Today, 4 November 2001

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  • 8 1 TODAY Sunday• t Novemher 4, 2001 < MITA(P)1 72/10/2001
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  • 679 1 NCMP with just 34%? It sums up poll ON A day when Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's two wishes came true, the most unexpected gift went the way of birthday boy Steve Chia of the Singapore Democratic Alliance (picture). Minutes after being routed by the ruling party's
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  • 585 2  -  Ng Boon Yian Lee Ching Wern Govt prepares to tackle jobs issue, leadership handover by and LOOKING at the sombre faces of the victorious People's Action Party team at the post-election press conference this morning, it was hard to believe that they had just scored their
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  • 344 2 WHILE Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) chief Chiam See Tong may have retained his seat in Potong Pasir, it was by the skin of his teeth. In his 17-year political career, he has never come so close to losing his seat to the
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  • 241 2  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim BESIDES the two opposition wards of Potong Pasir and Hougang, two other single-seat constituencies had been earmarked by many as potential hot seats in this General Election. Singapore Democratic Alliance's Steve Chia, 31, a remisier, had
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  • 45 2 Reporters: Chan Chao Peh, Francis Kan, Lee Ching Wern, Leong Phei Phei, Ng Boon Yian, Islg Hwee Koon, Elaine Quek.Jose Raymond, IvayTan.Tan Hui Leng.Tan Slew Eng, Cathleen Tung and Zackaria Abdul Rahim. Photographers:AlvinToh,Wong Khing Chong.WeeTeck Hian,Wong Li Shan and Ernest Chua.
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  • 230 2  -  Ng Hum Koon LEADING his team of 11 candidates, Dr Chee Soon Juan charged into the elections campaign all fiery and energetic. For a while, the Singapore Democratic Party seemed to be gaining ground. Then he shouted at Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong when they ran
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  • 599 4  -  Francis Kan Singaporeans go to polls with eyes on pockets by francis@newstoday,com.gg AT the end of the day, Singaporeans voted resoundingly with their pockets. The win was so convincing that the Prime Minister did not hesitate to describe it as a "clean sweep", even though the PAP failed
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  • 744 4 Comment By Ravi Veloo WHAT could be the legacy of this general election? One clue: Look past the high jinks of the Dr Chee Soon Juan saga in Jurong GRC, and look instead at the single-seat ward of Nee Soon East, and why it
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    • 331 6  -  Albert Goh Wah Nguan 'Recruit Singaporean workers first' rule puts some firms in a bind SOME election candidates, particularly those from the opposition parties, have demanded a law to ensure that Singapore workers be given first priority for jobs before they are given to foreigners. I think
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    • 284 6  -  Tan Soon Meng I REFER to the ongoing debate on class sizes in schools. The Education Minister, Rear-Admiral Teo Chee Hean, has said that reducing class sizes by half would mean doubling the 25,000 teachers in the teaching service, which could
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    • 92 6  -  Lionel De Souza THE act of Mr Gandhi Ambalam (picture), an SDP candidate in Jurong, asking the crowd to observe a 10-second silence in honour of former opposition candidates Francis Seow, Tang Liang Hong and JB Jeyaretnam riled me. The observation of silence
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    • 107 6  -  ASK Wee I AM one of Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's contemporaries. Throughout my seventy-odd years, I have witnessed the Senior Minister's achievements in creating what Singapore has become today. However, I implore the SM to find a way in his heart not
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    • 105 6  -  Kelly Lek THERE has been absolutely no election activity at Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC. My colleague who lives in another walkover GRC also told me that it is quiet at her place. No walkabouts, no hand-shaking, no problem-solving by the uncontested MPs there.
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    • 921 8  -  Lee Ching Wern One young citizen's 2001 electoral experience by T WHEN Mr Francis Seow fled Singapore, I was only nine, still very much into Ninja Turtles. When Mr Tang Liang Hong was sued for defamation, I was 17, barely an adult. Soon after, Mr Chiam
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    • 352 8  -  -ChanChaoPeh UNLIKE the People's Action Party and the Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA), both the Workers' Party (WP) and the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) did not book any assembly centres for their supporters to meet for the announcement of the election results. The
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    • 415 9 The strength of <R BICS two leaders. The Insurance Corporation of Singapore {ICS), Singapore's largest group and corporate insurer, has recently become a Par* of tne CGNU Group and is now looking to recruit a visionary professional team to drive plans for rapid .^Migiiiik. I business growth! M WM CGNU
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  • Seen and heard
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      44 10 it's okay. I am the grass, if not the roots Workers' Party candidate for Nee Soon M East Or Poh lee Guan (above), when asked about his limited grassroots' experience. Dr Poh was resoundingly beaten by PAP's Prof Ho Peng Kee.
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    • 77 10 What better time to party, booze and cheer than during the live broadcast of elections results which happens only once every five years? Well, at least one political watcher did that. When a Today reporter contacted him earlier to arrange for an interview later at nigh), he
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    • 11 10 A Chiarn supporter with a we^placed badge.
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    • 51 10 The media writes rubbish! Throw away their recorders! Sell the papers to karang gunii W Angry SDP supporters shouting at surprised reporters, in response to SDP'$ Mr Gandhi Ambalam's (above} speech about the media being a mouthpiece of the PAP during an SDP rally at Jurong East
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    • 68 10 Wshouid 4Kk you do? If 1 you are J unhappy or dissatisfied with the PAP or Opposition, vote for KC as an independent candidate! Mr Tan Kim Chuang flefl), independent candidate for Bukit Tirnah, who introduced himself as KC in his manifesto. His manifesto is by far
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    • 91 10 My wife has given me all the strength all these years. She's been always beside me, giving me all the encouragement to go on. And my little girl means the world to me W Dr Chee Soon Juan, with his twoyeor-old daughter ana wife on stage.
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    • 76 10 At 7pm, the number of voters who had voted was 638,903. The Elections Department says this is 94.61 percent of the 675,306 votes in all contested electoral divisions.This is Singapore's 10th GE since independence in 1965. Some 4,000 civil servants were on hand to help make sure
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    • 106 10 In the centre of the field at Bishan Stadium last night, there was a group of people who looked like they were making bets. They seemed to have first hand information on the election results. It was the noisiest spot. When it was close to the
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      17 10 Newly-wed couple Sim sfew Kbiang and Nyuow Tian Chat made time to cast their votes.
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    • 432 14  -  Jose Raymond 16 arrested for rioting after SDA rally by j ose ©newstoday. com. sg UNRULY SCENES erupted after the last Singapore Democratic Alliance rally on Friday. Around 200 people pounded on car windows, stuck flyers on vehicles and punched a policeman all the while shouting "SDA!
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    • 431 16 This victory is not just my victory, but the victory of all MacPherson residents who have voted. PAP MP Matthias Yao {above} on winning in MacPherson An opposition supporter signalling to his friends on the terraces about another loss by the Opposition Victory was
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    • 418 12 Hong Kah GRC f JT >JP^>fc| V (129,073 voters) W W bOOTing Chua Chu Kang. teISS^F- I L»%" Anchored by PAP E J £1* I k —f~-- fl f m4fti Communications and -*^p 1 Technology 196 450 1 votes MJHpV H H 1 Wj Minister Yeo Cheow I 1 John
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    • 505 13 Ayer Rajah (18,475 voters) Chua Chu Kang (24,863 voters} Hougang [23,320 voters) A PAP stronghold where the immensely popular Dr Tan Cheng Held by PAP's Low Scow Cliay since 1988. It saw a three-cor- Workers' Party's Low Thia Kliiang wrested this from thq PAP Bock has stood since 1980. In
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 320 18 Agencies Mahathir to write letter urging Bush to stop war KUALA LUMPUR The US-led coalition against terrorism is beginning to show the first signs of a crack, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad, echoing the views of several Muslim nations including Indonesia, will be writing to
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    • 178 18 Agencies WASHINGTON The United States is being hit by a "second wave" of terror this time in the form of anthrax spores, President George W Bush said yesterday. It is the first time that he has acknowledged that the anthrax attacks are a major threat to
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    • 195 18 DUBAI -Wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden has released another videotaped statement, his third since the attacks on the United States, in which he says the Afghan people were not to blame for the Sept 11 attacks. In footage broadcast onAI Jazeera TV, he said:"The United Nations is a
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    • 166 18 Reuters MAJORCA (Spain) They bumped into each other at the same Spanish resort and shook hands. But Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat will not be holding talks over matters tearing their two societies apart. The sorry state of Middle Eastern politics
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      52 18 Reuters photo A Filipino family resting in a tent next to the grave of a dead relative in a cemetery in Manila last week. Filipino families were celebrating All Saints Day, a national holiday in the Philippines and a time for merrymaking as families gather to remember
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    • 156 18 Reuters NEW DELHI India's entry to next year's Oscar awards is not Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding, which won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival. A 14-member jury of the Film Federation of India has picked the Aamir Khan starrer, Lagaan. "Lagaan
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  • SPORTS
    • 217 20 LONDON David Eeckham will not be a manager when his playing career is over. The England and Manchester United midfielder has no intention of following in the footsteps of Sir Alex Ferguson. He believes he will have had enough "stress and hassle" by the time he
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    • 70 20 Reuters BERLIN Bayern Munich stayed top of the German Bundesliga by beating Hamburg SV 3-0 yesterday with three second-half goals, two from Claudio Pizarro. Brazil's Paulo Sergio broke the deadlock in the 69th minute, with Pizarro scoring in the 84th and 89th minutes. Second-placed Bayer Leverkusen
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    • 397 20 Reuters PARIS Fabien Barthez is very happy at Manchester United but is resigned to making more blunders like the high-profile ones against Deportivo Co run a last month. "The truth is I have now found the club in which I feel well and I absolutely don't
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    • 195 20 Reuters English Premier League Leiceister 1 Sunderland 0 Akinbiyi scores kis first of the season LONDON Ade Akinbiyi's first league goal of the season gave Leicester City a 1-0 home win over Sunderland last night, hauling them off the bottom of the English Premier
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    • 450 22 Reuters Hits 155 runs, becomes youngest to reach 7,000 BLOEMFONTEIN India's Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest player to score 7,000 test runs as he hit 155 on the opening day of the first test against South Africa yesterday. Debutant Virender Sehwag also scored a century as
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    • 298 22 Reuters PHOENIX Yankees manager Joe Torre admits there is something supernatural going on. Torre was asked on Friday if there was "a mystical force" helping his team in view of New York's miraculous victories over the Arizona Diamondbacks in the
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    • 53 22 MILAN Twice World Player of the Year Ronaldo is set to return to Serie A action with Inter Milan today, almost two years after his last Italian league game. Inter said on its official website that there was a "high probability" that the Brazilian striker would
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    • 65 22 MILAN Udinese's English coach Roy Hodgson is confident his job with the Italian Serie A club is not at risk despite media speculation about his future. Udinese lies in ninth position in Serie A after eight games, but following last week's home defeat by
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    • 65 22 ISTANBUL Galatasaray suffered its worst ever loss in the Turkish Super League on Friday, going down 5-0 at Bursaspor just days after a 2-0 defeat of PSV Eindhoven pitched them against Europe's best in the Champions League. The draw for the second stage of Europe's premier soccer competition
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    • 53 22 BOSTON The Boston Celtics, behind Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker, got its second straight victory with a 96-82 stroll past the winless Chicago Bulls on Friday. Walker put up 19 points, 10 rebounds, eight assists and two steals. Pierce the NBA's fourth-leading scorer added 16 points, five rebounds
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    • 54 22 MUNICH Lindsay Davenport extended a brilliant resurgence with a hard-fought 1-6 6-3 7-6 victory over Belgian teenager Kim Clijsters yesterday to finish the year in top spot for the second time in her career. Davenport needed to beat Clijsters to return to number one for the first time
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