The New Paper, 16 September 1995

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  • 26 1 the new paper weekend edition SAUHDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 1995 MTA (F) 024/94/95 60 CENTS new pciper weekend edition SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 1995 MfTA (P) Q24/#4/95 Means
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  • 104 1 Survivor Raymond Wee Seng Bin, 53, tells of his narrow escape. He was seated beside his Singaporean partner David Tan./Page 2 i ivy ONG gets on to a flight carrying relatives of the vfctimsj/Pagt
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  • TAWAU AIR CRASH
    • 445 2 At least 35 people were killed when a Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight from Kota Kinabalu to Tawau in Sabah crashed yesterday. The plane, which had 53 people on board, burst into flames and flattened a squatters' village. It was the second worst
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    • 66 2 WHEN the plane began landing rather steeply, Mr David Tan, 36, started "preparing for the unexpected". "It was a terrible experience, I felt tired," said the Singaporean as he recalled those moments when he and several others ran out of the plane just minutes before it
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    • 450 4 THE sound of silence greeted The New Paper reporter IVY ONG and artist SIMON ANG when they entered Terminal 3 at Subang Airport in Kuala Lumpur this morning. Gathered there were the families of the crash victims waiting to fly to Tawau on a specially<hartered flight
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    • 176 4 SOME squatter residents at Kampong Seri Menanti might have been killed in yesterday's crash. The village is home to many illegal Filipino and Indonesian immigrants. 'tis? Earlier reports had said that although a part of the village was devastated, no resident died. However, the New
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    • 52 5 Ftery tad: Flames engulf the MAS Fokker plane after it ploughed into several squatter bouses in Tawau. Survivors beard at least three explosions after they bad run out of the ill-fated plane. Picture/ Berita Harian Malaysia Search in wreckage: Rescuers combing the crash site for survivors.
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      222 6 Debate hits a climax today over whether Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong should be conferred the honorary degree at Williams College in Massachusetts in the US. Mr Goh will be getting the award at 11 pm Singapore time today. One side argues that Mr Goh does
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    • 78 6 I'm shocked to see the number of young male and female Singaporeans getting drunk on Friday and Saturday nighte (at some Boat Quay PUbs). A letter writer to The Straits Times Forum Page, Mr Ong Lye Huat, a father of two teenagers, who says he
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    • 221 6 NO TAIWAN BAN: THE US said 'no' to Chinese demands for a total ban on visits by leaders of Taiwan. This is despite numerous protests from Beijing after a visit to the US by Taiwan's President in June. Washington is also ignoring Beijing's protests over the
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    • 83 6 11m Straits Dims: S'pore seeks world class land transport Bmtaess Tinas: Tokyo banks forced to pay more on world interbank markets Uaaba Zaebae: PM Gob tells International fora that Singapore needs its present system and not an American one Berlta Narlaa: Singapore's land transport Is world class RCS awning
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    • 14 6 Down 4.23 points lower at 4,797.57. Dear Mm BMP Mr WQty Tioi-ii4oooj
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    • 675 7 ALISON MISS SINGAPORE TEEN! OVERWHELMING VOTE BY READERS! r i. L Alison Kiong, a Poly business student, is equality between the sexes is practised in Singapore. Miss Singapore Teen. 282 readers out of 682 "However, whilst sexual discrimination against women gave the 18 year-old their thumbs Up over may not
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 241 9  -  By Brian Miller ABBAS Saad, the former football star, may soon be known as Abbas, the nightclub owner. The 28-year-old glamour boy of Singafrnfe soccer will be flying in from tomorrow to attend some business meetings*.' This will be Abbas' first visit to
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    • 96 9 Abbas Saad was found guilty in June of being part of a conspiracy to fix the results of soccer matches in last year's FAM Premier League competition. He was fined $50,000 for the offence. Went back to Sydney in July. Abbas first played for Singapore
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    • 73 9 LION CITY HOTEL^ I SINGAPORE The Sensible Hotel. Comfortable Convenient Affordable 3 minutes' walk to MRT Station 15 minutes' drive to Changi Airport 10 minutes' drive to Central Business District 10 minutes' drive to Orchard Road Extensive in-house shopping Food Centres/Fast-Food Centres 24 hours in-house movies 24 hours room service
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    • 361 10 SINGAPORETODAY Bottleneck So many people moving about in so little land. That's the potential j bottleneck facing Singapore in 2010 unless we can get a 8 world-class public transport system. But it takes a lot of money. The Government's stand now is that it is prepared to put in money
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 377 12 Bukit Purmei was pitch black last night, hit by a three-hour power failure. CRISPIN A ROBERT takes a walk in the dark WHILE the rest of the neighbourhood fumbled in the dark, one stationery shop owner's cash register was lighting up. "Yes lah, it's good business
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    • 67 12 On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we asked you to Bpot the PTO logos in The New Paper. Of 4,260 readers, 2,145 spotted the logos. The winners of a $100 PTO voucher and a Swatch watch are I/C Nos: *****31; *****77; *****92. Winners of a $100 PTO voucher: *****59;
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    • 104 12 LISTEN to tips on how to pick good furniture and you stand to win a prize. The New Paper/Good Furniture Retailers Infoline's 24-hour computerised hotline in English and Mandarin will give you the details. This week, you can win an executive desk and mobile side table
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    • 103 12 A SPOKESMAN for the Public Utilities Board said the power failure was due to a cable fault. "A total of 19 blocks in the Kampong Bahru and Telok Blangah areas were affected. Such a failure is not a common occurence," said the PUB spokesman. The power failure
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 271 15 i 4 group of War veterans attending the 50m anniversary commemoration service at Kranji Memorial almost had their trip marred because they thought their tour leader had left with their money. But he was in hospital, sick with money worries, reports JULIE LEONG FOR one Briton
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    • 122 15 HE was too ashamed to admit to his comrades that he had failed to raise enough money to subsidise their trip. Each member had paid £800 for the 19-day tour of Singapore and Malaysia. The rest of the fee £250 per member was to have come from sponsors.
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    • 112 15 ON Taeeday, the eve ef the to Malacca, Mrtaaad deTsadSlMl"™* p®yw€iit. Whea Mr Diiiw disappeared, Hm ageat raised the prfee to £500 par bead. The hotel waited to be paid. Mr Dawsea was desperate, no in6o caning propmij BMgaate Ng Teag Foag. He did not www mr ng
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    • 102 15 IN despair, he fled the hotel. He and wife Mary roamed the streets, not knowing where to go or who to turn to. "I don't know how far we went, where we went or how long we were out there for," said Mr Dawson. "We were just so
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    • 114 15 MR Dawson teemed anxious to toll his story. "I want to toll someone," He said. "I never wanted H to come to this. "It was to bo a tr.p of a lifetime to those folks. And now I've ruined it "I've lot them down and it's all my
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    • 343 16 THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) launched its own newsletter yesterday f complaining that it had been misrepresented over a U-turn on MRT and bus fare hikes. JILL LIM reports NO, we did not do a U-turn, said Case President Toh See Kiat yesterday "Newspapers have to
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    • 142 16  -  Comment/ Jill Lim CASE stresses that it has not taken a-new stand in the joint press release with the PTC. Technically, this is true. Its first comment on the price increase, on Sept 6, did say Case "accepts for the moment the PTC's word
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  • 259 19 SINGAPORETODAY The Singapore National Employers Federation wants to meet the National Trades Union Congress to discuss the higher retirement age. NTUC News recently highlighted the concerns of both sides SNEF: We must remain competitive even after hiring workers over 60. We must watch how it will affect productivity
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  • Article, Illustration
    296 20  -  FANN WONG'S ENCOUNTER WITH RAPE' THENEWSTODAY By' Yong Siew Fern ONE man's face was etched in TCS actress Fann Wong's mind when she acted in a rape scene recently. It was a face she saw even in the darkness of her shut eyelids. She was acting in TCS
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  • weekender
    • COVERSTORY
      • 53 22  -  Hongkongers who bought properties five or six years ago are smiling... but Singaporeans who started buying two or three years ago tell a different story Reports by NG WAN CHING Old man river The two sides of Shanghai, Puxi and Pudong, are separated by the Huangpu River. Pictures
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      • 463 22 BUY OR NOT?: Advertisements urging people to buy properties in China have been appearing weekly in the papers and on television, with some boldly promising rental returns of 96 per cent. Should buyers beware? For residential
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      • 188 22 MR and Mrs Teo bought the Shanghai apartment in the Pudong area as an investment. They requested that we not use their full names because they did not want friends and relatives to know about their investment. Both are retirees in their 50s. Mr Teo, a
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      • 285 22 DON'T be surprised if your investment pays less than you expected, say property analysts. Mr Albert Lau, managing director of Jones Lang Wootton in Shanghai, said: "Future events to do with political stability, government policies and free market forces are too unpredictable for
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    • COVERSTORY
      • 475 24 For commercial property in Singapore, a 93 sq m office unit in a grade A building in the CBD area costs between $96 and $117 persq m a month. The rent works out to between $8,546 and $10,869 a month. In Shanghai,
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      • 237 24 SHANGHAI does not have a central business district like Shenton Way. The Huangpu River separates Shanghai into Puxi (west of the river) and Pudong (east of the river). There are currently four main office areas. PUXI This is the traditional city centre with
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      • 503 25 WHArS IN STORE?: There is talk that China plans to develop Shanghai as a financial centre to replace Hongkong if uncertainty around the territory's hand-over to China in 1997 badly affects its economy. Singapore companies have invested more than $1 billion in more than
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      • 148 25 DONT expect the authorities to mediate in any dispute between Singaporean buyers and property developers in China as these investments are viewed as purely private commercial transactions. There were two major complaints in July by Singapore investors about the non-completion of two large projects in Guangdong province. Singaporean
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  • SPOTLIGHT
    • 546 27 AROUND Fuyou Road, outside the main city area of Shanghai, people wake up pretty early. At 4 am, hawkers are already putting out their wares and cooking breakfast. This is where life is lived close to the roads and it's gritty. There are endless streams of
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    • 301 27 WE tried the hawker food. The choice was wide fried noodles, fried pancakes, "siao long bao", plain bao, meat dishes, porridge, intestines, prawn dumplings and spicy and sour soups just to name a few. Families were seated at wooden tables and chairs placed by the road, enjoying breakfast.
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    • 231 28 |AAA^g| gj »Prawn Noodles« Pigtail Noodles Vegetables B M Main Branch: N0.130 Pasir Panjang Road H M Singapore 0511 Tel: *****02 M J Business Hours: 8.30 am 10.30pm Hj I "1 0 *r> i wrnmmmafmmmamßKsamimtmam i 1 LIFE'S REFRESHING MOMENTS! 1 I Just add cold water and "hey presto" a
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  • Brian Miller
    • 292 29 HERE'S news for fans of acoustic blues, folk and R B music. There's a new joint that only recently opened at Jalan Asas, off Upper Bukit Timah Road. It's called Bactrek and the blues comes courtesy of two veteran musicians Chris Ong and L T
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    • 233 29 FANCY some ice-cold green beer? Or what about a green margarita topped with green ice and a green cherry? Well, you can have all of these and more if you make tracks for the Lone Star Bar at Tanjong Pagar tonight. That's when owners Mike
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    • 221 29 IF you're looking for some really light entertainment, you might want to drop by the Hilton's Kaspia Bar. That's where Montreal-born Chantal Aston has been booked to perform. The sultry singer, who studied psychology at Montreal's Concordia University, considers herself a "torch singer and a
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 282 32 INDONESIA AUSTRALIA RELATIONS INDONESIAN Foreign Minister Ali Alatas yesterday said that relations between Indonesia and Australia continue to be close and good. Indonesian President Suharto and Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating will meet at Bali for talks tomorrow. "Basically the friendship and cooperation
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    • 188 32 AP. HE had come to Rome, Italy, wide-eyed and unknown. Three decades later, Clint Eastwood is back, an acclaimed director and star a far cry from his "spaghetti western" days. Yesterday, Eastwood collected the "Campidoglio" film critics award for directors, joining the ranks of Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder
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    • 315 33 I do, Source: Wire services. BRITAIN'S best-known scientist, Professor Stephen Hawking, said "I do" for the second time yesterday through an electronic voice machine designed by his bride's former husband. The top-selling author, 53, who is paralysed by a progressive nerve disorder, married his former
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    • 129 33 AFP. ANGRY parents of girl students picketed a high school in north Bombay yesterday. They demanded that the principal should resign as they protested against the > rape of at least three girls. Their daughters were kept at home. The protest followed the arrest of
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    • 256 33 Reuter. PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela's new man in Singapore is a white pro-apartheid rightwinger. He is Mr Carl Werth, a member of the Freedom Front which campaigned for a separate homeland for Afrikaners in last year's landmark elections. His appointment as South Africa's new High
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  • 544 37 IT was a quiet night out at a friend's home. The drinks, food and conversation flowed with abundance and ease. A normal Saturday night rendezvous in a Singaporean's quiet, idyllic home, one might say. Until... the businessman in the crowd started to brag
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  • 418 49  -  SINGAPORE 6 GILBRALTAR CRESCENT 0 Three months more to the South-east Asia Games, yet there's still no light at the end of the tunnel, no semblance of any sort of teamwork. By Jeffrey Low AFTER all the early complaint8 in Surabaya, all the comfort later on,
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    • 329 51 Paul Ince moves to Inter-Milan amidst much acrimony between him and United manager Alex Ferguson. But he now finds that life in, Italy is not much easier TODAY Vicenza v Juventus AS Roma v Milan Sampdoria v Parma Inter v Piacenza Lazio v Bari TOMORROW
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    • 273 51 Wire services. Boli OK: Monaco defender Basile Boli, who was knocked unconscious on Wednesday, left hospital yesterday. He had collided with goalkeeper Marc Delaroche during the Uefa Cup match against Leeds. Club sources said Boli was still in a state of shock but was not seriously injured. Dircw dies:
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      298 52 White wine. Red wine. Vodka. Cherry vodka. Plum vodka. These are some of the post-match beverages the erudite ranks of England's finest footballers will have enjoyed this week. And what does it all add up to for this weekend's English League programme? A European hangover, that's what. Liverpool's
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    • 411 52 WAN UNITED v BOLTON Look, I am not ready to desert Spun for United yet. But goodness me the Red People did look rather splendid at Everton. One can only truly delight in United when they all rush around at breakneck speed looking like ants
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    • 338 53 VINNIE JONES FOUL ON STAN COLLYMORE Reuter, AP. WIMBLEDON hardman Vinnie Jones earned a reprieve yesterday. His sending off against Liverpool last weekend was reduced to a booking after a linesman admitted he had made a mistake. card of his controversial career after a clash with
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    • 335 53  -  by IAN BROWN ARSENAL Dutch winger Glenn Helder tipped to start WEST NAM: Boss Harry Redknapp considering season's debut for Alvin Martin, 37, for defender Rieper. Stan Lazaridis and Danny Williamson likely to be on bench. WIMBLEDON: Vinny Jones' red card overturned on video evidence. Scott
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    • 218 53 QUICK FACTS Jones, the leader of Wimbledon's self-styled "Crazy Gang," was recently suspended for five international matches after stomping on an opponent while playing for Wales in a European Championships qualifier Despite his reputation, Jones has been invited to speak next week at the exclusive Eton school.
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