The New Paper, 10 December 1993

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1 79 The New Paper
  • 7 1 the new paper Friday, December 10, 1993
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  • 408 2 THENEWSTODAY Wire services. TUMULTUOUS world trade negotiations were wracked by a series of crises yesterday. Signs emerged in Geneva that the end deal might be smaller than expected. With only days to a deadline for a new global trade accord under the General Agreement on Tariffs
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    • 192 2 SPORE GAL IN ITALY WRITES HOME *****1 Leisure Index Showtime: Pages 45, 46, 48, 50 52 Pinup: Page 53 TV: Page 42 Radio, Comics: Pages 54 55 Hotlinepius Heard or seen anything? Call Hotline Plus 1800-734-7711. Or fax 737-5375. I NEW LOOK NEW BEGINNINGS Tone Flabby Thighs, Tummy And Arms
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 238 4 South Korea announced yesterday that it would open its market to rice imports to remain within the global trading system. The move sparked protests in the country and was viewed with concern in Taiwan and Japan HOT STORY SOUTH KOREA PRESIDENT Kim Young Sam has
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 56 4 CHINA will start work immediately on a post-1997 legislature if Hongkong Governor Chris Patten acts unilaterally to present a electoral reform Bill to the colony's law-making body. The threat was made by Chinese Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister Qian Qichen yesterday. The bill is scheduled to be
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      • 62 4 THE five men accused in the Official Secrets Act case will have to answer the charges against them. They face a total of 11 charges in connection with an alleged leak of an economic growth estimate which was referred to in a Business Tiipes article on
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      • 46 4 C K Tang has reported a loss of $5.47 million in the six months to Sept 30. Last week, Metro Holdings reported a half-time net loss of $5.06 million. Analysts say the results show the squeeze in the retail sector is becoming evident.
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      • 30 4 LOWER minimum wages and cut costs such as social-security payments. These are two proposals by the European Community to create 15 million jobs by the year 2000.
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      • 48 4 Q V-Jome of us manja (spoil) our husbands like mad. (But) I have an arrangement with him: Whoever leaves the bed later makes it. Malaysia's Trade and Industry Minister, Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz, saying she and her husband have always shared parenting and household duties
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      • 33 4 TAIWANESE housewife Mrs Tong Mei Lan, 46, (left) is Singapore's six millionth visitor this year. This is the first time the sixjuillion mark has been reached in a single yea*.
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      • 40 4 MRS Delia Lee (right), wife of Lee Foundation chairman Lee Seng Gee, yesterday, paid $26,000 for a Christmas tree. It was the highest bid at Raffles' dinner tfhich raised $95,000 for the Singapore Bone Marrow Register.
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    • 86 4 The Straits Times: Singaporeans enjoy better social conditions now Business Times: Tang's interim loss points to squeeze in retail sector Lianhe Zaobao: China to speed up discussion on setting up Hongkong Special Administrative Region legislature Berita Harian: More trust in Singapore-Malaysia relations SBC morning news: Talks between US Secretary
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  • 272 5 THENEWSTODAY IT is slam-dunking time in the heart of Orchard Road. The Sports Stadium store in the basement of Takashimaya has brought in a mini-basketball court. The court features a movable basketball net. The height of the net and the size of the net rim can
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  • 340 6  -  i She dares 'silver gun' I robber, i he walks r away SINGAPORETODAY By Yaw Yan Chong THIS 24-year-old woman money-changer challenged a gunman wanted by the police for five robberies. The gunman handed the woman a note demanding money and pointed a silver-plat-ed revolver at
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  • 33 6 Police classified the case as attempted armed robbery, which carries a penalty of three to 10 years' jail and not less than 12 strokes of the cane. The silver-gun robber/ Page 8
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    • 323 8 FROM PAGE 6 IN all five robberies attributed to this gunman, he was armed with a trademark silver-plated gun. But he occasionally varies his appearance, tactics and targets. The Parkway Parade money-chang-er's description of the gunman did not match those given by his other
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    • 122 8 DON'T resist if your're confronted by a gunman. That's the advice from the police. A police spokesman this morning emphasised the need to be ultra-cautious when dealing with someone with a gun, whether a toy or real. ;y "When a person is confronted by someone with
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    • 315 10  -  By Tay Boon Chuan SOME teenage readers of The New Paper have spent their year-end holidays scouring departmental stores, private wardrobes and even garbage heaps looking for things to wear. One group searched through old cast-offs, another headed straight for the supermarket to fashion their outfits
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    • 85 10 FORM a group of three to 10 and dress to a theme. Be as creative or outlandish as you like. Give yourselves a name to complete the look. Take a picture of the group and send it to Zone, #01-302 Marina Square, Singapore 0103. The closing date has
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    • 193 12 BIGGER and grander floats from six foreign countries will feature in next year's Chingay 22 parade. The foreign performing troupes will join the best local performers from community centres, clubs, schools and associations in this annual Lunar New Year event. Because it marks the Year
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    • 83 12 CHINGAY 22 will be held on Saturday, Feb 19, at 8 pm in Orchard Road, beginning at Tangs and ending at the Meridien Hotel. There will be static performances in four areas along the route from 7.30 pm to 8 pm. In the event of rain, the event
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    • 35 12 THE designers of floats entered in the parade are eligible for three prizes in the Float Designers' Awards. After the parade, the floats will go on display at Sentosa from Feb 20 to 22.
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    • 97 12 A SCHOOLGIRL slit her wrists three times in five months. The 13-year-old attempted suicide thrice over differences with her mother, her teacher and her boyfriend and because of her PSLE results. The schoolgirl, who comes from a broken family, claims to have been an obedient child
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    • 428 15  -  By Siti Rohanah Koid TOP Gun took me bottoms up yesterday. And my composure was shot for a while. Top Gun is one of the rides at the fair at Biddall's English Fun Fair which opens today next to Parkway Parade. It is
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    • 88 15 THE fair opens today at 4 pm. It is open on weekdays between 4 and 11 pm, and noon to 11pm on weekends. Entry costs $3. Singapore is the fair's first Asian stop after touring England for about a year. Asked why he brought the fair to Singapore,
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    • 277 17  -  By Cheok Soh Hui SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Gina Ng can't speak Bahasa Indonesian. But that won't stop her from braving the language barrier and taking instructions on how to scale cliffs and canoe down jungle rivers in Indonesia. "I'm not worried," said Gina mat-ter-of-factly. "I'm a
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    • 214 18  -  By Tay Boon Chuan and Joseph Kung SNOW scenes and Santa are "out" for some teenagers sending Christmas cards this year. Instead, they are putting their season's greetings on cards carrying the images of Hongkong and Taiwanese music and film idols. About 50,000
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    • 126 18 DESPITE the attraction of Vivian Chow and the Heavenly Kings, most of the teens interviewed said they would still buy some cards with traditional Yuletide decorations. "I would send cards with Andy Lau to my friends if they preferred, but I would rather send the traditional
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  • 242 20 SINGAPORETODAY THERE will be more opportunities for engineering undergraduates to get hands-on experience overseas under changes to be announced today. The Minister of State for National Development, Mr Lim Hng Kiang, is to give a speech this morning at Nan yang Technological University (NTU) in
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    • 467 22 DURING lunch on Wednesday, a man in his 60s prodded me from behind and gestured with two fingers. He wanted 20 cents. I was sitting in the hawker centre next to People's Park Complex. The man was wearing an orange T-shirt, brown shorts and plastic
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    • 109 22 A PERSON who goes around collecting alms or trying to get charitable contributions of any kind under any false or fraudulent pretence is considered a rogue and vagabond. The person faces a fine of not more than $2,000 or a prison term of not more than three months or
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    • 255 24 AP. DON'T ban foreigners from southern Philippines, says a Filipino senator. The ban will hurt trade with Malaysia and set back development of the proposed East Asean Growth Area covering east Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia's Suluwesi region and the southern Philippines. So said Senator Santanina Rasul
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    • 322 24 Reuter. THOUSANDS of British servicemen exposed to nuclear weapons tests during the 1950s and 1960s suffered no long-term health risk. That is the finding of a medical study com- missioned by the Ministry of Defence. The study destroys hopes of compensation for veterans who say
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    • LATOYA SQUEALS ON KID BROTHER
      • 583 26 LATOYA Jackson stepped up her one-woman war against her family yesterday saying her mother often accused brother Michael of being "a damned *****". She said: "My mother is very much aware of all the children that were there, all the boys that stayed there and she
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      • 91 26 Reuter. IN California, family members branded LaToya a profiteering liar and denied the charges against Michael. "LaToya is lying and I'll tell her to her face she'siying. And she knows it," her mother Katherine Jackson said angrily in an interview with KCBS-TV at the family's gated
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    • 336 27 Reuter. RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin bluntly told the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) yesterday that Moscow would not accept an expansion of the alliance to take in Eastern European states. This has set the stage for a confrontation over security. Nato secretary-general Manfred
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    • 48 27 Twin p€aks: Hearing the name Madonna, singer Phil Collins, tongue-in-cheek, swiftly placed two sharply-pointed helmets on his chest. Collins had the crowd at California's Universal Amphitheatre bursting with laughter at his comical gesture when he hosted the Billboard Music Awards show on Wednesday. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 136 29 'It is your decision is there to be, or not to be, peace and calm in Russia?' Reuter. THIS message came from President Boris Yeltsin in a television address to Russia's 106 million voters yesterday. He warned Russians that if they vote against his new draft constitution on Sunday, the
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    • 257 29 WHY THE ELECTION The previous Parliament had been appointed during the communist era and had generally opposed Mr Yeltin's tree market reforms. Lawmakers had amended the constitution many times in attempts to stifle his power. To break the deadlock, Mr Yeltsin dissolved Parliament in September and called for
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  • 351 31 WORLDTODAY AP. A SAUDI Arabian allegedly bought a poor teenager, forced her to marry him and planned to fly her out of India. He has been arrested by the Indian police. His mother and another man have also been held. Kaniz Begum, 16, was crying on
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    • 223 33 AP. FORMER US president Ronald Reagan may have won two landslide victories to the White House but he hasn't won over American historians. In a sußvey of 481 historians, 79 per cent ranked Mr Rqagan as average or worse. Only one per cent |felled him "great".
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    • 35 33 What historians say: Total failure 18 per cent Below average 44 per cent Average 17 per cent Above average or near great 20 per cent Great 1 per cent (Survey of 481 historians)
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    • 210 36 AP WHAT were former US Navy Secretary Lawrence Garrett 111 and the Chief of Naval Operations, Adm Frank Kelso 11, doing during the infamous Tailhook convention? Sitting in the equally infamous Rhino Suite of the Las Vegas Hilton, watching two women drinking from
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    • 310 36 Wire Services ASTRONAUTS finished a gruelling five-day repair job yesterday on the $4.8 billion Hubble Space Telescope. They watched it spread its new, wing-like solar power arrays before planning to put it back into orbit today. Yesterday's final spacewalk of the Endeavour mission was the
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    • 734 37 u «.;'y We're all hearts this Christmas at Liang Court Christmas is a time of giving and f B jf W K ESSAY WRITING sharing and that's especially true B" jMP COMPETITION* at Liang Court this year with our pPPy i 'ft I*| November 15 to December 24 <' Hearts
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    • 224 38 Reuter. A FRENCHMAN who raped and murdered a 10-year-old girl was jailed for life yesterday amid calls for restoring the death penalty. Lucien-Gilles de Valliere, 27, will not be released for at least 30 years, the heaviest sentence in France. He was accused of following
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    • 276 38 FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF DI-CHARLES SEPARATION Reuter. PRINCE Charles and his wife Diana passed an anniversary yesterday but neither one celebrated it. It was the first anniversary of their separation. Both carried out longscheduled public engagements while Britain pondered the future of the tarnished British crown. Their
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  • 330 70 SPORTS Bernama. BADMINTON'S World Grand Prix Finals, beginning in Kuala Lumpur next week, has been hit by withdrawals. Prominent among those who have pulled out are the Danish pair of Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen and Poul Erik Hoyer-Larsen and Sweden's woman shuttler Lim Xiaoqing. The South Korean women's
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    • 357 72 AP, Reuter NEW Zealander Brett Steven, who lost to Michael Stich in the Grand Slam Cup yesterday, enjoyed the most lucrative week of his life. Ranked No 43 in the world and a quarter-finalist at the Australian Open, Steven has never won a tournament, but his
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    • 303 73 Reuter. DANNY Blanchflower, who captained Tottenham to the English League and Cup double in 1961, died yesterday aged 67. Jackie Blanchflower confirmed his brother's death had been the result of Alzheimer's Disease. "It has been getting worse and worse. He didn't even know who he
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    • 233 73 EUROPE KICKOFF: ITALY AFP. SAMPDORIA rookie Mauro Bertarelli is set to step into Roberto Mancini's shoes for the Italian First Division top-of-the-table clash at Inter-Milan on Sunday. Swedish coach Sven Goran Eriksson is to Held the 23-year-old midfielder alongside David Piatt in a revamped midfield. Mancini
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    • 148 75 It was a night of celebration for the Lions at the Royal Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza last night. The Lions' sponsor, Tiger Beer, threw a dinner in appreciation of the team s fine performance this season. The highlight of the evening was the presentation of the
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    • 206 76 Kelong. The use of this Malay word has been rampant since the Malaysia Cup final two weeks ago. Everyone, from the mediaperson to the man on the street, has been talking about the possibility of the Cup final being fixed. What do the players have to say?
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    • 104 76 Steven Tan, 23, has come to accept that there will always be talk of Kelong. I'm so used to it. Every time we play badly or lose, there will surely be someone who says some players sold the match. Maybe winning has become too important in Singapore. And
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    • 141 76 Veteran midfielder Malek Awab, 33, has heard the word kelong for many years now. IT'S not only happening here, it's happening everywhere in the world. I'm used to such talk and I just ignore it. When you lose it's kelong, when you win, the other team has sold
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    • 210 76 Kelong is not a new word to defender Lim Tong Hai. This word was hurled at the 24-year-old when he scored two own goals against Myanmar in the soccer semi-finals of the South-East Asia Games in June. I JUST don't know why people start talking about the
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    • 438 77  -  I KEDAH COACH ROBERT ALBERTS: By Bernard Pereira TALK about professionalism in soccer and Kedah coach Robert Alberts stands head and shoulders above the rest. His warm, psychological approach left many among the 70 participants in the Asean Soccer Coaches' Seminar at Concorde Hotel yesterday
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    • 402 77 Wire services. ENGLAND midfielder Paul Ince has signed a new six-year deal worth more than £2 million ($4.8 million) with Premier League leader Manchester United. "I'm delighted that Paul Ince has finally agreed to sign and I hope Peter Schmeichel will soon follow," said manager Alex Ferguson. Ryan Giggs,
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    • 386 78 The Singapore Badminton Association announced its plans for Sports Excellence 2000 yesterday. National shuttlers, young and old, appear to be impressed. PERDIP SINGH reports AN'T wait to go pro. I That was Zanetta Lee's immediate reaction when the Singapore Badminton Association announced its plans for the
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