The New Paper, 15 August 2004

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  • 24 1 the new paper on Sunday AUGUST 15, 2004 |80cents off*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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    • 1026 2  -  LEGAL AGE DEBATE TEENS IN A POLL SAY 21 IS TOO LONG TO WAIT TO BE CONSIDERED AN ADULT BY LAW. THEY MATURE FASTER, ARE MORE EXPOSED THESE DAYS BUT... Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg YOUNG Singaporeans want to become adults earlier. They can handle
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    • 687 4  -  LEGAL AGE DEBATE Can HAVESEXr BUT CANT GET MARRIED; CAN GO TO WAR, BUT CANT WATCH VIOLENT FILMS. ARE STORE'S AGE MARKERS CONTRADICTORY? Comment by Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg Remember how turning 21 was such a big deal for everyone? It wasn't for me I'm
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      1358 6  -  FORMER JAILBIRD FINDS THE WORLD OUTSIDE HARSHER THAN PRISON LIFE < Behind bars, he was the big brother whom younger inmates LOOKED UP TO. BUT ONCE FREE, HE WAS SET ADRIFT IN A WORLD HE WAS OUT OF TOUCH WITH. SUDDENLY, PRISON SEEMS SAFER JoyceLim joycel@sph.com.sg IN prison,
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    • 437 8  -  INMATE'S SHOCK AT TOUGH GUY'S TEARS /From previous page JoyceLim joycel@sph.com.sg PETER was the coolest guy in the prison, said another inmate, Melvin (not his real name). "He was like a big brother, always ready to help those in need. "Whenever there were squabbles or misunderstandings
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    • 84 8 THE Singapore After-Care Association (SACA) is the key agency providing welfare and rehabilitation services for prisoners, discharged prisoners and their families. The association recognises that, upon release, the discharged prisoner will face problems related to such things as employment, stigmatisation and acceptance by the family. It
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    • 840 10  -  JUST 17, SHE TAKES CARE OF OWN HOME, PAYS BILLS, WORKS AND STUDIES I I VINO' ON 'I 111 I I'M S'PORE TEENS ON THEIR OWN RobinChan chanckr@sph .com. sg SHE'S just a teenager, but she has a flat of her own. It's not
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    • 673 11 No-one to look after her SHE lives in the dark. Sixteen-year-old Karen (we're not naming her as she feels embarrassed about her situation) has no electricity at her Bedok home. But it's nothing new to her this is the sixth time it has happened, she said.
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    • 636 12  -  Living on THE EDGE; HANOI TEENS ON THEIR OWN VIETNAM'S STREET KIDS ARE TREATED LIKE SLAVES BY CRUEL BOSSES SimChiYin simcy@sph.com.sg IN HANOI THEIR workplace is a dusty footpath. And their "home"? A 20 cents-a-night spot on a straw mat in a crowded room. It's little
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    • 1067 14  -  HANOI'S SHOESHINE KIDS TRAVEL MILES TO EARN A PITTANCE f_ 2 2 1 T: 22 HANOI TEENS ON THEIR OWN SimChiYin simcy@sph.com.sg IN HANOI HE squinted hard, brushing every groove of the Honda Dream motorbike, making quick strokes with his sinewy hand as if
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    • 600 16 RUSSIAN MILLIONAIRE, 24, SPLASHES ON UK RACE CAR COMPANY HE FANCIES ONE CAR SO SPOTLIGHT: RUSSIA'S RICHEST 20-SQMETHING HIS GRANDMA WAS AN ENEMY OF THE SOVIET STATE, HIS DAD SPENT TWO YEARS IN A LABOUR CAMP. BUT AN UNUSUAL INVESTMENT HAS GIVEN HIM A SWEET LIFE
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    • 689 17 BEER BIOTECH QUEEN SPOTLIGHT: INDIA'S RICHEST WOMAN SHE STRUCK GOLD BY USING BEER-MAKING METHODS IN MEDICINE. AND SHE BUILT A USS4SOM (S77IM) FROM A 5370-START WHEN she was 24, she had 10,000 rupees ($370) to her name, a garage in Bangalore for an office and an audacious idea that no
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      785 18  -  Painted fingers and toes are more a woman's territory, BUT NOT FOR THESE TWO TOA PAYOH MEN. THEY BRAVELY WIELD THEIR LITTLE BRUSHES WHERE FEW MEN CARE TO VENTURE JoyceLim joycel@sph .com. sg TWO men are storming one of the last bastions of femininity. In the world of
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      253 19  -  ANOTHER MAN FALLS ON MKT TRACK Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg A man was hit by a train yesterday and survived. At about 1.50pm yesterday, Mr Richard Chua, 47, was found lying between the undercarriage of an MRT train and the track at Bukit Batok MRT station. The train
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      543 20  -  SLICES OF S'PORE LIFE FLOCKS OF GIRLS FLAUNT A LITTLE MORE THAN THEIR PRETTY BIKINIS AT SENTOSA AND PASIR RIS YESTERDAY ArulJohn and HedyKhoo tnp@sph.com.sg IT was hot, hot, hot in Singapore yesterday. And we're not talking about the weather. Girls in bikinis were strutting their stuff on
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      92 22 THE REALLY RICH PEOPLE FIGURE OUT HOW TO DODGE TAXES ANYWAY. US President George W Bush on why he believes there is no point in taxing the wealthy Sheer wall power IT lodes like something out of Mission Impossible except these athletes are going up instead of downEven so,
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    • 78 22 POLICE arrested four illegal immigrants attempting to swim over to Singapore using inflated black plastic rubbish bags late on Friday night. With the help of surveillance equipment, including electro-optic cameras which enabled them to see in the dark, the police picked the four men up as they tried
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    • 113 22 Reuters. The US plans to withdraw about 70,000 of its troops from Europe and Asia. They will be redeployed, in keeping with the war on terrorism rather than the Cold War. There are 100,000 US troops in Europe, including 70,000 in Germany, and another 100,000 in
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    • 171 22 IDEAS WANTED FROM POST-INDEPENDENCE GENERATION YOUNG people are being asked to step up and share their ideas with the Government. And to be prepared to carry them through where possible. Over the next six weeks, a group led by three young MPs will get feedback from people born
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    • 183 22 THE lights were off and there was nobody home at Centro and Lola at One Fullerton last night. Disappointed clubbers had to find somewhere else to dance the night away. Centro Concepts, which owns Lola and Centro and the ground-floor club, Embargo, said it had
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    • 47 22 SOME quick needlework saved the blushes of Britain's female Olympic triathletes. Their new white Lycra swimsuits became see-through when they got wet. Now they have had "modesty patches" fitted to their swimsuits. Officials put the adapted costumes through a shower test, to ensure the modification worked.
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    • 80 23  -  it's Sunday/ lYourentertaliunent newszlnel Hey! EstherAuYong estheray@sph .com .sg I ASK any local what a typical Singaporean marriage proposal is, and chances are you'll get the following answer: "So, you want to get a flat together?" There is a group of local men, though, who seem
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    • 748 24 IN the past year alone, there have been at least four high-profile (read public) cases of guys putting their girlfriends on the spot with the inventive proposals. But they may not exactly know what women want. Most women who spoke to The New Paper on
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    • 449 25 The human sunflower HER favourite flower is the sunflower. Fittingly, Ms Carmen Ho's boyfriend of seven months, Mr Jason Lim, 28, proposed as a huge, human sunflower. "I give one to her each time we argue, to apologise, and also to cheer her up when
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    • 326 26 He says... UNDERWATER PROPOSAL Dear Wife-to-be, It's okay if you want to propose to me. But I would rather be the one proposing I want to make you feel special. Ideally, you would share my passion for scuba diving. Ill take you to Maldives one of
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    • 626 26  -  Sylvia Toh Paik Choo tnp@sph.com.sg DID you hear the one about the girl who received a marriage proposal over the telephone and when she said "Yes!" the guy said "Sorry, wrong number" and hung up? (If I ever catch
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    • 743 27  -  Tarty women come and go at the store in the red light DISTRICT. WHEN BUSINESS IS SLOW IN THE AFTERNOONS, SOME OF THEM EVEN OFFER HIM SERVICES AT TEMPTING RATES JoyceLim joycel@sph.com. sg IS this the best job in the world, or the
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    • 571 28  -  AnnetteTan tnp@sph.com.sg American-born Chinese men may be all the rage these days, but make no mistake, the Caucasian male is still very much the flavour of the year. I could be wrong, but as far as I can see, out of every 10 couples
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      392 28 hedy@sph.com.sg La DOE IN THE UK Of HEDY KHOO I Noon: Dunman Road hawker centre, r which is a favourite haunt of Xavier. "I I eat my three meals here, breakfast, lunch and dinner, because it is so convenient, and the food is delicious and cheap." 1
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    • 289 28  -  About last night RachelRaeburn tnp@sph.com.sg THURSDAY night, my husband and I escaped to Paris. Or at least, it felt like it. That says a lot about our two-hour dinner at the Tavern Restaurant along River Valley Road. Adorned with translucent white-laced curtains, quaint glass pendant lamps and
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    • 449 29  -  DawnTan dawntan@sph.com.sg EARLIER this year, Volvo unveiled a car designed by women for women called the YCC (Your Concept Car) the first since Dodge introduced the La Femme in the mid-50s which was rose-coloured. Thank goodness that idea wilted after a few years. But Volvo's new concept
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    • 691 30  -  I Doctor Love DrWei Siang Yu tnp@sph.com.sg PREVIOUSLY... MIDDLE-AGED Tampines couple Gary and Kathy were featured a fortnight ago and expressed difficulties finding the time and space to be intimate. The problems they faced: Their HDB flat was crowded, with two children, a mother
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    • 131 31 I'M 15 years old. I have a friend called B, who is in my class. Almost three-quarters of the class don't like him and now I'm beginning to hate him too. He likes to talk a lot. In public, he talks very loudly and makes
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    • 522 31 »»yul Dear Angry, If you punch him, you are worse than he is you become a hooligan. I can tell you are not. In fact, you sound like a nice person who wants to give B a chance. Otherwise, you wouldn't have taken the
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 439 33 |*4 y I THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY August 15,2004 Page 33 Director Eric Khoo's take on Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring Years later ff J cL ->v* ft d nt Care Lateral Acting the desire to f'm P Collateral: Very useful traffic guide to downtown Gil possessand RH IV
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    • 788 34 p yl Television the new paper on sunday <j_ Switch off mis win' Faw2iahSelanvrt Realtiy check fawZiahS@Sph COm Sg Congrats to the happy couple "Marshal?^ f —Ashton Kutcher and Brittany The way they've been m Jj^_ 9BST jj Murphy hooked up during this insulting the locals, joylessly BHK vm# movie—they
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    • 711 35 I H Vi I Television THE NEW PAPER on SUNMV August 15.2004 Page Switch on raw Channel i Channel 5 Channel U Channel 8 Suria Central 9:301 Magical Doremi 9:301 Athens Olympics 9:3oam I Guess 3 9:ooam I New 9:ooam I Healthy 10:00 am I Astro 2004— (Variety/Rpt) Adventures Of
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    • 507 36  -  EdwinYeo tnp@sph.com.sg THIS week was an important week in Singapore's history. Yes, you guessed it. It was the week Singapore Idol started. "What?" I hear you scream. "What about the swearing in of Singapore's third Prime Minister? How can you say that Singapore Idol
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    • 366 36  -  JonathanLim tnp@sph.com.sg IN keeping with the patriotic fervour of the past week, citizens of Singapore, prepare to meet your very own mutant superheroes: the SGX-Men! Starting this week, Scribblepad proudly introduces this taskforce of local mutants dedicated to fighting injustice and recession wherever
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    • 494 37 I CANT recall who among you actually wished and prayed for Singapore Idol. But whoever it was, I say serves you right. All that screaming, jumping and shouting over a bodoh chance at being a star certainly puts the idiocy back into
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    • 34 36 Fabian's flips tFAB'S FUPS fabian@sph.com. sg MIAHAHAHA!! AAHH HAH A jA HAH AH AH A' on! OK! XffVSr* u HAHAHA// NOT yOUP HEAD.' IT'S THIS MP. S6AN CAPTOON ON THE TV SCPEEN.' HAHAHA.'!! ILI.
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    • 564 38  -  HANDPHONE USERS GET SPECIAL ONLINE CHARACTERS OFTEN END UP DATING IN REAL on Sunday I TECH GUa OO GIN LEE tnp@sph.com.sg MR KIASU is going to China for handphone dating. Not exactly Mr Kiasu himself, but his creator and mentor Johnny Lau. Mr Lau's other
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    • 299 40 FREE SPYWARE ADWARE SCANS? IT'S bad enough that spyware and adware are infecting millions of home computers. Now come fake programs that claim to remove these pests for a fee, but don't. "It has been a big problem this year," says Mr Ari Schwartz of the Center for
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  • 221 42 tech AP. Microsoft will release a low-cost beginners' edition of Windows XP in Asia in October. The cut-price version is a bid by Microsoft to protect its market share from free rival Linux and rampant software piracy. Although the US software giant still dominates the desktop
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  • 506 44 tech LAT-WP. Shakespeare said that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Would he have agreed if he had encountered what tech companies can do with names? Then a rose might be known as a rOHz!
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  • 230 48 tech COLOUR was among the biggest embarrassment of the '80s and '90s. Thanks to complaints by filmmakers and movie purists, colourisation faded from sight like a painful memory. Until now. Columbia TriStar Home Video has unleashed two collections of vintage Three
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    54 50 tech A VISITOR tries out a virtual reality system developed by Scene China at the China International Multimedia Technology and Application Expo in Shanghai last week. China's software industry, though still in its infancy, promises to grow at an astounding pace thanks to a huge domestic market and
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  • 315 54 HACKER UNLOCKS APPLE'S MUSIC-STREAMING TECHNOLOGY tech AP. HE first grabbed attention five years ago when he developed software to crack DVD encryption. Now, the Norwegian hacker has struck again. This time, he has succeeded in breaking the locks on Apple Computer Inc's wireless music-streaming technology. Mr
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    • 17 54 Be rita Minggu with a fresh look THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT TEENAGE MALAY CAGE DANCERS I Ww
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    • 201 55 SHE MAKES A TRIP TO MACAU WITHOUT APPROVAL AND LANDS HERSELF IN TROUBLE APPRENTICE Sheryl Cheam will be out of action until Sept 12 after pleading guilty to a misconduct charge. The young rookie has been suspended for one month with immediate effect until Sept 12 for
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    • 958 55 RACE 1: J Patton replaced L Beasley on WINNING CHANNEL as the latter was unable to make it to the course before Race 1 due to a medical crisis at home. TAITER jumped awkwardly and then was further inconvenienced on the outside of
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    • 582 56  -  FAVOURITE FLOPS AS WINNER LEADS PRACTICALLY ALL THE WAY IN CLASS 1 SPRINT Fijian for thank you DannyKhoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg LION City Cup winner Super Racer bounced back to his best form over his much-favoured good going track at Kranji yesterday. The massively-built sprinter, after several
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    • 104 56 SINGAPOREAN trainer Desmond Koh may not have the luxury of a large stable. But what the 31-year-old has in his modest yard he makes them count. The youngest handler at Kranji yesterday sent out Royal Pacific to a game win in the opening 1,200
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    • 1231 57 9 ROYAL PACIFIC 54 (32-11) WKYan (2) 2 2 1 (452) 1 HAN CLASSIC 59 (14-5) JSaimee (4) 4 6 2 (485) 0.5L 2 SOUTH PACIFIC 59 c 57.5 (27-9) IIHalrin (6) 3 1 3 (468) 2.25 6 BUFFY 57 (45-14)
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    • 1562 58 Rare 1 1 Open Benchmark 40 1J0 |-1600m Stakes: t%OIO Mo. Urt 6 runs HOUSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex. trainer-owner) 1 *****6 CACTUS JACK 58 5 (39) E Wilkinson 7 (8nzq Baertschiner-Auric) Getting long in the tooth bat still
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    • 92 59  -  COMMENTS BY: DannyKhoo dkhoo@sph .com. sg TanThean Loon loon@sph.com.sg Top enterprise (RACE 2 NO. 2) Ran two eye-catching seconds after coming back from a six-month layoff. The Laurie Laxon-trained galloper steps over 1,400 m for the first time and will certainly lap up the extra 200 m. He
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      328 59 |toptips racing| Racing Editor Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee RACE Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee 3 Leopard Strike 2Timbertop 1 Cactus jack 1 Cactus Jack 2Timbertop 10 Dual Wonder I Cactus Jack 2Timbertop II Good Prospect 2Timbertop 7 Duvall 4 Zinniah
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    • 1019 59 Race 7 Open Benchmark 97 Quartet/Double Trio 4.30 -1400m SUk«: S75.0Q0 No. Last 6 runt HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex. trainer-owner) 1 *****6 BUZZ BLESS 58.5 (96) JGeroudfe 10 (7argg Shaw-ALA Crabbia) Won with 116 rating pointsat his peak,
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  • Page 57 Miscellaneous
    • 32 57 4-D DRAW SATURDAY August 14, 2004 FIRST SECOND M THIRD STARTERS 8118 7204 2327 2528 2443 8074 6772 8488 3434 9964 CONSOLATION 1803 8227 8265 2948 2473 0956 9697 4689 0757 7880
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  • sports
    • 309 60 WORLD champion Michael Schumacher (above) set himself up for a record 12th victory of the season in tonight's Hungarian Grand Prix when he claimed his 62nd career pole position yesterday. The Ferrari ace, who has now amassed six pole positions at the Hungaroring, set
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    • 511 60 GOLF: US PGA CHAMPIONSHIP AFP. WORLD No 1 Tiger Woods (right) scrambled to birdie two of his final three holes in the second round at the 86th PGA Championship, extending his consecutive cuts streak to 129. The streak dates back over six years
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    • 620 61  -  SINGAPORE SPORTS COUNCIL SURVEY: ONE FAMILY'S UNUSUAL CHOICE ErnestLuis npsports@sph.com.sg GOING by the survey results of parents about their sports of choice for children below the age of 10, the triathlon would be a big no. After all, its mix of swimming in the sea,
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    • 535 62  - PARENTS' CHOICE: SWIMMING BADMINTON. CHILDREN? SINGAPORE SPORTS COUNCIL SURVEY: CHILDREN TAKING UP SPORTS The Singapore Sports Council recently released its Children's Sports Participation Survey. The survey reveals one startling fact: It shows Singapore parents and children view sports participation and enjoyment very differently...especially when it comes to soccer. ERNEST LUIS
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    • 716 62 Y PUSHY, protective and ambitious parents who dictate their children's sporting habits often forget their real role. That is, to play a supporting role. Kenneth Tan, 39, is the manager of the Suntec City branch of the Swim Centre Verhoes, and he has come
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    • The Olympic Games: ATHENS
      • 664 63 Opponents have improved Players very young They lack fundamentals, but US... AFP. National Basketball Association players trying to win a fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal for the United States have gotten the wake-up call that the Dream Team days are done, even if supporters have
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      • 523 64 WOMEN'S SWIMMING: Pool queen Joscelin Yeo just missed out qualifying for the semi-finals of the 100 m butterfly event. Yeo was in Heat 2 of the competition, in which the only qualifier was Denmark's Mette Jacobsen. Yeo came in fourth in 1:00.81, behind Jacobson, Greece's Eirini Kavarnou
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        618 65 AP. YOU can't miss him. A few miles into the drive from the Athens airport to downtown, the image of the elite swimmer looms on several billboards. Michael Phelps? No, lan Thorpe. When the American swim team returned to the Greek capital on Tuesday, after six days
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      • 247 65 LAN THORPE: POPOV THE AFP. LAN Thorpe has acclaimed four-time Olympic champion Alexander Popov as his inspiration and the greatest sprinter swimming has seen. The Australian triple Olympic gold medallist paid tribute to the 32-year-old Russian great, who is competing in his'fourth and last Olympics in Athens. Popov
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      • 457 66 AP. THE hype over Michael Phelps' chances of winning a record-equalling seven Olympic gold medals might leave him feeling disappointed with six, says Australian Grant Hackett. The 19-year-old American prodigy is aiming for US icon Mark Spitz's record of seven swimming golds at one Games, a feat
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    • EPL 2004/2005 SUNDAY CHEERS BETTING
      • 360 67  -  The Red Devils have a dean opening game record TayTze Siong npsports@sph.com.sg YWHEN I met my friend Mr Phoon yesterday, he declared to me: "Manchester United sure lose!" I was very shocked as Mr Phoon is a United fan. As all of us know, most United
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      • 495 67  -  FROM THE GROUND: AdrianChan npsports@sph.com.sg FOR of you who are cocksure of Chelsea winning tonight, it would not be unwise of you to revaluate your betting stance. For if you think that the Red Devils will roll over and
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      • 201 68 EVERTON v CHELSEA f mV f4 1 IV 1 THE statistics would suggest this is a tricky opening match for last season's unbeaten champions Arsenal. The Gunners have taken just a point from their last two visits to Goodison Park and it's not as if they've thrashed
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      • 497 68  -  CHELSEA v MANCHESTER UNITED: UK TIPSTERS By. JONATHAN TURNER ITS hard to imagine a more appealing match to kick-off the new season and Chelsea are a confident bet to underline their title credentials by taking the points. Roman Abramovich's millions continue to transform the Stamford Bridge club,
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    • 113 60 By far the most CODiti TEJITIY A (CUBA TE football source FOOTBALL GU£U ENGLISH/MANDARIN C ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Sunday [15/8] Everton WjjS Arsenal 'The Gurus have wotimy trust Chelsea their strong, prov(m successful system ov& the years! Nothing beats the HRST Man utd the OFSGINAL!" -die hard fan EVEN THE EXPERTS
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    • 43 61 TRIATHLON FOR YOUR CHILD? ma ■'-<%& To find out about enrolling your children in Triathlon Association of Singapore's "Ironkids" programme (above), log on to www.triathlonsingapore.org or call 6227-7577 Due to overwhelming response for the OSIM Singapore Triathlon 2004, the registration had to be closed
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    • 59 62 The sports Singapore parents want their children to be most Involved: Swimming-26% Badminton -18% Soccer/Basketball -10% The sports children enjoyed the most: The sports parents want their Soccer 8.67% upon 10 ch,,dren to ,ea8t ,nvolved: Children's games 8.55% I Snooker/Pool 9% Cycling 8.35% Soccer/Mountain and J Basketball 8.18% 1 rock
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    • 76 64 OLYMPIC CtuXß SOCCER (1) Japan 4.35 (X) Draw 3.80 (2) Italy 1.57 Japan (+1 1/2) 1.45 Italy (-1 1/2) 2.45 0 8.80 HH 9.30 1 4.90 HD 13.00 2 4.40 HA 15.00 3 4.20 DH 9.50 4 5.30 DO 6.50 5 7.60 DA 4.60 6 10.00 AH 18.00 7 18.00
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  • Page 64 Miscellaneous
    • 51 64 TOMORROW: Channel 5 Beach Volleyball: Midnight Badminton (Men): 12.20 am Football: JAPAN v ITALY 1.30 am Swimming: 3pm Tennis: 4.40pm Beach Volleyball: 7pm Today in Athens: 11pm CENTRAL Fencing (Women): Midnight Table Tennis: 11pm SURIA Swimming (F): 12.30 am Badminton: 2.30pm Hockey: RUSSIA v AUSTRALIA spm Channel News Asia Gymnastics:
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    • 35 69 uvhkuhn 8 45.00 as.oo h-h 4.30 £2 Jeac. g-JJ d-a iS JiS° SORRY: There were errors in the EPL Strike pgge ?g jn yesterday s New Paper. We apologise for thp OV/Pr^itfht II Iw UVdOIJJMI
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    • EPL SUNDAY CHEERS MATCH PREVIEW
      • 904 70 CHELSEA v MANCHESTER UNITED They form part of the English Soccer Masters panel, a group of ex-English league players who have agreed with Devils Bar to give their predictions for English Premier League games via SingTel's and Mi's WAP information service every week. ERNEST LUIS oets
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      • 1101 71  -  In the short time that he has come under the media spotlight, Jose Mourinho has made quite a name for himself. Chelsea's new manager has won the Uefa Cup and the Champions League at former club Porto but he has been labelled as "arrogant", "cocky" and "proud".
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      • 620 71 SQUEAKY CLEAN JOHN TERRY Y WHILE Jose Mourinho guarantees fireworks, the session with John Terry was a muted affair. After the Chelsea manager's storming media briefing at Harlington, it was the skipper's turn to face the scribes. And after a brief 10-minute encounter with the Blues' new captain, it is
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      • 562 71 [WANGMENGAfENGobserves Ike changes at Ckebea since his last visit nine months ago AT once, you could sense that Chelsea means serious business tills season. The Bhies, runnero-upin the in the last campaign, have since replaced funnyman Claudio Ranieri with the charismatic Jose Mourinho. And
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    • 333 72 kA 15/08/2004 MOTHER UF |jQrt II I EvertonVsArsena. INTGRNGT SOCCER VSSr 2 Chelsea Vs Man. United I n/, ,y, i Mil n 3 Bochum Vs Leverkusen |p=J D D oy Available after 6pm on m I I IUI /V Advertised Match Days!! $50 per information. key match no. to select
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    • 1086 73 REAL'S NEW GALACTICO Reuters, PA Sport. Michael Owen was unveiled as Real Madrid's latest Galactico yesterday and then was handed the No 11 shirt previously worn by some of the club's greatest-ever names. In a carefully choreographed ceremony at the Santiago Bernabeu, Owen immediately set out
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    • EPL 2004/2005 SUNDAY CHEERS MATCH REPORTS
      • 643 74 THE LOWDOWN ON LIVERPOOL: Liverpool do not look better off without Michael Owen...at first glance. At least, that was the impression left after last night's opening 1-1 draw against Tottenham Hotspur a game many Liverpool fans here expected their favourite team to win.
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      • 700 75  -  THE LOWDOWN ON TOTTENHAM: ErnestLuis npsports@sph .com. sg DIFFERENT men from different countries don't always mean a different story. This could well apply to Tottenham this season despite salvaging a 1-1 draw against Liverpool in their opening game. Though Spurs looked stronger than Liverpool
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      54 76 Two of England's most glamourous clubs got the new Pvemiership season off to a flying start. Tottenham hosted Liverpool at White Hart Lane in an entertaining stalemate in which both clubs had debutant managers Spurs' Jacques Santini and the Reds' Rafael Benitez. Here are the highlights... EPL 2004/2005 SUNDAY
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    • 558 77 THE EPL OPENER: Tottenham l liverpool l EPL 2004/2005 SUNDAY CHEERS MATCH REPORT sports on sunday kicking off your weekend Liverpool, recovering from the shock of losing Michael Owen, were unlucky not to win at Tottenham as the Premiership season opened yesterday. Steven Gerrard had what
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    • 41 77 dm OLYMPICS: See TV timings on Pg 65 GOLF: 86th PGA C'SHIP FINAL DAY Ch 22,2.30 am, tomorrow F1: HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX RACE MY PREVIEW Ch 24,7pm, tonight RACE DAY Ch 24,7.45pm, tonight *AU LIVE unless specified TV listings provided byTelecaster
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