Streats, 2 July 2001

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  • Title Section
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    18 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets MON PAY 2 July 2001 Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Come on, be a sport
    338 1  -  PM Goh unveils plan for Sporting Singapore by PETER SIOW FANCY a game of football? Or tennis? Or badminton? No problem. Visit a nearby school and just do it. The school of the future will have facilities for both students and the public. The purpose:
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    Lock icon SPORTS EXCELLENCE
    47 1 coss aims to turn National Sports Associations into effective organisations for developing athletes and promoting sports to the masses. The proposed Sports School will receive support from top-class coaches and advanced sports science services. There will also be scholarship programmes, career planning and endowment schemes.
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    Lock icon SPORTS FOR ALL
    53 1 SINGAPORE does not need to have medal-winning athletes to benefit from sports. It is especially important for its youths to understand this. Lessons from sports cannot always be taught in a classroom winning and losing gracefully, the killer instinct, compassion, teamwork, fair play, sportsmanship. These are lessons
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    Lock icon SPORTS INDUSTRY
    51 1 SINGAPORE needs to organise events like the Tiger 5s futsal (indoor football). Competing nations are beginning to see Singapore as the capital of futsal. Its hot and humid climate also makes for extremely challenging endurance events. The Singapore International Marathon has the potential to grow into a world-renowned
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  • morning rush
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      Lock icon Workers, don't be picky
      105 1 WHEN the Manpower Ministry tried to help 800 retrenched workers by directing them to about 400 vacancies only 170 responded. That was because the working conditions were different from what the workers were used to. Of the 170,50 didn’t even bother to stay for the interview
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      Lock icon It's easiest to do business in S'pore
      90 1 SINGAPORE is the easiest Asian country to do business with, followed by Hongkong and Malaysia. A survey by the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (Perc) reported that, on a scale of zero to 10 with zero being the best possible grade and 10,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Laughing lessons for commuters
      88 1 STOCKHOLM Swedish commuters are getting laughing lessons. The idea comes from mass transit owner Connex Tunnelbanan which believes that getting passengers to smile will make them feel more positive about rush-hour travel, reports Ananova. A spokeswoman for Connex said: “It’s often stressful on the subway. This
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Gutsy grandpa, 72, chased criminal
      351 2  -  He receives commendation from police by DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM A GREAT-GRANDFATHER who chased a suspect for 50m and nabbed him with the help of a neighbour was yesterday commended by the police. On May 16, Mr Supar Shuib, a 72-year-old retired printing technician, saw a suspiciouslooking
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      Lock icon New campaign to push CaseTrust
      228 2  -  by STEPHANIE GOH LAUNCHED in 1999, and re-launched three months ago, Case Trust is an accreditation scheme to promote good business practices in shops and online stores. Which means what exactly? The Consumer Association of Singapore’s; (Case) has just launched a month-long publicity drive to
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      Lock icon Pig-headed
      71 2 morningsmile A man is driving down a road when he sees a woman driving in the opposite direction. As they pass each other, the woman leans out the window and yells: "PIG!" The man immediately leans out of his window and yells back: "IDIOT" As the man rounds the
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      Lock icon Police arrest l0 in swoop High-tech 4D racket
      371 3  -  by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM POLICE raided what they believe was the operations centre and six collection centres for an illegal 4D lottery at the weekend. Ten suspects were arrested, but the mastermind is still at large after the Saturday afternoon raids. Thirty-nine officers were
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      Lock icon How the lottery racket worked
      159 3 THE lottery was based on the numbers drawn in the genuine 4D lottery. Punters would place bets with operators at the collection centres either personally or via the telephone. Bets were then collected and faxed to the operation centre at Telok Blangah, where they were
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    • Article
      Lock icon Fatal beating in Little India
      233 3  -  Deepa Vijiyasingam A 44-YEAR-OLD man was beaten to death outside a shophouse near Serangoon Road on Saturday night. Residents in the area told Streats that witnesses had seen the man quarrelling with two other men just before he was found bleeding and unconscious. Police believe
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      Lock icon Cars, cars, cars at Car-nival 2001
      122 5  -  by KAREN CHEN CAR-CRAZY Singaporeans were to be found in droves at Marina South Carpark B yesterday. More than 60,000 people attended Car-nival 2001, the biggest such event since 1996. And even before Car-nival officially opened, with a parade of samba dancers and stilt
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      Lock icon Kiasu motorists throng carpark The $1 jam
      345 5  -  by SARAH NG they block access to a carpark for up to a half an hour just to save a dollar. Miserly motorists who want to enter Central Business District for free vesort to hanging around in a carpark at North Bridge Road,
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      98 5 Our weather girl says Hi! I'm Peggy Ho your new weathergirl. Finally, a day that I can do without my brolly! The skies would be partly cloudy today, though, and it would be rather warm. So it's a good day to put on your swimsuit and go for a dip.
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon Check this out
        56 5 What makes a good photograph or video? View the best entries submitted for the NTU Photo-Videographic Society competition and see how technical expertise, conceptualisation, uniqueness and novelty all play a part making the perfect image. Lights, Camera, Action! Exhibition is on at The Substation Gallery till July
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        Lock icon Check it out Great S'pore Bargain...
        55 5 Are you looking for good timepieces? Then make you way < to Mustafa Centre where you can get an Omega Gent's watch f for only $2,560 (usual $3,200); or a Longines gold-plated one for only $990 (usual $1,320). Mustafa Centre at Serangoon Plaza, 145SyedAlwi
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  • Streatsmart interchange
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      Lock icon Overworked maid needs advice
      307 4  -  Neil Wilkinson I KNOW of a maid who has worked for the last six months without a single day off. She works from sam and has to wash and polish the family car. Her work continues till 2am, when she is allowed to sleep on a
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    • Article
      Lock icon Let us travel north easily
      103 4  -  Triston Yip SINCE last year, residents of Sengkang have asked, through the media, for a bus service from their area to Yishun, Sembawang and Woodlands. To date, there still is no such service. Does the Land Transport Authority have any intention to provide such a
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    • Article
      Lock icon Offended by nudity in NC-16 movie
      83 4  -  -Caleb Sim I AM deeply concerned about censorship failings in Singapore. I was offended that frontal nudity (bare breasts) has been permitted in the movie Swordfish. It has been rated NC-16. Does it mean that it is all right for anyone aged 16 or
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    • Article
      Lock icon He gave change so that I could eat
      67 4 onekindact Happy eater HAD only a $5O note, and neither of the food stallholders I approached had enough change. The man at the soya bean drink stall at O2-13 Golden Shoe Food Centre helped me by lending me a $2 note and
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      Lock icon Smacks and balances for a civil society
      626 6 THE term “gracious society” has been bandied about so often that I’ve come to regard it as some unattainable, lofty ideal. Therefore, it came as a surprise when I found graciousness as common as udon during a recent trip to Tokyo that is,
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Communist Party membership seen boosting job prospects Membership that's in vogue
      383 9 -AFP BEIJING China’s youth think membership to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will help them land a good job. As the CCP celebrated its 80th birthday yesterday, it is boasting increased membership and younger members. It now has has
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      Lock icon Jiang: I'm in the Mao, Deng league
      168 9 -AFP BEIJING China’s President Jiang Zemin yesterday put himself on a par with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. In a speech marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the China’s Communist Party (CCP), Mr Jiang expounded a broad agenda for building a
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      Lock icon How do they rate?
      41 10 webcites CHECK out the latest films to hit our shores and ratings assigned them by the Films and Publications Department You will also be able to find out whether the films were cut Visit appJnternet.gov.sg/scripts/ fpd/ApprovedFilms/Latest asp.
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      Lock icon Aussie defence chief cites military cyber threat, fears Might of the mouse
      238 10 Wire services SYDNEY-The mouse could in future replace warheads as Asia’s biggest security threat, Australia’s military chief fears. Admiral Chris Barrie said that more than 30 nations had advanced cyberwar capabilities and Australia was among the nations most
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      Lock icon Fiji Red Cross chief slain
      199 10 Reuters SUVA A key mediator in last year’s Fiji political hostage crisis and his housemate were found stabbed to death at their Suva home yesterday. Red Cross Society director John Scott, 53, and Gregory Scrivner, 39, were found by a servant at about 9am (Bam
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      Lock icon N Koreans took long road to South asylum
      112 10 -AP SEOUL A family of seven North Koreans have finally reached asylum in Seoul after a two-and-a-half year journey that took them through China, Singapore and Manila. The seven a couple, their two children, two grandparents and a nephew were on Saturday
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    • Article
      Lock icon State hit by dotcom bust Penang tightens belt amid e-slump
      293 11 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Penang “Pulau Silicon” home to hundreds of electronic companies, is bracing for a lean year. Chief Minister KohTsu Koon said the major challenge faced by his government was to ensure minimum impact of the global slowdown on
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      Lock icon Shark's-fin-free dinner at Chen bethrothal
      122 11 Reuters TAIPEI Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian’s daughter was betrothed yesterday in a shark’s-fin-soup-free traditional ceremony and banquet. The caterer for the banquet at which the president’s 26year old daughter, Chen Hsingyu, and orthopaedic surgeon Chao Chien-ming exchanged e ngagement rings said the Politically incorrect soup
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      Lock icon Campaign to stop air rage
      129 11 Reuters TOKYO Japanese flight attendants from 12 airlines fanned out in airports nationwide at the launch of a month-long campaign to combat air rage among travellers. Bowing flight attendants at Tokyo’s Narita and Haneda airports and at Kansai, near Osaka handed out more than 100,000
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      Lock icon Villages to get 1m baht each
      134 11 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand is to start doling out cash to 70,000 villages, in line with one of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s election promises. Mr Thaksin’s pledge to grant every village a million baht ($40,000) investment fund was credited with helping him secure a runaway
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Anti-Asian attacks again in Britain
      118 12 Reuters LONDON A family of Asian origin narrowly escaped with their lives after their home was fire-bombed in the worst of several racially-motivated attacks in northern England over the weekend. A spokeswoman for Lancashire police said two shops one of them beneath the family’s home
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    • weird world
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        Lock icon Synchronised proposal
        72 12 AMSTERDAM A Dutch man proposed to his girlfriend using synchronised swimming, reported Ananova.com. Alex Vellekoop plunged into the river Aa in Zoetermeer with his friends, near the riverside restaurant where his lover Wendy Krens was partying on the terrace. They popped up signboards spelling out “Wendy, do you
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        Lock icon Sri Lanka gets dung-ho
        78 12 -AFP COLOMBO Sri Lankan is getting more eco-friendly to attract tourists. A company has taken recycling to a new level by making paper from elephant dung. Up-market hotels are presenting their menus bound in boards made of recycled dung. “It is a conversa- tion piece. People
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        Lock icon Wife has cheat stroke
        53 12 BUCHAREST Forty-five-year-old Corina Stoica suffered a stroke when she found her husband Viorel having sex in the shower with the neighbour’s wife, reported Ananova.com. Mrs Stoica had come home four hours early. She collapsed on the spot and was taken to hospital. Doctors have ruled out
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        Lock icon Suncream for white asses
        62 12 PLYMOUTH, England The owners of a donkey sanctuary have placed a huge order for suncream to protect the animals, reported Ananova.com. The Donkey Sanctuary in Devon has ordered £l,OOO worth ($2,500) of baby suntan lotion bottles for its 3,500 white donkeys. They can suffer ill-effects of
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        Lock icon Leftovers for chickens
        68 12 BRUSSELS Residents of a Belgium village, Schelle, have been offered a free chicken each to help cut down on waste, said online news agency Ananova. According to the local council, chickens can reduce food waste by being fed with the leftovers. The council has offered every household
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      Lock icon In Tamil Nadu's tit-for-tat politics Jayalalitha has her revenge
      288 13  -  by PRADEEPMENON REVENGE. That’s what chief minister Jayaram Jayalalitha of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu took when she got former chief minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi arrested on alleged corruption charges. She had vowed, in the run-up to the recent elections
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      Lock icon What next for her?
      178 13 FORMER chief minister M Karunanidhi’s arrest has invoked sharp criticism from the federal government. The action of the Tamil Nadu governor Ms Fathima Beevi, too, has not gone down well with the federal government headed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Ms Beevi, in a report
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      Lock icon TV bares all
      124 13 MADRAS Seeing is believing. And Ms Jayaram Jayalalitha would have understood that by now. No matter what she has to say on Mr Muthuvel Karunanidhi’s arrest (right), the world has seen the drama unfold on TV. The blow-by-blow footage of Mr Karunanidhi’s arrest was aired by SUN
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      Lock icon Another depressed mother kills her children
      136 13 -AP ROME A 36-year-old woman reportedly suffering from depression has been accused of stabbing her two young sons to death. Kuleva Jadranka allegedly used a kitchen knife to stab her boys Giuseppe, six, and Michele, four on Friday at their home outside Rome, news
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      Lock icon Kids quizzed for bribery
      74 13 Reuters COLOMBO Kids in Grade One in Sri Lanka have been questioned by bribery commission officers on whether their parents forged documents to get them enrolled into top schools. Officials recorded statements from 50 children at one of the leading schools in the town of Kandy
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      485 13 *****9 W mm wm YOUR l.t #p j IQQWIfeuJ In love with you *****1 Love me for a reason *****2 Promise me *****3 Right here waiting *****4 Truly madly deeply *****5 Blue *****6 9PM (til I come) *****7 It's a fine day *****8 Take on me *****9 Dying inside to
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Bush-Koizumi praise each other as Leaders hit it off
      417 14 -AP CAMP DAVID, Maryland George W Bush and Junichiro Koizumi have been patting each other on the back. They seemed to be getting on well at their first meeting, as was evident at Saturday’s rather playful news conference. Mr Koizumi began
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      Lock icon Gus Dur 'ambushes' police chief
      279 14 -AP JAKARTA I What’s Gus Dur up to now? He’s I directing the latest episode of the seemingly r endless saga over his leadership. He announced at a cere- mony yesterday that he’s moved the police chief who defied his orders to a new post
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      Lock icon He's won $ 1.8 m... but isn't taking it
      190 14 He's won 1.8 m... but isn't taking it KANSAS CITY A US company wants to give US$l million ($l.B million) away. But the winner of its sweepstakes draw refuses to take it. H&R Block Inc announced that a Philadelphia-area man won the money in its Million Dollar Giveaway sweepstakes. But
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      Lock icon How do you feel about putting children up in the spotlight?
      274 14 Last week 20 finalists at the Little Miss Singapore Talent Contest2ool performed 2-minute talent segments, modelled in party dresses and answered questions Just one Children can be spoilt without joining a contest like that I never regret I let
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon Channel surfing
      464 15  -  With a new TCS English sitcom, Boarding Now, and a lead role in an upcoming Channel U drama series, actor Steven Lim shows that there is more to him than playing David Tay in Growing Up by Diana Ser IN THE coming season of Growing Up, you will
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      Lock icon Healthy char kuay teow
      321 18  -  i 1 11 f v- two shoes by Judi Low WHEN in Sydney, don’t be surprised to find char kuay teow at food courts and on the menus of some Chinese restaurants there. This age-old hawker favourite is so widely enjoyed, it has infiltrated foreign shores.
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      Lock icon where to go
      83 18 Christina Choy recommends you try nasi lemak at Babafong, #O2-19, China Square. She says: "This is a nasi lemak stall which opened recently. The set is only $2.50 with a choice of chicken wing or chicken drumstick. You will also get fish, egg, nuts and ikan bilis.
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      • Today's mustsee TV...
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          Lock icon BECKER
          43 18 10pm, TV Works New series starring Ted Danson (Cheers, Three Men and a Baby) as doctor John Becker, whose pet peeves include trashy television talk shows and sleazy car salesmen, as well as caring for an HIV-positive seven-year-old patient. Worth a look.
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          Lock icon HEALING HEARTS
          49 18 9pm, Channel U The operation on Paul is successful and Sam decides to return to Hongkong with him. However, her vow to serve God troubles her and Paul finds that his injuries have affected his surgical skills and he has to be transferred to the medical department.
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          Lock icon THE NEGOTIATOR
          80 18 6.50 pm, Channel 5 Top hostage negotiator Danny Roman (Samuel L Jackson) is framed for his partner’s murder and implicated in a conspiracy. As the deck stacks against him, he becomes desperate and grabs four hostages. The rest of the movie weaves this explosive gambit together with Roman’s
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          Lock icon SONIC IMPACT
          97 18 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) Aboard a commercial air- i liner at J 30,000 feet, y Jeremy 1 Barrett (Michael Harris), a brilliant, but psychotic criminal, escapes while being transported to a penal facility and takes control of the plane. He threatens to crash the plane into a major
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      Lock icon Time's America's Best Lee Ang named best director
      230 20 Reuters NEW YOfflC Taiwanese film maker Lee Ang, whose movies range from high-flying Chinese martial arts films to tales of US Civil War soldiers, was named America’s best director by Time magazine. In Time’s first ever America’s Best series, which will hit
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      Lock icon Another go for Battlestar
      151 20 ANOTHER TV series from the ’7os will apparently get second wind. Bryan Singer, the director of X-Men and its sequel, has just sealed a deal to make a TV pilot for a new Battlestar Galactica. The two-hour show will feature the next generation of fighters battling
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      Lock icon Desperately seeking limelight
      177 21 WHAT do you do when you’re an over-the-hill actress desperately in need of some media attention? Hongkong actress Gong Xuehua has the answer: Claim you’re somehow linked to the current media favourite. Gong, who made news years ago by being one of the oldest contestants in a
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      Lock icon Norika-Aaron love tryst?
      198 21 YOU would think that with all the rumours circulating about Japanese sex bomb j Norika Fujiwara and Hongkong heartthrob Aaron Kwok, the two would be more discreet. Norika flew into Hongkong secretly on Friday night, apparently to film a Fuji Film ad with Aaron. In order to
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      Lock icon Top seed could finally end up losing Shaky Sampras
      372 24 -AP, WIMBLEDON-Within the next seven days, barring rain delays, we will learn whether Pete Sampras has justified the No 1 seeding he received despite not having won a tournament since last year’s Wimbledon. Based on his performance during the first week
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