The New Paper, 3 July 2004

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1 72 The New Paper
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    • 57 1 i:-. JP .«tv v<\ 4 S3 '*"V mmw m U mrnBm MM r*1 Mr rlf SK i. v <- •'i 1 PWw/The Straits fcie Doused with petrol, set on fire by friend', teen talks of future scarred over girlfriend joke SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2004 China moves to censor text messages
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  • NEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      559 2 China says it is clamping down on SMS to wipe out porn and scams But critics charge it's really to stop its use as a protest tool CHINA has started to crack the whip on short message service (SMS) providers. Xinhua, the country's official news agency, says the
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    • 106 2 In the Philippines, nearly a million citizens used SMS to organise street demonstrations that helped topple the Estrada regime in Jan 2001. In South Korea, the cyber-generation, seeing their favoured candidate losing in exit polls in 2002, used SMS to turn the tide in the election's final
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    • 40 2 Text messages pass through a gateway to enter the handphone network of another phone. As they pass through, filtering equipment monitors these messages. They monitor key words, phrases or numbers and delete messages which contain them.
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    • 40 2 SORRY SattUte dcvice found in Coke can fTJIP, Jul 2): Our secondary headline said: It's a scam, says Coke. It should read: It's a promotion, says Coke. News IQ: P tge 8 Hey!: Pages One-Four/ 40-43 TV: Pages 44 45
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 1029 4  -  A IttU Doused with petrol, friend then sets him alight over girlfriend joke By Joycelyn Wong tnp@sph.com.sg HE was an active boy who had his bicycle modified so he could perform stunts. But he now has another set of wheels a wheelchair. A
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    • 187 5 Jul 29,2003: Three teenagers, aged between 13 and 15, molested a 13-year-old girl at a swimming pool. They held down her legs, simulated a sex act and groped her. All three were charged and put on probation. On Nov 12,2002: Agroup of 10, aged 14
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    • 393 5 DURING counselling sessions with a psychologist, Soh Jia Wen was asked to make three wishes. He replied that he had only one wish that his family could have dinner together just once a week. To him, home was just a place where he went to sleep.
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    • 512 6  -  It took 2 trucks to set it right By Eugene Wee tnp@sph.com. sg ITS cabin was almost crushed. The impact was so great, it tore a chunk out of the tree it hit. And a tree branch that was broken off due to the
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 211 7 Police: Don't call us S'poreans: Then call who? WHEN a blackout happens, it's a common reaction: Pick up the phone and dial 999 or 995. But the police say do not use these numbers unless it is an emergency. Instead, people can call a 24-hour Singapore PowerGrid Electricity Service
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    • 51 7 IN A CLASS OF THEIR OWN: A girl looks into a "classroom" with stuffed baby crocodiles at a zoo in Siracha district, 80km east of Bangkok. The zoo, which has live camels, tigers and birds, also breeds crocodiles for sale as food. Picture/
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    • 59 7 S'PORE COMPANIES onnaspaq (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 8.90/-0.13 ?ni 7 V 0 n T nfi hn IOgy 10.17A0.06 Flextronics 15.42/-0.02 Chartered Semiconductor 7.81/-0.18 Stats 7.75/+0.15 Yesterday s Percentage n Close action change Dow Nasdaq S+P 500 STI Down 0.5% (51.33 pts) Down 0.44% (8.89 pts) Down 0.32%
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    • 82 7 THE government is committed to promoting the use of the Malay language, said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. He said this was important to groom a "bicultural" elite that can be plugged into the region to understand the culture and language of Singapore's two closest
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    • 60 7 A SINGAPORE-MALAYSIA Business Council has been formed to increase economic cooperation. It comprises business leaders from both countries. The Malaysia-Singapore Business Development Fund (MSBF) will also be expanded to RM10 million ($4.5 million) to help carry out feasibility studies and organise joint missions to third-country markets. The
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    • 88 7 THE 50 largest listed firms here are sitting on a total of about $47.3 billion in cash and marketable securities a 24 per cent jump from the $38.2b they had built up a year ago. They enjoyed robust growth in recent years and have paid close attention
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    • 75 7 IF Portugal emerges champions of Euro 2004, a Singaporean punter could win £262,500 ($823,460). He has already pocketed £87,500 by betting £25,000 on Portugal to reach the finals. If Portugal beats Greece in the Monday morning finals, he will get £175,000. The man placed his bets
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    • 77 7 SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) has posted a jump in net profit to $369.5 million in the third quarter of this year. This is a 483.6 per cent rise from the $63.3 million earned during the same period last year. The profit surge is due to a boost
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    • 62 7 A SENIOR manager at BMW retailer Performance Motors is under investigation for alleged corruption. He was questioned by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) on Thursday. Sources told The Straits Times he had allegedly asking for kickbacks, including personal loans, cellphones and a Tag Heuer watch,
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 59 7 I Olinh I WRITE A BUSINESS I CHANGED ttY KIND. LdIHIII cinna ??TA TWFK CASE WITH ALL THE |WE SHOULDN'T DO U sSr n ftOOR. tlJolv ?MLI S RISKS AND BUSINESS I ANYTHING. u? a Ain pVtuc S DRIVERS AND ILL HERE A I CONSIDER IT. 2 I I NEED
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 370 8  -  By Mohamed Faliq faliq@sph.com.sg IMAGINE meeting a cow for the first time. And at Orchard Road too. No wonder the three first-year Raffles Junior College girls seemed absolutely over the moon. No, Letchmi, who turns 5 this year, and Gowri, 8, were not doing any
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    • 636 9  -  Quits $200k job Puts $15,000 into charity venture Sells bread but takes no salary By Genevieve Jiang geneviev@sph. com.sg HE was once a high-flying banker with a pay cheque of more than $200,000 a year. Just last year, he dreamt of buying a new car and
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    • 79 9 THE Ministry of Community De- t velopment and SportAjMCDS) offered money from a 02 million pool tyhelp non-profit organisations become self-sustaining by running businesses. The aim wastogprt^^^^ another. enterprises. Another $2m will be set aside for the fund this year. The businesses benefit various groups, from the
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    • 134 9 Studio You In May this year, Studio You officially launched Tile Story, a range of gifts such as fridge magnets and greeting cards made of tiles hand-painted by the disabled. The company aims to improve the social standing of the disabled in society. Beyond Imagination
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 445 11  -  By Tay Shi'an shian@sph.com.sg SHE was desperate for a job and waited two hours to be interviewed. But instead of finding work, Ms Fazlina, 21, was allegedly molested by the interviewer at his shop on Thursday. Ms Fazlina (not her real name) is
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    • 753 12  -  By Sylvia Toh tnp@sph.com.sg ONLY the grandchildren were missing. President S R Nathan celebrated his 80th birthday last night in the company of old friends, ministers and leaders of the community, top civil servants, and his family. Smartly dressed guests walked through metal detectors before they
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    • 104 13 The MSP introduces a system of peer review (doctors checking each other) to ensure that patients receive the correct treatment. It will apply only to subsidised patients (B2+, B2 and C class) and cover procedures, devices and drugs in three categories.
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    • 463 13  -  By Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg THE heart attack hit him like a sledgehammer. At 36 years of age, it was the last thing Mr Sammy Tan expected. After the emergency treatment, angiogram and angioplasty he had a stent put in he found himself about
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    555 15 WOMEN'S TURN ON: Sweaty, hot bods EURO 2004: TUNE 1N... MEN'S TURN ON: EURO BUZZ I WAS trawling the Internet for good Euro 2004 buys and it turns out there is more to Euro gear than just jerseys, scarves and caps. After only 10 minutes of surfing the
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  • 362 16 WORLD FELICITY Thorpe (above), 15, haa won the dubious distinction of becoming the youngest female to be banned from football matches following a riot She was with the 10-year-old boy who was banned from UK football grounds in May for
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 368 17 THE man acquitted in the Noritta murder trial, Mr Hanif Basree Abdul Rahman, 37, said yesterday that he wanted another chance with his wife, Madam Noraida Mohamed. He said he is aware he will have to carry for a long time
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    • 404 17 "I'M standing by my man. I'm not going to leave him." So said Madam Noraidah Mohamed, wife of Mr Hanif Basree, on his having had an intimate relationship with Ms Noritta. "I just thank God this is over and justice has been done,"
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  • WORLD
    • 513 18 BRANDO DIES OF LUNG FAILURE AT 80 Son tried for murder, daughter committed suicide Friend Sophia Loren says his life had been marked by 'real tragedies and he had possibly let himself go for that reason' AFP. HE had at least 11 children with three
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    • 312 19 Wimbledon tennis stars make Centre Court fashion the hot topic CATWALK or tennis court? You decide. Because volleys and lobbed balls weren't, all tennis spectators were following last week. The women of Wimbledon have turned tennis into an extreme sport at least as far as fashion goes.
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  • TECH
    • 484 25 YOU can call it the walk-a-meter. Pedometers, which look like stopwatches or pagers, have become popular tools for keeping track of steps and promoting moderate exercise. Now they've been used to get inactive people moving as well in an American campaign which promotes
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    • 112 25 „>;, COMPUTERS may be a big reason why undergraduates walk far less than children. Thanks to the Internet, students can do research from their homes or dorm rooms instead of having to make the trek to the campus library. The proliferation of Internet games have also
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  • TECH
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    • 263 29 Wire services. CALL it revenge of the credit card company. Mastercard International, one of the world's biggest credit providers, has teamed up with fraud detection company Name Protect to stop online scammers before they strike. The partners said they are targeting such things as "phishing" identity
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    • 450 47 WORKOUTS, on a good track, by horses engaged this afternoon: RACE 1: Slow work: Immingham (B Vorster), looking well, Golden Eros, Purple Strike, Timbertop, Jamaica (A Ng). RACE 2: Slow work: TruNi, fitter, Golden Lakshmi, DuvaU (V Sivan), Sky Luck, Alonso, Ashgrove (E Wilkinson),
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    • 87 47 Spectra Power (Race 9 No. 1) Looks to have no adversaries to lower his colours this tjme round. It had to take a superb ride by Lenny Beasley aboard Muscle Man to thwart the Patrick Shaw-trained galloper's bid for a four-in-a-row feat three weeks ago. With no speed
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    • 179 50 THE National Stud Farm (NSF) has postponed its annual National Premier Sale. The change of date, from Nov 26 to April 29 next year, is to facilitate the on-going tests for horses at the farm after one horse died from strangles last month. The casualty of the
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    • 409 53 TENNIS: WIMBLEDON Wire Services. THE most play that anyone got at Wimbledon yesterday was the rain playing havoc, that is, with the programme and leaving the two men's semi-finals unfinished. In a hugely frustrating day for players and fans, the two top seeds, Roger Federer and
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    • 350 53 Wire Services. SEXY blonde Maria Sharapova may have been in the spotlight at Wimbledon as she became the first Russian woman to reach the finals in 30 years, but she was just a sideshow in Russia's football-infatuated sports press. The 17-year-old Siberian-born teenager,
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    • 122 53 -*|L Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova will face net) other in the womens' final on Saturday m r' jpi •arena Williams 1 VS. Age: 22 Seeded:1 Maria Sharapova Russia Age:17 Seeded: 13 f Ametie Mauresmo (4) Franca *7(4/7) 7-5 j6~4 Semi final (5) Lindsay
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        • 425 54  -  STAR eucuisive TEDDY LUCIC SWEDEN IT'S always disappointing to lose a match on penalties and it was no different for Sweden against Holland. To win a shoot-out you need some luck and, unfortunately for us, the Dutch had more than we did. Our target was
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        • 217 54  -  By GIO VAN BRONCKHORST EURO 2004 DIARY THE news that Henrik Larsson was coming to Barcelona gave me a real lift. I'm really excited at the prospect of Henrik playing at the Nou Camp and I'm sure it is something the Barca fans
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        • 1135 55 LUIS Figo sent a message that will surely scare David Beckham. With his relentless and inspirational performance for Portugal in their semi-final against Holland, he blasted a hole the size of a Galactico's ego in Beckham's theory that Real Madrid's inferior training methods
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    • 141 53 RSRRSfM| LADIES' SINGLES, MEN'S MIXED DOUBLES FINAL Mil Ch 24 Chi, 8.30pm, tonight WHAT'S GONE Men: Roger Federer (SWI xl) leads Sebastien Grosjean (FRA xlO) 6-2,6-3,4-3; Andy Roddick (US x2) leads Mario Ancic (CRO) 6-4,4-3 Men's doubles: Julian Knowle/Nenad Zimonjic (AUT/SEM xl6) lead Mark Knowles/Daniel Nestor (BAH/CAN x5) 6-2, 3-6,
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      • 350 57 MATCH REPORTS There was much talk when Portugal's Helder Postiga successfully hit his spot-kick past England goalkeeper David lames. But he wasn't the first... Wire Services, PA Sport. "Edison invented the light bulb. I invented this penalty." THATS ex-European Championship winner of the former Czechoslovakia, Antonin
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        • 403 58 FINAL: PORTUGAL v GREECE IT turns out I'm not the only one to say daft things about the Greeks. Having said they had no chance against both France and the Czech Republic, being wrong twice and running up a debt to the Greek government in
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        • 398 58 Reuters. PORTUGAL have earned the major advantages of crowd support and an extra day's rest for Sunday's Euro 2004 final against Greece. Home advantage has not been much help in recent European Championships as the hosts had gone out in the semi-finals of the
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        • 592 59 PA Sport. IT'S a final line-up destined to please lovers of symmetry more than lovers of football but the 2004 European Championship will finish as it began, with Portugal playing Greece. Despite recording a 2-1 victory in the tournament opener in Porto, Otto Rehhagel's team remain
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        • 158 59 Portugal defender Jorge Andrade will be available for Sunday's Euro 2004 final against Greece in Lisbon. Andrade, who sat out Thursday's light training session as a precaution, joined his team-mates in training on Friday. The Deportivo La Coruna defender appears to have recovered from a minor
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          1365 60 ...or just lucky? FINAL: PORTUGAL v GREECE Reuters. HIS demented touchline theatrics mark Luiz Felipe Scolari out as an old-style, tub-thumping manager. But beneath the Brazilian's frenetic exterior lies a coach of deep footballing wisdom. With his adopted Portugal in sight of Euro 2004 glory following Wednesday's 2-1 semi-final
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          579 61 'We have to be patient to beat Greece' FINAL: PORTUGAL v GREECE PORTUGAL HERO MANICHE: PA Sport. NOT another bout of stage fright, please. This is the plea from Portugal sensation Maniche. "We know we'll need to be on form and mentally strong to win this one," midfield
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        • 174 61 PA Sport. MANICHE is a wanted man. His dynamic play in the Champions League for winners FC Porto and for his national team this season fuelled speculation that he will be joining one of Europe's biggest clubs in the coming weeks. Jose Mourinho, his
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          574 62 'We have confidence to upset Portugal! GREECE HERO ANGELOS CHARISTEAS: PA Sport ANGELOS Charisteas best sums up the fiery mood in the Greece camp. He expects no favour and will offer little respect to host Portugal when they meet at the Estadio da Luz. "Portugal will not want
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        • 252 62 AFP. MONEY may be the root of some evil in Greece's run-up to tomorrow's Euro 2004 final. Greek football officials in Portugal are still negotiating with the national team's players about the final size of the bonus after their surprising qualification for the Euro 2004 final. "The bonus
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          546 63 FINAL: PORTUGAL v GREECE The taking point: Will making it to Euro 2004 final be a stepping stone to greater heights at club level for the Greek stars? Or will they withdraw back to the anonymity which greeted their arrival in Portugal? BBC Sport. OTTO REHHAGEL: The manager of the
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      • 534 64 FINAL: PORTUGAL v GREECE PA Sport. GERMAN referee Markus Merk believes his nomination to handle the Euro 2004 final at Lisbon's Estadio da Luz would help heal the wounds of his country's elimination at the first-round stage. Merk, describing the news as "wonderful", pipped Italy's
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      • 23 64 Portugal and Greece meet again in what for both teams is their first appearance in the final
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        82 64 ILisfelMlf© Manager Portugal Appointed December, 2002 Record to date 22 matches: 13 wins, 5 draws, 4 defeats Clubs: CSA Maceio (Bra, 1988) 8 Juventud, Pelotas, Criciuma (Bra, 1991) Al-Qadsia (Kuw,92) Gremio Porto Alegre (1993-96) Jubil Iwata (Japan, 1996) Curitiba, Goias, Palmeiras (Bra, 1998-00) Cruzerio (2000-01) Kuwait (1990) Brazil (2001-02)
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        82 64 Otto Manager Greece Appointed I August 2001 Record to date 35 matches: 20 wins, 8 draws, 7 defeats Career as player: 821 Bundesliga matches, 22 goals Clubs (as coach): (All Bundesliga) FC Saarbreck (1972-73) Kickers Offenbach (1974-75) Werder Bremen (1975-76) Borussia Dortmund (1976-78) Arminia Bielefeld (1978) Fortuna Duesseldorf (1978-80)
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      • MATCHPftg VIEWS
        • 196 65 FINAL: PORTUGAL v GREECE Super sub Nuno Gomes has looked like Portugal's sharpest striker throughout the tournament scoring brilliantly against Spain to put his team in the quarters but he has started just one game, when regular striker Pauleta was suspended. Pauleta, on the other hand, has
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