The New Paper, 26 December 1997

Microfilm: NL21066
Total Pages: 90
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    13 1 the new paper FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1997 the new paper FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26,1997
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  • SILKAIR
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      Lock icon A time to grieve
      369 2  -  Memorial to be held next week BY Woon Wui Tek A PUBLIC ceremony in memory of the victims of the SilkAir crash will be held soon. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday that the Crisis Management Committee "has recommended that we should hold a condolence
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      Q & A with PM GOH
      408 2 Q A with PM GOH 2HE$Plli happiness b4cau*4 otae tan never be happy with the u 1 progress. BiitindiU limit to what you can do.fljtiihtyery j j arduous given the terrain, ths; i swamps and the nature of the river, the! high currents and so on. In fact all of
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      THE BLACK BOX
      111 2 Planes have not one, but two black boxes. The Cockpit Voice Recorder records radio transmissions and sounds in the cockpit such as the crew's voices and engine noisesi The Flight Data Recorder monitors flight information such as the height the plane is flying at, its speed and
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  • SILKAIR
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      Lock icon Finally they see documents
      283 4  -  Reports: MELVIN SINGH and BRIAN MILLER in Palembang LITTLE Marcus Choo was looking for his dad. Yesterday, when the authorities allowed relatives of the victims of SilkAir flight MI 185 to view documents recovered from the crash site, Marcus was among those who went into the
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      Some relieved, some disappointed
      198 4 She was searching for her daughter's passport. When Madam Noraini Sulaiman spotted it, she took the document in her hands and hugged it before bursting into tears. Her daughter, Ms Syaibani, was an air stewardess on the ill-fated flight which crashed last Friday. Ms Syaibani's father,
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      HOW BLACK BOXES SURVIVE
      68 4 Both recorders are in the part of the plane that can best survive a crash. This is usually the tail section. They are enclosed in a titanium box lined with insulation that can withstand temperatures of up to 1,100 deg C, which is the temperature at
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      The tears have dried but the pain ...
      528 5  - The tears have dried but the pain BY Brian Miller By Brian Miller ON Christmas Day in Palembang, the/' angels did weep. For the families and friends of th® victims of SilkAir Flight MI 185, there wae| no joy. Today, a week alter the Boeing jet I went down at
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      HOW BLACK BOXES HELP
      64 5 The boxes record engine noises, stall warnings, the sound of the landing gear extending and retracting, and other similar noises. From these sounds, investigators can determine the condition of the engine, whether the systems were working normally, the plane's speed and the time at which various
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      HOW THE BOXES ARE FOUND
      43 5 Each recorder has an Underwater Locator Beacon. When the box is under water, a "pinger" is activated. This sends a signal on 37.5 KHz that can be detected up to 3.2 km away for at least 30 days.
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      Lock icon 5% of plane recovered
      222 6 SO far, only about 5 per cent in weight of the ill-fated plane has been recovered. This was revealed by Rear-Admiral (NS) Teo Chee Hean in Palembang yesterday. He said the biggest part recovered was only slightly longer than a table-tennis table. According to Jane's All
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      CRISIS CENTRE IN OVERDRIVE
      168 6 THE Passenger Information Centre at the Crisis Management Centre (CMC) in Changi Airport fields up to 1,000 calls per hour from relatives and members of the public. The head of crisis management (from Silk air) said the CMC is activated in a crisis like a crash
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    Lock icon Skipped golf — took flight
    321 8  - Skipped golf took flight SILKAIR A A By Bernard Pereira AT first, he agreed with his elder brother to play golf in Taiwan over the weekend. But at the 11th hour, Mr Seow Poh Ting, 42, decided to go to Jakarta to look into the possibility of buying a factory
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      598 8 Festive Season wiY/i a Heart at the Allson Hotel 4g .o. TEOCHEW PORRIDGE SUPPER BUFFET Sj AXjk 24 &31 DFCFMBFR 1997 OVADAI D'ANGELIQUE BANDS JH I/LILIVIgHS 177/ PARTY WITH YOII Br !5 J/nu. 9SG? Jf\W 11.00 PM TILL 4.00 AM (NEXT MORNING) rAK i wiin iuu gj. ji#. .NUC *f/yfvYv
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  • COUNSELLORS WITH ATTITUDE: PART 2 *
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      Freda, the rebelturnedmodel
      404 11 Freda, the turnedmodel COUNSELLORS WITH ATTITUDE: PART 2 Last week, we introduced Patricia and Rizal. This week, the three other new A counsellors. All five are I waitingfor your letters, I so get cracking! m In the meantime, read about FOR Freda Hannum, having strict parents meant a 10 pm
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      Michelle, the 'model' student
      164 12 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE IT was in Primary 5 that e'-v Michelle Lim first failed to f J make it into the top 10 per yip cent of her school. That was a depressing day, remembers Michelle, 17, a JC 2 Science student at Temasek Junior College.
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      Kevin, the wannabe singer
      140 12 IF you don't talk to Kevin Kwa, you'd think he was one of those smarty pants in school with zero social skills. But Kevin surprises. He would very much like to be a singer in a band some day. "I was thinking of being a lawyer,
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      FROM LAST WEEK:
      26 12 PATRICIA LIU, 15, Sec 3 express student and reformed Ah Lian. MOHD SHAHRIZAL, 17, normal stream student who's doing 0 levels next year.
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      42 12 H H I iH Hj Make a New Year's H I RESOLUTION I ■|l s 1 to quit smoking, it's the M SOLUTION I H 1 m 9 ft for a healthv life. m ■t m Hi n 1 for more information.
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    Romantic or sincere?
    78 14 nnnMUiii* SINGAPORETODAY Her World magazine (January '98), In an article about single China women in Singapore, had this to say: In Hongkong and Shenzhen, just by walking along the streets you can see that the men would do anything to impress a woman: Buy her bouquets of
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      63 16 1 CELEBRATE'9BI I "LIVE" COUNTDOWN PARTY ON SENTOSA. (U.K.) (Taity arj date 31 Dec 97 time 9pm 6am uenue Sentosa Fountain Gardens Admission to Sentosa after 6.30pm: $3 (adult), $2.00 (child) FREE party packs and attractiue giueaways. Call 1 800-SENTOSfI (1800-736 8672) for details. Bus serine es between Sentosa and
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      My bonus this year:
      508 17 Redundancy package My usual bonus: Brokers usually get the fattest bonuses. But this year, some won't even get to keep their jobs. JILL UM reports About 200 people in the finance loftor have been retrenched in the last two months, including about 130 at Yamakhi. DANIEL
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      My bonus this year: My job
      238 18 FROM PAGE 17 My usual bonus: ONE 28-year-old dealer with a large international financial house isn't expecting any bonus this year. This year, he reckons he is lucky to still have a job. "What bonus? I don't expect much, if anything at all. There
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      NOT JUST BROKERS
      126 18 THE economic slowdown and the fall in the value of regional currencies have hit many companies badly. Most companies expect to pay the same bonus as last year, or less. The average variable bonus this year is 1.5 months, according to a survey by Remuneration Data Specialists,
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      167 20 inm i Biggest Warehouse Sale II ll i tsA° on^ Du 1 1 BRADDELL ROAD p=\ ■■B I |mosque| J sbs depot I 111 I 5 MARKET SCHOOL II I Oj LOR 8 TOA >AYOH II I II l TOWN CENTRE KIM KEAT QOLF DRIVING II I estate range Un
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    Flame Awards: Did you win?
    83 21 SINGAPORETODAY HERE are the IC numbers of the winners of our annual Flame Awards poll: Winner of the top prize An Epson Digital Camera and an Epson Stylus 600 (1,440 dpi) Colour Printer: *****91. Three other winners will each get an Ericsson 628 handphone: *****23,*****55
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      I don't think... about your world
      758 22 Ex-SIA steward Zainijeloni is serving six years in a Los Angeles jail for the death of a young Taiwanese stewardess. CHAN SEET FUN visits him for 50 minutes andfinds him already making plans for his return to Singapore ARCHING an eyebrow, he looked up
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      THE CASE
      113 22 ZAINI, 29, was jailed for six years last month after pleading no contest to a reduced charge of manslaughter. He was originally charged with rape and murder. But he struck a deal with prosecutors to plead no contest to the reduced charge of manslaughter. After deducting time served
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      His life behind bars
      444 23 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE SOME days, nothing happens. So, Zaini yells across the passageway to inmates in the other cells and, with the help of some hand signals, they chat. But some days, too, there are scuffles. "In a riot, you have to pick which side you're
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      THE VICTIM
      55 23 Miss Chang Yu, 23, arrived in Los Angeles on her first working flight as an SI A stewardess. She was on the same crew as Zaini. Miss Chang had just graduated with a degree in German language and had wanted to work as an air stewardess to raise
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon His best carols, bar none
      347 24  -  Mr Tay and his family were speaking at the Prisons Fellowship Singapore's Xmas party on Dec 13. This year, more than 150 family members of current and former inmates attended the annual event. BY Teo Hwee Nak FOR nine years, Robert Tay listened to Christmas
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      Wife's Xmas gift
      174 24 TO Mrs Tay, the greatest gift this Christmas was having her husband home. The 44-year-old factory operator said shyly in Mandarin: "During festive seasons, I would miss him even more and wish he was with us." The couple's 17-year-old twin sons were only eight when Mr Tay
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      SINGAPORETODAY Johnny's miracle of survival
      128 25 HE was on a flight over Bandung in Indonesia when his plane crashed. Twenty-eight people died. Singaporean Johnny Koh was thought to be one of them. But his wife, six months pregnant, refused to give up hope despite newspaper reports of his death. She prayed.
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      Would you help? Would you fight? Can you write?
      244 25 MORE than 300junior college students have swapped their books for paint brushes these holidays. They have taken part in a volunteers' camp organised by Hwa Chong Junior College and Care Corner Youth. As part of the camp's aim of introducing them
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      Legal tips
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      16 24 Lunch 11am 2.30pm Dinner 6pm 10pm Y LtmnrtwomM^i jf. Assam Fish Pasta Chicken Salmon Mussels, etc.
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      406 25 the Carlton. ltd going to be a JE real blowout. It* time once again to let your hair down and be wild. And j jH whether it d counting dou>n the stroke of midnight or spending the fit A day of the y ear rtcoverui 9> tt*re jno better place
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    Lock icon Russian satellite may fall to earth
    261 27 WORLDTODAY Source: Wire services. A RUSSIAN satellite launched into space early yesterday morning, is in trouble. It is now spinning out of control and there are fears that the 2,534-kg satellite may fall to earth. The satellite was launched at around 7 am yesterday.
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    Lock icon Nobody wants chicken
    394 30 BIRD FLU IN HONGKONG WORLDTODAY Source: Hongkong newspapers, Asiaweek. A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy in Hongkong died alter playing with chickens and ducklings at kindergarten. A 37-year-old man fell sick two days after slaughtering a chicken and a duck. He later recovered. Both are victims of the "bird flu".
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      268 30 Vififl r S Fx/ft I If you missed out on our aid of the lonely elderly, you can still do your part by purchasing jr>tp|/%\A/ir\ Dpirt\# H I the Charity VCD containing our theme song at only $10 each llvJwWI I I II j m I available exclusively at TOWER
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Mrs A: Japan's mystery woman
      441 32 Talk of an old affair between Japan's Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and a Chinese woman surfaced again recently This time, there's a twist: The woman, a former interpreter for the Chinese government, is accused off having been a spy When asked in Parliament about the
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      ACTIONS OF A SPY?
      113 32 MRS A made the first move in getting to know Mr Hashimoto in 1979, a source told Aera. "On hindsight, the beginnings of the relationship seemed to have been well-scripted. "Contact was initiated by Mrs A, and I shudder to think whether it was part of
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      367 33 i i 111 i i I JSS I I T Hj ■v nHHHHi Jb .IwiMi Congratulations to our 18 lucky winners. no better time to In the lucky winners of our X'mas X'tras Weekly Draw: rrrn Week 1 Draw Wctk 4 Draw Ist Ong Geok Hw. (*****12/ C) Ist Neo
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Take our eggs and make babies
      313 34 A gift from the heart and womb AFP. AN American couple who struggled for 15 years to try to have a baby are offering a gift to couples in similar situations: Six frozen embryos left over from their trials. "This is our gift at
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      Lock icon Sex line caper lands man in jail—for life
      153 34 Source: Reuters. A MAN in Guangdong, southern China, stole mobile telephone numbers and used them to call a Hongkong sex line. He now must pay dearly for his crime. A Chinese court recently sentenced him to life in jail, reported the China
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      Lock icon From 'daughter' to wife
      363 35 In 1992, filmmaker Woody Allen's relationship with the adopted daughter of his then lover Mia Farrow made news. This week, the saga took another turn Reuters FILMMAKER Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn, adopted daughter of his former lover Mia Farrow, married in a secret ceremony in
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      Lock icon Rashomon star dies
      276 35 Source: Wire services. ONE of Japan's most acclaimed film actors, Toshiro Mifune, died pn Wednesday. Mifune, 77, was the star of Akira Kurosawa's classic movies Rashomon and The Seven Samurai. He also starred in the popular 1980 television series Shogun. A spokesman for his family had no
      Source: Wire services.  -  276 words
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    364 42  -  Why it's being b&iilt 4-Page pullout From this will arise... From this will arise... By Ambiga Raju CHINA needs energy to power it into the next century. What it is able to generate now is not enough. At least 80 million of its 1.2 billion
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    303 43 spotlight An army of workers arc on hand, working to tame the mighty Yangtze. Many have been impressed by the rate of progress i m BASIC FACTS The project began in 1994 and will take another 12 years to complete. But the first of 26 machines
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    361 48 ITS a bad idea, many critics of the project have said. Building the dam means that nearly 1.2 million people would have to be resettled to other parts of China in the next few years. What would be the effects of such a big project? "There
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    62 48 CHINA'S trump card in arguing for the project is the fact that its people have long suffered under the flood-prone Yangtze's wrath. The river has claimed about 300,000 lives since the beginning of this century. In 1991, the Yangtze floods claimed about 1,700 lives, making it
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      148 79 They train twice a day six times a week. They wake up at 7am, with stretching exercises for 45 minutes before breakfast. Three-hour morning training starts at 9 am. There's another three-hour workout in the afternoon, starting at 3 pm. THEY arrived here last month as part of
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