior insists on the real thing with dinner has burped up £95 million pounds ($250 million) to be "the sole global marketing partner" of
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    • 263 32 \\N m \BOj| HEY/ Getting that deep, dark secret off your chest WHEN I was very young, I fell in love with Teochew street opera. I was really into it, and would play with the bamboo poles at home and pretend to
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    • 673 35  -  Former hurdle queen Heather Merican made light work of clearing hurdles when she reigned as Singapore's track queen for nearly two decades. We catch up with the woman who is bravely navigating life's obstacle course... DO YOU remember: GLORIA CHANDY TONED, lithe
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    • 138 35 HEATHER Merican is a shining star in Singapore's sporting firmament. Her two decades of achievement are an inspiration to today's young track athletes. She did us proud, winning a string of gold medals in the SEAP and at the Asian Track and Field Championships. In fact, two
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    • 477 36  -  Summer's the best time to visit Western Australia when a million blooms colour the Wild/lower State... GETAWAY ANT KAUR DID you know that the aborigines of Western Australia didn't just use the bark from the paper tree to write and draw on? They also use it
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    • 389 37  -  GOONDU is ABROAD TOH PAIK CHOO ONE of the travel book titles others included Frigid Bones's Diary and Timbukfour Twice As Far I used to tease a publisher with was When In Rome, Do Like Home. Like many another great teaser, I never delivered
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    • 26 37 walk^^ lobbywithout the hotel. Yew will not leave the driveway without settling the bill firstl tmUkaly fteff«« > <t
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    • 192 38  -  AGGIE DANNY NG, PSYCHOLOGIST HATTERS OF THE HEART AND SOUL I AM a 15-year-old with a big problem. My mother and father divorced last month and I am now living with my mother. My father is serving time in jail for a crime he
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    • 184 38 Last week's letter: DISTURBED Mind is 20 and has been in a relationship with a guy who is 23. They have been dating for two years. Lately, his attitude changed. He has turned cold towards her, even saying that he wants out of the relationship.
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    • 117 38 Readers' advice ITS important that you make a choice now. Delaying it will make the situation worse. It may be hard to decide, after all, you were deeply in love with him. Nevertheless, you must understand that once a guy has no more feelings for you,
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    • 107 38 YOU are only 20 this year. There is still a long way for you to go. Your present relationship is very unstable. It is obvious that your boyfriend wants to end the relationship. Since his job is in a precarious position, more problems will definitely come
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    • 332 39 ALTHOUGH I'm only 17,1 really treasured the one-year relationship I had with my boyfriend. He is two years older than I am. Recently, we broke up. He thinks that this (our relationship) doesn't suit him. We quarrel a lot. He also said that there's no mutual trust
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    • 326 39 w I AM a married man and I have fallen in love with a woman who is also married. We have been together for five years. But now, the situation has changed. She is in charge of foreign workers in a company and very good to
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    • 236 39  -  SEXMATTERS DR LIM SU MIN QOne of the letters published on Oct 7 asked about the "safe period" to have sex without risking pregnancy. The reply was perfectly valid, but there is, I believe, an error in the letter which was not pointed out. The
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    • 178 39 QMy partner and I get into heavy petting very often. I've read that this might lead to pregnancy. My period did come for the past two months. But does that alone confirm that I am not pregnant? If it doesn't come, do I have to worry? Is
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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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    • 744 42 SHE is armed and ready. The plastic Watson's bag is shapeless with tidbits. Tomato-flavoured Twistees, "my favourite'', Cheezels, Famous Amos, preserved mangos. "I figure, if I'm going to be here for two hours watching the movie, I'd better bring something for us to
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 471 32 Highlights Tokyo Raiders Channel 8,8pm On the day of her marriage, Japanese husband-to-be disappears. Has he been kidnapped? Worse still, is he dead? The plot thickens when two mysterious men turn up to help her. Stars Tony Leung, Ekin Cheng and Kelly Chen. Eyewitness TV Works, I Opm Tonight's topic
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    • 826 33 THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY October 21.2001 4 P*»33 TV 9 11.00: 9.00: Herman's lo.oo:Ninku 9.00: Digimon 9.00: Let's and 9.00: Klik! 9.30: Money 10.00: Wedding 10.00: Golden Thundercats Head (Sitcom) (Animation) Adventure/In Go (Children) Mind (Rpt) Peach/Anggun Kids Club AVYI (Cartoon) 9.30: lo.3o:Chibi Kid's Camp 9.30: Art 9.30: Mari
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    • 499 43  -  Star of Kranji just too powerful for rivals in $350,000 QEII Cup By Lionel Lee A SLIGHT setback in preparation failed to prevent Bocelli from landing the $350,000 Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Kranji last night. The brilliant galloper's return from England on Oct 1
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    • 1461 44 1 CRYSTAL CITY 59 (41-12) HUm (6) 4 3 1 (470) 7 STRATEGIC ALLIANCE 56.5 (60-17) JAIesci (5) 2 2 2 (497) 3 CYBER GOLD 58 (62-14) —BWoodwofth (3) 6 5 3 (442) 8 DRAGON TYPHOON 56 (26-8) JGeroudis (1) 3
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    • 263 45 Reuters. ETHEREAL emerged from a photo-finish and a protest hearing yesterday to become the first New Zea-land-trained horse since Lord Reims in-1987 to win the A 52.25 million ($2 million) Caulfield Cup. Jockey Damien Oliver claimed interference rounding the home turn after his topweight Sky Heights
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    • 1221 45 RACE 1: NARCISSUS was slow to begin. At about the 1,400 m mark, KAZAM was inconvenienced when tightened between NARCISSUS and SING 'N' DANCE. Around the 600 m mark, CYBER GOLD steadied after racing up to the heels of DRAGON TYPHOON. Shortly after
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    • 1017 49  -  ALAN HUBBARD Exclusive/ From London SHOULD the contracts of football managers carry a government health warning, like those on packets of cigarettes? This game can damage your health. As Gerard Houllier, the 54-year-old Liverpool boss, has discovered to his cost, being in charge of a high-profile
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    • SATURDAY SLAM
      • 626 50 Like everyone else, Somlurk Naayuttaya can take a well-deserved vacation when the 2001 S-League season reaches its thrilling climax on Wednesday. The Siam Sport Daily journalist has been here since March to report to the Thai people on Singapore's professional football league. We speak to the
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      • 128 50 SOMLURK Naayuttaya was born on Feb 11 in the northern city of Phayao, near Chiangmai, 27 years ago. "Three more days, I born Valentine's Day!" he laughed. Nicknamed Too", he assures that it's not a cruel name to have. "In Thailand, our names very long," the communications
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      • 410 51  -  REPORTS WANG MENG MENG ONE of Poo's missions in Singapore is to track Thai superstar Kiatisuk "Zico" Senamuang (right). The SAF Warriors striker is wildly popular back home and news of the handsome dude is a must for the Thai public. Thailand has always had this
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      • 253 51 "Fm homesick. Singapore life very different," said Poo. *ln Bangkok, I can eat, drink and dance all night. Singapore have also but very expensive. 1 know one Thai S-League player here. His salary is $2,500. He uses $200 on himself. The rest, he sent back to
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    • EURO KICKOFF: ITALY, SPAIN
      • 408 53 ITALY. AP. ONE is lean and stoic, quietly urging his brigade of superstars to remain faithful to his designs from the locker room chalkboard. His stocky rival rides largely on emotion, smiling and snarling and sniffing the wind for that magic mix of talent that can
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      • 196 53 DEFENDER Christian Panucci (left) has claimed that Roma can lift the Serie A title for the second consecutive season, despite a slow start to the campaign. "We can win the Scudetto again," said the former Real Madrid and Chelsea star, reports onefootball.com. Panucci, who is
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      • 485 53 SPAIN AP. ERRATIC titlist Real Madrid faces an awkward clash with undefeated No 2 Celta Vigo at the Bernabeu Stadium today in the ninth-round of Spanish League matches. Celta, which trails leader Deportivo de La Coruna by a point, has mounted an impressive
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    • 901 54 I His wonder strike that shot England to the World Cup Finals has prompted a league ofschoolkids to try and perfect the art of bending the ball over the wall. But all David Beckham needed to hone the art that leaves goalkeepers scratching their
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    • 196 56 A SINGAPOREAN VIEW SLOPPY defence from Arsenal gave Blackburn Rovers a chance to score in the first half. And it was this weakness which tripped the Gunners up in yesterday's match. Said Terry Pathmanathan, former national captain: "Arsenal's defence was generally very weak, as several of their key
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    • 805 57  -  ARSENAL 3 BLACKBURN 3 COMMENT EDWIN YEO THE biggest story to tell as Arsenal and Blackburn shared the points in an exciting 3-3 draw came from a player who wasn't even in the Gunners' squad. Yes, I'm talking about Sol Campbell. The controversial ex-Tottenham Hotspur
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    • LEEDS v CHELSEA (LIVE ESPN. 11pm. today)
      • 554 58 NEWCASTLE v SPURS (LIVE ESPN, 8.50pm, today) David o'leary last night taunted the Chelsea players who refused to travel to Israel by mocking: "I hope they think Leeds is safe enough for them." The Elland Road boss could not resist a dig at the six stars
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      • 115 58 NEWCASTLE star Alan Shearer believes Tottenham striker Teddy Sheringham is the man to spearhead England's attack at next year's World Cup Finals. Shearer has dismissed fears that Sheringham's age will count against him he will be 36 next year and claims the Spurs star is still
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      • 420 59  -  MAN U 1 (Veron 25min) BOLTON 2 (Nolan 35min, Ricketts 84) MAN U Barthez P Neville May Brown Silvestre Solskjaer Scholes Veron Butt Yorke Cole BOLTON Jaaskelainen N'Gotty Bergsson Whitlow Charlton Hansen Nolan Warhurst Frandsen Gardner Ricketts REPORTS R. CHANDRAN NO time to relax, dad! Brooklyn
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      • 40 59 FRIED: David Beckham could only watch with son Brooklyn while his team loses to the giant-killer despite taking an early lead from Veron's (inset) goal. READ ABOUT THE GUNNERS'WOES ON PAGES 56 57 Picture/ Reuters
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