The Malay Mail back issues from April 2000:
Playing together as a team
Apr 01, 2000; ... TIME is running out but National Juniors coach Yahya Atan (right)still wants the team to play together as a cohesive unit for thetough Junior Asia Cup campaign early next month, reports MustaphaKamaruddin. And that is why Yahya is looking forward to the four practicematches ...
Mega Success could strike again
Apr 01, 2000 ... LAST-START winner Mega Success drew attention to his chances of aback-to- back success in the Class 4 event over 2000m in Race 4tomorrow with a relaxed workout in Ipoh yesterday. Taken out by his winning jockey David O'Heare, the five-year-oldAustralian gelding by Al Khawaaneeg ...
Clubs going for the big time
Apr 01, 2000; ... A TOTAL of 16 clubs will compete in the 2000 FAM Cup qualifyingtournament starting tomorrow at four venues in Shah Alam - the Sirimground, Perindu ITM ground, ITM Stadium and Matsushita Stadium. The teams, divided into four groups, will play a one-round leaguewith the champion of ...
Going out with a bang
Apr 01, 2000; ... ON THE THOMAS CUP This Thomas Cup edition is really something special to me. At 32,I don't foresee myself playing a role in the next edition in twoyears' time. As such, I hope to celebrate my swansong on a high note,especially when we have been granted the advantage of being ...
Selangor counting on duo to deliver
Apr 01, 2000; ... SELANGOR are banking on Rezal Hassan and Faizal Esahar to do mostof the damage on FA Cup champions Kuala Lumpur at Shah Alam Stadiumtonight. Rezal, who rejoined Selangor after turning out for Negri Sembilanlast season, has struck a strong combination with newcomer Faizal,the ace ...
What me worry?
Apr 01, 2000; ... DEFENDING champions Kuala Lumpur may have been facing hitches inthe run- up to the FA Cup second round return leg but coach Mat ZanMat Aris is optimistic his team will pull through tonight at ShahAlam Stadium. With the two teams finely balanced at 1-1 after the first leg,Mat Zan ...
Calm before the storm
Apr 01, 2000; ... LORIS CAPIROSSI, once the wild man of the 500cc, has calmed downand wisened up enough to perhaps finally conquer that class. And that's starting to show when he gained the 500cc provisionalpole position of the Malaysian GP ahead of Kenny Roberts Jr and MaxBiaggi at the Sepang F1 ...
What's eating Roberts Jr?
Apr 01, 2000 ... THE heat is on for defending Malaysian GP 500cc champion KennyRoberts Jr. The Californian did not start off badly when he took second placein the first qualifying practice at the Sepang F1 circuit yesterday. But something's eating Roberts Jr and it's going to take a wholelot ...
Petronas to groom two calibre riders
Apr 01, 2000 ... MALAYSIA could soon have two local riders as good as if notbetter than Shahrol Yuzy Ahmad Zani to race against the world'sbest. Shahrol's outfit Team Petronas Sprinta TVK plan to push theriders so that they will be good enough to race in the 250cc classin the 2002 GP ...
Nakano, Jacque the ones to beat
Apr 01, 2000; ... FOUR riders who are expected to dominate tomorrow's finish in the250cc race turned on the heat on each other in the first officialpractice at Sepang yesterday. However, by the end of the day, the two Chesterfield Yamaha Tech3 riders, Olivier Jacque and Shinya Nakano proved the ...
Elvin wins gold in Pusan
Apr 01, 2000 ... SEA Games gold medallist Elvin Chia conquered Asia yesterday whenhe took the 100m breastroke title in the 6th Asian SwimmingChampionship in Pusan, South Korea. Elvin, who took the Asian Games silver medal in Bangkok'98,stopped the clock at 1:03.79 minutes to beat ...
Shock to find son's a gangster
Apr 01, 2000; ... TAN NAI BUE had to do yesterday what a mother dreads most - visither teenage son at the police lock-up. Her 15-year-old boy (name withheld), a Form Two student ofSekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tun Tuah, Bachang, Malacca, was arrestedfor beating up a fellow student ...
Bring back the magic
Apr 01, 2000; ... IF BAM were to base their selection on current form, RoslinHashim wouldn't be in the Malaysian team for next month's Thomas Cupchallenge. But still fresh on their mind was Roslin's rousing performance inthe previous edition of the Cup in Hong Kong two years ago. And that ...
Rear-a-dope
Apr 01, 2000; ... NO checking a remand prisoner's anus unless dope is suspected ofbeing concealed there. Dang Wangi police yesterday said they have taken every possiblemeasure to ensure no hanky-panky in their lock-up - short ofchecking the anus of each prisoner. "We must realise they are ...
Elite coming together
Apr 01, 2000; ... REUNITED! - original members Abby and Linda of Elite, who leftthe group for various reasons, are now back in the gang. Arbaieyah Abdul Manan, 22, or better known as Abby Abadi - wholeft for personal reasons, now plans to focus on taking the group togreater heights. Linda ...
Why Mahfuz did not lodge report
Apr 01, 2000; ... POKOK SENA MP Mahfuz Omar commended the Dang Wangi police stationfor the "reform" they had initiated in combating the problem he hadhighlighted in Parliament on Thursday. "I hope it will be emulated by all police stations in thecountry. It will certainly help dispel the negative ...
Form cadet units call
Apr 01, 2000 ... ALL secondary schools in Selangor have been told to form a schoolpolice cadet unit or crime-prevention club to inculcate discipline,civic- mindedness and healthy activities among pupils. State Chief Police Officer, Deputy Commissioner Datuk Nik IsmailNik Yusuf, said the move is ...
The Oscars' lucky `two-timers'
Apr 01, 2000; ... WHEN Kevin Spacey and Michael Caine both received their secondgolden statuettes in Los Angeles last Sunday, they became the 16thand 17th male actors to have won the Oscars twice or more. Interestingly, it was merely the second time in the 72-yearhistory of the annual Academy Awards ...
Expanding Dua Space
Apr 01, 2000; ... THEY have been referred to as "..bodies born to dance." But Dua Space Dance Theatre's Anthony Meh and Aman Yap do notjust want to remain as "bodies born to dance"; they see their art assomething that must go further than mere performance. "We want our audiences to increase and ...
Wacky stuff in `whack 'em comedy'
Apr 01, 2000; ... THE WHOLE NINE YARDS (black comedy) 18PL GSC and TGV circuitTime: 98 mins Rating: *** WHEN was the last time you sank your teethinto a juicy black comedy, laced with saucy slapstick? Anyway, if you are in the mood for a quick snack (but hold themayonnaise), The Whole Nine Yards ...
Low in comedy, high in sentiment
Apr 01, 2000; ... TUMBLEWEEDS (family comedy) U GSC and TGV circuit Time: 104 minsRating: *** ANYWHERE BUT HERE (family comedy) U TGV circuit Time: 114 minsRating: *** "YOU can pick your friends but you can't pick yourparents." This is an often heard lament of teenagers, especiallythose with ...
End of an era for Chinatown businesses
Apr 01, 2000; ... THE elderly man sat gloomily on the last chair to be removed fromhis now empty cafe and bar. He talked of the days when his outlet was the "in-place" in JalanSultan's Chinatown. Thiang Toh Yong, 87, ran the Loke Yuen Coffee Shop and Bar formore than 50 years, and his kopitiam ...
(Take your pic)
Apr 01, 2000; ... THE CASTLE (U) GSC Mid Valley Cast: Michael Caton, Anne Tenneyand Stephen Curry Dir: Rob Sitch Rating: *** THE Aussies are a lotlike the Jews; the love to poke fun at themselves.. And if there is anything they are proud of, it is their Quixoticoutlook and eccentricities. Now, ...
`It is hard but we have to face reality'
Apr 01, 2000 ... WATCH repair stall owner C.M. Lai lamented the end of his days asa sub- tenant of the 30-year-old Kai Heong coffeeshop in JalanSultan. He had served customers faithfully for a decade. "The coffee shop owner has to go and so must I. She cannot bearwith the sky-rocketing rent now ...
Parking policies confusing
Apr 01, 2000; ... OWNERS of apartment-cum-shoplots in Selangor are confused by thedifferent policies of municipal councils in dealing with theirparking woes. The Selayang Municipal Council imposes a RM10 monthly fee onresidents in Medan Batu Caves while the Ampang Jaya MunicipalCouncil charges ...
Conned by 60-year-old man
Apr 01, 2000; ... A HELPLESS old man he is not. Instead, he turned a 24-year-oldshopowner into a helpless victim of a simple con job. The confidence trickster, believed to be in his 60s, turned up ather outlet in Nilai, Negri Sembilan, on the pretext of asking fordirections last Monday about ...
What the Rent Control Act is all about
Apr 01, 2000 ... RENT control in Malaysia has existed for three decades. The 1966 Rent Control Act limited the ability of owners of pre-January 1948 private buildings to raise their tenants' rent. Under the Act's Section 5, such buildings became "controlledpremises" where "fair rent" stipulated ...
(Hotline)
Apr 01, 2000; ... Noisy pub disturbing the peace * A LOUD pub operating from Changkat Bukit Bintang has Peacebanging his head on the wall because he cannot get some quiet timewith his family. He says that the residents of Menara Bukit Ceylon Condominium haslodged numerous complaints to City ...
Homeless old man murdered in his sleep
Apr 01, 2000; ... "HOW could he kill a defenceless and harmless old man, and whenhe was fast asleep too?" This was the outburst of Kampung Sg Puloh MIC branch chairman R.Thangaiah, 51, when he found out that the elderly man whom he hadhelped had been murdered. The victim, Anthony Rajah R ....
Change in route for Putraline buses
Apr 01, 2000 ... PUTRALINE buses 903 FB1 and 903 FB2 from the Taman Paramountstation will merge tomorrow. The new route is as follows: * For commuters who normally take the bus at the first stop cannow board it at Jalan SS1/1 after the Jalan SS1/11 junction; * For those using the ...
`Theft from safeboxes not uncommon'
Apr 01, 2000 ... THEFT from safeboxes in hotel rooms are not uncommon as thefacility can be tampered with by dishonest staff. Responding to our Page One report yesterday on the poor level ofsecurity provided by the safeboxes, the manager of a hotel inSelangor said when he was with a leading service ...
A costly lesson
Apr 01, 2000; ... A 58-YEAR-OLD caterer found out the hard way the truth of theadage - all that glitters is not gold. Greed caused the man to fall victim to a three-man gang inSeremban who conned him into paying RM8,000 for 3,000 pieces of"gold" coins. Negri Sembilan CID chief ACP Kamarulzaman ...
RM5,000 boost to five homes
Apr 01, 2000 ... FIVE homes for the underprivileged recently received RM5,000 eachfrom KFC Holdings (Malaysia) Bhd through its community programme,Tabung Penyayang KFC. KFC Holdings executive deputy chairman Abdullah Omar presentedthe donations to the homes. Also present was Johor Executive ...
New number ploy for cheaper handphones
Apr 01, 2000; ... WHAT you see is not always what you get. This was what six undercover enforcement officers from theDomestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry found out during testpurchases of handphones over the past two days. Following complaints from the public over the ...
Serial number check proposal
Apr 01, 2000; ... ONG KOK SENG has a bright idea to curb handphone thefts. The 42-year-old manager suggested that network service providersrecord the serial numbers of new cellular phones as an addedsecurity feature. He raised concern to The Malay Mail yesterday over the alarmingincrease in ...
Useful tips for handphone owners
Apr 01, 2000 ... TAKE down particulars like phone make, model and serial number asthey will be useful when lodging a police report if it is stolen. * Never place your handphone where you cannot see it. * To make it more difficult on thieves, activate the ...
Learning the new three R's
Apr 01, 2000 ... MORE than 200,000 schoolchildren nationwide learnt the three R's -Reduce, Reuse and Recycle - in environmental and education projectlast year. Under the Projek Riadah Alam Sekitar (PRIAS) 1999, the pupilsproduced a resource book on the topic. The programme was jointly ...
Workshop on stair-running
Apr 01, 2000 ... A WORKSHOP on stair-running, a relatively new sport here, will beheld on April 8 at Menara Kuala Lumpur. This is in conjunction with the Kuala Lumpur InternationalTowerthon 2000. Two sessions will be conducted on that day - junior workshop at10am and another for adults at ...
Fence to prevent jaywalking in front of The Summit
Apr 01, 2000 ... A FENCE will be erected along a road divider in front of TheSummit in USJ Subang Jaya to prevent pedestrians from crossing thesix-lane road. Early this month, an old woman died after she was hit by a carwhen she was crossing the road. Subang Jaya State Assemblyman Datuk Lee ...
First local authority to hold paperless meeting
Apr 01, 2000 ... THE Subang Jaya Municipal Council scored another first - itbecame the first local council to hold a paperless full-boardmeeting yesterday. Minutes of the meeting was displayed on a white screen using aPowerPoint software and could be read by everyone in the ...
Parking fine? April fool!
Apr 01, 2000; ... IF you get a summons for not displaying a parking coupon when youpark in gazetted areas in the Subang Jaya municipality today, don'tworry as it must be an April Fool's joke. Despite reminders by the municipal council that implementation ofits parking coupon system will begin on ...
Rapdancer for the Stakes
Apr 01, 2000; ... RAPDANCER, owned by Perfectum Stable, looks set to go one betterin the RM70,000 Kinta Valley Special Stakes for Class 2 sprintersover 1400m in Race 7 in Ipoh today. The five-year-old New Zealand gelding by Just A Dancer has threewins and nine placings in 16 outings to ...
Cabbie robbed by three passengers
Apr 01, 2000 ... TAXI drivers in the city, especially those traversing JalanAmpang, have been urged to be wary of three male passengers whorobbed a cabbie of his vehicle in broad daylight yesterday. The 32-year-old taxi driver was robbed off his vehicle by threemale passengers whom he had earlier ...
Price to pay for haphazard parking
Apr 01, 2000 ... COME April 10, think twice before you decide to park your car atyour fancy in the city. Vehicles flouting the traffic rules and causing road obstructionin the city especially at commercial and residential areas will betowed away by tow truck operators engaged by City ...
Poser over lack of low-cost houses
Apr 01, 2000 ... WHERE are the low-cost flats allocated for squatters involved inrelocation programmes in Petaling Jaya? Municipal councillor Lim Choon Kin (left) said he has difficultyfinding low-cost units to relocate fire victims who are still livingin community halls in Damansara ...
One-way streets plan hits a snag
Apr 01, 2000 ... TWO years ago, to ease the congestion near the PJ Hilton hotel,the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council studied the viability of turningfour roads in the area into one-way streets. Once the roads - Jalan Timur, Jalan Barat Jalan Utara and JalanSultan - are turned into one way, they will ...
Kota Damansara neglected?
Apr 01, 2000; ... IS the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council (MPPJ) neglecting KotaDamansara? Councillor Shaikh Mohd Mohd Zain posed this question when hediscovered the poor road conditions in the area during a recentvisit. "I wonder whether the industrial area is under the jurisdictionof MPPJ," ...
Check rising cost of building materials: MBAM
Apr 01, 2000 ... THE Master Builders Association Malaysia has urged theauthorities to step in to arrest the escalating prices ofconstruction materials. It wants them to monitor the supply to avoid artificial shortageswhich have occured in the past. "There is a tendency among suppliers to form ...
Crocodile expert to lead search on Monday
Apr 01, 2000 ... HOME, comfort and food. One of them could be the reason why acrocodile was spotted at sea off Klebang, Malacca, last week. State Wildlife and National Parks Department director MohdShariff Daim said the reptile could not stay long at sea as theycould not last more than a ...
Contractor to repair collapsed ceiling next week
Apr 01, 2000 ... THE UiTM Shah Alam has appointed a contractor to repair theceiling of a classroom which crashed last week. Work is expected to begin next week. An official said the contractor inspected the collapsed ceilingthe day after the incident on March 23 about 2.30pm. The room ...
Sacred jug to go on nation-wide tour
Apr 01, 2000 ... A 300-YEAR-OLD sacred jug called the Ganga Sagar will be put ontour in the country in conjunction with the Vasakhi celebrations ofthe Sikh community. Made mainly of bronze with 244 holes on the girth and base, itwas used by the 10th Guru Gobind Singh Ji for drinking milk ...
Bloody end to gang clash (HL)
Apr 03, 2000 ... THESE spears, parang and container of Molotov cocktails were partof the arsenal used in a gang fight in Jalan Kampung Jawa in Klanglast Saturday night. Police said one gang was preparing for the fight when they wereconfronted by the other gang. Result: A VCD seller lay ...
Towering challenge
Apr 03, 2000 ... HAVE you signed up for the Kuala Lumpur International Towerthon2000? You have only two weeks to enter the event, which involvesrunning 421 metres up the fourth tallest telecommunications tower inthe world. Themed Challenge The Tower, the run is scheduled for April ...
VCD seller killed in gang clash in Klang
Apr 03, 2000; ... PARANGS, spears and Molotov cocktails. They were used to deadly effect in a gang fight at KM6.4 JalanKampung Jawa, Klang, last Saturday night. In the end, a VCD seller laid sprawled in blood. His body wasfound with a red band around his head and a spear embedded in ...
Enforcement of law equally important
Apr 03, 2000 ... IT is time Malaysia had a law to govern the maintenance andmanagement of highrise residential and commercial buildings. But a condominium buyer felt strict enforcement must go hand inhand with the proposed Building and Common Property (Maintenance andManagement) Act. A ...
Staying put despite higher rent
Apr 03, 2000; ... "HIGHER rent or not, we will stay put." And this decision is not for sentimental reasons. K. Retnam Thevani, 53, who has been helping her sister run acoffee-shop at one of the pre-war shoplots in Leboh Ampang for thepast 13 years, knows the basic rule of running a good ...
When a woman can do a better job
Apr 03, 2000 ... IT'S a tough job but a woman can do it better. Semai Hikmat Research & Investigation Sdn Bhd owner Jasmine Alifeels the fairer sex has a better chance of succeeding in theprivate eye line due to the "woman's instinct". She formed the security services firm three years ago ...
Cheap sale scam at 5-star hotel
Apr 03, 2000; ... A CHEAP sale of branded goods at a five-star hotel in the city isa "steal" in more ways than one. Last Saturday, the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministryraided the venue and carted off RM49,000 worth of fake products withnames like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Chanel and ...
Poor response for names for associate councillors
Apr 03, 2000; ... WHERE are the rest? Despite all 32 registered residents associations in Petaling Jayahaving been informed on posts for associate councillors two monthsago, only eight responded so far. Petaling Jaya Municipal Council president Datuk Mohamed Nor Badorsaid they are still ...
`Millennium' cookbook now on sale
Apr 03, 2000 ... SELECTED RECIPES OF THE MILLENNIUM, a new cookbook (left) hasbeen published by Popular Books Company (M) Sdn Bhd and SeashorePublishing. It contains 52 distinctive recipes, which are chosen from variousSeashore cookbooks and has sections on seafood, vegetables, rice,noodles and ...
Call to review import duties on safety equipment
Apr 03, 2000 ... THE National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health isurging the Government to review import duties of certain safetyequipment. Its chairman, Datuk Lee Lam Thye (right), in a statementyesterday, said the review should be aimed at ultimately abolishingthese duties to make the ...
Beware of this dropped-$ con
Apr 03, 2000; ... IT could have worked except that the victim did not have a singlesen on her. In the end, two conmen left empty-handed despite using psychologyto confuse their "target" into opening her handbag and wallet forthem. Their intended victim, 42-year-old insurance agent ...
Local artist listed in American publication
Apr 03, 2000 ... THE WHO'S Who In The World 2000 magazine has included our veryown pop art pioneer Ahmad Azhari Mohd Nor in their latest issue. The 44-year-old former graphic artist with the New Straits Times,who is now a full-time artist, is the first Malaysian to be in theAmerican ...
(Hotline)
Apr 03, 2000; ... Charged for unconnected calls CHANG claims his mobile phoneservice provider is charging him for calls which never went through. "I am being billed although the number which I tried to contactwas engaged or unavailable," he says. He says he discovered this two months ago. He was ...
Quilt-making classes, ice-cream treats for winners
Apr 03, 2000 ... QUILT-MAKING classes and ice-creams await winners andparticipants of the Just Jog It for Kanda-Dinda 2000 fun run onApril 16. Quilt Gallery's owner H.K. Gill donated six prizes worth RM1,200to Persatuan Kebajikan Kanda-Dinda (PKKD). This will allow winners of the Women's Open ...