The New Paper, 20 March 1999

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1 47 The New Paper
  • 7 1 the new paper SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1998
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 37 2 Victim gets pig virus from mosquito. J First symptoms 4 include fever and I sleepiness. Sometimes High fever causes shivering Victim Sometimes the nerves get In most severe cases. Graphics/ CEL GULAPA
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    • 482 2 I IN MALAYSIA Fifty-one people are dead in Malaysia from a virus called Japanese encephalitis. DANNY LIM finds out what happens to a victim IT started out as a simple fever and Malaysian Woo Ah Sieang thought nothing of it. Just six days later he
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    • 155 2  -  IN SINGAPORE By. Jason Tan MR Li m, Loo Leng, 49, a bidder at the Kim Chuan abattoir, died yesterday morning. He collapsed moments after reaching the abattoir on Tuesday and never recovered. So far, test results show that his death was not due to the Japanese encephalitis
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    • 221 2 They said he was very pale and shivering. He was also disoriented, asking them where his lorry was, even though he had come in a taxi. At the hospital, he told his family who had rushed there that he wanted to go
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    • 501 3  -  IN SINGAPORE BY Melvin Singh THE Government yesterday told The New Paper that infected pigs might have entered Singapore despite the ban on imports from affected farms in Malaysia. Dr Chua Sin-Bin, the Primary Production Department's (PPD) deputy director, said: "There is a possibility that some
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    • 300 3 EXCERPTS from yesterday's press conference and an interview with Dr Chua Sin-Bin, the Primary Production Department's deputy director: If all precautions have been taken to prevent the Import of pigs with Japanese encephalitis, why is the virus still a suspect? I think we can't rule out anything. It
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    • 225 3  -  By' Tanya Fong NO, she wasn't scared of buying pork. Until she took a closer look at the meat. "Aiyoh! What's that pink chop?" she asked the meat seller, holding back the money she had been about to pay. The pink chop, from the Primary Production
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    • 364 4 IN MALAYSIA THE viral outbreak started out as a health issue. Now, it has turned into a political hot potato. The Chinese community in Malaysia is unhappy with the way the Malaysian government is handling the outbreak. The Chinese community feels that the government has not
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    • 115 4 It is not necessary for the general public to get vaccinations against JE. However, those who travel to affected areas and those who come into contact with live pigs are advised to get vaccinations against JE at the Traveller's Clinic at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and
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    • 316 4  -  By Ng Wan Ching A TEAM of four experts from the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States will be flying into Malaysia today. They will help the government investigate the outbreak of Japanese encephalitis (JE). The CDC, based in Atlanta, Georgia,
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    • 93 2 SORRY We gave the wrong address in our report, "Air hostess dreams of this when abroad" (TNP, March 17). The Original Serangoon Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee is at 556 Serangoon Road, not 56 Serangoon Road. CLARIFICATION In our report "Why not give your career a CLEAN start?" in yesterday's TNP,
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 198 5 m BUCKETSHOPS THE advertisements promise high pay and short working hours. But when you apply, you end up attending investment seminars, and using your savings to trade in commodities instead. Such companies are commonly known as bucket shops. Now nine such commodities trading firms have been banned
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    • 147 5 in FSHSus In the latest Budget debate, five key issues were thrown up that will persist into the next millennium, says CHUAMUIHOONG in an article in The Straits Times this morning. These are her questions: THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY: Can Singapore make the leap into the knowledge-based economy,
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    • News Break
      • 62 5 cmME A LORRY driver, caught for speeding, tried to bribe a Traffic police officer by slipping him $50 yesterday. But Staff Sergeant Mohamed Samat Kahat, 35, detained the 40-year-old man immediately after the incident along the Bukit Timah Expressway. The officer said: "I was in full uniform
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      • 69 5 RETAIL THIS year's Great Singapore Sale is on the cards. Privilege cards, that is. The cards can be used to chalk up points that can then be exchanged for gifts. And those cards will get you on a special bus that takes you from mall to mall. The
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      • 60 5 I chTna SOME holders of department store discount cards are abusing them by lending the cards to other shoppers in return for a cut of the money saved. And such "deals" are flourishing because buyers gain by paying less than they would have without the cards, even after
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      • 62 5 I the" US ACROSS America, a new kind of school is springing up. Dubbed "schools for johns", they are humiliation centres for men caught soliciting sex from prostitutes for the first time. These men are given the option of being arrested, as actor Hugh Grant was in Los
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      • 60 5 BANKING NO, the possible bank holidays at the turn of the century will not be public holidays. The Monetary Authority of Singapore has clarified that bank holidays here are not public holidays, reports The Business Times. The MAS is considering making Dec 31 and Jan 3-4 bank
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      • 64 5 LOCKERBIE LIBYA has pledged to hand over the two Libyans accused of the Lockerbie bombing. They would be handed over to United Nations chief Kofi Annan by April 6 for trial in the Netherlands, he said. Pan Am Flight 103 blew up on Dec 21,1988, over the Scottish town
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    • 67 6 Quote Wworthy Singapore is a very good example of a well-studied, u ell-planned approach to Year 206<r!t is undoubtedly a leader in Year2ooo readiness from the perspective of the financial community. Mr Tim Shepheard-Walwyn, chairman of Global 2000 Coordinating Group, an informal grouping of banks, securities firms and
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    • 54 6 The Straits Times: All live-pig imports stopped The Business Times: Bankers upgrade classified loans of Far East Group Uanhe Zaobao: Singapore bans all imports of live pigs Berita Harian: Steps to ensure effectiveness of Syariah RCS morning news: The Primary Production Department has banned all imports of
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    • Article, Illustration
      31 6 HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU: Model Jasmin Lind attracting attention as she lies in a shop window in Sydney wearing pearls as part of a publicity stunt yesterday. Picture/ Reuters
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    • 49 6 International Herald Tribune: Nato takes steps towards hostilities Utusan Malaysia: Threat of new virus New Straits Times: New virus strain discovered BBC news: President Clinton has said that Nato is ready to act in Kosovo if Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic continues to block the peace agreement
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    • 27 6 The Dow Jones industrial average fell 94.07 points to close at 9,903.55 yesterday. About 917 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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    275 7 SINGAPORETODAY Disney on Ice Toy story, a $13.5 million musical I production has turned the Singapore Indoor Stadium into a skating I wonderland. The floor has undergone a magical transformation a coat n 8 of glistening ice. j| J\ /,Artist SIMON ANG glides you through the ground work
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    • 26 7 SHOW INPO WHAT: Disney on IceToy Story WHEN: March 12-21 WHERE: Spore Indoor Stadium TICKETS: $46, $38 and $22. For more information, call Sistic at 348-5555
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    • 33 8 K 0. i Spring/Summer 99 united colors 81 collection of benetton. |j|j Bl-48 Ngee Ann C'•. Level 3 Takasn'"\ Department S:c-~ 02-03 Fc/agc 01-20 Forir' Th; Shor: "g V Makavst..L;>! iDi- \Y» Si/"
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    • 53 9 111 II I*lll lll* «r DmM U* >«W IWIWmIii ■<IWIH>«<II»ci«»|BIII ippi.lwMiifccIhgum It ia not to our benefjfii therefore, to tilt the field in favour of foreign talent at tltf expanse of Singaporeans. If you dont look after your own I people well, who wants to be a
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    • 233 9 YOU have seen their faces and read their stories in The New Paper last year. TTiese individuals from the Malay community have been highlighted by us for their achievements and their contributions to their community. Now here's your chance to pick the Achiever of
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    • 131 10 -v />, I jf a M d A utjfl m <~. VM W^^SSL History comes alive ae you embark and nurtured its growth into a succJ^^h^^-jrta^jt^ it M J^ml li BknMIbJH i "IL' l||| This f yourself in Singapore's own unique story! chapters, packed with archival footagee, rare tnS MBtiOhal
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    • 492 11 And answer that themselves. CRISPINA ROBERT talks to one principal about changes to the school appraisal system announced yesterday SHE used to work at a junior college that was among the top five here. It was stressful if Hwa Chong JC slipped one
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    • 249 11 THE school ranking system stays. But with the new appraisal method, even schools that do not win the top rankings can get their strengths recognised. Instead of the Ministry of Education (MOE) doing the appraisal, the schools themselves will do it. Principals and
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    • 422 12  -  BY Riana Zakir HIS nervous eyes were darting about. He was wanted for robbery and murder of a 74-year-old relative. But nobody in her family knew it when he turned up for her funeral on Thursday. He even bent down to kiss the
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    • 519 13 On Wednesday, we ran a story on TCS terminating the contracts of pregnant artistes. Ex-TCS actress Jamie Lee's case was highlighted. Twenty-eight people contacted us to say that Jamie was treated unfairly, while eight agreed with TCS. One reader tells EDWIN YEO about her own ill-treatment
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    • 115 11 ITfgSgH UNIVERSITY OF S LONDON V rHy External Programme 1999 Admissions Exercise 'A' level and Diploma holders who are interested in studying as External students of the University of London leading to one of the degrees in the fields of Economics, Management, Finance and the Social Sciences can register for
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    • 147 14 SHOCK waves gripped the Indian state of Bihar when armed men killed 35 sleeping villagers. The brutal attack on Thursday is the latest in a series of clashes that has broken out between people of different castes, or social ranking. The assailants struck in the district
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    • 8 14 Picture/ Reuters
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    • 87 14 A POWERFUL bomb ripped through a crowded market in a southern Russian city yesterday. The blast in Vladikavkaz killed more than GO people and injured more than 100. Government officials called it a terrorist act. In a televised address. President Boris Yeltsin assumed personal responsibility and vowed
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    • 264 15 62 DIE IN KALIMANTAN CLASHES Wire services. FOUR days of fighting between Muslim groups have reportedly claimed 62 lives in West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. The fighting, sparked by a dispute between members ot the Malay and Madurese migrant communities last Sunday, had spilled
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    • 217 15 AN 80-year-old Malaysian survived on bread and jungle water for 39 hours after getting lost amid thick vegetation near Baling, Kedah. Rubber tapper Dollah Salleh had fallen into a ravine. In his ordeal before he was rescued on Thursday, he shivered
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    • 538 16  -  with' BRIAN MILLER SOMETIME soon maybe tomorrow, or Monday at the latest Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard and his British co-pilot, Brian Jones, would have scored a world's first. On that day, those magnificent men in their flying machine a silver balloon named Breitling Orbiter III would
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    • 380 17 Reuters. GONE were the jittery answers, the nervous laughter, the hostile President. Here was a suave-looking, relaxed man who didn't mind poking fun at himself and those who had hounded him for a year. US President Bill Clinton brought along the perfect tool a ficticious
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  • 341 18 MALAYSIATODAY TOUR coaches are now free to use the Causeway instead of the second-link with immediate effect. The temporary ruling was made by the Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board, CVLB in Kuala Lumpur. The new move will ease the burden faced by tour operators, according
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  • 611 27  -  RACINGTODAY Preview By Marc Tan JAZZ JESTER was finishing on very well when fourth tp Terrell over the 1,200 m trip at Ipoh last Saturday. The Alan Seow Wooi Khiang-trained gelding is obviously back in form and it should pay to follow him closely
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  • 230 29 Reuters. TWO years after taking "early retirement" Tony Cottee returns to Wembley Stadium tomorrow for a fourth and probably final crack at winning the first major honour of his 16-year career. And the fact that Leicester
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    • 451 30  -  ...MORE ON THE WEMBLEY FINAL: TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR v LEICESTER CITY LEAGUE CUP FINAL: TWO TOTTENHAM FANS GIVE THEIR VIEWS... COMMENT R. JEGATHESAN HE beats one defender, beats two, goes past a third and a fourth, then...goal. That was way back in 1981, when the flair of Argentine
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    • 482 30  -  UPDATE Leicester won the League Cup in 1997, but its form has nosedived since the turn of the year. It has on ly two wins in its last 11 league and cup matches. Spurs have lost just once in 19 league and cup games and
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    • 133 31 MANCHESTER UNITED v JUVENTUS Sige, you would expect a w, but we have the e of playing against times in the last two or three years. The important thing is that the players know all about them, and to be honesty we have also improved. It
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    • 32 31 DYNAMO KIEV v BAYERN MUNICH ATLEnCO MADRID v PARMA MARSEILLE v BOLOGNA First-leg matches will be played on April 6 in Marseille and Madrid, second-leg matches on April 20.
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    • 45 31 First-leg matches will be played on April 7 In Manchester and Kiev, second-leg on April 21. CHELSEA v REAL MALLORCA L0K0M0TIV MOSCOW vlAZIO First-leg matches will be played at Chelsea and Moscow on April 8, second-leg matches on April 22.
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    • 78 31 TV ACTION TODAY: Arsenal v Coventry City: Live on Football Channel, 10.55pm and Premiere 12, 10.30pm TOMORROW: Aston Villa v Chelsea: Live on Football Channel; 7.25pm ARSENALvCOVENTRY BLACKBURNv WIMBLEDON LEEDS v DERBY FORESTvBORO SOUTHAMPTON v SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY WEST HAM v NEWCASTLE ASTON VILLA v CHELSEA MAN UNITED vEVERTON
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    • 224 31 NOTTINGHAM FOREST v MIDDLESBOROUGH Premiership basement boys Nottingham Forest and Southampton face must-win home games as they attempt to drag themselves out of trouble. Bottom-of the-table Forest did themselves no harm with a shock 3-1 victory at Wimbledon last weekend. But it could desperately do with a
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    • 90 31 INTER-MILAN coach Mircea Lucescu has decided to rest Ronaldo for the match against Sampdoria on Sunday. The Brazilian star has been dogged by usuries to both knees all season. BOLOGNA vVICENZA CAGLIARI v EMPOLI FIORENTINA v PIACENZA JUVENTUSvASROMA LAZIO v VENEZIA AC MILAN vBARI PERUGIA vSALERNITANA SAMPDORIA
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      644 33 TICK-TALK ERNEST LUIS talks with the man who makes S-League club Jurong FC tick 001 Chwee Kim still sits in his office today with a headache. Not because of his busy schedule as the president of GATX Terminals, which deals in storage and distribution of petroleum and
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    • 241 34  -  By Ernest Luis GET ready for the latest Star Cruises ship Star Tampines. With captain Robin Chan and your crew of Rafi Ali, Azhar Baksin, Mohd Noor Ali, Nathaniel Naplah, Marko Kraljevic and Zlatko Vidan. It's the new name Star Cruises president Colin Au has
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    • 257 34  -  By Suresh Nair FORMER Singapore goalkeeper Eric Paine is keen to make a national comeback. No, not to don the' No.l jersey. He wants to be involved in grooming the future generation of goalkeepers. Paine, 49, who was Singapore's undisputed No.l between 1968 and 1978, has
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    • 77 34 WSA CUP: JURONG v WOODLANDS WELLINGTON Tonight: 7 pm, Jurong East Stadium Tickets: $5 (adults); $2 (children) Over the past few days, I noticed some helicopters circling over our siadiuiiiin Woodlands as we practised. Just tell Sundram not to worry so much. Woodlands team manager R Vengadasalam Actually,
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    • 163 34 STANDARD CHARTERED INTERNATIONAL U-19 TRIANGULAR: SINGAPORE v HONGKONG Tomorrow; School of Physical Education, 3 pm SINGAPORE may be South-East Asia's Under-18, U-20 and U-23 rugby champions. But it looks like it will have problems winning this week's inaugural Standard Chartered International U-19 Triangular. Both sides have beaten Malaysia.
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    • 29 37 CALVIN LOW looked for burning issues at the first-ever Women and Sport conference held here this week. He gets an earful talking to these three sporting women
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    • 30 37 So long as decision-making bodies are led by pasturing men, there won't be progress. Why can't we have a young Minister for Sport? Mrs Ivy Singh-Lim
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    • 512 37 Why so few women holding power in Singapore sport? THE SPORTS ADMINISTRATOR ASKS: THE vivacious president of the Singapore Netball Association (SNA) first corrected a media report about her bra size. Thus appropriately "warmed up" the conference audience, Mrs Ivy Singh-Lim launched her attack on
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    • 41 37 Singapore women, especially the Chinese, favour fair skin. It's probably something they've been told since young by their mothers, so it's become a mindset. It's not feminine t0... get all dark and sweaty. Singapore Olympic marathoner Yvonne Danson
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    • 501 37 I was the target of male chauvinism and prejudice THE SPORTSWOMAN SAYS: BOWLER Grace Young got the short end of the stick despite spending 15 years at the top of her sport, and picking up 12 South-East Asia Games gold medals and three Sportswoman of the Year
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    • 48 38 Let's take swimming. A woman would have to be comfortable about showing her figure in public in aswimsuit. Many are put off by this. It's a vicious cycle because the more they shun exercise, the more overweight they become. Ms P L Chan, 39, manager
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    • 520 38 I changed only at 30 SPORTING WOMEN Size Wise THE ACTIVE WOMAN SAYS: EXERCISE was never on Miss Peggie Chua's mind when she was in school. Somehow she always managed to skip PE class. Today, the 39-year-old not only swears by exercise, she makes
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    • 231 39 spring and time to hit the beach. That is the trend in the US, where the celebration of the one-week Spring Break in March typically means boo zed-up college Idds having wild parties by the sea. In keeping with the season, spring is also the theme adopted
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    • 272 39 Software upgrade LOOK before you leap.The saying holds true both in marriage and in software upgrades. Below are two letters exchanged between a disgruntled customer of Wife 1.0 and the software's technical support I department. Letter to Tech Support I Last year, I upgraded Girlfriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and
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    • 158 39 EVERYONE is still talking about it the much-anticipated sci-fi blockbuster, Star Wars: Episode I. Here's the good news for Star Wars fans: Lucasfilm and Apple Computer have collaborated to launch a completely-new film trailer for Episode I on the Net exclusively in QuickTime, Apple's
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    • 79 39 WANT to start a digital camera cyberclub? That was the call from a Net surfer who is crazy about digital photography. He wrote in the soc.culture.singapore newsgroup: "There are many Singaporeans who have purchased digital cameras. "We should join forces to form a cyberclub to share our experiences
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    • 525 40 A reader's advice... SEX education. It can be sensitive. It can bring on the blushes. It can leave parents dumbfounded. Parents find it hard to broach the subject at home. And teens are sometimes left to rely on books, gossip or old wives' tales to answer their
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    • 368 40 MY girlfriend and I are both 17 and have been together for almost two months. We are in the same class. She is really a nice person and loves me very much. However, she is unable to take things easy. She wants to spend more
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    • 203 40 lAM 19 years old. Recently, I have found my boyfriend talking to a lot of girls. We often quarrel over this. He insists that these girls are just his friends. But I find it strange that these girls are leaving messages like 'I love you', 'miss
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      244 41 cue eh? The coolest-looking cartoon character it... "Road Runner. All the other cartoon characters either speak a lot or have lots to do. As for the Road Runner, he just runs!" Cynthia Koh, 24, actress Hello Kitty. It waa my favourite. Why? Becauae it has no mouth! It cant talk.
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    • 27 41 THE HOVIE A week in the life of a group of American soldiers battling Japanese troops on a picturesque island in the Pacific.
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    • 228 41 CHAN SEET FUN LALANG never looked so good. The camera sweeps over the hillside. The sky is cloudy and you can hear the sound of the wind. The sea of slender green blades swirl in the breeze. Just weeds twisting in the wind? Yup,
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    • 226 41 WOON WUI TEK THIS movie is really a long and beautiful statement by a director without anything concrete to say. Early on, he compares the peaceful life of noble-savage islanders with modern war's technological murder. Ah, we realise, war destroys the original ("one soul") innocence
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    • 162 41 How would you react to playing a contact sport with women? u "I've always been a gentleman in sport. But some women are capable of playing rough too, so it depends. "If I'm very engrossed in a game, I might forget that I'm playing with a woman and
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    • 432 42 Sweet young teens THE sweet young faces on these pages have more than youth, good looks and music in common. They're the rage in their own countries and in Singapore. They've topped our charts and flooded our airwaves. And they are all 18
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      375 42 Britney Jeau Spears Age: 17 From: Louisiana, USA BRITNEY Spears has put her stamp on the charts. Her debut album shot to No 1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums and her single, Baby One More Time, debuted at No 1 on The Hot 100. She also topped the
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    • 316 42 Charlotte Church Age: 13 From: Cardiff, UK CHARLOTTE Church has sung for a prince and a pope. She is also the youngest person ever to top the UK classical chart. And in Singapore, she has been hogging the No 1 spot on the Opera Chart at Tower Records
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      289 42 SPEED (Hiroko Shimabukuro, 15, Hitoe Arakaji, 18, Takako Uehara, 16 and Eriko Imai, 16) From: Okinawa, Japan SPEED is the first Japanese act to make it onto our National Album Chart. Their album, Moment, debuted at No 9 and has been on the chart for four weeks. Last week,
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  • 401 46 V I I brian@sph.com.$g Brian Miller HERE'S good news for Tottenham Hotspur fans. No, it's not about the English Premier League side's chances in the premiership battle. Face it, the club isn't going to win the premiership this season. It may not even qualify for
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