The New Paper, 30 April 2006

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    • 1333 2  -  World Cup bankrupt on how betting ruined his life Joyce Lim joycel@sph .com. sg HE is a football fanatic but he is not exactly looking forward to the World Cup. Indeed, anything in the media on Berlin 2006 brings back sad memories of the
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    • 273 3 SHE came here to earn a living. But she left a year later, heavily in debt from soccer betting. The Malaysian, who wanted to be known only as Miss Tan, began by placing bets of $100 to $200 on World
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    • 665 4  -  NEVERMIND CHELSEA Vi BATTLE FOR EYEBALLS Election M Chelsea-Man U game or political rally-which did our heartianders pick? 06 Sytvia Toh Paik Choo paikchoo@sph.com.sg CHELSEA 0, Rally speakers 1. Well, metaphorically at least. Last night, Choa Chu Kang Park beat Stamford Bridge (Chelsea FC's homeground) as more
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    • 925 6  -  Battle fob minds For the constituency, W9m For the country Election -'06 ?y Eugene Wee cugenew@sph.com.sg TRUST was the thrust of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's rally speech at Yio Chu Kang stadium last night. Speaking to a crowd of about 1,000 standing in the rain-soaked
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    • 412 7  -  %l Low Ching Ling r* —„m k)wdQsph.com.sg FOR 10 minutes last night, Singapore Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan stole the attention of a 3,000-strong crowd—away from his own party-members on a rally stage at Woodlands Stadium. When he arrived, Dr Chee made his
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    • 220 7  -  By Karen Wong karcn<3)sph.comsg AS Workers' Party chief Low Thia Khiang left the Yishun rally site last night, he was mobbed by the crowd. Hundreds of his supporters swamped the two-lane road and chanted the party name, as he and WP's candidate for Nee
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    • 432 8  -  Clarence Chang and Hg Hui Hui tnpOspti.com.sg "STEVE CMa has my sympathy, but not my vote." The speaker Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong. At the last election in 2001, Mr Goh, then prime minister, had, in his own words, "personally support (ed)" Mr
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    • 803 8 SDA's Steve Chia bares his chequered past in book m /mm Battle for hearts in Chua Chu Kang Election '06 Iwas an ordinary, naughty and mischievous kid. Up until fifteen years of age, studies were the last thing on my mind. So, I am pretty thankful
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    • 339 9  -  Tan Mae Lynn maelyn n@sph.com. sg Will voters see Mr Steve Chia's confessional outpouring as an act of sincerity, or will it make them distrust him? Political observer and former Nominated MP Zulkifli Baharudin said that whether or not Mr
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    • 555 10  -  r BATTLE FOR TIME M A day in the lives of politicians Election '06 Mrs Lim Hwee Hua, Minister of State for Transport and Finance, is part of the PAP team in Aljunied GRC, a hot ward As told to Leong Ching tnp@sph.com.sg I AM
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    • 419 10  -  Workers' Party's Yaw Shin Leong, 30, is an e-business analyst and is taking on PM Lee in Ang Mo Kio GRC As told to Leng Ching tnp@sph.com.sg I wake up and shower, usually at around 7.30 am. Then, I have
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    • 1074 12  -  Woman quits job after boss' warning on Instant Messaging Joyce Lim joycel@sph.com.sg IT'S something that many do quietly on their office computers chat using instant messaging (IM). And some are so hooked on it that work becomes secondary. One 25-year-old professional was so addicted to IM
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    • 257 12 Psychologically, it is very similar to people who are addicted to surfing the Internet or playing computer games. "It's constantly Interactive, If you have a chat box popping up every live to 10 minutes, it's no different from having someone walk in to your
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    • 662 13  -  The show cannot be freely advertised and sales may be slow but... Esther Au Yong estheray® sph.com.sg YOU may describe the Crazy Horse revue as an artistic and exotic show for sophisticated viewers. But not many viewers, sophisticated or otherwise, are turning up to appreciate it. Could
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    • 384 13 SEX sells, or so they say. But in Singaffftre, it's actually a tough job trying to promote shows which feature half-naked women. That's the predicament faced by Eng Wah, which brought in the famous Parisian cabaret act at the cost of $7 million last year. One
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    • 622 14  - Bitter divorce of Nurse-turned-TAI-TAI CRAFTY hubby Karen Woeg karen@sph.com.sg SHE was a housewife, while her husband ran a restaurant business. When he sold the business, it marked a turning point in the couple's fortunes. They became millionaires. There is no fairy-tale ending. Their marriage soured sometime between 1994 and 1998.
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    • 226 14 WHILE the husband must be given due credit for his efforts in building up his business, the wife had "contributed significantly" to the acquisition and maintenance of the family's properties, said Districi Judge TeGh Ai Lin. She described the wife as a "resourceful
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    • 338 14 HE was a student and part-time hotel > cashier and she, a nurse. That was when they first met in London. It was a hard but dogged climb to the top of the society ladder, which began when they moved to Singapore after their marriage in 1971. They
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    • 866 15  -  Flashy cars and bling are so yesterday. The way to flash these daysis to be... Desmond Ng desmofxlo@sph.com.sg WOULD you wear your HDB flat on your nose? That's what donning this pair of sunnies (above) amounts to. The gold-plated, handcrafted shades cost a cool US$l4B,OOO ($240,000) the price
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      581 16  -  Fun, food, shopping movie treats for The New Paper's weekend subscribers Tan Mae Lynn maetynnOsph.com.sg IT'S our way of saying "thank you". This weekend, subscribers of the Saturday and/or Sunday editions of The New Paper were invited for some fun, food and shopping at Tampines Mall, arranged specially for
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    • 429 17 M'sian teacher daims he's attacked after asking students about motorbike parked at prohibited lot in school TWO schoolgirls allegedly attacked a male teacher in the compound of their school in Sungai Petani, Kedah, on Wednesday. The teacher, who is in his 40s and declined to
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    • 157 17 AFP Taachar and singla mum from Islamic Dagestan seeks rafuga in France IF teacher Sakinat Amiralieva (above) had lived in Russia itself, having a child out of wedlock would not have raised an eyebrow. But in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, it caused a major scandal.
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    • 234 17 SLOW and steady no longer wins the race in Terengganu. The Malaysian state has upset wildlife conservationists by dumping the turtle as its mascot in favour of the zippier clownfish. It's a bid by Terengganu to ramp up its image ahead of hosting
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    • 632 18 Frantic search for UK law graduate holidaying in Sydney SHE called her sister in England to say how excited she was to be going home. Then, she stopped off at a casino en route to her own farewell party in Sydney and gambled away
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      • 66 19 The sooner and more we take the price of gasoline up and keep it there the sooner we can bring it down forever. If we want to make wind, solar and biomass more competitive, gasoline has to cost more, not less. Thomas L Friedman in .1, i,. .>l<i».
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      • 75 19 Reuters. CHINA'S legislature has ratified an extradition treaty with Spain which includes a pledge not to execute repatriated criminals. It paves the way for more judicial cooperation with Western countries, in China's fight to bring back thousands of officials who have absconded with government funds. The
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      • 98 19 ONE of Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorists escaped capture when Indonesian security forces launched a raid on his hideout early yesterday, sparking a gun battle that left two militants dead, police said. Noordin Top, a key leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah, was not in the house
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      • 179 19 THARMAN: BRIDGES BETWEEN COURSES AND STREAMS* 2ND CHANCES-. HOW can we prepare for the challenges coming in 10 to 15 years or even those that may catch us by surprise? That was the issue raised by the Education Minister. His simple answer By the
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      • 116 19 AFP. MORE than 14,600 people were killed as 11,000 terrorist attacks were carried out in the world last year, the US government said on Friday. The State Department's Country Reports on Terrorism 2005 said Iraq, plagued by an insurgency and rising sectarian violence, accounted for just
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      • 202 19 AP. AT least a dozen people who had routine operations in the US claim they caught deadly viruses and other germs from body parts stolen from corpses, in a scandal that has sent hundreds of people for tests. The patients tested positive
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      • 46 19 As petrol prices shoot up, some drivers are deliberately running dry on California freeways and waiting for rescue. The state, which has some of the highest pump prices in the US, also offers a free gallon of petrol and other basic assistance to stranded motorists.
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    • 450 20 PERFECT BABES THEIR BODY WOES S'pore women hate their tummies, poll of 260 reveals LOCAL women are an unhappy lot. They fret, they worry, they wonder if it can get any better. We're talking about their bodies. The New Paper on Sunday polled 260 women aged between 18 and 40
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    • 251 20 WE may have salivated over über-babe Fiona Xie's hot bod as she ran down Orchard Road in a bikini for the TV drama serial The Champions. But the actress doesn't think much of her own body. "I'm imperfect. I have many many
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    • 616 21  -  Tan Mae Lynn maelynn@sph.com.sg SHE is Miss Singapore Universe 2006 and also Miss Body Beautiful. Miss Carol Cheong has the beauty and body that many women can only dream of. But, like many women, she feels there is still room
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    • 676 23  -  Edwin Yeo Columnist LAST Sunday, this paper ran a news feature on the increasing number of wives who like to keep men on the side for "fun". It talked of a wife who liked variety. I can tell you that I got extremely
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    • 538 24  -  They make expensive mistakes too Howardlo Columnist T HERE are lots of things that we as j a society leave unsaid. We tend to give ourselves too much credit and think very highly of ourselves when there isn't any reason to. Many of you
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    • 460 25  -  Dolores Tay Columnist MANY articles ago, I wrote about my May-December relationship with a special someone. And even though "kaypoh" (busybody) relatives and friends bugged me no end after that, I'm glad I had the guts to walk the talk. Recently, I've become Agony Aunt
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  • 691 31 Desperate Housewives confesses... -U Show RAW candour. This best describes the latest revelations by Ten Hatcher, star of Desperate Housewives, who has bared the secrets of her private life and loves in a book. Her compelling memoir, Burnt Toast And Other Philosophies Of
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    • 478 34 rc »j Aru THE NEW HW ON SUNDAY, 30 Apr 2006 Pact 39 The Sweetest Thing Johnson Family Vacation I Hi Channel S, 1030pm Star Movies (Starttub Ch 58), 9p«n A giri is forced to teach herself the etiquette of While on a road trip to attend a family reunion,
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    • 289 37  -  Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg ■WT-THEREST may be eight years old jL but the evergreen New JLXLZealand-bred is still good as gold. So, it can pay to follow him in this afternoon's RM400.000 ($180,000) Perak Derby in Race 5 at Ipoh. After all, Xtherest probably has
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    • MAD ABOUT GOLF
      • 623 39  -  FOCUS ON RGS SQUAD AL R.Dizon npsports@s ph.com. sg IN an institution with a long history such as Raffles Girls School, golf is a relatively new Co-Curricular Activity. But typical of the school's culture and ethos, the RGS golf squad established in 2003 with a group
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        469 40 ZURICH CLASSIC AFP. X OE Durant fired an eight-under par 64 on I Friday to claim a two-stroke lead at the I halfway point of the US$6 million ($9.5 m) Zurich Gassic in New Orleans. Durant had a 36-hole total of 12-under 132. Brett Wetterich, playing in
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      • 292 40 AFP. LOCAL favourite Lee Sung battled yesterday to retain his two-stroke lead at the US$6OO,OOO ($949,000) Caltex Maekyung Open, firing a three-under par 69 in the third round. The 26-year-old posted a three-day total of 14-under par 202 going into today's
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      • 834 41 AS the international phase of the European Tour's 2006 schedule draws to a dose, and the tournaments start to follow a more literal geographical plan, so to speak, it's worth pausing for a moment to briefly reflect on the extraordinary transformation the pro game has undergone in
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      • 318 42 Reuters. AMERICAN golfer Michelle Wie received a rapturous reception yesterday when she arrived in South Korea, her parents' home country, for her latest brush with male opposition next week. The Hawaii-born 16-year-old, the top draw at the Asian Tour's SK Telecom Open at
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      • 346 42 AFP. KIM Ml HYUN, seeking her first LPGA Tour win since 2002, grabbed a one-shot lead on Friday in the inaugural LPGA Ginn Clubs and Resorts Open. The diminutive South Korean signed for a six-under par 66 for a one-shot lead over Lorena
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    • 954 43  -  Bosses Our weekly Sporty Bosses column has boon put on the bench until the end of the World Cup. In its place, wo bring you the World Cup Bosses where we feature the movers and shakers responsible for bringing the World Cup experience closer to you AL R-Dizon
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    • 75 43 "I like the English Premier League above all else. Its players play with passion, the action is fast paced, genuine, and at times brutal. And the players genuinely want to play their best for their fans. "And I believe the environment for football is just excellent—the clubs,
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    • 197 43 "At LG, we emphasise teamwork and team play. Each individual has his own unique capabilities, competencies, roles and experience. However, without teamwork, we cannot perform well. Therefore we work as a team. We emphasise team spirit, team performance. "Now during the Word Cup month, we will
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    • WORLD CUP WATCH
      • 504 44  -  Htrt art Groups A and B of the final 32 candidates of the TNP/Nikon Soccer Babe Search and who ttiay think will win tha World Cup. Tha top two from aach group will advance to Round Two. Results will be announced on Friday. The Soccer Babe
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    • 273 48 Wire Services. PORTUGAL'S Brazilian coach Luiz Felipe Scolari blamed his shock pullout from the race to become England manager on Friday because of unbearable media intrusion. Ever since his name surfaced earlier in the week as the most likely candidate to succeed
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      • 429 49 PA Sport. TOTTENHAM Hotspur are hoping that winning their two remaining Premiership games would secure them fourth place and a place in the Champions League next season. That's provided Arsenal do not beat Barcelona in this season's final on 17 May. Spurs host Bolton today and face
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        631 50  -  By KEN GAUNT SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport Birmingham were left despondent as their four-season stint in the Premiership came to an end in front of their home fans. They did manage to secure a point against Newcastle, but it was not enough with Portsmouth winning at Wigan.
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      • 332 51  -  Middlesbrough ............0 Everton ......................1 Everton: McFadden (89) Kktaff 3pn (UK time) MIDDLESBROUGH: Jones, McMahon, Wheater, Ehiogu, Taylor, Morrison, Parlour, Dorlva (Cattermole 72), Johnson, Christie (Graham 72), Yakubu Subs (not used): Knight, Davies, Bates Booked: Cattermole, Parlour EVERTON: Wright (Turner 54), Ybbo, Weir, Stubtos,
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    • CHAMPIONS 2005/06 EPL
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      • 91 53 [w a 1.1 ALL hail Chelsea the Champs. It's been a long 10-month ride, full of twists and turns. But finally Chelsea have captured their second successive Premiership title. Unquestionably, the wealthy London giants have been the most dominant force in the Premiership this season. Is this
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    • EPL
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      • 616 57 Wire Services. CHELSEA boss Jose Mourinho celebrated a personal milestone of four league titles in a row with his team's Premier League championship victory yesterday and threw his Premiership tide winners' medal and his club blazer into the crowd as the title celebrations got underway at Stamford
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