The New Paper, 6 March 1999

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  • 21 1 the new paper SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1999 MITA (P) 151/04/98 60 CENTS http://newpaper.asiai com.sg Ano,her quali,y P ubl,cation °< Singapore Press Holdings
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 503 2 Sabah State Elections Source: Utusan Malaysia, wire services. WINNING hearts in Sabah, a state with a mind of its own, has been an uphill task for the Mahathir government even in the best of times. And these are far from the best of times for the Malaysian Prime
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    • 109 2 THE opposition Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) won the state assembly polls by a slim majority in 1994. But Dr Mahathir's National Front coalition managed to seize power from the PBS following a string of defections by the party's deputies. In the elections to be held on March 12
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    • 311 2 Wire services. US investors were in a confident mood yesterday. They sent US shares soaring to a record high. One reason for their optimism was the strong job figures. The US economy created more than 275,000 new jobs in February. The figures confirm the
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    • 453 3  -  (Even his boss, the British High Comissioner, doesn't have one) By Riana Zakir HEADS turn whenever Mr Mohamad Hassan, 64, glides into a hawker centre car park in a gleaming Rolls Royce. He parks for just a few minutes to buy a nasi lemak lunch. But
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    • 257 3 HIS early life was far removed from the world of Rolls Royces and MBEs. Orphaned at the age of five, he had to live with his uncle's many children. He was too poor and dropped out of school at Primary 6. A driver working with the
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    • 898 4 Elle magazine recently released the results of an international survey on women. The survey, which got responses from 75,000 young women, touched on issues like love, sexuality, work, women's rights and beauty. TOHLILIN talks to a Singapore woman to see how she compares with
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      37 4 The Singapore woman: Ms Um Chili Ling, 27, a sociology honours graduate, has been married for two years. She recently quit her fob as an assistant marketing manager to join her husband in New York.
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 242 6 war ACIDGERM BUSTED TWO youths using the Internet name Acidgerm have been caught. One is a 22-year-old Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts student, and the other, an unemployed 19-year-old. Acidgerm had obtained the passwords of 17 Sing Net subscribers illegally. Acidgerm set up a website called Sick Net
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    • 76 6 ft SNAPSHOTS: Don't worry If you see flashes as you drive by this new speed trap camera on the East Coast Parkway, near the Benjamin Sheares Bridge. The camera Is just being tested. The Traffic Police will make an announcement when it Is operational. Two more
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      • 55 6 JOBS 1 FROM June this year, civil servants will be able to work for up to six months in private sector companies. Under the Merck-EDB Internship Programme, about four civil servants will be attached to private firms each year to pick up cutting-edge technologies and management practices. The
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      • 56 6 COURT THE chairman of electronics company Goldtron, Ong Soon Kiat, yesterday pleaded guilty to five charges of share manipulation. He was charged with causing a "false or misleading appearance" with respect to the trading of Goldtron shares. He faces a maximum sentence of $50,000 in fines or up
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      • 60 6 LIDAYS DESPITE the economic crisis, Singaporeans travelled more last year, with more exploring less popular destinations such as Turkey, South Africa and Korea. And tour operators expect more sales this year as the economy starts to pick up. People may also want to travel overseas to celebrate the
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      • 60 6 CONTACT SINGAPOREANS abroad can keep in touch with developments here through a new Ministry of Information and the Arts e-mail service. Called Bites of the Week, the e-mail will contain news condensed from The Straits Times. It will be sent to subscribers every Saturday morning, and is part
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      • 61 7 BANKING A MANAGEMENT consultant has recommended DBS Bank drop the POSBank brand name. And although DBS, which took over POSBank last year, is not about to act on AT Kearney's recommendation soon, it does not rule out doing so in the future. Chief executive John Olds said
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      • 60 7 TRANSPORT SINGAPORE Bus Service wants to make this year the Year for Friendly Customer Service. So all its bus drivers will get special pledge cards. They will also go for courses on how to be customer friendly. The pledge card will remind drivers of five key rules, including
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      • 60 7 EXPLOSION TWO technicians were seriously hurt in an explosion yesterday at a Trans-Island Bus Services (Tibs) depot in Ang Mo Kio. Mr Dayalan Muniandy, 21, and Mr Saravannan Kanesan, 23, are in critical condition and under intensive care in Tan Tock Seng Hospital. They were testing the
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      • 61 7 MEDICAL A RARE, contagious disease could have been the reason an NSman died two days after he celebrated Chinese New Year. Mr Edward Chang Chiau Chong, 18, was possibly killed by Meningococcal meningitis which is spread by bacteria and strikes 10 people or fewer a year here. Doctors
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    • 48 6 International Herald Tribune: China to pursue economic course CNN Interactive: Clinton 'horrified and heartbroken' by cable car accident New Straits Times: No place for PBS Bersekutu in the BN BBC news: An arbitration tribunal has declared the disputed town of Brcko, a self-governing neutral district
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    • 172 7 in FSRSus THE home loan battle is heating up again. DBS Bank and United Overseas Bank have joined the latest round of the war, with DBS trimming its promotional rates to as much as 1.25 percentage points off its board rate. From today, DBS will lower the
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    • 62 7 The Straits Times: Chinese PM warns of grim outlook The Business Times: Nikkei soars 5%, pulls up HK and S'pore stocks Lianhe Zaobao: Zhu Rongji warns against squandering the people's money and using high-handed methods Berita Harian: Civil court has no power over 'wakaf land RCS morning
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    • 80 7 Quote worthy ,W Ihe key question is: If we were to use deficit again to finance our programmes in the coming one or Wfio years, do we have enough funds? The answer is yes. If we have to, there are still sufficient reserves for
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    • 36 7 Tongue Cheek WHAT'S HUP I use pandan leaves to chase I Still smell 1 Yeah, your the bad odour in my cab away 1 anything? I bad breath! Go ahead, take a big whiff. I r
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 899 8  -  When Baby Joe was dumped outside a flat last month, we asked ourselves: How many babies have been abandoned in Singapore? We were surprised with the figure: 29 since 1993. Then we asked ourselves: Why, oh why? The result: what you see on these
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    • 41 8 1993 Three boys, three girls 1994 Four boys, two girls 1995 Four boys, two girls 1996 Three girls 1997 Two boys, two girls 1998 Two boys, one girl 1999 (as of March) One boy TOTAL: 29 babies abandoned
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      506 9  -  No one guessed she was By Crispina Robert BELIEVE it or not: Some teenagers can go through their entire pregnancy without anyone finding out. That's what happened in the case of Baby Joe, whose mum is 16 and dad 17. Both are in school. The girl even took her
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    • 75 10 THE British Tourist Authority, together with its partners, P 0 Garden City Travel, Thomas Cook Travel Services and British Midland Airways, are on hand at Natas Travel 99 to provide help and information on visiting Britain. You can visit them at Booth No A2, Exhibition Halls 402 to
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 259 12  -  By] Danny Lim FAR too bulky. That was what security executive Loh Kin Fatt, 47, thought when he saw a subordinate's bag. So he asked him to open it. That was when security guard Sukiman Sreman, 54, had a surprise for him it was
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    • 102 12 IN our Battle of Hawkers series on Wednesdays, we track down the best hawker food in town and we ask you to pick the best among them. So which is better: Sun Kee Chicken Rice at Commonwealth Avenue Cooked Food Centre or Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice
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    • 49 13 mui<mui< Singapore singer-actress Shirley Yee's adaptable nature helped her to settle in Taiwan quickly. Said the 1994 winner of The New Paper New Face of the AS I'm quite adventurous, and as long as there's good food, 111 be able to stay anywhere for some time.
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    • 300 14  -  By 1 Yvonne Lim NEVER mind if you're over 35 and retrenched, like Mr Jamaludin Mohd (right). If you've got experience, we want you, said Exxon Chemical Singapore. The company is opening a new US$2 billion ($3.47 billion) plant in Jurong Island, and has some 280
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    • 344 15  -  By Tanya Fong FRESH out of the army, he was living day by day, often getting drunk. But two years ago when Mr Sunny Cheong, now 23, saw the crushed remains of a worker under a container the size of a single-decker bus, his
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    • 70 14 WHAT; CAREER'99 incorporating Recruitment '99 WHEN: Till Sunday, 11 am to 8 pm WHERE: World Trade Centre Halls 4,5 and 6 ON OFFER: Up to 10,000 jobs bring along resumes for spot interviews. Over 250 educational institutions from here and abroad. I Interested in training under the SRP for chemical
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    • 127 15 p■> 'W Don't miss the chance to win invites to an exclusive preview of this romantic comedy. Just bring your partner to Tower Records at Suntec City on 8 March at 1 pm, and tell us his or her favourite dish. You stand to be amongst 250 lucky readers to
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
    • 547 17  -  Torn passports, bribeiy allegations... Remember the Singapore-Malaysian immigration disputes last year? Here's what the Malaysian official in charge has to say: Brushing aside Singaporeans' complaints about torn passports, she said: "No one came forward to complain (to us). So we did not investigate." BY Fong
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    • 88 17 RELATIONS between the two countries were strained after Singapore moved its Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) facilities to Woodlands last August, while Malaysia kept its CIQ facilities at Tanjong Pagar Between August and November: Forty-eight Singaporeans complained their passports were torn at the JB side. One Singaporean detained
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    • 309 19 as Moscow power struggle grows The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a grouping of 12 former Soviet republics. It was formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990-1991. The CIS is dominated by Russia. However, recent political events show that its control is waning
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 375 22  -  by WOON WUI TEK "SORRY, that's against my religion." Declining a request for help on such grounds surely carries weight. For others to insist on help to the point of belittling someone's faith, we all agree, is wrong and disrepectful. But are there occasions
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    • 226 23 FOR a cool RM 12,000 ($5,400), you can buy a state-of-the art laptop, a diamond solitaire ring... or Hassan Ismail's ayam katik (dwarf chicken). That's the price he was offered for his fowl, also known as ayam aerama, several years ago. 1 did not ask for that
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    • 223 23 Triple-murder in Finland Source: Reuters. DID episodes of The X-Files indirectly help cause three shootings there? Finnish police said yesterday they believed so. They said they had found a link between the popular American TV series and a triple-murder in a shooting
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    • 363 24 Source: Wire services. A YEAR ago, when the no-nonsense Mr Zhu Rongji was appointed China's Prime Minister he was a happy man. He was recognised as the economic brain who could steer China out of its old-fashioned ways to a more market oriented
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    • 225 24 AT the meeting yesterday, Mr Zhu Rongji renewed his pledge to maintain the stability of the yuan this year. That is good news for Asia which feels that a stable Chinese currency will help it out of the crisis faster. The Asian crisis will take a
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    • 392 24 Reuters PRESIDENT Bill Clinton has one wish for Monica Lewinsky: Have a good life. And in case she doesn't know it, he harbours no resentment for the fact she is now making money telling the details of their affair. That's what he
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  • 289 25 INDONESIATODAY Reuters. FIRST, separate the fighting factions. Then, urge their leaders to have heaft-to-heart talks. That's what the Indonesian authorities plan to do to stem the violence on the island of Ambon that has killed more than 200 people. 'The plan is
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    • 401 25 PUBLIC AUCTION Under The Pawnbrokers Act (Chapter 222) Items to be sold consisting of unredeemed pledges from all the pawnshops in Singapore including watches, gold chains, bracelets, diamonds and other semi-precious stones, etc. pawned up to the month of August 1998. Auction Dates 12th 13th March 1999 (Friday Saturday) Auction
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      428 26 TRAGEDY IN ITALIAN ALPS Wire services. THE United States is not "ducking its responsibility" of the Italian ski lift accident last year. "I want to say to the people of Italy on behalf of the American people, we are profoundly regretful and apologetic for what has occurred/' said President
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    • 73 26 THE verdict has strained relations between the US and Italy two very strong Nato allies, who co-operate closely on alliance operations and plans to prevent conflict in the Balkans. Italy is an important base for US military forces in Europe. The US said each of the bereaved families
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  • 672 36  -  RACINGTODAY Preview By Marc Tan THE horse to back confidently at Bukit Timah this afternoon is Galaxy Wonder. The Michael Clements-trained gelding is running in Race 3, a Restricted Terms 1,200m event for three and four-year-olds. The way I see it, the other nine
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    • 105 37 SpertMMN sf Km Yean Siew L Shaw Her (Yachting) $10,000 Spmtiwomn of the Year Joan Huang (Yachting) $10,000 T«a««f fee Year Mens' Asian Games gold-winning 420 yachting team (Siew Shaw Her, Colin Ng) $10,000 Women's team (Joan Huang, Naomi Tan) $10,000 MERfTAWAJtDS (EacfcwtoMr gets $4,000). Tan
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    • 368 37  -  SINGAPORE NATIONAL OLYMPIC COUNCIL SPORTS AWARDS (1998 Reports/] Ernest Luis NATIONAL sailing star Siew Shaw Her was voted the Sportsman of the Year for 1998 last night. But he knows that for every well-wisher, there'll be others who will question his win. Unfortunately, here's why.
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    • 132 37 TILL today, Ismail Taha says people still come up to him and say, 'Gold medal, so what?* Added the Singapore Yachting Association honorary secretary: "They will say that Shaw Her and Joan only raced against two other boats in their categories." But Ismail added there is
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    • 154 41 Wire services. NICOLAS ANELKA: Arsenal's young striker has been named Carling Player of the Month for February. It Is the first time Anelka has won the award, given in recognition of the 19-year-old's recent goalscoring form for the Double winner. The Frenchman is the first Arsenal player to pick
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    • 432 41 Giggs prefers winning FA Cup to European Cup MATCH OF THE WEEK: MAN U v CHELSEA (TOMORROW) Reuters. Manchester united winger Ryan Giggs believes winning a Football Association Cup final at Wembley is more fulfilling than winning the European Cup. The Welsh international was
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    • 230 42  -  MORNING LATEST By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY SYDNEY has looked secretly at ways to scuttle Bering's Olympic bid in 1992. Details have emerged this morning of plotting to use Beijing's human rights record against it. The strategy was considered when it
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    • 54 41 TV ACTION TODAY Southampton v West Ham: Live on SCV Football Channel (22); 10.55pm TOMORROW Coventry v Charlton: Delayed, Channel 22; 12.55 am Wimbledon v Leicester: Delayed, Channel 22; 3.25 am Man United v Chelsea: Live on Channel 22 and Premiere 12; 9.55pm Newcastle v Everton: Live on Channel 22
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    • 990 46 HOW MEN LOOK AT WOMEN PART 1 Attitude latitude 1- Whistling when all that comes out sounds like the urging noises a mother would make to encourage her young son to pee. 2. Chewing gum in an effort to look
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    • 306 47 I'VE been working in an office for about I x /i years. Since I broke up with my girlfriend two years ago, I feel lonely most of the time. Recently, I became close with one of my colleagues, who works in the same office. She
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    • 204 47 I'M a polytechnic student. I'm interested in a girl who's a first-year student at the same poly. The feelings I have for her is different from what I felt for other girls during my secondary school days. Coincidentally, we're in the same class this semester. Over
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      49 48 THE MOVIE One is the protective mother and ex-wife; the other, the career woman and new wife. The two women are forced to overcome their differences when the former is diagnosed with cancer. Battle of the mums: Julia Roberts (left) and Susan Sarandon in an exchange of wits.
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    • 236 48 CALVIN LOW THINGS can get very complicated and funny when two fiercely independent women sharpen their talons to claim the family of a man they both love. Jackie (Susan Sarandon) is the natural mother of the children and Isabel (Julia Roberts) is the new bride
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    • 218 48 JESSICA LEOW TRUTH is, I bawled my eyeballs out at this one. (Calvin probably did too, but will not admit it.) But this teaijerker reminds me of the last real weepie I saw Beaches, with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey. That movie (think a super-tragic version
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    • 649 48 What does International Women's Day (IWD) mean to you? WHAT'S a girl to do if she's got Pamela Anderson Lee's assets and no one takes her seriously? It's a poser that Lee herself is keen to test with her new "serious" role in VIP, which premiered last Sunday
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    • 100 49 Watch me, Pam SHOULD she really want to give acceptance a go, I have only two words for Pamela Anderson Lee: Geri Halliwell (left). Lee should take a leaf from the ex-Spice Girl, whose efforts to transform her image to a
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