The New Paper, 29 August 2004

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  • 28 1 the new paper Singapore Press Holdings HOTLINE 1800 733 44 55 I Website newpaper.asial.com.sg Email: tnpifsph.com.sg AUGUST 29,2004 80 cents mita(p) 024/03/2004 8 *****1 *****9 > the new paper
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    • 636 2 Group of s'poreans is chased for 15 MINS BY JB GANG WHO SMASH THEIR WINDSCREEN WITH MOTORCYCLE HELMETS THEIR muscles were tired from the afternoon's game of golf and their stomachs were full from the sumptious seafood dinner. The last thing on their minds
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    • 480 3  -  ChangMayChoon tandw@sph.com.sg SUN Ho is 4V2 months pregnant, but it's not slowing her down. She's looking forward to 5 the baby and all the new benefits that will come with it. It was the first time Sun, 32, has taken to
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    • 1186 4  -  IT MIGHT BE YOU, SO PLEASE READ THIS E-MAIL FROM THE FUTURE 12 A rare atmospheric phenomenon makes Internet signals go haywire. In a flash, a young Singaporean gets an e-mail from his future son 20 years in the future. It's an e-mail
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    • 169 4  -  LowChingLing lowcl@sph.com.sg The New Paper on Sunday asked 200 people aged 16 to 25 in the poll to name five other Cabinet Ministers, apart from the Youth Minister the Prime Minister, Senior Minister (SM), Minister Mentor (MM) and the two Deputy Prime Ministers (DPM). Close
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    • 759 5  -  IT CAN BE YOU, SO READ ON VIRUS FROM THE FUTURE From the future comes a bochap virus, It travels across time, no thanks to a freak electrical storm affecting the Internet. The virus infects chatline users and spreads a bochap attitude towards
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    • 597 5 SOME might think the apathetic young have been infected by a "bochap" (don't care attitude) virus. It has made people so cynical than they would, for example, write off wayward youths. It's better for us to put our money on academically promising and socially
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    • 687 6  -  Outspoken commentator A DECADE AGO, SHE WAS TICKED OFF BY THE GOVERNMENT. BUT NOW AUTHOR CATHERINE LIM SEES NEW HOPE FOR A MORE OPEN SOCIETY Eugene Wee tnp@sph.com.sg AMAZING. Incredible. These were the words that author and political commentator Catherine Lim used to describe Prime Minister Lee
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    • 243 7 -ii if-'.- ■W IF you want to set the If! agenda for Singapore by commenting on politics, do it in the political arena and not from an armchair. This was the stern rebuttal from then-PM Goh Chok Tong to Dr Catherine Lim when she wrote two essays
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    • 533 8  -  GHOSTS IN THE AIR: 7TH MONTH, HALLOWEEN AND YEAR-ROUND GHOST STORIES EstherAuYong estheray@sph. com. sg SINGAPORE is a scary place, if folklore is to be believed. Whether it's personal experience, hearsay, or a friend's encounter, almost everyone has a ghost
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    • 453 8  -  SylviaTohPaikChoo tnp@sph.com.sg YOU better not laugh when I tell you that what this country needs perhaps is a good $4 ghost. Yesterday I made friends I also not stupid, okay? with two part-time ghosts. They have no names, but will respond to "Momok!" "Mummeeee!" and "Hahaha".
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    • 245 8 HERE'S a selection of spooky tales and supernatural beliefs: RED FOR REVENGE Taoists believe that dressing a corpse in red will summon it to seek revenge for its death. Some say that those who commit suicide dressed in red or have a red string tied to their wrists
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    • 398 8  -  COMMENT SylviaTohPaikChoo tnp@sph.com.sg ONE of the unparalleled joys of growing up in an estate or kampung was the existence of the storyteller among your gang of friends. There was always one born with a genuine talent for scary tales to frighten even the spots
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    • 738 9  -  THERAPY: FREE THEIR MINDS OF MISCONCEPTIONS AND CHILDHOOD TRAUMAS EstherAuYong estheray@ sph.com.sg WHILE her colleagues were rushing to go home to their loved ones, Amy was dreading the end of the working day. Going home meant having to face her
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    • 126 9 INITIALLY written as an aid for his treatment and counselling sessions, Virgin Wives is such a hit that it's now being marketed by MPH. k The book, by Dr V Atputharajah (right), a visiting consultant at KK Hospital's division of obstetrics and gynaecology, explains in
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    • 151 9 FLORA, who married at 19, had friends who gave advice that did more harm than good. They told her that first-time sex would be painful and this played on her mind. Eventually, it affected her sex life. "I found no joy in sex,"
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    • 118 9 SHE lacked the one thing that could have helped her have proper sex knowledge of her own body. Worse for Sarah, 38, her husband also didn't know where her private parts were. As a result, her marriage was unconsummated for a year. Dr Atputharajah said: "When
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    • 331 10  -  DominicYing domying@sph .com. sg WE'VE heard all about the pleasures of wine, women and song. But what about wine, WOMAD and song? With their picnic spread, this couple seems well prepared to enjoy Singapore's seventh Womad (World of
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    • 134 10 MINISTER for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng lends a hand at the One Deed One Lifetime Community Day A&Gentral Singapore yesterday, as Cdpral CDC mayor Heng Chee How looks on. The special carnival, at Ngee Ann City's Civic Plaza, was sponsored by
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    • 737 11 HE'S THE FORMER BRITISH PM'S SON BUT For years, he hogged the LIMELIGHT WITH HIS PLAYBOY ANTICS AND DODGY DEALINGS. HE'S IN THE NEWS AGAIN FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS AT school, he was known as "Thickie". He left with just three O levels.
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    • 240 11 Wire services. SIR Mark Thatcher is accused of breaching South Africa's anti-mercenary laws by helping bankroll a bizarre coup in Equatorial Guinea. The alleged plan was to send mercenaries into the country and replace the current dictator with a puppet president. A group of unnamed international
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    • 615 12 NYT. INDIAN soldier Mohammed Arif returned from the fighting in Kashmir a hero. But he was five years late. His mother had died in shame, and his wife had married another man. All because the Indian Army had declared Mr Arif a deserter. In fact,
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    • 332 12 Knock, knock A MOBILE marriage bureau was launched last week in Kerala, in southern India. It's aim? To bring proposals direct to the doorsteps of parents on the lookout for suitable husbands or wives for their children. And it could be in Singapore soon, reported The
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    • 484 14 TAIWANESE MEDALLIST'S LONG JOURNEY SEVEN years ago, Ms Chen Shih-hsin (left) ran away from home and sold betel nuts in Taichung, Taiwan. Now, three years after returning to the sport with which she grew up, she is Taiwan's first Olympic gold medallist. The athletic
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    • 286 14 AP. THE plastic surgeon was fat. And so he decided on liposuction, performed by himself. And he did it on camera to promote the potential use of stem cells that can be harvested in such operations. Dr Robert Ersek, 66, who conducted the
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      170 15 INDON SAILORS RESCUED RARING TO GO AN AUSTRALIAN frigate headed to Singapore for naval exercises had to deal with an emergency on the way: It rescued 15 Indonesian sailors moments after their freighter sank in the Java Sea on Friday. The Indonesians had lit a signal fire on deck
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    • 80 15 Reuters, AP. The FBI is looking into allegations that a high-level Pentagon official was an Israeli spy. The official, who has not been named, was connected to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Department of Defence office, and allegedly passed documents to Israel. No arrest has been
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    • 189 15 case of man who disrupted mass over parking woes THE Catholic church at the centre of a parking row in Siglap has asked the police to be lenient to a resident who disrupted Mass to complain about his driveway being blocked. The police would
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    • 83 15 PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang was criticised by his own party leaders yesterday. They said Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi failed to show new direction in his policy speech on Friday, at a time when Parti Islam SeMalaysia needed fresh strategies to recover from its crushing defeat
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    • 157 15 IT could soon cost Singaporeans more to cross the Causeway at least, when they get to the other side. A Johor Baru-based consortium has proposed imposing a levy on Singapore-registered cars entering Malaysia to fund the construction of a new highway in the town centre.
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    • 51 15 AN American woman has declared Aug 26 the official birthday 0f... toilet paper. Mrs Thelma Brittingham and fellow residents in a retirement community in Evansville, Indiana, put up decorations and had a cake to celebrate the event. According to her calculations, toilet paper was first invented on Aug 26,
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    • 33 15 4CX Central Partly cloudy Woodlands Storm Business district Partly cloudy Changi Storm Jurong Storm max I 33° C min I 25° C first tide 2.5 m 111.37 am second tide 3m I 10.35pm
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    • 1071 18 The office psycho is everywhere, including in Singapore continued from previous page Those who found The Office (it was shown on Arts Central recently and starts on Star World next Saturday) hilarious would have most likely cringed too, as David Brent reminds us of colleagues or bosses
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    • 140 19 THE 107-question B-Scan asks other workers, peers, employees and supervisors questions such as these to determine whether executives have psychopathic traits: Comes across as smooth, polished and charming. Turns most conversations around to a discussion of him or herself. Discredits, puts down others in
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    • 799 20 Having difficulty spotting the office psycho? Well, don't fret as we've traced them for you on both the big and small screens AMORAL PSYCHO WHO: Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) in Wall Street. Gekko is the ultimate greasy yet hyper-successful psycho-in-a-suit. WARNING SIGNS: For this Wall
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    • 596 22  -  Sexless in the city DoloresTay tnp@sph.com.sg THIS is the third time in two months I've had to split on a date. Not split as in to depart from, leave or commonly known among local linguists as "to chabot" or "siam". I am also not talking
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      376 22 A DOT IN THE LIFE OF 9.30am: I drag myself out of bed to accompany him on his trip to the market. The aim of today's expedition is to buy the ingredients for lunch that David is going to whip up for my benefit. He navigates his way
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    • 290 22  -  About last night JadeMok tnp@sph.com.sg IT'S not the strappy Blahniks or the flashy Mizrahis that I covet when I watch Sex And The City. It's how those four ladies get together week after week that gets me envious. Whether it's breakfast at a chic cafe, or
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    • 498 23  -  TanDawnWei dawntan@sph.com.sg LAST month, British Formula One driver Jenson Button who, might I add, is really as cute as a button had an uncharacteristic deer-caught-in-the-headlights moment. When asked why women don't make it into the elite boys' club of racing, the 24-year-old smooth-talker widened his
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    • 384 24 1 Hey! j THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY August 29, 2004 'Page 30 If Eric Khoo directed Aliens and Predator in a toothbrush commercial W Oh, man. Wmf*-- JM y^imfcSTw\AkFM I^. When did you \g p J\ w9?«BSi^^^3fl^9D9RH^s^ SylviaTohPaikChoo tnp@sph.com.sg A jL The Bourne Supremacy: Series of action a, sequences
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    • 518 25  -  PSSSL. EdwinYeo tnp@sph.com.sg PEOPLE have been talking about nothing else. Chatter, chatter. What do you think of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's first National Day Rally speech? And what do you think of the big changes afoot? Honestly, none of
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    • 395 25  -  Scribble md JonathanLim tnp@sph.com.sg OUR introduction to the SGX-Men, our island's brave mutant defenders, continues with this formidable duo: GANTRY Look out Gantry's in operation! This elusive mutant hero strikes only at certain periods during the day, and never on Sundays but she'll get
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    • 738 26 I Hea/I I THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY August 29,2004 Page 32 How to get people to have more babies? Many parents are busy these If only we can choose the S'poreans a stress free life 2 *3^, days. Give day off to those who school for our next babies,
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    • 707 27  -  YOU MAY THINK THEY'RE COOL, BUT THE HEROES OF THE SKIES SOMETIMES DRESS IN T-SHIRTS AND PULLOVERS. THEY LEAD LONELY LIVES, TOO JoyceLim joycel@sph.com.sg with fast cars and hot babes? "Hot babes? You must be kidding," said the 35-year-old first officer, who wanted to be known
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    • 495 28  -  DR LOVE'S PRESCRIPTION^ Dr WeiSiangYu tnp@sph.com.sg CHANGING your bed is no guarantee to better intimacy. This is because Dr Love's advice isn't one-size-suits-all. The words of wisdom he had for middle-aged Tampines couple Gary and Kathy, who were featured a few weeks ago, isn't for
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    • 91 28 Do you have any advice to offer the couple or Akachan (see facing page)? Are you facing problems yourself and need the help of our panel of professionals? E-mail us at tnp@sph.com.sg under Doctor Love or fax your questions to 6319-8266. You may also write
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    • 166 29 I'M a teenage girl who needs some advice. I don't know where I'll be the next five years. I'm a dropout who quit school at Secondary 2. I've been trying out all sorts of jobs but nothing suits me. I
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    • 416 29 ADVICE It's great that you are thinking of your future. And you sound responsible which, again, is to your credit. However, why should you feel solely responsible for your parents? Your married siblings should chip in, they have a duty to care for your parents
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    • 804 31 I Television THE HEW PaPER ON SUND«Y August 29,2004 Page 37 Switch on TODAY 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 Diving, Men's (Variety/Rpt) Adventures Of
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  • 618 32  -  LATEST MOBILE tech 111 W>T£CH GUy OO GIN LEE tnp@sph.com.sg IT is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, so you really need to see the Sony Ericsson K7ooi (left) for yourself to understand that it is beautiful. Like many other handphones, the
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    • 60 42 CASIO Computer has unveiled the world's tiniest digital camera with zoom lens to date ExilimEX-SlOO(left). The credit card-sized camera is equipped with a 3.34 mega pixel CCD on its image sensor and 4.8 13.5mm world's first ceramics-made zoom lens. It will be sold starting Sep 25
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    • 264 43 CHINA is relaxing strict taboos in order to conduct its first nationwide female sex survey, asking intimate questions about women's sex lives. The 2004 China Female Sex Survey is being organised by the Chinese Institute of Sexology and the Chinese Medical Association via
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    • 274 44 NOBODY remembers who came in last at the Olympics, until now. A Canadian writer, Web designer, snake-breeder and self-confessed "professional smartass" has dedicated himself to immortalising the gallant Athens loser in cyberspace, in a celebration of true Olympic spirit. "I worry
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  • 371 48 -tech-7 AP. IT'S not going to be blue. The above picture was what was planned by Hewlett-Packard following their groundbreaking partnership it had previously announced with Apple. HP is now taking orders for the player, which it has dubbed the Apple iPod from HP.
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    • 344 49  -  TOP TIPS RACING DannyKhoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg Apprentices have a fine record in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup in recent years and top-form Kiwi Jason Waddell can carry on that trend with the classy Superior Star in the Group 2 race over 2,000 m in Race 9 at Kranji
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      375 49 Racine Editor Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee RACE Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee 3 Timbertop 1 Ninetyfive Sword 2 Brooksy 8 Star Arc 4 Yippee Blue Dill 3 Timbertop 4 Yippee Blue Dill 1 Ninetyfive Sword 5 Cape High 3
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    • 906 50 COMMENTS FOR ALL RACES BY MICHAEL LEEI rPnl Open Benchmark 40 130 ■■■■H -2000m Stakes: $38,000 Wo. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/originTsex. trainer-owner) 1 *****- NINETYFIVE SWORD 59.5 (41) JSaimee 1 (5ag Leck-Ninetyfive Emperor)
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    • 249 50 SWILCAN BURN (RACE 5 NO. 5) Jockey Jason Patton would rather be remembered for giving this John Meagher-trained galloper his maiden win at Kranji than his amazing balancing act on the same horse last Sunday week. Swilcan Burn would have surely opened accounts at his 26th start had
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    • 1374 51 ffPJJBB dass4Div3 Quartet/Double Trio 330 -1400m Stakes: (48,000 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 04-22 WORLD AIRLINES 59 (58) MZahra 5 (4ag HK Tan-Top Champ) Top impost may weigh him down in
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    • 419 52  -  DannyKhoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg Exaggerate seems to put his best hoof forward in the month of August. A year ago, the John Meagher-trained charge struck in the Group 2 Queen Elizabeth II Cup. Yesterday, he stamped his mark in the Jumbo Jet Trophy with a thrilling last-to-first
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    • 1682 53 4 ROULETTE PRO 54 (9-6) WKYan (3) 1 1 1 (473) 3 LION CITY GLORY 54 (30-11) BWoodworth (2) 4 5 2 (449) 2.25L 8 JAMAICA 50 (18-9) VSivan (5) 6 4 3 (436) 3.25 1 RIPENING 59 c 56 (127-30) 'KSara
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    • 1959 54 RACE 1: RACERS ALONE (lame near-fore knee) and FIRST KNIGHT (respiratory disease) were scratched. ORANGE SUCCESS was reshod near-fore before going to the start. LION CITY GLORY fly-jumped and bumped ROULETTE PRO, who jumped awkwardly in. RIPENING jumped awkwardly out. RIPENING was difficult
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    • 727 55  -  r' w inspiredT GARY HALL JR (us) HE'S A DIABETIC, BUT THAT DIDN'T STOP HALL FROM BECOMING THE WORLD'S FASTESTj SWIMMER V ErnestLuis npsports@sph.com.sg THE US' current swimming idol may be wonderboy Michael Phelps but, to a smaller section in the country, the real example is
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    • 708 56  -  KELLY HOLMES (Britain) FOR 12 YEARS, GOLD KEPT ELUDING HER. LUCKILY FOR HOLMES, SHE NEVER GAVE UP... ErnestLuis n psports@s ph .com. sg ITS never easy being second- or third-best. But never to reach the top after 12 years in your chosen sports field? Quitting could
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    • 607 57 DEFYING COUNTLESS SETBACKS, ZHANG IS NOW CHINA'S NEW WOMEN'S TABLE TENNIS NO 1 inspired F ZHANG YINING (China) Wire Services. LAST Sunday, Zhang Yining (above) finally got her time in the limelight. For years, the "young veteran" in the Chinese table tennis team has struggled to
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    • 293 57 Wire Services. AT COMPETITIONS, China's star paddler Zhang Yining is all cool and businesslike. But talk about animals and the table tennis players goes soft. Not only does Zhang have two pet dogs at home, the enthusiastic animal lover is also said to have adopted
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    • 831 58 ~W :W--f l inSPIVCrt LORI-ANN MUENZER (Canada) TENDINITIS, MONEY WOES, BROKEN COLLARBONE FROM FALLING OFF A HILL... SO WHAT? LORE-ANN MUENZER THRIVES IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY IF CANADA'S Lori-Ann Muenzer (above) were to listen to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's National Day Rally speech,
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      886 59  - '\F* HOW PAWEENA OVERCAME POVERTY AND HER FATHER'S DEATH Beinspired FACT FILE: NAME: Paweena Thongsuk BORN: Apr 18,1979 in Si Khoraphum, Thailand WEIGHT: 69kg HEIGHT: 1.56 m NATIONALITY: Thai HONOURS: 2004 Olympics (winner), 2002 World Championships (winner), 2003 SEA Games (winner), 2002 Asian Games (runner-up). WangMeng Meng npsports@sph.com.sg PAWEENA Thongsuk
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    • 281 59 EVEN before Paweena Thongsuk could get her weightlifting career off the blocks, it was nearly ended. As a teenaged girl winning titles galore in the Surin province, her mother, Sukri, resented the sport. Paweena said: "My mother ►Uk objected. She was afraid that >i
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      965 60  -  FAMILY MORTGAGED HOUSE AND SAW UDOMPORN ONLY ONCE IN 9 YEARS DURING HER TRAINING J r>, IflSpiTCd I UDOMPORN POLSAK (Thailand) PARENTS 7 SACRIFICE WORTH Wang npsports® sph.com.sg ARE you ready for a moving story about a true Olympian? The name Udomporn Polsak is now a household
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    • 83 60 NAME: Udomporn Polsak BORN: Oct 6, £981 in Nakhon Ratchasfma, Thailand WEIGHT: 53kg HEIGHT: 1.50 m HONOURS; Olympic winner (Athens, 2004), World Championship winner (Vancouver, 2003), SEA Games winner (Vietnam, 2003), Asian Qames runneiHip(Busan, 2002) I will never forgot what my parents did. They got intQMHdlBS debt for
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        459 61 US looking for answers to basketball team's exit AFP. THE demise of the US basketball team at the Olympics provoked an anguished reaction throughout the media in the US yesterday, with commentators grappling to explain the early exit. "The cradle of basketball gets rocked at Olympics," said the Los
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      • 503 62 BOXING (Semi-finals) Wire Services BRITAIN'S Amir Khan is getting closer to becoming the youngest Olympic boxing champion in 52 years. The 17-year-old has assured himself of at least a lightweight silver medal after he beat Serik Yeleuov of Kazakhstan 40-26 on points in a stunning
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      • 381 62 V/ o U.S. 6 29 I 34 B 27 T 90 China 28 1/ 13 b8 Russia 1 23 30 m Australia 1/ 13 16 46 Japan lb 1U lO 3b Germany 14 lb 18 4/ France 10 11 28 Italy y 8 11 28 South Korea 8
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      • 594 63 ■JM SOKXg® AP. CARLOS Tevez scored his eighth goal of the Olympic soccer tournament and Argentina captured their first gold medal since 1952 by beating Paraguay 1-0 in an all-South American final. Tevez, a 20-year-old Boca Juniors striker who is a likely transfer target for Europe's
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      • 163 63 AFP. ARGENTINA coach Marcelo Bielsa basked in the glory of being an Olympic champion yesterday and then set his sights on leading his youthful team to the World Cup in Germany in 2006. "Victories are always important—especially in Argentina," admitted Bielsa hinting at the
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    • 411 64  -  SLUM (MUtS BETTING J TEXT: By BRIAN MILLER TEAM UPDATE: Antonio Nunez will not figure in Rafael Benitez's plans. There was talk of injuries to Djibril Cisse and Milan Baros after the match against Manchester City, but this wwas dispelled when both players turned up for the
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      290 65 PL sm». 41 CHEERS IllllI H PREVIEW Benitez to Gerrard: PA Sport. NEW Liverpool chief Rafael Benitez is promising that the Reds will soon be established around England midfielder Steven Gerrard. While he is extremely impressed by Gerrard tearing around like a man possessed as he virtually
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    • 489 65 PA Sport. LUIS Garcia (right) was the king of the loan moves in Spain, but he has vowed to spend a lot longer at Liverpool. The 26-year-old is set for his Liverpool debut at Bolton tonight, having signed a five-year contract after his
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    • EPL 2004/2005 Sim AY CHEERS
      • 460 66 CHELSEA 2 SOUTHAMPTON 1 PA Sport. FOUR games, four victories. Whatever lies ahead for Jose Mourinho, the Chelsea boss has certainly made an immediate impression on the Premiership. Indeed, while Chelsea conceded their first goal under his leadership after 12 seconds against a
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      • 150 66 TOTTENHAM 1 BIRMINGHAM 0 PA Sport. JERMAIN Defoe issued England boss Seven-Goran Eriksson a timely reminder of his enormous potential ahead of the World Cup Qualifiers. He again struck a stunning goal at White Hart Lane. Eriksson names his squad for the clashes with Austria and Poland
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      • 171 66 VILLA 4 NEWCASTLE 2 ALAN Shearer was dropped as Newcastle's poor start to the season took another turn for the worst. Despite leading through goals from Shearer's replacement Patrick Kluivert (below) and Andy O'Brien at the interval, the visitors succumbed to Villa's increased intensity in the second
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      • 165 67 BLACKBURN 1 MAN UNITED 1 If Rooney were playing... In the 20th minute, Alan Smith gets the ball on the edge of the box. With no one either side to play it to, he pushes it left and tries an awkward shot which is blocked by
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      • 326 68  -  BLACKBURN 1 MAN UNITED 1 EmestLuis npsports@sph.com.sg ONLY Wayne Rooney can save Manchester United this season. That's the firm view of former Singapore Cup-winning coach Tohari Paijan. He said this after Man U struggled and came back from behind to draw 1-1 with Blackburn Rovers
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      • 122 68 Reuters. MANCHESTER United* have made a second bid for Everton's Wayne Rooney. It is not known exactly how much, except that it is in excess of £23.5 million (s72m) or more than Newcastle's second bid for the England striker. Confirmed Everton's head of public relations,
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      • 144 68 CiLHCvIW>WH>S RANGERS manager Alex McLeish insists his under-fire players have "nothing to prove" as they prepare for a crucial Old Rrm game. 1 Since crashing out to CSKA Moscow In the Champions League Qualifier at Ibrox in midweek, character now has inhfeside. A win for Celtic
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      • 218 68 PA Sport. IT doesn't matter whether Wayne Rooney joins Manchester United or Newcastle, says England captain David Beckham. For he believes Rooney who handed in a formal transfer request to Everton on Friday will be in "good hands" whether he ends up under Man U
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      • 564 69  -  Saha handball gives United an equaliser BLACKBURN 1 (Paul Dickov 17th min) MAN UNITED 1 (Alan Smith 90) ErnestLuis n psports@sph .com. sg IT was truly a day of controversies yesterday when it came to the English Premier League. Singapore has had its own EPL live
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      • 859 69  -  EmestLuis npsports@sph.com.sg FIRST, ESPN Star Sports (ESS) threatened an English Premier League blackout in mid-week if a deal with Star Hub wasn't reached by Friday. When a deal wasnt reached then, Singapore soccer fans were genuinely worried yesterday. But last-minute negotiations were resumed again
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      • 89 69 BLACKBURN 1 Dickov 17th min MAN UTD 1 Smith 90 VILLA4 Mellberg4,Cole 53, Barry 71, Angel 82 NEWCASTLE 2 Kluivert 28, O'Brien 36 CHELSEA 2 Beattie og 34, Lampard pen 41 SOUTHAMPTON 1 Beattie 1 EVERTON 2 Osman 2,70 WESTBROM 1 Dobie7 MAN CITY 4 Anelka
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