The New Paper, 21 January 1993

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1 39 The New Paper
  • 15 1 the new paper THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1993 MITA (P) 75/4/92 50 CENTS Jhe new pclpCl*
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 319 2 THE Johor Sultan has told civil servants in the state to boycott all funct i o n s organised by the federal and state governments, reports the New Straits Times. Those affected include district officers, assistant district officers, and penghulu (village chiefs). All seven district
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    • 372 2 Wire services. FRANCE has explained why it did not take part in the US bombing raid on an Iraqi factory last Sunday. Foreign Minister Roland Dumas said the attack went "beyond the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council". His remarks, made
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    • 123 2 FRANCE is not the only Gulf War ally who has questioned the US move to bomb an alleged nuclear factory near Baghdad last Sunday. Several Arab countries have also expressed their reservations. Saudi Arabia and Egypt, who joined the US-led coalition to oust Iraq from Kuwait in
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    • 113 2 A SERIES of US-led Allied air raids against Iraq began last Wednesday after Baghdad staged a spate of weapons-grabbing raids into Kuwait and stationed surface-to-air missiles in the southern no-fly zone patrolled by Allied planes. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein also refused to grant UN weapons inspectors unrestricted flight clearance
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    • 133 2 NEWS FLASH Reuter. TWO tankers flying the Singapore flag have collided near Sumatra, the Lloyds Shipping Service reported today. They are ,the Maersk Navigator and the Sanko Honour. The Sanko Honour's forecastle is on fire, Lloyds said. The vessels collided off the north-west tip of Sumatra at the
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    • Article, Illustration
      323 3  -  By Ganesh Rajaram A GROUP of party animals will take the stage at fang Dynasty City today two pandas, a gorilla, a chimp, two grizzlies, and a black bear. They will belt out songs and boogie. But though they like to party, the members of the panda band
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    • 148 3 OTHER permanent attractions will be unveiled at Tang Dynasty City on Saturday, the first day of the Lunar New Year. They include: House of Li A display of the art collections of Li Qing, who lived during the Tang Dynasty (7th to 10th century). Some replicas and some
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 120 4 AI Both Houses of Partiament MALAYSIA'S Cabinet has stripped the nine rulers of all the perks and privileges which are not provided for under the Constitution. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir said yesterday he was merely following the example of the rulers. They had not taken into
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    • 55 4 If you want to wait for the Khmer Rouge to return to the peace process, you have to wait till the 21st century. Kama Hi An rnnom renn regime s rreuner Hun Sen, saying the odds off the Khmer Rouge taking part in the Cambodian peace plan
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 93 4 WHAT do men and women who join marriage bureaus look for in a mate? This is what five dating agencies told The Straits Times: FOR MEN: The woman should be good-looking; be at least five years younger than the man; have lower educational level and lower pay than
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      • 66 4 SOFT-DRINKS giant Pepsi-Cola International has relocated its Asia-Pacific division, from Singapore to Hongkong. It wants to be closer to China, which has a market of 1.1 billion people. The Republic has been made the area headquarters for the South Asia region covering India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
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      • 65 4 IF you want to have your cars serviced during the Lunar New Year festive season, forget it. Car dealers' service centres are fully booked till the end of the month. One reason for the long queue is the increase in car sales at the end of the
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      • 75 4 JAPANESE Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa says he will take "drastic steps" to revive the economy. But he hinted that further measures would not come until after the Government had passed the Budget for the next fiscal year, which begins on April 1. Last year, his government adopted
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      • 48 4 JAPAN'S sluggish economy pushed 14,069 firms into bankruptcy last year. The figure is a six-year high and economists say more firms may go under this year. Japan's growth has been faltering since its bubble economy burst in the late 1980s. There are few signs of recovery.
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      • 95 4 THE widening gap between the rich and the poor is to blame for a wave of kidnappings in the Philippines, says a prominent cleric. The Roman Catholic Church leader, Cardinal Jaime Sin, said Philippine society at present "promotes the exclusive excesses of the wealthy side by side with
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      • 65 4 BOSNIA'S rebel Serbs have backed a Geneva peace plan. The rebels' self-styled Parliament voted for the first stage of a Geneva peace formula by 55 votes to 15 against. Other Serbs oppose the plan. The plan guarantees the unity and sovereignty of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but divides the
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    • 94 4 The Straits Times: Rulers lose unwritten privileges Business Times: Clinton: American renewal has begun Lianhe Zaobao: Malaysian government to withdraw extra privileges of the rulers Berita Harian: KL Cabinet curbs privileges of Malay rulers SBC morning news: Mr Bill Clinton has been sworn in as the new President of
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 603 6  -  By Michelle Ang A STOREMAN nearly lost a finger after his friend was accused of staring at a man during the Swing Singapore party on Aug 8, 1990. That last finger on Mr Thamil Arasu's left hand is curved inwards. It was almost sliced off.
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    • 137 6 DURING a three-day hearing, six men pleaded guilty to charges of being members of an unlawful assembly to hurt M Thamil Arasu using parangs. Four of them were sentenced: Theyagarajan Amuthavelan, 24 12 months' jail. Joseph Lange, 18 two years' probation. He has to remain
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    • 218 6 LOOKS can kill, if not maim, as these three staring incidents show. DEC 25 Fifteen youths were involved in a free-for-all in a coffee shop at Lorong Mambong, Holland Village. They used wooden poles and plastic chairs. The fight started after a staring incident at Fire
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    • 121 6 \gp VAN MUKC ACSTAUAANT Style Restaurant Karaoke Hall 6 KTV ROOMS YuSheng is avail. m iik Wl I New Year KTV Set Dinner $628 Festival Set Dinner $438 Pjaß^B Family Reunion Set Dinner $338 +4 are open on (Lunar New Year's Eve Ist day of Lunar New Year) Business hours
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 577 8  -  A man who was fined $100 three years ago did not learn his lesson. He came back for more. Asked if he would litter again, Tan Kee Jia, 18, said: "I don't know. Maybe not." Now he has to spend three hours cleaning up a public
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    • 78 8 LUNAR New Year means more rubbish, said Madam Goh Chor Boh. She said: "People are spri-ng-cleaning in preparation for the Lunar New Year and they are throwing out old mattresses, cupboards and refrigerators." According to cleaning su- pervisor Michael Chia, these bulky items are often left
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    • 203 8 REPEAT and serious offenders can expect harsher treatment under new public health law penalties. Current first-time litterbugs have to spend an hour cleaning up a public area under Corrective Work Orders (CWO) issued to them. Recalcitrant and* serious offenders, aged 16 and above, must now
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  • 384 11 SINGAPORETODAY RAFFLES City has left Sogo employees in the lurch. Office tower lifts no longer stop at the third floor. Thus workers can no longer use these lifts to get from there to the office tower's fifth floor where Sogo has its main office and
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    • 285 11 "With Expressions, the only pressure I got was from admirers!" Mabel Ng 'When I was 10kg overweight and looking terrible, 1 was desperate to do something iSP My friends were sceptical about slimming centres and I'd heard f of some of their "hard-sell" tactics. 7 A Hj^pyEWflp' But I decided
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    • 300 12 I K— Thanks to Body Specific™. The fast acting 3-In-l action cream for specific trouble areas. I I M "I hesitated when he suggested we dance. You see, I've never been proud of my figure. Especially those less than attractive hips. But that was a couple of I weeks ago.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 516 13 LECTURER Jeffrey Yang and his family wanted a holiday of "firsts" a first train ride and a first cruise when they booked to sail from Port Klang to Singapore on the Cora Princess. They didn't think they would also be the first and only
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    • 488 14 You've seen them restrooms with partitions which don't reach the floor. You may even use one every day with some fear. A Peeping Tom was caught ogling a woman through the 15-cm gap under a restroom partition on Sunday. JUNE KONG finds out why some
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    • 311 14  -  By Simran Kaur BOOKING tickets to Malaysia this weekend may be more difficult than usual because of the Lunar New Year rush. But all is not lost. Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Malaysia Airlines (MAS) are offering more flights to meet the festive
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    • 351 15  -  By Simran Kaur SBS Leisure has made some changes in the timing and routes of its bus services to Sentosa. This is because the buses which got off to a tine start during the school holidays ire now running empty on weekdays. An average of
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    • 438 16 Most secretaries in Britain prefer male bosses to female bosses, according to a recent survey. ANGELINE SONG checks out the situation in Singapore MRS Doris Toh says her boss Mrs Lily Teo, is not only her employer, but also a friend. "I can confide in
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    • 177 16 A iiRITISH survey of secretaries showed that two out of three would rather work for a male boss. Of those who had worked for a woman, one in five would refuse to do so again. The findings came from detailed interviews with almost 400 secretaries, reported the
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    • 366 16 ONE secretary says she agrees "entirely" with the British survey. She has worked for three male bosses and now works for a female boss at an expatriate school. She does not want to be named for fear of repercussions, but shared her personal experiences. UNTRUSTING
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    • 517 19 sbcß 1.55 PM Opening followed by PM Text (Stereo) 3.00 The Other Woman (Mandarin drama with English subtitles/episodes 13 14 of 30): Jun is furious when she finds out that her husband is having an affair with Lier. Wenyi is heartbroken over Mingwei's unfaithfulness. 4.30 Sesame Street (Children's info-educational) 5.30
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    • 219 19 5.55 PW Opening followed by Little Prince Cedric (Fairy tale cartoon) 6.25 News in Tamil 6.45 Star Charade (Game show) 7.00 Smouldering Heat (Drama with English subtitles/episode 15 of 30): The relationship between Haojie and Xiaotong develops rapidly. In order to defeat Haojie, Liyang resorts to betraying his father. 8.00
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  • spotlight
    • 656 20 BRIAN MILLER watches the live telecast on CNN of Mr Bill Clinton's inauguration as the 42nd President of the Us" HE lost his voice on the morning of Nov 4. It was raspy. It quivered and it broke when he delivered his acceptance speech from the steps
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    • 118 20 SOME celebrities got short shrift from an overwhelmed Inaugural Committee which did not invite everyone to ithe swearing-in extravaganza. But pop singer Michael Jackson was one of the favoured few. At a star-stud-ded concert on Sunday beside the Lincoln Memorial, he was joined by singers Diana Ross, Bob
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    • 283 20 AT 12.30 am this morning, Mr George Bush, as President of the United States, stood on the podium of Capitol Hill and waved to the crowd. A half hour later, he was no more President. Such was the changeover of presidential power swift,
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 231 21 AP. THE Russian Government took steps yesterday to pull the country from the brink of hyperinflation. The Cabinet approved a package of tough measures aimed at economic reform, said Mr Boris Fyodorov, Deputy Prime Minister in charge of market reforms. Inflation is expected to soar
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    • 282 21 Wire services. ACTRESS Audrey Hepburn, who starred in the 1964 film, My Fair Lady, died yesterday. She was 63. She died at her home in Lausanne, Switzerland, after a long battle with colon cancer. The news came from a spokesman for Unicef, the UN children's group
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    • 130 21 A MODERATE earthquake in Sumatra shook towns in Malaysia yesterday morning. Penang was the worst hit, The Star newspaper reported. The quake, which registered six on the Richter scale, occurred off the north-west coast of Sumatra. The tremor was also felt in Malaysia at
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    • 82 21 AP. PEOPLE who want to plunt notes to God in the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem can now do it by fax. Every day hundreds of notes seeking divine intervention are stuffed into cracks in the Wailing Wall, Judaism's holiest shrine. Faxes sent to a number the
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    • 376 22  -  By Ravindra Kumar REPORTING FROM NEW DELHI A PLAN by a militant Hindu party to evict more than 20,000 Muslim hut-dwellers in New Delhi has been foiled by mostly Hindu neighbours. They say they will not allow the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to wage war against
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    • 132 22 UPI THIS is part of the hoard of antiques (left) that a Thai diplomat tried to smuggle out of Pakistan in his luggage on Tuesday. Col Somsak Skultong, the Thai embassy's military attache in Islamabad, enjoys diplomatic immunity. He has been handed over to the embassy. Col Somsak,
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    • 136 22 AFP. A CALIFORNIA chain of clinics is sore about employees sporting love bites. "Cover up or lose a day's pay", its 115 employees have been warned. The marks of passion were an eyesore to patients and fellow workers, said a spokeswoman for the company,
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    • 223 23 UPI. FIRE gutted Bali's tallest and oldest hotel yesterday. One tourist was slightly injured in the fire at the 10-storey Bali Beach Hotel, officials said. Damage was estimated at $48 million. The fire was believed to have broken out just before noon inside a Qantas
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    • 108 23 Reuter. THIS Armenian family has one last use for the great works of fallen communist idols Lenin and Marx: Fuel. The shortage of firewood and gas in the former Soviet republic has forced many Armenians to burn tonnes of communist literature to keep them warm. "Special
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    • 192 23 AP. THE Japanese head of the World Health Organisation was re-elected for a second five-year term yesterday despite US and European opposition. Mr Hiroshi Nakajima, the 64-year-old director-general of WHO, defeated Mr Mohamed Abdelmoumene of Algeria, 18-13, in a vote by the agency's executive board.
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    • 504 24 AP. A lO-YEAR-OLD girl was kept handcuffed and chained in a tomb-like chamber in the US for 16 days. Katie Beers was also allegedly sexually molested by her captor, John Esposito, a "family friend". No one could hear her cries for help. She was held
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    • 125 24 AFP. A WOMAN in England began shoplifting at 62, after her husband died, and continued for 17 years. When police finally caught her, they found enough stolen goods to fill a store. In her home in Southend, near London, were 448 pairs of shoes,
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    • 48 24 W bring joy and fun to the entire world. Yes, there is violence and sex, but there are also great love stories. Arnold Schwarzenegger (above), store! Terminator, answer leg critics who say the hrntality -M LI- mi OT IN* Hvil/wvOu rwres encourage real-life violence
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    • 167 22 REGISTER NOW iffl The Grand Final of the contest is Friday, 26th February 1993. $3,000 cash trophy plus $1,000 cash trophy plus $1,000 cash trophy plus All FINALISTS WILL RECEIVE 1 Complete set Karaoke 1 14" Colour Television 1 set Karaoke Mixer 1 Wrist Watch 10 coupons System worth $2000
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    • 178 23 I The New Paper Saturday Special January 9, 1992 H I CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS! I j Hamidah Samuri *****28E I Vivien Ong Siew Kim *****49G I I William Tan Hwo See *****24 A -1 Chan Chu Fong *****58 G Tang Wai Hong *****00 D 8 Tan Kah Ling *****12
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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    • 83 25 Kftfck &y(j|i aSMS fSHp^^^Hß THE NEW PAPER H I WILL BE THE ONLY LOCAL gk ENGLISH DAILY THIS SUNDAY I fgKE® Goh Chok Tong's I S TBS® frank answers to I >: lIP I readers'frank I Si PLUS: The LATEST local and world news j^^H H THE BRAVE ONES: Those
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  • Showtime
    • 614 26  -  By Lo Tien Yin SHE'S a little weary... but she's going to give showbiz one last bash. After five years of the rat race in Hongkong ex-SBC actress He Jie (Awakening) is back with a sexy image. But an image is all it is. What
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    • 372 27  -  By Vivien Chiong FORMER SBC actress He Jie has been bugged by nuisance calls since she first posed for a series of sexy photos two months ago. Those photos showed her topless, holding only a huge leaf over her bare breasts. She said that since
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    • 201 28 FILM-MAKER Oliver Stone is finally wrapping up his massive Heaven and Earth big-screen saga in Los Angeles this month. Stone said he's "saddened and disappointed" that he had to give up trying to shoot the film in Vietnam. The film is the last of his trilogy on
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    • 170 28 AP OSCAR-WINNING Danish director Bille August has begun filming The House of the Spirits in Cereal, Portugal. The movie is based on Chilean novelist Isabel Allende's best-selling book. British actor Jeremy Irons is already on site. Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Vanessa Redgrave and Spanish
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    • 133 29 SHE'S SEXY HERE'S a Chinese version of Madonna's book Sex. It features Hongkong's newest and possibly most daring stripper, Loletta Lee. Loletta, a recent Affairs Weekly cover girl, is known for girlish roles in films such as the Happy Ghost series. But she gave a sneak
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    • 67 29 IE'S SEXY. FOR men at least, thirtv-somethings and even sixty-somethings are not goners. The Star magazine conducted a poll on sexy men recently and guess who featured among the top ones? Sean Connery, 62; Steven Seagal, 40, (now in Under Siege showing here); Mel Gibson, 36;
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    • 65 29 THIS is final. Actress Winona Ryder (Dracula), once and for all, is not going out with Johnny Depp (Edward Scissorhands). They are not together even on an on-off basis, says Star magazine. She is with U2 rocker Bono. Depp is with Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear). And
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    • 104 29 GLAMOUR GIRL? NOT REALLY HOORAY. Here's a top model, Cindy Crawford, 26, who openly admits that she wakes up as someone unglamorous. She recently sat on a panel on women's issues at Princeton Unversity. She said: "I think women see me on the
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
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