The New Paper, 26 December 1992

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  • 12 1 the new paper SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1992 MITA (P) 75/4/92 50 CENTS
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    • 64 1 our free "X#ll J viewer when you buy this paper (available while K ft A*tQ2y stocks last). It will give some of our OiW colour photos a three-dimensional effect. V* The pictures are on/ Pages 1, 3, 36, 55 and 58 Jft £ii Lr y«i 111 r>Tnj vv < E*
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 191 2 Wire services. Ms Zoe Baird, 40, will be America's first female Attor-ney-General, the Government's top legal adviser. Ranked among the top 50 businesswomen in the US, Ms Baird has been picked to head the Justice Department. "She is tough, tenacious, and gifted," President-elect Bill
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    • 262 2 Bernama. THE Sultan of Johor yesterday called on the people in the state to give him their undivided loyalty. Sultan Mahmood Iskandar said Johoreans should practise "bermuafakat" (consultation) with him. Addressing a congregation of about 600 after performing Friday prayers at Masjid Kampung
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    • 140 2 HOCKEY coach Douglas Gomez claimed that he was assaulted by Johor Sultan Mahmood Iskandar on Nov 30 at the palace. Mr Gomez, 52, is the coach of the Sultan Abu Bakar College in Johor. He had earlier protested against an order to his team to withdraw from a hockey
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    • 235 2 Reuter. INDIAN police yesterday arrested more than 3,000 Hindu devotees threatening to march to a shrine in the northern town of Ayodhya. The shrine was built over a mosque destroyed by Hindu militants earlier this month. Destruction of the mosque on Dec 6 triggered nationwide Hindu-Muslim riots
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    • 142 3 Today The New Paper puts you in the picture a three-dimensional picture that reaches out, grabs you, and makes you feel that you are in it. It's done with a special lens, developed in Britain as recently as last year. Every copy of The New
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    • Article, Illustration
      68 3 IT may be fun in a convertible with the wind in your face. But how about motorcyclists? To find out how they cope, 22-year-old production operator Norani Asani, in a white pharmacist's coat and a surgical mask, whizzed round Singapore for two hours on her Honda NXI2S. The
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    • 17 2 Saturday Special Six sets of Karaoke Systems worth $800 each to be won/ Coupon on Page 26
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    • 24 2 Leisure Index Weekender: Pages 25 to 36 Saturday TV: Page 38 Sunday TV: Page 39 Saturday Radio: Pages 40 41 Sunday Radio: Page 42
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 207 4 Retailers see drop in festive sales HOT WHERE have all the big spenders gone? This was the most frequent lament of retailers this festive season. There were two main reasons why many shoppers stayed home, Business Times reports. One, the many wet days this month. In fact,
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    • 46 4 Christmas procession: Palestinian choirboys and church officials making their way from Manger Square towards the Church of the Nativity, the traditional birthplace of Jesus Christ. The annual ceremony in Bethlehem in the West Bank took place on Christmas Eve. Picture/ Reuter
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 69 4 UNITED Nations special courts will be set up in Cambodia to punish those responsible for the growing political violence. The special courts will start work early next year, says Mr Yasushi Akashi, head of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia. Mr Akashi said yesterday that since Dec
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      • 66 4 FORMER Indian premier Rajiv Gandhi's son had a narrow escape when his armoured jeep overturned while travelling at high speed in New Delhi late on Thursday night. Two of his bodyguards were killed, police said yesterday. Mr Rahul Gandhi, 22, was helped out unharmed from the jeep by
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      • 34 4 DESPITE its economic crunch, Russia will not devise new programmes. Its new economic strategy chief, Deputy Prime Minister Boris Fyodorov, said yesterday he would continue free-market reforms set by the previous government.
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      • 54 4 JAPAN should reject attempts to build an Asian trade bloc because the region depends heavily on trade with the United States and Europe, a Japanese Government panel urged yesterday. Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has proposed an Asian trade grouping to counter European and
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 402 7 FROM PAGE 3 YOU are driving along the coast, the top of your convertible rolled down, strains of the Beach Boys' Kokomo blasting over the stereo. The fresh sea breeze engulfs you. This is not the movies. An increasing number of motorists in Singapore are enjoying
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    • 109 7 Suzuki Vitara: A spokesperson for Inchcape, the company which markets Suzuki cars in Singapore, said: "The Suzuki Vitara's popularity rides on two trends: The demand for four-wheel drive vehicles after the Gulf War, and the craze for convertibles." The Vitara costs between $85,000 and $88,000, depending on COE.
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    • 450 8  -  FROM PAGE 3 By June Kong YOU'VE had characters leaping off the movie screen at you before in 3-D films. But what about 3-D photographs leaping out at you from your ordinary photo album? Think about it: you flip open your album and just miss
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  • 389 10  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Yaw Yan Chong A MAN was brutally killed in his rented room in a shophouse in Paya Lehar on Christmas Eve. Graffiti on one of the walls in the room alleged he was a homosexual. The man, Mr Seah Thye Kim, 50, was
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  • 292 12  -  SINGAPORETODAY By T Jeyathesan SELLING fakes was Soon (leok Leong's business, and he got away with it on more than 10 occasions. But his luck ran out. On Thursday, Soon, 39, was jailed 21 months and fined $4,(XX) for repeatedly selling imitation products and
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    • 469 14  -  You don't have to be a star baby to be in my show, sang Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. In Singapore, you don't have to be a star to sing the hits. Just pop down to the nearest karaoke lounge. There are so many
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    • 47 14 THE survey commissioned by The New Paper asked 225 people to list what they considered as the most important aspects of a karaoke lounge (See next page). They were also asked to name the songs most frequently heard and their favourite songs (See this page).
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    • 274 15 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE JAVA Jive has hit the right note with the local karoake crowd. In the survey commissioned by The New Paper, about 10 per cent of the 225 lounge-goers interviewed rated it tops. JJ Mahoney Pub was second with about seven per cent
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 407 16  -  By Yaw Yan Chong ELDERLY men, many of them grandfathers, are flocking in groups to the sex town of Tanjong Finang, a twohour ferry ride from Singapore. In their s()s, 60s or 70s, they make up the bulk of the sex tourists from Singapore to this
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    • 262 16 THIS misbegotten village has over 1,000 girls all living and working in concrete longhouses. They are all prostitutes. The village, known as Desa Tuapaya, is located in Bukit Indah and popularly called "24 km". It was built about eight months ago. The girls mostly aged between
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    • 541 17 YAW YAN CHONG meets some elderly sex tourists and a young prostitute Their leader, Mr Phua, 58, a taxi-driver, feels he must talk boldly. They are on the ferry to Tanjong Pinang. "Hey, last time I was here, I had this
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    • 269 17 OLDER sex tourists interviewed know about the threat of Aids and sex diseases passed by prostitutes. Many said openly they used condoms to protect themselves and looked for what they considered "better-quality" ones which would not tear. Some elderly sex tourists mistakenly
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    • 43 17 IF YOU are not sure if you have been infected, call the Aware hotline 293-1011. It is open from 4 pm to 10 pm every day. Or you could ring the recorded Aids Information Line on 254-1611 (English) and 254-1612 (Mandarin).
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    • 22 17 THERE are about 120,000 men aged 60 and above in Singapore, aci cording to the latest Singapore Population Census Report.
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    • 593 18 She has just arisen, having returned early this morning to her prostitutes' village in Desa Tuapaya after spending the night with a customer at a hotel. She freshens up and puts on her casual working clothes a pair of tight, short shorts and
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 234 19 Reuter. ISRAEL yesterday banned humanitarian aid through Israeli lines to 415 Palestinians stranded in south Lebanon. The Palestinians were expelled from the Israeli-occupied territories of West Bank and Gaza Strip two weeks ago. (See BACKGROUND). "The vote was eight in favour (of banning the
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    • 74 19 ISRAEL has accused the 415 Palestinians, who were deported last week, of being members of two militant Muslim groups, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. The two groups are linked to the deaths of six Israelis in the past few weeks. The Palestinian deportees are stranded in a snowy no
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    • 106 19 Reuter. A HEAVILY-ARMED man dressed as Santa Claus was shot and wounded by police in Basle after he took a young woman hostage. Police said the man knocked on the woman's front door in the northern town of Rheinach on Thursday and drove her to Basle at
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    • 94 19 W Te went to the moon and somehow forgot to keep going. American astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon on Dec 7, 1972. His Apollo 17 spacecraft flew 400 million km to reach the moon. Today, the US space shuttle Discovery cannot go
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    • 276 21 CHINAWILLBE JJj China could become the world's biggest fall V economy in 20 years, says the Economist, a respected London magazine. Average paypacket of city worker: Below $40 a month" Average paypacket of peasant Below $20 a month* Number of absolute Under 100 million* Population 1/200 million Average Number 'poor'
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 445 22 S HE was a top model whose lace graced the covers of glossy magazines. The daughter of a baroness and a neurosurgeon, she partied as if there were no tomorrow. And she sought happiness in drugs and sex. Then, Ms Rytasha Morrell Armstrong found God. Now, she
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    • 412 23 FROM PAGE 22 P RATEEP Unsongtham-Hata has already put more than 23 years "more than half my lifetime" into giving than most people do in all of theirs. In recognition of her work, the girl, more well-known as the Slum Angel of the Bangkok klongs, was
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    • 246 24 Wire services. US President George Bush has issued pardons to former defence secretary Caspar Weinberger and five other top Reagan administration officials involved in the IranContra scandal. The affair, which involved the selling of arms to Iran, rocked the presidency of Mr Ronald Reagan in the 1980s,
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    • 85 24 THE Iran-Contra scandal involved the secret sale by the US Government of weapons to Iran to obtain the freedom of US hostages. They were then being held by pro-Iranian guerillas in Lebanon. Proceeds from sales were later channelled to pro-US "contra" rebels fighting the Marxist government of Nicaragua. Both
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    • 118 24 Wire services. TAIWANESE opposition politician Lai Kun-cheng (in picture, being carried) suffered bruises and a slight concussion after this scuffle at the Central Election Commission (CEC) Building. Mr Lai, a member of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and his colleagues had earlier tried to
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    • Article, Illustration
      47 24 M any people only respected my post. My relations with them are now more than cold frozen. Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, 61 (left). He was referring to those who deserted him after he resigned in December last year following the collapse of the Soviet Union
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    • 186 24 Reuter. BRITAIN'S best-known agony aunt has confessed she was cheating when she advised others how to keep their marriages happy. She deceived her own husband and had an affair with another man for 30 years. Mrs Marjorie Proops, now in her late 70s, made the confession
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    • 70 23 Fire Disco/Teenage Centrefold Pageant 1992 VENUE: FIRE DISCO DATE: SUNDAY 27 DEC '92 TIME: 2.30 5.30pm TITLES: Mr Ms Teenage Ceabnefold of the Year 1992 Mr Ms Teenage/Lawman 1992 Mr Ms Catwalk 1992 -fr.. Prod ik *d by: Nf PORTER PUBLISHING PTE LTD Jr Publisher of the original Teenage magazine
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    • 97 25 jSL isllsfvl :f ;lf fifey p v-- :£z-kk£z4 'i v«3St *rfZi *tti «iMvw V .ate:....- HMfatJHji -t| Wm Composite jH (Pan Lingling), (Liu Qiulian), hair (MMbuZIm!, .^^^^^^^■^■■■{■■■^^B^kVHSH /ac <& PV'M| tScltyChtn i This actress is yet to be born. Pan Lingling, says a Hongkong actor. She was created, with the
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    • SCENE&HEARD
      • 436 26 She will be back next month to promote a new album, produced by close friend Fauzi Marzuki. THE heavy mascara, the false eyelashes and the spraygunned make-up have been stripped from her face. From behind the outrageous Las Vegas mask, the woman emerges. She is
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      • 569 27  -  Beverly Hills ***** SBC 5, tomorrow, 1.30 pm By Dave Ang SHOULD teenagers be kept in the dark about sex? Does open discussion about sex promote promiscuity? Should condoms be made available in school? Are they the best form of protection against Aids
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    • 241 26 I THE NEW PAPER SATURDAY SPECIAL YSZ Karaoke System with '-METIA&-* roi IT TT>™ 6 lucky readers will each win a KEC Karaoke System (comprising KEC AV-800 Digital Echo Mixer, KEC KC-520 Professional Key Controller and KEC D-333 Microphone). You could be one of them. Just complete the crossword puzzle,
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  • the new paper Prettiest actress Award 92
    • 578 28 "PAN Lingling is the prettiest actress from SBC," says Hongkong composer-actor James Wong. Lingling herself says: "There are prettier actresses in SBC whom James has not seen yet," says Lingling. So who is the prettiest girl on Caldecott Hill? We pick 20. You decide who is
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    • 542 29 PRETTIEST OF THEM ALL: Who is the prettiest actress in Singapore? VIVIEN CHIONG asks actresses here. One name appears to be a clear favourite. But when the actors are asked, the choices are more varied COVERSTORY WHO is the prettiest actress in Singapore? The New
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    • 358 30 Name: Jazreel Low, 26, 1.72 m, 52 kg. Previous serials: My Fair Ladies. Against the Wind. Two of Us. Best asset: "My nose. I think it's well-shaped." Choice for prettiest actress award: Pan Lingling. Name: Liu Qiulian, 30, 1.58 m, 43 kg. Previous serials: A Time to
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    • 372 31 WHAT MAKES A PRETTY WOMAN? Make-up or no make-up? Short hair or long hair? VIVIEN CHIONG asks a former beauty queen and people in the glamour industry COVERSTORY A BEAUTY is someone who wears little or no make-up, say those in the beauty business. Ms Jacqueline Wong,
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    • 604 32 "PAN Lingling is the prettiest actress from SBC," says Hongkong composer-actor James Wong. Lingling herself says: "There are prettier actresses in SBC whom James has not seen yet," says Lingling. So who is the prettiest girl on Caldecott Hill? We pick 20. You decide who is
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    • 55 31 I CHAMPIONSHIP I DOG SHOW I OBEDIENCE I St I TRIALS I Venue World Trade Centre I Hall 6 I Date :27 December 1992 I Time 9am to spm I CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW I Mr Rodi Hubenthal (Norway) Mrs Wera Hubenthal (Norway) I Mr Jim Currie (UK) I OBEDIENCE AGILITY I
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  • 273 33 TAKE it from me. Santa Claus is not I repeat, not the only person who is guaranteed to visit Singapore every Christmas. There's another. And although he doesn't come along by way of Dancer and Prancer and Rudolph and Vixen, he nevertheless makes it by a
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  • 144 33 THEY'RE back. Malaysia's best-known band, The Alleycats are back in town for another gig and you'll be doing yourself a favour by catching them this time. Since their return, a couple of weeks ago, the "Cats" have been bringing in the crowds to this Hotel Phoenix basement
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  • 172 33 THERE are Christmas cards and there are Christmas cards. By now you must be inundated by them. But how much snowy scenes, reindeers and Christmas trees decked with tinsel and baubles can you take in one season? So, in times like this, I relish improvisation. Vernon Cornelius,
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  • Article, Illustration
    42 35 CAMEL WASH: Don't get wet when you look through your 3D spectacles at this China-style Santa Claus bathing his camel. You can catch both man and beast at the year-end festive celebration at Tang Dynasty City theme park. Picture/ Simon Ker
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
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