The New Paper, 27 January 2002

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  • 8 1 the new paper JANUARY 27, 2002 on Sunday
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    • 45 1 'Internal Security Act I 'S'porean terrorists used sparingly' ni paidbyAl-Qaeda' the new Singapore Pnaa Holdings •-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg JANUARY 27, 2002 on Sunday a 3 I r http //newpaper asial .com.sg MITA(P) 103/03/2001 8 *****1 *****9 > FA CUP Man Utd crashes out whose fault? /Pg 62
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    17 1 Thai man opens up on life with seven women aw /Pg 16 Pictures/FEMININE MAGAZINE
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  • THE TERROR VIRUS
    • 745 2 ISA the spotlight EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng talks to The New Paper on Sunday about the terror virus. How did the virus grow in Singapore, and how is the Government dealing with the menace? MELVIN SINGH reports TOMORROW: The minister on terrorism
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    • 268 3 CURBING deadly threats is part and parcel of the work of the Internal Security Department (ISD) a security and intelligence agency. But the ISD also adopts an active security and outreach programme to sensitise selected audiences like teachers, government officers and grassroots leaders, so
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    • 130 3 THE law provides for preventive detention, the prevention of subversion and the suppression of organised violence against any person or property in specified areas in Singapore. It is a legacy from the British colonial rule, to counter security threats. In 1960, it was introduced in Malaysia as the Malaysian
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    • 178 3 The legal steps #1 The Internal Security Department (ISD) has 30 days to investigate. If there is no evidence, the detainee has to be released. In the case of the crackdown on the Jemaah Islamiyah (Jl), 23 people were called up and 15 were initially arrested. Two
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    • 731 4 THE four men who were part of the Jemaah Islamiyah terror cell, Fiah Musa, were paid to hunt for explosive material and help bomb targets here. Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng disclosed this to The New Paper on Sunday in
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    • 297 4 Links between the Jemaah Islamivah (Jl). Indonesian Muiahideen Council (MMI) and Kumpulan Militan Malaysia (KMM), and Al-Oaeda: The links are very clear. Take the example ofßashir (Abu Bakar Bashir), the leader of the MMI. Some of the detainees toldlSD (Internal Security Department) that
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  • NEWS
    • 852 6  -  SINGAPORE DOLLAR SLUES AGAINST MALAYSIAN RNGGIT/ REPORTS UYEN VU THE big question for Singaporean crossborder shoppers: When will the Malaysian ringgit fall, so they can get more for their dollar than the RM2.07 right now? It all depends on how the Malaysian goverment
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    • 188 7 AFTER the Japanese yen continued to slide, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Jan 10 that the pegging of the ringgit to the US dollar (at RM3.80), which has stayed untouched for three years, might be scrapped. He said that if the falling yen causes
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    • 414 7 MADAM Rokiah wouldn't want a weaker ringgit. That's natural as she is a businesswoman, after all. "I wouldn't welcome that, because even for retailers like us, it wouldn't mean that much. "We would stand to lose a lot in other ways, like if we have to
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    • 612 8  -  k Small wife or mistress CABBY'S INDECENT PROPOSAL By Dawn Chia IB T was a 10-minute taxi ride that I made a horrible lasting impression I on Madam Priscilla Ong. It began when the taxi driver said he liked her smooth and fair
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    • 110 8 THE taxi-driver has been sacked. A spokesman for Comfort said the taxi driver's service was terminated with immediate effect on Jan 24 after the company interviewed him. He said: "We have reason to believe he is guilty of causing discomfort to the passenger after looking at
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  • NEWS
    • 1136 10 SINGAPORE'S HEROIN MUM: Next month, this mother will be released from Turning Point a halfway house for woman drug addicts. This hardcore heroin user, who has two sons, opens up to IRENE KEW THE maternal instinct is one
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    • 271 11 FAMILY members turned their backs on him. Close friends scorned him. When Mr Raja (not his real name), 40, decided to care for Jane and her two boys for good, he faced fierce resistance. "It was
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    • 128 11 IN cases of severe drug abuse, the effects on the babies are usually obvious, says Dr S Sivasankaran, a paediatrician in private practice. "The child is small and some features could be abnormal. The physical and mental development will be slower." In cases where
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    • 831 12 SINGAPOREANS' LATEST FAD THE speedboat that carried me and other tourists effortlessly from Batam gave us a taste of what was to come. Ten minutes later, we were on the beach at the Dolphin Lodge island preparing to be carried through the water
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    • 527 14  -  By< Chang May Choon LIKE several hundred other teenage girls, students Li Lina and Sia Liqin began their vigil at Changi Airport as early as Friday morning. They and the 400-plus fans of Taiwanese pop group F4 had gathered to welcome their idols,
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  • 1105 16  -  T3FWT- Most men find it difficult to keep one wife happy. But this meatball supplier in Thailand has seven all of whom live under the same roof with their 22 children. Our reporter finds out how he copes REPORT IRENE KEW SOME men would
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  • NEWS
    • 419 19 SOME say he did, others that he didn't. Yet others are tight-lipped. The tale began on the sets of Bollywood producer Ramesh Sippy's sets where actress Aishwarya Rai was shooting last week. Actor Salman Khan, who is said to be a couple with
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    • 143 19 VIOLENCE is not something new as far as Salman Khan seen above with Aishwarya Rai in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (I Have Given My Heart Away) is concerned. Apart from instances of him having banged on Aishwarya's door when she wouldn't open up, the actress
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  • NEWS
    • 565 21  -  By Gloria Chandy SOME of the staffers behind a move to revive the magazine which folded last December think so. So does one of its founders and first editor, Mr T J S George, 72, now a columnist and editorial advisor to the New
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    • 592 22 NOTORIOUS CHILD ABUSER ADMITS GUILT IN SECRET TV INTERVIEW THIS was the criminal who shocked Belgium. A paedophile who kidnapped and sexually abused young girls, with two of his victims starving to death in a dungeon. Now, the detested Marc Dutroux has spoken
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    • 199 23 JULIE Lejeune and Melissa Russo were best friends. The eight-year-olds were playing happily together in fields near their home in Liege, south-east Belgium on June 24, 1995. Then, they vanished. A year later, their bodies were found, buried under concrete. They had been allegedly
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    • 599 24  -  M'SIAN FEMALE UNDERGRADE DOUBLE LIFE AS... By C L Tan IN KUALA LUMPUR CALL them materialistic but they are definitely no bimbos. For some Malaysian female undergraduates, they just want a luxury lifestyle and easy money to finance their education. And while pursuing the papers, they become
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    • 477 25 TERRINA (not her Ml name) is a college girl doing her second year in law. She has long hair and a bittersweet smile. She drives to school in her brand new Proton Waja. But the daughter of a lorry driver lives a
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    • 384 26 Girls between the ages of five and 17 are paraded and auctioned off just like in a cattle fair EVEN as Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf talks of modernising his country, there are dozens of Afghan children as young as five who are auctioned off to prostitution and
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    • 171 26 WE were crossing the border (into Pakistan) and had no money to eat. The man gave them US$BO ($144), so my mother told me to go with Akbar. After Akbar found other girls at the border, he put all 17 of us in a truck
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  • 549 27  -  GUEST EDITOR Mr Benson Puah CEO THE ESPLANADE CO LTD THE first question we would be asked when we said we're from the Esplanade would be: "So when do you open?" This would always immediately be followed by: "And what are you planning for the opening?"
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  • AT A GLANCE
    • 332 28 The remaining members of the Fateha group say they plan to take a more moderate approach on Malay-Muslim issues. For instance, they will work with Muslim and non-Muslim bodies to build understanding and find solutions before going public, said Fateha's head of public relations, Mr
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    • 55 28 What better way to enjoy this year's Chingay parade than a bugs-eye view from this 4m-tall ladybird float? But if you can't get into the float, like this young boy at yesterday's media preview, then don't miss the real event, to be held on
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    • 365 28 INFOCUS THOSE of you looking forward to fighter planes putting on stunning manoeuvres like barrel rolls, dives and bomb-bursts will be sorely disappointed. The aerobatics displays at this year's Asian Aerospace airshow have been grounded. Mr Jimmy Lau, managing director of Asian Aerospace, explained:
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      19 28 Partly cloudy with passing showers in the late afternoon y mainly over i northern and western Singapore
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 89 29 LAST month saw a slide in Singapore's consumer price index (CPI), according to the Department of Statistics. The CPI fell 0.6 per cent last month, compared with the same month in 2000. Food prices slipped 0.1 per cent as vegetables, rice and fresh prawns cost less. But
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      • 98 29 IF you are between 14 and 25, and have always wanted to help the needy, animals or save the environment, you may now be able to get funding for your project via a "kindness grant". Launched yesterday at the Singapore Kindness Movement seminar, the National Youth
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      • 91 29 CHILDREN should send text-messages instead of spending long hours on the handphone, British scientists have advised. This is so as to reduce the possible effects of radiation. They should also keep handphones away from their heads, laps and any other organ a warning aimed "particularly" at boys.
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      • 95 29 IN less than four years, Japan could find itself swamped by its garbage as it runs out of places to dump its industrial waste. And dumps in the greater Tokyo area might be full in just over a year, reported a government study. Japan generated about 400
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      • 84 29 SINGAPORE is not profiting from the existing water agreements with Malaysia, as alleged by three letter writers to Malaysian newspapers recently. In separate letters to The Star and the Sin Chew Jit Poh, Singapore High Commission press officer Adrian Tan dismissed the allegations, saying that Singapore actually
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      • 85 29 SEVERAL roads in the Serangoon and Tank Road areas will be closed from this evening until 2am on Tuesday for the annual Thaipusam kavadi procession. Veerasamy Road, between Kampong Kapor and Serangoon roads, will be closed to vehicles from 6pm, while Tank Road will be closed from 9pm.
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      • 79 29 SINGAPORE welcomed its second-highest number of tourists ever last year. Some 7.52 million people visited, despite the global recession and Sept 11 attacks. The numbers were slightly lower than the previous year, but those who came stayed longer. The most tourists came from Indonesia, with 1.36 million
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      • 99 29 US President George Bush said on Friday that he was "very disappointed" with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The reason? Mr Arafat's failure to punish his officials whom the US and Israel say are implicated in a foiled arms-smuggling operation. Mr Bush also accused him of "enhancing
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    • 384 29  -  A LOOK AT WORLD EVENTS IN the film, The Mouse that Roared, a small fictional country is nearly bankrupt, so it declares war on the US, hoping to lose and get millions in aid. This was in 1959, a few years after the Marshall Plan
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  • Hey!))) SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND
    • 767 30  -  And other strange tales CAROL LEONG EVER heard of a $10,000 birthday party for a four-year-old boy? Yes, your jaws are probably dropping in amazement. His indulgent, middle-aged father has decided to give his only child a spectacular dinosaur party. The father is getting
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    • 174 31 <The house was at Holland Road. The birthday boy was in Primary Six and was still in his school po uniform,'* he recalled. wi I was utterly shocked an when I found out he was completely alone. No pi friends, no decorations, pi nothing. Just
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    • 209 31 KEEP the party to two hours that's just about as much fun a kid can take, said Mr Simon Yeo, who has had 10 years organising such parties. The structure should include eating times, game times and performance time (like best face painting competition). If budget
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  • HEY!
    • 439 32  -  British Royalty: The heir and the spare ANDREW DUFFY SHOCK, disbelief, horror! In the most scandalous story to hit the British press this year, a 16-year-old boy got drunk in a pub last year. Outrage! Then he smoked cannabis. Off with his head! And
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    • 52 32 PRINCE William, Harry's older and only sibling, has been criticised for haying fun at St Andrew's University in Scotland, partying a lot and enjoying himself too much. Still, he refused an offer of cannabis while in Chile last year. Generally regarded as a good influence on his
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    • 258 32 GRANDPARENTS I The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh. Status: Still married but very distant parents. Once, returning from a six-month M tour, greeted the then five-year-old 1 Prince Charles by shaking his hand. J For both, duty always comes personal feelings. Prince Andrew and
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    • 732 33  -  The candlelight dinner is off. Or too tired to go to the gym? And you have nothing better to do. Never fear, the online and some good laughs JOANNA HUGHES TWO hundred dollars for the psychic, $120 for the Tarot card
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    • 390 34 Athens/6707/: If your money spell hasn't worked yet, this site is for you: The Frugal Pagan will tell you how to save on witchcraft paraphernlia, using common household items to create altars. I tried to use my ironing board and my favourite plastic goblet to
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    • 387 35 Your spouse has just been retrenched. What can you do to help him and yourself? AMY CHIEW talks to Mr David Kan, executive director of the Family Life Centre Amy Chiew DO Create a positive environment. Maintain a positive frame of mind. You should, in
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    • 220 35 I GOT married in 1998 and we have a daughter who's two years old. However, we separated due to some personal problems. Recently, we met again and decided to reunite. We love each other and our little girl needs us both. But my parents
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    • 235 35 I AM a 24-year-old and have a daughter who will be four soon. My husband divorced me when he found out I was having an affair with a Caucasian man who is 20 years older than me. My husband is 42 and is a kind,
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    • 177 36 Dr Lim S Y, general practitioner: THIS annoying noise in your head is called tinnitus. The constant noise in their ears can range in volume from a ring to a roar. Sometimes the solution may be very easy, you just need to remove earwax
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    • 134 36 My semen is yellowish in colour. Do I have some disease? I am very worried. Worried guy DR LIM SU MIN REPLIES: The average colour of normal semen may be milky white or gray. The colour of semen does change when exposed to air. The colour of your
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    • 80 36 SNIPPETS THE answer? Women, of course. Well, that's if you believe in the results of a recent study by the University of Warwick in Britain, reports Ananova. People in their '30s were found to be least likely to be content as well. But loads of money,
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    • 77 36 MEN are most likely to know how much a pint of beer cost, as compared to their partner's bra size. According to a survey in Prima magazine, while 77 per cent of men knew how much a pint of beer cost, only 38
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    • 115 36 SHE has tried to auction herself online. Ms Kay Hammond's reason? She is just too busy to meet prospective husbands, reports Ananova. Her conditions? Bidders must send her a confirmation e-mail. They must agree to be filmed and interviewed by the media. They must agree to undertake
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    • 285 37 MARK Waite sometimes feels like a member of boyband Al. Best known as Moulmein High's ambitious and arrogant angmoh teacher, the perky 29-year-old Briton was once stuck in the toilet because a horde of squealing schoolgirls stationed themselves outside. Next up, Mark plays a
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    • 91 37 Flatliners Channel 5, I Opm A group of medical students decide to explore the realm of near-death experiences. But as the experiments intensify, they begin to be physically beaten by their nightmarish visions. Stars Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon. The Muse TV Works, 7pm A veteran writer who
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    • 109 37 Bruno HBO (Ch 60), 9pm Bruno, a gifted little boy, likes wearing dresses and has a recurring dream of being chased by an angel. How can his family help him? Stars Gary Sinise, Shirley MacLaine. Forever Mine Cinemax (Ch 59), 9pm A university student falls in love with a
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    • SPORTS
      • 71 37 I 1.00 am: Tennis 2002 Australian Open, Men's Singles Final (Live) 4.00pm: Wrestling WWF Heat 5.00: European Soccer Show 6.00: WWF Raw Best Of Raw 8.55: FA Cup Round 4 Arsenal vs Liverpool (Live) 11.00: Tennis 2002 Australian Open, Day 14 Highlights I 1.55: FA Cup Round 4
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      • 71 37 10.30 am: EPL Everton vs Tottenham Hotspur/Charlton Athletic vs Leeds Utd 2.30pm: CGU Asian Bowling Tour Grand Slam Final S'pore, Men's Highlights/Motorsports 4.00: Spanish Football League 2001/02 6.00: Italian Serie A Football 2001/02 8.00: EPL Leicester City vs Middlesbrough 10.00: EPL Tottenham Hotspur vs Southampton 12.00mn: Muhammed Ali Skill,
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      • 107 37 10.30 am: Gillette World Sports Special 11.00: Ski Report Snowtime Magazine FIS World Ski Report 2001/02 11.30: Sports Unlimited/Sailing Volvo Ocean Race 1.00pm: Golf Classics Great Rounds At The Open Ballesteros 2.00: PGA Tour Golf Phoenix Open Scottsdale, 3rd Round 4.00: ISU Figure Skating Grand Prix Final 2001
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    • 47 48 King Of Balance (Race 2 No. 5) Created a favourable impression first time out when beating all but the raging favourite Doctor Dream over the Kuaia Lumpur I,loom last month. Stepping up to 1,200 m this afternoon, this three-year-old by Chamwood Forest looks the part.
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    • 68 48 RACE 1: Casual Dragon, Night Man, Great Dream. RACE 3: Best Win, Snapper Abjar, Mega Strike. RACE 5: Starbuzz, Sky's Silver, Energy Special, Time Breaker. RACE 6: Riveira, Booming City, Prince Galery, Reinstated. RACE 7: Air Bank, Tribal King, Confidence V, Belvedere's Pride, Goldlenda, Victory Warrior, Maybe, Genuine, The
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    • 1260 49 GOOD RIDE: Champion jockey Saimee Jumaat should have an easy task on the promising Icon in Race 6 today. No. Lit 6 runs Howe Wt Rating Joctay Banter (Ag»tortgln/m, twhwr-owmr) 1 497-95 BEST WIN 57 (48) SMarzuki 5 (4ag Ntcholls-Chew Ma) 2 862-3 STAY TOGETHER 56.5
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    • 482 50 Reuters TRAINER Ted Caine is under increasing pressure to retire horse-racing's all-time loser Quixall Crossett, now aged 17. Concerns about the elderly gelding's welfare have come from animal charity officials and the Jockey Club, the sport's overseeing body. Quixall Crossett entered the record
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    • 610 53  -  By Ernest Luis TODAY, Marc Sim goes to the land of Oz. Not to seek some wizard, but to see if he can cut it as a footballer in the land which produced Harry Kewell and Mark Viduka. The St. Patrick's Secondary schoolboy is not content
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    • 227 53 NATIONAL Under-16 coach R. Suria Murthi is glad to see one of his prized players leave the country. He feels the Australian experience is a golden opportunity for Marc Sim. Suria said that one of the main aims of the Goal 2010 youth development
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    • 264 54 Hitting it off just for fun THE hockey carnival was meant for the young, but it was the not-so-young who stole the show. At the SRC 4's Schools 4-a-side Hockey Carnival, the celebrity match which featured Senior Minister of State (Education and Trade and Industry) Tharman Shanmugaratnam and ex-nationals like
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    • 103 54  -  By Ernest Luis WOODLANDS has located its missing Ram. On Friday, The New Paper had reported how the Rams' Liberian striker Emmett Glassco (right) had not yet returned to Singapore for pre-season training. He had been missing for almost a month since returning home to Liberia after
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    • 870 57 It's showdown time in the Concacaf Cup this weekend as the leading eight countries battle it out in the knockout stages. After the shock exit of fancied Ecuador, SURESH NAIR ponders if the other four World Cup Finalists Mexico, US,
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      376 58 GOLF: JOHNNIE WALKER CLASSIC AFP. SOUTH African Retief Goosen played the round of his life yesterday in a record-breaking performance during the third round of the Johnnie Walker Classic. The reigning US Open champion obliterated the field with a course-record equalling nine-under-par 63 to finish 13 strokes clear
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    • 328 58 TENNIS: AUSTRALIAN OPEN Reuters. IT'S not the dream match the promoters had in mind, but today's men's final between Marat Safin and Thomas Johansson could turn out to be a classic. The final was always going to be fought out by two unlikely finalists after
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    • 144 58 AFP. THAILAND'S Thongchai Jaidee struggled to a third round six-over-par 78. Thongchai had led after the first round and started the day only one shot behind front runner Retief Goosen. But as his playing partner Goosen fired a 63 to open up a 13-shot lead, the wheels came
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    • 684 59 FA CUP FOURTH ROUND WiUl3 SUNDAY SHOWDOWN: I? v 1 What a difference a week makes. Liverpool fans were all about doom and gloom last weekend. Then, one victovy over at Old Trafford later, it's sunshine again, as EDWIN YEO finds out when he speaks
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    • 132 59 Wire Services. THE repeat of last season's FA Cup Final will see the Liverpool team almost unchanged. Caretaker manager Phil Thompson has a slight worry over Danny Murphy, match-winner on Tuesday at Manchester United. He suffered cramps in the game at Old Trafford, but is expected
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      242 60 ...MORE ON BORO 2 MAN U 0 Reuters. Man utd boss Alex Ferguson tore a strip off his team after two defensive blunders led to what he described as a "ridiculous" FA Cup defeat at Middlesbrough. "I feel disappointed, no question about that," Ferguson said. "We should
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    • 369 61 Man U flounders again as defensive blunders cost it the match SATURDAY SHOWDOWN: FA CUP FOURTH ROUND Reuters. MORGAN'S SNAPSHOT Trevor Morgan, 45, is no stranger to English football. The Marine Castle head coach was a striker with Bolton Wanderers and Bristol City in the
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    • 168 61 GOAL I 85th min: CHAOS AT THE BACK Mark Crossley's clearance looked harmless as it travelled over 80 metres. Laurent Blanc got dragged under by Dean Windass. He couldn't recover in time as he watched the ball sail over his head. a Perhaps Fabien Barthez was a foit slow in
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    • 127 61 GOAL 2 89th min: DEFENCE OUTNUMBERED United was pressing forward for a goal and so didn't have enough men at the back. Whelan again was active, this time creating the Boro goal. He latched on to Barthez's kick which didn't make much ground and fed Windass down the right. The
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    • 87 61 (Colin Cooper (left) was the best player for Boro. He and Gareth Southgate were outstanding at the back. Cooper's been around for long and he was fearless in his tackles. Boro didn't allow much elbow room to the United forwards and that was because the likes
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    • 365 62 MIDDLESBROUGH 2 MANCHESTER UNITED 0 You can't really blame Sir Alex Ferguson (right, in picture, with Boro manager Steve McClaren on the left) for not fielding David Beckham and Juan Veron. Beckham has been carrying an injury while Veron was probably given a rest.
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    • 394 63 FA CUP FOURTH ROUND: CHELSEA 1 WEST HAM 1 WHAT a difference one week makes. Last Sunday in the league, Chelsea whacked West Ham 5-1 at Stamford Bridge. Last night, it struggled to a 1-1 draw in a FA Cup tie against the same opponent on
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