The New Paper, 25 April 2004

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  • NEWS
    • 1339 2  -  Prof Lim speaks about how he nearly became an artist and how he stood up against his father for Singapore Top eye surgeon, Professor Arthur Lim, celebrated his 70th birthday in a glittering affair last night. In an exclusive interview, he reveals more about his past, his passions,
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    • 218 2 CIRCUMSTANCES have brought a couple of stars into his orbit. Prof Lim, who has written 30 books, mostly medical with a few literary works, said: "I have always been fascinated by the world of art, and by the artists in that world." First,
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    • 680 3  -  PM Goh who turns up with a present and other prominent well-wishers enjoy Prof Arthur Lim's birthday celebration By Sylvia Toh Paik Choo tnp@sph.com.sg IS there a doctor in the house? There were 120. They were among more than 400 guests at Professor Arthur Lim's
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    • 684 5  -  REPORTS AND PICTURE By Joyce Lim joycel@sph. com.sg AS the wife of a millionaire businessman, she doesn't think twice about spending $50,000 on a private dinner party at home. A lady of leisure, or tai tai, is how her art and lifestyle consultant described
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    • 520 5 ITS a jet-set high life and < that's just for the florists. Mr Raj Chan and Ms Tara Chia (above), who own Floret and Teddies at Wheelock Place, get paid to fly around South-east Asia, looking for artefacts to decorate their
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    • 1488 6  -  They met at a private party and the Man U star continued to send her SMS messages after he had left S'pore MODEL LIFESTYLE MODEL LIFESTYLE DFD Party Honey? Party for money? S'pore model's 2-year secret REPORTS JOYCE LIM joycel@sph.com.sg I SLEPT with a
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    • 207 8  -  MODEL LIFESTYLE Party honey? By Edwin Yeo tnp@sph.com.sg SO who is this mysterious Manchester United player that Angel claims to have slept with? While she refused to reveal his identity, some details may give us a hint. Here's a possible process of elimination from the squad list
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    • 501 8  -  MODEL LIFESTYLE Party for money? By Joyce Lim joycel@sph.com.sg LAVISH parties are part and parcel of entertainment when there are big events or conventions in Singapore. These are parties to celebrate big business deals or to network with top clients. Models are often invited to glamorise
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      1479 9  - Party for D s By Joyce Lim joycel@sph.com.sg By Fawziah Selamat fawziahs@sph.com.sg YOU don't have to pay local models to attend private dinners. Most are more than willing to go to these functions, and even ask their model friends along. When one model receives a party invitation, she tends to
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      964 10 100 S'porean motorbikers head to M'sian race tracks on weekends ALMOST every Saturday, some 150 Singapore bikers put on their leather suits and get onto their well-polished speed machines for a weekend of racing in Malaysia. Mr Abdul Shukri, who died on Apr 10 in a road
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    • 489 10 HE was heading to Sepang for a weekend of fun and racing, as he often did. But avid biker Abdul Shukri Mohamad Noor didn't even make it near the Tuas Checkpoint. Mr Shukri, 46, lost control of his motorcycle near
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  • 929 11  -  Family of hero says... Nicoll Highway collapse BY Joycelyn Wong tnp@sph.com.sg SHE tries to be calm at her husband's wake, surrounded by her children and relatives. But at night, when she's alone in bed, the tears gush freely. Said Mrs Heng, 35, in Mandarin: "When I lie
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  • NEWS
    • 663 12  -  Then PM will step down sometime this year By Karen Wong karen@sph. com.sg NO, he still won't say exactly when he'll step down, though he made it clear that it will be this year. And there's a good reason. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday
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    • 146 12 THE People's Action Party's (PAP) new leaders will need to bond with its ordinary members. A stronger relationship is "especially important" now, in the midst of political transition, said PM Goh Chok Tong. And that's one of the aims of the PAP policy forum launched yesterday. PM Goh
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      25 13 A model showing off a design by female Saudi fashion designer Zaki ben Abboud at an haute couture show in Beirut Lebanon. Picture/Ap
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    • 371 13 \V\ SARS outbreak in China CHINA has stepped up checks on passengers ahead of a week-long holiday starting May 1, when millions are on the move. The Health Ministry reported no new cases after confirming China's first two Sars cases on Friday. On Monday,
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    • at a glance
      • 125 13 Snapshots of the main news to save you time IF the US had not invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, many thousands of terrorists would still be getting trained there, Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan said in Washington. "Our view in Singapore is that because of the actions taken,
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      • 120 13 AT least 44 people were killed and five others trapped after a landslide hit a bus and nearly swept it off a cliff in Indonesia. Tlie landslide occurred in Pasaman, West Sumatra, about I,oookm from Jakarta. The bus was on its way to Medan. Local police
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      • 120 13 GEYLANG Serai market is to be torn down in 2006 and rebuilt. The $17 million two-storey building, in a style reminiscent of rustic Malay architecture, will be twice as big as the existing market. Steel beams and aluminium panels will be used, but they will be painted to
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      • 102 13 ARABIC, Jawi-script writing and religious education will be taught in all government primary schools in Malaysia next year. The government is hoping this will encourage Muslim parents to send their children to national schools instead of private religious schools or madrasahs. It wants to
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    • 595 14 French PM's spin doctor resigns after being found with underaged prostitute in his car Wire services. HIS job is to spin bad news into better news. And now, a real stinker has been handed to him courtesy of himself. Dominique Ambiel (above), the
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    • 242 14 HE woke up and found himself alone at home. Looking for his parents, it is believed he stood on a sofa and opened a window before he fell out. Yesterday, the 4-year-old boy survived a fall from
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  • 429 16 US PRESIDENTIAL RACE NEWS SENATOR John Kerry is increasingly having to answer questions relating to his wealth. Or actually the wealth he has got thanks to wife Teresa, who is heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune. Recently he has come under fire for not publishing
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      615 33  -  For instant fame... SIVA CHOY HOW often have you heard famous novelists or actors saying things like: "Fame doesn't come easily; you have to work hard, sometimes for a lifetime before you achieve international recognition?" Oh yeah? I reckon it can be done in four hours. Just
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    • 536 34  -  EDWIN YEO tnp@sph.com. sg CHARITY show or Torture Chamber? Efforts to raise donations using stars certainly don't have a lot of charity for the celebrities. Which, let me clarify immediately, I don't have a problem with. My problem with the whole shebang (which, incidentally, is
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    • 341 35 I AM a single, 22-year-old domestic maid. I have worked here for three years to support my mother, 39, and two siblings, aged 14 and 10. As the eldest child, I started working at 16 when my father died. My problem is, my mother never talks to
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    • 183 35 I'M A 15-year-old boy, and I find life a struggle. I have tried very hard at my studies, but I've failed or barely passed some of my subjects, which makes me very sad. I don't like my co-curricular activity because it puts pressure on me. It
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    • 235 35 I AM a 14-year-old boy, and recently I asked a girl to be my steady girlfriend. Although we have admired each other since Secondary One, she always gives the same answer: Either she says she is afraid, or that she doesn't know. Sometimes, I lose
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    • 745 36 Totally Lost Girl is in Secondary Four this year. She started a relationship with W last year. She always gives in to him when he quarrels with her over small things, which happens nearly every day. W has suggested breaking up at least
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
    • 621 37 S BHIH ■MESE3SBSHHI PI 2.00nn: Euro 2004 Lead Up Ukraine vs Spain 10.00 am: MLB San Francisco Giants vs Los Angeles 9.00 am: EPL Manchester United vs Liverpool 2.00pm: European Soccer Show Dodgers (Live)/Premiership Extra 11.00: FI Qualifying Imola, San Marino Grand Prix 3.00: Diving Fina Grand Prix Russia 1
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
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  • [RACING]
    • 111 41 Opposing Force (Race 8 No. 1) When it comes to the gruelling stamina test like the 2,400 m Perak Derby, few in Malaysia can match Opposing Force. This Jetball seven-year-old won the Ipoh classic in 2001 and 2002 and finished fourth last year. Indications are that he will
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    • 130 41 RACE 1: Wild Queen, Solar City, Accordance. RACE 2: Good Kid, Big Boom, True Prince. RACE 3: Kim Grace, Sky Command, Skyline, Brainwork. RACE 4: Winning Eagle, Happy Brothers, Good Happiness, Robin Hood. RACE 5: Summer Dream, Our Machal. RACE 6: Time To Remember, Sparkling Dragon, Xtherest, Hurricane Warning,
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    • Article, Illustration
      344 41 DFFD RACE Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee < SH/fl I>r«!.;i,Sr 9 Sudan SWtahMe 12 KJmba 2 9 Breaking News 1 Wise Plan IS Big Business 15 Big Business 14 Sapphire 2 Good Kid 14 Sapphire 13 Great Prevention 9 Breaking News &KS >*m &3HI I 'lawrv" v
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    • 393 41 AIMING FOR HAT-TRICK: opposing Force after capturing his second successive Perak Derby with Jockey Lee Soo Hin aboard in 2002. Today, he will have the services of Singapore champion Salmee Jumaat PPHH Class 5 Premier 12.00 imi "°°m (straight) Stakes: RM27.500 Wo. Last
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    • 1671 42 -1600m (LQ Sterns: RM25.000 Wo. Last 6 runs HOUSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex. trainer-owner) 1 0-8 GOLDEN SEED 57 (48) SSani 6 (4ag HS Lim-Mdm YM Cheow) 2 0-7968 KIM GRACE 55.5 (45) DChee 12 (3af Yeo-Kimmui's) 3 8000 CANT THINK IT
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    • 1517 43 10 COOK THE BOOKS 54 (22-9) JSaimee (10) 4 2 1 (477) 5 UNfTED SPIRIT 56 (29-11) LSofhan (1) 3 1 2 (513) 7 FIRE SPUR 55.5 (159-38) NAzman (2) 2 3 3 (530) Others in finishing order OLYMPIC TEAM (84-24) S Salee, STACK
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    • 282 43  -  BY Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg FORMER Kranji galloper Fiery Spirit shed his maiden status at his 31st start yesterday but he did not have to cross the line first. It was thanks to the successful protest by Saimee Jumaat, rider of third-placed Just Like Tiger,
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  • Page 43 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 261 44 DIEGO MARADONA: DAUGHTERS MAKE A PLEA AFP. DIEGO Maradona's daughters have pleaded for silence. They want their famous footballing dad to be left alone after reports that the former Argentina captain's supporters planned to bring a band to play in front of the hospital where he is
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    • 320 45 THE WORLD OF DIEGO ARMANDO MARADQI ABOUT MARADONA BORN: OCT, 1960 It was 22years ago when BRIAN MILLER met a youthful DIEGO MARADONA. Arriving for the one-on-one interview full of anticipation, he left feeling dismayed, disgusted and angry at the way the Argentinian upstart
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    • 1231 46 TODAY, Diego Maradona is lying in some private clinic in Buenos Aires. He is recovering from a brush with death. But all is not that rosy. A respirator helps him breathe. There are tubes attached to his body and he has to be fed
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    • F1 2004
      • 599 47 Six-time World Champion Michael Schumacher leads this year's championship with three wins from the first three races. ERNEST LUIS reveals different insights into the man behind the famous red helmet. UNLIKE other sporting legends, Michael Schumacher wasn't born great. And he certainly didn't seem
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      • 429 47 IN that classic tale of the tortoise and the hare, it's hard to imagine that Michael Schumacher may identify more with the slow but steady tortoise. Because it actually took him many years before he finally showed his true
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      • 628 47 MICHAEL Schumacher races at up to speeds of3ookm/h every alternate weekend in front of billions of fans and viewers worldwide. He may have given up pursuing judo and football for motor-racing at the age of five. But had he been born earlier than
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      • 138 47 Reuters. BRITAIN'S Jensoo Button, driving a BAR, grabbed the first j pole position of his Formula I One career yesterday at the San Marino Grand Prix to end Michael Schumacher's run of qualifying dominance. It was also BAR'S first pole. Button lapped Ferrari's home circuit in one
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      • 138 47 AFP. IST ROW: 1. Jonson Button (GBR) BAR-Honda lmin 19.7535 ec 2. Michael Schumacher (GER) Ferrari 1:20.011 2ND ROW: 3. Juan Pablo Montoya (COL) Williams-BMW 1:20.212 4. Rubens Barrichello (BRA) Ferrari 1:20.451 3RD ROW: 5b Ralf Schumacher (GER) Williams-BMW 1:20.538 6. Fernando Alonso (SPA) Renault 1:20.895 4THROW: 7.
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    • 935 48 NBA 2004 NBA talent scouts are already drooling over the prospects of drafting Emeka Okafor, whom many are calling the second coming of Hakeem Olajuwon. AP. THE parents knew little about basketball, and cared even less. Pius Okafor took
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      • 114 50 PA Sport Al5-MATCH unbeaten run has put Barcelona third in the table, seven points behind Real Madrid with five games to gp: Needless to say, a win at the Bernabeu would turn the title picture into a three horse race. Real are sweating on Ronaldo's fitness and have
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      • 438 51 LIVE, Ch 22,1.25 am, tomorrow PA Sport. RONALDINHO may be the idol of the Nou Camp supporters, but there is no doubt Dutch midfielder Edgar Davids has been the catalyst for the remarkable turnaround in Barcelona's fortunes. Going into the glitzy showdown with Real Madrid, much of the
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      • 329 51 I. It will be the first time that Ronaldo has played against Ronaldinho if the Real Madrid star is passed fit. 2. Barca's president Joan Laporta has said that he will dance on the bonnet of a car driven round
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        309 56 TOTTENHAM v ARSENAL PA Sport. THIERRY Henry has set new standards of sporting brilliance this season. And statistics suggest his work-rate equals his genius. Given that he is Arsenal's top scorer, the most stunning statistic is the number of crosses the striker delivers. The tendency to drift wide means
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        426 57 NEWSCASTLE v CHELSEA NEWCASTLE manager Sir Bobby Robson may well have a special match-winner in Portuguese star Hugo Viana. He is counting on him to deliver the goods against Chelsea tonight, reported The Mirror Online. Now he has boldly sent out an "I told you so" message
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      • 315 59  -  By Sebastian james SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Spot PJIEMIERSHIP rookie Jonathan Stead grabbed the late goal which took Blackburn to the 40 point mark and almost certainly secured their escape from relegation. It ensured Blackburn's third successive league victory and took them above Everton in the table.
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