The New Paper, 13 February 2005

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    • 849 2  -  Dad's gone. Mum beats and V abandons her. So little Mei Mei... Veena Bharwani veenab@ I sph.com.sgfl AT the tender age of 8, little Mei Mei has gone through enough hardship and pain to last a lifetime. At 3, her mother, in her fits of
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    • 561 3 WHEN Mei Mei (above) was younger, they j were nowhere to be seen. Now, Mei Mei's parents are suddenly back in her life and in a tussle over her custody. Her mother turned up at the home last weekend after a 10-month
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    • 916 4  -  Donations to some charities have plunged, leaving them in the red. But unlike businesses, they cannot get GST refunds GenevieveJiang geneviev@ sph.com.sg HARD-PRESSED for funds, some charitable organisations are hoping for help to pay the 5 per cent goods and services tax (GST). It's
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    • 150 5 A VWO buys a new $100 bed for a patient, for example. With 5 per cent GST, the VWO forks out $105 for the bed Because the VWO does not pass on the GST charge to its client, it cannot claim the $5 GST
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    • 291 5 WHY are voluntary welfare organisations (VWOs) here not given a subsidy or even a zero-rate on GST? An Iras spokesman explained that exceptions cannot be made as Singapore's GST system has to be kept simple for "ease of compliance for the businesses". Said the spokesman: "Consistent
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    • 923 6  -  SINGAPORE: DISTINCTLY UNIQUE Instead, the raw fish salad, yu sheng, should get the Singapore Original tag along with our love to form queues and address cabdrivers as 'uncles' SylviaTohPaikChoo tnp@sph.com.sg IN 1999, a sheep farmer in the south of France led an attack on a
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    • 88 7 SINCE October 0f2003, Unesco (United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organisation) has been working on a Convention on the Protection of the Diversity of Cultures and Artistic Expression. Unesco is drafting an international treaty to promote cultural diversity, which is its new ethic for the 21st century.
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    • 659 8  -  SINGAPORE: GLOBALLY SIMILAR WHERE'S TIMES SQUARE? SylviaTohPaikChoo tnp@sph.com.sg BORED. Depressing. Dead. These three lively words appeared in a television commercial: If you find Singapore one or all of the above, then turn to the Arts Central channel's nature series. Well, yes but, what if creepy crawlies, squiggly
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    • 911 10  -  THEN HE WRITES REPORT CARD ON 3 BUDGET AIRLINES Report picture EstherAu Yong estheray@ sph.com.sg SOME dreams never die. And Mr Gan Yung Chyan (below) took 29 years to fulfil his childhood dream. As a boy, he would look to the skies, wondering if he would
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      615 12  -  HE'S ONLY 10, BUT HAS BEEN TO '200 CITIES AROUND THE WORLD 7 JoyceLim joycel@sph.com.sg HE may be only 10, but Dennis Cheong's been to more places than some people have been their whole lives. His mother, Madam Ivy Khoo, reckons he's been to as many as 200
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    • 420 14  -  WOMAN FOUND DEAD AT HDB BLOCK By Amit Jain amitjain@siMgnet.com.sg HE has problems sleeping and the heated quarrel outside his bedroom was not helping. It was close to 4am and Mr Yeong, 33, could hear raised voices in Tamil between a man and
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    • 451 15 PARENTS IN ANGUISH #1: SONS PERISH IN FIRE SEVERAL years ago, he lost his young daughter. On Thursday night, he lost his two sons too. It was Mr R Shanmugam Pillai's nightly routine leaving his sons alone and locking the house from the outside when
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    • 167 15 PARENTS IN ANGUISH #2 ROYAL Malaysian Navy Captain Mohd Imran Abdul Hamid's dream of seeing his five daughters on the same wedding dais has been crushed. Because he had to bury four of them in the same grave, reported the Malaysian newspapers. His four
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    • 381 16 NOW, SHE FACES SEX ABUSE CHARGES OVER 13-YEAR-OLD MALE STUDENT AP. PAMELA Turner is a physical education teacher at an elementary school in Tennessee. She is also a former college basketball player and a blonde with movie-star looks. Now, those who know her are trying
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    • 180 16 PSYCHOLOGISTS say that society tends to view sex offences involving a woman and a young boy less seriously than those involving men and young girls, reported USA Today. Mr Dale Bespalec, chief psychologist at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility and a former
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    • 218 16 BABY TOSSED OUT OF CAR': AP. A WOMAN who claimed to have seen a newborn (right) being thrown from a moving car in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is, in fact, the baby's mother. She concocted the story as a way of abandoning the child
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    • 556 18 Handsome, stylish mafia boss becomes Naples' new idol WITH his dark flowing locks, piercing brown eyes and sleek designer outfits, Cosimo Di Lauro has set the hearts of Naples' teenage girls aflutter. Pictures of the square-jawed young man have been flying between the
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    • 221 19 SCAMPIA is a sprawling estate of crumbling tower blocks that are home to 44,000 people. It is a grim wasteland haunted by drug addicts, divided into 20 zones by the crime clans. Each zone can generate 50,000 euros ($105,000) a week in cocaine sales.
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      406 20 Look, this ISA Reuters. POP diva, actress and budding fashion designer Jennifer Lopez made her New York runway debut with an eclectic collection that showed she may be able to bring her star power to the world of haute couture. The show on Friday, which was nothing
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    • SNAPSHOT
      • 53 21 She's quite snooty, you know. Quite grand, and she doesn't tip. And I'm not terribly keen on her habits. After she has been staying, I find knickers all over the place. A housekeeper who has cleared up after Camilla Parker Bowles, fiancee of Britain's Prince Charles, quoted in
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      • 61 21 MALAYSIA has detained some officials for allegedly issuing forged documents to human-trafficking groups. The officials from the National Registration Department were arrested under the Internal Security Act, Home Affairs Minister Azmi Khalid was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times. The police had also seized
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        59 21 A mmncTK! fi, rLTta Al/IIVloIo from a. hardline Hindu group are burning a Valentine's Day card at a protest in the Indian city of Bhopal. Valentine's Day which is celebrated around the world tomorrow is a relatively new Western import in India. It has been slammed by some
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      • 80 21 SINGAPORE Airlines has sent a note to three of its pilots who helped a former colleague renew his flying licence here. Captain Mok Hin Choon, president of the Air Line Pilots Association-Singapore, and two others were reminded to be more mindful of company procedures. Former
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      • 116 21 FORMER US presidential hopeful Howard Dean has got a job in Washington after all. He has been elected chairman of the Democratic Party. "There are a lot of people in this city who are afraid I'm going to be very unorthodox and I am," he told
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      • 168 21 GOH CHOK TONG YOUTH PROMISE AWARD SET UP SINGAPORE'S Malays have made remarkable progress in fields like education and employment. And this is something the community can be proud of, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. But there are challenges ahead. SM Goh
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      • 190 21 THE majority of Singaporeans don't see teiyorism as a problem. And only two in five think an attack on Singapore is likely. A Home Affairs ministry survey of 5,300 people last October also showed that seven out of 10 respondents followed news about terrorism
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      • 57 21 Germany now has little green women on traffic lights. Its designers said the long-haired female figure in a short skirt was safer than the classic male design. Sophie, as she is known, has a curvy body that allows more light through. "Pedestrians simply notice her more," said the boss
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  • Hey! it's sunday! Your entertainment newszine
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      132 23  -  t -p. V* t, pu— Wl'-H W*- T* W-W-'-■"** W--- T v— w VALENTINE'S DAY: ITS NOT JUST FOR THE YOUNG, YOU KNOW~ EriAkbar eri@sph.com.sg FOR Lye Hin Wing and his wife, Anne, love never dies. It just grows. The retiree is 77. She is 71. And
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    • 1023 24 Been there, done that but... From previous page Their red invitation card had the words 'Double Happiness" embossed on the cover. And the Lyes weren't coy about "re-enacting" their wedding. Said Mrs Lye: "We're too old to be shy. We're 70, not sweet 17. We thought
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    • 515 24 SHE married the same man twice. Mrs Judy Goh was divorced from her husband for seven years until a "miracle from God" reunited them. The 46-year-old housewife never thought that she could resolve the "irreconcilable differences" with her husband, who's 46 and working in the medical
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    • 298 25 MORE married Singaporean couples are opting to "get hitched" all over again. Some of them renew their wedding vows simply to celebrate their years of marital bliss. Others do it to reaffirm a lifelong commitment after hitting a rough patch in their marriage. Every year, at
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    • 753 26  -  These ladies will put the ambience in your room for a fee Can't buy love? ZubaidahNaeer zubaidah@sph.com. SgH IT'S the season for romance. Valentine's Day will be upon us tomorrow. You are keen to give your girlfriend a splendid surprise, but have no clue how to add
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    • 397 27 YOU thought you had seen it all when it comes to sexy, naughty thongs the reds, the blacks, the leather ones, the tacky ones, the list goes on. But what about the one with the pearls (above)? Yes, pearls. The same one that sex-kitten Samantha,
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    • 446 28  -  Sexless Miwoiy DoloresTay tnp@sph.com.sg I HAVE to confess: I am about to get involved in a big, fat, hairy deal. Two weeks ago, my friend Joannie bounced into my office at lunch-time, uninvited, unannounced and with a mess of pinkish, dried twigs on her head. "Look
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    • 428 28  -  Amour imjmmt RachelRaeburn tnp@sph.com.sg MY husband and I recently celebrated our second year of marital bliss. Although ours is a wonderful marriage, it has not been a bed of roses. Marriage may be far from perfect, but it is an exciting journey of
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    • 676 28  -  A mi at im uk or HEDY KHOO IT BEING so close to Valentine's Day, I, the diehard romantic, decided to put a wicked twist on the Cupid theme for my date with chef John Tan. I asked him to stand against the wall
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    • 505 29  -  Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg WOMEN'S aversion to ageing apparently extends to cars. Just the other day, my friend told me that he was putting his 30-year-old Volkswagen Beetle back on the market or HE'D be the one up for sale. It seems his girlfriend had
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    • 816 30  -  LACK OF PAPER QUALIFICATIONS HAS NOT HAMPERED MR FANCIE CHOCS LOVE OF TEACHING, BE IT DANCING, COOKING, RACQUET GAMES AND EVEN MARTIAL ARTS Joyce Lim joycel@ sph.com.sg Similarly, he has taught music, dancing, cooking, swimming, racquet games and even martial arts. Take his experience with social
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    • 542 31  -  Psst... EdwinYeo tnp@sph.com.sg I'VE just discovered that there's a reason that people go visiting on Chinese New Year. Because if one were to stay home and watch television on this public holiday, his brain would become mush. Yes, this is not a new
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    • 443 31  -  Humour me < Iwiwilrwim SivaChoy tnp@sph.com.sg I WAS born at a time when no one had heard of air-conditioning. I discovered air-conditioning in pre-primary when a beauty parlour opened next door and erected a sign in which the word "air-conditioned" appeared larger than "Marilyn Monroe Permanent
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    • 770 32  -  DrWaiSiangVu tnp@sph.com.sg Text by Keith G Emuang THE Internet has played a big role in John and Vanessa's lives. Both were working in Internet companies at the height of the Internet revolution prior to the crash in 2000. Recalled Vanessa: "We used to
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    • 641 33 I'M A 14-year-old girl and I have a steady boyfriend. He's 20. He is a nice and cheerful guy. He gives me hope. He knew me through my friend F. F gave my number to him and he contacted me the next
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
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    • 516 34 Should we have a disaster kit for HHH HI" person or every Singapore home? If so, (p £S2* should you or the authorities il*4^^9r I m H tnpforum@ decide what goes into it? And who KIM st h I d put>,ish the there shld be a one in every hm.
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    • 171 35 *E3 I Christian And Lean ii^^HH^^j|fiHI The Machinist The Korean girl in A Moment can't remember a thing, the Christian Bale character wF Spanish film has not slept in a year. Most SyiviaTohPaikChoo interesting piece is the fact that Bale lost tnp@sph.com.sg 27kg for role by eating just a can
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
    • 726 36 |~f tek/t r' l^kk^cln'''' THENEWPApEXOttSIINMYFtebmaryW, 2005 Page 3 fawziahs@sph.com.sg Date PstfOl (PrftlTllCrC) MgftalCh7o) J K Shallow Hal Monday (Feb 14), 730 Channel 5 We smell the touch of the Tonight (Feb 13), 7.15pm omnipresent Romancing j The Farrelly brothers aren't Singapore team on this show. known for their tact and
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    • 659 37 ffe/! Television NEWPAPBt ON SUNDAY Fafecuary Page 37 I wll IWm r T~ -S'£-' Channel 5 Channel U Channel 8 Suria Kids Central Discovery 9:ooam I 7th Heaven/ 10:00 am I A True Cop 10:00 am I Bright 10:001 SelamatPagi fr 3 1 MyStay Smaiiville II (Drama) Stoy(Drama/ Sparks/Na Na
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  • Tech on sunday All the latest tech news
    • 426 38  -  IanTan tanyhi@sph.com.sg IN terms of handphone features, the Mitsubishi MBOO is pretty standard. It comes with a nice 1.3-megapixel camera, the usual fleet of Java games and polyphonic ringtones. But on the other hand, it is only dual-band (so it does not work in
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    • 367 40 AP. LOOKS like Microsoft Internet Explorer isn't the only web browser with security problems. It has recently come to light that even safer browsers, like Mozilla Firefox, have their own flaws that online criminals can exploit. The alternative browsers have a feature that allow
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    • 14 38 Today in SHIN I ama Man Utd will prove too strong forin-form Man City
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  • 209 42 GREECE BANS E-MAIL SNOOPING AT WORK tech AFP. DONT snoop on what your workers are doing online. That's what employers in Greece have been told by the country's personal data watchdog. Checking on private emails violates their privacy, the Data Protection Authority (DPA) ruled.
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  • tech
    • 441 46 ALL THE NEWS Reuters. AN increasingly popular technology called RSS is changing the way consumers get their news online, spurring several newspapers to launch their own customised software in an attempt to stay ahead of the curve. Instead of having to go to a favourite website to
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      167 47 RSS (rich site summary) readers are software applications that make keeping up with your favourite news fast and easy. They reach out to your favourite sites and pull all the latest updates into a single page on your desktop like a real-time news feed. While most websites
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  • racing
    • 321 48  -  MarcTan marc@sph.com.sg SINCE the race distance for the time-honoured Tunku Gold Cup was changed from 2,000 m to 1,200 m in 2003, the Malaysian Group 1 event has been taken out by unfancied horses. Xtherest was successful on a soft track in 2003, returning
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    • 1003 48 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer) 1 *****0 RIPENING 57 (47) MHuzairi 5 (5ag F Nathan-CN Tan) 2 *****8 RIVIERA GOLD 57 (47) GCooksley 2 (5amg Osman-Golden Triumph) 3 *****0 CALLAWAY 55 (43) SH Lee 9 (4nzg
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      112 49 SPIELBERG (RACE 8 No. 1) This four-time winner at Kranji showed a glimpse of his old form last Sunday when he ran a nice second to Jeram New Village over the 1,200 m trip. Having 3kg claimer J Nizam in the saddle today brings his load down to
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      265 49 Racing Editor Marc Tan Deputy Racing Editor Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon m 1 Ripening 4 Coded Message 10 Ocean Tycoon 4 Coded Messsage 5 Ikhiash 9 Truly Serious 4 Coded Message 5 Ikhiash 9 Truly Serious 7^ 5 Baby Sun 6 Shamgar 10 De Dawn 5
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    • 296 49 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer) 1 0—782 SPIELBERG 58.5 (88) *J Nizam c3 2 (6nzg Brink-Oscar Racing) 2 *****- INTECK 57 (85) DAzis 10 (7ag Clarke-HC Seah) 3 71-054 DRAGON VICTORY 56.5 (84) TMWan 9 (9irg
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    • 101 49 RACE 1: Truly Serious. RACE 2: Winning Eagle, Baby Ice, Cook The Books, Gold King. RACE 3: Military Tycoon, Perfect Emperor, Ferrybank, De Hoss, Strive. RACE 4: Sparkling Dragon, Jeram New Village, Rise To Stardom, Classy Desean, Finbar Reidy, Time To Remember. RACE 5: Crouching Tiger, Flying Cow, Champagne
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    • 745 50 Double delight: Trainer Osman Sidek (left) and jockey Grant Cooksley (right) team up to score on Kryptonite and Golden Lakshmi. 1 KRYPTONITE 57 (13-7) GCooksley (3) 5 3 1 (498) 6 LIGHT OF GLORY 54.5 (565-87) lAzhar (11) 2 2 2 (527) 2
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    • 250 50  -  MarcTan marc@sph.com.sg Recharge lived up to pre-race expectations at Kuala Lumpur yesterday when he cruised to an emphatic victory in the National Stud Farm Silver Plate. Despite humping 58kg, the Francis Nathan-trained grey by Posen proved too strong for his 10
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  • sports
    • SAMRA WITH THE STARS
      • 126 51 RONNIE RAGE: Ronaldinho proved to be the very best of the Brazilian crop of soccer stars. Famous for his sportsmanship, warmth and humour, he showed he was a hit on and off-the-field of play, easily captivating the hearts of fans everywhere he went in Hongkong. (Above) His trademark
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      • 374 52 Shopping soccer signs catch Chinese eye ONE NIGHT IN MONGKOK Brazil are the world's favourite football team. And the world champions have made a favourable impression in Hongkong, despite the 7-1 victory in a Chinese New Year friendly last Wednesday. WANG MENG MENG brings you all the fascinating tidbits on
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      • 155 52 HE is called "The Phenomenon" for his superhuman finishing skills. But in Hongkong, Ronaldo is also known as "Mr Football". As the local media went into a near-frenzy questioning both coach Carlos Alberto Parreira and press officer Rodrigo Paiva on the striker's absence, the local reporters constantly referred
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      • 103 52 CARLOS Alberto Parreira does have a wicked sense of humour. During a photo opportunity for the media on Tuesday, the coach was handed the handsome Carlsberg Cup (left), the trophy that Brazil and Hong Kong were supposed to contest for on Wednesday's friendly match. Once he laid his hands
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      • 148 53 FULL marks to Cafii for his wonderful public relation skills. Meeting the media on Tuesday, the Brazil captain's first words were "Gong Hei Fatt Clioy" Gong Xi Fa Cai in Cantonese. The right-back's festive greetings was received by a round of applause from the Hongkong media. And when
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      • 133 53 RONALDINHO (right) is not just the best player in the world right now. He is also famous for his sportsmanship, warmth and 1 A-J A 1 -i i TT__ v J ..^11 humour. And in two snort days in Hong Kong, he had well doors and greeted
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      • 95 54 THE ROBERTO CARLOS SPECIAL SEQUENCE: From top to bottom, the Real Madrid Galactico reveals how to pack a punch with his free-kicks. He calls this technique os tres dedos or the "three little toes/' This is when he wallops the ball with all his might
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      • 511 54  -  By Wang Meng Meng npsports@sph.com.sg ROBINHO'S tale is yet another classic Brazilian one of how a ghetto boy made good. His father, Gilvan, was a sewage maintenence worker and his mother, Dona Marina, a cleaner. Living in a poor neighbourhood in Parque Bitaru, on the
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      • 91 55 ||P|k J| J| Robinho has made the stepover his own. Ill rrllAUlUA P ec alac a h s trademark move, is a series of step-over fakes (his legs make a pedalling motion over and around the ball hence the name). Setting the ball in motion and his
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      • 1018 56 He is dubbed The New Pele' and the world is waiting to see what he can do. Much is expected from Robinho, as Brazil pin their World Cup dreams onto the shoulders of this exciting young striker from Santos. In an exclusive interview with The New
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      • 184 57 The New Paper's Man on the K Spot in Spain, PETE JENSON, givas his take on Robinho's proposed transfer from Santos to Real Madrid. ACCORDING to Thursday morning's Spanish press, Robinho's agent Juan Figer is due to travel to Madrid next Sunday to close the
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      • 636 57 OPINION is still divided on how far Robinho can go. The samba star, billed as the next big thing to come out of samba football, is an established star back in Brazil. But it is on the international stage that the 20-year-old has
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    • WORLD OF GOLF
      • 651 58 PEBBLE BEACH NATIONAL PRO-AM LEADERBOARD: 12% Phil Mickelson 133: Mike Weir 135: Andrew Magee, Paul Goydos, Kevin Sutherland 136: Darren Clarke, Arjun Atwal, Kent Jones, Charles Howell 111, Greg Owen 137: Ted Purdy, Jose Maria Olazabal, Arron Oberholser, Graeme McDowell, Jeff Sluman, Dicky Pride, Lee Westwood, Davis Love
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      • 113 58 Reuters. TIGER Woods (left) will be back in action at next week's US$4.B million Nissan Open in Pacific Palisades, California, the Golf Channel reported yesterday. The event will be the first for the former world No 1 since he triumphed at the Buick Invitational
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      • 57 58 THE weather changed, but nothing changed for world No 1 Vijay Singh. The Fijian scored another one-over 73 let down by a triple bogey and at Poppy Hills and fears not making the cut. He is lying tied-129th on two-over 146 and probably needs at least a 68
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      • 332 59 NEW ZEALAND OPEN AFP. THE New Zealand Open produced its third overnight leader in three rounds as English golfer Oliver Wilson moved within sight of his maiden European Tour title at the Gulf Harbour Country Club course yesterday. Wilson shot a four-under-par 68 to sit at
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      • 270 59  -  GodfreyRobert npsports@ sph.com.sg THE Garden course of Tanah N Merah Country Club regained its position as the best course in Singapore among readers of the Asian Golf Monthly, a magazine available in Singapore. After losing its top position —which it held for two years to Laguna
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    • 1093 60  - Sports+ family Good life We continue the series on top bosses in Singapore with a passion for sports along with professional ambition. ERNEST LUIS gets Football Association of Singapore president HO PENG KEE who turns 51 in May in an e-mail interview to open up on how he balances his
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    • 800 62  -  MANCHESTER CITY v MANCHESTER UNITED EPL SUNDAY CHEERS MATCH PREVIEW TEXT: By BRIAN MILLER Manchester united boss Sir Alex Ferguson has contacted the Premier League after being alerted to rumours that derby rivals City are set to narrow the pitch for today's clash. Fergie
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    • 389 63 TEAM UPDATE: West Ham will have Thomas Repka back to beef-up their defence. But Gavin Williams and Matthew Etherington will not be on the bus. Sheffield United could start with Rob Kozluk and Ashley Ward. FORM GUIDE: On their showings in the Championship, there is little to separate the
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    • EPL SUNDAY CHEERS
      • MATCH REPORT
        • 670 64  -  By Bill Pierce SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Thomas hitzlspergerhit a late winner for Aston Villa in their trip to Fratton Park. The German midfielder was put clean through by Juan Pablo Angel after 73 minutes, and after initially mis-controlling the pass he settled himelf to steer a
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        • 226 64  -  Round-up by Ben Owen SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport PAUL PESCHISOLIDO kept Derby County in the FA Cup with a late equaliser against Fulham. The Canadian forward struck after 86 minutes to send the tie into extra-time, latching onto a fumble from Edwin van
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        • 392 65  -  By John Curtis SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport LIVERPOOL'S hopes of fighting their way back into the race for a Champions League spot were dealt a massive blow as goals from Walter Pandiani and Julian Gray sealed victory for Steve Brace's side. Liverpool never looked capable of registering
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        • 230 65 PAUL DICKOV helped Blackburn to their best league win of the season with two goals in a 3-0 win over Norwich. Morten Gamst Pedersen had made Norwich pay for a series of missed chances with a stunning goal to give Blackburn the lead at Ewood
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          44 66 EVERTON 0 CHELSEA 1 Everton's attempt to shoot in a last-minute goal petered out in their match against Chelsea. The Blues won over 10-man Everton at Goodison Park and are now 12 points clear at the top, thanks to two people... APT/FAS
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        • 636 67  -  EmestLuis npsports@sph .com .sg EVERY one of Chelsea's remaining 11 English Premiership games will now be a virtual Cup final. So what if Chelsea aren't playing champagne football as they near the finish line? So what if Manchester United's manager Alex Ferguson claims Chelsea aren't
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    • 852 68  -  EVERTON TV VIEW ErnestLuis npsports @sph.com.sg IF Everton are ruled by dictators, you have to wonder if their new striker James Beattie will today be flogged by his own coach. While David Moyes surely has the professional integrity not to resort to such drastic
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    • 92 67 EPL H DAITfUIuDADA BOLTON V BOKO Delayed, CH 24,9 am, today BLACKBURN v NORWICH Delayed, Ch 23,3pm, today MAN CITY v MAN irm Ch 23,8.55pm, tonight ARSENAL vC PALACE Ch 23,3.55 am, Tuesday FA PI IP Tthrd replay SHEFFUIDv WEST NAM Ch 23,11.55pm, tonight SPANISH LEAGUE JISEMUAvMUANKM. Ch 22,11.55pm, tonight
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