The New Paper, 10 March 1999

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  • 21 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1999 MITA(P) 151 AM/98 60 CENTS http://newpaper.asiai .com.sg Ano,her quality e ublica,ion ®»Singapore Press Holdings
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    • 82 1 Laksa kc»\9ca Uncle's v v Y vPv i/ -j? SaI £<•• _M_ ffgiglQ I "*£i$M f Grandpa and former laksa hawker; 71, dies after being attacked. Three kids i j f j are charged with murder. The almost unreal scene in court /Pages 14 15 it V' '^j ;.,-%-f *-?5£;,'
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 370 2 While some in Indonesia have called forjihad (holy war)... Source: Wire Services and BBC Internet. IN many ways, the jihad or the call for a Muslim holy war, is associated with Iran. The country is a purist Islamic state which is said to have supported
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    • 111 2 THE landmark meeting between President Khatami and Pope John Paul II will take place in the Vatican tomorrow. It will bring together the heads of the world's two largest faiths, Christianity and Islam. The Vatican is the seat of the Catholic faith and the
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    • 208 2 THE second biggest cigarette maker in the US is selling all international brands to a Japanese company. RJR Nabisco will sell its operations to Japan Tobacco for US$B ($13.8 billion) billion, reports the International Herald Tribune. Japan Tobacco, two-thirds owneA by the Japanese Government will
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    • 60 2 Sorry In our Feb 25 story 'China plane blast Fireball In midair' based on a wire service report, it was reported that in June 1994, a Northwest Airlines Tupolev-154 crashed after take-off near Xian, killing 160. This is incorrect. The airline involved in the Crash was a China Northwest Airlines.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 445 3  -  By' Tanya Fong IT was where their love story began. At the five-foot way of Telok Ayer Street more than 70 years ago. Mr Hor Chim Or, 79, was only a primary school boy when he met the girl who later became his wife.
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    • 62 3 MR Hor had the chance to relive his days with his old friends at the Homecoming Reunion Dinner for former Chinatown residents at Far East Square. He is one of the 300 guests who had signed up for the "yuan xiao" dinner last week. It was hosted
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  • PARLIAMENTTODAY
    • 212 4 CHECK your figures, Mr Low. That's what Dr Richard Hu told the Hougang MP. Mr Low Thia Khiang had argued that the rental and service and conservancy (S&C) rebates given out by the government were only "symbolic". "This in real terms is only $2
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    • 232 4 PAP MPs made calls yesterday for more help for crisis-hit families. For instance: Let them use their CPF funds. These are meant for a person's old age and medical needs, replied Dr Hu. "The best way to assist retrenched workers is to help them seek
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    • 381 4 Uf!-L. y In-. Dr Hu: There already are an array of schemes. For instance, a recent $120 m boost for the Skills Redevelopment Programme. For individuals, tax deduction for qualifying educational expenses has been raised to $2,500. The Manpower 21 committee is studying
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 238 6 m SURVEY OF FRESH GRADS YES. Computer engineering and computer and information sciences graduates had good job prospects last year. All the honours students got jobs. Professor Harcharan Singh, dean of NTU's school of applied science, said that computer engineers are so much in demand that it
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    • 43 6 SPEED CRACKDOWN: The Traffic Police are stepping up their crackdown, reports Lianhe Zaobao. Among the new measures are new-generation speed cameras to be installed on three expressways (see graphic above), eight new patrol cars and digitally-operated hand-held speed-detection guns.
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    • News Break
      • 63 6 LOANS HOME loans have just become sweeter. OCBC Bank is now offering fixed interest rates for the first two years, a first by a local bank. Home owners can borrow at 4.5 per cent in the first year and 5 per cent in the second year. OCBC has
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      • 62 6 APEC SOME 300 computer experts from Apec countries will gather in Singapore next month to discuss contingency plans to combat the threat of the dreaded millennium bug. The two-day symposium on April 22 and 23 will focus on the cross-border impact of the Year 2000 (Y2K) bug
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      • 70 6 DUMPING A Bill has been introduced in Parliament to raise the maximum fine for illegal dumping by five times and make it mandatory for the vehicles used to be forfeited. The Environment Public Health (Amendment) Bill also makes it an offence to dump or dispose of any refuse,
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      • 64 6 TRAVEL THERE will be tighter hand luggage controls soon for travellers departing from Changi Airport soon. Each passenger will be allowed only one piece of hand luggage. This cannot exceed 115 cm in its total dimensions, or weigh more than 7 kg, and must be stowable. The
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      • 4 7 SINESS m^i
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      • 59 7 I CAMBODIA KHMER Rouge military strongman Ta Mok, 72, was charged yesterday. This made the one-legged leader, nicknamed The Butcher, the first Khmer Rouge leader to be charged. He was charged under a 1994 law banning the guerilla group, which is said to have caused the deaths of
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      • 64 7 HOUSING RESIDENTS of the 40-year-old Dawson Estate want the Government to change its mind about acquiring their hom^s. In a petition to their mayor, Tanjong Pagar GRC MP Ow Chin Hock they complained about the bad timing of the action and took issue with the reasons given by
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      • 60 7 COE PRICES of Certificates of Entitlement (COE) rose across the board in the last tender under the existing system. The rush showed that car buyers were nervous about changes to the system that are to be announced next Tuesday. The April tender saw about 2,000 more bids than
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    • 29 6 The Dow Jones industrial average fell 33.85 points to close at 9,693.76 yesterday. Volume of shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange was about 793 million.
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    • 59 6 International Herald Tribune: RJR Nabisco to shed cigarette operations Asian Wall Street Journal: Carry trades in Yen swell, but gradually New Straits Times: 'Sepang circuit among world's best' BBC news: In the first visit to Western Europe by an Iranian leader since the Islamic revolution 20 years
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    • 185 7 fts&sus SINGAPORE has submitted a detailed proposal to the Chinese central government on ways to resolve conflicts over their joint venture project in Suzhou, the Singapore-China Suzhou Industrial Park. Major-General (NS) Lim Neo Chian, the chief executive officer of China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development (CSSD) which is
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    • 66 7 The Straits Times: $6b surplus Govt can use The Business Times: Salim sells its 23% UIC stake to listed HK firm Lianhe Zaobao: Richard Hu: Budget deficit is one of strategies to deal with economic crisis Berita Harian: Lower income group will be helped RCS morning news:
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    • 84 7 Quote worthy c0tripumiUe8 t it will be sucnmitudy concludes that the SAP policy produces no negative impact on them. For policy-makers, it would be an opportunity to reassess the present situation if the outcome of such a study shows that there are undesirable effects. Mr Ismail Ibrahim,
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  • HEALTHTODAY
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      1141 8 HEY, GUYS, Even well-informed women have many questions about period problems! Armed with a list of curious queries from friends and colleagues, CAROL LEONG speaks to two gynaecologists, Dr Terence McCarthy and Dr Yap Lip Kee Q: I'm 38. Two years ago, I noticed that the pattern
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    • 46 8 Qr Dow having my period heighten my fomeofsmol? Dr Terence McCarthy: A very interesting observation. I know of no research on this. Look it up on the Internet! If there is nothing there, contact a medical Mend and organise a clinical trial!
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    • 188 9 DO you have a health problem or query? We've arranged for a panel of doctors from the Parkway group (which runs Gleneagles, Mount Elizabeth and East Shove hospitals) to answer your Questions. And feel free to share any health experiences which you think would iffieresi outers. WRITE E MA,L It's
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      612 10 POKKA^p Satay—marinated meat barbecued on a wooden skewer and served with a spicy sweet Peanut sauce and a pressed rice cake called ketupat—can be relished in top restaurants. But some hawkers here still produce satay that can outclass others. In the fourth of this series, our judges pick
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    • 97 10 Organise a satay party and impress your guests by casually dropping these comments 1. The meat has to be fresh and tender but not too soft. 2. If the meat is not juicy, it has been overcooked. 3. Good satay is barbecued over a charcoal fire and
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    • 59 10 Fatmaa Satay Satay Club No 1, Hksl, OM Airport Road, *01-1170, OM Airport Road Emporium A Cookad Food Caatra Opaning Hoars: 5 pm-11.30 pai How to get thare: Bus Sarricas 10,16,30,31,32 or 33 Nearest mu Station: Kallang Prim; 30 cants for aack stick of satav. katupat 30 cants
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    • 27 10 Hmwi Cubt East Coast Pari Sarvfca toad It MB-lt NiMMmlMip) Naaraat MRT stakloa: Bedofc Price; 35 casts tor tack sHcfc of safety, katapat 35 cants
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    • 60 10 THE candidates Haron and Fatman Satay. Now, you can vote the one you like and win a prize. Call 1900-*****01 before midnight on March 14 and key in your choice. Ten callers will be picked to win two cartons of jasmine green tea, courtesy of Pokka Corporation. Results will
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    • 53 10 IN our Battle of the Hawkers series last week, Sun Kee Chicken Rice won Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice by 196 votes to 172 votes. Ten callers were picked to win two cartons of carrot juice courtesy of Pokka Corporation. They "are (IC number): *****52, *****92, *****17,*****03,*****34, *****81,*****67, *****70,
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    • 61 11 mu i<m 111< ttgip tra's crt— rail mm 1km,1mI m— piopH art jwt a»fclng tor twfcli, oeapw mmpw Sarah Nak, «Im It hi iMr 30b. SImmM llwt afrit mmm iwartagt »at al)>ml»ry Cowl m^nartHin* You see them in the market flashing their diamonds and gold bracelets. I
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    • 188 11 THE milk boiled over. And when it did, everyone cheered. Yes! it was part of the traditional "milk boiling" ceremony (above) held at the new premises of Tamil Murasu last Friday morning. Tamil Murasu, the national Tamil Daily and a subsidiary of Singapore
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    • 132 11 ALTOGETHER, 382 readers turned up for the penalty kick contest organised by The New Paper and the British Tourist Association at last weekend's Natas Travel Fair. Rosalina bte Othman of Block 648 Pasir Ris Drive 10 wins a visit to Manchester United's Old Trafford,
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    • 60 10 MUMJJMmU LIJNCII PROMOTION at EAST COAST PARKWAY CHALET from 11:30 pm 2:30 pm 3Qf^] Promotions inclusive of Weekends Public Holidays Discounts not applicable in conjunction with other offers, such as Food vouchers and other promotion scheme. Discounts not valid for takeaway and set menus, gjpggjg Ballroom Available SySSyS Seating capacity
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 632 13 A 71-year-old retiree died, after three children allegedly tried to rob him in the earlyhours of Sunday morning. Yesterday, the two boys, aged 13, and a girl, aged 12, were charged in the juvenile court with murder. CRISPINA ROBERT reports ONE tiny accused tried
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    • 122 13 THE 12-year-old girl's mother said that she had been divorced from the girl's father for 12 years. She was speaking to The Straits Times outside the court yesterday. She said her daughter is a student at an Institute of Technical Education. She added that she also has two
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    • 492 14  -  Being detained at the President's pleasure means that there is no fixed time for the sentence. Offenders are placed in an institution until they are given a pardon. BY Danny Lim EVERY morning for the past month, Mr Teo Sak Loke would bring breakfast to
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    • 435 15  -  French arts award brings cheer to artisf s painful week By, Jason Tan IT has been quite a week for Singapore's pioneering artist, Liu Kang. First, he woke up one night last week, his whole body in pain. Then, over the weekend he had a
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    • 148 15 BACK in 1928, Mr Liu had ieft the Shanghai College of Fine Arts to pursue an art career in France. For five years, he spent his days in Paris museums studying the works and trying the techniques of great artists such as Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh,
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 396 16  -  by WOON WUI TEK BY the time they found the old Spanish woman, she had been dead in a tub for about three years. A corpse for three years, and no one knew. Yet, in a way, she was lucky. But more on that
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    • 367 17  -  BY Carol Leong THIS Singaporean businessman was shot dead in a Bangkok disco brawl by a Thai plainclothes policeman. And this Thai woman, a friend of his, saw it all happen. Mr Ong Kok Keong, 45, was shot in his neck and died immediately. He
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 271 19  -  COURT ORDERS HER TO AVOID PUPIL SEX AND THE UNDERAGED By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY SHE was his primary school teacher and he was 11 when she began the affair last year. They had sexual intercourse and took showers together, police told
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    • 330 19 AUSTRALIA'S Prime Minister will try to ban the latest film version of the literary classic Lolita. The censor this week approved restricted release of the movie to adults. Prime Minister John Howard said he would "see what options are open to the government" in
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    • 248 20 IT was a minister who wrote the now famous letter about former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, accusing him of sex crimes, a defence witness told the High Court yesterday. Mr Azmin Ali, Anwar's former private secretary, pointed the finger at Domestic Trade
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    • Article, Illustration
      11 20 Datuk Megat JunidL Ma Ummi All. Mr Azmin All.
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      36 20 Ini 11 I'm u i< China kaaaavaraafta Bad AaMrica's aawMjtiaafr «*> Japan. WwaadwJ t» fiwrt«aaBwfcto>aaaHlwllt l»ia «<Mal, aha Al not want ta k* IMM, Do they want us to kiss it and love it? P
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    • 585 20 An Irresistible V I Ivy' w/ Win Big^ I 1st prize: $500 NTUC voucher J I La X I I I 2nd prize: $300 NTUC voucher "V I CI I J I I 1 1 voucher I I 10 consolation prizes: Jf U AIrt I I I $100 NTUC vouchers
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  • Showtime
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      246 21 ..>.3HH STAR SEARCH 1999 t •> cT. k fV "*T. 1 r\ *v M |MH* The 12 localfinmfjjj&pf this year's introduced to the moHtot Monday. JASON TANflUm with acting in his blood^Kt ONE he's an undergraduate I with an infectious The next*; ■moment, Wallace Ang may turn all
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    • 71 21 FOR the first time, there will be contestants from five countries. One male winner and one female winner from China, Hongkong, Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore will vie for the All Asian Star Search overall titles in the April 11 final here. There will be Mr Personality and Ms
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    • 199 21  -  By, Jason Tan THREE of this year's 12 finalists are graduates, one more than in 1997. There are two undergraduates, an A-level student and a diploma holder. The graduates are sales engineer Raymond Tan, 24, model Oh Say Tuck, 26, and bank customer service officer
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    • 440 22  -  STAR SEARCH '99 BY Jason Tan FROM top to bottom, head to toes, they were all dressed in pure white. The kind of white that somehow elevated each of the 12 gorgeous Star Search finalists to an irresistible beauty form. To say the guys are handsome seemed
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    • 366 23  -  BY Abhijit Nag SPIELBERG against Shakespeare? No contest, some thought, at least not in Hollywood. Shakespeare in Love didn't stand a ghost of a chance against the Hollywood genius at his heroic best in Saving Private Ryan. But it turns out George Bernard Shaw was right
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    • 116 23 1999 Screen Actors Guild awards Best Actress: Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love) Best Actor Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful) Best Supporting Actress: Kathy Bates (Primary Colors) Best Supporting Acton Robert Duvall (A Civil Action) Best EnssmMs Acting in a Movie: Shakespeare in Love cast Best Actrsss in a
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    • 353 24 jßßßMe^k*4> ißßWfo' ■■msMi* <■ HHHHH THE WORLD'S LARGEST FOUNTAIN Entered in the Guinness By ok of World Records 98 A largest fountain in the worn), the Fountain of Wealth #fast w becoming Singapore's most well known landmark. Towering :|f -«^HflHßpp^ w ««£mE* 13.3 metres and weighing 85 tonnes, the Fountain
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  • 1084 26 That's the only way you can stay relevant and employable in the current volatile job market. Utmost important is to breakaway from the mindset that learning is over once you leave school. JOHN LOW talks to three education consultants on why retraining, upgrading and acquiring
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  • 364 26 WAY back in 1956, a group of industrialists foresaw that a practical way to solve problems relating to fabour relations would be to develop a trained pool of managers and supervisors. So they formed an association and organised courses to provide important
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  • 551 28  -  Etcetera WITH MATTHEW THOMMEN WHAT do you do with all the hard-disk space in your computer? Eight years ago, I would have asked: What space? It was in 1991 when I first sat in front of a Macintosh. And I just loved
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 168 28 COMICREUEF The Concrete Jungle/Colin Goh fer ffl i»2W I Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson v 1 SUK V*#E*»l HEKCftsTED fW dckt avisw \r.' I mcce iis it/ ok, I "ftXIVE tmiw> .mwl TWS »a AIOAW. BEOUSE TEU. WE WAT KWR STVJPtt) RBST HE. *HT TO STKI UP QUTOF **KW6 TOSE. tWVE
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    • 649 29 rgMART MOVES f jm n An ongoing series of Interviews with students and graduates about their chosen education paths. J Creative Writing player has Commerce course I wasn't enjoying tt. I was Institution determinedly demoralised, and really wanted to chuck education Minnesota, Ewan 84,1 y®" ot b ck on e
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  • 405 36  -  TRAVEL WITH A TWIST I By Danny Lim THE Shrlin night market in Taipei is quite an eyeful. Crying out for attention are fiery red sugar-coated fruits on skewers displayed on pushcarts by the road. A hunched old man behind one cart dips the fruits in a
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