The New Paper, 24 February 2004

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1 62 The New Paper
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    31 1 the new paper TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2004 Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800-7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2003 70 CENTS 8 ii the new Pjta
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Six-hour roof drama
    483 2 Naked man in Petaling Jaya threatens to jump 'because of work stress' NEWS THE neighbours were woken up by the sound of things falling to the ground. When they went out to check, they saw a man pacing the rooftop of the three-storey apartment block in Petaling
    Pictures/ Nanyang Siang Pau, Guang Ming Daily, Sin Chew Daily  -  483 words
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Adopt a baby, pay by instalment
      838 4  -  By Dawn Chia dawnchia@sph. com.sg IT was tucked between advertisements offering loans, under the heading "Personal services". "Cute baby boy/girl for immediate legal adoption. Flexi-payments arrangeable." Here's how it works: Pay the adoption agency, get the baby, and then continue to pay in instalments.
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      Lock icon Good option when you want a child badly
      282 4 COUPLE 1 THEY used up their life savings of $20,000 for the adoption. Madam Audrey Chua and her husband decided to adopt a baby from China in 2001 when her thyroid condition made it impossible for her to have a child of
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      Lock icon Ad could have been worded differently
      411 4 COUPLE 2 THE ad was odd and inappropriate. That was the view of a 31-year-old woman who has adopted two children. She said: "I don't like the way it sounds it's as if the baby is being treated like a product to be sold
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      Lock icon Cries for help
      801 5  -  77 altogether, are compiled into a book to provide a glimpse into the minds of troubled teens By Josephine Chew jochew@sph. com.sg JUVENILE arrests are at an all time high. Last year saw a shocking 55 per cent increase from 2001 with stealing, rioting and gang-related violence
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      Lock icon Chicken Soup For The Soul, Singapore style
      186 5 THIS local version of the popular Chicken Soup For The Soul series is primarily sponsored by the Ministry of Community Development and Sports. The $120,000 project goes beyond the 10,000 copies that are already available in stores. Tomorrow, the South East Community Development
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      126 6 1 J Learn for life as you study for a degree. r J Our goal is to help you develop into a well-rounded individual prepared for life no HV A matter where you are. James Cook University (JCU) will take you '*>w beyond your basic degree, beyond your expectations. Graduate
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      247 7 Take The Australian Pathway J To A University Education. I Now you have the option of enrolling into a one-year j|| university preparatory program after your'O'levels instead tifcWlftSijY fl university of taking the traditional Singapore pathway via the'A'level year 3 H year 2 or polytechnic route. I The Unl-Preparatory Program
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon For cash or country?
      608 8  -  SHOULD YOU BE PAID FOR HELPING THE AUTHORITIES CATCH CROOKS? By Tan May Ping mayping@sph. com.sg WHAT motivates somebody to blow the whistle on a crooked company or a crook? Not money, usually. The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) said it doesn't give out any form
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      Lock icon He does it for the money
      197 8 THE New Paper stumbled upon a whistle-blower, who was just about to inform the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) of a possible case of tax evasion. He had read in the papers earlier this month that IRAS gives out rewards to people who
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    • Article
      Lock icon Moral duty but not an obligation
      162 8 Michael Lee ARE you just as guilty if you don't blow the whistle? No, says Mr Stephen Loke, consumer lawyer and president of the Centre For Corporate Social Responsibility. "Nobody, be it an employee of a corporation or a total stranger who witnessed some
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    Lock icon Green and bear it, Inuka
    618 10  -  SINGAPORE By: Teh Jen Lee jenlee@sph.com.sg THERE are brown bears, black bears and cream coloured bears but have you ever seen a green bear? Well we're not pulling your leg, as you can tell from the picture. Inuka, the first polar bear born in the
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Victory for Victor?
      431 12  -  Newcomer to Thai kickboxing faces German By Al vin Chiang alchiang@sph. com.sg ONE kick from Victor Chng might knock you out. But not many know that. Although the 18-year-old has been learning the traditional art of Muay Thai, or Thai kickboxing, for two years, he does not
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      Lock icon Catch Muay Thai champs at Downtown East
      99 12 SEE Victor Chng (right) and Muay Thai champions from 12 countries in action at Downtown East resort in Pasir Ris on Sunday. Six titles will be on the line at the Muay Thai Against Drugs International Championship. For the first time, the championship,
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      69 13 ANSWER the question below and you have a chance to win: Two gallery seat tickets worth $25 each. A 2D/1N resort stay at Downtown East Resort, valid for six months from the date of issue. There will only be five winners. The question
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      Lock icon Do you really need a financial planner?
      675 16  -  LARRY HAVERKAMP MolQtokDiMonetam FINANCIAL planners come from insurance companies with their 15,000 agents, big banks with their wealth managers and independent financial advisory firms. There are lots of them. But do you really need a financial planner? A recent Business Times article summed
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      176 16 INSURANCE need not be complicated. First, do not buy the regular premium policies that require you to pay cash only, and not CPF. Instead, focus on two categories: Term life insurance and a medical insurance like MediShield (CPF Board) or Income Shield (NTUC Income). I
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    631 17  -  SINGAPORE By Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg HER career started with a simple door chime. Making it got her interested in engineering and she ended up designing tests for fighter jets. Miss Grace Johnstone's job is so specialised she knows only about 20 people who do
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    Lock icon Human eggs on the Net
    283 18 FOR SALE WORLD IT'S a world first. Human eggs are now being put up for sale on the Internet. The website offering an "egg bank" of potential donors around the world is pioneered by a businessman who also runs a similar and controversial website selling
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    720 22  -  MALAYSIA Byv Hedy Khoo Michael Lee tnp@sph.com.sg IT seemed only one hornet sting was enough to take his daughter's young life away from him. And there was nothing Mr Kuek Si Yuen could have done to save Yi Ting, but hug her
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    Lock icon 'Rugby players attacked me'
    352 23 Woman, 22, alleges assault by Bulldog team members WORLD IT'S the kind of scrum no rugby player would want to find himself: To be accused of sexual assault during a victory party. At least six players from the leading Canterbury Bulldogs an Australian rugby team are
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Billionaire wants to give away all his money before he dies
      330 25 And his own chldren (already rich) won't be getting any During your lifetime, you can direct how your wealth is spent for the most good. But after your death, it is problematic. You don't have the control. Mr Gerry
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      Lock icon Husband stabs wife in face
      267 26 Indian docs remove 25cm knife in shrop SHE was rushed to hospital with a 25cm knife lodged in her face. Kerala News reported that a woman, 25, from a village near Kollam in the south Indian state of Kerala, was stabbed by her husband during
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      Lock icon Sneaky tricks to get kids into top schools
      552 27 Melbourne principals stage raids to catch cheating parents who give false addresses Buying second home in school zone, then sub-letting It Paying the rates of householders living in zone for using the addresses Bribing real estate agents for fake leases Using relatives'
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      Lock icon DESPERATE PARENTS IN STORE, M'SIA
      136 28 IN Singapore, parents also go as far as buying new homes or fake addresses to get places in good schools, reported The Straits Times. The parents have also turned to psychologists in private practice for intelligence tests on their children, as young as four years
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      Lock icon His 'eye' is now his ring
      262 28 AP YOU could say the eye just grew on him. So attached was Mr Michael Burton to the glass eye he'd worn for 35 years, that he couldn't bear to throw it away. Instead he took it to jeweller A 1 Nix and asked
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      Lock icon Girl falls in river, ,man saves her, then he sues
      708 29 His doctors say knee pain may be because of icy waters. THIS fairy tale has a twist. It began four years ago with a damsel in distress. Ms Huang Fei, then 17 and a student, was riding her bicycle home
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      379 30 THEIR excuse when caught? They are scared of Sars and flu viruses. Their deed? Smuggling in thousands of flu pills in their luggage. Asian students are flying into Auckland with flu pills for illegal drug factories just to earn
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  • NEWS IQ
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      Lock icon Family-friendly US firms
      327 31 FOR many working couples, balancing work and children is a strain. Something has to give and the low birth rate seems to suggest it's the family. But some companies in Singapore namely the American multinationals have gone the extra mile to make it easier for employees to
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      Lock icon Man told cop he pushed ex-girlfriend off block
      198 31 A BARE-FOOTED, dishevelled-looking Harith Gary Lee alias Lee Cheng Thiam, allegedly told a cop: "I killed her. I already push her down. Do you want me to jump down, I can do it." That was what Staff Sergeant Ishak Mohamed witnessed on
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      51 31 S'pore companies on naspaq (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 9.79/-0.4 Creative Technology 11.14/+0.091 Flextronics 17.9/-0.66 Chartered Semiconductor 9.91/-0.05 Stats 10.65/-0.34 Yesterday's Percentage action change Dow Down 0.09% (9.41 pts) 10,609.62 Nasdaq Down 1.49% (30.41 pts) 2,007.52 S+P 500 Down 0.3% (3.41 pts) 1,140.7 STI Down 0.38% (7.25 pts)
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      Lock icon Pilots avoid confrontation
      172 31 SINGAPORE Airlines pilots have assured Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew that they want to settle their differences with management amicably, rather than face a showdown with the Government. This commitment emerged from an exchange of letters between them, which Mr Lee made public last night. Pilots union
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      Lock icon Changi fees to be cut
      79 31 FROM next year, airport fees at Changi will be cut, announced Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong. This will likely save ground handlers about $10 million a year. He said the move would coincide with the scheduled entry of a third ground handling company into Singapore.
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      Lock icon English in Chinese class
      80 31 A PILOT scheme using English to teach Chinese to young children in four schools has proven so successful that it is being extended to seven more schools. It was tried out at Primary 1 and 2 at schools with a high proportion of pupils from English-speaking
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      Lock icon Teacher on sex charge
      78 31 A MARRIED, 34-year-old teacher has been jailed for 16 months for having a girl, 14, perform oral sex on him in cineplex. He's the second teacher to be sentenced this month for sexual involvement with a minor. The girl, his former student, was infatuated with him.
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      Lock icon Fort Canning makeover
      75 31 THE National Parks Board (NParks) is inviting proposals for a physical and business master plan to tap the tourism and revenue potential of the historic Fort Canning Park. It wants to increase accessibility to the park, and develop the park infrastructure to cater to the lifestyle trends
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      Lock icon Just vain or plain shrewd?
      1157 32  -  EXCLUSIVE CONTROVERSIAL SOCIALITE TV STAR HSU CHUN-MEI REPORTS AND PICTURES By Chang May Choon REPORTING FROM TAIPEI changmc@sph.com.sg SHE'S been called crazy and ugly. But Hsu Chun-mei has achieved a rare feat. Not because she leapfrogged from anonymity to celebrity in less than three months.
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      Lock icon Media & fans can't get enough of her
      188 32 Media fans can't get enough of her INTENSE competition among Taiwan's 80-over TV channels has driven them to resort to pulling stunts or featuring extraordinary guests to increase ratings. Chun-mei, for one, got a taste of fame after her 12-year-old daughter was found abandoned and living in a hypermarket last
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      Lock icon Hung's failure formula for success
      528 33 THE YUCK FACTOR II William Hung has been offered a record deal worth U5525,000 ($42,400). Koch Entertainment is a large independent record label in New York City. Koch's roster includes releases from Tupac, Carole King, Ringo Star and Brit-pop stars Elastica. He also got a
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      Lock icon Big fish more like ikan bilis
      559 34  -  Big Fish Starring Ewan McGregor (right), Albert Finney, Jessica Lange Director: Tim Burton Rating://// By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg WHAT good is a story if you're just laying out the facts with none of the flourishes of fiction? That's always been master storyteller Tim
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      503 48  -  By Wang Meng Meng npsports@sph.com.sg WHEN not having his hands full dealing with the bird flu threat, Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra goes shopping for a new Premiership toy. Just yesterday, news filtered through that the statesman is tabling an audacious bid to buy
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      434 49 PA Sport. ANFIELD legend Alan Hansen has called for the Liverpool players to dig in and secure Champions League football or leave boss Gerard Houllier facing the axe. Frustrated fans called for the Frenchman's departure on radio phone-in shows last night following their latest disappointment of
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      64 49 THE collapsed Italian dairy giant Parmalat must sell off its football club Parma, Italy's Industry Minister Antonio Marzano said on Monday. Marzano said Parmalat needed to "restructure and become more efficient" and one way was to sell off Parma. "I am sorry for the supporters
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      289 49 PA Sport. Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier should be dismissed from his post, according to a snap poll. 'Hie survey was set up by the Liverpool Daily Post and its sister paper the Liverpool Echo in the wake of the 1-0 FA Cup defeat by Portsmouth.
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        801 53 What was the reaction hi the Real Bayern Munich In the Inockoit phnee of the Champions League? Bayern Munich have been a big rival of ours for a while now and there is a history between us because we have played against each other many
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      353 57  -  CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GILBERTO SILVA ARSENAL WINNING the World Cup in 2002 made some people say that I had achieved everything a player would dream of. However, your most important competition is always the next one and I think it would be fantastic
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      124 60 SPARTA PRAGUE: Sparta go into the game after seeing their hopes of retaining the Czech title dealt another blow by a 0-0 draw on Saturday with mid-table Pribram. But Sparta have no injury problems and will look to striker Jiri Stajner for the kind of flair he showed
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