The New Paper, 28 December 1995

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 466 2 BANKS CUT HOUSING LOAN Special offers lire still available for owneroccupied properties. Overseas Union Bonk charges a fixed interest of 5 per cent for the first two years. The offer ends on Doc 31. United Overseas Bank offers fixed interest of 5.5 per cent
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    • 139 2 AFP A SHEIKH from the Middle Eastern state of Qatar bought up all the contents of one London store for a bar-gain-basement price of half a million dollars. "The sheikh came in with a group after seeing the 'sale' sign," said the owner of
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    • 38 2 Clarification 'Tis the season to be teary (TNP, Dec 23): Inchcape Berhad markets and distributes Salvatore Ferragamo products in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, not F J Benjamin. Leisure Showtime: Pages 24-27 TV: Page 31 Comics: Pages 33 34
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 98 4 AFTER 4,000 people fought over free textbooks at San Shan Primary School recently, the organiser has moved to prevent such disgraceful scenes in future. NTUC FairPrice's new scheme to make sure the needy do get the books meant for them: Schools first:
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    • 77 4 He was apologetic about the incident and said he intended to resign. It was his personal decision. Eunos GKC MP Chew Heng Ching, on Mr Lawrence Chong, the Kaki Bukit Residents' Committee chairman who made a scene at San Shan Primary School. Mr Chew
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    • 141 4 HOT STORIES BISHAN was once haunted by its past now it's the place to be. In the mid-808, HDB applicants did not want the flats, some of which were built on former cemeteries. But the ones who decided to buy are laughing all the way
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 90 4 THE battle for the Internet access market is hotting up Singapore Telecom yesterday cut prices for its SingNet services after rival Pacific Internet cut by half its Easy Access service price. SingNet's rates dip up to 33 per cent, and free hours will double. Peak-hour usage
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      • 81 4 LONG jail terms were slapped on two owners of a Seoul department store that collapsed and killed 500 people this year in South Korea's worst peacetime disaster. Lee Joon, 73, owner and founder of the luxury Sampoong Department Store, got 10 Vfe years for criminal negligence, and
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      • 145 4 ONE phone call could have prevented Monday night's fire in Toa Payoh which landed eight people in hospital. The Toa Payoh Town Council said it would have taken away the furniture left at Block 229 it offers residents a free removal service for bulky items, it
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    • 72 4 The Straits Times: Bleak outlook for Taiwan economy Business Times: Local banks pare housing loan quantums Lianhe Zaobao: Broadcasting and television industry spending soars nearly four times this year Berita Harian: Big growth for communications industry RCS morning news: France has just earned out its fifth nuclear test at
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    • 19 4 The Straits Times Industrials remained the same at 2271.35 points at 9.15 this morning from yesterday's close
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    • 13 4 The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.34 points to 5,105 yesterday.
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 525 5  -  By Ivy Ong THERE are 120 visas to Malaysia up for grabs every day. But more than 800 have been crowding the Malaysian High Commission at Jervois Road since the school holidays started. Ever hopeful, they come before 5 am to stand in line outside the
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    • 47 5 CITIZENS of Asean countries do not need a visa to enter Malaysia if they are staying for only one month. However, Singaporean Permanent Residents who are not Asean citizens will need to apply for single-trip visas every time they want to visit the country.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 229 6 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE WE'VE tried everything, but the crowd is simply too big during peak periods, said the Malaysian High Commission. Immigration Attache Alidin Haji Abdullah, 45, said: "We've been trying to improve the system. But during school holidays and public holidays, the crowd
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    • 162 6 TWO other embassies also saw a surge in the number of visa applications during the holidays. Since they had no limit to the number of applications processed in a day, the Australian and Thai embassies had no problems with the increased crowds. Mr Bill
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 555 8 Wife who reported drunken husband to police... Last week, a man tried to torch his home in a fit of anger. His wife, who reported him, tells RACHEL TAN that she is sad he is in jail. They have even agreed to work things
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    • 29 8 I am sorry for what I have done. I will never do it again. My wife and children have also forgiven me. Toh, jailed for six months.
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    • 37 8 I didn't want it to happen either. It hurts me to see him behind bars because he is my husband and it hurts the family because we depend on him for a living. Madam Low.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 524 10 Stranded after midnight without money, a woman and her two sons couldn't get a taxi to give them a free ride home. Yesterday, we highlighted their plight. Today, YVONNE LIM salutes the police officer who helped them BY the time Mrs Agnes Tan and her two
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    • 418 11  -  By Riana Zakir THREE sailors, who carried lunch in their rubber dinghy for competitors of the 8th Asian Sailing Championships (ASC), ended up drifting for 17 hours. They were about 100 m away from competitors when disaster struck. The engines of their six-month old dinghy
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    • 104 11 THE trio were reported missing about five hours after they were last seen on noon Tuesday. ASC organisers called the police who sent out boats to look for them. A search party, of four people in two boats, was also organised. The boats, carrying food, water
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    • 199 12  -  By Jill Lim CHRISTMAS did not bring much cheer to Mr W M Wong. He had planned to ring it in with friends and relatives in Singapore. But at the stroke of midnight on Dec 25, Mr Wong and his family had been in a
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    • 105 12 THE lorry checkpoint at Tanjung Puteri Customs Complex, Johor was opened last April. It is open to other vehicles as an immigration checkpoin on Saturdays from 4 pm to midnight, and on Sundays and Singaporean public holidays from 1 pm to midnight. Reserved for trucks the rest of
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    • 313 13  -  By Sandra Davie SINGAPORE'S best and brightest are reluctant to take on a career in politics. They prefer becoming successful professionals to contributing to the country's development, according to a National Institute of Education (NIE) survey published last year. Dr Agnes Chang, a senior
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    • 65 13 The survey also found that: The gifted students expected to fulfil the high expectations that their parents, classmates, schools and society had of them in their exams and professions. They had higher expectations of themselves. Most said their parents had been their biggest influence in teaching them respect,
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    • 263 13 AARON Maniam says he may consider politics when he grows up so that he can change things for the better. But the 16-year-old who has just finished Secondary 4 at Raffles Institution (RI) may be the exception rather than the rule among his peers in
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    • 341 14 Twelve reports stand out among those that made it to Page 1 of The New Paper during the year. Starting today, ALETHEA LIM gives an inside story of these reports to help you pick the best among the best WHEN news broke on how a
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    • 78 14 SINCE THEN THE Leesons fled to Sabah in Malaysia and then to Frankfurt, Germany, where they were detained on March 2. Leeson spent eight months in a Frankfurt jail before being sent back to Singapore to face trial. The Leeson drama also attracted media hounds when the trader arrived at
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    • 227 14 BEING first with details of the Zouk drug bust made this report stand out. When The New Paper correspondent Yaw Yan Chong heard of the closure of the popular entertainment spot at Jiak Kim Street, off Kim Seng Road, he set out to investigate further. Mr
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    • 86 14 SINCE THEN AFTER the raid, Zouk closed its doors for eight months. Its director, Lincoln Cheng, 47, was charged and sentenced to six months' jail on Aug 17. He was also fined a total of $15,800 for other offences, including having obscene magazines and tapes. Cheng is appealing against the
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 249 17 ISRAEL AND SYRIA TALK PEACE Source: AFP. PEACE is beginning to sound good to Israel and Syria. Officials of both countries began talks yesterday and gave upbeat signals about the meeting which is taking place after a break of six months. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres
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    • 141 18 Reuter. SUITORS in the US have become more practical about romance. Unsure about their commitment, many couples now rent engagement rings, in case things do not work out. Some couples who get engaged during the Christmas season find themselves less certain
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    • 313 18 While the Queen awaits an answer regarding the royal divorce... Wire services. PRINCESS Diana left for Caribbean sunshine yesterday to recover from a lonely Christmas in London. She did not take her two sons, princes William, 13, and Harry, 11, with her. The princess,
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    • 134 18 PRINCESS Diana met her psychotherapist the day before she left Britain. The Sun, Britain's largest selling newspaper with four million copies daily, snapped her bidding farewell to Ms Susie Orbach on Tuesday. The picture was taken outside the therapist's doorstep in Hampstead, a wealthy suburb in north-west London.
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    • 218 19 AFP. THE Bank of England has received outline proposals from a group of British Asian businessmen for creation of a London-based bank, it said yesterday. The proposed project would mark the first big move by British Asians into the United Kingdom's financial sector.
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    • 56 19 The Hindujas were given a banking licence by the Swiss Federal Banking Commission last year. Their finance company, Amas Bank (Switzerland), has offices in New York, London and Bombay and joint ventures with Jardine Matheson, Creditanstalt and Credit Lyonnais. The 80-year-old privately controlled Hinduja Group is a worldwide
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    • 173 19 Source: Wire services. FRANCE staged the fifth of its nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific early this morning (Singapore time). A French Defence Ministry spokesman said in Paris that the underground blast was detonated at the Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia at 5.30 am.
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    • 63 20 Washout: Flash floods hit a French Foreign legion camp in Mostar, Hosnia, yesterday causing the helicopter evacuation of some 60 Legionnaires. Nearby bridges were swept away by the flixxlcd river Neretva and men of the renowned French fighting unit were forced to take
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    • 208 20 AFP. THE United States has broken a syndicate smuggling thousands of Asians and Latin Americans into the US every year. This came after the arrest of Gloria Canales, 40, the suspected mastermind, on Dec 12 in Ecuador. Canales was deported to Honduras, the only
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    • 72 20 The Clinton administration launched a major crackdown on the traffic in humans seeking a better life in the US in 1993. This came after a boatload of nearly 300 illegal Chinese immigrants ran aground off New York. The ship, the Golden Venture, drew worldwide attention to the lucrative trade
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    • 244 21 Reuter A BLOODY ritual killing of 16 members of a French cult last week was probably carried out by two policemen, who were also members of the group, a prosecutor said yesterday. The cops then turned the gun on themselves. The 16 members of the Order of
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    • 54 21 Reuter Last year, 53 members of a Swiss cult died in Switzerland and Canada, many of them shot. French police say there were similarities between some of the French and Swiss nationals reported missing. They said the deaths of 13 adults could have been a link to Jesus and
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    • 112 21 So blinded are our politicians by the lust for power that they are willing to destroy a cancer hospital giving free treatment to over 90 per cent of the patients. lmran Khan, 42, former captain of the Pakistan cricket team, accusing the Pakistan government of "destroying" a
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  • SPEAKUP
    • 131 22 MR Ishwar Mahtani, 33, businessman I am sure many will be ashamed and disappointed on reading your report about the rush for Christmas goodies (The New Paper, Dec 26). That will be even more so after a similar incident occurred last week in a
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    • 102 22 Mr Ng Chee Wee, 22, operations officer To those who jostled and pushed your way into San Shan Primary School to get free used textbooks, I say: Shame on you. Thanks to you, I feel ashamed and sorry to be a Singaporean. I thought the textbooks were
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    • 105 22 Mr K Leong, human resource officer I am appalled by the attitude displayed by Mr Lawrence Chong (The New Paper, Dec 21). As a grassroots leader, he should put the interests of those he leads above his own. Instead, he has suggested that grassroots leaders be
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    • 127 22 Mr Ng Chee Wee, 22, operations officer I am referring to the report about the six-year-old girl who chalked up $103 in phone charges by calling 1-900 numbers flashed onTV. (The New Paper, Dec 23.) Ever since such phone-in contests became popular, I've been asking myself what people
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    • 178 23 Mr Zainul Abidin Ibrahim, Corporate Communications Officer, Land Transport Authority We refer to the report, Timings too late (The New Paper, Dec 16). The Bus Information System (BIS) was introduced as a pilot scheme in September at two bus stops in the city centre. The objective
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    • 200 23 Mr Tan Chek Sian Head of Media and Information Services, Shell Companies in Singapore We refer to the report, Shelled out bribes (The New Paper, Dec 21). The following quotation from Mr Brian Anderson, managing director of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria, reflects
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  • Showtime
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      462 24 No stripping, no dirty words and certainly no nudity. So bark the guidelines from the Malaysian government. But the "live" show at KL's Boom Boom Room Malaysia is anything but proper. SITI ROHAN AH KOID finds out how it stays on stage SWINGING bachelors are welcome at Boom
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    • 213 25 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE THEY share the same name and dish out the same cabaret-style performance. But Boom Boom Room Malaysia is not related to its Singapore counterpart. The two are run by different managements. Boom Boom Malaysia public relations and marketing manager Jonathan Ling denied that the
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    • 464 26 Should the Malaysian government control a creative industry such as entertainment and showbusiness? And should Malaysian artistes compromise their creative ideas for the sake of national identity? SITI ROHAN AH KOID reports CONTROL you may try, but it's a "losing battle". Political writer Syed Hussein
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    • 78 26 We should not be here to promote the values and culture of another country...lf there'B a need to cut for national interests, then let it be so. Associate Professor Anuar Nor Arai, who lectures on film-making at the University of Malaya (left) Politics and entertainment should be separate.
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    • 154 26 SOCIAL ills such as loafing, drug addiction and the bohsia problem among Malaysian youth is a big worry. "Bohsia girls" refer to underaged teenagers who loiter, waiting to be picked up by men. Many blame the social ills on the influence of Western culture propagated by
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    • 37 26 LOOK out for free tickets to a screening of Something To Talk About in our TNP/Golden Village promotion tomorrow. The story is about a woman (Julia Roberts) who marries an adulterous man (Dennis Quaid).
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    • Article, Illustration
      115 27 She saves trees by not sending Xmas cards and gives away her clothes to charity FORMER Hongkong actress Cherie Chung (left) has time on her hands to protect the environment. Now happily married to a Hongkong advertising executive, said she has stopped sending Christmas cards during the festive
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    • 74 27 ACTRESS Maggie Cheung (left) is taking on a new role and she is doing her best to play it right. Maggie will play a transsexual in a Hongkong movie, The Night is Getting More Beautiful. The film has not yet been shot. Shin Min Daily News says
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    • 105 27 IT has been barely a year since Kit Chan (right), 23, burst on the Hongkong pop scene. But the Singapore singer has already been nominated for four awards Best Newcomer, Best Stage Performer and Best Music Talent to be given out at the 18th Top 10
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  • 591 32  -  ET CETERA WITH DAVE ANG IF you had seen Moses Lim's picture in the Showtime cover feature of The New Paper on Tuesday, you might have wondered why he was clasping his hands and smiling. The picture was meant to go with a congratulatory quote
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  • 247 48 SPORTS INDIANA 103 CHICAGO 97 Wire services. THE Indiana Pacers have ended the Chicago Bulls' 13-game winning streak in the National Basketball Association (NBA) championship. Rik Smits and Mark Jackson scored eight points apiece in the first quarter as the Pacers built up a 24-point lead
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    • 419 51 Wire services. ANGRY manager Kevin Keegan lashed out at his players after League leader Newcastle slumped to the 2-0 defeat against Manchester United. "It was a very disappointing performance by us perhaps our worst in the last 12 months," complained Keegan. "I thought our defence did okay, but
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