The New Paper, 25 August 1998

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    7 1 the new paper TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1998
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      46 1 Suharto's son-in-law sacked by military chief after kidnapping probe MHIVV V<* v^' r ;^*v < BK4M^^^^^^HHBjEHBiBP' w2i f Ik Terror ißfll tales ■ißWiiiii MM Ptcture/DAVID TAN that lead to Prabowo's fall /page 2 MITA(P) 151/04/98 60 CENTS ij Nil http://web3.asial.com.sg/lnp V** SmgapOtß PreSS Holdings I sle^'eMoooi 1
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • Tales of terror
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        Lock icon TORTURED BY MASKED MEN
        351 2 Lieutenant-General Prabowo Subianto, a son-in-law of former Indonesian president Suharto, was sackedfrom the military yesterday. This followed a military board's investigation into the kidnapping ofsome 20 political activists earlier this year. Li-Gen Prabowo's fall from grace has its roots in April, when several activists emerged to
        Source: Asiaweek, Far Eastern Economic Review, Wire services.  -  351 words
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        HELD AT GUNPOINT
        210 2 SEVERAL other activists later emerged to speak about their own ordeal in the hands of captors. One of them was political activist Rahaijo Waluyo Jati, 28. He was abducted from March 12 to April 25. At a press conference in June, Mr Rahaijo said he was kidnapped
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      Sacked? 'Not enough'
      179 2 ITS not enough just to sack once-rising star Prabowo Subianto. He and others must be tried in a military court, Lt-Gen (retired) Bambang Triantoro said yesterday. "I think a lot of people will be unhappy with the sacking decision, because people now want to know more about
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      Lock icon Blast rocks Perth
      99 2 AFP. AN explosion rocked central Perth this morning. It forced a partial evacuation of a hotel where Australian Prime Minister John Howard was staying, police said. The blast, at a police firearms depot, forced some guests to be moved from the Sheraton Hotel ..First reports JJJAjjSJjSfSjIK said
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      KAMPUNG CRIERS
      19 3 mlmesekiasWre a swinging J I sometimes, they act P as "town criers"/or Jj Turn the page fo/wM
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      Lock icon KAMPUNG SPIRIT
      509 4  -  REPORTS JILL LIM Madam Sng Mai Hong, 45, is called to her gate by the little Malay kids running around outside, shouting: "Ada orang datang!" (You have visitors.) That's life in a kampung. Such as this one in Lorong Buang Kok. In fact, Madam Sng has a J
      PICTURES JONATHAN CHOO  -  509 words
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      FOREIGN WORKERS LIVE HERE AS WELL
      193 4 IT looks like a typical kampung to me, but Madam Sri knows just how much it has changed. There are a lot of strangers now: "Some families have moved out and rented their houses to foreign workers. They don't cause trouble but sometimes, at
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      More leeway for Sing$
      130 5 Ba MAS ANNUAL REPORT THE Singapore dollar is now allowed to fluctuate within a wider range, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The reason: Low inflation. Between January and May, Singapore's inflation rate was 0.9 per cent. This means there is less need to strengthen the
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      Banks ready for the Millenium Bug
      96 5 ABOUT 90 per cent of banks are on course to meet MAS' year-end deadline for switching systems to tackle the Y2K bug. So said MAS deputy managing director (financial services) Tharman Shanmugaratnam. The Y2K bug is a glitch which may surface as computers may
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      Lock icon Singaporean killed in Thailand
      67 5 ♦1- CARAMBUSH: A Singaporean engineer was shot dead and a Thai woman seriously injured when they were ambushed in this car by two gunmen as they were driving out of his house in Bangkok on Sunday. MrCheongFook Kuen, 55, was shot five times in the front
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    • News Break
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        Share fare
        67 5 TAXIS IF you want to share a cab with someone going to the same place, Tibs Taxis will match you. Each pays less 60 per cent of the metered rate and all surcharges while the cabby earns more. Join Tibs Taxis Cab Pooling scheme using forms in The
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        Blast case
        63 5 |HC6urt|H BRYAN Loke Yek Chai, (left) is on trial for causing the death of his army mate. Loke, then a second lieutenant and full-time national serviceman (NSF), is alleged to have caused a light anti-tank projectile to explode by knocking it against a cement structure. Private Tan Chin
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        Sale sales down
        63 5 M SHOPPING B THE economic crisis has taken a big bite out of this year's Great Singapore Sale. Retailers have reported a 28 per cent dip in turnover and a 25 per cent fall in shopper traffic. Four in five shoppers were Singaporeans. Foreigners spent an average
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        $1 room queue
        60 5 BSIiS MORE than 100 people lined up outside the new Tropical Hotel yesterday to try for its opening offer. The first 50 walk-ins got the deal of a one-night stay for $1. Others were given discount vouchers. Normal rates at the hotel near Chinatown's red-light district, range
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      world Head liners
      58 5 South China Morning Post: Indonesia rapes probe yields 'no evidence' The New Straits Times: Support for AG's stand Sydney Morning Herald: A$ plunges as global crisis grows BBC news: The Taleban authorities in Afghanistan say Osama bin Laden has promised not to carry out political or military
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      Lock icon Juror jailed
      135 6 News makers Wire services. A CANADIAN juror who had a courtroom affair with the defendant in a murder trial was "narcissistic and self-absorbed" said a British Columbia Supreme Court judge. Judge Raymond Paris described former juror Gillian Guess' crime as an attack "on the integrity of the judicial
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      2 cops jailed
      67 6 |COURT_™ TWO traffic policemen were jailed yesterday for helping a traffic offender to quash his speeding summons on Sept 13 last year. Constable Alan Wee Soon Heng, 25, was sentenced to a year and three weeks'jail, and Corporal Sean Sim Kok Sian, 23, to two weeks'jail. Wee
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      Not ship shape
      56 6 I PHILIPPINES! THE presidential yacht of the Philippines is not insured, President Joseph Estrada has been told. An insurance expert has urged him to retire the 40-year-old yacht and buy another. Mr Estrada sparked controversy earlier this month when he announced plans to have the vessel renovated
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      local Head liners
      50 6 The Straits Times: Prabowo sacked from the military The Business Times: Falling inflation gives MAS more flexibility on S$ Uanhe Zaobao: 82.9% of S'poreans trust Govt's management ability Berita Harian: Prabowo sacked from the military RCS morning news: The MAS allows the Singapore dollar more breathing space
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      Doctors' risk
      54 6 ■INDONESIA* SEVERAL doctors in Jakarta have offered free abortions to alleged rape victims of the May riots. But abortions are illegal in Indonesia. The Jakarta branch of Indonesia's Medical Association has stepped "into a potential minefield", The Jakarta Post reported. Association chairman Agus Purwadianto said "we feel obliged
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      Player quits
      74 6 I SPORTS M FOOTBALLER Hyrizan Jufri has pulled out of the S-League soccer competition. He is the first local player to quit after the 20 per cent pay cut. Midfielder Hyrizan, 27, said he had no choice as he would not be able to pay all his bills
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      WHAT'S HUP
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      WHY FOREIGNERS
      51 6 Ouote worthy Foreign recruits were prepared to sign three-year contracts at reasonable salaries, thus providing stability and ensuring that the NKF's life-saving work was not disrupted by incessant resignations. MrTT Durai, CEO/Honorary Secretary of the National Kidney Foundation on why the NKF recruited marketing and communications executives from
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      DOW JONES
      26 6 The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 32.96 points to close at 8,566.91 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 557 million shares.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      ERP... Huh?
      28 7 WHATS the cheapest time to travel? How much do motorbikers pay? Cut and keep The New Paper's handy guide to the ERP for all road-users, tomorrow.
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      Lock icon Friends in deed
      365 7  -  BY Jason Tan THEY were in the same section and slept two beds apart during their Basic Military Training in Nee Soon Camp. Then, by sheer chance, they were in the Bame section and slept two beds apart again when they were posted to the Officer Cadet
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      TITANIC CONTEST
      90 8 mui'mui* ALMOST all the 1,170 entries to our Back to Titanic contestline last week answered the two questions correctly. Answers: 1. Celine Dion sang the theme song of Titanic. 2. Yes, the movie, Titanic, did win the Best Original Dramatic Score at the Academy Awards this year. Twenty
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      158 8 DESIGN/SUPPLY, INSTALLATION 1 commui^ications V systems D I OrvflNs Pagan I Closed Circuit TV C«rtr«! ArtemaTV (CATV) H I "V JU Large Screen Projector _JJf' Oh Audio Background Music Public Conference Hotel Guest Room Control Adfress System YOUR ONE-STOP SYSTEMS SPECIALIST, ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE PLEASE CALL FOR FREE CONSULTATION/DEMONSTRATION
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      215 9 I 111 NEWS I W H ihmli GohChokTong Japan s economy is twice (he si: at the National Day of all the Other East Asian fiiv/».»/??/r% JL MM M M combined, including i Bp regions Vf our horoscope* are need Japan ti> /»</// one. Here I* how the through a
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • STREET TALK
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        I now look at non-S'poreans differently
        261 10 Issues raised in the Prime Minister's National Day Rally speech last Sunday prompted our writers to send their thoughts to their friends. Their letters were published yesterday. Here are the replies A Singapore doctor working in Hongkong faxes Ng Wan Ching Dear Wan Ching,
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        Just one worry...
        134 10 Office assistant Ravindran Sundaram, 33, writes to Riana Zakir Dear Riana, Me? I'm not worried about my job, lah. I'm with a very stable company. I'm also going for upgrading five courses taken already, Best and Wise, and so on. But I'll still try to save here
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        Cheap-cheap to weep-weep
        243 10 A travel industry unionist writes to Ken Jalleh Jr Dear Junior, "Cheap-cheap-cheap". This was the sound of Singaporean tourists when I was in Bangkok recently for a holiday. I thought the place had gone to the birds. Bangkok reminded me how fortunate we are in Singapore. But
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      A question of LIFE and DEATH
      417 11  -  NUS PROFS MURDER Judicial Commissioner Chan Seng Onn will deliver his Judgment on Friday morning. By Melvin Singh HE may be a coward but is he a murderer? That is the question that could mean life or death for Too Yin Sheong, 26, who
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      THE CASE
      111 11 THE 54-year-old former National University of Singapore lecturer was found dead in his two-storey house along Greenleaf Place on Dec 14, 1993. Prof Lee, who lived alone, was an English language professor and had befriended the accused, Too, a few months before the murder and had invited him
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  • WORLD TODAY
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      HARD TARGET
      355 12  -  By Patrick Jonas HE was an outcast in his country. He's now a hero in many parts of the Islamic world. This is what Mr Osama bin Laden has become after the US missile attacks in Sudan and Afghanistan. In his native Saudi Arabia, from where he was
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      Rolling fossils?
      38 12 *****1******1* Rolling Stones' fan, Maxim Kafechaia, 37, waited 20 yaar* for ttw rock group toappaarhi Moac»w. HauU. aW NM« I don't like to say it, but I think of this as an exhibition at a museum.
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      $8.8 million to clone dog
      100 13 A TEXAN millionaire is paying a cloning laboratory US$5 million ($B.B million) to produce a living replica of his pet dog, Missy, a BBC programme reported. The laboratory already has some cells from the dog, which is part collie and part Alsatian, Newsnight said yesterday.
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      Lock icon 'It could have been mass murder by mail'
      420 13 Woman had poison letters Wire services. FIRST, she filled sachets, supposed to contain a dietary supplement, with cyanide. Then she put them in letters and addressed them. But people in the Marina Del Rey post office in California saw her at one
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      'No evidence of rapes yet'
      226 14 Indonesian security chief INDONESIAN investigators have yet to find evidence that women were raped in Jakarta in the May riots, the state intelligence chief said yesterday. But in Jakarta, the chairman of the panel investigating the riots said the intelligence chief had spoken too soon.
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      Lock icon Women at the helm
      64 14 HUGE WOES: These women (above) joined millions of soldiers and volunteers yesterday to shore up defences against floodwaters in China. But an even more difficult task looms to house the estimated 3.8 million homeless people and provide them with food, wrter and health care. And all
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      Lock icon THAT WOMAN!
      470 15  -  Story of model, dying of cancer, who lost her husband to another woman By Yong Siew Fern FORMER Hongkong model Susanna Chung, 46, was suffering from lung cancer. But the hardest slap to her face came last year when her businessman husband a garment manufacturer left her for
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      HER LAST NIGHT
      200 15 ON Aug 14, Susanna had difficulty breathing, but refused to go to the hospital. Her doctor came for a house call and finally called for an ambulance at 7 pm. Susanna changed into a new set of underwear, took her toothbrush and night clothes and checked into
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      92 13 WAR BREAKS OUT IN CINEMAS SEPT 3 BUTCH MEATHOOK HA R Scout/Sniper Nobody knows what his HEAP: hair looks like. E>ut</h likes Au" nc l taller than it that way! crthcr commandos'. r A r? N: J-ssss"* I EJutch loves X y, I his self-madp JP| MOUTH: I weapons Authentic
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      Lock icon Relax, I brushed my teeth
      494 17  -  By Chan Seet Fun OH no! He had fish balls. But Triple Nine actor Robin Leong was ready for all emergencies on the day of his Long Kiss.Well, it won't look all that long on your screens just a 10-second smooch between Robin and co-star
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      NINE OUT OF 10
      141 17 OKAY, the results are out and both passed with flying colours. "He's a wonderful kisser," said Kavita. Of course, Robin has had ample practice. "It's my fifth screen kiss," he told The New Paper. "The first one was with Lisa Ang in Shiver. "This one's much
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  • SHOWTIME
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      Bad boys. DO cry
      450 19  -  at action movies, no less! i J.V." .-2 By Lee Yin Luen AEROSMITH cry? Believe it or not, the macho rockers were recently moved to tears by a movie the disaster hit Armageddon, no less. "They are the icons of rock 4 n' roll. But what
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      Lock icon Have you got what it takes?
      305 20 Jackie Chan is on a girl-hunt again. This time, he's looking for a new female lead for an upcoming Chinese New Year romance comedy. AVIS WONG reports WHO is she? Jackie Chan star of the recent movie, Who Am I? wonders as he goes
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      Spotlight on Barrymore
      66 20 LISTEN to our celebrity buzz on 1900-912-0004. In what commercial did Drew Barrymore appear when she was 11 months old? Who is her godfather? What did she do for David Letterman on his birthday? Find out 10 things you never knew about her. Also, get the latest
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    Play it again, man
    459 21  -  I Bmiaaim WITH CHENG PUAY KOON MY foot was barely out of the MKT train when a familiar-strange face appeared just beyond the thin crowd surging towards the escalator. Familiar because I had once seen it almost every day. On the way to the hostel dining
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
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      419 31 LEEDS II Jimmy Royd-Hasselbaink 19th LEEDS: Nigel Martyn, Martin Hiden, Robert Molenaar, Lucas Radebe, lan Harte, David Hopkin, Alfie Haaland, lan Bowyer, Harry Kewell, Jimmy Royd-Hasselbaink, Clyde Wijnhard BLACKBURN OH Crowd: 30,652 BLACKBURN: John Filan, Jeff Kenna, Stephane Henchoz, Darren Peacock, Callum Davidson, Sebastien Perez, Gary Flttcroft,
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