The New Paper, 3 March 2002

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  • 37 1 In chilling echo of S'pore plot: Group planned to attack foreign embassies in Macedonia Evidence of plot found in computer diskettes LEFT: Some of the weapons and documents seized by police I^Pirtur^RJEliTERS^^
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  • NEWS
    • 451 2 KILLED SUSPECTS PAKISTANIS? I Wire services. MACEDONIA and Singapore may be continents apart. Two tiny nations, one in southern Europe and the other in Asia. But the targets of suspected terrorists in both countries bear a chilling similarity the embassies of the US and
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    • 607 3  -  CREDIT CARD FIRM: By Lee Tee Jong ITS the case of the credit card bill that won't go away. The amount? A total of $4,698.05 for purchases made by credit card more than two years ago. Now, American Express (Amex) is still chasing Mr
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    • 192 3 What Amex savs MAN (ABOVE) SAYS: AMEX claimed that Mr Tan was never billed in excess of his legitimate charges. In an e-mail to The New Paper on Sunday, an Amex spokesman said Mr Tan's blue credit card was upgraded to a gold
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    • 889 4  -  Last month marked the 60th anniversary of the fall of Singapore. We asked some members of the Japanese community here if they have felt any ill feelings towards them because of the Japanese Occupation REPORT UYENVU MRS Sachiko Taylor knows what it's like to
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    • 379 4  -  COMMENT ANDREW DUFFY I DIDNT know that Japan had occupied Singapore until I arrived here, almost 60 years later. Perhaps because it was the greatest British defeat of the War, and the greatest cause for national shame at the time,
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    • 770 6  -  NUCLEAR ENERGY: By Uyen Vu DESALINATING sea water requires enormous amounts of energy. If we do indeed want to be able to quench our thirst ourselves by relying on desalination plants, one Straits Times' Forum page writer said perhaps Singapore should consider developing nuclear power
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    • 177 6 SO how did the topic of nuclear power plants for Singapore come up? A writer to The Straits Times Forum, Mr Kenneth Mak Keng Kok, started out with the premise that Singapore must strive for total self-reliance when it comes to water. But desalination plants
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    • 387 7 SOUTH Korea is the Asian country that relies most on nuclear energy. It has 16 power plants that make up 40 per cent of the country's power output, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA). Japan, which has 54 nuclear
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    • 699 8  -  SEE THIS RARE TWOHEADED TURTLE AT S'PORE'S ONLY TURTLE MUSEUM By Joyce Lim THIS is no teenage mutant ninja turtle. It's a double-headed turtle of a very rare species which you can see for just $5. That is the entrance fee to the "Live Turtle and Tortoise
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    • 235 9 ABOUT 90 per cent of Mr Tan's collection have stayed with him in his home for more than 10 years. Some, for as long as 32 years. That's why friends have nicknamed him the "Tortoise Father". Said one of them, businessman Tan Beng Gim, 35: "He and turtles
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    • 1227 10  -  'He kicks me, punches me, slaps me... I was too scared to be alone with him... He would come round every two or three days and create a scene outside the flat, asking me to open the door. But I refused to give
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    • 300 11 HE hits her, then apologises. At times, he even dresses her wounds. But within days or weeks, he attacks her again. A psychiatrist and a counsellor explained to The New Paper on Sunday why it's hard for some women to break the vicious cycle. Said Dr
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    • 91 11 DECIDE what you will do if your spouse strikes again and devise a safety plan. Look at the pattern of violence. Is it getting more severe? From a scale of one to 100, how confident are you that he will not hit you the next time
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    • 830 12 When Madam Erajesvare went Public with her story of how her husband abused her, people in her community were unhappy. Should she have suffered in silence instead? IRENE KEW sought some views MOST victims of spouse abuse hide in the shadows, even after they have escaped from
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    • 394 12 RAVINDRAN Ramachandran walked into her life in 1995. Her first husband was in jail for robbery and her daughter was a month old. Soon they started living together. But after a quarrel one night, he pulled her by the hair, banged her head against the wall
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  • NEWS
    • 460 14  -  PHOTO JOURNALIST JOYCE LIM NIGHT had fallen, and the sandy path that led to the hot spring at Gambas Avenue was pitch dark. We picked our way along it cautiously, taking care not to fall into the
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    • 772 16  -  AYALALITHAA'S STAR QUALITY By Rahul Goswami WHAT does this man want? Mr Sengottia, a former minister in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu is seen falling at the feet of Ms Jayalalithaa Jayaram after she won a by-election last week. Scenes like this have become
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    • 161 16 SO what if Imelda Marcos, the former Philippines' first lady, owned more than 3,000 pairs of shoes? Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa Jayaram owned about 10,500 saris at one time. Top that, Imelda. Then there was 28kg of jewellery, 91 wristwatches and 41 air-conditioners.
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    • 334 17 IN 1988 she was told she would have free flights for life. But, nine-years later the airline's managing director, Mr Michael O'Leary yelled: "Who do you think you are, ringing up demanding flights?" Ms Jane O'Keeffe also told the Irish Times that
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    • 597 18  -  By C l tan REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian businessman Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli is struggling to maintain his business empire. The Malaysian government is tightening its screws on the former chairman of Malaysia Airlines (MAS). Even as the new management of the
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    • 330 19 MALAYSIA Airlines (MAS) is not the first company to be put under the microscope. The Malaysian government has sought to restructure several debt-laden concerns controlled by associates of former finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin. It could be pure coincidence but, so far, magnates who have
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    • 246 20 Wire services. THAT'S how Gucci creative director Tom Ford described the new Afghanistan president. Even the Chinese President Jiang Zemin has complimented M Hamid Karzai, 44, on his wardrobe, saying his trademark green and purple robe, and lambskin cap were all the rage. "I heard
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    • 446 21 ALL those visions you have of the reclusive, brilliant scientist hard at work in his laboratory while the rest of the world passes him by are just that visions. Networking and mingling are the all important ingredients for success. And, not just for hotshot corporate executives
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    • 218 21 MS Susan RoAne's How To Work A Room: The Ultimate Guide to Savvy Socializing in Person and Online tells you how to be that person in any setting. And, here is how you go about it. Before you attend any event: RSVP. Isolation is the
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      325 22  -  Dumped corpses may outnumber the living in small US town By Andre Yeo THERE are so many corpses around the crematorium that even special sniffer dogs will be confused. So, investigators searching for more bodies at the Tri-State Crematory in Georgia, US have declined offers of cadaver dogs
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    • 143 22 WHEN 28-year-old Jennifer Ajmal went into labour on Valentine's Day, she called her sister immediately. But it was already too late and she had to depend on her nine-year-old son, Christian Alarcon, reported ABCNews. His first reaction was to call 911 saying: "My mum's having
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    • 608 23 AP. IT was to have been the biggest day of their lives. At least three brides were seated in a beauty salon in Egypt, trying to look their best on their big day when the world came crashing down on them on Monday.
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  • ATA GLANCE
    • 292 24 ARREST OF THE 13 TERRORISTS ENSURING that the incident did not cause any misundertanding between Muslims and nonMuslims in Singapore, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday. He was speaking at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Coolum, Australia. This is because the
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    • 57 24 Mr Bob Moffett holding the leg bone of a Mastodon (extinct elephantlookalike) that was found on his property in New York, US. Twenty per cent of the animal was recovered a tusk a tooth (below), neck vertebrae, toe, ankle and wrist bones, skull
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    • 224 24 INFOCUS THE number of children not signing up for Primary 1 has been rising steadily, says the Education Ministry (MOE). And with less than a year to go before primary-school education becomes compulsory, the ministry told The Sunday Times that it is
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 95 25 WILL we wake up one morning and find that Malaysia has changed terms of the existing water agreements with Singapore? No, says Barisan Nasional Youth chief Datuk Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. He ruled out any unilateral action to change the shape, form or content of the deals. However,
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      • 97 25 MUSLIM women, shy about working out in public, can sweat it out at a new gym in the East Coast. Except they can't wear shorts or tank tops, the president of the Young Women's Muslim Association (YWMA), Madam Fatimah Azimullah said. The PPIS Health and Fitness Centre
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      • 82 25 THREE people were charged in court yesterday with attempting to extort US$6 million ($llm) from a pharmaceutical executive. Melvin Tan Bun Leong, 29, his wife Apple Xu Xiaolong, 35, and Benjamin Tan Bun Heng, 33, allegedly threatened to damage Serono Singapore's credibility by saying its Chinese subsidiary was
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      • 93 25 UP to 16 toxic packages have been sent to a number of political targets including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Scotland Yard said. TTie parcels, sent through the post, said to contain eucalyptus oil actually held caustic soda. Caustic soda, or sodium hydroxide, is extremely
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      • 90 25 THE boss of one of the world's biggest tobacco firms says he never smokes and warns against the habit. Mr Martin Broughton, executive chairman of British American Tobacco, the world's second biggest cigarette maker, said people would be "better off' avoiding tobacco. He has also warned his
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      • 82 25 OVER 1,000 Johor fishermen say they have suffered huge losses since 1999 because of Singapore's land reclamation work in Tuas. They said the work had impeded the natural water currents in the Johor Straits. Recently, Johor has also complained that Singapore's reclamation works were encroaching on Malaysian terrority
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      • 87 25 RIOT police were deployed outside Parliament House yesterday to break up a protest staged by a group of 30 Chinese nationals. The workers were unhappy over the speed of investigations into 29-year-old remittance agent Lam Chen Fong, who allegedly pocketed $7 million, while working as a partner
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      • 98 25 THE number of tourists going to Bali has been dropping since Sept 11, affecting the once-flourishing tourism industry. The slump is widespread, affecting souvenir sellers to high-end resorts. Last year, officials said 1.3 million visitors had cancelled trips to Indonesia, leading to a loss of US$l.l
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    • 370 25 Deadly mix: Politics religion BEWARE when religion gets into politics. Just ask Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. A political moderate in the rightwing Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he has been called the face of Hindu nationalism. But just how acceptable is Hindu nationalism? Even Mr Vajpayee has appealed
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      1238 26 Another one bites the dust. The presses have stopped. In the past six months, at least half a dozen local magazines have decided to throw in the towel. Why have they fallen like dominoes? IF you see some familiar magazine titles conspicuously missing from the shelves, don't bother
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      855 28 The bathroom may not be enough... nor the karaoke cubicle... If you want a bigger audience and are dying to cut your own CD, VALERIE LEE tells you how MY heart will go on and 0n... So the song goes. And it can go on and on, without
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    • 298 29 IF you're in tune with the local Mandarin music scene, the name Lee Wei Song should strike a familiar chord. The well-known music maestro once half of a music duo with his twin Lee Si Song has produced and groomed talents like Stefanie Sun.
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    • 291 29 ENCOURAGED to break into song? Listen up (from our interviewees): Choosing songs Having a good mix of styles and tempos is important. But few singers can actually do it all in one go in the studio. Rehearse repeatedly so you don't waste valuable recording time
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    • 297 31 PICK OF THE WEEK Cocky (Kid Rock) HIS last two albums sold more than 13 million copies. Then the record he produced for his DJ buddy, Uncle Kracker, went platinum. And to top it all off, he's now going out with baywatch
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    • 959 32 A grand exhibition at London's Tate Gallery has turned the spotlight yet again on Andy Warhol. Was he madman or genius? Or both? EVERYONE knows at least one Andy Warhol painting. Maybe it's the tins of Campbell's soup that have been on a million T-shirts.
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    • 123 33 POP Art is just about the most American thing America has ever produced. It was all about the American way of life of the *****, taking popular culture (hence pop) of TV, movies, magazines, comics, advertising and everyday design, and turning it into an art form. In Pop
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      182 33 WARHOL helped make three things famous: Pop Art, The Velvet Underground, and Studio 54 the coolest, funkiest night club in New York during the great disco days of the late *****. He was a regular, along with Mick and Bianca Jagger, Diana Ross, Liza Minelli, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael
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    • 390 34  -  Get a kick out of these new photo booths BY Valerie Lee OH my gosh! Is that you? Here I am in Singapore's newest happy place for teens tiny as it is. I watch in abject horror as Song Liang morphs into a shirtless,
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    • 635 35 Curious to retrace the menacing steps of one of the world's most famous serial killers after watching From Hell? Then take a Jack The Ripper walk. NAZIR KESHVANI reports FEW names evoke as many shivers as that of Jack the Ripper one of the scariest dudes
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    • 441 36 YOUR spouse may have strayed but that doesn't necessarily spell the end of your marriage. There are steps you can take to make your marriage work again. According to Mr David Kan, Executive Director of Family Life Centre, if a couple yearns for reconciliation,
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    • 279 37 I AM a 14-year-old girl. About a month ago, I started having my first crush on my childhood friend. He did not know about it, and treated me like his own sister. I would always feel uneasy around him, and I would have butterflies in
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    • 206 37 ONE of the most common problems featured in sexual health columns is that of women experiencing problems climaxing. Everyone can achieve orgasm, but not everyone does. In most cases, the problem can be overcome but it helps to remember that orgasm is not the most important
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    • 216 37 THE walls of a women's uterus develop a lining in which a baby will develop on conception. The lining awaits a fertilised egg. If conception does not occur (the woman does not get pregnant), the lining is shed and the shedding appears as menstrual blood. The menstrual
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    • 364 38 IF you think the romance between Faye Wong and 11-years-younger Nicholas Tse is crazy, wait till you hear about Taiwanese songbird Winnie Hsin. The 40-year-old veteran singer is in love with someone 15 years younger, and she doesn't shy from talking about it. He's a
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  • 648 41  -  Gen X expat By Dora Cheok in Hongkong HAVE you ever wanted something so badly you could taste it, breathe it and almost live it? That's exactly how I felt when I was at my career crossroads. It started innocently enough. I was embarking on my last
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  • 174 41 IN the last edition, we made an open call for Singapore-born-and-bred expats. We share the view of a Singaporean living in Canada. Ms Sherise Tan, who studies at Trent University in Ontario, wrote: "My heart is often torn between two places my school in Canada
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    • 516 44 No Oscar for her... THERE'S something about Cate Blanchett. And it's not just the Meryl-Streep ability to chew accents, nor the Madonna-like penchant for rotating hair colour. It's in the roles she picks, which sometimes defies a regular movie-goer's common sensibilities. So she didn't win
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      498 45 POSH NOSH UNION RESTAURANT AND BAR WHAT: New kid on the hip-to-the-hilt Club Street block that dishes out modern European cuisine. Residing in a corner three-storey refurbished shophouse, it has a spacious bar on the first floor, a restaurant on the second and a private dining area
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    • 232 45 CHEAP CHOW FRIED noodles is not exactly hard to find in Singapore. So what makes Lai Heng Fried Kuay Teow any different? If the numerous newspaper clippings that plaster the stall, or the fact that the family-run business has grown to include two other outlets
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  • RACING
    • 295 46  -  By Danny Khoo TRAINER John Brink has decided to call it a day after nine years on the local scene. The 46-year-old tendered his resignation last Friday and will bow out at the end of next month. When contacted yesterday, the soft-spoken American
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    • 1158 46 RACE 1: Trainer B Brogan was fined RM2OO ($9O) for failing to seek the stewards' permission to use a cross-nose strap on OLE OLE. PORTLAND CHAMP was withdrawn after hurting her nearhind when she kicked in the barriers. TRIBAL RING dipped on jumping,
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    • 1994 47 ii'ii—■ iiiiiii i i ii 111 inn inn 14 TRIBAL RING 55 (10-6) TJackman (13) 1 3 1 (465) 3 DOUBLE-OH-SEVEN 55 (1204-175) SAnandan (2) 2 4 2 (473) 16 YOU'RE RIGHT 55 (29-9) lAzhar (6) 3 5 3 (502) 13 THE MAN 55 C 53.5
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    • 275 47  -  By Marc Tan SINGAPORE champion Saimee Jumaat booted home a sweet double aboard A La Natural (Race 5) and United Family (Race 7) at Ipoh yesterday. And he looked well on course to grab a running treble with Flying Treasure in Race 8 but
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    • 439 48 PICK OF THE DAY Going on the way he finished off his last two races over 1,400 m, when he flew home for third on both occasions, DUnknown should relish the step-up to the metric mile and take out the Perak Special Stakes. Jockey Oo Khuang
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    • 671 48 TODAY’S IPOH RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD Wo. Lift 6 runt Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Aga/oriqin/»ex, trainer-owner) 1 *****8 PRIVATE EQUITY 57 (48) SSani 9 (4nzg Robert-Hydrocarbon) 2 -20-8- DARK SOUTH 56.5 (47) CHewitson 12 (5nzg F Nathan-Owner) 3 *****5 EAGLE HAS LANDED 56.5 (47) *DChongc2.5 11 (5nzg SH
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    • 76 48 RACE 1: Eagle Has Landed, Persian Tycoon, Big Secret. RACE 2: Rich Strike, King Lark. RACE 3: Desert Warrior. RACE 5: Mega General, Platinium, Able Rank. RACE 6: Fortune Machine, Secret Talent, Storm Legend, Newing, Victory Warrior, Genuine, Time Breaker. RACE 7: Air Bank, Lucky Gift, Moon Town, Sir
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    • 263 49 THE Penang Turf Club (PNTC) will relocate only as a last resort. In a press statement, the PNTC committee stated that while persuasive reasons had been given for the club to relocate from its present site, no decision had been made. This
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    • 1318 49 TODAY'S IPOH RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD No. List 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey Banter (Aqa/oriqin/sex, trifrwr-owner) 1 *****0 DESERT WARRIOR 57 (48) WLooi 6 (7ag Comer-Owner) 2 *****0 HAPPY N SUCCESSFUL 57 (48) *M Djulkifli c1.5 7 (6nzg B Chua-Resourceful) 3 --2648 LET ME TOUCH 57 (48) DChee
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    • 1152 50 TODAY'S IPOH RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD Wo. La«t 6 run* Horae Wt Rating Joctay Barrier (Agttoriginfr«i, tralmf-owner) 1 *****3 AIR BANK 57 (74) *ALee 7 (6nzg Yeo-Kingdom) 2 0-3-3 LUCKY GIFT 57 (74) BWoodworth 10 (4rug Campbell-Kenneth) 3 *****5 BRIDGE HOUSE 56.5 (73) lAzhar 12 (7ag Tennent-Owner) 4 -1-57
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    • 309 51 AP DAVID Beckham's free-kick that propelled England into the World Cup finals has been immortalised in wax. Madame Tussaud's museum in London will soon feature a waxwork display of Beckham poised to take the injury-time kick with a worried England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson looking on. England
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    • 268 51 ITS called the mullet cut and it's been voted the world's worst hairstyle. But what happens when it is spotted on the head of sport's trendiest star? That's the poser for the fashion police, who fears Manchester United soccer
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    • 703 52  -  BY Jason Tan THE 10-year-old girl glided across the ice-skating rink, slowed down and started spinning and arching her right leg backwards. She spun. And spun. By the time Cheryl Chan had completed 10 breathtaking spins, she was on one leg her right leg behind, held up
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    • 284 52 THE race is on to send Cheryl Chan and other young promising skaters to the Winter Olympics in 2010. The Ice Skating Association of Singapore (ISAS) said it hopes to be recognised by the Singapore Sports Council as a National Sports Association this year. "If we
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      529 53  -  Winning an Olympic medal: Coaching fees: $40,000 Costumes: $2,000 Skates: $3,000 Mental stress: Limitless By VKSANTOSH KUMAR WELL, almost. The cost of grooming a bright skating star like Cheryl Chan (see report on facing page) can cost upwards of $50,000 a year. Everything from the dance-routine choreography to the
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    • 912 54 Despite whipping mighty Home last week, Geylang only managed a 0-0 draw with Tampines last night. Here's how the two teams fared THE STAGS DEFENCE: trwrimif Tai Mm Lug Tan Kim Leng's called 'Ironheart' because of the way he bounced back so quickly from his
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      • 521 55  -  By Wang Meng Meng HE feints to the left... then to the right. But the defender is not buying it. With one fell swoop, Luciano De Oliveira is dispossessed. Again. And again. And yet again. That has been the kind of start to the new S-League
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      • 222 55 SAVE... 6lh take Eagles striker AJeksandar Duric flicks a header to Brian Bothwell who sees Stags 'keeper Zakir Djalilov off his line. He volleys the ball but Djalilov manages to just tip it over. DIALILOV SAVES AGAIN... 30th: Acting on a quick counter-attack. Eagles midfielder Mohd Noor Ali tries
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      • 939 56  -  LEONARD LAU MARATHONERS always tell you: It's not how well you start the race, it's how you finish that counts. Unlike the Premiership title race where if you started badly, it may come back to haunt you the NBA is essentially a two-season marathon. The
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    • 546 58 F-l GRAND PRIX SEASON OPENING: TODAY MELBOURNE RUBENS Barrichello will start from pole position in today's season-opening Australian Grand Prix after rain effectively ended yesterday's qualifying session in Melbourne. Barrichello will line-up alongside Ferrari team-mate Michael Schumacher, painting the front row scarlet red for the second year
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    • 209 58 RUBENS BARRICHELLO: Did I expect to be on pole? I feel that in life things happen for a reason. I got lucky with the weather and I'm not complaining. This is a very good beginning to the season. I had a strong winter testing, I feel very
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      576 59 India first to fire coach r WORLD CUP HOCKEY KUALA LUMPUR AFP. POOR show, so you go. India hockey coach Cedric D'Souza was sacked midway through the World Cup tournament in Kuala Lumpur yesterday following the failure of the former champion to reach the semi-final. An embittered D'Souza refused
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    • 242 59 RESULTS: Germany 2 New Zealand 1 Spain 2 South Africa 2 Australia 5 Japan 0 Belgium 1 Argentina 3 India 4 Cuba 0 Korea 4 Poland 0 Pakistan 1 Holland 2 England 1 Malaysia 2 TODAY: Argentina v New Zealand Spain v Pakistan South Africa v
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    • SUNDAY SHOWDOWN DERBY v MANUTD
      • 514 60  -  Red Devils are ready to ram the Rams By Edwin Yeo THERE are some matches that even before they start, they have GAME OVER written all over them. Derby vs Manchester United tonight sure looks like one of those. With all due respect to the Rams,
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      • 254 60 AFP. MAN Utd captain Roy Keane has finally committed himself to the club by signing a four-year contract. United was already celebrating because manager Alex Ferguson, who had gone into this season claiming it would be his last, signed a new contract on
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      • 306 61 AFP. Uruguayan striker Diego Forlan looks set to be given his first start in a Manchester United shirt when Alex Ferguson's side takes on Derby tonight. Ferguson is delighted with the way the £7.5 (sl9m) buy from Independiente has settled at Old TrafTord since
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      • 439 61 SUNDAY SHOWDOWN: ITALY Reuters. TODAY'S big Milan derby AC versus Inter could mark the end of an era as AC president, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, prepares to stand down from the club. Back in 1986, when Berlusconi
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      • 259 62 ON FULHAM 0 LIVERPOOL 2 THEY say it only takes a second to score a goal, but sometimes you need a second chance to make sure. That's what happened with Liverpool striker Nicolas Anelka last night and you don't give this
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      • 201 62 AFP ENGLAND star Michael Owen (left) is in line for a jackpot bonus from his boot sponsors if he lands the coveted Golden Boot award at this summer's World Cup. Kit manufacturer Umbro has promised Owen £100,000 pounds ($260,000) if he manages to finish the
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        644 63  -  SATURDAY SHOWDOWN: FULHAM 0 LIVERPOOL 2 Anelka 13, Litmanen 90 By Edwin Yeo IF last night's 2-0 win over Fulham turned out to be the all-important three points in Liverpool's championship race, there's one player it really has to thank. No, not scorers Nicolas Anelka or Jari
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      • 498 64 Hot Cole OUT BOLTON 1 BLACKBURN 1 r> f ASTON VILLA 2 Juan Pablo Angel 23 Darius Vassell 90 WEST HAM 1 Paolo Di Canio 13 BOLTON 1 Rod Wallace 45 BLACKBURN 1 Matt Jansen 68 CHARLTON 2 Jason Euell 72.89 CHELSEA 1 Frank Lampard 83 FULHAMO LIVERPOOL 2 Nicolas
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    • 58 59 This advertisement is for a couple whom I met on a recent trip to KOH TAO. If you are the Singaporean couple who is at WHITENING on 1 February 2002 I and if you like to share with me about your experience in KOH TAO, please email me at: try_happiness
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    • 130 62 I WHAMPOA CHAMPIONS CUP~] ISLANDWIDE 7-A-SIDE SOCCER TOURNAMENT 2002 GUEST-OF-HONOUR Mr Heng Chee How MP for Jalan Besar GRC (Whampoa) Mayor, Central Singapore District Whampoa CSC is organising the above tournament in April 2002. Top 24 teams will qualify for the GRAND FINALS to be played on 21st April 2002
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