The New Paper, 28 December 2004

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    14 1 the new paper TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2004 Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 dig
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      49 1 Day GRIEVING PARENTS Of OF S'PORE GIRL, 4, tilt; the SPEAK TO tlOW KILLER KOR KIAN BENG vr WAVE IN PHUKET pctpei Thundering wave snatches Estelle mp r i BhI from mum s wSk grip KSBf/ Pages 2-10 lr»J I ml ft3 *5 H I IVtiire'C'Iioo C'liw co Hua
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon I just couldn't hold on any longer
      144 2 SINGAPORE HEARTBREAK Day of the KILLER WAVE while they have breakfast at BangTao Resort on Phuket island. She clings to daughter Estelle, 4, V■. 'A J 2 As the wave retreats, Mrs Sutsakhan is dragged out, loses sight of two older daughters. Keeps
      Graphics/ CEL GULAPA, MINDY TAN & JONATHAN ROBERTS  -  144 words
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      Lock icon In PHUKET, THAILAND
      951 3  -  REPORT KOR KIAN BENG kianbeng@sph.com.sg Be warned. This story will not be easy read. She held her four-year-old daughter, Estelle, in the tightest of embraces. Around her, the water from the deadly tidal waves that hit Phuket, continued to swirl. Seconds earlier, the Singapore resident had been
      PICTURES CHOO CHWEE HUA  -  951 words
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      Lock icon Waiting for missing mum here
      820 4 Boy, 3, saved from waves... Day of the KILLER WAUE SINGAPORE HEARTBREAK NAKED, crying and wrapped in a brown blanket this was how a little Singaporean was found all alone in a Phuket hospital. Nurses there had no idea who his parents were. He had
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      Lock icon We have a jeep and we want to help
      671 5 Day of the KILLER WfltfE SINGAPORE VOLUNTEERS Tourists are scrambling to get out of the disaster area. But some, like 33-year-old Serene (not her real name) and her boyfriend, are fighting to get in. They want to help. "We are in
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      Lock icon 'Never have I run so far and so much'
      747 6 Family tell how heading for the hills saved them Day of the KILLER WfIWE ALOUD "boom", then debris and smoke-like mist filled the air at Patong beach. Startled locals and tourists at Phuket's popular beach resort made a mad dash for
      Pictures/ Mervyn Tan  -  747 words
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      Lock icon 'We thought guide was trying to cheat us'
      636 7 Then they saw this... He was sitting in a boat in the sea off Phi Phi island, right in the path of the tsunami as it hit the western coastline of Thailand. But 15-year-old student Hong Deyao didn't feel a thing. Even
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      Lock icon ALL GONE
      42 8 Day of the KILLER WAWE DAY OF SORROW: a Western tourist leaving the morgue, where pictures of the dead are posted on the wall (above), and an identification tag on the sand-covered hand of a body in the morgue (right).
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      Lock icon Why Thai officials didn't warn...
      400 9 Minutes after the earthquake hit northern Sumatra, officials of the Thai meteorological department sat down for an emergency meeting. Should they issue an alert or not? This was one of the questions debated at the meeting, reported The Nation. In the end, they decided against
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      Lock icon She just won't take off life vest
      648 10  -  Even at Phuket airport TOURISTS DEPART Day of the KILLER WAVE I—————i——^ By Kor Kian Beng REPORTING FROM PHUKET kianbeng@sph.com.sg MORE than 24 hours had already passed since she survived the terrifying tsunami that paralysed southern Thailand. But nothing's going to make this
      Picture/ Choo Cuwee Hua  -  648 words
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      28 3 S'pore heartbreark: Little boy waits for missing mum/Pg 4 Singapore survivors /Pg 6 Why no warning from Thai officials? /Pg9 She just won't take off life vest /10
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  • NEWS IQ
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      Lock icon New rules for firms with flexi-hours
      306 11 Majority of workers must say okay Rules will be fair to workers MANY companies now want to implement flexible work hours, due to fluctuating business cycles and market demand. But from now on, they must satisfy several conditions first, reported The Straits Times. These
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      56 11 STORE COMPANIES on naspaq (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 7.15/-0.02 14 e 35/ e O T O2 hnOlOgy Rextronics 13.77/-0.23 Chartered Semiconductor 5.79/-0.05 Stats6.ls/+0.09 Yesterday's Percentage r| action change Dow Down 0.47% (50.99 pts) 10,776.13 Nasdaq Down 0.3% (6.4 pts) 2,154.22 S+P 500 Down 0.33% (3.98 pts) 1,206.15
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      Lock icon Only haity members accepted at this club
      52 11 MEMBERS of The Whisker Club in Bremerton, Washington, proudly display their mustaches and beards. The club, which promotes the growth of facial hair, even supports competitions among those who are proud of their facial hair, such as the recent World Beard and Mustache
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      Lock icon New health funding method
      74 11 THE Health Ministry is changing the way it funds hospitals and polyclinics to try to stop over-treatment of patients. Instead of piece-rate reimbursement, funding will be replaced with block grants to the two health-care clusters. A piece-rate method would encourage hospitals to "chase volume", says Health
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      Lock icon Biomedicals output boost
      67 11 SINGAPORE'S manufacturing output grew 13.2 per cent last month from a year earlier, thanks to strong growth in pharmaceuticals that offset a faster-than-expected drop in the key electronics industry. Pharmaceutical output surged 76 per cent year-on-year due to increased demand from the United States and Europe. This
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      Lock icon Economic impact short-term
      73 11 SINGAPORE businesses are unlikely to suffer any long-term fallout from Sunday's earthquake and tidal waves, say economists. Tourism, airlines and hotel operators in Sri Lanka, India, the Maldives, Thailand and Malaysia could be hit immediately but the impact won't be lasting. Airlines here say they have no
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      Lock icon S'poreans flock to M'sia
      75 11 A RECORD number of Singaporean tourists 9.37 million visited Malaysia this year, spending a record RM17.5 billion ($7.6 billion) in foreign exchange, says research house MIDF Bhd. MIDF Bhd expects the number of Singaporean tourists to hit around 9.37 million for the whole year. The boom
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      Lock icon High on investment ranking
      73 11 SINGAPORE is among the most popular overseas property investment destinations in the world, says DTZ Research in London. Japan was ranked No 1 for cross-border real estate investment destination in the region in terms of current, medium-term and long-term time-scales. Singapore was ranked second in the
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      Lock icon Crowd relief for Thaipusam
      76 11 ORGANISERS of the annual Thaipusam festival have taken steps to prevent a repeat of last year's congestion where some Hindu devotees fainted during the procession. For the Jan 25 event, only 150 spiked kavadi carriers will be allowed in the afternoon while those pulling chariot kavadis
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Hip-to-hip fight for hip-hop crown
      468 12  -  BY 1 Veena Bharwani veenab@sph.com.sg WEE won. They were the smallest team with only three dancers who practised their moves only two days in advance. The jive-crazy trio didn't quite get their act together to move in perfect rhythm. But who needs "perfect" in a
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      Lock icon Hip-hop party fun
      227 13 NO, this isn't the great Singapore Workout. There wasn't just sweat but laughter too at the Music Video (MV) Dance Party when teenagers tried to match the groovy moves of Taiwanese hip-hop guru and celebrity choreographer Xue Gao. The party held on Dec 12 was a run-up
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      Lock icon Forgotten graves that tell our history
      900 14  -  History—and Japanese war criminals are buried in this peaceful Yio Chu Kang park, but few residents there know or care By Teh Jen Lee jenlee@sph. com.sg THE cemetery in the midst of a quiet residential area off Yio Chu Kang Road is a picture
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      Lock icon Story behind the stones
      157 14 EXCERPTS from Ralph Modder's book The Singapore Chinese Massacre: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called the unconditional surrender of Singapore to Japanese forces 'the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history". The British surrendered despite outnumbering the Japanese at least four to one and even
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      142 13 Think you look good smoking? Not for long. Every cigarette poisons your skin with 4,000 toxic chemicals, the same ones used to clean toilets and kill rats. With each puff, you also suck your skin dry of oxygen, making it dull, wrinkled and saggy. Some of these effects are irreversible.
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      155 14 SCI-SATIONAL NEW YEAR CELEBRATION Back By Overwhelming Demand! Mega Volts Sho For the first time ever in Singapore, witness 3.5 million volts of lightning striking a 'daredevil' in this highly electrifying show. See it to believe it! (27 -31 Dec, 11am, 1pm 4pm) i n Tzr Y -jif* *v. f
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  • ASK DR MONEY
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      510 15  -  Experts say you can profit from the stock market next month, but... DR MONEY LARRY HAVERKAMP Mat@AskDcMoney.com THE Straits Times Index (STI) returned 19 per cent this year and 29 per cent last year. It looks like easy money. In a way, it is. Just
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      Lock icon Will we crow about Year of the Rooster?
      325 15 PROBABLY, yes. The mischievous monkey is set to hand over a good performance from 2004. Check out the figures: The Straits Times Index (STI) returned 19 per cent in 2004. It is the 4th best among the world's stock markets. (See table
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      198 15 World Stock Markets in 2003 and 2004 Stock Exchange Change in 2003 Change in 2004 1 Jakarta (Composite) 65% 45% 2 Taipei (Weighted) 30% 27% I 3 Australia (All-Ord) +10% +24% A 4 Singapore (STI) 29% +19% 5 Malaysia (KLSE) +21% +16% 6 H. K. (Hang Seng) +34% +14% if
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    Lock icon Coma man wakes up on hearing 'work' order
    229 18 WORLD AN unconscious man in a hospital bed woke up suddenly after hearing news that his ex-boss had commanded him: "Get your ass back to work!" Mr Bill DiPasquale's miracle recovery stunned his family and friends, who were convinced he was dying,
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon 'We don't know who our parents are'
      582 19  -  Malaysia in a fix over fate of thousands of kids of overstayers who left or are hiding By Seto Nu-wen seto@sph.com.sg About 200,000 illegal immigrants in Malaysia are expected to return to Indonesia by Dec 31 when an amnesty allowing them to leave
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      Lock icon Dad's okay but mum overstayed
      252 19 ANOTHER group of children is also in limbo. These are children whose parents have been arrested for overstaying in Malaysia. As of last month, three Indonesian families with a total of 14 children were trapped in this situation. "The fathers came in years ago looking
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    Lock icon Married and divorced in 15 min
    497 21 Malaysian groom divorces bride in middle of wedding festivities MALAYSIA THE bride and groom had just solemnised their marriage. But 1,000 guests who were at the wedding in Ulu Tiram, Johor, over the weekend were in for a shock. They became witnesses to a
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    Lock icon Naughty, not nice
    481 22 SANTAS IN CRIME WORLD ALTHOUGH Santa Claus is known for separating the naughty from the nice, it seems he's the naughtiest of all. All around the world, people dressed as Santa are getting into criminal mischief this holiday season, reported Court TV. In Michigan, US, a 40-year-old
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  • Hey! Showtime&Lifestyle
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      Lock icon This mash-up crashes to top or charts
      959 23  -  By J Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg LINKIN Park has always loved mixing things up. In its phenomenal albums Hybrid Theory and Meteora, metal, rock, rap, electronica and pop have been melded with just enough flourish to keep the ears burning and the cash registers
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      Lock icon Mash-up fad not likely to end soon
      454 23  -  By, Jonathan Roberts jonrob@sph. com.sg ALSO known as bootlegs, mash-ups have been part of dance music since 2000, and recent mainstream acceptance is making it the fad that refuses to die. For the unitiated, a mash-up is the vocal track of one song
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      Lock icon Best dish? Pig nipples
      742 24  -  New Extreme Gourmet co-host is 'so sick' he'll wolf down anything By Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg HE calls himself Mr Egg "white on the outside, yellow on the inside". And that has served lan Powers, Lum May Yee's new co-host on the second season of exotic food
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      Lock icon He turns tables on paparazzi in video
      378 25  -  By Chang May Choon changmc@sph. com.sg CALL it sweet revenge. After being caught twice by paparazzi cameras recently for peeing in the streets, and for embracing his publicist Taiwanese balladeer Van Fan Yi-chen has decided to turn the tables by playing paparazzi himself.
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      Lock icon Great cast, Pity about the jokes
      526 26  -  Meet The Fockers Starring: Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Barbra Streisand Director: Jay Roach Rating: WHAT THOSE TICKS MEAN: Don't waste your time //:Only if you have time to kill ///:Take your time Make time for it No time to lose, watch
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      Lock icon FAST FACTS
      212 26 Barbra Streisand (left) and Dustin Hoffman have been friends for over 40 years, but this is the first time they're co-starring in a movie together. They went to the same acting school and Hoffman dated her roommate at the time. Meet The Fockers also marks Streisand's return to
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      Lock icon Acting stands out in bleak look at love
      216 27 We Don't Live Here Anymore Starring: Naomi Watts, Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern, Peter Krause Director: John Curran Rating: AT first glance, the sad state of affairs in We Don't Live Here Anymore may seem best reserved for emotional masochists. It follows two
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      Lock icon Cursed... by lousy script
      247 27 London Voodoo Starring: Doug Cockle, Sara Stewart Director: Robert Pratten Rating: The British director and his wife mortgaged their home to produce his first feature film, London Voodoo. If only the husband and wife characters had been as close and supportive, we'd have been spared this
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      686 29 THE NEW PAPERTTuesday, December 28,2004 PRIME- TIME TV ■HMpHBEHIBHnEnipnKIBBSnSBI 6.00: Grounded 5.30: American 6.30: News 6.30: Singapore 6.00: Pokemon 6.oo:Masak 6.02: Raging 6.00: 6.00: The 6 For Life' Idol 111—10 Today (News) (Preschool) Apa? Planet —Tidal Gensomaden Simpsons (Comedy/ Finalist/American 6.30: India, Of Qualifying Waves (Part I) Saiyuki 6.30: The
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  • Tech
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      Lock icon US telcos put brakes on handphone porn
      639 30 NYT. WITH new functions to send e-mail, take pictures and listen to music, the handphone has turned into a portable minicomputer. But the operators of phone networks are resisting new services that proved very popular on the old personal computer: Pornography and violent
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      Lock icon US family takes Yahoo! to court over dead soldier's e-mails
      563 31 AFP. IF you are wondering how far Internet e-mail providers would go to protect the privacy of your emails, here an example. Yahoo is denying the request of a family of a US marine killed last month to gain access
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    Lock icon These toys may be too loud
    410 35 TECH NYT. TALKING kitchens and dressing tables. Miniature vacuum cleaners almost as loud as the real thing. Today's toy world is a noisy one. Hardly an aisle in the toy store is free of items that don't talk, beep, burp, laugh or boom. As
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    Lock icon He thinks like a thief...
    614 37 ...to catch makers of counterfeit US$ TECH AP. IT pays to think like a thief to catch a thief. Mr Karl Miller should know he hunts for clues in cold cash counterfeit cash, that is. Studying a bogus US$lOO bill, he looks for imperfections a
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        337 53  -  i By JLLOYD SAMUEL ASTON VILLA WE'RE now halfway through the season, and Fd say that we've done Okay. Some aspects of our game have been good, and some bad. I don't think there's any other way to describe it really. We only
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        1240 54 The second half of the Premiership begins tomorrow (Singapore time) and the outlook is gloomy for West Brom's former England skipper Bryan Robson. Relegation looks inevitable. The question: Which two clubs will be joining the Baggies in the Coca-Cola Championship next season. PA
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        394 55 Wire Services. mmmmmm ir OOK at the face of I Arsenal's Premiership hot-shot Thierry Henry (left). He's in foul mood. He wants to taunt. He really wants to take a crack at Chelsea, the Gunners' London title rivals. His blunt message: You're not good enough to stop us
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