The New Paper, 7 August 1993

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1 59 The New Paper
  • 13 1 the new paper weekend edition SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1993 MVTA(P) 035/04/93 50 CENTS
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 362 2 The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen was rocked by explosions on Thursday. Seven 1; bodies have been recovered but many more people are missing. Wire services. THE explosions that rocked Shenzhen on Thursday have raised doubts over China's attention to industrial safety and its ability to
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    • 117 2 Reuter. LEAKING ammonium nitrate triggered the first blast at a warehouse in Qingshuihe, north of Shenzhen city centre, at about 1.35 pm. By 5.30 pm, eight of the 10 warehouses in the zone had exploded like a string of firecrackers. One explosion sent a fireball and
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    • 447 3 AFTERMATH OF SHENZHEN EXPLOSION Wire services. TOP officials in Beijing are worried about the economic and political fallout from the Shenzhen accident. The officials are concerned that the massive explosions on Thursday could cause "international embarrassment" for China, said a government source reached by
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    • 245 2 The New Paper will not be published on Monday because of the National Day holiday. We wM be back on Tuesday. Our HottinePlus on 1800-734-7711 will operate until 1pm today and will be closed tomorrow. On Monday, you can call our HottinePlus from 9am to 7pm. Saturday Special Prizes consisting
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 173 4 HOT STORIES RETIRED top civil servant and banker Chua Kim Yeow (right) will run against Mr Ong Teng Cheong in the presidential election. He said his candidacy is "'as an act of public duty". Mr Chua said he was approached by former Deputy Prime Minister
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    • 235 4 MR Morihiro Hosokawa was elected Japan's new Prime Minister yesterday, bringing to power a coalition government that has vowed to clean up rampant political corruption. The BBC spoke to Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew about political changes in Japan and its lesson for Singapore BBC: (Like the
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 54 4 TWO men were arrested yesterday in connection with alleged rigging of the Neptune Orient Lines share price last month. They are Tan Boon Chiang, managing director of a company called Jumbo Diamond House, and Casey Low Chin Yee, a remisier with Tsang and Ong. Both were later released
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      • 68 4 SPILLED oil on the tracks may be the cause of Thursday's peak-hour train collision at Clementi Mass Rapid Transit station. The oil was from a works train which did maintenance work earlier that morning. Singapore MRT confirmed the spill but said it could not say whether it was
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      • 68 4 A 28-YEAR-OLD unemployed man has been arrested for robbing women by jamming the lifts they were taking. He pretended to help the victim by trying to force open the lift. Next, he would ask her to put her handbag into the gap of the door to prevent it
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      • 54 4 MALAYSIAN Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba offered to resign on Wednesday, say sources close to him. But Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad rejected the offer. Now Mr Ghafar will defend his N0.2 post in the ruling Umno party against an expected challenge from Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim, a senior
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      • 58 4 US President Bill Clinton's budget deficit plan squeezed past the House of Representatives with a razor thin majority of two VPfltPmflV The vote was 218 to 216. In the Senate, the final vote hinges on the decision of the only Democratic senator who has not announced his position,
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      • 58 4 FORMER boxing champion Mike Tyson has lost his appeal against a rape conviction. The three-judge Indiana Court of Appeals was divided two-to-one in the ruling. It prevents Tyson from securing his freedom in the near future. Tyson was convicted on Feb 10 last year and sentenced to six
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      • 50 4 FORMER Law Minister E W Barker was fined $500 yesterday for careless driving. A second charge of failing to give a blood sample without reasonable excuse was withdrawn after Barker, 72, pledged never to drive again. Police said his record of public service was also taken into consideration.
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      • 57 4 OCBC'B tender exercise for The Countryside houses met with lukewarm response yesterday. The tender closed with 99 tender documents submitted for the 76 houses on sale. When The Countryside was launched in July, more than 200 home buyers queued for three days in the hope of buying one or
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    • 70 4 The Straits Times: Confirmed: Ex-banker to contest Business Times: 2 arrested in connection with alleged NOL share-rigging Lianhe Zaobao: Chua Kim Yeow accepts proposal to run for President Berita Harian: Ex-banker another presidential candidate SBC morning news: Russia's cabinet approves a plan for economic reforms BBC morning news: The
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 332 5  -  By Ovidia Lim THE Singapore Zoo has refused a request to close its gates to the public for a visit by Michael Jackson. The Zoo's reason: Public access to a tourist attraction should not be denied because of a celebrity. A Singapore Zoological Gardens spokeswoman
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    • 110 5 MORE than 3,000 troops will guard the stadium in Bangkok where pop superstar Michael Jackson is to launch his 'Dangerous' World tour with two shows this month. Organisers said Jackson and his entourage will arrive from Los Angeles on three jumbo jets for the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 389 7  -  PENALTY The case is classified as possession of false documents with the intention to use them as genuine. The penalty is up to seven years' jail, or a fine, or both. By Yaw Yan Chong SOME Indian nationals have been using forged Malaysian identity
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    • 267 8  -  By Goh Teng Teng A BANK in Johor Baru is wooing Singaporeans by offering Sunday banking and more attractive interest rates. Pacific Bank has been advertising its services in Singapore. Ms Jackie Tan, 34, the operations officer of Pacific Bank, said: "Half of our Sunday crowd
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    • 70 8 INTEREST rates are generally higher in Malaysia than in Singapore. Banks in Malaysia offer interest rates of between 3 per cent and 6.75 per cent for savings accounts, while those in Singapore offer between one per cent and 3 per cent. However, the Malaysian authorities impose a
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    • 168 8 THERE are risks in banking in foreign countries: Currency risks: If you are saving in a foreign currency and its value drops against the Singapore dollar, your interest gains may be wiped out by exchange losses. In the last four years, the British pound dropped 29
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  • 517 10 The giant Takashimaya shopping complex on Orchard Road opened yesterday and thousands went to check out South-east Asia's largest retail complex. NG LI-SAN checks out the people at the grand opening SINGAPORETODAY Kelvin Yap, 18, a secondyear architecture student at Singapore Polytechnic: "We're doing a project on the
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  • 206 12  -  SINGAPORETODAY FROM PREVIOUS PAGE By Cynthia Tan BO U QUETS of flowers sent to Takashimaya for its grand opening yesterday were left intact by the crowd. Last Saturday, some people stripped bare similar bouquets at the opening of Sogo Tampines. At Takashimaya last night, there
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  • 925 14  -  THENEWSTOQAY SINGAPORETOCAY MATURE STUDENTS Students aged 25 and over who enrol in NUS are deemed "mature" students. In the academic year 1992/1993, about 3.6 per cent (about 500) of the 14,000 student enrolment were 25 years and above. This includes full-time
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  • 223 17 SJNGAPORETOCAY SINGAPORE will remain fertile ground for young engineers to develop their careers, says the Second Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr Lim Boon Heng. Manufacturing will remain the backbone of the country's economy in the years ahead, Mr Lim is scheduled to tell the Student
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    • 342 17 Sunday afternoons can BE SO SATISFYING WHEN KARAOKE IS YOUR CUP OF TEA. I To begin with, dig in to Hi-Tea at New Park Cafe. With a delicious spread of teatime favourites from cakes and tarts to kueh kueh. mee siam, laksa, p| f V rojak and spring rolls. Then
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  • 288 18 WORLDTODAY AP WASHINGTON has decided to attend a United Nations conference for a total nuclear test ban despite the risk of offending fellow nuclear powers, France and China. The reason for the decision; Washington does not want to alienate developing nations, said a
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 306 20 UPI. A PREMATURE baby in a British hospital has been seriously injured by a two-year-old fellow patient. The girl picked up three-month-old David Bennell, chewed his face and nearly bit a finger off, British newspapers said yesterday. "It was as if he had been
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    • 322 21 Wire services. THE only man ever arrested for kidnapping Westerners in Lebanon has been freed from a German jail. Abbas Hamadi, 34, was deported to Beirut yesterday after serving half of his 13-year prison term for kidnapping two German businessmen. Abbas kidnapped the two Germans in
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    • 222 21 AFP. A METEORITE, found earlier this year in northern Thailand, has been returned to its finders a farmer couple who consider it sacred. The meteorite had been confiscated by local government officials. The officials had said all objects fallen from the sky are state property
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    • 160 22 Reuter. FOUR Chinese children were inspired to ""take a tour of hell" after watching a TV series on supernatural adventures. So they decided to eat a watermelon laced with rat poison. Two 13-year-old students in central Henan province died after the suicide pact, the China Youth
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    • 289 22 Reuter. A WOMAN claimed she was raped by two Italian border guards and then sent to the French border where two French guards raped her again. Two French border guards have been charged and arrests are reportedly imminent in Italy. The alleged rape happened
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 314 24 GEORGIA'S entire Cabinet resigned yesterday after Parliament refused to pass the Budget. Leader Eduard Shevardnadze warned that the country was on the brink of breaking up. Mr Shevardnadze, the Parliament chairman and Head of State, named himself acting Prime Minister as well. Prime Minister Tengiz
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    • 156 24 AFP. INDIAN truck drivers called off their sixday strike yesterday after the Government promised to lift highway entry taxes at the truckers' demand. A Transport Ministry official said the strike ended after New Delhi promised to urge eight state governments to remove entry taxes and
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    • COVERSTORY
      • 625 26 A DIRTY WORD: The bomoh was once looked up to as a person with rare and mysterious healing powers. But today "bomoh" has become a dirty word a witch doctor who cons innocent people and even kills. On Monday, two bomohs were charged with
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      • 70 26 IN December 1990, Osman Samsudin, 32, was fined a total of $2,000 for criminal breach of trust when he cheated Mr Rusli Samri of $680. Osman had told Mr Rusli that he possessed healing powers and the ability to drive away evil spirits. Osman was arrested in
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      • 278 27 BELIEVING that a bomoh can cure your illness or solve your problems is against Islamic principles, say two religious teachers interviewed by The New Paper. Ustazah Maznah binti Muhamad Noor Lanang, who has been a religious teacher for 18 years, said: "You cannot believe that another
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      • 900 27 BOMOH PERCEPTION: What do today's Malays think of bomohs? SITI ROHANAH KOID speaks to the man-in-the street and five bomohs to find out WHEN the word bomoh was mentioned to 15 Malays including five who dabble in traditional healing all shuddered and said they wouldn't want
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      • 65 27 MR Mahadi bin Panirun, now 31 and unemployed, had to have his right forearm amputated after a bomoh treatment fractured his arm and caused gangrene to develop. The bomoh, Mohamad Ideriess bin Abdullah, 35, was charged in court on March 30 this year for committing a rash
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      • 714 28 THE TREATMENT SESSION: What happens when a bomoh or a faith healer treats a person? SITI ROHANAH KOID speaks to a young woman who took her 18-year-old brother to a faith healer to help him with his delinquent behaviour She (the faith healer) said that the
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      • 90 28 LAST year, Ansani Kardiman, 60, a self-styled bomoh was charged on June 24 with raping and outraging the modesty of a woman who had gone to seek help from him. He was also charged with molesting two other women. He was charged with raping one of the
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    • SPOTLIGHT
      • 174 29 BIRTHDAY BASH: Blink and you may miss some of the most interesting scenes at the Padang during the National Day Parade this Monday. OVIDIA LIM, who was at last Sunday's preview, gives you a sneak peek into what's good Stunt bikers: The kind of stunts
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      • 83 29 Kid on skis: Those of you who spend your time swallowing sea water when you attempt water-skiing can learn from nine-year-old Coral Anne Tong. She's perched on the shoulders of one of three skiers whizzing past you at the Marina Bay during the sea display. Fabulous fireworks: This
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      • 501 30 You’re on parade PROGRAMME 4.15 pa Spectators to be seated 5.15 pa Parade marches in 5.37 pa Arrival of ministers 5.41 pa Arrival of Prime Minister 5.45 pa Arrival of President 6.10 pa Promise of Youth 6.18 pa Vitality in Motion 6.36 pa
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      • 131 30 Your problems at work, problems with the maid and the problems you have dealing with this problem. Your pet dog: He may be cute but others at the Padang may not agree. j Your pager and handphone: It's a public holiday, give yourself and those around
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      • 201 30 CHECK the illustration on the left for those items you need at the Parade: (a) TICKETS: Bring the colour-coded tickets for the National Day Parade, because without them, you can forget about bringing the rest of the following items. (b) SUNBLOCK: A tan may look gorgeous
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      • 129 30 HAIR: Tie up your long hair and bring a light hat there is no shade at the Padang and the sun is scorching. TOP: T-shirts or short-sleeved shirts in light colours, preferably in the colour group you've been assigned (it's the same colour as your ticket). Make
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    • COVERSTORY
      • 548 32 YOUNG AND WELL-READ: In the past, people pictured the bomoh as a wrinkled, old man sitting on a mat in a corner of his hut. But some of today's bomohs are young, well-read and educated and do not practise traditional healing fulltime. SITI ROHANAH KOID talks to
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      • 337 32 BOMOHS are as controversial an issue among Malay Muslims as abortion. In his book Bomoh/Dukun, a noted German anthropologist with degrees in medicine, Professor Roland Werner says legend dates the bomoh concept back to the world's first man. Adam was supposedly the first bomoh and that
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      • 56 32 IN 1991, Kalander Asraf Ali, 25, sought a cure for impotency from a medicine man after doctors failed him. Instead of being treated, Kalander, 25, found himself stealing about $63,000 at the bidding of the bomoh. Kalander was charged in court on Dec 3 last year. He
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  • 441 34 j -ij, mm*\ winder SCENE&HEARD JANE Seymour, 42, is too busy to let nature takes its course. She wants a baby and she wants it now. She has secretly visited, a California clinic to be artificially impregnated by husband n0.4, director James Keach, 45, the
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  • 355 36 IT'S a jungle out there. And it's not just the party animals who are going wild. Even the wall flowers are being forced to get into the act. Take, for example, what happened at a disco in Orchard Towers. It was a quiet Tuesday night. There
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  • 233 36 IT'S a fine set-up. One portion is reserved for the serious drinkers. It's their bar. A place where they can gather and talk about anything from politics to football without having to compete with loud pounding music from the band. In the next room, and separated by just
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  • 182 36 DIAGONALLY across from Jantzen's, is another pub that is worth a visit. It's Tom's Keller, a new kid on the strip. In fact, it will be celebrating its official opening tomorrow. However, in the few months that it has been around, it has built up a
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    • MONEYMINE
      • 691 37 MAYDAY! MAYDAY!: Emergencies strike at any time. Insurance policies are not enough, as they are for very specific purposes. It is always wise to have some money put aside for contingencies. But how much, and what should you be saving for? TRUDY LIM explains
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      • 85 37 HOSPITAL BILLS: The amount you need to pay medical bills if you or a family member require emergency or long-term treatment. AIRFARE: If you have relatives in other countries, you might have to visit them suddenly if there is a family emergency. Calculate the airfares and other costs.
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  • 6 38 THE FLIPSIDE
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  • 564 39 BABY MAKES THREE: We begin an eight-part series on one woman's with childbirth and motherhood. C SHANTHENI looks back the day before the birth of her child and recounts her fears and excitement as she checks into the hospital weeknder BABYMAKES3 THE smell of
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    • 356 51 AP. IT took a three-time champion to halt Franziska van Almsick's charge towards seven gold medals at the European swimming Championships in Sheffield. The 15-year-old German had to be satisfied with silver behind Catherine Plewinski of France in the 100 metres butterfly final after
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    • 81 52 4_JjSSTEjgMjDjR Mtjr> legend will be performing live for one i NwP^Prese^St^Won(faCon^ ■P a 1 r I All you have to do is call night in Singapore. As the presenter for iriAA OA A O/lOA* i me event, The New Paper j IVUvJ O lU Ol OU J I Eocked Bag
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    • 273 53 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: ATHLETICS: Rhede meet in Germany: Men High jump: 1 Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) 2.38 m 2 Ralf Sonn (Ger) 2.30 m 3 Hendrik Beyer (Ger) 2.25 m. Long jump: 1 Mike Powell (US) 8.41 2 Eric Walder (USA) 8.05 3 Obina Eregbu (SA)
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    • 258 53 Wire services. LIVERPOOLS'S Hungarian star Istvan Kozma is heading home. The 28-year-old midfielder had his dream of playing in the English top flight ruined by new European Commission guidelines for work permits. Kozma appeared in Liverpool's first team on only nine occasions last season.'lt did not meet the requirement
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    • 251 58 MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS By Ganesh Rajaram THE year was 1977. It was the year Singapore won the Malaysia Cup. But I remember 1977 for another reason. That was the year I became a Manchester United fan. I was 10 years old then. Through
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