The New Paper, 10 March 2002

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  • 18 1 the nevvjSapeis MARCH 10.2002 A. **********1 ■■ffio U MARCH 10, 2002 Singapore Press Holdings on Sunday 70 CENTS
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    • 41 1 Man steals from Singapore church Church has forgiven man VICTORIA'S SECRETS r> t."'- jr know whic pretty worn caught Beckham': pBfancy?^^_ Picture/ REUTERS <>. m>: Mrs Victoria Beckham •ik.l Posh Spice Why does the one on the right cost 55 cents more?
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  • 550 2 NEWS M Some survivors are offended by plan to beam Twin Towers' image into Manhattan's night sky tomorrow Others object to the telecast of the documentary, 9/11, which has unseen footage of events inside the collapsing towers New Yorkers are
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    • 341 3 SAMURAI ITSUO OKADA THE ONLY THING SHARPER THAN 1-17 March 2002 JAPANTASTIC Come face-to-face A Little Corner of Japan Shop Your Way to Japan All Things Japan Aikido Performance# 1 with one of the last Relax in a classic Japanese Garden Win a trip for two to Japan worth Find
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  • NEWS
    • 812 4  -  Man steals 150,000 from Spore church REPORTS ANDRE YEO THE Sunday church collection is supposed to maintain the church and help the poor. But it seems that one man had been helping himself instead, to the tune of at least $150,000. The church in question
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    • 75 5 THE church has five Sunday services, which are held in the morning. Depending on the size of the congregation, the pastor said six to 10 bags are passed around during each service for worshippers to put money in. The money is then counted by six to 10
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    • 685 6  -  But most aren't fussy By Andre Yeo THEY may have criminal records, but they're determined to start afresh. Given half a chance, many would take a job. Any job. But a minority of ex-convicts are being very choosy. Even with the recession still on
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    • 251 6 SHE has three ex-convicts working for her. They were all referred to her by Score, and she is very happy with their job performances. She even sings their praises. But if an ex-convict were to approach her on his own for a job, she probably wouldn't hire
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    • 234 6 HIS friends have criminal records. Yet, they demanded salaries of $2,000 a month. And when they didn't get what they asked for, they went back to a life of crime, said a former heroin addict, who spent three months in a drug rehabilitation centre. James (not his
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    • 103 7 YESTERDAY, 97 inmates from the Kaki Bukit Centre Prison School and the Changi Reformative Traning Centre received awards from the National Youth Achievement Award (NYAA) Council. This was the second time that awards have been handed out at the Prison School. The NYAA Programme, introduced in
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    • 1001 8 Former Taiwanese politician Chu Mei-feng, infamous for her sex scandal video, has no formal training in singing and has never cut an album. Yet she has managed to line up a series of concerts here this month. LEE TEE JONG tries to find an answer to
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    • 321 9 SHE became notorious after footage of her having sex with a married man was released on VCD by the Taiwan weekly tabloid Scoop in December last year. The scenes also ended up on the Internet. But, up till then, Chu Mei-feng's life was on track for
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    • 863 10  -  REPORTS LEE TEE JONG CHEW on this: It's been 10 years since the sale, import and manufacture of chewing gum was banned on Jan 3, 1992. It has slowed "sneaking in" of gum almost to a halt. Figures from the Customs and Excise Department showed
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    • 31 10 Good riddance! I never liked it in the first place. I still remember the horrible experience of touching it on the lift button. IT analyst Dennis Lim, 30
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    • 28 10 The reason, that chewing gum clogs the subway door, isn't strong enough to warrant its ban. It's unnecessarily strict. Mr Rob Keeler. 27, an Australian visitor
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    • 272 11 THE Ministry of Environment said that to date, no-one has been prosecuted for import, sale or manufacture of chewing gum. No one has tried to import chewing gum over the last 10 years, and there has been a drastic drop off in the
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    • 837 12  -  By Joyce Lim Thinking of chilling out with a nice cold drink? Well, you might want to check the price before you splash out the cash. Because at some places, the price differs depending on whether the can is chilled or not. You
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    • 927 14  -  Retiree's cool hobby keeps her young and trim By Irene Kew AT 70, when most grannies are hiding their figures in dowdy outfits, this feisty grandmother-of-eight has no qualms about jumping into a flirty mini-skirt and tight lycra top. Especially when an ice-rink beckons. Dr Gin
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    • 539 15  -  And minister gets together with MOE 'family' to prove it By Santokh Singh IT was back to the PE (Physical Education) class for more than 1,200 education officers yesterday. And they came through this gruelling endeavour with flying colours. Because, despite the hot morning sun, the
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    • 1034 16  -  When Judy Chan found out that her maid Vicky Gepuz was suffering from cervical cancer, she not only paid her medical bills, she hired two part-time maids to look after her... REPORT Joyce Lim FILIPINO maid Ms Vicky Gepuz owes her life to her
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    • 672 18  -  HOW SOUTH KOREA RIDES OUT RECESSION: BY Andrew Duffy AS the tailwinds of recession continue to lash the region, all is relatively calm in South Korea. So how have they managed to not just weather the storm, but quietly prosper as well? According to The
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    • 104 19 ONE of Seoul's main policies has been to introduce greater transparency. A high-profile corruption case made it imperative. In 1996, then-President Kim Young Sam called corruption "the Korean disease". The huge amounts of money moving invisibly around the chaebols proved too tempting for some, and large amounts
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    • 138 19 TWO things are looming on the horizon: The World Cup and the axis of worry between North Korea and US president George Bush. The World Cup looks like good news. South Korean president Kim Dae-Jung stressed the importance of making it one of the safest and
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    • 540 20 Page 20 THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY March 10. 2002 Financial disasters abroad may educate Singapore investors. Here are Seven lessons from the Enron crash text/Larry Haverkamp Beware companies which rely on new or unproven technology to succeed f Enron convinced the experts there was a great future in trading
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  • NEWS
    • 164 21 THE Duke of Edinburgh has once again suffered a bout of "foot-in-mouth" disease. He asked a woman in a wheelchair if people tripped over her during a visit to a nursing home in Bristol, UK, on Friday, reported BBC. Prince Philip also asked wheel-chair-bound Jackie Henderson
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    • 104 21 How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test? To a driving instructor in Scotland. Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. During the 1981 recession. Deaf? If you are near
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    • 84 22 Even though there's no food on the plates. Filipino children banging plates decorated with photographs of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in protest outside the presidential palace on Friday. The protesters had gathered to commemorate International Women's Day, but they wanted President Arroyo's administration
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    • 391 22 Chinese snap up California-style homes CAUGHT up in the American Dream, the Chinese are paying top dollar to move into Orange County. Orange County, China, that is. Yes, Beijing is now just an hour's drive away from a chunk of southern California. The invasion is
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    • 724 23 ISRAELI MOTHER Madam Maureen Amir, 58, teacher Divorcee with two daughters in their 20s A FEW years back, a bomb went off in a bus near my daughter's school. That put me in a spin for a while. I cannot condone the Palestinian suicide
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    • 168 23 More than 50 people were killed on Friday in the worst outbreak of violence since the current Palestinian intifada (uprising) began 17 months ago. The dead included five Israeli students and the deputy Palestinian commander in Gaza. It came soon after US President George Bush announced that he
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    • Article, Illustration
      249 24 VISITORS at the world's oldest zoo Vienna's Schonbrunn Palace Zoo were not prepared for this gruesome "show". Witnesses including children watched in horror as a woman keeper was mauled and gnawled to death by three jaguars, the Scotsman reported. The 21-year-old keeper had entered the big cats' cage,
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    • 310 25 IMAGINE a government that saves up for every citizen's future. A Norwegian fund has been doing just that. And now, it has amassed enough cash to give every citizen enough money to pay for a lifetime of holidays in the Mediterranean, The Scotsman reported. Norway's
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    • 156 25 SUPPOSE you're in a meeting in Japan. Then suddenly an e-mail message on your handphone says a burglar has broken into your home in Singapore. You call the police here, and they arrive just in time to catch the crook. But who, the
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  • AT A GLANCE
    • 294 26 MOHAMED Nazir Mohamed Uthman, one of the 13 Jemaah Islamiah (JI) members held under the Internal Security Act, "is now very remorseful and regrets his action". Mohamed Nazir, 27, a former PSA employee, belonged to one of three secret cells that had planned to
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    • 69 26 Miss Zhu. 32. is not going to eat another fish head soon. The teacher, who is visiting from China, was tucking into her fish head pomdge at a hawker stall here when she bit into something hard. To her horror, she discovered it was
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    • 398 26  -  MATTHEW IT will be six months tomorrow since Sept 11, a date that will remain etched in public memory for some time to come. And the day after, it will be a month since a Russian-built Iranian airliner slammed into a mountain near Khorramabad, killing
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 64 27 ELECTRONIC journalism graduate Sridevi Palanivelu (left) is believed to be the first Singaporean selected as a United Nations (UN) guide. The US$l7 ($3l) hourly job in New York requires her to explain the work of the UN to visitors. For the last two weeks, Miss Palanivelu
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      • 95 27 SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew's book, From Third World To First, will soon be available in six languages, a possible publishing first for a non-fiction work by a Singaporean. The book, the second volume of his memoirs, is soon to be published in Hungarian and Hebrew.
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      • 117 27 SELANGOR wants every big housing project in urban areas to set aside a piece of land for use as a burial ground. Under a new ruling, a developer of 200 ha of land will have to set aside 1 ha for every 1,000 units of houses
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      • 85 27 THE Bush administration has directed the military to prepare emergency plans to use nuclear weapons against at least seven countries. The explosive secret report says the Pentagon needs to be prepared to use nuclear weapons against China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Iran and Libya. It says
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      • 54 27 THE outcry over Dr Vivian Balakrishnan's reference to Malaysian media as "wild animals" is a way for the Malaysian media to get revenge. The Malaysian media has been upset since Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong rapped it for harping on the reclamation issue. One ex-editor said Singapore
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      • 80 27 To some, this period of the '60s brings back many fond memories, be it the music of the Beatles, the popular Pontianak series of Malay movies... And for many of us, it might be reminiscing the delightful treats from the ll tuk tuk" hawkers, or even
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      • 25 27 MORE than RM200,000 ($96,000) has been collected from Singapore motorists in payment for summonses in Malaysia in the last two weeks.
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    • 280 27 INFOCUS SENTOSA hopes to attract 8 million visitors under a new masterplan. But not all is well on the island. Here's an update of what's on and what's off. VOLCANOLAND: The latest casualty. Smoke has stopped spewing from its "volcano" and its troupe of six
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous

  • Hey! SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND
    • 794 28  -  Raisins, corn, nuts and chocolate chips... Loaves with all sorts of ingredients and flavours are jostling for space on supermarket shelves CAROL LEONG WE must be nuts about raisins in our bread. Otherwise, how do you explain why Singaporeans wolf down slightly more than a
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    • 450 29 Bread rolling out of the Gardenia factory. But why not try making your own with a bread maker? BREADMAKING machines are true kitchen innovations. With minimum fuss and effort, this machine will rise, mix, knead and bake a fresh loaf of bread for you. All you
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    • 382 30  -  ANDREW DUFFY TWO hundred Singaporean students with paint cans spraying graffiti. A mass outbreak of youth culture overthrowing the old guard and declaring a radical new state? No, just last Saturday morning at Lasalle-SLA. The air in the arts college was thick with the fumes of spray paint,
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    • 343 30 GRAFFITI has been around for centuries. The word comes from the ancient Greek "graphein", meaning to write. In Singapore, it appears mostly at the Youth Centre Skate Park, where it's checked every day and any obscenities are removed. Earlier this year, three people were arrested
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    • 684 31  -  ARUL JOHN SAY southern Thailand and sleazy Haadyai and dirty old men come to mind. Having last visited Haadyai 14 years ago, I was ready to ascribe the same unsavoury reputation to the place. But a visit at the beginning of the year gave a
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    • 868 32  -  He's punk, he's transgressive and he's being hailed as the saviour of haute couture. And soon you can get "Gaultierised" JOANNA HUGHES JEAN Paul Gaultier (pronounced goh tee yea) looks like he'd be right at home in a sleazy, not-very-reputable section of Marseilles:
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    • 612 33 A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (Queen, 1975) IF Elvis was the King of Rock 'n Roll, then Freddie Mercury and gang had to be the Queens of heavy metal. While other rock bands of the time (the '70s), such as Led Zeppelin, butched up their acts
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    • 281 33 PICK OF THE WEEK Under Rug Swept (Alams Monssette) THE central theme in Alanis Morissette albums is either the success or failure of her love life. Most of the time it's failure. On Jagged Little Pill, she was all furious-woman-scorned, spitting acid on a
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    • 34 34 POSH NOSH CHEAP CHOW Kebabs of all kinds to go! New Asia also offers a contemporary setting (inset) with a view to boot. Pictures/ Law Kian Yan Picture/ Kua Chee Sioing
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    • 657 34  -  TAN DAWN WEI DURIAN aficionados have long worshipped on the steps of the Goodwood Park Hotel, which, apart from its yearly Christmas decorations, also makes the most scrumptious durian puffs. Originally created 19 years ago by the hotel's durian-loving French pastry chef, Monsieur Auduard, the secret
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    • 339 35 WHEN Ben and Vanessa got married, they thought their love would weather all storms. But disagreements on money matters were soon tearing them apart. How does money become a "third party" in a marriage? According to Mr David Kan, executive director of Family
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    • 369 35 I AM desperate for a job. I've been looking for a job as a clerk and have gone for several interviews, but none have resulted in a job offer. It always takes me months to find a new job and I have never lasted more than
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      19 36 Shades are cool. But even plain glasses can make a woman sexier as some men seem to think.
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    • 163 36 THINK women in glasses are unhip? Think again. Nearly nine out of 10 British men polled in a recent survey think women who wear glasses are desirable. Said Mr Chris Micklethwaite, 31, from Leeds: "There's nothing sexier than a girl with big brown eyes and with long
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    • 75 36 BETTER to commit adultery than to shoplift. Well, so say Canadians. According to a survey which polled 1,519 adults, the Canadians believe shoplifting is worse than cheating on your partner. They were asked to rate which activities were immoral. Nine out of 10 people voted shoplifting top of
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    • 132 36 WANT to know how you can win an Olympic medal? Just avoid sex. Well, that's the secret to the success of Germany's Olympic medallist skier Ronny Ackermann, reported Ananova. He took silver in the Nordic combined event and then claimed his training included 389 days without sex. Said
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    • 478 36 IF you have a question or need advice on heart or sex issues, write to: Heart Soul, The New Paper, Level 6, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Annexe Block, Singapore *****4, or fax 6319-8266. E-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg. Mark your envelope Heart Soul. You can use a
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    • 262 36 EVERYONE gets "depressed" from time to time because of disappointments or frustrations of daily life. After a short period of feeling unhappy or sad, however, circumstances and perceptions change and our mood improves. A common myth is that depression affects only those who can't manage life's ups and
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    • 1043 37 Despite a troubled past, the sun is not about to go down on pop star George Michael, as RONALD RAJAN discovers IF there's one thing that can be said about pop superstar George Michael, it's that trouble just seems to follow him home. These days, we
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    • 193 38 BORN-AGAIN hedonist George Michael gets right back into the groove with his first single in over three years. Freeek features Michael's sleazy vocals with lots of in-vogue electronica-type squeaks tossed in for good measure. Powered by a throbbing industrial backbeat, the single smacks heavily of Barrel
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    • 402 38  -  TOH PAIK CHOO THERE is no V in Spanish. One doesn't mean to be clever in which case make that "cleber" in Spain when making this pronouncement on the vanishing there I go again, it's "banishing" letter V in the country where the deluge is mainly
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    • 298 39 HEY/ ASIAN actors who can't throw a mean right hook or differentiate wushu from gongfu can forget about conquering Hollywood. Just look at Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Russell Wong, and now, Hawaiian martial arts champ Mark Dacascos (right). Last seen as American-Indian warrior
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    • 258 39 I 1 S ■HSffißß PI 0.00 am: lAAF Grand Prix Indoor Athletics, Russian I 1.00 am: EPL Arsenal vs Charlton 10.00 am: lAAF Indoor Athletics Grand Prix 2002 Winter Athletic/Blackburn Rovers vs West Ham Utd Birmingham I 00pm: FA Cup Qtrfinal Newcastle Utd vs Arsenal 3.00: Spanish Football League Betis
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    • 211 39 THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY March 10. 2002 Highlights Kindergarten Cop Channel 5, 6pm A tough city cop on the trail of a drug dealer finds he has to go undercover as a kindergarten teacher. Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller. Angel Channel i, 12mn Wolfram and Hart arrange for
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    • 876 40 THE NEW PAPER/Sunday, March 10,2002 TV 41 9 9.00: Battle lO.OO:Chibi 9.00: Digimon 9.00: Let's and 9.00: Frootees 9.30: Road Trip 10.05: Wedding 10.00: Golden Dome II (Variety) Maruko Adventure/In Go/Kids United Bosan Plus Peach Kids Club am 1 0.00: Asia (Animation) Kids 10.00: Butt Ugly 9.30: Sekolahku 1 0.02:
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      457 41  -  WHERE TO GO. WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK COMEDY MI Youth Connection 2002 8 Addictions WHAT gives you a rush? This weekend, watch as your life's obsessions are exhibited in full bloom in a unique experience organised by the Necessary Stage. With unannounced performances, it's up to you to
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    • 661 42  -  An obsession leads a man to write a mammoth tome to pay tribute to the glorious era of Shanghainese pop TOH PAIK CHOO WHAT is a Renaissance man doing between the covers of Shanghainese pop? The answer has to do indirectly with Hongkong pop singer Sam Hui. Wong
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  • 352 45 HEY! HE wears jeans, T-shirts and tinted shades, has just the one name and wants to save the world. Can a rock god play secular saint? U2's Bono obviously can and visibly does. Yeah right, a popstar's yaddayadda on the rape of the rainforest and
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  • RACING
    • 905 46 RACE 1: Apprentice A Kumaren replaced apprentice KT Cheng on GREAT PREVENTION when the latter was certified unwell. AKASHI was withdrawn when he could not be boxed. The saddle on EVIL GENERAL was re-adjusted behind the barriers. Near the 150 m, GREAT PREVENTION
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    • 256 46  -  By Marc Ran MARK Baby Star and Disco Master in your notebook. The duo caught the eye at Ipoh yesterday when they won their respective Maiden events for three-year-olds over the I,loom straight course in contrasting fashion. Baby Star, who is prepared by
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    • 1639 47 YESTERDAY'S IPOH RACE RESULTS GOING: GOOD immmMwrnMESMEBEmmsi 4 BABY STAR 55 (8-6) SHOh (16) 6 6 1 (467) 6 EVIL GENERAL 55 (50-13) 'BShahrul (1) 5 2 2 (474) 14 SWIFT N HONEST 55 (46-11) KKLoh (5) 3 3 3 (511) 15 THE MAN 55 c 53.5 (83-18) *M Djulkifli
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    • 408 48 PICK OF THE DAY I Diamond Boss did not enjoy the best of runs when fourth to Celebrity Kingdom over the 1,200 m last week. Two starts back, he was also unlucky to go down to Big General over the Penang 1,700 m after
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    • 1200 48 TODAY'S IPOH RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD No. Last 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Aqt/origjnheit. trainer-owner) 1 2 -2-5 MEGA GENERAL 57 (47) *M Djulkifli C1.5 11 (5nzg M Breukelen-CYC) 2 *****0 CONSEQUENCE 56 (45) MHuzain 10 (6nzg F Nathan-Confidence) 3 9—81 CASH MAGIC 55 5 (44) *ALeec3
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    • 128 49 TODAY'S IPOH RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD HARD TO RULE OUT: Ta/(right), who ran a good fourth over 1,600 m last week, must be respected when he tackles the I,Boom this afternoon. JOINING FORCES: Trainer Felix Campbell (right) and jockey Carl Hewitson (left) have a decent chance to take out
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    • 1311 50 TODAY'S IPOH RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD SMART PAIR: The Lam Mun Chiew-trained Chevochelle and jockey Loh Kin Kuen can be followed again. No. Last 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origw/sei, timer-owner) 1 -6-70- STAR INDEED 57 (48) S Sam 1 (4ag Roberf-Hydrocdlxxi) 2 9-707- KITASUKA 56 (46)
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    • 692 51  -  S-LEAGUE 2002: SPOTLIGHT ON THE SPONSORS By Ernest Luis THEY say that when you're down and out, nobody wants to know you. Well, not in the case of the Home Protectors. They were rock bottom in the S-League at the end of the 1997
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    • 732 52  -  MORE ON S-LEAGUE 2002: SPOTLIGHT ON THE SPONSORS By Ernest Luis CANADIAN Pizza's sponsorship of the Jurong Cobras last week was the subject of some cofTeeshop talk among S-League fans. Said one wag at the stall opposite the Jurong East Stadium before the Cobras played
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    • 766 53 LET'S take a short break from the world of professional basketball and take a peek inside the main farm system that supplies the NBA with fresh bodies every year the university ranks. Each year, the NBA draft allows each team from worst to first to choose players
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    • 774 54 MORE ON THE NBA 2001-2002 IT'S far too soon to compare them to the Bad Boys of Detroit fame. But off early returns, this much is evident: Indiana Pacers coach Isiah Thomas (above), arguably the toughest little guard in NBA history, finally has
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    • 1458 55 LAST night, Britain was treated" to Being Victoria Beckham, a fly-on-the-wall TV documentary that was supposed to show us the real Mrs Posh Spice. Instead, we actually found out more about her husband, a certain Mr David Beckham. This was, for all intents and purposes, an MTV-style pop
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    • WORLD CUP HOCKEY FINAL: GERMANY 2 (Kunz 35, Domke 64) AUSTRALIA 1 (Elder 31)
      • 357 57 Wire services. OLIVER Domke ended Germany's 31-year wait for the World Cup hockey crown with a 64th-minute strike that floored Australia in the final. Sascha Reinelt shaped the German match-winner by cutting through a host of tentative defenders and passed the ball to Bjorn Michel.
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      • 204 57 Wire services. IN the bronze medal playoff, Dutch striker Jaap Derk Buma scored a spectacular golden goal to secure Olympic champion Holland a 2-1 win against South Korea. Sander van der Weide brought Holland back into the game with an opportunistic strike two minutes
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    • DUBAI OPEN GOLF: THIRD ROUND
      • 180 58 AP. ERNIE Els finished the third round of the Dubai Desert Classic three shots ahead of the field yesterday, putting himself in line for a second victory in as many weeks. The South African carded a five-under-par 67 on the Emirates course
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      • 214 58 I ALL-ENGLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS Reuters. DENMARK'S Camilla Martin breezed into the All-England badminton championships final with an impressive 7-2, 7-4, 8-6 triumph yesterday over Dai Yun of China. The pair have been battling on the circuit for over seven years with a head to head split of
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    • 824 59 CHELSEA CHAIRMAN KEN BATES fEr SUN PAY OUTSIDE its own support group Chelsea is a club with few friends. Some might sympathise with its likeable manager Claudio Ranieri but no one seems to particularly like its bumptious chairman Ken Bates, who rejoices in
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    • SHOWDOWN TOTTENHAM v CHELSEA
      • 477 60  -  By Edwin Yeo ALL week, I've been getting reminder messages from fellow Tottenham fans asking me to watch Spurs thrash Chelsea 5-1 again tonight in the FA Cup quarter-final. Indeed, that League Cup semi-final second leg is what the Singapore Spurs Supporters' Club shows on
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      • 352 60 A 5-1 trouncing by Tottenham Hotspur in the League Cup semi-final has been niggling away at Chelsea's players for six weeks. Tonight, they intend to settle the score, according to striker Eidur Gudjohnsen. The two London sides meet in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup at
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      • 193 61 Reuters MILENE Domingues says she had always wanted to keep her soccer boots on, even after arriving in Italy with her husband, Ronaldo. The former model began training with her new Italian Serie A women's team, Fiamma Monza, recently says she is raring
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      • 159 61 Reuters WITH skill you can get far. But with a secret weapon, you can get further in this case, an Olympic gold. Take the case of the Canadian Olympic gold-winning men's and women's ice hockey teams. Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky revealed their secret weapon: A one dollar
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        70 61 Christian Karembeu almost broke his supermodel wife's leg with a slide tackle during a football game in their garden, reported Football36s. Adriana Karembeu says she loves playing with the former Middlesbrough player, but he took it too seriously. The Wonderbra model said: "Honestly, it hurt so much we
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    • FA CUP QUARTER FINAL: MIDDLESBROUGH v EVERTON
      • 268 62 DAVID GINOLA has been axed from Everton's squad for tonight's FA Cup showdown at Middlesbrough throwing his Goodison Park future into doubt after just one month. Frenchman Ginola, 35, was back home in London on Friday night while his team-mates travelled to the North East. Mystery
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      • 263 62 LIVERPOOL'S French striker Nicolas Anelka has found the net only three times in 14 appearances since joining from Paris St Germain. But his all-round play has impressed his boss enough for him to consider giving Anelka a permanent deal. Recovering Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier (inset) told Daily
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      • 148 62 LEEDS UNITED striker Mark Viduka is confident that the side can build on its win against Ipswich in midweek to win a place in next season's Champions League. Wednesday night's 2-0 victory was the Elland Road outfit's first win since New Year's Day, and it
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    • 476 63 LEICESTER 1 (Scowcroft 20th minute) CHARLTON 1 (Euell 42nd) SATURDAYSHO WDO WN Tiger TODAY FA CUP QUARTER Z~ FINAL BOROv EVERTON TOTTENHAM v CHELSEA WEST BROM vFULHAM AFP Bottom Premiership club Leicester City look doomed to relegation after being held to a 1-1 draw by
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    • 98 61 JOURNALISTS at the Utah Olympic Park recently were surprised to hear the unmistakeable sounds of a couple having sex coming from their live feed television monitors. As deadlines neared, the sound of fingers frantically tapping away on laptops was suddenly replaced by moaning and grunting from two television monitors showing
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