The New Paper, 8 August 2004

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  • 25 1 the new Paper on Sunday AUGUST 8,2004 180 cents iff*Singapore Press Holdings HOTLINE 1800 733 44 55 Website: newpaper.asia1.com.sg Email:tnp@sph.com.sg MITA(P) 024/03/2004 8 *****1 *****9 >
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    • 68 1 .-the. Jletf I American approacheswomen on Orchard Rd for his matchmaking website. Inside BUT SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT <£§1 on Sunday AUGUST 8,*****80 cents lass? W ft PI r.m Ix afci fr4 Lak r -«ti m tr a r 4 ■m m t 4 S-League Japanese HEARTTHROB falls for S'PORE GIRL
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    • 1022 2  -  S PORE WIVES, GIRLFRIENDS DONT LISTEN. MEN DONT OPEN UP, SAY DOCTORS, COUNSELORS. THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE TO PAY US TO LISTEN, SAYS CHINA GIRL ANNIE Joycelyn Wong and Alvin Chiang tnp@sph.com.sg IS the Singapore woman losing her touch when it comes
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    • 265 3 SINGAPORE women don't know how to please their men, says China KTV hostess Annie (right). She does not know any of them personally but, from what her clients tell her, they tend to neglect their husbands or boyfriends. "I think the women here
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    • 956 4 IT'S NOT THAT S'PORE WOMEN DON'T LISTEN TO THEIR MEN, SAY PSYCHIATRISTS. S'PORE MEN JUST DONT SHARE THEIR FEELINGS WITH THEIR WOMEN MEN are not that much different from women. They, too, need emotional support, psychiatrists said. But, while men might feel neglected, the women
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    • 260 5 MEN who turn to KTV hostesses are simply deluding themselves. Miss Jamie Lu, 34, a marketing executive, has zero tolerance for men who pay hostesses purely for their company not even if their emotional needs are ignored by their wives or girlfriends. Said Miss Lu:
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    • 1108 6  -  HE PUTS ASIAN WOMEN ON SHOW THIS ANG MOH ROAMS ORCHARD ROAD LOOKING FOR WOMEN TO FEATURE ON HIS MATCHMAKING WEBSITE Fawziah Selamat fawziahs @sph.com.sg ON the surface, American Jack West seems to be running a matchmaking service for Asian women. That was the
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    • 427 8  -  Women react to ang moh matchmaker Fawziah Selamat fawziahs@sph.com.sg WOMEN we spoke to weren't too impressed with Mr Jack West's website. Neither did his claim that he wanted to help Asian women meet Western husbands carry any weight. Filipino maid Melinda Altarejos, 35, found it offensive that her
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    • 754 10  -  Sylvia Toh Park Choo t.np@sph.com. sg Tomorrow i am having an actual tea party for a dear friend who has gone to settle elsewhere this last decade. She now lives a long train journey's ride from fellow columnist Siva Choy. (See page 50.) Not only will
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      620 10  -  NO MATTER WHERE WE ARE Siva Choy tnp@sph.com.sg WHAT does National Day mean to Singaporeans in Perth? I've always referred to Perth as Singapore's largest constituency because it has the largest Singaporean community outside Singapore. But it's a mixed constituency of old and new Singaporean migrants whose loyalties
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      166 14 IN PERSPECTIVE: THE NICOLL HIGHWAY INQUIRY THE SEARCH FOR ANSWERS HAS BEGUN IN THE SUBORDINATE COURTS. WHAT HAPPENED ON APR 20? HOW DID THE HIGHWAY COLLAPSE, KILLING FOUR WORKERS? THESE ARE THE KEY PLAYERS, WHAT THEY DO, AND THE ISSUES RAISED BY VARIOUS EXPERTS. Timeline: 1 Before Apr
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      369 14 CONSULTANT: Maunsell Consultants Maunsell's claim: Lawyers from Chan Tan LLC argued that failure in retaining structures could have been prevented if the contractor had taken readings to show wall movements. Maunsell claimed the contractor continued digging instead of taking "contingency measures... immediately to prevent or minimise further movement".
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    • 722 15  -  FROM HIS VANTAGE POINT BEHIND THE BAR, LENUS KWER GETS TO WATCH THE BIMBOS, BUAYAS AND THE CHEAPSKATES 'fess j ...What really Up! goes on at 9-to-5 jobs? E-mail tnp@sph.com.sg JoyceLim joycel@sph.com.sg HIS office is filled with whisky, good music, bimbos and buayas (skirt-chasers). "Being able
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    • 852 16 TOTO TALE OF 2 AUNTIES SHE GETS TICKET GIFT THAT WINS S2.BM AND GIVES $5,000 IN RETURN IF the gift of a Toto ticket leads to a $2.8 million win for you, how much of it would you give your donor out of gratitude? $500,000, $50,000
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    • 321 17 IrS ANOTHER BUSY WEEKEND IN S'PORE. WHILE SOME S'POREANS LET THEIR HAIR DOWN AT A WILD KOPI HAM PARTY, OTHERS, LIKE MP AMY KHOR, PACK PERSONAL AND OFFICIAL COMMITMENTS INTO THEIR REST DAY Temperatures were soaring at the Taman Jurong S-ll coffeeshop
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      320 17 WEEKENDS are usually the time for most Singaporeans to either snooze, shop, or socialise. But, for Dr Amy Khor, MP for Hong Kah GRC, it's all of the three and more. She doesn't do much sleeping as she would be up and about by six in the morning
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    • 552 18 AUTHOR OF FAKE ACCOUNT NOW ON THE RUN AND LIVING IN FEAR AS OUTRAGE MOUNTS FOOLED BY FORBIDDEN LOVI AruLMm tnp@sph.com.sg THE book was published in 15 countries and is also sold in Borders bookstore here. It told a heart-tugging tale of forbidden love and the author's
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    • 147 18 MR Malcolm Knox began an inquiry that led him to Chicago. There he found Ms Norma Khouri's mother Asma Bagain. He learned that the author herself had moved from Jordan to the US at age 3. Mr Knox also found family members, neighbours and acquaintances who
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      • 144 19  -  StaChiYin simcy@sph.com.sg This stretch of beach oil the East Coast was littered with timber strips, plastic bottles, light bulbs and sandals yesterday. H It was much more than the usual litter. Some of the bottles had Indonesian labels on them. Ms Tan Li-Anne was
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      • 66 19 EXXON Mobil and Caltex announced a three-cent diesel price increase even as they are embroiled in a petrol discount war which went up to an unprecedented 16 per cent. Both companies pointed to the increase in the price of internationally traded wholesale diesel. The announcements follow a
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      • 96 19 THE Malaysian authorities are considering legalising betting on international and domestic football matches. Football betting is illegal in Malaysia, but illegal bookmakers reportedly rake in more than RM3 billion ($1.35 b) a year in football bets from the region, including Singapore, mostly on English Premier
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      • 165 19 1 iNmATTVBMULREAP DMMNDS: BOON YANG MORE jobs will be created, no* just because the economy is improving, but because of the Government's own efforts. The Government aims to help the creative industrygrow and double its GDP contribution from the current 3 per cent to 6
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      • 185 19 THE safety and welfare of all workers will be top priority this year. Dr Ng Eng Hen, acting Minister for Manpower and Minister of State for Education, said this at the Ministry of Manpower's (MOM) National Day observance ceremony yesterday. A thorough review of worker safety
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      • 40 19 A WOMAN swallowed nearly $1,500 in cash to avoid being robbed. Ms Marleny Villa, 35, swallowed the notes when a gang boarded the bus in Peru. But she got all her money back when she had her stomach pumped.
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  • 669 20  -  •311 Sunday All the latest tech news P. W»tgch Guy 00 GIN LEE tnp@sph.com.sg A FEW years ago, a friend of mine had to call his boss from mid-air. The reason five minutes after take-off, he realised his boss was not on the plane
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    • 508 28 HIGH-TECH AUDIO SCAN COULD FINALLY SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF 1963 ASSASSINATION ABOUT a year from now, one of the most vexing mysteries in US history may finally be solved: Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone? Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have begun work on a
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    • 135 30 FAKE THAT COST MORE? BANK ON IT Reuters. THE Japanese police have been scratching their heads in bewilderment over the country's latest counterfeiting trend fake bills that cost more to make than their face value. Experts estimate that it cost 1,000 yen ($15.40) to make each of the more than
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    • 179 31 Wire services. THE US Labour Department recently launched a website to help the homeless. But cynics are crying foul. If they are homeless, how in the world are people going to log on to the site? In its statement, the department said the website aimed to
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    • 275 32 IF scientists are correct, we may be able to have our first contact with ET within the next two decades. This bold prediction comes from Earth's leading authority on alien life the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (Seti) in Mountain View, California. Mr Seth Shostak, Seti's senior
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  • 38 35 The human placenta is being touted as a miracle beauty product and even a cure for liver cirrhosis. Is it really the elixir of youth or merely a placebo? Continued on page 38 EnAkbar en@s ph.com.sg
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    • 483 36 Woman, 35, spends $1,500 a month on placenta treatment EVERY morning, she drinks a tonic made from human placenta. Then she applies placenta essence on her face. Yet, Anna Tan doesn't think twice using it because she believes that it can make her
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    • 546 37 DOCTORS said it would take him three years to recover from his terrible burns. But Tim (not his real name) reckons he could be better in just one year. And he said it's down to a treatment involving human placenta. Tim, 14, received
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    • 192 38 MAYLANDE tonic is safe for consumption. The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) says it does not contain poisons and banned substances. "It is allowed to be sold in Singapore as Chinese Proprietory Medicine," said an HSA spokesman. "The claim, on its label, that Maylande Tonic is generally
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    • 151 38 There are several si*f>tuous recipes around so that you can en 3 oy and -tin, J—*—-*' this one is for roasting it. Work on the basis that each placenta weigh. the baby', -eight. To prepare. p£c«S, cut the -at a«y membranes with a sharp knife. Discard the msnferanes.
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    • 408 38 Placenta treatment THE placenta is a pancake-shaped temporary organ which develops along with the foetus in a pregnant woman. It provides the foetus with nutrients, and eliminates waste. It's expelled after the baby which raises the question, what to do with it? Maylande founder May Liu said:
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    • 242 38 MAYLANDE's founder, Mrs May Liu (above), started the salon two years ago to "share the miracle" of placenta with others. She claimed she beat cirrhosis of the liver with the help of the placenta-based products. Mrs Liu, 52, said: "I tried so many Western medicine but they
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      161 39  -  Doctor Love Dr Wei Siang Yu tnp@sph.com.sg It VI his week, Dr Love visits a young, j I married, childless couple. I Samuel and Geraldine live in a spacious four-room flat in Pasir Ris, and are the epitome of the high-flying and busy younger generation of adults. They
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    • 614 39 Background ALTHOUGH the couple's home can boast tasteful furniture and the latest appliances, it lacks a certain natural and soft feel to it. The parquet flooring, for instance, and the hard chairs in the living room appear harsh without any carpet. In essence, with all the space
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    • 90 39 Do you have any advice to offer the couple or Dejected Friend? Are you facing problems yourself and need the help of our panel of professionals? Email us at tnp@sph.com.sg under Doctor Love or fax your questions to 6319 8266. You may also write to:
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    • 350 40 I HAD a boyfriend whom I met at a pub. We were together for a while and then I got pregnant. He said he had applied for a renovation loan from the house he had with his ex-wife, which was $30k and
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    • 398 40 dfdd THE best news so far is that the two of you are no longer together. Please, for your own sake and the baby's, stay away from this man. He's not worth your love and concern. If you are too weak (sounds like it, since you
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    • 493 41  -  Sexless in tni cnv Angelina Hue tnp@sph.com.sg I WATCHED Spider-Man 2 recently, and what really intrigued me was the romantic tension between the two leads Peter Parker aka Spider-Man, and his long-time love interest, Mary Jane Watson. Those who've watched the movie know that before
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      218 41 JadeMok tnp@sph.com.sg df I LOVE France, but ask me to eat out at a French restaurant and I'll shoot you a look that will sink your souffle in two seconds flat. It's not that I don't appreciate French food. I just never got used to "fine dining". But
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    • 569 42 LAST weekend, my folks and I drove up to Kuala Lumpur as we usually do every few months to visit my granny. It's a ritual we've been practising since I was a kid and my dad was still ferrying us around in one of those chunky Volvo 1445.
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    • 586 43 AS the newly-annointed Almighty, I was going to start on a cheery note and talk about the Seven Deadly Sins. But I caught Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, and decided to talk about "My Pet Goat" instead. Those who saw the film will recall
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    • 498 47  -  Siva Choy tnp@sph.com.sg WHEN racist graffiti suddenly appeared on Perth's buildings saying impolite things about Asians, Jews and Africans, I got a bit concerned about the bad spelling on some of the slogans. Like spelling "Asians" as "Asains". I can understand why some
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    • 441 47  -  LOONNG UP down under Janice Seah tnp@sph.com.sg I BUMPED into an old friend at the Asian supermarket the other day. I've known this woman and her husband for more than 10 years, and always thought they made such a lovely couple. We exchanged
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    • 365 48 I 14 1/1 I Movies THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY August 8,2004 Page 51 w■ •^g^nriaii^rfc Director Eric Khoo's take on Spider-Man 2 Sisterhood ™Sisters: The Thai's the limit when it comes to horror Wah where got man slap another J N j House of Flying Daggers: Forget crouching, farewell
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    • 739 49 I H V" 1 Television THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY August 8,2004 Page! Switch on this week 7" Reality check Tonight (Aug iopm Fiance rfSPI WJV the folks at Hollywood had the Channel 5 g nJ 1 ,j3] B menacing-looking Nicolas Friday (Aug 13) 10pm 2 ir Cage play an
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    • 809 50 |Uw| THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY August 8,2004 Page 5! Switch on tomt Channel i Channel 5 Channel U Channel 8 Suria Central *301 NUDmI 9:ooam I 7th Heaven 9:3oam I Guess 3 9=ooaml New 9:ooam I Healthy 10:00 am I tetro VIII (Drama) (Variety/Rpt) Boy/Teens Titans 10:001 Princes! HoongAGds
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    • 1130 51 6 UNITED SPIRIT 53 c 54 (23-8) GCooksley (2) 9 6 1 (518) 3 MANDURANG 53.5 (16-9) lAzhar (10) 4 2 2 (514) 7 GET A WIN 52.5 (116-30) MWepner (3) 10 9 3 (463) Others in finishing order: QUEST FOR GOLD (58-20)
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    • 307 51 Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg JOCKEY Din Azis made hay while the sun shone on the Sungei Besi racetrack at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The 32-year-old had earned a reprieve last Friday after appealing successfully for a stay of sentence against a four-day ban for careless
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    • 1194 52 PMRVH Oass5Div3 145 migmi -1«°0m (SQ Stakes: RM25,000 Wo. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 *****- ASIA STAR 57 (48) *MLeongc1.S 7 (6nzg Khoo-Celestial King) 2 -2700 CROCODILE WARRIOR 56.5 (47) BTai 5 (5ag Ismail-Crocodile) 3
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    • 75 52 RACE 1: Trust N Sincere, Caldecott Star. RACE 3: Happy News, Twinkle Stars, Ezy Dragon. RACE 4: Social Magic, Sumptuous. RACE 5: Sphritzer, Winning Eagle, Rubel's Power. RACE 6: Lucky Heaven, Breezy, Built Of Bronze, Diamond Dart, Mawin Prince, Akashi, King Of Ghosts. RACE 7: U Can I Can,
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      350 53 TOP TIPS RACING| Racing Editor Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee RACE Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tan Tnean Loon Michael Lee 1 Asia Star 6 Super Above 10 Celebrity Stalker 3 Trust N Sincere 5 June Galaxy 1 Asia Star 11 Time To Rejoice 5 June
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    • 71 53 Gayamenawan (RACE 8 NO. 1) If not for Bosendorfer's late burst, this Made Of Gold gelding would have scored a pillar-to-post win last time out. The John Brink-trained galloper drops back in class and looks to have the measure of this field. He has not saluted for nearly
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  • sports
    • 208 54 ENGLISH DIV ONE, SCOTTISH PREMIER: THE OPENING DAY PA Sport. NEW-look Leeds began life in the Coca-Cola Championship in the best possible way with a deserved 1-0 victory over Derby at sun-drenched Elland Road. Frazer Richardson's second-half strike not only crowned a fine individual display but
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    • 122 54 ABERDEEN 0 RANGERS 0 Reuters. RANGERS were held to a 0-0 draw at Aberdeen in a feisty opening match of the Scottish premier league season yesterday. A vociferous crowd of 19,028 saw technique nullified by passion in a spirited contest and the home side were happier with the
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    • 182 54 HAMBURG OBAYERN 2: Reuters. BAYERN Munich made a classy start to the new season. It beat Hamburg SV 2-0 with goals came from Michael Ballack and Sebastian Deisler. The season started in earnest in baking temperatures across Germany with six matches, the main upset being Borussia Dortmund's 2-1
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    • 890 55 The Olympic Story: PAST HEROES: CANAGASABAI KUNALAN Whoever said you have to be a child prodigy to participate in the Olympics? Ex-sprinter C Kunalan started running at the age of 20 but went for the Olympics the very next year. He shares his experience at the 1964
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    • 226 55 AS an Olympic success story himself, what does Kunalan think it takes to produce another successful local Olympian? He replied: "We have to manage our resources well. The most important of these resources is the athlete himself or herself. "It also takes the effort of everyone concerned
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      239 56 C KUNALAN is currently an assistant professor in the National Institute of Education (NIE). He lectures functional anatomy and exercise physiology, both theory courses, and also conducts practical classes in fitness and conditioning, and track and field. These classes cater to Physical Education teachers in the NIE, and
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      212 56 C KUNALAN'S eyes lit up when The New Paper asked him to describe his favourite races. He had two, and both were relays. He said: "At the 1969 SEAP Games in Rangoon, I was slated to run in the last leg of the 4x400 metres relay. "Burma
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    • 318 56 OVER the recent years, the athletics scene has been rocked with drugs scandals revolving around big-name stars like Linford Christie, Tim Montgomery and Marion Jones. Of course, there is Ben Johnson, the disgraced Canadian who tested positive for banned substances. But, according to Kunalan, there
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    • 164 54 League Home Team Away Team MaUh Kick Off a (Singapore date/time) E Premier *1 Arsenal Manchester Utd Sun, 08/8/04 10.00pm S. League Geylang Woodlands Tue, 10/8/04 7.30pm S. League SAF FC Tampines Tue, 10/8/04 7.30pm UE Champions Grazer Liverpool Wed, 11/8/04 2.45 am Check the current odds at any Singapore
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    • 503 59 APB-ARSENAL SPONSOR DEAL Thailand's Chang Beer has a deal with Everton, while Malaysia's Proton is sponsoring newly-promoted Norwich. Now, Asia Pacific Breweries has also got into the act. On Friday, the Singapore-based firm's Tiger Beer was appointed the official beer for EPL big guns Arsenal VISITS
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    • 194 59 Q: What were the most important qualities that made Arsenal so dominant last season? A: Our players are very talented, but they are also winners. They refused to lose last season. Their attitude is superb. This was illustrated in the final fixtures when we had
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    • 439 60  -  Ivan Lim pjlim@sph.com.sg ISSEY Nakajima Farran, 20, hates the David Beckham comparison. "Every single appearance I make on the field, they have to announce that I'm their 'very own David Beckham, Issey Nakajima'. "My name is not that long. Why can't it just be Issey
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    • 1067 61 He is a poster boy of Singapore football, described as "our very own David Beckham" over the public address system whenever he comes onto the field. She is a dancer and an entertainer. Sindie Finalice says what it is like to date a good-looking footballer
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    • 181 63 :^1 I l I I il I L Italy-based Shunsuka Nakamura. The Regglna playmaktr played a distinct II H I role in the three goals with a set-piece free-kick, a parffactly waightad cornar i I I I 1 I I and a classic defence-splitting pass to almost single-handedly crush China
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      591 64 AFP. CHINA 1 JAPAN 3 CHINESE fans saw red last night. They were left in tears after this highly-charged match. Some burned Japanese flags outside the Workers Stadium while others chanted anti-Japanese slogans around Tiananmen Square. That was not all in a controversial Asian Cup final. China's
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    • 966 65 FA COMMUNITY SHIELD: ARSENAL v MANCHESTER UNITED Ch 24,9.30pm, tonight PA Sport. THE MATCH: FA Community Shield, Arsenal v Manchester United THE DATE: Tonight THE VENUE: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff (74,500 capacity) SHIELD HISTORY: Premiership champions Arsenal and FA Cup winners Manchester United have between them made
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    • 473 65 PA Sport. RYAN Giggs is eager to add another Community Shield winners' medal to his collection. But he knows it is meaningless compared to qualifying for Europe's top competition. The Welshman believes what happens in Cardiff pales in insignificance compared to the
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    • 251 65 §>n 't think what we ieved last season will sink in until I'm old and grey. We'd love to do it all again but I'm not sure if we can. Our first priority will be to retain the title. The problem is that it will be even
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    • 669 66 ALAN SMITH T§§f > (MAN U) EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW by STEVE BATES ALAN Smith has a mission at Manchester United. He wants to win over the most sceptical fans. "I am driven to win and the supporters will see that the moment the new Premiership season starts."
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    • 632 67  -  by STEVE BATES THE three-match pre-season trip to the US, in which Alan Smith was one of the major pluses, gave him his first real insight into the psychology of veteran United players. But he is not overawed. In fact he
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