The New Paper, 17 December 2003

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  • 29 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2003 Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asial.com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2003 60 CENTS 8 U the new paper
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  • 861 2  -  NEWS By Aril John and Alvin Chiang tnp@sph.com.sg WAS it a simple robbery? A car theft? Or was it a hit job? The Johor Baru police said they are investigating these possibilites of the shooting of 28-year-old Singaporean Tan Kok
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 487 3  -  JURONG 'GHOST TOWN' By By Cynthia Loh and Michael Lee cynloh@sph. com.sg tnp@sph.com.sg THE smell of cat urine assaults your nose outside Mr Mujeyat's rented third floor apartment in Yung Kuang Road in Jurong. But there aren't any neighbours to complain about the stench.
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    • 251 4  -  Pictures/1 Cynthia Loh HARD times have turned the four blocks at Yung Kuang Road into a ghost town, it would seem. Before the Asian financial crisis hit in 1998, all four were once brimming with people. Companies in the manufacturing, engineering
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  • NEWS
    • 864 5 HE was known as the toughie. Iraqis literally shivered in his presence. Those who opposed him vanished from the face of the earth. But Saddam Hussein seems to have had a weakness. A blonde beauty who is believed to have been the weak link. She is Ms
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    • 500 6  -  By Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg THE next big link in former Iraq strongman Saddam Hussein's chain of horror may have already been caught. Unconfirmed reports out of Baghdad this morning say an important target has been captured, reports CNN. That man is probably Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (right). He
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    • 167 6 THE search for Iraq's next political chief will be difficult. There is still no capable leader in sight. The two main political leaders, Governing Council chief Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim and Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi, are hardly popular. Both are viewed as US stooges. None
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    • 478 7  -  By Teh Jen Lee jenlee@sph.com.sg THE express mail packages were labelled as magazines or books. But inside were live animals, mostly rare ones. They were worth between USS2OO,OOO ($341,820) and USS4OO,OOO in the lucrative American pet trade and had been intercepted by US
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    • 637 9  -  By Azhar Ghani tnp@sph.com.sg IT looked like the ice at the skating rink had melted. Skaters were asked to leave. But the truth about what happened at the Fuji Ice Palace yesterday, was less dramatic. TOP FLOOR BADLY HIT The wet floors,
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    • 349 10  -  CITIBANK READY CREDIT-THE NEW PAPER CONTEST WINNER: By Genevieve Jiang geneviev@sph.com.sg HE calls himself a "contest freak". Every day, Mr Eddie Ng spends at least two hours hunched over a stack of newspapers and magazines, scouring them for contest forms. The 59-year-old retired businessman
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  • WORLD
    • 691 12 YES, the US has got Saddam Hussein. But what has stopped it from catching the much bigger fish, Osama bin Laden? Or even Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar? Ask anyone the Americans, the Pakistanis, the Afghans and the answer is the two
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    • 480 13 KOBE BRYANT'S LAWYERS SAY: Wire services. Lawyers for us basketball star Kobe Bryant have painted his rape accuser as a troubled young woman who is desperately seeking attention. His lawyers, Ms Pamela Mackey and Mr Hal Haddon, claimed the accuser tried to commit suicide twice
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    • 161 14 THEY appear to be fake. Both the naked picture claim and the penis, that is. Thousands of German fans have swamped the official Robbie Williams home page with complaints after they said it reneged on a promise to show
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    • 328 14 AP. THE little boy must have been horrified by the savage killing of his mum in front of his eyes. But worse horrors were to come his own brutal death. The Suffolk police said that is what happened on
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    • 300 15 SHE hired a debt collector to extract an abortion fee from her ex-lover, only to be allegedly cheated out of HK$lB3,OOO ($40,226) by the man she hired. Secretary Chan Yuk-ying, 35, cried as she told a Hong Kong district court that
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    • 301 15 CROC HUNT IN HK AS the mainland experts headed home empty handed yesterday, Australian hunter John Lever said he's ready for another go at catching the Yuen Long crocodile. He spent a month designing a laser-guided harpoon accurate up to 30m with
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    • 301 16 TOURIST DIES OF DEHYDRATION AFTER WALK THROUGH DESERT, BUT... ON the day that British tourist Howard Holdsworth was rescued from possible death another adventurer from Britain was discovered in Australia's Great Sandy Desert. Mr Holdsworth, 54, from Yorkshire, was the man
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    • 390 17 Don't know him? You won't know other oddball candidates too THE oddballs are at it again. They want to be the next president of the Philippines. Take Ms Salve Ruiz-Bush, for example. The 47-year-old claims to be the fiancee of US President George Bush, and says he
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    • 445 18 THEY have given their best shot and no doubt fired many shots but the police forces of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, plus a special task force have failed to trap India's most wanted bandit for the last 10 years. So the Indian government has
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    • 328 19 LORRY DRIVER KEEPS FOOT ON ACCELERATOR... FOR 40 minutes yesterday morning, a young man hung on for dear life, desperately flooring the accelerator of his lorry to keep it stable. The 27-year-old delivery man had accidentally reversed his lorry over the side of a
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  • NEWS IQ
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      341 20 IT sure is beginning to look a lot like Christmas with good cheer all round. For one thing, next year's jobless rate could fall to 4 per cent, down from a projected 5.5 per cent rate for this year, with more jobs expected to be up for grabs. This is
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    • 189 20 ITS as small as'a credit card. But it packs a punch against would-be sex predators. TTie new Drink Spike Detector (left), launched this month, is able to tell if a drink has been spiked. All you have to do
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    • 53 20 S'PORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ ,CloBe,nus s^ Chan Be> Pacific Internet 6.41/+0.41 Creative Technology 10.54/-0.12 Rextronics 14.24/-0.03 Chartered Semiconductor 9.34/+0.02 Stats 11.96/-0.04 Yesterday's action Percentage change Close Dow Up 1.06% (106.74 pts) 10,129.56 Nasdaq Up 0.31% (6.03 pts) 1,924.29 S+P 500 Up 0.66% (7.09 pts) 1,075.13 sn Down 0.81%
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    • 69 20 DUTCH company Philips has notched up a staggering 100,000 patents worldwide. And here's the Singapore connection: Engineer Sean Chin and his team at the company's development centre in Jurong have developed a new coating for the base plates of Philips' clothes irons. It enables irons to glide
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    • 72 20 PROFESSOR Tan Chorh Chuan, 44, a key figure in Singapore's fight against Sars, is resigning as director of medical services at the Health Ministry to return to academia. He will assume the mantle of provost and deputy president at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Professor
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    • 77 20 THIS year's private home sales figure of about 5,000 is expected to be the lowest in five years. But next year's prospects seem better with volume expected to go up to 6,500 units and some property developers expecting a 5 per cent price rise. But experts
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    • 66 20 AUDITOR KPMG has found that garment firm Heshe Holdings has been financially "mismanaged", noting several inconsistencies in its financial records and a lack of supporting documents. Heshe said it is undergoing a major restructuring exercise and will "review and improve the internal controls and systems". The Singapore Exchange
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    • 73 20 DESPITE the capture of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein three days ago, terrorism remains the single most damaging global scourge, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said in a speech in Thailand last night. And to beat terror, the international community needs to come together to help
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    • 79 20 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will visit Singapore early next month, as part of an Asean tour. He is likely to discuss ways to strengthen ties and stress the importance of Malaysia working with its neighbours, a message he will carry to other Asean capitals.
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    • 385 22  -  By Dawn Chia dawnchia@sph. com.sg THERE'S nothing more annoying than to have your gadgets fail you at that crucial moment. The reason? Depleted battery life. "Please, just ONE more minute! I need that number," I silently begged. Alas, my PDA stubbornly refused to
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    • 427 23  -  Saddam may be captured but... By Oo Gin Lee tnp@sph.com.sg THE "mother of all battles" is coming to a PC near you again. Despite its title, Conflict: Desert Storm II Back to Baghdad (above), the games take place during the 1991 Gulf War and
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    • 268 29 Wire services. IF you feel like tearing your hair out each time your computer system gives you problems, well, take comfort that you are not alone. Even the world's most sophisticated police gets ruffled by IT too. The FBI in the US is facing
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    • THE LORD OF THE RETURN
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        336 31 Showtime&Lifestyte an e^^pm&tM. After seven years and a budget 0f5920 million, director Peter Jackson's vision of The Lord Of The Rings saga reaches its conclusion with The Return Of The King. The New Paper looks at the film's pivotal Battle ofPelennor Fields and also the phenomenon of the
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      • 157 31 THE capital of Gondor is a 213m, seven-tiered city carved from the rock of Mount Mindolluin in the White Mountains. There are more shots of Minas Tirith than any other set in the movie. The live action set was built in Dry Creek Quarry, just
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      • 114 31 i AN open call for able-bodied horsemen I and women was answered by over 500 riders in New Zealand. All the riders were filmed galloping in formation, making their arrival on screen the largest cavalry charge captured in cinema. The women riders had to wear false beards
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      • 29 31 ALSO known as 'The Hammer Of The Underworld". Measuring 46m long by 18m tall, it was specifically created to break through the supposedly impregnable Great Gateij^^
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    • 687 32  -  By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg ALMOST 30 years after George Lucas told a sensational story of how an alliance of rebels fought back a tyrannical dark lord and his army, Peter Jackson is doing the same. Except, The Lord Of The Rings
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    • THE RINGS OF THE KING
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        64 33 STANDING at 23m tall, these towers are designed to overlook the outer wall of Minas Tirith. Constructed of wood, yet clad in iron to deflect arrows, they were pushed all the way from the Blacfcjlj Gates of Mordor by gigantic M -gj Mountain-trolls. -jfl Each tower teems wj£h
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      • 67 33 The Nazqul Fell Beasts THE Nazgul were once great kings, corrupted by Sauron and turned into beings of black magic. As Sauron's favoured servants, their name fear in all. The most Bfearsome of them being the fj; Brining terror from the k 1 skies, the Fell Beasts are |<lragon-like creatures,
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      • 210 33 BELOW the dark clouds of Mordor, the Dark Lord Sauron has amassed his army of darkness. At the end of The Two Towers, the Wizard Saruman's lair of Isengard had fallen Sauron's main manufacturing base of fighters and weapons had been destroyed. And yet, though he
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      • 88 33 HUGE elephantlike creatures, standing eight-storeys tall. The harriesses on their backs provide greater range for archers. Like-many of the creatures in The Return Of The King, a digital artist scanned in real animals and created a library of movements and reactions. "You've got very naturalistic things to create," said
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      • 26 33 in 137m-long ships, "Sauron enlisted the help of these kjfcJ pirates of Gondor, with the promise of plundering booty from the White City.
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      • 172 33 276-day production 26,000 extras 20,000 digital participants in the battle scenes 2,400 production team members 250 horses, including five miniature horses used by the 4 Hobbits 120 technicians divided into six departments: Creatures, special effects, makeup and prosthetics, armour and weapons, miniatures and
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    • THE LORD OF THE RETURN
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        342 35 Showtime&Lifestyle ey deserves an q r After seven years and a budget 0f5920 million, director Peter Jackson's vision of The Lord Of The Rings saga reaches its conclusion with The Return Of The King. The New Paper looks at the film's pivotal Battle ofPelennor Fields and also the
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      • 158 35 THE capital of Gondor is a 213m, seven-tiered city carved from the rock of Mount Mindolluin in the White Mountains. There are more shots of Minas Tirith than any other set in the movie. The live action set was built in Dry Creek Quarry, just
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      • 111 35 AN open call for able-bodied horsemen and women was answered by over 500 riders in New Zealand. All the riders were filmed galloping in formation, making their arrival on screen the largest cavalry charge captured in cinema. The women riders had to wear false beards to disguise
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    • 359 36 AFTER his massive hit, Dil Chahte Hai, Farhan Akhtar's (left) second film is proving to be a bit more of a challenge. Farhan is directing Lakshya, starring Preity Zinta (below) and Hrithlk Roshan, a love story set against the backdrop of the Kargil war
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    • 76 37 ON Hrithik Roshan (right), his leading man, director Farhan Akhtar said: "I have always liked Hrithik. "I think he is an extremely smart, extremely talented actor. "I wanted him for Dil Chahte Hai but he didn't have the time." Hrithik had said about his director
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