The New Paper, 8 April 1998

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 583 2  -  by YVONNE LIM CORPORATE boss turns humble waiter. Tearful transvestite, mascara running, exchanges cabaret glitz for sweaty warehouse labour. It's a fair bet that when the kopi tiam talk turns to the regional crisis, memory wraps around human images like these first rather than Suharto's
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    • 464 3  -  BY Jill Lim THIS shoe looks lovely. But no, you can't wear it. It's a clay sculpture by artist Chng Seok Tin. The friendly 51-year-old said with a laugh: "It's a stiletto, but I wouldn't know how to walk in it!" She was wearing
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    • 68 3 THE VSA Arts Fiesta 1998 is a month-long travelling art exhibition organised by Very Special Arts Singapore. It aims to provide an avenue for disabled artists, educate the public and help the artists gain financial independence. VSA Singapore, a non-profit organisation affiliated to the National Council of Social
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    • 41 3 Until Friday, 11 am to 8 pm Suntec City, Tropics first floor April 16-19, 11 am to 9 pm Ikea April 21-24. 11 am to 8 pm Ngee Ann City Apnl 27-30, 11 am to 3 pm Subordinate Courts
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 108 4 rsj^jßCßAS^^~ HOT STORIES RELATIVES of the Silk Air crash victims have hired US lawyers to represent them in civil lawsuits against Boeing and Silk Air. Singaporeans were among the 35 family members who had contacted law firms Kreindler Kreindler in New York and Speiser Krause in Irvine,
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    • 69 4 LAWYER-PILOTS Lawyer-pilots form the core of firms which specialise In aviation litigation Lawyer John "Jack" Veth of Speiser Krause was a US Air Force pilot for 20 years who flew the spy plane SR-71 Blackbird, the world's fastest plane They have tackled cases such as the
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    • 112 4 A HANDPHONE costing $50 and a pager for less than $10. This was what Sing Tel Mobile offered over the weekend in its Super Weekend Carnival, reports The Business Times Retail prices of pagers and cellular phones are tumbling, BT said. A week ago, one of Nokia's latest
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    • 27 4 The Dow Jones industrial average fell 76.73 points to close at 8,956.50 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 669 million issues.
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY:
      • 69 4 THAT silver tint in your hair could be no thanks to mercury, researchers say. A study by the National University of Singapore found higher levels of mercury in Singaporeans' hair than in that of islanders off Batam. The islanders have more lead in theirs. But the levels are
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      • 62 4 Every time an opposition member gets charged, it is politically motivated. But... through the history qfthe country how many chiqf ministers have been dealt with according to the law. All these are forgotten. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad defending the jail sentence riven to opposition leader Lim GuanEng.
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      • Article, Illustration
        58 4 MILLI Vanilli member Robert Pilatus (right) has died of a heart attack at the age of 32, Frankfurt police said. Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, who formed Milli Vanilli, were stripped of their 1990 Grammy after they admitted that they had lip-synched on their hit album, All or Nothing.
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      • 65 4 Jailbird no more: Film star Robin Padilla, being kissed by mum Eva Carina Padilla, after stepping out of prison a free man yesterday. He was sentenced in 1995 to 21 years in jail for illegal possession of firearms. He was pardoned
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      • 75 4 A PILL for impotence has worked for at least half the men who tested it at Changi General Hospital. The pill, Viagra, by Pfizer, makes blood rush to the penis, bringing on an erection when a man is sexually aroused. It has no effect if he
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      • 65 4 We'll chase them away. They can go home and continue dreaming of cheap COE8. One distributor's sales supervisor on the low bids by motorists. They are bidding low in the hope that COE prices will fall further from the $50 COE for the big car category last December.
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      • 68 4 A DRUG that is being used now in the US to treat breast cancer, tamoxifen, may be able to help prevent the disease for those who have a higher-than-normal risk of getting breast cancer. But the drug can cause side-effects such as an increased risk of getting blood
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    • 80 4 The Straits Times: Japan to lend Indonesia $1.6b The Business Times: Shopping malls face growing pressure for steep rental cuts Uanhe Zaobao: Wong Kan Seng: Employers must ensure foreign workers return home Bertta Harian: Japan plans USslb help RCS morning news: British PM struggles to save Northern Ireland peace
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • Article, Illustration
      538 5 he would rather not be called that) PSI 150: Unhealthy range: The I public should reduce vigorous outdoor activities. Something's strange (haiy!) in the neighbourhood. Who're you gonna call? Certainly not a bureaucrat who speaks M'rom his pristine air-conditioned bubble. RACHEL TAN speaks to ENV director Tan Teng Huat,
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    • 277 6  -  FROM PREVIOUS PAGE By Rachel Tan MR Tan Teng Huat would rather not have people calling him the 'Tiazebuster". The haze task force chief doesn't want the "compliment". He says: "I'm not in a position to bust the haze and I'm not the only
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    • 60 6 MR Tan is also the director of environmental policy and management division. He started as a PWD engineer, moving to ENV in 1972. "My first love is dirty water, my last love is also dirty water. I started as a sewerage man," he says. He has dealt
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    • 92 6 THE dusty air these days is not THE haze. But the cloud of smoke is expected in late May, when the winds change and the south-west monsoon comes. How bad will it be? It all depends. The fuzzy skyline you see is due to the fires
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    • 74 6 ENV Haze Infoline: 1800-731-9222. PSI readings and health advice will be given from 6 am to 10 pm daily. The line will also be manned from 7 am to 7 pm daily by ENV officers, who will answer queries. Health Ministry Healthline: 1800-223-0313. Between 8.30 am and
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      482 7  -  Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat director returns to Singapore after 39 years By Yong Siew Fern THIRTY-NINE years ago, Nicola Treherne lost her father to polio. She was still sleeping in her cot at a military hospital here a baby. He died the day she was born. Three
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    • 572 8  -  By Danny Lim IMAGINE the passenger sitting next to you on a bus suddenly pulling a knife on you! But antique dealer Noorul Ameen, 37, did not lose his cool. He knew just how to hide his hundreds of dollars from the robbers... The
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  • SINGAPORE TODAY
    • 81 10 THE High Court judge found the driver, Thng Hua Soon, 85 per cent responsible for the accident Judicial Commissioner Lee Seiu Kin said Mr Thng's speed, at 50 km/h, was too fast in the heavy traffic and drizzle. But it was unclear If the traffic light was green
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    • 440 11 Terence didn't stay depressed for long. "I told myself (the memory loss) is a short-term thing. I consciously pushed the negative thoughts out." Terence began studying smart, not just hard. He examined past test questions spotting the trend and preparing answers along those lines. He
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    • 481 12 A Japanese writer is in Singapore to observe its underworld. JILL LIM reports SETUHIRO Akabori, 49, doesn't look like a gangster. A scar on his right middle finger was not from a Japanese gangster ritual but a cut he received during his round-the-world research. But he
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    • 150 12 MR Akabori writes books about conmen in various countries, collecting about 90 short stories into a book. The books are only in Japanese and available only in Japan though one is being translated in Singapore into English and Mandarin. The books, based more on observation than in-depth study
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    • 55 12 THE organised crime syndicates in Japan. They arose during the '70s as protection for rival groups of crooks extorting the businesses which were doing well then. Yakuza members tattoo their bodies and cut off their little fingers as a mark of loyalty to the group. Their traditional "businesses"
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    • 55 12 A NOTORIOUS global crime syndicate originating in Sicily, Italy. Crime gangs in Italy are mostly family-based and tend to be in the Southern part of Italy, Extortion is one of their major activities. There are Mafia groups in the US and Columbia, and the term is now used
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 58 15 *****1******1* larti Imp raawdtaat Joa Mfcfaai, 37, tMaks anal SapparaaashawaBatyat reached toteraatfcwal staodards la haiiaiii hnage. What paavas IMs latanutioul faaaga *W<er of tfca Yaart Most Singapore male executives are not sharp dressers. They wear cheap, synthetic shirts. And one of their wors$ jl habits
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    • 242 15 WHEN Seagate Technology laid off 1,800 workers this year, 128 of them asked the Employment Service Department for help. But job interviews could be found for only 82. The others did not have enough skills. "We were unable to find a suitable job-match... These workers should have
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 279 17 Hustler publisher charged with selling porn video to youth HE has done it again. Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, who was jailed in 1977 on charges of selling obscene material, has been found guilty of the same offence again. His 1977 act and the subsequent court case drew
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    • Article, Illustration
      45 17 mui<m ui< Mr Chia Keok Keong, secretary of Malaysia's Federation of Livestock Farmers Associations, on why Ms group sought government approval for a hike in the price of eggs: We are feeding the chicken in US dollars, but what we get is ringgit.
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    • 598 18  -  "THIS is what I always wear," said Ms Koshnitsky. "I wear the clothes I like and feel comfortable with." She said she had no intention to distract. She took a jacket to the contest but it was too hot to wear it. "If you go out
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 385 21 II II Gambler in debt, so he plots to collect insurance money Source: The Times (Internet) and Electronic Telegraph. HE was down by £93,000 ($249,240). So he thought he would gamble on his last throw: His wife's £267,000 insurance policy. And he lost. Yesterday, Rhee Jong Yoon,
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    • 134 21 THE Rhees met in 1991 at a Soho nightclub. Mrs Rhee was then a secretary with a bank and he worked for Pizza Hut. Rhee did not tell her that, 10 years earlier, he had been tried for the murder of a shop manager. He was acquitted, despite
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    • 266 22 Source: Wire services. HE kicked her twice on the back and once on the buttocks while she was holding their 7-week old baby. Yet, sexy Baywatch star Pamela Anderson says she is proud of her now-estranged husband, rock drummer Tommy
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    • 47 22 LEE still faces criminal charges for allegedly assaulting a security guard during a Motley Crue concert last year. He also faces a civil suit filed by photographer Henry Trappier over an incident outside the Viper Room night club in Los Angeles in 1996.
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    • 182 23 Indonesia says it appreciates Singapore's $4.8 b help PRESIDENT Suharto has personally thanked Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong for helping his country tackle the tough times. The Indonesian leader "conveyed his greatest appreciation to Mr Goh for extending a sympathetic hand to Indonesia the Kompas daily reported. The
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  • Showtime
    • 532 24  -  One person's reaction to cinematographer Christopher Doyle, better known as Du Kefeng BY Yong Siew Fern TAKE all the images you have seen in such movies as Chen Kaige's Farewell, My Concubine, Wong Kar Wai's Fallen Angels and Peter Chan's Comrades, Almost a Love Story.
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    • 410 25 GO AHEAD, MAKE HIM PLAY... BUTAUS MARSHAL? Tommy Lee Jones plays Marshal Sam Gerard again in US Marshals, the sequel to the 1993 blockbuster, The Fugitive. The movie will be here soon. But what if James Lye of Triple Nine fame gets tired of Singapore
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    571 26  -  eye tech Hasta la vista, snail mail! Electronic mail\ or e-mail[ will erase the need for stamps and postmen like Kevin Costner in the future. We'll be talking to each other in cyberspace. University and polytechnic students have e-mail accounts. Students in Primary 4 and above will get
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 171 27 Lost 'em: Jack Neo puffs out. SUSAN QUAH "When I was young and played police and thiqf, was always the thiqf. How to run ctfler the thief? So, I hide. If I were the police, I'd wait/or the others to catch the thieves before sitting
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 297 30  -  By Lee Yin Luen AT first, it seemed inconceivable that sexy Emma Yong should be playing goody-two-shoes Ivy Tan Poh Chu. Ivy is the lead character in Theatre Works' re-staging of the 1988 hit musical, Beauty World. She has two pigtails and is awed by
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    • 34 30 WHAT: Beauty World WHERE: Victoria Theatre WHEN: Bpm, April 16-26 TICKETS: $25. $30. $35, $45, $60 from Sistic. Tickets for The President's Star Charity (April 16) at $30. $40, $50. $80. $12Q
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
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  • 467 32  -  ET CETERA WITH BRIAN MILLER LAST weekend was a dream weekend as far as soccer fans were concerned. Three live matches. An English Premiership clash on Saturday. Two FA Cup semi-finals on Sunday. Who could ask for more? So it was that
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    266 34  -  VEL WITH A TWIST m Rachel Tan I eking in Nepal's ran highlands pve you a big enough ir ballooning. Rom the steep slopes nandu in a gaily id hot-air balloon. Jirough the crisp past the majestic ins and pristine •ated peaks of the ange. ch the vertigo and
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  • SPORTS
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      233 44 NATIONWIDE LEAGUE: Reuters. SHEFFIELD UNITED 1 MIDDLESBROUGH 0 POOR Gazza. The England midfielder had another unhappy outing for his new Division One club Middlesbrough. He suffered an ankle injury and was taken off in the 1-0 away defeat against Sheffield United yesterday. Gascoigne, who moved over from top
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    • 147 44 SPANISH DIVISION ONE LEAGUE Reuters. BARCELONA is sitting comfortably at the top of the Spanish league. A 2-0 win over Real Betis in Seville yesterday extended its lead to 11 points. The crucial second-half goals came from the Brazilian twin strike-force of Giovanni and Rivaldo. Giovanni, who missed
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  • NBA '98
    • 530 45 THE BULLS: NO TWIN TOWERS': NO CENTRE:...NO WORRIES LAT-WP. TO wake up the Chicago Bulls, all you need to do is give them something to play for. The team was losing almost half its matches on the road earlier this season. But it soon realised it
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    • 284 45  -  IN THE PLAYOFFS WESTERN CONFERENCE Seattle SuperSonics Utah Jazz Los Angeles Lakers San Antonio Spurs Phoenix Suns Portland Trailblazers Minnesota Timberwolves Houston Rockets EASTERN CONFERENCE Chicago Bulls Miami Heat Indiana Pacers Charlotte Hornets Four more to be decided By Pradeep Paul THE regular season in the
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    • 630 46 THIS WEEK'S BIG GAME San Antonio at Utah (today): The Jazz are in the hunt for the NBA's best record and the Spurs are playing as well as any team. Tim Duncan and David Robinson will take turns trying to contend with Utah's Karl Malone. KARL MALONE: UTAH
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    • 304 46 USA Today. MATERNAL BACKBOARD: When Karl Malone started playing basketball, he had no basket to practice. So his mother, Shirley, would stand In front of their farmhouse in Summerfield, LA, and make a hoop with her arms. AT HOME WITH THE MALONES: Wife Kay is a former
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  • WORLD CUP '98 UPDATE
    • 228 47 Zubizarreta is the only player to have played mote than 600 Spanish First Division games. ui. ..a nts current uiiiy stands at 620. He has played 123 fi.,.. --1-«-nmes tot ins country. He has been Spain's Ho 1 goalkeeper for the past decade. His club,
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    • 156 47 Reuters. FRENCH taxpayers could be paying an extra US$11 million ($17.6m) a year until 2025 to pay off additional costs for the new World Cup stadium. The extra costs arise because First Division side Paris St Germain refused to play at the US$430m Stade de
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    • 83 47 COUPE DU MONDE Reuters. PARAGUAY captain Jose Luis Chilavert has been recalled to the national team for a friendly away to Italy later this month. Coach Paulo Cesar Carpeggiani had left the volatile goalkeeper-cum-free-kick specialist out of Paraguay's recent tour to Mexico and the US, apparently
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    • 316 47 AT FRANCE'9B GROUP A: Brazil Scotland Morocco Norway Reuters. THE player who scored Brazil's first goal in the recent 2-1 friendly win against Germany says he is confident the holder can retain the World Cup. But he is concerned about Norway's aerial threat in the first round. Defensive
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  • 816 48 CONSIDER THIS FACT... CHAMPIONSHIP CHASE: ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP '98 No it's not us saying it. The odds favour United, the bookmakers have their money on the Red Devils and the experts say so MONDAY'S GAME: BLACKBURN ROVERS 1 Chris Sutton 32nd min penalty MAN UNITED Andy
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      498 49 NAME ENGRAVED IN GOLD WILL TIGER WOODS CNN (Internet Edition). TWO years ago, Tiger Woods walked through the Augusta National clubhouse, turned left and went up steep, narrow stairs to the Crow's Nest. That's the cozy quarters where amateurs stay during the Masters. A year earlier, a teenage
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    • 111 49 USA Today. THREE-TIME Masters champion Nick Faldo has pulled out his trusty old putter in the hope of recapturing some magic on the fast and slippery greens of Augusta National this week. "I've got my old putter out again and I'm feeling
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    • 145 49 DESPITE not having won on the PGA Tour this year, Tiger Woods is playing better than he did last year. Certainly, he is more consistent. "It's all a maturing process," his coach, Butch Harmon, said. "He is so much more patient, so much more mature than last year.
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    • 106 49 TIGERS Woods will have plenty of challengers to his Master crown. Among the best around at the moment are Davis Love, the PGA Championship winner; British Open champion Justin Leonard; Scotsman Colin Montgomerie, who is seeking his first major championship, and the Under-30 crowd of Jim Furyk, Phil
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    • 98 49 CNN (Internet Edition). ERNIE Els appears to be relishing his rivalry with Tiger Woods. At 28, the South African Els already has two Majors both US Open championships and he and Woods are virtually deadlocked for No 1 in the world rankings. "I feel like
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    785 50  -  'Let this be a message to all schools that we will not tolerate bad behaviour on the field' FIVE WHO FOUGHT IN NATIONAL SCHOOLS SOCCER TOURNAMENT: SCHOOLSPORTS '98 HOT By Gerard Wong THE five Bartley and Bowen Secondary players, who were sent off for fighting at last week's National
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