The New Paper, 5 January 2003

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  • 34 1 the new paper JANUARY 5, 2003 MtTA (P) 009/03/2002 Singapore Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asial.com.sg I I on sunday Email: tnp@sph.com.sg 70 CENTS Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55| m 8 '*****1 *****9' > the raw^aper
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  • NEWS
    • 836 2  -  Reports: LEE TEE JONG, TANYA FONG, ANDRE YEO, ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF and LOW CHING LING IT was a moonless Friday night when RSS Courageous, an anti-submarine vessel, was on routine patrol off an island at the centre of a spat with Malaysia Pedra Branca. The night crew
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    • 554 3 Grief, worry relief at the hospital I DEAD, 3 MISSING, 8 INJURED GRIM faces marched past an army of onlookers who had gathered outside Ward 37 at Changi General Hospital. Inside the ward, family members of the injured crew members of the RSS Courageous huddled together and tried to make
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    • 493 4 Below are some scenarios of what could have led to thettragedy SCENARIO 1: CONDITIONS It was dark, and the sea lanes were congested and narrow. A captain who has piloted large ships through the waters there told The New Paper on Sunday this
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    • 462 6 DPM Tony Tan seemed like a man with a great weight on his shoulders when he arrived with his aides in a small coach at Changi Naval Base (above). As the door opened and his aides alighted, he remained seated as though momentarily lost in thought.
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  • NEWS
    • 849 8  -  This intellectually disabled man used to be penniless and without hope By Lee Tee Jong ANYONE who saw him 10 years ago wouldn't recognise him today. In those days, a sick Mr Ng Ah Cheang was abandoned and roamed the void decks
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    • 311 9 NEAT and clean. That was the first impression when one entered the tastefully done-up flat. A renaissance-like painting of angels adorned the wall of the living room. Mr Ng said proudly: "I bought it from the hostel's thrift store." Two porcelain busts
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    • 416 10  -  By Low Ching Ling M EMBERS of the Singapore Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) were first arrested more than a year ago. Since then, an intricate web of terror that spans the region has been untangled. A network so complicated that it's hard for the common
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    • 64 10 SO far, 31 JI members have been detained by the Government, which believes that there may be about 60 or so male JI members in Singapore. It is believed that the JI is the regional link to the Al-Qaeda. Indonesian JI leader, Riduan Isamudin the alleged mastermind
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  • NEWS
    • 494 12  -  It's illegal to help employers at office or shop but most don't mind By Joyce Lim SHE is breaking the law. Yet she's still taking the risk of being deported, for an extra $100 a month and an opportunity
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    • 235 13 The New Paper spoke to two other locals who used maids illegally. One of them, a businessman, used to employ his maid at his shop for a few hours each day. The other paid her neighbour's maid to do her housework without her neighbour's knowledge.
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    • 144 13 THE Ministry of Manpower (MOM) handled 113 cases of maids being illegally deployed from January to August last year. In 2001, there were 119 such cases. Said Ms Helen Lim, corporate communications manager at MOM: "Foreign domestic workers are only allowed to perform domestic chores. "A foreign domestic
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    • Tale of three cities
      • 475 14 AZHAR GHANI IN ZAMBOANGA CITY: How they strike The New Paper journalist seeing the places under painful circumstances ZAMBOANGA City forgets easily, or so it seems. The Orchard Road of the city, Governor Lim Avenue, bustled with throngs of shoppers on Christmas Eve. No-one seemed
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      • 416 14 WOON WUITEK IN KUALA LUMPUR: YES, I did the usual when on assignment in the city of the Petronas Twin Towers. I pumped politicos, talked current events, and even, this time, got a few minutes with a Mentri Besar. But the unusual proved more memorable.
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      • 583 15 SETO NU-WEN IN BALI: THERE is a facet of Bali in the aftermath of tragedy that is both telling and ugly. It is not the horror of stiff, lifeless bodies curled in terror. It is not evil's handiwork. It is not paradise punctured. It is the
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    • 848 16  -  J |\;v, Jj f H REPORTS LEE TEE JONG WHO was the only Singaporean artist to exhibit in Washington in 1995? It wasn't anyone you'll have heard of. Mr Ng Siang Hoi works as a cleaner at the Singapore
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    • 94 17 HIS paintings are realistic and interspersed with bright colourful hues. The faded brown floating junks on the Singapore River contrasted with the Raffles Place skyline teeming with shiny skyscrapers. Nick said: "Dad has painted the junks for so many years that he knows them by heart." Mr
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    • 160 18 In this earth-friendly coral reef columbarium, ash is mixed with cement and turned into a block. The block is then slotted on to the underwater structure. Possible location: Outskirts of Sentosa or the southern islands Approximate height: 7.5 m. Not too tall so it stays submerged at low
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    • 674 19 In land-scarce Singapore, graves 15 years and older are exhumed, so more people opt for cremation. Instead of putting the ash in urns, other final destinations can benefit the environment TEHJEN LEE reports in the last of the series WHAT will probably
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    • 257 19 MORE people in the US want their mortal remains to be environment-friendly, and are looking into options like reef burials. While only 28 per cent of Americans currently opt for cremation, more are expected to, as traditional burials have been found to cause pollution. The
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    • 775 20  -  How Singapore doctor dealt with... By Ng Wan Ching LOSING a hand or an arm is always exceptional. Surgeons only see about five to six cases here a year. Most are severed by machinery in workplace accidents. But few, if any, are as extraordinary as what happened to
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    • 100 20 JUDGING from the way Madam Soh's arm was severed, surgeons think her hand was probably resting on the car window. The impact probably pushed up the window, cutting her arm off. Mr Oh said that Madam Soh's hand was not hanging out the window
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    • 225 21 BIG MAC DVDs IF you can't hook them with a filet-o-fish, try dangling a DVD. That's what McDonald's is trying at certain outlets in the US. In a move to attract more customers, the fast-food giant is installing DVD-rent-al machines outside some of its restaurants. It has
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    • 898 22 US president George Bush describes Iran, Iraq and North Korea as the axis of evil. Two of these nations have been hogging media attention of late Iraq, because of the war threat and North Korea for its decision to revive its nuclear programme. If
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  • NEWS
    • 504 24 Plan is to rush them in containers to trouble spots THE world is getting more unstable and unpredictable. But one can prepare and react more swiftly to crises. So say the UK Foreign Office, which is preparing to assemble "instant embassies" to be flown,
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    • 243 24 FPS one of the coldest winters in Finland for decades. So, the Finns head off for their favourite pastime. But heavy use of the sauna during a two-week long cold snap led to a power crisis, which could lead to power rationing in
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  • 301 28 NEWS 1 A TOUR of the White House is not an easy affair, even for ordinary US citizens. If one manages to get an opportunity, it is only certain parts of the building that is open for such visits. And forget
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  • 607 30 Pregnant US woman missing since Christmas Eve NEWS 1 SHE'S eight months pregnant and missing. But now the police also want to find out where her husband was when she disappeared on Christmas Eve. Mrs Laci Peterson's husband is very much at home in Modesto, California.
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  • ATA GLANCE
    • 251 32 UNIVERSITY and polytechnic students can breathe easier. Their tuition fees won't increase in the new academic year, which begins in July. In fact, they will be frozen at the 2001 level, said Education Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday. Rear-Admiral (NS) Teo, who is also
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    • 394 32  -  MATTHEW THOMMEN IF what the Raelian cult has claimed is independently verified and that is-still a big if the birth of their cloned baby would be as much of a milestone as, say, man's arrival on the moon. The child, called Eve, would be
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 87 33 THE Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda) is developing an early intervention initiative for 1-year-olds. It will help not only the children but also their parents who will guide and motivate them over the long term, said Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister of State (Education, Trade and Industry) yesterday.
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      • 105 33 LAWYERS are still clogging up the court system by filing huge bundles of documents. This despite Chief Justice Yong Pung How's warning last year that substantial court costs would be imposed against them. More cases are also taking a longer time to conclude, he said. Between January 2001
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      • 101 33 URGENTLY required: Mamasans and their hostesses. So much so that some nightclubs poach them from rivals, while others place ads in the papers seeking them. Competition for customers is stiff and business has dipped by as much as 50 per cent over the last two years, say
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      • 90 33 THE United States has proposed new rules to get detailed information about every person who comes to or leaves the country by commercial plane or boat. It will also, for the first time, require US citizens to fill out forms detailing their comings and goings. The
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      • 100 33 FEMALE inmates are picking up outdoor survival skills in adventure training, one of several new rehabilitation schemes. Over the last month, 29 Changi Women's Prison inmates have been taught how to cook over a campflre, administer first-aid and build shelters all part of a plan to help
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      • 99 33 EDUCATION Minister Teo Chee Hean said yesterday he hoped the parents of tudung-wearing Nur Ashikeen Azhar would reconsider their decision. On Thursday, Eunos Primary 5 pupil Nur Ashikeen, 11, wore the tudung, or Muslim headscarf, to school. The principal sent her home after asking her parents to comply
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      • 96 33 SENNETT Estate, the 50-year-old private estate, will be the first housing estate on opposition turf to be upgraded by the Government. It was a promise made good to residents for having cast more than half their votes to the People's Action Party during the 2001 General Election,
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      • 91 33 MALAYSIA has given Singapore the preliminary results of a study on land reclamation and will follow it up with a full report soon, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar has said. The report showed that land reclamation around Pulau Tekong was affecting Malaysia negatively and this included the
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    • 72 33 If s made of five different gemstonesandis the mascot of the International Colored Gemstone Association's Congress. The congress will begin in the Indian city of Jaipur today. The crown was designed by Mr Sudhir Kasliwal of Jaipur who took 10 months to get it
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  • Hey! SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND.
    • 113 34  -  CAROL LEONG WHILE the dotcom bubble lasted, it was hysterical. You could be nobody one day, but if your idea/product was gorgeous, it could be disseminated at light speed, and you would be able to capture 80 per cent of the global market
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    • 244 34 MS Juliana Khoo's first job in 1999 was as a business development manager with an online loyalty rewards provider. Her boss was an American-Chinese. "He was 29 and I was his first employee in Singapore. That was both good and bad," she
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    • 278 35 MR Wong Voal Voal (left), 30, gets nostalgic talking about the glory days of dotcoms. The intoxicating feeling of extreme self-confidence is gone. No more angel investors, eagerly shoving with pots of money at gorgeous business plans with credible charts and figures. These days, venture
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    • 267 35 WHEN Mr Patrick Grove (right) started Catcha.com in 1999 with three other friends, he was only 24. They had managed to secure $2.2 million in funding. And when the boom was at its most hysterical, he was drawing a monthly salary of $14,000. Then, the Nasdaq melted
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    • 303 35 IN his book Dowhile, Mr Yong Shu Hoong (right), 36, writes a poem about the shock of being laid off. "Someone had a strange urge to shuffle stationery... while the bookkeeper bought a watch, water-resistant to 100 meters." As for Mr Yong? "I knew I had to
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    • 365 35 ONE day, project manager Bian Hee Kau, 30, had nine men on his team. The next morning, he discovered he had lost three men overnight but he still had to deliver on a very demanding and tight deadline. In dismay, Mr Bian, who was working in London
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  • HEY!
    • 822 36  -  Well, I am FELIX CHEONG OH no, not another Hollywood biopic about writers, even if it's based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours and boasts a power-puffed-girl cast of Meryl Streep, Juliana Moore and Nicole Kidman (prosthetic nose and all) as Virginia Woolf, one
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    • 597 36 The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) BASED on events described in a letter by Neal Cassady, this film tries to put a finger on what makes the '50s beat writers hip. But it ends up trying too hard, with its
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    • 580 37  -  Report and picture Cynthia Loh MADAM Tan Shuang, 77, hasn't gone to the market to buy her daily supply of vegetables for over two months now. No, it's not because she's incapable of making the trip there. The housewife prefers to grow her own greens instead.
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    • 562 38  -  Pictures, text and layout/ Simon Ang A NEW face is set to storm the catwalk. Forget Bundchen. Meet Blythe. She has a huge and rabid following in Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. With a waistline smaller than my thumb, and standing at 30cm tall,
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    • 816 39  -  The power couple behind a crowd-pulling Penang food hotel buffet are taking a break, but their daughters are carrying on the tradition TAN DAWN WEI FOR the past 32 years, most people had a good reason to go to Copthorne King's Hotel. And that
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    • 217 40 THE woman who's been the spine of the Penang buffet at Copthorne King's Hotel may have hung up her apron, but the three-decades-old buffet offering isn't retiring along with Madam Mary Chong. Mr Yeoh Cheng Kung, executive director of the hotel, was instrumental in getting
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    • 543 40 ITS a predictable enough response, and one that sisters Julie and Purdey Yeoh have heard about a hundred times. What a waste not to put your university degrees to good use, and choosing a profession that seems beneath your paper qualifications. Ms
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  • Page 41 Miscellaneous
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  • «(HEY/»>
    • 469 41 YOU'D vaguely remember Jimmy T (left) only if you are a fan of Channel 5 shows. Riding the wave of other Asian-American actors like Robin Leong and Allan Wu, this struggling Japanese thesp from California has stayed in Singapore for two
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    • 61 41 Oblivious Channel i, 9pm Hosted by Reagan Burns, Oblivious is a one-of-kind game show that contestants don't even know they're on until they're in the hot seat! Little Rascals Channel 5,7.30pm Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat and the other characters made famous in the Our Gang shorts of the '20s and
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    • 97 41 The Witches HBO (Ch 60), 3pm A little boy is turned into a mouse when he stumbles upon a witches convention. Stars Angelica Huston, Rowan Atkinson. Brotherhood of the Wolf Star Movies (Ch 58), 9pm A French movie about two men who have to tackle a monstrous creature killing
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  • Page 42 Miscellaneous
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    • 1005 43 mmmm oPi MMK WHERE TO GO, WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK '((HEY/)) i MUSIC Jay Chou THE ONE' In Concert 2003 JAY Chou fans, rejoice! This white-hot Taiwan sensation performs twice over two nights at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. In this special effects-laden concert, Jay (left) will dress up as
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    • 489 44  -  PAIK CHOO THE last time I was whistled at, the shrill cry came from a pack of construction workers alerting my mincing steps from an on-coming cement mixer. (And you thought I had better legs than Ivy Singh-Lim.) But I do get stared at a lot
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    • 731 45  -  By Andrew Duffy THE team travels light. They land on the desert island, set up the command post, fire up the generator and, within the hour, they're broadcasting back to HQ. But this is no commando team. It's a TV crew. And the people eagerly awaiting
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    • 97 46 HAVE you got right under the skin of Singapore? Has your experience working, resting or playing with Singaporeans given you an insight into what makes the place and people tick? Have you seen a side of Singapore that most other expats don't even dream
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    • 706 47 HEY/ intermission THE TWO TOWERS My precious... Such a perilous task. How can one thing have such power over our minds? j j A 4, p4 i I 1 Mtt$ h---l r Q at a-- :X J I m not sure. Something about "try a hobby"! I told you we
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    • 465 49 HOW is it that some people make it seem so easy when it comes to socialising, while others barely scrape through when they are put in a new environment where they need to make new friends and talk to strangers? Most of
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    • 229 49 I'M local and my boyfriend is a Chinese national. We knew each other one year ago and we're in love. But my boyfriend got into a fight with his colleague, so the company sacked him and sent him back to China one
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    • 263 49 I'M 19.1 have a hunky Japanese friend whom I have known since high school. We are like brothers and we know each other's family very well too. He is the only one in my life who understands me best. As time passed, I feel
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      225 49 I'M 14-going-on-15. I feel horny when I see a shirtless guy. I also think about guys when I masturbate. I tried to think about girls, but I can't seem to do it. I like girls and guys. Am I gay? -—confused DRLIMSUMIN replies: The teenage years is when our
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      307 50 Public nudity does not mean you can also have sex in public. Plainclothes policemen have been patrolling New Zealand's Papamoa beach after getting complaints that people were having sex in public, reported ananova.com. At least 30 men have been charged with indecent behaviour at the nudist beach in the
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    • 572 51 Larger than life and right in your face.That is the big screen magic that Golden Village wants to bring back to the silver screen with the $2.7 m Popular IMAX Theatre at Great World City. Infographics journalists SIMON ANG, KELVIN CHAN PATRICK CHIA check out the technology
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    • 455 53  -  Jeanmarie Tan WATCHING the Hollywood remake of the Ring made me recoil in frightful horror. Not because it matched 1 the skin-crawling, blood-freezing frissons of unease in the Japanese original, helmed by spookmeister Hideo Nakata. But because US audiences, so jaded by teen horror-schlock like Scream and
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    • 443 54  -  Sylvia T oh Paik Choo ONCE in a long while comes something so cheerless, it makes the GST hike a thing to rejoice (if momentarily). Jennifer Aniston is The Good Girl according to director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White (Chuck and
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    • 329 53 HAVE you ever wondered, what if Japan had won World War II? Would we be greeting one another with "Konnichiwa" today, eating sushi bentos for lunch and celebrating the Meiji emperor's birthday? The makers of 2009 Lost Memories explore that possibility. But they are not Japanese,
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    • 395 54 IF you think table tennis is a scaled-down and less exciting version of the game which made Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras popular, then trust the Japanese to change all that. Remember the '80s Japanese drama serial about volleyball, which had the actresses doing
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    • 345 55  -  POSH NOSH TAN DAWN WEI WHAT: It's not exactly posh, but it sure tries to be different. Restaurants with food namesakes aren't new Paprika, Salt, Belachan but The Garlic Restaurant actually uses the pungent cloves in all its dishes, right down to dessert. WHERE: 8 Raffles Avenue
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    • 120 55 NEW BUYS WHAT'S NEW: Maggi noodles has just got even faster-to-cook. Its new Maggi Famous Cup Noodles just needs hot water and a pair of chopsticks (or fork, if you prefer), and you get a meal in a minute. There are five new flavours seafood torn
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    • 328 55 CHEAP CHOW IF you chance upon a sushi conveyer-belt restaurant that looks suspiciously like the Genki Sushi chain with the cheery yellow hues and signature face, it's not a copycat. Genki Sushi has a new franchise in town, Sushi Ondo a cheaper chain of restaurants
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  • RACING
    • 245 56  -  By Lionel Lee NOT one to be fazed easily, trainer Douglas Dragon can be forgiven if he looked a little distraught yesterday. For not once but twice was he called before the racing stewards to explain why the wins of Blaze The Trail (Race 4) and
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    • 1142 56 GOING: Soft (Races 1 to 3), Yielding (Races 4 to 8) 7 RAINBOW RUNNER 57 (17-6) E Wilkinson (1) 4 2 1 (462) 1 ALWAYS INNOCENT 57 (8-5) MduPlessis (7) 3 4 2 (464) 8 -6 SPECTROFLIGHT 57 (56-10) JGeroudis (3) 1 1
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    • 255 56  - Good ending, good start for Don Eddie By Danny Khoo JOCKEY Eddie Wilkinson and trainer Don Baertschiger started the new Kranji racing season very much the way they ended the old one with a bang. The combination, who won last season's final race with Moon Shadow, was back in the
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    • 331 57  -  By Danny Khoo THE rejuvenated Fightin 9 Man is on the upgrade and merits strong consideration as he attempts to complete a hat-trick in Race 5 at Kranji this afternoon. The Zabeel five-year-old is racing with renewed vigour after suffering a serious injury early
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    • 1202 57 RACE 1: ALWAYS INNOCENT jumped awkwardly. SPECTROFLIGHT was inconvenienced at the start when tightened between GOLD THE BEST, who jumped awkwardly in and FONDA, who jumped awkwardly out, and stumbled. KING SCORPION and MAGNUM FORCE both had a tendency to lay out on
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    • 50 58 Kronos (Race 4 No. 5) Kronos gets the vote. This Zedrich progeny was all speed last month when taking out a 1,200 m sprint by 3'A lengths. Winning jockey Saimee Jumaat again takes the mount this afternoon. From gate No. 2, Kronos looks poised to complete a double.
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    • 759 58 No. Last 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 87 CHAEGO 57 (0) DAzis 9 (3ag Read-Our) 2 0-7 DUVALL 57 (0) LCassidy 2 (3nzg Laxon-Oscar Racing) 3 0 FOREVER YOUNG 57 (0) VSivan 1 (3ag Leek-Horizon)
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    • 1543 59 No. Last 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 *****- LAND QUEST 59 (60) RLim 14 (4ag Dragon-Dangerous) 2 09- OCEAN PRINCESS 59 (60) LCassidy 8 (4am Gray-Hydrocarbon) 3 *****9 ADMIRAL JAMES 58.5 (59) VSivan 11 (6ag
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    • 607 60  -  Rabid fans set up Maradonean Church for former Argentinian soccer superstar STRA Y 5H0T........................................................................................ A WEEKLY column BY Wang Meng Meng I'VE never worshipped Diego Maradona the player. And neither will I worship him now, as he shuttles between Bueno Aires and Cuba, while trying his
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        662 61  -  ALAN HUBBARD Exclusive/ From London FOOTBALL'S January Sales are upon us. But the beleaguered Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier is not among those who will be scrabbling around the bargain basement now that the transfer window in Britain has been re-opened. "I have no intention of signing anybody," he
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      • 151 61 ONE of Houllier's biggest regrets must be allowing fellow Frenchman Nicolas Anelka (left) to move to Manchester City at the end of last season. Now, Manchester City manager Keegan seems to be building a better relationship with Anelka than any previous coach, including both Houllier
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        234 62 TRANSFER MOVES AT LEEDS UNITED Reuters. Birmingham's hopes of signing Leeds' contract-rebel Lee Bowyer looks as good as gone. It came after a deadlock over wages yesterday, when Bowyer rejected the Premiership club's package. Blues manager Steve Bruce was seeking to persuade the Leeds star to join the
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      • 126 62 MIDDLESBROUGH are preparing to make an offer to Leeds United for Seth Johnson. Boro are to start the bidding at £3.5 m ($9.5 m). But Leeds will want more for a promising player for whom ex-manager David O'Leary paid Derby County £7m 14 months ago. Boro
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      • 78 62 AFP. CONTROVERSIAL midfielder Olivier Dacourt (right) is set to go the Italian way. His agent is meeting with Italian giants Roma over a possible move, said a Leeds United spokesman. "Talks are definitely on but no fee has been agreed/' he said. It is understood
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      • 270 63  -  By Michael Reiziger BARCELONA THERE are rumours in the English newspapers that Newcastle have put in a bid for me, which I have to say, is quite surprising as I haven't heard anything about it in Barcelona. There is always plenty of gossip surrounding Barcelona
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      • 247 63  -  By Espen Baardsen EVERTON AS some of my readers may already know, I have been given a one-month contract at Everton. I actually haven't been able to update this page because my hotel in Liverpool doesn't have Internet access. Anyway, my first week
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      • 172 63 ARSENE Wenger (left) has made it clear that he will not Matthew Upson or anyone else to quit Arsenal at this stage of the season. The Gunners boss acted after a host of sides tried to sign defender Upson, 23. The Frenchman told The Sun: "No
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      • 775 64  -  THE BIG FA CUP SHOWDOWN: MANCHESTER CITY v LIVERPOOL BY Wang Meng Meng IF Liverpool fans are seeking an alternative club anthem to "You'll Never Walk Alone", may I suggest they try some rock music. More specifically, the late Kurt Cobain's final composition "You'll Know You're
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      • 771 65 THE BIG FA CUP SHOWDOWN: NICOLAS Anelka was hurt badly the day Liverpool rejected him. Tonight, he has the chance to get his own back. Manchester City boss Kevin Keegan revealed how it took a long time for Anelka (left) to accept that Kop boss Gerard Houllier
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      • 133 65 KOP legend Kevin Keegan (left) believes the answer to Liverpool's problems could lie in the "Bible", reported The Sun. The only problem is locating the same good book that Anfield's great bosses referred to when the team went on a bad run. In Keegan's playing days in the
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      • 420 66 MANCHESTER CITY v LIVERPOOL GERARD Houllier insists he has no regrets about not signing Nicolas Anelka last summer, reported The Sun. Liverpool boss Houllier revealed: "I am pleased he is doing well at Manchester City, but I made a choice for this club and this team.
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      • 291 66 Reuters. LIVERPOOL manager Gerard Houllier has urged his men to show some fighting spirit as they bid to end the club's worst league run since 1953-54. Looking back, Houllier said: "Some of the players didn't show the same winning attitude that I am expecting from
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      • 172 66 Reuters. MICHAEL Owen (left) and Emile Heskey are doubtful for Liverpool's FA Cup third-round tie against Manchester City tonight because of injury. Owen may miss the game because of a hamstring problem. "I don't think Michael will be ready for this game," manager Gerard
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      • 218 67 THERE is some news about Nicky Butt (right) at last. And pretty encouraging one at that. The midfielder is hoping to return to action for Manchester United next week. The 27-year-old has not played since having surgery on an ankle injury he picked up during England's
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      • FA CUP: TEAM UPDATE (TODAY'S MATCHES)
        • 100 67 MAN CITY v LIVERPOOL INFLUENTIAL midfielder Eyal Berkovic remains the main fitness worry for Manchester City. The Israeli missed last Wednesday's trip to Everton with a slight groin strain. Danny Tiatto (groin) is definitely out, but Nicolas Anelka is expected to start against his former club after being given time
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        • 107 67 FULHAM v BIRMINGHAM LOUIS Saha and Jon Harley are expected to be the surprise names in the Fulham squad. Striker Saha is back ahead of schedule after four months out with a hamstring problem. And out-of-favour left-back Harley has been recalled from his loan stint at First Division Sheffield United
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        • 156 67 WOLVERHAMPTON v NEWCASTLE WOLVES are in a crisis in attack as they prepare to take on Newcastle United at Molineux. Scottish international Kenny Miller is the only fully-fit striker. George Ndah was unable to finish the New Year's Day match against Derby at Molineux because of a virus but hopes
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      • 388 67 PA Sport. SHREWSBURY 2 EVERTONI Journeyman striker Nigel Jemson claimed a priceless double to dump Premiership outfit Everton out of the FA Cup as Shrewsbury pulled off a shocking 2-1 win. The 33-year-old former Nottingham Forest frontman curled home a 38th-minute free-kick and then snatched a
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      • 654 68 FA CUP 3RD ROUND: ...MORE ON MANCHESTER UNITED 4 PORTSMOUTH PA Sport. RUUD van Nistelrooy savoured a "great Cup game" after his penalty double had seen off Portsmouth 4-1 at Old Trafford yesterday. An exciting FA Cup third-round game against the
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      • 96 69 FA CUP 3RD ROUND: MANCHESTER UNITED 4 PORTSMOUTH Official Sponsor of the ESPN STAR Sports broadcast of the English Premier League One hit the back of the net, the other the woodwork. Manchester United's David Beckham (right), back from, recent injury and slowly getting back to
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        716 70  -  ■FA CUP 3RD ROUND: MANCHESTER UNITED 4 PORTSMOUTH TVVIEW EDWIN YEO FORGET the 4-1 scoreline. Manchester United did not dominate against Portsmouth as much as the scoreline suggests. That's not entirely true. The Red Devils did dominate the first 45 minutes as Portsmouth seemed almost overawed by the
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      • 168 70 Man Utd 4 (Van Nisteirooy pen 5, pen 81, Beckham 17, Scholes 90) Portsmouth 1 (Stone 39) West Ham 3 (Defoe 26,83, Cole 61) Nottm Forest 2 (Harewood 17, Reid 50) Aston Villa 1 (Pablo Angel 41) Blackburn 4 (Jansen 17,60 Yorke 52,71) Bolton 1 (Ricketts
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      • 455 71  -  FA CUP 3RD ROUND: SCUNTHORPE UNITED 0 LEEDS UNITED 2 BY Wang Meng Meng THERE'S no hiding that this tie is all about Viduka, Viduka and more Viduka. From start to finish, Leeds' 2-0 FA Cup third round victory at Scunthorpe had Mark Viduka's signature all
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