The New Paper, 9 December 2001

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  • 13 1 the new paper DECEMBER 9, 2001 on Sunday 70 CENTS the new paper
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    • 42 1 NWC: Wage freeze! cut till end 2002 for those doing badly. But Mil-Corn staff are smiling.Why? Smgapon Prw HoHJmgt m.MQ I jjHH o 001 lo I 4*:UUU» 11 U I I Jif* M i I I flB *5- dies I^HHN I ki____j
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  • NEWS
    • 479 2 N WC says wage freeze/cut till end 2002 but... Singapore National Employers' Federation's survey of 366 companies showed: NOV 2001 1 10 per cent already cut wages and/or retrenched some workers In companies which have cut wages, senior management and executives have taken the
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    • 159 2 The NWC wage guidelines will apply until Dec 31, 2002. The Council will convene after the release of the third quarter 2002 GDP growth results or earlier if necessary. REVISED WAGE GUIDELINES For companies whose business, profitability or prospects are adversely affected by the economic downturn: Wage freeze
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    • 140 2 JAPAN'S commoners got their first glimpse of the royal baby yesterday. Thousands lined the streets to see Princess Aiko as her mother, Crown Princess Masako, took her home from the palace hospital. They were accompanied by Crown Prince Naruhito, reported the BBC. Princess Aiko
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    • 1073 4  -  STORE MUM DIES OF ECONOMY CLASS SYNDROME... REPORTS DAWN CHIA OVER the last five years, he was told thrice that he was going to be a father thrice. But, on the first two occasion s Mr Abu Bak- ar Ismail's joy was short-lived.
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    • 217 5 MADAM Siti died of massive pulmonary thromboembolism, caused by deep vein thrombosis (DVT). DVT, or economy class syndrome, happens when a blood clot forms in the veins, usually in the lower legs. In Madam Siti's case, the blood clot, which formed during the period of recuperation
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    • 977 6  -  REPORT NG WAN CHING at KKH. THE day begins early for Ms Nooraini Jaffar, 35, mother of three. A working mum with three young boys aged seven years, three years and 10 months, she has to juggle her career she is assistant manager of Speciality
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    • 123 7 MORE parents may be choosing infant care but there has been no drop in the number of maids being employed. According to latest statistics from the Manpower Ministry, there has been an increase, despite the economic downturn. The number of average monthly work permit applications for
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    • 487 7 OVER the last two years, six centres for infant care services have opened in Singapore, spread across the island. The Children Learning Centre (CLC) at KK Women's and Children's Hospital was the first, in January 1998, meant mostly for the staff. There
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    • 852 8  -  Teen, supposed to work in factory ends up in KTV lounge BEDOK FAMILY FEUD BY Jason Tan SHE claims her mother forced her to work in a KTV lounge and have sex with a customer. The 19-year-old Malaysian teenager alleges she was made
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    • 374 8 MUM: MARY worked at the karaoke lounge willingly, claims her mother. "I told her it was not a good job, but she followed me. "I couldn't have put a gun on her head and force her to do it, right?" How about Mary's accusation of forcing
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    • 407 9 MARY'S sordid life did change. And, the turning point came at the end of July when she met Peter, a national serviceman. She met the 21-year-old through a phone chatline. They arranged to meet and quickly became a couple. Peter sensed that she was upset and depressed.
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    • Article, Illustration
      974 10  -  Peek into hidden world of Carmelite nuns Report and picture/ Jason Tan IF you didn't know it's there, you wouldn't notice it. About as large as half a football field, it lies a bare 100 metres south of the hyperbusy Ayer Rajah Expressway. Inside the high walls however,
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    • 159 11 THE inner quarters of the Carmelite Monastery are off-limits to men. Handymen and gardeners are occasionally called in to do some work. But no others, and for nothing else. Yet The New Paper photo editor Philip Lim is an exception. Back in 1976, when Mr Lim worked at
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    • 660 11 ONCE upon a time, she was Joanne Cheang, eldest daughter in a family of four girls and a boy. The Buddhist family lived in a four-room flat in Clementi. When she was in secondary school, her photographer father died of tuberculosis. Six years later, her mother
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    • 847 12 OKAY, we know it's not an even contest. One Toto is based on pure guesswork. You just pick six numbers out of 45. The other Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? does involve some intellect. You use your general knowledge to answer questions. But humour
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  • 664 14  -  NEWS REPORTS AMRIT KAUR THE BBC, an icon of Britain's international influence, has upset many a prime minister. Mr Narendhra Morer, BBC World's news commissioner, revealed this while he was in Singapore for the Asian Television Forum this week. He said: "The BBC
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  • NEWS
    • 344 16 ITS the season of giving again. But with the recession, more are likely to have trouble paying off their credit card bills. The obvious solution is to spend less, but credit card holders can also save by paying the minimum amount and transferring the rest. Many
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    • 103 16 A movie named after the thomy fruit, Durian Durian, came up smelling like roses after it won four awards at the 38th Golden Horse Awards in Haulien, Taiwan, last night. Its actress, Qin Hai-lu (left), walked away with the best actress award, and its
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    • 257 16 INFOCUS DOG trafficking is big business in France, with horrific consequences for the helpless creatures. Last week, French police uncovered 76 dog carcasses in the refrigerator of a veterinary clinic near Paris. Many of the animals sold illegally are unhealthy and have sometimes not been
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 88 17 THESE babies don't have any external bumps or bruises, but they can develop breathing difficulties, have seizures, and even die. About eight children are diagnosed with shaken-baby syndrome each year, and more go undetected. Dr Choong Chew Thye, a neurology consultant at KK Women's and Children's Hospital,
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      • 97 17 IN an anti-drink drive operation yesterday morning, the Traffic Police stopped 78 motorists and found 10 over the legal limit. For the first half of this year, the police caught 845 drink drivers, 100 more compared to the same period last year. But only 101 were involved
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      • 88 17 IN a few months, diabetics will find it easier to get their eyes tested for diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that can cause blindness. Patients who are under the care of private general practitioners (GPs) can have their retinal photographs taken at the Singapore National Eye Centre. The
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      • 100 17 FORMER pastor Koh Seng Kee, 48, was sentenced yesterday to nine months'jail and three strokes of the cane for molest. On Feb 17, Koh had introduced himself to a 21-year-old woman along Orchard Road and gave her his handphone number. He then caressed her shoulder, kissed her cheek
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      • 96 17 MANY people have complained about how far Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) is from the city centre. From April next year, there will be an RM2.4 billion ($1.16b) express train system that can get you from the city to the airport in 28 minutes flat. Called the
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      • 83 17 AFP. PRESIDENT Chandrika Kumaratunga of Sri Lanka yesterday invited Mr Ranil Wickremesinghe to be the prime minister and form a new government immediately. Mrs Kumaratunga's People's Alliance lost Wednesday's parliamentary elections to the United National Party, led by Mr Wickremesinghe. Even though Mrs Kumaratunga's party lost,
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      • 92 17 Bernama. THOSE who are convicted of entering Malaysia illegally may be caned, even though it is the first time they are doing so. Malaysian Immigration Director-General Datuk Mohd Jamal Kamdi said yesterday: "Currently, only illegals who sneak in a second time are liable to be whipped."
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      • 90 17 DURING the early days of the Cold War, thousands of Americans built fallout shelters in their backyard and basements, even as defence experts said nothing could survive a nuclear holocaust. But today, fallout shelters are the rage again, due to fears of nuclear terrorist attacks. Shelter makers and
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    • 352 17  -  GLOBAL WATCH A LOOK AT WOULD EVENTS HATTMEW TMOMMEM THERE were two key questions in the Taiwan legislative elections last week. First, would President Chen Shui-bian's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) get a majority, without which his administration has found it hard to rule effectively?
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    • 28 16 ivj m Ml*f*l* M a Showers with thunder in the late J J >.^j afternoon mainly i > over northern, f eastern and Il^B central BBU Singapore. fiHNB > B8
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  • EXPAT
    • 683 18 Celebrating her first anniversary here, JANE SHISHIDO is still raving about her new-found paradise and ruing the one she lost Hawaii. There is more to life than sun, sand and the sea. A timely reminder that economic imperatives still rule the day THE most common fantasy
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    • 289 19 THE names sound foreign: Jurong, Woodlands, Ang Mo Kio and Changi. The terms sound like some codes what did "A/B, 2+l, unblocked, mid/high fir" look like? Is it close to an expressway? Is there a shopping mall nearby? The actual ads didn't give the full picture, and it
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    • 991 20 ...WHERE THERE IS NO SAFE PLACE How does one go about a normal life when the threat of being blown up by suicide bombers overhangs every single day in Israel? YORAM LEVY reports from Jerusalem for The New Paper THE LATEST Israel continues to press Palestine
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    • 461 22 IN April, Mr James Johnson saw a "for rent" sign in San Francisco and decided to call. Yet, despite leaving severed messages, his calls were not returned, reported ABCNEWS.com. He really needed that apartment. It was close to work. It had
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    • 444 23 And DNA tests finally prove it 36 years later HE confessed to the murders and was sentenced to jail in 1965. Yet on Thursday, it was announced that Mr Albert DeSalvo had been convicted wrongly. Forensic analysis on the body of Mary Sullivan, a
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    • 281 25 THE combined effect of the Sept 11 attacks and the economic recession has forced many changes in the US. The latest to undergo transformation will be The Wall Street Journal, reported The New York Times. Executives at Dow Jones, which publishes the paper, told
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    • 185 25 THE US Mint is cutting coin production next year by 25 per cent. But there's no danger this will result in a shortage of small change. That's because an increasing number of the unemployed and the cash-strapped have been hauling their coins into
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      329 26 And this time the spotlight's not only on Germany but also on Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder TOWARDS mid-No-vember, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's position started looking shaky. He faced a confidence vote in parliament for deciding to send troops to Afghanistan. Unemployment in Germany had risen for the 11th straight
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    • 351 27 Afghan teen starts his own business... THE 14-year-old needs cash to buy new clothes to celebrate the end of the fasting month. So, he's decided to become an arms dealer. And has started hawking his wares like a pro. Every week, Parwiz makes around 50,000
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    • 392 28 IT was a sick prank but the response was hardly feeble. More than 170 passengers and crew of Taiwan airline EVA Air were stranded for 2Vi hours on Friday. An anonymous caller had tipped off New York authorities that a passenger onboard had smallpox, reported
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    • 699 29 THE dark thoughts of Columbine High School killer Eric Harris are out in the open. The 18-year-old, who along with his friend Dylan Klebold, killed 12 schoolmates and a teacher in April 1999 before pulling the trigger on themselves, had maintained a diary. The contents of that
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    • 572 30  -  THE CAT WHO TRAVELLED FROM NZ TO KOREA AND BACK BY Angeline Song REPORTING FROM AUCKLAND THE LONG, white limousine drove up slowly. The television crew swung into action. Cameras flashed and reporters scrambled to greet the celebrity. But wait a minute, this was no
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    • 261 31 IMAGINE fighting over who gets to 'interview" and take photos of a cat. That's just what happened among at the Auckland Airport when Colin's Cat returned from Korea. Two Television New Zealand crew were said to be arguing about getting access to Colin's Cat, and the New
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    • 574 32 SUNDAY# YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND Times are bad so never give up on a great meal deal if there is one. ANGELICA TAN combs the island for the best buffets under 10 THESE may be belt-tightening times, but you can still have
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    • 447 32 Popiah Buffet at Home Flavors. Where: 118 Telok Ayer Street Cost: $5 per person. What you get: Popiah filling of stewed turnips and carrots and other popiah trimmings like chopped egg, lettuce, lap cheong. Value for Comments: No complaints with the juicy filling of turnip
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    • 654 33  -  When your dad is Eric Khoo, life can be one big movie... HARRIED WITH KIDS GLORIA CHANDY ERIC Khoo's next film could very well be a sequel to his currently-running flick. And it would have to be called "Many Legs Kicking". "My boys love football," laughed the 35-year-old
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    • 568 34  -  I lw£ IWj OWM"USU TV Works star Darren Lim loves the birds, bees and everything au naturale. ERI AKBAR gets up close and personal with him Brought to you fay Ricola ONCE you get Darren Lim talking about the birds or the bees, there's no stopping
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    • 699 35  -  BY Wong Kim Hoh PERHAPS he is foolhardy; perhaps he's egotistic. Then again, perhaps Robbie Williams is just brave. For it does take a bit of cojones to leave his comfortable throne in pop to do this album of covers of songs made famous by The Rat Pack.
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    • 862 36  -  Forget Champs Elysees. When in Paris, head for La Vallee... GETAWAY TOH RAIK CHOO GWYNETH Paltrow can afford her $140 white shirt in every shade of white from London's Jermyn Street; but you and I can have the very same Charles Tyrwhitt white shirt
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      235 37  -  Hubby angry that she isn't pregnant AGGIE MATTERS OF THE HEART AND SOUL DANNY NG, PSYCHOLOGIST I AM an 18-year-old girl and I've been married (for the past four months) to a guy who is 39 years old. My husband wants me to get pregnant as soon as
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    • 172 37 Last week's letter: P HAS been in a relationship for 10 years. But her husband moved out two years ago and refused to move back even though P begged him to. Her husband was having an affair with a divorcee who was four years older than him.
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    • 133 37 Readers' advice THIS man walked out on you without so much as an explanation and was deaf to your pleas. A year later, he decides to come back and expects you to take him back and continue life as though nothing has happened. You should call
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    • 123 37 TRUST is the base for all relationships. Since you no longer have any trust in him, it is only right that you leave him. Both of you should spend some time apart to consider the present situation before making any major decisions. Does love still exist
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    • Article, Illustration
      352 38 I COME from a family of four. My dad is the sole breadwinner, earning about $4,000 a month while my mum is a housewife. But my dad is addicted to gambling (he bets on horses) and has no savings. Once he runs out of money, he
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    • 345 38 I AM a 22-year-old easy-going and understanding girl. But I'm quite confused when it comes to love. I seem to fall in love easily. Now, I have two boyfriends, though they don't know each other. One of them is C, a Malaysian and the other, S,
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    • 165 38  -  SEXMATTERS DR UM SU MIN Ql AM 14 years old. I want to know if it is normal to have a right testis which is bigger then the left one. If this is normal, could you tell me something about size? And if this isn't normal, is
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    • 72 38 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 737-5375, e-mail: tnp@sph.com.Bg Mark your envelope: Aggie or call 1900-*****07 (calls cost
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    • 329 39 Jeanmarie Tan YOU may recognise Jaime Tan from her hosting stint on The Tube, Channel s's weekend teen belt. Or heard her on a part-time basis on Perfect 10. On TV, the pretty freelance presenter has moved from the popular MTV-ish series Ultraviolet to
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      362 41 a HEY/ MUSIC Jamiroquai It's been a good vear for gies Travis Cold Plav Robbie Williams and"ow one of the coolest bands around, Jamiroquai. Tickets are now on sale for Jason Kay and company who will funk up the Indoor Stadium for one night only on January 22. Young,
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  • Page 39 Miscellaneous
    • 452 39 Highlights Only Fools Fall in Love Channel 8,8pm To please his elderly mother, a rich young man hires a "baby-making machine" so that he can pass on the family name. But on his wedding night, he suffers an accidental head injury. Stars Lau Ching Wan, Jacqueline Ng. The Devil's Advocate
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    • 554 41 >—< highlight Discovery (Ch 12), Bpm, Wed f I Healing Hands II ai o «taw«h f /Mr 1 ast; L awrenc e Ng, Bowie Lam, Flora ft|i I fT\ 1 Chan, Maggie Siu, Kit Chan, MengJiaHui, Viyy ,r ill Ada Choi. The long awaited sequel is What can you tell
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    • 373 42 IT was either I teach the monolingual Italian coach driver rudimentary ("ni ah ma...") Hokkien or learn how to conjugate Latin v tth^two^d hatinvoWed all four stanzas of Dino Crocetti's* That's Amore. In the end, I chose hieroglyphs, or what gen-MTV calls pictionary. Yes,
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    • 34 42 ASK your guide how to greet "hello" and "good day" and how to say "please, thank you and welcome" in the language of the countries visited. When in doubt, write it out.
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    • 769 43  -  The Rat Pack is back in the limelight, thanks to movies like Ocean's Eleven and Robbie Williams' Swing When You're Winning. Just who were those hip rodents? DO YOU REMEMBER? GLORIA CHANDY THE word is out, swing is in, thanks not only to Robbie Williams' back
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    • 844 47 Tales from the fab side Know your Bntnind C-. So you're going to check out the latest automobiles at the Singapore AutoSalon this weekend. Who're you kidding? You are more likely to remember models that have more drool power than horsepower. "Huh? Car? What car? You mean there was a
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    • 58 48 FUNNIES calvi* h IPSSJIF EEEE HE te HEEHffi.' M jy I fcr B!V < '88/ tl.wu »'tii WCA! I lf-'veEunc >— S I C Jf\ 7 KEC PUN BKWRED, WO. ,wJ£KfiV xtoeaiaiSßsP. i w Sr 7 vS u .,C I c% rw m. wojndup. and FOOTBALL. UJITH YOU FOR ONE
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    • 990 49 TODAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD Marc Tan Lionel Lee Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee 12 Prego's Edition 6 GREEN NOTE* 6 Green Note 6 Green Note 6 Green Note 3 Grey Rex 8 Merciless Win 10 Prime 1 Celebrity Look 9 Magic Feng 1 Celebrity Look 3
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    • 61 49 Green Note (Race I No. 6) Green Note is all set for a winning performance after two recent creditable efforts. Second to King General at big odds last September, he was considered a good thing last month but again had to settle for second behind outsider
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    • 49 49 RACE 1: Desert Warrior. RACE 2: King Lark. RACE 5: Secret Formula, Truly Serious. RACE 6: Ideal Lad, Russian Rose, Twin Fortune. RACE 7: Season Dancer, Timberlain, Goldlenda, Hero Legend, Belvedere's Pride, Chevochelle, Chai Lai, Professor Marvel. RACE 9: Man U, Another Chapter, Our Machal, Forcest, Winmic, Cookie.
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    • 1467 50 TODAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD TWOOF A KIND: Jockey Saifudin Ismail and trainer John Nicholls can take out Race 6 with Super Istana. Wo. L—t 6 runs Hone Wl Rating Joctay Barrier (Agatoriginfrei, trainef-ownf) 1 KING OF BALANCE 55 (0) *WKVan 6 (3ag KL Chong-Bravery) 2 9-9
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    • 578 51 TODAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD I- Horw Wt FtaMng Joctay Barrty (Agafartglnfrw. Wwr-owrar) 1 ***** ACE MAN 57 (61) 'BShahrul 11 (5nzg M Breuketen-MajestJC) 2 MAID MARION 53 (53) ACavaNo 9 (4am Jordan-Owner) 3 7-3-2 DARK SOUTH 52 (51) MHuzairi 7 (5nzg F Nathan-Owner) 4 --4-0 GENTLE
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    • 1106 51 IB RACE 1: LIBERATION jumped awkwardly out. inconveniencing MEGA STRIKE and LE SPORT. WILD GLAMOUR entered the home straight wide. Near the 300 m, CARIBBEAN GOLD laid in and inconvenienced TRUE PRINCE momentarily. WILD GLAMOUR and TORBEK raced poorly. WILD GLAMOUR was
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    • 1421 52 YESTERDAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE RESULTS GOING: GOOD 5 MEGA STRIKE 55.5 (43-13) KKLoh (6) 7 4 1 (403) 14 SWIFT SWEEP 50 C 48 (109-24) 'AKumaren (3) 1 1 2 (466) 7 TRUE PRINCE 55.5 (16-8) *MLeong (10) 3 3 3 (445) 10 SCORE IN SPRING 54.5 (23-9) LSofhan (2)
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    • 281 52  -  By Marc Tan IT WAS a good day at the office for Kuala Lumpur-based trainer John Sargent. The Kiwi handler, who has been going through a lean spell of late, bounced back with a sweet double on home turf yesterday. In the
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  • Page 52 Miscellaneous
    • 36 52 4-D DRAW SATURDAY December 8, 2001 RRST 3857 mmmm second 7970 7 THIRD 7541 STARTERS CONSOLATION 1420 6526 8301 3868 6804 8181 6601 4863 0302 9910 5061 0640 9766 0901 4974 9623 8693 8717 5239 8439
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  • SPORTS
    • 777 53  -  NBA 2002 A year ago, the Miami Heat was the east-coast version of the Los Angeles Lakers big, strong, fast, deep and sitting pretty at the top of the NBA standings. Then the side started to fall apart as its players started to suffer injuries. Today,
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    • 194 54 THE first month of the Association has passed and two guards have grabbed the headlines so far: New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd and Los Angeles Lakers swingman Kobe Bryant were named Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Month. Kidd led the Nets to their best start
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    • 570 54 I ANTHONY CARTEL IMAGINE the indignation of Anthony Carter (above, left). Against college powerhouse Indiana, he killed off the Hoosiers with 23 points via a variety of jump shots and drives to the basket. Add in eight rebounds and a game-high eight assists and he is the
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    • 707 55 SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT ON THE SINGAPORE FA'S Former Singapore Lions coach FN Sivaji takes charge as assistant director of the Football Association of Singapore's Goal 2010 department on Jan 1. ERNEST LUIS takes a peek at local football's "Mr Sice Guy" and finds out what makes
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    • 437 56 NEW GOAL 2010 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR LAST Wednesday, P N Sivaji and his wife Suseela celebrated 24 years of marital bliss. A marriage that became stronger through the years even though both of them started with a few doubts. Revealed Sivaji: "It was
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    • 297 57 NTUC INCOME S-LEAGUE FANTASTIC SIZZLE OKAY, it was a night that any true football fan couldn't afford to miss. Pele, the "Greatest Footballer in the World" as was announced, would attend last Tuesday's annual S-League fan party at Planet Hollywood. Catching a peek of
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    • 434 58  -  S-LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE YEAR'S OVERSEAS ODYSSEY By Ernest Luis DANIEL Bennett says the English are coming to terms with their country's seemingly cruel draw in the World Cup. The 23-year-old Liverpool-born Tanjong Pagar stopper has been in England for trials for the past three weeks.
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    • THE LOYAL AND THE REBEL OF HIGHBURY
      • 354 59 PATRICK Vieira has hinted he may extend his Arsenal contract, claiming he has "a responsibility" to the club. The suggestion came just days after Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger signed a new contract, reported sports.com. The former AC Milan player wants to repay Wenger and the club
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      • 112 59 Wire Services. ARSENAL forward Kanu has insisted he will represent Nigeria at the African Nations Cup, starting in Mali on Jan 19, whether his club likes it or not. "Neither Arsenal nor Arsene Wenger can stop me going," he said. Wenger had recently commented about
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    • SHOWDOWN: ARSENAL v ASTONVILLA
      • 799 60  -  BY Clive White WENGER: 'Keep up the same standard' ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger has warned his Champions League heroes not to take their eyes off the ball when they return to Premiership football against Aston Villa tonight. He fears that the Gunners, fresh from their impressive
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      • 254 60 THIERRY Hemy loves England and believes that playing for Arsenal in the Premiership has made him a better player. Henry who put one over his French team-mate David Trezeguet in the 3-1 win over Juventus, the club where he flopped, said: "It's up to individual
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    • 89 61 SATURDAY SHOWDOWN: LIVERPOOL 2 BORO 0 LIVERPOOL 1 BOROO 27th min: Gary McAllister links up with Patrik Berger, who flicks the ball into the path of Michael Owen who smacks a first-time shot into the top corner from 25 metres out. 45th min: Gary
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    • 404 61 SUNDAY SHOWDOWN: IPSWICH v NEWCASTLE GOOD news for Newcastle fans. Their highly-rated midfielder Kieron Dyer will return to the squad against his former club Ipswich tonight. It's music to England manager Sven Goran Eriksson's ears too as Dyer is expected to
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    • SATURDAY SHOWDOWN: LIVERPOOL 2 MIDDLESBROUGH 0
      • 562 62  -  LIVERPOOL: Jerzy Dudek, Stephane Henchoz, Sami Hyypia, Jamie Carragher, John Arne Riise, Danny Murphy, Patrik Berger, Dietmar Hamann, Gaiy McAllister, Michael Owen (Emile Heskey 77), Jari Litmanen. RCHANDRAN GUEST COLUMNIST "CATCH me if you can!" That dare was clearly and loudly dispatched to the chasing
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      • 226 62 ROMA coach Fabio Capello believes Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier should quit the game altogether, in the wake of his serious heart problems. The Frenchman was taken to hospital after complaining of chest pains during the 1-1 draw with Leeds United in October where he underwent emergency
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    • 491 63  -  MAN UNITED 0 WEST HAM 1 MAN II: Fabien Barthez, Gary Neville. John O'Shea, Mickael Silvestre, Phil Neville, Luke Chadwick (David Beckham 59), Nicky Butt (Andy Cole 69), Roy Keane, Paul Scholes, Dwight Yorke (Quinton Fortune 81), Ole Gunnar Solskjaer WEST HAM: David James, Tomas Repka,
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