The New Paper, 8 May 2005

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  • 30 1 the new paper Sunday, off*Singapore Press Holdings Hotline 1800-733 44 55 8 MAY 2005 •80 cents |jj II 111 11 11||||| 8 '*****1 *****9 > Website: tnp.sg MICA(P) 095/03/2005 Email: tnp@sph.com.sg
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    • 1151 2  -  Report pictures Zaihan Mohamed Yusof zaihan@sph.com.sg AT first glance, they seem to be foreigners just waiting for taxis. Huddled dangerously close to the edge of the road, in groups of five, they raise their hands as vehicles pass. But residents
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    • 250 3 YOU would think Tan Kang Han had leamt his lesson. After all, he had been fined $79,200 in 1994 for hiring 11 foreigners without valid work permits. Yet on 17 Mar, Tan, a motor workshop owner, was sentenced to 12 months in
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    • 719 4  -  'Write Chinese composition/ she says in Mandarin to class she's minding 'Mop floor,' she suggests jokingly to others not studying Chinese Some students get upset when teased by classmates Principal later apologises to students, parents AndreYeo andrey@ sph.com.sg been minding the Express class of 39 students
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    • 294 4 IT was the sequence of instructions from the teacher that led to the flap. This is the conclusion of the post-mortem by the principal of the secondary school of 1,570 students and where 10.5 per cent are Indians. The teacher's comments were directed at the whole class.
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    • 539 5  -  Regarding race: Are you insensitive, overly sensitive or racist? Our columnists take a look at the issue Melvin Singh melvin@sph.com.sg wrote about his wish the amalgamation of different races and cultures and received threats by a few within the Indian community. Racism and over-sensitivity are part
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    • 468 5  -  Clarence Chang clarence@s ph.com.sg A FUNNY thing happened at The New Paper newsroom a fortnight ago except on hindsight, it's really not a laughing matter. A despatch clerk in his 20s had popped by to drop off an envelope for our assistant manager
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    • 453 5  -  Johnson Ong tnp@sph.com.sg SINCE today is Mother's Day, I want to say something about the woman who gave birth to me, raised me and still nags at me to get my hair cut. She is racist. Mum used to warn me not to play with the
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    • 854 6  -  9°<yio That's the high score Rebekah (with glasses) and Rachel give their mum, Mrs Lim Hwee Hua, Minister of State for Finance and Transport EXCEPT for her dress sense Bv Clarence Chang clarence@sph.com.sg MUM, we rate you nine out of 10 as a mother, but really,
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    • 261 7 /'mothers' day specialN I MUM-IN-LAW OR V MONSTER-IN-LAW? V Page 19 y MBS Lim bhished when she leamt her daughters had given her "mothering skills" a nine. Her best (and rather modest) guess: Only "five or six" since ideally, she'd like
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      695 8  -  Meet the new faces of the Singapore scientist they score A* in looks, brains and personality TayShi'an shian@sph.com.sg WEIRD science? Nerdy scientists? No. They are pretty. Bright. Vivacious. One of them scuba dives and was a former child model and actress. Two heat up the dance floor with
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    • 106 9 Graduated with both departmental and general honours, Bachelor of Science at Johns Hopkins University, majoring in Biomedical Engineering (2004). She was also the only female recipient that year of die Richard J. Jones Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Engineering Going to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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    • 414 9 DON'T be surprised if you meet Ms Koh Xiaoying and she suddenly says: "I have to go back to the lab and feed my flies." It's not a getaway line. This endearing, sweet-faced Public Service Commission (PSC)-tumed-A*Star scholar is just constandy concerned about her fruit
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    • 306 10  -  From previous page TayShi'an shianGsph.com.sg THIS former EDB-turned-A'Star scholar realised her true calling during her second year in university, when she was involved in a protein analysis project. After trying her hand at investment promotion work with EDB, Ms Lisa Ooi (above) applied for A'Star's
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    • 447 12  -  Gruesome murder at Boon Lay Zubaidah Mazeer zubaidah @sph.com.sg THE horror. The agony. The utter helplessness. Imagine the plight of a bed-ridden man, unable to do anything as his wife was slashed to death in their three-room flat. Felled by a stroke
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    • 182 12 THE man who is a suspect in Madam Tham's murder has been in drug rehabilitation centres four times, daimed his elder brother. The handcuffed and shackled 37-year-old odd-job worker was led by a team of investigators and forensic analysts back into his flat to collect
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    • 476 14 BORN IN JAIL, SHE KEEPS ASKING: ONLY 3 years old, Naomi Leong has been a prisoner all her life. Born behind bars, she still asks her mother when they are going home. A warm and engaging girl, she has become more disconnected growing up.
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    • 217 14 LESS than 24 hours after the prices of petrol and diesel increased by 10 and 20 sen respectively in Malaysia, reports of vendors raising prices have started to trickle in. The New Straits Times reported that the price of a kilogramme of
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    • 346 15 LAWLESS I: Aussie prisoners hold hostages Reuters. THE place is rough. The inmates tough. And when they threaten harm, it's not hard to take them seriously. A group of inmates seized control of a part of a jail in Tasmania, Australia.
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    • 119 15 LAWLESS H: Chile'rallies'cat on the loose AFP. THIS cat may be bats. And in a pretty dangerous way too. So it's the death sentence for her, rules the Chilean Supreme Court. The police in Chile are on the hunt for an escaped cat named
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    • 228 15 THE big secret to staying young is held inside the little animals. Scientists have managed to stave off the ageing process in mice, a discovery that might pave the way to longer, healthier living in humans too. Experiments at the US-based Washington University School
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        66 16 We're building a new life, a new worlds We had great scientists, sportsmen, astronauts. Not everything was bad. We need to remember the best like that we were first in space~ I'm proud of our beautiful scientific cities, of our beautiful women! Russian singer Oleg Gazmanov, whose new
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      • 78 16 HE was on the eve of a final push to conquer Mount Everest without bottled oxygen. But on Friday, Singaporean Robert Goh, 39, nearly died in a sudden avalanche. A "curtain of snow and ice" fell at the bottom of steep, 800m-high Lhotse Face. Buried chest-high,
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        75 16 LIKE mother, like child, we say. A notion taken to happy extremes yesterday atTampines Mall, for a mother and child look-alike contest. A crowd of 50 cheered on 12 duos: Some featuring daughters, like here, others sons. They were vying for $50 makeover vouchers and the top prize
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      • 60 16 SINGAPORE Airlines won't just be the first carrier to fly the biggest-ever airliner, the 555-seat Airbus A380. With delivery of a new Boeing 777-300, it now operates the most 777s, each of which seats up to 365. SIA has 58. Another 19 more medium-range 777-300s are
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      • 180 16 8 in 10 S'poreans have gum problems CHANCES are your gums are ailing: Over eight in 10 adults in Singapore have mild or moderate forms of gum disease. So a new Oral Health Campaign, launched yesterday morning by Senior Minister of State for Health
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      • 107 16 AT least 11 people, and up to several dozen, are believed dead in Yangon yesterday after four explosions rocked the Myanmar capital. Over 200 are injured. Three malls were targeted at different sites, 6 to 12 km from central Yangon. One blast occurred at the
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      • 219 16 MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew is fascinated by how modern technology can help in the learning of the Chinese language. So says his language tutor, Dr Chua Chee Lay. Now, a new book capturing MM Lee's efforts to learn Mandarin will come with
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      • 58 16 After a spurt of frenzied online bidding on e-Bay, a 1999 Volkswagen Golf once owned by Pope Benedict XVI has been sold for 188,938 euros ($404,837) to a US buyer. Good profit for the seller, who got it from a dealer for just 10,000 euros in January. It's not
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  • 57 17  -  FawziahSelamat fawziahs@ sph.com.sg MOTHERS-IN-LAW, the "other mother", are enigmatic icons of married life. Since the time of the Greeks, they've either been demonised or idolised across all cultures. But The New Paper on Sunday has found one woman who will be wishing her
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    • 1286 18 Mothers- in-law just can't get a break. Laura Bush recently referred to hers as "Don Corleone". And we hope JLo isn't having the kind of catfight sessions with Mama Anthony as she is with her on-screen mother-in-law, played by Jane Fonda in the not-too-endearingly titled flick Monster-In-Law,
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    • 607 18 IT'S no picnic trying to make a good impression. And it doesn't help matters if the person you're trying to impress already has a fixed and not too flattering view of you. At least that was how marketing executive Angie, 29, saw her tumultuous relationship
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    • 479 19  -  EmilynNg ngemilyn @sph.com.sg 1 > The monster-in-law concept is not a recent phenomenon. In Greek mythology, Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, forced her daughter-in-law Psyche to perform impossible tasks in order to win over her beloved
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    • 442 21  -  TrudyLim trudyfcsph.com.sg I DRIVE them around for 100 minutes at a time, and some of them drive me crazy. Undoubtedly, I drive them crazy too. They are the group of four driving instructors I have been assigned to at the driving school. And they are
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    • 611 22  -  JaniceWong tnp@sph.com.sg WHEN I was passed over for a promotion last year, the most disappointed person was not me but my mother. She always had high expectations of me and I have let her down again and again and again. After she had
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    • 401 22  -  WendyChang tnp@sph.com.sg I HAVE had enough of people peeing in public. I have been attending a rash of 21st birthday parties at chalets recentiy (including my own. Happy birthday to me!) and this "chalet hopping" meant that I visited White Sands a little more than
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    • 594 23 IF there's one thing I love to read in newspapers, it's letters from readers. I wish I had the job of replying to these letters because I love being able to make fun of people and them not being able to reply. Which is
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    • 373 31 Restrain Relax From the controlled tension of pilates to the noisy whoop-it-up music of bhangra aerobics, CELINE LIM (cellsf@sph. com.sg) tries it all BHANGRA AEROBICS IN one evening, I celebrated a harvest festival and a wedding in the Indian state of Punjab. And I didn't even step out of Yoga
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    • 362 31 SOMEONE should make me a Jedi. I did go through the rigorous mind and body training, after all. Oh wait... that was my one-on-one pilates class with Ms Dawn Sim, director of Dawn Gallet Pilates Studio, on Wednesday morning. And it wasn't Master Yoda, but Joseph Pilates who said:
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    • 326 32 regret not being able to spend time with her," he said. David and Janice married two years ago and began talking about starting a family soon after. However, his promotion and increasing workload meant that it was hard to spend quality time with his wife.
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    • 180 32 LIKE career development, good intimacy and communication between partners in a relationship or marriage are important investments. This couple should get down to serious business if they want to start a family because of Janice's age. The quality of her egg will deteriorate with time and the
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    • 289 33 I AM adivorcee with two children. I divorced my husband in 2003. Before the divorce, I was involved with a married man, L, for over seven years. The reason for my divorce had nothing to do with L. My husband was a violent
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    • 459 33  -  By Lim Swee Hong I THINK you need to take several steps back and consider what you really want out of life. You got out of a bad marriage with a violent man and now yoU are eager to marry a bankrupt. It sounds harsh but there's no point
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    • 764 34  -  IanTan tanyhi@sph .com. sg IF you follow our tech columns, you would think that we play games all daylong. Yeah right, we wish it were so. We TNP tech writers can only fire up our games once we have done all sorts of adult stuff like interviewing
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      340 36 THINGS are not boding well for Adrien Brody. The last we saw of him, his piano lessons were interrupted by the Gestapo. From there he went on to verbally check Halle Berry's breath at the Oscars. And now here he is, in a straight-jacket. Is it Ermengildo Zegna which Brody
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  • 334 40  -  Watercooler whispers /Guide FengZengKun zengkun@sph .com. sg Longevity. Aside from being a fitting first topic for this fortnightly column, it's also been the buzzword on the Big Three of reality shows Survivor Palau, The Amazing Race 7 and American Idol 4. Take Stephenie LaGrossa
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    • 563 41 pew Chicken Run My Wife Is 18 Hope Springs Love Of May The Blackwater Channel 5,7.45pm Channal U, 9pm Star Movies Calaitial Moviat Lightship This claymation adventure Hong Kong (SUrHubChs.),»pn. (SUrHubChsi), HjHmark (SUrHub Ch 17), follows the turbulent comedy about a Heartbroken after being t romance between two 30-year-old dumpedby
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    • 345 42 FULL FORCE (Race 2 No. 1) This Marinus van Breukelen-trained gelding came to hand yesterday week when, as the even-money favourite in a Class 5 Premier Div affair at Ipoh, he toyed with 10 rivals for most of the way before rocketing home by 2
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    • 1207 42 Yesterday's Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong results |H(| OmsSMv2 1J0 IHIIjiH -i2M{K) mtrnmmjm Nt. lart»nw HOME Wl Wrthi Jttay iwriw Vffmtjahu, Wmm—) 1 905-0- ROMANTIC SCHOLAR 57 (48) DChee 5 (4nzg Clarke-Silver Star) 2 *****3 BABYLON CREATION 56.5 (47) ISaifudin 6 (9agJBreukelen-Tigger/FoxChase)
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    • 156 43  -  MarcTan marc@sph.com.sg THE Singapore International Racing Festival, leading up to next Sunday's Singapore Airlines International Cup, kicked off yesterday on a classic note. Some 50 cars from Singapore and Malaysia were flagged off at Kranji in the Vintage Car Rally. Among the head-turners were a 1936 Rolls Royce,
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    • 127 43 RACE 1: Babylon Creation, Pacific Express, Lucky Pioneer, Hombre, Achiever. RACE 2: Happy Brigadier, Season Dancer, De Hoss, Gaya Unggul, Trust N Sincere, Sumizakura. RACE 3: Special Request, Mr Majestic, Diallog, Fox Action, Bushrange. RACE 4: Eanwright, Winning Ace, Breezy, Chevochelle, Strong N Free. RACE 5: Military Tycoon, Dinho,
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    • 733 44 Racel Class 5 Div 3 1200m (SC) 8 FAMILY MAM 53.5 (318-62) OChtf (2)10 8 1 3 JERAM EXPRESS 56 (100-20) BSt.warl (10) 5 3 2 10 SPY MASS 51.5 (55-12) SSanl (3) 9 10 3 Winning stable: KWB. Tralaar Damien Williams. Margies: Hd,
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    • 216 44  -  MarcTan marc@sph.com.sg JOCKEY Leong Yoon Fei, who scored on Sharp Spur at Kranji last Friday night, continued his good work at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Legging up on the John McGillivray-trained Celebrity Warrior in Race 3, slated as the Sungei Besi Special Stakes, Leong rode
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    • 631 44 I Race 1 Griffins 1000m I 3 OCEAN TRAMQUN. 123 (6-5).... 6 DANMMRM 116(78-12) 7 MOOPMTW1116(34-6) SDye (6) 1 RFradd 8; 2 A Oelpech (1) -3 Trainer C Fownes. Margins: 2 v*, 1V*. Time: 58.2sec. Forecast: $14. Tierce: $53. Coarse scratching#: Calcando,
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  • sports
    • F1 2005
      • 878 45 Wire Services. T UST call it "Fernando Hysteria" or "Alonso I Mania". By any name, Fernando Alonso's I homecoming in today's Spanish Grand Prix snould be unforgettable. About 10,000 fans from his birthplace in Asturias, Spain, are expected to arrive in about 50 buses
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      • 608 46 ERNEST: Hi, Ivan. I'm beginning to feel that Michael Schumacher has found a way to reverse my voodoo. His San Marino race performance was frightening. »IVAN: I think it would take much more than your voodoo to slow Schumacher down, Ernest. I wish he'd started much higher
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      • 713 47  -  By Ernest Luis npsportsQsph.comsg THE mystery of Ferrari's prancing horse haunts Barcelona this weekend. After watching Renault's Fernando Alonso hold off Michael Schumacher's charging Ferrari to win by a whisker at the end of the San Marino Grand Prix two weeks ago, the question remains. Just how
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    • 1449 48  -  HEART HEAkT LimHan Ming THE local golf fraternity was abuzz with excitement in 1999. That was the year when Lam Chih Bing, Singapore's top amateur golfer, turned professional. A bright future was painted for the wonderkid of Singapore golf. Many saw him
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      • 585 49 Reuters. SPAIN'S Sergio Garcia (left) mastered perplexing windy conditions to card a second round one-under-par 71 and retain his two-shot advantage at the Wachovia Championship. The first-round leader mixed three birdies with a pair of bogeys at the Quail Hollow Golf Club to move to seven-under 137 through
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      • 340 49 AP. ANNIKA Sorenstam's (right) path to her sixth consecutive victory—or missing the cut became a little more cluttered yesterday when rain washed out the second round of the Michelob Ultra Open. Heavy rain and high winds buffeted the course and the second round was
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      • 642 50 SK TELECOM OPEN AFP. LOCAL hero KJ Choi remained on course for a third Asian Tour victory in South Korea after posting a four-under-par 68 to draw level with overnight leader Andrew Buckle (below) after 54 holes in the SK Telecom Open.
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      • 175 50 AFP. ENGLISH rookie Richard Rnch set a new course record with a nine-under-par 63 in the Italian Open to take the lead in a European Tour event for the first time. Al2-under-par half-way total left finch one ahead of Welshman Bradley Dredge at the Castello di Tolcinasco
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    • 924 51  -  LimHan Ming npsports@ sph.com.sg SHE swears by the "F-word". Don't get the wrong idea though. You will never find Dr Lynda Wee barking the taboo four-letter expletive at her students at Republic Polytechnic. Rather, the "F-word" which the director of the Centre for Innovation
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    • 407 52 TIME is a precious commodity for Dr Lynda wee. Besides helming the Centre erf Innovation and Enterprise at Republic Polytechnic, the 41-year-olid also wears many other hats. Prior to joining Republic, she was the deputy director for the Centre for Problem-based Learning at Temasek Polytechnic.
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    • 768 53 SAILING: INTERVIEW WITH SINGAPORESAILING'S PRESIDENT. LOW TEO PING IT is spelt out clearly in their vision: "SINGAPOREANS taking to sailing as a national sport...". SingaporeSailing president LowTeo Ping makes no bones about the association's stand on foreign talent. It is something which Low staunchly believes in since
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    • 276 53 LOWTeo Ping is delighted at the ISO-9000 certification award Singapore Sailing received earlier this month. For one, it is proof that die sailing body is indeed functioning like a well-oiled machine. Secondly, he hopes that this could entice more parents to encourage their children to take up the
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    • 160 53 AS head of the Singapore sailing body, LowTeo Ping faces a unique challenge. "National service and school system" he said, when asked what are some of his biggest obstacles in bringing the sport to a higher level But aren't all National Sports Associations facing these
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    • 181 53 HE is a senior advisor of Citigroup Private Bank, with more than 35 years of experience in the banking industry. Recently, he was also elected vice-president and appointed treasurer of the International Sailing Federation. As chairman of the Singapore Water Sports Working Committee, he looks into
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        583 56 ARSENAL v LIVERPOOL PA Sport. DJIBRIL Cisse has his sights set on a place in Liverpool's Champions League final team. For the striker (above right, training with Steven Gerrard—extreme left—and Antonio Nunez), it will be a dramatic end to a season he thought had been ended by
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      • 225 56  - TEXT: By Brian Millar TEAM UPDATE: The Reds will be boosted by the return of Xabi Alonso to their midfield. Fernando Morientes is also available should Benitez need more firepower. Harry Kewell may be rested. Arsenal will still have to manage without Thierry Henry. Freddie Ljungberg is also certain to
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    • 692 57 [EPL si way cheers GENERAL J PA Sport. YOU will need to watch a match closely to appreciate fully the finer points of Frank Lampard's (below) midfield manoeuvres. The midfield axis of Lampard the East End boy from Romford and Claude Makelele the veteran battler from
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      • 597 58  -  By Andy Clayton SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Kkfc-ofl 3fM (UK Um| Middlesbrough: Schwarzer, Parnaby, Southgate. Ehiogu, Queudrue, Parlour, Boateng, Zenden (Doriva 78), Downing, Hasselbaink, Nemeth. Subs (not used): Reiziger, Cooper. Morrison, Knight. Booked: Southgate Tottenham: Cerny, Edman, King, Dawson, Kelly. Reid (Mido 69). Carrick. Davis. Davies, Kanoute (Ziegler 83).
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      • 303 58 PA Sport AIYEGBENIYAKUBU struck 12 minutes from time to earn Portsmouth a point, and end Bolton's Champions League hopes. He fired home from 18-yards out to level El Hadji Diouf's opener. Diouf started as the villain of the piece at Fratton Park following the incident in which
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      • 478 59  -  By Alex Lowe SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A LAST-GASP goal by Danny Higginbotham gave Southampton a precious point in their relegation nail-biter against Crystal Palace as Norwich moved out of the bottom three for the first time since January. The former Manchester United defender arrived at the far post
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      • 163 59 NORWICH gave themselves a Barclays Premiership lifeline with a priceless victory against Birmingham, who were reduced to 10 men at Carrow Road. The top-flight's bottom club were looking for a victory to enhance their prospects of beating the drop. And the Canaries got a boost when
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      • 218 59  -  By Ben Owen SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport SHAUN WRIGHTPHILLIPS and Kiki Musampa scored within 12 minutes to continue Manchester City's stunning run of form under caretaker boss Stuart Pearce with a 2-1 win away at Aston Villa. Villa were on a run of
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      • 880 60  -  EVERTON 2 (Weir 43rd min, Cahill CASTLE 0 David Weir and Tim Cahill scored the vital goals that left the blue half of Merseyside heaving a huge sigh of relief, 1 It could also have S put to death the red jM half s Champions League hopes foij
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    • 595 62 PA Sport. ROMAN Abramovich (above) broke his self-imposed silence to celebrate Chelsea's first tide in 50 years by pledging his long-term commitment to the club and vowing to make them the biggest in the world. This was before Claude Makelele's injury-time penalty snatched a 1 -0
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    • 118 61 Ceso EPL ARSENAL v LIVERPOOL Ch 23,11pm, tonight ITALIAN LEAGUE AC MILAN vJUVENTUS Ch 22,8.55pm, tonight BRESCIA v INTER-MILAN Ch 21,8.55pm, tonight LAZIO v UOINESE Ch 21,2.30 am, tomorrow SPANISH LEAGUE ESPANYOLvNUMANCIA Ch 22,10.55pm, tonight VALENCIA v BARCELONA Ch 22,12.55 am, tomorrow DEPORTIVOv A MADRID Ch 22,2.55 am, tomorrow F1:
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