The New Paper, 23 August 1999

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  • 10 1 the new paper MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1999 the new paper
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    • 323 1 WHEW MAN U PLAYS ARSENAL... #r^T% ■x^n^^Hn^nn' jg 'W^SJ. what else do you oxpoct? Pushing, shoving, head butting, goal-mouth thrills and GOALS. JEFF LOW's report /Page 52 PM& IMgHlmPM& BG Lee CPF 1 M J JL-/W W year 2000.(1 Day-1000 beats) .0681 V y 1 M ONE could read a
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 410 2 Secret arms loot found Ex-official held on charges of cheating Defence Ministry of $9.8 million Top spymaster suspended Source: Reuters. A FORMER Swiss defence official had a big surprise when he returned home from a holiday in Bali 10 days ago. On hand to greet Dino Bellasi
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    • 207 2 OFFICERS knocked on the door of a fifth-storey flat in Malacca early yesterday morning to check on khalwat (close proximity) activities. And when the door was opened, they heard a loud thud, reports the New Straits Times. A 29-year-old woman had tried to escape through
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    • 331 3  -  BY Toh Li Lin DONT be deceived by these two boyish faces. And the giggles that seem to punctuate each of their sentences. Bryant Tang and Vincent Chan, two 15-year-olds from Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) School, just amazed their mentors at Mindef. Using the familiar spreadsheet program
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    • 84 3 BRYANT and Vincent presented their findings at the Youth Science Conference held at the National University of Singapore on Saturday. The conference, organised by Singapore Polytechnic, is the culmination of five science mentorship programmes by five organisations Singapore and Ngee Ann Polytechnics, Defence Technology Group of Mindef,
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  • 1266 4  -  TWOMONTOS^aj^^^B SINGAPORETODAY BY Carol Leong EVERY six months of the year, Mr Gunasekar Arunugan, 41, goes into hiding. The reason: A skin disease called psoriasis, which covers his body in grey, dry flakes of skin that peel off in huge scabs. For 14 years, this talkative man
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 237 5 ifflr THERE are, on average, 2,000 young girls who get pregnant every year. This is according to figures compiled by the Health Ministry. These young unwed mothers are under 20 and their numbers are on the rise. There were 2,091 in 1995, 2,185 in 1996,
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    • Article, Illustration
      37 5 •B* Summer treats for hot, sunny day*. Animals In a Tokyo zoo are given Ice blocks with goodies Inside. This Japanese macaque Is licking his ice block while digging out fruits from it. Picture/ Afp
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    • News Break
      • 54 5 I FIRE A DISPLAY room at Singapore History Museum was damaged by fire yesterday morning. Most of the archeological artefacts on display were saved, some salvaged from the burnt remains, including three pieces of 14th-century Majapahit jewellery. The cause of the fire is not yet known, but arson
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      • 71 5 j BANKS m THE Standard Chartered Bank has cut its interest rate for unsecured credit from 15.5 per cent to 6.88 per cent. This rate is close to what some banks offer for secured credit (backed by assets) which is considered safer. DBS Bank and the Overseas Union
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      • 60 5 U EDUCATION THE Government has scrapped the scheme to allow academically strong children a second chance to enter popular primary schools at Primary 4. It was for those who just missed out on the Gifted Education Programme. However, the GEP now offers 500 places compared to 200 in
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      • 57 5 COM PAh THE half-time corporate results are out, with no companies reporting any losses. As of yesterday, 65 Stock Exchange of Singapore-listed companies released their financial results for the first six months of this year. They recorded a combined profit of $2,594.9 m, up 59.5 per
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      • 54 6 I w BIG stars in Hollywood have signed up for a TV documentary being made by Britain's Prince Edward. It is about the rise of paparazzi photographers, reports London's The Times today. The paper said Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp are among those who have filmed
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      • 56 6 I MALAYSIA THE Malaysian government might have alienated Chinese voters just before an election, with its plan to merge 58 financial institutions into six major ones. Many Chinese are outraged at the prospect of highly regarded Chinese banks Hong Leong Bank and PhileoAllied Bank among them being gobbled
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      • 56 6 HOLLAND WASTE left from septic tanks was used in animal feed in The Netherlands, the government there said. The practice was only stopped recently, it said. But it added that the refuse used was sterilised first using high heat. The information comes as French animal feed companies
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      • 66 6 1 Y2K BUG ALL public and private hospitals, laboratories and clinics will be ready by next month for the so-called millennium (Y2K) bug, the Health Ministry said. Generators and batterypowered equipment will be on stand-by in case of any power failure that may occur as a result of
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    • 53 5 International Herald Tribune: Quake relief bolstered by army The New Straits Times: Guidelines on pricing of mergers to be issued Asian Wall Street Journal: Japanese bank megamerger may presage wave of consolidation, as in US, Europe BBC news: Turkey tells international rescue team their work's finished and
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    • 149 6 in FSHSUS ASTHMA sufferers may soon have an effective treatment for their allergies. Medical researchers here have identified what triggers off asthma attacks in many cases. Their discovery three chains of protein molecules found in dust mites can be used to create vaccines against the allergy
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    • 90 6 ftuote One needs to be nice and round to danc&the ndombolo. Men like healthy women who don't look like a peasant. Claudine.24, one of many young Chadian women who want to gain weight so that they can have a body that suits a popular Congolese dance
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    • 64 6 The Straits TTmes: Singapore's new goal: Be a world-class home The Business Times: Will Greenspan hike rates or won't he? Lianhe Zaobao: PM Goh: Build an economy of first-world status Berita Harian: Build a world-class Singapore RCS morning news: Building a first-world economy and a world-class home,
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • PEOPLE ON PM'S MIND
    • 988 7  -  SERIOUS FUN BY Yvonne Lim FACE, after face, after face. One by one, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong lined up his gallery of inspirational Singaporeans last night. The surprise? Though many were famous names, others were not. Or, at least, not names
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    • 1027 8 IMAGINE this: The world, a giant shopping mall. Many Singaporeans, said PM Goh, now shop through the Internet. "It is not just books and CDs. I know of a sports car enthusiast who buys spare parts for his Porsche through the Internet. He saves 20 to 30
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      133 9 Depth: The facility will be located about 100 m or more underground. That s about the full length of a soccer field. Building the facility below ground will save more than 300 ha of land, enough to build a new town half the size of Pasir Ris. In
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    • 393 10  -  By- Tanya Fong IN all his 17 years as a homicide detective, this was the most gruesome murder that he has encountered. First, the gruesome slash marks on the woman's neck and chest. Then, the stones that were tied to her legs to
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    • 931 11  -  Byl TANYA FONG IT was a Friday the 13th nightmare for him. Just as Mr John Teo, was cruising home in his brand-new two-month old BMW five-series, his car was hijacked by three men. Mr Teo, 34, an air-conditioner trader, was travelling along Defu Lane, and
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    • 110 11 MR TEO was going home as he had gone out earlier to check out the security at the Tanjong Katong complex where his air-con exhibition was going to be held that day. Said Mr Teo: "I am shocked. How can such a thing can happen on Singapore
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    • 183 11 MOTOR ABDUCTION POLICE have classified the case as abduction and the theft of motor vehicle. Anyone found guilty of stealing a motor vehicle can be jailed up to seven years, and fined. Di innorl The Latest Motorola IS 99 Two-Way Radios Q I I Simply push a button and BCB
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 581 12 PLANE b&SBV MV V mbs^tWiw^ IIIyIUUIIVV ,WV^ Source: Wire services STRAPPED upside-down in their seats, the 315 passengers and crew of the China Airlines plane began screaming some in others in agony. The Taiwanese-owned McDonnell-Douglas 11 jet had turned turtle. The cabin was filling
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    • 69 12 The descent: About 6.45 pm yesterday. The weather Driving rain and hurricane-force winds of up to 155 km per hour. Tht advice: The co-pilot told the pilot that the angle of the plane was wrong, but he did not react. The result: Right wing hits tarmac, plane flips
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    • Article, Illustration
      66 13 m u i*m u jjfifl «v Cambodian authorities have cracked down hard on a new social menace children flying kites in city parks. The pastime is hard on the gram. One security guard told the Phnom Penh Post: We cannot even let two or three people play with
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    • 195 13 AFP. IT used to be the fox hunters. Now, hobby and sports fishermen in Britain are under siege. A group called Fishing Saboteurs is planning a campaign to try and put anglers off their game. There are as many as four million anglers in
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    • 659 14  -  TURKEY TODAY HOW TO HELP CASH: Cheques to be made payable to the Singapore Red Cross Society. Write Turkey Disaster 1999 on the reverse side. Mail it to the Singapore Red Cross Society, 15 Penang Lane, Singapore *****6 OTHER DONATIONS: Items
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    • 103 14 WITH the help of Singaporean volunteers and the Singapore Red Cross Society, the Turkish community here has kicked off an aid relief project. Called "Turkey Disaster 1999", the project aims to raise money and medical supplies for the victims of the earthquake. Donations from Singaporeans flooded in
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  • 576 15  -  ET CETERA WITH HEATHER MCKINNON WHAT if I said to you: "For my holiday I am going to put on some heavy boots that make me walk like Frankenstein's monster after an enema, tie some long wooden planks to each boot, get hauled up
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  • DEARWIJEY
    • 213 17 I'M a housewife and I've been away 4 from the workforce for about 10 years. Now that my children have grown up, I have a lot of free time. So I'm planning to continue my studies, maybe on a part-time basis. I did the
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      37 17 Our counsellors Schools&JC Eugene Wfeysingha, education consuiont H, L I f|, rovjrcecnrac WongSirc Chee Polytechnic m luca Khoo, Institute of T J in t ■I narii. I ecnmcaj coucaoon university Amarjeet oajwa Inter-Asia Consulting Group
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    • 188 17 I'M in the Secondary 2 4 academic stream. I used to like maths. Last year, in Sec 1,1 scored 74 in this subject. But I don't like it now. Because I can't understand my teacher. So I've scored marks as
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    • 155 17 ITS my dream to be 4 an image consultant. But I'm not sure what qualifications I must have or requirements I have to meet to be one. What are the courses I should take? Are five GCE O-level passes and six years of working experience in
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    • 346 18 I'M in Secondary 4 and will take my O levels this year. I'm taking pure chemistry, pure physics, A maths, E maths, English, Chinese, geography and English literature. I intend to go to a junior college and then to a university if my
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    • 314 18 I'M taking a multimedia i system engineering course at Nanyang Poly. I'm keen to sign on for a government job. I've heard that these "sign-ons" provide monthly allowances for students, in return for a working bond of a few years. But my shortsightedness
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  • 460 19  -  Showtime By Yong Siew Fern Cecilia Cheung (left) has big dreams and she is a fast learner. She's everything a 19-year-old should be. Now, she is working her face oft in the Hongkong showbiz circle so that she can "take that wad of money"
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 469 25  -  Two years ago, she was a shy novice, quivering with stage fright in front of an audience. She was taking part in Anugerah 12, TV 12's talent search programme. Now, she's not only a natural on stage, but is also hosting the same talent show she
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    • 155 26 SITI Zurairiyah is just one of the many new talents who have emerged from Anugerah 12. Other up-and-coming stars include Suhaini Anuar, Haswandi Hashim and Marina Yusof, who were contestants in the first Anugerah 12 in 1997. This year, over 1,000 applicants turned up for the
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    • 318 27 STEP into the Concorde Hotel's Melting Pot Cafe and be transportedtack to the '60s. The cafe has a colonial-era kopitiam image. Be seated at old-style marble tables and tuck into your food with crockery found in fine-dining restaurants as well as kopitiam»type porcelain cups. A rojak
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  • RACING
    • 567 40 NYT. IN A smashing performance on a track that often foils the greatest horses, Silverbulletday won the 119 th running of the Alabama Stakes by nine lengths on Saturday and confirmed her place as the prima donna among three-year-old fillies in thoroughbred racing. The bay
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    • 272 41  -  Penang races rained off again By Danny Khoo INCESSANT rain once again wreaked havoc with the Penang racetrack yesterday. The card of nine races, which included the running of the Sprint Trophy, had to be called off because of unsafe track conditions. The
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    • 156 41 THERE is still a chance that the Penang Turf Club (PNTC) may stage its RM650.000 ($274,000) Sprint Trophy, which was washed out by rain, later this year. A check with PNTC officials revealed that the club would conduct a meeting soon to discuss prospects for
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • 214 42  -  By Suresh Nair PLAYER power at Marine Castle forced out British coach Dean Wheatley (right). He was replaced by club Prime League coach Syed Ismail on Friday after the management committee realised he could not lead the Dolphins (the club's nickname). After speaking to the club's
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    • 58 42 ITS not certain whether Dean Wheatley will stay at Marine Castle. After Friday's announcement that he was sidelined, Wheatley showed "obvious signs of disappointment", said some players. He left the training session without talking to the team, said one player. Wheatley, the former English Division Two Lincoln City
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    • 224 42 NEW caretaker coach Syed Ismail, 43, has promised two pragmatic targets: Team morale and performance. "I'm no miracle man. Why? There's limited resources at Marine Castle," he said. "But I dare promise there will be improvement in team morale and an increase in player performance on
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    • 126 42 THE earlier favourite to take over from Dean Wheatley was Abdullah Yusoff, 62. Wak Dol, as he is popularly known, was No. 2 to Wheatley. But he had a minor heart attack last month. Club manager Dilwant Singh said the club decided not to put the extra
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    • 161 42 EUROPE KICK-OFF: SPAIN Reuters. SPANISH champion Barcelona got its title defence off to a winning start yesterday. Second-half goals booted by Luis Figo and Dani Garcia gave the team a 2-0 win at home against Real Zaragoza. After an unimpressive opening, the team went ahead in the 75th
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      489 43  -  S-LEAGUE SPONSOR SERIES: SATYEN PATEL NIKE AND GEYLANG UNITED FACTFILE Name: Satyen Patel Ask 42 Birthdate: April 20 Family: Wife Susan,and daughter, Collete Ukes: Squash and golf Dislikes: Incompetence Favourite club: Arsenal BY Lim Han Ming MENTION 'Just do it' and the whole world identifies with US
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      740 44 American sprint king Maurice Greene ignited the World Championships with a spellbinding display of power sprinting to snatch gold in the 100 m in Seville last night. The US flag fluttered proudly over the Olympic Stadium as team-mate Marion Jones also romped to gold in 10.70 sec. It
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    • 187 44 AFP. WATCH out for American superstar Michael Johnson. He eased through his 400 m first round heat at the lAAF World Championships yesterday and declared that he felt he was in the form to break Harry 'Butch' Reynolds' world record of 43.29 seconds set in
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    • 285 45 MDDLESMOMH: Former hero Juninho will not be returning to the club even at a cut-price asking fee of £8 ($20.8 m). Juninho's father Osvaldo claims Boro was offered the Brazilian before the Spanish transfer deadline. "I have contacted the club to try and see if it wanted a deal
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    • 281 45 MORE PREMIERSHIP ACTION; LEEDS v LIVERPOOL (Live, Football Channel 22, tomorrow, 2.55 am) GET the goals, Liverpool. The roar comes from French manager Gerard Houllier. He is anxious for Pool (Liverpool's nickname) to rediscover the cutting edge against Leeds at Elland Road tonight, reports Carlingnet. Liverpool has
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    • 170 45 AFP. DONT get too excited, Spurs. This warning came from Tottenham manager George Graham after his team briefly sat at the top of the Premiership following Saturday's 2-1 away win against Sheffield Wednesday. "I only look at the table at the end of October to
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    • 137 45 Reuters. BELEAGUERED Ruud Gullit is in deep trouble. The Newcastle manager was left stunned after the Magpies threw away a comfortable lead to draw 3-3 with Wimbledon on Saturday. Newcastle was cruising at 3-1 up with 22 minutes to go and looked set to score its first
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    • 1237 46  -  'To come to Arsenal and win is great since we've never done well here.' Roy Keane LIVE WATCH by JEFFREY LOW <0W THE MATCH WENT MANCHESTER United skipper Roy leane stole the night with two goals to hock Highbury (Arsenal's home ground). He scored the match-winner
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    • 232 46 LAN BROWN PAUL SCHOLE& Midfielder Paul Scholes and wife Claire are celebrating the birth of their first child a son Aaron bom on Saturday. Claire, 23, suffered the heartbreak of miscarriage with her first pregnancy last year. DAVID BECKHAM: So concerned are the Beckhams
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      290 47 You may not. Prime Minister Goh ChokTong wants more sportsmen like him THE man you see on the ight is a Singaporean world hamp. He is a rarity. From he 308 to the mid 50s, he •xcelled on the badminton ourt. He is Wong Peng Soon. He von
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    • 543 47  -  COMMENT S GULAM THERE is a Chinese saying which goes something like this: "When the waves come, let's ride on it to better fortune. n For sports, the waves of fortune have come, in the form of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. This
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  • Page 44 Miscellaneous
    • 31 44 WHATSON TODAY Women's discus final Men's high jump final Women's 400 m hurdles semi-finals Women's 400 m quarter-finals Women's long jump final Men's 400 m quarter-finals Men's 3,000 m steeplechase final
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    • 828 48 TVTODAY NOON StyiefHe (Lifesty^^ Turn 12.30 PMPlctionary (Gameshow) IW I 1.00 Days of Our Uvm (Soap opera): Bo 1 K6D RuSSCII dissuades Billie from signing her Vr I Felicity bacl^home. 8 invites Lexie Q f Channel 5, midnight 2.00 High Tid«—Lstus Prey (Drama/r) ~llf you missed any episodes about the
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    252 49 ATHLETICS: SPRINT stars strike gold AFP MAURICE Greene and Marion Jones gave the World Athletic Championships in Seville, Spain, a much-needed breath of fresh air yesterday with a blistering display of sprinting. With the sport still reeling from a series of high-profile doping cases, the world's
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