The New Paper, 11 November 2000

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  • 30 1 the new paper SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2000 Singapore Press Holdings Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg MITA (P) 058/04/2000 60 CENTS 8 I ill ell
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 353 2 How Mr President hopeful talked to Mr President-in-waiting They are now both adopting a presidential air. Be statesmanlike, not bitchy, advise their spin doctors. But the two were anything but gracious when they talked over the telephone during the first count of votes in Florida... MR A 1 Gore called
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    • 113 2 SO, what's the latest regarding the presidential election in the US? More warnings and counter-warnings from the people doing all the talking for Democrat candidate A 1 Gore and Republican candidate George W Bush, that's what. An Associated Press tally of Florida's recount of votes completed early
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    • 110 2 AND HOLLYWOOD'S ON ALERT THE race isn't over yet, but Hollywood studios are already gearing up to make a film version of the 2000 presidential election. Only thing is, they don't know yet whether to make it a farce or a thriller, reports The Daily Telegraph. But studios agree the
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  • SIA CRASH
    • 1404 4 SlA's Buddy System is made up of volunteers from staff who are trained to support next-of-kin during difficult times It wasn't an enviable job. Crying relatives, information overload, burn victims all part ofSIA Buddy Rasit Hamid's experience (right) in Taiwan after the SQOO6
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    • 427 5 HE is calm and collected now but when faced with a distraught relative for the first time, Rasit was a bundle of quaking nerves. It was in December 1997. He was sent to Palembang as a Buddy alter the crash of Silk Air
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 324 6 HOT STORY Driving home eco-friendliness LIKE to go green but afraid it won't be worth it? Well, here's encouragement. Motorists who buy costlier environment-friendly cars will get help from the government from early next year. Buyers of electric and "hybrid" cars which run on petrol as well
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    • 53 6 "fKis A York resident and her pet survey the scene as an army truck rolls by to bolster Hood defence. These are Britain's worst floods in 40 years and the heavy rains, which began on Oct 31, are showing no signs of letting
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    • News Break
      • 64 6 JAILED DURING the Sunday service at St Andrew's Cathedral on April 16, a retiree, 59, put a $20,000 cheque in the offering bag. But Simon Khor Hock Huat, 47, who also attended the service, stole the cheque. Five months later, he stole twice more from the same church.
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        65 6 CNN CNN'S chief anchorman for most major stories during its 20 years, Bernard Shaw (left), is leaving end-February to write books and be with his family. Along with Larry King and Christiane Amanpour, Shaw, 60, is the most visible face on the cable network. He joined CNN in
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      • 61 6 CPF MORE than 400 employers failed to pay close to $160 million of their workers' Central Provident Fund contributions in the first eight months of this year. But the CPF Board has recovered the money a total of $158.4 million from the 424 employers. The errant employers have
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      • 57 6 COLD DRUGS PHARMACIES and drug companies have been told to withdraw and stop the circulation of products with phenylpropanolamine (PPA), which was linked to stroke in a recent study. PPA is found in some cold and cough medication, such as Decolgen. The Health Ministry advised patients with
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      • 67 7 SINGTEL HERE's good news for Sing Tel shareholders. 'Die company's interim net earnings are so good at $1.24 billion it is giving shareholders a special dividend of 7.5 cents a share. SingTel's earnings, for the six months to Sept 30, met forecasts, reports The Business Times. Sing Tel
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      • 58 7 HEALTH ALL passengers, even those flying in first class, should be wary of the dangers of "economy-class syndrome", which is not restricted to those sitting in cramped seats, according to new research. Scientists have found that long-distance flights put all travellers at risk of potentially fatal blood clots
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      • 63 7 M X-MAS LIGHT-UP M ON Nov 17, President S R Nathan will switch on the lights for this year's Christmas. The theme Icy Galaxy is expected to attract a lot of tourists. It will also be an eco-friendly Christmas as the Singapore Tourism Board aims to reduce electricity
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      • 63 7 CENSUS THE population here is better educated than it was 10 years ago. This is thanks to well-educated permanent residents and improved academic facilities, say Singapore's census statistics. Twelve per cent of the population are uni grads, up from 4.5 per cent in 1990. The percentage of the
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    • 49 6 New Straits Times: Medical fee hike for aliens International Herald Tribune: Doubts about recount harden partisan tone BBC news: The Republican candidate in the US presidential election, George W Bush, says he's planning for office although the final results might not be known for a week.
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    • 134 7 in FSRSus SINGAPORE and India may set up a free-trade area to strengthen economic ties between them. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between both countries at the Istana yesterday, witnessed by Singapore President S R Nathan and his Indian counterpart K R
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    • 76 7 Stocks ended a dismal week with a big selloff on Friday amid uncertainty over the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. The Dow Jones industrial average slumped 231.30 points to end at 10,602.95. 72.81 points at 10,834.25 while the Nasdaq composite index fell 171.36 points, closing at 3,028.99.
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    • 49 7 The Straits Times: Rebates for car buyers who go green The Business Times: Investors may get recourse to civil suits Lianhe Zaobao: Bush Jr announces his victory again Berita Harian: More better-educated Singaporeans RCS morning news: The educational profile of Singaporeans improves Streats: Mum can't cook
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    • 64 7 Quote Wworthy i JP My child is bright and a neighbourhood school won t bring out his potential. I used his IQ score to persuade a top pffinarif school to take him in. A businesswoman. Parents are now taking their children, as young as four
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 38 7 WHAT'S HUP r k Kong-Kong, this kitten followed me home. I turned left, it turned left. I turned right, it turned right. m pi W&2 Can I keep it? think it likes me. m w m m m
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 500 8  -  She's disorderly, too By Andre Yeo IT was bottoms up for this model when her world turned upside down after she had one drink too many. Well, nine tequilas actually. She was clearly in no condition to drive. Besides, she didn't have a
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    • 85 8 ONG May Ee pleaded guilty to five charges of drink driving, driving without a licence, driving without insurance coverage, using criminal force on a public servant and disorderly behaviour. She was fined $10,400 on and barred from driving for 4V4 years. Another four charges were taken into consideration. In
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 418 12  -  By Tan Hui Leng OTHER children go to bed with a cuddly soft toy. But 12-year-old Haryanti Ratman goes to sleep with a dialysis machine humming next to her. All night long. While she sleeps, the machine does its work. Doing what Haryanti's body
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    • 174 12 IT hasn't been easy for the family to cope with a child with kidney failure. A weak baby, Haryanti had to be fed from a tube. Her parents were told by the doctor that only one of her kidneys worked. But it would stop functioning at about the
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    • 156 12 IN Singapore, three to five children are diagnosed with kidney failure every year. The figures were released by the Health Ministry at the 7th Asian Congress of Paediatric Nephrology organised by the National Kidney Foundation earlier this month. This works out to seven to
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    • 65 13 mur The father of molecular genetics, Dr Sydney Brenner, on eugenics (the study of how to improve the human race by carefully selecting parents who will produce stronger children): I think we should let people use their own idea of genes to choose their mates. Sometimes,
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    • 491 14  -  It sprang up in a family service centre By Amy Chiew IT looks like yes it is a tree house! And guess where it is. Inside the Bukit Ho Swee Family Service Centre. Mind you, this is a place where sad stories have been told. Where
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    • 43 14 The Bukit Ho Swee Family Service Centre was set up in 1997. It has programmes for battered women, youths, children, families and the elderly. The centre will be officially opened at its new location on Delta Avenue at 4 pm today.
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    • 611 17  -  Customer complains, cashier says... Encountered incredibly rode service staff? Witnessed outrageously demanding customers? Call The New Paper at 1800-733-4455 and tell us your story. Customer service in Singapore is not something that Singaporeans can boast about But are Singaporeans gracious customers? You be the
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    • 261 17 SINGAPOREANS gripe about bad service. But is there such a thing as the customer from hell? We asked some restaurants how far they would go to please a customer. Ms Eugenia Gajardo from The Gajardo Firm they represent Morton's of Chicago, the restaurant said
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
    • SHOPHOUSE'S DIRTY SECRET
      • 432 18 Here's what Here's what they found... THEY used heavy-duty electric saws to cut the first steel door. But it refused to move. Only then did the 16 officers from KL's immigration department find out why. There were seven locks
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      • 275 19 THE Thai prostitutes were strangers to Selangor, Malaysia. Locked up in a concealed, fortified hideout. Yet when clients arrived, the seven women were prepped with useful English phrases like: You must stay in bed What games do you play? I am not your servant
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      • 197 18 WHEN immigration officers raided a karaoke pub in Endau, near Mersing last year, not a single callgirl was in sight. However, 20 hours of searching resulted in the raiding officers literally "unearthing" 25 Thai callgirls. The women, aged between 20 and 30, were
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 151 21 THE Thai monastic community was rocked by another sex scandal yesterday when a woman told the police that she had sex with a monk at his living quarters in the temple. Schoolteacher Thanyalak Thanothai spilled the beans on Phra Khu Winai Thorrachalee, better known
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    • 196 21 American Express (Amex) has banned the use of its credit cards on porn Web sites in Australia because too many people are disputing their bills. They deny paying for Internet porn when they received their credit card bills, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Amex
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  • 327 23 WORLDTODAY MOST men don't know one end of an oven from another. But this British postman was different. He used it with aplomb. But then he used it for a different purpose, too. To cook his wife's head, the Evening Standard reported. The
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 59 25 muifmui* US President Bill Clinton has denied that after a new President is picked he would be a lame-duck leader for the rest of his term. When reporters suggested that he had begun his official journey to the sidelines, Mr Clinton quipped: IH just
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    • 292 25 HER wrath was fatal. A housewife repeatedly and viciously bashed her cheating husband to death with a frying pan. Housewife Keiko Hirai unleashed a savage outburst against her husband, Mr Hiromitsu, smashing him with the pan, many times, two days in a row after he
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    • 203 25 THREE-year-old Parker Sebens growled in triumph like a professional wrestler nearly two months after his limbs were severed in a Minnesota farming accident. The young boy got a big send-off on Thursday from North Memorial Medical Center, where he spent the past seven weeks. "Who
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  • 888 26 ShowTime Critics call him the master of big beat With three MTV Video Music Awards and a star on the city of Brighton's Walk Of Fame, Fatboy Slim has got it made. What's he been up to lately? SETO NU-WENfinds out
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  • 519 28 Members of J-rock band Luna Sea plan their swansong and gel may work for .J male performers after all. Just look at how Japanese rock group Luna Sea coasted to 11 years of stardom. Okay, so their talent helped. But just when they wiped off
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 365 29  -  By Yeoh Wee Teck HIS in-your-face grilling strikes fear into the hearts of many people, even top stars like Zoe Tay and Fann Wong. They said no to appearing in the last season of Upfront With Najip six months ago, although questions
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    • 250 29 NO: In the first season, Najip exposed the then under-wraps lovelife of Norleena Salim (right), even getting her friends to yak about her Aussie boyfriend. After the show, she accused him of turning her life into a media circus. Will the SPH Media Works B YES: Najip
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      232 30 New commitment WHEN asked whether he will have a boy or girl, comedian and well-known commitment phobic Jerry Seinfeld said: "Maybe something else." That something else became baby girl Sascha, born on Nov 7. Seinfeld and wife Jessica Sklar had kept the sex of their baby secret. According
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    • 62 30 NEWLYWEDS Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are reportedly going to do the Tom Cruise-Nicole Kidman thing adopt a child. Hollywood Gossip website said the Friends star was the one who told Pitt of her wish, even before their wedding in Malibu, California. With her new two-year contract
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    • 127 31 BABY Dylan Douglas will not have a clue about what is going to happen on Nov 18. But his parents, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, will finally be taking their wedding vows. It will be a huge family relatives invited, Douglas told Entertainment Online.
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    • 179 31 ■Z&Sly. AT a time of crisis, MTVs Tom Green went to a special bank. Sperm bank, that is. He went there, before his cii'wyo'pu fVti* fosfiMilaT oUfgcry IUJT MJSvitlUOl tilUvt/X early this year, with Drew Bariymore in tow. Green, who put a mouse in
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    • 61 31 THE Practice star Camxyn Manheim is following Jodie Foster's footsteps she is pregnant and due to deliver in April. And she is also sitting tight on the name of the f&ther. But the Emmy-winning actress, 39, did reveal one thing: She told People magazine that the TV show's
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      295 31 -V.'* SURE, this year has been a baby boom lime in Hollywood, but it has also seen some seemingly inseparable couples split. CNN founder Ted Turner and Jane Fonda, Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant. Joining the list... Harrison Ford, who announced this week
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    • 478 32  -  BY Brian Miller SOMETIMES it's no fun having a famous father. Cameron Douglas knows the score. Not only is Michael Douglas his famous father but his grandfather, Kirk, is a living legend. So, like many Hollywood brats, Cameron now 21 had a rocky
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    • 892 61 ARSENAL v DERBY: It's so tempting to call a big win for Arsenal, considering its current form. But table-propper Derby's defence has stabilised with the return of Horacio Cabonari and the purchase of Lilian Martin. And then there's Nigerian Taribo West waiting in the
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    778 62 SPORTSTODAY MATCH OF THE DAY: 11 CHELSEA v LEEDS UNITED (tomorrow) Chelsea takes its legion of foreign superstars into battle with fast-improving Leeds United, armed with a coach whose command of English is as good as just saying hello and goodbye. How will Claudio Ranieri communicate with his
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    • 188 66  -  By Peter Siow LIM TONG HAI, one of the oldest serving players in Tanjong Pagar, may leave the club. A member of Tanjong Pagar since the start of the S-League in 1996, the 31-year-old club captain is said to be eyeing Tampines and Geylang among
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    • 381 67  -  Thailand 4 I Worrawot Srimaka 25th min, 51 Kiatisuk Senamuang, 52 Dusit Chalermsan, 80 Indonesia 1 Gendut Christiawan, 58 By Gaky Lim ONE is out of the equation. This leaves three others still attempting to get a shot at defeating Thailand on their home ground. The famous
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    • 290 68 MATCH TONIGHT: SINGAPORE VS VIETNAM WHEN R Sasikumar (above) received his recall to the national team, he shaved his head. Some thought he wanted a tough-guy Jaap Stam look. After all, he was going to face the Vietnamese again. (Yes, that same team whose grip
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    • 39 68  -  RAFIALI Ig&ver expected it. It's to find liWMSSßkfat the top. It'll cemiinly boost my morale ahead of the big match against Vietnam. —Singapore deputy skipper Rafi Ali, whose name was among the leading marksmen in Songkhla
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    • 146 68 TWO GOALS: Rafi Ali (Singapore), Rusdi Suparman (Malaysia), Azman Adnan (Malaysia), Hairuddin Omar (Malaysia), Ahmad Shahrul Sofian (Malaysia), Le Huynh Due (Vietnam), Vu Cong Tuyen (Vietnam). ONE GOAL: Nazri Nasir (Singapore), Steven Tan (Singapore), Nguyen Van Sy (Vietnam), Nguyen Hong San (Vietnam), Pok Chanthan (Cambodia), Hok Soechetra
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    • 285 68 SUICIDE: That's how Alfred Riedl summarises the critical status of tonight's tie. Said Vietnam's Austrian coach: "It will be suicide for Vietnam to lose. I make no bones in using this very strong and passionate word. "We lose to Singapore by one goal and we've to
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    • 204 69 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP A: Valencia, Sturm Graz, Man United, Panathinaikos GROUP B: AC Milan, Deportivo La Coruna, Paris St Germain, Galatasaray GROUP C: Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Spartak Moscow, Lyon GROUP D: Real Madrid, Anderlecht, Lazio, Leeds GERARD Houllier thinks Liverpool's Uefa Cup third round showdown
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    • 350 69  -  REPORT SURESH NAIR IN SONGKHLA Disguise. Deceive. Dissemble. Dress up. The cloak-and-dagger off-the-field, double-dealing between Singapore and Vietnam on the eve of today's Tiger Cup showdown was like a scene straight out of Bollywood. Almost like a made-in-Asia spy-thriller, the shadow play between the Lions and Vietnam's
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