The New Paper, 21 November 1998

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1 58 The New Paper
  • 20 1 the new paper SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1998 MITA (P) 151/04/98 60 CENTS http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 464 2  -  Rude Gore in KL: By Don Reeder IN TUCSON. ARIZONA WHAT do average Americans think about Vice-President Albert Gore's hotly debated comments at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Kuala Lumpur? Well, not a whole lot, to tell the truth. Southeast Asia
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    • 127 2 US Ambassador to Malaysia John Malott responded to criticisms against US Vice-President Al Gore's speech during a dinner at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in KL recently. Here're are excerpts of his interview with The Star newspaper People should look at the section of
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    • 63 2 GUARDED TREATMENT: A prisoner in Russia, who is suffering from Aids, gets a jab from a nurse. He is closely watched by a prison guard. Several prisoners in 4 this prison, in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar, suffer from Aids and tuberculosis. They have been
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    • 41 2 'Fussy housewives', The New Paper, Nov 18: The report mentioned Harbour View Dai-lchi Hotel. The hotel is now known as Copthorne Harbour View Singapore. Its name was changed on Nov 9 after CDL Hotels International Limited acquired the Copthorne brand.
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    • 424 3  -  B Underwater World is open from 9 am to 9 pm daily. For bookings and more information, cal 275-0030. By Jason Lee ITS barely the size of a roll of film. But this tiny octopus can inject enough venom to kill you in 10
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 403 4  -  BOY WITH BLOOD DISORDER PIES AFTER TRANSPLANT By Fong Foong Mei ONE month after his operation, all seemed well. Shah Jahan, the 12-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder, was laughing and running about the National University Hospital ward. "He even told us he was going home
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    • 519 5  -  By Jill Lim SHE'S a Fame award winner, but actress Elaine Cheah has just discovered another award-winning talent. It began with her doodling idly at Burger King and ended with her winning the Singapore 21 Design-A-Logo competition. Ms Cheah, 22, who has a degree in
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    • 101 5 THE Singapore 21 (S21) committee, announced by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at the National Day rally last year, was set up to help develop a vision for the country. Education Minister Rear-Adm (NS) Teo Chee Hean heads the body of MPs, businessmen, civil servants and media people.
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 243 6 ifflr NEW HDB FLATS GOOD news for those waiting for their first new HDB flat. You now need wait only 2 Vi years to be called up to select a flat, compared with four years previously. Waiting time has gone down because, for the first time,
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    • 56 6 BORN APART, TV/INS AT HEART: Blonde, blue-eyed Ruth, almost two, and her brother Ben with their parents Bill and Sarah Rigden. Dubbed "concept twins the children were conceived at a Malaysian clinic from the same batch of sperm and eggs, but were born 18 months
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    • News Break
      • 60 6 TRADE INDONESIA claims Singapore is hiding figures on trade between them and imposing harsh terms on its US$5 billion ($8 billion) trade finance plan. Not so, says the Ministry of Trade and Industry. To avoid misunderstandings, it has not published the figures. On the trade finance offer, MTI
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      • 68 6 I POLLUTION B EVERY day, nearly 30 diesel vehicles are booked for giving off too much smoke. That's bad news as the pollution is a health risk, the Environment Ministry says. While fines were raised in August, there has not been a significant drop in vehicles booked.
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      • 67 6 COURT A POLICE officer of 26 years who shut 24 gambling dens and 103 illegal billiard saloons has been jailed. Senior station inspector Ung Chaing Hai, 47, head of Central police division's crime control unit, took bribes from a gambling den operator to warn him of raids.
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      • 64 6 CRIME A BRITISH engineering lecturer was killed in a hit-and-run accident along Orchard Road early on Thursday morning. Mr NeU Knotts, 36, was found lying in the bus lane in front of The Heeren building by passers-by who saw a silver car speeding off at about 4.20
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    • 60 6 A knowledge-economy demands that you take control df your own learning and learning become&a lifelong process. Our studies have shown that Singaporeans have what it takes to be independent learners. Associate Professor Ian Smith of the National Institute of Education on the findings of two studies that have
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    • Article, Illustration
      150 7 NeWS makers HE is a superman even on his wheelchair. Money for research in spinal-cord injuries, which was hard to come by is now flowing in by the torrent. And the man who is waving the magic wand is crippled star Christopher Reeves. His latest: Help getting a
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    • 56 7 COURT 1 THE teacher accused of hurting a colleague by scajding her has been acquitted. Mr Goh Kin Soon, 51, head of Raffles Girls Secondary School's information technology department said he had accidentally spilt hot coffee on Miss Jacqueline Leong Kit May, 42, the school's finance and administration director,
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    • 59 7 COLOMBIA M A SHOCKING mass grave holding the remains of tortured and murdered young children has been found in Pereira, Bogota. The body count is now 26. The latest find 13 children aged eight to 13. All but one were boys. None has been identified. The authorities are
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    • 65 7 B medTcal U EUTHANASIA doctor Jack Kevorkian will be shown on TV in the US giving a lethal injection to a terminally-ill patient. In an interview on the CBS programme, Dr Kevorkian said he wanted to force the authorities to arrest him and try him for euthanasia
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    • 50 7 CRIME THE country they named doesn't exist. But former Hongkong government lawyer Stuart MasonParker, Malaysian Chew Chin Yee and Australian Dennis Oakley allegedly sold passports for US$3,500 ($5,740) each for citizenship to tiie "Dominion of Melchizedek", anyway. Officials in the Philippines said the trio will face criminal charges.
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    • 58 7 The Straits Times: Clinton urges Japan to act fast The Business Times: New HDB flat demand dives to 10,000 a year Lianhe Zaobao: Buyers of resale flats far outnumber applicants of new units Berita Harian: Income lightens housing payments RCS morning news: US and European stocks rise
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      4 7 Tongue Clfeek
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    • 88 7 South China Morning Post Interest cut boost for home buyer repayments New Straits Times: Starr lays out case to impeach Clinton Berita Harian Malaysia: Fake circular TV2: Call to create a Malaysian furniture industry based on originality TV3: The G22 group must take a serious approach to
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 559 8 They're sleek, sexy, curvierthan a mountain road and yes, men would like to rev 'em up and hear 'em purr... Did I say CARS? Gee. I meant those other objects of desire at the Singapore Motor Show, says YVONNE LIM. She speaks to the
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    • 37 8 WHAT: The Singapore Motor Show WHERE: Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Suntec City. WHEN: Last day tomorrow, 10.30 am to 10pm. TICKETS: Adults $5, children aged 12 and under $3. Available at the door.
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    • 207 8 THE seedy Ah Beng slouched against a post and ogled the leggy Esso girls for 10 minutes. But most of the guys were just out for innocent fun. Such as Mr Victor Chung, 24, and Mr Edmund Heng, 23, who snapped photos and video-filmed all
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    • 69 8 PICK-UP LINES THE GOOD... "You're more beautiful than the cars." THE BAD... "Do you come with the car?" "You know, I can buy this for you." AND THE REALLY, REALLY GROSS Man hands young son camera. Man snuggles up to model, squeezes her tightly
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    • 288 9 WHEN a young boy has a crush on a girl, what does he get her? Sweets. Or perhaps a soft toy. Well one nine-year-old boy decided to be a little more creative. He gave her a letter. No, not a mushy little note with
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    • 126 9 HEAD to the Her World/Citta Bella Women's Fair at Paragon today and tomorrow and you could win freebies totalling $120,000. The first 500 readers who present a coupon from Her World/Citta Bella's December issue on each day will each get a $50 goodies bag. Coupon holders also
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 352 11  -  By Michelle Ang YOU invested in a second property during the property boom. You are repaying the home loan with $3,000 in cash and $3,000 from your CPF contributions. You are still paying off your first property. Your finances are stretched. Now you can't
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    • 156 11 30 per cent reduction in monthly repayments for the next three years. If your loan is $3,000 a month, you will then be paying $2,100. You will just take longer to pay off your loan. Instead of 20 years, it could take 21 Vi years. Revise
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    • 250 11 WHEN the expected CPF cut comes next year, Mr Philip Lim may have to fork out another $300 cash each month to pay his NTUC Income home loan of $3,000 a month. The $300 is a small-sum for the development officer, 50, and his nurse wife their
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    • 195 11 HERE'S help for those falling ill before the economy gets well. Doctors have decided not to raise their fees. And the Health Ministry is adding another $6 million to Medifund raising it to $19 million to help the needy pay their hospital bills. It
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    • 528 12  -  By Jill Lim Machines are supposed to serve people, not the other way around, right? But you have to do as the machine says: Put the card in the right way, align the dollar note, get the book in a certain position. Wait till you see the
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    • 427 13  -  To these two policemen, spotting the 4-digit number of a stolen car By Melvin Singh WHEN two policemen spotted a four-digit number they recognised, they almost jumped out of their car seats. No, it had nothing to do with scoring a lucky 4D
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    • 78 15 inuKmiiK Clerk Ng Yin Peng, 22, accused SAF Commando WIMam KhoKeatWee, 24, of raping h©r in a hotel room while she was half-drank. But the hotel's security videotape showed that the was fine when she checked in wgram. She later confessed that Mr Kho's lawyer, Mr
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    • 122 15 SHE'S Cinderella with a twist her "fairy godmother" is Leonardo Da Vinci, the famous Italian artist (of Mona Lisa fame). She's Danielle, played by Drew Barrymore, and her mean stepmother is Rodmilla, played by Angelica Huston. So will her "fairy godmother" help Danielle find her Prince
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    • 88 15 ALMOST all the 735 callers to our SingTel WorldCard contest this week got the answer right more than five countries were mentioned in our World Today pages on Nov 16. Fifteen correct callers were electronically picked to win a set of Coke design Christmas WorldCards from SingTel.
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    • 240 17 SIHGAPfmETODAY awP" lIKr One competitive nation, one world-class people, Singapore Incorporated. This is the theme of a report on hub services. It was prepared by a team which came under the Committee on Singapore's Competitiveness (CSC). NG WAN CHING explains the idea THINK of Singapore must: W Singapore as ■BE
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  • WORLD TODAY
    • 324 18 FOR the first time, an Indonesian Cabinet Minister has acknowledged that there are big problems in the army. Mr Juwono Sudarsono, the Education Minister, said there were "rogue elements" within the army out to shame armed forces chief General Wiranto. Mr Juwono added that the
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    • 303 19  -  By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY Australian customs is to replace some patrols of ships in the nation's busiest port with faxes. It is cutting back its 24-hour operations to save money. After 3 pm, officers will no longer board cruise and
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  • WORLD TODAY
    • 52 21 YIKES, BETTER DRIVE CAREFULLY A car hanging dangerously from a bridge as a man regulates traffic on the highway below. The car accident occurred on the highway about 50 km away from Madrid yesterday. Firemen rescued a woman from the car. The driver was seriously injured.
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    • 531 21  -  LONELY... ROUTINE... By Brian Miller SUNGEI Buloh is hardly the place for a former Deputy Prime Minister to live in. It's a high-security prison for Malaysia's hardcore criminals. Now, it's home to Anwar Ibrahim, whose day is dictated by the clock on the walls and the
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    • 52 21 The distance from Sungei Buloh to the Kuala Lumpur High Court is 35 km. The ride takes about 20 minutes, maybe more, depending on the traffic. Anwar has been at Sungei Buloh since mid-October, when he was freed from detention under the Internal Security Act and moved to
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      66 22 *****1*111 ui* RoMnf Stone Mtek Jan* b having cold feat about Ma 14 yaar oM tlm&tm nhahatti. SI* audi aa aaarada, aa eating dieardar. Ma wife, j-« -a. MfTj nail, uvOQ TO MM IMS MMIf Elizabeth was a girl who had to work at staying thin, I would
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    • 519 22  -  by Jill Lim WEDNESDAY will be important Maybe not for one living in poverty in a Third World country, or for those caught up in trials and tribulations in Malaysia and Indonesia. But I can picture at least 1,000 people who will be most
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    • 511 24 'GUESS THE WINNERS 'CONTEST IH hich buildingwin s ,eai E&3KSK9I the limelight n as the streets are magically transformed into a O II II I Christmas Toyland in the much awaited annual J[ Christmas Light-up*. Gothic castles. Winter wonderland. Mythical cities, watch the mm ick the winning buildings and you
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  • WORLD TODAY
    • 465 25 The infamous Lewinsky tapes were released on Tuesday. They recorded a whopping 22 hours of conversations between Miss Monica Lewinsky and Ms Linda Tripp from Oct 3 to Dec 22 last year. JILL LIM catches bits of the tapes on the Internet and gives her
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    • 144 25 THE House Judiciary Committee released edited transcripts of the tapes in October. But Tuesday was the first time anyone actually got to hear anything. The tapes, which were released by Congress and broadcast on TV in the US, were heavily edited. Congress technicians went through the
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    • 96 25 (Not from the USA Today audio clips) Lewinsky:... You know what's really weird? I keep hearing these double clicks. Trippc... That's my gum. Lewinsky:... Oh, okay... Trippc You know what, Monica? It's going to work out... I have true faith that you're going to go up to New
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    • 51 25 NOT that easy to pin down, even on the Internet. Most websites have transcripts, not audio recordings. The USA Today website has 13 short segments, ranging from 15 seconds to 27 seconds. Go to the "More Coverage" part under the "Starr Report" section, or directly to www.usatoday.com/news/
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    • 64 25 Miss Lewinsky gushes about a "byoodiful, byoodiful, rad, red, very thin silk sweater" she has bought. Tripp: "Just because you have a red sweater does not mean you have to wear red lipstick." (Ladies, take note!) The rest of the conversation (not in the USA Today
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    • 89 25 MISS Lewinsky on oral sex. Lewinsky: (Protesting) We didn't have sex, Linda!... We didn't have sex! Tripp: (Knowingly) Well, what d'you call it? Lewinsky: We fooled around! Not... TrippsI dunno, I think if you go to... If you get to orgasm, if s having sex. Lewinsky:
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    • 116 25 AND I don't mean showing off her thong underwear. "First time I ever looked into his eyes close up and was with him alone, I saw somebody totally different than I had expected to see, and that's the person I fell in love with... that's the person that's
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    • 83 25 MISS Lewinsk/s closing remark to Mr Clinton in their last phone call. Lewinsky: We're getting off and I'm, like, I love you butthead. (Chortles). I called him butthead! Tripp: And what did he say? Lewinsky: He said... that was it, he just kinda hung up, or
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    305 27 Nag,nag,nag,nag,nag, Nag,nag,nag,nag,nag, nag,nag,nag,nag,to WORLDTODAY A MAN in Punjab province in northern India faked his own murder. He wanted to escape from his wife whom he found a nag, the South China Morning Post said. Manjit Singh, a mechanic from Jalalabad, even paid a doctor to take blood from him.
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    • 232 42 AFP. TMMV: Aston Villa v Liverpool Blackburn v Southampton Leeds v Chariton Leicester v Chelsea Middlesbrough v Coventry Sheffield Wed v Manchester United Tottenham v Forest Wimbledon v Arsenal TOMORROW: Derby County v West Ham MONMY: Everton v Newcastle CALLWFOUNE 1900-*****13 Call The New Paper Infoline after 1.15am tomorrow
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    • 293 42 Reuters. PREMIERSHIP leader Aston Villa could stretch its best-ever start to a league season to 13 unbeaten matches. And a Villa victory at Villa Park (Aston Villa's home ground) today would send troubled Liverpool crashing to its fourth successive league defeat. With Dion
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    • 83 42 World Player of the Year Ronaldo is set to miss tomorrow's big clash between his Inter-Milan side and Fiorentina. According to a report from the BBC earlier today, Ronaldo has failed to recover from a tendon inujury and will miss tomorrow's match. He will also miss Wednesday's Champions
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    • 394 43  -  M Under the Singapore National Olympic Council's Multi-Million Dollar Award programme, individual gold-medal winners at next month's Asian In IMIIIrv* III ThaHandwill receive $250,000. I Silver medallists wiK get $125,000) and bronze medallists ($62,500). Winners in team events will share double that amount
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    • 94 43 The Asian Games wM be held In Thailand from Dec 6 to 20. The sailing events wM be heM In SattaMp. >1 Most of Roy Tay (Boys' International Optimist Class) Koh Seng Leong (reserve, Boys' International Optimist Class) Tan Wenqi (Girls' International Optimist Class) Tracey Tan (International
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    • 180 43 WHERE in the world is Colin Ng? The 20-year-old sailor who will partner Siew Shaw Her in the International 420 Class was nowhere to be found at Changi Airport yesterday. But team officials weren't panicking. SYA secretary and team manager Ismail Taha explained that Colin is
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    • 505 44  - No to buy shoes POOR BOY. WHO HAS MADE GOOD. GIVES $10.000 BY Jason Lee THAT'S how poor Mr Boyd Au was as a six-year-old in primary school. All he had then was a single pair of hand-me-down shoes. In fact, they were so precious that he would carry the
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    • 153 44  -  By Ernest Luis THE hunt is on for a man called V Sundramoorthy. That's right. The S-League's top foreign players can't wait to take on the Jurong FC star and his local counterparts next Saturday in The New Paper Cup. The foreign
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    • 495 45  -  I FA CUP FINAL: TANJONG PAGAR V SEMBAWANG RANGERS P>arH)N^^^ Stories/l Ernest Luis THE Pupil and I met the Master at a hotel near his house in Balestier Road. As the Master asked us where we wanted to sit, Tohari Paijan said: 'I'm
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      116 45 NATIONAL STADIUM: 7.30pm TOMORROW Normally, two rival coaches won't meet each other before the match. They may even avoid each other on match-day, for fear of having to give anything away. But with us, what is there to hide? Jita Singh He has given his boys so
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    • 413 45 PART TWO BY now, the Master heard his stomach rumble, so he suggested lunch. The Pupil again said: "You decide. You lead the way." Well, nobody led the way, so to speak. We all went together. But the leadership qualities of Jita came through.
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    • 1092 48 This is a story of what happens when a man tries to become an island... or when a country closes itself off to the outside world Can anyone, or any one country, truly M stand alone?" Insulated, that is, from the outside world?
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    • 140 49 Today, Mr Zain's dream has not collapsed. He battles bravely on. Pulau Semukit, he vows, must succeed. And perhaps it will. Yet, as this story ends, one message is already dear: The fortunes of others, such as neighbouring economies, do affect
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      108 50 MEET an agony aunt who knows all about Aids. You can find Makcik, AFA's resident agony aunt, on the organisation's home page, answering all kinds of Aidsrelated queries from the public. The questions range from the risque ("Can the piercing of genitals and nipples transmit Aids?") to the
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      204 50 THE British may have invented the English language, but I Singaporeans sure have an easier way to bring the V message across. I At a shop... I Briton: I'm sorry, sir, but we don't seem to have the sweater I L you want in your size, but K
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    • 117 50 IN its latest e-mail newsletter, local music magazine, BigO, invites Net surfers to answer a questionaire compiled by its columnist, X'Ho (the writer formerly known as Chris Ho). Here are some of the questions: Someone wrote to The Straits Times Forum page about the elections, saying:
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    • 138 50 PRISCILLA Lee and Eryan Ali are in love with a band. Not exactly a boy band, mind you.These students, both 16, are big fans of Radiohead, a British band whose album, OK Computer, was released to much acclaim. Currently, Lee and Ali are trying to gather support for
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    • 369 51 I REMARRIED three years alter my divorce. My second husband was my former boyfriend. He already showed signs that I couldn't trust him, but I loved him so much, that I was willing to overlook them. He borrowed 10,000 from me to buy a car,
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    • 296 52 WOON WUITEK DOES anyone remember Rob Reiner's Stand By Me? It'8 about the adventures of four boys, capturing that defining experience of early teenhood: Friendship. And it won over two audience age groups. With its unpreachy humour and drama, it appealed to youngsters
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    • 259 52 What do you think of people who make a racket in public places? "Once I was on a bus and there was a group of schoolgirls making a racket at the back. It was irritating because they were gossiping about somebody for everyone to hear. "They attracted angry
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    • 341 53 David Caruao, 42, actor UftrNYPD Blues, the Emmy-winning series in which he played a detective. To pursues Arrtovie career. Sadly, his first moviehadflie te#ing title. Kiss of Death. Has It wortoed? Caruso's career sank to Titanic depths. He acted in jade That Xfl
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    • 491 53 GINGER is now Geri. No more spice, now she just wants to be nice. Geri Halliwell, enfant terrible, the driving force of British girl group the Spice Girls, desperately seeks approval. For now, she seems to have found it she's Britain's UN
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    • 821 54 /TS\ THE NEW PAPER Saturday. November 21.1998 fffl > TV Saturday Sunday channel channel channel channel 6.00 AM Wild Guide 6.00 AM Muka Huka 6.00 AM Extremists 6.00 AM The Dragon Emerges 6.30 Travel Travel 6.30 Bow 6.30 Pathfinders (Last episode) 6.30 Leprosy Village (Last episode) 7.00 AM Saturday 7.00
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  • 464 55 night with Edwin Yeo CLUBS in Batam have received some flak recently. Some Singaporeans, apparently, have been taking drugs on our neighbour's shores. It is therefore, pretty brave for Turi Beach Resort to open up a new club in the hope of luring party goers, given
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