The New Paper, 9 February 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    • 60 1 ESCAPE FROM GEYLANG BROTHEL Gutsy S’pore woman helps duped foreigner flee from pimps She now fears for her safety PAGE 2 SHELTER FOR HOMELESS More from ‘sandwich class’ seek help PAGE 12 SPORTS NOON EDITION 9 Feb 09 EPL:WESTHAM0MANUTD1 OLE, GIGGS Left-leggedveteran’srare right-footedshotismatch-winner asManUnitedreturntothetopof thetable. PAGES49-52 PICTURE: GETTY IMAGES PRIMERALIGA:
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  • News Flight from brothel
    • 1189 2/3  -  S’porewomansheltersvictim.Now,shesays someone is offering cash to find out about her REPORT: VIVIEN CHAN vivienc@sph.com.sg HOWfarwouldyougotohelpawomanwhosayssheisbeingkeptagainstherwillinaSingaporebrothel?One Singaporean housewife kept in touch by phone, went to look for her in Geylang, and took the troubledIndiannationalintoherownhome. The drama, which stretched over two days, included
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    • 401 2/3  -  STREET TALK COMMENT: LIEW HANQING hanqing@sph.com.sg WHENEVER I travel and stay in a hotel, I am appalled that, more often than not, I have to pay for Internet access. The standard procedure: Plug laptop in. Start browser. Key in room number. Start surfing. Get
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    • 370 4  -  THAIPUSAM REPORT AND PICTURES: KELVIN CHNG kchng@sph.com.sg GEOMANCER Tan Thian Poh is wishing fervently for the financial crisis to be over. “The most important thing is for everybody tohaveajobandtohaveworldpeace.” Yesterday, the 48-year-old took a step forward for world peace. Or rather, he took thousands
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    • 482 5  -  REPORT: LIEW HANQING hanqing@sph.com.sg FOR the first time in 16 years, Mr Jonathan How won’t have a romantic dinner with hiswife,Chloe,onValentine’sDay. Instead, he will be on a humanitarian trip in Northern Thailand, giving aid to the destitute Hmong people. Mr How, 35,
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    • 1110 6 / 7  -  Anti-piracygroupexpects desperadosinAsiatohit ships harder this year REPORT: ANDRE YEO andrey@sph.com.sg LTC(retired)NicholasTeo,ReCAAP’sdeputydirector,51 PIRATEattacksinAsiadroppedlastyearbutexpectmore raids this year as the global recession hits thepocketsofseafaringrobbers. Aresearcherwithananti-piracygroupinSingapore, MsLeeYinMui,48, saidmoreactsofpiracyandarmed robberyarelikelytosurface. She’s assistant director (research) of the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and ArmedRobberyagainstShipsinAsia(ReCAAP). She said: “The current economic problem is a contributingfactor.It’sthesameasthecrimeratesonland.
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    • 300 6 / 7 AtEunos... SHE does not speak Mandarin or any Chinese dialect. But Australian Donna Daniels held close to 500 people enthralled with Chinese songs at a grassroots dinner in Jalan Eunos on Saturday night. Shin Min Daily News reported that Ms Daniels, wore a cheongsam
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    • 822 8 / 9  - Five-day work week poor work-life balance? AreS’poreans becoming more laid back? Shorter work week has not raised birth rates, work productivity might be down, saysNMP REPORT: LEDIATI TAN ledtan@sph.com.sg IS IT time to take Singaporeans out of the comfort zone? In a controversial speech in Parliament last Wednesday, Nominated MP
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    • 350 8 / 9 WOULD you pay more than $300,000 for a licence plate number? A car owner in Hong Kong did just that when he made a bid for the number 2318 at HK$1.7 million ($320,000), Ta Kung Pao reported. To usher in the Year of
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    • 173 10 THE sad tale of Mr Abu Bakar touched so many Singaporeans that $25,000 in donations poured in a month after his accident in Nov 2007. The father of three was hospitalised for nearly two months and went back to his home in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, after his
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    • 785 10  -  WORKER WHO LOST LEFT LEG, RIGHT FOOT IN WORKPLACE ACCIDENT REPORT: CELINE LIM cellsf@sph.com.sg THIS young worker will never be able to run like he once did. A workplace accident severed his left leg and left his badly crushed right foot
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  • Local News watch
    • 49 11 CELEBRATIONATTHEISTANA:4,000grassroots leaders were invited to celebrate Chinese New Year in a garden party hosted by PM Lee Hsien Loong and his Cabinet ministers at the Istana yesterday. MM Lee Kuan Yew is seen mingling with the crowd in the picture below. PICTURE: THE STRAITS TIMES
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    • 244 11 TACKLING THE DOWNTURN THAT’S the call that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (right) has for Singaporeans as a measure to keep their jobs during the current recession. Speaking at a Chinese New Year event in Yio Chu Kang, he said: “Even in
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    • 117 11 MANY stories of people helping other people go untold in Singapore. So Mr Lim Boon Heng, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, wants stories of such good deeds to be made public. “In this economic downturn, we need to tell
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    • 85 11 MORE than 500 commuters took part in an emergency evacuation exercise organised by SMRT yesterday morning. Packed into a train at Pioneer MRT station, part of the soon-to-be-opened Boon Lay Extension, the participants residents from Southwest Community Development Council and Singapore Management
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    • 89 11 MORE than 900 smokers were caught puffing in out-of-bound areas, a month after the nationwide smoking ban was widened to cover more public places. Most of those caught were smok- Mostofthosecaughtweresmoking in newly banned places, which now include areas such as non-air-conditioned offices, hotel
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    • 1357 12/13  -  Morein‘sandwichclass’turnup REPORT: GENEVIEVE JIANG geneviev@sph.com.sg WHEN the man’s business failed, his family broke up as well. The Singapore permanent resident had to sell his home to repay his debts. He took to the streets with his wife and two young children. And soon, he
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  • Global News watch
    • 244 14 THE Americans got hit first. Now their counterparts in Europe will share the bitter taste of the same medicine as it is payback time. With top US executives told this week by President Barack Obama to curb excessive pay, an increasing number of banks in
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    • 42 14 A STUDENT of a carnival school joins the carnival parade in Encarnacion, Paraguay last Friday. Encarnacion was named the city of carnival. The season lasts from the end of Januray to the middle of February every year. PICTURE: XINHUA
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    • 506 14 But CEOs, top bankers and lawyers in shame list are not prosecuted YOU have read about how the fat cats in Wall Street were using company funds to splurge on lavish parties and even expensive holidays. Here’s another instance of excesses that
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    • 496 15 Spoof video sent to contest promoting Aussie tourism MORE than 10,000 people have jumped at the chance to apply for the“bestjobintheworld”asacaretaker of a tropical Australian island. The huge response was not surprising as the successful candidate stands to be paid A$150,000 ($146,000)
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    • 83 15 AP PHOTOS dangled from the charred ceiling, paintings decorated soot-stained walls. Red shards from the shattered roof lined pathways cleared through broken glass. This used to be a hospital. But for one day this week, visitors in Gaza City, Palestine, can step through the
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    • News Aussie wildfires
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        875 16/17 Scenes of destruction, stories of tragedy, as bushfires rage through South-eastern Australia ONE couple died thinking they could fight the flames. Another left her unconscious brother behind as she fled. Others died in their cars trying to out-run the fires. So far, the death toll from the Australian
        PICTURES: AP, AFP  -  875 words
    • 229 19 PERAK CRISIS AP MALAYSIA’S next prime minister lashed out at his political foes yesterday, calling them “sore losers” for hanging on to power despite losing control of Perak after several of the state’s lawmakers defected to the ruling party. Deputy Prime Minister
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    • 102 19 AFP THAI prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva defended his stimulus package, and said that plans to borrow money from abroad did not signal a shortfallin the kingdom’s reserves. The government has given ap- proval for the country to borrow up to US$2 billion ($3b)
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    • 93 19 AFP MALAYSIA will lower electricity tariffs for households and industry by 7 to 10 per cent by the end of the month. Energy Minister Shaziman Abu Mansor said yesterday that his min- istry had been in talks with state energy giant Petronas over a reduction,
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    • 97 19 AFP CHINA fired thousands of artillery shells into the sky to make it rain in an attempt to deal with the country’sworst droughtin decades. About 2,400 shells and 400 rockets packed with cloud-seeding chemicals were fired in operations across northern China on Saturday.
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    • 105 19 Wire services SWITZERLAND’S largest bank, UBS, is expected to announce the loss of nearly 20 billion Swiss francs ($25 billion) when it releases its results tomorrow. This loss, the biggest in the coun- try’s history, reflects the fact that UBS was one of the
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      33 19 RECORDFEAT:On5Feb, US swimmer Jennifer Figge, 56, became the first woman to swim across the Atlantic Ocean after she swam 3,380km from the Cape Verde Islands off Africa to Trinidad. PICTURE: AP
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      8 20 FROMREADERELRICA CHOO ROADHAZARD:Ourreaderspottedthis overladenlorryontheroad.Withmetalrods andotherpotentiallyhazardousequipmenton board,aretheworkersbeingputatrisk? E-mailyourpicturestotnpclick@sph.com.sg
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    • 85 20 1 Labour chief LimSwee Say has appealed to MPs to put aside their doubts and differences and support the Jobs Credit scheme, which is targeted at tackling the downturn. 2 The government has spent $3.2 million subsidising energy audits in 121 buildings, and
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    • 273 20 FROM READER PEGGY YEO Vacant apartments, too many banners at Temasek Polytechnic ILIVEinTampines,nearTemasekPol-ytechnic. I have noticed that units in two of the three apartment blocks in the polytechnic have been vacant for a fewyears. I remember reading in the papers last year
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    • 76 20 OnwhyneedyS’poreansmissoutonfinancialaid: “Whatislacking ispublicityof suchfunds. Notin English, but in other languages and dialects. Not through the mass media, but through other means. Grassroots leaders should play a more proactive role in identifying residents whoarein dire need,especially in hardtimes likethis.” smu014 “Ifyouareill,bedriddenandalone,howdoyouaskforhelp? The simple, effective thing the Government can
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    • 162 20 FROM READER ROGER CHOW I AM a regular user of a public fitness centre in the Orchard Road area, and have enjoyed giving an affectionate pat to a friendly cat that often lies outside the main door. Recently, I found out
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    • 646 21  -  Katrina Kaif leads Bollywood chargeintoUSwebsite’s list of most desirable women REPORT: GERMAINE LIM,JULIANA RASUL gerlim@sph.com.sg,julrasul@sph.com.sg AS ONE of the top Bollywood actresses, Katrina Kaif is no stranger to Indians. But what about outside of India? The woman, who may be the Indian film industry’s next big export,
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    • 264 22  -  REPORT: GERMAINE LIM gerlim@sph.com.sg WHERE are the Chinese belles? That’stheglaringthingmissingfromthisyear’s AskMenlist. Of all the four Asians to make the list, there were no Chinese or Hong Kong actresses. Actress Zhang Ziyi who made the cut for three consecutive years between 2006
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      • 158 23 Moneymatters– evento stars. We cashin on the highs and lows of celebrity dough BROOKE SHIELDS: ACTRESS Brooke Shields (left) has slammed the stage manager who allegedly stole US$30,000 ($45,000) worth of designer goods from the set of her TV series Lipstick Jungleasbeing“notverybright”. Arthur Moreira,
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      • 106 23 DON’Tdepriveyour waitersof their tips. Upmarket restaurant chain Nobu, owned by actor Robert De Niro (right), is reportedly close to settling a US$2.5 million ($3.3 million) lawsuit over staff tips. In2007, two waiterssued Nobu’s management on behalf of hundreds of workers at
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      • 106 23 MULTI-BILLIONAIRE Oprah Winfrey (left) has opened up her hefty wallet for charity again. The TV mogul has donated more than US$1.5 million ($2.3 million) to improve the education system in Newark, the most populated city in the US state of New Jersey. The money will go to
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      • 529 24  -  TIPS FOR JOB HUNTING IN A RECESSION LARRY HAVERKAMP mail@AskDrMoney.com I SPOKE with five executives who hire people. They gave me five great job-hunting tips. Check them out. 1. Negotiate from strength If you have a job now, you are in a stronger position than
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      • 269 44 PORTSMOUTH 2 Nugent (62), Hreidarsson (78) LIVERPOOL 3 Aurelio (69), Kuyt (85), Torres (90) LIVERPOOL manager Rafael Benitez used a strange formation in the 3-2 last-gasp win over Portsmouth yesterday morning. But with the scores at 2-2 on 89 minutes, many Liverpool fans were left wondering why
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      • 484 44  -  Benitez’sstrangestarting formation yesterday morning got everyone talking. ERNEST LUIS and our analyst TOHARIPAIJANgive their views ERNEST LUIS, TOHARI PAIJAN ITDOESN’Tmatterhowhedoesitatthisstage. For manager Rafael Benitez and his Liverpool team, they’vesimplygottotakeeveryscraptheyget,especiallyif the footballing world expects them to fall flat on their faces. And you have to hand it
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      • 28 51 EPL MATCHES PORTSMOUTH 2 Nugent (62), Hreidarsson (78) LIVERPOOL 3 Aurelio (69), Kuyt (85), Torres (90) TOTTENHAM 0 ARSENAL0 WEST HAM 0 MAN UNITED 1 Giggs (62)
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