The New Paper, 23 December 2003

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  • 31 1 the new paper TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2003 Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia I .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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    • 52 1 3 KILLED AS QUAKE ROCKS CALIFORNIA 1 <ii!L£ *> :A HECElVFfl 3 5 k-,* J TO n. A»yiJ I i jr <+ Cars crashed like little toys Witness, after roof flies off and lands on cars with people inside mm -4 Anxious wait as m rescue mounts for those trapped
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  • 756 2 California quake: Three dead so far. Unknown number trapped NEWS Wire services. IT is Christmas week at Paso Robies, a sleepy, quiet town in central California. As people went about their shopping at 11am (about 2 am today, Singapore time), they
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    • 50 2 Sorry Peek At The Quirky Side Of Vietnam (The New Paper, yesterday): The last sentence of the report was accidentally cut off. This is how it should have read: A local police officer said: "Can you imagine the riots if we had won? That would've been more work for us!"
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    • 10 2 What's on TV? Pages 46 47 News IQ: Page 39
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 658 3  -  FATHER OF JB SHOOTING VICTIM SPEAKS AT HIS FUNERAL: By Alvin Chiang alchiang@sph. com.sg HE did not pass his PSLE and left school to work when he was just 14. But Mr Calvin Tan Kok Chye, 28, was hardworking and always tried to
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    • 73 3 A MAN suspected of being involved in the killing of Mr Calvin Tan Kok Chye was arrested in Johor on Saturday. TRIED TO STEAL A CAR The New Straits Times quoted Johor police as saying that the suspect, a 28-year-old, was caught while trying to steal a
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  • 797 5  -  SINGAPORE REPORTS GENEVIEVE JIANG ganerim&phcamjf HOW hard is it to catch a snake? In this case, it became more like a game of snake and ladders. It began with a three-metre python sleeping off a big meal. "I found the snake stretched across the bottom
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    • 79 11 THE festival is on till Dec 28, from 10am to 10pm daily. Admission is free. Shuttle buses operate every half-hour from 10am to take visitors between Fort Canning Park and City Hall MRT station, Clarke Quay and Excelsior Hotel. Coupons for games, food and drinks can be bought
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    • 665 13  -  NEW SCHOOLS' POSTING SYSTEM By Koh Gui Qing, Zhou Junlin and Erwin Chan tnp@sph.com.sg IT looks like the top secondary schools may not be the ones celebrating the new posting system for students. Instead, it may well be the second-tier schools that gain the most,
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  • 340 23 Protestors from radical muslim group call him traitor, throw shoes WORLD Wire services. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher was taken to an Israeli hospital yesterday after he was assaulted by members of the fringe Islamic Liberation Party while he prayed at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa
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    • 260 31 M'sian PM warms hearts by braving rain-soaked dinner THE organisers of a huge open-air dinner in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday night knew they had more to worry about than just running short of food. When they set up tables for 20,000 diners at Bukit Jalil Stadium
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    • 493 33 GOING TO PRISON? HE'S THE MAN FOR YOU HE'S billed as the consultant you hire in your worst nightmare. Mr David Novak, 41, having been there, done that, isn't wallowing in his unfortunate past, or spending the rest of his life regretting
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    • 478 34 Boy, 15, so stressed by bullying that he has heart attack symptoms, passes out Parents appeal to court to create 5m 'safety zone' around him KEEP a mini-bus length away from our son. That's the order the parents of a bullied 15-year-old boy
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  • 530 36 He lures eastern European women into the UK and then turns them into his sex slaves WORLD AP. HE lured about 60 women to Britain with the promise of legitimate jobs and a better life. Yesterday, a man granted political asylum was jailed for 10 years for
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      293 37 More men not making maintenance payments women owed $4,000 on average, $100,000 for some MORE than 4,200 women and children had to fend for themselves financially in the first half of this year because maintenance payments owed to them never came, sometimes for months on end. In
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    • 341 37 OH THE RACK Edited extract from Christian Science Monitor AFTER a guitar-heavy intro, Mr Joscha Wittschell grabs the microphone, his baby face contorting as he wails out a sugary rock ballad of love and longing in a soundproof practice room in the southern German city of
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    • 52 37 S'PORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in USVChange) Pacific Internet 7.12/-0.05 Creative Technology 10.29/+0.079 Flextronics 14.75/-0.14 Chartered Semiconductor 9.28/-0.22 Stats 11.80/Unch Yesterday's Percentage action change Close Dow Nasdaq S+P 500 STI Up 0.58% (59.78 pts) Up 0.25% (4.78 pts) Up 0.39% (4.27 pts) Up 0.68% (11.68 pts) 10.338.00 1,955.80
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    • 76 37 CITYCAB is to stagger its midnight surcharge from Jan 12. The surcharge will instead begin at 11.30pm at 10 per cent and increase at 15-minute intervals until it reaches 50 per cent at lam. It will still apply until 6am. The new rates kick in the day that
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    • 67 37 POPE John Paul II praised Singaporeans for their ability to live in harmony, even as religious tensions in the region run high. He said this as Professor Walter Woon, Singapore's new ambassador to the Vatican presented his credentials. The Pope also urged the 160,000 Catholics here to
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    • 77 37 SINGPOST has announced a small increase in postage rates from Feb 3 with the revised 5 per cent goods and services tax. In the first revision since 1995, domestic postage rates in the first two weight categories of standard mail will rise. Regular mail that cost
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    • 85 37 THE bigger the Housing Board flat, the more its price is likely to drop next year, say property experts. They expect demand for and the prices of five-room and executive flats to continue falling when a new rule requiring buyers to put down 2 per
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    • 77 37 DESPITE the pick-up in tourist arrivals, hotels say the recovery hasn't been enough to recoup the losses from Sars as room rates remain below pre-Sars levels. Said Mr Pakir Singh, chief executive of the Singapore Hotel Association (SHA): "The industry is cautious, which may explain why room
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    • 71 37 A SMALL UK-based operator of biplanes vintage planes with two sets of wings is concerned that Singapore Airlines' new budget airline Tiger Airways will adversely affect its business. Also called Tiger Airways, it runs scenic flights. The shared name is causing some distress to the British pair
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous

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    • 378 38 Appearing on USA Today's geek list When asked for his reaction, he interrogated his publicist offline within earshot in mock irritation: "Nicole, did you know about this, that I'm on the geek list? "Why was it not brought to my attention?!" When he came
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    • 164 40 THE parties have arrived. But unless you're fabulously rich or have a bottomless pit when it comes to imbibing alcohol, you'll probably find our survival guide to the party season quite handy. From now till the New Year, we bring you
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    • 107 40 > Boozing on an empty stomach turns you into Giggly Sally faster than you can say "another Lemon Drop please". Good stomach liners are pasta, potatoes, milk. A glass of water after each drink and your head and liver will thank you. If you
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    • 613 41  - No fears third outing still funny Scary Movie 3 Starring: Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, Simon Rex Directed by: David Zucker Rating: BY Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg A WISE man once said that if you've seen one scary movie or one Scary Movie you've seen them all. But the cathartic pleasure of
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    • 270 41 A WEEK to the end of 2003 and you did not manage a break. Far niente (no worries). Buy a ticket to Under the Tuscan Sun and let Diane Lane and the Italian Tourist Board float you to the rolling hillsides of the
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    • 320 54 ZINEDINE Zidane walked off with the Fifa Player of the Year award for the third time. And given that it was between the Real Madrid star, Thierry Henry and Ronaldo, there was a certain predictability about the outcome. But what you couldn't have counted on was some
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    • 187 54 WHAT a moment in sporting history at Bolton's Reebok Stadium last Friday night for those of us in England, waiting until around eight o'clock in the evening for an announcement. But while Rio Ferdinand was getting hammered with an eight-month ban for missing a drugs test, another
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    • 238 54 DOES anyone in Singapore support Chelsea? I only ask because during my time working on The New Paper sports desk, I met Liverpool lovers, Spurs supporters, even Manchester City fans... and of course, millions of Red Devils! But here's a story about caring Chelsea that should
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    • 211 54 KEVIN Keegan's City side might be in the midst of a shocking run but the former England boss is still the Premiership's top motivator. Manchester City have failed to win any of their last eight games before this morning's (Singapore time) game against Leeds and are
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      • 461 55 'I didn't even dare dream...l don't know how I could have won' PA Sport. JUVENTUS midfielder Pavel Nedved couldn't believe it when has named the 2003 European Footballer of the Year. The prize, known as the Ballon d'Or in French and handed out by bi-weekly
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      • 111 55 AFP. CHELSEA striker Adrian Mutu (left) got deserving recognition early this morning. He was voted Romania's Player of the Year for 2003 at a Romanian Soccer Federation function. 'It's a very proud moment for me," the 24-year-old Mutu said. "But I believe Cristian Chivu, my captain in
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      • 141 55 PA Sport. BOLTON'S Jay-Jay Okocha (right) and Inter Milan's Obafemi Martins were among the five nominees for the African Player of the Year award. Won last year by Liverpool's Senegalese international El-Hadji Diouf, this year's prize seems wide open, and aside from Nigerians Okocha and Martins, the
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    • 206 56 FACT FILE 1972: Born on Oct 30 in Cheb in former Czechoslovakia. 1991: Begins career with Dukla Prague. 1992: Joins Sparta Prague and wins Czech championship three times during his five years at the club. 1996: Helps Czech Republic to final of European
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    • 608 56 A PROFILE PA Sport. IT may not have taken Pavel Nedved a lifetime to become an overnight success, as the old showbiz cliche goes, but only as he approached 30 did the Czech really emerge into super stardom. Now 31, Nedved had been a loyal servant
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    • 632 57  -  LAST WEEKEND'S BETTING REVIEW ERNEST LUIS npsports@sph.com.sg MAYBE the rain all day long last Saturday in England and Singapore should have been a clue. Expect the unexpected, the heavens seemed to be saying. So to those who bet on Bolton Wanderers to hold Arsenal to
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      • 507 58 Wire Services, PA Sport. SPORTSWEAR giants Nike have vowed to stand by Rio Ferdinand despite his eight-month ban. Ferdinand is in the first 12 months of a three-year deal with Nike. Fears have been expressed that the massive suspension imposed as a result
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      • 524 58 LAST CALL ARSENAL fiOAlKirruta: Jens Lehmann (1), Stuart Taylor (13), Rami Shaaban (24), Graham Stack (33) DEFENDERS: Ashley Cole (3), Martin Keown (5), Igors Stepanovs (26), StathisTavlaridis (27), Sebastian Svard (31), Lauren (12), Justin Hoyte (45), Kolo Toure (28), Pascal Cygan (18), Phillipe Senderos (20), Gael
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    • 244 59 Dines offered saidfiro RONALDO REAL MADRID LIFE'S good at the moment. I'm happy both on and off the pitch and things couldn't be going better for me at Real Madrid. It's funny, though, because no matter how settled you are at a club there
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    • 223 59 PA Sport FULHAM striker Louis Saha has signalled that he would welcome a Manchester United transfer approach when the window opens in January. Speaking to The Sun newspaper, Saha, 25: "I cannot say no. United is my dream and I want to
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    • 171 59 PA Sport ARSENE Wenger has revealed that the club has begun moves to further secure Sol Campbell's (left) future with the Gunners. Wenger has tied down Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira and Robert Fires to long contract extensions and is now hoping to gain the
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    • 220 59 AFP CISSE WANTS TO JOIN REDS DJIBRIL Cisse is anxious join his fellow Frenchman Florent Sinama-Pongolle at Liverpool. The Auxerre striker is being chased by a number of top clubs but professed his desire to move to Anfield this week. Pongolle told LFC Magazine: "We have spoken
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      • 407 60  -  By GARY O'NEIL PORTSMOUTH I WAS gutted to miss Sunday's derby game against Southampton with an ankle injury, and even more gutted to watch us get beaten so comfortably from the stands. All of the lads knew how much it meant to the Pompey fans to
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      • 330 60  -  By GARY SPEED NEWCASTLE I'D like to just say a few words about Hugo Viana as there's been a few stories in the papers recently about him being unsettled at Newcastle. Hugo's a great talent and I do feel sorry for the lad. He's only
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    • MANCHESTER CITY 1 LEEDS 1
      • 733 61  -  He was hailed a hero when signed from Leeds United. But today Man City fans are weeping at the poor form of the man who earns £60,000 ($181,000) a week. What a waste of money? As it has been for most of the season, it was
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      • 26 61 Robbie Fowler started getting rough and said: Ted us you love if Mother of 4on her j ugly encounter with Fowler and McManams
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        72 62 Is this worth a week? Fowler receives a pass from McManaman but his control goes terribly wrong A cross by Shaun Wright-Phillips finds Fowler in the box but his header goes way over Reyna's lob ball finds Anelka in the box. He lays it off for Fowler but the
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    • 634 63 Crowd: 47,126 MANCHESTER CITY 1 (Antoine Sibierski 82nd min) LEEDS 1 (MarkViduka 24) PA Sport. SIR Alex Ferguson watched Mark Viduka produce a striking masterclass against Manchester City this morning (Singapore time). And Leeds' battle to avoid the drop erupted in familiar Alan Smith fury.
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      • 731 64 PA Sport. MANCHESTER City manager Kevin Keegan felt his side had done enough to win the battling 1-1 draw with Leeds. Mark Viduka put Leeds ahead midway through the first half when he capitalised on a David Sommeil mistake. But substitute Antoine Sibierski rescued a point for
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