The New Paper, 25 July 1989, Afternoon Edition

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1 76 The New Paper
  • 17 1 the new paper TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1989 MO (P) 36/4/89 anniversary issue FREE WITH THE STRAITS TIMES
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    • 85 1 SPECIAL HIS ■F .^^^gl^BP] b v v New Paper is our way of sharing our birthday joy with you. Many readers of The Straits Times are also regular readers of TNP. Sharing in this y5|Uh^ jMjL celebration of our first birthday are our r* i Jl^^H V new-found friends. They,
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  • THEEDITORSPEAKS
    • 363 2  -  By Peter H L Lim Chief Editor TRUE! Starting The New Paper was like having a baby, except that I cannot recall the love-making. Maybe that is not always necessary. Having heard and read about other newspaper launches, I thought the birth of TNP was
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    • 261 2 From all of us at The New Paper! A KIND reader wrote to me in the early months of The New Paper. She was very supportive. But she also said we should not be so unconventional that the market would reject us. TNP set out to be different
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    • 240 2 THE name gives the game away. We are The New Paper. We don't call ourselves by traditional newspaper names. Because we are not tradition-bound. Of course, there are proud newspaper traditions we in TNP want to keep. Like accuracy, balance, fairness. But we
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  • 894 4 THENEWSTODAY o NE hour before midnight, i the alarm buzzes in Rosnah [Ahmad's flat. It's time to get up and go to work. She is the first staff mem- ber on duty at 1 am at The New Paper. Rosnah, a sub-editor, is
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  • 500 6 THENEWSTODAY OUR Hotline Plus telephone rings at 9:45 am. A reader tells us a lorry has been driven into a swim-ming-pool at the De Angelo Apartments in Jalan Datuk. A reporter and photographer speed to the scene. It is too late for the
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  • 366 8 THENEWSTODAY ON any day, each reporter will have two or three assignments. But many stories will not come through the same day. Sometimes the tips are wrong. Or it will take several days to investigate and make sure of facts. It may be quite
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    • 850 9 THE 1989 SINGAPRE MEDAL Collectors Treasury proudly presents a medal of extremely low mintage. This edition is strictly limited. Apply now! THE MOST PRECIOUS A full 1.5 ounces of 22K Solid Gold medal, with a diameter of 38.6 mm. So rare, no more than 300 pieces will ever be minted
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  • OURREADERS
    • 359 11  -  By Paul Zach THE New Paper is the new kid on the block. And its readers are people willing to take a chance with something different. Our regulars are people more likely than most to lead a zesty, adventurous life. If you are a TNP
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    • 1362 12 Though The New Paper will be only a year old tomorrow, it already has a following of regular readers. They include people who tell us they never miss an issue. Some have been readers from Day One, July 26 last
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  • 635 15 LOOKINGBACK No one who works at The New Paper had time to be bored this past year. Everyone found different experiences which made the year memorable for them. We bring you a compact selection Agatha Koh f assistant to editor (news) Imagine my fright when
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  • 510 17 HOTLINEPLUS W hen you come a-calling, our Hotline Plus people are at the other end of the line eager to lend an ear no matter what you want to pour into it. They listen to your comments, thank you for your compliments, hear your complaints and record
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  • 557 18 PRESS photographers live a busman's holiday. On days off, they carry a camera or have one nearby, just in case. They can and they have been called upon at any time to go out and get that picture. Good newspaper photographers must be versatile, able to
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  • 1292 20 WHERE should we go for lunch today? Often the question is hard to answer. Then, having arrived at the restaurant, we may be seized by indecision again. What should we order? Deciding on what goes on Page One is not unlike meal-time dithering. When we
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  • 260 20 Q N Monday June 5, The New [Paper's circulation hit an lall-time high of 66,126. The previous month's average daily circulation was 49,686. What was the hot news on June 5? Obviously the bloody suppression of the pro-de-mocracy protest at Tiananmen Square in
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  • 497 22 Aggie AGGEFEELINGS SEX is a problem. Sex is THE problem. Sex is your problem. So it becomes my problem. How many ways can you say "sex"? The ways are endless, for an agony aunt. For sex, substitute frustration, pain, loneliness, betrayal, ignorance,
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    • 25 22 I J i.'j l 1 i BLAUPUNKT BOSCH Group l-i i rsa small point H But it makes a worid of dtfteranc*. Equalizer pn BEQ-S2
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  • 555 23 PRESS photographers live a busman's holiday. On days off, they carry a camera or haye one nearby, just in case. They can and they have been called upon at any time to go out and get that picture. Good newspaper photographers must be versatile, able to
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  • CRIMETALK
    • 310 24  -  By Ng Wan Ching WHEN I was a child, I decided that I would be a war correspondent. At university, I had visions of getting caught up in a revolution, being captured and grilled, and then escaping to write a story which would make headlines all
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    • 422 24 tion to that advice. That was when a flat in Bukit Batok blew up with the family inside. I felt anger and revulsion at a father who would kill his children. Also, I felt sick. Three months ago, when a teenager threatened to jump from
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    • 191 25 MONEY can't buy the perks that come with this job. You get to meet people you might never meet otherwise. For instance, if I weren't a reporter, I would never have gone near Desker Road much less step inside a brothel to interview mamasans
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  • WORDWATCHERS
    • 510 26  -  By Griselda Loo THE New Paper believes that the news has to be reported quickly and clearly. For example, why say terrorists ravaged a place when we can say they destroyed it? So we commissioned a Wordcheck system to help our journalists use the
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    • 184 26 GLOSSARY READERS hated it or loved it. The reactions were that extreme I about our Glossary. "Glossary is embarrassing," said a reader who called our Hotline Plus. Another reader, Mr Kye-Son, said: "It is too patronising. If we want professionals to read (The New
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    • 250 27 WE told the 58-year-old educationist: Appeal to the general readership and yet get the news across to those not proficient in English. Ms Janice Baruch took up the challenge. She joined the paper on June 22 last year to set up Wordcheck. It
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    • 156 27 GLOSSARY II SOFT-SPO-KEN Helen Tan, 34, is often treated as a walking, talking dictionary. Just because she is the paper's English language specialist, reporters tend to run to her whenever they are stuck with a difficult word. She usually helps out cheerfully and without complaint. Before joining
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  • TEAMUP
    • 771 28 FIRST, we offered readers a ride all the way to Japan. We sent a reporter and photographer ahead to find out what fun lay ahead for winners of The New Pa-per-Jetstream Contest. Then we sent another team along with the 40 readers who won a holiday together
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    • 251 29 THE New Paper has done 36 promotions with products ranging from hamburgers to fashionwear since its launch last year. Here are some reactions from our advertisers on their reason for choosing The New Paper for their promotion and the responses they received. Mr Danny
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    • 130 29 If you haven't hit the jackpot in The New Paper's Moneywords contest so far, here's another chance to win up to $5,000. To do that you have to unscramble the jumble of words in The New Paper Headline Puzzle to form two correct headlines. Then look for
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    • 17 28 BLAUPUNKT BOSCH Group It* a small point But it makas a world of difforanca. Verona SQR 29
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    • 274 30 DBS Lifestyle Assist. You've been planning for months for to investing in a personal computer system or in a lesserthat grand wedding, followed by a blissful honeymoon known Picasso. with your loved one At the same time, you're thinking It'll cost just 5% p.a for loans of up to 3
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  • NEWSMAKERS
    • 377 31 Studio with his wife, noted dancer and choreographer Som Said. He reads The New Paper "at least three or four days in the week". Som reads it for information about culture and the arts. I read it for the latest news in the
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    • 583 32 o Ms Madeline Zhu, 19, SBC star, best known as the "Kao Girl" for her appearance in the advertisement. I like to read Dear Aggie. I find the questions amusing but I don't always read the answers in detail. Also, I don't find some
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    • 192 31 I THE NEW PAPER HEADLINE PUZZLE $10,000 Unscramble the words below to form the correct headlines (the two actual headlines appear among the pages of The New Paper Anniversary Special). The first 23 correct entries opened will win the following prizes: PRIZES: Ist Prize $5,000 CitiOne 2nd Prize $2,000 Cash
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  • SPORT
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      98 34 THE NEW PAPER |~pyy*ghts, action, cameras. Perhaps nowhere in newspaper are there more dramatic pictures than on the sports pages. The New Paper's sports pages are no different. But we go one better we capture the action in living, breathing colour. The focus is not only on the action,
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    • Article, Illustration
      503 36 The^ YEARS from now, soccer will be played with boxing gloves, referees will carry police whistles,' and Fandi Ahmad and Malek Awab will pledge to play for Singapore. Promise. Sumpah, even. No doubt over their ability. But availability? Ah, that will be questionable today, tomorrow, till hell or KL
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    • 91 36 TOP SCORERS 1 i r -MMfl European Footbilkr Fandi ftjpular local footballer. Ftndi Ahmad "Soccer professionals rely on skill and locs of practice to succeed But 1 strongly believe that the quality of shoes is equally important in influencing one's scores. For months, I worked ckxely with Lotto's product development
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  • SPORTS
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      22 38 IjflJE graphics 1 Indoor stylo: Graphically, it's a grand new indoor stadium. Outdoor fashion: idea of the proposed Formula track. 1
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    • 104 39 The Breaks AT the tail-end of the paper, we grab you by the throat, by the waist, by the hand even. In fact, our grip on readers is almost consuming, almost affectionate too. Yes, lunchtime has not been the same since last July. And it will remain
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    • 686 39 Advertisement Only the fittest Survives 1 owe my life to the boat, says storm survivor ONE fishing enthusiast Darwis, a production "This boat is special. All who will stake his life on manager with Sweco Far the water that got in just the Dynaglass Fisherman East drain out hi Itself,
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  • 401 42 HOTLINEPLUS "Hello. New Paper? There are fat slimy creatures crawling all over the road there's an altar in Rasa Singapura there's a car in the Singapore River... I'd like to help the baby with liver disease Hello, he 110... and so your calls
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  • Article, Illustration
    324 44 HOTLINEPLUS READERS had lots to say about the massacre in Beijing and our coverage most callers complained about too little coverage. Singapore's model Nora Arifin's topless appearance in an Italian fashion magazine sold here also had the Hotline Plus phone ringing off its hook. In fact, that story
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  • SURPRISESURPRIS
    • 449 49 We are sure you remember Pamella Bordes. But do you remember Bobby Tan? His story started with a mysterious altar at Rasa Singapura. Elusive and eccentric, he was one of our most talked-about newsmakers. Yes, Bobby Tan. Or Tan Chiang Lai. Or Mohamed Iskandar bin Abdullah Or A
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    • 131 49 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. accorded: Given. breadline: Very poor. catastrophe: Something that happens which one can do nothing to avoid. commercial endorsements: Appearances in advertisements to show one's support of some product.
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  • Article, Illustration
    595 50  -  HAPPYBIRTHDAY By Loh Tuan Lee T HE New Paper threw a first anniversary bawl for 12 babies. But the occasion was far from sad. All of them will be one year old tomorrow, and so will The New Paper. Last Thursday, we published an invitation to parents with
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    • 75 51 Do you hang out with the Happy Hour crowd? Is a mug of beer H your idea of a pre-dinner snack? Are your elbows blistered the resuit of resting them on bar counters? Do you loosen up considerably after throwing back a couple of pints?
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      55 51 A reporter's job is no bed of roses. Entertainment reporter LO TIEN YIN will testify to this fact. She has, for the sake of a story, been thrown into some peculiar situations, the latest being a harrowing ride in a police car. But, like they say, it comes
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    • 555 52  -  By Lo Tien Yin SBC offers a steady stream of excitement even when it is off the air. This is especially so if you're riding in a BMW 323 with stuntman Hannes Meyer. Mr Meyer, 45, is a freelance BMW driving training instructor from
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    • 234 53  -  By Lo Tien Yin IN its attempt to produce a serial that would please the local audience, SBC came up with The Seekers in 1981. But it was a disaster and never shown. SBC then began to import Hongkong professionals. One of them,
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    • 618 54  -  By Adeline Woon MY editor made me do it. Go, he said, drink up some "research" and come up with a story on everything you wanted to know about pub-crawl-ing but were too drunk to ask. (Please Mom, don't read this. I don't
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      433 55  -  By Vivien Chiong HOBNOBBING with the stars is part of my daily routine so their fans must think I'm the luckiest girl around. Perhaps I am. While many wait for hours just to catch a glimpse of their favourite, I breeze in and out of press conferences and
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    • 18 55 BLAUPUNKT BOSCH Group It* a small point But it makes a world of difference. Equalizer amplifier BEA 108E
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    • 109 56 BREEZY In Cheap Dates, we told you what it takes to win a girl's heart without going bankrupt. Guess Who's Drinking From The Finger-Bowl showed you how to dine in any Asian restaurant without being accused of having bad manners. Where Do We Go
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    • 260 56 HERE is where we sometimes surprise you, sometimes shock you, try to entertain you or give you something important to think about This is the middle of The New Paper its heart our centrespread. We call it Spotlight and we use it to focus on some
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    • 128 56 REFUGEES AND GEISHAS OUR three-part series "Heartbreak Trail" looked at the plight of millions of people forced to leave their homes because of war, persecution or sheer economic want. Many stories about refugees and illegals have been published in Singapore newspapers. But we
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    • 105 56 SERIOUS BUSINESS HOW do you make readers understand what Singapore's official reserves are? In Spotlight we did it simply and clearly with a question-and-answer format. We explained why the Republic keeps cash and assets in savings, how much is kept and where the money comes from. Other
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    • 90 56 PARLIAMENT PAM NO Spotlight stirred as much controversy as our six-part series on Pamella Bordes, the call-girl who worked in Britain's Parliament. \j We told how a former Miss India became the toast of London's glitter set, and how she slept with men to facilitate international
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  • 698 58 pin-up a day keeps the blues at bay. We've brought you sportsmen and women, film stars, song and dance people, supermodels and SBC stars, and even this year's winners of the Singapore Armed Forces Sword of Honour. This month, we started featuring all 15 of the 1989
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    • 104 61 LIGHT AND BREEZY In Cheap Dates, we told you what it takes to win a girl's heart without going bankrupt. Guess Who's Drinking From The Finger-Bowl showed you how to dine in any Asian restaurant without being accused of having bad manners. Where Do
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    • 261 61 HERE is where we sometimes surprise you, sometimes shock you, try to entertain you or give you something important to think about This is the middle of The New Paper its heart our centrespread. We call it Spotlight and we use it to focus on
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    • 128 61 REFUGEES AND GEISHAS OUR three-part series "Heartbreak Trail" looked at the plight of millions of people forced to leave their homes because of war, persecution or sheer economic want. Many stories about refugees and illegals have been published in Singapore newspapers. But we
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    • 106 61 SERIOUS BUSINESS HOW do you make readers understand what Singapore's official reserves are? In Spotlight we did it simply and clearly with a question-and-answer format. We explained why the Republic keeps cash and assets in savings, how much is kept and where the money comes from. Other
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    • 86 61 PARLIAMENT PAM NO Spotlight stirred as much controversy as our six-part series on Pamella Bordes, the call-girl who worked in Britain's Parliament. We told how a former Miss India became the toast of London's glitter set, and how she slept with men to facilitate international arms
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 368 62 "MAKE it colour on Page One," chief editor Peter H L Lim said. The next thing production foreman Mr Bala Supramaniam knew, the chosen picture was slapped onto his desk. An overturned car with frogmen around. Tragic picture. A car had plunged into
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    • 106 62 "Operations are smoother nowadays compared to when we first launched." Mr Peck Chew Thiam, 49, Paste-up foreman "What's the most difficult part in The New Paper? It's the getting up at 4 am." Mr S Bala, 41, Process foreman "Paste-up with TNP is different.
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    • 357 63  -  By Herbert Fernandez PRINTERS at News Centre at Genting Lane waste no time when they get to work everyday. They can't afford to! They have a very tight deadline to meet every morning, Monday to Saturday. The first thing the crew does is to
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  • TALKINGPOINT
    • 358 64 CHITRA RAJARAM doesn't specialise in controversy. It only seems that way. What later became full-blown furores among our readers started out as everyday assignments. One involved doped drinks, another, unmarried women in Singapore's Indian community. Sharp public reactions taught us something surprising about our
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    • 251 64 FIRST, there was a telephone call from a woman saying she had given up hope of marriage. Miss N Shanti, 30, then introduced me to three of her friends, all Indian Singaporeans. All agreed they were not married because they had been too choosy but said
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  • 350 65 STARUNION SBC stars Xiang Yun and Chen Zhicai gave readers the happiest story of The New Paper's first year when they got married last month. Like any good TV drama, it even has a sequel a happy one, of course. WONG SING YEONG tells you what's
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  • GRAPHICSTODAY
    • 216 66 ALMOST every day a different kind of image, drawing or graphic is used to illustrate or help explain a topic. Fortunately, in the Art Section we have the talent to match this constant requirement. A political cartoon about the Indian elections, or a Japanese wood-cut-style
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    • 402 67  -  By Loh Tuan Lee DRAW without pen and ink. Push a button and call up a map of Singapore. Print out lettering in different typefaces without making stencils. Two of our super staff in The New Paper's Art Section do this without complaining and without tea-breaks.
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    • 80 67 THIS portrait of Ms Benazir Bhutto was done by a computer in the hands of artist Cel Gulapa. It was a minor milestone for us because it was the first time we published a colour portrait created on the Mac U. The Mac also did
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    • 166 68 ANY time between five o'clock in the morning and 11 o'clock at night the cry "We need a graphic" can be heard in the Art Section. It might be the voice of the editor, a journalist or a subeditor seeking something visual to help explain the
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  • PAMELLAAGAIN
    • 1229 71 Pamella Bordes rocked the realm of British politics with her bedroom romps. Then she became a Singapore sensation with her kiss-and-tell tales. So The New Paper asked The Straits Times if their Europe Editor ALAN HUBBARD could track down Ms Bordes for us.
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      408 72 BRITISH society seems full of men who are happy to boast that they were "just good friends" with Ms Bordes. Of her many former escorts, newspaper editors Andrew Neil and Donald Trelford are still putting their respective papers to bed. Mr Neil, bachelor boss of the Sunday Times,
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    • 243 72 PAMELLA Bordes was "ashamed of her body" says her former flatmate. Rita Sprickman, a 30-year-old German-born model, shared a Paris apartment for three years with the erotic enigma who became Westminster's favourite sleeping partner. Ms Sprickman said Pamella once told her: "I'd give anything to
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  • DIRTYTALKING
    • 345 73  - Take and Stories/ Irene Ng GO ON. Try me. Say "s--t". There. I didn't blush at all. Try another. Any word. See if I even blink. I'll bet my whole year's supply of coffee that my eyelashes will stay stone steady. Now I don't want to take all the credit
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    • 124 73 YOU would think I should know better than to try and hitch a ride on Singapore roads. Especially after reading a report about a man who was robbed by a couple of hitchhikers. But my editor gave the idea the thumbs-up. So off I went
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      110 75 WE are not just reader friendly, we are also advertiser friendly. We want to serve well the interests of both our readers and our advertisers. How innovative or accommodating can we be? As an example, our editors look forward to fancy-shaped advertisements in The New Paper. Those that
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    • 117 75 THE face was famous. The name was equally well known: Carol Cheng Yu-ling. Nickname Dodo, Hongkong filmstar. But when we published this pin-up in colour the bare shoulders and upper chest were not so familiar to her Singapore fans. We blurbed the pin-up on Page One
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    • 472 75 NEWSMAKERS o Mr K T Samuel, assistant general manager of NTUC Income. The New Paper gives a new dimension of exposure to all levels of people, teenagers, students, business people and professionals, as well as the general public. The Straits Times gets to you
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