The New Paper, 11 April 2004

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  • 36 1 the new paper MITA (P) 024/03/2004 Website: newpaper. asia 1. com. sg APRIL 11, 2004 Email: tnp@ sph.com.sg 80 CENTS Press Holdings on sunday Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 Football Mo. 1In FootbmU Hotline! 1900-912-0028
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    • 52 1 MrViagra T Mr Cialis Mr Levitra Why And they are on S 'pore Government study grants. Why so garang*? 'Fierce IS > v,. n I 1 1 W-*C, > I w -A V I "V -c "5- I r V S f *-A0V c i\- < jp: w' yfei^v Mum
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  • NEWS
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      897 2  -  So soft, our young ones Sheltered and less hungry: These qualities could hold back Singapore's young in their race against Asian competitors. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made this point in a recent speech to NTU undergraduates. How did they get this way? COMMENT EDWIN YEO THE
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    • 638 2  -  COMMENT SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO r —n BESIDES spiders, my worthy colleague, Edwin Yeo, and I share not much else in common. It's obvious we are spawned from different generations: He can't wait for the computer-enhanced Spider-Man 2, and I used to catch spiders (housed in red
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    • 1061 3  -  Deaf undergrad aced exams, even gave tuition Taxi-driver's son overcomes handicap to excel HflUffl My time, your time By Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg HE was born deaf, and his parents thought he would never make it past his O levels. But Mr Benedict Ho proved them wrong. Not
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    • 529 3  -  KEFOBT AND PICTURE By Tan May Ping Tan May Ping mayptMg@sph.com.sg THE paper chase never prevented her from living her life with passion and zest. At age 11, she landed her first part-time job, selling charity tickets door-to-door. By the time she was 16,
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    • 928 4  -  REPORTS DAWN CHIA @sph.com.sg THIS China student wants to tell Singapore's youth to wake up, stop being so proud and stop feeding on pigs will. And other China students studying in Singapore are apparently nodding in agreement, at least on a
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    • 184 4 THE China teenager isn't the only one with strong views on Singaporeans. His was the fifth response to a posting started by a forum member called Volts. At least 95 responses were posted under the topic of Singaporeans. Volts, who has been in Singapore for five
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    • 483 4 UNGRATEFUL. Out of line. Uncalled for. These are some of the responses to the China teenager's words from his Singaporean classmates. The question they raised: Shouldn't he be more respectful of Singaporeans since he's on a tuition grant sponsored by the Singapore
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    • 907 5  -  About 350,000 Singapore men suffer from erectile dysfunction. With three drugs claiming to be able to restore a man's sexual prowess, which one should a man choose? We speak to three men to find out which they liked best By Ng Wan Ching tnp@sph.com.sg MINE works better.
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    • 85 5 VIAGRA ($2O per pill): Take it if you are kiasu and have many health problems. It works for "nearly gone-case" patients and gives excellent quality erections. LEVITRA ($2O per pill): Take if if you are careless about your eating habits as it has fewer side effects
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    • Article, Illustration
      606 6 KKVIN (net his (Ml name) is In Ms 30s and has been tiavthg ED problems for a few years. He started oft with Viagra and it worked fine. He alwayß managed to achieve a very good Spgn while on the drug. its the only drug that works
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    • 57 7 A taxi driver was charged last week with allegedly killing a frog porridge seller he believed to be his wife's lover. In January, a man set fire to his brother-in-law's flat (right) when he suspected his estranged wife was cheating on him. What drives men to such
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    • 1037 7 HE was a mild-mannered man who, by all accounts, loved his wife deeply. This love became obsessive. Eventually, it led to jealousy and murderous rage. When she left him, Sim Swee Kee's (above) world came crashing down. And when the 48-year-old odd-job worker saw
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    • 469 7 ANOTHER CASE THE camera played out the scene of his wife in bed with his friend. When Ben (not his real name) saw it, he was blue with shock and hurt. Then he turned red with anger. But not so red that it turned
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    • 672 8  -  By Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph. com.sg DISBELIEF, confusion, devastation. Finally, anger. These are the emotions that hit a man confronted with his worst marital suspicions that his wife has been cheating on him. So say the people who most often have to be the bearer of the
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      754 9  - By Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg IN life, mother and son shared a close bond. And they weren't separated in death. On Thursday, both died almost at the same time. The son collapsed and died of a heart attack at home while his mum, who was in a coma in hospital,
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    • 16 9 MUM AND SON PIE 8 MINUTES APART Picture/ Kua Chee Siong
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    • 1236 10 Lingerie boss Michelle Mone knew exactly what she was unleashing when she replaced Rod Stewart's girlfriend with his estranged wife as her house model. For a woman who's survived piracy, jealousy, fraud and even a knife attack, it's just another day in ruthless lingerie
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    • 439 12 British passport holder faced humiliation at the hands of US immigration officials SHE had flown in to New York's John F Kennedy airport to shoot a documentary for schools in the US last Monday. But when Ms Sabinder Bual presented her British
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    323 16 I NEWS FORGET those titans of the sporting world like Muhammad Ali, Zinedine Zidane or rugby's Johnny Wilkinson. A 93-year-old Sikh from Britain, until recently unknown to most, is the new face of adidas. The Asian Age reported that Fauja Singh (right), who will become the oldest man
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  • 146 18 THAT seems to be the message from Sir Alex Ferguson to footballer Ruud Van Nistelrooy. The 27-year-old Manchester United striker has been ordered to report back to the club six days after his lavish wedding in Holland. Sir Alex has told the Dutch international
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  • 359 20 New Zealander issued ticket for speeding on day he was born 30 years ago! [NEWS] AN Auckland accountant was pulled over for speeding on Jan 26 this year. But the officer wrote Mr Justin Lee's date of birth Jun 23,1974 in the space where he should have written
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    • 541 22 Her husband is surrounded by 16 US bodyguards but she goes shopping in Kabul alone AFGHANISTAN'S President Hamid Karzai has been married for five years but many Afghans don't even know his wife's name. That's how low-key the position of Mrs Zenat Karzai (above, right)
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    • 258 23 IF you want to watch George Bush Senior drop in by parachute at his 80th birthday party, you'll have to pay for the privilege. USslm ($1.67 m) to be exact, reported The Times. The jump will be the highlight of a two-day
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  • 266 24 [NEWS] HE posed as a hospital staffer, checking medical charts and questioning the girl about her health. So, when he asked her to accompany him, she complied. It was early on Friday morning shortly after a shift change at New York's Bellevue Hospital.
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  • NEWS
    • 244 26 US film-lovers will soon be able to enjoy their movies without having to put up with the sex, violence and swearing that are inevitably present. Wal-Mart, the country's biggest retail chain, is preparing to launch a US$79 ($132) DVD player that automatically strips out
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    • 285 27 SOUTH African hospital administrator Norman Maharaj was on a visit to the Spanish city of Barcelona. He took time off to check out the local flea market. But what he saw on sale shocked him. Linen from his hospital in South
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    • 49 29 NOT THE EASTER BUNNY: a child walks past, I.Bm giant painted easter egg in Berlin. It's Just one of the 20 or so eggs decorated by children from 65 German cities who took part In a contest They will be on exhibition until Easter Monday. Picture/ Afp
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    • 363 29 US offers truce after days of fighting in Iraqi city THE hostage crisis in Iraq appears to be growing. The satellite television channel Al-Arabiya has broadcast a videotaped message from a previously unknown group threatening to kill 30 hostages which it claimed to
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    • at a glance
      • 129 29 Snapshots of the main news to save you time THE Thai army has agreed to release five Malaysian soldiers who strayed into a southern Thai village, Malaysia's army chief said. General Azumi Mohamed said the men were on patrol at the border and had crossed into
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      • 104 29 THE Ministry of Education will support schools in their efforts to innovate, where feasible, with "more teachers, additional financial resources or special guidance". Acting Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said yesterday: "It helps that we have seen... a significant increase (20-30 per cent) in the number
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      • 119 29 MORE than an estimated US$l trillion ($1.68 trillion) is paid in bribes worldwide each year in rich and poor countries, the World Bank said, citing an ongoing study. The figure does not include embezzlement of public funds or theft of public assets, and it compared to an
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      • 114 29 POLICE used water cannons to disperse a group of protesters in Taiwan after violence broke out at an opposition demonstration challenging President Chen Shui-bian's narrow election win. The crowds, calling for a referendum on holding an independent probe into Mr Chen's election-eve shooting, were forced to step back
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous

  • Hey! SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND
    • 1106 30 LINGERIE ADS A sexy nightie can often stimulate a passionate evening, say sex therapists. But lingerie manufacturers and distributors here often get their knuckles rapped by media owners and authorities for being too sexual in their advertising. Unfair, they scream, we're sexy, not sexual. Here Sylvia
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    • 76 31 A half-second butt shot off a red dress flowing over it. The model was wearing a Q-string. Iff you blinked, you would have missed it. But the authorities didn't want to take the chance that you'd blink. The model, realising that someone is filming
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    • 716 32 ONE of the reasons I have never tried writing a novel is that I just never knew enough about plants and birds to get started. Many of my favourite novels had always begun with something like: "It was a blazing hot day, and even the
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    • 627 33  -  Lady, if your indexfinger is shorter than your ringfinger, you are likely to be into casual sex. Or so says a study. True? By Celine Lim celltf@sph.com.sg UICK ladies, look at your fingers. II A recent study says that if your index finger is
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    • 46 34 In the name of fun, five female personalities obliged when CELINE LIM asked them to lend a hand to the McMaster "casual sex test". But first, we talk to them on their attitudes towards casual sex. See their hands on these pages
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      208 34 Perfect 10 deejay and Mediacorp actress Vernetta Lopez SOUND OFF: There are better uses for the money they spent on this research. Why not use it to come up with better scientific technology to help older women conceive- we do have a baby crisis now. How can you
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    • 211 34 Mediacorp actress Patricia Mok SOUND OFF: How can you just look at the fingers to see if a woman wants casual sex? There are so many other things to look at. Like the person's character or the environment she grew up in. For example, if a woman's parents
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    • 147 34 Channel U newscaster Helen Zhang Hal Jie SOUND OFF: I think there is no basis to this study. There is insufficient evidence to state that finger lengths can be used to indicate whether women would have casual sex. The expression in a person's eyes is more telling. Asian
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      172 34 Perfect 10 deejay Jamie Yeo SOUND OFF: It's such a strange topic. I don't think there is any truth to the findings. It might be fun trivia to bring up during a conversation, but I think it's much ado about nothing. Surely there are better ways to
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      201 34 Jeffrey Chung model Angeline Tee SOUND OFF: What? Does it really matter- the fingers? Whether a woman has casual sex is all up to the individual's decision. But when there is more alcohol flowing, yes, women are more likely to have casual sex. I have seen that happening.
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    • 638 35 WHAT the hell is wrong with you people? What's all this complaining about Miss Singapore/Universe? You guys do this every single year! Beauty, no brains. Brains, no beauty. No beauty, no brains. Come on, it's tiring. Me, I love it each time Miss Singapore/Universe comes around.
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  • 567 36  -  By Loh Wanyun wanyun@sph. com.sg JUST when you thought things were heating up, the organisers of the MyDreamDB contest have made things even hotter. With all the backstabbing and alliance-rumours going around, Sing Tel has provided yet another avenue for the contestants
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    • 253 37 KS I am a 24-year-old NSman and I have written in before. I appreciated the advice I received, but the same issue has started disturbing me again. In my last letter, I wrote about the stupid things I did as I could not handle the setback of
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    • 736 38 Angry and Confused is a 15-year-old girl taking her O levels this year. Last year, her parents nearly disowned her when she lied about her report book and did badly in school. She was told to do better and not to lie. Her results
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    • 102 37 Can you help this writer? WHAT do you think this writer should do? Have you ever been in a similar situation? Do you have any advice? We are inviting YOU to act as counsellor to our Dear Aggie advice-seekers. E-mail us your advice to them before Tuesday to tnp@sph.com.sg or
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  • Page 39 Miscellaneous
    • 469 39 1 i jy A THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY April 11,2 p IBF WoHd pri t?£z,L°%%s: r Pr mi r L su 2004 Oi'WZSfZ A 7i UVen c V I JIT EP I L -7f h ,2.30pm: Golf-The M«ter,2oo4 34rd Rd Preview 6.00: WWE Heat/Badminton IBF World Grand Prix 3.30:
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  • RACING
    • 1748 43 8 YAAKEEN 57 (9-6) BVorster (6) 5 3 1 (440) 7 WORLD FRONT 57 (20-6) JPatton (1) 1 1 2 (494) 3L 11 COMMANDING 54 c 52.5 (104-17) •MHairin (2) 2 2 3 (492) shd 2 JAMES PONY 57 (30-8) J Taylor (8)
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    • 334 43  -  By Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph. com. sg THE circumstances may have been somewhat different but the result was much the same. If there were questions about Ninetyfive Emperor's lack of race fitness or whether he was as good as before his unplaced outing in Hong
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    • 681 44 Reuters. RACE 1: S Sam replaced J Geroudis (certified unwell) on ABLE WIN. MAGIC EIGHT and KASHINO GOLD were withdrawn as they could not be boxed. COMMANDING raced greenly entering the home straight. WORLD FRONT had a tendency to laid out in the
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      235 45 TOP TIPS RACING J Tan Thean Loon t^T2 4 Urn's Choke 5 Bright Bambino 8 Good Benefit 4 Urn's Choice 10 Cyber Palace 7 Royal Padfk 10 Cyber Palace 8 Good BeneAt 2Wy Funny Man 4 Urn's Choke 1 AMrtston 4 Golden Lakshmi P*T f 'V i I Ml'
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    • 77 45 Superior Warrior (Race 7 No. 5) This Mohd Yusoftrained galloper will take some catching. The way he demolished his opposition over the 1,400 m when resuming from a break last month suggests he is going places. Superior Warrior is drawn favourably in gate No. 1 and, from the
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    • 670 45 Ow4Mv2 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Banter (Aqe/origlnfcex. trainer owmar) 1 09-90- WHATMORE 59 (58) BVorster 10 (6indg Clements-The Livery) No showing in seven starts; prefer others. 2 800-50 REMUS RACING 58.5 (57) *KKNgdL5 7
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    • 1415 46 TOPOFTHEHEAP: A treble has helped Australian Craig Carmody (right) overtake Salmee Jumaatatthe top of the KranJl Jockeys' log. Picture/ Kenneth Koh RflSB cfcxoM Quartet 230 No. Last 6 rum HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/originftn. trainer-owner) 1 359-6
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    • 210 51 EURO KICKOFF: SPAIN, HOLLAND PA Sport. REAL Madrid must consign their shock Champions League exit to history. Carlos Queiroz's side cannot afford to ease off if they are to retain their Primera Liga title. Real and Raul (right) are just one point ahead of Valencia and
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      • 1318 61  -  By Ian Parkes SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport. THE unlikely figure of Steve Caldwell and the now customary character of Mark Viduka scored the goals to give Leeds their most important win of the season and drag Blackburn into the relegation mire. Defender Caldwell popped up
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      • 245 61  -  By Dave Buckley SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT COLLINS JOHN scored his first goals for Fulham as the Cottagers ended a sequence of 11 away games without victory by securing a 2-0 Barclaycard Premiership win at Leicester. Substitute John, who had replaced Barry Hayles on the hour,
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      • 71 63 CHELSEA 0 BORO 0 Against Arsenal earlier this week, Frank Lampard was the hero. Yesterday, against mid-table Boro, he was practically a zero. Lampard's week went roller-coaster from a midweek high to fluffing two clear-cut, easy chances that would have continued to put Chelsea on the
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