The New Paper, 7 July 2002

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  • NEWS
    • 496 2  -  UK GOVT'S AIRPORT SECURITY PLANS Additional reporting by DAWN CHLA CHECKING in at Changi airport is such a breeze. Even after security was tightened after Sept 11, passengers check in only two hours before their flights. But in Britain, passengers may soon have to
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    • 226 2 CYBER cafes in Hong Kong have become the latest vice dens. They are offering sex services. And female students are increasingly being hired to work as prostitutes there, reported the South China Morning Post. A survey of newspaper recruitment pages showed that ads
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  • NEWS
    • 925 4 I No air-con I No cold showers I No cold drinks I No ice cream FOR this woman (left), air-conditioning just spells trouble. For wherever she goes in hot and humid Singapore, she has to wear gloves and warm clothings. Judy (not her real
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    • 343 4 THE exact causes of Scleroderma are unknown, said Dr Lian Tsui Yee who works at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. A senior registrar at the department of rheumatology, allergy and immunology, she said the disease tends to affect women between the ages of 30
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    • Article, Illustration
      1109 6  -  Punggol farmer's wife prayed for a baby boy each time but got... REPORTS LEE TEE JONG SHE wanted to have a son and tried repeatedly for one. She ended up with 13 daughters and no sons. Not that she is unhappy. Madam Tan Soon Kheng, 80, has
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    • 125 6 MADAM Tan is very fond of her sons-in-law, in a way, the sons she never had. She said in Teochew: "I look forward to seeing them. They are part of the family that makes life meaningful for me." Mr Vincent Loke has always marvelled at
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    • 1190 7  -  FOLLOWING IN THIS FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS REPORTS LEE TEE JONG ROADSIDE cobblers are invariably old men but Mr Boen Kan (right) is determined to buck the trend at 29. It has not been easy though. It's not the competition but snide remarks from
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    • 154 8 WHEN not surrounded by shoes, what does Mr Kan do in his spare time? Well, he writes the occasional song and as you may guess draws his inspiration from his dealings with his customers. One of his compositions, titled Uneven, even
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    • 659 9  -  OUTGOING SOCIAL SERVICE CHIEF PR ROBERT LQH j He's introduced to community service as a houseman during the Hindu-Muslim riots j Later, seeing UK's poor made him realise that it was time Singaporeans took charge of their own society f REPORTS AMRIT KAUR ALL it
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      380 9 COME August, Dr Robert Loh will make way for the new NCSS president, former NMP Gerard Ee. As an accountant and a partner at Ernst and Young, Mr Ee, 53, gets asked: "How will you have the time?" His standard reply? "I don't play golf." Like Dr Loh,
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    • 512 11  -  BY Desmond Ng HE knew where the National Day Parade (NDP) tickets would be distributed five days before the media did. He does not work with the parade organisers. And he had no inside information or secret tip-off. Instead, it was by
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    • 97 11 NDP tickets will be distributed free at these locations from 2pm today: Woodlands Sports Hall Yio Chu Kang Sports Hall Bedok Sports Hall Singapore Badminton Hall Toa Payoh Sports Hall Delta Sports Complex handed out from 8am. Only Singapore citizens and PRs will be eligible,
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    • 332 12 YOU might be familiar with Ronaldo's little Chinese boy smear of a hairdo. Or seen David Beckham's cockerel crown at the recent World Cup. But the Eastarz Windblown hairstyle? Well, even if you cannot pronounce it, you may still try to be its trendsetter.
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    • 618 13  -  Contestants grin and bear with the pressure By Tan Dawn Wei TAXIS were pulling up the driveway by the minute at Zouk. One by one, girls tottered out of the vehicles. Mini-skirt. Check. Skimpy top. Check. Shimmery makeup. Check. They made a beeline for Velvet Underground, where the
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    • 715 14  -  I By Bruce Chong AND Andrew Duffy THEY'RE sitting back and marvelling that their homes are worth 166 per cent more than they were 10 years ago. For Londoners, house prices went up by £4,000 ($10,000) in May alone. That's just
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    • 140 14 IF you still want to buy a house in the UK, look at the weather report first. Research by the Halifax showed that in towns where it doesn't rain much, prices have risen, on average, twice as fast as those in wetter areas.
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    • 264 15 HE comes from India. Speaks only German. Is the first non-white member of the Swiss Guard, the elite corps which protects the Pope. And now, he has to explain why he, an Indian, is in the uniform of a Swiss Guard. That's
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    • 1088 16  -  Mentri Besar Abdul Hadi Awang of Terengganu has taken over the helm of Malaysia's Islamic PAS party and wants to introduce the Islamic criminal code in his state WOON WUITEK IN KLIALA SOME people may simply peg him as a too-or-thodox
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    • 241 16 TODAY, Terengganu Mentri Besar Abdul Hadi Awang will table the controversial bill on hudud laws in the state assembly. Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim, minister in the Malaysian PM's department, said a thorough study of the implication of the law will be
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  • 208 18 Underwear company may sue model NEWS OUTBURSTS? Moodiness? The famously temperamental British model has had them all. But despite Naomi Campbell's reputation a High Court judge condemned her as a "manipulative" perjurer in a previous court case people still want to hire her. Which turned
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  • NEWS
    • 187 22 THREE days after their baby was buried, a couple had a rude shock. They were told that the child buried was not theirs. Their baby was still at a hospital awaiting burial. For the mistake, two members of the undertaker's staff have since
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    • 314 23 LOS ANGELES AIRPORT SHOOTING DADDY'S girl Victoria Hen (above) left Israel with her family 12 years ago to escape terrorism. But it didn't work. The 25-year-old El A 1 ticket agent was slain by crazed attacker Hesham
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    • 370 24 IT used to be hallowed ground. But now, Ground Zero the site of the Sept 11 terrorist attack is one of the most popular tourism attractions in New York. Tour guides charge US$l5 ($27) a head to point out the spot where the firefighters raised
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    • 466 25 IT was a family made in Hollywood. Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie and her hubby Billy Bob Thornton were proud new parents. A newspaper even gushed: "Beneath the tattoos, black leather... Jolie seems to have a maternal heart." And the object of all this
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    • 194 26 NINE months ago a Russian plane was hit by a Ukrainian missile, killing 78 people. Now, an Israeli pilot says he saw a missile explode as he flew over the former Soviet state on Thursday. The El A 1 plane was flying
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  • ATA GLANCE
    • 342 27 YOUR child is sick? If you're a civil servant, man or woman, you should be able to take unrecorded leave at full pay to look after him or her. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong made this proposal yesterday while calling for changes on
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    • 417 27  -  A LOOK AT WOILD EVENTS fcvvn ni iiviihv kunu AtHIJIT NAG THIS land is your land, this land is my land, sang Woody Guthrie and struck a chord not only in fellow Americans, but countless foreigners drawn to the US. It can't be
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 89 28 THE younger they are, the more liberal towards divorce, cohabitation and homosexuality, said a study by the Ministry of Community Development and Sports. Nearly 1,500 Singaporeans were surveyed. Fifty-one per cent of young Singaporeans felt cohabiting was unacceptable, compared to 80 per cent of their older counterparts.
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      • 99 28 A GROUP of health professionals has set up a society to educate the public about the causes of obesity, and how to treat and prevent it. The Singapore Association for the Study of Obesity, launched yesterday, hopes to hold regular forums as many people have very little
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      • 96 28 AP. TWO gunmen assassinated Afghan Vice-President Abdul Qadir as he was being driven from a government ministry yesterday. His driver was also killed but the gunmen, firing assault rifles and who been hiding in the bushes, escaped in a car which sped up moments after the shooting.
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      • 83 28 DEPRESSED over her recent break-up with boyfriend Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer-actress Cecilia Cheung (right) lost her temper during an autograph session for her latest album. She shouted at reporters for blocking her mother's way and broke down several times at a meeting
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      • 90 28 SHE went for cosmetic surgery on her nose, but ended up dead. Madam Ronnice Cassandra Dass, 33, suffered a severe reaction to a cocktail of anaesthetic drugs just before the operation, and died about two months later. The drug reaction was unpredictable, and the dosages administered
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      • 90 28 AFP. THE gas pipeline project between Malaysia and Thailand and the issue of dual citizenship dominated talks between Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his Malaysian counterpart, Dr Mahathir Mohamed yesterday. Mr Thaksin said Dr Mahathir, in Thailand on a three-day official visit, had sought and received
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      • 87 28 US chief executives who falsify records could face mandatory prison terms, if President George Bush goes ahead with a plan to hold them accountable for financial information. That's according to government officials, who said details of the proposal must still be worked out before Mr Bush
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      57 28 The raging water falling from the spillway in Bandera, Texas, will let nothing stand in its way. Its swirling currents have swept away the Canyon Lake access road and left a huge chasm. More than 4,000 have had to flee their homes in Texas this week because of
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  • Hey! SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND
    • 1028 29  - value of chi* Fengshui accessories are selling like hot cakes. Are are they always about greater chi? *A Chinese term for energy which pervades our bodies CAROL LEONG TWO years ago, when Mr Alan Lim moved into his new house, he had a pond and waterfall built near his front
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    • 266 30 KNOWN as "space clearing", this method is now slowly gaining global popularity because it's so easy to use. Two authors are primarily responsible for this concept: Ms Denise Linn, author of Sacred Space, is an American while Ms Karen Kingston, a Brit, wrote
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    • 258 30 I MASTER Tan Khoon Yob® is the geomancer who calculated the auspicious day and time fpr the Merlion's move, as well as the angle of its new location. To him, fengshui is a very precise science, and auspicious symbols play only a tiny part. But
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    • 1000 31  -  Over 14m to buy and refit l Beckingham Palace, a I.3mpenthouse flat and shopping for a second mansion A series of sports cars, including a $630,000 silver Ferrari A childsized red Ferrari for his son Brooklyn By: Ng Tze Yong THE
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    • 724 32 PICK OF THE WEEK lovehatetragedy Papa Roach FINALLY. Someone has realised that the rap/rock thing is getting a little old. Papa Roach stormed into the music scene two years ago, riding on the backs of rap-metal acts like Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock, and eventually getting some
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    • 306 32 CLASSIC OF THE WEEK SCREAMADELICA Primal Scream, 1991 BACK in the late 1980s, fans of rock music thumbed their noses at the new underground rave culture. Then along came Primal Scream. Seeing how popular techno music had suddenly become, frontman Bobby Gillespie decided to ask DJ
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    • 725 33 Painter and photographer Ketna Patel (above, with live-in boyfriend, British artist/musician John)says Singaporean artists should look East, not West. She should know she was born in Uganda, lived in Kenya, educated in Britain before becoming a Singaporean PR six years ago. In May, she was one
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    • 858 34  -  By Koh Hui Theng GOING, going... gone! And in 30 seconds and for $2,400, the diamond- and ruby-encrusted cross found a new owner. The venue was the Hotel Royal's Princess Suite. Three times a month, the eager, the curious and the
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    • 195 35 A CHECK with the Registrar of Pawnbrokers turned up four auctioneers who hold the monthly auctions. Besides Dovebid, CKS Property Consultants, Knight Frank and Prosperco International Property Consultants take turns on a yearly rotational basis. Unredeemed items are sent to auctions six months
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    • 257 36 YOU hate public speaking. She avoids great heights. He shudders at the thought of flying in an airplane. We all have intense, even irrational, fears. Such phobias often make us
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    • 316 36 HOW do you define a gay? I think I am becoming one. I know that people usually have problems identifying their sexuality in their teens but I am already 18. In the past, when I saw a good-looking guy, I felt jealous. But now, when
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      301 37 I'M a 21-year-old male. I would like to know whether the timing of ejaculation during masturbation and sex should be the same. Are there ways to make the ejaculations last longer? DRLIMSU MIN replies: THE human sexual response may be divided into four areas: Stimulus, plateau, orgasm and resolution.
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    • 184 37 FLASHING light blinds your vision. Blind spots cripple you. Someone's drilling a chisel into your head. Help! It's that awful migraine again! Migraine attacks can last between four and 72 hours. According to the British Migraine Action Association, more people suffer from migraine than from
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      270 37 ECCENTRICS become more eccentric with age. A study at London's Imperial College studied 200 people over a 12-year period and noticed that flamboyant behaviour decreases while eccentric behaviour increases with age. This could be due to ageing nerves being less able to adapt to social norms. The tendency to
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    • 1246 38 Hunk in uniform Highlights Aaron Aziz on his work, his future 'I'm quite bad tempered, and I feel my ears are too small for my head." Aaron Aziz, on his shortcomings C L OCK up your daughters, because handsome Aaron Aziz, the new cop on the block,
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    • 54 36 m DAILY DRAW Congratulations to our Daily Draw winner 05 July 2002 Teoh Soon Seem *****63/B Winners will be notified by post Prizes ortH ONLY be awvM to winners who can present purchase receipt and (whore applicable) VISA transaction slip. Organiser Singapore Main Sponsor CYCLE CARRIAGE Newspapers HIS J' I
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    • 49 36 1 f FRIENDS FOR LIFE www.spca.org.sg Click. And get on the site to see pets for adoption, pet care tips or find out how you can help us help die animals. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 31 Mount Vernon Road, Singapore *****4. Tel: *****355 -TL' 7
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    • 28 37 Learn some lifeskills Family Life Centre conducts regular youth programmes and counselling courses, marriage enrichment programmes and lifeskill courses. Contact Family Life Centre on 6355-9345/46 or e-mail lifectre@singnet.com.sg
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    • 41 37 British Airways Club World Lucky Draw Winner for the Coffee Club and Coffee Club Express Promotion. HELEN KAN l/C No: S*****86D Congratulations! You've won two Club World tickets to Melbourne. Prize collection details will be mailed to winner shortly. BRITISH AIRWAYS
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    • 255 37 it's bach! J The days of $1* meals Downtown East! 1 to 31 July 2002 Your favourite meals are going lor only $1 each! Relive the good ol' days when good food was still cheap. Take your pick from 30 food outlets right here at Downtown East! Black Pepper Crab
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
    • 247 38 S ■HBH PI 0.00am: European Weekly Tour 10.00am: Snookers Billiards World Snooker T rick 10.00am: Wimbledon Lawn T ennis C'ship London, 10.30: Table Tennis European Challenge 2002, Shot C'ships 2002 Glenrothes/Goals! Countdown Ladies Singles Final, Mens Mixed Doubles Final Men's Women's Doubles Finals 12.30pm: tour De France 2002 Highlights Prologue
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    • 209 38 Highlights The Simpsons Channel 5,11.30am Homer's thumb is cut off after breakfast and the rest of the day follows three different paths Homer's day as he rushes to get his thumb re-attached, Lisa's day and Bart's day. Eat a Bowl of Tea Channel i, 10pm An American-born Chinese takes a
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    • 823 39 (((TV))) ufih, 9 9.00: Making 10.00: The 9.00:Digimon 9.30: Survivor 9.00: Ultraman 9.30: A Taste Of l0.30:Ninja 10.00: The Band II Doctor Is In Tamers/In Kids 10.00: Crocodile Tiga Asia—India Boys Zoolantara am 9.30: S Club 7 in (Infotainment 10.00: What's Hunter's Croc 9.30:Muzikku (Rpt) 11,05: Usahatani 10.30: Hits 4U
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    • 563 40 HEY/ WHAT'S HUP PHOBIA A friend of mine developed How old is Z J~~l a phobia for vampires since he now? plve qf of he was four years old, and I \l Why isyour s he can't shake it off. y \J husband kKW time ago. Jp> Virgo (Aug 24
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    • 115 41 FUNNIES C BUG B\TES \KH.' M l>| unwasaL flte» areata? ■>>. n> secj IkwuI I f DOES ANYONE HAVE f THE EMPLOYEE (BUT WE ONLY DID TvT,! ANY IDEAS FOR OOOH! POTLUCK LUNCH THAT ij ONCE AND SOKE I BOOSTING MORALE? J OAOttl HAO LAST PEOPLE HAD J V I^s
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    • 957 42 HEY/») I——| Prospero's Children f If SMTy/TPC w Of 111 mm EVER dreamt of Prince Charming sweeping V CaJt you off your feet? 1 What happens if he washes up half fa r-* drowned instead? flHfc— Shakespeare's The Tempest provides I inspiration in this play about the trials and iTVD
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  • HEY!
    • 408 43  -  POSH NOSH TAN DAWN WEI WHAT: Restaurant Kei, for Japanese fine-dining, has been drawing Japanese businessmen, tai-tais and foodies to its cosy eatery for the past year. WHERE: 76 Robertson Quay, #01-10, The Gallery Hotel. (Tel: 6738 1551) Opening hours: Lunch 12pm-2.30pm (Mon-Fri, no lunch on
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    • 107 43 NEWBUYS WHAT'S NEW: Caramel Rooitea (below) by The Coffee Bean Tea Leaf, an herbal infusion denved from the Rooibos, a wispy bush found in a tiny area in Africa s South Western Cape region. At first whiff, the tea may induct a nose-scrunch. But the taste tells a
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    • 247 43 CHEAP CHOW SINGAPORE restaurants have been serving ostrich meat for years now. But ostrich noodles? And at hawker prices? For the past two years, I Mr Sonnie Lim has been dishing out his brand of f ostrich noodles ($3-$5) and I rice ($3.80), and now, spaghetti
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    • 337 44 Steven Spielberg's latest futuristic thriller, Minority Report, is based on Philip K Dick's short story set in a futuristic judicial system where murderers are arrested and convicted before they commit crimes. Infographics journalists SIMON ANG KELVIN CHAN check out the cool inventions featured in the movie,
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    • 255 44 SO who's responsible for these amazing concept cars and products that help shape our future? Known as industrial designers, these specialised individuals' mission is to create products for commercial, medical, and industrial use. Employed in manufacturing companies and in private design firms, they make the products easier
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    • 120 44 RESEARCH and reports are done even before sketches and design can begin. Environmental issues and psychological aspects have to be considered. Using wood, fibreglass and various materials, designers make a three-dimensional proof of the principal scale model. Some of these models look so real, they
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    • 578 45  -  Dog Soldiers (Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Liam Cunningham, Emma Cleasby, directed by Neil Marshall) Wong Kim Hoh THE Brits are here, the Brits are here. Well they are, in our cinemas and trying their darndest to give those Yanks and their summer blockbusters
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    • 312 45 THE Piano Teacher is not an easy film to watch. It is dark, intense, disturbing and discomfiting. But it is also very riveting. The film which won the grand prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival is directed by Austrian auteur Michael Haneke. Its
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    • 341 46 A CRASH course in Ali G is perhaps in order for those who don't know this white "gansta" wannabe with a penchant for yellow. Ali G affects his own brand of pronunciation and is a "telly presenta, DJ/rapper, aufor and head of Da West Staines
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    • 155 46 BY Asian standards, this is a blockbuster. It cost nearly $15 million and took five years to make. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of 1375 when China had just changed dynasties Musa tells the story of a Korean warrior who, captivated by her beauty, rescues
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    • 406 46  -  BY Tan Dawn Wei ANY child of the 1980s would've remembered jumping off the house stairs, arms outstretched, legs curled and warbling "Fame!" to Irene Cara's chart-topper of the same name. What fun! A performing arts high school where kids spent classroom time
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  • RACING
    • 2356 48 (M|I| Lionel Lee Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee RLJkl |S gjf 4 Jerai Boss 6 Mr Fa'Choy 6 Mr Fa'Choy 4_JeraiBo8s 2 Bonus Link 8 Relau General 8 Relau General 8 Relau General ■IfiM .y^'; V- 6 Mr Fa'Choy 3 De'lnvincible 3 De'lnvincible 3
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    • 69 48 Disco Master (RaceB No. I) After a 2V2 -month break, Disco Master looks set to make a winning return this afternoon in the Ipoh Special Stakes. Last time out, the Rustic Amber progeny was sent over the Ipoh 1,200 m and did well to finish second behind the
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    • 88 48 RACE 3: Ariva Abjar, Baby Star, Victory Wang. RACE 4: Russian Rose, Cheers Again, Colour Of Life, NastbGaya. RACE 5: Marchetti, Gorgeous Pete, Storm Legend, Great Machine, Hipwood, Hero Legend, Season Dancer, Maybe, Fire Starter, Reimer. RACE 7: Ideal Lad, Gege's Dream, Star Betelguese, Summer Rose, Echolina. RACE 8:
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    • 1840 50 YESTERDAY'S IPOH RACE RESULTS GOING: GOOD 8 OLE OLE 52 c 49.5 (15-5) *H Barnabas (2) 1 2 1 (450) 1 YOUNG TEEM HERO 58 c 55.5 (13-8) 'KT Cheng (5) 2 1 2 (492) 4 SPLENDID LUCK 54.5 (210-40) KWLeong (8) 3 4 3 (456) 2 DAYLIGHT AHEAD 56
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    • 316 50  -  By Danny Khoo WOMAN trainer Evelyn Seet capitalised i on home-ground advantage to notch a brilliant hat-trick at Ipoh yesterday. The only woman trainer on the Malayan Racing Association register achieved her feat without much help. She completed her treble with just four runners and, for
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    • 1512 51 RACE 1: Everthing Nice was withdrawn when found to be lame off-fore. Trainer W Leong was fined RM2OO ($100) for failing to declare the use of a tonguestrap on Victory Dragon. Ole Oie dipped on jumping. Kim Family was slow to begin and,
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    • 81 49 Place your orders in "Lunch Guide", a special food feature of •I* T 1 The New Paper Fastads every Monday. I o-LunCll 1 2 get more business? FSI TT T TL I ALa Ctwa Soo Sang at 6319-6103/ Hp: 9620-1329 for C W .£4 guide This is the time. bo***
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  • SPORTS
    • 740 52 WORLD CUP PROFILE Jfc THE lightest of the 736 players at the World Cup Finals just happens to reckon he is the toughest. American star DaMarcus Beasley is just a slip of a thing, weighing in at a tiny 56.5 kg, but he's got a heavyweight attitude.
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    • 771 53  -  FORMULA ONE: BRITISH GRAND PRIX By] Nestora Strintzos As the 10th round of the 2002 Formula One Championship approaches, experts and pundits alike are licking their lips at the prospect of Ferrari failing. Today's race, the British Grand Prix, is an event which has
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    • 190 53 Reuters COLOMBIAN Juan Pablo Montoya cemented his reputation as the new king of qualifying yesterday with a fourth successive pole position ahead of the British Grand Prix. The Williams driver blasted out a dramatic lap in the dying seconds at an overcast Silverstone,
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    • 431 54 JONAS BJORKMAN has the job every man craves playing mixed doubles with Anna Kournikova. But the lucky Swede insists his wife Petra gave him the idea of teaming up with the Russian sex bomb. Bjorkman has one of the toughest tasks in sport when he
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    • 959 55 THE Premiership's well-heeled managers are quaking in their j Gucci loafers. None of their jobs is safe now that football's money men have got a stranglehold on the game, jerking the purse strings tighter and tighter around its neck. David O'Leary may be the
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      241 56  -  BY Alan Hubbard BORIS Becker says this year's Wimbledon tournament reminds him of the World Cup. There are South Koreas and Turkeys everywhere. Well, there are certainly plenty of turkeys, and most of them are playing on the Centre Court. With Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Marit Safin and
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    • 269 56 ENGLISH Premiership giant Leeds United suffered a blow yesterday when Celtic manager Martin O'Neill insisted he would see out his contract with the Scottish champion. The former Northern Ireland captain had been thought to be the top target for Leeds in its bid to
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    • 480 57 PREMIERSHIP UPDATE HEY! All you Man U fans. Keep your fingers crossed. Sir Alex Ferguson is trying to import a bit of Brazilian magic into the Theatre of Dreams. No, it is not Ronaldo, or any of the other two Rs. This one is a
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    • 332 57 ENTER the Gunners. No it's not the title of another Hollywood potboiler, even though the script may be quite similar. Arsenal has finally entered the race to sign Leeds defender Rio Ferdinand, long pursued by Manchester United, in an attempt to reunite him with his international
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    • 138 57 Souness to Man U: BLACKBURN Rovers boss Graeme Souness has admitted that he wants to sign Dwight Yorke but not at Manchester United's current price-tag. Soilness wants to re-unite the Old Trafford outcast with former United colleague Andy Cole, who was signed by Rovers last season
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  • World Cup 2002
    • 421 58 PARMA defender Fabio Cannavaro has jumped to the defence of Italy coach Giovanni Trapattoni, who was accused by goalkeeper Francesco Toldo on Wednesday of running a "holiday camp" at the World Cup. "I wanted to have a quiet break now, but I can't," Cannavaro said. "I have
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    • 146 58 ITALIAN SerieAclub Parma showed interest to hire, for the next season, the coach of Brazil's national team, Luiz Felipe Scolari (right), who won the 2002 World Cup. The southern Italian soccer club offered Scolari a monthly US$2OO,OOO ($354,000) salary, as told by sources close to
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    • 193 59 FLASHBACK YOU saw on TV how he struggled with his jersey during the World Cup final against Germany. But Brazil's Edmilson had a good excuse for his little comic shirt-tussle which elicited up to the point when team-mate Ronaldo scored his first goal the loudest cheer from
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    • 467 59 Reuters. FRESH from celebrating Brazil's record fifth World Cup victory, Rivaldo sought to quell speculation of a move from Barcelona, saying he would see out his contract at the top flight Spanish club. "I will be presenting myself at Barcelona on the 22nd (July) as
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  • SPORTS
    • 339 60 THE NEW FOOTBALL LEAGUE TV DEAL CRYSTAL Palace chairman Simon Jordan has demanded the sacking of Football League bosses over their negotiation of the new TV deal with Sky TV. The £95 million ($256.5 m), four-year agreement will see Second and Third Division clubs receive annual
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    • 415 60 PSST. Heard this one? England soccer hero David Beckham is going to be a father to a baby girl this time around. And the footballer was reportedly so thrilled at the prospect, he broke down in tears when wife, Victoria, told him the news, said a report
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    • 64 60 wur Q> Test your soccer knowledge Win $50 cash for 4 fastest winners 2 consolation winners each week Call 1900-911 0018 $3 per call j winner of replica jersey winner of World Cup souveniers 1. Krishna Raj ic: *****347 C 1. Kenny Foreey ic: *****873 D 2. Rita Metha ic:
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  • 872 61  -  world cup 2002 COMMENT LEONARD LAU SERIOUSLY, I fell asleep several times during some World Cup matches. And this happened during the afternoon games, mind you. As the surfing fraternity in California would say, I was, like, totally bored to the max, dude.
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